TWO YEARS' UNDER RICHARD NIXON See Editorial Page 1L 1Mw i4a DUIIAI SEASONAL Higli-65 Low-45 Increasing cloudiness, chance of rain Vol. LXXXI, No. 45 Ann Arbor, Michigan - Saturday, October 24, 1970 Ten Cents Ten Pages BLAST INDICTMENTS 4000rally at Kent State -Daily-Tom Gottlieb -Daily-Tom Gottlieb Sp ectators view fioats, Kent protest Hundreds of spectators lined State St. yesterday to watch the traditional homecoming parade. And traditionally, the parade was over a half-hour late in starting. Following more recently estab- lished tradition, politics played aI 'large role in the spectacle. Leading off the parade were several hund- red people marching to protest the indictment of 25 students -a n d faculty at Kent State University. Following..them were -several can- didates running in the upcoming elections, Mike Stillwagon and his opponent Rep. Marvin Esch, Sen. .Gilbert Bursley (R-Ann Arbor) and others. By far the biggest crowd pleaser, however, was former astronomy professor and noted Wolverine fan Doc Losh. The Michigan band did not ap- pear, but music was provided by several local high school bands. There were also a few floats in the parade, representing fraterni- ties, sororities and other campus groups. BLACK MILITANT:- By MARK DILLEN Special To The Daily KENT, Ohio - A week after 25 students and faculty w e r e indicted here by a special grand jury, 4000 students met on the commons of Kent State yesterday to hear speakers de- nounce the grand jury. For one hour students listened while local student leaders as well as socialist I. F. Stone and North- western University student body President Eva Jefferson attack- ed the indictment. Stone, published of I. F. Stone Biweekly, a radical magazine in Washington D.C., called the in- dictment "perfectly ridiculous." "Ohio was once known as a great state, but is now one of the most backward places in the U.S.," he said. "This is a free country and there is still the right to dis- agree. Haven't they heard about the First Amendment?" Stone was referring to c o u r t injunctions which prevent those indicted and those who testified before the jury from speaking about the jury report. Applause was loud as Stone ad- vocated "pressing for a federal grand jury to bring justice, not whitewash, to the campus." Students responded warmly to the speakers, all of whom stressed the need for non-violence "at least until the November election." Some students at Kent believe there may be some sort of civil disobedience here after the elec- tions. "You're in the eye of the hurri- cane. If you can be rational so can the rest of us," said Jeffer- son. "We've got to stick together -to be irresponsible is a luxury we can't afford." One speaker emphasized the need for unity despite political differences among students be- cause, "Nixon and Agnew put us all in one bunch." All speakers ex- pressed hope they could change the indictments peacefully. "We can free the K e n t 25 and bring the troops home. We can and will win." said a Student Mob- ilization Committee spokesman. Afterwards, sparsely attended workshops were held, focusing on the legality of the grand jury and its report. All the jury indictments are against students and faculty for their alleged role in last May's dis- orders in which four students were killed by National Guard fire. The jury exonerated the Guard. Meanwhile, plans continued for speaking tours by Kent State stu- dents and faculty to other uni- versities to explain "what is hap- pening at Kent." "I call on all my brothers and sisters of the faculty to help or- ganize an east coast speaking tour," said sociology Prof, Jerry Lewis. Lewis is also expected to be issued a warrant as the grand jury hands down further indict- ments. Thus far only 13 of the 25 in- dicted have been notified. The identities of the others have not yet been revealed. Some of the speakers at the rally attributed the delay to political maneuvering. "Republicans are very anxious to keep control of' this state because they know that no Republican has ever been elect-' ed president without carrying' Ohio," one speaker said. Yippie leader Peter Hess an-' nounced plans for a Yippie "car-' nival" today on the commons to protest the indictments. See KENT, Page 10 -Baily-Tom Gottleb NEARLY 1,000 PEOPLE listen to one of the speakers at yesterday's Diag rally. The rally was held as part of a moratorium called to protest the indictment of 25 Kent State students and faculty for participation in anti-war protests last May. Kent students address Diag moratorium rally -Daily-Tom Gottlieb By HANNAH MORRISON and ZACH SCHILLER Three students from Kent State University addressed nearly 1000 at a noon rally on the Diag yes- terday, beginning a half-day mor- atorium to express support for the 25 people indicted for pro- testing on the Ohio campus 1 a s t May against U.S. involvement in Cambodia. The aims of the rally and af- ternoon workshops, organized by Student Government Council and Student Mobilization Committee (SMC), were "to express our soli- darity with the students of Kent State," SGC President M a r t y Scott said. "We also want to come up with ways to keep police in our area and other areas from ex- pressing their unity with the Na- tional Guard and the grand jury," Scott added. Ellen Robbins, one of the Kent State students at the rally, stress- ed what she termed "the increas- ing signs of repression." "No one can do anything," she said, citing laws forbidding demonstrations, parading, leafletting and outside speakers. "Undercover agents and FBI men are all over," she added. "They're even trying to ban 3.2 per cent beer and live entertainment." "One day you might be indict- ed too," Robbins concluded. Diana Ettenberg, another stu- dent from Kent State, agreed, "It can happen to any one of us at any tine. These people were in- dicted because they went out and did what they believed in." Jim Freeman, the third K e n t State student addressing the rally, called the Ohio grand jury a "kangaroo court," and said Nixon, Reagan and Rhodes bear the blame for the Kent State deaths last spring. Rose Hochman, an Ann Arbor resident, said, "There is a time for self-indulgence, for having a good time. Since the indictment of the Kent State 25, this is not the time for Homecoming. Rather, we should think about Kent State, Jackson State and Angela Davis." The rally was followed by a question period in the multi-pur- pose room of the Undergraduate Library. During the discussion, Freeman said, "I have learned that violence is the true obscenity." The students from Kent State called the grand jury report "ab- surd." Robinson said, "It was in- valid and inaccurate, having no correlation to actual events." Following the questions, f i v e workshops were held on related topics, including politics and re- pression, student and labor rela- tions and repression at the Uni- versity. After the workshops, people participating in the moratorium gathered at Division and Packard to organize for marching in the Homecoming parade. Close to 200 marched at the head of the procession, carrying posters, flags and a banner read- ing "Support Kent 25." Y i p p i e s, anarchists and radical lesbians were among the groups present. Residential College cancelled classes and held 11 workshops on various aspects of repression throughout the day in support of the moratorium. Law students blast dean search group Davis: Academics to revolution By The Associated Press Angela Davis is presently being held in a New York jail and is fighting extradition to California on charges of purchasing f o u r guns used last August in a court- house raid that resulted in the ' *eaths of four persons. Davis' journey to jail and the FBI's 10-Most-Wanted List began in Birmingham, Ala. En route she left behind a brilliant academic record and the admiration a n d praise of those who knew her. "You've got it all, African wo- man. You're the m o s t powerful stimulus I could have." So wrote George Jackson, a black revolutionary accused of murder, last spring from his cell in California's Soledad prison to the young woman whom he called his "tender experience:" Angela Davis. At26, Angela Davis did indeedl seem to have it all. She was brilliant. Magna cum laude and Phi B e t a Kappa at 'T'elephone rate hike hits in-state students Brandeis University; a disserta- tion away from a doctorate at the University of California; philo- sophy instructor at the University of California at Los Angeles. She was attractive. She was ar- ticulate. In her classes she rarely consulted notes yet her lectures were cogent and she seldom had to search for the precise word.. Asked to evaluate her as a teach-j er, 87 per cent of her students said "excellent." She was, relatively speaking, privileged. Her parents, both col- lege graduates, w e re considered w e l l off for Birmingham, Ala. blacks and lived in one of the more prestigious middle - class black neighborhoods. Stimulus? Angela Davis was that, too. With absolute confi- dence in the rightness of her judgments she could stir an au- dience to her own level of inten- sity for a cause. When she her- self became a cause - fired from her teaching position for admit-' ting she was a Communist - the academic community reacted with, a solidarity perhaps unequaled since the days of the loyalty oath. That was a shock to all who knew her, Angela Davis saying she was a Communist. Throughout her school days she{ had not mixed in politics, h a d stayed away from student demon- strations. Intellectuals, not acti- vists, were her close friends. Last January, as suddenly as a volcano, Angela Davis erupted w 4 + n n maintnn nrr of nocciinn hunted down as one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives. No one event, no one teacher, no one persuasive philosophical tract can be pointed at as the single radicalizing influence in her life. Combing Angela Davis's back- ground for clues one discovers many, but by her own assessment and that of others who