POLITICS IN LSA Eighty-Four Years of Editorial Freedom Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Mi. 48104 News Phone: 764-0552 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1974 Come out for impeachment THE DIAG TURF IS set to absorb its second major pounding in three days when the Impeachment forces take to the field at Noon today. The Impeachment Rally will be high- lighted by guerrilla theatre, a breathtak- ing view of the Economics Building, and a march to U. S. Rep. Marvin Esch's of- fice, 200 E. Huron, where impeachment petitions will be presented to Esch. The Ann Arbor Committee to Impeach1 Nixon has in recent months labored dili- gently to compile 3,000 petition signa- tures and solicit the support of elected officials for the impeachment cause. The Committee has received staunch support from all sectors of the local com- munity. Unfortunately, however, Con- gressman Esch has displayed a flagrant disregard for the opinions of his constit- uency. His statements on the impeach- ment issue have at times been vacuous and evasive, but mostly non-existent. HOPEFULLY, TODAY'S RALLY will convince Esch that he can no longer afford to misrepresent the community that sent him to Washington on this all- important issue. All persons opposed to leaving the Presidency- to Richard Nixon's devices are urged to attend the Impeachment Rally. -PAUL HASKINS CUE Editors' Note: Because of severe time p and a technical mix-up, our two articles terday's editorial page contained numero= matical errors and errors of omission an position of words and sentences...... .,ar more serious are two errors of fact Governance article later indicates, the Pi clearly has a wide choice in the selee members of the Executive Committee a only the Regents who rubber stamp1 cisions. The Senate Assembly has not y to maintain the mandatory retirement 70. We expect that it will do so at its meeting. We apologize for these regrettablea make every effort to avoid such errors sequent articles. If you do spot a factu or would like to give feedback of an please call and let us know. By JOHN LANDE THE MOST recent series of stu garding the quality of the und uate experience were initiated wv the fall of 1969, Dean Hayes met undergraduate to discuss a number plaints about undergraduate educa January, 1970, a student-faculty Co on the Freshman. Experience, later ed the Committee on the Underch perience, was formed. As early as March, 1970, DeanS wrote a proposal recommending commission be established to stud uation requirements. The Commis Graduation Requirements was actua ned in mid-1972. In the meantime, CUE, which h working steadily on a number off was in , its final stages of its w December, 1972, CUE had compI final report and approximately 40 were printed. The CUE Report ha been introduced to the governing CUE's financial support came from ferent sources including the Dean' the LSA Student Government and dent Government Council. THE CUE Report studied thef subjects in some detail: 1) distribu quirements, 2) a proposal to cr Educational Resources Center whi supervise on- and off-campus inde study, design and run a programc person seminars, and to study, pro: stimulate alternatives, 3) modula uling, 4) living / learning possibi academic coi~nseling, 6) grading dent evaluation, and 7) promotion proved teaching and learning. (*U'thu n This article was written as a project for Course Mart 310, a Law course taught by Jonathan Report, grad pressures I think the CUE report is a stimulating studentr s gram- report that deals with topics of great con- tees (LSp d trans- cern to the entire College. The report con- and to in - ----tir tains many important proposals, particular- the Comn resident ly those on modular scheduling, grading from par eetion of and improvement of learning and teach- agreed to na it is the de- ing. Some of its points were overstated and mission. tvtd tedt nlsswspol oe u H H et votedi the data analysis was poorly done, but THE CH t age of on the whole, it remains a very important huge, an April 15 document which deserves more attention. could eit and will or in ma in sub- THE COMMISSION on graduation Re- Commiss ual error iy kind, quirements was actually planned in the the areas middle of 1972. The membership of the cluded m Commission included faculty, administra- great d dies re- tors, students, an alumni representative and chose to a representative of the Center for Continu- departme tengrad- ing Education of Women. ing respo hen, in The LSA Student Government and the ture, the with an Student Faculty Policy Committee (SFPC) and adm of com- boycotted the Commission because they felt The en ition. In that the job of reviewing he graduation sion first nnmittee requirements should have been assigned planned renam- to the SPFC which