THE UPCOMING BOND ISSUE See Editorial Page Y AOF AOP .4i4tr tgan, :43a tR t TERMINAL High-35 Low-2 Occasional snow; 1-3" expected Vol. LXXXI I, No. 65 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, November 24, 1971 Ten Cents Ten Pages Regents' meetings: Opening up? csJ ruling results By CARLA RAPOPORT In what might be the University's first ove toward lifting the curtains of sec- recy which surrounds the Regents' monthly meetings, President Robben Fleming said yesterday he will suggest that the board consider opening its monthly Thursday night sessions to members of the public or press. In recent years, the traditionally closed sessions of the Regents have come under sharp attack by student and faculty groups who seek more knowledge of the publicly- elected board's o p i n i o n s and decision- making processes. "Certainly the public is interested in what es on behind the Regents' closed doors. But, in fact, a great many things the Re- gents discuss in closed sessions could be discussed in the middle of State St.," said Fleming in an interview yesterday. The Regents meet each month for some 14 hours of closed meetings during the two ys, Thursday and Friday, they gather here. On Friday, the hold a public session at which all final decisions are announced. As the Regents point out, very few votes at ucational-type" sessions usually include an address by a prominent personage followed by a question-and-answer period. "Opening the Thursday night sessions would be a trade-off, however," Fleming said. "The opened meetings would lose their frankness and candor, with the resultant loss of valuable exchange between speak- ers, Regents and the executive officers." Yet Fleming affirmed that the opened sessions could maximize public confidence and trust in the board. "It seems that now could be the time to consider this question, certainly it's some- thing to discuss," Fleming concluded. Last Thursday night, the Regents per- mitted a Daily photographer and reporter to attend their forum with Roger Heyns, former chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley. After a few minutes at the session, however, the two students were evicted by Vice President for Univer- sity Relations Michael Radock Raddock said he would block The Daily's access to the meeting unless the Regents also invited other local media to the same meeting. The regents contacted last night ex- pressed sharply diverging views on open- ing the Thursday night sessions. Yet most agreed that the issue is important, one worthy of their consideration. "I would basically be in favor of open- ing up the Thursday night sessions. It would be good for people to know what we talk about at these meetings," said Regent Paul Brown (D-Petoskey) last night. On the other hand Regent Robert Brown (R-Kalamazoo) said that the Regents "1 A -n + - ^ F n nrn - n r1r~ 0L By CHRIS PARKS Some $1500 of Student Government Council funds - which as of last weekend was apparently out of SGC con- trnl-wnas seecured by Central )oo transfer, President Fleming these brief meetings are not unanimous and rarely does more than five minutes of discussion precede each vote. Fleming said yesterday he will suggest when he next meets with the board the possibilities of permitting certain students, faculty members, or perhaps the press to attend the Regents' monthly Thursday night sessions. According to Fleming, "non-business, ed- ~ -Gov. says state budget cut' need some time to themselves to explore -v uCyv and ask some questions" on the issues they Student Judiciary yesterday, deem important. moving SGC a step closer to- "I'm not opposed to listening to others wards resolving the contro- and would be in favor of extending the versy over the funds. open hearings, but I don't think we should The action was taken following open our session," Brown concluded, a ruling by CSJ early yesterday The open hearings to which Brown re- morning that a freeze on the ac- I ferred were established a few years ago to counts of American Revolutionary allow all sides on a volatile campus issue Media (ARM) and two allegedly to air their views before the Regents. related organizations would con- Other regents stress they are in favor of tinue until such a transfer took free and open discussion, but point out that place. many times the Regents are inclined to 1 The freeze on ARM and Inter- national Liberation Studies and See FLEMING, Page 6 University Film Society was in- voked by CSJ Sunday night fol- lowing a complaint against them * by SGC. SGC had alleged that ARM was regards to the handling of the money. CSJ met in a preliminary! hearing late Monday night and early yesterday morning to hear :::::?::::.::;}:.;;>:"}<.:. ':the charges and consider exten- sion of the freeze. The funds originally granted by SGC to the student print co- op were held jointly by that group and the Washtenaw County Print Co-op. The transfer was agreed to by .ti Barbara Goldman of the student! e print co-op and ARM, and facili :: :; ;$ >;::::;} >. ,-:""::, ated by the acquiescence of ? ,;::.:::: ,;:.. ;;:; ":<}f:>;::}:CharleS Thomas of the Black ".