:l Sir Eighty-Three Years of Editorial Freedom &ta~ig SPRINGY High-4S Low-30 See Today for details See Editorial Page Vol. LXXXIV, No. 96 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Friday, January 25, 1974 Ten Cents Eight Pages ' academic image concerns Smith FYSE EW S CALL LY 392 and 923.* are the winning lottery numbers in this week's statewide drawing. The second chance numbers are 620 and 058. " Job outlook bright Despite the energy crisis and its depressing effects on the national economy, the outlook for job-hunting college graduates this spring is bright. According to Evart Ardis, director of the office of career planning and placement office, "Most students will get one of their top three choices for jobs this spring. There is a feeling of optimism now that we haven't experienced since the late 1960's." One area in which job opportunities are not so plentiful, however, is teaching. Though a few more teaching jobs will be available this year than last, the outlook is 'still glum. Notes on research University oceanographers will take to the high seas in the next few weeks to evaluate methods of measuring currents. The research will be conducted by Prof. Edward Monahan, who will join a group of oceanog- raphers aboard the U.S. vessel KNORR for a six-week Caribbean study cruise. Monahan said once scientists can predict the flow of currents, they can predict the flow of artificial or natural pollutants. GM announces layoffs General Motors yesterday announced plans to lay off about 75,000 workers, as a result of the recent auto industry slump. The firm's components plant will adjust their operation in line with assembly plant requirements, the firm said, meaning there might be still more layoffs. These and other cutbacks could trim GM production by about 16 per cent for the first quarter of this year. The production level for the same quarter last year was more than 4 million units. Happenings . are few. Today is the deadline for drop-add in LSA Get those forms in, or prepare for untold adminis- trative hassle . . . women students are invited to a lunch- hour discussion on careers for women in banking, spon- sored by the career planning and placement office -. - representatives of the teaching fellows at the University of Wisconsin will be in Angell Hall today at noon and will discuss the history of teaching fellow unionization at Wisconsin . . . A film called Japan: Peasants of the Second Fortress will be shown tonight in East Quad, Rm. 126, at 8 p.m. Admission is free. dear Mr. Agnew Random House confirmed yesterday that the pub- lishing, firm has rejected a proposed manuscript idea from former Vice President Spiro Agnew. The outlines of the novel that Agnew proposed to write concerned a future vice presigIent of the United States who turns out to have been programmed for disaster by Chinese Com- munists. Random House officials called the book, "not suitable." " Schlesinger defe ds military Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger yesterday strongly defended top Pentagon officials against charges of military spying on Henry Kissinger and the White House National Security Council. The Secretary, in a press conference, defended the country's top military officer-Admiral Thomas Moorer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff-against allegations that he had been a part. of a 1971 spy ring taking information that was being closely guarded by Kissinger. "I do not think there was a spy ring or any of these 'Seven Days in May' exaggerations that have cropped up," Schlesinger said. "The thing has been blown out of context." " Soviets rebuke writer The Soviet Foreign Ministry has accused a U.S. news agency writer of "provocatory actions inadmissable with the status of a foreign journalist," the rebuked cor- respondent claimed yesterday: The reporter, Gordon Joseloff of United Press International, said he was called in to the ministry press department where he was warned about his conduct. The action apparently resulted from interviews Joseloff was conducting with Soviet Jews active in the emigration movement. UPI has lodged a formal protest over the incident. Crackdown in Argentina Tight security precautions were enforced in Buenos Aires, Argentina, yesterday, while the national legisla- ture debated controversial measures which the govern- ment claims are necessary to combat violence. The proposed restrictions were seen as the latest step in a campaign re-frocked President Juan Peron has been waging against leftists. Many of Peron's opponents feel the bill-which would sevserely stiffen the country's penal code-might be used to stifle freedom of expression. On the inside .. . History Prof. John Whitmore, discusses Vietnam a year after ceasefire on the Editorial Page . . . on the Arts Page, David Blomquist reviews Ann Arbor Civic Theater's production of Company . . . and Leslie Reister discusses intramural sports at the University, on the Sports Page. By REBECCA WARNER Last of Two Parts The Research Center of the Mid- west, the state's highest-powered graduate and professional training institute and one of the nation's top public universities-this is the side of the University whose image has in great part motivated the policies and allocations of Vice President for Academic Affairs since 1965, Allan Smith. Although Smith is not concerned with student views on his decisions, he is passionately concerned with one issue-the University's position at the top of the academic ladder. SMITH'S VISION of the Univer- sity as a super-selective, graduate oriented, special institute has been reflected consistently in his admin- Reflected