q SUPPORTING AFRO HOUSING See Editorial Page L A6F A6P .4flt t a rh, n p n i TW7 :43 tii PLATONIC High--47 Low-29 Increasing cloudiness, showers possible - ,._ Vol. LXXXII, No. 135 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, March 29, 1972 Ten Cents Ten Pages I Ten Cents Ten Pages Opportun ity Program Members cite ineffectiveness, lack of leadersh unit hit by resignations ip Report questions services By CARLA RAPOPORT Executive Editor The committee charged with the review and general guidance of the University's Opportunity Pro- gram for minority students has been rendered functionally inop- erative by resignations and lack of interest of nearly three-fourths of its members. Almost every faculty and stu- dent member has walked off the committee in recent weeks, due to frustration with the committee's lack of organization, power and leadership. The Advisory Committee to the Opportunity Program was formed last August in order to study the supportive services available to minority students and financial aid procedures, and then submit recommendations for "any changes deemed desirable," ac- cording to a memo from President Robben Fleming. Eight of the 12 members - in- cluding three of the five faculty members - have either left the committee, do not attend its meet- ings, or are about - to resign. A ninth member will be abroad dur- ing the spring semester. Lee Calhoun, Grad, who recent- ly resigned from the chairmanship of the committee, said last night, "I wonder if this committee was ever meant to get anything done." The Opportunity Program (OP), through which some 70 per cent of the University's black students enroll, has been the target of crit- icism from many minority stu- dents whohave charged that pres- ent academic and financial sup- portive services for black students are inadequate or mishandled. William Cash, assistant to the president for human relations and the administration's liaison to the committee, last fall ordered the committee to present Fleming with proposals for OP's improvement by Jan. 1. No such proposals have been made. "We had a whole problem of communication with Cash," Cal- houn said last night. "We'd say that we needed certain informa- tion; and we'd never get it. Peo- ple (on the committee) just felt they weren't getting any help - so they left." Another example of the commit- tee's inaction has been its inabil- ity to act on an undisclosed sta- tistical report on black graduate students given to the committee last fall. The report, based on extensive interviewing and fact-finding, called for a major review and re- form of existing supportive serv- ices and financial aid procedures for black graduate students. According to a remaining com- mittee member, English Prof. Thomas Sawyer, the report was read and studied by the committee but "no one pressed for any a.'tion on it." Calhoun said last night that the committee existed because "the administration probably just need- ed something to make them look good." He said he doubted whether the committee was ever intended to have any real effectiveness. Another recent resignation was Architecture Prof. Joseph Wehrer, who said "Whether the commit- tee's inaction is Cash's fault per- sonally or because he's just too busy - we just needed someone from the top to take hold and give the committee some kind of or- ganization." See COMMITTEE, Page 10 An undisclosed statistical report on the University's black graduate students - which raises serious questions about the services avail- able to minority students - has been held without action by the Opportunity Awards Program Ad- visory Committee since last fall. The report details the progress of the 343 graduate students who attended the University from 1965- 1970. According to the report, 43 per cent of these students had not made satisfactory progress toward their degrees in the five-year period. The study was based on exten- sive interviews of students and faculty, and apparently utilized confidential student academic rec- ords. The report, states, "No system- atic effort has been made to iden- tify the problems which have con- fronted students and faculty in connection with the effort to ex- pand (the numbers of) black graduate students." According to members of the advisory committee, the report was discussed briefly last fall, a few proposals made at that time, but no action was initiated. As of last night, eight of the 12 committee members have either resigned or are no longer partici- pating on the committee. Commissioned over a year ago by then-Vice President and Dean of the Graduate School Stephen Spurr, the report presents the de- partmental distribution of the stu- dents, their educational back- ground, their age and sex distribu- tion, and a, summary of their fi- nancial and academic difficulties at the University. Near the conclusion of the 33- page report, it