1'lI' TH E BOOKSTORE IN NORTH HALL See Editorial Page cl:4c 419a ~~IAit A DRAG High-63 Low-48 Cloudy and cooler; possibly drizzly Vol LXXX, No. 18 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, September 24, 1969 Ten Cents Eight Pages DISRUPTION POSSIBLE: Bookstore rally U' to prosecute demonstrator s; today on Diag By RICK PERLOFF Students will meet on the Diag at noon today to consider what action to take on the Regents' decision to esablish an adminisration-run University bookstore. If 200 students reject the plan and are ready to take the Administration Bldg., Student Government Council President Marty McLaughlin says he will encourage them to go ahead. "We feel the bookstore decisions should be made by a board responsible to the consumers, mostly students, whom the store exists to serve,," McLaughlin says. However, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Wilbur Pierpont --empowered by the Regents to run the store -disagrees with McLaughlin conspiracy charges considered Study Vdeotape films to identify protesters By DANIEL ZWERDLING President Robben Fleming acknowledged last night the University "will-prosecute anyone we can identify" from Mon- day night's ROTC building takeover, but top administration officials otherwise kept a tight lid on their plans. Conspiracy to commit a felony, which carries up to a ten year prison term, was among the possible charges considered yesterday by University and city officials, City Attorney Gerald Lax said. Breaking and entering, a felony, trespass and malicious destruction of property were other charges considered yester- day, he said. Police are currently studying videotape films taken of at least some of the 50-60 demonstrators as they fled North Hall through a back door at 2:45 a.m. yesterday, Police Chief Walter Krasny said yesterday. ' Ciizells to mneet oil food osts A mass meeting has been called for tonight to organize an ad hoc committee for stu- dents, families, and "anybody who buys food and is angry at the ridiculous prices they have to pay'.~ One of teeullimittee's orgat - izers saidl la t night the purpose of the meeting is to "get people together and let them decide how th ir food heeds can be satisfied best.- Plans tentit at ively have been made to boycott several strategic' An Arbor stores in an effort to orce food lics down to -where they belong." According to the totlirt te's publicity hand-out, . toresv wich ight be boycotted in clutde f"ood Mart. White Market., and Ralph's Market.- Long-term plans may iclude negotiating with store owners to lower food prices, busing people to discount food stores, buying large qcuaintities of food staples at wholsaleprices, and establishing a food cooperative. The meeting will be held at 8 p.m. tonight in the Student Gov- ernment Council offices on the first floor of the Student Activi- ties Building. Last spring, SGC, Student Con- sumer's Union, and other student organizations were successful in forcing Haikaz Stephan, owner of Stephan's on South University. to lower prices on patent medicines sold in his store. Students back 'Biafra week' The Committee to Keep Biafra Alive last night held its initial meeting and pledged support to the activities of Biafra Week. Biafra Week was proclaimed in Ann Arbor by Mayor Robert J. Harris from Sept. 22-28, in asso- ciation with the local chapter of the Biafra Association in the Americas. Activities for the conmemora - tion include a painting exhibit by Mrs. Nne K. Ita in the Michigman Union and a nationwide bucket drive. A folk mass at St. Mary's Church on Sunday will also be held to observe Biafra Week. and discussed his interpreta- tion of the plan in an inter- view yesterday. He said he will actively seek student advice to determine store policy but believes he should have final decision-making power. He stressed he will "take seriously into consideration" student recom- mendations for bookstore man- ager, but indicated the final de- cision would rest with hint. He emphasized that policy is determined on a day-to-day basis and not by votes of a particular committee. He also cited the serious finan- cial problems of the student-fac- ulty operated Michigan Union as a danger of student control of a venture like the bookstore. The University decision-making process is an informal one, he added, saying that discussions with students would play a large part in his determining policy. He said that students could help determine what inventory to main- tain, the price levels to charge and any price discount. Pierpont stressed he would make every attempt to sell items "at the lowest possible price," but he would not comnmit himself on any across- the-board discount. He added, though, that there could very w~ell be lower prices at the University sto'e than at the Ann Arbor bookstores. "The volume of business and the efficiency of the manager will de- termine discounts," he said. "We will certainly attempt to give dis- counts wherever possible depend- ing on the store's financial posi- tion." he continued, Pierpont saido the bookstore would operate on a non-profit' basis with the store--and not the, University--paying expenses. Any profits, would be funneled back into bookstore operations he said. The meeting was originally scheduled for noon yesterday by the 400 students who remained in the Michigan Union Assembly Hall following Friday's debate with the Regents. However a previously scheduled rally by Young Americans for Freedom at the same time resulted in a delay of the mass meeting until today. Student Government Council. in a special session Sunday night. declined to back the mass meet- ing, arguing that more students should be gathered before taking any action. The Regents, in approving a University bookstore, reversed an earlier position in July when they rejected a University-financed bookstore. 