L tr tgan BIadJ4 Eighty-Three Years of Editorial Freedom Vol. LXXXIV, No. 79 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, December 11, 1973 Ten Cents Twelve Pages I Quality of 'U' i USEE NE SAPPENCALL DNLtY Restaurateur abducted Police are holding Thomas Ross, 40, of Cleveland, as a suspect in a robbery early yesterday of one of the city's most popular eateries, the Pretzel Bell, and the beating and temporary abduction of the restaurant's owner, Clint Castor. According to police, Castor was beaten when three men forced their way into his home, tied up his wife, and forced him to drive to the restaur- ant to empty its safe. One of the men remained at the Castor residence while two others accompanied him to the restaurant. Castor said the two men took about $1,500 from the safe, then released him near his home. Castor was pistol-whipped, according to police, but did not suf- fer serious injury; his wife was not injured. 0 Gargoyle is back The Michigan Gargoyle is back, after a long period of dormancy. Three thousand copies of the newest edition of the campus humor magazine have been printed, and are being sold beginning today. Gargoyle, first published in 1909, enjoyed large popularity on campus until finally hitting the skids two years ago. This year's Gargoyle editors, Tom Field and Jeff Liebster, promise that the new 44-page issue will display a "more sophisticated brand of humor." The issue will sell for a quarter; and if acceptance is sufficient, Gargoyle will again become a regular campus publication. Engineers needed According to Prof. John Young, the director of the engineering college's placement office, the job outlook for University engineering graduates continues to im- prove. Young says that more employers than ever be- fore are clamoring to interview potential employes, and that the number of job offers for bachelor of science grads in engineering is three and one-half times greater than at this time last year. Young calls the trend "high- ly significant." A clarification In Sunday's issue, we referred to Jackie Bailey as the University's lesbian advocate. Her official title is Female Human Sexuality Advocate, and we apologize for not be- ing more specific. " Ma Bell's ecology Michigan Bell says it will recycle all of the 22,000 telephone directories issued to University students and staff last year. The phone books must be bundled in stacks of five to ten and deposited in designated stalls which Ma Bell will provide in the University's parking structures. The deadline is noon on Friday; on that day trucks will ship the books to the Recycling Center south of the city. Students in residence halls may unload their phone books inside the dorms at locations provided by the Housing Office. Happenings .. . ... are moderate. The University Association for Col- lective Margaining meets today at noon in the League. Topics of discussion will include a session on collective bargaining at Wayne State University . . . The Gay Liberation Front meets tonight at 8 in the 3rd Flr. Con- ference Room of the Union . . . The third annual Frieze Bldg., 500 the wheelchair race between the Daily Dare- devils and the meanies from the Office of Student Serv- ices takes place at 4:45 p.m. on the first floor of the Frieze Bldg. . . . The Ecology Center will close for the holidays on Sunday, Dec. 22, and will open again on Jan. 2; the recycling station will close Wednesday, Dec. 26 and will open again on Jan. 2 as well . . . The Resi- dential College presents "Duets," a concert in dance and mime, tonight at 8 in the E. Quad Auditorium. 0 A utonakers freed The Cost of Living Council yesterday exempted the four major automakers from wage and price controls after getting "commitments" from three of them that future price increases will not be excessively high. Coun- cil director John Dunlap said he had been convinced that the auto companies would constrain price increases, limit the retail price of small cars, and keep as low as possible price increases in the far future. Chrysler Corp. was exempted from controls along with the other three -General Motors, Ford and American Motors - even though Chrysler refused to make "commitments" of any kind. Chile massacre? The Swedish ambassador who was ousted from Chile after the recent rightist coup claimed yesterday that about 15,000 people have been killed since the revolu- tion that overthrew Salvadore Allende. Former diplomat Harald Edeistam estimated that 7,000 people have been arrested by the military and 30,000 left homeless. He accused the United States of playing a direct part in the bloody coup, and reported that torture continues as a way of life in Santiago. On the inside . . . Diane Levick, The Daily's Arts Editor, reviews a mother-daughter art exhibit at North Campus Commons on the Arts Page . . . Guest Writer Scott Twining looks at the trend toward buying smill cars, on the Editorial Page . . . The Sports Page features the results of last night's basketball game with Xavier. By JO MARCOTTY The University's Literary College may have a hard time finding enough students by 1980. The quantity and quality of its