SUNDAY DAILY See editorial page 4hp A& 4ij t w t a r ja On M7 41IatF I OVERCAST High-33 Low--15 Cloudy, windy, chance of flurries Vol. LXXXI, No. 85 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Sunday, January 10, 1971 Ten Cents Ten Pages 200. By BOB SCHREINER Dave Soderquist is a four tim loser. Soderquist, a sophomore major ing in education, was recently foil ed in his fourth consecutive at tempt to elect psychology 171 - a class that is a prerequisite to several other courses he needs. The process known as advanc classification has not been kind to Soderquist, who is even able to classify early because he is a phy sical education minor. Remaining hopeful in spite o his predicament, Soderquist says, "If I can just somehow gets17 next fall, I'll only be about o ne term behind everybody else in E school." Soderquist's plight, once a rare exception, is steadily becoming common in varying degree LSA throughout the Universit e cularly in the literary col( The number of course - in the literary college du - vance classification rose for the winter term, with suit that more students t o before have been blocked courses they desire. LSA courses which lo e ing winter term advance o cation numbered about2 - from 86 closings during fi pre-classification last sp A few years ago, a stude f be reasonably assured of s, in thecourses he elected, 1 scheduling conflicts. e Recently, however, a d d classification has bencom rowing affair, as anxious e form lines early in the mo g an effort to get early cou s appointments. courses ty, parti- There is a fast growing aware- ege. ness among students that advance closings classification is strictly a "first ring ad- come, first serve" process. sharply The advance classification per- the re- iod ideally enables students to re- han ever serve course elections one t e r m from the before the courses will be taught. Students meet with counselors and sed dur- elect the courses of their choice, classifi- subject to the graduation require- 200, up ments of the University and t h e fall term counselor's approval. ring. There is no foolproof way of ant could finding just how many students a place actually receive the courses of their barring first, and in some cases second choice. v a n c e According to one administrator, e a har- almost all students check which students courses are closed before t h ei r rning in counseling appointments, and as a unselling result, the counselor is usually un- aware of what the students would close I have elected had all courses been available. But recent figures compiled by the Office of the Registrar indi- cate that many courses are closing after only a small percentage of students have passed through ad- vance classification. Of the courses which closed dur- ing advance classification, 43 serve as introductory and 37 as required courses for concentration in a particular field. Psychology 472 (psychology and literature) and sociology 461 (soc- ial movements) closed on Oct. 1, the earliest of course closings dur- ing the advance classification per- iod- The period began Sept. 28 (Oct. 27 for freshmen) and ended Dec. 3. Only eight per cent of under- graduate student body had pre- classified for the two courses. ewore Ten courses closed in the Resi- dential College, nine of them when only 35 per cent of students had registered. Psychology 442 (motivation and behaviour) and philosophy 463 (Buddhism) closed Oct. 2, after 10 per cent had preclassified, psy- chology 502 (selected problems) and sociology 330 (population problems) on Oct. 5 after 13 per cent. Anthropology 480 (personality and culture) and psychology 517 (advanced laboratory) closed Oct. 6, when only 17 per cent of stu- dents had passed through. Altogether, 23 courses closed by the time only one-quarter of stu- dents had pre-classified, and 74 closed with half the students still waiting to begin advance classifi- cation. LSA Assistant Dean J a m e s W winter, Shaw cites a number of possible reasons for the upswing in closed courses, including the strain of literary college budget cuts. "I tend to think one of the major problems lies in funding enough staff in order to have suf- ficient sections to go around," Shaw says. "But, that problem lies in Lansing". "Even if the college suddenly found a rich uncle with a million dollars, it would be difficult to get any quick results," he continues. "First it would have to be decided just how to distribute the funds. and where to find the additional staff." "To the best of my knowledge, we have not rejected any depart- mental appeal for supplementary sections," explains LSA Associate Dean Hayden Carruth, but a d d s that there have been no depart- term mental appeals concerning addi- tional sections for the winter term. He explains that "barring psysical constraints such as classroom size and availability of equipment, we do what we can to try and open additional sections." "Generally we do everything pos- sible to guarantee that students will get into courses they must get into in order to achieve their educational objectives," Carruth says. Shaw believes the budget c u t far from represents the w h o 1 e reason for the closed course in- crease, however. Other 'reasons he gives include: 0 A possible increase