CAMPAIGN '70: IGNORING REAL ISSUES See Editorial Page pg 3k~A6 riga I~aitii SOGGY High--68 Low--47 Rain, clearing in afternoon Vol. LXXXI, No. 36 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Wednesday, October 14, 1970 Ten Cents Eight Pages 85 PICKET DOW; Demonstratorsi Fleming over r confront' HEM DE, G DS 'U' I ITI TE ecruiter By JONATHAN MILLER Protesting the presence on campus of a job recruiter from Dow Chemical Co., about 50 people led by Students for a Democratic Society yesterday staged a sit-in at the office of President Robben Fleming. Earlier, 85 demonstrators picket- ed inside the West Engineering Bldg., where the Dow recruiter was holding job interviews. In their recent campaign against Dow, the protesters have demand- ed that recruiters from the com- pany be barred from the Univer- sity, and have charged Dow with racialdand sexualdiscrimination, genocide, imperialism, and con- tributing to environmental decay. In addition, they have cited University rules which, they say, prohibit job recruiting by corpora- tions which practice sexism or racism. Fleming met briefly with the protesters as they sat-in outside his office in the Administration Bldg. advising to bring their de- mands to Vice President for Stu- dent Services Robert Knauss and administrators of the engineering college. The protesters already met with these officials last Friday. In addition to calling on Flem- ing to ban Dow recruiters from the University, the demonstrators called for the establishment of an investigative board to screen cor- porations before they are allowed to use University facilities to re- cruit employes.I The group suggested that cri- - teria for approval of a corpora- tion include the extent to which the corporations: -Discriminate against womenI and members of minority groups; -Participate in imperialism; and -Have an educational value in their on-campus activities. Two uniformed city policemen and several plainclothesmen_ from} the city PoliceeDepartment and the University security office ob- served the demonstration in the West Engineering Bldg., which was generally peaceful. When the protesters entered the building they were chanting slo- gans, and an official warned them that they were in violation of a University rule prohibiting the de- privation of "needed heat and quiet" to members of the Univer- sity community. They ceased chanting and be-1 gan running through the build- ing, until a police officer stood in the hallway outside the offices of the Engineering Placement Serv- ices to stop them. Several p r o t e s t e r s brushed See 50 CONFRONT, Page 2 OF ORE 0 E SETS 30-DAY DE ADLINE By SARA FITZGERALD Charging the University with inequities in its hiring policies, the Department of Health; Education and Welfare has given the University 30 days to submit an affirmative action program to promote equal employment opportunities for women. In a letter dated Oct. 6, Don F. Scott, civil rights specialist in the HEW Chicago regional office said an affirmative ac- tion program "must be submitted to this office within 30 days" for evaluation to determine if it appears "acceptable and responsive to the problems we have identified." In response, President Robben Fleming has assured HEW of an immediate analysis of the situation and the develop- ment of a revised affirmative action program. But, he said, "it would seem unlikely that - an affirmative program of the " kind you envision could be generated within 30 days, e te assuming we were in "It is probable that there will be points of disagreement between us, some of which may be ser- Fleming declined to release the HEW report but said it noted cas- es where women with college de- NEW YORK AP)--Angela Davis, grees were put into job classifi- the controversial UCLA professor cations lower than some occupied who was fired because of her by men without college degrees. Communist party membership, was Reliable sources said yesterday arrested by FBI agents here last that the report also relied heav- night in connection with the ily on statistical data showing the shooting of a judge and three proportionately low numbers of others in California last August. women in higher ranking jobs. Davs 6,isaleged According to University person- Dais,6,iedtewaslleed itohe nel statistics only 4.8 per cent of supepedtheeponruedconinte University professorial staff a r e atmtt retrecnit women. Forty per cent of the in- undergoing trial in San Rafael. structors and 25 per cent of the Folowing the shootings, Davis teaching fellows are women. was placed on the FBI's list of the The HEW order is the result Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, and of an investigation conducted last an intensive hunt was undertaken August in response to allegations to capture her. that the University discriminates Arrested last night in a Howard on the basis of sex. The com- Johnson Motel on Eighth Avenue, plaint was filed in May by Ann Davis was charged with unlawful Arbor Focus on Equal Employ- flight to