Elyr Mtd gan BIly Seventy-nine years of editorial freedom Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the rug An attack on moderation byT 'MWi 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Mich. News Phone: 764-0552 Lditorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1969 NIGHT EDITOR: DANIEL ZWERDLING Subversi'on of ROTC 0.. NOT SURPRISINGLY, the Senate As- sembly yesterday delayed action on endorsement of a report drastically mod- ifying the University's ROTC programs. Although the consensus at the meeting was clearly in favor of the majority re- port, the faculty are addicted to ponder- ous procedure and will probably not come up with a decision until their next re- gular meeting in November. In this case, however, the delay can be reasonably justified. The ROTC question is a complex and significant one demand- ing the scrutiny of every member of the community. Indeed, what really slowed the faculty decision-making process yes- terday were debates on the philosophical and moral implications of maintaining ROTC at an institution dedicated to the pursuit of reason and peace. THE NATURE of the debate can be understood by a comparison of two positions. In an incisive and cogent presentation, History Prof. Gerhard Weinberg argued that civilian control of an increasingly autonomous military can be asserted by keeping ROTC on campus and under the control - or "supervision" - of human- itarians. Considering history and current politics, Weinberg assumes that the mili- tary will always be with us and that grass roots civilian control of the defense com- plex should begin at the University level. A compelling counter-argument w a s concisely stated by Social Work P r o f. Roger Lind. In essence, Lind said that Weinberg's position is really "We will al- low you to learn to kill as long as you do it humanely." Extending Lind's logic - if not his remarks - one reasons that preserving ROTC on campus can only aid the defense establishment; only top- down reform can restructure the mili- tary. Weinberg's arguments clearly won the faculty, if not on their own merits, then simply because the moralistic arguments are so disturbingly uncompromising to faculty sensibilities. But on their own merits, Weinberg's statements are worth considering. HEN THE faculty finally endorse a report, it must be with the full inten- tion of pressing the Regents to help sub- vert ROTC from within-as the pragma- tist suggests-or to abolish ROTC alto- gether-as the moralist argues. The Re- gents must understand that under no circumstances is the present arrange- ment with the defense department ac- ceptable to the students or the faculty of this University. -HENRY GRIX Editor IN 1964, when students at Berkeley seized Sproul Hall, they launched the Amer- ican student movement into the Twen- tieth Century. Now, five years later, the movement is ready to enter the Twenty- First. For in the five years of escalating tur- moil since the "Free Speech Movement" the nation's college campuses have become rapidly and almost totally politicized. The stereotype of the apathetic student of the 1950's is nearly dead. It all happened extremely fast. Most students can still remember the days when antiwar vigils on the Diag drew 50 sup- porters and a sit-in (even in Pierpont's of- fice) could gather no more than 25. EVEN FRATERNITIES, once a haven for apolitical, apathetic, and anti-intel- lectual rich kids, are either radically changing or going out of business. And today, the antiwar rallies measure strength in tens of thousands of participants. But the involvement of the formerly "silent majority" in the political arena has been a mixed blessing, bringing with it thousands of bodies but a host of prob- lems. One such problem emerged Monday night when a group called Students for Effective Action surfaced on the Univer- sity political scene. The politics of the new group are rather unclear at this point, but its general direction-and political naivete -were probably best expressed by Andy Weissman, one of its organizers. "WE WANT TO BE a progressive polit- ical group, one which seeks meaningful political change without ,militant confron- tation," he said. "We want to use the sys- tem for change, not alienate it," he added. Thus the SEA emerges as a last grasping effort on the part of campus moderates to achieve political relevance in the face of mass student defections to more radical, politics. But the position of moderation is based upon a number of false assumptions about society and the University which are a re- flection of the lack of political sophistica- tion of the "moderate" leadership. They assume that the men governing the University and the nation are reason- able, rational men who will respond to gentle persuasion, "rational dialogue," and constructive proposals. SEVERAL RECENT EVENTS significant- ly undermine such unrealistic optimism. The reaction of President Fleming, the University faculty, and the Regents to stu- dent demands for a discount bookstore make the feasibility of moderate politics questionable at best.. In seeking a bookstore, two basic ap- proaches were attempted by students. The first effort culminated in June when the Regents refused to approve the "SGC plan" for a University bookstore. In doing so they refused to honor the democratically conducted referendum in which students voted to assess themselves $1.75 to estab- lish a bookstore. At the same meeting, the Regents also refused to authorize a bookstore even if the students could raise the necessary funds through voluntary contributions. The second proposal was even supported by the University administration. THAT WAS THE moderate approach. A refrendum, followed by a well thought out and rationally presented plan. It was a necessary step in any movement, radical or moderate, but it was still a miserable failure. The reasons should be obvious. Students, as a class, lack any real voting power in the University decision-making system ex- cept in rare exceptions. The Regents, thus insulated from student political power can readily ignore students in most decision- making situations.