AFSC ME By GERI SPRUNG the Univer Members of Local 1583 of the American bers are be Federation of State, County and Muni- er they a cipal Employes (AFSCME) are holding sponses. If a strike vote because of dissatisfaction Oct. 10, a with the University's interpretation of disapprove contract issues. ations will Union President Charles McCracken would be i said last night that the "University has Already taken certain actions and we just don't walk-out-h agree with them. They are applying the tract was a rights of management in an arbitrary members and capricious manner." University This morning a letter is being sent out the strike to. all 2,600 members of the 1583 local public emp presenting the union's complaints and to strike. I begins taking strike vote sity's answers to them. Mem- ing asked to vote as to wheth- pprove the University's re- , when the votes are counted majority of the ballots cast of the actions, strike prepar- be made. Any strike action llegal under state law. the union has staged one held before the current con- approved last February. Union returned to work after the filed an injunction declaring illegal on the grounds that iloyes do not have the right According to McCracken, the present issues have been brewing since that settlement. The union filed their complaints with the University last week and received a written response two days later. Further, two special conferences have been held to discuss the issues, and although a couple of the complaints have been re- solved, McCracken contended that yes- terday's three-hour session accomplish- ed nothing. Manager of Employe and Union Rela- tions James Thiry refused last night to comment on the situation. Perhaps the most important complaint of the union is the University's attitude towards grievances and grievance pro- cedures. The local claims over 900 griev- ances have been filed against the Uni- versity since last February with few of them being resolved. Further, the union contends that they are being forced to take cases to arbi- tration needlessly by the University~ something that has been costing the union a lot of money. "In the last seven months," says Mc- Cracken, "we have had to put between 30 to 40 cases into arbitration. I would venture to say that all 15 other state universities put together do not file that many cases in year." McCracken charges that the University seems to be trying to break the union, or at least make them passive, by send- ing all these cases to arbitration and thereby denying the union the right to represent its employes. But, he says, "we're not going to buy it." Secondly, the union contends that the University must agree to consult with the union before making changes which affect AFSCME members. The issue came to a head in two ways-one, when See AFSCME, Page 2 AFSCME strikes last February OBJECTIONS TO THE JUDICIARY See Editorial Wage i5 4c tflfr igan :43 a it]y OPPRESSIVE High-$2 Low-5$ Warm, cloudy, chance of rain Vol. LXXXII, No. 16 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, September 28, 1971 Ten Cents Eight Pages Senate of ca Assembly moves to bar majority projects upus classified research * * * * * * * * * Race bias found in Detroit SFederal judge rules in favor of NAACP suit * * Finalfaculty approval sch00is expected next Monday By MARK DILLEN - _-- - -. - The University's faculty representatives for the first time opposed continuation of most campus classified research in a vote of Senate Assembly yesterday. Although not formally accepted, a proposal banning a vast majority of classified research now conducted on cam- pus passed a vital test 31 to 15. The action, in effect, would terminate present policy allowing such research. "It is the general policy of the University," states the one-page proposal of sociology Prof. Howard Schuman, "not to enter into or renew federal contracts or grants that limit DETROIT (M - A federal judge ruled yesterday that De- troit's public schools are illegally segregated, with state and city officiais sharing the blame. U.S. District Court Judge Stephen Roth indicated he would move to correct the situation, but gave no details. A conference was set for next Monday on ways to solve the problem. The ruling of de jure segregation-segregation by law- came in a suit filed 13 months ago by the National Associa- tion for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Defendants included the Detroit Board of Education, Gov. William Milliken, Atty. D Gen. Frank Kelley, the State avis i l Board of Education and State Superintendent of Public 'Ed- ucation, John Porter. post oned In making the ruling, Roth p ostp on ed held in abeyance a decision onh concurrent request, which was opposed by the NAACP, that t N ov*. nearby Wayne, Oakland and Ma- n ti N v comb counties be included in the case. SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (A) -The He said the second action, filed start of the murder - kidnap trial by the Citizens' Committee for of black militant Angela Davis Better Education in Metropoli- was delayed yesterday to Nov. 1. tan Detroit (CCBE) "is lacking The 27-year-old avowed Com- in specificity and is framed in munist and former UCLA philos-C the broadest terms." ophy instructor had been sched- Roth said the CCBE "may wish uled to go on trial yesterday on ,to amend its proposal and re- murder, kidnap and conspiracy submit it as a comprehensive ae st g om he gplan of desegregation. 