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Defense League founder urges
Jewish nationalism brotherhood
RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE:
Knore . Un-eaIt-i
Tight budget causes problems research committee
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(Continued from Page 1) tective" supervision of their par- ment," says Ellis Wunsch, assist-
By GERI SPRUNG fact that the Jews have never when he walked in. That's why thj Teachers at the college also cite ent college, very few teachers call ant director to the dean.
Over 300 p e o p e last night been helped by any other group." Bolshoi isn't coming here any a heavy working load as a result for a complete severance of t i e s "At this time, we do not need
listened to Rabbi Meir Kahane, "It's time for the Jew to have more.' of budget problems. binding the two liberal arts col- the throttling paternalism of
founder and president of the Jew- some pride and come back to what To combat the inaction of other "Teaching here is a full time leges. LSA," he adds.
ish Defense League JDL), preach he is. Kahane said. groups. Kahane explained, tne commitment," says drama and lit- Instead, RC teachers prefer the A further problem with only
"hat "the Jew is his brother's In the Soviet Union there is a JDL has taken to militancy and erature lecturer Betsy Feifer. college to function more like a Alfurthe hom witn o
keeper." tragedy. For 50 years the Jews demonstrations. "Even when the class is over stu- department in the literary college alonte home dste n to
"Forpromote faculty is the RC teach-
"For a Jew it's the Jewish cause have been an oppressed )eople. The JDL has often been cri- dents often come back to talk - hoping that by having the pow- er's lack of contact with the lit-
And for 50 years there has been ticized for its use of militancy and i with you about their other cours- er to hire and promote its staff, erary college.
tha cmesfist Noon isgongno street protest for those Jews by violent tactics. Kahane defends es. the college will attain more stabil- "h oedprmn os'
to help a Jew except a second Jewish groups," Kahane said. these tactics, claiming that vio- "Also, I've put on a lot of plays ity. "Th he kindepartment doesn't
Jew, Kahane said. "In the past Because of 50 years of silence, lence is a Jewish tactic. "Moses, since I've been here - all on my "We need a nucleus of teaching
we have marched for anyone. For Jews outside Russia have helped our teacher," Kahane said, "came own time," she adds. staff - if we want to get this we ting into the Residential College
Vietnam and civil rights we were the cultural genocide of Soviet to teach us the concept of vio- Although RC faculty criticize need some power to hire them- if you spend your time here," says
'ight out in front. But when a Jews, he added. lence." what they see as the "over-pro- ; we should be more like a depart- Chua. "Teachers put in a lot of
Jewish problem came up , we Among their protests for Rus- time in all aspects of the college,
marched and no one came:" sian Jewry, the JDL and other from governance to producing
The JDL, originally founded as groups picketed m a n y perform- plays."
a vigilante group in the Jewish ances of Russian companies here Regardless of the RC's internal
ghetto to protect Jews, has be- on a cultural exchange program. budgetary and faculty problems,
come noted in recent months for Because of the picketing many many of those outside the college
4-ts harassment of Soviet officials. groups are no longer coming here. j " ic arm feel an unproportionate share of
or organizing protests on behalf "We couldn't care a bout the In "' eX 1 e funding is presently funnelled in-
of Soviet 'Jewry and for its mill- cultural problem," Kahane said. to the Residential College.
tant tactics. "It is a political tool. No one can These critics feel that RC is
Kahane said that the group walk out of the Bolshoi feeling as (Continued from Page 1) a few steps ahead of their stu- offered for no credit and without serving too few students for far
arose in reaction to "a historical badly against Russia as he did says Justin Vitiello, a professor dents, the younger teachers at the pay to the teacher. too much money, and not serving
of literature and romance lan- RC say that teaching is most im- For instance, Marcia Vitiello, a the University's interests to any
" guages. portant to them, lecturer in Romance languages and significant extent.
