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Sevnty-Third Year
EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITrY OF MICHIGAN
UNDER AUTHORITY OF BARD mIN CONTROL OF, STUDENT PUBLICATIONS
Where Opinions Are Free STUENT PUBLICATIONS BLDG., ANN ARBoR, MICH.' PHONE NO 2-3241
Truth Will Prevail"
ditorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers
or the editors. This mtst by noted in all reprints.

UNION-LEAGUE MERGER:
Committee Issues Progress Report

NDAY, MARCH 17, 1963

NIGHT EDITOR: GAIL EVANS

Publications Board Rule

Limits Daily's

Freedom

wX MORNINGS a week The Daily boasts
proudly but inaccurately of "Seventy-Two
ears of Editorial Freedom." In a general
nse, the slogan on the front page miasthead
pretty accurate: for a college newspaper,
he Daily is remarkably unfettered in its
)urnallstic endeavors. In actuality, however,
Tat frdedom is denied in several important
ays.
The day to day operation of this newspaper
run by students. Students assign the articles
i be researched and written; students create
leas for editorials and put them on paper; and
udents decide what and how certain news
ems will be featured in the paper-all this
ithout faculty or administrative precensor-
:ip or examination. '
The paper is not a haven of student autono-
y, however. A student-faculty-alumni-admin-
tration publications board stands over the
iblication of The Daily, bearing legal respon-
bility for the editors' libels and theoretically
percising whatever degree of control it wants.
Ortunately the Board in Control of Student
dblications has a relatively good position on
eedox of operation by the student staff; it
Copts a largely protective role, defending the
ewspaper from vociferous critics while keep-
' a wary eye on what it would term the
Iniversity community's interest" in a fair
id accurate newspaper.
'HE BOARD, however, does not grant total
freedom of opinon to the students. The
aily operates undei a set of publication rles
illed The Code of Ethics. It was first drafted
1941 and has been slightly amended during
e intervening years as Daily editors niggled
v ay at certain sore points. Daily editorial
affs are free to suggest revisions in the code,
Tough the Board must approve them.
The Board has consented to some liberaliza-
on of the code over the years, though it re-
ains essentially the same document as orig-
ally written.
The major restriction on opinion is a serious
ie in itself because the defense of retaining
contains a possibly potential danger to the
at of The Daily's freedom. According to the
de, " go editorial shall take sides in an elec-
on to the board of regents."
'HE ARGUMENT for The Daily publishing
* editorials on the Regental candidates is
mnple and compelling, but it itself is not the
ost important attack on the restriction.
The Daily is the newspaper of the University
immunity. The newspaper most concerned
ad most knowledgeable about the University.
s staff is going to know more about and be
ore affected by the election of Regents than
to staff of any other newspaper. It would be
responsible for a newspaper to avoid pub-
hing any editorial comment on an issue so
tal to the community it serves.
The Daily also is one of the few newspapers
lere the question of who should be the next
agents could be fully discussed and debated
the editorial columns. Contrary to the usual
ess with its single unified stand for or against
certain candidate, The Daily offers an open
rum editorial page.
NY MEMBER of the staffsmay publish his
'opinion; the editorial columns are open to
I poirts of view. Often several editorials on
e same general topic will appear in close
[cesion, each offering a slightly different.
ialysis of the event and its importance. In
is manner, The Daily makes the usually
llow slogan of 'dialogue' a reality.
A member of the University community is
posed to many differing opinions, and var-
us alternative positions are sketched out for
m: he may agree with all or one or none of
em. If he wants to enter the discussion he
ay do so through the letters to the editor
iumn or, if a student, by joining the staff.
Nowhere would the Regental candidates and
eir platforms be given more coverage and