8-0. The Regents then also defeated. 4-4, a plan to funddthe store through voluntary funds. The key change in vote came from Lawrence Lindemr R- Stockbridge) who voted last week for a University bookstore. Krasny reported tiehe fis- which will be used to identify the occupiers--are "fair." Top University officials met yesterday morning and afternoon -including a session with Krasny -to discuss legal action against the anti-ROTC demonstrators and contingency plans for future dis- ruptions. Students involved in the take- over also will probably be disci- plined under University regula- tions, Fleming said. County Prosecutor William F. Delhey. meanwhile, said he is "re- viewing evidence with the Ann Arbor police and other police agencies" to see whether he can in 1ST lobby By ERIKA HOFF HAROLD ROSENTHAL Close to 150 ROTC protesters yesterday rallied in front of North Hall at noon and about 65 marched to the Institue of - Daily-- Eric Per_. STUDENTS sit-in yesterday at the Institute of Science of Technology on North Campus to protest the Univ-rsity's ties with the military. The sit-in followed a rally of 150 people in front of North hall protesting the presence of ROTC on campus. Caucus leaves anti-ROTC group but plans to continue I By ALAN SIIACKELFORD Radical Caucus last night dis- associated itself from the Ad Hoe Committee to Abolish ROTC say- ing the committee's lack of disci- pline "limits us politically and makes us functionally incapable of participating in the decisions on the actions of the coalition." Despite the formal withdrawal, however. the Caucus also voted to continue participating in the anti- ROTC movement. Concerning today's noon Diag rally on the University bookstore' fight, Caucus members decided almost. unanimously "to urge that SDS and Resistance for their lack disruptive action be taken at the of discipline in the coalition, cit- Administration Building if 200 ing Monday's mass meeting as an people are willing to participate." example. Plans call for a disruptive sit- "The only purpose of the meet- down someplace in the adminis- ing for SDS was to provide them tration building directly after the with recruits," McLaughlin said. rally if the Caucus has sufficient "SDS did not go into the meeting support. A tactics meeting slated with the purpose of making any to follow the rally will determine kind of a decision regarding the exactly how to conduct the pro- mass action." test. Caucus members said the peo- Referring to Caucus relations ple round North Hall were mis- with the anti-ROTC coalition, used by the coalition, citing the SGC President and Caucus mem- de-emphasis on "political rap- ber Marty McLaughlin criticized ping" and the fact that those out- rro tests side were concerned with pre- venting police action, not ROTC. Additional reasons cited by Caucus members for the split with the coalition were conduct of dorm raps and the Radical Caucus image on campus. prosecute demonstrators. Sciencee and iTechnology to There was speculation yester- protest war research. day that the University and police The possibility of re-entering deliberately let the demonstrators North Hall was brought up at the inside North Hall escape, in order~ rally, but it was generally believ- to avoid a bloody confrontation ed that such. action would bring but still enable police to make on confrontation with the police identifications. for which the demonstrators were The back door through which not ready. the demonstrators fled was the only unlocked and least-heavily guarded door at North Hall. Police photographers were ready with the videotape machine when dem- onstrators rushed past the several police guards. Members pointed out that they Asked whether police expected were burdened at dorm raps by the demonstrators to make the having to defend SDS and Re- break, Krasny said last night, "I sistance-oriented actions which would rather not comment on they themselves do not support. t.hat." University officials also re- In thinking of Radical Caucus fused to comment. as part of the coalition, members Krasny added that a police de- emphasized, the campus believes tail will guard North Hall around they suport all coalition actions the clock "for an indefinite period Caucus members pointed out the of time. need for a separate identity and so favored disassociation. Some Caucus members preferred } to continue working with the coal- ition as individuals rather than as O Patoday' e Caucus members. Final presentations expected in naval recruiter lock-in trial Dennis Church, a member of SDS, said the group was not large enough to support a