Fleming halts pall y; blames pot By TONY SCHWARTZ President Robben Fleming an- nounced last night that Friends of the Rainbow People's Party, a stu- dent organization, would not be permitted to rent Hill Auditorium for a planned non-profit, "Get Out' the Vote" concert, Saturday night. * Fleming said in a written state- ment that the decision was in re- sponse to "massive violations of the law, particularly. with regard to the use of marijuana," at the last Rainbow Party sponsored event, the "Free John Sinclair" rally on Dec. 10. - "To rent a facility to such a group a second time, knowing full well that the party approves and condones violation of the law in this respect, puts us in the posi- tion of condoning illegal acts." "Normally a request from such a group to rent a University fa- cility is routine, subject only to the financial responsibility of the party in question," he added. Fleming refused to make a fur- ther comment last night. The concert was to have been non-partisan, according to a Rain- bow People's Party spokesperson, and well known performers in- cluding Mitch Ryder, Spencer Davis and the rock group Wilder- ness Road had volunteered their services free of charge. John Sinclair, head of the Rain- bow People's Party called "the whole thing bogus. The marijuana thing -is a ruse. If they were so up in arms about it, why weren't there any arrests at the Free John concert?" 4 "They simply don't want peo- ple's events. People smoke mari- juana in classrooms, at football games, in the Union Ballroom- everywhere." There was also speculation among sources close to the Rain- bow People's Party that a strong editorial in the Detroit News after the Free John concert castigating the University for allowing mari- juana smoking to go on without arrests, might have resulted in pressure from alumni. In addition an airing of portions of the concert on Channel 56 last week may have fueled reaction from the public. According to Sinclair the origi- nal intention of the Party was to produce a day long "Easter Be- In and Campaign Rally" at Crisler Arena on Sunday to try and get out the vote for City Council elec- tions on Monday. The University told the Party, explained Sinclair, that Arena workers were not available on Easter and that it would be im- possible to hold the concert there as a result. Sinclair says the Party immed- iately reserved Hill Auditorium for the Saturday night concert Flem- ing just called off. All of the Council candidates were invited to the Saturday night concert to set up literature taoles in the lobby and to be inroduced briefly at intervals during the con- cert. Fleming added that "University facilities may not be rented to RPP or their affiliates so long as their present position of violation of marijuana or other laws pre- vails. Sinclair said that the Party "plans to combat the decision." "We are talking to lawyers right now," he explained. Hill .Auditorium has very strict regulations prohibiting smoking and according to people who were at the recent Leon Thomas con- cert, there were frequent: inter- missions during which people left the auditorium and smoked in the lobby. A recent State Supreme Court ruling which struck down previous laws governing marijuana use has left widespread confusion as to whether possession of the drug is now illegal. Ann Arbor, however, has a, city law citing marijuana use as a misdemeanor. John Sinclair Pres. Fleming BLACK HOUSING DENIED See Editorial Page YI [ e trhtgan ~~IAiti SQUOOSHY High-40 Low-30 Cloudy, chance of rain and snow _... _ Vol. LXXXII, No. 136 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Thursday, March 30, 1972 Ten Cents Twelve Pages 1 -.00, FAULKNER TO RESIGN TODAY? Violence Ulster; s flar trike ITT humor International Telephone and Telegraph President Harold Geneen enjoys a Ilght moment yesterday before the Senate Judiciary Committee resumed its hearings on the ITT scandal. CLAIM VOTE FRAUD SGC -members Sto boycott meetings esin ends BELFAST (A1)-Violence rippled across Northern Ireland yesterday ahead of a British takeover de- signed to stop the killings in the province. Protestant militants returned to their jobs at the end of a two-day strike to protest Britain's seizure of power. Three gunmen wrecked a coop- erative food store in Belfast's Springfield Road after planting a bomb and warning staff and cus- tomers they had five minutes to bet clear. It was Belfast's biggest blast since last week. Security forces evacuated near- by homes and the Clanard Roman Catholic Monastery before the bomb went off 25 minutes later causing no casualties., Cooperative stores have become a favorite target of Irish Republi- can Army bombers who claim thef stores are Protestant dominated.f The IRA, which wants