Fu ding
issue
may
By ALAN LENHOFF
Once the center of bitter disputes
between students and the administra-
tion, the question of maintaining the
Reserve Officers T r a i n i n g Corps
(ROTC) program on campus may re-
emerge this fall as a result of the newest
development concerning the program.
Sparking the new conflict are indi-
cations that the University may accept
a Department of Defense (DOD) offer
to partially finance the program.
Students had previously demanded
that DOD assume the full costs of the
local ROTC program.
Currently, the University provides
ROTC with about $89,000 worth of
equipment, services and utilities, in ad-
dition to providing the program with
rent-free space in North Hall-stimated
to be worth $100,000-$200,000 annually.
Criticism of the University for con-
tinuing this subsidy despite heightened
anti-war sentiment on campus is reviv-
ing-one and one-half years after the
Regents passed a resolution calling for
the DOD to be "asked" to assume the
full costs of ROTC.
Recently, DOD indicated a willingness
to pay colleges with ROTC programs
$500 for each commissioned ROTC
For a related story on ROTC, see
Page 2 of the Academics section.
cadet. A University official has indi-
cated this would provide the University
with about $55,000 annually-with minor
fluctuations as the number of ROTC
graduates varies each year.
While anti-ROTC groups on campus
have viewed the offer as being a rather
insignificant one, University Adminis-
trative Dean Robert Williams has de-
scribed the plan as being "equitable to
the University."
"The $55,0000 would cover our 'out-
of-pocket' costs," he says, referring to
secretarial services, phone bills and
other office expenses.
But Williams discounts the impor-
tance of the other portions of the Uni-
versity subsidy, which involve building
maintenance, custodial services and
rent.
"The program doesn't use nearly the
entire building," he explains. "We can't
charge them for rent, utilities and
maintenance of the whole building. If
we asked them to pay rent, they would
probably want only part of the build-
ing."
The anti-ROTC forces have noted
that there is little unused space in the
building (if any) and that no other
spark
programs currently use any portion of
North Hall.
Williams counters this, claiming that
the unused space has resulted because
"the faculty think that if they have
offices or classrooms there, they would
be demonstrating antipathy toward the
anti-war movement."
"Some people have suggested that we
should charge ROTC $6 per square foot
for the building. I don't think it's worth
nearly that much," he says, alluding
to the dilapidated condition of the old
building.
Another point of controversy, is that
while some view the DOD offer as sim-
ply being far too low a figure, Williams
views the offer and DOD's expressed
willingness to make payments for ROTC
programs as "a forward step."
"It's only a beginning figure," he says,
"and we think the payments will grad-
tew
ually be advanced. Earlier they (DOD)
only wanted to, pay $400 per commis-
sion. These things take time."
Patience, however, has been wearing
thin among ROTC opponents.
The anti-ROTC movement has had
a long, militant history at the Univer-
sity.
Anti-ROTC action reached a peak in
1969 when students held numerous dem-
onstrations demanding that ROTC be
removed from the campus. In June of
that year, a pipe bomb placed in the
building shattered windows and started
a mire, causing extensive damage.
That fall, Senate Assembly, the fac-
ulty representative body, passed a reso-
lution suggesting that all colleges and
schools in the University cease past
practices of awarding academic credits
for ROTC classes.
See FUNDING, Page 15
ROTC
conflict
Home of the ROTC cadets
THE MOTOR CITY
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FRONT
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Front Section B Ann Arbor, Michigan-Thursday, September 9, 1971
Eight Pages
'U' drops
rules on
dorm sex
By ZACHARY SCHILLER
Drawing no more than a "ho hum" from
the campus community, the University's Of-
fice of Student Services (OSS) Housing Pol-
icy Board dropped a rule which had barred
"premarital sexual intercourse and cohabi-
tation" from University dormitories.
"I didn't even know they had such a rule,"
said one Junior. "My friend lived with her
boyfriend in South Quad all last semester
and nobody raised a fuss," she added.
