REGENTS: DEFYING A RESEARCH MANDATE See Editorial Page :Y Sfr~iau :4Ia itl REACTIONARY High-25 Low-1 Occasional snowflurries, windy and colder Vol LXX0, No. 110 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, February 19, 1972 Ten Cents Eight Pages I E P I SEEK ADEQUATE ENFORCEMENT By ALAN LENHOFF Daily News Analysis Although scores of critics have termed the University's present classified research guidelines "vague and unenforce- able," the resolution adopted by the Regents yesterday amounts to a major vote of confidence in that policy. In their action, the body tacitly re-affirmed the present policy and asked that student and faculty representative bodies work together to present a revised proposal for their coinsideration. However, yest'erday's actions cast doubt on whether the $ Regents are genuinely interested in changing the University's policy on research. Rather than acting directly on Senate Assembly's pro- posed research policy-which was approved by an overwhelm- ing vote last fall after months Ro nof debate-the Regents simply eg asserted that the present pol- icy would be adequate if a "simpler administrative mech- anism" to enforce it were 'dopted. A target of student and faculty dissent in recent years, the pres- 1 ent research guidelines prohibit the acceptance of contracts "whose specific purpose is to destroy hu-, The State W a t e r Resources man life or to incapacitate human Commission (WRC) gave final ap- beings." proval Thursday to a regional sew- The Assembly plan calls for the age treatment plan which would University "not to enter any con- inhibit the expansion of Ann Ar- tract or grant which limits the bor's own local plant. open publication of the results of The regional plan will tie Ann the research beyond approximately Arbor into a giant plant at the one year." mouth of the Huron River and The present guidelines have re- would provide only secondary sulted in the rejection of only al treatment for, sewage from large few contracts since its adoption in portions of Wayne, Oakland and 1968. Washtenaw counties. The guidelines are enforced by Expansion of the city's local the Classified Research Commit- plant, on the other hand, would tee, 12-member group appointed provide tertiary (better) treatment, by Assembly. according to city officials. The votes of seven committee The city must now turn its re- members are needed to officially quest for local plant expansion to approve a classified research pro- the Environmental P r o t e c t i o n! ject. Agency (EPA). Without the EPA's But in practice, Vice President approval the regional sewage planfoRearhAGofeyNmn cannot be implemented. has several times superseded the committee - approving contracts If the PA yrules agaist te that did not receive the needed local plan, Mayor Robert Harris seven votes. Norman has long says as a last resort he will go maintained that the committee's, to court. w actions are only in an advisory A bill which has passed the capacity. state Senate and is in a state 1 However, no Regent yesterday House of Representatives commit- would specify exactly what would tee may render the sewage plan constitute a "simpler administra- economically unfeasible. tive mechanism," or how the 1968 The bill would require the Wayne policy might 'be enforced more to County plant to provide higher the satisfaction of the University treatment of the sewage and community. would add millions to the sys- Under the terms of the resolu- tem's cost. tion the Regents also state that The cost of returning treated they support the concept of end- FACULTY'S PLAN DEFEATED, 7-1 By GENE ROBINSON The Regents yesterday rejected Senate Assembly's pro- posals for revised University classified researchrestrictions, calling instead for continued operation of the current poli- cies. The action represented a major rebuff to the faculty body, which said it had overwhelming support for its proposal from the University community. The Regents voted 7-1 to call for revision in the applica- tion of the current 'policies, instead of for a new set of restric- tions; with the only dissenting vote coming from Regent Gertrude Huebner (R-Bloomfield Hills), who was in favor of stricter restrictions on classi- fied research. The regental action was in di- rect opposition to all of he pro- nosed policies presented to the board - policies from Assembly. Student Government Council and th" Faculty Reform Coalition. The Regents also rejected a plan submitted by the University's ex- e-11Hve officers. The Assembly proposal called for the University not to enter into or rcnpw any contract or grant which 'U' faculty response: Confusion Faculty reaction to the Regents' would restrict open publication of overwhelming rejection of Senate the results of research beyond ap- Assembly's research proposals yes- -Daily-Rolfe Tessem THE REGENTS QUESTION psychology Prof. Warren Norman at Thursday's open meeting about the Senate Assembly proposal to restrict classified research. At yesterday's session the Regents rejected Assembly's proposal, voting to keep the University's present policy. ASKS TO CONTINUE: Wom-en group favors one head for rights commissions proximately one year._ The Regents also rejected a watered-down version of Assem- bly's proposal, prepared by Presi- dent Robben Fleming and the other executive officers. The action may force Assembly to once again begin the slow pro- cess of evaluating the University's research policies, as it effectively nullifies the faculty representa- tive body's actions on the research issue over the past year. The regental action, in the form of a statement drafted yesterday morning, includes the following four points: The principal objections to the 1968 policies relate to'the dif- ficulty of administering them, and not to the policies themselves "The Regents believe that changes ought to be made in the direction of a simpler administrative mech- anism," the statement reads. " Willow Run Laboratories, the site of 90 per cent of the Univer- sity's classified research, will be placed under control of a separate agency by the end of the year; " Any policy restricting research should pertain to only federally- sponsored classified .research, not to industrially-contracted proprie- tary research, the results of which are often