BAM PROMISES BROKEN See Editorial Page SirA6 -A& 4F :43 a t ty MELTING High-41 Low-22 See Today for details Vol. LXXXV, No. 63 Eighty-Four Years of Editorial Freedom Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, November 16, 1974 Ten Cents Eight Pages DECEMBER PLANT SHUTDOWN I If-MU SEE NF$ HAPPEN CAJL Dy'VY U' appointments Two new assistant deans have been announced at the University, one in the School of Social Work and the other in the Law School. Thomas Grilk, a University law graduate and an associate of. a Boston law firm, will beome the new assistant dean and admissions officer of the law school Dec. 1. Grilk will succeed Jane Waterson Griswold, who has held the post since June 1972. Prof. Dee Mor- gan Kilpatrick has been named as the new assist- ant dean in the School of Social Work. He will serve from lan., 1975, to June 30, 1976. Kilpatrick succeeds Dr/ Richard English, the new associate vice-president for academic affairs. Both Grilk's and Kilpatrick's appointments were approved by the Regents yesterday. No dorm din-din. Pressing financial business forced the Regents to break a Markley Hall dinner engagement sched- uled for Thursday night, at least, that's what they claim. But there's at least one rumor to the con- trary: One source claimed that the real reason for the cancellation was the unwillingness of retir- ing Regent Robert Brown (R-Kalamazoo) to con- sume one of his last University meals in the Mark- ley cafeteria. Frost House President Charlie Con- rad confirmed that he had heard "certain things to this effect" but maintained that he didn't "know Brown's reasoning." Brown, however, denied the charge. "Some other things came up, and it was a question of priorities," said Brown, who added that he "always enjoyed visits to the dormitories." The coffeekatch, meanwhile, was postponed till January. 0 SGC non-attendance One of Student Government Council's oddest idio- syncrisies is that its membership seems to dissi- pate with time. To wit: Last year Council began with a full house of 39 members, but by the time elections were held last month, membership had dwindled to 12. The others, for the most part, had been stricken from the roster automatically after three consecutive sessions of absence, as decreed in SGC regulations. And the remaining 12 were by no means faithful attenders, either. The migra- tion has already begun this year. At Thursday night's SGC meeting, SGC President Carl Sand- berg announced that Hetty Waskin had resigned- just four weeks after her election. Dog bites po And for every election, there is one shaggy dog story. This oneycomes from Royal Oak,swhere Re- publican state house candidate James Lanni claims a dog bite is a campaign expense. Lanni, who lost his bid for the legislature, listed $20 to re- place a pair of pants as a campaign expense when he filed his spending list with the Oakland Coun- ty clerk's office. The dog, who was not a candi- date, bit Lanni when he was out canvissing. Happenings ... are topped by two plays for Saturday night. The PTP production of "Seesaw" will be per- formed at Power Center, and the soph show "Damn Yankees" will be performed at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. Both at 8 p.m. . . . the Uni- versity Men's Glee Club will join the Ohio State Men's Glee Club, one of the few times this season we will meet congenially, to present a joint con- cert. Concert begins at 8 p.m. in Hill Auditorium ... and a Romanian Folk Dance workshop will be held in the Barbour Gym from 10 a.m. to noon, and 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. A party will be held later. Otherwise, folks, enjoy the weekend. Ford wilt run It's official, although not much of a surprise. The man who assumed the nation's highest office sans voter approval will seek the people's mandate in the bicentennial year, '76. President Ford's an- nouncement is expected to cut the ground from under other Republican hopefuls and also cement Ford's position with Congress and foreign nations. The announcement was made yesterday through White House Press Secretary Ron Nessen. "I guess you've heard him say how much he enjoys being president," said Nessen. "Yes, he intends to run in 1976." On the inside... ... Our weekly Happenings calendar appears on Page 8 . . . Beth Nissen reviews this year's soph show, "Damn Yankees," and David Weinberg re- views the Professional Theatre Program's pro- duction of "Red Lantern" on the Arts Page . . . On the Editorial Page, Hadi Bozorgmanesh and Larry Emmons write on the safety of nuclear power . . . and the Sports Page features Brian Deming's report on last night's hockey game in Minneapolis. 