in the number of students passing through the advance classification process; * A continuing fallout f r om - See 200, Page 7 AFSCMitVE committee 0 7 gives u power argarnrng to -Associated Press Mr. Pig cones to Washington A North Carolina farmer restrains a squirming pig in front of the White House yesterday as disgruntled hog farmers protested low prices for their animals. A heavy police guard stood by amid reports the group might let a hog or two loose on the White House lawn, but no trouble develop ed. CO-DEFENDANT IN CASE: Ma ge says he was asked to lie to convict Davis U.S. aircraft bombs site in N. Vietnam SAIGON (EP) - A U.S. fighter-bomber fly- ing escort for B52 aircraft attacking the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos fired on a North Vietnamese missile site at Mu Gia pass, 70 miles inside North Vietnam, the U.S. Com- mand reported yesterday. The base was equipped with Sam mis- sles, the only ones possessed by the North Vietnamese capable of hitting the high-fly- ing B52 Stratofortresses. The attack took place Friday at the pass, which is the funnel for the Hi Chi M i n h supply trail of eastern Laos. The command said an F105 Thunderbird's electronic equip- ment detected that North Vietnamese radar was locked in on the B52s. The F105 sent two missiles flying at the target. The command said no North Viet- namese missile was fired and it did not know the results of the F105 attack. It was the first strike at North Vietnam since Nov. 30. The Sratofortresses have been pressing saturation raids on the trail for three months in an attempt to arrest the flow of men and supplies from Norh Vietnam to Cambodia and South Vietnam. This development came as Defense Sec- retary Medvin R. Laird conferred with Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, Gen. Creigh- ton W. Abrams, U.S. commander in Viet- nam, and other officials on ways to speed the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam. Informed sources said the United States will pull out 20,000 combat troops from the Saigon region in the next four months and deactivate a\ major tactical headquarters in a speed-up of the withdrawal. The withdrawal will end the U.S. combat role in the 3rd Military Region a r o u n d Saigon. Only 5,000 combat troops will re- main and these will provide security for U.S. installations. Laird has said he hopes to reduce U.S. forces to 250,000 or less by next summer. There are now 335,800 Americans in Viet- nam. Laird's meeting with U.S. officials at com- mand headquarters on the edge of Saigon was devoted to a study of the Vietnamiza- tion program under which South Vietnamese take over the combat role, the latest mili- tary situation and U.S. troop withdrawals. SAN RAFAEL, Calif. OP)-A co-defendant of Angela Davis has sworn that he was offered immunity from a possible death penalty if he would perjure himself to con- vict Davis. The statement was made by a San Quen- tin inmate accused of murdering a judge in the Aug. 7 shoot-out at Marin County Civic Center in a court affidavit, it was disclosed yesterday. Ruchell Magee, 31, also charged that prison guards and sheriff's deputies acci- dentally killed Judge Harold Haley and three others in an attempt to kill him. Magee said the offer of immunity was made by Sausalito attorney Leonard Bjork- lund, later appointed to represent him, on behalf of Marin County Superior Court Judges Joseph Wilson and Warren McGuire. Bjorklund expressed shock at learning of the charges yesterday, saying: "These alle- gations are absolutely false. "Mr. Magee has at absolutely no time communicated with me concerning these charges and I have been absolutely unable to communicate with him. It is because of this complete lack of communication that I have asked the court to withdraw as his attorney.": Bjorklund made the request to withdraw last Tuesday at the continuing arraignment of Davis on charges of murder, kidnap and conspiracy in the shootout. Judge Wilson has taken the request under advisement. Davis, 26-year-old former UCLA philoso- phy instructor, is charged with furnishing the four guns used in the escape attempt, though not actually being present during the crime. Under California law, an accom- plice is as guilty as the person who actually commits a crime. Magee, who has consistently rejected court-appointed counsel, made the accusa- tion in a motion he prepared himself. seek- him immune to prosecution and to grant him parole. "Also the same attorney threatened peti- tioner's life with the gas chamber . . . if petitioner did not lie on Angela Davis etc." the motion said. Magee said, however, he "refused to ent'r into such conspiracy and stated that he was not going to frame Davis for nobody and further he ran Bjorklund out of the room." Magee declared under penalty of perjury that the charge was true. He said he also filed a complaint against Bjorklund with the California State Bar. In a related petition, Magee said: "San Quentin prison white racist guards and Marin County sheriffs killed one Judge Harold J. Haley and three other human be- ings in an attempt to kill appellant Ruchell Magee to (A) prevent him from exposing his flagrant racism slavery conviction, (B) reaching the people and exposing the crimi- nal