THE FACULTY AND DECISION-MAKING See Editorial Page llfr tgn3 :43 ti1" WINSOME High-70 Low-39 Clear, warmer Vol. LXXXII, No. 60 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Thursday, November 18, 1971 Ten Cents Ten Pages SGC returns yield MiX( Ad slate, funding no, Taylor recall, static -Daily-Sara Krulwich VICTORIOUS SGC candidate Michael Davis (left) and. Brad Taylor, (right), who kept his SGC seat after an unsuccessful at- tempt to recall him, celebrate at SGC offices late last night. BLACK DEMANDS: Board accepts modified plans Tight vote keeps seat Tayor By TED STEIN Student voters narrowly de- feated a bid to recall Student Gpvernment Council member Brad Taylor, '74, in the cam- pus - wide elections Tuesdayi and yesterday. In r e s ul t s released late last night, the recall referendum failed to receive the 60 per cent of the "yes" vote required to effect the recall. The vote was 2409-2106, or 54 per cent in favor of the referen- dum. Although election officials re- ported early this morning there were 102 ballots which were not counted by the computer the votes on these ballots would not be enough to change the results. The recall defeat caps a highly- charged controversy surrounding Taylor's recent testimony before the House Internal Security Com- mittee (HISC) concerning partici- pants and organizations in the National Student and Youth Con- ference for a People's Peace, held' here last February. The People's Peace conference produced the first plans for last Spring's Mayday anti - war pro- tests. Taylor said last night that the defeat of the recall attempt was "a victory for free speech.'' "I think it vindicated me and shoed that the case against me was a fraudalent one," he said. However, Bob Black, '73, chair- man of the ad hoc Committee to Recall Brad Taylor, said, "Realis- tically speaking, Taylor lost be- cause a majority of votes were against him." Black added that "the point of recall is to make government of- ficials more accountable for their actions." "That purpose was served," he said. The referendum was initiated Oct. 7 as the recall committee submitted to SGC the 1,000 signa- tures required to place the ques- tion on the ballot. Taylor had been covering the People's Peace Conference for a publication of the Young Ameri- cans for Freedom (YAF) of which he is a member. Last spring, HISC subpoenaed Taylor as a part of its investigation of various anti-war organizations and pro- tests. Taylor's critics argued that his action endangered the right of University students to be free from intimidation because of po- litical activities. They said that HISC-formerly the House Un-American Activities Committee-had a policy of har- rassment designed to discourage political groups and views unpop- ular with the current administra- tion. The recall committee charged throughout its campaign that eveni if Taylor was subpoenaed, he went "overboard" in providing HISC an extremely detailed account of the activities as well as the peo- ple involved in the People's Peace Conference. Michael Davis Marty Scott Joel Silverstein Mat Dunaskis William Krebaum Curt Steinhauer Moderate, right trend appears in close ballot By W.E. SCHROCK A broad spectrum of candidates with a surprisingly strong conservative-to-moderate element was elected to fill nine of the 11 Student Government Council member-at- large seats in the campus-wide elections Tuesday and yes- terday. In the unofficial results released late last night, four of the five candidates running on the GROUP slate captured seats, along with three of. the four members of the conser- vative Responsible Alternative Party and two of the five members of the Radical People's Coalition. An avowedly apolitical slate, GROUP presented the old- est and most experienced candidates on the ballot. Michael Davis of GROUP gar-" - ---- nered the greatest vote in the election, 1,548, while GROUP's T en Marty Scott, president of SGC in 1970-71, was next with 1,519. Both won full-term seats.01 GROUP members John Koza filleu in and Dale Oesterle finished sev- enth and ninth, winning half- term seats with 1.360 and 1,353 votes respectively. * r c Curt Steinhauer of RAP finished Lr h 1 l e third with 1,391, William Krebaum fifth with 1,373, and Mat Dunaskis B OESEBRTI sixth with 1,373. All three won full- By ROSE SUE BERSTEIN term seats. With only 1,002 literary college Doug Rick of RAP lost out with students voting-eight per cent of a close tenth place position and the college's population -10 of 11 1,336 votes. candidates became members of the 1,336 vtes CLSA Student Government Execu- Of the five Coalition candidates, tive Council in the campus-wide only two were elected. Joel Silver- elections. stein took fourth place and a full- The 15 member Executive Coun- term seat with 1,377 votes; Arlene cil was established in March, 1970, sGerti wigth place and a half-term when students approved the idea of a student government for the lit- None of the seven independent erary college. The full provisions candidates were elected, nor were of its constitution, however-includ- the