intellectual probings than in the pages of The
Daily,
Because of the nature of The Daily as a
newspaper for the University, it has an obli-
gation to report and analyze all events of
importance to the University. A Regental elec-
tion can not be ignored.
SOME PEOPLE will argue that The Daily
ought not to publish any editorials which
take stands on the Regental candidates. A
variety of arguments might be raised to sup-
port this contention: student editors can't
really know the issues, such editorials would
be embarrassing, to the University, and some
people might misinterpret an editorial.
Such arguments would also be raised against
other bodies taking substantive stands on the
Regental candidates and the debate would be
more or less the same whether one were speak-
ing of The Daily, Student Government Council,
the Senate Advisory Committee, a speaker at
a Young Republican sponsored rally, or the
Regents themselves.
The critical point separating The Daily from
these other groups is this: SGC or the SAC
are free to take such a policy, position if they
- decide to; The Daily is not.
WHETHER or not one agrees that The Daily.
should print editorials about Regental can-
didates, one should agree that this decision
should be made by the editors themselves, not
made for them before they even .consider the
issue.
Essential to the notion of the University is
that all ideas are open for study and for debate.
The individual is free to accept or reject any
idea or not even to consider a particular idea.
He may decide he has nothing to say about an
idea or that what he thinks is best left unsaid.
This is his decision, however. Any regulation
which says, "You may not discuss idea X" in-
hibits each individual from a full development
of his education and harms society by reducing
the possibilities for improvement. We can not
say that an idea has absolutely no worth. As
Mill so eloquently phrases it, even if we could,
stifling it would weaken the strength by which
good ideas are held:
"The peculiar evil of silencing the ex-
pression of an opinion is that it is robbing
the human race,' posterity as well as the
existing generation; those who dissent
from the opinion, still more than those
who hold it. If the opinion is right, they
are deprived of the opportunity of ex-
changing error for truth; if wrong, they
lose, what is almost as great a benefit,
the clearer perception and livelier im-
pression of truth, produced by its colli-
sion with error."
THE DAILY is the only forum in the Uni-
versity where speakers are forbidden to
engage in a discusson of the worth of the
Regental candidates. Not only is this an in-
consistent position, but it eliminates use of
the major means of open public debate; edi-
torials in The Daily are not the proclamations
of a legislative body charged with representing
the student body of the University. They are
the statements of the individuals affixing their
names to them.
The reasons given in defense of the current
policy are either of the "Here is why you
shouldn't do this" and fail to justify the re-
striction of opinion or if they try to justify the
restriction they are in terms which could be
applied with equal merit to justify further
constraints on the subject matter available to
editorial writers. Editorials now can deal with
issues as touchy and potentially dangerous as
the Regental candidates: endorsement of stu-
dent candidates for the publications board it-
self or criticism of the actions of the Regents
to name just two.
AT PRESENT there is no move to prohibit
other University agencies from taking a
stand on the Regental elections and I suspect
that those who might do so place a high
enough value on freedom of expression of
opinion not to prohibit SOC from doing so
even though the Council is veering danger-
ously close to the edge.
An admission that some area is so sensitive
as to require precensorship and restriction is
an admission that free speech and a free press
can never be guaranteed at the University.
You can not draw a firm line and say there is

where freedom ends and restriction begins
using the criteria that "here is where the
short term affects may be harmful or em-
barrassing." If this is the policy, the student's
or the professor's right to speak his mind be-
comes dependent on the political situation.
Yet, where the situation deteriorates to a
point when dissent is most needed, it is toler-
ated jleast. Civil liberties and academic free-
dom were not designed for such temporal
adjustments.
The libel laws provide clear and extensive
protection for the individual against a mali-
cious or inaccurate press. This is all the
restrintinn a demnratic snoety can reason-

By LOUISE LIND
LAST WEEK, the Michigan Un-
ion-Women's League Study
Committee came out with a writ-
ten recommendation that "the
Union and League and their facili-
ties become one organization."
The recommendation, as far as it
goes, is a good one.
It represents the first paper
coming from the committee to
take a definite stand on the ques-
tion of a merger between the two
organizations. While the docu-
ment is, by no means, the final
report of the committee, but only
a first-draft working paper meant
for further discussion and revision
before it is formally presented to
the Union and League governing
boards for ultimate approval later
in the semester, it does represent
a per consensus of the commit-
tee and indicates the general
trend in the proceedings since
they began in October of last year.
At that time, the governing
boards of the two groups were
both anxious to carry on a study
to discover whether there might be
other, more effective means of
providing their services and, to
consider the possible desirability
of a merger between the two or-
ganizations. They agreed to in-
stitute a joint 13-member study
committee consisting of the exe-
cutive officers and faculty and
alumni representatives from both
governing boards.
* * *
UNDER THE leadership of Dean
James H. Robertson, of the literary
college, the committee carried on
an exhaustive study, incorporat-
ing as many methods as it could
envision to get at the facts of the
matter; to discover if a merged
group might be the best way to
manage the work presently carried
out by two student groups-one
for men and one for women. The

