i [PR&ES L2 T car HURT: i I i rEL cF' ro G V U T To 0v61 I DESTRUVCT: C.. t 4 ( 2? Z Cx{O157 4H66(,F 1T0 Lov&,. Fleming scores Watergate morality: What ab~out rU' ill I SAF6 I RCC0PSA M10 F F IO .K Iil P'ublishers-Halt Syndicate I ©t r it s ff 2-- TO DE~SPAR. /0 l /2 f. IN HIS "State of the University" speech Monday night, President Fleming chose to dwell awhile on a currently popular topic: The val- ues of Watergate. He called it "a spectacle of ethi- -al standards gone berserk," and pointed out that many of the peo- ple involved were "fully equipped with degrees from distinguished American collegiate institutions." Chris parks "Why did we have so little im- pact on them?" he asked. Why indeed! To see real live examples of the Nixon Watergate mentality in ac- tion, one need look no further than the monolithic six-story slab of the Administration Building looming lordly over Regents Plaza. For the true elements of Nixon i I Eighty-three years of editorial freedom Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan Letters to The Daily 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Mi. 48104 News Phone: 764-0552 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1973 Congress fails cutback test WHEN IT IS defense appropriations time in Washington few Senators and Congressmen avoid the heat. The admin- istration turns on the pressure, as do the military lobbyists of the Pentagon. *Even American commanders in Europe get into the act with long distance tele- phone calls to swing key votes on troop reductions. The results are usually predictable, and the Senate's passage of the defense pro- curement bill Monday was no exception. Before Watergate came to dominate the Washington scene, the pundits told us of the coming conflict between a resurgent Congress and a powerful president. The issue, for those of us who have forgot- ten, was to be spending. The Nixon administration, sitting atop its November landslide, was to pull in the reins on a "big spending" Congress. Messrs. Halderman and Ehrlichman ad- monished Capitol Hill for its fiscal irre- sponsibility and pleaded the President's case for a ceiling on federal spending. THE BATTLE ROYALE, however, never seemed to materialize. Congress has appeared powerless to overcome the Ad- ministration's cutbacks of needed social welfare programs. Even with the Presi- dent on the ropes over Watergate, not a single Nixon veto has been over-ridden. TODAY'S STAFF: News: Cheryl Pilate, Charles Stein, Sue Stephensen Editorial Page: Paul Gallagher, Zachary Schiller, Eric Schoch, Chuck Wibur Arts Page: Jeff Sorensen Photo Technician: Terry McCarthy The passage of the defense weapons procurement bill by the Senate is a clear- cut example of the legislative branch's failure to challenge spending policies which sacrifice social needs to fiscal re- sponsibility. Senate liberals made ten attempts to trim the $21 million defense bill, all end- ing in failure. In the end after a final amendment calling for an across-the- board $500 million defense cut lost by a 51-47 vote, only seven Senators had the integrity to vote against the procurement bill in its entirety. THE PROVISIONS of the bill seem to have little to do with the administra- tions much proclaimed belt-tightening. While social welfare spending is attacked as fiscally irresponsible, the Administra- tion backed bill allocates $1.5 billion to speed up construction of the Trident, the Navy's new nuclear armed submarine, $37.5 million for the development of the Bl bomber and $657 million for the con- struction of a fourth nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. It is difficult to justify this kind of defense spending with detente dominat- ing the foreign policy news, but the si- multaneous slashing of funds for eduda- tion, medical research, and anti-poverty programs makes it doubly hard to swal- low. What is still harder to fathom is why with the so-called paralysis of the Nixon Administration brought on by Watergate, the Congress continually demonstrates its inability to effectively challenge the President's mis-placed spending priori- ties. Video-crats To The Daily: MONDAY EVENING we attend- ed the Indochina Peace Campaign program with Jane Fondaand Tom Hayden. This well-organized and thoughtful presentation hoped to describe with clarity and with im- pact the plight of the Vietnamese political prisoners and what we as Americans can do to end this hor- ror. Seldom have we heard a more compelling story of torture and pain perpetuated by the U.S. Unfortunately the message was substantially marred and some- times entirely obscured by the in- sensitive and disruptive presence of the techno-freaks who weresvid- eo-taping and photographing the event. George DePue et. al. (the Media Access Center) does in fact have a fine array of fancy elec- trical equipment, but the aud- ience didn't go to Hill auditorium to watch people tinkering w i t h this junk on the stage. It is not ne- cessary to have video-crats parad- ing on the stage in order to tape a production. We observed this same behavior earlier this year when the MAC was taping the Anais Nin lecture. We advise groups who are