re tit$an Dait Eighty-one years of editorial freedom Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan superscription Putting your money where your brain was by lynn weiner I 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 be noted in all reprints WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1971 NIGHT EDITOR: ROSE SUE BERSTEIN The Nov.30 bond issue NEXT TUESDAY, November 30, a special election will be held which will re- present for newly enfranchised 18-20 year olds who have registered locally their first opportunity to vote. At that time, Washtenaw county voters will decide whether to approve a $27 million bonding proposition to build and equip a Mental Retardation Service Center. The center, which would be designed to serve children with moderate and severe mental retardation and multiple physical handicaps, would bring the three existing programs in the county together in one building specifically constructed with the needs of these children in mind. If the bonding proposal is approved, the bonds would be paid off over a 12-year period at a rate of .19 of mill per year. That represents a tax increase of 19 cents per $1,000 of assessed valuation. There are a number of reasons why vot- A breakthrough? THOSE POOR souls addicted to t h e pleasures of smoking tobacco as well as other substances might take heart in yesterday's report of one Dr. Barbara Brown, of the Sepulveda Veterans Ad- ministration Hospital in Los Angeles. Brown, by attaching electrodes, to the scalps of 100 subjects, found that smok- ers had more electrical brain energy, and consequently thought more, than n o n- smokers. "You can't very well have a punching bag in the office or go about doing push- ups," says Dr. Brown. "Smoking is a convenient way of using up energy." But the doctor adds a note of caution. "This may mean smokers are more aware, more energetic and more intelli- gent than people who don't smoke," she says. However, "it could mean t h a t smokers' brains use electrical energy more diffusely, less efficiently." One other fact might warrant skepti- cism. her work was done under a grant of the Tobacco Institute -a center sup- ported by the nation's producers of to- bacco. ers should approve the bonding proposi- tion. IN MICHIGAN, education is not manda- tory for children who present these special educational problems. Historically, local school districts, who do have pro- grams for the educable mentally retarded, have not been in a position to provide moderately and severely retarded child- ren with programs. This either denies the child an educa- tion or forces the family to institutional- ize the child - often an expensive and emotionally unsound alternative. The Washtenaw County Intermediate School District, which proposed the cent- er, currently sponsors three excellent pro- grams in the county. However, two of the programs meet in rented rooms in churches, and the third in a public school building used solely for the program. None of these facilities were designed with consideration of the needs of the mentally retarded and physically handi- capped in mind, and as a result restrict the types of activities and learning pro- grams that can be offered. The district proposed the center on the basis of a study assessing the current facilities, which concluded that both for the present and the projected population of retarded children in the county, the present facilities are highly inadequate. This, the study continues, effects t h e quality of the program. J ACK OF SPACE for therapy, an inef- ficient transportation system and a lack of facilities for children in wheel chairs are among the limitations cited by the report and those involved with the programs. The present buildings also lack ade- quate kitchen and eating facilities, re- creation and conference areas and suf- ficient storage space. While program directors praise t h e programs and the children, it is evident that in a specially designed, fully equip- per center the programs could be ex- panded and the learning situations signi- ficantly improved. Tentative plans for the Center include space for five age and ability level groups, ample room for recreation, including a swimming pool, rooms for therapy, ramps instead of stairs and observation rooms for parents and guests to the center to watch the children without disturbing them. In4 addition, the proposed center would include diagnostic and assessment serv- ices which would be available to all school-age children in the county. Proponents of the center see it serving as a model to other counties which may consider building a similar center and to planners of public buildings who often overlook or are unaware of the needs of the handicapped and the mentaly retard- ed. ALL REGISTERED VOTERS are urged to vote yes in this special election. The bond issue is a cause which clearly deserves to be approved. But expressing concern for an often neglected part of society with their ballots will not be enough in the long range. Voters must recognize both the educational and social needs of mentally retarded and physically hiandicapped children and their families, understanding that only through effective programs can these children work toward fulfilling their potential as people. -LINDA DREEBEN HENRY DAVID THOREAU would look glumly upon the current student business of term paper selling, and would probably retreat further into the woods. "Why should we be in such desperate haste to suc- ceed, and in such desperate enterprises?" he writes in Walden. It is Walden - the record of a man's rejection of corrupt, materialistic society and his search for nature and simple life - which has ironically become the focus of a campus controversy, Two organizations, Write On, Inc. and Creative Re- search, Inc., sold the same paper on Walden to students in the same section of English 269 here at the Univer- sity. The literary college's Administrative Board may take some action against the unlucky students, with ex- pulsion the highest possible penalty. But