$.:.. : ":::::. ::.::.:::Economic Development League (BFD L) repre Pitg the Wsh-I . tenaw County Print Co-op. According to the CSJ ruling, the <{; f: ..: . .. ":::::..::.}":s::..r:..".?:.;.;:":::;$::: com pletion of the transfer al- ? ._r?:;.;.lw the freeing of ARM 's and the -Associated Press China in Security Council Delegates from the People's Republic of Cl4na yesterday make their first appearance at the United Nations Security Council. They are, from left, Tang Ming-chao, Huang Hua, China's per- manent U.N. representative, and Chen Chu. U' to lose up to $2.1 million os part of state funding cutback By MARK DILLEN Whatever hope the University had of avoiding a cut in this year's state aid was dashed yesterday by Gov. William Milliken. "Definitely," he said, "we're going to have to go ahead with a cut." Word of a probable cut between two and three per cent of the state's operating budget had been in the air since last month, but not until Milliken's statement was the cut as- sured. A new provision,, in this year's appropriations bill allows Milliken to make the cut in order to avoid a state budget deficit. University officials were in a sense, forewarned when the rovision was attached to appropriations bills earlier this - r spring and summer. This, 1 1combined with a letter last Jury seated month from the state to all recipients of state aid-in- first K en c luding the University -pe or en pared University administra- tors for yesterday's announce- ment and gave them time to1 student trial prepare their own cuts. Fleming search i new OS names sni for VP Is RAVENNA; Ohio .()-A jury' of4 eight men and four women was #ated yesterday to hear the trial of Jerry Rupe, one of 25 persons indicted last fall on charges stem- ming from the 1970 disorders at Kent State University.k Rupe, 23, is charged with arson, first degree riot, assaulting a fire- nand interfering with firemen ring a May 2, 1970, blaze which destroyed a campus ROTC build- ing. Two days later four Kent State students were killed in a confron- tation with Ohio National Guards-, men who were attempting to dis- mrse a crowd on campus. The dis- orders erupted May 1 after Presi- dent Nixon announced he planned to send troops into Cambodia. Rupe is the first of 23 persons scheduled for trial before Portage County Common Pleas Court Judge win Jones. he 23, along with two other per- sons who have ,not been appre- hended or identified, were indicted by a special state grand jury five months after the killings. After being impaneled, the jury was taken to the university cam- to view the site of a building which was burned during the dis- orders. Some 20 demonstrators ere waiting at the site, but the 'urors stayed at the top of a hill verlooking the area.! We'd been anticipating the cut for some time," said Allen Smith, vice president for academic af- fairs yesterday. "We're giving each unit maximum leeway in determining the cuts." If Milliken decides to take the1 entire three per cent, about half of the University's loss will comej from non - salary parts of the University's budget. These funds, including equipment allocations,f have been subject of a self-im- posed freeze at the University level in anticipation of the Gov- ernors announcement. The other half might be decided by department chairmen and deans of the University's schools and colleges. However, according to Smith. not all units have "iden- tified" sufficient funds in either category. As a result, there is likely to be some variance in the require- ments imposed by Smith's office on the various schools and col- leges with the individual units given a couple of months to pare their expenditures. However, this year's cut will not be like the many imposed in the recent years of state financial troubles. Unlike -past cuts, order- ed by state administrators, this year's allows for the possibility that the state's financial pic- ture might improve and gives Milliken the option of returning all or part of the money he cuts from every state agency. i i iI 1 I f E -Associated