CAMPUS ELECTION RECOMMENDATIONS See Editorial Page Y L Sirn ~Iait VOTE TODAY IN SGC ELECTIONS Vol. LXXXII, No. 58 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, November 16, 1971 Ten Cents Ten Pages Councilmember 0 " quits, climaxing print co-op flap By TONY SCHWARTZ Student Government Council member Barbara Goldman, '74, unexpectedly resigned without comment last night, as SGC met to resolve a controversy over a $1,500 allocation for a student print cooperative. Constituting SGC's largest expenditure this year, the $1,500 had been granted several weeks ago to the American Revolutionary Media (ARM), of which Goldman is a mem- ber, for the purchase of printing equipment. As of last night, the purchase had not been made. Late last night, SGC members gathered in an emergency meeting to consider the status of the funds and to discuss the possibility -of pressurihg ARM for full reimbursement of Fleming SoPresident's f~. -u . N says ' to shed Run rni Labs, esearci ... . .. ... ..... . ...... ......... ..... voices [1plan Independent corporation considered The text of Fleming's state- ment appears on today's Edi- torial Page. Polls open today in SGC race By HESTER PULLING and W. E. SCHROCK Polling booths for the Student Government Council all - campus elections open today as students will cast their votes on a num- ber of SGC candidates and refer- enda issues in the two-day elec- tion race. The resignation of four Council members last month opened nine of SGC's 11 at-large seats for this election, and 23 candidates are in the race. In addition, there are 14 refer- enda questions on the ballot con- cerning SGC funding, the Brad Taylor r e c a 11 campaign and structural aspects of Council. Council has set up 15 polling places around campus to open The Campus Elections from 10 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. In addition, booths will be placed in the larger dorms and resident halls during dinner time. Meanwhile, in other campaign action, SGC's Credentials and Rules Committee (C&R) late last night charged Bob Black, chair- man of the Committee of Recall Brad Taylor, with violating the SGC Bill of Rights in tearing down posted election leaflets. C&R postponed a decision on former SGC presidential candi- date Bill Thee's alleged distri- bution of anonymous anti-fund- ing campaign material. While grouped into four par- ties and seven independents, all 23 SGC candidates center their campaigns on what they see as the need to make Council more effectively serve the interests of the student body. Just what are students' inter- ests is the issue of debate, with the moderate Responsible Alter- native Party (RAP) arguing for confining SGC's role to student services and the Radical Peo- ples Coalition candidates arguing for increased expansion of Coun- cil's activities to include joint University-city projects. The four RAP candidates, list- ing themselves as conservatives and moderates, are Mat Dunas- kiss, William Krebaum, Curtis Steinhaur and Douglas Rick. The Radical Peoples Coalition is composed of five members:. Allison Steiber, Joel Silverstein, Jean Teshima, Art Nishioka and Arlene Griffin. The Government Reform of University Policies (GROUP) party and the Community Party each support SGC involvement See SGC, Page 2 the funds. In the midst of the meeting, Goldman entered silently with an- other ARM member and placed a small piece of machinery on the table. Attached to it was a check from ARM for the full $1,500 and a note announcing her resignation. She refused to comment. SGC president Rebecca Schenk said, "I suppose Barb felt she was on a chopping block and probably wanted to avoid a lot of question- ing." The original motion brought to S G C by Goldman, asked that Council provide a $1,500 grant to the University Print Co-op as a matching investment with the Black E c o n o m i c Development League (BEDL) for a cooperatively owned print collective. The motion was passed with the stipulation that the allocation be granted pending the acquisition of new funds which SGC expected shortly. ' Three weeks ago, representatives of ARM asked that SGC allot the money immediately with emer- gency funds. According to Rebecca Schenk, ARM spokesmen told. Council that a "very good deal" on print equipment was available. At a special meeting of the ex- ecutive council of SGC the money was allotted to ARM at that time. Several days later, Council mem- bers say they informally received word that the deal "had fallen through," and that ARM was.hold- ing the money in hopes of com- pleting another deal. SGC members explained last night that the procedure in giving ARM the money was not made clear by the executive officers. Art Warady, Council treasurer said his understanding was that ARM would return the money if the deal was not completed. George DePue, spokesman for ARM explained that the money was