the Board shouldn't be surprised that young entrepreneurs attempt to peddle the trappings of learn- ing or that students attempt to buy it. OUR SOCIETY is geared towards a consumer-orienta- tion where advertisements and commercials try to sell everything from happiness, love, and sex to war and peace. If you buy the right product, you buy the right symbolic gratification. Slogans, posters, and life styles are packaged and promoted and bought by Americans trapped in their concept that money can buy anything. Why not education, as well? It seems after all the accreditation is what is valued, rather than the learning process itself. The term paper syndicate, a national phenomena, sells 10,000 pages a week, and Write-On's manager says the Ann Arbor franchise sells between 1,500 and 3,000 pages a week - with an average weekly income of over $4,000. They sell noble ideas and clear insights cheaply. And they advertise. Samples from the Daily classi- fieds the day the story of the duplication was published include: TERM PAPERS. Largest stock of highly graded used term papers in the country. All disciplines. Low rates. Also custom written papers for your special needs and tutoring, translations, computer programs, theses, and dissertation writing. Only term paper organization owned and operated by college students. "Write off class work ..." your bankamericard and master charge welcome ... WRITERS NEEDED full and part time Earn money doing something worthwhile ... TERM PAPER. Lowest prices in the area. Original re- search papers from $3.00 per page. Used papers from $1.50 per page ... FREE PHOTOCOPYING: We will make you one photocopy of your term paper or thesis absolutely free if you agree to let us take a photocopy for our files . . . This selling of the apparatus of knowledge - the materialistic exploitation of the mind - is absurd and saddening. 4 nfaiiv----Roatfe Tessem Perhaps it will lead to a day when paid stenographers sit in the classrooms and lecture halls taking notes, writ- ing papers and exams, and receiving grades and diplomas in the name of those whd can afford to hire them. These rich students need not bother about the learning, but rather about the status and symbol of the accreditation Df learning. This fraud and misrepresentation - although logical extensions of the American consumer ethic - cheapens the concept of knowledge. And it may affect the current use of term papers as a means of evaluation, with a larger stress on the objective multiple choice exam and the blue book. This would be a loss for students, for the papers rely on processes of reasoning and integration of ideas, and are ideally a more honest and revealing communication of thought - more so than the restric- tive and memory-based objective criteria. THE VISION of students shopping for papers to repre- sent their thinking - low cost for "C" work and more expensive for an "A" specimen - is a disheartening one. Thought-sales are images for the young criticizing existing society, not appropriate reflectors of reality in an intellectual community. These ,supermarkets of ideas exploit and rely on the fears and pressures prevalent in the current university system. But they are not jusified and only serve to mock ideals of honest and sincerity in academics. What makes the supermarkets even harder to tolerate is the fact that it is our own peers - students - who are exploiting their fellows and making a profit on it. WHAT THOREAU might suggest would be some "civil" disobedience and strenuous community objection to the advertisements and enterprises. which exploit students and teachers and attempt to buy and sell knowledge as if it were carrots in Krogers. And what' might be even more appropriate would be for the customers and promoters of the term paper services to take time from their busy consuming lived to sit down and read Walden, with no material objective except to, if they're lucky, learn something for them- selves. Maybe then they'd understand why Thoreau would be so saddened by the prostitution of his work. 4. Letters to The Daily: Comments on Write-On - -MAYNARD Editorial Staff ROBERT KRAFTOWITZ Editor JIM BEATTIE DAVE CHUDWIN Executive Editor Managing Editor STEVE KOPPMAN ........... Editoria, Page Editor RICK PERLOFF .... Associate -Editorial Page Editor PAT MAHONEY .... Assistant Editorial Page Editor LARRY LEMPENT . ..... Associate Managing Editor LYNN WEINER .. Associate Managing Editor ANITA CRONE ..........................Arts Editor JIM IRWIN.................Associate Arts Editor ROBERT CONROW.................. Books Editor JANET FREY..................Personnel Director JIM JUDKIs..................Photograr"-v Editor NIGHT EDITORS: Rose Sue Berstein, Lindsay Chaney, Mark Dillen, Sara Fitzgerald, Tammy Jacobs, Alan Lenhoff, Arthur Lerner, Hester, Pulling, Carla Rapoport, Robert Schreiner, W.E. Schrock, Geri Sprung. COPY EDITORS: Pat Bauer, Chris Parks, Gene Robin- son.I DAY EDITORS: Linda Dreeben, John Mitchell, Han- nah Morrison, Beth Oberfelder, Tony Schwartz, Gloria Jane Smith, Ted Stein, Paul Travis, Marcia Zoslaw. ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS: Robert Barkin, Jan Benedetti, Steve Brummel, Janet Gordon, Lynn Sheehan, Charles Stein, Sports Staff MORT NOVECK, Sports Editor JIM KEVRA, Executive Sports Editor RICK CORNFELD............Associate Sports Editor TERRI POUCHEY....... Contributing Sports Editor BETSY MAHON........Senior Night Editor TERRI FOUCHEY.........Contributing Sports Editor SPORTS NIGHT EDITORS: Bill Alterman, Bob An- drews, Sandi Genis, Joel Greer, Elliot Legow, John Papanek, Randy Phillips, Al Shackelford. r To The Daily: WHILE I AGREE with most of the Daily's editorial of November 23, I feel that he writes off "Write On" too easily. Students can petition and talk until they're arthritic; an "educa- tional" system whose purpose is to mathematically evaluate students for prospective employers and grad schools is unlikely to be swayed by idealistic arguments. Only through a massive undermin- ing of the structure, using