MFcaRTHY FOR ,PRESIDEN'T Y Lw 43~iau &ntbp BALMIY -High-78 Low-48 Light wind, little chance of rain., See editora page Vol. LXXVIII, No. 23-S Ann Arbor, Mich gan Tuesday, June 4, 1968 Ten Cents Eight Pages Cutler prepared to accept proposed bylaw revisions Police patrol May recomimend camps-wide C, SGC ratification By MARTIN HIRSCHMAN Vice President for Student Af- fairs Richard Cutler said yester- day he is ready to bring to the Regents a form of the controver- sial University Council bylaw which includes concessions to students in the two major areas of contention. Cutler said he is ready to rec- ommend that the jurisdiction of the University Council (UC), a proposed tri-partite rule making body, be extended to the entire University community.,; In an earlier draft of the pro-' posed bylaw, UC would have made rules for students only. The bylaw is an attempt to im- plement a portion of the Hatcher Commission Report. The docu- ment recommended that the juris- diction of UC include the entire University community. REGENTS' RATIFICATION The other concession involves a section of Cutler's original by- law proposal which would have al- lowed the Regents to ratify a UC- passed rule if either Student Government Council or Faculty Assembly had failed to ratify it after 45 days. The Hatcher Commission Re- port would have required SGC and Faculty Assembly to ratify any UC legislation before it could go ihto effect. The commission made no provision for a stale- mate. Cutler said he is ready to pre- sent a form of the bylaw to the Regents which does not include such a time limit. p However, the vice president noted he "couldn't recommend" that the Regents accept the by- law in this form because he is "operating under a Regental di- rective to make sure a stalemate does not occur." PROPOSED CHANGE Cutler emphasized that he would not send the bylaw to the Regents with the proposed chan- ges unless the ad hoc group asks im to make that step. protesters hit high school; 'martial law' Students suspended. Mst r forpassing leaflt By IOEL BLOCK and STEVE NISSEN About 20 policemen patroled the grounds and corridors of Ann Arbor High School yesterday to prevent a recurrence of the racial violence which closed the school Wednesday and Friday last week. About 30 members of the University chapter of Students for a Democratic Society picketed at the school's main en- trances .to protest the presence of police at the high school and to support the demands' of black students for reforms.ITE -Daily-Jay L. Cassidy Draft 'Abolitionists' Marching from the Diag to the Ann Arbor draft board, a handful of University students yesterday took part in the weekly anti- draft demonstrations in support of Dr. Spock and others who are on trial in Boston for purportedly encouraging draft dodging. Spock trial: Contradiction. SDS MEMBER Eric Chester confronts Ann Arbor Police Chief Walter Krasn of Schools Scott Westerman yesterday at Ann Arbor High School. SDS memb students to protest the expulsion of a student for distributing draft resistane McCARTHY NARROWS GAP: RFKgve-n tigt 4 By JOSEPH SAX special To The Daily By the time court was ad- journed yesterdayuafternoon, defendants William Sloane Coffin and Michael Ferber had completed their defenses and Mitchell Goodman was on the witness stand. Thus by the be- ginning of this third week of the trial the defense strategy is well established. Essentially it consists of two elements. First, that the de- fendants can hardly be viewed as co-conspirators since they either did not know each other at all prior to or during the time when the conspiracy was allegedly carried qn, or at best had the most casual sort of passing acquaintance. The sec- ond line of defense is that the defendants never counseled or encouraged draft age men to resist, but merely approved and gave moral and symbolic sup-' port to those who had already made their own independent decision to resist the draft. From the evidence presented thus far, it appears that there were essentially two lines of separate activity which con- verged in the October 20 draft card turn-in at the Justice De- partment. The first was the ac- tivity of the Resistance, a movement of draft age men, some of whom had decided to burn and others to turn in their draft cards to the gov- ernment. The other activity was the decision of various per- sons too old to be drafted them- selves that they should show their support of the Resist- ance people by abandoning the draft cards at the Justice De- partment. Except for Michael Ferber, who is admittedly of draft age and a member of the Resistance group, there has been no evidence that any of the other defendants organ- ized or planned or promoted the October 16 draft card turn- in at