in VP's personal administrative policies istrative policies. "Our role in the past has been graduate and professional educa- tion in most fields," he says. "The state can't afford many such in- stitutions, but I believe it needs one, and we should be it." Although recent research has shown that the University draws 90 per cent of its instate students from families with incomes in the state's top 10 per cent, Smith denies that the University's admis- sion policies are in any way slanted to favor the rich. "I DON'T like the term elitist because it smacks of exclusion for exclusion's sake," he says. "I do believe we ought to, as we have in the past, set a goal of high quality, high level education." Increased financial aid, Smith says, is "the way to avoid eco- nomic selectivity." Smith also denies that the Uni- versity has the responsibility of educating the mass of low and middle income students in the state. "We've got 29 community colleges in this state," he says. "There's nobody in Michigan who can't start college if he or she wants to go." THE RECORD OF Smith's vice presidency shows he has stuck to this view of the University in both his academic and financial poli- cies. One notorious Smith action began in 1971 when the student-faculty Program for Educational and So- cial Change (PESC) launched a collection of innovations aimed at promoting open education. Among the PESC innovations was a move to make classes taught by PESC professors "open to all and free to non-University people," whether or not they were enrolled as students. IN JANUARY 1972, Smith an- nounced it was "not within the province of the program personnel nor the individual professor" to open courses to non-fee-paying students. Smith explains that his action was based on a point of administra- tive authority. "There are people sitting in class all the time. When you take a nice loose condition and try to push it too far, it can't work. If people don't press it too far, we try very hard to make those facilities available to faculty members and outside groups." Smith's r-ole, then, was to draw the line when irresponsible radicals tried to stretch the already liberal rules past a tolerable limit. The PESC professors, who envisioned a University whose resources would be accessible to the community, f o u n d themselves up against Smith's image of the University as exclusive-and essentially closed. WHILE SMITH calls his power a burden rather than a weapon, radical and liberal observers have pointed to a political trend in his decision-making. In the summer of 1971, for .ex- ample, Smith was instrumental in closing down the Center for Re- search on Conflict Resolution, a "peace research" outfit that had nursed the beginnings of the local Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) chapter and the Black Ac- tion Movement (BAM) strike, See 'U', Page 2 " +, Ix month jail to term given , , ex-aide Krogh WASHINGTON, (Reuter) - Egil Krogh, a former aide to President Nixon and supervisor of the White House agents known as the "plumbers," was sentenced to six months in prison yesterday for his part in the break-in of the office of Dr. Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist. The sentencing makes Krogh the highest White House official yet to be jailed in the Watergate scandals. FOLLOWING the sentencing, Krogh declared that neither President Nixon nor any of the President's current inner circle of advisors gave him any instructions regarding the break-in. U. S. District Judge Gerhard Gesell said Krogh, who made a lengthy statement to the court before sentencing, appeared to need no rehabili- tation but that "any punishment short of jail would, in the court's view, AP Photo EGIL KROGH, the boss of the White House plumbers, reacts with grimaces and a mindless stare to the news that he will spend the next six months in jail for his part in the burglary of Daniel Ellsberg's psychia trist's office. Krogh is the first top-level White House staffer so far to be sent to prison. UP NEARLY 50%: Major oil companies report large prof it increase during past year be inadequate." Krogh could have been sentenced to 10 years on the single conspir- acy violation to which he pleaded guilty Nov. 30. GESELL sentenced the defendant to two to six years behind bars, but specified only the first six months need actually be served, with unsupervised probation to fol- low. He gave Krogh 10 days to put his affairs in order. Krogh was charged with violat- ing the federal conspiracy statute by sending a team from Washing- ton to California to break into the office. of Dr. Lewis Fielding, Ells- berg's psychiatrist. Ellsberg was at the time being prosecuted for circulating to vari- ous major newspapers copies of a multi - volume secret Pentagon study on the origins of U. S. in- volvement in the Vietnam war. In his courtroom statement, Krogh said there was no defense for his actions and that they de- prived both Dr. Ellsberg and Field- ing of rights guaranteed by the Constitution. IN HIS statement issued to re- porters after his sentencing, Krogh declined to implicate Nixon, but said that the President's former domestic affairs chief, John Er- lichman, "gave the unit authority to engage in covert activity to ob- tain information on Ellsberg. The statement contrasted sharp- ly with testimony by former White Mouse lawyer John Dean that Krogh indicated to him that permission for the break-in came from the President's Oval Office. NEW YORK (1P) - Three of the nation's largest oil companies re- ported yesterday large profit in- creases in 1973, as debate con- tinued over the industry's earnings in the midst