Pge -Sundy. September 23, 1979-The Michigan Daily LOOKING BACK: THE WEEK IN REVIEW Re ts struggle for answers gust as sure as the Regents meet each month, it's almost just as sure that they wil, at some point, be faced with the issye of University financial ties to cor- potations doing business in South Africa. And this week was no exception, as th Regents convened for their monthly meeting. IARDLINE, anti-divestment, is what their votes said, but underlying the roll culls was a subtle softening in their stance, as well as increased ten- sions that have been evident since this issue really came to the fore about two years ago. . After cleaning out their ad- miiistrative house of reports, appoin- tm nts and public comments Thursday, th egents made time Friday morning fo ction, or lack thereof, on a faculty- st ent report examining the South Af can divestment issue, which the bo d commissioned in the face of s ng student protest during its April m ting. e report presented to the Regents by Dearborn Campus anthropology Pr f. Daniel Moerman called for' se eral specific recommendations w ch would have altered the Univer- sit 's official divestment policy which w adopted in March,'1978. That policy ca s for divestment in firms which do no prove to the University that they arg committed to the anti- disriminatory Sullivan Principles. $JT THE latest report, completed by th Senate Assembly Advisory Com- m'tee on Financial Affairs (SSACFA), re ommended that the University be re4uired, as a stockholder, to vote on all proxy questions which touch on current U zversity policy, such as the divest- mnt resolution of March 1978. Curren- tl the University avoids making a ju gment on such questions and defers it votes to the corporation's m nagement, as a means of avoiding tical stands which the Regents say m y binder academic freedom. he SAACFA recommendations, Room of the Michigan Union Friday afternoon before leaving peacefully. The Regents again now include four non-MSA members appointed by the assembly's Per- manent Inteviewing Committee (PIC). Other potential revisions to the allocations process include an appeals procedure for student organizations dissatisfied with allocations and provisions for the investigation of violations or irregularities in the budget or expenditures of funded groups. Search for Murray's replacement" Former city administrator Sylvester Murray has been away for only two weeks, but the search for his eventual successor is already well underway. Korn-Ferry International, the California-based personnel firm hired to conduct the search for Murray's replacement, already has received ap- plications for the position. The ap- plication deadline is Octoer 12. NORMAN ROBERT, a spokesman for the firm, said the company will' handle the initial screening of applican- ts. A citizens' committee-most of whom will be chosen from the citizens' now serving voluntarily on city com- mittees and commissions - will recommend between five and ten can- didates to City Council. Council will make the final appointment decision. According to a profile form created by the firm, the candidate chosen by the Council will have to meet a number of requirements. The candidate will have a college education and will have at least seven to 10 years of experience as city manager in a city with a population of at least 50,000. Experience in fiscal and budget management, employee development and the workings of a major state-owned facility are con- sidered desirable. , Plans are also underway in a search for a new police chief to replace Chief Walter Krasny, according to acting city administrator Godfrey Collins. After 32 years on the city's police force, Krasny. announced his resignation last week. The Week-In-Review was written by Editor-In-Chien Susan Warner and Editorial Director Michael A rkush. Protesters march around the Regents table in the Anderson refused to divest from South Africa. however, remained simply recommen- dations, as the Regents rejected each one. The Board also voted against several constructive amendments which would have substantially changed the March, 1978 resolution. Only one minor revision to the current policy, suggested by Regent Thomas Roach (D-Saline), was passed. His motion called for an expansion of the March 1978 resolution to demand a commitment on the Sullivan Principles from firms in which the University has bond holdings. BUT IN rejecting the SAACFA recommendations, the Regents put for- th a flurry of amendments, motions and even held hurried caucuses. And although there was barely a change in policy, there was certainly a change in Regental behavior if one were to compare their actions to the well-orchestrated meetings hammered out in the 'U' Club up until the last several months, as the divestment protest has grown stronger. One Regent, James