Concerned gra ds focus on Rackha I:? posal By HESTER PULLING and CARLA RAPOPORT What started as a move by one graduate s t u d e n t to "legitimize" graduate student government has mushroomed into a sizable group of Rackham students organizing an at- tack on what they see as the admin- istration's neglect of their needs. This new group of graduate stu- dents supports a proposed Rackham Student Government and the candi- dates who are seeking election to its executive board. In this week's Student Government Council elections, Rackham students will be voting on the ratification of the proposed government and choos- ing the unit's members. Many of the issues cited by sup- porters of the Rackham Government focus around the economic status of graduate students. Some of their de- mands include: -The continuance of current in- state tuition privileges and insurance benefits; -Steps to prevent implementation of University-wide restrictions on the length of graduate employment; -A demand that the University take steps to raise graduate assistant stipends to t h e i r pre-inflationary level; and --The formation of a recruiting policy to increase the enrollment of \women and blacks in the graduate school. Although both of the presidential candidates back these demands, they disagree on minor aspects of their platforms. If elected president, Alexander Galvin, a graduate student in psy- chology, hopes to broaden the per- spective of the graduate council by formulating ties with other graduate bodies throughout the country. On the other hand, Dan Fox, a statistics graduate student, would fo- cus his attention on immediate prob- lems facing graduates, keeping inside the sphere of the graduate school for the present. , While the majority of the candi- dates for the proposed government assess graduate students as moderate, each says he feels free to act in a forceful manner to achieve the de- mands. "A conservative perspective can't be acted on, the issues we are work- ing with must be treated radically," says Penni Hudis, a vice presidential candidate. This new group of students charges that the existing graduate government, G r a d u a t e Assembly (GA), is not truly representative of graduate student opinions. "I haven't seen that GA has done anything for graduate students," says Ed Brady, a graduate student in zoology. Agreeing with Brady, Mar- tha Arnolda social psychology grad- uate, adds, "All I've seen GA do is organize coffee hours." At this time GA is the subject of a suit seeking to dissolve that body. The suit charges GA with being un- democratically constituted and un- representative of graduate students. Spearheading the attack on GA is Michael D a v i s, Grad., who wrote most of the proposed Rackham con- stitution and is an ardent critic of GA. The suit, which was brought by the Law School Student Senate, the Ex- ecutive Committee of Philosophy Graduate Students, and various other backers of the new government, will be ruled on by CSJ this Tuesday. P r e s i d e n t Jana Bommersbach counters charges against GA, saying that the body does not "claim to be a government." She explains that GA is a federation of graduate govern- ments and departments and is the only "University - wide b o d y repre- senting the special interests of the graduate/professional community." Bommersbach also says that GA is. providing services and support to an See GRADS, Page 12 Alexander Galvin Dan Fox CAMPUS ELECTION RECOMMENDATIONS See Editorial Page ' i:Y 5k rrigau I43 aitj SWAMPED High-55 Low-33 Chance of showers Vol. LXXXI, No. 144 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Sunday, March 28, 1971 Ten Cents Twelve Pages Planes hit Laos trail SAIGON (P) - U.S. B-52 Stratofortresses pounded sections of the Ho Chi Minh trail yesterday following reports which indicated a late season run by. North Vietnam to get supplies to its forces in the South. Because of damage to the trail and supply dumps by U.S. air power during the recent incursion into Laos, the North Vietnamese appeared to be making an unusual effort to get supplies to their forces in South Vietnam and Cambodia before the spring rains. "The big thing," said one U.S. military source, "is that North 'Vietnam is continuing to put materials in at the top of the trail when normally at this time of year they would be shutting down their operation because of the forthcoming monsoon season." The U.S. Command reported air strikes during the operation in Laos destroyed or damaged more than 2,300 vehicles, including 69 tanks, and triggered more than 9,400 sec- ondary explosions and 2,150 fires. The ex- plosions and fires indicated hits on ammuni- tion and fuel stores. "Other results," a communique said, "in- clude the destruction of more than 14,000 tons of ammunition, 520 bunkers, 160 anti- aircraft gun sites, 480 structures and 35 sam- pans." Skirmishes and shellings flared near the Laotian border in the northwest corner of South Vietnam. But military sources said they believed the allied pullback there would go ahead without major interference by the North Vietnamese. There were no reports of fresh fighting farther east along the demilitarized zone, where it also had been thought that North Vietnamese