acts used by judicial and prison offi- cials ... -Associated Press Police arrest chicanos Los Angeles police arrest several people near the Los Angeles Civic Center yesterday as a rock-throwing melee erupts at the end of a march by chicinos protesting police brutality. More than a score were taken into custody as numerous plate glass windows were smashed. PROGRAMS TO CONTINUE: Unknown vandals daSm1age Soistis School, equipment strike Local contract ends Jan. 14 By SARA FITZGERALD A strike by the University's 2,700 ser- vice and maintenance employes now seems imminent as members of the employe's union voted overwhelmingly last night to give their bargaining com- mittee the authorization to call a strike if deemed necessary. The contract for Local 1583 of the Aneri- can Federation of State, County, and Mu- nicipal Employes (AFSCME) will expire Thursday, two weeks after the original expiration date of Dec. 31. The University and AFSCME agreed .Dec. 30 to extend the contract to allow more time to reach agree- ment on the new contract. Prior to Dec. 31, negotiations had been conducted for more than 200 hours. Since the two-week extension, negotiators have met in both day and night sessions. However, Charles McCracken, president of Local 1583, reported at last night's union meeting, attended by several hundred em- ployes that the University and the union had still not reached agreement on approxi- mately 60 non-economic issues, and that the union had not yet even presented its wage proposal. University spokesmen declined to comment on the union's action. McCracken said he could anticipate an- other contract extension, but only if the University agreed'to extend all benefits of the new contract back to Jan. 1, when the new contract should have come into effect. He said that the union would also con- sider extending the contract if the Univer- sity and AFSCME were apart on only two or three issues by Thursday. However, McCracken said, "I honestly don't think we're going to make it. McCracken told union members that the union would try to get an average wage increase of $2.80 over a three year period or $2 over two years. He said that the in- crease would not be across-the-board but would instead attempt to -equalize different pay scales which now exist within the same job classification. To help facilitate negotiations, the union requested Friday that a state mediator be called in. The mediator, Richard Terapin of the Michigan Employment Relations Com- mission (MERC) was appointed Dec. 30, though his services were not considered nec- essary until now. See AFSCME, Page 10 IRS acts to strip Yippie's fund of tax exemption WASHINGTON UP) - The federal gov- ernment has moved to strip tax-exempt status from Yippie co-founder Jerry Rubin's charitable foundation on grounds the char- ity is Jerry Rubin. By ZACHARY SCHILLER Co-director of Solstis School Paul Kan- nen reported yesterday that the experi- mental school had been broken into and ransacked. The unknown vandals broke the upper section of a kitchen door to enter and sprayed the contents of a fire extinguisher on the ground floor, wrecking equipment and damaging a piano recently donated to the school. The intruders also stole a stereo and re- cords. The cold air coming through the door froze many of the pipes in the build- CHINA WEEK ing. Water from the pipes gushed out and covered the basement floor six inches deep. Clean-up workers pumped water out of the basement all yesterday afternoon, but a bicycle, air conditioner and other equip- ment in the basement was damaged. Kannen said that "he had no idea who had done it or why," but he felt that "the whole thing seems sort of foolish." Ro Lee, the other director of Solstis, said that although people had tried to get equip- ment out of the school before, "there had never been anything like this." Kannen noted that" although "a lot of things have been semi-wrecked," the van- dalism would not permanently affect the programs being run at the school. He ex- plained that the damage is "another stone in the road" in the operation of the school. The damage was first noticed Saturday afternoon by two Solstis workers who walked by and saw water gushing out of the win- dows. No one has been at the school for a week because the building was being re- wired. Kannen was unsure of when the school was broken into, but it appeared to him from the amount of water that the dam- age was committed a few days before. Solstis is starting operations tomorrow in the Student Activities Building and the Re- sidiential College but Kannen made a plea Program studies Mao's China By ANDY ZACK In an effort to provide the Uni- versity community with informa- tion on China's Maoist revolution and China's current role in t h e world, two campus groups will to- day open China Week, a week- long study program. The project, according to i t s mnnnsnrs Amerien Revnitinnary lection of mixed-media events, films, talk and panel discussions, and guerrilla theatre actions. In the six workshops scheduled, par- ticipants will discuss such topics as "Women in China and Amer- ica," 'People's Medicine in China and America." and "Education for Liberation." "This is the first time in the Trio 7 L afo th t a n - -rrr m o i I U: , .