avoid prosecution under ment for Women. charges of murder and kidnaping. HEW's authority is derived from Davis, a woman of academic the amended Executive Order brilliance, became an acting as- 11246, issued Oct. 13, 1968, which sistafit professor of philosophy forbids employment discrimina- last year at UCLA. As a doctoral tion by federal contractors like the candidate she had been a protege University on the basis of race, of Herbert Marcuse, the Marxist religion, sex, age, and national ori- professor. gin. i.,,, ha hnic ofrar essor.e -Daily-Jim Wallace PROTESTERS of the on-campus job recruiting by Dow Chemical Co. discuss the issue with President Robben Fleming at his con- ference room in the Administration Bldg. SUPPORT STUDENTS: "Black parents picket office, of-cityschools 4 Expressing support for -the demands of black students at Pioneer High School, some 40 black parents picketed the administrative offices of the Ann Arbor public schools at 1220 Wells. The students have charged the high school with failing to implement promises made last spring for the increased siring of black faculty members. To press their demands, about 35 black students staged a disruption at the high school earlier this month. Since then, the dispute has evolved into a verbal battle -Daily-Jim Wallace Rennie Davis speaks in the Michigan Union ballroom Davis, Lerner addres 'x r S a Gti . S as 1 1 ! 1 r T l t t 800 on Indochina war By JIM McFERSON withdrawal of American troops ftfrom Vietnam, citing modifica- wye gwillst tions in the negotiating positionj doesn't stop the war, we will stop of the North Vietnamese and the .panels set on women A symposium on the situation of women, and that of the Uni- versity in 1970 will be held today 4 another activity during the cen- tennial anniversary of the admis- sion of the University's first wo- man student. The all-day program, sponsored by the Center for the Continuing j~ducation of Women, will begin at 9 a.m. in Rackham Lecture Hall. The morning session is entitled "Toward a New Psychology of Women." At 12:30 p.m. following a lunch- eon in the Michigan League Ball- *m, a panel will examine the special problems of women grad- uate students. The final session, on women and the University in the next decade, is scheduled ' for 2 p.m. in the League Ballroom. between the schools adminis- tration, and supporters of the black students. The black parents who picketed the School Administrative Offices yesterday issued a statement ex- pressing "concern for the welfare and educational future of b 1 a c k students in the Ann Arbor public schools. We recognize the injus- tices that exist in our school sys- tem and insist that immediate ac- tion be taken to correct these. On Monday, members of the Black Education Association (BEA), which includes all blacks on the staff of Ann Arboi public schools, picketed the School Administrative Offices in suppori of the black students' demands. Pioneer High Principal Theo- dore Rokicki has been charged by the BEA with "administrative mis- management of the situation' during the recent disruptions. Responding to attacks on Ro- kicki, Superintendent of Schools W. Scott Westerman Jr. issued a statement yesterday saying that Rokicki "made exceptional efforts to mediate a controversy which finally woulld not be concluded ex- cept on the youth's terms. the government of the United States," declared Rennie Davis last night, addressing nearly 800 people in the Michigan Union ball- room. Davis, one of the defendants in the Chicago 8 conspiracy trial, said that a date must be set for i Viet Cong. Sharing the platform was Mike Lerner, a defendant in the current Seattle conspiracy trial. Lerner discussed his case, and on the war issue, he said, "We must have total and immediate withdrawal. The American people will impose peace I 1 7 1 1 r 1 t , s i s U' enrollment up at 3 campuses;' Ann Arbor total reaches 34,702 if the government does not ac- cept peace." Davis said that the setting of a date for withdrawal will prompt the communists to accept Presi- dent Nixon's proposal for a stand- still cease-fire. In addition, Davis said, the Provisional Revolution- ary Government of South Viet- nam has agreed to freedom for all political prisoners, if a withdraw- al date is set. But, he added, if a date is not set by May 1, "the planet is go- ing to shake to let Vietnam live.' The formation of small politica: groups is the next step in the anti-war movement, said Davis. These units will "seek a direct American-Vietnamese compact." "The time has come," continued Davis, "for Americans to say the government no longer represents us abroad. We must bring the war to a conclusion ourselves." He said there was rising anti- war sentiment in South Vietnarm itself, and an increasing resist- ance to the Thieu-Ky regime. "Resistance has shifted from the countryside to the city," he said, "and under Thieu-Ky repression is a powder keg." Davis said future anti-war dem- onstrations would include such tactics as clogging the roads