forces might be preparing an of- fensive. Field reports said the Kh.e Sanh combat base near the border was hit by about 12 rounds of rocket or artillery fire yesterday. The shells landed outside the defense peri- meter and no casualties or damage were re- ported. Khe Sanh, reopened Jan. 30 to sup- port the South Vietnamese thrust into Lacs, is now being dismantled. While moves were being made along the DMZ to guard against any surprise attacks from the North, informants in that area re- ported they had seen no indications of a siz- able buildup in the once neutral buffer strip. Sources at Camp Carroll, a U.S. brigade headquarters near the DMZ, and at Quang Tri said a North Vietnamese artillery bat- talion had moved into the DMZ. They said it appeared to be a defense mea- sure because of speculation in recent weeks about possible South Vietnamese moves against the North. The sources also said North Vietnam had two combat divisions and sup- port groups in the area just north of the DMZ. MORE STUDENT INVOLVEMENT LSA govt. plans offered -Daily-Terry McCarthy Fire and rain As lights shine on the wet pavement, Ann Arbor firemen assess the damage caused by a fire at the Main Street Grocery last night. CELL NO. 9 Talking to a j unkie; By SARA FITZGERALD After nearly a year of development, pro- posals to involve students in the governance of the literary college will be aired at an open hearing tomorrow and at next week's LSA faculty meeting. The proposals, the work of the student- faculty Committee on Governance of LSA, include plans for the establishment of a joint student-faculty legislative council or a student-faculty policy committee. The hearing, open to both students and faculty, is scheduled for 4 p.m. in Aud. A. The committee will meet again Wednesday to prepare a final draft of their proposals to present at next week's LSA faculty meeting, where approval of either plan must be obtained. "I am not sure that either proposal will be approved," said Assistant Dean James Shaw, "because I don't know if the faculty would be willing to make any change in its present system of governance." Organized last April, the committee was charged with developing "a structure . in the form of a representative demo- cratic council of faculty members and stu- dents" to act as a standing committee of the LSA faculty, which meets monthly. Working from this mandate, the commit- tee presented a preliminary report last August, which included a proposal for a student-faculty legislative council, w h o s e actions would be subject to review by the governing faculty. However, following open hearings and meetings with faculty members, the com- mittee was forced to make revisions in the proposal as it became apparent the faculty would not approve such a measure. Faculty members on the committee were also pressured into withdrawing their sup- port of the proposal, says Andy Weissman, '71, an LSA Student Government member. At the time, some faculty members also charged the committee had exceeded its bounds by creating a legislative council and not "a council to exist as a standing com- mittee of thegoverning faculty" as it was specified to do. Subsequently, the committee divided as student members supported a slight modifi- cation of the original proposal, while fa- culty members wanted a student-faculty advisory committee established. In making its report, the committee has thus proposed both plans, though stating that it feels the legislative council is "the best option." The proposal for the legislative council calls for a body made up of 40 student and 40 faculty representatives. The council would assume the legislative functions exercised by the LSA faculty, with any Council actions subject to review by the faculty. See LSA, Page 7 4 -Daily-Terry McCarthy Conservation Forum spe ding ti EDITOR'S NOTE: Detroit police agreed to arrest Daily reporter Ric Bohy on a phony charge so he could talk to men in jail. The following story is his account. By RIC BOIY The door clanged shut on Cell No. 2 in the jail of the Woodward Station of the Detroit Police Department. I sat down on the hard wooden bench, feeling its iron rivets and readingjits assorted obscene scrawlings. I had just been "busted" on a marijuana possession charge as part of a set-up to allow me to talk to Roy, the junkie in Cell No. 9. After the "arresting officer" left the cell black, Roy started chuckling, and said, "What you in for, man?" I told him that I had been caught with two "nickel bags" of marijuana and was arrested after being pulled over for reckless driving. "Man," he said laughing. "If you was rid- ing that hot, you should have been driving like you was going to church!" The prisoner in the cell next to mine was moaning and saying that he'd sell his ime in jail heroin. He was feeling the first stages of withdrawal. I asked Roy what he was jailed for, and he told me that he had been arrested for possession of heroin and "works." "I was staying at this dude's house, and the dude left in the middle of the night," he said. "He left his works laying in the middle of the floor. When the 'mod squad' busted in the next morning, I was brought here for possession. But I don't do no dope." He rolled