According to one policy board member,
the ruling was useless because it "has never
been enforced and cannot be enforced."
The Board voted on June 15 to delete
from the forthcoming Bulletin of Informa-
tion the entire existing University code con-
cerning visitors of the opposite sex in resi-
dence halls.
The rule had been in effect since 1968,
when the Board of Governors of Residence
Halls decided that policies regarding visits
by members of the opposite sex be determin-
ed democratically through secret ballot by
the residents of each University housing
unit.
At that time, the Board of Governors term-
ed cohabitation, overnight visitation and
premarital sexual intercourse "unacceptable
in University housing units."
At least one policy board member called
the rule an attempt on the part of the Uni-
versity to legislate morality.
Housing Director John Feldkamp, also a
member of the Board, said recently that a
situation where cohabitation, infringes on.
the rights of a roommate or other people
will not be tolerated.
Feldkamp pointed to a clause in the infor-
mation bulletin which states that dormitory
residents "must exercise due regard for the
welfare of their fellow students and for the
facilities in which they reside."
According to Feldkamp, only two students
have been expelled under the previous rule,
both in 1968.
The rule will be dropped for good unless
either the OSS Policy Board or the Regents
vote against the Board's move.
Meanwhile, campus reaction remains be-
mused at the Policy Board's action.
"It was sort of a silly thing to do. I mean
the rule never made any difference before
and the lack of it now still won't make any
difference," remarks one student.
Radicals
by grar
Two local radicals were brought be-
fore Detroit's federal grand jury for
questioning this summer in what ap-
parently has become a full-scale FBI
investigation into the March 1 bomb-
ing of the U.S. Capitol and last May's
anti-war activities in Washington, D.C.
Ken Kelley, 20, and Terry Taube, 18,
both once-active figures in the Ann
Arbor radical community, were sub-
poenaed last May along with four oth-
er persons involved in the national
anti-war activities.
In addition to Taube and Kelley's sub-
poenaes, Ann Arbor has also become a focal
point in the federal government's wide-rang-
ing investigation into the Capitol bombing
and the May anti-war actions.
Questions put to Leslie Bacon, 19-sup-
posedly the government's key witness to the
Capitol bombing-indicate the government
believes a connection exists between a Feb-
ruary organizing conference of anti-war ac-
tivists here and the Washington explosion.
Bacon, held for two months by a Seattle
grand jury as a material witness to the
bombing, was jailed in late. May on a con-
tempt of court citation after refusing to
answer questions about therAnn Arbor anti-
war conference and her relationship with
other radicals-including Taube and Kelley.
Kelley and Taube appeared before the
Detroit grand jury for two days of hearings
in June-and chose to remain mum through-
out the proceedings.
Taube said the questions which were ask-
ed of him the first day focused upon his
knowledge of the use of explosives, his past
associations with Leslie Bacon and his ob-9
servances at the People's Peace Treaty Con-s
ference held in Ann Arbor last February.
Taube and Kelley only gave their names1
and addresses to the grand jury. On the first
day of testimony, Taube read a statement to
the jury, stating:
"I refuse to answer because I have been I
advised by counsel and I believe this grand
jury investigation has been illegally com-
menced and the subpoena served me was
unlawful."
Taube also charged that he had been the
subject of illegal electronic surveillance.
In addition, the five other activists sub-
poenaed also contended that the questions
put to them by the government had been
formulated on the basis of illegal wiretaps.
Before the jury proceedings began, at-
See GRAND, Page 15
robed
jury
id"
'Welcome to the Monkey House'
Freshmen view the sights of their new home during the summer's orientation program. An estimated 480 freshmen a week passed
through their first hurdles at the University this summer.
AID STUDENT CAUSES
Advocates turn professional
Ken Kelley
Test forVt)
free at 'U
People with special prol
complaining to the Unive
time, but they never seem
in the vast bureaucracy.
It takes time and energy
lems effectively, and not
put in the work needed.