0 Chrysler may close for month Ford to cut anothier 9,000 workers By AP and UPI DETROIT -- Chrysler Corp. is considering shutting down all its U. S. assembly plants for the month of De- cember, sources in the auto industry said yesterday. And Ford Motor Co. announced yesterday that it is idling another 9,250 workers at assembly plants and other facilities next week as the auto industry's massive cur- rent slump continued. CHRYSLER would neither confirm nor deny the report of a planned shutdown, but an industry insider said the firm ordered "zero" parts from suppliers for next week. That would indicate --Doily Photos by STEVE KAGAN Ice follies The arrival of winter has transformed even mundane objects into freakish ice sculptures, like the bicycle at right; and has fired the imagination of some would-be Rodin on the left. The dog obviously doesn't know talent when he sees it. ACCESS DENIED: Regents move to protect many component plant workers w assemblers, sources say. A spokesperson for Chrysler maintained, however, that "no decision has been made" on December layoffs. Nevertheless, he admitted that mounting in- ventories of unsold new cars had reached a "critical level." Rumors of pending shutdowns have been swirling, throughout the Chrysler system for two days, according to spokesper- sons for the United Auto Work- ers. Chrysler had already an- noimced the indefinite closing of its assembly plant at New- a ark, Del., idling some 3,800 workers.' FORD said 'it would shut its Rouge assembly plant at Dear- born for one week, laying off 4,500 employes. In addition, Ford said it was temporarily laying off 450 white collar work- ers at Utica, Livonia, and Dearborn, and permanently idl- ing 1,200 white collar workers at other Michigan facilities. The Ford layoffs raised the industry's present overall fig- ure for temporary or permanent furloughs to nearly 100,000. A Chrysler assembly shutdown would affect another 113,000 workers. Industry analysts estimate that Chrysler's stockpile of 1975 models was 280,000 on Oct. 31- enough to supply Chrysler deal- ers for at least 110 days. Inven- tory among all Big Three auto- makers totaled some 1.6 mil- lion units - or about 68 selling days. ONE WALL Street analyst said yesterday that inventories are critically high at about 69 days, and at 110 days, "defi- nitely some corrective action has to be taken." All U. S. auto plants shut down between Christmas and New Year's as specified in con- tracts with the UAW. The first large layoffs in the auto in- dustry came last December, two months after the Mideast Oil embargo began to chip away at sales. UAW officials say they have been in constant contact with Chrysler officials, who "have assured us no decision has been made." "But it doesn't look good," he said. ACCORDING to the UAW spokesman, some workers have said that foremen have discus- ed the possibility of lengthy layoffs for next month. A meeting of UAW officers and Chrysler Chairman Lynn Townsend set for Monday to discuss one Detroit plant would probably be expanded "consid- erably," said the UAW spokes- man. will likely be laid off along with Official reduced pot penaltis WASHINGTON (Reuter) - President Ford's special advis- er on narcotics last night gave a qualified endorsement to leg- islation which makes possession of marijuana a civil and not a criminal offense. His speech, which was clear- ed in advance with the Presi- dent, seemed certain to set off a new controversy about the way the federal and state gov- ernments deal with widespread use of marijuana. DR. ROBERT DuPont, direc- tor of the President's Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention, pointed to an ex- periment in Oregon where pos- session of small quantities of marijuana is a civil ofense sub- ject to a fine of up to $100. "My lawyer friends tell me that the substitution of a non- criminal penalty for the crimi- nal one is in keeping with a modern legal trend," he told a meeting of the National Organ- ization for the Reform of Mari- juana Laws. "One of the principles under- lying this reform is that crimi- nal sanction should be reserv- ed for morally reprehensible conduct and should not be dilut- ed by application to conduct without serious social conse- quence," he added. "THIS seems to me to be an appropriate response." But DuPont went on to quali- fy his approval saying he would watch the Oregon experiment to see how it worked, whether it had any harmful effects and whether experiments with other drugs would increase. DuPont reported that 420,000 people were arrested for mari- juana possession last year, an increase of more than a third over the 1972 figure and more than double the figure four years ago. Incomplete medical research on the effects of marijuana showed that it could have some effect on fatty areas of the brain, reduce the body's ability to fight infection and produce possible genetic mutations, Du- Pont said. confidential student files By JEFF SORENSEN The University Board of Re- gents yesterday unanimously adopted a resolution warning University officials a g a i n s t purging confidential documents from student files. In other action, the Regents approved a massive 13.2 per cent faculty wage increase pro- posal for the 1975-76 fiscal year that will be sent to the state legislature for approval. THE MOVE to protect confi- dential material came in re- sponse to a new federal law which would force Universities to grant students access to their own academic records, in- cluding letters of recommenda- tion and counselor comments. Although the bill takes effect