ye t t gn Elaun Eighty-one years of editorial freedom Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Mich. News Phone: 764-0552 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must b. noted in all reprints 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 I '9 AI 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 The Editorial Page of The Michigan Daily is open to any- one who wishes to submit articles. Generally speaking, all articles should be less than 1,000 words. w e John Koza Jana Bommersbach Michael Davis 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.