Seventy-Sixth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS AT-LARGE Stickball Comes to SAB. .. What Else? D iere OWiioP ar - .s420 MAYNARD ST., ANN ARBOR, MICH. TruthWLl rvi by NEIL SHISTER NEWS PHONE: 764-0552 I1 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. SUNDAY, MARCH 26, 1967 NIGHT EDITOR: MARK LEVIN Bursley Hall: Spaces Open For Sacrificial Lambs UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS will use near- ly 600 freshmen as a crutch next year when they place them in the new Burs- ley Hall, opening on North Campus.' Students eligible to live in off-campus housing would rather take an apartment near Central Campus than have to make the daily trek to Bursley Hall on North Campus. Therefore, to keep from having unfilled dorms, and thus losing money, some freshmen (men and women) and sophomore women, who are obligated to live in residence halls, will be forced to tale the brunt of the administraiton's poor planning. Bursley Hall was originally built for those students who will be using North Campus. The engineering, architecture and design and nursing schools will even- the immediate future only music school students will have most of their classes scheduled there. However, there are not enough music school students to fill all the vacancies, and a few hundred freshmen, who have their courses on Central Campus, will be forced to live in Bursley. IF ANY GROUP of students deserves housing near their classes, it is the freshmen. Handicapped by their inex- perience in seeking out an academic exist- ence, and adjusting to the multiversity, freshmen shouldn't have the added han- dicap of having to bus themselves to and from campus. Besides their classes, every- thing else a freshman needs, from stores to the library and student activities, is placed near Central Campus. The temptation to cut a class-espe- cially an 8 o'clock when the next one is at 10-will be greatly intensified. It is the students' responsibility to decide whether or not to go to class, and he must accept the consequences of his decision, but why should a particular group of freshmen have to make that decision with an automatic strike against them? IN SPITE OF ALL THIS, South Quadran- gle will house 300 less freshmen than it does this year because Thomas Fox, quadrangle director, believes that "Sen- iority should mean something. If a re- turning student wants a space at South, why should that space be given to a new student?" An unmentioned factor, however, is that if upperclassmen prefer to live off-cam- pus than in Bursley Hall, and freshmen or sophomore girls aren't used to fill the spaces, then the revenue lost from an un- filled dorm will have an adverse effect on the system's ability to pay for itself. IN THE WORDS of one University offi- cial, this is "good business." But is it good for the educational interests of the University? -RICHARD MYNICK Hey! What a nice day was yesterday. Kind of day when the people in cars are jealous of people walking. Con- vertible tops prematurely lowered and what seemed like a more than usual amount of parents seeing the campus with their freshman sons and daughters ("this is the diag, ma, you're not supposed to step ..."). Much too nice a day to waste writing inside. So somebody went to Moe's and bought a stickball (i.e. handball) and an impromptu game was organized. There are a couple of dead pigeons on the lawn of the Student Activities Building but other than that it made a fine place for the make-up-the-rules-as-you-go contest. Actually the lawn is too small to be much of a real playing field, but if you use your imagination, and don't try to hit the ball too far it's okay. Sort of like running the OSA, I suppose. BACK TO THE GAME. It was mid-western style stickball, using a four inch broom handle instead of a bat, a sort of combination 'three-flys-in' and cricket. The hero of the game was. Thomas "Student Power Now" Copi, erstwhile SGC presidential candidate. He plays a mean game of stickball, although less as a pitcher than a hitter. A couple of times he really tagged the ball, drawing cheers from the 'new left' who were there to watch. . Playing ball there in front of the SAB, I was suddenly thinking thoughts that fit neither the day nor the mood of the moment. Thoughts about SGC. THERE IS SOMETHING about SGC these days that actually keeps hanging in your mind even when you're playing stickball, because SGC may become very im- portant here. SGC might mean something because there is a move- ment underway, not only at the University but through- out the country, aimed at upsetting some of the old absolutes of the social system. It is a challenge to more than just education, but education will inevitably be included. There is a feeling among most of the student genera- tion that somehow the system isn't right, that it is In- herently dehumanizing and must be changed. The way to do it, for those who have not dropped out, is at least partially through political action. But to be politically efficacious one must first have power. THIS IS WHERE SGC comes in. SGC is the natural instrument for change-the body to eradicate the po- litical impotency students have in controlling rule of their lives. Last year's Council, the Ed Robinson Council, was caught up in the flows of the movement, although only partially. Still, their decision to leave OSA last fall is significant. It means, more than anything else, a rejec- tion of the system here. As of now the withdrawal is pretty much a symbolic gesture. SGC has not been forced to leave its offices in the SAB, and the funds it receives from the OSA budget have not been cut off. IT IS, OF COURSE, far too early to say what this particular Council will be like. First impressions are that it may turn out to be too timid for the times. But the important thing, no matter what the