BRAVO WOLVERINES! See editorial page jcj 4c 411it igau Dali& NIPPY High-35 Low-16 See Today for details* Eighty-Four Years of Editorial Freedom Vol. LXXXIV, No. 128 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, March 13, 1974 Ten Cents Eight Pages i 1 / ftyMU5EE NEtAPPiCAL y Contact sought A new Disabled Students Services Program is under way at the University, funded by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. As part of the program's organizational efforts, newly appointed Program Man- ager Joseph Varghese has launched an attempt this week to contact all disabled studentsand learn how his office may be able to serve them. Disabled students are asked to identify themselves by calling the program office at 763-2254, or by dropping their names and phone numbers into the campus mail, addressed to Disabled Students Services Program, 4th Floor, Michigan Union. Slump predicted Increased unemployment, rising prices and a decline in output will mark the first half of 1974, even if the Arab oil embargo is lifted, according to University econ- omists Saul Hymans and Harold Shapiro. The two pro- fessors predict a substantial economic recovery for the U.S. after mid-year; but say in a communication to members of the University's Economic Outlook Confer- ence that continued stoppage of Middle East oil flow would worsen the slump and slow the recovery. Detroit express? The Southeastern Michigan Transit Authority (SEMTA) is considering initiating an express bus serv- ice between downtown Detroit and Ann Arbor, going both ways both in the morning and the evening. The bus would start its run from areas near schools and/or shopping centers (Detroit buses would depart from the Greyhound terminal) and then would operate nonstop on the free- way. Fares and travel times would be comparable to auto costs and times. SEMTA wants interested people to answer the following questions, and mail their re- sponses to Cas Bonkowski, SEMTA, Box 333, Detroit 48231. 1) what is your destination in Ann Arbor or Detroit? 2) what time do you. wish to arrive at your destination in the morning and leave for home at night? 3) where in Ann Arbor do you want to be picked up? EMU: Charge it Eastern Michigan University (EMU) students can now charge the cost of their education on their credit cards. EMU became the fourth state university to allow students to use bank credit cards to pay for tuition and fees, room and broad, bookstore purchases and registra- tion fees. EMU officials recently signed agreements allowing BankAmericard and Master Charge cards to be used on campus. Cards can also be used to buy sea- son tickets to EMU athletic events or to contribute to the University. Happenings .. are many and varied today, beginning at noon with a Future Worlds workshop in Room 126 of the Residential College. Yesterday's lecturer, media expert Gene Youngblood, will attend . . . also at noon, Guild House at 802 Monrowe will sponsor a luncheon and con- versation on "Man-Woman Relating" . . . the Medieval and Renaissance Collegium will kick off its "Festival in Commemoration of the Death of Thomas Aquinas" with a lecture in the Pendleton Library of the Union at 4 p.m. . . . Marjorie Hunter of the New York Times Washington Bureau will speak at 4:10 p.m. in MLB Aud. 3 . . . meanwhile, at the same time in MLB Lecture Room 1, Econ Prof. Jozef Wilczynski of the University of South Wales and visiting prof at the University of Pittsburgh will lecture on "The Integration of Agriculture and Industry under Socialism" . . . and the Revolution- ary Communist Youth class series on "Marxism and Class Struggle," at 7:30 p.m. in Room 4203 of the Union, will cap off the evening. Taxpayers honest The average federal income tax refund is up slight- ly this year, indicating that President Nixon's tax case hasn't spawned widespread cheating, Internal Revenue Service chief Donald Alexander says. "We think the taxpayers are cooperating very well this year with their responsibilities and they'll continue to do so," Alexander said. The average refund on some 34.6 million returns filed by March 1 was $366, up from $350 at the same time a year ago, an IRS spokesman said. New contraceptive A birth control shot given to women once every three months is gaining popularity in some test clinics in Los Angeles, Calif., and its supporters predict it could replace the pill if approved for general use. The drug, called Depo Provera, is being investigated by the federal Food and Drug Administration, and the agency is reportedly ready to decide this spring whether the shots should be put on the market. If approved, how- ever, authorities expect Depo Provera to be licensed with restrictions such as limiting its use to women who can't or won't use other methods of contraception. Doctors also would be required to warn women of possible or temporary or permanent sterility should they plan to have children after using the drug. On the inside .. . . . . the Editorial page features a report on last week's Wounded Knee trial in Minn. by David Stoll .