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Vol. LXXXI, No. 82

Ann Arbor, Michiga'n-Thursday, January 7, 1971

Ten Cents

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Groups blast
Uprogram
with HEW
By TAMMY JACOBS
Members of several women's groups yesterday heavily
criticized the agreement between the University and the De-
partment of Health, Education and Welfare on an affirmative
action program to promote equal employment opportunities
for women.
Although some women had specific complaints about the
University plan which ended the three-month dispute be-
tween HEW and the University, most of the women contacted
expressed the feeling that the plan "looks good on paper,"
" but they were skeptical about end results.
The dispute arose on Oct. 6 when HEW charged the Uni-
versity with discriminatory practices toward women and de-

Harvey

admits

Eight Pages
to

undercover

men

spying at 'U', EMU

-Associated Press

Grad fine
*$100 for
disruption
By GERI SPRUNG
The executive board of the grad-
uate school has announced it
accepts the finding of its board of
inquiry that Peter Denton, grad,
is guilty of classroomedisruption.
The board imposed a fine of
$100 as was recommended by the
board of inquiry.
In addition, the executive board
ordered that "Denton be notified
that any further infraction of any
University or graduate school rule
involving disruption or physical
interference with others in the
University will be grounds for ex-'
pulsion."
Denton said yesterday the ac-
tions taken by the executive board
were "just what I expected."
"The University is trying to in-
timidate people from doing the
same thing in the future," he
added.

manded that
formulate a

the University
corrective pro-

gram.
Since then, according to an in-
formed source, at least $3,924,000
in contracts had been withheld
from the University. The contract
ban was lifted as of the agree-
ment last week.
The University plan includes a
commitment by the University to
pay back wages retroactive to any
woman paid less than male em-
ployes in comparable job cate-
gories.
In a statement released yester-
day, a local group, PROBE into
the Status of Women at The Uni-
versity of Michigan, expressed dis-
satisfaction withathe University
plan. PROBE is a coalition task
force of women which has been
researching the conditions of wo-
men connected with the Univer-
sity.
A point of disagreement between
the University and HEW is HEW's
claim to jurisdiction over admis-
sions to doctoral programs which
provide employment opportunities)
for teaching and research assist-
ants.
The University claims there are
no doctoral programs in which ad-
missions relate specifically to job
opportunities.
The dispute has been submitted
to HEW Secretary Elliot Richard-
son and both id,e have a oreed to

-Associated Press
Washington slows down
With Congress finally adjourned, President Nixon visits the Western White House yesterday. (above)
But some government officials remain in Washington yesterday as defense officials (below) ap-
pear at a session of the congressional joint economic committee probing the economic issues in
the U.S. military assistance programs.
AUTONOMY QUESTION:

Ed.
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board

in tervenes
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Stat

By JONATHAN MILLER
Washtenaw County Sheriff
Douglas Harvey claims he
presently employs undercover
agents for the surveillance of
students at both the Univer-
sity and Eastern Michigan
University.
It was also learned yesterday
that the sheriff has electronic
surveillance equipment, including
two television units, which are.
available for campus use.
Harvey told a Detroit Free Press
reporier of the existence of under-
cover agents on the two campuses
yesterday afternoon, but declined
last night to confirm or deny his
earlier statement.
"We will continue as we have
always had, with undercover men
on both univ~ersity campuses," he
is quoted in today's Free Press.
Harvey said yesterday he will
probably infiltrate agents into
militant students groups, such as
Students for Democratic Society,
if a grant proposal for federal
funds to be presented tomorrow
to the Washtenaw County Law
and Justice Planning Board, is
approved.
Although a highly reliable source
in city hall said that Harvey
wants the money to buy electronic
wiretapping and bugging devices,
the Free Press quotes the sheriff
as saying, "We don't have to buy
it, we already have it."
The Free Press says Harvey
wants the money to be spent n-
stead on other equipment, such as
radios and cars.
Harvey also said yesterday that
Col. Frederick Davis, director of
safety at the University, had as-
sured his cooperation with the
"intelligence squad," proposed by
Harvey at a meeting with Under-
sheriff Harold Owings.
The proposed squad w o u I d
focus its attention, Harvey had
stated, on organized and syndi-
cated crime and narcotics as well
as student unrest, civil disorders
and union strikes.
Although Col. Davis is out of
town and has not been available
for comment, James Brinkerhoff,
Director of Business Operations at
the University had said Tuesday
See HARVEY, page 8
d during
eviction
spokesman for Long Shore Apart-
ments. .
But Emerson, who has lived at
the address for over two years,
claims she has not defaulted on
the rent, and has even paid her
rent for the current month. She
says she is being evicted because
the apartments consider her to be
an "undesirable character," due to
her involvement with BEDL and
WRO.
Emerson says the apartment
owners are practicing "economic
discrimination" because she is a
welfare mother, and alleges that
the rent at the apartments was
raised by 15 per cent to discour-
age minority groups and the
otherwise economically deprived,
Aside from Bryant, the eviction
was peaceful, as friends, mostly
members of BEDL, WRO and the
AATU, loaded her possessions into
vans and station wagons. Emer-
son and her daughter stayed with