committee sent questionnaires to
all member schools of the Western
Conference, seeking to learn the
facts about student activity struc-
turing on other campuses. It in-
terviewed the appropriate admin-
istrators; such as Vice-President
for Student Affairs James A.
Lewis and Vice-President for
Business and Finance Wilbur K.
Pierpont; questioned faculty mem-
bers, Prof. Richard Cutler, chair-
man of the Student Relations
Committee of the Faculty Senate;
and met with prominent student
leaders. It met as a whole and in
committees.
Halfway through its proceedings
each member of the group sub-
mitted a written recommenda-
tion on the merger issue to the
committee. From these papers,
which showed an expected con-
trast of opinion, the committee
gathered those principles on which
it agreed. Discussions on these:
principles continued, each week's
session narrowing further the area
of points still in dispute until a
degree of consensus was obtained.
THIS SEMESTER of extensive
study and discussion yielded the
first sample of its ultimate, and
hopefully more bountiful harvest
last week: a two-page "progress
report," the antecedent of the
final document which will sum-
marize more extensively the find-
ings of seven months of intense
study.
The tentative recommendation,
as it stands, is essentially a four-
part one.
First of all, to implement the
merger, the committee recom-
mends that "the -present -Union
and League student activities pro-
grams be merged into a single co-
educational structure." It estab-
lishes the composition of this
structure-four senior officers and

eight committee chairmen-and
directly specifies its duties: "The
student activities committee
should be solely responsible for
the planning and programming of
student activities for the new or-
ganization, and it should be ,fi-
nanced by revenues allocated to
it by the governing board of the
merged organization." But it
warns not to rush too hastily into
such a changeover and not to rob
both the group's up-coming junior
officers of the posts they have
been working for. The committee
also recommends that the stu-
dent officers of both groups work
closely together to structure the
new activities program. Thus, the
final authority for the establish-
ment of the new group is left in
the hands of the present Union
and League junior officers, who,
by the time the implementation is
begun, will be senior officers. They
will, "determine the space needs
for the student activities for the
new organization as well as the
detailed nature of the activities
program."
THIS FIRST section of the
recommendation is a sound pro-
position. A move to merge the
present Union and League ac-
tivities programs would necessitate
a nearly complete restructuring:
present duplications in the activi-
ties offered by the two separate
groups would be elinjinated; ob-
solete programs would be dis-,
carded; and new ones would be
initiated. From the study com-
mittee's present vantage point, it
is impossible to determine what
powers a combined student wc-
tivities committee would need or
how much of the existing facilities
it would require to operate effi-
ciently.
Thus, the committee has wisely
left these particulars in the hands
of the present junior officers, com-
petent three-year veterans of the
Union and League hierarchies who
have been trained for such admin-
istrative tasks. They would nor-
mally assume office this month
for a full year's term, had there
never been a move to merge the
Union and League.
Yet, while allowing for a cer-
tain degree of flexibility in the
structuring of the student activi-
ties committee, the study commit-
tee has set up enough specifics to
stabilize the process. It states def-
initively what the composition of
the committee should be and out-
lines the duties it should be dele-
gated. These specifics will serve
as a guide for officers who ulti-
mately do decide the entire struc-
turing of the student activities

committee. They will provide a
skeletal framework within which
the student officers can work, as-
sured of a certain amount of pre-
established stability.
* * *
THE SECOND section of the
recommendation directs the stu-
dent activities committee to co-
ordinate its efforts with the Office
of Student Affairs and other stu-.
dent groups in establishing an
all-campus committee. Such a
committee would be composed of
representatives from all major stu-
dent organizations and would, in
the study committee's terms, "cal-
endar, oversee, and administer the
activities of student organiza-
tions."
The initiation of an all-campus
committee would establish a
much-needed service for this cam-
pus. It would prevent the mis-
management of the calendering
powers held by an already over-
burdened Student Government
Council and the unnecessary over-.
lapping of campus services that
frequently occurs.
The third section of the docu-
ment calls for the establishment
of an implementation committee,
under the present Union and
League governing boards. This
committee would work with the
present Union and League gov-
erning boards to "determine the
specifics of the proposed merger."
These specifics are defined by the
study committee within an over-
flowing pair of parenthesel as "the
final disposition of any present
Union and League facilities deem-
ed unnecessary to the new organ-
ization, the structure and function
of the governing board, method of
management, constitution and by-
laws, et al."
This committee, the document
specifies, shoud be. composed of
students, faculty and alumni,
equally representing the Union
and League, and should consult
with representatives of the OSA
and the Office of Business and Fi-
nance when necessary.'
IF THIS IS how the final rec-
ommendation issuing from the
tentative report is to stand, then
the study committee has abdicated
its charge. In this first-draft doc-
ument, it has so sketchily defined
how the governing boards should
be merged that the so-called im-
plementation committee would be
helpless to combine the boards
until it had done an independent
study of its own. In effect then,
by neglecting to specify how the
merged governing board should
be constituted or what its range
of powers should be, the study
committee has done nothing more

