reporter's notebook E4e Mf rIttgan Thiitij Eighty-one years of editorial freedom Edited and mnaged by students at the University of Michigan Rantings and ravings I Jonathan millerI 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Mich. News Phone: 764-0552 Editorials rinted in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1971 NJICHT EDITOR: ROSE SUE BERSTEIN Student representation RECENT FACULTY criticism of S t u - dent Government Council's failure to appoint students to Senate Assembly ad- visory committees appears to have had the desired 'effect - SGC is beginning to appoint people. However, while SGC's desire to develop "a new complete structure of recruitment and interview procedure" for student-fa- culty committees is laudable indeed, a complete public analysis of SGC action on student appointments has thus f a r been lacking. The new SGC position "does represent a shift from the past," admits SGC Pres- ident Rebecca Schenk. For over two years, SGC administrations have declined to ap- point students to committees - except in unusual cases - when the committees did not have at least student parity and when the committees did not set policy. By dropping these demands of student parity and policy making power, SGC has developed a. much more realistic at- / titude, leaving only the demand t'h a t SGC be the sole body to make appoint- ments. QGC MUST acknowledge that its poor reputation among the faculty and administration stems from its slow re- sponse to faculty and administration re- quests for student committee members. Representatives, of Senate Assembly communicated with SGC leaders as early as last April, right after the current SGC administration assumed power - y e t despite those initial requests for student committee members and despite the meetings over the summer that followed, no students were appointed to any As- sembly committees. Editorial Staff ROBERT KRAFTO WIT Editor - JIM BEATTIE DAVE CHUDWIN Executive Editor Managing Editor STEVE KOPPMAN .. Editorl Page Editor RICK PERLOFF .. Associate Editorial Page Editor PAT MAHONEY .. Assistant Editorial Page Editor LYNN WEINER ... Associate Managing Editor LARRY LEMPET . . Associate Managing Editor ANITA CRONE ......... Arts Editor JIM IRWIN Associate Art Editors ROBERT CONROW Books Editor JANET FREY ..... .............Personnel Director JIM JUDKIS ..... Photogra; v Editor NIGHT EDITORS: Rose Sue Berstein, Lindsay Chaney, Mark Dillen, Sara Fitzgerald, Tammy Jacobs, Alan Lenhoff, Hester Pulling, Carla Rapo- port,'Robert Schreiner, W.E. Schrock, Geri Sprung COPY EDITORS: Pat Bauer, Art Lerner. DAY EDITORS: Linda Dreeben, Hannah Morrison, Chris Parks, Gene Robinson, Tony Schwartz, Ted stein, Paul Travis. ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS: Jonathan Glauser, John Mitchell, Beth Oberfelder, Gloria Jane Smith, Sue Stark, Marcia Zoslaw. Sports Staff MORT NOVECK, Sports Editor JIM KEVRA, Executive Sports Editor RICK CORNFELDA....... Associate Sports Editor TERRI POUCHEY.......Contributing Sports Editor BETSY MAHON . ... Senior Night Editor SPORTS NIGHT EDITORS: Bill Alterman, Bob An- drews, Sandi Genis, Joel Greer, Elliot Legow, John Papanek, Randy Phillips, Al Shackelford. Business Staff JAMES STOREY, Business Manager RICHARD RADCLIFFE......... Advertising Manager SUZANNE BOSCHAN Sales Manager JOHN SOMMERS ........ ...Finance Manager ANDY GOLDING ..... Associate Advertising Manager DEPARTMENT MANAGERS: Bill Abbott-Display Adv.; Rebecca Van Dyke-Classified Adv.; Fran Hymen -National Adv.; Harry Hirsch-Layout. ASSOCIATE MANAGERS: Alan Klein, Donna Sills. Judy Cassel. ASSISTANT MANAGERS: Paul Wenzloff, Steve Evseef, Ashish Sarkar, Dave Lawson On his own initiative, chemistry Prof. Peter Smith, chairman of the Student Re- lations Committee (SRC) 'sent a letter to Schenk soon after she took office. Af- ter months of more letters and calls to her, Smith concluded "Rebecca Schenk doesn't exist." Schenk has pleaded "lack of staff," and said "The man (Smith) doesn't understand that he has one com- mittee and I have 25." SINCE THEN SGC has called on s t u- dents to apply for membership to SRC, which is among three (of seven pos- sible) Assembly committees that SGC found acceptable for student member- ship. In addition, Council recently ap- pointed two undergraduates and one graduate student to Assembly's Civil Li- berties board, and is presently seeking another graduate student to serve on the board. Yet if SGC insists upon appointing both graduate and undergraduate members to the committees, it may face serious ob- jections from both Assembly and t h e Graduate Federation. For both groups have maintained that SGC has only the authority to appoint the two undergrad- uate members of an Assembly commit- tee, while, they contend, the graduate representative body is empowered to ap- point the two graduate members. But, according to