Harvey talks to students

By MARK DILLEN disruptive acts, and a rule requir- ter, according to Phillip Kearney,
He said he wouldn't pay the fine. abide by his decision. ing professors to teach a specified Director of the Board's higher
"They can just try and get the The PROBE statement blasts theI The state board of education has igpoesr otahaseiidDrco fteBadshge
money, but they're not going to University stand, saying "clearly entered the complex legal battle number of hours education division. Under the 193
get it," he said. graduate fellows are essentially between the Legislature and t h e Responding to these latest re- constitution, the board of educa-
University Vice Preident ad employes of the University and state universities-a battle likely strictions, contained in last years' tion was charged with "coordinat-
Dean of the Gradute School employment is such an integral to put the question of University bill alloting funds for state uni- mg all state educational institu-
part of the Ph.D. programs that autonomy in the lap of the state versities, the three universities in- tions. However, the constitution
Dton Spurr said yesterday to t is difficult to understand the Supreme Court. tensified their efforts to seek a gives each universities' regents
Denton will not be permitted to University's reasoning in stalling At stake in the ongoing dispute court ruling on the amendments "control over funds."
register until he pays the fine. Iths issue." is the ability of the state schools constitutionality. "We (the board) had been con-
Denton was charged with dis- The statement calls the Uni- to control how their state funds Meanwhile, the board had been templating requesting attorney
rupting Prof. Bernard Galler's versity stand an "open public ad- are spent, free from the restric- contemplating legal action to general Frank Kelley's position for
computer science class during last mission of discrimination against tions legislators have placed upon determine their role in the mat- See UNIVERSITY, Page 8
spring's Black Action Movement women by the University. them in the past.
strike. Citing the University commit- In a ruling Dec. 17, Ingham
The c ament to achieve salary equity for County Circuit Court Judge Mar- oT
Truhtcasore gra Dton was m ales and females in the same v in Salmon ruled the board had BiiEDLj ofiial arrestei
brought before the graduate schoolm- job classification, the P R 0 B E the right to enter the suit, filed
board of twnquint whichbws omstatement charges that the Uni- by the University, Michigan State 1
posed of two student members versity "neatly sidesteps the prob- University and Wayne State Uni-
apponte by radate sseblye are righits w ork er
(GA) and three faculty members ant inequity in the University's sponse to the first in a series of
appointed by the executive board present salary structure-that is. restrictions placed on the use of
*of the graduate school. females are systematically hired state appropriations to universi- By BOB SCHREINER He was arraigned in 15th Dis-'

SGC blasts Harvey
on survellance plans
By ROSE SUE BERSTEIN
Student Government Council last night condemned Wash-
tenaw County Sheriff Douglas Harvey's request for federal
funds to build up an "Intelligence Squad."
The request for political surveillance of University stu-
dents, Council stated, is opposed to "the objectives and prac-
tices of a free society."
"People in the county must seriously look at what Sher-
iff Harvey is doing," said SGC Executive Vice President Jerry
DeGrieck. "Under the guise of fighting organized crire and
violence he is attempting to set up, with federal funds, a
surveillance system to be used against students and workers
and other political threats. O

At the hearing last September into job classifications beneath1
Lenton charged that the board of their training and abilities."
inquiry was "illegally constituted" Arlene Fabrizio. a secretary in
and should dissolve itself because the Office of Student ServicesI

It was not appointed until lastI
April when the charges had been
filed. Under graduate school rules,
he claimed, the board of inquiry
should have been appointed at
the beginning of the winter term.
GA declined to "affirm or deny"
the jurisdiction of the board since
they had had no control over thej
rules which called for its estab-'
Olishment.

