i~e lMfirigti!3auDId Si J4 The month in review h No.1 September, 1971 Page Five Y Y k _. t September news notes *THE JUDICIARY system. The campus-wide judiciary sys- tem, approved by the Regents last spring, is presently bogged down in red tape. However, it should be operative soon after the October Regents meeting. Student Government Council. F along with Senate Assembly and the Regents,tmust agree to comply with certain adminis- trative steps before the new system can go into effect. * * * ROTC FUNDING. Despite University officials' hopes for, imminent federal government assistance, it is now clear that University subsidy of the Re- serve Officer Training Corps will continue, at least for the pre- sent. ,The University had been ne- gotiating a plan with the De- partment of Defense (DOD) for nearly two years under which the federal government would assume the total cost of the controversial program. However, a high University official said last week that DOD has with- drawn support for a congres- sional bill providing for such subsidy funds. 0 WOMEN'S GRIEVANCES, The University's Commission on Women recently gave final ap- proval to a personnel "file re- view procedure" to discover po - sible cases of salary discrimina- tion based on sex. Through the procedure, repre- sentatives of the women's com- mission and thenPersonnel De- Spartment will examine the salary levels of men and women in the same job classification for inci- dents of sex discrimination. Local By ChRIS PARKS A spectre is haunting Ann Ar- bor politics: 25,000 newly en- franchised student voters. In a rapid series, of events which left city clerks across the state gasping, 18 year-olds were given the vote, and special resi- dency recuirements for college students were dropped this sum- mer. The resulting influx of young voters into the city electorate has created political controversy of major proportions as con- tending factions face each. oth- er on several issues. To what degree is the city responsible in registering these new voters? Which party will be able to gain the allegiance of the new voters? How should the student vote be distributed un- der new redistricting plans? These and other questions form the basis of the growing Faculty agains t BY MARK DILLEN The status of classified and military re search on campus received an unexpecte twist this month as faculty members ap peared ready to ban nearly all classifie projects. Producing a striking, if incomplete, depar ture from their previous policy on classific research, Senate Assembly, the faculty governing body, voted last Monday 31-1 to oppose nearly all kinds of secret researcl Final approval of the proposal, introduce by sociology Prof. Howard Schuman, ar consideration of any amendments is e> pected to come at next Monday's Assemb meeting. Though at first glance, Assembly's "Schi man proposal" seems a decidedly clew statement, it was presented as a compr( mise containing all that is necessary for E opposite, or perhaps nil, effect. The proposal begins saying "the Unive sity (will) not enter into or renew feder contracts or grants that limit open publ cation of the results of research." The sin ple policy proposal goes on to exempt seer( research "of exceptional positive value mankind." Just what this exactly means no or seemed to know at the time and the phrase future interpretation seems equally unce tain. "Just how will this 'exceptional pos tive value' be determined?" asked one sul porter of classified research. Prof. Schi man, author of the proposal, could on offer that it provided "flexibility so thati future years the proposal would still 1 applicable." The total effect of such a ban on t1 University's researchers and their facilitii is perhaps the most uncertain variable. Conceivably, much of the. research nc classified would come back to Universil researchers unclassified, having the sang military applications which are faulted current classified projects. Indeed, it was the "flexibility" in Schi man's proposal that turned defeat into vi( tory for the opponents of classified researc A previous motion introduced by the chap pion of the anti-secret research causei Senate Assembly, Medical Prof. Dona: Rucknagel, calling for an end to all seer research the results of which could nott published, lost 21-25. Rucknagel's motion would have abolish( up to 96 per cent of University classifiE research as Schuman's will do if given fin, approval. However, impassioned pleas bi tween the two votes guaranteeing a poli "that could be lived with," were enough change the minds of ten Assembly member sending both victors and vanquished scu: takes key move classified researchw -Daily-Dave Margoliek Flengi.i .ixes annual.talk President Robben Fleming speaks before some 400 faculty members last Monday night at his annual State of the University address. While Fleming primarily discussed the University's budget crisis, he also made several suggestions for academic innovation on campus. Among these suggestions, Flem- ing proposed the University look into alternatives to the traditional four-year undergraduate degree program. STUDENTS ENFRANCHISED -Daily-Terry McCarthy Senate Assembly debates on classified research,. .. ele c tora te expands debate on how the city's politi- cal institutions