Page Ten THE MICHIGAN DAILY Sunday, February 21, 1971 Page Ten THE MICHIGAN DAILY Sunday, February 21, 19'~ LETTUCE BOYCOTT: AAFFW pickets local Krogers Regent's decision on recruiting receives wi despread criticism TFs protest proposal by Smith (Continued from Page meeting for continued ment of the OSS policy. 1) enforce- "By vetoing the oSS policy,"! By JANET FREY he said, "the Regents are trying All four Krogers stores in the Ann Arbor area were pick- to take away the power they Alldourterogersystroresuthemselves gave to the OSS board eted yesterday by a group supporting the United Farm Work- last summer." ers Organizing Committee (UFWOC) and the lettuce boy- Policy board members Marcia cott. Abramson also opposed the Re- { { E Both De Grieck and Abramson Director John Young voiced dis- asserted that the regental ruling approval of the Regents action was "not contradictory to t h e for a different reason. "I'm still OSS policy. not convinced this policy isn't an "The board," Abramson explain- infringement of civil liberties," he ed, "could still interpret the pol- explained. icy in terms that once you a r e "To be sure", Young said, "a hired by a corporation, you could moral issue of discrimination is b- shifted to a subsidiary operat- involved, but since it is in a dif- i. g under racist laws. Thus the ferent nation, it is a political corporation would be recruiting matter as to how to combat that you to work in a racist country evil. For the University to take a and would be barred under the re- stand on this political issue is the gental ruling." same as banning a speaker for his Engineering Placement Service politics." I if 2 a 's a is a b a i, 4 i The picketers, members of the Ann Arbor Friends of the Farm Workers (AAFFW), handed out leaflets and urged shoppers not to shop at Krogers because the store stocks pri- marily non-UFWOC lettuce. Shoppers were encouraged to do their' shopping at Great Scott, which they claim is the only food chain in Ann Arbor which stocks only UFWOC lettuce. The group apparently experienced no opposition except gents actions. "If the OSS policy board does not reaffirm its policy, then the students should continue to sup- port the policy anyway," she said. for one incident at the Packa 13 A&P lays off seven; boycott on (Continued from Page 1) sons who wish to avoid the A&P.1 Yesterday's picketing appeared less intense than it had been when) the boycott began, with only one leafletter outside the Huron St. store. A boycott organizer ex- plained that picketers were also present at two other local A&P units, on Stadium and on Ply- mouth. In addition, he said, many would-be picketers were "busy{ driving persons to alternate shop- ping areas." Yesterday's activities outside the A&P's succeeded again in dissuad- ing "roughly half" the prospective customers from entering the store, according to a picketer. When the boycott activities be- gan last week, the protest was more active, with persons enter- ing the store, filling up shopping carts and then abandoning them. Student Government Council last week endorsed the A&P boycott, citing the suspensions along with general A&P policies which it found objectionable. SGC charged A&P markets lettuce which is not picked by the United Farm Work- ers Organizing Committee mem- bers. A nationwide boycott of all A&P grocery units has been requested by the Southern ChristianLeader- ship Conference (SCLC). In a statement .released last Tuesday, SCLC charged A&P with racism in hiring and promotions. ard Rd. store when an assist- ant-manager called the po- lice. However, since the AAFFW picketers were not infringing on the rights of any customers, no action was taken against them. In addition to carrying signs and explaining their position to inter- ested customers, the picketers handed out information sheets as well as typed copies of a state- ment in support of the UFWOC, which customers were told to give to cashiers or the store manager. The immediate effect of the pic- keting seemed moderate, at least in part because many customers were not familiar with the issues involved in the boycott. As one pic- keter said, the "main effort was in making people aware" of the situ- ation and the boycott. Where pros- pective customers were already aware of the situation, however, the efforts of the picketers were more effective. At Arborland, an AAFFW mem- ber estimated that as many as Six- ty or seventy customers either left without doing their marketing or, said that they would not be coming to Krogers after this week. Store officials generally would not comment on the picketers or the Kroger policy on purchase of lettuce. At Arborland the produce mnana- ger would only say that "I have no control" as to what brand of let- tuce the store buys. An assistant manager of the Krogers on Pack- ard would make no statement on the situation, claiming that any in- formation would have to come from headquarters in Livonia. Bernardo Eureste and Ruben Zamorano, graduate students in social work and leaders of the AAFFW boycott group, said that in talking to the Livonia officials earlier this week they were told that the nationwide food chain would take