Tuesday, the Regents' resolu- tion denies students access to the confidential information un- til January. Under the law, the University is given 45 days to respond to requests for confidential mater- ial. Frank Rhodes, vice presi- dent for academic affairs ex- plained the Regents do not plan to open files until the end of the 45 day period in January because Congress is currently considering amendments to the bill. EARLIER this week, several other universities, including Harvard, had announced they would purge all confidential ma- terial from records, rather than allow students access to them. U.S. refuses Senators' plea for food shipment to poor ROME (Reuter)-The United States has refused a request from three Democratic senators to send an extra one million tons of food to famine stricken countries, U.S. Agriculture Sec- retary Earl Butz said yester- day. President Ford had decided that granting the request would have pushed up grain prices, reduced the amount of grain available for other programs and harmed the U.S. budget, Butz told a press conference. INFORMED U.S. sources said the three Democrats-Senator Hebert Humphrey (D-Minneso- ta), George McGovern (D-South Dakota) and Richard Clark (D- Iowa)-made the request in a cable to the White House last week. Butz said yesterday he had signed the cable as leader of the U.S. delegation at the World Food Conference here. But he disassociated himself from the telegram by saying he merely forwarded the senators' request. "U-fortunately this reqpest by Conference organizers had ap- pealed for up to 12 million tons of grain for the Indian sub- continent and some 30 countries facing dramatic shortages over the next eight months. The call put pressure on the United States to make a big contribu- tion. The three senators, who have now left Rome, urged the dona- tion as a gesture of American leadership in the fight against hunger. BUTZ yesterday charged them with "trying to make news for themselves," and said his coun- try had made the biggest con- tribution to food aid over the last 20 years. "While these Democratic sen- ators have been making a lot of noises, we have been shipping food aid to Bangladesh. I didn't hear the senators talk about our agreement to send another 100,- 000 tons of food to Bangladesh which we signed on November," Butz commented. Delegation officials said Ford See U.S., Page 2 Yesterday's Regents' resolu- tion warns all administrative units that "confidential mater- ial shall not be removed from files except in accordance with established procedures." However, Rhodes, said yester- day that this policy may be re- versed at the December Re- gents' meeting. He stated that the Regents will examine re- sponses to the new law, and reconsider their decision. BUT RHODES said he "knows of no one" from the University who has destroyed any confidential material to pre- vent students from later view- ing the data. He stated that he was firmly opposed to any such action. However, Literary College (LSA) Dean Charles Morris said yesterday that he had "heard that several depart- ments in LSA had destroyed files earlier this term," primar- ily letters of recommendation for graduate students applying to the divisions' graduate pro- gram. Morris explained that the al- leged purging of files would have almost certainly stopped after a memo was later cir- culated among University of- ficials asking them not to de- stroy records. ALTHOUGH the law will go into effect Nov. 19, Senator James Buckley (R-N.Y.), spon- sor of the act, plans to introduce a compromise amendment to the bill in the last week of No- vember that would grant stu- dents access to all parts of the files except personally signed letters of recommendation. According to John Kwapisz, the senator's legislative aide, the amendment "will almost certainly pass," but admits a move might be made, possibly by Senator Claiborne Pell (D- Ford 'vulnerable' says Post'pundt GEO submits new economic package By DAVID BLOMQUIST President Ford is so "politi- cally vulnerable" that he may eventually be forced to recon- sider his decision to run for election in 1976, Washington Post political columnist David Broder told students in a Uni- versity contemporary affairs course yesterday. "Realistically, he's got to look at that again a year from now," Broder asserted. "Ford is a very confident man. But what he explained, adding that Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass. ) may eventually be asked to re- enter the 1976 campaign as "the ultimate stop-Wallace candi- date." The 250 students attending Broder's early morning lecture in Angell Hall seemed attentive and highly interested in the tall, grey-haired syndicated column- ist's views on the leadership crunch in the Ford administra- tion. By JIM TOBIN Following the University's vir- tual rejection of the Graduate E m p 1 o y e s Organization's (GEO) first economic demand package, during negotiations ---+ + - n n ~nnt~ cent hike, and included a de- mand for a tuition waiver. The waiver would eliminate the need for any graduate employe to pay tuition during the term of his employment. While the