present- ing speakers to b aware of the dis- tracting behavior of the MAC re- corders. -Stephen Marston Peggy Ann Kusnerz Oct. 1 TF quality To The Daily: TED STEIN'S opinion of t h e planned cash incentives for the freshman English program is the right one. As a teaching assistant for the Freshman program, I feel rather like I've been asked to come in with a bag of quarters for thenmore adept class par tici- pants. However, Stein suggests that the solution to the inadequate program includes "more participation from professors in a program currently dominated by novice teaching fel- lows." The teaching assistants I know are qualified, hard-working and enthusiastic. These qualities, especially the last, are more than apt to decline when tenure a n d publication take their toll on a professor's time. The majority of good classes in my undergraduate career were taught by young, en- thusiastic, and perhaps scared 'no- vice teaching fellows.' Stein carefully evaluates the in- centive system - and, incidently, most of the English 'teaching as- sistants agree with him - he should be more careful of employ- ing shibboleths like full profes- sorship as the sole indicater of good teaching. -James Paul Oct. 2 In cahoots To The Daily : WITH REGARD TO the tuition issue, there are two sides of the story. But. it appears that the Uni- versity really does not want us to pay tuition. I would publicly like to thank the University for the fol- lowing: 1. Destroying those easy to use postage-paid, addressed tuition en- velopes. 2. Billing out of state students two days in advance of final pay- ment. 3. Having those pleasant hour- long lines at the cashier's office (result of No. 1 and No. 2). 4. Having personnel who really don't know what is going on in reference to the above. Isn't red-tape wonderful? I guess the Big "U" is really behind the tuition strike, anyway. (sigh) --Hilary Kayle '74 Oct. 2 Letters to The Daily should be mailed to the Editorial Di- rector or delivered to Mary Rafferty in the Student Pub- lications business office in the Michigan Daily building. Letters should be typed, double-spaced and normally should not exceed 250 words. The Editorial Direc- tors reserve the right to edit Al letters submitted. style - arrogance, suppression of informatio1,, and news manage- ment - are the every day tools of the Uni-ersity bureaucracy. CONSIDER FOR example, the question of the faculty salary lists. The majority of the University's operating money comes from the taxpayers of the state of Michigan. Most of the rest comes from stu- dent fees. And yet, Fleming and the Uni- versity have taken the position that neither the public nor the students have any right to know how their money is being used to pay teach- ers. Michigan State University, real- izing its obligation, has released the information. Under a court or- der, Saginaw Valley College did the same. State Atty. Gen. Frank Kelley has ruled that the informa- tion should be a matter of public record. And yet, Fleming won't budge. Perhaps, like Nixon with his Wat- ergate tapes, he is waiting for a "definitive"'ruling from the Su- preme Court. IN ANOTHER context the com- parison crops up again. Last week, the Daily was seek- ing an explanation of the reasons behind the recent tuition hike. Crucial to the inquiry was a de- tailed justification for official state- ments last week that the 24 per cent hike would only produce a 20 per cent "weighted increase" in tuition revenues. The administration, however, balked at releasing the account- ant's work sheets to prove their case because - according to fin- ancial officer Wilbur Pierpont - "everybody will have a different idea about what it means." If you listened closely, you could almost hear the faint reverbera- tions of Nixon's voice saying he would not release the tapes be- cause "people with different mo- tives" might interpret them dif- ferently than he had. ANOTHER favorite device of the Watergate President is the selec- tive intimidation and manipulation of the mass media. To avoid embarrasing questions and issues, he has almost aban- doned the news conference in fav- or of dramatic "one-man shows" on prime time national television and radio. And to complete the coup, he has managed to intimidate at least one major network into drop- ping its policy of immediate inter- pretation and commentary on his addresses. Last week, we received\ a phone call from University Information Services telling us that Fleming had written a lengthy statement outlining his views on the tuition sit'iation. It was to be printed verbatim in the University Record Monday morning, the one morning of the week on which The Daily doesn't publish. However, we were told, the pres- ident was willing to make a deal, If the Daily would agree to print his statement in toto, without con- densation or interpretation, we could run it in Sunday morning's paper. "For the true elements of Nixon style-arro- gfance, sippression of information, and news management-are the every day tools of the U, inversitybureau- cracy." The choice was clear: Present the news the way that Fleming wants it presented, or get it a day late. No newsperson