up his sleeve and showed me his left arm. There were one or two "tricks" - scars left from shooting drugs into the veins - but it wasn't the arm of a junkie. I asked him if he had ever used heroin. "Oh, man," he said. "I only done it once or twice, but I ain't no junkie. But with that dude's works laying all over the floor of his pad, the police busted me for one." Roy claimed to have been checked out by the police from Detroit to Chicago, his birth- place. He said that his record had been found to be clean and that he would be released that afternoon. See INSIDE, Page 12 Doug Fulton, panel moderator, and Dr. David Bingham of the Planned Parenthood League listen to speakers at yesterday's Conservation Forum at the University Botanical Gardens. The forum, sponsored by Congressman Marvin Esch (R-Mich.), called for re- organization of governmental priorities in solving environmental problems. (See story, Page 7.) HEARING TODAY Added evidence on posters causes Thee case to reopen By JAN FREY and ART LERNER The Student Government Council Cre- dentials and Rules Board will reopen con- sideration of the complaint .against SGC presidential candidate Bill Thee for cam- paign expenditures exceeding the $100 market value limit, because of new evidence dis- covered yesterday.. The board considered at a hearing Friday night a complaint against Thee filed by SGC member Marnie Heyn. Finding Thee in violation of the SGC Election Code for overspending, the board fined him $80.64, $40.64 of which was suspended. s ster if he could get some "P" pure sGC vote: conservatives challenge te Left The board also voted Friday to prevent Thee's slate and its supporters from acquir- ing any additional campaign materials. Thee said at the hearing Friday that 470 unused silkscreen posters out of an ori- ginal number of 500 were still in his apart- ment. However, board chairman Vic Gutman found only 430 posters in Thee's apartment Friday night, after the board voted to im- pound all campaign materials remaining in Thee's possession. Gutman said last night the new evidence "may shed new light on the case." "Because the assumption (that 470 un- used posters remained in Thee's apartment) may have influenced the results of the hearing Friday night, I have. called a meet- ing of the board at 3:00 p.m. today in the SAB to discuss the new evidence," Gutman said. It was only yesterday when Gutman counted the confiscated silk screen posters and 5600 undistributed leaflets, that he discovered 40 posters were missing. Thee, notified of the discovery by Gut- man yesterday, said that his running mate, Jim Kent, had 20 of the missing posters, that he himself had six, and that the rest had been distributed to volunteers in dorms, but had not been displayed. Thee had originally said at an earlier hearing on Thursday that he only pur- chased 200 posters. At the hearing on Fri- day, he admitted that the 200 figure was a mistake and said that a total of 470 un- used posters remained in his apartment. T nnrc o -hno 'hpnn, v5 tni yh t.in- By GERI SPRUNG and ROBERT SCHREINER Daily News Analysis When students go to the polls Tuesday and Wednesday to vote for the Student Government Council candidates of their choice, they will find one major difference from past elections-they actually are faced with a clear choice. The emergence of organized right-wing campaigns by presidential and vice presidential candidates Bill Thee, '73, and Jim Kent, '72, and the four Student Caucus candidates running for SGC seats is a depart- ture from recent SGC election patterns. Through extremely ardent and highly organized campaigning, the right wing appears to have acquired the support necessary to make a strong challenge to isolated, unorganized and did not really offer a sub- stantive alternative. Instead, they hoped to succeed by picking up the votes of students who were dis- satisfied with the politics of the leftists. This year, however, as former SGC Executive Vice President Robert Neff points out, the right is "more organized and has somebody reasonably prominent- Bill Thee-to lead them." Organizing for the election by the right began several months ago. Thee has been publicizing his viewpoints for months in his present capacity as an SGC member. Furthermore, engineering students, who generally have more conservative leanings than the majority of students on campus, have been attending Council meetings regularly. trying to encourage a backlash in response to the radical stands taken by this year's Council. Charging SGC with "irresponsibility" while banter- ing slogans such as "turn the rascals out," right wing- ers are seeking to reverse the image of SGC and the role they claim it has played in the past. In addition, the right has attempted to organize a task-force to oversee the elections. Student Caucus campaign workers are presently seeking supporters to watch the polls, the Computing Center and the SGC office, where the ballots are stored throughout the night, over and above usual campaign work such as poster-making and leafleting. A leaflet which was circulated to attract such volunteers charges those seeking to get radical can- didates elected perpetrated irregularities in past elec- +i__ . .