had just been created end oft ass Ex- the year before (and which would there- be writte fore deflate the status of the SPFC in the ed to th Sussman future), because the charge to the Com- meeting, that a mission included issues studies by CUE ive Comi ly grad- (particularly grading, which had also been people o ssion on extensively studied by the Curiculum Com lly plan- mittee), whose report was due later that THE term and which would be overlooked while draft of ad been everyone's attention was focused on the term.7 projects, Commission, and because of a gross under- between work. In representation of students (approximately the Exec eted its 25 per cent) on the Commission. people, t 0 copies SETH COMSTOCK of the Student Coun- mittee. as never seling Office and I were invited by the not offic faculty. Dean's Office to sit on the Commission. The fi six dif- Because of our low level of political introduce s Office, awareness, Seth and I agreed to sit on the 1974. Th the Stu- Commission and break the boycott which we pressure now feel was entirely justified, and whose by thee predictions have all been borne out by the difficult following subsequent history. disposed ution re- Seth and I have both regretted our decis- posals, i eate an ions and we apologize to students who may mentedI ch would be reading this. The faculty end admin- The C ependent istrators on the Commission applauded our Dean's( of fresh- action as "statesmanlike." We were act- report v pose and ually scabs, breaking a justified boycott. main -ur r sched- Towards the end of the fall term, 1972, copy, pt lities, 5) an agreement was reached between the and stu- LST Student Government and the Dean's OVER n of im- Office, where the Dean's Office agreed to of the £ recognize the LSA-SG's right to appoint sent an 0 requirements representatives to LSA Commit- after many years of unneces A had not appointed Seth or me) and petty politicing on the part ncrease student representation on ministration and governing fact mission slightly, although still far Colege. This is not, however, the ity, and the LSA-SG and the SFPC document or definitive study. send representatives to the Com- would have us believe. The stun ved are not entirely blamer ARGE to the Commission was i think that, on the whole, stud d we all soon realized that we have been constructive and jug her work in a few areas in depth I place the most blame on V any areas more superficially. The who were not involved. The issu ion chose the latter course. While here are of everyday importance the Commission chose to study in- imately 15,000 students, yet no nany that had just been studied in one hundred have been involved etail by CUE, the Commission mission's work in any way. T! not study such >ther topics as the that the faculty or administratii ental structure, definitions of teach- tect your interests as studen rnsibilities, the faculty review struc- positive change will occur spon e fee system, college governance submit this sorry history as ev ninistrative reorganization. you are very mistaken. ntire membership of the. Commis- t met in early January, 1973. We MANY HERE treat the Comm to finish our deliberations by the port as a once-in-a-lifetime opp that term and the report was to reform, as if any reform that en over the summer and introduc- in the next decade must hap t faculty in the September faculty not at all. after consultation with he Execu- How absurd. Any report, und mittee and the department chair- ditions will result in the woi ver the summer. compromises. The uoverning faculty slonos: COMMISSION first considered a ti SFPC to mainntain constan the report early is the fall, 1973 the "ndergraduate educational Throughout that term, extensive it should continue to make the Commission chairperson and the fa"llty and the faculty cutive Committee, department chair- tbh SFPC seriously or disband the SFPC and the Curriculum Com- The governing faculty ought t The LSA Student Government was SFPC to create a commission ially consulted. nlally with a more moderate nal report of the Commission was charge. This would provide a c ed to the faculty on March 11, more even rate of qualitative! he faculty is under extreme time er than one now-or-never pac if it is to act on the entire report can never be given the detailed end of this term, which would be either the SFPC or the govern even if the governing faculty was towards action. Many of the pro- I BELIEVE that the ton pr f adopted this term, will be imple- the participants of this Colle for the fall term, 1975. be placed on making this Coll Commission was financed by the where everyone involved feels i office and 2500 copies of the final stimulated by the teaching a were printed. Over 1000 copies re- that goes on here, where every idistributed. If