LOOPHOLES CLOSING RESEARCH See Editorial Page Sir i!3Uf ~IadjI INTENSIFYING High-14 Low-5 Cloudy, light snow Vol. LXXXiI, No. 89 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, January 26, 1972 Ten Cents Eight Pages i Outlook growing 'Nixon offer dim for student ties toP 6-month )W trade withdrawal 1( housing project At By KAREN TINKLENBERG Plans to build a 250-unit student housing project may be dropped at the next meet ing of the Plant Extension ~ Committee, according to Uni- versity Housing Director John' Feldkamp. Feldkamp quoted University President Robben Fleming as say- ing that there was "considerable opposition among the Executive Officers and Regents" to build- ing student housing. The housing planwas aporoved by the Regents last April, but could still be returned for recon- sideration. Fleming, when contacted lastz night, said a "key factor" in the committee's decision will be "wh- ther we should be building new housing when we have problems filling dormitories." Dorm vacancies increased from 67 to 789 during the fall s~'mes-I ter. with the figure presently in excess of 600. Feldk mo. who h ds th- Nous- ine Policy Committee.. nrenar-d a study on the economic f-a-ibility of the project at the reouest of the Plant Extension Committee.' The statement concluded that Ann Arbor's low vacancy rate and the "doe~ininq ratio of stiIdentc MEMBERS OF PESC discuss the now living in University-owned and onerated structures" stronpIv, sunnorted the need for additional student housing. However, Feldkamp said the: lack of enrollment growth, and absence of pressure from students and the Tenants' Union could be o m responsible for the lack of the Re- gents' support. Fleming said the committee had to consider site alternatives, costs. By DANIEL JACOBSc and other data before a final de- t cision to approve or drop the The Program for Educational; I roject could be made. The com- and Social Change (PESC) has1 should reach its decision expressed confidence that its two at e "community" courses will continue. 1 a h naxt meeting in Februdry. unimpeded, and has initiated plans 'ThP need for low-cost student frit awnlnd-hasnicotieupance housing was an issue which caused for its own long-range continuance students to apply considerable and expansion. oressure on administration offi- At last night's PESC meeting,' cials last year. Prof. Samuel Warner indicated I Students dramatized the need that his History 576 course, some for more low-cost housing when of whose sections are sponsoring Tenants Union members organized a Community Control program ledl "Tent City" in the fall of 1970. by Charles Thomas and Hank Students pitched tents on the Bryant, will achieve official ap- Diag to protest housing conditions proval. until officials ordered them to According to Warner, history leave. After many meetings and de- department chairman Jacob Price baterwithystudetstheReend has sent a letter to LSA Dean bates with students, the Regents Frank Rhodes, explaining that finally approved a plan to build FaneR'sdesrexpla hat 7 200 low-rent housing units in Ap- Warner's current approach is no ril, 971.different from that of previous se-1 rilThe $4.6 million pro.iect would mesters, and therefore does not, befinanced bydthesCollegetHD constitute additional University ing Program, a division of the De-curulm partment of Housing and Urban While he confirmed the dis- Develonment (HUD). Under this patch of his letter and accepted See HOUSING, Page 8 Warner's assessment of it, Price OMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS POLICY New elections, Thieu 'resignation possible By Tihe Associated Press President Nixon announced last night the details of a peace plan which he said has been secretly offered to the Communists, and which offers withdrawal of U.S. forces within a six-month period and new South Vietnamese presi- dential elections in return for a North Vietnamese release of all American prisoners of war and agreement to a cease- fire in Indochina. The plan was agreed to by Soitth Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu, who issued his own statement in Saigon last night. He promised to step down, as called for in the Nixon proposal, and to allow new elections with Communist participation-a major policy switch. Nixon's election-year plan differs from the uncondi- tional total withdrawal of American troops called for by several of the candidates for (. its the Democratic presidential U S '1 nomination. In adnational radio andhtelevi-t I sion address, Nixon said his top t r e s i foreign affairs advisor, Henry Kis- singer, had made a dozen secret " months to pursue theprivate ne- V e n i -Daily-Tom Gottlieb status of their community courses at last night's PESC meeting. stllconfident ,-mu nitycoursvoes -Associated Press Harrisburg co-defendants Eqbal Ahmad and Sister Elizabeth McAlister, two of the seven defendants in an alleged bomb-kidnap conspiracy, yesterday an- swered questions at a news conference in Harrisburg after the second day of their trial. (See News Briefs, Page 3.) " OFFICIALS WARY: New research plan questioned By SARA FITZGERALD University administrators yesterday expressed reserva- tions over a Senate Assembly plan, approved Monday, to re- strict University research, with some doubting the plan could be administered. The faculty representative body's plan calls for