Boston's Arlington Street Church, or those which took, place on that date in other parts of the country. And ex- cept for Coffin, who claims without dispute that he was simply invited by Resistance members to speak at the Ar- lington Street Church cere- mony after the planning was done by them wholly on their own the other defendants ap- pear to have had no part in that phase of the events. At the same time that the Resistance vwas planning its activities, at least some of the other defendants - Goodman and Coffin - had learned of those plans and had some con- versations leading to the idea tober 16, that he collected some draft cards there, and that he there met Ferber for the first time and had some casual conversation with him about the October 20 plans to go to the Justice Department. Thus far, the relationship of Raskin and Dr. Spock to these events is imperceivable. Wheth- er the foregoing activities, loosely connected as they are, will be enough to show a con- spiracy is obviously one of the central questions in the case. In any event, the prosecutor is going farther and the bulk of his cross-examination has been an effort to show that the de- fendants' actions and speeches necessarily implied an urging to young men - of whom some must obviously have been undecided - to turn in their draft cards and thereby to be- gin severing themselves from the Selective Service System. In short, while conspiracy is the charge of the indictment, the government has been play- ing most strongly the theme of inducement. It is this prosecution strategy which has created one of the central ironies of the case. As the government has repeated- ly emphasized it seems very odd that persons feeling as strongly about the war as the defendants do would speak so movingly and forcefully with- out any intent of bringing young men around to their way of thinking. The defendants' answer to this charge is that they did not want any young man to do more than make up his own mind. No doubt they are perfectly sincere in this disclaimer but the prosecutor is putting rather a different question: whether they could have begn without the intent that their views and prestige would not become a significant factor in the decision making process for some uncommitted draft age men. The irony is that the defend- ants are defending themselves by claiming that they merely engaged in talk and supported action for those who were al- ready committed. Yet in other contexts one would certainly think of the defendants as peQ- ple who wanted "to do some- thing about the war, not Just talk about it." The government is trying to hang them on their own sin- cerity and deep feeling, and it seems thus far to be doing a pretty effective job. There is something oddly contradictory about the exceedingly modest goals the defendants are claim- ing for themselves and the ex- in California pri The aa hoc committee is ex- pected to meet again Thursday at which time it will consider a new draft of the UC bylaw written by students and released yesterday. The student's version of the by- law has been completely rewritten from and includes at least two major substantive changes from Cutler's original bylaw draft. The students' proposal would allow UC to pass a regulation only with majority vote which in- cluded the ballot of at least one student and one faculty member.. In addition, this proposal would allow either SGC or Faculty As- sembly to disaffirm a regulation it had already passed. Cutler specifically noted yes- terday that he could not accept widespread changes in the bylawsI if they were proposed by only an ad hoc group. Cutler's decision is apparently the result of discussions last week with an ad hoc group of student and faculty leaders who all but unanimously opposed Cutler's original bylaw proposal in the two areas. Last week student members of the/ group proposed an alterna- tive form of the bylaw. This docu- See CUTLER, Page 2 'Copi adnnl#o, for county 1o The protesting group Included members of the Committee on New Politics and People Against Racism. School officials backed up by plain clothes policemen enforced a declaration by Principal Nicho- las Schreiber of "partial martial law." Two students were suspended for allegedly violating Schreiber's discipline directive by distributing leaflets without approval by the. appropriate authorities. Superintendent of Schools W. Scott Westerman, who earlier threatened to file suit for a court injunction against the pickets, last -Daily-Thomas R. Copi night said a suit has not been ay and Superintendent filed and that school board attor- bers joined high school ney Roscoe Bonisteel Jr. is "in- mrs oine hih scool vestigating alternatives." e leaflets. Eric Chester, Grad, an SDS