w . PROTESTING POLITICAL TRIALS See Editorial Page i1 e a4 :43 a t I CHRISTMASY High-25 Low- -5 Continued cold with snow flurries Vol. LXXXII, No. 91 Motion to oust SGC w- g VP Council ready to openi meat co-op on trial week run Ann Arbor, Michigan-Friday, January 28, 1972 Ten Cents Eight Pages -Dally-Rolfe Tessem SGC DEBATES last night on a motion to oust administrative vice-president Jay Hack. The members of GROUP, who voted to support the measure, are also involved in a drive to allow women membership in the Michigan Union. Wo-men membershi in Union requested By KATHY INGLEY The Michigan Union, once a male bastion, may soon accept' women as members. The five GROUP members of Student Government Council are currently sponsoring a petition to amend the Michigan Union con- stitution to admit women as members of the Union. The amendment proposes to strike from the constitution the clause stating that membership "shall be confined to men." In order to bring the proposed amendment before the Union By CHARLES STEIN Student Government Coun- cil last night rejected a move that called for the elimination of the office of administrative vice president, a post currently: held by Jay Hack. The measure which was intro- duced by council member Curt Steinhauer of the Responsible Al- ternative Party received only five supporting votes, two short of the necessary majority. A related mo-1 tion, that had merely asked Hack to resign, had been previously de- feated by the council in a meeting last month. In other action, SGC voted to fund a one week trial-run of the newly created SGC Meat Co-op. The co-op is a part of the larger grocery store project that the council established as its number one priority for the semester. In a #report before the council, Bill Jacobs, the coordinator of the pro- ject, stated that at the present' time, it did not seem economically feasible for the council to get in- volved in a large-scale grocery An investigator operation. sub-level of the He proposed instead a co-op (left) and New limited only to the sale of meats, a cigar." since this was an area in which he felt the council; could substan- tially undercut the prices avail- ROGERS able at local markets. Jacobs predicted that the meat co-op could sell its products for approximately 15 per cent less P than the lowest prices currently offered. Starting next Monday and con- tinuing through Thursday, repre- sentatives of the co-op will be in the fishbowl to take orders for a "4 the meat. Purchasers will be re- quired to pay 50 per cent of the bill as a down payment with the remainder to be paid upon de- livery. The co-op plans to fill the orders on Saturday and students will be able to pick up their meat that. day at both the SAB and East Quad. Those sites as well as the times of delivery are tentative, and will be confirmed at a hter date. In the debate on the proposed, Hack ouster, Steinhauer claimed that his motion was not in any way a personal vendetta against Hack, although he did say that Hack had done a poor job in +he office. He described the post of administrative vice president as "excessive baggage which the council could easily do without." Voting in favor of the measure were Steinhauer, Michael Davis, John Koza, Marty Scott and Bob Nelson. XlL(I Board may let students break lease in dorm By KAREN TINKLENBERG The Housing Policy Committee of the Office of Student Services (OSS) yesterday approved a provision in the 1972- 73 residence hall lease which, if implemented, could allow students the option to cancel their contracts. Under the provision, cancellations would have to be made within a specified time period which has not yet been de- termined by the committee. In order to go into effect, however, the provision must receive final approval from the committee at its second read- ing next week. In addition, the University attorney and con- troller must approve it. Committee member Phil Cher- '' ner raised the motion as an alter- native to Tenants Union member William Dobbs' one-term lease proposal. Dobbs favored the adop- tion of three lease forms-one for: fall, one for winter, and one for both terms. decd In order to prevent loss of reve- nue from departing students, the provision calls for students to pyt e t 60 per cent of the room and board charge during the fall term and the remaining 40 per cent in the By SUE STEPHENSON winter. The general assembly of the This measure was included to Southeast Michigan Council of offset the expected loss of revenue Governments (SEMCOG) will de- during the second term, which; cide today on its recommendation would raise the rates of students to the Water Recources Commis- remaining in the dorms. A student sion (WRC) concerning Ann Ar- leaving at the end of the first bor's sewage treatment. term would therefore be penalized Today's'decision - another step by paying an extra 10 per cent the firstemes Cherein the controversy over whether fcrst n seetr. enrth ewthe city should expand its own lease will "make the University try sewage treatment with, a proposed harder to attract students to its area wide system - follows last housing and force the UniversityIweeks SEMCOG executive com- +n h rannni'to +ncfi~o Ap mittee decision in favor of the Arson at Grad Library? (right) holds the charred remains of books after a fire ,broke out last night in a University library. Damaged shelves of the library included books on anarchism Zealand. According to one Burns