to unite Northern Ireland with the Irish Republic, will be a chief target umder British rule. In other incidents, gunmen fired across the border from the Irish "epublic at a truck driven by a part-time militia corporal. British troops and guerrillas later ex- changed fire over the frontier. There were no casualties. In London, both houses of Par- lament were rushing through mergency legislation empowering Britain to run the province after uspending theNorthern Ireland -arliament for a year. Legislators were expected to sit ate into the night before approv- ng the government measures that vill place the province under the control of the new secretary of state for Northern Ireland, Wil- lam Whitelaw. Unionist legislators of Northern1 reland, who are expected to vote against the package, were reported considering getting a parliamen- ary seat for Irish Prime Minister Brian Faulkner so he can continue ;o have a strong political voice while the provincial Parliament s in cold storage. Such a move would mean one of he current union party members esigning his seat to make way or Faulkner by means of a spe- ial election. The outgoing Faulkner and his abinet are expected to resign ormally today as Whitelaw ar- ives in Belfast to take up the eins of government. Faulkner has not said publicly thether he would consider join- See PROTESTANT, Page 8 Regents ask new reject Afro committee probe ti Fear of segregation, . " legal barriers cited By TONY SCHWARTZ The Regents yesterday flatly rejected two versions of a plan designed to set aside Afro-American Cultural Living units in two dormitories next fall. At a crowded special meeting, the Regents killed pro- posals which would have established separate corridors - at South Quad and Stockwell - for 400 students who express interest in Afro-American culture. Instead, the Regents unanimously approved a short statement directing President Robben Fleming to work with relevant parties in preparing programs that deal with the "serious academic, counselling and living problems for mi- nority groups on campus." - unit, 4 By DAN BIDDLE Five members of the Student Government Council announced last night that they would boy- cott SGC until charges of fraud in the all-campus election are resolved. .Res onsible Alternative Party (RAP) members William Kre- baum, Valda McClain, and Keith Murphy joined with Joel Silver- stein of the Radical People's Co- alition and William Dobbs of the Student Tenants Union in stat- ing that. they would "boycott any and all SGC meetings until a decision is reached on the fraud charges being brought by Mark Reussmann and Scott Seligman." The boycott would effectively make it impossible for the 13- member Council to reach the re- quired two-thirds quorum at any meeting. Ruessmann, a member of RAP, and Seligman, who ran for president on the Students' Ten- ant Union Ticket (STUT), have found "substantial new evidence" s u p p o r t i n g their charge that Elections Director David Schaper "seriously violat- ed the Elections Code as re- gards the accounting of ballots." "The fresh evidence over- whelmingly points to fraud," said Seligman. "I'm confident that a new election is immin- ent." Schaper, who has been ap- pointed SGC treasurerbynew- ly elected President Bill Jacobs, responded that the charges "have absolutely no validity." Seligman and Ruessmann had previously requested that SGC heardtheir allegation and appeal the decision of the Credentials and Rules Committee (C&R). C&R dismissed all charges on Saturday and officially certi- fied the election results. THREE ANTI-WAR DEMONSTRATORS kneel in front of the federal building in Harrisburg, hold- ing onto a chain waiting to be arrested. The three were among 165 arrested outside the site of the trial of Phillip Berrigan and six others. Sym bolic protest held The Regents cited both legal barriers and a fear of segrega- tion as reasons for rejection. Nev- ertheless, proponents and detract- ors of the proposal agreed that it was overridingly the fear of seg-, regation that turned the Board against the proposals. Most observers had felt that the plan would be passed with minor changes after the Regents first considered it at their regular March 17-18 meeting. "I think we'll get enough votes to pass it," Regent James Waters (D-Muske- gon) said after the first meeting. "We just have to make sure the units will be multi-racial." A revised proposal presented to the Regents after the first meet- ing had attempted to provide clarification and details of issues that were at first unclear, accord- ing to sponsors. The proposal, which the Regents also rejected, included plans for the creation of a recruiting com- mittee designed to disseminate in- formation and actively recruit blacks and