ifL £WIc4n aitg Eighty-four years of editorial freedom Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan Thursday, December 12, 1974 News Phone: 764-0552 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Mi. 48104 Auditor hatches 'U' nest egg FACH YEAR, for the past seven years, the scenario of deceit has been the same. University executive officers, wearing their best suits and doleful expressions, have pleaded before the state budget bu- reau and legislative committees that the increasing costs of higher education de- mand more money. And each year, if those appropriations failed to meet University expectations, the same officers took out the knives, and stuck the pliant student body for the difference. But all that time, we have now learned, the University was hoarding a $44 mil- lion nest egg of unallocated and unspent funds--millions that could have gone into general fund programs and prevented tuition hikes. The millions came principally from en- dowments, research contracts, and inter- est on University investments. Although the money's existence was not technically secret, the state auditor says that the University "has not made its assets volun- tarily known." THIS SECRECY, says the auditor, has al- lowed the University to ask for tax dol- lars to cover programs already funded internally. Administrators have replied that some of the money has been allocated, but not spent, and that the remainder is needed for exigencies. As one official said, "We believe in having a savings account rather than spending the .money as soon as it comes in." It is certainly nice to have a savings account. The thousands of state residents now layed 'off because of the recession probably also think it would be nice to have a nest egg - or for that matter, any money at all. It would be nice for students, and for parents of students, not to have to dip into whatever savings accounts they have when the University socks them with an- other tuition increase. PY MAINTAINING a two-faced finan- cial stance, the University has deceiv- ed the people of Michigan and its stu- dents. By presuming to set its own stand- ards of financial need, at a time when everyone and every institution is feeling the pinch of a faltering economy, the Uni- versity has displayed callousness on a grand scale. Ironically, this attempt to save money may backfire and become the greatest col- lege financing boondoggle since Michigan State's Burt Smith voted to send Ohio State to the Rose Bowl and lost MSU a shot at a law school. The legislature, suddenly offered a truer picture of the University's budget requests by the auditor's report, can be expected to do a considerable amount of trimming this year, and in the years to come. And students, who have been the great financial safety valve in the past, now realize that they have been exploited and unnecessarily so. THE PEOPLE of this state, and the stu- dents who attend this University,' must not, and will not, be fooled again. -DAVID BURHENN Washington, August 9: As his wife looks on, a wet-eyed citizen Nixon says his goodbyes. Vote in LSA-SG elections! In good times, we tend to uphold the status quo and brush off the bad-mouthers as doom prophets and peddlers of fear. The forces of disruption take on the trappings of hideous but very distant night- mares as we move through the world with relative confidence in things-as-they-are. Events battered that delicate shell of confidence in 1974. After two years of Watergate, the biggest scandal in America's history top- pled Richard Nixon from the presi- dency. Gerald Ford, his Michigan- bred successor, granted the fall- en chief a full pardon, but none could deny that Nixon and his en- tourage left the White House in profound disgrace. Almost every week, a sophisticat- ed new form of a grisly old political method rattled our consciousness like a fire alarm: terrorism. On the west coast, newspaper heiress Patty Hearst turned her own kidnapping into a violent revolutionary gesture by joining her Symbionese Libera- tion Army captors. Yasir Arafat, leader of the pro-terrorist Pales- tinian Liberation Organization, walked into the international spot- light as the United Nations recog- nized his nation. Another ancient issue -- racial prejudice -- stirred anew in Boston as angry whites fought the court- ordered integration of their pub- lic schools. And if all that wasn't grim enough, you could always turn to your pocketbook or your paycheck for the rest of the bad news. OVER THE REGISTRATION period which began yesterday, the LSA Stu- dent Government (LSA-SG) is holding its elections at Waterman. Operating outside the public spotlight, LSA-SG has expand- ed student representation in college af- fairs, and has led fights for curricular re- form. With a limited budget, LSA-SG has TODAY'S STAFF: News: Gordon Atcheson, Dave Burhenn, Ken Fink, Cindy Hill, Rob Meochum, Becky Warner Editorial Page: Marnie Heyn, Becky Worn- er Arts Page: David Blomquist, Chris Koch- manski, David Weinberg Photo Technician: Steve Kogan made important financial contributionsI to student and community groups such as1 Project Outreach, Indochina Peace Cam- paign, Future Worlds, and the