STUDENT CANDIDATES AND RESIDENCY LAWS See Editorial Page C, 4L 14 ian i~E~aii4 ASSERTATIVE a High-48 Low-39 Mostly cloudy, colder; maybe snow this week Vol. LXXXII, No. 47 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, November 3, 1971 Ten Cents Eight Pages MARIJUANA CHARGE: Court hears Mixed results Sinclair plea, By GERI SPRUNG Special To The Daily LANSING-As over 100 spectators packed the Supreme Court room here yesterday, lawyers for John Sinclair made their final appeal in an attempt to overturn the nine and one half to ten year sentence he is currently serving for possession of two marijuana cigarettes. The appeal caps a four year court battle in which Sin- clair, founder of the White Panther Party (now Rainbow People's party) has claimed his sentence is cruel and unusual punishment which was meted out because of his political beliefs. The White Panther Party was termed by its founder "a national political party devoted to radical political, economic and social change within society." Sinclair's attorney Justin Ra- t w vitz contended in his arguments before the seven judge panel that Sinclair's punishment was °cruel and unusual violating both state and federal constitutions. "John Sinclair is the only per- son in the state ever who has served such a sentence for mari- juana, ever," Ravitz said. "We have never even heard of anyone serving such a sentence for hero- in" In addition, charging cruel and unusual punishment, he compared Sinclair's sentencefor two cigar- ettes to that of several persons convicted in Monroe City of po- session of 2000 lbs. of marijuana. They are serving a two and a half to five year sentence. John Sinclair fense challenged the legality of the saelaw which classifies mani- juana as a narcotic calling it a violation of the 14th amendment Senatorst:t.constitution. SRaxitz brought up a as prece- dent for the court recent Illinois court ruling which held an Illinois N istatuteclassifying marijuana with heroin and other opiates illegal and in violation of equal protec- " etion. Ravitz suggested that what '"rational society would do, is to regulate and control marajuana through licensing." This way, WASHINGTON (k) - The chair- Ravitz said, "it could be quality man of the Appropriations Com- controlled, free law enforcement mittee joined two other key Sen- officers and costs involved in the ate Democrats yesterday i op-, prosecution of marijuana and use posing President Nixon' plan for the tax revenues to fight the real a temporary rescue of the fore gn problem of crime-especially hero- aid program. in." Secretary of State William Rog- Angelo Pentolino, a s s i s t a n t ers, meanwhile, joined the admin- Wayne County prosecutor, then istration outcry against Senate spoke for the state contending defeat of the aid bill. He told re- that the court cannot challenge porters the action weakened Nix- "the legislative right to write on's international negotiating posi- marijuana into any drug law." tion and appealed to Congress for "The length of the sentence in prompt action "to correct this itself is not cruel and harsh pun- damage that-has been done." ishment," Pentolino said. "But I The administration wants Con- will admit it is shocking. Then gress to extend the present aid again ten years is not abusive program at least one month be- when other states have even yond the Nov. 15 expiration of ex- harsher laws," he said. isting authority. Justice G. Mennen Williams Sen. Allen Ellender (D-La.), then asked Pentolino. "You say chairman of the Appropriations it was a horrendous sentence. If Committee, said it will refuse to go heroin was involved would you along with any temporary exten- say it was?" sion unless there appears to be "No", Pentolino answered, but progress on authorizing "a short- See HIGH, Page 8 election indicate 2 tren~d, no 197 Anti-Nixon : candidate :: r:.: flwins inIKy. Evers vote low; Stokes favorite loses; Rizzo wins From Wire Service Reports Elections across the nation yesterday showed mixed re- sults, with no c 1 e a r trend emerging which could be con- sidered indicative of any na- tional mood 12 months away from the Presidential contest. Although no races of major con- sequences took place during this off-year election, several 1 o c a 1 races with distinctly racial over- tones were being watched very csely by political experts. r: The picture that arises from these races, however, is unclear as law-and-order white conserva- tives won in some areas, while -Associated Press black candidates and racial mod- iblican who upset black erates were victorious in others. o (upper right), a law- Another question, that of the Democrat Wendell Ford effect of the vote cast by newly he gubernatorial race in enfranchised y o u t h s remained largely unanswered by the returns. In Boston and Urbana, Ill. there was some controversy over alleg- S edly improper registration of young voters. In other scattered races around the country two college students running for city council in their college towns garnered e n o u g h votes to force their older oppon- L e to ryents into run-off elections. In the major races across the nation, there were several sur- ast two weeks of the e&ec- prises, although most c o n t e s t s came out as expected. : the "Project: City Hall" In Kentucky, where registered es received the endorse- Democrats outnumber Republicans the State News, the MSU two to one, Democrat Wendell "M-AA--+A ~ ~lnn Tt -Associated Press WINNERS IN YESTERDAY'S ELECTIONS: independent Arnold Pinkney in the race for and-order Democrat who won,as expected, in (center below) along with his running mate Kentucky on an anti-Nixon platform. Ralph