you would like a takes on active role in the go ick one up at 216 Angell Hall. this College. Peraps a I am naive but I sary delay of the ad- ulty of this e landmark that some dents invol- ess, but I ent actions stified. he students es involved to lpprox- more than with Com- f you think ion will fro- ts or that taneously, I vidence that nission's Re- ortunity for will happen pen now or er such con- rst kind of edly created t vigil over experience. proposals to should take it. o direct the report an- ly defined constant and growth rath- kage which attention of ning faculty. iority of all ge ought to ege a place ntellectually ind learning one involved vernance of thought that e than just ulum It gets lonely at the bottom IT IS AN INDICATION of how far Rich- ard Nixon has fallen that even his own kind refuse to associate with him now. Witness the reaction of the Michi- gan Republicans to his proposed visit to the Eighth Congressional district to aid the campaign of Jim Sparling. From the reaction, one would have thought Charles Manson had volunteered his services. Voices wailed that Nixon's appearance ir} the tightly contested race have the counterproductive result of sending Democrat Bob Traxer to Con- gress. Then, suddenly realizing that people were beginning to laugh, the Republi- cans changed their tune. Chairman Bill McGlaughlin denied he had ever sug- gested that the President stay away. But the fanciest verbal gymnastics were performed by the candidate him- self, Jim Sparling. To hear him tell it, he was the one who suggested that Nixon come into the district. "AS A FORMER NEWSPAPERMAN, I felt the President was not getting his side across to the American people, and I wanted to give him a chance to do so," said the former sportswriter. It would take an incredibly hard- hearted person not to twinge of sym- pathy for the fate of Jim Sparling. Re- publican congressmen usually get elected in the Eighth as a matter of divine right. Sparling has waited a long time to suc- ceed his former boss, James Harvey, and now that he gets a chance, the man must fight Watergate as well as the Demo- crats. At any rate, the albatross of Richard Nixon is now firmly tied around Sparl- ing's neck. A recent poll showed 40 per cent of the District's voters felt that Nix- on should resign. Traxler is doing his best to make sure the voters remember to identify Sparling with Nixon. Nixon could take the easy way out, but should not. He should make campaign ap- pearances in Saginaw, Bay City, and every small town in the Thumb. And if Traxler wins the election as a result, so much the better. RICHARD NIXON HAS BEEN a thor- ough disaster for America. If, even in a perverse way, he can be used to bust reactionaries out of Congress, he will go down in history as having done some good for his country. -JOHN KAHLER ALL, I BELIEVE that the adoption Commission's Report would repre- improvement in the College,, only rc1114I.1A 1 42111 1421v , 1 this is supposed to be mor a degree factory. Tomorrow: The Curricr Iks of landlords, not students class Tenant Rose. HRP hippo retains footing PASSAGE OF TIME has now given us some forty hours to digest the re- sults of Monday's local election. Soon all the figures and percentages will be substantiated and the local politi- cal statisticians can analyze the votes cast ward for ward. But for those of us who struggle to understand the vast so- cial significance of a 2 percent margin in the second ward's third precinct, Mon- day's elections results are already clear and commentable. The Human Rights Party's symbolic hippo raised itself out of its political wal- lowing and lumbered onto solid ground with an encouraging show of determined persistence. TRP clenched three posts between the city councils of Ann Arbor and Ypsilan- ti, insuring the survival of HRP as a suc- cessful third party for at least two more years. ERIC JACKSON AND Harold Baize showed 'strongest HRP support by win- ning two Ypsilanti council seats, thus giving HRP the necessary 2 council votes to make and second motions in Ypsilanti. HRP will not have similar motion power in Ann Arbor, as they won only one seat, but the HRP Ann Arbor councilmember, Kathy Kozachenko will have ample op- portunity to bargain with Democratic councilmembers willing to lend an ear or a vote. Kozachenko herself has won more. than a council seat; she also claimed the distinction of being the first admitted and active lesbian elected to public of- fice in the United States, which labels Ann Arbor residents as an equal oppor- tunity electorate. The Ann Arbor City Council is still Re- publican-controlled (6 Republicans, 4 Democrats and one HRP), but the Repub- lican foundation, both in council and citywide, has been given indigestion. In a rather surprising upset, local deep-rooted