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Thursday, May 29, 1969 Ann Arbor, Michigan Page Three
Nixon administration may kill Voting Rights Act
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WASHINGTON .(I)-A back-
stage battle within the admin-
istration over civil rights legis-
lation threatens to bury the
Voting Rights Act that has pro-
duced dramatic gains for South-
ern blacks.
Congressional supporters of
the act are prepared to let it
lapse before accepting a whole
new approach being urged on the
administration by southern sen-
ators and representatives.
President Nixon, who de-
clared his support. for the new
approach last week, apparently
has had second thoughts, and
two scheduled appearances by
Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell be-
fore the House Judiciary Com-
mittee to explain the plan have
been canceled.
The Voting Rights Act, passed
in 1965, has been one of the
most effective civil rights laws
passed by Congress. Under it,
black voter registration has in-.
creased substantially in . the
seven southern states to which
it applies-from 6 per cent to
60 per cent in Mississippi.
The heart of the act is a pro-
vision that outlaws literary tests
and authorizes the use of feder-
al voting registrars in states
where less than 50 per cent of
the voting age population was
registered in 1964.
It is that section, drawn spe-
cifically to reach the seven tar-
get states-Alabama, Georgia,
Louisiana, Mississippi, South
Carolina, Virginia and parts of
orth- Carolina-that will lapse
next year unless it is renewed
by Congress.
A bill to continue the provi-.
sion for five more years was in-
troduced early in the session by
Rep. Emanuel Celler (D-NY),
chairman of the Judiciary Com-
mittee. Leading House Repub-
licans joined in sponsoring it
and the way appeared smoothed
for easy passage.
But Nixon remained silent on
the issue until his meeting with
congressional leaders last week.
Then, House Republican Lead-
er Gerald R. Ford of Michigan
told newsmen the President
favors a new bill which would
have nationwide application
rather than deal only with the
South. Ford, one of the cospon-
sors of the 5-year extension bill,
said he favors the new plan, too.
The new bill reportedly would
deal more strictly with vote
fraud than the present law.
Ford said Mitchell would be
going to Congress in a few days
to spell out the details.
But Mitchell pulled out of
hearings set for last Wednesday
and' again yesterday, saying he
was not ready to testify yet.
The administration is under-
stood to be considering several
alternative plans now. All of,
them would scrap the southern-
oriented approach in favor of a
national one.
There is little likelihood of
any such bill getting past Cell-
er's committee, but if House Re-
publicans follow Nixon's lead
and refuse to support the exist-
ing law, then it also is in dif-
ficulty.,
And, so, in a year in which it
appeared civil rights would not
be an issue in Congress, it has
suddenly become a hot one
again.
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to be able to eliminate students
from their programs whose moral
conduct was contrary to profes-
sional ethics or licensing laws.
Marc Van Der Hout, SGC exe-
cutive vice president, told the
committee this provision was en-
tirely unacceptable. "It's not the
University's place to decide what
is correct behavior for students,"
he said. Van Der Hout added, how-
ever, that he was speaking only for
himself, and that he did not know
the majority opinion of SGC.
It was also pointed out that the
controversial'4 provision gives the
faculty of professional schools the
power to impose their ethical stan-
dards on the students of that
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The provision is also unaccept-
able to the Medical School in its
present form, Prof. Gerald Abrams,
a member of the ad hoc commit-
tee said.
The provision states: "When
the graduates of a particular aca-
demic program normally require a
license to practice their profession,
the governing faculty of the school
or college offering that program
is authorized to set clear, publish-
ed behavioral standards (relating
to the licensing requirements) for
d'etermining grades, awarding de-
grees, and continuing enrollment
,in the program,"~
Abrams objected to the phrase
"clear, published behavioral stan-
dards," saying, that the word
"clear" required the school to be
too specific in its regulations. "It's
an impossibility," he said.
Abrams also said the Medical
School could not possibly publish
its behavior regulations because
"it is impossible to anticipate all
situations."
But Davis pointed out that the
word "published" was included at
the recommendation of Student
Relations Committee, and that
law Prof. Robert Knauss, also a
bylaw committee member, said it
was necessary to insure due pro-
cess, and to protect against the
formulation of ex post facto rules.
"The Regents will probably go
against you in this case," Davis
told Abrams, "because lack of due
process could mean a court case
against a school which would cost
the University a lot of money."
Education Prof. Joseph Payne,
Assembly chairman, raised the ob-1
jection to seating students on the
Regents. He said he agreed with
the idea btit thought that it is
inappropriate to include it in the
bylaws.
Payne suggested a joint move by
faculty and students to create bet-
ter communication among both
groups and the Regents.
Other points of disagreement
within the drafting committee are
the specific powers of the Vice
President for Student Services
(presently the Vice. President for
Student Affairs), and the order
of precedence in case of a juris-
dictional conflict between Univer-
sity Council, SOC, and student
governments in individual schools.
In. their present form, the pro-
posed bylaws state that the Vice
President fore Student Services
"shall have a substantial part in
setting University policy affecting
students 'directly; and shall par-
ticipate in setting other University
policy."
