Abe t tchgan ath Eighty-three years of editorial freedom Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan Nixon game plan: Dumping Agnew 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Mi. 48104 News Phone: 764-0552 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1973 DON'T PAY TUITION HIS SUMMER, the board of Regents approved the largest tuition increase in the history of the University. Stu- dents are now required to pay fees av- eraging 24 per cent higher than those of last year. The increase is unacceptable. It has been imposed upon the student body without our approval and almost entire- ly without our consultation, The Daily urges students throughout the campus to support the tuition strike by withholding the September fee pay- ment until the University rolls back tui- tion to an acceptable level. To date, the University's performance in this matter has been outrageous and insulting. Various official explanations of the need for the record hike have been vague, incomplete, and in many instances contradictory. Most recently those offic- ials most directly involved in computing the increase have flatly refused to re- lease their specific calculations. 'ICE PRESIDENT for Academic Affairs, Allan Smith has repeatedly blamed the hike on the University's need to ab- sorb revenue losses resulting from the Supreme Court decision on residency rules. Mr. Smith has stated that the es- timate of that loss, used in calculating the need for higher tuition, was $2.5 mil- lion. Yet The Daily learned yesterday that the actual figure used in producing a budget was between $3 and $4 million. Wilbur Pierpont, the University's chief financial officer, dismissed the Student Action Committees's claims that. a 24 per cent fee hike would produce far more tuition revenue than was needed to com- plete the budget. He insisted Tuesday that the "weighted average" fee increase -that is, the average extra money paid per student - would be reduced by the large number of freshpersons and sopho- mores who only take a 15 per cent in- crease. The weighted average hike, he, said, was "about 20 per cent." BUT YESTERDAY a staffer in the Of- fice of Financial Analysis stated that the weighted average was precisely 24 per cent. In addition The Daily learned Tuesday that Mr. Smith had computed a "best DAVID MARGOLICK Chief Photographer KEN FINK ......................Staff Photographer THOMAS GOTTLIEB ..............Staff Photographer STEVE KAGAN ...................Staff Photographer KAREN KASMAUSKI ..............Staff Photographer TERRY McCARTHY .............Staff Photographer TODAY'S STAFF: News: Dan Biddle, Charles Coleman, Mike Duweck, Chris Parks Editorial Page: Marnie Heyn, Zachary Schiller, Eric Schoch Arts Page: Diane Levick, Sara Rimer, Mara Shapiro Photo Technician: Steve Kagan case" estimate of tuition revenue if fewer students than expected qualify for lower in-state fees under the new residency rules. That estimate suggests that the University could take in as much as $2.4 million more than is required to meet budget needs. Hence, in spite of the University's pro- fessed willingness to explain the hik.e, dozens of key questions remains unans- wered: Is this year's budget designed to produce more income than is needed? Why did the University publish numbers that later proved to be irrelevant? And has the University fully explored all pos- sible sources of extra income other than record tuition hikes? WE FURTHER URGE that the adminis- tration fulfill its overdue responsibil- ity in this matter by producing all of the estimates and information that led to the tuition increase. We suggest that this be done in a forum open to all students, in which officials answer any and all questions pertinent to the fee hike. Students are trapped in a squeeze be- tween the skyrockting cost of living and the inevitable upward trend in the cost of education. Under these circumstances, the massive tuition hike is intolerable. President Fleming often describes the University as "comprised of many con- stituencies," each with a stake in quality education, each contributing, financially or otherwise, to that goal. The other ma- jor sources of University income - the alumni, the state legislature, the federal government - have the power to ex- amine and refuse unacceptable requests for more money. We, the students, are not mindless pawns to be rearranged at will in the Uni- versity's economic chess game. We will not settle for closed-door decisions on matters directly affecting our lives. WE HAVE NOT simply been asked to pay our fair share-such a request would bring few complaints. But we have been ordered-not asked, but ordered-to bear the full weight of the University's finan- cial problems, and this is an unjust or- der. While the power is rarely ackuowl- edged, we, too, have the power of veto; we have the power to say no. In recent years we have not exercised that power and now we pay the price. We return from the summer to find that tuition has leaped; if that isn't enough, the University has created a new set of residency rules so vague that non-resi- dent students may find it almost im- possible to qualify for in-state tuition. And teaching fellows, who once were drawn to Ann Arbor by the promise of lower in-state fees, now find that pro- mise broken. The University's actions suggest a will- ingness to ignore the needs and opinions