SUNDAY DAILY See Editorial Page 131k 43au~ &4 tti SLIPPERY High-43 Low-27 Freezing rain, changing to snow Vol. LXXX, No. 78 Ann Arbor, Michigan--Sunday, December 7, 1969 Ten Cents Ten Pages Black By RICK PERLOFF The University has been charged with discrimination by a black secre- tary who believes the sociology de- partment fired her on racial grounds. And while the University is main- taining it has sole authority to in- vestigate the case, the city's Human Relations Commission is arguing it must be given jurisdiction over the University so it can investigate just such cases of alleged University dis- crimination. The case may crystalize the current disagreement between the two groups concerning jurisdiction, the Univer- sity's efforts to end any discrimina- tion and hire more black employes. The secretary, who is now employed by the statistics department, filed a complaint with President Robben secretary Fleming early last month alleging the perso that the department's reason fo! University terminating her employment was be- gating s cause she is black. plaints. The University personnel office is The let presently conducting an investigation ulation, ac of the charge which it expects to any comp complete this week. discrimin Contacted yesterday, the chairman fice. This of the sociology department, Albert tor Russel Reiss, declines comment on the secre- sity sole a tary's charges. vestigatio She also filed a, complaint with Some H Ann Arbor NAACP and the city Hu- University man Relations Commission. After eliminate she notified HRC staff member Ray- points ou mond Chauncey, he wrote a letter to the Univ Reiss asking to discuss the issue with criminatoi him. Chaunc( Chauncey says he received no re- commissio sponse to his query, only a letter from the Unive char nnel office explaining the 's procedures for investi- uch discrimination com- ter cited a University reg- dopted last year, that refers plaint of alleged University ation to the personnel of- , explains Personnel Direc- Li Reister, gives the Univer- authority to conduct the in- In. IRC members contend the has not done its best to discrimination. As Reister t, the commission believes ersity is "the biggest dis- r in town." ey says simply that the n wants jurisdiction over rsity because it "is one of ges ' the biggest employers with the city." HRC Director David Cowley be- lieves it is "inappropriate" for the University to conduct investigations of alleged discrimination in depart- ments because it is too closely af- filiated with them. If the University investigates a complaint, says Cowley, who wants HRC to ultimately have the author- ity, a panel should be created which contains non-University personnel and has less ties with the depart- ments involved. While Reister understands this position, he believes that the person- nel office has been a good represent- ative of employes and has been doing a "fair and impartial" job of inves- with code recently introduced by Mayor Robert Harris, HRC would be re- placed by a Department of Human Rights which would have jurisdiction over the University. The department -- responsible to the city administrator - could sub- poena witnesses and investigate cases of alleged discrimination. HRC does not have this authority at present. According to commissioner Theodore St. Antoine, a law professor, HRC's power is limited to "persuasion." Harrris' draft also provides for the creation of a group of Human Rights Examiners who, in alleged cases of discrimination, could seek injunctions and would have cease and desist and fining powers. Cowley wants the department to be more autonomous and be freed of its liscrimination responsibility to the city administra- tor. He also believes the examiners should have compulsory power to hear every discrimination case. Ap- peals should only be granted, he be- livese, in Circuit Court on the basis of preponderance of evidence. He says Harris' plan would allow a respondent like the sociology de- partment to appear before Circuit Court and have a case removed from the examiners. Chauncey is concerned about the examiners' being impartial. And if HRC had such authority in the secretary's case, it could con- duct its own investigation, subpoena witnesses and, if justified, could issue a cease and desist order compelling the sociology department to re-hire her. Chauncey believes such authority would help guarantee that some de- finits action is taken. These points of contention will be discussed at a meeting between Uni- versity officals and HRC next week. The meeting was called by the Uni- versity. The affair began this summer when the secretary was transferred from a C-4 level secretary in the Mental Health Research Institute (MHRI) to the Center for Research on Social Organizations where she was hired as a C-5, the highest-level secretarial slot in the sociology department. There are four levels of secretary, with C-6 the highest. Chauncey and Clyde Briggs, man- ager of training and counseling in the See SECRETARY, Page 10 tigating cases. Under a new anti-discrimination