Van Der Hout objects to this
provision, saying that the vice
president - acting with the ap-
proval of his policy board-should
have, ultimate power over those
policy decisions affecting only
students.
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Trades Association, a construction
workers union.
Scheider stressed that all party
members had the opportunity to
effect policy. Scheider claimed
Murray had never presented a
resolution on the party newsletter
in the past' year.
Murray was accused of trying
to prevernt the Washtenaw Coun-
ty 'Board of Supervisors from
licensing non-union blacks as ap-
prentice operators.
Murray denied the allegation
and said he stood firmly behind
efforts to increase black employ-,
ment.
The, party also passed a reso-
lution which "encouraged the peo-
ple of Ann Arbor to boycott
grapes, and "urged that farm
workers be given National Labor
Relations Board protection by the
Congress." The resolution was
passed almost unanimously..
Budget for
building
approved
(Continued from Page 1),
The present Chemistry Bldg.
was built in 1909, with a sizeable
addition completed in 1948. Since
1955, however, enrolments in
chemistry courses have increased'
over 50 per cent.
The new building is needed "to
maintain and keep improving an
academic department which has
recently been strengthened," Ross.
explains.
It will be "highly sophisticated,"
he adds, and may be located adja-
cent to the. present building.
The engineering building on
-North Campus will be "part of the
move toward uniting the research
facilities already there with the
teaching facilities now on Central
Campus," Ross says.
Long-range plans call
tion of all engineering
on North, Campus.
for loca-
facilities
,,
The two Flint projects are a
student activities building and a
classroom - office building. The
classroom-office building will help
accommodate the e n r o ll m e n t
growth projected.both by Univer-
sity plans and by the recent re-
port of a student-faculty-citizen
review committee. Both buildings
meet a need for facilities which
has existed for many years, ac-
cording to the report.
' Ross also expresses strong in-
terest in expediting plans for a
new psychology building. At pres-
ent,' he says,'the University's psy-
chology department, one of the
strongest in the country, is lo-
cated in some 15 buildings in Ann
Arbor, many of them rented.
"We need to get started quickly
on a new psychology building,"
Ross ,says. "I would like to urge
the Budget Bureau, in the strong-
est possible terms, to approve the
planning program statement we
filed several months ago, and to
release the funds for preliminary
planning.
"The legislature last year recog-
nized our needs in this area," he.
explains, "but we are still await-
ing Budget Bureau clearance."
the
news today
by The Associated Press and College Press Service.
POLICE AND STUDENTS battled in Bogota, Columbia, and
in four provincial capitals yesterday in a second straight day of
anti-American violence.
The clashes were sparked by the visit of presidential envoy Gov.
Nelson Rockefeller.
In Bogota, a police charge dislodged student rioters. from a private
university campus after day-long fighting that left 21 police and at
least 27 students injured.
Police reportedly used clubs and tear gas to quell disorders in
other cities. At least 50 persons were reported injured and damage
was incurred in scattered incidents of rock-throwing by students,
Rockefeller conferred with President Carlos Lleras Restrepo
on progress in Columbia's economy and conditions for receiving more
U.S. aid "with longer terms and less difficult conditions."
THE FREEDOM-OF-CHOICE METHOD of desegregating
public schools was dealt a severe blow by a federal appeals court
yesterday.
The fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that 37 Louisiana
school districts must submit new desegregation plans,,withi'n 30 days
of the start of the 1969-70 school term.
The ruling, which, came just 15 days after three Mississippi
district judges upheld freedom of choice for 33. school systems in that
state, establishes a legal precedent for many cases involving desegre-
gation in the south.
The court decided the freedom of choice system, which allows
a student to transfer to a school of his choice, was ineffectual because
statistics showed that only five *of the 29 systems from the Western
Div sion of Louisiana had more than 10 per cent of their black
pupils attending formerly all-white schools.
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THE PENTAGON'S extensive intelligence apparatus is aiding
in the battle against organized crime, law enforcement officials
disclosed yesterday,
Charles Rogovin, head of the Law Enforcement Assistance Ad-
ministration, said two anonymous Defense Department divisions are
providing technical assistance to state and local law enforcement
agencies.
The project, .Rogovin said, is aiming at the developing of an
"autoiated organized crime intelligence system" for use in uprooting
Mafia figures and pinpointing their legal operations.
The exact nature of the automated data bank was not disclosed.
Officials said it is expected, to cost about $1 million and be fully
operational in two years.
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FIFTEEN ARMED FORCES OFFICERS who backed King
Constantine's counter coup against the Greek mbilitary junta,
were arrested yesterday.
Rumors circulated in Athens that an attempt to oust the army-
backed regime and restore self-exiled King Constantine to power
was crushed before it developed.
Greek sources said security authorities entered the men's homes
and seized them. These same sources said that this was a violation
of Article 13 of the new Greek constitution which guarantees the in-
violability of the home.
Premier George Papadopoulos, strong man of the Athens regime,
would make no statement about the arrests, and he made no public
appearances.
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