...... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . t Gkt Mlrhigau Batty Seventy-Sixth Year EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF TAE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN UNDER AUTHORITY OF BOARD IN CONTROL OF STUDENT PUBLICATIONS ROGER RAPOPORT: Does Anybody Want To Buy a War? 3? - - I- e pinions Ar Free 420 MAYNARD ST., ANN ARBOR, MICH. NEWS PHONE: 764-0552 . Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. ...__......._ M SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1967 NIGHT EDITOR: PAT O'DONOHUE Quick Action Is Vital On State Tax Reform ALL THE CURRENT peace talk about Vietnam is really just a smokescreen. Behind the scene President Johnson and Ho Chi Minh are desperately trying to sell the war. But they can't get rid of it. There are plenty of eager buyers around but the sellers are finding it impossible to work out terms. For example, the top bidder for the war, U.N. Secre- tary-General U Thant has raised enough money to buy the warnout. But thenprotagonists refuse to OK Thant's plan to move the whole war to Geneva. Another top bidder, Dow Chemical, is also set to purchase the war. But Dow has been notified by the government that there would be a conflict of interest if it sold Napalm for use in its own war. In fact the government has threatened to give the lucrative napalm contract to another chemical firm if Dow makes the purchase. SEVERAL OF THE major news media have also been trying to buy the war out. This week NBC tried to buy the war so that it could send striking David Brinkley over. Time magazine submitted a bid but withdrew it after an editor accidentally started reading Newsweek and found out what the whole war was all about. New York Times assistant minh-iging editor Har- rison Salisbury almost bought the war. But President Johnson refused to OK the sale after Salisbury refused to take the Southern half. A number of educational institutions are also in- terested in the war-including the University. But after reviewing the situation the school decided against it since so much of its funds are being directed to the Residential College. For awhile even the Central Intelligence Agency was thinking about buying the war. But that was before Ramparts explained to them that they controlled the whole thing anyway. General Motors has also dropped its plans to buy the war. The company had the money but President Johnson insisted that GM take Dean Rusk as part of the deal. And nobody wants Dean Rusk. VICE-PRESIDENT Cutler's decision to approve abo- lition of sophomore's women's hours ironically should be a boost for campus morality. "Before," claims one co-ed, "Girls who lost track of time and didn't want to go back to the dorm and pick up a penalty of 30 late minutes would be forced to stay out all night. Now they can just go home*and go to bed." THE PEN APPARENTLY isn't as mighty as the mouth. Student activists, riled over the fact that some stu- dents were shut out of yesterday afternoon's press con- ference with the new University president complained so loudly that the whole affair was called off early. The whole flap could have been avoided if the University had simply used a bigger auditorium. EDITING HIGH SCHOOL newspapers at Charles Evans Hughes High School in New York City is apparently a risky business. Editor Peter Hodes was fired by the school's principal after he privately distributed copies of a banned editorial on apathy at the school. The principal had refused to let Hodes publish the editorial describing "the vicious cycle of mounting ten- sions and subsequent apathy" created by students, fac- ulty and administration at the Manhattan high school. A GOV. GEORGE ROMNEY'S fiscal reform is still very much alive, despite the state Senate's defeat of the plan this -week. Romney publically displays supreme confidence that his tax-proposals will re- ceive ready support from both Republi- cans and Democrats, with only minor alterations. Privately, he realizes that he faces a long round of negotiations and maneuvering, if lie is to bring it into ef- fect for the new fiscal year, beginning July 1. The most controversial issue is the pro- vision for a two-and-a-half per cent personal income tax, which is under fire by both legislators and the public. There seems to be little doubt, however, that out of sheer necessity, the tax will be accepted this year. Romney has the formidable task of persuading a number of dissident law- makers to accept his package as it stands to bolster faltering state revenues. Al- though the proposed legislation was ex- pected to get quick action when both House and Senate Taxation Committees reported their versions of the bills for floor debate over a week ago, the pro- posal has hit a number of political snags, which threaten to bottleneck the legisla- tion entirely. Democratic legislators have told the majority Republicans that they would like to see an increase in the corporate income tax rate. Moreover, a number of Republicans disagree with the plan and will push for 'a more equitable tax struc- ture. THE HOUSE takes up the tax proposals on Monday. Romney held meetings yesterday with a number of Democrats to elicit