than set up a second, and perhaps
less-informed study committee.
Thus, this first-draft recommen-
dation works like a series of mir-
rors-it reflects a study commit-
tee which sets up another study
committee which may set up an-
other and another until the orig-
inal issue, the merger, is lost.
Surely, this was not the intent of
the present group.
* * .
THE IDEA of an implementa-
tion committee is not in itself a
bad one. Such a committee could
devote more time to the actual
implementation of a merger than
the present group can afford. Yet
if the implementation committee
is not given a more specific out-
line to follow than this first "ec-
ommendation has presented, it
would be unable to apply itself to
the immediate problem. If it had
to frame for itself a series of guid-
ing principles, it would flounder
and perhaps be lost before it
could ever decide the specific de-
tails of a merger between the gov-
erning boards.
Hopefully, the second or third
drafts of the recommendation will
be more specific in this area, as
certain members of the study com-
mittee, notably those from the
Union group, have requested.
Finally, the document recom-
mends that "the Union Board of
Directors and the Michigan League
Board of Governors become one
governing board when deemed ap-
propriate, responsible for super-
vising, in close cooperation with
the University, the over-all opera-
tion and management of whatever
physical facilities are at its com-
mand."
* * *
THIS REQUEST for joining the
two boards is certainly implicit
in the idea of a Union-League
merger and the committee was
wise to make this clear. Yet, once
more, while stating the obvious
generalities, the committee has
failet to be specific. A more de-
tailed explanation of this process
should come from the committee.
Hopefully, when the study com-
mittee revises and amends its
first-draft recommendation later
this semester, it will realize the
consequences of a poorly-defined
report. Hopefully, it will turn out
a more precise and detailed rec-
ommendation that will make the
task of merging the Union and
League a simple and well-directed
one. The committee thus far has
not shirked its duty; its exhaus-
tive efforts have been much more
than commendable. Hopefully, it
will continue its work in the fine
tradition in which it began.

UNDERSCORE:
U.S. Must Re-examine
'Presence in Vietnam

By MALINDA BERRY
THE UNITED STATES could
use somne lessons in how to pick
the regimes they support. In many
countries we are backing not only
unpopular, but downright despotic
dictatorships, because they, claim
to be "anti-Communist."
The government is inclined to
think of everything in terms of
black and white-if a leader is
anti-Communist, then by the rea-
soning of the state department he
is also pro-democratic. In the past
the United States has-_supported
such unpopular and sometimes
hated leaders as Batista, Trujillo,
Syngman Rhee and Chiang Kai-
shek. Now they are backing the
regime of President Ngo Dinh
Diem 'of South Vietnam.
There seems to be a split in
our international philosophy, when
we advocate from the podium of
the United Nations and in enor-
mous press releases that the
United States supports government
of, by and for the people at the
exact same time that we are con-
tributing to the support of a man
who would be defeated in a popu-
lar election. This has the ear-
marks of paternalism and even
worse, shades of "the white man's
burden-"We know better than,
you, what's good for you."
It seems inconsistent to have the
United States involved in an all-
out, but undeclared, war to save
an unpopular government from an
inevitable overthrow.
DIEM'S PROBLEM, and con-
sequently since we are support-
ing him, ours, is that he is out of
contact with the country. He and
his family who comprise the vast
majority of his staff are Catholics
in a predominantly Buddhist coun-
try. Also, Diem has no roots in
the peasant villages. In the past
government has meant only, bad
things to the illiterate villagers.
They' see a police state which
oppresses them. Their only con-
tracts with the government has
been through tax collecting offi-
cials and on national holidays
when the politicians make patrio-
tic speeches and then disappear
back into the woodwork.
To the illiterate masses the tra-
ditionalDemocratic ideals mean
little when placed beside those
values being offered bysthe Com-
munists. Food and tools are far
more important to them and seem
more immediately attainable than
democratic ideals such as free glec-
tions and freedom of speech.
The United States is equated in
the eyes of the Vietnamese man
in the street with this corrupt and
unpopular regime. And their un-
happy concept of the West aiding
Diem is intensified by the fact
that the peasants see the Vietcong
daily.
THE BULK of the Communist
guerillas are drawn from the
masses. They make promises,