Photography Staff THOMAS GOTTLIEB Chief Photographer Republican William Colbourn lost to Democrat Jamie Kenworthy. WHETHER OR NOT Nixon and Water- gate are the unsettling political viruses causing local Republican gain pains is not provable, but it seems more than probable. The two issues on the ballot were of more public interest than the candi- dates. To the jubilation of local pot-ters and tokin' liberals everywhere, Ann Ar- bor voters firmly passed the $5.00 dope violation, liberalizing the existing law to a more swallowable level. To the dismay of the empty-pocketed local tenants and the delight of Ann Ar- bor landlords, the plug was pulled on the rent control bill. The effects of the split vote on the two issues can only be estimated. Rationally, it is doubtful that rusted VW buses full of dilated pupils will begin streaming into the city to rob our apartments and pol- lute our air with the famous "burning hemp." Our apartments were being sys- tematically robbed before dope appeared on the ballot, and Ann Arbor has always been a pool for disproportionate num- bers of street people because of the pres- ence of a liberal arts college. THE DEFEAT OF the rent control pro- posal may signal the local renters to be- come more sinister in their exploitative Snidely Whiplash image than ever, but our wallets will be better able to esti- mate the effects of our votes by the time we fill out our income tax returns in Ap- ril of 1975. And 1st Ward winner Colleen McGee has promised to initiate rent con- trol expeditiously. In summary, the election gave an un- derdog party a little political bite to go with its radical bark, gave a healthy "aye" to one controversial question and firmly stomped out another one. As the crusty old pioneer prayer goes, "What we've got, we're thankful for. What we ain't got, we keep tryin' like hell for." -BETH NISSEN TODAY'S STAFF: Nm Prhnrn (rnell- Bill Heenn Cin- By BRUCE BANYA "1EY. SNEED, this apartment 1 o o k s great." "Yeah, Hearn, I wonder how much they want for a two man?" "This one is $365 a month." "Your kidding, A MONTH? For two bed- rooms? Why back home they couldn't get away with charging $150 a month. Let's go". People about to move into Ann Arbor discover two things: high rent and over- crowded conditions. Ann Arbor rent was rated second in the U.S. (Census study 1970) with a medium price of $168 versus $102 a month from the national average. Because of the high influx of transient citi- zens (students), the vacancy rate is 3.5 per cent of the total available rental units, compared to 1.2 per cent for the national average. When the vacancy rate is this low landlords can afford to turn some prospective tenants away by charging ex- orbitant rents. When you wonder how the demand can exceed the supply for so long, you look at the reasons this housing situa- tion exists. MOST STUDENTS are here for only eight months and yet almost all leases are twelve months. This excludes a few individual land- lords and University Towers. Some com- panies such as McKinley Associates will give you an eight month lease, but will charge an extra 25 per cent each month 'to make up for the summer months'. In addition, there is a noteworthy lack of public housing, especially for low income people (40 per cent of the renters in Ann Arbor earn less than $5,000 per year). There is some new housing going up on the outskirts of town. it is not suitable for most students or low income people-though. It is not close to campus and is generally high priced. Many people can work in Ann Arbor but can simply not afford to live here. This contributes to the parking, traffic and transportation problems. The question of how we got into this mess is complex. A major portion of the blame is on the landlords and the financial in- stitutions. But we cannot overlook the Uni- versity's role. With apartment unit vacancy rates decreasing from 5.8 per cent (1960 Census) to 3.5 per cent in 1970, the need for more housing can now be described as critical. One result is increases in rent, which averaged $99 per month in 1960, to $168 per month in 1970, an increase three times as large as the national average in- crease of 20 per cent. THIS INCREASE in rental rates has con- tributed to an exodus of low income resi- dents and an influx of high income resi- dents, resulting in a squeeze on student housing. This is evident when one notes that the number of students in apartments has increased 100 per cent since 1960, with student enrollment increasing by 50 per cent and dormitory space increasing by ONLY 36 per cent over the same time span. According to a University of Michigan survey done in 1969 by the Institute of Social Research (ISR), 44 per cent of the students surveyed thought University hous- ing rates too high for the