of rising prices and shortages. Mobil Oil Co., the nation's sec- ond largest oil company, reported a 47 per cent profit increase in 1973 compared to 1972, while Tex- aco, the industry's third largest, announced a 45 per cent gain, and Shell, seventh in size, said its prof- its were up by 28 per cent. EARLIER THIS week, Exxon Corp., the nation's biggest oil com- pany, reported a 59 per cent in- crease while Cities Service and Union Oil of California announced gains of almost 50 per cent. Meanwhile, J. K. Jamieson, chairman of Exxon, denied yester- day charges by Sen. Henry Jack- son (D-Wash.) that his company's reduction of oil supplies to the U.S. military constituted a disloyal act. Jamieson said Exxon had been prohibited from making those de- liveries by the Saudi Arabian- em- bargo imposed against the United States in late October, and its po- sition was promptly reported to the Department of Defense. IN HOUSTON, Z. D. Bonner, the president of Gulf Oil Co., said the Senate subcommittee headed by Jackson, which is investigating the oil industry and its profits, "is not the type of forum to get at the truth" about the energy crisis. "We've got politics mixed into this Quaalude clinic cannot find patients for research study By EILEEN LOEHER Despite widespread national publicity, University Hospital's treatment-research program on quaalude abuse is still lacking its main ingredient-patients. Since its opening last September, the program, designed to study the possible addictive effects of methaqualone, a sedative, has failed to attract a f... single patient. METHAQUALONE is commonly referred to by its brand names-Quaalude, Sopor, Parest, Man- drax, and Optimil. It can be sold legally only by prescription. Dr. Rodney Eiger, head of the program, ex- plained the lack of patients as a result of a seem- ing "change in the pattern of drug abuse in Ann Arbor of this particular drug." Reduction of the use of quaaludes may be partly .,' due to recent federal and state restriction on the sale of the drugs, which makes them harder to : obtain, he added. As a result, people are switch- r:. ing to other drugs or "withdrawing on the street." and it shouldn't be there," he said. Ashland Oil, the 16th largest in the industry, reported yesterday that profits for the last quarter of 1973 were $34.4 million, slightly more than 50 per cent above the $22.6 million it earned for the same quarter a year ago. Ashland oper- ates on a fiscal year that ends Sept. 30. Mobil said its profits last year were $842.2 million compared with $574.2 million in 1972. Texaco said its 1973 income was $1.29 billion compared to $889.04 million. Shell reported 1973 profits of $332.7 ril- lion, compared to $260.5 million the previous year." BOTH MOBIL and Texaco said their profit gains primarily were from foreign markets. Shell, a do- mestically-based firm with no for- eign earnings, showed lower profit gains than the other two firms. 3ut its earnings increase was consider- ably higher than the domestic profit increases reported by Mobil and Texaco. However, Shell said that during the last three months of 1973, a time of greatest oil price increases and shortages, its earnings were $79.4 million, 2. per cent less than the same period in 1972. Texaco reported a 70 per cent gain during the last three months of 1973 with profits of $453.49 million, while Mobil said its profits for the same period were $271.6 million, about a 68 per cent increase. Shell, without foreign operations, said it was adversely affected by increased costs of raw materials- "costs which in compliancedwith governmentdregulations, could not be recovered until 1974." IN A RELATED development, .Jaksonintrodced le~gition es- SGC fa~ls to vote on AFSC ME, support, By STEPHEN SELBST Two Student Government Council members last night abruptly left a council discussion of whether to support Local 1583 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employes (AFSCME)- a University employe union cur- rently bargaining for a new con- tract-to block a vote on the con- troversial issue. Jim Hudler and Rick Spillman of the Screw SGC Party bolted from council chambers during SGC's weekly meeting when a vote on backing AFSCME became appa- rent. THE ABSENCE of the two coun- cil members denied council the two-thirds majority of members present it needs to vote, causing the meeting to be suddenly ad- journed. The proposal to support AFSCME, which represents 2,400 University service and maintenance workers, came from SGC member Marcia Fishman (Students' Right Party). Economic issues such as wage hikes and cost of living allowances have prevented the union and Uni- versity negotiators from coming to See AFSCME, Page 8 State court refuses tax appeal by'county The State Court of Appeals yes- terday refused to hear a case- filed by several Washtenaw County townships-seeking a reversal of an area property tax increase. Last fall, the state tax commis- sion ordered property tax increases in most of the county to make up for alleged under-assessment made in 1972. The boost in the city amounts to about five per cent. THE CITY shortly afterwards joined a lawsuit initiated by Ypsi- lanti township opposing the tax refiling the suit at the appellate level xcould be entered. When the city originally discuss- ed taking legal action, local offi- cials charged the tax commission with multiple errors in determin- ing the property reassessments and questioned the legality of rais- ing 1974 taxes to off-set problems in the 1972 tax data. AT THAT TIME City Assessor Wayne Johnson said he found over 100 mistakes in the world done by the~ commission.Consequiently. the