support for his plan, but the House will probably return the bill in- tact to its Taxation Committee, when it comes to a vote, for further delibera- tion. Meanwhile, the bill in the Senate has been sent back to the Taxation Com- mittee where bipartisan bargaining on the terms of the tax plan will continue until the April 13 deadline. To counter Democratic charges of "railroading" and "high-handedness," Republicans are de- liberately attempting to slow down the progress of the bills through the Senate committee this week. Romney, sensing where his potential support lies, has been holding individual meetings with hesitant senators to se- cure the six votes necessary to obtain a majority to get the bill through.. But it is not only in the Legislature that Romney is meeting resistance. Pri- vate polls held recently by senators have shown that the public reaction to a state income tax would be largely negative. There are already movements afoot to force a public referendum on the issue at the next election, if the bill passes. The state constitution forbids referenda on laws containing appropriaticns-but a vote on the idea of an income tax could still kill the law before it goes into effect. Sen. Raymond Dzendzel (D-Detroit) has already begun circulating a series of peti- tions. It was noted recently, however, that in the past, all petitions seeking to block laws have been declared void by courts on technical grounds. Gov. Romney doesn't feel that the people's will was stifled in these cases, stating, "I think people elect the Legislature to make de- cisions of this type and they should be able to make them." THE GOVERNOR has said repeatedly that he will not approve expenditures in excess of state revenues, and that if this plan fails he will persist until fiscal reform in some acceptable form is adopt- ed by the Legislature. For this he says he is willing to work through the entire summer if necessary. If it is not ap- proved by July 1, program cutbacks which would amount to a slash of $147 million' in state services over the next year would have to carry the state until a special session of the Legislature could be called next fall. Estimates made by the state budget of- fice show the fiscal reform with a two- and-a-half per cent tax, along with an eight per cent levy on financial institu- tions will produce an additional $308 mil- lion in revenue's for the state. This could make a large amount of money avail- able to the University and other state- supported agencies, currently facing budget cuts next year. The state faces a deep financial crisis and a 15 per cent cutback in its pro- grams next year--some brand of tax re- form must be approved immediately. The problems seem to be more techni- cal than ideological and no matter how important political maneuvering may seem, it must be realized by legislators and the public that quick action on fiscal reform is vital. -WALLACE IMMEN 4 Letters: What Price Harmony at U'? 0 To the Editor:" BEFORE THE University com- munity reaches sanguine una- nimity in thinking that a skilled mediator is just what this campus needs for a president (just the thing to cool off those SDS hot- heads), let us ask, what price har- mony? Clark Kerr's blithe essay on "The Multiversity" (Harper's, 19- 63) makes wistful reading after Gov. Reagan's smashing victory over the forces of liberalism last January. Kerr's philosophy was that as long as moderates were in control of each power center in the multiversity, power would not be necessary to the task of presi- dent. In prophetic lines he adds, "When the extremists get in con- trol of the students, the faculty, or the trustees, then the 'delicate bal- ance of interests' becomes an ac- tual war." But the sad thing for California was that Kerr's medi- ator-style presidency could not prevent the war and when the lines were drawn he found him- self a "trimmer," despised by both camps. KERR THOUGHT the "Presi- dent as Giant" out of fashion, cit- ing Prof. Angell's verdict on our own Henry D. Tappan: "The larg- est figure of a man that ever ap- peared on the Michigan campus. And he was stung to death by gnats." But in Kerr's term at Cali- fornia he was not the Giant but a mediator who mended his screens to keep out the gnats and stayed out of the swamp of educational policy. If Kerr had had more of the Giant's style, he might have been humble enough to listen to stu- dent protestors before they be- came alienated and large enough not fo be intimidated by an actor turned demagogue P r e s i dent- elect Fleming is said to be acces- sible to students; let us hope he draws from his legal background not only the skills of a negotiator, but the moral commitment to j us- tice that will command. the res- pect of. faculty and regents and stamp his presidency with more than compromise. -Ted Y. Wilson, Grad. Candidate Replies To the Editor: "N A LETTER published in last Saturday's Daily, Professor Kazarinoff of the mathematics de- partment level; certain charges against me which have utterly no foundation in fact. To begin with, the writer links me by implica- tion with the "exploiting few," al- though I have not the faintest no- tion of just whom I am supposed