-- Clark Cogsdill rehashes the Big Ten wrestling meet on the Sports Page . . . and Beth Nissen reviews the Vienna Choir Boys on the Arts page. Rent By GORDON ATCHESON Daily News Analysis After a year of work, the city's Blue Ribbon Commission on Rent Control has issued a final report, but the document is far from the last Word about problems and so- lutions to the high cost of housing in Ann Arbor. Although the ten-member volun- teer group flatly states that ar- tificial controls will not solve the local rent crunch, it consistently points out that much of "the most critical" data needed-for the study was unavailable. The commission further suggests City Council seek out that infor- mation by funding an exhaustive landlord survey. However, given the present make-up of council - dominated by Republicans who generally cater to the property controd owners - the recommendation will almost certainly not be followed. THE BLUE RIBBON group could not unanimously agree on final policy statements presented in the report, and two dissenting views were filed. The disagree- ments surrounding the report also influenced the committee's overall operations as the members almost immediately became factionalized into tenant and landlord camps. Essentially the committee de- termined that housing problems are most severe in the central city - populated mainly by stu- dents and low income residents where tenants pay a third of their income for housing, a figure 50 per cent higher than the national average. CONTRIBUTING to the problem unit of inflated rents is the lack of new housing built in the inner city dur- ing the past five years. To help remedy the situation the report rceommends: -easing zoning requirements to urges dination between city and Univer- sity planners, and overall rental housing characteristics. "We urge that the City Council give financial as well as legal sup- port to a survey of owners of rent- mSm:r University Housing Director John Feldkamp met with city landlords yesterday to discuss rent control and other issues. See story on Page 2. more day there is "no likelihood" for further study of rent control-or the rental market funding by the city. "The Republican council mem- bers to a person are strongly against the philosophical concept of rent control," he added. The commission found rent con- trol to be a "stop gap measure" which might make conditions worse through a resulting reduc- tion in housing maintenance and construction. Artificial limits on landlord profit could also upset the market, the report notes. NONETHELESS several com- missioners do not completely share that assessment, and the report itself states the group "has not analyzed all the salient informa- tion that is needed for effective policy decisions." In a minority report, commis- stud sion member Jonathan Rose ar- gues that the lack of such data raises serious doubts about the accuracy of the findings on rent control. University Economics professor Daniel Rubinfeld, also a commis- sion member, said that he gener- ally supports the group findings but that "there is not enough in- formation to be sure" that rent control is a possible solution to high tenant costs. COMMISSIONER E v e r e t t Ehrlich, a University graduate student in economics, has been openly critical of the body's ac- tions and blasted the final report. He claims the information is in many cases "unrealistic and myth- ical." In addition Ehrlich said the See MORE, Page 8 encourage more housing; -adopting more creative land use policies; -further study with emphasis on a landlord survey, better coor- al property in the city," the report states. Such support, from all in- dications, will not be forthcoming. COUNCILMAN William Colburn, a leading Republican, said yester- Nixon rejects additional tape requests i Dorm grape boycott app roved By STEPHEN HERSH The Housing U n i t Committee (HUC), formerly the Housing Policy Comnm'ttee, voted unani- mously yesterday in favor of a dormitory b o y c o t t of all table grapes not grown and harvested by the U n i t e d Farmworkers (UFW). P r e s e n t at yesterday's HUC meeting were representatives of UFW and the Teamsters union, arguing for and against the cam- pus-wide boycott. Housing Director John Feldkamp commissioned the group to rule on the boycott issue. He told HUC member David Faye before the meeting that the Housing Office would abide by their decision, a statement that is significant in light of the recent conflicts over the committee's power. SAM BACE, director of the UFW grape boycott in Michigan, spoke in favor of the boycott. He cited the working conditions of non-UFW grape pickers as factors which should influence support of the boy- cott in University housing: poor health benefits, low pay, and the absence of secret elections through which workers can decide what union they will join. Bace also cited violence suffered by UFW picketers last summer at the h a n d s of Teamsters and "goons" hired by the Teamsters as a reason to support the boycott. Barry Bennett, '75, also spoke in favor of the boycott, explaining that 3,000 signatures had been gathered on' a petition supporting it, and that the dorm councils of Bursley and Alice Lloyd had voted unanimously in favor of the boy- cott. ARGUING AGAINST the boycott was Chuck O'Brien, organizer for the Teamsters in the central states. O'Brien claimed that the Teamsters serve the farm workers better than the UFW, because "we provide our workers with unem- ployment insurance, pensions, and paid holidays." He also claimed that UFW pick- ers must often pay to get jobs at their union's hiring halls. A UFW MEMBER and a Team- ster also argued in favor of their respective unions. Most of the several dozen spec- tators at the meeting were boycott supporters, and offered vocal UFW support throughout the meeting. The boycott, pending Feldkamp's expected approval, will begin in the dorms immediately. House committee has needed info-Ziegler Daily Photo by TOM GOTTLIEB AN UNIDENTIFIED STREAKER urges a crowd o f nearly 1,000 to join him in acts of shivering ex- hibitionism on the Diag yesterday. Students apparently took his advice-nearly 60 unclothed runners of both sexes entertained a crowd of at least 6,000 late last night. BARE FACTS REVEALED: Streakeers strike