actual accomplishments of this Council are, is that there is an undercurrent of latent revolution around. Two years ago talk about student power, institutionalized or simply anarchic, was never heard. It is really quite striking the extent to which the flavor of campus politics, at least among those interested in it, has changed. SGC will probably do nothing until next year. The recommendation Thursday night urging the abolition of sophomore women's hours was a good move. Self-re- sponsibility should not be artifically imposed. But this was the last act of the old Council. The new Council won't learn the game-rules for an- other month, by then the semester is over. So we won't have much of a clue to the character of SGC until fall. IT IS REASONABLE to predict, though, that if Council is to amount to anything it will be up to president Bruce Kahn to be its stimulus. His leadership will decide whether it is to play a real campus role or revert to the irrelevancy of its past. Kahn's sentiments are not really those of an activist, but after serving a term on Council and working on the draft referendum he must realize the need for having a genuine source of power (which is the threat of student revolt) when dealing with the administration. When viewed rationally much of the political furor seems almost absurd. After all, they are our lives and if we don't want hours, why should we have them? And on a more serious note, if we are paying for an education there is something wrong with a system that won't ade- quately educate us, we should be able to change it. But it really was a beautiful day! 4 Letters: A Veteran on Vietnam and the Draft To the Editor: [ SPEAK AS A parent, and as a veteran of two wars. In one war I volunteered, and in one I was drafted. The present Administration has become so enmeshed with "Wars" on poverty, wars on discrimina- tion, wars on ugliness, wars on sickness and other misnamed ac- tivities, that it has lost track of the fact that a War, a real one where people kill and maim, and are killed and maimed, is deadly serious. In fast, War is the most serious business in which men can engage. In a War, you don't armchair theory about escalation, or de- escalation; nor do you walk about "bombing the north," or "not bombing the north." You must talk about, and have, purpose. You must have resolve to carry out that purpose. EVEN THE MOST naive ob- server knows at once that our country has no purpose or resolve in South Vietnam toay. But we are in South Vietnam today because you and I and the Congress let it happen. Give a drunk a bottle, and he'll drink it. Give a spendthrift a bank account, and he'll blow it. Give a politician an army, and he'll use it. If the Congress continues the draft, it must do so with safe- guards for parents and children to insure that our children's lives and limbs are not squandered at the which of a politician and a coterie of his ill-advised advisers. And we can do it. At least the Congress can. When the draft legislation is re- considered, it should be insisted upon that our children will not be treated as the most subservient hostages, to die in a reptile and insect infested jungle, while the rest of the Great Society drives Responsibility of the Vote AS THE ANN ARBOR municipal elec- tions draw closer, an interesting point has been brought forward by Democrat- ic mayoral candidate Dr. Ed Pierce. In speaking of the University students' role in the Ann Arbor community, Pierce of- fers the following: if Ann Arbor's stu- dents are desirous of full citizenship rights, then they must bear the respon- sibilities as well as the privileges of such status. On the surface, there seems to be noth- ing profound in this pronouncement; the idea of the citizen's social contract with the state is even older than Rousseau. Still, as reflected by various spokesman for student rights, the University commu- nity does not want citizenship of the type that Dr. Pierce asks. THERE ARE TWO basic viewpoints con- cerning the University's legal role in the community. One side-that of the student activists-claims that the Uni- versity is not a part of "legal" Ann Ar- bor, that it is a microcosm of independ- ent, non-static forces that spend their time in Ann Arbor as merely a stopover en route to "real life." These people would have it that Ann Arbor's civil government has no jurisdiction over campus affairs, that any encroachment of student life by Ann Arbor authority calls for the inter- vention of the University as an ombuds- man that would serve as a protector of the micro-community. Opposite this viewpoint is one of pure legality; just as the University population does reside in Ann Arbor, so then is that population responsible to Ann Arbor authority. As was the case with Cinema Guild, it is this view that is most often offered by the University administration in answer to the students' pleas for pro- tection. YET, BECAUSE of student agitation for protection and University insistence on legal responsibility, the city-Univer- sity relation is a massive tangle of con- tradiction in policy. On the one hand SGC calls for decreased resistance to stu- dents wishing registration as Ann Arbor voters, but then this same organization cries for the previously mentioned "pro- tection" from a "Big Brother" Universi- ty: on the one hand the administration refuses to stand up for the Cinema Guild, despite its position as a duly recognized student organization, but then the Uni- versity still grants disciplinary powers - note that these powers are often over areas of civil conduct-to the Joint Ju- diciary Council: on one hand the city administration attempts to invoke its po- lice authority over the display of "porn- ographic" motion pictures, but it remains silent-through an agreement with the University-on the question of rampant student