to exploit, or how. Most emphatically I did not choose to run for Council from the 1st Ward in order to exploit "the poor and the downtrodden" or anybody else; I entertain no such fantastic idea. The state- ments which I have made on the various issues of this campaign represent my considered and hon- est opinions and in no way were designed to support "the princi- ples and desires of the exploiting few"-whpever and wherever they are. In the second place, and again by implication, Kazarinoff joins me with "the racists." Contrary to the letter writer's allegation, I have never declared publicly or privately that I was opposed to efforts to eliminate racial discrim- ination; the charge that I have so spoken is a patent untruth. With reference to the matter of - racial imbalance, I spoke out a year ago in protest against any attempt to establish and maintain an arbitrary and fixed percentage of racial mix in our public schools. I considered such an approach completely artificial and unreal- istic-and I still think so today. MR. KAZARINOFF then goes on to assert that, as a member of Council, I would so vote as "to continue the gratification to spe'- cial interests Ann Arbor Repub- lican councilmen have always sup- ported." Here, the writer is mak- ing the grievous error of confus- ing his certainty with absolute cer- tainty. Most assuredly, I would not blindly and uncritically sup- port any so-called "Republican position"; no group, including the Republican Party, will ever dic- tate to me what I should think or how I should vote. I will think for myself, thank you. Finally, Professor Kazarinoff makes an astonishing appeal - "even though you do not share all of his beliefs," and even though Mr. Curry "has voted for the building industry's rapes of Ann Arbor's charm,' you ought to sup- port him. Such an appeal has to stand as one of the most unusual endorsements of a political candi- date that I've ever come across. -Prof. Edward M. Shafter, Jr. College of Engineering Spring Break To the Editor: AM WRITING in regard to the University's Winter Term vaca- tion policy. I am contesting the choice of datesfor the break, and also the reasoning behind the choice of such dates. It has been the policy of the administration in recent years to have the "Spring Break" approxi- mately the first week in March. The only plausible reason I can think of for such action is that it is roughly mid-term. Surely it is not spring, as the labeling seems to insinuate. More likely, as it was this year, it was cold and snow covered the ground. Secondly,'I think this is strictly an arbitrary choice by the administration which ignores student opinion. It is very possible the student body would pick a much more suitable date, such as Easter. ALTHOUGH IT would be con- sidered conforming to other uni- versities' policies, I think Easter is a much more sensible time for "Spring Break". First the weather is surely more appropriate for "vacationing" (or 'breaking") than is the case now. Secondly, it would allow students to enjoy time off at the same time other colleges do, and participate in vacation frolics (such as Fort Lauderdale). Lastly, it would 'eliminate the ir- religious practice the University now pursues of holding class or{ Good Friday. Perhaps this present policy is justified, however, since a majority of the campus does not believe in the' religious aspects of Easter anyway. I propose the University-consi- der its policy and either justify its position, or consider the possi- bility of the following: (1) a stu- dent opinion poll on a more suit- able date, and if the poll so shows a change is desired, (2) the alter- ation of University policy to cor- respond to student opinion. -Brock E. Plumb, "70 Correction (The following portion of a letter by Prof. John E. Powers (March 28, 1967) was uninten- tionally omitted. The preceding passage involved the role of Hu- bert Cohen in the Cinema Guild organization.) "b.) Mr. Cohen is not, nor has he ever been, the faculty advisor to Cinema Guild. As of the Fall of 1966, Cinema Guild and other student organizations are not re- quired to have faculty advisors, "c.) Mr. Cohen is, according to the Ann Arbor News of March 22, 1967, employed as assistant man- ager of Cinema Guild." .t '. . . . .... nu..1.1.., r.... v.v1......... ...... .. .. . . . ...t ............... Panmoramic VexfA nAro osn Vitsmamomoom~ ewmmemso sammamsmsssm##aasemsusimsasngss~e Students Get Double Bogie 'NO STUDENTS ALLOWED" is the pol- licy at the University's new Radrick Farms golf course. The decision to limit the use of the course to "full-time members of the fac- ulty and staff" of the University was made by a Faculty Senate subcommittee appointed to develop policy for the new course. Frank C. Shiel, manager of Serv- ice Enterprises, Inc., for the University headed the committee. When asked, with no past use of the course to base the decision on, why !stu- dents were to be denied use of the course, he said, "Students weren't considered," and could give "only the policy set by the committee" for an explanation. GREENS FEES for the Radrick Farms course are high-from $2 to $3 -- more than any of Ann Arbor's three mu- nicipal courses, and $3.75 more than the University's course available for student use. Mr. Shiel explained that the unus- ually expensive fees were set- specifical- The Daily is a member of the Associated Press and Collegiate Press Service. Sn:scription 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 year. ly to limit use of the course, which was built on land donated to the University. "Funds for construction of the course and its upkeep come from a restricted fund drawn from the University's employe benefit fund, family season tickets ($150), individual season tickets ($100), and from the greens fees ($5)," according to Har- lan Mulder, a member of the golf com- mittee. Preference for course use will be given to season ticket holders, however, as stated in an information flyer about the course. Overall use of Ann Arbor's golf courses is heavy, 'according to Al Bower of the Ann Arbor aPrk Department. Although the city will soon complete building its third course, at approximately the same time-next fall-construction of the Res- idential College will begin, taking up half of the Huron Municipal course. Bow- er said that Ann Arbor's courses are un- derstaffed on their maintenance crews, which, with their heavy use, leaves them not in the best of condition. IT IS, THEREFORE, difficult to under- stand ,the reasoning of the golf com- mittee, for if order of play preference will be given to those holding season tick- ets, why not let those students who wish to play on the Radrick Farms course do so after those holding season passes, are on the course? As more and more students take ad- vantage of the trimester system, Ann Ar- bor's overworked recreational facilities will not be able to accommodate them. By STEVE NISSEN THERE IS A CRISIS developing in off-campus student housing Which nobody wants to recognize. Touring representative housing in the Ann Arbor area, I found ob- vious and numerous housing code violations. Rising prices and de- clining quality seem to be the trend, especially in low-cost hous- ing. However, these concerns were quickly dismissed by University housing director John Feldcamp: "There really isn't a quality prob- lem" in Ann Arbor housing, "only insufficient quantity." According to Feldcamp there is no reason to clean up sub-standard housing, after all, since "People are living in these places because they want to, aren't they? I think it would be a great injustice to strictly en- force the building code." The University administrators are not the only people ignoring the situation. It seems Ann Arbor building inspectors share the same philosophy as Feldcamp. Despite their claims that the housing code is "carefully and strictly enfor- ced", I was able to find more than a dozen code violations in a single one block area on the extension of South University near Geddes. Among them were fire extinguish- ers last inspected 10 years ago, rooms with less than the required 500 cubic feet of air space per oc- cupant, and third floors with no fire escape or alternate means of exit. THE CRISIS IN student hous- ing is further evidenced by the rising trend in rent rates. There have been pretty much across-the- board increases of 15 per cent in the past two or three years, ac- cording to Stewart Gordon of the Student Housing Association. The realtors of Ann Arbor have students in a supply-and-demand squeeze, and they know it. The de- mand for low-cost housing is so great that attics and cellars are being converted to prime student housing. Several years ago such housing was unprofitable because it couldn't be rented. Today stu- dents are willing to live in those places because it's the only low- cost housing available. Feldcamp claims "rents are not exhorbitant" in Ann Arbor, but the facts show otherwise. New four-man , apartments at $275 a month are rented with no diffi- culty on 12 month leases. Single rooms of less-than-legal size in an old $2-a-night flop-house have been converted to prime student housing, that rents for $50 a month. Elsewhere in the city, one land- lord converted his unheated attic into low-cost housing. Mattresses on a bare floor serve as beds, and' the rafters provide for hanging clothes. This third floor attic has no fire-escape of any kind. One landlord built a window in the cellar room which he convert- ed into a bedroom, in an attempt to comply with the building code requirement that each room have at least one window. Apparently he forgot to read the section which requires the window to open up outside, not underground. THE FORMATION of the Stu- dent Rental Union is a step in the right direction, but it appears to be too little, too late. Feldcamp. predicts that Bursley Hall will probably be the last conventional dorm built here. .if he is correct, the shortage of reasonably priced, decent quality housing will grow, worse. And that means higher rental rates. Non-p ofit University-built-and- operated housing may be the ans- wer, but before such projects.can be undretaken, the housing office must first admit the existence of the problem. Ann Arbor City Ordinances (The Housing Law of Michigan) -! t ..x:..: .:,:..: .:;, . :.".. .Safi _.k.?: .. . °.. ....: { «:,.,,,{+.o...? : ,. C. 1. W W ~'~t&EP