- The Regents, who represent an entire- ly different - and often conflicting set of interests from students - will act in- dependently and arbitrarily as long as they can get away with it. But in the face of overwhelming student pressure, and the threat of mass action, it no longer is safe and convenient for the Regents to make such undemocratic de- cisions. So the bookstore is won, but not until 107 have been arrested and the campus experienced a general strike. WHAT MADE THE REGENTS change their minds. It was not moderation to be sure. The faculty was no better, displaying hardly any interest in the controversy un- til after the issue threatened to tear the University apart. So despite their promises not to nego- tiate under coercion, the University proved it can be pressured, cajoled, and coerced, but not reasoned with. Moderate tactics clearly are ignored whenever it is feas- ible. IN SUCH AN UNDEMOCRATIC AND authoritarian University system, the most effective way students can achieve real power and large-scale change is through radical political action. THE 'SAME University President who permitted a group of students to occupy the LSA Bldg. last spring in protest against the language requirement n o w calls the police to campus within 12 hours of this year's seizure of the same build- ing. And for days and weeks preceding the student action, Fleming resorted to base emasculate the movement. He even went threats and intimidation in an effort to so far as to threaten students with dual prosecution, both in the civil courts and through University channels, should they commit acts of civil disobedience. IT ALSO SHOULD BE CLEAR to the moderate students at this point that Flem- ing is capable of almost any deception or outright lie in order to preserve his do- main. The president signed an obviously perjurous request for an injunction against the protesters which the University at- torneys lated had to sheepishly withdraw for fear of criminal prosecution against Fleming, It should also be clear to those who are now calling for moderation that the na- tional government is no more responsive than the University structure. The recent response of the Nixon admin- istration to the moratorium is only a new manifestation of a generalized disease of unresponsiveness in our political system. Billions for bombs, but pennies for people, aggressive and adventuristic foreign pol- icy, institutional racism, and political and social repression have grown to be synon- omous with the American way of life. ONE HUNDRED AND SEVEN students are arrested for demanding a bookstore, a young man is sentenced to 10 years in prison for possession of two marijuana joints, a child in South Carolina has hook- worms, and a Vietnamese village is fried in napalm. In the face sensitive and "moderation." of such atrocities, how can concerned people call for Letters:*A soldier speaks his mind . or no more compromise THE MAJORITY REPORT on ROTC basically compromises the v i e w s of those who w a n t elimination of ROTC from campus with those who see campus ROTC as an effective means for civilian control of the military. The majority report must be passed in- tact and not further compromised to strengthen in anyway ROTC's presence on campus. A further compromise would embitter many students opposed to ROTC's pres- ence on campus who already feel they have been effectively ignored by the de- cision-making apparatus on the issue. Students have watched Senate Assem- bly constitute its study committee with eleven faculty members and o n 1 y two students. And they have reviewed a re- port which has focused almost exclusive- ly on the issue's relation to academic freedom, ignoring relevant moral consid- erations. PASSAGE OF ANY minority proposals which consider moral issues and favor outright abolition seems almost hopeless. The Assembly has already voted down the minority report of Prof. Eugene Litwak and a similar proposal by Prof. Richard Beardsley. So many still rest their hopes on the potential strength of the majority report, and its ability to "modify ROTC into the ground." Part B of Section D calls for "the eval- uation and approval of the content of all the military courses and alterations pro- posed to them, with a particular charge to encourage both the elimination of courses which can be undertaken by the ROTC student during his summer service off campus, and the creation of academ- ically justifiable substitutes." If strictly interpreted this section could establish strong academic control o v e r ROTC curriculum. But Prof. Gerhard Weinberg has proposel only "general sup- ervision" by the faculty over the program and would eliminate the specific recom- mendations of the section. THE MAJORITY REPORT would prob- ably receive widespread support among students, probably more support than outright abolition of ROTC. But the compromise must not be dilut- ed to give possible academic leeway to the ROTC faculty in establishing course cur- riculum. The majority report m u s t be passed intact with none of the innocuous qualifications in the future could prove to be disastrous loopholes. -- TOBE LEV To the Editor: WE CAME BACK from the shop at about eleven o'clock for lunch. Trying to settle the grits in our guts, we sat in the booth listening to the news and having a smoke. The news was about the Viet- nam moratorium. In Can Rank bay, where I am stationed, and in the rest of Vietnam, Oct. 15th was the same as any other day. THE NEWS TOLD US that hun- dreds of thousands of Americans were protesting in opposition to U.S. involvement in Vietnam. There was also