drinking on campus. It is evident that the intertangled na- ture of student-University-city relations is a mass of contradictions. No one poli- cy-perhaps not even a group of policies -clearly defines the instance of city au- thority as opposed to University author- ity. It seems that Dr. Pierce's stand, however, is clearly viable. Under the voter registration laws of the state of Michigan, six months permanent resi- dence in a precinct is sufficient for vot- ing rights. Because of this statute, then, nearly all of the University's "over-21" student population is eligible for the full rights of franchise. If the student wishes to exercise this right-and more are do- ing so in each successive election-it is only logical and socially moral that he accepts his responsibilities, and the Uni- versity allows him the dreedom of all Ann Arbor citizens. NO LONGER SHOULD a University- sponsored body of students (JJC) be allowed to discipline students for civil infractions. Similarly, no longer should students be subject to rules of conduct that would not exist for Ann Arbor resi- dents of the same age group. No longer should the city ignore its constituted rights and powers of police and of the courts. But most importantly, no longer should any student refuse to grasp the power of the vote which determines the rules that he will be compelled to abide by. If students refuse to accept their responsibilities, then they do not deserve the vote. --DAN OKRENT z . g9i, jp 94 its mink clad women, in the new- est automobiles, to football games and the theater. WHENEVER THERE IS an in- equity caused by legislation, the Congress must realize that people have adapted themselves to the inequity and arranged their lives so that the inequity causes a mini- mum of dislocation. By way of il- present tax law permitting deple- lustration-it is quite possible the tion allowance to the oil industry could be considered unfair. Never- theless, the proceeds of widow's and children's estates, are now invested in these companies on the basis of the present tax law- to change this law would now cause greater inequity than the existing situation. So it is with the draft. Our people have proceeded upon a certain set of ground rules, and before these ground rules are changed, serious consideration should be given to the conse- quences. The Presidential advisers now suggest the rules be changed so that our youngest children be sent to war first, and that those to go be chosen by lottery. I can only most seriously suggest that the parents of this country are not interested in rolling "high dice" for the lives of their youngest children. Unless there is a Congressional resolution either to get out of Vietnam or to bring sufficient force to bear to cause North Viet- nam to do as we say, the fairest thing to do is to continue this dreadful draft as it now exists. -Volney F. Morin First Ward To the Editors: I NOTICE WITH SOME amaze- ment that SGC has chosen to endorse the Republican candidate for Council in the First Ward, and I wonder if students are aware of what this candidate actu- ally stands for. On the subject of human rela- tions, he has stated that he does not feel "racial imbalance" (i.e. segregation?), per se, is evil and that schools should not bear the burden of easing basic social and economic disadvantage. Presuma- bly it is left to the disadvantaged themlselves to bear the burden. On the subject of housing, he ooool" 40 7 has recently advocated the re- placement of existing low-cost housing in the First Ward by more new apartment houses which we can assume from recent experi- ence would charge rents far above what many students, especially married students, can afford to pay; to say nothing of the non- student families in the area, many of whom are also renters. It sounds like "Negro removal," Ann Arbor-style. ON THE SUBJECT of taxation, he has taken a variety of posi- tions. Last May he stressed fiscal reform with relief for property owners, but more recently he has advocated increased property tax- es and opposed a city income tax. Doesn't SGC realize that a stu- dent pays the property tax as part of his rent, not in proportion to his means (as in the case of an income tax) but in proportion to the value of the property to the landlord! For students to en- dorse a candidate who advocates .higher property taxes is economic idiocy. BY CONTRAST, the incumbent Democratic Councilman, H. C. Curry, has worked for the passage of a Fair Housing law (thus bene- fitting both Negro and foreign students), the establishment of a Housing Commission. (which by developing low-cost housing would deflate the high rents), and the enforcement of zoning laws and building codes (which protect stu- dents from unscrupulous landlords and developers). He is opposed to higher property taxes and stresses the need for a fairer distribution of the tax burden. He is clearly a candidate whom students can sup- port in their own interest and in the interest of human rights. -Peter H. Roosen-Runge, Grad. .,mot. i . e' y i N 1 Yi raf, y 4 i > 1 . ; 'r * tF CONG( SSIONA t i ' n. 5 . 'I'M WAITIM' TO S~~~E IF Ttt.1 ~lRTI uu AIII 4 CF^AP GAME-: MA ti a I FEIFFER The Daily is a member of the Associated Press and Collegiate Press Service. Subscription rate: $4.50 semester by carrier ($5 by mail; $8 for two semesters by carrier ($9 by mail). Published at 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Mich., 48104. Daily except Monday during regular academic school yea,. Daily except Sunday and Monday during regular summer session. Second class postage paid at Ann Arbor. Michigan. 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48104. Editorial Staff ROGER RAPOPORT, Editor MEREDITH EIKER. Managing Editor I WC0L 6H CLA P Lf E(? 1C MY MOTf TI 5 2" BUT MY? 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