states, "There is no See REPORT, Page 10 William Cash ACTION EXPECTED:,_ __ Regents Afro hc to consider Busing units By LINDA DREEBEN The Regents are expected to act today on proposals to es- tablish two Afro-American and African living units dur- ing a special open meeting; scheduled for 3 pm. this aft- " ernoon. The Regents discussed the pro- posals - which would allow stu- dents with an interest in Afro-I American culture to live together in separate housing units - at their March meeting, but post- poned action at that time, and requested more information. The Regents will meet this morning in closed session to discuss theF proposals. Although implementation of the W t program is contingent on regental approval - 103 students - 73 black and 30 white - have been accepted to live in the units, ac-. cording to University Housing of- ficials. -: The proposals the Regents will review today are fundamentally the same as the plans presented to them March 16 and 17, accord- Santa Clara County sheriff d ing to Lee Gill, chairman of the: yesterday during an unsuccess South Quad Minority Council. San Jose, Calif. (left). The at "We looked at the proposals to ponement of the Angela Dav make sure there are no loopholes," side the court as she arrives he said.I dewa hec rta swsheoarriue Georgia Williams, assistant di- away car that was to be use rector of special programs for Uni- versity Housing said several revi- STAGE MARCH: sions in the proposals have been;, made to clarify some issues. Parlament adjourns in BELFAST UP) - A half century of Protestant home rule in Northern Ireland formally ended yesterday as the provincial Parliament bowed to British pressure and voted to adjourn i for at least a year. A crowd of 100,000 Protestants massed outside Stormont Castle, the seat of Parliament for over 50 years, and de- nounced the British measures as a sellout to the campaign waged by the outlawed Irish Republican Army. In London, the British Parliament passed legislation to enable William Whitel;w, a senior Cabinet minister, to as- sume all government powers in Northern Ireland by tonight. The British acted in hopes that direct rule from London might defuse the long his--- tory of sectarian the province. clashes in Lee Gill REDISTRICTING DISPUTE: Harris vetoes GOP ward boundary plan -Associated Press e attempt delays Davis trial deputies and other law enforcement authorities surround the jail exit sful escape attempt by two inmates of the Santa Clara county jail in ttempted jailbreak, which left one inmate dead, caused a one-day post- is trial, being held in the courthouse nearby. Davis (right) stops out- for the second day of her trial. Sheriff deputies (above) drive the get- d in the thwarted escape away from the jail. (See story, Page 10). By WILLIAM LILLVIS In an expected move, Mayor Robert Harris yesterday vieoed a plan sponsored by six Republi- cans to redistrict the city's wards. The plan passed the City Council without Democratic sup- *port last week. Members of both the Demo- cratic Party and the Human Rights Party had attacked the proposed plan as a "gerry- mander." Republicans had attempted to get a ruling on the, legality of heir boundary proposals in Cir- cuit Court, in order to add "the dignity and wisdom of the court" to their plan, according to James Stephenson (R-Fourth Ward). Harris objected to the pro- posal because it was passed without verification of popula- tion figures and without being referred to the Ward Boundary Commission, which is currently Third By LORIN LABARDEE Diversity sets the Third Ward apart. Due to the combination of a small student sector, a num- ber of Republicans and a simi- ,klar distribution of Democrats, lach of the three City Council candidates feel they have an equal chance of winning the April 3 election. Running in that district are C. William Colburn of the Re- publican Party, Genie Plamon- don of the Human Rights Party (HRP) and Ulrich Stoll of the Democratic Party. The ward is diverse not only in its make-up but in the issues which concern its residents. working on the redistricting problem. In defending his action, Harris noted that "the resolution has not been published in the press nor has it been the subject of public hearings." In addition, Harris cited dis- crepancies between population figures used by those supporting the proposal and figures com- piled by the , city clerk. "They (Republicans) show a total popu- lation substantially higher than the population for the entire city," Harris said. Eight votes would be required for the redistricting plan to take effect over Harris' veto. As the Republicans occupy only six of the ten council seats, such an outcome is highly unlikely. "It would appear that all our work has gone down the drain," Stephenson said. Wad. The plan now suggests creating a recruiting committee to main- tain knowledge of the multi-ethnic