WRITE-ON INC. See Editorial Page Y L Ai t iAzr :Idy STAY HOME! High-30J Low--0 Fair and colder; occasional snow Vol. LXXXII, No. 64 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, November 23, 1971 Ten Cents Twelve Pages Te et Twelve Pages PRINT CO-OP ISSUE: Council considers action against ARM fails on'1 Senate to act "> By TONY SCHWARTZ Student Government C o u n c il may file criminal and civil charges against American Revolutionary Media (ARM) today if the group fails to produce some $1,500 which Council originally alloted to the University Student Print Co-op for the purchase of printing equip- ment. At an emergency meeting Sun- day night, SGC v o t e d to file c h a r g e s against ARM. If the money is not returnedaby noon to- day, SGC members and Council will meet to finalize the legal im- plications and feasibility of the unprecedented move, according to Council member Michael Davis, Grad. In addition, Central Student Ju- diciary (CSJ) voted late last night to grant SGC's request for a trial on their charges against ARM. * D e b a t e continued early this morning on Council's request to continue a temporary freeze placed Sunday on ARM's student ac-I counts by CSJ, as well as on those organizations which SGC members call ARM "fronts," International Liberation Studies and the Uni- versity Film Society. Doug Richardson, '72, a former member of SGC and of ARM, re- signed from the Student Print Co- op board last night "in protest of ARM's manipulative, deceitful and possibly fraudulent dealings in this whole matter." Joel Silverstein, '72, an SGC member who had already resigned from the print co-op board in pro- test, said last night, "ARM was consistently manipulating BEDL and SGC by withholding informa- tion from both parties." With the resignation of Rich- ardson, the print co-op now con- sists of two members of ARM and two additional people. The board was set up with an open member- ship policy. George DePue, ARM spokesman, called the attempts to place a freeze on ARM's account, "a witch hunt against me." He added thatI the some $1500 is now under a joint account 'in the Ann Arbor Bank, shared by Barb Goldman as representative for the Student Print Co-op Board and Charles Thomas as representative for Washtenaw County Print Co-op.{ Since its original allotment to the student print co-op board several weeks ago, the status of the $1,500 has been in almost constant doubt. According to SGC members, no equipment has yet been purchased with the funds and due to several mix-ups, SGC has lost its controlI over the money. A week ago, the student print' co-op board voted to give the $1,500 to the Washtenaw County Black E c o n o m i c Development League in order to assist in the creation of a county, non-profit, See SGC, Page 9 research By GENE ROBINSON University Senate declined to act on Senate Assembly's proposal to drastically restrict classified research yesterday, clearing the way for the resolution to go directly to the Re- gents for consideration in December. The Senate discussed but did not vote on the proposal which, if adopted, would ban most federal research projects which limit the publication of research results. According to its bylaws, University Senate may overturn the actions of Senate Assembly, the representative body of the faculty. It had been speculated that some Senate members-in- cluding many from the engineering college-were hoping to veto the assembly's proposed research policy. t-u- Tv -Daily-Terry McCarthy PSYCHOLOGY PROF. WARREN NORMAN, head of University Senate (left), officiates at yester- day's meeting. Dr. George Zissis of Willow Run Laborties considers the classified research proposal (above, right), while President Robben Fleming lstens to the discussion. ACTIONS IN WASHINGTON: Site of blaze Court bars sex bias; School board building gutted; suspect arson Arson was suspected yesterday in the $200,000 blaze which destroyed the city school system's administration building Sunday night. Investigators from the city police and fire departments and the state fire marshal's office had concluded by yester- day afternoon that three separate fires had been set inside the 55-year-old building on the city's southside. Firemen went to the blaze shortly after 3 a.m. Sunday, after school board member Ted Heusel reported an anony- mous telephone caller told him "your building's on fire." ERA diluted i'n Senate i WASHINGTON RP-In a land- mark ruling the Supreme Court yesterday unanimously barred arbitrary discrimination against women by legislators everywhere in the nation. Meanwhile, t h e constitutional amendment to guarantee women equal rights with men, approved by the House on Oct. 12 by 354- 23 vote, was rejected by a Sen- ate judiciary subcommittee. In its place, the subcommittee approved by a 6-4 vote a sub- stitute proposal which provides that neither the federal nor the state governments shall make any legal distinction between the rights and responsibilities of men and women except on the basis of "physiological or func- tional differences." The Supreme Court decision, announced by Chief Justice War- ren Burger, was the first by the high court cloaking women with the equal-protection clause of the