Eighty-one years of editorial freedom Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan rOh, my God... the hippies are voting" 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. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1972 NIGHT EDITOR: ROSE SUE BERSTEIN Recognizing Bangladesh WITH A TOUCH of irony, Secretary of State William Rogers yesterday an- nounced that the United States will rec- ognize Bangladesh -- three months after the nation won its independence. Certainly that move is to be welcomed, no matter how late it was made, for it will not only help improve our relations with India, but it will also allow the United States to greatly expand foreign aid payments to the impoverished new nation. But one can only hope that whatever aid that is sent to Bangladesh will be sent more carefully than the current shipments to that country. According to Dispatch News Service, some one-hundred thousand tons of American grain intended to go to Bangla- desh, have been lost somewhere in Asia. Apparently, the State Department has issued a distress call to U.S. embassies throughout Asia to be on the look-out for the hi-jacked wheat. But so far, they have had no luck. In addition to the missing wheat, other U.S. shipments to Bangladesh have been diverted. All told, Agency for Interna- tional Development sources report that $17.2 million of U.S. food assistance to Bangladesh has either been diverted to other ports or are in "positions un- known." NOW THAT the United States hopefully is done playing political games over the question of recognizing the new na- tion, let's hope that it can do a better job of getting food and medical supplies to those needy persons. -ALAN LENHOFF Editor By CHRIS PARKS "Something is happening here and you don't know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones." -Bob Dylan * * * MONDAY MORNING Ann Arbor basked in the fleeting splend- or of a sunny early spring day. At his desk in the offices of the Ann Arbor News, veteran c i t y reporter Ron Cordray began typ- ing out his advance piece on the city election. A moderately good turnout for a non-mayoral election, he thought. A new party - radicals, students - was running. Students smoke dope, fornicate and some- times demonstrate, but that was Roy Reynolds' (The News' Uni- versity reporter) problem. The Human Rights Party," he typed, "is given little, if any chance of winning a seat today." A couple of Democrats would win, a couple of Republicans would win. That's Ann Arbor city politics - that's what always hap- pens. BY LATE MORNING and early afternoon an element of concern had crept into the city's conscious- ness. The phone was ringing in the office of City Clerk Haiold Saund- ers. There w.as trouble" at the Jones School polling place. Hund- reds of students were showing up to vote, and were complaining of harrassment by Democratic and Republican poll watchers. At the polls themselves, the at- mosphere was tense. Election day workers - some veterans of 20 years of city elections - were faced with long lines of young people - dirty, hairy, crazy street freaks - and they wanted to vote! One distraught poll worker turn- -Daily-Robert Wargo Hail to the victors! ed to a harried election official and lamented, "Isn't it terrible that all these students are vot- ing. They aren't even citizens." "Yes," the weary official ag; eed. AS THE DAY wore on, energy levels were rising. "The balloting in Ann Arbor's city wide election is very heavy," blared the radio. And the weather held until ear- ly evening, as an armada of cars bearing garish signs with ,lower- ing hippos on them ferried stu- dents from dorms to polls and back again. At 8:00 p.m. the polls closed, and the city held its breath and await- ed the returns. They didn't have long to wait. By 8:30 p.m. the numbers came rolling in, faster than reporters could take them down. Jerry De- Grieck - former SGC vice-presi- dent, participant in the 1970 book store sit-in-, participant in the 1971 Black Action Movement strike, busted in D.C. during the 1971 Mayday actions - Jerry De- Grieck was winning in the First Ward - stood depressed, next to Ward. THE FIRST WARD - w h e r e Democratic Mayor Robert Harris had felt his party couldn't lose - was crumbling rapidly. when the returns from the ward's third, precinct - the h i11 dorms - were tabulated, the roof fell in. De Grieck had rolled up over 1,000 votes. And suddenly it was all over. The city's Republicans, lapping it up in the swanky Ambassador Hilton, booed and hissed as de- lirious young people in a. small store front in the center of town whooped and yelled. By the time returns from the Second Ward showed another, larg- er, although somewhat less sur- prising HRP victory, tears