r e imDespite criticism of students "Publishing is less immediate, in literature, is still meeting with charges, RC
whoand not nearly as exciting, or in- a class on French literature which students and staff point to the
ers in the pollege feel an R class toxicatinginitial costs in setting up the ex-
Along with the saifato theys
" encourages students to more ac- along with thi satisfac ion they Yet this type of activity can be periment as being the major ex-
tively participate in the planning gain from teaching students, grueling, as many faculty mem- pense of the college.
and the discussions in their teachers stress that they contin- bers point out; and they are feel-
corss ually learn from their pupils. !n h tan As well, they express strong
courses. nthsran
(Continued from Page 1) versity context to make the regu- "When you have this openness "I feel equal to my student, we "The high intensity community (hopes that now the RC's first
versty ontxt o mke te rgu-, Wen ou hvethi opnnes 'cycle is complete, many of the
vents, the Interim Rules would lations and to enforce them. and feeling of flexibility in the aie leaining togethei. Sometimes here makes you feel that you al- RC's more successful programs
stand. Their belief is that someone from classroom, peoples natural curios- I know more but that doesn't ways have the time to talk to will be swiftly implemented in the
Charged with drafting a substi- outside the University-whether it ity and creative energies explode" make a difference, as students students. Being so visible and rest of the University.
tute set of rules is University Coun- be a district judge, a hearing of- says Paul Wagner, assistant to the opinions have lot of dignity here, available teachers feel burned out
cil (UC), a body of students, facui- ficer or a law-making legislature- director of the RC. says Kitty Sklar, a lecturer in his- by the end of the year." says El- They suggest that the pass/fail
il(0)aboyostdnsfau-tory. lis Wunsch, assistant director to grading system, the more informal
ty members, and administrators. will be overly harsh on certain , "And when you further provide the f ts den, ad andtrer in gredmn sem, as aoreplae
While UC released a proposed types of conduct, such as sit-ins or kids the opportunity to follow their As the RC faculty members ex- the dean, and a lecturer in Eng- freshman seminar as a replace-
draft in February, Senate Assem- disruptions, since he would view own interests, in the end they do plain, teaching at the college in- lish. ment for English 123, and in-
bly subsequently turned it down 'it only in relation to what is con- far more than any teacher could volves more than their academic, Wunsch also explains that spec- creased student participation in
for being too lenient in a few areas, sidered appropriate outside. make them do-and without suf- work with students. The small class ial RC committees and programs decision - making processes are
and last night, SGC vetoed it for For example, they cite the state fering and hassle," Wagner adds. size and informality of the college in which the faculty participate some programs which could be
being too harsh. disruption statute, which provides In addition, students and teach- allows student-teachers friendships are exacting and demanding on a exported to the literary college.
As it is unlikely that the two penalties of up to 90 days in jail ers say small class size makes it to spring up more, frequently than teacher's time. Next week, Dean of the Literary
groups will agree upon a draft in and a $1000 fine for students that easier to form friendships, which , oftentimes with teachers at- "But the faculty, I thik, shares College Alfred Sussman will re-
the forseeable future-much less a disrupt University functions. are often continued outside of the tending a student party or a stu- the opinion that they like the lease the names of a panel of stu-
(Continued from Page 1) ly questionable in view of the
Contacted last night, dentistry University's current policy on
Prof. Gerald Charbeneau,, chair- classified research," K n ox con'
man of the committee said, "Peo- cluded.
ple are trying to take seriously Charbeneau said last night that
the charge Senate Assembly has the committee did not take finai
given them. . . To hope for im- action on the proposal for three
mediate changes is an improper meetings.
thing to do." "Since there was a deadline and
In his specific charges, Knox
said the committee "in a totally
irresponsible action" approved "a
sham proposal with the full knowl-
edge that the contents of the
summary were completely fraudu-
lent."
He explained last night that re-
searchers at the University's Wil-
no action, Dr. Norman moved in
and used his discretion," Charbe-
neau explained, defending Nor-
man's action. "He felt he had acted
in his capacity to be responsible
to the researchers.'