of its most important "constituency": the students. WE CANNOT ACCEPT this. We urge stu- dents to unite and wield their power of veto by refusing to pay September's tuition assessment. By PETE HAMILL ABOUTAN HOUR ago, I sat down and wrote a check for $10 and sent it to the Spiro T. Agnew Defense Fund, at the Exective Of- fice Building in Washington. It seemed to be the very least that a newspaperman could do for poor Agnew. And if you are a New Yorker, or- a child of immigrants, helping to defend Agnew almost becomes a duty. To begin with, Agnew must now realize what most New Yorkers have known for a long time: that Richard Nixon just might be the cruelist, most loathsome President of this century, in terms of the way he treats his friends. If.a guy from Bay Ridge treat- ed his friends the way Nixon has treated Agnew, John Mitchell, or L. Patrick Gray, they would pick his remains out of an ashtray some Saturday night.. But Nixon is the President, un- reachable by the common human emotions or basic loyalties. Nixon is for Nixon, and the rest of us can wither or die, whether we're blacks trying to get jobs, Cam- bodians trying to plow a field, or New Yorkers trying to rebuild their city. If Nixon can enlarge upon, or even simply maintain his hold upon his . monarchial throne, he would gladly see all of us twist slowly in the wind. I don't know what Agnew did or did not dowin Maryland; that will come from the grand jury. But there is something inherently disgusting about the obvious White House joy in revealing that Ag- new is now in the process of plea bargaining, like a common felon in Criminal Court. The official White House liars deny that the stories are coming from the White House, of course, but with Nixon's polluted crew a denial is tanta- mount to confirmation. So Agnew, who sullied his own personal reputation in the service of Nixon, now has to go to see Nixon and ask that Attorney Gen- eral Richardson drop criminal charges in exchange for Agnew's resignation. It'shumiliating, bt Agnew must now know that Nixon and his employers don't really care about Americans like Agnew. Ag- new is an ethnic, a child of immi- grants, and Nixon's people have nothing but patronizing contemt for the ethnics and the immigrants. THE BARGAINING process is going on longer than seems neces- sary, but that is probably because Agnew fully.understands the trea- cherous nature of the men he's dealing with. Nixon is perfecly capabl of telling Agnew that the charges will be dropped, or greatly reduced, in exchange for resigna- tion; and then double-crossing him. So that Agnew could resign and go to jail for the rest of his life. Look at what happened to G. Gor- don Liddy, Howard Hunt, Bernard Barker and the others. They'll still be in the slam when Nixon is re- tired to the $10 million rip-cff called San Clemente. And so, Agnew, like most child- ren of immigrants, has traveled the downward path to wisdom. Nixon used him in 1969 and 1970, letting Agnew carry the war against the press as part of a complicated strategy of White House survival. Through Agnew, Nixon passed on a giant lie: that the press was Democratic, when it is in fact overwhelmingly Republican: that the press was disloyal, when it was, in fact, Nixon's crowd that engaged in widespread subversion of American principles. This is not to say that Agnew did not believe what he was saying at the time. Nixon certainly recog- nized the insecurity of the ethnic, the need for the immigrant's child to feel that elitist conspiracies were blocking full entry into the larger society. Agnew bought the success ethnic that marked so many peo- ple in the Nixon mob; the need to succeed often appeared to have overwhelmed the common decency of the man himself. Nixon is made of the same cloth; so hehturned Agnew into his valet and then sent him back to t h e stable. NOW NIXON is using poor Ag- new even more viciously: he must be gambling that the nation can- not sustain a double shock, the loss of a Vice President and the President in a single year. Let Ag- new be axed, and Nixon will some- how drift through the next three years, rewriting history as ie goes. At the same time, tie can choose the next Vice President - some- one like John Connally -- who would insure the continuity of the Permanent Government in t h i s country: all those owners of air- lines, big businesses, multinational corporations, oil, gas and defense companies, who don't care who is in power as long as they own him. It's a disgusting mess, but I hope Agnew fights. I hope he stays in office, and I hope he remem- bers where all the bodies are bur- ied, and I hope he makes Nixon squirm and choke, and shake across the next few months. Agnew used to pull a lot of tough stuff with his mouth. But real toughness comes with action, and now h, has a chance to prove himself at last. I hope he goes down throwing punches. , Pete Hamill is a columnist for The Neiv York Post. Copyright 1973-The New York Post Corp. Daily Photo by STEVE KAGAN A case of crazed canines-W what to do to, smack the pack Nt oN PR~OPOSES C6" Wr(5iN Neasw HOUsIG Po6RAM. -ta6ws tysm Letters to The Daily lesson State Department, mind you, in case you wonder who directs U.S. To The Daily: "efforts" in Chile) run from 10,- THERE IS ONE lesson of Viet- 000 to 30,000 deaths. Reports from nam which we here in Ann Ar- Chile indicate, as would be expect- bor would