THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Wednesday, February 10, 1971
Iarty discusses future
freligious awareness
Laos invasion enters second day
-Daily-Jim Judkis
PROFESSOR MARTIN MARTY speaks yesterday on "Prospects
for Religion".
APPROVAL ISSUE:
Group to meet on
course mart course
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LSA Dean Alfred Sussman,
chairman of the committee, said
Monday night after the conclusion
of the hearing, "One of the things
we all want is to be sure that
students who are enrolled in the
course and who signed up in good
faith are taken care of."
He said the executive committee
has directed both the course or-
ganizers and the LSA committees
to remember those students while
making decisions at tomorrow's
meeting.
Sussman said he was not im-
plying, however, that the execu-
tive committee advocates the ap-
proval of all six sections. Sussman
said Hefner himself has indicated
to the committee that students en-
Daily Official Bulletin
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Student Government continue their ac-
tions in mediating this situatidon:
FURTHER MOVE: That SGC firmly
believes that it is in the best interest
of the students of the University of
Michigan that the six sections of College
Course 327 be approved.
Approved: That SGC Paul Teich as
representative and Jerry De Grieck
as alternate to the Joint-Government
Committee to Study the Army Officer
Education Program (alias ROTC).
Defeated: That SGC allocate up to
$10 to- publicize the fact that there
should be no Homecoming Weekend
and to indicate in said ad those who
voted against it. ROLL CALL VOTE:
YES: Ackerman, De Grieck. NO: Hunt,
Lessem, Lewin, Oesterle. ABSTAINED:
Schenk, Teich.
Approved: That Homecoming Week-
end will be the weekend of the In-
diana Game, October 30, 1971.
Approved: That the SOC elections
be held on March 23, 24 and 25, Tues-
day, Wednesday and Thursday, and
that campaigning begin Wednesday,
March 10th after the candidates' meet-
ing;
That SGC again prepare an informa-
tional sheet on the election for dis-
tribution.
Approved: That Dr. Paul Gikas be ap-
pointed to the Committee on Com-
munications.
Approved: That SGC open up peti-
tioning for Bookstore Board of Direc-
tor positions; and That Al Ackerman,
Lou Lessem, Rebecca Schenk, J e f f
Lewin and Jerry DeGrieck serve on the
Interviewing Board.
Approved: That SGC open up peti-
tioning for University Council; and
That Jerry De Grieck, Dale Oesterle and
Paul Teich serve on the Interviewing
Board.
Defeated: That SGC should not fill
the vacant Council seat until n e x t
election. ROLL CALL VOTE: YES: Les-
sern, Oesterle. NO: Ackerman, De
Grieck, Hunt, Lewin, Schenk and Teich.
Approved: That SGC open petition-
ing for the vacant Council seat.
That Andre Hunt, Jerry De Grieck,
Rebecca Schenk, Jeff Lewin and Lou
Lessem serve on the Interviewing com-
mittee,
ORGANIZATION
NOTICES
Womei's open house at St. Andrews
Church every Wednesday, 8:00 p.m. at
306 N. Division.
The Ecology Center Spring Seminar
series on "Living with thte Earth"
starts Feb. 10, 7:30 p.m. in UGLI
multipurpose room "Planning the
Community Garden for Ann Arbor."
rolled in the course were warned
that the curriculum committee was
reviewing the sections individually,
and so they were aware of the
possible outcome.
The final outcome of the meet-
ing tomorrow will affect about 80
of the 175 students enrolled in
the course-the number who sign-
ed up for the deleted sections on
repression, corporations, independ-
ent political action, youth libera-
tion, the media, and gay libera-
tion.
Sussman admits to the compli-
cated nature of the issue, saying,
"quite frankly, we were surprised
at the action of the curriculum
committee last weekin deciding to
review the six sections again. Right
now we would like to see what
happens Thursday."
The meeting tomorrow will deal
specifically with the nature of the
six deleted sections, as well as the
qualifications of the proposed
teachers for the sections.
One of the primary reasons cited
by the curriculumycommittee in
not approving the sections was the
failure by Hefner to see that all
proposed teachers were approved
by the literary college executive
committee and dean, according to
course mart rules.
The controversy over College
Course 327 began last December,
although it did not develop into
an issue until about three weeks
ago, when the curriculum commit-
tee charged there were certain
"discrepancies" between the course
as it had been approved in De-
cember, and the course that was
being advertised through leaflets
and advertisements in The Daily.
Despite the charges and the
committee's subsequent decision
to review the course, over 2 0 0
students attended the organiza-
tional meeting of the course Jan.
12. About 175 persons subsequent-
ly enrolled in the 15 sections or-
dered.
At a meeting Jan. 19, attended
by Hefner and John Cumbler, the
course coordinator, the curriculum
committee approved College
Course 327 as a whole. This was
done in order to guarantee col-
lege credit to the students enroll-
ed in the class, since the deadline
for adding and dropping courses
was that same afternoon.