the Uni- versity not to "enter into or renew any agreement or con- tract, or accept any grant that limits open publication of the results of research beyond approximately one year." Vice President for Research A. Geoffrey Norman said yesterday, "I haven't seen the - final draft of the plan but it C certainly is very confused." "What I'm not sure of," he said, "is whether it is adminis- 4 terable." A great deal of what the plan calls for, Norman said, "has to be known in radvance. It will depend on the trust of the Classified Re- By GLORIA JANE SMITH search Committee - which must The long dispute between grad- approve all projects - in their iate and undergraduate student sources of information about the froups over the appointment of r project. Recent experience has student representatives to faculty been that the committee has not committees appears to be nearing trusted proposals brought before resolution. it." Out of a meeting Saturday of William M. Brown, director of members of Student Government Willow Run Laboratories, site of Council and Graduate Federation most of the University's classified (GF) - the coordinating body of See IV. PaeE 8 grauate une nrofeinnal chool gotiations with North Vietnamese leaders. The basic stipulations of theI eight point plan call for: -Total withdrawal from South Vietnam of all U.S. forces within six months of an agreement. -An exchange of prisonersI which will begin the same day asI the troop withdrawals and will be' completed when they are com- pleted. -A general cease-fire through- out Indochina beginning when an agreement is signed and barring any infiltration of outside forces into any of the countries of Indo- china. -New presidential elections in South Vietnam within six months of an agreement, supervised by an independent body,rwith incum- bent President Van Thieu resign- ing one month prior to the elec- tion. The other four points in the decl:_-ed to reveal its precise con- tents. Last Friday it was revealed that the literary college was conduct- ing a general review of the credit standing of the PESC courses. In a statement released Mon- day, Rhodes explained the re- view was necessitated by the fact that several PESC courses had not gone through the mandatory review procedure before the col- lege's curriculum committee. Included in the statement were guidelines Rhodes said would be employed by the college's depart- ment chairmen in reviewing the' PESC courses. These 'guidelines included college regulations pro- hibiting courses taught primarily by guest lecturers, and introduc- tion of new courses through inde- pendent study sections of existing classes. which are being taught by non-' University personnel and were new courses not approved through' standard college channels. PESC members, however, argu- ed that if a student can elect read- ing or movie-going as a form of,' independent study, he should also' be able to attend regular com- munity seminars for individualized credit. Nixon plan include an agreement Rhodes has declined to com- that there will be no foreign in- ment on whether the guidelines tervention in Indochinese countries would be likely to affect the credit as set forth in the 1954 Geneva status of the community courses Agreement and the 1962 Laos pact; saying only that all PESC courses that there will be international were under review, supervision military aspects of the This review, being carried on agreement; that all armed forces through the executive committees must remain within their national of the various college departments, frontiers and that there will be an may last a week or longer accord- international guarantee for the ing to Price. fundamental rights of the Indo- On completion of the study the See NIXON, Page 8 results of the review will be sub- mitted to the curriculum commit- tee which will consider what, if H arveG hatr any action to take. SAIGON (R) - American planes have struck at three more missile radar sites in North Vietnam for a total of eight in the past three days, as the escalation of the air war in Indochina continues. The U.S. Command reported yes- terday one strike Sunday and two Monday in the intensified air war that began with , the mass raids on North Vietnam in December. U.S. sources said the increasing number of so-called protective re- action strikes is due to North Viet- nam concentrating its anti-aircraft defenses along the Laotian border. U.S. planes fly bombing raids against roads coming out of North Vietnam and into the Laotian pan- handle, the supply routes feeding the Ho Chi Minh supply trail net- work into, Cambodia and South Vietam. When an.;-aircraft radar locks on a plane in preparation for a missile firing, or when missiles actually are fired, the U.S. planes take what is called protective re- action. In two of the attacks, Navy A4 Skyhawks fired missiles at radar sites near the Ban Karai Pass, 46 miles north of the demilitarilzed zone separating North and South Vietnam. Equipment aboard-the Navy jets indicated they were being tracked by enemy radar, the command said. In the third attack, Air Force F105 fighter-bombers escorting an RF4 reconnaissance plane hit a missile radar site near the North Vietnamese coastal city of Dong Hoi, 45 miles north of the demili- tarized zone. The command said the results of the strikes were not known but no U.S. planes were