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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1971
NIGHT EDITOR: ALAN LENHOFF
Election reco mm endations
TH, FOLLOWING recommendations
for the campus-wide elections to-
day and tomorrow were explained in
Friday's Daily.
SGC
at-large
seats
Recommended
Joel Silverstein, Michael Davis, Ar-
lene Griffin and David Burleson.
Acceptable
John Koza, Bob Nelson, Art Nishioka,
Marty Scottand Bob Garrity.
The referenda
Funding proposals
We recommend that students v o t e
"No" on the referendum calling f o r
the abolition of SGC funding by end-
ing the 25-cent per student allotment
Council receives from student fees each
term.
Conversely, we urge that students
support an increase in SGC's financial
base by voting "Yes" on the referendum
calling for an increase in SGC's p e r
term allotment to 85-cents per stu-
dent.
At the same time, we recommend
that students support the viability of
school and college governments by vot-
ing "Yes" on the referendum calling
for the per student allotment of 50
cents per term to the student govern-
ment of his unit.
Concerning the allocation of n e w
funds we urge "Yes" votes on the pro-
posals for continued support for the
women's crisis center, and for the es-
tablishment of a cooperative grocery
store, a child care center, low-cost
housing, a recycling center, and in-
depth consumer report.
However, we recommend a "No" vote
on the proposal to spend money for an
academic chair for teaching courses
not presently available.
Recall Brad Taylor
We urge students to vote "Yes" on
the Recall Brad Taylor referendum.
SGC procedures
We recommend that students in-
crease the fairness of SGC voting pro-
cedures by voting "Yes" on the Pro-
portional Representation Amendment.
At the same time we encourage stu-
dents to reinforce their desire for dem-
ocratically elected student governments
by voting "Yes" on the Consent of the
Governed referendum.
Finally, we urge a "yes" vote on the
Special Referenda proposal suggesting
that SGC conduct occasional special
elections to decide "important q u e s-
tions."
Flemin
By R.W. FLEMING
T HE ACTION of the Senate Assembly
on classified research will not be
ready for consideration by the Regents
until the time limitations under which
any further faculty action may be taken
elapse.
As I understand it, the deadline for any
further action will be Nov. 22, at which
time the full Senate meets. Since this date
is after the November meeting of the Re-
gents, any discussions which may take
place at the board meeting will be informal
and the Board will not be asked to take
any action.
Meanwhile, there is relevant information
which, ought to be made known to. the
academic community. In addition, there
are some questions which I would expect
the Regents to ask and to which some
thinking ought to be devoted.
INASMUCH AS any substantial change
in University policies on classified research
would have its greatest impact on activities
of the Willow Run Laboratories, their fu-
ture must be assessed.
We have known for some time that
financial support for Willow Run was be-
coming increasingly uncertain. The fund-
ing level from agencies of the Department
of Defense has steadily declined. Even if
the present rules for acceptance of clas-
sified research, approved by the Regents
in April, 1968, remained unchanged, the
likelihood of reversal of this downward
trend was slim.
At various times the Regents have been
apprised of the situation and of efforts to
counter it. At one time, about eighteen
months ago, we had completed a plan
for transfer of the Willow Run Labora-
tories to a non-profit corporation. The plan
unexpectedly fell through becausce of a
change in the tax laws with respect to
non-profit operating foundations.
More recently the Willow Run programs
and their future have received urgent at-
tention. Independent advice has been re-
ceived which confirmed our own assess-
ment that in essence there are three op-
tions with respect to Williow Run:
1) retain it in its present form with a,
high probability that competent research
groups could not be sustained in the face
of continued contraction and that event-
ually non-viable fragments would be all
that would remain;
2) seek to disassociate it from the Uni-
versity and put it in the hands of a non-
profit corporation under the auspices of
the State of Michigan, but without limita-
on
classified
Senate Assembly discusses research issue
research
enlightenment I am advised that the fol-
lowing personnel are employed on clas-
sified projects at Willow Run:
Professional employes, some with
faculty titles 119
Graduate students 25
Technicians, clerks, secretaries,
tion on the kinds of research which it
could accept; or
3) disassociate it from the University,
and put it in the hands of a non-profit
corporation not under the auspices of the
State of Michigan, but where it would not
be limited in the kinds of projects it could
accept.
THE DIRECTOR AND the senior staff
of the Laboratories have vigorously pur-
sued these alternatives, which have also
been discussed with the Regents, who
encouraged the executive officers to pursue
options 2 and 3 Senator Bursley and
Representative Smith have been particu-
larly interested in the second option and
secured for it an expression of support
from the State Legislature in the form of
a join resolution of both houses. I have
myself discussed it with the Governor
and the two of us will ask our staffs to
give us a feasibility report by January 1,
1972 on the steps which would have
to be taken to accomplish successful tran-
sition to a non-profit corporation under
the aegis of the State.