in the country. More than $1
million a day is spent to fight the
war. The armed forces of Vietnam
are divided among the 200,000 men
of the regular army, a civil guard
of 100,000 men, and a self-defense
corps of 75,000.
The United States has taken on
the mission of saving the world
from Communism to justify the
expenditure of money and men.
It feels it must save the peninsula
of Southeast Asia from the Com-
munists. The administration
thinks that if Vietnam goes, then
Thailand, Malaya, Singapore, Bur-
ma, Cambodia, and all the rest of
the area will ultimately come un-
der the control of the Commun-
ists. Here the Americans have
come into conflict with themsellrs.
They seem to be more concerned
with stopping Communism than
with helping the people become
educated to the point where they
can protect themselves.
THE AMERICANS and the
South Vietnamese forces are up
against an -enemy that is hard to
find. The terrain is on the side
of the rebels. The mountains are
rugged, and the endless swamps
and seven foot high elephant
grass are perfect camouflage for
the rebels, who are inspired and
supported by the Viet Minh Com-
munists of the North.
What are the chances of the
United States for a victory? Wash-
ington and the official organs in
Saigon are overly optimistic. Re-
porters who have penerated to
the soldiers in the jungles are a
good deal more pessimistic. They
see the war as making little head-
way.
Without the support of the
peasantry, which will be hard to
gain, there isn't much of a chance.
And the peasants aren't likely to
be very willing to die for a re-
gime which has given them little
but corruption. There, is a major
gap in Viet Nam between the
style of life of the urban elite and
the peasantry. There exists now
no organized leadership of the
peasantry which would give the
United States some clue as to
how they really feel. They tolerate
the Communists and sometimes
aid them, because there is no or-
gan in the governmental structure
which permits protest of the Diem
government. Though simple tol-
eration doesn't indicate an en-
thusiasm for the rebels.
The United States should re-
examine the purpose of its pres-
ence in South Vietnam. Is it there
to maintain the imperfect status
quo, or is it there to aid the
people in their striving for a better
life?
On Liberty
I F THE received opinion be not
only true, but the whole truth;

SIDELINE ON STUDENT GOVERNMENT:
People, Parties and Politics

By GLORIA BOWLES
THE POWER of organization in
electoral \campaigns was dem-'
monstrated in Wednesday's Stu-
dent Government Council elec-
tions, as two candidates scored an
upset victory in what otherwise
was a very normal spring election.
Few expected the 681 first ballot
victory of Michael Knapp, and the
good showing of conservative
Sherry Miller was a surprise. Or-
ganization and person-to-person
contact proved to be the winning
formula for both.
Knapp seemed to stand a mid-
dling;to poor chance for election
with John Rutheford generally
considered the most competent of
the fraternity candidates, and the
most likely to be elected. However,
Knapp's formula included a cam-
paign manager who had the whole
Lambda Chi house in a "get out
the vote" fury. Friends contacted
friends, and kept in touch with
them.
** *
BUT more importantly, Knapp
scored in the sororities, and he
frankly admits this base of sup-
port. The women were obviously
impressed by the good looking
young man with the engaging
Tony Perkinssmile. On the other
hand, Rutherford-somewhat a
rookie in the system having only
pledged this year-proved to be
too politically sophisticated for the
Greek system, a group that is ba-
sically apolitical and generally
joins in a view that sees politics
as inherently evil and politicians,
as inherently bad.
Some fraternity leaders deny
outright designation of Knapp as
the first choice fraternity can-
didate, but other informed sources
note that Interfraternity Council
did make the big push for Knapp,
at the same time urging votes
for Rutherford and Frederick
Rhines, the most mediocre of the
three who found difficulties in
expounding views during cam-
paign interviews and had to pause
for long moments to come out with
garbled answers to pertinent ques-
tions.
Knapp is sincere and should be
a hard-working Council member,
1-4 is..-- - --_A -- --11 4-