the SGC constitution, Council is to "serve as the appointing body for selection of members of student committees, student representatives to University committees and student re- presentatives to outside bodies." THERE IS GOOD reason that SGC should have final authority over all student appointments, whether graduae or undergraduate. For there are a host of other special interest bodies on campus, which could - were a precedent estab- lished for Graduate Federation - demand control over the appointient of their constituents to the appropriate Assembly committees. The pressure from this plurality of groups would only tend to fragment the student voice on campus, while SGC con- trol over appointments would lend a sense of unity to the appointments pro- cedure. In the interim, SGC should appoint as many students as it is entitled to, under Assembly's guidelines, and it should do so as quickly as possible. Council should, in addition, send concrete proposals to Assembly that explains why SGC should be empowered to appoint all students to the committees. Meanwhile, Council has not even men- tioned the other four advisory commit- tees - Academic Affairs, University Rela- tions, Proper Role and Research Policies - on which some students might wish to serve. Furthermore, it is SGC that is hold- ing up the search committee's investiga- tion for a new Vice President for Stu- dent Services, through its slow appoint- ment of student members. Yet all these are important commit- tees, and student representation is need- ed immediately. The responsibility f o r achieving this lies squarely with SGC. -W. E. SCHROCK IT SEEMS ALL YOU need to avoid getting a parking ticket these days is a car with a big radio antenna and a telephone. At least, that's the ostensible reason why city police meter maid D. L. Harless de- clined Tuesday at lunchtime to issue a violation notice to a big black Buick, parked illegally on the Union Drive be- tween the Union and the administration building plaza. Perhaps the real reason was that the car belonged to Washtenaw County Sher- iff Douglas Harvey, who was attending a lunchtime meeting of thecity Demo- cratic party in the MUG. (Speaking to the Democrats in the Un- ion grill was a former deputy, University Criminology student Fred Postill. Postill, who was fired by Harvey in 1968 for so- called "insubordination," is an as yet undeclared, but nonetheless serious, candi- date for the Democratic nomination for sheriff next year.) METER MAID Harless - remember her signature next time you get a parking tick- et, she writes quite a few - arrived at the Union in her Green Pinto, parked illegal- ly, and began writing tickets for the cars parked on the plaza side of the street. All the meter spaces were occupied. A bystander, familiar with Harless from previous bitter experience, asked the meter maid if she was going to write a violation notice on the Buick. "Whose car is it?" Harless replied, an- swering a question with a question. "Sheriff Harvey's," said the bystander. Harless then explained that as a "coun- ty car" the vehicle was immune from vio- lation notices. How did she know it was a county car? "Well, its got the radio and everything," she explained, peering through the glass into the automobile. Radio and everything notwithstanding. meter maid Harless' interpretation of city ordinances leaves much to be desired. Her supervisor, city police Lieut. Robert Conn, says that he would have written the tick- et, and she should have written the ticket and promised an investigation of the in- cident. * *, * THE U.S. Environmental Protection Agency opened its brand new M o t o r Vehicle Emission Laboratory on Plymouth Rd. near North Campus yesterday - an Anti-pollution Hornet with gas turbine ultra-modern $10 million research com- plex' which will serve as the hub of' the nation's efort to de-pollute the automobile. Following the dedication ceremonies in the morning, newsmen were treated" to a rather plain lunch of sandwiches - the supply of coffee was, unfortunately, rath- er too quickly depleted - and a tour of the facility. A variety of possible pollution solutions were on display, including a novel "re- formed fuel" car, turbine engined cars and automobiles equipped with Ford's ex- perimental low-emission engine. One side-effect of the new laboratory will be that city residents will have the opportunity to observe at first hand the experimental vehicles as they go on test runs on local streets. Many will be distinguishable more by the noises emanating from under their hoods and by their blue and white federal license plates than by their shape, size or color. Among them: U.S. Army jeeps and AMC Hornets equipped with turbine engines which whistle - the jeep does three miles to the gallon - standard sized cars run- ning on propane gas, and Post Office trucks with the new Ford engine. However, the