Should the second option prove not to be
feasible, the third will be explored. There
are possibilities in that direction.
The personnel at Willow Run are fully
informed of these developments, and it is
their hope, I believe, that the second op-
tion will mature. We believe we will
shortly know tht answer as to whether
such an arrangement can ensure stability,
etc.
154
Total 298
but even if it seems likely the details may
take some months to work out.
IT IS MY OWN VIEW, which I believe
the Regents share, that we owe an obliga-
tion to the many employes who have
worked faithfully at Willow Run for some
years to protect their jobs, and to pro-
tect for the economy of the State of
Michigan, the Laboratories.
The sum and substance of the Willow
Run situation is that regardless of what
action the Regents may take on the modi-
fication of the classified research policy
recommended by the Senate Assembly, the
Laboratories cannot prosper and might
not even survive within the U-M structure.
Another solution must be developed
along the lines indicated. This informa-
tion is important because much of the
faculty concern and criticism has been
directed at Willow Run activities.
One further item of information should
be made known to the academic commun-
ity. At the time the Senate Assembly ap-
proved the new classified research pro-
posal it also approved the so-called Kerr
amendment, which reads:
RESOLVED: That it be the sense of
the Assembly that any financial burden
that results from a change in classified
research policy be borne generally by the
University community.
It is not clear to me exactly what
the Senate Assembly had in mind in this
resolution,. and I would hope for further
Is it the view of the faculty that these
personnel, if displaced, are to be protected
in some manner for some period of time,
and that this burden is somehow to be
borne by the "University community"? If
so, I would simply point out that further
budgetary restrictions will have to be im-
posed on all units.
WITH SPECIFIC REFERENCE to the'
policy changes approved by the Senate As-
sembly, I have a series of questions which
I would want to ask, and which I would
suppose the Regents will ask. They are:
1) Many leading universities which have
adopted classified research policies have
included a phrase indicating that the
policy does not apply in times of declared
national emergency. Language of this kind
would appear to have merit.
It is a historical fact that during World
War II it was widely thought to be ap-
propriate for faculties to engage in clas-
sified research as a part of the war ef-
fort. During the present unpopular war,
it is thought to be inappropriate.
This suggests that how the faculty feels
about classified research will, in fact, de-
pend up on how a military action is per-
ceived. This being so, it is not apparent to
me why a phrase of the kind indicated is
not included. Could it be added?
2) Section I of the proposed policy says
that the University "will not enter into or
renew federal contracts or grants that
limit open publication of the results of re-
search." I believe it can be demonstrated
that the federal contract problem is not
distinguishable from the same problem in
the area of proprietary research.
The Senate Assembly has another com-
mittee studying proprietary research. If,
as I believe, these problems are not dis-
tinguishable, why should the Regents enact
a policy on one kind of research while an-
other, which poses the same problem, is
still being studied?
If the answer is that one may involve
military research, while the other does not,
I would point out that the proposed policy
does not purport to speak to the nature of
the research but only whether open pub-
lication of the results is limited.
See FLEMING, Page 7
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Abortion reform and repeal
MICHIGAN'S PRESENT abortion 1 a w,
an archaic, outdated, and possibly
unconstitutional law dating back to 1846,
allows a woman to have a legal abortion
only if continued pregnancy endangers
her life. However, women in Michigan,
as women nationally, are involved in a
multi-pronged attack of these laws, de-
manding that abortions be made legal
and accessible to all women for any rea-
son.
In Michigan, the fight to change laws
has in the past been fought primarily in
the state legislature. However, as this
proved ineffective, alternatives were
sought, including a petition drive to place
the issue on the November, 1972 ballot,
and a class action suit which seeks a
declaratory judgment from the courts on
the constitutionality of the state's laws.
Last March the state Senate passed an
abortion reform bill which allows any
woman to have an abortion for any rea-
son during the first 90 days of her preg-
nancy, if she had been a Michigan resi-
dent at least that long. This bill then
went to the state House where it was
placed in a hostile committee, and after
several months finally' reported out of
committee without recommendation. This
action tabled the bill, which can only be
revived by a vote of the members of the
House.
Last May as observers watched the bill
get bogged down in the House, a petition
drive was proposed as an alternative,
should the House fail to act on the bill.
In September, the Michigan Coordinating
Committee for Abortion Law Reform
launched a petition drive to place the
issue of abortion law reform before the
voters in 1972.'