Press THREE SUPPORTERS of Mukti Bahini guerillas of East Pakistan watch for the approach of the Pakistani Army as a group of guerills recuperate nearby. Heavy fighting was reported yesterday in East Pakistan between the guerillas, who seek an independent East Pakistan, and government forces. Fighting flares in E. Pakistan, India denies invasion ehariaes others' accounts. an action which ARM spokesman George De Pue said is necessary for the sur- vival of the organization. Last night. Michael Davis. counsel for SGC before CSJ, said! he was satisfied with the action and that charges against ARM on both the criminal and CSJ level would be dropped. Despite these events. however. SGC has still not accomplished its major goal: the return of the elusive $1.500 to their control. Davis said yesterday he intends to accomplish this by filing suit against the student co-op before CSJ for the return of the money. Under the terms of the emer- gency appropriation. he claims. the co-op's handling of the money has been illegal. Charges against the groups and the freeze on their funds were initiated by SGC following a stormy emergency meeting Sun-. day afternoon. The meeting was called after ARM spokesman George DePue announced the group would stop payment on the check for the $1.500 it had given SGC last week. The contraversy over the mon- ey began last month when SGC BYE BYE When the turkey's on the table and the hunger's in our gullets it's time enough to take time out from our Pulitzer pur- suits and take a brief vaca- tion for Thanksgiving. We'll be back with you for break- fast next Tuesday, Nov. 30. approved a motion by Goldinan- then an SGC member- for fund- ing a student print co-op to work with a Washtenaw County print co-operative. An emergency grant was sub- sequently approved when SGC was told a "good deal" could be See SGC, Page 6 NEW DELHI VP)-Heavy fight- "the greatest restraint." There, ing has broken out in East Paki- were demands that the issue be stan, both India and Pakistan re- taken to the U.N. Security Coun- ported yesterday. The Pakistanis cil. maintained they were battling In- A Pakistan army source in Dac- dian invaders, but India said East ca, the East Pakistani c pita 1, Pakistani rebels-and not Indians claimed his countrymen demol- -were involved. ished 18 Indian tanks and in- India claimed its G n a t jets flicted heavy casualties on Indian downed three Pakistani warplanes soldiers in fierce ground fighting over Indian territory. Pakistan along the East Pakistani borders acknowledged two l o s s e s and, with India. claimed two Indian planes were shot down. Pakistan charged India launched shot dwn. .a large scale offensive into the A Pakistani military spokesman area on Monday, attacking in the in Rawalpindi indicated the al-'aeonM dytacignth nd Indian assault was not as Jessore, Sylhet and Chittagong re- legedaIninst aedtasingthas gions on either side of the em- large as first reported, stating that battled province. elements of the 42nd and 320thb 'Indian Mountain Brigades were India denied the charges and leading it. Pakistan radio said said the attacks came from East Monday the Indian 9th Infantry Pakistaniaindependence fighters Division, 4th Mountain Division trying to wrest the province from and two tank regiments were at- government control. tacking in the Jessore area. The military spokesman said yes- terday the brigades were believed' to be elements of the two divisions named. Pakistani indpnnce fighters /)1,1 President Fleming yesterday named a 10-member search committee to choose a sucessor to Vice President for Student Services Robert Knauss. The committee includes five students, chosen by Student Government Council, two staff members in the Office of Stu- dent Services and three faculty members chosen by Senate Assembly. Knauss announced last summer that he plans to leave his OSS post early next year to become dean of the Vander- -----bilt University law school. Pakistan President Agha Mo- hammed Yahya Khan declared a state of emergency in his country -which has been under martial law since March 1969-"in view of the threat of foreign aggression." Yahya has stated he would not hesitate to declare war against India if it helped the Mukti Bahini capture any territory in East Pak- istan. But despite the Pakistani claim that Indian troops were occupying some East Pakistani border areas, only scattered incidents were re- ported on the border between In- dia and West Pakistan in disputed Kashmir State. The Kashmir border, on the other side of India some 1,0UU miles from the East Pakistani