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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Thursday, October 24, 19/4
SPARSE CROWD:
Regent candidates debate
Common Cause calls for
political reform drive
(Continued from Page 1) dates all indicated support for+
run for the office. the Graduate Employes Organ-;
Republican hopeful David Up- ization (GEO) demands for
ton said students should be al- higher salaries for teaching as-
lowed to participate in regental sistants, and as well as recog-
deliberations, but should not ! nition of an agency shop rule
be allowed to vote. and limits on class size.
POWER contended that stu- Both Democratic and HRP,
dents should be seated on the hopefuls also strongly opposed
executive boards of all the Uni- tuition hikes for next year. "I'm
versity schools and colleges.
She pledged support for a draft
report of the Commission to
Study Student Governance urg-
ing for more student participa-I
tion in decision-making. O rder
Democratic and HRP candi-
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convinced the University is not
spending its budget wisely, and I By DAVID WHITING ; no comprehensive and adequate
has the money to avoid a tuition Common Cause officials last' campaign finance reform law."
increase," Hoffman argued. night announced a statewide; A broad spectrum of suggest-
petition drive to place a refer- I ed penalties for officials violat-
R E P U B L I C A N S and endum for sweeping political re- ing the proposed referendum
Conservative Party candidates form on the November 1976 gen- run from removal from office
did not indicate whether they eral ballot. to steep fines.
would specifically support de- Grace Rueter, Michigan chair- Admtatin tht sophisticated
mands for higher wages or op- woman of Common Cause's pe- fraud can not get around," Ter-
osition to a tuition increase. tition effort, said, "We are gear- ry Black, local Common Cause
ing up for this tremendous jab v .e
Parker said that most of the . needing ilterally thousands ce-chairman, sid name and
demands were justified, but that of workers." tributors must be recorded.
the final decision couldn't betrbosmutercrd.
rehed ithdesoutfurtherstdy TO APPEAR on a general B L A S T I N G Common
reached without further study. election ballot, some 350,000 Cause for their name-recording
Conservative Party candi- validated signatures obtained concept Robert Alexander, Hu-
dates Arlen Hellwarth and Ar- within 180 days are required. man Rights P a r t y (HRP)j
thur Herz both declared opposi- The group's draft reform plan State Representative candidate,I
calls for expressed "favor of complete
tion to the affirmative action a seven - member Political public financing of campaigns."
demands. Hellwarth contended Ethics Commission responsible Peter Eckstein, Democratic
that "selection and promotion for enforcing the proposed law's state senate hopeful, while ex-
of faculty members is generally provisions; pressing enthusiasm for the
a function of department com- " conflict - of - interest provi- initiative, called the public fi-
mittees to assure professional sions prohibiting elected and ap- nancing section "inadequate"
competence" pointed public officials from for only including the governor.
misusing their offices for per- State Rep Perry Bullard, (D-
Both argued that students and sonal gain; Ann Arbor) said, "I will support
faculty members should be ad- * "exposing well-financed ac- the initiative" but added "all
mitted and hired strictly on the tivities of s p e c i a 1 interest offices need public financing,"
basis of ability and not finan- groups" through lobbyist regu- at the gathering.
cial eed.lation and disclosure; and
cial need. " "reducing excessive influ-
Joseph Toth, Socialist Work- ence of money on the political
ers Party candidate and Bar- process" with campaign finance
bara Gettel, representing the disclosure and limitations.J
RUETER responded that her
organization did propose public
campaign financing in guberna-
tori ] races "just for openers."
Alexander also attacked the
suggested ethics commission ap-
pointments, saying HRP would
be excluded since they have
little chance of electing groups
of legislators or a governor
who would decide the commit-
tee.
State Sen. Gilbert Bursley (R-
Ann Arbor) said he was "heart-
ily behind" Common Cause's
petition effort, speaking in city
hall council chambers where
the meeting was held.
The petition drive is sched-
uled to begin in January.
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that University problems could
only be solved under a social-
ist form of government.
CHARGING legislative "lip
service to political reform,"
John Hathaway, local Common
Cause chairman, said "there is
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