WHAT DOES all this mean for propon-
ents of abortion law reform and re-
peal?
At the outset it means going to the
first national women's march on Wash-
ington this Saturday. The march, spon-
sored by the Women's National Abortion
Action Coalition (WONAAC), calls for re-
peal of anti-abortion laws and restrictive
contraception laws, while rejecting forc-
ed sterilization.
But more than marching is required.
Local people must contact local groups
-including Ann Arbor WONAAC, and the
Ann Arbor Women's Health Collective -
to work with them in their efforts to re-
peal abortion laws. The Michigan Co-
ordination Committee for Abortion Law
Reform needs volunteers to help circulate
petitions.
Letters should be written to J u d g e
Charles Kauffman at the County Building
in Detroit expressing support of the class
action suit and proponents should at-
tend the hearings in Detroit. Hospital
administrators should be pressed into set-
ting standards which will make abortion
'accessible and safe once the law has been
changed.
SATURDAY'S MARCH will serve an im-
portant symbolic function - hope-
fully as an indication to lawmakers that
women seriously care about changing re-
strictive abortion laws. And after women
have shown the unity in Washington, they
must demonstrate their willingness to
work for change by affiliating with
groups involved with abortion law repeal
and by supporting already initiated legal
actions.
--LINDA DREEBEN
Behind the forma tion of Grad Federation
By MARTHA ARNOLD
The author is a graduate student
in social psychology and a member
of the Executive Council of the
ilauliham Student Government.
She has represented the Rackham
government in some of the con-
tinuing negotiations between grad-
uate governments about the struc-
ture and constitution of the Grad-
uate Federation.
I WOULD LIKE to give s o m e
background on the current
attempts to form a Graduate Fed-
eration and the hysterical c a m-
paign against it being conducted
by John Koza and some of his
friends.
As nearly as I can reconstruct
events that happened before I be-
came involved in the situation,
John Koza and/or Michael Davis
told the now defunct Graduate
Assembly (GA) that they were
an undemocratic andunrepresent-
ative organization and must
change their constitution to con-
form to their (Koza and/or
Davis') ideas of what would be
democratic and representative.
While their criticisms of Grad-
uate Assembly were valid, in my
opinion, their attempt to dictate
to GA how it should rewrite i t s
Constitution, "or else" (the "or
else", I have been told, was a
threat to destroy GA) just made
GA members angry and resentful.
I have recently had a personal
taste of Mr. Koza's arrogance and
can now understand GA's response
much better than I could at the
time.
The enmity developed as Koza
and Davis hurled accusations to
the effect that Jana Bommers-
bach, then President of GA, was
an agent of the University ad-
ministration, (because Ms. Bom-
mersbach was a reporter for the
University Record), while GA
hurled accusations that itscritics
were agents of "those radicals on
SGC".
Meanwhile, Davis had drafted a
constitution for a new Rackham
government which would take over
representation of more than half
the constituency then represent-
ed by GA. If approved, this gov-
ernment obviously could not co-
exist with GA. At the same time,
Koza was suing GA before Cen-
tral Student Judiciary.
WHEN THE attempt to create
a Rackham Student Government
seemed to be floundering because
there weren't enough people filing
for candidacy, Mr. Davis began to
search actively for candidates, and
the filing deadline was extended
and then extended again.
He finally reached a group of
graduate students who had form-
ed an ad hoc organization to fight
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Letters: More response to Daily endorsements
a proposal by Vice President
Smith. This proposal would stand-
ardize the definition of graduate
assistant, and quite likely impair
graduate students' economic stat-
us by cutting needed insurance
benefits and restricting the length
of their appointments. I w a s
associated with this group.
We were disillusioned and angry
at Graduate Assembly, which had
done nothing about the S m i t h
Proposal (neither did SGC), and
we were worried because we need-
ed more than an emergency com-
mittee if we were to be effective in
fighting the proposal. We had also
become aware of a need for a
permanent group to do what GA
was apparently incapable of do-
ing. It seemed that the proposed
Rackham Student Government
could solve both our immediate
problem and that of providing a
strong graduate student voice in
the future.
When those of us who were
elected took office, we had jump-
ed, unknowingly, into what had
become a personal feud between
the officers of GA and Koza and
Davis. GA saw us as Davis' pup-
pets; we saw GA as a bunch of
paranoids. It took much of the
spring and summer to break
through the mutual distrust and
anger.