tional skill as she mustered sup-
port in her own gigantic dormi-
tory, Mary Markley, and }pulled
enough votes to also win a first
place position.
The quadrangle vote may also
have been instrumental in her vic-
tory. The number of quadrangle
polling places was increased, and
so was their, accessibility. Most
residents could not go to their
rooms or to meals without passing
an indoor polling station. And Miss
Miller, with conservative to mod-
erate attitudes and administrative
experience on Council's Committee
on Student Concerns was able to
make a convincing appeal for the
quadrangle votes.
THE LIBERALS looked down-
cast on an election count night
which saw only a small crowd
gathered in the Michigan Union
ballroom. It was a far cry from the
numbers that turned out to await
results of the referendum on the
United Stated National Student
Association last fall. Only the
party loyal, the militants, the can-
didates and their close friends
braved the long, tiring count night
session, Wednesday.
Referendum results were the
first announced and the Voice
political party supporters disap-
pointed over the majority "No"
vote on a question that seemed to
be phrased in a way that would
make "no" impossible. The liberals
sensed an impending turn for the
worst with the release of these
totals. In the end, Voice elected
three of its five endorsed SGC
candidates and was disappointed
snot to have elected at least a
fourth. However, Voice enjoyed
relative success in terms of the
political orientation of the Uni-
versity, as this is a campus that
votes in favor of Romney and
Nixon in mock elections.
The liberals are most concerned
about the conservative - liberal
split on Council and the problems
created by an election that return-
ed a conservative Council, and re-
elected Kenneth Miller only in
fifth position. Miller has inherited
tho leadershim nf the lhiral and

ing their' men to get out and vote.
In some houses, members were de-
prived of dinner if they did not
come home with a punched ID.
Miller, particularly, was hurt by
taking the straight Voice party
line on a campus which in a few
circles breeds antagonism toward
the party. However, Miller's con-
victions would not have permitted
any other campaign strategy and
he, more than any other Voice
candidate, emphasized the worth
of the party system on the campus
political level.
Liberals were overconfident as
they predicted a liberal majority
which saw reactions from both
sides, in increased votes among
conservatives and moderates and
a "stay at home, we're in anyway"
attitude among, liberals. Such at-
titudes may have been relevant
in the surprising defeat of Assem-
bly president Mary Beth Norton,
whose first and second place votes
were also taken by the other
dormitory candidate, Miss Miller.
THE EX-OFFICIO issue did not
seem important enough to get
some liberals out to vote;, the
radical wing, for example, may
have been discouraged by what
they considered the nebulous na-
ture of the referendum.
Though graduate students came
out in larger numbers than usual
to vote for Edwin Sasaki, for er
Graduate Student Council p rsi-
dent, the bad weather kept many
of them at home. However, they
did managed to bring Sasaki in
on the second ballot. He was the
first Voice candidate to be elected,
seating a graduate who should
bring a great deal of maturity and
wisdom to the body.
In the end, the liberals should
not be disheartened: they can took
forward to increased success in
the fall, and with pride to the
issue orientation of the campaign
which they promoted. Voice is also
building up a constituency. Ran-
dom samplings show a consistency
in Voice voting; Voice supporters
vote deliberately and are appar-
ent well informed on the political
orientations of candidates. It ap-
pears, for example, that the same
nonnR who cast vnte fnr Unic

Plaudit

HE INTER-UNIVERSITY Faculty Cgmmit-,
tee on Constitutional Revision and the six
Jniversity professors on it deserve the applause
f Michigan voters for' probably the most ex-
ert dissection yet presented of the proposed
tate Constitution.
On their own time and .expense, they've
>ublished, in limited quantity, booklets con-
aining probing analyses of eight major sections
n the document: apportionment, civil rights,
-ducation, the executive branch, finance and
axation, highways, the judiciary' and local
overnment.
At a time when Zolton Ferency and the
League of Women Voters are 'flooding the state
Kith propaganda on how awful and how won-
lerful (respectively) the new document is,
he faculty committee is asserting that each
ection must be evaluated on impartial grounds
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