Eighty-one years of editorial freedom Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Mich. News Phone: 764-0552 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. TUESDAY, MARCH 14,1972 9 NIGHT EDITOR: PAT BAUER Science: By MARC ROSS IN RECENT decades, many scientists have discovered to their horror t h a t contributions of their disciplines are in large measure destructive rather than ad- vantageous to people. Technology which damages the physical environment and hu- man relationships, and which threatens in- dividual independence and health is an example. The scientist-educator must face two questions. Is there technical work which will contribute positively to the quality of human life? And, what kind of scientific education will lead people into this tech- nical work?I Our society must find a means of con- trolling technology in order to ensure hu- mane and beneficial advances. This con- trol is not only a problem for science, but has inextricable psychological, social, political, and economic factors. TO CARRY out this goal, our society will have to do several things: -stop the ever-increasing growth in con- sumption of resources; -slow down the adoption of "high-tech- nologies" to solve all problems; -encourage diversity rather than homo- geneity; -steer the economy away from growth for profits toward a more equitable distri- bution and enhancement of intensive serv- ices in health, education, recreation and safety. All of this will involve the development of exciting new forms of social and na- tural technologies. Innovation must go on. Substantial scientific and engineering re- search is needed on socially oriented prob- lems - evaluation and monitoring of re- sible science? Many of our problems with technology are ultimately due to scientists' narrow fields of interest. The massive, professional training since World War II, in response to government funding, has involved a sharp drop in "science for the non-professional" and in individual standards for professional educa- tion and research. A related development has been the over-specialization of individ- uals and fragmentation of disciplines. In physics, specialization and technologi- cal enthusiasm have promoted technical virtuosity, but have also, in effect, trained many people for pedantic research with pitifully small scope and for weapons-re- lated "high-technology" careers. The educational system has in this way been a partner in the industrial and mli- tary adventures which threaten our so- ciety. Teachers have eagerly participated. Important as it is, classified research is in this larger perspective a peripheral issue at the University. WE NEED to revive the neglected, al- most moribund, interest of non-scientists in science and technology. Not only are peo- ple who are unfamiliar with science strangers in our time, but society needs the participation of non-professionals in tech nology-related decisions. Certainly, we need course programs and research in the evaluation and control of technology, and we need to develop ethical and social concertis in ourselves and our students. Marc Ross is a physics professor and has compiled for distribution a list of Fall '72 undergraduate courses in the general area of "Science, Technology, and Society." Supplanting narrow vision *4 sources, recycling, waste processing, con- traception, pre-natal care, organic agricul- ture and housing techniques. WHAT OF THE vast areas of established scientific work? As long as the opportunity is present scientists will continue to pur- sue research in areas they find intrigu- ing. The consequences of any particular re- search are largely unpredictable, but there is research which can be identified as hav- ing long range negative impact-especially -Daily-David Margolick' because social adjustments are not able to keep up with scientific applications. So- ciety's support for such research must be reduced. However, inasmch as scientific discov- eries in their incredible variety have had a powerful and generaly beneficial influ- ence on ideas and culture, society should have no difficulty finding ample basic re- search to subsidize. THEN WHAT is the educational role of scientists in developing a socialy repscn- Letters: 'Getting rid' of women's voice? "But, first, a word from our sponsor ..." ITT and the crooked 'cops THE PRESENT ITT scandal, more so than other scandals which periodical- ly jolt the government at all levels, is a tragedy. It is more of a tragedy because, if the allegations prove true, they implicate the highest law enforcement officials in the country - a situation which makes fre- quent exhortations for law and order by the attorney general the quintessence of hypocrisy. Of course, crooked cops are nothing new, but the Attorney General and his deputies, if proved guilty, would be crooked cops of an unprecedented magni- tude. Their actions have been likened to fixing a billion dollar traffic ticket. Since there has been no public trial, no one can say for certain that the Jus- tice Department officials are guilty of anything, but their contradictory public statements indicate something is 'amiss. Previously, Acting Attorney General Richard Kleindienst denied any connec- tion between a $100,000 gift from ITT to the Republican party and a Justice De- partment settlement of an anti-trust suit against ITT favorable to the company. He also said that neither he nor Attorney General Mitchell had taken any part in the settlement. This was before columnist Jack Ander- son published a memo by an ITT lobby- ist which indicated some connection be- tween the anti-trust settlement and the contribution, and in a later column called Kleindienst a liar for denying it. IN HEARINGS before the Senate Judi- ciary Committee last week, Kleindienst managed to further implicate himself. First, Kleindienst admitted that he had talked with one, but only one, ITT offi- cial - named Felix Rohatyn - about the anti-trust suit. He denied any knowl- edge of the ITT contribution