Out of our discussions came an
was incompatible with the Rack
ham Student Government, and a
recognition on our part that since
Rackham could not speak for all
graduate and professional students
and SGC has shown little inter-
est in our issues and problems and
is viewed with apathy, distrust,
contempt, or amusement by large
numbers of post-baccalaureate
students, there was a need for
some form of organization cap-
able of speaking for the interests
of the post-baccalaureate student
body as a whole.
A GRADUATE federation, a sort
of United Nations of post-bac-
calaureate student governments,
was proposed as a solution. The
Rackham Student Government
agreed to participate in meetings
between the various graduate and
professional governments to work
out a detailed structure for t h e
Federation. Graduate Assembly
voluntarily dissolved itself.
But, apparently because some of
the people who are the objects of
Koza's vendetta were involved in
conceiving the Graduate Federa-
tion (they are not even active any
longer in the work on the Con-
stutition, which is being drafted in
discussions between representa-
tives of legitimate graduate a n d
professional student governments),
Mr. Koza came fuming onto the
scene again. My first news of him
was the information that an
emergency meeting of a minority
of CSJ had been called to consider
serving us (RSG) with an injunc-
tion to prevent us from ratifying
fhnl~neittiin ,r W r ic a -
on all points, and that we were not
abandoning the idea of the Fed-
eration. he tried to disrupt our
attempts to discuss what changes
we would recommend in the Fed-
eration Constitution by insisting
that we continue to argue with
him about whether to have a 'ed-
eration at all.
In this situation I told Mr. Koza
that he represented -no one but
himself (a statement he has been
quoting frequently since then)
and that it was unfair to the stu-
dents whom we represented to al-
low him to waste our time arguing
with him over an issue we had
already decided.
I suspect that he was, indeed,
trying to delay us as much as pos-
sible, because the longer it took
for Graduate Federation to get
organized, the more likely it was
that the right to appoint grad-
iate students to university-wide
committees - a right formerly
held by Graduate Assembly -
could be captured by SGC, which
is trying to do just that. A n d
Mr. Koza just happens to be run-
ning for SGC, and has drafted the
innocuous-looking Consent of the
Governed resolution (to be voted
on in the SGC elections) which is
directed solely and' specifically
against the Federation.
THE FACT that information
about the Federation has n o t
been widely disseminated is due
to lack of money (RSG has no
funds at all at present), and not
to "clandestine plotting" as Mr.
Koza accuses. Students are wel-
nnm toAttend oRAC mPm.+nv
To The Daily:
WHEN POSTING your endorsements,
it would be in the student interest to
clarify your previous "box score" - 100
per cent of the recent presidents have
been endorsed by your paper; over 60
per cent of the recent council members
have been endorsed ly your paper.
So, Michigan Daily, when lashing out
at an incompetent, politicized, ineffic-
ient, unorganized Stud(nt Government
Council, point the finger at yourselves,
for the people you supported (for the
most part) won. SGC is floundering,
and endorsement irresponsibility may
be one of the major reasons.
Your endorsements this year have
turned out no differently (which cer-
tainly can be no surprise). Your com-
abolition and reconstruction. It is less
difficult, less polarizing, maintains a
form of government in the interim and
is harder to control by political faction
on campus.
SGC could be an effective focal point,
a point at which various interest groups
are provided a mechanism for organiz-
and integrating their activities. Take
the food co-op proposal, for example.
Perhaps the best way to initiate one
is for SGC to, provide space and the
initiative for the presently functioning,
smaller local businesses (White Pan-
thers service) to sell all their goods in
a single space. A larger food co-op would
be a natural evolution of the coordina-
tion of these smaller agencies. This
process is viable in similar areas of stu-
posed "inactivity".. This is clearly un-
true. I tried to initiate a Student Con-
sumer Union (which succeeded in pub-
lishing two surveys of the prices of all
the local drug and grocery stores in-
volving 40 people and much work-and
you had a large article on it in The
Daily; look to your records). This was
in a year when others spent time estab-
lishing a campaign basis fdr next year.
It's time to strengthen our position in
the local issues, re-assert SGC strength
and role as student advocates (for the
potential is undeniably there) andrstart
a new student newspaper.
-Dale Oesterle, Grad
GROUP candidate for SGC
at-large member r
quickly find out what I and some of
her other 13,773 projected constituents
think of her brand of "representation."
-John Koza, Grad
Nov. 12
Group policy
To The Daily:
THE POLICY OF The Daily of en-
dorsing individuals for the SGC at a
time when student politics has reached
the level of maturity where slates of
candidates organize themselves and pre-
sent a platform in a reflection of the
petty-bourgeois, individualistic, impres-
sionistic approach that The Daily takes
in viewing the world one block past
Maynard Street.