no position in this mat- ter. Hill Aud. houses haven for Selectronic music makers (Continued from Page 1) University studio. The music school sponsors contemporary di- rections concertssandcomposer's forums where this music is pre- sented. Most of the students that work in the studio feel that it is a good fa- cility though it might lack a few things which would make it much more flexible. The studio, built just before Robert A. Moog revolutionized electronic music, works primarily with magnetic recording tape. This gives the composer an exact con- trol over his music, but also re- quires that "a minute of music takes several weeks of hard work and splicing to produce," accord- ing to Albright. Moog's innovation enables a composer to record much more music on' tape before he has to make a splice. New Moog equip- ment at the studio, purchased last summer, helps to alleviate the Several years ago Kinkaid took up the soldering iron himself. He and Dave Bates, another composer, are now so involved in building that they sell their ownrequipment. Bates and Kinkaid try to avoid' tying the composer down to tape. Their object is to come as close as possible to having one minute of work produce one minute of music using the methods Moog innovated. The directors of the University studio would like to have this capa- bility, but do not have the funds at this time. "What we need is a flexible situation, a center that could function in all directions that electronic music is going now," says Albright. Albright would also like the stu- dio to become more available to others. Several years ago they tried opening the studio up to lit- erary school students, however, and the studio was swamped, Al- bright says. After the Friday meeting, Vice President for Student Services Ro-, bert Knauss, expressing disap- pointment that the OSS p o li c yf was rejected, said, "Although this action changes the OSS p o li c yF dramatically, I will enforce it." Knauss added that he was pleas-' ed with the role OSS played in getting the new policy. "The prin- ciple function of OSS", he said,' "is to educate and advocate.In this instance we did bothand the result is a much stronger statement of University-wide pol- icy than ever before. "It is stronger than any other University policy," he added. Later, Knauss said that t h e, new policy "washes out the OSSj policy." SGC President Marty Scott said, "I do not think the Regents pol- icy does anything except reject thej OSS policy in a nice way." He criticized the new policy as weak on the grounds that it would be impossible to enforce and it would only have a token impact on cor- porations. Business and Law School place- ment office officials were unavail- able for comment. (Continued from Page 1) This new regulation means that if 'a graduate student works for 24 months as a teaching assistant and then becomes a research as- sistant, he may only hold the se- cond appointment for 24 months. Under present LSA regulations, a person may hold a teaching assistantship for up to five years, after which time he is still eligi- ble to work as a research assist- ant or staff assistant. Craig Harris, a sociology teach- ing fellow, pointed out that many graduate students are unable to finish their degree program in four years. He cited a survey conducted by the American Sociological As- sociation which showed the med- ian time required to complete a doctoral program in sociology was eight years. The proposed four year limit on assistantships might thus be a hardship for many graduate s t u- dents. Drafts of the new proposal are now being reviewed by the deans of the schools and colleges, insti- PREGNANCY PROBLEM? THERE IS NO CHARGE FOR OUR ABORTION Referral WHY SPEND MONEY NEEDLESSLY? OUR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES ARE FREE Call (212) 722-5360 7 DAYS-24 HRS. US. Naval Civil Engineering Lab Recruiting Representative from Port Hueneme, California a (where you ski in the morning and surf in the afternoon) Interviewing graduates with MS and PhD Degrees Civil, Electrical, Mechanical Eng, and Applied Mechanics on Wednesday, 24 February 1971 Interview appointments and info at your Placement Office. All positions are in the Federal Career Civil Service. AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER tute heads, and department chair- men. Recommendations from these people must be turned in to Vice President Smith before March 1. Smith will then prepare a revised draft which will go to the execu- tive officers for final approval. The teaching fellows also object to the fact that no graduate stu- dents were contacted concerning the proposal. "We only got this information [the proposal] by ac- cident," said Mary Fox. Both Fox and Harris are mem- bers of the Graduate Assistants' Coordinating Committee (GACC which was hastily formed t h i weekend to organize graduate op- position to the proposal. A statement released yesterday by the GACC said: "We are not opposed to a formal statement of a graduate student assistant program. B such a statement of that pro- gram should be an improvement over our present situation. 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