Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY SGC rescinds ROTC motion Cobb offer protested (Continued from Page 1) A PRETRIAL hearing has Against the motion was Randy been set for Schaper April 3. Schafer who argued that if it Lessem added that Jacobs weren't for the ROTC program, still has the option to appeal many potential students would the ruling, but to do so he be unable to attend college. must explain to the court why he did not appear to answer IN A BRIEF 15 minute ap- the charges. pearance, Sandberg announced Other options open to Jacobs that at noon yesterday SGC are payments s p r e a d over l had been awarded a default time, complete refusal to pay judgment against Jacobs. A the amount or a lump sum offer default judgment is awarded which would not necessarily when a party in a legal pro- match the full amount owed but ceeding fails to respond to the would be considered final pay- charges filed against him or ment. her. According to Assistant Legal The statute of limitations ac- Counsel Louis Lessem, SGC can cording to Lessem for collecting collect the total amount named the money owed is about 10 in the suit brought jointly years. against Jacobs and David Sc- haper, a former SGC treasurer. COHEN, WHO is President of Jacobs is currently enrolled in the Senate Advisory Committee Columbia University's law . r school and could not be reached Unversity Affairs, .rgued for comment last night. Schaper that that reason he did not sup- is living in Ann Arbor. port the CSSG report was that L L1 C1L1L L1L1L C1L1L1L1L1L L11L L10 -M For all UNIVERSITY of MICHIGAN Students -r 0 G ~ Faculty and immediate family 1,obU 1311411L1 E $ O- Montego Bay r El March 2 - 9, 1975 7 Nights ( During Spring Break) J " Round trip jet via Air Jamaica Party Jet - Gourmet meal service in flight P " In-Flight Fashion Show Cl " Rum bamboozles in flight r ! 7 nights hotel " Jamaican Cocktails SeAND MORE IE rl Phone: PETE SAVOIE 764-8738 E3 El L'000L00 lLL00 11 (Continued from Page 1) he believes students and faculty, lection process. while members of the same lcinpoes community, should not have RHODES DID little to thaw equal representation in aca- the information freeze the Ad- demic affairs.- ministraion has imposed since The Daily learned 14 days ago "Faculty is anxious to hear that the Regents unanimously from students but are not an- selected the black woman edu- xious to hear from them when cator as LSA dean. According it involves firings and tenure. to the Commission for Women They (the faculty) are cognizant Chairwoman E u n i c e Burns, of the role students play in par- "There was not a lot learned" ticipation but not hospitable to at the meeting. student voting," he said. Although she said Rhodes had In other action, council voted promised an evening press re- lease for the morning's papers, to allocate $1,210 to send a bus Director for Information Serv- to Boston for a teach-in on ices Joel Berger said no press racism. release was expected until this - - --- -*morning. COBB TURNED down theS University's offer earlier this AbeS1s week, s e v e r a l well - placed TASEIsources said Wednesday. Asserting that he is "not a picket type by nature" Direc- tor of Affirmative Action George Goodman marched grimly out- side the Administration Build- ing yesterday, explaining, "This Can an * * is a personal affront to every responsible minority p e r s o n. it's not like they (the Adminis- tration)were d e alin g with Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck." yuu d Goodman is also mayor of Yp- an eter? s ilanti. He deplored the University's missed chance with Cobb to "move forward in affirmative You're pretty darn good at CARRYING placards that de- yourjob.But today, we alhave manded "a quality contract for to consider how we can do a qualified person," yesterday's our work a little better. That's demonstrators said they de- how each of us.can help plored the University's "clear keep our jobs here in America. violation of affirmative action" For now and for the future. followed by its refusal to con- firm or deny reports that Cobb had rejected the Administra- America. It only works lion's first and second offers. a e s oEducation Prof. and Faculty as well as we do. i Associate Betty Morrison, who met with Rhodes yesterday, complained, "It's so illogical- --- * TMNat-r w ComwA e d ,ft-. j how can we understand it?" Goodman came down partic- ularly hard on the Administra- tion's tight silence as "a slap in the face to the whole sys- tem." He protested, "There hasn't