Knox noted in the letter that
Senate Assembly had passed a
I reitin aracin it~ nnfid'pr .
ocaul i au-l, ill-owvo y i !resou on expressing is con lence
low Run Laboratories proposed a in Knox and that "I would be less
project that was rejected by the than deserving of Senate Assem-
committee by a 6-1 vote as being' bly's confidence if, under the cir-
inappropriate. cumstances, I were to maintain
The researchers then, accord- membership in the Classified Re-
ing to Knox, carried out the pro- search Committee."
ject without the approval of the --------------
committee, as required by Univer-
sity policy.
Whenapprised of the research- For the sudentbody:
ers' alleged "defiance, the proposal
was then reconsidered by the com-
mittee on Friday and approved ex
post facto eight to four," Knox
said.
The Daily learned last night
that the project in question in- by
volved flights using advanced ra-
dar detection techniques developed Levi
at Willow Run over Fort Hood.
' Texas, where an Army agency is Farah
conducting tests of the military's
electronic battlefield. t
Charbeneau declined to com-
ment on Knox's charge, explaining Tads
' that the problem is "complex" and
that to explain it "would mean Sebring
revealing more of the committee's
workings than I'd care to."__
Concerning the incident involv-
ing Norman, Knox said, "On April
7, 1971 the Vice President for Re-
search sent a memporandum to the
I committee's chairman announcing
he had sent a classified research
proposal to the military sponsorweaStateStreet atLiberty
"without the committee's approval.
"This unilateral action is clear-
draft that will be acceptable to
the Regents - the "interim" per-
iod of the regental rules may lapse
into permanence.
So, indeed, may the hearing of-
ficer procedure. Although the Re-
gents said they were willing to give
it up if students and faculty mem-
bers come up with a judicial sys-
tem which would effectively en-
force disruption regulations, this
system would only take effect when
the Interim Rules are replaced by
the UC rules.
Following enactment of the In-
terim Rules last April, a student-
faculty-administration c o m m i t-
tee met for 10 months to draft a
University judicial system.
The Regents are expected to ap-
prove the judiciary at their meet-
ing tomorrow, but only with modi-
fications so significant that neither
SGC nor Senate Assembly feel it,
will be an adequate substitute for
he hearing officer procedure when
the Interim Rules are replaced.
The Regents have reluctantly
gone along with the idea of using
an all-student jury to determine
guilt and punishment in trials cf
students. But they favor combin-
ng the new judicial system wiih'
he hearing officer idea so that
the officer acts as the presiding
judge at disciplinary trials.
This modification goes directly,
against what -students and faculty
members see as the purpose of es-
tablishing an internal campus dis-
ciplinary system. -
Its aim, they note, is to allow
individuals familiar with the types
of conduct appropriate for a uni-
Euti decil
under Inte
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meeting that was in effect closed.
Since the Regents meeting was
Aherefore not a duly authorized
University activity, according to
Souris, the guards were not per-
forming an authorized activity in
protecting it, and Eustis was not
guilty of disrupting an authorized
activity. -
Meanwhile, within the University, formal class session.r
such conduct is not viewed by most "Students behave with ie as {
members of the community as wer-' they would with any friend," says
ranting such penalties. philosophy Prof. Carl Cohen. "I
Since the civil authorities are know the students quite well and
unable to provide regulations, and feel free to criticize them sharply."
means of enforcement which would While feeling the need to re-
be appropriate for conduct within search and publish in order to
the University, students and fac- please their departments and keep
ulty members conclude, the Uni-.-
versity should provide an alterna-
tive conduct code and disciplinaryBfl-j
procedure.
IAnd the procedures, they' adsd
"should be administered primarilyd.
by students and faculty members.
Thus, in expressing their views
on the proposed University ju-
dicial system, both SGC and Sen-' rad OV .
ate Assembly have argued for the'
addition of student and faculty as-
sociate judges who could overrule| Continued from Page 1)
the decisions of the presiding judge |not mean we won't nor does it
from outside the University. mean we will," adding, "when 1000
The Regents, however, favor in- to 1,100 graduate students vote on
cluding associate judges in an ad- a constitution, how can you de-
visory capacity only clare that legal?"