s u c h organizations as "Write On," will any change be effected. Sure, it would be nice if some well-endowed student organization like UAC could have a national. computer market link with other schools so students could get their papers cheaply and untraceably, but there isn't a snowball's chance in hell of this happening. Until then, "Write On," however profiteering, is the best there is. Their "wildly offbeat moral code" is not much worse than the Uni- versity's in this respect, and we patronize that. -Peter Munsing, '72 Nov. 23 To The Daily: THE DAILY'S editorial, "Behind Write-On Inc." (Nov. 23), is a deceitful, transparent attempt to absolve two student cheaters caught in the act of plagiarism of any guilt in the matter, and to transfer their guilt to the entire University community. The cheaters, Perloff declares, couldn't help it, since "the pri- mary onus must fall on a system of university education more con- cerned with paper credentials, than in close personal dialogue and interaction." Observe the false dichotomy in his statement: pap- er credentials and close personal dialogue and interaction are not mutually exclusive, regardless of Perloff's epistemology; by a t - tempting to make them appear so, Perloff seeks to obliterate the legi- timate concept of credentials, i.e. standards. vis-a-vis university ed- ucation ... The crux of his argument is contained in the following: "it is no surprise that students a r e brought to cheating under t h e s e artificial pressures." Students, hu- man beings, we are told, are no better than laboratory animals. without volition. After a perfunctory reference to the role of the faculty in this de- terministic University world, and "denying all moral considera- tions," Perloff writes off Write- On as mere exploiters of "stu- dents under pressure deadlines." In other words, Write-On Inc. is to be condemned principally not for its lack of ethics, but for its existence as a profitable (i.e. cap- italist) concern. Capitalism, n o t deliberate immorality, we are told. is also responsible for the actions of these two cheaters. Will the wonders of economic determinism ever cease? Perloff seeks the destruction of the concepts of human volition, morals, values, and above all, standards of any kind. Presum- ably, he will then be free to live in the egalitarian world of the mediocre which he so earnestly de- sires. I say, let us leave him to it. -Michael P. Rose, PhD '71 ro The Daily: BECAUSE OF the behavior of Coach Woody Hayes at the g a m e yesterday I feel compelled to write this letter of apology. You will do 'he great majority of Ohio State fans a real favor on behalf of your great university if you print these 'emarks in The Daily. Thanks very much. To the Michigan Student Body: On behalf of the great majority of ,he students and faculty of Oh 1 o State University, congratulations on a great game! You deserved to win. and we join in wishing your team the very best on New Year's Day. Please realize that the great ma- jority of us at Ohio State also do not condone our coach's behavior, and we ask you to consider this as the action of one man only.' We are proud of the way our team played but mightly ashamed of C o a c h Hayes. Let us hope that the fine athletic relationship between two great schools will not be marred by this incident. Once again, we're pulling for you at Pasadena. -Prof. James F. Engel Ohio State University An apology for Coach Hayes 4 An. angryWoody Hayes It / 4v' V~7z /* e /cLz , t-titaa1316 Errors To The Daily: I AM AMAZED at how many in- accuracies, both implied and di- rect, a Daily reporter can incor- porate in two sentences. Mr. Jonathan Miller reported in the November 18 issue of the Daily that the Engineering D e a n hosted "an affair for several prom- inent guests Monday night, charg- ed the elegant meal to his depart- ment's funds. Following the din- ner, his guests - General Motors President James Roche and his top associates - accompanied their host to the plush lower level of the house for 'business discus- sions.'" 1. The "affair" to which Mr. Miller referred was a regular semi-annual meeting of the In- dustry Committee of the College of Engineering, an advisory group to the College. The membership of this group and its purposes a r e public information available to anyone who requests it. The Exe- trust and confidence on this cam- pus if it made a determined ef- fort to increase the accuracy of its reporting. -Gordon J. Van Wylen Dean, College of Engineering Nov. 19 ED. NOTE: Miller apologizes for the inaccuracies, but adds that had his request for a telephone inter- view with Dean van Wylen b e e n1 responded to, the regrettable mis- takes could have been corrected be-' forehand. Judiciary To The Daily: I FOUND L i n d s a y Chaney's article on the judiciary question (Daily, Nov. 10) lucid and infor- mative. If it is a fair statement of student opinion on this matter, then it seems to me that there is a substantial conflict between the student and faculty positions. Most faculty would agree that the aca- demic suspension of a student for a non-academic offense is ques- tionable, and I think that most course to disrupt a given lecture in that course, he would, to say- the least, find himself in a curious academic position. Should a stu- dent not enrolled in a course he disrupts be treated differently? The question is more than aca- demic. Most students and faculty seem to agree that classified research should be banned from the cam- pus. Our agreement on this issue raises several questions relevant to the- question of academic pro- priety, for the position which justly opposes classified research haso been based here at the University more on the issue of academic ethics, i.e. the need for the access- ibility of all research, than on the many valid political elements at play. If making secret weapons for political purposes can be seen as an academic question, indeed, as an academic offense, then I fail to see why the political disruption of a classroom should not be sub- i