_ , ..W, 311e icd id Dailu Eighty-four years of editorial freedom Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan e tteis to the Daily Tuesday, January 14, 1975 News Phone: 764-0552 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Mi. 48104 I k \: \ \ \N /1 \ i \V ir , "'' IA ' ~ ~x \ THE MILWAUKEE JORNA ~ ~ ~ k ' Pbhisher--tal Synd etft 1974, Inflation is all your fault because you won't stop spending money on food, clothing and shelter.' dog To The Daily:- THIS IS AN open le public, to remind you people didn't have th Christmas they could One and one halfa fore Christmas ourg triever was untied a from our yard. Doe know what it is like warm and happy fam ber by a "DogNappe like to know what ca about this. How ma have been victims of occurence? Are there on how many dogsa each year in this ar are they stolen? Ha ever been investigatio this type of crime?I just a few of the m tions unanswered to u anyone care? We believe that t not be allowed to co that something hasg done now. Please, if concerned or have an actual information on occurences, could we you? We'd be gratefu help and perhaps som be learned to preven pening to others. -Richard andJ To The Editor: WHILE PRESIDEN exhorts us on the bles free, open-ended educ society, may I draw tention to a recent m Richard C. Daggett, Personnel Admimstra memo purports to dea recent increase ini University property. I security measures a: among which are: * The Security forc responsibility and the to inspect packages, lunch boxes and other by making periodic ex tions either on an all or individual at rand This includes packag tions in University Structures. 0 Missing items and ed' persons must be re the immediate super soon as possible . . . officers and supervis the responsibility and to obtain the name an and to question the n business of any person pears 'suspicious' or ized to be in the Hosp MAY I FIRST e everybody affected by t tive to ignore it and possible not to comply inspections that may of them. This kind of i and behavior smacks o state, and while most o the University has us by the balls in any there is no reason should comply with it its grip. Any tightera be sterile. A few qusti as "Who is a suspic son?", "What is the random individual ch and most importantly, spects the Security m quite to the point. Se the Hospital are hard suspicion, as anyone w these men would confi not, never has been, a will be difficult to smu perty out of the Hospi one who works hereI thousand ways to do it, it in small ways, fram sweepers to Departmen The police state menti quired by Administra combat theft is frighten implications and must b I wonder if anyone c with the Law School he be interested in challen "authority" supposedly ed by Security to susp barrass, harass, discomi insult anyone leavingt pital at will. Is there to respect for the rig vacy, decency, and int the individual, or wil eventually be trained that we're not really folks until we allow th fingers of Security tod over our bodies and personal lives? I say d curity and d'amn those those cattle more than ing glance. -Name witheld by December 11 To The Daily: WE IN THE U.S.-Ch ple's Friendship Assoc Ann Arbor were very dis ed to read in the D 6th Daily that U-M P Robben Fleming has to attack the Chinese tional system. It is v fortunate that Presiden ing has chosen to repe of the most well known tions of the Chinese so tem. To get an under of what i s ninrr nn i napper to the following: 1) students are selected on the basis of tter to the their political attitude toward that some the present government and its e merriest policies; 2) students are given hmerr.t few academic options, told to weeks be- study in "X" areas, serve the golden re- people, and then assigned a and stolen job at the end of three years; -s stoe 3) professors who espouse other to lose a philosophies than the govern- ily mem- ment no longer work on the r"? We'd faculty; 4) China has no gradu- n be done ate schools. ny people THE PICTURE painted by Pre- this cruel sident Fleming is very gloomy. statistics It would seem that the people are stolen have no say in the education ea? Why of China's youth, that a grey ve tnere bureaucracy runs China's back- ns done in ward universities. The facts These are are quite different. University any ques- students are chosen by their a. Does fellow workers, peasants and neighbors, on the basis of who is should has shown a real desire to tinue and serve the interests of the peo- got to be ple and put their own interests you are second. The Chinese do not be- v idea or lieve that "academic achieve- these sad ment" should be the primary hear from factor in choosing university l for any students; this leads to elitism ething can and encouraged selfish atti- t it hap- tudes among students. The Chi- nese workers and peasants nat- Jeanne urally want the students they send to the universities to be people who are devoted to the control masses of people, not to their own careers. T Fleming The question of "academic sings of a options" is closely connected ation and to the previous question. Areas some at- of study are closely related to emo from the actual needs of the people. Hospital Since China is a poor country, tor. This her people have naturally con- 1 with the centrated their educational ef- thefts of forts in areas that will directly n it new help to transform China into an re stated, industrially and agriculturally advanced country. The tremen- e has the dous progress that China is authori4y making is due to the heroic b a g s , struggle of Chinese workers containers and peasants, and the great con- it inspec- tributions that educated youth inclusive are making in industry and ag- om bAsis. riculture. China can not afford e inspec- the luxury of spending