do well to learn and re- ed, widespread revulsion over the member: The many can defeat the bloodbath, even by extreme right- few, but the victory of the many ists who were openly trying to depends on the patience and per- overthrow the legitimate Allende sistence with which the struggle is government. Therefore, the dis- carried on. tatorship has changed its "rea- Those who opposed the war here sons for intervening" regularly to in Ann Arbor were many, and the justify the slaughter. many small acts of oposition to the war were important in bring- Reason No. 1: To save the Chil- ing one phase of the .struggle to can economy from chaos. Solution an end. American troops we r e No. 1: Bring back the U.S. cor- brought home. But the struggle porations who historically bled goes on, and it is time for the Chile white with illegal profits, and many to do what they can to end pay them "indemities" besides. our government's support f o r The rapist has been hired to pro- Thieu's regime. tect the virgin. A French school teacher freed Reason No. 2: To save Chile from Thieu's prisons after t w o from being taken over by "Marxist years and an American soldier foreigners." Related to this is the freed from North Vietnam's pris- campaign in the two Santiago pap- ons after five years will join Tom ers now publishing to "expose the Hayden and Jane Fonda in H ill Jewist-Communist conspiracy." Auditorium on Monday, Oct. 1 at (CBC News reported this last week. 7:30 p.m. Together they hope to NBC said they're "checking it inform us about the continuing out"). Solution No. 2: Murder or reality in South Vietnam. Togeth- deport to their native dictatorships er they are calling on the many for slow murder in jails or by tor- of Ann Arbor to begin a new phase ture more than 10,000 political ex- of opposition to the few in Amer- iles from Brazil, Bolivia, Uruguay, ica and Vietnam who still support etc. Imagine the uproar in the U.S. Thieu's repressive government. press if 'a new government here I hope that many citizens of Ann suddenly executed or sent back to Arbor, many students and faculty, Cuba all Cuban political exiles. will be there to welcome these But when Chile's bloody execu- members of the Indochina Peace tioners do it, there is nary a Campaign. I hope we will find protest from the big media. ways to join in the worldwide strug- Reason No. 3: To "prevent civil gle against an unchanged Ameri- war." Laughable if not so tragic. .an policy, a policy which rests Who was going to start the war? the hope for American dominance. Day after day, armed rightists in the world on support of mili- openly proclaimed their intent to tary cliques. We were correct to overthrow the government w h i I e oppose the war, but now we must blowing up power lines, bombing persist in opposing the policies opposition party offices, etc. An which lead to misery for the people armored "regiment of the army at- of South Vietnam and the ever- tempted a coup. Yet, somehow, the present threat of new wards threat was from the Left. Solu- throughout the world. tion No. 3: Execute the leader- -Richard D. Mann ship of the Left and outlaw dis- Professor of Psychology sent. Sept. 26 Reason No. 4: William Montal- bano of Knight Newspapers repeats rationale without disclaimer (Sept. 26) the To The Daily: latest rationale of the military:. FOR THOSE of us who have been They moved because the leftists through Vietnam, there should be were so well-organized for violent By ROBERT BARKIN ONLY WITH thehgreatest regret do I confess that I truly and sincerely hatesdogs. Not Yukon King, mind, you, or Lassie, or Snoopy, or even your basic dog Spot. No, not the dogs that we all know and love, but the basic riff- raff that terrorize the streets of Ann Arbor. Dogs are man's best friend when they follow closely at the owner's heel; obeying his every command, nuzzling against his ankle and sup- plying needed love. And dogs are man's best friend when they race through the fields retrieving the fowl that the own- er has just blasted out of the air. And dogs are man's best friend when, on those peaceful walks in the woods when a tinge of loneli- ness creeps upon the hiker, a fam- iliar "bow-wow" lets the master know that someone cares. BUT DOGS TAKE on a much different role in Ann Arbor. Thev are no longer man's best friend, but his most menacing enemy, that must be stalked and eradicated. I was not always in this fright- ened state of mind, like the man from Underground, fearful t h a t They are after me. But it is not humans that cause me to keep one eye to the rear when I walk the streets. It is the dogs. There once was a time when I would smilingly pet a little fel- low that trotted down the street past me, anxious to win his fav- or. Today, Ihave overwhelming feelings to kick the stupid mutts. What has come over me? Nothing less than an enormous pack of dogs cascading down the streets with malice in their eyes and froth in their mouths. Packs of twelve move down the avenue in front of my house, controlling the sidewalks, and forcing pedes- trians to cross the street in desper- ate attempts -to avoid a confronta- tion. But, it is not the flesh of humans that these carnivorous canines are pursuing, but rather a much more passive and defenseless target: The garbage can. A STROLL DOWN residential blocks in the city is a steeplechas- er's delight, and a pedestrian's nightmore. Cans