also kept secret. This is a direct\ reversal of the Regents' earlier stand, as last De- cember they returned a previous Assembly proposal because it dealt only with federal classified re- search. " The executive officers - in- cluding Fleming and the vice pres- See RESEARCH, Page 8 terday was one of disappointment and confusion. Psychology Prof. Warren Nor- man, Assembly's chairman, called the move a "ploy," saying that the Regents "expected the whole issue to blow away." "The Regents offered a counter- proposal that is massively empty," he said. He said the Regents' state- ment contained "no substance whatever." The statement directs Assem- bly, the Senate Advisory Commit- tee on University Affairs-the fac- ulty executive body-and Student Government Council to work to- gether to formulate research poli- cies acceptable to the Regents. However, Norman said, "They haven't seen fit to tell us what they want." He said the groups would prob- ably have to wait until the Re- gents m a k e substantive recom- mendations and then take definite action. The issue is on the agenda for Monday's Assembly meeting. "I imagine the Assembly will be pretty upset," Norman said. Norman said he disagreed with the Regents, and thought there should be a change in the research policy itself. Assembly member Frederic Sch- erer, a backer of Assembly's re- search proposals, said of the Regents' action, "If it isn't out- right rejection it comes as close as possible." Scherer expressed doubts as to whether or not the issues involved See 'U', Page 8 By MARY KRAMER The University's Commission for Women yesterday recom- mended that the University ap- point a single affirmative action officer to encompass the present roles of both the minority and women's commission. H o w e v e r, the Commission, formed last year to aid in the implementation of University efforts to end sex discrimina- tion, urged that the Commission continue to exist in its present form. Women's commission chair- woman Virginia Davis Nordin had said earlier this week that the impact of the termination of the commission would be "dis- astrous." However, Davis said yesterday that from information gleaned at a conference on equal em- ployment opportunities for wo- men in Chicago, she felt it would be advisable to have an affir- mative action officer appointed. The possibility of the con- solidation of the functions of both commissions arose with the advent of the Department of La- bor's recent Revised Order No. 4, which requires a single officer to implement an affirmative ac- tion program. However, this week at the Chicago conference the Univer- sity learned it was, as a public rather than private institution, subject to the "spirit" and not the "letter" of the law. N o r d i n, in advocating the move, made several stipulations. Because "industry is light years ahead of the University in programs for women and minor- ities," she recommends that the University recruit its single en- forcement officer from private industry. Such an appointee, according to Nordin, because of experience in an "organized supervisory structure," would be familiar with "the organization and re- quirements of an Affirmative Action enforcement office." Because the University lacks industry's "monolithic struc- water to the Huron River could ing the University's ties to the run as high as $18 million, offi- Willow Run laboratories-where 90 cials say. They also point out that per cent of the campus classified if the water is not returned the projects are performed. Huron would experience low-flow If this is not accomplished by problems. See REGENTS', Page 8 Free beer 'n pizza bash draws crowd. for GOP ture," the Commission recom- mended that it continue its own existence since University prob- lems have traditionally been approached in a committee for- mat. President Robben Fleming ap- pointed University attorney Wil- liam Lemmer to investigate and interpret the effect of the labor department's order. Lemmer, who attended the conference in Chicago, said the consolidation of the two com- missions was "a possibility." Edward Hayes, University per- sonnel information manager, came away from the conference with the impression that the of- ficer described in the order is "highly placed with the author- ity to accomplish the goals." "They're talking about, at the very least, a vice-president," he said yesterday. An alternative would be an appointment made by a Univer- sity executiye officer but with the "complete backing of that officer." Nordin suggested the Com- mission confine itself in the future to one specific problem at a time in order to increase its effectiveness. She suggested two areas--the grievance procedure and concen- tration on the file review until its completion-as major focal points. Nordin emphasized the import- ance of the improvement of the grievance procedure citing the surprise of Dep artment of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) officials that only two complaints have reached the grievance procedure. The University last summerI By CHRIS PARKS Hundreds of students guzzled beer and wolfed down pizza yesterday afternoon while local Republicans picked up the tab for the "politician booze bust" at Bimbo's. Party luminaries like State Sen. Gil- bert Bursley (R-Ann Arbor) and Rep. Marvin Esch (R-Ann Arbor) mingled among the diverse crowd, drinking, eat- ing and rapping. Hundreds of free pizzas and kegs of beer were consumed by those in attend- ance who ranged from Mark Reussman, former Young Americans for Freedom chairman to Nancy Weschler, Human Rights Party candidate in the second ward. Students expressed a variety of mo- Smith (R-Ann Arbor) was barely heard above the alcoholic din. Trying to speak on a number of issues relating to the environment, Smith was met, after each phrase, with shouts of "right on", "far out" and enthusiastic pounding of beer mugs on wooden tables. The party, according to its major spon- sor, Republican second ward candidate Tom Burnham, a law student, was for Republicans and students "to get together and have a good time." "Politics" says Burnham, "should be fun."1 As the afternoon wore on and the beer ran low, support for the Republican cause seemed to climb. By 3:45, a Democratic precinct captain in the crowd was pledg- ::.