until it be- came public information "on or about Dec. 3" of last year. Later in the day, Kleindienst reversed himself on the first statement and said he had discussed the anti-trust suit with another ITT official, and in fact it was this official who suggested the meetings with Rohatyn. The next day, committee member Ed- ward Kennedy produced a letter from a Ralph Nader associate addressed to then Deputy Attorney General Richard Mc- Laren, asking about any connection be- tween the ITT settlement and the $100,- 000 gift. Kennedy also had the reply, dated Sept. 22, 1971 and written by Mc- Laren, which insisted there was no con- nection. Kennedy then pointed out that both McLaren and Kleindienst had earlier said they did not know of the gift until "ori or about Dec. 3." Yet here was a letter, from the Justice Department dated two months earlier, discussing the gift. The committee hearing has raised new questions, and these certainly must be pursued until answers are found. BUT IN A larger sense, the ITT scandal is symptomatic of other deficiencies of the current administration. Chief among these is the too close relationship between big money interests and the Nixon regime. From investment tax credits; to invi- tations to Tricia's wedding, this admin- istration displays an alarming chummi- ness with the people who dominate the economy. It is true that the President has a right to choose, his own friends. But his close association with big money inter- ests does nothing to instill confidence in the little people - who rightly feel the Nixon administration is more concerned with the interests of a few rich business- men than with the welfare of either the poor or the millions in the middle. -LINDSAY CHANEY Editorial Page Editor To The Daily: ALTHOUGH SOME members of the University administration may wish to get rid of the Commis- sion for Women, The Daily and its readership should not be misled into believing that this move is required by federal regulations (Daily, Feb. 27). Revised Order No. 4 which sets out requirements for affirmative actionrprograms for federal con- tractors includes the requirement that "An executive of the contrac- tor should be appointed as direct- or or manager of company Equal Opportunity Programs". It then lists the many functions which this person should be given to car- ry out, including: education of the supervisory staff, collection of sta- tistics on employment, and that of liason with minority groups and women's groups in the commun- ity. Nothing, but nothing, in this or any other section of contract com- pliance guidelines requires or even suggests that appointing such an executive means that the c o n- tractor must abolish all existing groups which have been set up to investigate discrimination, recom- mend policy changes, and provide input from women and minority members of the University com- munity. An executive should be appoint- ed to carry out the duties enum- erated in Order No. 4; but the eli- mination of the Commission for Women as a voice for women speaking out against discrimina- tion would further neither the let- ter nor the spirit of the federal regulations. -Helen Forsyth Law '73 Law school To The Daily: I AM A female employee ofethe Law School admissions office. I feel that I am involved with and very sensitive to the women's movement on many levels. I am very sensitive to my own problems as a woman and t h e treatment I receive because I am a woman. I feel especially sensi- tive to the treatment I receive in my work situation where I play the female role of secretary. Many of the men who I have dealt with ;in my work experience have been condescending and in- sulting to my intelligence. While working with Dean Mc- Cauley, the Law School Admis- sions Officer, I have never f e 1It insulted nor patronized. I have al- ways felt that he views me with respect and openness. I am familiar with the admis- sions process from the inside and I am satisfied that it is not dis- criminatory and that both sexes are judged on the same basis. It is a fact that there are less women applicants to Law School than there are men. Many women are not yet aware that going to Law School is a real alternative for them. More women should be involved with the law profession, but the implications that were made in the Daily article were very untair and very unexplored. What I find most uncomfort- able about the article, however, is that neither the author (a sup- posedly non-sexist male), nor the concerned female Law students, consulted the most obvious source -the women who work in the ad- missions office. That implies to me that my posi- tion is not considered important in the scheme of the women's move- ment. That is very insulting and disappointing to me as a woman. We are not going to solve our problems by asking the permission of men, nor by blaming them. We can not afford to exclude any women from our movement. Our strength is in uniting. Our power will come of respect- ing and believing in all wmen as sisters. -Susan Messer Feb. 29 Pack ard-Beakes To The Daily: ON APRIL 3 the voters of Ann Arbor will have a chance to decide clearly between people and auto- mobiles. A special bond issue to provide funds to build the destruc- tive Packard-Beakes (Ashley- First) bypass will be- on the bal- lot. This road would go through the heart of the Model Cities area. a low income, predominantly black community of pleasant, old- er homes. It would funnel 40,000 cars per day down Beakes street by the end of the decade. The road was originally prop,)sed to divert traffic aroundhthedMain Street shopping area. The design- ers of the project never considered the community destruction it would cause, as some of the road's former advocates now realize. Fur- thermore, Packard-Beakes has now outlived even its original pur- pose. Main Street now carries sufficiently little traffic that its commercial blocks could be turn- ed into a, pedestrian mall with lit- tle more drastic action than in- stallation of signs