hit. The air war far to the south showed no sign of letup. The U.S. Command reported one B52 mis- sion was flown against enemy tar- gets 43 miles southwest of Kon- tum in the central highlands. Other sources said four other missions hit enemy base areas west of Kontum in the area where the borders of South Vietnam, Cam- bodia and Laos meet. A mission usually consists of up to three of the giant Stratofortress- es, each carrying 30 tons of bombs. Intelligence sources have report- ed a buildup of four North Viet- namese regiments in the central highlands, and the construction of roads for tanks, which have fre- quently been sighted there. These guidelines were interpreted by some as having special impli- cations for the community courses I Tn ui~iu uurl~nnriviuig iue ukee~o, _" T ai" a l °' a 1inauuaato, curng the meeting, Community Control co-instructor M ot On C it Charles Thomas suggested that free health and transportation DETROIT - Federal Judge OVV IU f KASU 0 1 rlauuatv allu ulvivoa71Vllal z llVVi I v e i 1 i L 1 E T C rads agir governments - came the prelim- inary draft of a contract between the two groups. The contract would establish an interviewing committee composed of an equal number of student., from undergraduate college gov- ernments, SGC and GF (or grad- uate and professional college stu- dent governments in the event that GF dissolves. Representatives from under-' graduate college governments were absent from the meeting. SOC plans, however, to either draft a similar contract with the undergraduate governments, or to eventually ask them to sign Sat- urday's contract. The contract outlines certain policies to be followed in appoint- ing committees, among them that students can no longer be exclud- ad from committees because of their views. This is directly opposed to pres- ent faculty regulations, which pro-j hibit, for example, the seating of members on the Classified Re-I search Committee who are op- posed to or in favor of all re- search. The proposals, however, would services eventually be provided to Lawrence Gubow yesterday denied the community as an incentive for a two-year-old motion by Wash- participation in University courses. tenaw County Sheriff Doug Har- ee on contract Despite the administrative de- vey, aimed at dismissing a two- bate over the community courses, year-old lawsuit filed by eight PESC is now attempting to raise demonstrators who charge Harvey, SGC has always claimed that idents on matters within the areas with illegally giving them short' as the all-campus student govern- of their respective responsibilities funds for their financing. A buc- haircuts while being held in jail ment, it should be able to make Most of the committees cur- ket-drive begun yesterday has pro- on misdemeanor charges. all appointments. Graduate gov- rently have vacancies for student duced $150, a small fraction of The suit was filed by eight Ann ernments, however, have argued positions. Some of these commit- PESC's total deficit. However, Arbor protesters arrested while that SGC - traditionally chiefly tees have no student members re-1PESC demonstrating against a General composed of undergraduate stu- sulting from the failure of stu- heSChopesry secure a portion ofy dents does not represent the views dent governments to submit ap- the $50,000 earmarked for inno- 1970. of most graduate students. pointments nominations. vation" in LSA. The attorney for the plaintiffs. Faculty committees, organized ,"SGC has made no student ap- According to Rhodes, the LSA Ernest Goodman, says the trial by Senate Assembly, the faculty pointments, to my knowledge fund will be used only for equip- may still be more than a year representative body, and Pres since last June," explains Warren away. "This simply means that Robben Fleming, serve to discuss Norman, Chairman of the assem- ment purchases and will beap- Sheriff Harvey must answer the campus issues and to advise and bly. portioned by competitive bidding complaint. Then a trial date will consult with University vice-pres- See STUDENTS, Page 8 of the various departments. be set," he said.. i 1 I w i CHERYL CLARK VS. 'U Last hearing set in sex bias case By MARY KRAMER The final hearing in the appeal of Cheryl Clark, the first woman in the nation to demand back pay from a uni- versity on grounds of sex discrimination, will be heard by a University arbitration board tonight. Clark, a research associate in the Universitv', Hiohwav Safetv Research Elliot Richardson, secretary of the De- partment of Health, Education and Wel- fare (HEW). According to Richardson, the procedure "would not appear to be a viable process whereby the University can . . . eliminate the continuing dis- criminatory treatment of female em- ployes." HEW is the fedlerai aanev in charge 1970, when President Robben Fleming issued the following statement: -"The University will achieve salary equity between male and female em- ployes having the same qualifications, responsibilities, and performance in the same job classification; and -"The University commits itself to the navnmnt nf hack wn sto any wo- tentional and, therefore, not discrimina- tion at all. According to law Prof. Harry Edwards, Clark's lawyer, Clark had more senior- ity, experience and training than the male employe. She had also been ap- pointed as supervisor on the project they were both producing. :a