being returned to SGC be- cause "they're all a bunch of white racists and they deserve it." Jerry Rosenblatt, SGC executive vice president s a i d, "Council should have asked for a report on the status of the money immedi- ately. We made a mistake by not being clear enough to Barb Gold- man."' Andre Hunt, SGC coordinating vice president said, "I think Barb has violated our mutual trust. We are all going to be more suspicious of each other. now." The University's Print Co-op Board, composed of members from ARM and other students, met Sun- day night and voted to give the $1500 to BEDL as representative for the Washtenaw County Print Co-op, the umbrella organization for a community co-op. According to SGC sources, the board may not have had the au- thorization to transfer the funds. For most Council members, the meeting's action brought to light for the first time the status of the allocation. Most Council members called the situation a "general lack of communication." Through discussions between BEDL and SGC members last night, it became clear that BEDL See SGC, Page 10 final views on policy open President Robben Fleming yesterday raised several ques- tions about a proposed plan which would ban most classi- fied research-from campus, but. left open the possibility that he will support the plan with minor alterations. The controversial proposal, which has been endorsed by Senate As- sembly, the faculty representative body, calls for the University to "not enter into or renew federal contracts or grants that limit open publication of the results of re- search," except when "the pro- posed research is likely to contrib- ute so significantly to the advance- ment of knowledge as to justify infringement of the freedom to publish openly.'' Fleming's stance on the issue ployes w h o "We owe an obliga- tion to the many em- worked faith fully at have Willow Run for some years to protect their By TAMMY JACOBS The University is attempt- jobs, and to protect ing to sever its ties with Wil- low Run Laboratories, where for t h e economy of the vast majority of Univer- sity classified research is per- the State of Michigan, formed, President R o b b e n the Laboratories." Fleming said in a statement the abortoris."yesterday. The statement comes in the -President Fleming midst of a hot debate at the Uni- versity between those who wish to ban classified research from the campus and those seeking to pre- ------ serve it. The University has been ex- .. .. . .. . .. .. . .. . ..".. .. . '. Ut . . . . -Associated Press Meany blasts Nixon AFL-CIO President George Meany yesterday criticized President Nixon's policy toward communist countries, maintaining that the President's latest overtures would result in an infux of cheap labor competition against American workers. COMMITTEE REPORTS: Faculty discuss negotiating plan By CHRIS PARKS In an initial attempt to deal with a nation-wide controversy brewing over faculty unioniza- tion, a committee of S e n a t e Assembly-the faculty represen- tative body-yesterday issued a report calling for "consultative 'negotiations" between faculty and administration over ques- tions of salary levels and "other faculty compensation matters." The report by the Committee of the Rights and Responsibil- ities of Faculty Members covered a wide range of topics, including long range planning and re- source allocation as well as the question of salaries. "Enlarging faculty participa- tion" in all of these areas, the report concluded, would serve "the University's best interests in the years to come." The basic conflict over faculty unionization has arisen over the question of the proper relation- ship between faculty members and administrators. While proponents of unioniza- tion claim it is the only way faculty can attain a strong voice in matters of wages and work- ing conditions, opponents fear such unions would upset the traditional relationship between the faculty and administration of a university. Stopping far short of recom- mending a faculty union, the report did suggest procedures for a greater faculty voice in de- termining salaries and in other areas. Specifically, it proposed that Senate, Assembly "reconstruct" its present Committee on the Economic Status of the Faculty to be "a professional consulta- tive negotiating team" to pre- sent faculty requests regarding salary and fringe benefits to the administration. Now a unit for gathering in- formation, this committee under the proposed plan would have the right to consult with the administration and directly with 'the Regents. Failing to attain satisfaction t h r o u g h these channels, the committee would be empowered to report to the assembly, which could accept the report, instruct the committee to return to ne- gotiations with "a modified set of proposals" or direct an appeal to the Regents. As a last resort under the plan, the assembly