news about a can- dlelight vigil at the White House, while the occupant proceeded with his work "not letting the dissent of the people affect his policies in any way." This was not a normal news- cast however, because instead of comme'cials there are what we refer to as "interludes" on t h e Armed Forces Vietnam radio net- work. These interludes usually in- form us of mailing policies, Red Cross services and other things. TODAY THE BROADCAST in- terludes spoke of America as the last bastion of freedom where "revolution may be popular, but it's not practical." They further spoke to us of the military code of conduct and Nathan Hale re- gretting that he had only one life to give for his country. We sat listening, encouraged by the expressions of the people at home. The newscast turned sour though, when there were reports of counter-demonstrations - peo- ple blindly waving their flags demonstrating psuedo patriotism. THE STARS AND STRIPES, the unofficial official paper of the army, ran some of the opinions of a few G.I.s concerning the mora- torium, such as, "They should give them uniforms and send them ov- er here without a gun. "They are sorry and unpatriotic," said a ser- geant. "Stupid fucking lifers," commented one of my friends. Hanoi Sends Wishes For Protest Success was the headline in the Stars and Stripes. Spiro A g n e w sent word to the mortatorium headquarters to repudiate Phan Van Pong's words of encourage- ment. He said that -North Viet- nam's official was "a representa- tive of a totalitarian government which has on its hands blood of 40,000 Americans." THE BLOOD is on your hands, Spiro. -B. C. Clarification To the Editor: AS ORGANIZERS of Students for Effective Action (SEA), we feel that yesterday's article in The Daily (Oct. 21) stands in need of clarification. The article states that SEA "represents a coalition of two other groups that formed earlier this semester, shortly after the LSA Bldg. sit-in over the bookstore controversy." SEA does include some individuals who participated in the previous Coalition for Ra- tional Student Power (CRSP). But it is not a continuation of the coalition at all. SOME MEMBERS of CRSP were concerned only with opposing militant tactics, and only with a limited set of issues. But we be- lieve that opposition to confron- tation by itself is meaningless, that ignoring the problems our society must face is even worse than deal- ing with them in the wrong way. The name SEA was chosen spe- cifically to differentiate ourselves from those members of CRSP who shared only our concern with un- Snecessary violence, and not our strong desire for effective action. WE BELIEVE that SEA is a challenge to the student commu- nity to see if peaceful change can evemr work. We urge those most concerned with achieving the most intelligent solution to our prob- lems to join us. -Andy Weisman, '71 -Rick Curtis, '70 -Jeff Tirengel, '71 Oct. 21 Mobe and the workers To the Editor: I WOULD like to respond to Roger Forman's letter in The Daily of Oct. 17th in which he asks why New Mobilization failed to organize the workers of the University for the Oct. 15th Mora- torium. The reason relatively few non- academic employees participated actively in the Moratorium is that they were discouraged from doing so by the University administra- tion. We asked President Fleming to indicate whether the directive issued for academic staff applied to non-academic staff, that is, based on individual decision, they could attend the events of the day without losing pay. IN RESPONSE to this, a direc- tive was issued by the Personnel Office stating that where work situations permitted and at the discretion of supervisors, non- aca - demic staff could have time off provided they did not get paid for it or take vacation leave, which is the same thing. As a result, hos- pital workers, food service work- ers, office workers, etc. who could least afford to do so had to lose pay, while faculty could do as they pleased without losing pay. Many non-academic staff who wanted to support the Moratorium could not do so. We did, however, circulate over 2000 leaflets to non-academic em- ployees urging them to support the Moratorium. We also picketed the Administration Building twice during the morning of the 15th to protest the discriminatory treatment of non-academic em- ployees. Outside of the University, we leafletted several factories in the area and, in fact, seven of our workers were arrested at the River Rouge plant. We at New Mobe are well aware of the need to build a broadbased movement. We hope that those workers whom we did not reach and who would have joined us, will do so now; the struggle has only begun. --(Mrs.! Jake Evans, non-academic employe, Center for Chinese Studies W omen's liberation To the Editor: BY DESCRIBING the "natural" and "free" female as one with braless breasts draped in pearls you have again pushed the image of the American woman back sev- eral decades. According to your new two-page "A la Mode" section the "in" young lady "exemplifies" todays fashion-placing the im- portance of the individual second to clothing whereas clothing would more suitably "exemplify" the individual. The "women's sec- tion" in The Daily was drawn along lines very similar to the same sections in The Detroit News and Free Press.'Can we next ex- pect syndicated columns by Abigail Van Breun? As to your front page article on bralessness - Liberation starts with the brain, not with the boobs! -Vicki Aller, '72 Oct. 20 Resurrection To the Editor: The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. -Paul McCartney Oct. 20 Revolution and religion: Awakening at the University By ANITA WET1'"1ERST1ROEM REVOLUTION has a way of awak- ening drowsing institutions. Its rumblings, even from a distance, stir introspection and promise new life to those institutions who heed its call . The