lying on the side- walk, their contents emptied and smelling. If the cans don't get you, the smell of their contents pro- bably will. And always lying right next to the spilled refuse from the garbage can is the dog's own contribution. Together they form a beautiful compost - one, however, that be- longs on the farm, not in my front yard. I've really never had any ob- jection to a dog responding to na- ture's call as long as the dog was not called on the sidewalk. But today in Ann Arbor, anything goes, and usually does. Dogs trot down the sidewalks as if they own them, and the human pedestrian is a mere intruder. Their muzzles held high, they con- trol the walkways looking for the nearest hydrant. And if none of those are available, a human leg will do.. BEFORE CROSSING the street How to withhold your tuition. (Editor's Note: The following .Information was provided by the Stu- dent Action Committee (SAC). The Daily notes that no letter is necessary to withhold your tuition.) 9 When you receive your fees assessment, add up all fees (Housing, PIRGIM, SGC, etc.), except the tuition assessment. 0 When you go to pay your Housing, PIRGIM, etc., make the checks payable to: University of Michigan - Housing Office or, University of Michigan-PIRGIM, etc. This will insure that your payments go towards Housing, etc. instead of towards your tuition. If you are hesitant in doing this, because of the consequences you feel it might entail, here are some facts you may not know: The University cannot penalize you for not paying your tuition except for leveling a five dollar late fee. They cannot revoke your financial aid. They cannot expel or suspend you. Along with your partial payment, SAC urges you to enclose a copy of the letter below (additional copies may be obtained from the SAC office, 3rd floor, Michigan Union, or on the Diag.). To the Regents of the University of Michigan: As a student at the University of Michigan, I wish to express my support for the efforts of those students participating in the current tuition strike. I support the strike for the following reasons: 1. You have ruled on a controversial issue, namely, the tui- tion increase, without public input. 2. You have justified your action as being necessitated by the residency criteria, which you felt would cost the University $2.5 million in revenue. This justification is faulty, particularly in light of Vice President Smith's statement at your meeting of September 21 that, "We may have more income than we estimated from this budget; frankly, I'd be quite happy if we did." 3. You have failed to meet the obligation which you undertook in 1970 to meet the demands of the Black Action Movement by 1973. 4. You have made clear attempts to divide the student body on this issue by creating the impression among wealthy white students that they are being forced to bear the financial burden of educating poor white and third world students. It is apparent that, by adopting the above tactics, you -have made consistent efforts to keep the University of Michigan an in- stitution, of and for the sons and daughters of the white upper class in Michigan. I further support these demands, adopted at a public meeting of the Student Action Committee: 1. Immediate rollback of -tuition to 1972-1973 levels/ 2. Improvement of the BAM demands agreed to by the University in 1970. 3. Adequate financial aid for all students in need. 4. Reevaluation of state residency criteria. 5. Reestablishment of in-state status for all graduate teaching assistants. 6. An accurate and complete statement of financial and they carefully look both ways. Once they spot a car coming they dash out onto the street, causing the oncoming car to screech to a' halt, and prompting a multi-car- collis- ion. But the dog keeps trotting along, ignoring the curses of the beleaguered driver. Going to classes is no longer the simple chore that it once was. Walking into the Fishbpwl is com- parable to entering an ill-managed kennel with the beasts either run- ning through the halls or waiting for an unsuspecting target out- side. 'No longer is it unusual to be rammed into a snow embankment, or backed against the wall by a fast-moving canine who has to get from there to there. You just hap- pen to be in their way. There is no stopping a mutt that has places to go. BUT THE GRAVEST insult of all, what stabs my heart so deep- ly, what attacks myhsenses so vic- ious~y, what destroys all my stand- ards of decency is to see two dogs humping on the sidewalk. God knows, that I am not a Puritan. At least, I never saw myself that way. I will tolerate almost any- thing - but not canines doing it in the road. Perhaps it is unfair to castigate the dogs for rampaging on the side- walks, defecating on the walk- ways, upsetting garbage cans,' and satisfying their sexual desires out in the open. Maybe its the own- ers' fault for having no control over their pets. But where the fault lies is no my concern. The dogs are terrorizing me, making my life a shambles. And I want action. We (those who are with me). must do something to Them before They get Us. It is only a matter of time. We must join forces to drive them from the streets before they do it to -Us. This is definitely a case of over-copulation and steps must be taken - before it is too late. Robert Barkin is a student at the Oniversity and a former feature editor of The Daily.