could re- quest that the matter go to "fact-finding or advisory arbi- tration." Missing from the report was any mention of a strike as a possible sanction. Law Prof. John Reed, chairman of the committee, said yesterday the omission signified the commit- See FACULTY, Page 7 had been long awaited by both DEMTANDSTT-SUED" opponents and proponents ofbthe E A ND ISSUED: proposed research policy. In view of Fleming's highly influential po-E sition with the Regents-who must( approve the new policy to put it Blackgboy into effect -both g r ou ps had sought his support..1" In a statement printed in theI p u tcUniver sity cor d, p tedwe k l y t7C l newsletter of the University ad- ministration, Fleming said that "the existence of classified re- By GAYLE POLLARD s search on a university campus is A black boycott of Ann Arbor's s a source of uneasiness," but added public schools ended yesterday e: that "my concern is that any pol- as most black students returned t icy which is adopted be rational, to classes after high absenteeism ti fair to all of our colleagues, and, Friday. 0 if it changes existing conditions, The boycott was called off in there shall be a time-phasing so a close vote at a community ti that individuals who may be ad- meeting Sunday night, attended s verselyaffected are reasonably by over 400. Despite interim ar- e protected." rangements, many feared stu- C Fleming's statement emphasized dents would not be able to make h' that the Regents will take no ac- ueir classe aets tion on the proposal until their up their classes adequately. p December meeting-after the Uni- The meeting also accepted by versity Senate, composed of 2,800 consensus a list of four demands b professors, researchers and admin- which were presented to the m istrators, meets to consider the Board of Education in a closed proposed policy Nov. 22. meeting last night. The board i The Regents, however, will dis- caucused and its preliminary po- n1 cuss the resolution this month sition was expected to be re- r both in their closed briefings and leased late last night. 0 in an open hearing Thursday af- The demands have also been a I ternoon. supported by a coalition of white p Fleming's four major points of parents and students, according t contention with the Assembly ver- to Ruth Zwifler, acting chairman t sion of the policy were: of Parents and Students United r -A suggestion that if "the way for Full Educational Opportuni- ti the faculty feels about classified ties. t See FLEMING, Page 10 Citing concern for the physical _- fering Willow Run into a non- 'ott of city ools ends afety of blacks in Ann Arbor schools, a coalition of black par- nts and students called the trike Thursday night after con- nual racial incidents in the sec- ndary schools. School authorities estimated hat over 80 per cent of black econdary students either attend- d alternativenclasses at the ommunity Center or remained ome Friday in support of the trike. Elementary students also articipated. The group's demands, prepared y a 14-member steering com- .ittee, are: * More protection for blacks .n the schools. Twelve grounds- ien should be placed in two- man teams throughout the sec-" ndary schools. While the men re recruited, biracial parent atrols are to be on hand to pro- ect students. A biracial commit- ee with a black majority will eview the final applications for he groundsmen to determine heir acceptability. * Establishment of a black tudies curriculum in all second- ry schools with course content nd teachers determined by lack students, parents and staff. Principals are asked to meet with a black committee to select eachers and identify course con- ent in English, social studies, peech, music and arts, with ourses to start next semester. profit corporation, unaffiliated with the University, but perhaps under the auspices of the state government, the statement said. Fleming's statement, released yesterday in the University Re- cord, the weekly newsletter of the University administration, a 1 s o discusses a controversial proposal by Senate Assembly which-if ac- cepted by the Regents-would ban most such research. Fleming said, "Regardless of what action the Regents may take on the modification of the clas- sified research policy . . . the Laboratories cannot prosper and might not even survive within the U-M structure." Fleming cited the decline in fi- nancial support for Willow Run as the chief reason for its inability to exist in its present position. The Willow Run budget has de- clined from $13 million to $6 mil- lion since 1966. "We have known for some time that financial support for Willow Run was becoming increasingly uncertain," Fleming "said. "Even if the present rules for accept- ance of classified research . remained unchanged, the likeli- hood of reversal of this downward trend was slim." Fleming listed three alterna- tives for Willow Run: -Retaining