ap- plicants is gradually decreasing. That's the gist of a report prepared by the Admissions Office for the LSA Admis- sions Committee. Comprised primarily of numerical tables, the report documents both a decline in the number of applicants to the college as well as an accompanying decline in the academic credentials of those applicants. Since 1969, for example, out-of-state ap- plicants have decreased by a l m o s t half, with a corresponding decrease of almost a thousand resident applicants. TRANSLATED INTO raw data, out-of- state applications went from 4051 to 2718 while Michigan applications dropped from 5418 to 4684 over the same time period. On the academic side of the chart, me- dian SAT scores for residents went from 1167 to 1130 and from 1287 to 1253 for non- residents. Similarly the percentages of out-of-state freshmen admitted to LSA, who graduated tudenti in the top 10 per cent of their high school classes has gone down from 78 per cent in 1971 to 68 per cent this fall. Freshmen residents in the top ten per cent have stayed at 64 per cent since 1971. ACCORDING TO University officials, similar declines are being experienced in schools all across the country. Four years ago 34 per cent of all college age people were going to school. Today that number has decreased to 33.1 per cent. "These figures aren't very substantial," says Edward Dougherty, assistant dean declines of LSA, "but the trend line is definitely downward. By 1980 we predict the number to be significantly less." What has caused that decline? "ANY NUMBER of reasons c o u l d be speculated," comments Dougherty. "In- creased tuition, increased competition for students from good schools, desire to get out, to delay education. These shifts are not great enough to be of tremendous con- cern, but we will want to watch and moni- tor them. See APPLICANTS, Page 7 Black enrollment at 7.3%1; art of falks far sho goal By DELLA DIPIETRO In spite of an earlier prediction that this year's black enrollment figure would reach 8.6 per cent, the University yesterday announced that blacks now constitute 7.3 per cent of the student body. This figure still falls far short of the ten per cent enrollment goal set by the Regents during the 1970 Black Action Movement (BAM) strike. GEORGE GOODMAN, director of the Opportunity Program which oversees recruitment and scholarships for minority students, further stated in the announcement that the University could be "reasonably expected" to take two more years reaching the ten per cent figure. The original ten per cent target date was this September. Goodman blamed the University's failure to meet the goal on the large number of black applicants who chose to go elsewhere after being accepted here, and the high "attrition rate" among enrolled blacks. In the University's official statement yesterday, Goodman said black upperclassmen gave "voluntary reasons"-including personal, fi- nancial, and family problems-as well as "involuntary" academic rea- sons for failing to re-enroll. BUT GOODMAN added that he was pleased with the fact that 352 of the 412 blacks who entered the University in 1972 returned this year. Goodman's conclusion suggests that the major problem in keeping black students may be in the Uni.ersity's failure to handle non-academic H E N R Y JOHNSON: "The University made a good faith effort." AP Photo SPECIAL WATERGATE PROSECUTOR Leon Jaworski flashes a grin for reporters in Washington yesterday. Jaworski was happy because the White House delivered to him several presidential tapes which he requested. The man who held his job all summer was fired for making such a request. ,New Watergate tape~rs released to prosecu tor By AP and Reuter WASHINGTON-President Nixon's Operation Candor pressed slowly forward yesterday with the disclosure that "a significant number" of White House tapes were turned over to special Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski during the weekend. In addition, the special prosecutor received tapes of two subpoenaed Watergate conversations from U. S. District Judge John Sirica. THE TWO DELIVERIES marked the first time presidential tapes have been turned over to the prosecutor's office. The White House delivered the tapes the same weekend it released a mass of documentation relating to President Nixon's personal finances. - -Neither Jaworski nor the White House would say which tapes were C w cdelivered over the weekend. "WE HAVE ASKED for these and we have insisted they be de- livered to us and they were de- livered," Jaworski said. He added that there were "still some out- standing requests for tapes from I a se the White House." CO C Deputy White House Press Sec- retary Gerald Warren said he would "prefer to maintain the confidentiality" of dealings with sP The tapes Jaworski received from Sirica yesterday deal with By JACK KROST conservations held between Presi- The high-speed p o 1 i c e chase dent Nixon and former White scenes of French Connection fame House counsel John Dean. The con- may soon become a thing of the versations were held on March 13 past within the city limits of Ann and 22, of this year. Arbor. City