Student Services (OSS)
problems got together ant
the beginning of a solution:
So far, advocates ror w
students, and students con
versity, college, and depai
ments have been hired. Me
mosexual community are v
own advocate, too.
The advocates serve as Ii
administration and the gr
blems have been
rsity for a long
to get anywhere
to protest prob-
all students can
So the Office of
and people with
d came up with
sent. They also work to raise the conscious-
ness of the groups, with encounter groups,
courses, rap sessions, research, social gath-
erings, and politics.
Lottie Piltz, who serves as advocate for
student governments, has been working to
better communications between govern-
inents from different schools and colleges.
a a In February, she organized an inter-gov-
o e black ernmental seminar, where representatives
omen for Uni- from Student Government Council and al-
en withl Ugovern- most two dozen separate governments and
mers of the govern- councils met to discuss joint problems and
borking for thei- goals.
Lack of communications with each other
ason between the and with their constituents, she feels, cripple
oups they repre- many of the representative groups on cam-
pus.
An even more basic problem for student
governments is the problem of funds, and
Piltz was active in an attempt this spring
to get more funds for both SGC and indivi-
dual college governments.
A new funding proposal, drawn up by the
governments with Piltz' help, was placed on
the SGC ballot as a referendum, but failed.
Piltz, however, sees the attempt as a mile-
stone in inter-government cooperation.
On the campus political scene this winter,
Piltz was active in organizing in attempts to
get an OSS job recruiting policy extended
throughout the campus. The policy forbade
University facilities to companies with
branches in countries such as South Africa
-which practice legal racial discrimination.
Piltz served as representative for the ma-
jority of the student governments, who all
favored the policy.
As does the student governments' advo-
cate, the women's advocates work to unify
and represent its constituency. Claire Rum-
elhardt and Barbara Kurtz staff the office,
See OSS, Page 15
By ROBERT SCHREINER
The University Health Servied now ad-
ministers free venereal disease tests to stu-
dents who think they have the disease.
Previously, VD) tests have cost five to ten
dollars when administered at the health ser-
vice.
Now, however, by calling the health serv-
ice and making an appointment with any of
its regular physicians, students can receive
strictly confidential VD tests - and the
Washtenaw County Health Department will
pick up the tab.
"The VD situation is not out of control,"
says Dr. Robert Anderson, director of health
service. "The free VD tests are simply a
good public health measure."
Anderson adds that of the cases of vener-
eal disease, gonorhea has increased slightly
on campus in the last year, while the num-
ber of syphillis cases has held steady.
The health service physicians also offer
advice on contraception and will supply stu-
dents with contraceptives at low cost and in
strictest confidence.
Another source of information and coun-
seling on VD, contraception, or any medical
matter, is the Free Medical Clinic located at
Ozone House on 503 E. Liberty.
RAINBOW PEOPLE'S PARTY
Communes: The symbols o a life style
By BILL DINNER and JIM IRWIN more politically active communes have found their ' :?ry.. , " . .
comings and going under police surveillance and at
As 30,000 assorted people flock back to Ann least two local communes dissolved following drug
Arbor this fall, they will bring with them height- raids which resulted in the arrests of many of then'
ened activity, causing a re-emergence of the many members.
and various youth life styles. The Rainbow People's Party, on the other
Perhaps the best known of these life styles is hand, has developed its strength over many years
the commune life, an ever-shifting mode of com- of hard work.
munity living. The party started in Detroit over six years ago
The most successful among the fluctuating as the Artists' Workshop under the direction of
number of Ann Arbor communes is the Rainbow John Sinclair and served as a breeding ground for
People's Party's house. Over the past years, this discussion and activities for people interested in
commune has by far made the most contribution developing an alternative society.
to the community-with some of its projects in- From Detroit, Sinclair and a few friends
cluding the estabflshment of a food co-operative, a moved to Ann Arbor and created the White Pan-
free rock concert series, and working with Ozone ther Party. The Panthers auickly broadened their«:
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