were flowing as freely as cocktails in the Ambassador Hilton. SLICK YOUNG Ripon-Liberal Tom Burnham - the Republican's Great White Hope in the Second a young woman - with t e a r s running down her cheeks. When a, long haired reporter ap- proached, she tore his notebook away and tried to rip it apart. Failing in that, she flung it across the room in frustration. "It's all (President Robben) Fleming's fault," one Republican lamented. It was bad enough - bad enough that unruly students had run through town, breaking win- dows and yelling slogans, the Re- publicans thought. But now two of them are on City Council. There was talk of selling homes and moving elsewhere. "The times, they are a changin'." -Bob Dylan TWO YOUNG PEOPLE - radi- cals no less - on City Council. His honor, the councilman from the First Ward, lives in a one room flat on Thayer St. with two cats and smokes marijuana. Her honor, the councilwomen from the Second Ward, will take the seat of a real estate :oagnate who sits on the board of t h e Huron Valley Bank. Her honor is a clerk in the University '1ellar. What does it all mean? It means that through a monu- mental, well-coordinated effort, radical students have managed to fulfill a dream. They have turned the nearly im- possible trick of translating frus- tration in the streets into a vic- tory at the polls - something the so-called experts said couldn't be done. They won, and won convincing- ly; and as one old Democrat frankly admitted, "I don't think we can dismiss it . . . These re- sults must be looked at by every- one." WHAT CAN TWO lone radicals do in the cold cruel world of city hall? Well, as one gleeful HRP sup- porter said Monday night, there's "one to propose a motion and one to second it." More importantly, however, there is now a progressive p r e- sence on City Council. The radi- cals have shown tihey have guts, energy and organizational ability and that when the crunch comes they can'get out the vote. De Grieck and Nancy Wechsler will certainly not be lost in the shuffle on council. Neither the Re- publicans nor the Democrats now have the six votes necessary to pass a resolution. TO GET ANYTHING done they will have to secure Wechsler's and De Grieck's support. And they may find the price, of cooperation is not entirely painless. & 00 Hail to the happy hippo IF ANYONE hasn't noticed yet, congrat- ulations are in order. Against all predictions, the Human Rights Party (HRP) has captured two crucial swing votes in the City Council, and has done well enough in the other three wards to cement its position as a major party in this city. However, now that they've made it, it's up to the party to prove they deserve it. HRP has set itself hard questions to deal with and the test will begin at next Mon- day's council meeting, when Council- people Jerry De Grieck (HRP-First Ward) and Nancy Wechsler (HRP-Second Ward are sworn in. Can a political party actually make all its important decisions by democratic votes in open mass meetings, as HRP has promised? Can Wechsler and De Grieck survive without getting co-opted in a council now split with five Republicans, four Democrats and themselves? And the platformn will HRP be able to demonstrate, even partially, that crit- ics who say their goals are totally' un- realistic are wrong? The answer to these and other excit- ing questions will have to come within the next few months. The election was hard-fought, and HRP volunteers have pushed themselves to the point of exhaustion over the last few weeks. But, as De Grieck says, "now the real work begins." in HRP, despite dire prophecies from the city's political and journalistic regulars. AND, AFTER CONGRATULATING each other on the victory, it is up to us to help make sure that such confidence is justified - by continuing our active par- ticipation in the party to keep it truly a community unit. -TAMMY JACOBS Editorial Director, write a Regent OO MANY hang-ups? School getting you down? Way behind on your home- work? Why don't you ... WRITE A RE- GENT? PAUL BROWN First National Bldg. Petoskey 616-347-3907 ROBERT BROWN 1741 Hillshire Dr. Kalamazoo 616-342-4072 WILLIAM CUDLIP 800 First National Bldg. Detroit 962-5860 GERALD DUNN 15125 Farmington Rd. Livonia 422-1200 ext. 315 GERTRUDE HUEBNER 275 Guildford Rd. Bloomfield Hills 664-7527 LAWRENCE LINDEMER 900 American Bank and Trust Bldg. Lansing 517-372-8050 ROBERT NEDERLANDER 2555 Guardian Bldg. Detroit 965-5565 JAMES WATERS 1440 Peck, P.O. Box 27 Muskegon 616-726-4861 Sports--a day of reckoning approaches By BILL ALTERMAN THE HISTORY of management- labor relations is a sad one. From the Homestead Steel lockout in the 1890's through the bloody wars of the 1930's on up to the AFL-CIO's current hassle with the