Back from Paris Henry Cabot Lodge, who recently resigned as the head of talks, arrived in Boston yesterday. Ambassador Paris peace the U.S. delegation to the - FOOT BALL CLASSIC TODAY Harvey's Pigs come out to get Krasny' s Goats in bowl game Lottery criticized as unfair' By CHARLES OLMSTEAD The odds against last Mon- clay's draft lottery turning out the way it did are on the order of 100.000 to one, Prof. Fred Haddock, director of the Uni- versity's Astronomy Observatory. said yesterday. In a letter to the editor of the New York Times, Prof. Had- dock said, "Inspection of the lottery results clearly shows a systematically increasing num- ber of men being drafted as their birth date falls later in the year." Haddock discounted the pos- sibility that the lottery may have been rigged, suggesting in- stead that the capsules contain- ing the birthdates may have been placed in the glass bowl in monthly order with January on the bottom. "If the capsules were well shuffled, the chance of this hap- pjening are extremely r'emote,", hie said. Haddock concluded the draft lotter'y is "not random" after working on the problem for the past several days with the aid of mathematicians. The group plotted the month- ly values of lottery numbers and found a nearly linear decrease in the draft priority number as the birth dates fell increasingly lat- er in the year. The average draft numbers of the first six months were all above the over-all average of 183.5 while the averages of the last six months all fell below 183.5, Haddock continued. The result, he added, will be that many more men who were born in the last six months of the year will be drafted than those who were born in the first six months. "The odds against this trend resulting from random selec- tion are over 100,000 to 1," Had- dock said. The effects fall mainly on draftees who were born in No- vember and December, he com- mented. "Twice as many men with De- cember birth dates will be draft- ed compared to those having January birth dates," he eN- plained, adding that for this reason, the lottery was "statis- tically unfair." 11 By ARTHUR REID Who's the biggest pig in Washtenaw County? Sheriff Douglas Harvey thinks he is. And Sunday afternoon he'll have the chance to prove it when he leads his band of hard-nosed Pigs in an all out assault against Police Chief Walter Krasny and his Ann Arbor Goats in the first annual "Pig Bowl." The proceeds from the game will be used to provide some Christmas festivities for needy children in the county. But the main discussion at the base camps of the two teams appears to be the impending confrontation. Both teams feel assured of victory, and are trying to keep their adversaries from forgetting it. "I think we'll have bacon for dinner," says one Goat. As game time draws near, a number of curious incidents have befallen both the Police Depart- ment and the County Jail. Police officers say they discovered a message written on a blackboard in the department's locker room, which said, "We're Number One," and was signed, "Doug." But Sheriff Harvey has denied any knowledge of the author. There also appears to be a lpartisan poet in- volved in the pregame exchanges. A poetic chant, delivered to the Police Department. announces: "The proof is in the pudding. The Goats will be our kill, If you ain't seen no slaughtered Goats Come Sunday and you will." It was followed by the prediction, "Pigs 65, Goats, 0." Both sides have been practicing two hours a day for the past two weeks. And some of the preparation has been quite professional. Sheriff Harvey has even filmed practice sessions and played them back to his team. When asked to pick a winner in today's classic, Student Government Council President Marty McLaughlin said, "I hope Harvey's men get their heads stomped." He later added, "The bigger the Pig, the harder they fall." Mike Modelski, leader of Young Americans for Freedom, commented, "I think it's a good cause, but it's no big deal." He added, "I really don't give a damn." As expected, Mayor Robert Harris is support- ing the Ann Arbor Goats. Harris is also optimistic about the turnout, and sees the game as a step toward improving police-community relations. As an added attraction, each team comes with a mascot. Harvey's squad will be represented by a live pig, while Krasny will have a live goat. Dress for the game will be collegiate. The Police Department will be wearing the maize and blue uniform of the Michigan football team, while the Sheriff's Department will be dressed in the gi'een and white uniforms of Eastern Michigan University's team. -Daily-Randy Edmonds Mayor Harris leads Biafra Walk '69 275 By DEBBIE THIIA nai Some 275 people, led by Mayor Robert Harris, yesterday marched four miles around the central campus area as part of a drive to raise money for Biafran child- rei). The participants in the march--which was called Biafra Walk '69 - were being "paid" by donors for each mile they marched. Robert Splittgerber, chairman of Biafra Walk '69 Inc., said the funds collected will be used to