Peck (upper left), a Repu mayor of Cleveland; Frank Rizz the Philadelphia mayoral race;L Julian Carroll (right) who won th CHARLES EVERS, independent candidate for governor of Missis- sippi embraces a friend arriving to vote in Fayette, Miss., yesterday. Evers ran a distant second to Democrat Bill Waller, a Jackson attorney. Mayor of Fayette, Evers hoped to build black voting power in the state through his campaign. ASKS NIXON ACTION: Kent State petition requests federal jury By GEOFFREY JACQUES Two students at Kent State University have started a petition drive to urge President Nixon to convene a federal grand jury to investigate the Kent shootings. The petition, which began circulating in late September, gained over 10,000 signatures in the first ten days of canvassing. Four demonstrators were killed on the Kent State cam- pus in May, 1969 as National Guard troops fired upon a crowd during a demonstration protesting the U.S. invasion of Cam- bodia. National organizers expect a local campaign to begin here -soon, but organized support ^1 - - has not yet been initiated. E. Lansing student push liberals to By SARA FITZGERALD Special To The Daily EAST LANSING-With the vote of Michigan State University stu- dents solidly on their side, two liberal candidates posted over- whelming victories in city council elections here yesterday. George Griffiths, 42, a Lansing member of the Human Rights Party, and George Colburn, 33, both running on a "Project: City Hall" ticket, swept by their com- petition, including a 12-year in- cumbent, during the first Michigan test of the impact of the student vote. Scattered wire service reports early this morning gave little in- dication of how the student vote had fared around the country. Reports from Kalamazoo, homer of Western Michigan University and Kalamazoo College, and Mount' Pleasant, which contains Central Michigan University, showed that the student vote 'had not been strong. However, in Ocala, Fla., a Cen- tral Florida Junior College sopho- more came in second in a three way race for city council, forcng the incumbent front runner into a run-off election. Copping the third council seat under Colburn and Griffiths in the East Lansing election was incum- bent Councilman Wilbur Brook-! over, 60, an MSU professor, who made a strong appeal to students reace stnre set for today ened, revised version of our aid' operations." In that case, he added, he might, agree to extension of the existing: program until Dec. 1. Sen. J. W. Fulbright (D-Ark.),' chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, said "~I think we can" draw up a revised aid authoriza- tion measure by late this week or early next week. Such a bill would likely be ieavy on humanitarian assistance, and light on military aid. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield : (D-Mont.) told newsmen the exist-; ing fund of more than $4 billion ins the foreign aid pipeline could be used to pay salaries and admiris- trative costs after Nov. 15 until a new aid bill is approved. Rogers and director John Han- nah of the Agency for InternationalE Development will appear before a closed session of the Foreign Re- lations Committee today. Selective Serice creates new draft classification, guidelines student newspaper. The student vote, however, was not enough to bring in Chuck Will, a 24 year old MSU undergraduate, who ran a write-in campaign with a "Project: City Hall" endorse- ment. Will ,a member of the left- ist Coalition for Human Survival, narrowly missed a ballot cpot in the August primary election. Unofficial results were: Grif- fiths, 8,241; Colburn, 8,091; Brook- over, 5,110; Gordon Thomas, East Lansing's mayor and a 12-year council incumbenlt, 5,070; Charles Phillips, a conservative business- man, 3,662; and Duane Bone, a real estate developer, 3,537. The unofficial tally for Will was 2,397, but supporters felt it could rise to over 4,000 once all write-in votes were counted. There were scattered votes recorded for a sec- ond write-in candidate, Mickey, who ran a on-again, off-again cam- paign. Vot'er turnout was 60.3 per cent, with predominantly student pre- cincts generally posting higher turnout percentages t h a n the suburbs. The candidates were picked in an August primary - before stu- dents returned to school. At that time, Colburn and Griffths finish- ed fifth and sixth, with about half the vote of Thomas, who finished See E. LANSING, Page 8 A U , C 1V K 1f K a r. v strong anti-Nixon campaign con- centrating especially on the Nixon economic policies. Following his victory last night Ford declared his election would be the first stage in a "dump Nix- on" movement. In Mississippi Democrat William Waller won, as expected, o v e r black civil rights advocate Charles Evers, running as an independent. Evers, mayor of Fayette, Missis- sippi, had hoped to build, through the election, increased black voting strength in the state. Evers,vhowever, failed to poll impressive numbers even in pre- dominantly black sections of the' state where he was expected to run strongly. However, in Gary, Ind., incum- bent black Democrat Richard Hat- cher won an easy victory over his Republican challenger Theodore Nering. Republican Ralph Perk won a surprising upset victory in Cleve- land last night defeating Demo- crat James Carney, and Inde- pendent Arnold Pinkney. See VOTING, Page 8 Ford defeate Republican Tom i Emberton, the handpicked candi- date of outgoing Republican gov-BZ ernor Louie Nunn. Although today will be "business The race was viewed by many as usual" in Ann Arbor, many high political experts as a test of Presi- schools and colleges within the dent Nixon's