fighting, was the scene of two previous wars between the two na- tions, in 1948 and 1965. Co-chairmen of the committee C ou n ty to are Jeffrey Kaplan, '73, president of the University Activities Center and chemistry Prof. Peter Smith, a member of the OSS housing O policy board. The other faculty members of the committee are psychology Prof. Judith Bardwick and law Prof. bond SSUe1Harry Edwards. OSS staff mem- bers on the committee are Direc- By LINDA DREEBEN tor of Special Services and Pro- Calling attention to the need for grams Elizabeth Davenport and adequate educational facilities for John Koch of Health Service. mentally retarded and physically Student committee members are handicapped children, the Washte- Rosemary Cobb, Jerry De Grieck, naw Intermediate School District former executive vice president of (WISD) is asking county voters to SGC, Andre Hunt, SGC coordinat- approve a bonding proposition to K vice president and Pamela permit the construction of a $27 Kpford. million Mental Retardation Service Knauss assumed the vice presi- Complex. dency in September, 1970, replac- The complex-which would 'serve ing actingrVice President for Stu- county children with severe and!dent Affairs Barbara Newell. moderate mental retardation and' Knauss' appointment inspired multiple physical handicaps-is- the heated controversy at the time be- issue of a special election set for cause Fleming had appointed him Nov. 30. -circumventing the search com- This election represents the first ;mittee procedure -after all five opportunity for locally registered candidates chosen by a search 18-20-year olds to vote. cormittee similar to the one Approval of the bonding program named to find Knauss' successor would mean a tax increase of .19 withdrew from consideration. mills of 19 cents per $1,000 assessed In a letter sent to search com- valuation for a 12 year period. Imittee members, Fleming asked If the bond issue passes, exist- that they consider "individuals ing programs in the county would both within and without the Uni- be brought into one building, which versity" without respect to race or proponents say would maximize)sex. the use of facilities and' staff. The Fleming's letter also told the building, unlike present facilities, committee that its function is "to would be specially designed to collect the names of possible can- meet the needs of the children. didates, screen them, arrange for "The concept of this center," interviews with those who' seem according to Charles Foster of the the most likely prospects, and WISD, "is away from institutional- finally recommend several per- See COUNTY, Page '7 sons." ' Student living costs rise during Phase 1 h By PAUL TRAVIS As the country moves into Phase 2 of President Nixon's new economic program it ap- pears that Phase 1 had little over-all effect in Ann Arbor. The policies, however, seem to Lave financially affected the udents at the Univeristy. With the increase in tuition and dorm rates, students have had to pay greater costs while labor, and the city, however, in- dicate little or no change in their economic situation that can be traced to the freeze. The main obstacle to judging the effect of the freeze in Ann Arbor is the lack of accurate statistics. "It is much too early to tell," says William Bott, president of Ann Arbor's Chamber of Com- merce. "Our reports and figures in East Pakistan described the fighting that began Monday as a do-or-die battle to drive out the Pakistan army and establish an independent Bangla Desh-Bengal nation-in East Pakistan. The new flare up between the subcontinent's two nations, an out- growth of the East Pakistan seces- sionist movement that has driven millions of refugees into India, brought these developments: -In New York, United Nations rioneer I: By PETER CAMPBELL On a wall in one of the few classrooms in Pioneer II high school, a poster displays the sad observation of a public school student: "If I weren't in school I'd find the world." The students of Pioneer II, Ann Arbor's new experimental free school, are there for the most part because they don't want to look at school +hn+ --, 0-- 1,-,-1-1 -A,+1%a r al -1r2 FIRST SEMESTER Experimental School, Pioneer II opened this fall-as a fully accredited public school-in the Fritz Building, a former elementary school at 995 N. Maple. It was the end of a summer of planning by Pioneer High students and faculty. But it was just a beginning. Now in its sec- ond month of existence, Pioneer II faces the formidable task of proving its worth as an edu- cational innovation. free school' K.. "'i'' '