it in its present form "with a high probability that competent research groups could not be sustained;" -Disassociating the labs from the University by placing the labs into a non-profit corporation un- der auspices of the state; or -Placing the labs in a non-pro- fit corporation without state sup- ervision. Under the last two plans, there would be. no limit to the kinds of research Willow Run would carry J Senate Assembly seeks greater voice iU' investment policy I s a aT b P W t t sX .C By MARK DILLEN Senate Assembly, the faculty representative body, has changed very slightly its "hands off" policy toward University investments. The change resulted from a Sen- ate Assembly subcommittee report which was requested by the faculty unit last year i the midst of fre- quent discussion of the Univer- sity's policy in voting its stocks. At that time, students and other groups-including Ralph Nader's Campaign GM-urged universities and other large public stockhold- ing institutions to vote against management positions at stock- holders' meetings on philosophical, not business, grounds. Yesterday, the assembly gave voice-vote approval to a policy that would slightly alter the Uni- versity's long-standing opposition to voting its s h a r e s on these grounds. Under present policies, "the in- vestment officer votes (stock) proxies in accordance with the recommendations of the corpora- tions' management unless other- wise instructed. If a question arises concerning the manage- ment's recommendations, the Re- gents would decide whether to support the position of manage- ment, or to suggest an alternative to management; or to vote in op- position to the management's rec- ommendation and consider selling the stock." Despite widespread discussion of the issue in the University com- munity in past years-climaxing last spring in a special forum on the matter-the R e g e n t s have never voted stocks against man- agement. Senate Assembly's policy pro- =-In situations of "substantial out. controversy," the committee will 0 Expansion of counseling staff. The statement said that th form another committee to study Students must be able to select and director and staff of the Labora the issue and report to administra- change counselors without fear of tories have "vigorously pursued tors; and punishment, while counselors must these alternatives," and that both -When "substantial considera- have academic training in both the University and the state ar tion" of the question has been counseling and human relations. exploring the second alternative made, a regental-approved letter Career counseling should be in- and will give a "feasibility report or "expression of concern" will be itiated for both college-bound and by Jan. 1, 1972. sent along with the Regents' stock non-college bound students. Last night Fleming said that h proxy, conveying what is thought 0 The school board must take has appointed William Pierponi See FACULTY, Page 2 See BLACKS, Page 2 See 'U', Page 10 U.S. balance.of-payments deficit Soars to record $12 billion high ie re ie WALK-IN COUNSELING wornen's Crisis Center opens By JAN BENEDETTI A women's aid and counseling service, the Women's Crisis Center, opened its doors yesterday in offices on the second floor of the Union. "We want to pull together all type of services for women in any kind of crisis to this office. The center is basically a place for women- to get help from other women," says Marnie Heyn, an organizer of the center. The center offers a wide range of counseling including personal counseling, suicide prevention. drug help and abortion counseling. WASHINGTON (P) - The na-f tion's balance-of-payments deficitl surged to its highest level in history in the July - September quarter-$12 billion by one meas- urement-the Commerce Depart- ment reported yesterday. Despite President Nixon's opti- mism about his domestic economic program, the report indicated that paying newly effective wage in- creases must first clear their price hikes with the government-a re- versal of an earlier exemption. By one measure, the official re- serve transactions balance, the balance-of-payments deficit was $12.1 billion on a seasonally ad- justed basis. This balance, which only records transactions between governments,1 reached a record deficit level in .+I- - -A Ila-fa . .+ lon n A the deficit was a September sur- plus in the nation's trade balance,- which had floundered into deficit for the four preceding months. In announcing the new require- ment for large companies, the Cost of Living Council answered a request made Saturday night by Price Commission Chairman C. Jackson Grayson, who said the board wanted to look at all major companies' price increases before an nf A s poses that: his international economic pro- -University groups concerned gram has yet to produce results. eti.i'. .---- ~..-----,_-- -- se en m.ma