even been a status re- port. I feel embarrassed." GOODMAN demanded that the Administration either "re- fute or confirm" reports in The Daily concerning the deanship controversy. W h i le Morrison expressed confidence in Rhodes' sincerity at yesterday's meeting, other sources claimed Rhodes had made an "outright attempt to mislead those present." According to Morrison, Rhodes said the two year, no tenure appointment was not unusual. However, she added, "When questioned about the combina- tion of the two being offered, Rhodes did not respond." ONE SOURCE scoffed at Rhodes' statement, on the no- tenure offer, declaring, "It's not unusual, it's unheard of." High administration, and for- mer deans have confirmed that LSA deans have always re- ceived tenured appointments. Adye Bel Evans of the In- stitute for Social Research la- beled the University's offer, "A horrifying indication of where the University stands on affir- mative action." "I hope it will be brought to the attention of the Health, Edu- cation and Welfare Depart- ment," she added. JAMES KILKENNY from the Black Faculty and Staff Asso- ciation slammed the two-year, no-tenure offer as an "insult to the black community." "It was insensitive on the part of the Administration not to think it would have a definite explosive trend," he added. Kilkenny contended that the Administration "had no commit- ment to affirmative action." GEORGE GOODMAN, Director of the Opportunity Program and Mayor of Ypsilanti, and Ozzie Edwards, Director of the Center for Afro-American and African Studies, march in sup- port of Jewel Cobb in front of the Administration Building yesterday. Burns knocks Ford tax plan 1 A short course n the nickel candy bar. Andwhere it went. Beginning in the February, 1975 Reader's Digest: a new series --that amounts to a mini-course in today's economics.- "Thanks a lot!" you may say. "But I'd just as soon study Siberian rug-weaving as wade through economics." Why economics? Be- cause no subject affects our daily lives more-and is understood less. One thing for sure, this is not going to be one of those put-you-to- sleep economics courses. No boring theories or confusing charts; no jargon-filled textbooks. Well be telling the story of our economic system in clear, human terms, illustrating it with actual case histories and experiences gathered firsthand by the Digest. If you're concerned (and who isn't) with what's happening to prices and to the economy-and why-better start boning up on these informative "lessons" appearing every month in The Digest. They're sponsored by the Business Roundtable- an organization of 150 outstanding executives of leading U.S. companies. We call this series "Our Economic System: You Make It Work." You'll call it fascinating.t .Z:r /S 0 C') ADT f.RTIS! WI .''T sApart ofa nation of producers as wellas con- sumers, each ofus hasa lot to say about theprice of things wezvantanne i I) ;3 3 EMATEVER WAPENED TO THE NICKEL CANDY B3AR? R EMEMBER 2955? Kids were wild about Davy Crockett hats. Some people were. worried that we might go to war over a couple of Asian islands called Quemoy and Matsu. The lat- est musical fad was something called "rock 'n' roll." A Chevrolet sedan cost $2000. A nickel candy bar felt pretty hefty in your hand. Funny, but whenever you start playing the nostalgia game, you al- ways get around to fond recollec- tions of how far a dime or quarter or dollar "went" in the good old days. Funny, too, but none of us ever seems to really ask why the dollar doesn't go as far today. Whatever happened to that nickel candy bar? Why, in- deed, do prices go up? Ioo often we answer with a re- signed sigh: "Everything's going up these days." But that isn't always so. The prices of some things have gone down: TV sets, for instance, and ball-point pens (remember when we paid $1.50 for a "cheap" one?), toast- ers and quite a few other small appli- ances. How do these manage to run against the inflationary trend? To answer, let's first consider two basic ways to lower the price of a product (barring the use of low-cost foreign labor to manufacture it out- side this country). One way is to cheapen the product, lower its qual- ity. But this is a fatal device in a tree market-consumers catch on quick- ly. The other way is to maintain the quality but cut the cost of manufac- ture. If the product is soup cans, for instance, it means producing more and better soup cans for the time 2 3 ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT md labor spent. That's what's called improved