Church, traditionally one of the most static elements in any so- ciety, is hardly the place where one would expect to find movements of revolutionary change. Few are sur- prised to note the rapidly diminish- ing influence the church has on con- temporary affairs. But beneath the amorphous struc- ture of the church is'an institution of clergymen as individuals who are making their presence felt political- ly. Both as a response to political ac- tivism and out of a moral concern, we find churchmen like Father James Groppi leading the poor into a takeover of t h e Wisconsin state legislature. We see William Sloane Coffin being convicted for "conspir- acy" to counsel young men in ways to avoid the draft. We see o t h e r clergymen committing acts of civil disobedience by destroying s u c i things as draft files. In short, v,e see a growing trend among religious leaders to make the church more relevant to the cause of social change. This tendency is not cent luncheons provide t h e occas- ions for programmed speakers and informal discussions. It was at the Guild House that Malcomb X ad- dressed students and faculty j u s t months before his death. In addition. the Guild House opens its doors for classes and meetings of campus or- ganizations. But the Guild House does not merely define itself as a forum of public discussion. It is par- ticularly concerned w it h draft re- sistance. Guild House director, Rev. Ed Edwards, spends as much as 16 hours a day counselling young men w it h objections to the war, men whom he considers to be among the "most sincere, ethical males on cam- pus, " ST. MARY'S, the Catholic students chapel, does not see itself as con- servative. Most of the four thousand students making up its Sunday mass attendance are, in the estimation of Fr. Irvin, one of the chapel's priests, liberal. Extreme conservatives are in a distinct minority, as are the radi- cal in the congregation. The reason for the latter case, Fr. Irvin feels, is that radiqals make a clean b r e a k from all "established" institutions, like the church, On the political spectrum, the LOCATED ON the same block as St. Mary's is the Canterbury House, which strives to offer a "full-time" program. Canterbury, the Episcopal- ian religious center, offers marriage counselling and theological programs, a coffee house with food and enter- tainment, and experimental worship service. T h e Resistance operates from Canterbury and the two are some- times taken as synonomous. But Canterbury's political involvement is by no means limited to the Resis- tance. It has provided facilities from time to time for the Black Student Association, SDS, Radical Caucus, high school underground newspapers and Ann Arbor Argus. Canterbury's association with such organizations has earned it a some- what "radical" reputation. But ac- cording to Rev. Craig Hammon of Canterbury, institutions can't re- main politically neutral. "A status quo attitude, in effect, preserves so- ciety as it is." As Canterbury is con- cerned with "t h e humanization of mankind," its attitude is necessarily progressive. Canterbury believes in bodily par- ticipation and spontaneous response. That it puts its preachings into prac- tice is evidenced by its conversion in- to an infirmary during the South U. examine various sides of contempor- ary American issues. Mayor Harris, for example, recently spoke to many of these students at a luncheon in the International Center about the South U. incident. ANOTHER socially conscious but relatively non-activist religious cen- ter is the Unitarian church. Its dis- tance from campus and the fact that only one-quarter of its congregation are students seem to remove it from the direct influence of student acti- vism. It does have a student commit- tee called "Student Religious Liber- als," but t h e y concern themselves mainly with discussion of issues rather than with participation. If any of the Unitarian students are activists in student disruption, they are active independent of the Unitarian congregation. Dr. Erwin Gaede believes that this is probably due to the students' relatively brief stay in Ann Arbor. He says students are not part of the congregation lonV enough to identify with it, long enough to feel it necessary to make student concerns the concern of their religious community. Untouched by the hands of revolu- tion, the Unitarian congregation is at least not deaf to its drums. The congregation's Social Action commit- Beyond these, Hillel's activities are determined by the students of the campus. But with 5,000 Jewish stu- dents on this campus Hillel's Rabbi Goodman estimates that only 500- 600 regularly attend functions at the House. "Judaism has lost its mes- sage,' Rabbi Goldman frankly ad- mits. He says this is true "not only on campuses, but throughout t h e country.- But things are changing. Within Hillel is a peace committee, which is nationally affiliated with the Jewish Peace Fellowship and a Jewish Con- scientious Objectors Council. It is planning to go to Washington on No- vember 15. Speakers such as Jerry Goldberg of SDS have come to ad- dress audiences at Hillel, and an af- ternoon "coffee h o u s e" is in the planning stages and hopes to attract speakers and spur discussions. Rabbi Goldman places a great deal of faith in the activism of students today. "College kids are our o n 1y hope. For America and American Jewry as well." Rabbi Goldman seems pleased when he mentioned the high propor- tion of Jews involved in student ac- tivism. "(Jews) are unusual kinds of animals," he smiles. "They have a drive for education and a drive for authoritative rebuke. Rev. Paul Fet- tig, one of last year's staff, was ar- rested in last fall's welfare mothers demonstration. was granted on the condition that the money go only to the starving people in Biafra and not to the gov- ernment. Fr. Irvin adds that if Ni-