Pay Board, labor in the U.S. has been given a raw deal by the busi- ness establishment. Now we have another area of labor controversy - professional sports. Last week the major league baseball teams voted to go on strike in 'a dispute with the owners over pension benefits. The players want a 17 per cent cost of living raise in benefits, to be included in the health care part of the pension plan. Most of the money would come from surplus funds already existing in the pension fund. BUT BASEBALL management is still back in the days of Andrew Carnegie. An organized worker is dangerous to them. Thus, Marvin Miller, the executive director of the Major League Baseball Play- er's Association, has been treated by the owners as something of an outside agitator who is stirring up trouble for the great American game of baseball. But if Marvin Miller is dan- gerous, it is not to organized base- ball - organized baseball, where a fast-talking scout will lure some young kid with a fancy bonus to sign a contract which makes him a slave. Rather, he is dangerous to the owners themselves, who for too long have toyed with athletes as if they were malleable commodities to be used and thrown away. The owners, of course, cite the fancy salaries that a few of the more famous players get and claim that if the players gat any more money the league will just have to go under. Typical is '"he comment of Detroit Tiger Gen- eral Manager Jim Campbell who called the players "damn greedy." it really is - and what he will ob- serve is not pretty. Perhaps the most interesting ex- ample is in basketball, where lea- gue competition has forced owners to go deep into the college ranks for recruits. The lure of big money has drawn a number cf well- known college stars to the pros, and attempted to draw others. in- cluding Michigan's Henry Wil- more. 8 But only a few of the true super- stars, such as Wilt Chamberlain and Jerry West, earn large salar- ies year after year - and even they will be retired by forty. And what. of the not-so-super- star who finds himself washed up by thirty with an academic a n d social background which has pre- pared him for nothing in life ex- cept how to do fancy things with a sphere? He hasn't had the security of a General Motors worker who, once he starts work, can look forward to thirty years of steady employ- ment, and a modest but comfort- able pension waitng for him upon his retirement. THE ATHLETIC club owners, in their own "kind" greedy way have tried to keep salaries, and t h e players, in their place by such practices as mergers and the re- serve clause. Both force the play- er to deal with only one team. The power of the reserve clause can be seen in the case of base- ball - Oakland A's pitcher V i d a Blue. In his first season last year Blue was nothing short of sensa- tional, leading his team to a divi- sion championship and earning for himself the American League's Most Valuable Player Award. His salary? $14,500. As the league's premier attrac- tion last year he brought in thous- ands of fans to the baliparks. So this year Blue wants some- thing closer to $100,000, a figure which 20 other players are cur-' rently making. But Oakland owner Charley Finley is offering only half that. That Blue is worth more does not seem in much dispute. Mike Burke, president of the New York Yankees, publicly declared that he is willing to pay Oakland $1 million for Blue. But Finley would not budge - Blue is his slave and everyone knows it. According to the reserve clause, if Blue wants to play baseball this year he must play for Finley or no one at all; not even a Japanese team is allowed to sign him. For the past few weeks Blue has been practically begging Finley to com- promise - enough to save Blue some face. But Finley has held out, playing the role of the great white father who wants the black man to come back on his knees. has its labor woes, Last summer the players nearly struck and over the winter, hearings were held on Capitol Hill with regard to the legality of the reserve clause. So far Congress has done little to impede the owners trampling labor's rights, and the Supreme Court has upheld the constitution- ality of the clause, claiming that sports is not business. But Marvin Miller and the oth- er organizers in the sporting World are here to stay. Although they seemed doomed in their current adventure (striking without a strike fund is just one example of their disorganization), it ap- pears inevitable that athletes will no longer play the part of the subservient stooge to power brok- ers of the sports world. The athlete of today is no longer the helpless, begging tool of an earlier era. He knows the ad- vantages of organizing and the public is no longer so caught up