Counseling Office. illustrated the
point by saying that here are no
male secretaries, so that no secre-
tary could prove discrimination.
"The plan sounds good on pa-
per." Fabrizio said, "but I'll believe
it when I see it. First you've got
to find a woman eligible to bring
suit against' the University for
back pay. Then she has to be brave,
enough to do it-she wouldn't be
See WOMEN'S, Page 8

ties.
In addition to the original argu-
ment over whether state universi-
ties have exclusive control over
how state funds are spent in the
expansion and initiation of uni-
versity programs, the suit c o n-
tains sections on more recent legis-
lative amendments to appropria-
tions acts that sought to control
"internal" questions.
Among those restrictions were:
an amendment limiting the use of
state funds for out-of-state stu-
dents, a provision withdrawing
funds from students convicted of'

Washtenaw County Sheriff's De- trict court yesterday morning,
where he stood mute to a charge
puties Tuesday nmght forced the of assault and battery. Trial is
eviction of a welfare rights worker scheduled for Feb. 1 at 9 a.m.
and her daugnter from their Bryant, presently out on bond,
apartment, and arrested H a n k was the only person arrested dur-
Bryant, vice president of the Black ing the proceedings.
Economic Development L e a g u e Kate E m e r s o n, member of
(BEDL) for allegedly assaulting a BEDL and the county Welfare;
Police officer and resisting arrest Rights Organization (WRO), was
during the eviction proceedings. ordered Monday to vacate her one
Bryant was taken to county jail bedroom apartment at 519 Lang-
after the scuffle with a sheriff's shore Drive because she has been
deputy in which he allegedly without a lease since July 31, and
struck the officer toward the end allegedly agreed to leave the
of the eviction proceedings. premises Jan. 1, according to a

This is clearly repression and
must be fought."
Council moved to prepare a leaf-
let explaining the sheriff's activi-
ties "in an effort to mount and
organize support against the Intel-
ligence Squad."
The report which led Harvey to
request federal funds maintains
that "with campus disorders, civil
disorders and union strikes, an in-
telligence unit is desperately need-
ed in this community."
SGC acknowledged a need "for
an effort to stop the flow of hard
drugs in the county," which Har-
vey cited. Its motion also charged
that "the aim of Sheriff Harvey's
'Intelligence Squad' far exceeds
those objectives and interferes
with the supposedly guaranteed
rights of free citizens."
In other action, Council criti-
cized the procedures for establish-
ing a county Public Defender's.
office.
SGC charged that tht selection
process, conducted solely by "three
white conservative lawyers" pre-
cludes participation by "those the
Public Defender is supposed to
serve."
Council requested that the Wol-

$130 rate
hike aske
for dorms,
By GERI SPRUNG
The Residence Hall Rate Com-
mittee Tuesday recommended to
the Housing Policy Board an in-
crease of $130 per student in dor-
mitory rates for next year,
The committee, composed of two
members of Student Advisory
Committee on Housing, two re-
presentatives of Inter House As-
sembly and two members of the
housing office, also proposed an
increase per student of $65 for
Baits Housing, $60 for Fletcher
Hall and $67 for Oxford Hous-
ing.
The proposed new rates are pro-
jected to cover the increase in sal-
aries of service and maintenance
employes, as well as to meet ris-
ing costs.
The Housing policy board will
be meeting next week to consider
the recommendations. Their de-
cision is subject to the approval
of the Office of Student Services
policy board and the Regents.
In order to reduce student costs,
the rate committee recommend-
ed that residence halls discontinue
hnth the hnt nd onntinental

PRODUCT OF STUDENT PRESSURE
'U' Cellar begins sale of discount books

By CHUCK WILBUR
The University Cellar, the student-controlled
University bookstore, has begun buying and selling
tex books this week.
The Cellar, located on the ground floor of the
Michigan Union, opened in the fall, selling sup-
plies, posters, and records. Organizational prob-
lems, according to spokesmen, prevented the store
from offering textbooks until this term.

1hpr, k,.athnr T1pginv ,,nirht.4 annA -

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Most other items are discounted by 15 per cent,
with records sold at one-third discount.
According to University Cellar manager, Den-
nis Webster, student patronage of the store has
been good.
"Reception has been better all along the line
than we had anticipated," Webster said, adding
that the Cellar has had trouble keeping certain
items in stock due to the great student demand.

"iiL o"oL"Iri uJ 1"aay. *"n,' """ verine Bar Association, a black
will be looking for a new place to law students' group, be allowed to1
livhe eviction occurred after participate in the screening. "As
Sheriff Douglas Harvey refused a the student government at the
request to postpone the eviction University," it added, "we see the+
proceedings for 24 hours, which need for the inclusion of student1
would have enabled Emerson's views.'
lawyers to attempt to obtain an SGC voted last night to con-1
injunction to halt the eviction no- tinue its support of the Univer-+
tirp sity's service emoloves. local 15831

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