But, at the same time, the com-
mittee warned that each individ-
ual section was subject to review
by the course mart committee
and could possibly be denied final
approval.
Three days later, the course
mart committee met with Hefnei
and Cumbler, and reviewed the
proposed sections. The course
mart committee recommended
that the curriculum committee ap-
prove nine of the 15 sections,
which it did at its meeting of Jan.
26.
Then, in separate actions, the
executive committee opened in-
quiry into the issue, and the cur-
riculum committee reversed its
earlier position that the case was
"irrevocably and unnegotiably
closed", by voting to reconsider
the status of the deleted sections.
By TED STEIN
"Wherever you look in
American culture," Professor
Martin Marty said yesterday,
"you will find religion at some
crossroads."
Marty, Associate Dean of the:
University of Chicago Divinity
School, spoke on "Prospects for
Religion" before over 200 in Rack-
ham Lecture Hall. The lecture
was part of the Crisis in Ameri-
can Values lecture series.
According to Marty, in the fu-
ture man will combine a secular
and religious consciousness. "I
don't see any trends that show
that we will discard secular ad-
vancements."
The "secular envelope" is a giv-
en part of our life", he explained.
"On the other hand, religious di-
mensions are so deep that there is
no evidence that they will disap-
pear".
The distinguished religious his-
torian cited 23 "religious" refer-
ences in an issue of the N.Y.
Times. Although some of them
were only remotely religious, Mar-
ty maintained they did, in fact,
point out the pervasiveness of re-
ligion in our society.
Marty defined religion without
using a belief in God or an after-
life as one of his criteria. In-
stead he viewed religion as pro-
viding an object of ultimate con-
cern, a metaphysical "setting" for
life, or as he described it, "a big
screen behind the small screen of
our lives." Religion also can be,
he continued, ceremonial rein-
forcement, socialization, and a
"mytho-symbolic interpretation of
life.
Marty claimed that as an in-
stitution, religion is in great dif-
ficulty. "There just aren't enough
people around," he said, noting a
decline in church and synagogue
participation. This causes a prac-
tical secularization of religion."
Marty dealt with the problem of
a changing world view, saying,
"Society is moving from an agreed
upon world view to a much more
unsettled one."
"Such things as hippie culture,
yoga courses at the YMCA, and
I the vogue for Zen, show the way
people are bartering with a con-
fusing cosmos," he observed.
The lecturer commented on an-
other symptom of "our disjointed
world view."
"In our society nationalism can
be seen as a surrogate for historic
religions. Complete with a god of
battles, and foreign devils, the re-
ligion of nationalism has excom-
Smunicative power that is much
more terrifying than that of the
church," he said.
In drawing a portrait of religion
in the future, Marty warned that
the prospects for religious insti-
tutions is bleak, "but this does
not mean they will not survive."
He cited Japan and California as
examples of places where "old and
new religions are vying for atten-
tion."
Joseph J. Martin, associate di-
rector of the Institute of Science
and Technology and a professor
of chemical engineering, has been
awarded an honorary doctor of
science degree from the University
of Nebraska.
-Daily-Jim Judkis
Steam heat
CLOUDS OF STEAM pour out of a burst steampipe across from Hill
Aud., yesterday, as 'U' workmen repair a broken pipe.
DEATH TOLL RISES:
Land mine kills 5 as
Iis riots cont inue
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a fire base 15 miles west of the
Vietnamese border.
U.S. tactical combat planes have
been flying 30-40 missions daily
against the North Vietnamese as
part of the invasion.
In addition to the tactical a i r
effort, Strategic Air Command
heavy bombers are supporting the
South Vietnamese.
In Washington, Secretary of
Defense Melvin Laird told closed
sessions of the House and Senate
Armed Services Committees that
the new operations are on sched-
ule and will enable the U.S. to
"meet or beat" plans to bring
home 50,000 more troops by May
1.
Meanwhile, Secretary of State
William Rogers told newsmen "the
fact is we will have Americans by
and large out of combat roles by
the middle of this year."
Both men assured their listeners
that U.S. ground troops w e r e
not involved in the Laotian in-
vasion or the South Vietnamese
operation in Cambodia.
Laird added, however, that some
10,000 ground troops are being
used for "back-up responsibilities"
in South Vietnam.
South Vietnamese officers said
their intelligence reports indicated
that the North Vietnamese troops
in the operation area are mostly
young and untrained, while the
main force veterans were fighting
in Cambodia.
A South Vietnamese field com-
mander said he expected his
troops to push on westward along
Highway 9 during the next 10 days
toward Savannakhet, on the west-
ern border of Laos, thus snipping
off all the branches of roads that
lead from the Ho Chi Minh trail.
North Vietnamese soldiers
launched an attack against a U.S.
position -northwest of Lang Ve
and less than a mile from the
Laotian border. About 9,000 U.S.
troops are acting as a blocking
force for the 20,000 South Viet-
namese troops entering Laos.
Local march
protests Laos
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Turning east on Ann, the pro-
testers will march to City Hall,
where they will hold a brief rally.
Originally, the organizers in-
tended to approach City Hall along
Huron St., a block before the much
narrower Ann St. However, Huron
is a truck route, and a city statute
requires that a permit application
for use of a truck route be filed
two weeks in advance of the march.
At the City Hall rally, the crowd
will be addressed by Barbara Ful-
ler, a coordinator of the Inter-
Faith Council for Peace. Fuller
saidhyesterday that a major pur-
pose of the march is to mobilize
people both on campus and in the
community to support other anti-
war protests.
She encouraged people from the
community to participate in the
protest, emphasizing that the
march is not going to City Hall
to present any demands to the
city government, but simply to
call for an immediate end to the
war in Southeast Asia.
The council issued a statement
Monday urging all citizens to par-
ticipate in local activities planned
for today to protest the invasion of
Laos.
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students from other universities in
the area in planning a "non-violent
but militant" march today from
Cambridge to Boston Common.
Yale University students plan a
large rally to discuss actions for the
future. In addition, there will be a
larger anti - war demonstration
held at Yale within the next few
weeks.
Eastern Michigan will hold a
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The fighting northwest of Lang said he failed in an effort to get a
Vei broke out late in the after- commitment that all U.S. troops
noon and continued after night- will be withdrawn at some definite
fall. U.S. troops suffered some future date.
casualties, but the number was not Javits said there is no question
reported, all U.S. ground troops will be pulled
Following a presentation by out of Vietnam but that, when it
Rogers before the Senate Foreign comes to logistical and air troops,
Relations Committee, Sen. Jacobi "some military presence is ob-
Javits (R-N.Y.) said the key un- viously implied."
answered question is whether the Sen. John Stennis (D.-Miss.) and
United States is committed to the Henry Jackson D-Wash.) warned
Republic of South Vietnam such
that "some kind of military pres- that heavy fighting is likely before
ence" will remain indefinitely. the end of the operation, sometime
"I can't get the answer to that before the rainy season begins in
question yet," he added. Javits late April or early May.
Demnonstrations hit war
rally against the war tomorrow at
2 p.m., but the demonstration, ac-
cording to its organizers, is ex-
pected to be moderate in size,
A Student Mobilization Meeting is
planned today at 12:30 p.m. at
Wayne State JUniversity and a large
crowd is expected, although spokes-
men said the number of Wayne
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province was becoming a battle-
field for all-out war between re-
publican extremists and the British
army.
Chichester-Clark is confronted by
explosive guerrilla warfare de-
signed to torpedo his regime. IRA
Provisionals-an extremist wing of
BEDL holds
protest at
Canterbury
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clothes, housing, day-care centers,
training programs, and other com-
munity aid projects.
The demands stem from the
Black Manifesto, a document
which was adopted by black lead-
ers at a meeting in Detroit in 1969.
The demands were first pre-
sented to Canterbury House last
fall when BEDL and the county
Welfare Rights Organization were
staging sit-ins at several other
churches in the area who had re-
fused to accept the demands.
At that time, the Canterbury
House board rejected the demands,
an act which BEDL feels contra-
dicts the philosophy of the coffee-
house.
"We didn't think we'd have any
kind of trouble with Canterbury
Hounse because of the liberal im-
age they attempt to portray,"
says Thomas. "It's so easy for
them to support all kinds of vio-
lent actions in the third world,
but when it comes to problems
here in the community they say
no.
The Canterbury House board
will meet todnv to discuss the de-
mands with Thomas.
students expected to participate is
low.
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the outlawed organization-is dedi-1
cated- to reuniting Protestast domi-
nated Northern Ireland and the:
independent, largely Catholic, re-
public to the south.
The Catholic civil rights cam-
paign whichtbrought widespread
sectarian rioting to Northern Ire-
land two years ago has now de-
veloped into war between well
armed Provisional guerrillas and
the British army, Chichester-Clark
said Saturday.
Army experts said yesterday
they felt the land mine, on the bor-
der at Enniskillen, was aimed at
blasting a passing army patrol
rather than the vehicle used by
five civilians. The explosions tore
their truck apart, hurling wreck-
age 10 yards and more.
"There was no more instant
death than this," said an army
spokesman. "Such a blast would
have been quite capable of blow-
ing up several houses or a range
of buildings."
A BBC spokesman said the men
were heading for an unmanned 15-
foot transmitter tower on the top
of Trillick Mountain. The mast was
damaged by an explosion Jan. 6
and television programs to 50,000
people were disrupted.
The BBC men were English and
the construction workers Irish.
Shortly after the fatal blast the
funeral began of 28 year old Ber-
nard Watt who was shot down by
British troops at the weekend. Pall
bearers were six men wearing the
traditional IRA black beret.
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