farthest out of the cars is possibly the only example of a German made NSU RO. 80 in the United States. AND, AS MIGHT be expected, the exotic car has an exotic history. The NSU is il- legal in America because it fails to meet any federal emission standards. However, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) needed one for test purposes, par- tially because it is one of only a few cars in production equipped with a Wankel Ro- tary engine, giving it phenomenal horse- power for little weight. The EPA solved the problem by enlist- ing the support of the U.S. army military intelligence command. The G.2s bought the car used in Germany, and shipped it into the U.S. secretly, avoiding customs inspec- tion, according to a high level EPA of- ficial. However, the army, in the best tradi- tion of that institution, made one change to the car before handing it over to the EPA for testing. They stripped off its coat of white paint, and covered it in Army drab green, like a tank, stenciling the le- gend "U.S. Army" on its side. "What a way to treat a sports car." mut- tered one motoring writer unhappily yes- terday. It's probably the fastest jeep on the road, but just how fast the EPA could not im- mediately say. "Everything's in kilometers," explained an EPA aide.' READERS OF THE Student Government Council newspaper Student Action may have been intrigued this week by a brief unsigned story, appearing under the head- line: "UM-FBI?" "It has come to our attention," the ar- ticle read, "than on August 23 a meet- ing was held between agents from the FBI (sic) and Mr. Ernest Zimmerman. as- The article goes on to explain t h a t "Mr. Zimmerman is the person who must be spoken to if anyone wants to get in- formation from the University's computer file on students." "There have been problems 'in the past with the administration giving supposedly confidential information to the govern- ment," the story stated, "and we can only hope that Mr. Zimmerman told the peo- ple from the FBI to forget it. We doubt it, and we hope that we will have more information about it in the next issue of Student Action." WELL, FOR THOSE who are waiting with bated breath, there appears to be little factual basis for infering that any exchange of confidential information about student records did take place between Zimmerman and any agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on that date. In- deed, Zimmerman emphatically denies gven talking to an FBI agent then. However, Charles Allmand, who shares a secretary with Zimmerman, does recall a meeting with an FBI agent, but says they discussed a faculty member, not a student. "From time to time the FBI comes in to verify the employment of faculty mem- bers or staff who are invited, to partici- pate in commissions of the federal gov- ernment," Allmand explains. However, in uases involving confidential information - anything beyond a mere confirmation of employment or status - the University's confidentiality policy applies, and a release is first obtained from the faculty mem- ber in question, Allmand says. As for that computer file; Zimmerman explains that it contains nothing beyond "simple demographic information such as name, add'ess and student identifica- tion number." THERE IS NOTHING computerized yet, Zimmerman says, which deals with student academic records; and certainly no com- puter or any other record of a student's political activity. 4 4 * sistant to the Vice Affairs," President for Academic Sheriff Harvey Letters: The Daily's 'coverage' of noise pollution ro The Daily: I WAS DEEPLY upset to note that an important phase of the governmental process took place .n Ann Arbor recently, but went entirely unnnoticed by the highly perceptive news gatherers at The Daily. The Conservation and Re- creation Committee of the Michi- gan House of Representatives came from Lansing in order to hold public hearings on a bill to control vehicular noise pollution. The hearing was held Thursday, Oct. 14, in the Rackham Ampi- theater. The committee came to A n n Arbor realizing that this student community was deeply concerned with the problems of the environ- ment. (In fact a recent survey showed ecology second only to the war as a problem in the minds of U. of M. students.) The committee hoped to get input from the uni- versity community and to a 11 o w quixotic quest On arrogance, tolerance and Women 's Lib rick pe rloli f them to participate in the forma- tion of law. The Daily has long complained that our government is not re- sponsive to the people. Page after page has been filled with protest towards governmental decision making and cries of power to the people. But when government is responsive, when it comes to the campus to get students' ideas and inputs on specific legislation, not one word is printed. Is it that The Daily feels it owes a duty to its readers to inform them of the