When both the UC rules, as ap- Dan Fox, recently elected pres-
proved by SGC, and the judiciary ident of the Rackham Student
are finally instituted, the rules Government, has taken an equally
and disciplinary system at the firm stand. According to Fox,
University will not be quite what "Rackham Student Government is
the students have sought for the the legal successor to GA," con-
past five years, but considerably tinuing, "as far as I'm concerned
more .than the Regents were once the old GA is dead."
willing to approve. Fox expressed particular concern
Whether the entire legal system over appointments to the Dean
will meet SGC's demands for ju- Search Committee, currently en-
dicial fairness to students, and at gaged in seeking a replacement
the same time alleviate regental for Vice President and Dean of
concern that the disruption and the Graduate School Stephen
violence be curbed, stands as' a Spurr, who will leave the Univer-
question to be answered during the sity to assume his new .duties as
next five years. president of the University of
--Texas at Austin on July 1.
According to Fox, "We want a
member on that committee."
I Y However, despite the apparent
firmness of their positions on the
various issues, GA and the Rack-
p ham Student Government repre-:
cations between their two organi-
zations and have demonstrated at
"contradictory" testimony of the least an apparent willingness to
respondent's witnesses, contrasted attempt to resolve their differ-
with what he called the "direct ences with as little friction as pos-
and positive" testimony of Stevens sible.
and Downing, Souris accepted "as GA, in line with its earlier p)osi-
fact" that Eustis had performed tion of not purporting to be a
the a 11 e g e d actions involving representative government, is ex-
Downing's hat. ploring the possibilities of re-es-
I On this evidence, Eustis was tablishing itself as a federation of
found guilty of the two rules in- student governments from the
dent visiting a professor at home.I place, and even if its exhausting,
As well, many RC teachers take' we are not complaining," WunschI
on special study projects or ,con-3 concludes.
duct special classes for students, TOMORROW: RC CURRICULUM
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dents, faculty and administrators
who will be charged with review-
ing the first four years of Resi-
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The charges were filed by Rus- volving force an
d1 n e f e e c f oyc e
sll Downing, a security officer ons
duty during the Feb. 19 Regents Beor tetmn'n h hre
tding hR were heard, Souris heard Hayes'
meeting. im o t i o n challenging the rules
That day, skirmishing between themselves. Hayes' challenge had
security guards, Ann Arbor #)oice, two basic prongs: the first in-
and demonstrators arose when volved the circumstances under
students found themselves locked which the Interim Rules were
out of the Administration Bldg., passed last April, and the second
4where the meeting was to take involved what. Hayes called viola-
place. tions of the 14th Amendment of
Two people, including Eustis, the U.S. Constitution.
were arrested during the skirmish, Souris ruled that there was no
and a third was later charged for ]fgal basis for Hayes' motion, and
his actions that day. Eustis is the declared himself "ruling with full
only one tried under the Interim legal and constitutional author-
Rules. ity."
Downing's complaint charged Since their inception last April,
that Eustis violated the Interim the rules had met with much cri-
Rules by "striking the Complain- ticism by several different parts of
ant (Downing) in the right shoul- the University community. How-
der with his fist and by selzing ever, yesterday's hearing was the
the Complainant's hat and st'ik- first in which the rules were
ing the Complainant in the face actually used.
with said hat." -- -'
g r a d u a t e and the professional
schools.
According to Bommersbach the
envisioned structure of such a
federation is "right now, frankly,
quite nebulous."
However, the GA president de-
scribed the organization's antici-
pated format as "a campus-wide
federation for graduate students-
the one body that would be em-
powered to speak for the entire
graduate community."
Bommersbach indicated a de-
sire to have the new Rackham
Student Government participate
in the federation, admitting, "I
have a lot of respect for the peo-
ple from the Rackham Govern-
ment."
Fox also indicated his govern-
ment's willingness to cooperate
with such a federation, stating, "If
properly constituted, we might
lend our support."
FEATURING:
A Good Selection of
PANTS
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FLARES
> BELLS
INCLUDING LEVI'S & A-1'S
And A Large Quantity of
BELTS, and SHIRTS
Including Arrow, Sero
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