t( the Pentagon with abandoned cars, sit-ins to prevent official; from attending their jobs, and similar non-violent actions. Enrollment at all three of the; University's campuses increased this term, the registrar's office! has announced. The Ann Arbor campus has reported an increase of 1,699 students over last fall's total of 33,003, bringing current enrollment to 34,702. Enrollment at the Flint campus rose from 1,501 last fall to 1,819 this fall, an increase of 318 per- sons. And the Dearborn campus reports an increase of 53 students, from 822 last term to 875. Statistics show that total Uni- versity enrollment currently is 37,396-an increase of 2,070 stu- dents from last year. These totals do not include 2,265 students now enrolled in credit extension courses, a decline from 2,384 in that category a year ago. "Overall enrollment has turned) out to be in excess of what we estimated a year ago," says Vice President for Academic Affairs Allan Smith. "Fortunately, how- ever, the increases are not heavily concentrated in only one school, but are spread throughout the colleges so that the extra students can be accommodated." Smith adds that increasing in- terest in ecology seems to have led to a large increase in enroll- ment in the natural resources $40 MILLION ANNUALLY school. Enrollment has increased there from 503 students last fall to 662, an increase of 157 persons or 31 per cent. Enrollment in the literary col- lege, the University's 1 a r g e s t school, rose this fall by 218 from 16,081 a year ago to 16,299. In re- sponse to increasing enrollment the LSA faculty last month strongly recommended that there be a ceiling on the number of freshman admitted into the col- lege each year to hold enrollment down. Most of this year's literary col- lege increase is accounted for by a larger than expected number of returning juniors and seniors. Freshman enrollment dropped from 3,225 last fall to 3,155 this fall, and the sophomore class dropped from 2,968 to 2,899. Enrollment for the other schools are: Architecture and design school, up 957 from 897; business admin- istration, 1,163, up from 1,052; dental school, 679, up from 615; education school, 3,527, up from 3,376; medical school, 1,934, up from 1,787; music school 905, up from 859; pharmacy, 326, up from 257; public health,517, up from 434; and social work school, 731, up from 697. Law s c h o o 1 enrollment rose 131 persons from 1,054 in 1969 I e s The HEW statement also calls for compensatory back pay to any female employe identified as hav- ing lost wages because of discrim- inatory treatment by the Univer- sity since the executive order was issued. University officials said exam- ples of alleged discrimination cited by HEW reveal "an apparent lack of understanding of peculiar cir- cumstances of a university work force." "We have wives of students who are working a year or two while their husbands are completing their graduate work," a spokesman said. "The result may be women in jobs for which they are over qualified." "First, we may not have open- ings to fit particular qualifica- tions at the time employment is n e e d e d," the spokesman said "Second, both the student wife and the University recognize that the employment is going to be for a limited time." "We do not differ with respect See CHARGE, Page 2 on the oasis ox her Communist party membership, Davis had been discharged from UCLA a year ago by the California board of regents, led by Republican Gov. Ronald Reagan. Overruled by a superior court judge, the regents appealed to the California Supreme Court. But meanwhile, they voted last June not to reappoint Davis, citing not her Communist membership but her extra-curricular activities in support of such militant groups as the Black Panthers. During the incident in August, Superior Court Judge Harold Haley, two of the convicts and the man who brought the weapon into the courtroom, Jonathan Jackson, were killed in a shootout. All four of the guns used in the courtroom break - a sawed-off shotgun, two pistols and a carbine, were traced to Davis. She had purchased them under her own name in Southern Cali- fornia gun shops over the past two t>years, police said. 'U' considers new loan program By HESTER PULLING The University administration is con- sidering a 15-month-old proposal that it adopt a new financial aids program which the proposal's supporters feel could in- crease the University's available financial aid by $40 million annually. The proposal was first submitted in June, 1969, by the Financial Aids Advisory Committee. And the delay in acting on the r'-nnmmrnrnA. inn hac$.-, nwn rritioncvvfrnmn tion one and a half years ago and have just met delaying tactic after delaying tac- tic." The Office of Financial Aids is current- ly under the direction of Stephen Spurr, vice president and dean of the graduate school. The student members of the com- mittee criticize what they call his delay in acting on the proposal, charging him with a lack of awareness of the financ- II {: