RESISTING THE TUITION HIKE See Editorial Page YI rL , it igau VINPIk DRY lTigh--70 Low--SO See Today Eighty-Three Years of Editorial Freedom Yol. LXXXIV, No. 5 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesdoy, September 11, 1973 Ten Cents ii Eight Pages SAYS 'FORGET WATERGATE': IF70USEE NELv5s APPEN CALL rKDAILY Faculty salaries The issue of disclosure of University faculty salary lists will be the subject of a special comment session at next week's Regents' meeting. All those interested in speaking for or against the disclosure should contact Dick Kennedy's office on the 2nd floor of the Adminis- tration Building before 5:00 p.m. on Monday Sept. 17. Those interested in presenting written recommendations' should also submit their material to Kennedy's office. The special session will be held in the Regents Room, 1st floor of the Administration Building at 11 a.m. on Thursday Sept. 20. Tuition meeting The Student Action Committee is presenting a forum 7:30 tomorrow night, in room 126, East Quad, "to roll back tuition, to complete implementation of the BAM de- mands as already agreed to by the University in 1970, and to adequate financial aid for all students who need it." According to the Student Action Committee, "the University is attempting to pit white against Black by making students believe that the tuition increase is at least in part due to increased Black enrollment." John's book John Sinclair-Ann Arbor's paunchy hippie poet laurete -may be the number one honcho of the Rainbow Peo- ple's Party, but he apparently rates as something less than an idol with at least some segments of the city's hip community. Sunday night, several staffers of the local Drug Help clinic-weary from three days of aiding wayward alcohol and drug abusers-were seen putting copies of Sinclair's Guitar Army to the torch -on the grounds of the blues and jazz festival. The book-printed with multi-hued pages and generous graphics-is per- haps best known for its passage describing the invention of the electric guitar as "the turning point in Western Civilization." Parking blues Members of the kitchen staff at Mary Markley dor- mitory yesterday morning walked off their jobs over complaints that it was impossible to find adequate park- ing facilities near the dorm. The staff was back in time for lunch, however. Charles McCracken president of the American 'Federation of State, County and Municipal Employes local involved has scheduled a meeting today to resolve the problem. Happenings ... ... are topped today by those masters of mayhem, the Marx Brothers. Groucho and his siblings will appear in Room Service at Arch. Aud., 7, 8:30, and 10 p.m. In a more serious vein, Vonnegut's Slaughter House Five is showing at Nat. Sci. Aud., 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. -. Pro- ject Outreach has a mass meeting slated for 7 p. m. 'at Hill Aud. . . . and the Gay Liberation Front will meet in the Union'se3rd Floor south wing conferencetoom at 8 ..-. So it goes. Liddy hit The House voted overwhelmingly yesterday to cite convicted Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy for contempt of Congress. The action was prompted by Liddy's refusal to give testimony before a house sub- committee investigating the CIA's involvement in the Watergate affair. Conviction of the contempt charge car- ries with it a penalty, of one month to one year in jail and a fine of up to $1000. Liddy, however, has given no indication that he intends to change his tight-lipped policy concerning Watergate. Rock around the clock Two people in the town of Florence, Kentucky made history this weekend as they soared past the world's re- cord for rocking chair rocking. At last report Nancy Mueller and Lionel Gray had been in their chairs for over 100 hours, easily surpassing the old mark of 93. According to witnesses on the scene, Mueller took ice baths and changed her clothes to stay awake while Gray banged on bongo drums and kept taking his shoes on and off. But as one observor astutely quipped, "I'd be guessing it wasn't their feet that wassore." No more wallowing Uganda's controversial leader President Idi Amin said yesterday that he was fed up with the Watergate scan- dal. 