purchase food and medical sup- plies for use in Biafra. The march had the support of Harris, who had officially proclaimed yesterday "Biafra Walk '69 Day," and the Washtenaw County Council of Churches. The march, which began shortly after 4Ceb to aid 10:30 a.m., proceeded, down State Street, and North, East, and South University Avenues. Walking on the sidewalk, t h e group circled the block four times. Although more than 500 people had sign- ed up to participate only about half showed up yesterday. Splittgerber attributed the smaller turn- out to poor organization. "I think that there would have been many more people if we had been more experienced. But, he added, "the number of marchers on a cold, wintry morning with that much concern should surely demonstrate to t he community the concern over the problem in Biafra." The marchers included people from many diverse segments of the community. Besides students, members of the Kiwanis Club and several elderly members of the community walked in the procession. Splittgerber said a group of 40 students Concordia Lutheran Teachers' College yes- terday participated in a separate march in support of Biafra Walk. Prior to the march, each participant was asked to solicit as many people as possible to "sponsor" them. Each sponsor was re- quested to donate a minimum of 75 cents for each of the four miles walked - or $3. Participants were recruited just before the Thanksgiving Vacation. The organizers felt that they would be more successful in soliciting contributions in their home towns than in Ann Arbor. The money raised will be donated initially to Joint Church Aid and to the Biafran Re- lief Services Foundation with the stipula- tin1 f f t h _ lciq n lyfn hf i lfnn .n Biafra Although the group had planned to end the campaign with the walk, they decided to continue because, Splittgerber explained, "the starvation will not end so how can we stop raising money just because the walk has ended?" The amount of money raised thus far has not been computed., "If we raised a million dollars it would be great", Splittgerber said, "but if we only raise $10,000, which we consider to be a minimum, it will still provide one hundred thousand days of meals for people w h o would starve otherwise." SEA projects mark rebirthi By TAMM.1Y JACOB Students for Effective Action (SEA), a group that describes itself as "liberal, but opposed to militant tactics," is returning to action after a month-and-a-half-long lull. The group recently secured literary col- lege accreditation for a course in "Planned Change" which will be given next semester. SEA leader Andy Weissman, '70, who helped organize the course, says both theoretical and practical aspects of reform will be covered. Although the course was not initiated by SEA as a group, the organizers were members of the group, and Weissman says he expects most people in the course to be involved with SEA. Pilot i By JIM McIFERSON You don't need huge amounts of money to create an experimental educational and living unit within the University. The Pilot Program, in Alice Lloyd IHall, doesn 't cost the University very much a year. But everyone connected with the program. from students to pro- fessors who donate their time for special pilot classes. seems to agree that the dividends are reat, The freshmen and sophomores who make up pilot live together in Lloyd. And although they generally take only rogra m: A lot for Basically, pilot is just that - a simple thing. Many sections in regular literary college classes are reserved for p i 1ot students. Other courses were initiated by students and are taught by interested faculty members without extra pay. "The Pilot Program costs the Univer- sity the equivalent of what it would cost for one distinguished professor," explains LSA assistant dean J a in e s Shaw. Extra expenses are slightly higher op- erating costs, a larger salary for t h e director and staff members, and the equi- valent of a teaching fellow's salary which was the place where the idea of having classes taught in the dorm or- iginated. Now residents of many hous- ing units are organizing their own class- es. ''We are, in a sense, an experiment for the entire University," says Tom Lobe, a resident director in the program. "Ori- ginally we were a "pilot" . for the Resi- dential College, but now we're working to make education relevant to students." When classes in the dorm were of- fered for the first time, students and fa- culty reacted with uncertainty. Neither was sure the idea would xvork. N o w, aI t e There are several examples of student initiative in Lloyd right now. One is a series of seminars taught for credit by interested faculty. The response to these courses, rang- ing in subject from "The Philosophy of Math,"' and "Death." to "Alienation and Education," has been excellent, explained Lob-. "Every course is filled up," lie says. "The course material is topical, and deals with material that is related to what a student is doing." Another student-begun project is the oopular campus bistro. Alice's Restaurant.