emu players --stunning spectacle- The Royal Hunt Of The Sun (this week) WED.-SUN. EMU'S Quirk Auditorium 482-3453 All Seats $1.75 secoind front page 94P tri i ttn Baatt NFWS PHONE: 764-0552 BUSINESS PHONE: 764-0534 Thursday, May 29, 1969 Ann Arbor, Michigan Page Three Nixon administration may kill Voting Rights Act ...mmmmmmmkwg MMMMMMAM,.y 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. 7 Classics. i s 7 Days CAMPUS DIAL 8-6416 LOPERT FILM FESTIVAL *1t e~fi Nixon Ford U' bylaw committee to disband, fails to reach consensus on rules. TONIGHT ONLY * "THE BEST FOREIGN FILM OF THE YEAR... A GREAT FILM THAT MUSV LIVE!" -New YorkTmes "ONE OFTHE BEST!" -New YorkerMagazint da mb LESDASSIN ,l MELNAMERCOUR CINDAOPS distibuited by ULRCWM Cn OMOMON ,ORIGINAL VERSION, PRESENtTED IN (HALSNL (Continued from Page 1) 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 school. FRIDAY ONLY E Y SATURDAY ONLY ,,"GIRL WITH GREEN EYES" "ELECTRA" SUNDAY ONLY "PERSONA" * MONDAY ONLY "10:30 P.M. SUMMER" 4 0 iscount rcrsIc 300 S. State-1235 S. University NEW FROM 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. Demsbacki rentstrikie (Continued from Page 1) 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. * * * * 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. . - * * * 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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