Security man, the fire was set by "a man with STILL HOPEFUL: ice plan officiall icked atlaris taks board for acceptance or rejection, support H _tures c time U 0 WOO SIf th Hopwoods I h amendz by"up for receivedb of°g tails vo al queg decisioi Eight University underclassmen ment a this week received Hopwood Stud Awards for creative writing. In the of the sixth annual Hopwood contest, ngt the eight students received awards vicepr totaling $750. always In the essay division Martin the res Lee, '75, was awarded $100 for saw it "The Only Way to Fly is to Die." If th Marcia Zoslaw, '74, received $50 propos for two essays, "The Case for the constit Indian" and "Jerusalem." gathers Three awards were made in the of the fiction division. Julie Wittes, '75, membe received $150 for "two Stories". bership Roger DeLiso, '75, was awarded issue w $100 for "Fiction" and Teri Mal- al by t witz, '75, received $50 for "Satur- SGC day Morning, Home." alizedt Three students also received could b awards in the poetry division. Lin- How nea Dudley, for "Water Colors eral me Ruled by Neptune" received $150. non-vo Bruce Shlain ,'75, was awarded pressed wud s $100 for "Poetry". $50 was award- Curr ed to Cynthia Yockey, '75, for student "Lot's Wife." and a s English Profs. Arno Bader and in their WOm Robert Haugh judged 42 manu- membe scripts entered by 36 students. with $3 The awards were presented ing dir Wednesday by Haugh, chairman The1 of the Hopwood Committee, fol- Ty aE They e lowing a lecture given by poet organiz Adrienne Rich. bership M1s. Davis says Angela 'victim of repression' By JANET GORDON "Angela is as innocent of criminal charges as any one of you," Sallye Davis, mother of Angela Davis, said yesterday at t a rally in the Law Quad. Speaking to about 200 people, Davis said, "But because she is a black woman, be- cause her political ideas differ from those of the power structure, because of her ters must collect 200 signa- of male students and life- 'nion members. e Union board approves the ment; it would be brought a vote before the entire membership. Women can- *n the petitions. abership in the Union en- ting on Union constitution- stions and participating in ns concerning the govern- and use of the Union. ents seem only dimly aware "men-only" clause. Accord- Jay Hack, administrative esident of SGC, there have been vocal objections to striction, "but no one really as a burning issue." he Union board rejects the ed amendment, the Union ution can be amended by Ing signatures of 10 per cent e current student Union rs. The entire Union mem- could then vote on the without needing the approv- he Union board, members only recently re- that the Union constitution be amended in this way. ever, Stanfield Wells, gen- anager of the Union, and a ting board member, ex- confidence that the board approve the amendment. ently, all full-time male ts become Union members, mall assessment is included , tuition. ien automatically become rs of the Michigan League .50 of their tuition fees go- ectly to the League. Union was founded in 1906 group of University men. established it as a private ation and restricted mem- to men. By The Associated Press Representatives of North Viet- nam and the Viet Cong offic- ially attacked every major point of President Nixon's peace plan at the Paris peace talks yester- day, reinforcing earlier indica- tionstthat the plan is unaccept- able to them. Secretary of State William Rogers, however, expressed some hesitant optimism about the plan, pointing out that the North Vietnamese had not ex- actly rejected the proposal. In a related development last night, administration officials reported that the United States, in secret talks in Paris last year, told Hanoi envoys that Wash- ington would be willing to un- dertake a $7.5-billion postwar reconstruction aid program for Indochina of which up to $2.5 billion could go to North Viet- Thuy nam. Officials said this "illustra- tive" figure was given for a five- year U.S. economic-assistance program for South Vietnam, North Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos once a peace settlement stops the fighting. In Indochina, meanwhile, Communist-led forces launched two heavy attacks yesterday in the southern half of South Viet- nam. In the central highlands, South Vietnanese troops stum- bled onto an enemy base camp, touching off one of the sharpest battles since a North Vietna- mese buildup began there two months ago. The communist buildup in the central highlands has officials predicting a North Vietnamese offensive there, probably next month. In presenting the plan at the peace talks, U.S. Ambassador William Porter and South Viet- nam's Pham Dang Lam stressed that it was flexible and open to negotiation. The allied dele- gates hoped that the Commu- nist side might take up the challenge and open bargaining in public or secret meetings. The meeting, however, pro- duced no hint that the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong dele- gations were ready to bargain- publicly or privately - on the basis of Nixon's plan. After denouncing the plan as a maneuver by Nixon to get himself re-elected president, Xuan Thuy, the North Vietna- mese delegate, said he would have "other comments to make" later. Thuy denounced Nixon for See VIET CONG, Page 8 to be responsiv to stuaeta mands." Housing Director John Feld- kamp expressed concern that the provision would be financially damaging to the University, and would "serve Ann Arbor land- lords" by encouraging more stu- dents to move into apartments. He said, however, the plan "won't make us go broke," though it was "risky." According to Cherner the Hous- ing Policy Committee exists to serve student needs, not the Uni- versity's. If the new lease did re- sult in massive dormitory vacan- cies, he said, the University should find out what was wrong with the resident hall system or "get out of the housing business." Vayne County collective system. SEMCOG's goal, defined by its irector Robert Turner, is to pro- ide sewage treatment on a collec- [ve scale." However, Turner said that "the >rimary concern is the protection f the river." Whether the sys- ;m is individual or collective, ie said, it should provide "the nost extensive treatment possi- le. Harris and other city officials avor expansion of the city's plant ver the proposed areawide sys- em. According to Fred Mammel, uperintendent of Public Works, the Wayne County plan is more xpensive and proposes only sec- ndary treatment whereas the ex- ansion of the Ann Arbor sew- ge plant would be less expensive nd provide better treatment." City Administrator Guy Lar- om described the areawide sys- em approach as "expensive and, ion-beneficial," although he said [hat "expansion of future treat- nent facilities must occur." The estimated cost* of the >ant's expansion is $18 million, with an additional $5 million for ^etention basins making the to- l expenditure $23 million. Expansion of the city plant would increase the amount of ewage treated from 15 million allons per day (mgd) to an es- imated 24-33 mgd, Mammel pro- jcted. It would also introduce and filtration so that the end >roduct would "look like distilled water next to well water or even ap water," he said. The city also plans to use the orth-side interceptor -an over- ized pipe-as a retention basin to ontrol daily sewage flow into the lant Mammel claimed that the con- rol of sewage levels provides for fficient utilization of the plant ver a 24-hour period instead of vertaxing it five hours of the day, nd not using it to Capacity at ther times - thus saving city unds. HR-RIP to write party platform tomorrow for City Council, race The Human Rights - Radical Independent Party (HR-RIP)- organized a year ago to provide a leftwing alternative to the two existing parties - will hold its platform convention this week- end. The party's City Council can- didates will be nominated dur- ing the second session of the platform convention. During the weekend, meetings will be held to discuss a wide range of issues including com- munity planning, education, the law, party structure, sexism and racism. HR-RIP has held in the past to a radical platform advocating community control of police, in- creased day care facilities for the city, and low cost housing. In addition, it has strongly op- posed the city's proposed flat rate income tax.. HR-RIP is the union of the statewide Human Rights Party and the locally based Radical Independent Party. RIP ran candidates in a write-in cam- paign for mayor and a City Council seat in last year's elec- tion. Though RIP candidates fared poorly then, observers believe the party's chances are better now. It is expected to attract a large segment of the newly enfran- chised 18-20 year old bloc of voters, mainly because HR-RIP candidates may be more radical than either the Republican or Democratic candidates.tThis is expected to appeal to the local youth vote. In addition, the party views its recent certification as an official state party, and the elimination of the one-year ward residency requirement for city council elections - which could have discouraged student candi- dates-as particularly significant to the outcome of the upcoming elections. According to Nancy Burghardt, an HR-RIP member, the party expects most of its support to come from students, who hold the majority in the first and second wards. The party is expected to run candidates in races in all of the city's wards this April. n HR-RIP was assured a spot Ion the city's April ballot and the John Feldkamp EN s: Stockwell's Building Dirtctor c Rich Thompson, estimated that p the move could cause dorm va- cancies to increase by 5 to 10 per tj cent. He predicted that vacancies e would be further increased when o a loss of revenue caused the o quality of dorm life to decrease a further. o See LEASE, Page 8 f HEW INVESTIGATION Oregon State hit for sex bias College Press Service EUGENE, ORE. - Oregon State University this month became one of over 300 schools across the country charged with sexddiscrimination by the Department of Health, Education, and Wel- fare CHEW). The charges filed against Oregon are similar to those filed against the University in the fall of 1970. The University then submitted an af- firmative action plan to HEW, which has yet to be accepted. The plan has recently become the subject of a complaint by PROBE, a local been staffed by females (home economics and women's physical education, for example), have not actively recruited and hired females to fill academic positions;" -Oregon State policies regarding part-time employees (sent by the State System of Higher Education) "result in discrimination against fe- males" because the policies do not include most fringe benefits. Thirty percent of OSU's faculty women are employed on a part-time basis, the investigating team said, while only nine per cent Of the faculty men are part-time.