two candidates running on a ing an as yet non-existent College Community P a r t y slate. There Assembly-still await implementa- were 23 candidates in all. tion. Only 5,331 ballots were reported Financial difficulties have beset in the election-around 16 per cent the Executive Council throughout The Ann Arbor Board of Education last night approved a modified form of the black demands for change in the public high schools. The major issue of disagreement between the board's version and the original demands revolved around the expansion of counseling services. Some 300 people listened to Bill Jones of Model Cities present the four demands which include employment of 12 groundsmen to be approved by a bi-racial committee with a black majority, creation of a black studies component, sev- eral points on expanding and improving counseling services, Women to march on abortion Thousands of women from all parts of the country are expect- ed to meet in the nation's capital Saturday for the first National Women's March on Washington. Simultaneous demonstrations will occur in San Francisco, Toronto and several cities abroad. The Women's National Abor- tion Action Coalition (WONAAC) is planning the march. WONAAC's press releases stress that the marchers will be follow- ing the route of the suffragettes in 1918, when they marched in Washington for women's suff- rage. After assembling at the El- lipse, an area behind the White House, WONACC plans to march down Constitution Ave. to the Capitol for an afternoon rally. Various figures in the women's movement are scheduled to speak at the rally and express their opposition to restrictive abortion and contraception laws as well as forced sterilization. WONACC organizers have ask- ed that men interested in WONAAC's goals help organize the march and has invited them to march also. "Every state in the United States has laws on the books which re- strict the right of women to ob- tain abortions." W 0 N A A C has stated. "We believe that all such laws deny us one of our most basic rights-the right to contro our own bodies; the right to con- trol our own lives. "Restrictive abortion laws pro- vide the basis of legalized murder of thousands of women. Involun- tary sterilizations are the price poor women are often forced to pay in order to obtain safe, lega and recognition of needs non-middle class whites the schools. of in The school board accepted most of the nrovisions but said that the number of counselors will not be expanded. Also seventh and tnth graders will be assigned their counselors rather than se- lect them as originally proposed. In addition, the bi-racial com- mittee suggested to review the hiring of the groundsmen will not have a black majority, but will have an. equal number of blacks and whites. The Huron Valley Association of Black Social Workers and other groups endorsed the black de- mands, written following last week's one day boycott of public schools. A coalition of black par- ents and students called the strike in response to continual racial in- cidents in the high schools. Black reaction to the approval of the altered demands ranged from approval to disgust at the predominately white meeting. However a black negotiator said, "We hope when the crisis is over we-both the board and the par- ents-will still work to live up to the committments." John Koza Arlene Griffin Winners of SGC at-large Dale Oesterle seats Students reject plan to cut By HESTER PULLING The referendum calling for an end to Student Government Coun- cil's primary source of income- student assesments - was soundly defeated by students in the cam- pus-wide elections Tuesday and yesterday. The v o t e was 3,000- 1,320. The outcome of the proposal to increase SGC's allotment from stu- dent fees to $.85 per student per term, from $.25, remained unclear early this morning as election of- ficials reported that 102 ballots not counted by the computer could change the close results. SGCf In an unofficial tally released by SGC, the referendum on in- creased funding was losing by 39 votes-2,327-2,288. The additional 102 votes could alter the outcome if they are tabulated. The t h i r d funding proposal, seeking to assess students $.50 a term to fund school and college governments, was approved 2,023- 1,851. The SGC Credentials and Rules Committee will d e c i d e today whether to count the 102 ballots under question. Any increase in SGC's allotment must be approved by the Regents. According to Vice President for Academic Affairs Allan Smith, the Regents will treat the referenda as a "declaration of students desires." However, Smith had no predic- tion . as to whether the Regents would raise Council's current fund- ing level of $.25 per student per term to the more than three-fold increase of $.85. If both funding proposals re- main defeated, the results will be taken as a vote by students to preserve SGC's current level of funding. The three procedural questions on the ballot-the proportional representation amendment, the consent of the governed proposal and the special referenda question -all passed by a wide margin. Last April, a similar funding referendum seeking to assess stu- dents $1.85 a term for SGC and unding The proposed projects, and the number of votes each received are: -3,131 for establishing and initially funding a cooperative grocery store; -2,975 for establishing and funding a large scale paper and glass recycling center for the campus: -2,818 for financing the com- pilation and distribution of an in-depth consumer report of stores, housing and products in the city; -2,601 for working to estab- lish local University-community 24-hour child care centers; -2,366 to obtain federal funds through Council to build low-cost See STUDENTS, Page 7 of the eligible electorate. While election officials are quot- ing the results as official, there appeared to be a small possibility that they may change. Over 100 ballots were invalidated by the computer, apparently due to some voter confusion on ballot instructions. Further, there appeared to be some irregularities in the computer printout that reported the results. Election officials, however, said early this morning they did not be- lieve this would cause a major change in the outcome. The SGC Credentials and Rules committee will have to rule on both of these questions, probably today. The election topped a semester of controversy for SGC, as a series of resignations raised old questions of Council's effectiveness in repre- senting student needs. Early in October, three conser- vative members of Council-Karen Haas, Rick Higgins and Mary Schnelker-unexpectedly resigned, criticizing SGC as essentially pow- erless and unrepresentative. At the same time, Marnie Heyn also resigned, citing as her pri- mary reason extensive "power jockeying" on Council. While Heyn's resignation was an- ticipated, the abrupt resignation of three other conservatives was a surprise; in general, the action by one-third of the Council prompt- ed serious questions in the minds of many students. The remaining SGC members, meanwhile, chose to wait until this election to fill the vacant seats. See SGC, Page 10 its 20 month existence. Up to now, its only funding has come from the LSA Executive Committee and Dean. In addition, observers report a sense of political inertia, point- ed up most recently by the Nov. 6 resignation of President James Bridges, '72. Yesterday's election attracted about the same number of student voters as a year ago-roughly ten per cent of the literary college. The new Executive Council mem- bers include Kris Sankovitch, '75 (269votes); Mark Brissette, '73 (217 votes); and Neil Aisenson, '73 (210 votes)-all of whom won full term seats. In addition Action Mandate can- didates Richard Ross, '73 (253 votes); Bob Stephens, '73 (246 votes); Steve Vagnozzi, '73 (211 votes); and Dave Hornstein, '74 (201 votes) were elected to full terms. I n d e p e n d e n t Jonathan Klein, '74 won a full term seat while Action Mandate candidates Carl Herstein, '73 (199 votes) and Charles Barquist, '75 (196 votes) were elected to half-term seats. The sole unsuccessful candidate was James Glickman, '75 (167 votes). Two referenda were also ap- proved by comfortable margins in the generally lackluster election race. One referendum, passed by 633-288, restating the Student Gov- ernment Council school and college government funding question. Without this separate ballot, however, it would not have been possible to determine literary col- lege sentiments on this issue. The second referendum, which passed 487-170, amends the con- stitutional quorum requirements for the still unformed Assembly. .Thai ENDS PARLIAMENT chief seizes power Rackham Assembly convenes for first meeting of semester _ BANGKOK (W) - Thailand's brief experiment with limited democracy ended'yesterday as Pre- mier Thanom Kittikachorn dissolved parliament, suspended the constitution and assumed absolute 1 power. Paratroopers moved into Bangkok to buttress regular police patrols, and tanks encircled the parliament building.. But despite imposition of martial law and police check points in the streets, the capital appeared calm. Regular announcements on Radio Thailand said Thanom would head a revolutionary council with ,l { ,,. n rso -aallMoi 'atimilt.vmnt- r T By GLORIA JANE SMITH Rackham Assembly, the lower house of the Rackham Student Government (RSG) which includes representatives from most depart- ments within the graduate school, met last night for the first time this term. It was only the second meeting of the Assembly since the forma- program proposed last spring by tion of RSG last spring, although Allan Smith, vice president for the executive council, the upper academic affairs, which is cur- house of RSG, has met weekly rently being discussed in closed throughout the term, meetings of the University's Aca- At the meeting, the Assembly demic Affairs Committee; discussed: -A proposed Symposium in Edu- -RSG's counter-proposal to the cation and Employment tentatively graduate s t u d e n t associateship scheduled for the winter term; -The proposed Rackham fee s atritnrea nrd enrn11ment nolicv