7, 1970 shootout at the Marnn NAPatres ai afr County courthouse in which four the Judge's ruling that the sepa- persons died. I rate part of the action was sup- erfluous anyway, since the judge's Judge Richard Arnason set the ruling had held that de jure seg- new date after Howard Moore Jr., regation existed throughout theI chief counsel for Davis, asked for state. the continuance of the Superior The NAACP was seeking rein- Court trial, noting that several statement of a plan authorized motions - including one to move by the previous school board for the trial from Marin County to alterations in attendance boun- San Francisco - had not been daries of the 12 Detroit public heard. high schools to achcieve racial Prosecutor Albert Harris Jr., balance. the assistant state attorney gen- The CCBE joined the suit last eral, said he had "no alternative" July, asking that the integration but to agree to resetting the trial program be enlarged to include date since under California law the three counties surrounding all motions must be heard be- Detroit, where blacks comprise f20per cent of the pupil popula- -Daily-Terry McCarthy AFTER MONTHS of controversy, Senate Assembly members moved yesterday to bar most University classified research. Speakers on the issue included medical Prof. Donald Rucknagel (left background) and geography Prof. George Kish (right foreground), chairman of the Classified Research Committee. CLAIMS FREEZE VIOLA TION: Tenants Union files $50 million suit over dorm rate increases open publication of the re-' sults of research." Assembly will meet next Mon- day night to take final action on the proposal, including possible amendments. With nearly 96 per cent of the University's $5.5 million of classi- fied research now falling into this category, the adoption of this rule by Assembly and the Regents w o u ld leave only research de- scribed as classified because re- searchers needed a c c e s s to classified material or equipment to complete their work. The Schuman proposal would permit research the actual results of which are classified only when "shown to be of such exceptional positive value to mankind as to justify the infringement of the freedom to publish openly." " In all cases," the resolution continues, "the burden of proof rests with the faculty member who proposed the contract or grant." If finally adopted by the Re- gents, the proposal would halt or change much of the funding the University receives from the mili- tary-the sponsor of most existing classified projects. The vote on the proposal, fol- lowing nearly two hours of As- sembly debate on the question, substituted Schuman's resolution for the recommendations of As- sembly's Research Policies Com- al mittee (RPC). La- These recommendations, reaf- la- firming existing University classi- aut fied research policy while asking utprocedural changes, were the pro- u- duct of an Assembly mandate last er March for a "careful and complete ze review" of all University research. At that time, Assembly defeated of a motion that would have ended an all secret research despite fasts i- and other student-faculty protests n- accompanying often heated de- lhe bate. a- Many faculty members were op- ty posed to classified research be- cause of the secrecy involved and were joined by students opposed Lp tothe military applications of to such projects. to Assembly's action at that time us asked for a re-evaluation of the be ?r- See SENATE, Page 2 60 hike in 'cancelled' walkathon By BETH OBERFELDER Over 60 persons, including Mayor Robert Harris and three city councilmen, raised $800 for the Ecology Center Sunday by partici- pating in a "cancelled" walka- thon. Despite the forecast and appear- ance of rain, the walkers com- pleted a 12-mile hike, which will be held again next Sunday. The walkers were sponsored by dona- tions from local merchants and others who paid the hikers by the mile. Walkathon sponsors expect a total of $5,000 to be raised by next week. Harris, joined by Councilmen John Kirscht (D-third ward), Nel- son Meade (D-first ward), and