Third World People's Solidarity Conference, as well as funding student departmental as- sociations. In addition, LSA-SG members have expended prodigious amounts of energy in other worthwhile organizing ef- forts. The weakness of the central student government, Student Government Coun- cil, has made the viability of LSA-SG all the more important. We urge all students to take a bit of time, read the positions of the candidates, and vote in the LSA-SG elections during registration. -MARNIE HEYN Photography by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 1 Letters: Racism in Boston To The Daily: FOR THE past 11 weeks, Bos- ton has beens the scene of an in- tense racist campaign aimed at halting desegregation of t h e city's schools. Violent attacks against black students; a white student boycott of classes; mass motorcades and rallies - all are a part of the racist offensive. The true aim of the so-called "anti-busing" forces are all too plain. Officially, they say they are against "forced busing" and for "neighborhood schools." But the signs scrawled on the streets of South Boston read, "Niggers go home," "Nigger meat for sale here" and "Kill niggers." These are the real slogans of this vicious and bi- goted movement. The events in Boston are of national significance. What is at stake are important gains won through years of struggle by the civil rights movement. Boston's black community raust not be forced to stand alone! A national demonstration against racism has been called for Sa- turday Dec. 14, in Boston. This call was initiated by Massachus- etts State Senator-elect, William Owens, and is supported by a broad range of civil rights, un- ion and other community lead- ers. On Sunday, Nov. 24. 75 repre- sentatives from 18 colleges and u iversities throughout N e w England met at Boston Univer- sity to discuss what role stu- dents could play in heLpind to build support for the Nat'onal March Against Racism. There, a proposal was adopted unani- mously calling for a National Student Teach-in Against Rac- ism on Fri., Dec. 13. m AVV A AT~nf! to Am-.. '.r in the Fishbowl. Participants are needed for the National March Against Racism, a march for freedom and human dignity in support of the black comnmun- ity in Boston against racist at- tacks. The bus will leave for. Boston on Friday, Dec. 13. at 5 p.m., at a cost of $17 per person. WHAT CAN you do to help? 1) Check off your end ,rsenment of the Rally and Teach- i and send it to the Emergency Cur.m- mittee immediately. 2) Fards are needed desperately. Please send your check made out to the "Ann Arbr Emergency Committee" right away. 1; In- dicate whether you would like to go to Boston. You can call the Emergency Commi'ree of- fice at 7634799 for ticket in- formation. The Freedom Bus will leave on Friday, Dec. 13 at 5 p.m. from the n rt doer of the Michigan Union and be back on Sunday afterno-). Also, other kinds of help are needed: food for the 16-hour ride to Boston, paper, pritlvg, stamps, cars and vane, etc. would all be welcome d)nations. Thank you for your support and interest. We must act Iricky: the march is less than a week away. Answer the forces of rac- ism! All out for the Dec. 14 National March Against Rac- ism! --Marty Pettit, for the Ann Arbor Emergency Committee for -t Na- tional Mobilization Against Racism December 9 To The Daily: TO THOSE who answer the call to crusade in Boston for the pro-busing demonstrations; let me ask: just who is under- mining the unity of the neople? gan before WWI, when the mili- tary brass recognized the inher- ent danger of men fighting alongside their neighbors. By re- organizing the service with units comprised of men from every area of the country, the primary focus of loyalty was shifted away from the comrade to the central authority. Since then the bourgeoisie has recognized the value of under- mining every institution that al- lowed men to cope with the exigencies of life without the corporate system. THE EFFECT of busing on blacks will be much the same as every other civil rights vic- tory." Middle class blacks will be given more ojp'wiunity to chase the white man's pie-in-the- sky and poor blacks will become increasingly desperate a n d alienated. To imagine that a ghetto kid would find an alien and largely hostile school any- thing but a degrading exper- ience requires a blindness pe- culiar to liberals. Let's face it - the only way blacks can achieve anv mees- ure of justice in America is if they take political control of their schools and communities and wrest a fair share of gov- ernment revenue. Superflv is the most widely emulated type in black culture because he got power and no white man gave it to him. Until a black can make it within a commixnuy of his own, all busing tactics will produce is Uncle Toms and Superflys. INTEGRATION is tine for those who like it. I am part of an integrated working class noiohnr.nA nnA I nra. i United Nations, November 13, Palestinian Boston; October 28: Angry whites from the "Southie" leader Yasir Ar afat responds to a loud ova- 3eneral Assembly as he steps section protest the court-ordered integration of their tion from the G public schools. to the podium. ..