in the fantasyland aspects of sports that he can't see that ath- letes are workers like anyone else. The owners have sought to dis- credit the players with talk of im- pressive salaries and short sea- sons and so forth. But athletes are sick and tired of being treated like the soil on which they play. AND THE CONTINUED obstin- ancy on the part of the owners only points out the unfairness of the system. The day of reckon- ing for sports will come. PROFESSIONAL football, too, Letters to The Daily Many of us have had great confidence Sports Staff JOHN PAPANEK Sports Editor 1 ELLIOT LEGOW Executive Sports Editor BILL ALTERMAN............Associate Sports Editor AL SHACKELFORD.........Associate Sports Editor BOB ANDREWS............Assistant Sports Editor SANDI GENIS.............. Assistant Sports Editor MICHAEL OLIN ......... Contributing Sports Editor RANDY PHILLIPS.......Contributing Sports Editor NIGHT EDITORS: Chuck Bloom, Dan Borus, Chuck Drukis, Joel Greer, Frank Longo, Bob McGinn. «}° ~"9a '" .L + xu~^.,, ~pxy" 'ny,'*+ ! = 4x11 yd. 61eSw'y rynrw 6*J u\ 7 : 4 S., rU S !,Sv4 7 % ' H 6 .M, (°r'ww.- f ., ,,,,. o- uauy 41 , . 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If Zwerdling's kibbutz had a rule requiring women to work a year in the kitchen it is because the women of that kibbutz supported that rule. I believe Zwerdling makes this mistake because he sees the kib- butz with the eyes of a member of this American society w h i c h extols competition as a virtue. On the kibbutz cooperation and sacri- fice constitute the basis for the life style. In the same kind of cross-cul- tural blindness, Zwerdling up- braids the kibbutzniks for n o t thinking "about creating new ful- filling, productive jobs as a solu- tion but only in terms of diver- sionary hobbies." He is blind in both eyes here: his left eye cannot see that on a kibbutz people are not defined by the work they do, but by what kind of people they are once their eight hours of service are paid. Thus the lessening of work-load for women is indeed an opportun- ity for them to fulfill themselves. And his right eye cannot see that on a kibbutz life is simple, and the jobs are likewise. Thus there are very few "fulfilling, pro- ductive" jobs such as traveling around the world writing articles for the New Republic. I hopethatbsomebday Zwerd- 1 ... . :1 1.. . .. . . 1L. . T .,. .1 A .,.... . Saved, thanks To The Editor: WHILE PASSING through The Daily parking lot . yesterday, I noticed that some extremist had placed a "Nixon for President" Query on ad.an The Daiysanswer To The Daily: SEVERAL WEEKS ago I began to notice the ads in your classified section for "used" and custom" termpapers. The tone and intent of these ads struck me as being disgustingly cynical, and I wondered how you saw fit to accept them. Shortly thereafter, you ran an editorial from the New York Times which deplored the extent to which this business had grown. Although your staff didn't write the editorial, the fact that you' printed it seemed to indicate agreement on your part-however, the ads were there again, in the same issue. I thought perhaps you simply had a policy of accepting all classi- fieds, but on checking your statement concerning this I found that you refused those discriminating on the basis of sex, race, etc. in the Help Wanted section. So apparently, you do submit some ads to ethical scrutiny. Does this mean you have no objection to the termpaper ads? I would appreciate some statement of your position on this. -Alan Shaw March 30 The reply THE BUSINESS practices of The Daily are based upon the day- to-day authority of the Business Manager. This authority is granted him by the Board for Student Publications, The Daily's owners and publisher. The Business Manager is responsible only to the Board, and thus there is' a distinct separation between business practices and editorial policy - by Regental By-Law, the editors of The Daily are given complete control over the news and editorial, content of the paper. This should explain the discrepancy between editorial position and the acceptance of advertisements. Second, regarding the advertising policy of The Daily. At the current time our position is not to accept any ads the would be illegal under local, state or federal statute; contain obscene or profane language; are discriminatory on the basis of race, sex, religion, or nationality; or are clearly misleading or falacious. Furthermore, The Daily reserves the right to regulate the typo- vranhicap tae nf all adverltisements onr to reviseohrt t urn ay nnv bumper sticker on the rear of your car. I took the liberty of removing the bumper sticker to save you from any further embarrassment. -C. R. Crow April 1 *A -0 r ... ::.:> :: ::