KNAUSS AND OSS IN REVIEW See Editorial Page Ci 4r Si r i auP 47IAii BLEAK High-30 Low-21 Partly cloudy, snow flurries Vol. LXXXI, No. 85 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Friday, January 21, 1972 Ten Cents Life "wth K'naass:1 Evaluating a departiii By JUDY RUSKIN sure fromn both sides Its a thank- Jeiiy DeGrieck agrees. "I'm Neithe fit him as a label H Flenm less position pleased with Knauss' stand with was mo e of an o ganization man dew yeavandgathalfnivasvicepfresian By his staff, Knauss is gen- the other executive officers" he representing OSS. velop. foarthedOfficelfastudcenterv-en erally consideied to be a stiong says "He was a student advo- "He walked into a changing sit a Stu2 ic tes Ofe fKnauss'nmajorvn- student advocate. He always had cate. Still he was a little too uation. He held the ground well. Re, vaiosar cnidie ore;i the student in mind Eveything quiet - he didn't go around He didnt take any geat steps sures watoarkinwitasdenedtdominatedi he did was to make the office shooting off his mouth - which foirward, but did prevent back Sion wokn ihasuetdmntd more responsive to students," says may have been too bad in some sliding" Schenk adds. heigi palm~y board and his instituting Tom Easthope an assistant to the ways." While the problems of working mid- a complete reorganization of OSS. iepeietMri basnamme f~ihbt tdnsaamns. law " Vag.ยข z' ~~~~~~~Knauss, as an executive of- vc rsdn.Mri basn ebro ihbt tdnsadamns dn fse ncag f nofc el Students' opinion of Knauss' role the policy board from Sept., 1970 trators are ones any vice presi- dn OSS. p ing r im carlyofwith ffstudeco- a tdn dvct ed o to April 1971, believes that Knauss dent of OSS must confront, aye g 'vary, howevery rangingufrom ad--was simply commited to making Knauss was faced with additional T12 cinhsbeplcdianu- miration to indifference, the policy board work. She says problems - as his initial appoint- of s tfOSS policy board member Sue Knauss was often in a difficult ment was surrounded by .contro- istra ,.An interview with Vice Presi- Rains, Grad., believes Knauss held Position, facing students on one versy. ous dent Knauss appears on today's the student point of view on most side and administration on the Knauss. originally rejected by dito .Editorial Page. issues. "He was fairly honest when others, but she says he never did the search committee assigned to antt he took a position not in accord anything to indicate that he did find a replacement for Acting poe 3<::I'usual position in the administra- with that of the policy board" not support the students. Vice President Barbara Newell. cis10] tin Tevc peietint Rains says, "and he was very open Student Government Council was appointed independently by vice- toisuggestions." Shessaidthe was President Rebacca Schenk is less President Robben Fleming in Sep- Qu sureTIG whereesdettor place Srvihisobrtpower rfltswilling to support the students in enthusiastic. e"Hewasn't a Stu- tember,1970. te DEATIGViePrsdetfo tuetSevce obr Kassrflcs comments Woman's A dvo0c a te the face of University tradition. dents' advocate," she says "but he While the search committee be a during a pensive moment at a Regents' meeting Claire Jeanette. "He feels res- Former policy board membei wasn't a regent's man either. had submitted a list of names to Ten Pages rg VP' ing, all the candidates with- ras a second controversy de- )ed involving the creation of dent-dominated policy board. sponding to increasing pres- sfor student input in deci- - making su~mming from htened student unrest in the sixties, a new Regents by- was drafted proposing a stu- - dominated board to govern is by-Jaw 'ran into a number iags involving faculty-admin- tion disagreement over vani- aspects of the draft. Tn ad- ri, the Regents were reluct- to pass a by-lawv which pro- d creating a board whose de- nis would be binding on the -president. estions then arose as to whe- the new vice president should appointed before or after the See OSS, Page 6 sGC blocks Nixon urges boost distribution in defense budget, of agent list By KAREN TINKLENBURG of Student Government Council-in a~ direct Members reversal of earlier policy-voted last night to block the dis- tribution of a list of police undercover agents which has been printed in SGC's publication, Student Action.4 Although several copies have leaked out, Council acted to leave the undistributed copies in member Brad Taylor's possession. After obtaining the list from sources in East Lansing last month, SGC had voted to print the names and had spent much time looking for someone to print the list, before the University Cellar consented to print it. In other action, members of the GROUP platform ef-4 _ - ---_..._------- fectively blocked an allocation of $150 to the Tenant's Union, in keeping with a statement signed N sweeiby GROUP members last week v urging that SGC assume fiscal re- sponsibility. However, a motion to ~ allocate the same amount to a committee of SGC members set' up to aid the Tenant's Union was passed, 8-2. a ~The decision to impound the police list followed a heated de- 4V bate between SGC members. Ac- cording to SGC