SOLSTIS VS. 'U' See Editorial Page YI rL A6F t r 371aitj CRISP High-63 Low-45 Mostly fair Vol. LXXXI, No. 8 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Friday, September 11, 1970 Ten Cents Ten Pages -Daily-Jim Judkis Early fall revelry Armed with wastepaper baskets full of water, a crowd of students doused each other during a water fight last night in the fountain by the Union. The fight was a scheduled social event involving Wenley House of West Quad and Helen Newberry Hall. DEFENDS' PROBE- Harris issues rep to Teamlster -charge By JONATHAN MILLER Mayor Robert Harris yesterday issued a statement defending himself against police criticism and reiterating a second time his belief that .a police officer who allegedly struck a demonstrator during last spring's Black Action Movement strike should b'e tried as a civilian. The statement was in response to a press release issued Wednesday by local 247 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters which represents command officers of the Ann Arbor Police. The police union's statement charged that Harris condemned the AA temple asks for injunction By ART LERNER Congregation Beth Israel has filed a complaint seeking a preliminary injunction against the Washtenaw Coun- ty Black Economic Develop- ment League (BEDL) and the Washtenaw County Welfare Rights Organization (WRO). The complaint stems from the occupation of the temple by two or three BEDL and WRO repre- sentatives that began Wednesday morning and 6ontinued late last night. BEDL and WRO occupied Beth Israel to press their demand for an immediate $50,000 from the temple to provide school clothing for welfare recipients. The Beth Israel executive board met with representatives of BEDL and WRO Wednesday night but no agreement was reached. Acting on the complaint, Wash- tenaw County Circuit Judge Wil- liam Ager, Jr. scheduled a show- cause hearing for this morning concerning a possible preliminary injunction against the groups and issued a summons to several BEDL and WRO members. The complaint and summons m e n t i o n specifically Catherine Emerson; Henry Bryant III, San- dra Girard, Vicki Price, and Charles Thomas, Jr. BEDL and WRO are already scheduled for another show -cause hearing with Judge Ager this morning .concerning a temporary injunction signed by a Detroit ci- cuit court judge which bars the groups from ten area churches. The Beth Israel board issued a statement yesterday announcing a nmeeting with representatives of BENLand WRO scheduled for+ Sept. 20. "Once our premises have been, vacated, voluntarily or otherwise, conditions conducive to a free dis- cussion will have been established and the meeting will take place," the statement said. WRO member Catherine Emer- son said the groups would volun- tarily leave Beth Israel if the1 b o a r d modified in two ways the position it took Wednesday. First, Mrs. Emerson said, the tem- ple must recognize BEDL and WRO as legitimate agents on be- half of the area poor and, second,1 hold the scheduled meeting earlier+ than the Sept. 20 date."+ BEDL member Hank Bryant said a "support statement" from Beth Israel recognizing the legi- timacy of BEDL and WRO asl agents of the county's "poor, black and disenfranchised" would assisti the groups in their relations with the ten area churches, which Bry- ant terms the "rat pack." At the same time, EEDL and1 WRO members were meeting with the Ann Arbor Society of Friends and the Christian Science Church executive board to discuss the groups' demand. The Friends have allowed BEDL+ and WRO who /have already re-+ ceived a pledge of $10,000 from the Ann Arbor Unitarian Church. to+ utilize the Friends Meeting Center+ as a day care center. The groups made their original demands last winter, when the na- tional program of the "Black+ Manifesto" called for $500 in na- tional reparations from churches. The Manifesto set up self-deter- mination programs for which the money would be used. bombs on jet -Daily-Jim Judkis University Council discusses possible role in crisis New ' Airline captain e fears guerrilla Council meets AL KHANA, Jordan ()- The captain of a British air- liner hijacked to this desert airstrip said yesterday he be- lieved Palestinian guerrillas already have put explosive charges aboard the plane. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) has threatened to blow up the British Overseas Air- ways Corp. VC 10 together with a Boeing 707 of Trans World Airlines and a DC8 of Swissair unless guerrillas held in Europe were released. Speaking at a planeside news conference, Capt. Cyril Couldbourne said his 81 passengers have lacked food for 24 hours. "Somebody brought up a packet / of biscuits but they did not go very far," said Couldbourn. "We have plenty of water aboard but aD S M it's food we need. They have promised us some but we haven't seen it yet." h l i s siCouldbourn reported the pas- old firsj Ssingersnevertheless were "stand- ing up very well." Then, squint- ing up at the sun blazing down on the shimmering desert, he r e - marked grimly: "It's damn hot here, isn't it?" By MARK DILLEN Couldbourn, three other c r e wB K members and eight passengers and spoke to newsmen as the others MIKE McCARTHY aboard watched through th e Students for a Democratic So- planes' windows and open doors. ciety and the Ann Arbor chapter The guerrillas are holding some of the Movement for a New Con- 280 passengers, and crew 'in the gress (MNC) held their first meet- three planes, parked on what they ings of the semester last night and call "Revolution Airbase. discussed widely differing views on The hostages got a respite of. show to effect social change. 