will deal with the challenge of the student vote. By the time students began flocking back into town this fall, the controversy over how the city should handle the prob- lem of registering them was al- ready developing. In its first move aimed direct- ly at registering the newly en- franchised youths, the City Clerk's office established a spe- cial registration site at Water- man Gym during regular class registration, the first week of September. With the Waterman project setting the precedent, student and various political organiza- tions began agitating for fur- ther reforms in the city's tradi- tional voter registration pro- grams. Following a series of confer- ences with leaders of the Re- publican, Democratic, and Hu- man Rights-Radical Indepen- dent Parties, city clerk Harold Saunders announced a new ex- panded program for voter regis- tration early in the month. The new plan encompassed several innovations including the use of volunteer deputy re- gistrars, expansion of registra- tion drives from one to two weeks, and an increased num- ber of registration sites. . Responding to considerable pressure, Saunders also gave at least partial recognition to the concept of allowing registrars themselves to determine regis- tration sites, agreeing to a re- quest from Student Government .Council to be allowed to regis- ter students in the Fishbowl. Critics, however, claim Saun- ders has barely scratched the surface of what can be done to crisi The ' budge register voters in the city. They accuse him of stalling on imple- menting such new approaches as door-to-door, and year-round registration. Criticism has spread to the Democratic Party which ap- appointed Saunders to the clerks office in 1969 in an attempt to liberalize the registration pro- cess. Sources close to the Demo- cratic leadership say that Saun- ders has moved too slowly for key party figures, and indicate that he may be replaced with a more innovative person follow- ing the next election. Equally significant to regis- tration in assessing the impact student voters will have on the city is the question of where the student votes will go, The major contenders for the allegiance of the student voters appear to be the Democrats, traditional party of young vot- er's, and insurgent third party efforts attemptingtto diaw stu- dents away from the two party system. Key figures in the Democratic party view the enfranchisement of students as a major windfall. As students have consistently voted Democratic in the past, the party leadership reasons that the addition of several thousand student voters will serve to solidify their tenuous hold on the city. Student radicals on campus, however are hoping to mold the new voters into a third force in city politics not aligned with either of the two major parties. HR-RIP, formed here half a year ago, is seeking to build its base in the community as an alternative to Democratic poli- tics. Party members have been hard at work over the summer, and into the fall, registering students as well as collecting signatures to get on the ballot. See STUDENT, Page 6 rying to their desks to invent forms of "per- fecting amendments" to the Schuman plan. These amendments will be argued at next Monday's meeting. And, if these obstacles weren't enough and past Assembly action is any indication, the new amendments will likely be "crouch- ed" in the same "technical jargon" which Rucknagel said characterized military pro- posals for classified research. In addition, Assembly must chart a course for the Class- ified Research Committee (CRC), the 12 man faculty-student clearing house for se- cret research projects' approval, as well as Assembly's Research Policies Committee (RPC). These two committees, having specific functions under a policy of general support for classified research, would be left in un- certain straits with the formal acceptance of the Schuman plan. Schuman's plan calls for the establishment of a Review Commit- .tee, containing two members philosophically opposed to classified research, tojudge the propriety of the "exceptional" cases. Seven of the 12-man committee would have to agree. Assembly's debate on secret research spans far longer than the two-hour Mon- day meeting held in a modern auditorium of the Medical Center. Last spring, many students and faculty members formed a loose coalition aimed at abolishing campus classified research. However, the physical presence of these protesters could not break the stalemate Assembly found itself in and the "show- down" resulted only in an Assembly order for "a complete and thorough examination" of the research question. September came with little change from March's scenario. Students did not seem ov- RETROSPECT Over a period of time, individual news events take on new meaning as related events occur; often it is helpful to ob- serve the patterns and central themes that tie events together. With this page, The Daily inaugurates a special section that, at the end of each month, will at- tempt to summarize the major news of the University community. erly excited at the prospects for changing Assembly's mind after the apparent immo- bility of Assembly's March position. Faculty debate that lasted countless hours last spring wore down to a submerged level with