worthy of the name likes being "scooped." But, for better or worse, we are the editors of the Michigan Daily, not President Fleming. * * * . SO THE PRESIDENT'S p i o u s lecture on Watergate morality rings a little false. No, he didn't bug or burglarize or perpetrate "dirty tricks." But these are only the surface manifestations of the "Watergate morality." The real sickness of government is secrecy and an arrogant disre- gard for free institutions, the free press and the people's right to know. President Fleming has agreed to face questioners in an open forum to discuss the tuition hike Friday afternoon. It's impossible to tell, at this point, whether the president will use this opportunity to finally open up and tell students the facts they have a need and right to know concerning the hike. But it does represent a belated step in the right direction for an administration which has compiled an unenviable record of secrecy and arrogance. I N t'd iller to dramam By JIM SCHIOP was closed l What kind of class can fill True- you can sque blood Theatre a month before the of the theatr class even begins? Perhaps a fa- Meyer exp mous contemporary American the course t playwright is the answer. Arthur Miller's play Miller has agreed to return to the for only two University as playwright in resi- plains furthe dence, have his most recent play, the time willN The American Clock, performed by stories, also. U-Players in the spring and teach Meyer will a mini-course. lectures befo Miller and Richard Meyer, prin- The last fou cipal administrator of the PTP, wright will no (Professional Theatre Program) pate in ques highly recommended and new from sions. Those Florida State, share the responsi- for the mini bility for the class. three to five The enthusiasm has centered on aspect of Art the Arthur Miller Mini-Course to Meyer's p be held from Nov. 2 to Nov. 16, the playwrigh from 3-5 p.m. Monday, Wednesday petus for get and Friday of those two weeks. But University. T. if your excitement about Arthur they were bol Miller is just now growing and ter in After t you'd like to sign up for the class, rection of K sorry, you'restoo late! The class more Meyer 8:30 4 Banacek 7 Movie "Letters 9 News 50 Merv G 9:00 2 Cannon 9 Pro Foot 9:30 56 Comm 10:00 2 Dan Auf 4 Love St( tgDebut: 7 Owen 56 To BeA 11:00 2 4 7 New 50 One Ste 6:00 2 4 7 News 11:30 2 Movie 9 Andy Griffith "engea 56 To Be Announced 4 Johnny 50 Gilligan's Island 7 Dick Ca 6:30 2 CBS News 9 CBC Ne 4 NBC News 50 Movie- 7 ABC News "Ambu 9 1 Dream of Jeannie 12:00 9 News 50 Hogan's Heroes 12:30 9 Movie 56 Collector's Corner "The F 7:00 2 Truth or Consequences 1:00 4 7 News 4 News 1:15 2 Movie 7 To Tell the Truth "Where 9 Beverly Hillbillies (English 50 Mission: Impossible2:52ayr 56 Vince Lombardi Science and 3:15 2 News Art of Football teach tin i-course ast Tuesday. Perhaps eeze into the balcony e. ects those enrolled in o read all of Arthur s, an ambitious aim o weeks. Meyer ex- r, "Those who have want to read his short give the first three ore Miller gets here. ur meetings th play- ot lecture, but partici- tion and -answer ses- officially registered J-course will write a page paper on any hur Miller's work. ersonal contact with ht was the initial im- ting him back to the They first met when th at the Lincoln Cen- he Fall, under the di- Ela Kazan. Further- says Millers is fond k s from Three Lovers" riffin otball on Ground ugust ory-Romance Marshall Announced ws ep Beyond ance Valley" (1951) yCarson avett ews -western sh." (1949) ar Out West" (1967) the Bullets Fly" h 1966) ry R.F.D. of the University and a romantic return to the alma mater may also be a contributing factor. Several question and answerses- sions will be held outside the class situation, to be arranged once Mil- ler gets here. His discussions may also be broadcast over University Radio, WUOM-FM. In November Miller will be here only a week and a half, and re- turn in the spring when his new play, The American Clock, pre- mieres. "Miller is working on it now," says Richard Meyer, "and will work closely with the actors in the spring, probably changing it during rehearsals." 4'Movies' to open with 4 benefits The opening of The Movies 1, 2, 3, 4, Ann Arbor's first quartet of theaters, will be celebrated with four charity benefits on Thursday, Oct. 4. Located in the new Briar- wood Shopping Center, The Movies will be a joint effort of the United Theatre Circuit, Inc. (UATC) and Taubman Theaters, Inc. The sponsoring charities include: The Institute for Burn Medicine, Ann Arbor; Spaulding for Children, Chelsea; Ozone House, Ann Arbor and the Washtenaw County Associa- tion for Retarded Children, Ypsi- lanti. A variety of films will be shown for the benefits, including "A Touch of Class" with Gerge Segal rT T C wildflowers Judy Collins is scheduled to perform in Hill Aud. Saturday eve- ning, Oct. 20, at 8, sponsored by UAC-Daystar in a Homecoming concert. Tickets go on sale today at the Union (reserved seats only). CULTURE CLEDA FILM-Art Film Series B, Manet and Cezanne, MLB, Aud. 3, at 7, 9 tonight. Ann Arbor Film Co-op pre ents Antonioni's IN4U NMOM ffi 17 ! t'71d \ n' ° V '/ 0 1 m M '