Constitution, the basis for earlier rulings advancing the rights of Negroes. Burger said legislators may treat women differently from men only when the purpose is reasonable. The decision came in a rela- tively obscure case from Idaho in which the father and mother of a deceased son had vied for the right to administer his es- tate of less than $1,000. Under state law the father had been named the administrator. "We have concluded," Burger said, "that the arbitrary prefer- Trials begin nnl Kent htp! More than 40 firemen and three pieces of equipment fought the blaze as it raged through the building, entirely gutting the structure. Further trouble struck the SJ 3-% Z ' '- lschool system - which has been plagued with racial violence re- ;cently - later Sunday night when ie thieves broke into Ann Arbor's Pioneer High school. crashed RAVENNA, Ohio (A) - As pro- through a brick wall into the testors defied a court order and building's strongroom, and broke demonstrated outside, a trial be- into a safe, taking $1,000. gan yesterday for a man charged In a statement y-sterday. school with riot and assaulting a fireman superintendent R. Bruce McPher- in the May 1970 disorders at Kent son said: "The only heartening State University, thing about this destructive fire rt..? 5% h f, r t -is that there were no injuries or ence established in favor of males by . . . the Idaho code cannot stand in face of the 14th Amendment's command that no state deny the equal protection of the laws to any person within its jurisdiction." Melvin Wulf, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union which filed the brief for the mother,, said "I am moder- ately pleased that we won the case, but the pleasure is very qualified because we did not win on the broader grounds." "Our purpose was to try to get the Supreme ,Court- to declare that sexual discrimination is un- constitutional, and they have ap- parently declined to take that major step," Wulf said. Key senators disagreed about the impact of the ruling on the Equal Rights Amendment. Women's groups who have fought for years for the, Con- stitutional amendment to give women fully equality under the law with men, have in the past contended the exception in the substitute p a s s e d yesterday would nullify its effect. The House rejected language with a similar intent by a vote of 265-87. The proposed amendment, as it passed the House, provided that equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of sex. See COURT, Page 9 About 250 of the Senate's 2,800 members, composed of University faculty members, librarians and researchers, attended the meeting. Senate members discussed the proposal for about an hour, ar- guing both for and against the resolution, but did not vote on it. The controversial resolution, passed by Senate Assembly last month,. proposes that the Uni- versity "not enter into or renew federal contracts or grants that limit open publication of the re- sults of research," except when "theproposed research is likely to contribute so significantly to the advancement of knowledge as to justify infringement of the freedom to publish openly." University Senate has been mainly a ceremonial body in the past. The main purpose of its twice-a-year meetings has been to present announcements and improve faculty relations. Had the Senate voted to over- rule the assembly's proposal yes- terday it would have been the first time such an action had been taken. A vote to veto the proposal itself was not on the official Senate agenda. However, a motion by three Senate members to review BULLETIN A major military action in- side East Pakistan, possibly in- volving Indian troops, was re- ported yesterday by both In- dian and Pakistani sources, the New York Times said in to- day's edition. The Pakistani government charged last night that India had launched an all-out mili- tary offensive without a dec- laration of war. Meanwhile, according to late reports from the Associated Press, an Indian broadcast said Bengali rebels had launched the offensive, not I n d i a n troops. The Indian broadcast said East Pakistan's Bengali Liber- ation Army was "advancing deep into the Sylhet district (of E. Pakistan) despite resist- ance from the Pakistan army. (See earlier story, Page 3.) the proposal was included on the schedule. Among the sponsors of the mo- tion to review the resolution was Dr. George Zissis. of Willow Run Laboratories, the site of the vast majority of University classified research. A vote to veto the resolution See 'U', Page 7I 'UJ' meets with Gov. on budget University officials yesterday met with Gov. Milliken and his budget advisors in the first in a series of hearings over the appro- priation request. The University request of $98.8 million represents an increase of $20.7 million over the current year's funding level. The probability of receiving an 'increase of that magnitude is quite slim, however. Last year, the University asked for an additional $22 million in state funds. The figure was subse- quently slashed to $4.6 million by the State Legislature. The University contingent for the budget hearings included President Fleming, Allan Smith, vice presi- dent for academic affairs, Fedele Fauri, vice