massive con- frontation but "we can effectively protest the related issue of war research that goes on at the Uni- versity." Accompanied by TV camera- men, the 65 people marched to North Campus and entered the IST building. The group occupied the lobby of the building but did not prevent anyone from enter- ing or leaving. Addressing the group. Fred Miller blasted President Robben Fleming for his avoidance of the war research issue. Fleming made a strong indictment against the Vietnamese war, and he has said that research is vital to the war effort, Miller said, but when the president is conducted with the war research issue he backs down. The group then broke into smaller divisions for discussion on the issue of classified research and possible tactics. Dorm raps to gain support for the ROTC protest were planned for 1 a s t night. SACUA chairman Joseph Payne and Deputy Police Chief Olson observed the sit-in. At 2:30 th 25 people who still remained got up and left with- out more discussion. By JA3ES MACFERSON Central Student Judiciary's sec- ond session of the recruitei lock- in trial will convene tonight at 7:30 in the Architecture Audito- rium as the prosecution and de- fense expect to wind up their cases. The appearance of the prosecu- tion's last witness. Augustin S. L'Etoile, a naval recruiter. is un- certain. He was supposed to have been flown in to testify, but a heavy schedule may make it im- possible for him to attend, ac- cording to Peter Forsythe, the at- torney for the prosecution. The four students on trial are charged with violating a Student, Government Council ban against, disruptive sit-ins. These students were identified from photographs as being among the 25 students MAYOR, SIX LOUN(CILMEI\ Group says recall election sure that locked L'Etoile in a West En- gineering room last March. Even without L'Etoile, Forsythe expects little difficulty in proving his case. "So far we've just put the facts forward," he said. "Now it's up to CSJ to deliver the ap- propriate decision ...," he con- tinued. Defense lawyer' K. Mogill hia al- ready conceded that the students! violated the ban, but contends the political significance of the act is' the important consideration. "There are some occasions when the strict enforcement of the law would be unjust," he said last week. "We submit that this is one of those times.." Neil Bush, another defense lawyem', has declared their strategy is a "defense of justification." The students, he explains, were justified in their action because they were protesting the Univer- sity s involvement with military research, the Pentagon, the Viet- nam war and the Reserve Officer Training Corps. To strengthen their case. Bush and Mogill have requested nine' University research scientists and Vice President for Research A. Geoffrey Norman to appear as witnesses for the defense. According to CSJ chairman Marc Wohl. these men ar unlikely to appear. "I have heard that Nor- man might ennnir the nrnfs- ROTC officers keep calm u In other action last night, the Caucus elected as its new officers: Jim Forrester, convenor (chair- man): Gary Baldwin, press sec- retary: Sue Sasser, treasurer; Ruth Bowman. secretary; and Guna Spacs and Dick Englund, steering committee members-at- large. Press secretary Baldwin was selected to piesent the Caucus' position' on action on the book-: store issue at the rally today on the Diag. 0 Goy. Milliken plans re- forms in funding for state schools. * State Senate Minority Leader Sander Levin urges students to work toward changing the American political system. * The University's urban ed- ucation program experienc- es problems of growth. By ALEXA CANADYA "We're sure that we will get enough signatures for a recall election of Mayor Harris and six Democratic councilmen," says Norman J. Randall, public relations director for the Concerned Citizens of Ann Arbor. The Concerned Citizens of Ann Arbor have been circulatin po(titions since the middle of Jul. seki"g the recail of Mayor Robert La'ris and six l)emocratic council- nemn. The citizens group stateimit cites live reasons for the recall: 'They (the mayor and the Democratic ership necessary to create confidence in the city government.." In order to hold a recall election, t h e citizens group must have a petition with the number of signatures equal to 25 per cent of the number of people from the city official's constituency who voted in the last gubernatorial election. The group needs 6,546 signatures calling for Harris' recall: 1.006 for John Kirscht, of the first ward: 760 for Robert Faber and Len Quenon, second ward: 1,891 for Nicholas Kazarinoff, third ward; 1.503 for LeRoy Cap aert and Henry Stadler. fifth ward. Constantine Novitsky, ward cooirdinator Jack Garris, chairman of the group, says "we want. to get at least the necessary num- ber of signatures so as to place the recall vote on the November 3 ballot." "We would like to present many more signatures than necessary," says Novitsky. Last weekend, the group sent out an all- city mailing which included copies of the Black Panther 10 Point Program, the White Panther 10 Point. Program, and a White Panther .statement. Garris explains these statements were in- cluded "to bring to their