THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER TiEMIHGA AIYFRDYSPTME !M!!= EDERAL COURTS: en Legal Plight of Indigents By GERALD STORCH Its scope is restricted to mat- At present, the committee has effectiveness," but the burden is tof. Francis Allen of the Law ters in federal courts. three general areas of concern. such that persons in poverty or ool is the chairman of a spe- Perhaps the most difficult prob- Pauper Lawyers near-poverty sometimes do not en- ey lem facing the committee is the The first involves providing Joy the best legal services p- Scommittee named by Attorneyterm "poverty" itself, Prof. Allen, counsel for indigent persons. "Al sible. neral Robert F. Kennedy to who transferred to the University though the Supreme Court has Therefore, the professor's com- dy methods of providing legal this year from the University of ruled that the government must mittee will study and then pro- --- ruethttegvrmn mutneali~n~n o(mn~,aP te ; r a sel, bail and judicial appeal poverty-stricken individuals. pointed by Kennedy a year a half ago, the Attorney Gen- s Committee on Poverty and Administration of Justice will ilt recommendations for legis- ,n by the beginning of the Chicago, said recently, What is Poverty? "'Poverty' is very relative and must be defined 'in relation to what'." In addition to those who are totally destitute, many de, fendants are able to maintain a lawyer, but cannot afford further means of defense. provide lawyers for individuals unable to afford them, for a quar- ter of a century Congress has failed to establish any systematic method of financing such coun- sel," Prof. Allen declared. Usually, young lawyers volun- teer to represent indigents. They pursue their duties with "zeal and pose ieglsiauunLucumiu5u lawyers and also to provide funds for actual preparation for trial. To View Bail The second area of inquiry in- volves bail. Prof. Allen believes that "some device is needed to make sure a defendant appears in E xtension Service Sets Six Courses The University Extension Serv- ice will offer six credit courses here this fall, that may be applied in certain cases toward under- graduate degrees. All courses will open next week, with classes being held in the busi- ness administration school. The courses include Geology 219 (2 hrs.), History 102 (4 hrs.), Philosophy 102 (2 hrs.), Political Science 160 (2 hrs.), Psychology 101 (4 hrs.), and Speech 231 (2' hrs.). The service will also offer a course in Estonian, but it will car- ry no credit. Prof. Ilse Lehiste, a native Estonian and research as- sociate in the Communication Sci- ence Laboratory, will handle the 16-week course, which opens 7 p.m. Wednesday, 168 Frieze Bldg. The architecture college will of- fer Ann Arbor residents the op- portunity to study painting with members of its faculty. Prof. Frede Vidar of the archi- tecture college will teach "Draw- ing and Color Sketching" at 7 p.m. Wednesdays, beginning next week. Prof. William A. Lewis of the architecture college will offer "Oil Painting" at 7 p.m. Thursdays, and Robert J. Black of the archi- tecture college will offer "Ceram- ics" at 7 p.m. Wednesdays. I cot.U., LIuu aLmanild ,us i m The Students vs. the Draft Young Repub and Students for Pres er lican Club p. Romney, I t id Higher Education EPT. 15TH LLROOM 'M. money won't be released for trial. "So we have a system where wealth is the conditioning factor, and a man may be deprived of lib- erty before being convicted." Thus an indigent's defense can be adversely affected. Not only is he in jail, but he also is almost completely unable to work for his own defense or to marshal evi- dence in support of his innocence, Prof. Allen noted. Seek Solution His committee will consider ways to alleviate this situation. The group's third mandate is appellate review. "The Supreme Court has liber- alized procedures for pauper ap- peals, but there is still room for more work," Prof. Allen said. WASHINGTON (UPS) - Col- lege students, if they keep up their grades and stay square with their draft board, need not worry much about having their education in- terrupted by military service. There will be exceptions, of course, but most students will not have reached the critical age be- fore they receive their bachelor's degree. And they can generally get continued deferrments for ad- vanced studies. The age at which most men are being drafted now is 22212-23. Very few younger men are taken, and the average, which has held steady for the past four or five years, is not likely to change unless there is a military buildup much larger than the one for the Berlin crisis: Other Steps But to stay out of the service while going to school, there are routine steps a student should take. In addition to the normal routine of keeping his draft board notified of his status, he should ask the registrar of his college to- send forms to his draft board set- ting forth his grades and other in- formation. These forms are on hand at all schools, and while it is not man- datory to use them, a student would be wise to have them sent in when he registers, and every se- mester thereafter. In addition, the selective service offers intelligence tests periodical- ly at many schools. Students tak- ing these tests and doing well on Grades can go a long wayI Cohen Raps Congressmen For Not Helping Education WibrJ' oeassatsc toward making a draft board de- cide to defer a student. It is not mandatory to take grades into consideration, but most draft boards look to see whether a stu- dent is attending school full time and making normal progress. Draft boards also take into con- sideration national interests and needs. Currently there is a short- age of teachers and doctors, so education and medical students would generally have excellent chances for deferrment. Students need not be concerned about the reservoir of draft-age them can have a better case for deferrment. Selective service of- fices near the schools have infor- mation on the tests. Deferment Decision Wilbur J. Cohen, assistant sec- retary of health, education, and welfare, Thursday assailed mem- bers of Congress for their short- sightedness on the needs and is- sues of higher education. "The situation is tragic," Cohen said to a gathering of Detroit Democrats. He added that if Pres- ident John F. Kennedy's federal aid to higher education bill does men in their home towns. Each state counts the number .of eli- gible males it has, informs the government, and then gets its quota of the monthly draft call based on its percentage of avail- able men. En Masse Draft Thus, theoretically, every state would scrape the bottom at the same time, and students from one part of the country should not be drafted en masse sooner than they are in another area. If you are married, it makes no difference to the draft board, ex- cept, of course, in hardship cases. Fathers are not being drafted now. And again, unless the draft call increases mightily, neither fathers nor students will be drafted. F' y School's a kick with Scripto. Before you start tackling your schoolwork, better go out for an extra point (or three) by Scripto. Not one of them costs more than a dollar. I R. not pass Congress, "you can say the future of America has been sacrificed." Cohen, formerly a professor in the social work school, is current- ly attempting to push the higher education bill through in the clos- ing days of this year's congres- sional session. He asserted that congressmen have a "vague, ambiguous com- mitment to education" which they do not necessarily like backing up with federal funds. "And you cannot have a good and sound program of education unless the federal government pro- vides aid to education," he added. "The question of whether fed- eral aid to education would mean federal control is meaningless, since tax dollars from Washington already go for a number of edu- cation programs," he said. He asserted that Russian dom- inance over the United States ob- viously extends to education. "We're second to the Soviet Un- ion in space aild we're second in education. 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