directing traffic around the area. The proponents of the Packard- Beakes bypass now justify the pro- ject by claiming that it would save five minutes per trip by 1980 for someone driving fromhnortheast Ann Arbor to the southern part of the city. Perhaps it would. The destruction of a community is too high a price to pay for minor mo- torist convenience. I urge voters to come to the polls on April 3 to vote no on this disastrous project. -Michael Morris Democratic Council Candidate Second Ward March'13 Co-ops To The Daily: THE RECENT articles by Wil- liam Lillvis and Mark Dillen in regard to Pontiac Heights give no f , /, ,,,,,.. , ' , , l - i t r " C rs; °r r Otn r .A. I'4 G "And I'd like to thank both of you personally!" perspective as to the purposes and abilities of cooperatives. Two differences separate a co- operative and General Motors. First, cooperatives are designed to be controlled by their members so that if the .members disagree with management policies they c a n change these policies on short no- tice. Second, cooperatives are non- profit and should be able to pro- duce beter products and services ,,at lower cost. However, cooperatives are not public agencies and therefore must have become sufficient to pay their expenses, e.g., salaries, taxes, and mortgages. The responsibility for an individ- ual to have adequate income to Swinging' with the City Councll cover the person's share of t h e costs does not rest with the co- operative (which has already re- duced costs for the individual), but with the individual, or if the individual needs assistance with public agencies and society in general. In the case of any cooperative, the inability to meet expenses means the bankruptcy of the co- operative and the end of any membership control over policies. -Thomas z. Brown, Manager Ann Arbor Cooperative Society Feb. 28 Life insurance To The Daily: THE PICTURE conjured up' by your Consumer's Union -article : n life insurance (Daily, Feb. 18) was most poignant. Hordes of ruthless life insurance salesmen descend- ing upon innocent canpus youth, conning them into buying life in- surance. Of course, students don't need life insurance! It is a well known fact that their parents are rich so let the parents pay the bills if they die. Furthermore, let their parents support their wives and children. Why should the poor student be responsible. Of course, they will want to and need to buy life insurance later and if some change in health oc- curs they may not be able to, but so what. Their rich parents a r e still there. Certainly no tllinkiiig student would buy life insurance to pay back the $10,000 to $20,003 his parents put out to send him to school. This is essestially the view pre- sented by this article. There is however another view to be pre- sented. That is that students should continue to prepare for fi- nancial security in their future, just as they prepare academically and intellectually. As a families' John's freedom and the laws By TAMMY JACOBS MANY TOWNS have non-partisan elec- tions for City Council. Ann Arbor, how- ever, does not. It almost takes a math major to figure out the partisan logistics of this year's council, but, once calculated - adding in personalities - the implications become as clear as a ringing telephone to a person with a hangover. Ann Arbor is governed by a ten mem- ber City Council and a mayor with full JOHN SINCLAIR'S ten year prison sen- tence for marijuana possession has been overturned by the State Supreme Court because the court felt the classi- fication of marijuana as a hard drug was unconstitutional. This decision may herald a new ap- proach to drug use, but that remains to be seen. In the meantime, the decision has wreaked havoc upon the state's drug laws. Some constitutional authorities as- sert that, until the new state drug law takes effect April 1, prosecution for mari- j uana possession is extremely unlikely. But, various city authorities around the state have noted that their local ordi- nances are intact and can be enforced. This certainly is an ideal time for care- ful examination of local drug regula- tions. The chaos generated by the state court ruling need not remain chaos. For, if the local ordinances too are overhauled, then state residents would benefit from a consistent progressive attitude toward drug use. voting privileges and veto power. This year, there are six Republicans, four Democrats and a Democratic mayor on council. Theoretically, this means that even with the mayor voting, the Republicans win - unless the mayor vetoes, or somebody is absent. But here's where the personalities come in. SECOND WARD Councilman R o b e r t Weaver is a strange animal. He is a Re- publican and, on about half the issues, he votes the Republican line. That leaves the other half. Weaver is what is known as the "swing vote." If he switches sides, there are' five Republi- cans, five Democrats (counting the mayor) and Weaver voting with the Dems. Weaver, therefore, has more power on certain votes than anyone else on council. He knows it, and he loves it. Councilman James Stephenson (R-Fourth Ward), the acentedl eader of the Renuhlicans on "real" vote? The answer, to council con- noisseurs, is simple. The Republicans didn't want the tax, the Democrats did. Weaver, as usual, was the pivot. So when the Democrats moved the tax be enacted and then put on the ballot for acceptance or rejection - the normal procedure - the Republicans voted no. So did Weaver. But Weaver is a "swinger." So when the Democrats lost that- one, they suggested an "advisory vote" instead of the defini- tive one. And Weaver, as was hoped, "swung." THE NEXT COUNCIL will be different. In the April 3 election, five of the ten seats are open - one in each ward. One Democrat and one Republican - n o t Weaver - are running for re-election, and the rest of the seats are truly up for' grabs. A new party has entered the fray - the Human Rights Party (HRP), determin- ed to sunly the swing vote or votes if 4 '';.i