Councilman Norris Thomas ALSO MADE PUBLIC yesterday (D-First Ward) last night an- was news that technical experts nounced his intentions to bring be- were taking a second look at the fore Council an ordinance propos- tape of a June 20 conversation be- ing guidelines on such chases. tween the President and former aide H. R. Haldeman in an effort HE PROMISED to draft such an to determine what caused an 18%- ordiaance with the help of City minute gap in the recording. needs properly. "It appears," he assistance is necessary for stu- dents who remain beyond the fresh- man year, and particularly for those who are managing adequate- ly academically." Goodman could not be reached last night for further explanation of his official comments. THE ANNOUNCED enrollment figures brought a mixed reaction from the campus community yes- terday. While administration offi- cials expressed satisfaction with Goodman's report, black student leaders were enraged. Vice President for Student Serv- ices Henry Johnson agreed with Goodman's basic conclusions about reasons for black students not re- enrolling, noting that a major problem is how "the minority stu- dent perceives the majority-orient- ed University." Although Johnson agreed that the University had failed somewhere, he insisted that officials had ex- hibited "a good faith effort" to- wards attempting to meet the ten per cent enrollment goal. ALLAN SMITH, vice president for academic affairs, would only comment that the University has "accepted all of the minority stu- dents that are qualified." But he refused to state whether or not he feels there is a lack of qualified minority applicants. Henry Bernard Clay, vice presi- dent of minority affairs for Stu- dent Government Council, was out- raged when he learned of the cur- rent figures. "This is another in- dication of the underlying racism of this University, and the fact that they have been juggling those figures for years." stated, "that more attention and Counci~l rej ects U, police force By DAVID STOLL The University Council yesterday voted to reject a proposal calling for the establishment of an inde- pendent University police force. At the same time, the body recom- mended the University sever its current security arrangement with the Burns Security Agency. The council's decision, which still has to be considered by the Senate Assembly and the Regents, repre- sents at least a partial rejection of the findings of a special $17,000 study the council itself commis- sioned. CONDUCTED BY the Interna- tional Association of Chiefs of Po- lice (IACP) the study suggested the University hire its own 164- man police force to replace its commitments with the city police and the Burns company. According to council chairman Charles Morris, associate dean of the literary college, the council is also recommending that the Uni- versity "press" the city police for improvements in service. Although Morris would not make public the five - page document which the council approved, ne said that services now provided by Burns Security would, under the council plan, be replaced by a similar system run directly by the University's Department of Safety. MANY OF THE specific JACP recommendations, he said, have been included as suggestions for improving security even though the IACP's major proposal for estab- lishment of an independent police force has been rejected. Opposition to the independent po- lice force was said to be based on several key factors. Some officials felt that setting up a police force with its own juris- diction independent of city and county police would be an imprac- tical proposition. Others including Vice President for Student Serv- ices Henry Johnson commented that no branch of the University would want to be saddled with the responsibility of running tha force. FINALLY THE expense (f oper- ating the new unit, some $700,000 above current security expendi- tures, was believed to have in- spired further opposition. The impetus for the current se- curity debates stems from the campus' rising rate of crime cou- See 'U', Page 7 26 VIE IN RACE LSA elections get large turnout By MARY LONG The literary college (LSA) stu- dent government election began yesterday with what election offi- cials called a "record high" turn- out on the first day of balloting. Election director Jim Glickman said an estimated 400 students vot- ed at polls in Waterman Gym registration lines; the rest of LSA's gram for Educational and Social Change (PESC), which currently holds a controlling majority on the council. Glickman, who was elated by the heavy first-day turnout, had earlier echoed many council members' fears that students would tend to equate LSA'sgovernment with the problems and pitfalls of Student ('government Council (SGC). and the fledgling Academic Action Party, as well as independents, are divided over just how limited the council's role should be, and what direction its actions should take. PESC incumbent Mark Gold, '75, stresses his party's view that the council should not isolate itself on academic issues. "We should sup- port creative, useful community groups, says Gold, "and express