non-blacks. It also called for the collection and maintenance of statistics on the multi-racial makeup of the units and a provision to terminate the leases of participants if a court "of competent jurisdiction" judged the racial composition to be de-facto segregation. After the proposal was first sub- mitted, a number of groups were asked to offer an opinion on the legal advisability of the program. At the March 17 Regents meet- ing, the Michigan Civil Rights Commission, the Ann Arbor branch of the American Civil Lib- erties Union and the University's Commission on Minority Groups concluded that it was not in vio- See REGENTS, Page 6 Conferees OK more- college aid. WASHINGTON Of)-After a bitter debate, Senate-House conferees on the $23-billion higher-education bill have agreed on a. student-assist- ance package from the Senate version, committee sources say. Announcemer.t f the decision has not been made and it could be reversed later, but sources said Tuesday the provision was accept- ed by House conferees on an 11-9 vote. The student aid plan, sponsored by Sen. Claiborne Pell (D-R.I.), head of the Senate delegation and chairman of the education. sub- committee, is designed to give more equitable financial aid to the nation's eight million college stu- dents. The plan, however, is opposed by Rep. Edith Green (D-Ore.), chief sponsor of the House bill. She favors continuance of present stu- dent-aid programs. On the crucial vote, three Demo- crats joined with eight Republicans to agree to the Senate proposal. Nine Democrats opposed it. The administration backs Pell's plan. The Pell plan would make every college student , available for a maximum annual federal payment of $1,400 minus the amount that his family could reasonably be ex- pected to contribute. outside Berrigan trial By MARY KRAMER Special To The Daily HARRISBURG, Pa. - P o 1 i c e. made 165 arrests here yesterday as they broke up an orderly anti- war protest centering around the Berrigan conspiracy trial. An initial 250 persons formed a human chain yesterday morning around the Federal Building, site of the trial. The protest, sponsored by the CITY ELECTIONS 2nd Ward: Race for students National Union of Theological Stu-! dents and Seminarians, included seminarians, clergy and lay people from across the country. It was intended to show support for the conspiracy defendants and their opposition to the Indochina War. The Berrigans are on trial for conspiracy to kidnap presidential aide HenryaKissinger. Shortly after 7:30 a.m. yester- day a police captain told the growing crowd, "Anyone wishing to disperse do so now or you will be arrested." When the protestors failed to move, police cut the chain. An Episcopalian minister was the first to be arrested. Later 12 police marched to one entrance, charged 12 demonstrators with disorderly conduct and accompanied them to a police van. After fingerprinting, they filed into the vehicles. Arrested demonstrators w e r e! held in a farm exhibition building where bond was set at $60 and hearings began later that after- noon. Many of the arrested carried! Bibles and read passages to their respective arresting officers. Additional protests are planned for later this week. Over 15,000 people are expected to attend a mass rally here Saturday. Because of the lack of man- power and the lengthy time re- who wished to reconsider to leave.' Those remaining willingly drop- ped the chain and followed an offi- cer to a van. While each arrest was being made, spectators ap- plauded and some literally danced in the street. So me spectators lining the streets joined in the singing while others criticized the protest. An angry on-looker told one demon- strator, "This isn't peace, buddy. This is limiting free access to a public building." Another Harrisburg resident de- scribed the demonstrators as "the worst scum this town has ever seen." By DAVE BURHENN While nearly all of Ann Ar- bor's five wards have a certain number of students living din -hem, the second Ward is most clearly identified as the major student area. Containing al- most the entire central campus of the University withaits sys- tem of dorms as well as many .electios 72: ann arbor apartment structures, the Sec- ondi WIOT't and, -itc nn,1irc c Police express concern over upcoming Diag hash smoke-in By JONATHAN MILLER Unlike almost everyone else, University security officers are "not amused" at the reports of a hash uled for April Fools Day at two p.m. and city police festival sched- Indeed, they are somewhat consternated by the flood of pub- licity preceding the purported event. "We can't have another Goose Lake here at the University," declared University Safety Director Frederic Davids. Nancy Weschler Michael Morris Tom Burnham ?" .