president for state re- lations and planning, and Frank Rhodes, literary college dean. Included in the University's re- quest are funds which had been earmarked for an 11 per cent aver- age increase in staff salary and benefits. That raise has been placed in jeopardy by the new 5.5 per cent guidelines set down by President Nixon's Pay Board. High on the University's list of priorities for the coming year are health science developments and increased student aid funds, Uni- versity officials say. According to State Budget Di- rector John Dempsey, it is unlike- ly that the University, or any of the state's large four-year insti- tutions, will receive funds for ex- pansion of undergraduate pro- grams. Instead, he says, the state plans to expand undergraduate level po- sitions by concentrating on devel- oping community colleges. As always, the final appropi ja- tion figure will depend largely on the economic status of +he state. Recent reports of increased pro- fits among the major automobile companies have offered on. sign that the state's economic picture may be improving. Group designs courses to induce educational and social change' Jerry Rupe, 3, was the first of { 25 persons indicted by a special state grand jury to go on trial in connection with the disorders. He was indicted in October 1970 on charges of first-degree riot, as- saulting and striking a fireman and interfering with a fireman May 2, 1970, when fire destroyed an ROTC' building. Outside the Portage County Courthouse, about 15 college-age protestors briefly demonstrated and then heeded police orders to, disperse. Some entered the court-' house to witness the trial. Five men and -three women were See FIRST, Page 7 loss of life. Beginning Monday, we will move to restore administrative services for the district and will expand those services with each succeeding day." McPherson announced an emer- gency plan, under which essential school services will be maintained from temporary quarters at schools and offices elsewhere in the system. He also pledged to "pay all em- ployes on schedule." By last night, no arrests had been made in the case. McPherson said yesterday the building was insured for a total of $399,000. By REBECCA WARNER Starting next term, the Pro-1 gram for Educational and Social Change (PESC) will offer Uni-+ versity students a program ofi courses centered on social and1 educational change.; The program will include a list1 of 40 courses in a wide range of academic disciplines. "People have the right to de- termine the forms of their own education," says history Prof. Ro- bert Sklar, a PESC member. "We are trying to facilitate self-dis-1 covery." According to Sklar, PESC isI designed to provide a community; for faculty and students who wantE to work on educational and sociall change. It aims to give students the opportunity to create indepen- dent courses on themes of their own choosing. PESC also plans to provide faculty support for the formation of groups within one or more courses as well as for inde- pendent study projects, Sklar said. Alan Statman, '74, stresses stu- dent self-determination as a goal of PESO. "I see PESO offering the student some power over his edu- cation through choice of course content and method of learning," Statman said. PESC includes 40 courses for both undergraduates and gradu- ate students. The anthropology, economics, geography, English, history, political science, physics, psychology, sociology, and Resi- dential College humanities and social sciences departments are represented. At present PESC officially con- sists of about 20 students and 20 faculty members. Other faculty members have also added their courses to the program. A PESC booklet outlining the program is being prenared by stu- dent and faculty PESC m-mb-r, and will probably be printed and distributed within two weeks, Stat- man says. in an attpmnt to involve nnn- Stv0-nt mpni-b-rs. a PTa(C courses will be onen and fre- to whornmver wishes to attond. Credit Cannot be awarded to non-r-ais- *qrod studpnts. HowevPr. faculty m-tmbers will orovide narticinnnta with written sta~tPments~ indinatin0 =p=i=fac=orv comn=tion of th coursp work. PESC nlon to 0ffPr two aiU.r- na+i,(rp nnronebes in itc emlrc-C. Tnrl~i'onp nlon. s+ijdentc will hn tolr th +b a an- of rlieioiionn cn- A orornn rnv piln to wro-I ro- -thrr on ono nroin(t or conartn- 1v on n vnriniv of nrninnte rath' a. common thpmrnCv- n -mom h-*e ~r11 1Wn" +.ho mc+^rQ'* , w1ith the f ilty m mhnr t 'People s By HOWARD BRICK and BETH OBERFELDER Oil puddles lying on the floor of the old Fisher Cadillac Garage will soon be mop- ped up in preparation for the opening of the new People's Comnmunity Center. The new facility, set to open Dec. 1 at 502 E. Washington St., will provide a new home for the Free Peoples' Medical Clinic. Drug Help and other organizations cur- center finds home will be used for a creative workshop. An- other area will be used for service groups, and the whole second floor is being con- verted into an expanded Free People's Clinic. "Everybody's going to want to use the facility when it's done, so they might as well help now" says a worker from Drug Help. Among the groups which have offered ... . .........