ratio of the units and to recruit members of ethnic groups, which may be under-represented, Wil- liams said.1 The proposal also calls for the hiring of a research person to work with the special program of- fice to collect statistics of the ra- cial composition of the houses. The formation of an advisory board to develop academic pro- grams has also been proposed. President Robben Fleming said last night he has not taken a po- sition on the proposals but that he has talked with students and housing officials about some of1 the questions raised by the Re- " See AFRO, Page 6 Chicanos ask support Fears mounted, however, that the imminent British takeoer of the provincial government could touch off new violence between the Protestant majority and Roman Catholic minority. Meanwhile, a Protestant general strike, organized by the militant Protestant Ulster Vanguard move- ment, entered its second day, halt- ing industry, public transportation and cutting off electricity supplies. Terrorist bombs killed two per- sons near Londonderry, bringing the death total to 290 lives since the beginning of the current con- flict nearly three years ago. At Stormont, Brian Faulkner, the outgoing prime minister of Northern Ireland, denounced the British takedver as "totally un- democratic" and vowed a policy of noncooperation with his successor Whitelaw. Speakers at Stormont included Faulkner and William Craig, " a leader of the Ulster Vanguard movement. Craig, long a critic of Faulkner's tactics, praised the outgoing prime minister for doing his best and led the crowd in cheering him. Isolated incidents of violence throughout the province did occur yesterday however. In Belfast, a Catholic secondary school broke out in flames after mass demonstration. Police said they suspected arson by some of the demonstrators, but no one was hurt. TF stik staged at Harvard From the Harvard Crimson CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Teach- ing fellows and graduate students at Harvard University, yesterday staged a one-day class strike to protest an increase in graduate tuition and cutbacks in teaching fellow scholarships. The teaching fellows blasted the reallocation of money previously used to pay their scholarships. Previously, Harvard teaching fellows were awarded staff schol- arships to pay for their tution. About two and a half weeks ago, however, the Harvard adminis- tration halted all staff scholar- ships. The funds will be allocated t9 various departments around the university to be used at their dis- position. According to campus sources, the strike was virtually "100 per cent effective" among graduate students and teaching fellows. Un- dergraduates, who had been ask- ed not to go to clashes, also cut classes. The strike also protested a $200 rise in graduate tuition to about See TFs, Page 6 for UFW from Esch By MERYL GORDON Over 100 persons demonstrated yesterday in support of a boycott by the United Farm Workers (UFW) of nine wine companies of California's Napa Valley. The demonstrators, after a Diag rally, marched to the local office of U.S. Rep. Marvin Esch (R-Ann Arbor) to present him with a petition re- questing his support. The petition asks Esch's support diverse mixture of the UFW in a fight against the National Labor Relations Board} (NLRB). NLRB General Counsel Peter Nash recently filed a com- plaint in a California. federal dis- trict court against the UFW seek- ing an injunction against the boy- cott. Local UFW spokesman Daniel Meza said that the attempted in- junction against the UFW "threat- ens the only organizing tool that farm workers have-the boycott." The demonstrators claim that all farm workers are excluded from the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (Wagner Act) which guar- antees the rights of workers to organize and bargain collectively. They claim that farm workers cannot be restricted by a law that does not cover or protect them. Eliseo Medina, a member of the California UFW, said at the rally, "Unless we organize, we're always going to be weak and powerless. All we're asking for is medical coverage, decent wages, decent housing, a decent way of life. Farm workers have made up their minds that they're going to fight and change the way 6hings are." Richard Raison, Esch's district aide, met the demonstrators out- side of the office and read a state- ment. nrpn ared by E~such lwhn i. gressman was unavailable. Raison then agreed to make an appointment with Esch for several representatives of the demonstra- tors to speak with him today. The march was sponsored by s e v e r a 1 organizations including Chicanos at Michigan, Trabaja- dores de la Raza, and the Chicano Student Association at Eastern Michigan University, in conjunc- tion with a state and national cam- paign to protest the actions of the NLRB. Colburn Plamondon Stoll Al+l,-,,-I, +b,- A-1,1- 'm-.+ .I-- ft1Usn