member Joel Sil- SAIGON () - A South Viet- verstein, those in favor of print- namese task force of 10,000 to ing the list tried to prevent Tay- 15,000 men has launched an oper- for from taking the copies into his ation northwest of Saigon to pre- possession, and a small scuffle en- Potli vent any enemy offensive near, sued. However, Taylor was event-O .the caiptal, Saigon headquarters ually released. People gather around a communal table as said yesterday. The motion to impound the list dinner held last night at the Conspiracy (f The force of infantry, para- was made by Curt Steinhauer, a' ties sponsored by the Council aimed at rais troopers, ranger, armored units Iconservative who ran on the Rad- was winding up, representatives from thet and militia is sweeping a rubber iaAlentv Prypafom civiis plantation area 45 miles north- ilAerntivexPryspdators wes of Sai on hat onc wa an Silverstein expressed concern estongol was an that the advertisers might sue' enemy stro gnificant contact! Council for breach of promise, but NADER S BRA INCH ILD: Tefrtsgiiatcnatwas told that no payment from I_______________________ since the operation began Satur- advertisers had been made. day occurred south of the Michelin rubber plantation. Rangers killed GROUP members were split on 10uenemy soldiers seven miles the issue. Marty Scott argued that tuet a south of the plantation, headquar- some copies of the list were al- S tdv ters announced. Military sources ready distributed, and that legal' said the rangers lost one killed and action could not be prevented, if four wounded. any was taken. - _ __ - W- - d. I federal WASHINGTON (R) - Presi- dent Nixon urged a Democrat- ic Congress yesterday to reject "the intense pressures of a po- litical year" and enact an ar- ray of stalled administration measures, a bigger defense budget and " a new technology program" to foster job-creat- ing research. Tn his State of the Union mes- sqae, Nixon asked the Democrats for partnership to make sure that essential programs do not become political hostages. His nationally televised and radio broadcast address was de- livered to a joint session of House and Senate. and Nixon said there were probably more candidates for the White House on handthan at any such occasion in American his+ory. The President guaranteed a ma- ior fight in the Senate with his proposal for increased defense sonding. He said it will be re- ntiird by rising research and de- v-lonment costs, pay increases and a need to proceed with new wea- F pons systems. an The defense increase comes on P the eve of Nixon's scheduled visits se to the Soviet Union and the Peo- ple's Republic of China. He did not say how"big the in- INS crease will be but did detail $3.7 billion in additional defense sonnding to be included in his budget next Monday.I Sen. Allen Ellender (D-La.), chairman of the Senate Appro- oriations Committee, said he had been told the overall defense bud- get would come to some $83 bil- lion. an increase of some $3 billion. "We'll have to do what we did this year - trim some of it," he said.- Nixon concentrated on a call for approval of programs he already like has sent to Congress. He said he vers would propose later legislation to ' overhaul the financing of public pred schools and relieve over-burdened omi property taxpayers. See NIXON, Page 6 incr research -Dailv-Jim Judkis uck supper part of the Ann Arbor Tribal Council's community potluck ormerly the Alley). The event topped off a week of activi- ing funds for the new Community Center. As the dinner Council's several People's Committees reported on their advocacy unit r seeks U. S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker said that any upcoming enemy push will come in the 1st and 2nd military regions and the central highlands, well north of Saigon. "We may expect heavy fighting before long in those areas," Bunk- er told a meeting of the Saigon American Chamber of Commerce. Bunker said enemy troops are preparing for a "new effort in the highlands and in military regions 1 and 2." U. S. B52 Stratofortress bombers hit the central highlands. Enemy troops are concentrating in the region where the borders of Laos, Cambodia and South Vietnam join. GROUP member Michael Davis and Administrative Vice-President Jay Hack both argued that Coun- cil would "look foolish" if it kept changing its vote. Davis also point- ed out that SGC, particularly spending-conscious at this time, had already spent money to have the names printed. The action came after GROUP member John Koza changed his stand on the issue. An earlier at- tempt to reconsider the action fail- ed because opposing members did not make a quorum. i Steinhauer called the original action a "publicity stunt," brand- ing it an attempt by SGC members to "get on the map" by standing for freedom of the press. ufgufttzeu funds -Associated Press AMILIES OF AMERICAN prisoners of war in Indochina and tiwar protestors parade in front of the Capitol yesterday as resident Nixon delivers his State of the Union address to a Joint ssion of Congress in the House chamber. CREASE REA LISTIC: Pleming hopeful on fund outlook By SARA