72 hours when the PFLP announc- Two SDS speakers talked tq ed yesterday an extension to 10 nearly 200 people in South Quad p.m. EDT tomorrow of the dead- on the political objectives and in- line for release of the captive com- ternal structure of .the group. mandos. A statement read to the group As Couldbourn and his compan- calledoranend to the caoitaust ions climbed down a creaking system of exploitation and aast wooden ladder from their plane, age of resources," and "al types guerrillas rushed forward to pin ag ofpress," PFLP badges on their shirts and of oppression." present them with PFLP key "We support movements of op- chains, pressed people of the world in Unlike the two other planes, their struggle for freedom," the there was no sanitation problem statement read. "We want an end aboard the VC10. "We emptied our to the political and cultural op- toilets in the sand," Couldbourn pression of all minority groups, said. He said he had no trouble women, youth, and homosexuals. landing on the strip and did not We demand a release of all peoples resist the three hijackers. "When presently imprisoned for revolu- they hold a gun at your neck, you tionary activities." fly the plane without asking ques- The speaker stated the group's tions." belief that "only by collective The plane was undamaged, he action can people take control of reported, but had fuel enough the institutionis which dominate left only to reach Damascus in their lives. Factories, schools, the neighboring Syria. army, the government must be re- Guerrillas painted "Popular turned to the people." Front for the Liberation of Pales- Political science instructor and tine" in red letters on the plane's MNC member Andy Semmel ad- blue and white fuselage. A Pales- dressed the nearly 300 people as- tinian flag fluttered from t h e sembled for MNC's mass meeting front door, in the Union ballroom. on- disruption P#.anther sentece NEVI HAVEN, Conn. (/P)-The first adult Black Panther to be sentenced in connection with the torture murder of Panther mem- ber Alex Rackley was given a sus- pended jail term in Superior Court here yesterday., Loretta. Luckas, 22, of Bridge- port, who pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to kidnap and turned state's evidence, was given a suspended two-to-three- year sentence by Judge Harold M. Mulvey. The suspended sentence was recomended by State's Atty. Ar- nold Markle, who noted that Miss Luckas testified. for the state at the recent trial of Black Panther Lonnie McLucas. McLucas was convicted Aug. 31 of conspiracy to murder in con-. nection with the death of Rackley in May 1969. Judge Mulvey said he would impose sentence on Mc- Lucas Sept. 18. officer without a trial by referring his case to the country prosecutor. They further accused the mayor of ignorance in the matter, stating he had not personally interviewed any of the witnesses to the in- cident. In an earlier statement local 247 threatened to sue the mayor for libel, but no legal action was men- tioned Wednesday. Harris defended himself for taking action on the basis of evi- dence gatlhered by a three man tommittee appointed by City Council. "I see no point in having an in- vestigating committee appointed to find the facts if each member of the City Council is going to ignore these findings, hear the evidence himself, and make his own findings," the mayor said. The Teamsters discounted this study because the investigating committeeadid not interview the police officer involved. Harris pointed out in his state- ment that the investigating com- mittee, in the tradition of such committees, did not interview po- lice officers directly but had to See HARRIS, page 7 By HESTER PULLING Student, faculty and adminis- tration representatives met yes- terday to discuss possible mechan- isms for dealing with future' dis- orders at the University. The meeting was called by Uni- versity Council (UC) - a per- manent student, faculty 'nd ad- ministration body empowered to formulate University-wide r cies. Another function of the Council is to "consult with and advise the President . . . concerning re- lations within the University and the general community, including the use of law-enforcement agen- cies." A sub-committee of University Council drafted the set of emer- gency guidelines -- about which the meeting was called -- in an effort to "broaden the base of communication, consultation and negotiation" and to "improve de- cision making in crisis situations." Also attending the meeting were Student Government C o u n c i 1 (SGC) and the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs (SACUA)-the top faculty body. Chairman of UC Law Prof. Theodore St. Antoine questioned the role of his group in deciding whether police should be called on, cam pus. "Is University Council respon- sible for setting general guidelines fqr the President to follow, or is Council (or its delegate) to parti- cipate in the actual decision?" "And if the council is to parti- cipate in the decision, what is an efficient means of providing stu- dent and faculty input?" St. An- toine asked. Conflicting ideas were expressed over the necessity of establishing any guidelines or group to work with President Robben Fleming. "Please, let's not tie President Fleming's hands," SACUA member C. Merle Crawford said. "Under the stress of the conditions, Flem- ing is not going to deal with two underlings from SGC, two from SACUA nor two from anywhere else. He'll work with the people who are calling the shots-secur- ity people and police." However, the general consensus of the group was to formulate a body to work with Fleming and to include students on that body. "We need a nultilateral group and one that is representative of the various constituencies at the University," said Alfred Sussman, an administratice representative) on UC and co-sponsor of the emergency guideline proposal. "If there is a student confron- tation, we would augment the ad- visory group by as many students as possible to insure better com- nunications and better under- standing of the issues." Sussman. continued. St. Antoine ndicated he had previously talked with Fleming rzethods, iabout such a consulting body. wAllthe president desires is that we are in reasonable agreement and that the whole group does not get too cumbersome," St. Antoine said. SSGC members at the meeting were particularly emphatic about studentparticipation in emer- gency