popularity in the Detroit area will respond to a stu- state as Ford had run on a dent strike call from the National Peace Action Coalition (NPAG) as part of a buildup for their sched- uled Nov. 6 marches. Hartmuth Wisch, of the Ann Ar- bor Coalition to End the War, said the Ann Arbor coalition voted against a student strike because "It would have been too pathetic." The campus is "not in the mood for marching," he said and pointed to the "poor turnout" on the Oct. 13 National Moratorium Day as proof of this. Locally, today's strike consists of rallies, anti-war speakers, and workshops at various schools and colleges, including the University's Dearborn campus. Students are also passing out, leaflets throughout their commu- nities. The leaflets stress that "Nixon is not winding the war down and that Asian deaths are The petition was begun by two students, Greg Rambo and Paul Keane, in the hope that they could "show the President that people still remember the Kent State af- fair." They have already presented the President with 10,000 signatures and are spreading the campaign across the country. The campaign is centering on college campuses and in New York City. Organizers hope that a goal of 100,000 signa- tures will soon be reached, and the campaign is spreading upstate. Since the Kent State shootings there has been only one grand jury investigation-a state grand jury. Its report came out on Oc- tober 16, 1970, and incited twenty five students while exonerating the national guard in connection with the shootings. The President's Commission on Campus Unrest also released a report on the incident, w h i c h charged that the guardsmen fired "indiscriminately," and that the deaths were "unwarranted and unexcusable." The Justice Department also made an investigation, which con- cluded in a report released last August that further action (i.e., a WASHINGTON (P)-A new draft classification was created yester- day for registrants too young to be drafted -18-year-olds - and older men with such high lottery num- bers that they're unlikely to be! called into military service. Selective Service laid down also new ground rules for personal ap- pearances before draft boards for a young man to make "a fair rep- resentation of his claim" for ex- emption or deferment, allowing a man for the first time to bring witnesses to support his claim. Deputy Director Daniel Cronin said the new "holding" classifiea- tion, 1H, is designed to enable the! service to "do business with the people likely to be drafted and let' the other people go about their business." The rule changes put the draft operation in line with the new draft law, including the phasing out of college, trade school and juni)r college deferments. The new rules become automatically effective in early December. The changes include implementa- tion of a uniform national call for issuing induction orders. This way, all men with the same lottery num- ber and subject to induction will receive induction notices at ap- proximately the same time, and state quotas will be eliminated. A major change not required by law wipes out the catchall 1Y class- ification that lumped together men with borderline physical disquali- fications, homosexuals, criminals and a variety of others. From now on a man in this area will be given 4F as physically un- fit, 1A-RR1, meaning being ad- judicated, or 1A-A0, meaning ac- ceptance undetermined. Those men who turn 18 next year and must register for the draft -A man will be required to reg- ister for the draft during a ,eriodj beginning 30 days before his 18th birthday and ending 30 days after. At present he must register vithin five working days after his birch- day. -A man will be given at least 30 days notice to report for imduc- tion. The old rule was 10 days but' ncrmally it was stretched up tj 30 days. I farlaai a~nii~ J Ui J / l l rantkI'JL continuing at a high rate," accord- warranted." The Ohio State Grand ing to Kirk Fowler, a member of Jury report, meanwhile, was or- the Student Mobilization Commit- dered expunged from the record tee which is helping sponsor the and physically destroyed by the strike. U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals Fowler cites "the hoax that the last month, although it refused to See PEACE, Page 8 quash the original indictments. SECURITY INCREASES Socialist presidential candidate speaks at U' By GENE ROBINSON Linda Jenness, Socialist Workers' } Party (SWP) candidate for Presi- dent, emphasized the "importance of mass struggles" as a means of achieving change last night in a campaign speech given in the Union. Rape: Lingering problem on campus By BETH OBERFELDER Although most women think, "It won't happen to me," walking alone at night often becomes a fearful experience when dark footsteps suggest a potential as- sailant. "Most girls live in a false security", says Lieutenant Kenneth Klinge of the city police department. Yet, within three weeks last month. three rapes were re- The Women's Crisis Center, formed two weeks ago, plans to send out female patrol squads, offer 24 hour counseling, use local homes as WCC first aid sta- tions, and have lists of women who have volunteered to walk other women at night. Rape is legally defined in Michigan, as to "ravish and carnally know any fe- male 16 years and more by force against While the legal route exists to prose- cute a man who has violated society's sex law, most women are emotionally un- able to talk about their experience un- til a great period of time has lapsed. One woman, who was picked up and raped by a truck driver while hitch- hiking, did not tell anyone until over two months afterwards that she had been