enormous Parking resources on "pure research" or on educational programs un- 'suspect- related to the life of the peo- ported to ple. However, the Chinese do visor as feey they need political educa- Security tion where the ideas of the new ors have society are explored and de- aurmority veloped. This is not limited to d address the universities - it permeates ature of Chinese society. iwho ap- THE T H I R D CRITICISM unauthor- President Fleming raised was ,ital. . the disappearance from the uni- versities of professors who es- nc)urage pouse "other philosophies" his direc- than the government's. The fact if at all of the matter is that during the witn any cultural revolution many high be asked government officials including nspection the President, as well as many f a police professors and university offic- f us kn"1w ials found themselves under at- generally tack by students, peasants and situation, workers. The people demanded wh,, we that all officials be accountable to tigten to them. In many places the uni- and we'll versities were centers of ca- ons, such reerism and elitism. For this ious per- reason the universities were basis of shut down and political strug- ecking?", gle raged for quite some time. "Who m- As a result, many professors en?" are were helped to change their curity at attitudes, and those who re- ly above fused were no longer allowed to ho knows teach. The Chinese call this rm. It is "mass democracy" and they nd rever see it as a necessary deterrent ggle pro- to rule by an elite. tal. Any- Lastly, President Fleming knows a mentioned that China has no and does graduate study program, and n 1 o o r "liberal arts" students study It Heads. for only three years and physi- :aity re- cal science students for three tion to and one-half. The reason for ing in its this lies in the fact that the e fought. Chinese are working hard to onnected build up their country. They re would feel that by concentrating their ngi'ig the education and focusing on the y claim- current needs of the people, S:t, em- they can move their country ifort, and forward. Therefore, through- the Hos- out China the i universities are no lijmiit closely linked with local indits- hts, pri- try and agriculture and health egeity of care. 1 w3 all HIGH LEVEL RESEARCH to think is being carried on in two na- decent tional centers: the center for e grubby national defense research and dance all the national academy of sci- into our ence. These centers have car- Iumn Se- ried on uninterrupted research who give on a very advanced level. If a pass- President Fleming doubts China's achievements in this y request area he should ask himself how China has been able to launch a heavy satellite into outer- Ch.na space, produce Atomic bombs, Chin and synthesize insulin for the first time in hnman history - ina Peo- all without U. S. or Soviet as- iation of sistance. The great advances sappoint- that have been made in surgi- ecember cal techniques and acunmncture ?resident testify to the great wisdom of seen fit the Chinese people as well as educa- China's ability in modern sci- very un- ence. it Flem- FINALLY, WE AGREE with at some President Fleming that normal- n distor- ization of relations between the cial sys- U. S. and China will be diffi- standing cult without settling the crucial n China n otinr i rf Taiwan and . S. implementation of the Paris Peace Agreement. U.S. - China People's Friendship Association December 9 hunting To The Daily: THIS IS IN response to David Warren's anti-hunting article which appeared in the Michigan Daily on November 9. Warren simply doesn't under- stand the facts of life and pop- ulation dynamics. He believes that outlawing hunting will re- duce pain and cruelty to ani- mals. He conveniently o v e r- looks the fact that death is part of the life cycle in nature and that it is rarely gentle. Death in the wild is inflicted by star- vation, disease, predation, fight- ing, and accidents. In human terms any of these mortality factors are usually violent and cruel. Watching a predator tear- ing apart a live rabbit or bird isn't exactly a pretty sight, nor is observing a near-starved deer wallowing in deep snows. The questions to consider are: (1) do we choose to systema- tically harvest annual surplus game and fur crops, or (2) do we choose to allow surplus ani- mals to be destroyed by preda- tion, disease, starvation or ac- cidents. EACH YEAR game animals produce more young than the habitat can support and hunting makes it possible to harvest sur- plus animals. Animals which cannot withstand hunting a r e protected year-round by state and in some instances federal laws. If surplus game animals are not removed by hunting, they become victims of these decimating factors. During the 1947-48 winter an estimated 59,- 900 deer starved in Michigan. They died because of severe weather conditions and over- protection from hunters. I wn- der how Mr. Warren w o 1 d have solved such a problem? Hunting and fishing are part of this country's heritage. These sports are not for everyone, but then not everyone enjoys golf, basketball, football, or danc- ing. Contrary to Mr. Warren's opinion, hunting is a relatively safe sport. In 1972, on a per hor basis, riding in a car was 5.4 times more deadly than the average for all kinds of hunting in Michigan. I resent Mr. Warren present- ing his opinions as facts. -Charles Schick Jan. 13 Editor's note: Since several readers have made this sort of comment recently, it is appro- priate to note that editorials, especially on the left side of this page, are ALWAYS opin- ions. Facts are occasionally in- eluded to support an opinion. A simple equation to remember: in any news medium, an editor- ial is an opinion. p ropagand To The Daily: MARNIE HEYN