productivity. Now wait a minute. Don't head for the exits. We're not talking about men turning screws faster or run- ning around with ladders and oil- cans like characters in an old-time movie. We're simply considering how all of us here in America affect the prices of things we buy through the way we work. Just ponder, for example, what happens when a mix of technology, planning and worker motivation spells high productivity. Major manufacturers of hand-held power tools in Germany, Japan and England have not been able to pene- trate the American market because high-quality American-made hand tools are competitively low in price. One of the major forces behind this situation is the Black & Decker Manufacturing Co., of Towson, Md. For the past 16 years, sales of its products have grown an astonishing 17 percent a year, and during that time the prices of many of these products have dropped steadily. The company secret? Better pro- ductivity. In part, this comes from the wise investment of funds in new machines and advanced research. But beyond that, Black & Decker's insulation inside hand tools. But this would have added ten percent to manufacturing costs. Solution: Re- design of the tools, streamlining assembly and standardizing many small parts so the same ones could be used in different tools. Prices of the safer tools remained the same. While such improved productivity has paid off in increased sales and profits, it has also paid off for em- ployes. The company payroll in 1958 was $14.5 million for 3800 em- ployes. Last year's payroll was $165.2 million for 20,700 employes. And look at the payoff for the con- sumer: In 1958, Black & Decker's basic electric drill for do-it-yoir- selfers cost $18.95. Now it costs $1o.99. A standard jigsaw that sold for $44.50 in 1958 now costs $11.99. And remember, these price changes occurred during a 16-year period which saw the U. S. Consumer Price Index rise 75.2 percent. But the productivity payoff can also mean a lot more than new jobs and higher pay. Sometimes it spells survival. Consider the 1ooo em- ployes of the Ideal Corporation, a maker of precision automotive parts, in Brooklyn, N. Y. Saddled with an old plant and rising costs, Ideal re- and related operating costs looked certain to leave the company in an extremely difficult competitive po- sition. But Ideal had a loyal and skilled work force. It elected to re- main in Brooklyn. Says John Wen- zel, president of the company: "We decided to gamble on our ability to engineer processes that would reduce our costs." In other words, the pro- ductivity of Ideal's managers, engi- neers and workers kept their 1000 jobs in Brooklyn. And the company is thriving in its new plant. Despite these by-no-means-iso- lated examples, there is disturbing evidence that America is slipping into a productivity crisis. While our productivity has historically grown at a healthy rate of about 3 percent annually, in recent years the growth rate has been falling; last year we had no productivity gain at all. Too many American businesses have been failing because they could not achieve the higher productivity that would enable them to afford the higher wages and shorter hours de- manded of them. Others have hiked prices to pay the higher wages, with a resultant loss of business to for- eign competition. Nine out of every ten baseball mitts sold in this land tivity-all of us putting more in and getting more out of our jobs-is of such crucial importance. Fortunately, we don't have to run around tearing our hair out to solve the problem. Nor do we even have to learn productivity from books or lec- tures. Indeed, that would be a sad estimation of the people of a nation whose history has been in a sense a history of productivity. For produc- tivity is many things. It is the ability of a businessman to attract dollars to build new plants and create new jobs. It derives from intensive re- search that gives us advanced tech- nology. And productivity is also an impulse. It's the impulse that helps a house- wife organize her day to cook tur- key, bake a pie, set the table, get dressed and greet friends and rela- tives at the door at one o'clock. It's the impulse that makes diagonal paths across vacant lots. Think about it. How well did you type that last report, repair that washing machine, tune up that en- gine, finish that blueprint? You have, we have, in our hands, in our- selves, the means to produce not just cars and books and songs and bread, but an entire way of life and eco- I r , is " AKIrl rr f .. r