situations. "Student Government Council will not be interested in creating the illusion of a community de- cision if President F 1 eminn g is still going to be making the de- cisions on police alone," said Jer- ry De Grieck, UC member and executive vice president of SOC. "Any student on such ab o dy would make any disagreement on use of police public.!' The session ended with the sug- gestion that all three groups --- SGC, University Council a n d SACUA - discuss the proposal among themselves and meet on another date. r , f J, f pa L a k _ r_ a - --° Radical College to regroup in preparation for 'U' issues By BILL ALTERMAN "The faculty is perfectly happy under the old system . . . They like what is elite and the school serves elite purposes." It was in reaction to this sort of faculty elitism, history Prof. Sam Warner says, that more radi- cal faculty members banded to- gether last year to form Radical College. Although the College appeared defunct at the end of last year and did not meet at all during the summer, Research Psychologist Sylvan Kornblum says the Col- lege is planning to hold its first RECENT INCIDENTS REPORTED Students By ANDRE HUNT Increased security problems h a v e caused both administrators and stu- dents to take a second look at protec- tive nasures in University residence halls. Several recent incidents of voyeurism and exhibitionism have brought atten- tion to particular security inadequac- ies, espccially in South Quad. And the incidents have resulted in an atmos- phere of fear among many South Quad residents. "Girls here are extremely upset about what has happened," says Lori Wnt+pit ,.cipnt dirpfn of N ti n f. ' seek tighter dorm security meeting of the semester next week. At its peak last year the College had approximately 120 members including 20 senior faculty mem- bers and 40 teaching fellows. Kornblum says he had no idea how many people will come to next week's meeting. College meetings last year were usually packed during c a m p u s= crises, but in quieter times only a small core of members regularly attended. Kornblum says he doubts "there will be a paucity of issues for Radical College to choose from this year." Last year the College took in- dependent action on only a few issues such as organizing a one- day moratorium in protest of campus recruiting. For the most part, however, it acted as a sup- port group, endorsing actions of other groups like the Black Ac-' tion Movement. "This year's issues," Warner predicts, "will be' thesame ones held over from last year. These include ROTC, the voting of Uni- versity stock, campus recruiting practices and budget priorities." In extending its support of BAM demands, Warner says he expects Radical College to sup- port open admissions at the Uni- versity. "If the University isn't open to a cross-section of t h e state," he says, "the subjects will remain elite and the academic community will remain elite." ' Specific plans for this year are undetermined now, but open ad- missions "sounds like something poses setting up a body with equal faculty and student representation to work directly under the Re- gents. A more specific area where Warner believes student-faculty participation is needed is on the budgetary committees. "Current- ly," Warner says, "there is only one faculty member on a budget committee. A budget-making committee with student and fa- culty representation as men'bers is a matter of right." Despite its name, and presum- See RADICAL, Page 7 Semmel defined MNC as a high- ly organized national , movement whose objective is "trying to elect non-traditional candidates to the Congress by v e r y traditional means - specifically by working within the system and through the electoral process to bring about a radical change in the system. Although MNC is organized on the national level with a central headquarters at Princeton Univer- sity, Semmel. stressed that the heart of the movement was the local chapter. Semmel stated that the Ann Ar- bor chapter hopes to become ac- tively involved' in one senatorial and five congressional campaigns. On the state level MNC is en- dorsing the incumbent U.S. Sen- ator Phillip Hart. In the 2nd Con- gressional District, which includes Ann Arbor, MNC is eidorsing Michael Stillwagon, in the 3rd, Richard Enslen, Don Reigle in the See MNC, Page 7 staff to provide an, atmosphere of pro- tection for residents," she adds. Miss McMacken further says that it is "unacceptable" to have a situation exist where two women have b e e n accosted. "Housing has, by negli- gence, created an atmosphere increas- ing the risk of jeopardy to residents," she says. The women involved declined to di- vulge details of the incidents. One staff member says the security problem "comes down to how much the students are willing to impose upon themselves. "Students must enact regu- lations reflecting their concern: they But he insures students that housing is aware of the current situation and that changes will be made. "Changes are being made," one stu- dent agrees, "but not by the housing office. We're doing the work ourselves, because we're scared." South Quad Building Director Bill Ennen says students should make the changes, but that "It's difficult to enact security measures with 24-hour open visitation." Security measures are greatly hamp- ered when the open visitation policy is combined with a no-escort system, c in t h-k r,,0. Xiii e, a o nr. ar ft.'"hp- Williamson, problems of the dorms re- flect larger problems of society in terms of concepts of community cooperation. "We could ideally set up a perfect se- curity system, but that's useless un- less the people involved cooperate. It's a problem of motivation rather than technicalities." "The problem of large dorms," he adds, "is of mutually inconsistent goals: open visitation and security." Smaller dorms also have security problems, but a resident of Helen New- berry Hall says "because the dorm is small, we recognize one another and strangers are easy to spot." The major ...'..'.:'....'.... -9.:.