TUESDAY, AUGUST 25,1964- THE MICHIGAN DAILY W& lb,04"d TS.[-k PAGE FIVE c Police Stickers Provoke Debate By JEFFREY GOODMAN Links between the John Birch Society and city endorsement of I a "Support Your Local Police" Q R T sticker campaign have stirred the ire of numerous city officials and councilmen in the past few weeks. The issue started quietly when the city b e g a n distributing, through the police department, three - inch - square stickers that had been donated by a local cit- izens' group, the Washtenaw County Conservatives. The police stickers were available from the police only during National Po- ry}"}<}{' lice Week in May. SinceMay, however, the Chain- ber of Commerce has mailed the blue squares to local businessmen,1 and the stickers have adorned many a store window both down- town and in the campus area. Birch Bulletin About two months ago an Ann Arbor citizen obtained copies of arreprint from the Birch Society bulletin which carried an exact replica of the sticker and out- lined the Birchers' reasons for the police support campaign. The motivation was essentially that the police need citizen support in -----.-----__..._......__----.--_. their fight against a "Communist conspiracy" and "Communist-in- spired racial riots." ake W A H R uThe bulletin reprint also gave M akH'S Oinformation on where the stickers could be obtained. The president of the Conservatives did not know, however, from whom his group had received the stickers. for'a'11 your t Xt ooThe citizen and various Council o members brought the alleged link g. to the attention of Mayor Cecil 0. collge IC. Larcom and then reported their aQdflueg sUppiies ICre}lnd"i Adiitao u SERVING U OF M STUDENTS SINCE 1883 evidence to the full Council. Their argument was twofold: that the city had been taken in unwittingly in endorsing a Birch campaign and that the stickers were objec- ® .tionable by themselves, since they call for "blanket and unqualified" support of the police. Rights Issue The police stickers incident re- ceived its importance primarily from current contentions among local civil rights groups that the police have at times used ques- tionable or even brutal tactics in race. Those opposed to the stick- ers felt that city endorsement of the stickers was especially indis- creet at a time when these allega Lions were being made. Regents Set Outlay Bid TO Lansing The Regents packed up and sent off to Lansing this summer a $14 million request for construe- 1965-66. The program for next year seeks to build and maintain fa- cilities for training potential doc- tors, architects, residential college students and scientists. The $14 million program, sub- mitted to the Regents by Vice- President' for Business and Fi- nance Wilbur K. Pierpont now goes to the governor and Legis- lature where it is expected to be heavily slashed. Specifically, the Regents are asking for $6.3 million in general education facilities and nearly $8 million for medical center facili- ties, including remodeling. To train potential doctors, the construction r e q u e s t s include nearly $7 million to continue work on the Medical Science Bldg., Unit II and the dentistry building. Hoping to start the residential college by 1968, the Regents have given high priority to an under- graduate classroom and office building. Price tag: $2 million. For the potential architect, the Regents have placed a $1.5 mil- lion request to start construction on a college of architecture and design building which would go ofnt on North Campus. The scientist is also represented in the building program. The Re- gents are asking $275,000 for a Science Building Unit I, $200,000 for a math and computer center and $175,000 for a chemistry building. Blue Ribbon Group To Seel More Funds, Coordination By LAURENCE KIRSHIBAUM cently. These include the alloc A prominent group of citizens tion of graduate facilities, ne drawing a blueprint for state edu- methods of supporting cominuni cation will recommend greater colleges and whether the maj financing and state-wide coordin- throughout the state. ation of education. Along with its recommendatio on branches-which is expectedI Spokesmen for Gov. George condemn them -- the committ Romney's "blie ribbon" Citizen's will seek tighter co-ordination4 Committee for Higher Education the 10 state-supported colleg hinted recently that their long- and universities. range report will carry on the The issues of co-ordinating t same financial tone as the interim 10 schools, particularly in the report. efforts to establish branches,,ha' The interim report, issued last been a prime problem in stal December, recommended $25 mil- education during the past fe lion increases in state spending years. for higher education. The long- The University in the past ha range report will not be ready sought unsuccessfully to set u until the end of the year. But the branches in Grand Rapids and tI spokesmen said that preliminary Saginaw Bay area. It is also plai data show these two trends in the ning an expansion of its two-yea report: college at Flint. s-It will call for a massive in- Due to the conflicts between ii crease in state spending to sup- stitutions resulting from th port higher education. The Uni- branch ambitions, educators hat versity aided by the committee's called for some sort of mediatir interim report, received a record body. The new constitution e appropriation of $44 million this tablishes - starting in 1965 - year-$6 million above last year. state board of education with "c --It will answer a number of ordination" functions. questions which ,have confused The "blue ribbon" committ higher education institutions re- was created lasf y earb b Rhmmp a- ew ty or on to ee of' es he ir te tte ew Las UP he n- ar n- he ,Ve ng %S- ;o- fee r r * r r r r r ST UD ENT PUBL ICAT1ONS r r TE LEPH ONES U r aa r r rI U .3K AFTER AUGUST 15 MICHIGAN DAILY Editorial. 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