wrote, in her editorial, "Bring the Propa- ganda Home," that Robben Fleming doesn't know how fun- ny he is. I maintain that Heyn doesn't know how funny she is. To imply that American s t u- dents cannot get an education unless they subscribe to their (the government's) political philosophy (Fleming's w o r d s on China), is not simply to ex- aggerate; it's to almost com- pletely ignore facts. Fleming reported that one of the three .qualifications for en- try into a Chinese university was belief in the government's philosophy. Does Heyn want to suggest that that is a qualifica- tion in this country as well? I can only speak for myself, but less than two years ago I was accepted for admission by three universities in three different states and none of them had, as a condition for that acceptance, a mandatory allegiance to capi- talism or democracy or the Con- stitution or anything. None of them even asked what my opin- ions on those subjects were. NEXT IHEYN tries to find sim- ilnrities between the Chinese system and our system of de- termining a student's academic proeram. Perhaps I have been overlookRd in some bureaucratic mixun, but no one has ever "told" me what my major will or should be or even what courses I should take and I do not expect that anyone ever will. Yes, the nropaganda has been broulht home and put on the editorial page of the Daily. Pronoganda is the word for half truths, misrepresentation, and distortion of fact and anneal to vague fears and paranoia, isn't it? -Andrew M. Zerman December. 10 interested in hearing how one "college graduate" has been faring in the "real world." Dear Mr. Neil: As you say in the form letter sent me as an alumna for the purpose of soliciting funds for the University, I will aiways feel a tie to U-M because the four years I spent in Ann Ar- bor were important ones in my development as an artist and a pers6n. It is, I suppose, to be assumed that my college educa- tion has so well prepared me for success in the field of my choos- ing that although I have betn a Michigan graduate only since May of this year, I am already being asked to contribute money to my alma mater. I feel it ne- cessary to give you a personal reply to your form letter instead of the expected check in the envelope provided for that pur- pose. I'M NOT sure how typical I am as a Michigan graditire, but I think there are certa~uly many who are in my position. 1 grad- uated from A. & i). with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree cum laude, came back to Phil- adelphia thinking there would be a large employment merket, and was unable to find employ- ment in my field. The reasons for this are (1) the national economy's iob rar- ket is continually hrinking to create a large rate of unemploy- ment: (2) the job market in Philadelphia is worse than would be expected in such a big city: (3) no one in my family has influential conections in this city which would nraw'de me with employment; (4) the field of art, never one with abundant job opportunities, is nractically devoid of such: (5) thos people getting the few jobs th t are available are those w:rn years of experience at the particular tyne of work and or those with highly specialized training in the field. having j-st gradla-ed from college with work-; u1v em- nloyment and summer ciarical jobs on my resume, I cannot comnete. In an earlier bo rcing economy, employers could af- ford to snend a little e x t r a money to train some me who wold soon be doing valuable work for the comnanv. Jnw it is more imnortant {o have ex- perience than talent. And all this this above and i-cxond the I basic inequity in the lot of the visual artist in contempar- ary society which does not al- low him/her to survive without spending most of his/her val- eable, potentially creat*ve t me doing work for someone else that may sometimes be enjoy- able but rarely is as artistically satisfying as original, personal works of art. YOU MAY BE wondering what the point of al this it is it simply to enable you to under- stand why I am not giving the University any money. I am presently working as a substi- tute art teacher for the Phil- adelphia Board of Education for $80=$115 a week and have very little money to spend on any- thing other than necessities. I make most of my clothes a n d live in an old house near the University of Pennsylvania very reminiscent of the student hous- ing in Ann Arbor. I want to go back to school sometime i-1 the near future to get by M.F.A. This will probably be the only chance I'll get again to spend as much time as I want doing art work, but at a dear mrice: witness ever-rising college tii- tions. And the question is: when I have that degree, will I have any better chance of getting ajob T want? Mean- whil , the American farce goes on. A product of the evervone- sh rtld-gcr-to- olleae ta-get-a-bet- ter-iob myth has gone to college and become, financially if not in any other way, a member of the vast lower class. Intellec- tfallv I cannt really believe t'ha't I can't afford to live in a dubiously desirable middle- cla-s style: it does not seem re-i that there should be such a di-hptoniv between my self- imbte and my social status. PT EASE do not send me any more requests for mon:v. I oe not know when I will ever be ab)le to givre you money, but I assure von that althnih I see the need for wide-ranging in- nrovements in U-M administra- tive and academic systems, I would be glad to belp the Uni- veritv financiplly if I w, re able to do so. Until I do, please di- vert the mones, naoer. time and enerpy used in contacting me to a worthier purpose. -Gloria Gardinerr November 23 discrimination correspondence Blue ribbon panel to investigate CIA /1 Na X"~ B a 'I b o * 0 '] !F r VAJ4 Q d a t.,fltd