WASHINGTON M - The White House indicated yester- day President Nixon would re- sist on constitutional grounds a House Judiciary Committee request for 42 'additional Watergate tape recordings. Presidential press secretary Ronald Ziegler said Nixon was not seeking a confrontation with the committee now con- ducting an impeachment in- vestigation. BUT DURING an hour-long news briefi-a, Ziegler said: 0 That the President already was furnishing the committee with "m assiveamonnts of materials" from White Homse files, namely the same tanes and, documents turned over earlier to special prosecutor Leon Jaworski as well as other documents in non-Watergate fields. f That the material Nixon al- ready has agreed to provide "should be sufficient for them to conclude their inquiry and com- plete it quickly." * That the committee requested the 42 additional tapes before it received and analyzed the material the President already had agreed to supply. * That the committee is yet to define what constitutes an impeach- able offense or say what specific allegations it is investigating within the context of such a definition. * That it would be "constitution- ally irresponsible" for Nixon to accede to any committee requests for White House tapes and docu- ments until such a definition is made. ZIEGLER WOULD NOT, how- ever, state flatly that the Presi- dent would reject the committee's request for 42 tape recordings of conversations he held with some of his former key aides and Justice Department officials. "It is too early to rule anything in or out," Ziegler said, adding, that Nixon's chief Watergate law- yer, James St. Clair, was willing to continue his confidential contacts with committee counsel John Doar. A Nixon rejection of the com- mittee request, which was made in a letter dated Feb. 25, could bring a prompt congressional subpoena for the material. ZIEGLER SAID Nixon was not See ZIEGLER, Page 8 Ziegler (*U f 0 By JACK KROST After the perponderance of streaking attacks that occurred at various colleges last week while Uni- versity students were on their spring break, it seemed the maize and blue faced a formidable amount of catching up-or baring up-to do to regain equal stature. That is no longer the case, however, after nearly 70 streakers and perhaps as many as 10,000 spec- tators filled the Diag yesterday. Naked bodies of both sexes were out in quantity and quality during two separate mass streak-ins, in addition to many other less-publicized individual attempts all over the campus. BY FAR THE biggest-and barest-happening occurred on the Diag last night in an event dubbed the "Annual U-M Lucky Streak" by streak-in organizers. Hysteria would be a better word for the event, however, as some 6000 spectators massed on the Diag to watch an estimated 50 streakers. Starting from the center of the Diag, the streak- ers at first found it difficult to engage in the for- mal "streak" process-they were hemmed in by the curious masses-so they stood in a small circle and encouraged voyeurs to join them. See STREAKERS, Page 2 Students protest Rehnquist visit By ANDREA LILLY Some 100 University law students turned out yesterday to register their protest at the long-awaited arrival of Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist at the law school. Chanting "R a c i s t, reactionary Rehnquist," and "J u s t i c e yes, Rehnquist no," protesters began their demonstration early in the morning, distributing black arm- bands and pamphlets outside the room where Rehnquist was to sit on a panel judging the law school's Campbell Competition. THE CONSERVATIVE magis- trate had been invited last year to preside at the contest, in which students argue a mock court case before legal celebrities. Rehnquist, a 1971 Nixon appointee, failed to appear when bad weather and a student protest threatened. This time, Rehnquist arrived in the city early in the day, was ushered around the campus, and ate lunch before entering Hutchins See STUDENTS, Page 8 Students on grad requirements commission slam published study By MARY LONG Two student members of the LSA graduation requirements com- mission have voiced strong objec- tions to the commission's published report, claiming that student com- plaints were ignored and the status quo strictly maintained. "They're trying to pretend this report will revolutionize the Uni- versity when it's only an example of a bureaucratic mess", commis- sion member Jim Weinstein con- tended. WEINSTEIN is especially con- cerned that the administration not believe the students are satis- fied with the document. "Student complaints weren't answered at all," he said yester- day. "The administration went ahead and did this work by them- selves. They did what they wanted to do. Distribution requirements weren't changed. There's still the same kow-towing to various de- partments". Literary college senior Jona- than Klein complained that the commission had promised to pre- sent the report to the LSA student government council and failed to do so. THE STUDENT council finally viewed the document only after Klein, a member of both groups, produced copies for them. The report contains a suggestion urging the College Scholarship Committee to consider- making some part of its awards primari- ly on the basis of ability. "We never approved such a think" both Weinstein and Klein Lecturer lauds communications By BETH NISSEN "All social problems are communication problems," ' declared Gene Youngblood, speaking to a moderate crowd in Hill Auditoriumyesterday afternoon. Youngblood, a faculty member at the Californias Institute of the Arts and author of the book Expanded I " ^ , r: 1 ... F! + . i i~f X5~...... . u? '