un- responsiveness of government, but not to inform them as to how they can participate? Or is it that The Daily feels its long espoused pro- tests of unrepresentative govern- ment is threatened by reality? If I felt The Daily did not know of this hearing, I might excuse their actions as mere negligence But a press release was sent to them. Furthermore, at the request of Rep. Ray Smit (R-Ann Arbor). I twice visited The Daily offices to inform them of the details of the upcoming event. It was therefore a conscious decision by The Daily that potential direct involvement in legislative decision making was a low priority news item. I would also feel less dismayed if I felt The Daily did not involve itself in the issue of making gov- ernment more attuned to the de- sires of youth. But political in- volvement has been the battle cry of this year's Daily. The paper should be commended Xor its con- sistency in urging the student vote, but its motives must now be ques- tioned. Can it really be interested in student participation in gov- farimpt here itp r't taket~ he. r . U. i S F+ ' fl a, before the elections." ed a statement opposing legislation ,o give the people of Michigan home rule powers for their county governments. The Sheriff is not alone. A cry of anguish has gone up from coun- ty clerks, prosecutors, treasurers, Train commissioners and township supervisors all over the S t a t e, whose bastions of power may be removed by home rule. Their fierce apposition is all the more d i s - tressing because all the proposed legislation does is to enable the i 4 ARROGANCE IS unhealthy fiber. It is unfortunate indeed when this trait is cultivated, and doubly unfor- tunate when a group as important as Women's Liberation falls prey to it. Yet precisely this has happened. FOR NOT ONLY have male reporters found difficulty in covering women's meetings on campus, but there exists an even greater hostility toward men - one senses that women at all affiliated with the movement do not trust nor take seriously a man's comment about women's role in society or her role as a woman, simply because he is a man, hence a victim of conditioning. Of course this contempt, understand- able as it is, varies among women in degree; certain women are more cynical ifics, unburdened by the complications of present and past personality, to pierce through the gauze, and sense things clearly. It took the young, after all, to sense (not cognitively) the ugliness of Amer- ica; older people could not see the decay of the environment or the glitter of the suburbs. It was too close to their nose. Similarly, it is often child- ren - innocent and pure - who can sense when something is awry with the parents. This is not to imply that men are in- nocent and pure in the sense that young people and children can be. But men are men, born a different sex, a n d sometimes oriented around different styles of living. It is precisely because they are different that they can offer en today intensely respect Lawrence if not that his characters contain grains of themselves? It is one thing to criticize Lawrence normatively, for his views on w h a t women should be,'but it is quite another to condemn Lawrence for failing to por- tray women accurately because he was male. Perhaps it will be said that a man as sensitive as D. H. Lawrence is the ex- ception, not the rule. There is much truth here. Yet people who have been socialized can still offer helpful insights into oth- ers' problems - middle Americans, in- culcated as they are, saw very early that young people lacked the sense of dig- nity that comes with working, that much of protest stemmed from boredom whether to have an abortion, or whe- ther a woman should attend graduate school instead of following the more tra- ditional path of marriage and preg- nancy. These are matters that women, as human beings, should decide; they need little inspiration from men. On other matters, men can provide helpful insights. Their intuitions and thoughts on what femininity is, what femininity should be, and on the dif- ferences that should persist between the sexes can be particularly interesting to women, precisely because they come from men. And naturally, men should exercise the same tolerance in response to wo- men's insights on questions which dis- turb men; for men could argue ( b u t mustn't) that women's advice is hope- "He'll visit here just not having its heart where i t s words are. The students of this university deserve to know how they can participate in the system which governs their lives; T h e Daily only tells them how they can't participate under the pre- sent system. The overall policy of The Daily to paint the picture of present American government as blatantly unresponsive to the wishes of the people works a deliberate fraud on the students of this campus; but it, Bellsh n,,ouTsmars_ Tn t+1-, e itsnt, 4