knew her intimately several incidents deeply influenced the course of her life. There was the motor trip home See ANGELA, Page 10 By SHARI COHEN At an open hearing before the- student-faculty advisory commit- tee appointed by President Rob- ben Fleming to select a new dean for the law school, law students attacked the composition of the committee which includes six fa- culty members and two students. Some law students expressed what they feel to be a need for the new Law School dean to be concerned with the problems of minority students and social wel- fare. In a letter to committee mem- COLLECTIVE BARGAINING ASKED By ANITA CRONE The Michigan Bell Telephone Company raised its rates f or calls dialed through an opera- tor to anyplace in Michigan and in-state students are really feel- ing the pinch. Sitting in a dorm and inter- viewing people as they came out of the phone booths was not a pleasant experience. In fact, out of about ten students, only one, who preferred to remain anonymous, seemed "in favor" of the hike. - He said, "I think it's a great thing to spend all that money. Bell Telephone has the right to make as much money as it operator before placing any calls. Gloating students called New York and flaunted the fact they spent less money - for once - than their in-state col- leagues. Some unfortunate students who didn't know of the hikes blithely placed their calls as usual. When the operator told them the charges, they were flabbergasted. Some w e n t screeching down the halls to get more money. Others just hung up and walked away. Jim Blanchard, '73 is one of those students who found out the hard way about the hikes. He called Oakland University hforeA the hiIre Oa naid the TI? union, By DAVID EGNER First of a Two-Part Series The Teaching Fellows Union (TFU), which presently includes 100 of the 1,500 teaching fellows on the Ann Arbor campus, is attempting to win University recognition as the bargaining agent for all teaching fellows. This issue is further confounded by the dual role teaching fellows play-they are employed by the University as teachers, but they are also enrolled as students in grad- uate courses. TFU spokesmen say they want Univer- sity recognition as employes and collective bargaining about conditions to work. 4 from teaching fellows and requesting rec- ognition of TFU as the representative of all teaching fellows were submitted to the board in March this year. Despite the uncertainty that collective bargaining between TFU and the University will ever occur, the union has drawn up tentative demands including an immediate salary increase and later cost-of-living in- creases, tuition waivers, fair grievance procedures and more teaching fellow par- ticipation in course planning. TFU chair woman Allison Hayford says, "We're tired of working for slave wages. We all have bachelors degrees and some of us have masters degrees. We should be earning more money for the teaching we F" recogn ition who feels fully paid," he counters, "but there's no unlimited supply of gold at the University that is not being used." Defending the planned TFU demand for tuition waivers, Hayford says, "It doesn't make sense for the University to pay us with one hand and then take money back with the other." But Smith terms calling for an end to teaching fellow tuition "an argument with- out meaning." "The University needs money to operate," he says. Hayford says TFU has set up a griev- ance committee to investigate teaching fellow complaints and, if the committee believes the complaint is justified, to as- sist in appealing the grievance to the fac- bers, Jim Graham, a lawstudent' criticized the student role on the committee as "illusory participa- tion." He said/ that the inclusion of two students on the commit- tee was "a meliorating situation to meet current demands about stu- dent participation." The law schooi should pro- duce lawyers "not just for Wall Street, IBM and GM" said Ken' Seigel, a member of the Board of Directors of the Lawyer's Club. "There is a need for lawyers for the black, the brown, the pacifist, the militant and the radical. Several women law students urg- ed that a woman be considered for the position of dean. They cited the need for a dean who would ac- tively work to end discrimination against women law students a n d lawyers. Mrs. Noel Kramer, president of the Women's Law Student Organ- ization expressed dissatisfaction over the fact that there were no women representatives on t h e committee. She claimed that stu- dent appointments to the com- mittee were made during the sum- mer when most students weren't in Ann Arbor . to . take issue with them. Referring to criticism a b o u t student participation, David , Le Fevre, one of the student members on the committee and president of the student Board of Directors, said "I think the concern is pre- mature until the committee be- gins to function." He said no nominations had been suggested yet and committee work un until now ha hen ons tidnt