Waters (D- Muskegon), went so far as to openly urge the Regents to totally divest. His motion wasn't even seconded, but the last time Waters endorsed total divestment it was only after, literally, being forced into a corner by members of the pro-divestment Washtenaw County Coalition Against Aparthiid. At one point, Regent Paul Brown (D- Petoskey) moved that the Regents go ahead and vote proxy regardless of the "threat" to academic freedom," Power suggested a cultural "people ex- change" with South Africans, and Regent David Laro (D-Flint) hinted that the best solution might be for pro- divestment students to join the Peace Corps. MOST OF the proposals were clearly not feasible, but nonetheless, the Regents strained for answers to the dif- ficult questions surrounding the divestment-apartheid question. And as the WCCAA has promised to "struggle until victory is assured," the Regents have struggling ahead too, if they ever hope to return to those peaceful days at the 'U' Club. MSA criticizes 'U' When the Regents intervened in its election process and took away its authority to fund student organizations in May, the representatives of the Michigan Student Assembly (MSA) had already left Ann Arbor for their sum- mer vacations. Only a small minority had remained at the University, clearly not enough to file any kind of formal protest that would carry any weight. Yet, despite the four-month period that as passed by since that irrespon- sible display of University power, it has not taken long for assembly members to show their anger. In its meeting Tuesday night, the assembly passed a statement calling upon the ad- ministration to "adopt a hands-off policy towards the assembly while recognizing its basic right to govern autonomously." THE PROPOSAL, drafted by mem- ber Marc Breakstone, pointed out the assembly's ability to represent the needs of students "was seriously in- jured by the administration's interven- tion and veritable takeover of MSA" by certifying the elections after the Cen- tral Student Judiciary (CSJ) deemed them invalid The statement also criticized the administration for holding back MSA's progress by "usur- pation of MSA's funding capacity." MSA also approved a tentative budget for the upcoming year that would cut external allocations to student organizations by nearly half the amount given to those groups last year. Allocations would total ap- proximately $24,000, comprising 31.12 per cent of MSA's budget. In 1978-79 MSA's external allocations totaled ap- proximately $48,000, or 46 per cent of the assembly's budget. It will still be awhile, however, before MSA will be able to control its own external funding. The assembly did agree at last week's meeting to accept a change in the makeup of the group's Budget Priorities Committee (BPC). The committee, which reviews student organization requests for funds, will Letters _eIStb an iI Ninety Years of Editorial Freedom Divestment no racism cure Vol. LXXXX, No. 16 News Phone: 764-0552 Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigon A tough Jimmy Carter T HROUGHOUT Senator Edward M. . Kennedy's artfully planned run for the presidency, one man has been sadly neglected-the president of the United States. Jimmy Carter has become a forgot- ten man, a desperate man, a man on the ropes fighting against a political dynasty. As the Kennedy camp gains converts each day, the Carter crew has shown growing signs of dispair. 'The most recent display of the president's desperation surfaced Thursday during a White House dinar when he told a group of Democratic Congresmen that he would become more "political" in the future in an at- tempt to collect some crucial victories in Congress. This threat-a typical abuse of in- cumbents-is as equally disturbing as the president's lack of leadership for it demonstrates his fear of the youngest Kennedy, and his preference for put- ting politics ahead of the issues. Representative Glenn English of Oklahoma summed up the president's sudden get-tough posture by proclaiming that his constituents prefer that he votes in accordance with them rather than voting with the Carter administration. By attempting to strangle these representatives, the president can only succeed in hurting himself, for the congressmen really support, vowing that the storm would soon pass. But the emergence of a Kennedy candidacy, and the president's staggering rating in the polls, have persuaded many congressmen to jump off the Carter train and join Teddy's bandwagon. Many are afraid that if Carter were renominated, he would lose to a Republican, and bring down the whole party with him. At the very least, a Carter-Mondale ticket would bring out ; much fewer Democratic voters than a Kennedy ticket. Based on those reasons, it comes as a slight shock and a miscalculation on the part of Jimmy Carter to call for stricter party discipline. Carter has been deeply troubled recently by the defeat of legislation to carry out the Panama Canal Treaty, the administration's proposed budget, and the- politicking surrounding the SALT treaty. He obviously needs a vic- tory soon to show the nation and Congress that he can lead the nation of out its "crisis of confidence." Besides, as some congressmen have already admitted, there is very little Jimmy Carter could do anyway. Many of the newer lawmakers are similar to the president; they campaigned as outsiders and have very few ties or loyalties. In addition, the president To the Daily: The Daily's recent editorial concerning the WCAA and divestiture (September 15) echoes a common viewpoint on South African affairs. The ex- tremist stance of immediate and total divestment may be noble in intent, but in practice ignores the problem of apartheid. Stock sold by the University does not, miraculously vanish, nor does a corporation suffer any strain on its financial resources as a result. Instead, the buyers would be those who prefer to make profits regardless of the effect on the South Afican majority. As a stockholder, the University can raise its voice against apartheid. Regents can vote against management that supports apar- theid, vote in favor of proposals to enact change in South African operations, and continuously focus attention on apartheid. Divestmentwould release the University from this moral responsibility. How much in- fluence does the University have with Black and Decker or J. D. Searle, after divesting of their stock? In the past, the Regent's com- pliance with apartheid, as evidenced by the voting record of the July General Motors stockholders meeting,r virtually unopposed.I must be brought on the to take a strong stand apartheid. The WCAA ri its sights on the or solution to apartheid, temporary soothing of a sciences. Divestiture, bolic rather than con tion, is not as powerful the SAACFA proposal fight against aparthei proposals allow for the of intra-University sq and offer a basis for a n ning in the University' against racism. This is issue, and we should not the supposed pan divestiture. -Robert A. Keith E.P . has gone clude unqualified 'acceptance of Pressure the wages system; the failure to Regents acknowledge the class struggle; d against and the failure to accept the fact nust keep that the labor movement must ng term adopt a more radical posture if it not on a is to serve workers' common in- few con- terests. These premises have led a sym- to the unions becoming adjuncts crete ac- of capitalism. As such, they are a tool as incapable of serving the needs of is in the the workers. d. These The UAW is a classic example. cessation For all its past talk of the need to uabbling, protect its members' jobs, to ew begin- create more jobs, to assure s struggle economic security, it has not the real done so. Just ask any Chrysler settle for worker with less than ten years' acea of seniority! It is true that the UAW was not directly responsible for Feldman Chrysler's problems. They were Moree brought on by the inexorable working out of capitalism's economic laws. A Socialist In- dustrial Union organization as UAW advocated by the Socialist*Labor Party would have at least warned nd more its members that under frontation capitalism the "deck" is stacked are inef- against them and that the for defen- "gains" won at the "bargaining" ng, the in- table can be wiped out in the file. Their inevitable economic downturns. ect results Any labor union "worth its salt" om which should have for its goal a emises in- cooperative Socialist society un- der which the 'worker would receive the full social value of his labor. -Archie Sim Andy Young To the Daily: Keith Richburg's article was interesting in certain aspects. While the people of our parents' generation may feelnostalgic for the old Roosevelt Coalition, we are content to consider it a passing historical phase. After all, Affirmative'Action represen- ts the kind of handing around of privileges and goodies by race and ethnic group that our gran- dparents left Europe to getaway from. The Black leadership's scabid, festering attempt to scapegoat the Jews for Andrew Young's departure made me angry at fir- st, but now I am grateful that they have chosen to be our enemy. As Tenzin Gyatzo, the fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet, has said, "The enemy is very im- portant. He teaches you inner strength." If that isn't moral authority, I don't know what is. -Joshua Banner To the Daily: It becomes more a evident with each conf that the present unions fective as instrumentsf ding, let alone advancin terests of the rank and f weaknesses are the dire of the basic premises fr they operate. These pre -. AM TE( arT L AM A V1cTi$1. PEOPLE AREALWiA',S ARE VER