the absence of the student impetus. Assembly members completed the im- pression of low-keyed involvement, as indi- cated in their surprise at the new outcome Monday. Most opponents of secret research had grudgingly accepted the likelihood of slow process of reform as represented in RPC's response to Assembly's "complete and thorough review" mandate. RPC, after meeting irregularly over the summer months, produced a 15-page repOrt essentially reaffirming University policy that there is nothing wrong with classified re- search if its "specific purpose" is not to- hurt people. Instead, it sought to comple- ment it with procedural 'changes aimed at "tightening up" apparent inconsistencies in existing rules and satisfying Assembly It is likely that parts of this "concensus of recommendations" - rejected by Assem- bly for its prefacing section which justified classified research - will eventually find their way into Assembly's final action on the Schuman proposal, By ROBERT KRAFTOWITZ Editor When the month began, the omens were bad enough. The new fiscal year was eight weeks old and the University was plummeting along without a budget. The classes and academic programs that depended on that budget for adequate funding were just a week away. But the administration's hands were tied. In Lansing, weary state legislators were dawdling over the annual higher education bill, which pro- vides the University with two-thirds of its in- structional funds each year. Caught in a legisla- tive logjam, the bill was already two months late and even when it passed, it was likely to provide the University with one of its smallest appropri- ations increases in many years. Back home, University faculty members shuf- fled lecture notes along with their copies of the University Record which informed them they would not find salary raises in their September paychecks-a consequence of President Nixon's wage-price freeze. Even the most casual observer could not es- cape the growing implication that something was amiss, something to do with money. And as the month progressed, it became clearer and clearer that this university, so de- pendent on public funds to maintain a reasonable fascimile of educational excellence, was losing the battle of the dollar. "In 1968 and 1969 we were in the midst of the student turbulence .,. The current crisis is not student turbulence; but financial adversity," reported President Robben Fleming in his annual. State of the University Address Monday night. What is happening at Michigan is quite similar to what is happening at colleges and universities around the country. After years of receiving ample funds for expanding public institutions into every academic area imaginable, state financial support of higher education is beginning to markedly de- cline. And while past Septembers have usually seen modest increases in faculty, in enrollment, and in academic programs, this September, the Uni- versity is cutting back. By order of the adminis- tration, each school and college reduced its fa- culty, staff, and miscellaneous instructional ma- terials by roughly three per cent. Although the figures are not yet in, that's sure to mean fewer sections, in fewer courses; or it might mean that a student needing a prerequi- site for his concentration program might be crowded out and put behind a term. Melancholy administrators, from Fleming on down, see this year's cuts as only a taste of what's to come. The general viewpoint expressed by nu- merous University officials seems to be that the University got off pretty easily this year, all fac- tors considered, but that the financial crimp is only beginning, This year's fiscal woes began to take shape last February, when Gov. William Milliken sub- mitted a proposed budget to the Legislature that included an increase of only $2.8 million in the University's appropriation. --Daily-Terry Mcuarthy . s each faculty member ponders the cquestion. Gridden% By BILL ALTERMAN Back in the spring of 1969 a short, stocky man came to the University of Michigan with a mission-to mold a championship football team. Michigan fans didn't expect much from the Wolverines in 1969. But Bo Schembechler had other ideas as he guided the team to an 8-3 record in- cluding a tremendous upset of number one ranked Ohio State. Not even a heart attack by Schem- bechler and the Wolverines' subsequent USC. So far, they have not been dis- appointed. The Wolverines, led by a strong run- ning game and a tremendous defense, swept through their first three oppo- nents convincingly, and at the end of the month both major wire service polls placed them second in the nation. Three-fourths of the student body bought season tickets and many of the faithful have already started making plans for Christmas in Pasadena and New Year's Day in the Rose Bowl. rosy Sep tember year when they saved the first three games-and the Wolverines came away with a 21-6 win. From there they returned home for two weeks and, as if revitalized by the huge Michigan crowds, the offense came to life. Virginia was the home op- ener but the Cavaliers were simply out of their league as the Mammoth Blue Wave bashed them 56-0. Experienced seniors such as Bill 'Tay- lor and Glenn Doughty complimented an awesome sophomore class-the first