James McCormick (R-fourth ward) arrived at the ecology center de- spite local radio announcements that the walk was postponed. A group then gathered and ex- pressed its determination to hike the route. People in Sunday's walkathon felt they participated for a num- ber of different reasons. One student in the School of Natural Resourcescommented that one person he had asked to spon-' sor him said, "Why are you going through all this stuff to raise money? If you want money, just ask for it." "That's not the point," the stu- dent said. "We're walking first, as publicity for the Ecology Cen- ter, and second, to have a good time with the other people who participate." A girl from Huron High School emphasized, "I feel this is one thing I can do. We can save our See OVER, Page 2 *1 tative decision as to what deposits frozen as a matter of nation By PAUL TRAVIS The Tenants Union (TU) is preparing a $50 million lawsuit against the University for alleged violations of the national rent freeze. According to the TU, the suit is expected to be filed in De- troit Federal District Court today. The suit, in conjunction with a Arnason then set Monday, Nov.- 1 at 9:15 a.m. for the start of the trial. Arnason announced that ar- guments on the pending motions would be heard Oct. 5. He said ,the motion to move the trial site would be the last heard. tion. The CCBE asked that 84 sub- urban school districts be included as defendants in the case. Attorneys said Roth's decision probably would not become effec- tive until February and might See U.S., Page 2 I 1 1 complaint to be filed with Presi- dent Nixon's Cost ofdLiving Coun- cil (CLC), is intended to force the University to roll back the resident halls rate increase announced March 19. The University has claimed CLC has ruled that college room and board charge& "may only be in- creased if the increase was an-' nounced prior to Aug. 15, 1971, and there was a substantial number of students who confirmed acceptance of living quarters by making de- posits." Further, the University claims that it qualifies for exemp- tion from the freeze on these grounds. A TU statement refutes this on four major grounds. First, deposits made by students could not be construed as accept- ance of living quarters since the deposits are made before the stu- dents see a contract for housing. In addition, TU claims the con- tract clearly states that the de- posits may not be used as rents. Also, there has been no authori- by 'a substantial number of stu- dents' constitutes. The TU position is that "the test is satisfied only if at least fifty-one per cent of the students made deposits". TU's third pointis that "in- formation claimed to have been received by the University from the CLC does not support their claim of exemption." Accordingj to the information, the Univer- sity is exempt from the freeze, only if the dorm fees fall underj the special classification of a1 tuition, room and board package.I The University does not offer this kind of package. Wages, prices, and rents arej policy, says the TU final obje tion and "the University's b tant attempt to wiggle o through loopholes it has man factured is contrary to the lett and the spirit of the rent free national policy." Therefore, the TU on behalf the dorm residents is seekingf injunction to prohibit the Un versity from collecting the i creased rates, and is seeking t full penalty under CLC regul tion of $5,000 for each Universi housing tenant. According to John Feldkam Director of University Housin "the Tenants Union will have try to prove willful and malicio actions by the University tol awarded the money. The Unive sity. is not trying to do anythi illegal." Feldkamp also said "since least 90 per cent of the studen had paid their deposits by Augu 15. Since the CLC asks for on payment in any form' and n4 specifically for rent payments,r says, the Tenants Union has r case." A supplement information bu letin from the CLC also contrz dicts another TU point. It stat that "when room and board ar STATE OF THE 'U' Fleming talks on innovation, budget By CARLA RAPOPORT Speaking primarily on the University's present budget crisis at his annual State of the University address last night, President Robben Fleming also *took a few well-aimed pokes at the University's traditional academic structure. In discussing the budget crisis, Fleming outlined the four-year formula for attaining the under- graduate degree." "Suppose we experimented with a reasonable number of students who did not aspire to a degree on our terms, but who take courses of their own choosing, remain on campus a fixed period, and are simply certified in terms of the work they had done" sidr lmina' at' its 1st ly ot he no l- a- es nd :.. } ......... ....y ': R:..:. :. I- m -