'Amin, who only last July 4 wished the President a speedy recovery from Watergate, told reporters that the press has degraded President Nixon to the point that he is not at all respected. Amin even went so far as to comment that prostitutes have more respect than Presi- dent Nixon at this point in time. It is unclear what prompted this change in the African, leader's position,' but it is apparent that he has now added his voice to those who feel we must stop wallowing in the mire of Watergate, *" *a On the instde --.. the Editorial Page has a piece by David Goodman on the proposed revisions of the criminal code ... Roy Chernus w~Arites aou h e B 1lues a nd .Jazz Festival onth Nixon plugs legislat By AP and Reuttr As part of the campaign to put the Watergate scandal behind him, President Nixon told Congress yes- terday that he is ready to compro- mise on "solutions to our national problems." But he also set the stage for a major battle over defense appro- priations, warning that domestic spending must be cut and the de- fense budget left untouched if the United States is to beat inflation and avoid a suicidal weakening of its defenses. SUBMITTING THE unusual 15,- 000 - word State of the Union mnes- sage, Nixon held out olive bran- ches to the Democratic - controlled Congress and called for "swift and decisive action" on a number of administration proposals including revenue-sharing for public schools, trade, tax, and pension reforms, and the creation of a campaign re- form commission. The President had said he would submit the message, the second State of the Union report this year, at a press conference held last Wednesday. Welcoming what he termed a "congressional renaissance," Nix- on said he believes in a strong Con- gress as well as a strong presi- dency and asserted: "THERE CAN be no monopoly of wisdom on either end of Pennsyl- vania Avenue - and there should be no monopoly of power." But the President also chided Congress, stating that action on his own initiatives "has been far less than I had expected." "The battle against inflation must be our first priority for the remainder of this year," said Nix- on. He called on Congress to hold appropriations to his spending ceil- ing of $368.7 billion for the fiscal year that began July 1. "IN OUR JOINT efforts, how- ever, I continue to be adamantly opposed td attempts at balancing the over-all budget by slashing the defense budget. We are already at the razor's edge in defense spend- ing . . . Further cuts would be dangerously irresponsible and' I will veto any bill that includes cuts which would imperil our national security," he said. Nixon stated that if Congress votes more money than he wants, he will not hesitate to veto spend- ing measures or impound appro- priations. Besides focusing attention on the legislations he wants, Nixon also spotlighted actions he opposes, in- cluding any tax increase and bus- ing of public school children to achieve racial balance. NIXON ALSO said he would "continue to oppose all efforts to strip the presidency of the powers it must have to be effective" - an obvious threat to veto any legisla- tion that would restrict his war- making powers. The President at no point direct- ly referred to Watergate but said, "no subject over the last few months has so stirred public com- ment and reflection as the ques- tion of campaign practices." Noting Congress has not acted in nearly four months on a presi-. vYe p1 dential proposal to establish a Non-Partisan Commission on Fed- eral Election Reform, he said, "in light of the great interest of the public and the Congress in such reform, I am at a loss to under- stand why only the Senate has acted on this request." HE SAID THE American public "might well ask whether the in- terest in reform is restricted to calling for changes rather than making changes." It was the sharpest language used in his bulky message. Other measures on which Nixon urged speedy action included bills to authorize the Alaska pipeline and the building of deep water tanker ports, deregulation of nat- ural gas prices, standards for strip mining, a variety of environ- mental proposals, anti-crime bills, Nixon a ans greater local control for commun- ity development funds and what he considers adequate defense and foreign aid appropriations. HIS MESSAGE, which calle'd for prompt action on more than SO measures he has submitted this year, met a cool and critical re- sponse from Democratic.leaders. Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield of Montana declared: "If we are not careful, we will de- fend ourselves into bankruptcy." Setting the stage for a new fight over defense spending, Mansfield announced that the Senate on Sept. 18 would take up the Defense De- partment's $22 billion weapons procurement bill, from which the Senate Armed Services Committee has already cut $1.5 billion despite the President's strenuous opposi- tion. . n u m sir Council frustrates Jones By GORDON ATCHESON Carol Jones won a CityeCouncil seat last April because she's young, female, and talks from a radical perspective, but since the election her political victories have been few. The 20-year-old, Urban Studies major figured running for council would give her a chance to present some of her solutions for the city's problems, while winning offered an opportunity to directly implement those ideas. SINCE PULLING out a razor- thin victory in the student domin- ated Second Ward, Jones has watched her proposals crushed by the seven Republican councilmen who virtually control local govern- ment. Of course Jones, the youngest council member in the city's his- tory, does not have to face the conservatives alone. Flanking her around the council table is another See COUNCIL, Page 8 peals Daily Photo by. TERRY McCARTHY Councilwoman Carol Jones CRITERIA QUESTIONED: Students upset over 6u!s' Sirica ..decision on atergate WASHINGTON (Reuter) - Pres- ident Nixon yesterday appealed against the ruling of Federal Judge John Sirica ordering him to pro- duce the Watergate tape recordings to see whether they should be pre- sented to a grand jury. In a brief submitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals the President's lawyers re-stated the principle of executive privilege under which conversations between the Presi- dent and his advisers are held to be confidential. THEY ARGUED that it was the President alone who could deter- mine that the public interest would be harmed if the principle of con- fidentiality were compromised. ".t . it is not for any court to C form a contrary judgment and to ox compromise the confidentiality," the brief said Sirica ordered on Aug. 29, that the tapes be delivered to him so that he could privately listen to them before deciding whether the grand jury should have access to P ro po se them. This followed a subpoena served on the President by the s p e c i a l Watergate prosecutor, Archibald Cox,aand Nixon's initial for Nob rejection of the subpoena. NIXONuIS NOW asking the an- OSLO (Reuter) - So peals court to set aside Sirica's Alexander Solzhenitsyn h order. ed dissident physicist A Whatever decision the appeals harov for the Nobel Pe court makes, the case appears the newspaper Aftenpc certain to end up in the Supreme Yesterday. Court early in October for a final Sakharov, with Solzhe ruling. The Presidenthas said lie et -known dissident would abide by a "definitive" rul- the target of Soviet pre ing of the court, but has declined dio attacks for two weel to specify what he meant by that been accused of aidin term. mies and peace and det The legal brief called Sirica's According to the 'state ruling utterly without precedent ever, nominations closet and said it could only come in the ary. Proposals arriving climate of legal and popular opin- be taken into account f ion produced by the Watergate lowing year. bugging of the Democratic Party Solzhenitskn said in1 headquarters in June 1972 and the that peace today was subsequently disclosed illegal elec- threatened by open wars tion campaign practices. be more by hidden and of violence. IT REJECTED the contention Solzhenitsyn said in1 that Sirica's decision represented stantly opposes acts of v the "middle. ground" between an the state against indiv overboard claim of privilege and groups. an excessive demand for discovery. "SUCH AN activity m Instead, the brief held that the garded as a great effort decision was squarely on the side an effort that is not ting of breaching the wall of the Presi- sonal interest, not ill dent's confidentiality. fundamental: by small Revelations of Watergate, the means in an heroic wa brief stated, have so sharpened the ping a mighty violence, public appetite for more revela- strengthen the generalr See NIXON, Page 2 said: new residency requirement policy By HOWARD BRICK Students in various states of confusion and/or outrage overthe University's new residency rules thronged the office of assistant registrar Larry Katz Thursday aft- ernoon. Many of them were suffering from the shock of having recently learned that, contrary to their ex- pectations, they would be consid- ered non-residents of the state of Michigan Ifor the coming term. And a common complaint was that the university had failed to give reasons for the denial of residency status. DOUG TRIGGS, a tall bearded student in the political science doc- toral program, was first in line Thursday afternoon to see Katz. He applied for resident status ear- ly in the summer. Having lived in Ann Arbor for two consecutive years, financially, he assumed he would be granted residency. How- ever the response to his application was a letter with a check in the box marked "denied." There was no further explanation. Katz, who reviews the applica- tions with the help of two other university officials, patiently ex- plained to Triggs that the univer- sity has established a policy of not giving reasons for denial of resi- dency. VICE PRESIDENT for Academic Affairs Allan Smith, in a memo to Katz, has said that "the shoe is on the other foot . . . there are any number of reasons why residency might be denied." "The burden is on the individual to lay out those facts that demon- strate residence," Smith said. The student cannot be given definitive reasons for denial of residency, he continued, because "it is a total picture and there's no checklist of points." Student can appeal the initial decision, however. Faculty shelves student pa rity plan for lit, school assembly Triggs and others in the same situation said they felt that the policy was unjust. They said they did not know how they were being judged and would be groping blindly in an attempt to appeal the decision. THE NEW RULES, established after a court ruling overturned the old six-month residency require- ments, lay great emphasis on the intent to make Michigan one's per- manent home. The regulations, adopted by the Board of Regents on June 22, 1973, includes a list of facts and circumstances that might be .used to provide that intent. They include continuous presence in the state while not enrolled as a student, reliance on in-state sourc- es for financial support, owner- ship of a home in the state; hav- ing one's parents' home in the state, commitments to further edu- cation in the state, and acceptance of a job offer for permanent em- ployment in the state. The regulations point out, how- ever, that no one of these circum- stances or any one combination of them will be conclusive proof of intent to stay in the state. MEL HUTCHINSON received a letter the last week in August ex- plaining that he would be consid- ered a non-resident for the coming term. He graduated from the uni- versity in 1967 and spent two years in Connecticut. During that time, his parents' home in Clio, Michi- gan was still considered his per: manent address. He was admitted as a resident to the engineering graduate program in the winter term o 90AfZ1ter r nc tivm 1he II~ )el Miet writer has propos- kndrei Sak- ace Prize, osten said enitsyn the left at lib- , has been ss and ra ks. He has the ene- ente. utes, how- 1d in Janu- later may or the fol- his article not only , but may- open acts his article violence by iduals and nust be re- for peace, ed by per- usory, but individual y of stop- that is to peace", he By REBECCA WARNER The governing faculty of LSA yesterday deferred to its Novem- ber meeting a proposal to convert the town - meeting faculty govern- ment to a representative assembly with parity for the college's stu- dents.I Expressing a distinct lack of en- thusiasm for the student parity aspect of the plan, the body ap- proved a motion, which will bring the proposal back for further dis- cussion. Sponsors were asked to separate the issue of a representa- tive government from the demand for student representation. THE GROUP also acted to table Marvin Felheim and LSA Student Government Vice President Chuck Barquist. It provides for a 100 member representative a s s e m b 1y which would include 50 faculty members elected by departments and 50 student members elected by five randomly designated student con- stituencies. The group would in- clude the dean of LSA as a chair- persontallowed to vote onlyain case of a tie. INTRODUCING THE proposal, Barquist reasoned that "students and faculty members must be re- garded as equal partners in the college community." Barquist also sponsors of the governance pro- posal, quorum is achieved at three quarters of the meetings. While the idea of a representa- tive government seemed to meet with some faculty approval, most comments on student parity were unfavorable. Several faculty mem- bers present condemned the idea that students are equal members of the LSA community with .each- ing staff members. HISTORY PROF. Gerhard Wein- berg claimed, "There are two fun- damental falsehoods in this whole document: First, that because we all vote politically we must all be equal and second, that this group Grads hear experts hit revenue sharing By GORDON ATCHESON Revenue sharing, long the sub- ject of heated debate in Congress and local governments across the country, suffered yet another round Secretary of the Health, Education, and Welfare Department under President Johnson, former Detroit Mayor Jerome Cavanaugh, and Ann Arbor City Administrator Sylvester A41 rr s.