FITZGERALD President Robben Fleming said yesterday that Gov. Mil- r's recommended $12 million hike in funds for the Uni- ity .next year was "not unrealistic." "Economists and businessmen I have talked to have dicted the state should have a reasonably good year econ- cally," he explained. Therefore, Fleming said, he expected 'eased state revenues would cover the surprisingly larger - -- -- -- increase. By TOM JACOBSON The cry of "Purge em" may soon be heard throughout the state as the Public Interest Research Group in Michigan (PIRGIM) - a state-wide stu- dent advocacy group-begins to get off the ground. In a speech over a year ago, consumer advocate Ralph Nader conceived the idea of forming a "public interest group" of state college students in as many of the 50 states as possible. These groups would use their aggregate power to petition through the courts and before the state legislature concerning issues of consumerism, discrimi- nation, housing, and the environ- ment. Slowly but surely, Nader's no- tion has blossomed, and even amidst student apathy, organi- zations h a v e been established successfully in some states-with Michigan being the latest to at- tempt to get on the bandwagon. PIRGIM's organizational plans call for a state-wide board com- posed of annually elected student representatives from the schools which include the University, Michigan State, Wayne State, Michigan Tech, the University of Detroit and Oakland Univer- sity. Proportional representation with one representative per 5,000 students is planned. This state-wide board will act as a policy-setting unit, identi- fying issues for consideration by a professional staff composed of lawyers, professional engineers, scientists, administrators and student volunteers. The professional staff will correlate the activities of the organization. S p o k e s m e n for PIRGIM say that the staff "will bring together expert skill and student involvement in an inte- grated program of research and advocacy." Plans for funding call for stu- dents at participating universi- ties to contribute $3 per year to be assessed with tuition and other fees. This refundable con- tribution, half of which may be picked up at the beginning of each semester by those students not wishing to participate, will provide all the funds for PIRGIM. With an estimated 300,000 plus college students in the state, total yearly funds could approach $1 million. PIRGIM spokesman Jeff Lew- Petition drive for abortion continuing CITE 'INEFFICIENCY' Women demand study of HEW By PAT BAUER The Women's Equity Action League (WEAL) has called for a Congressional investigation into the U. S. Department of 4 Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW), accusing the department of "gross mis- handling and efficiency" in investigating sex discrimination on the nation's cam- puses. edged delaying only one contract - a $350,000 contract to the University-from the 300 schools. In requesting the investigation, WEAL charged HEW with: -Failing to notify institutions when charges have been filed against them, thus depriving institutions of the oppor- tunity to reassess their own policies, what their r~esponsibilities toward women are; -Failing to discipline its own em- ployes who have publicly or privately made statements demeaning women; and --Allowing former employes to accept jobs to implement the very affirmative ac- tion plans they approved while in the By MARCIA ZOSLAW With the defeat of a liberalized abortion bill in the state House Tuesday, efforts for state abor- tion reform now focus on a peti- tion drive to put the issue on the ballot in the November pres- idential elections. The petition asks that abortion be performed upon the mother's demand, providing the operation is done by a licensed physician and that the period of gestation had not exceeded 20 weeks. Approximately 80,000 more sig- -+ - - A- b +- - senator confided that the bill, defeated by a 69-27 margin, would have passed in the legis- lature if there had been an anonymous vote, not subject to political pressure. Such-Baer said the Lansing coordinating committe on abor- tion reform has been active with the petition drive since Septem- ber, anticipating the bill's defeat in the legislature. If the required number of sig- natures are obtained, it now ap- pears unlikely that the legisla- Milliken recommended Wednes- day that the state's contribution to the University be increased by $12 million in the 1972-73 fiscal year. Though the proposed hike fell short of the University's re- quest for $20 million in new funds, it is substantially larger than re- cent recommendations. "In our case," Fleming said, "I think that within the constraints with which he is working, he has tried very hard to help us resolve our problems." The University faced a severe financial situation this year when a small increase in state funds had to be met with a fall tuition hike and severe cut- baeks throughout the University Fleming said it was "hard t9 tell" if a tuition increase would be necessary. "We still have cost problems that have not been cov- ered by the governor's budget rec- ommendation," he said.