quality. With 70 per cent of the renters contracting for housing more than one month ahead of oc- cupancy (and most do this five months ahead - April and May - ISR study), this only insures the management companies and the University that the fall vacancy rate will be near zero. If you don't want to sign a lease early, you may not find a place at all. AS EARLY as 1968, John Feldkamp, director of Housing, stated the need for additional student housing. This need was restated in 1970. A proposal to build more single-student housing was stalled by a variety of reasons - allegedly financial. It was argued by the University that the cost was prohibitive without a form of subsidy from the federal government. This subsidy, $5.66 million from the College Housing Pro- gram of HUD, was then procured and still no action was taken by the University. With the recent increase in enrollment and the shift from dorm housing, the housing situation is only getting worse. The University Regents have continually held fast to the bylaw prohibiting compe- tition with private interests - local land- lords. The illiquid state of the market and the Regent's policy both contribute to the complexity of the situation. SINCE THE UNIVERSITY received the government subsidy in 1970 for new stu- dent housing, they have not moved to- wards any new housing in the face of the current situation and repeated warnings from Feldkamp. The administration has cit- ed the situation of financing based on the Michigan Legislature's attitude as well as the 'actual' need for more housing, ap- parently the Regents feel that as long as there is room somewhere, the students will just have to pay for it regardless of condi- tion and location. I believe there is rctually a conspiracy and collaboration between the University and local landlords to keep the rent high. For instance, the ledger of the General Student Residences Account from which all new funding for mousing comes shows over $1 million has been spent in the last ten years on non-housing projects. Priorities, supposedly. It's about time the Regents stopped this merry-go-round of inactivity and realized their obligations to student services. With the subsidy available and the raise in housing fees, single-student apartment pro- jects must be started. Part of the recent raise in dorm rates (higher rent again, "for services" which are at a minimum already) should be set aside and used for building. UNTIL THE University builds nmore sin- gle-student apartments the housing situa- tion in Ann Arbor will not improve. le tte rsle tte rs let tersle tte rs le tte'rslet I To The Daily: THE REACTIONARY j perpetrating a murderous on thousands of laborI rank-and-file militants, an lutionists in Chile today. A initiated a united front pic and rally to demand the im release of two leading mem the Movimiento Izquierda cionaria (MIA - Revolu Left Movement) who are c in the hands of butches military junta, and freedom victims of the junta's rep Van Schouwen, a member political Commission (the body) of the MIR, was cap December 14 and has been: ed to severe torture as ar which he is reportedly be in a military hospital. Ro members of the Central C tee, was arrested in Noven' has been condemned to de the military government. B be executed at any mome THE JUNTA has become: ingly politically isolated, bo Chile ing dissatisfaction (some 350 o"fi- cers are reportedly imprisoned for not supporting the reactionary unta is coup).' attack There are now rumors of a deal leaders, being worked out to free a few d, revo- prominent supporters of the Al- WTe have lende government through the in- :ket line termediary of the United Nations mediate Commission on Human Rights. At nbers of cording to the 2 Marcn NewYork Revolu- Times, the commission has sent a utionary cable to the head of the military urrently government, Pinochet, as "part of of the a privately aranged deal in which n for all the Soviet Union agreed to drop ression- a resolution condemning Chile's r of the suppression of human rights." The leading report continued: "A tac*t under- tured on standing of the parties to the deal subject- was that Chile would allow the im- result of prisoned men to leave. Moscow ing held was particularly eager to obtain mero, a the release of Luis Corvalan, tie Commit- head of the Communist Party . .." Abe- aud We must demand the immediate path by release of all the political prison- He could ers including Corvalan and "con- nt. stitutionalist" officers. However, such a special deal would put the ncreas- lives of far-left militants such as oth with- Romero and Van Schouwnn in in- dent Union, Revolutionary Com- munist Youth@Spartacist League and the Young Socialist Alliance. We urge everyone to demonstrate against the repression of the junta. -sKen Richards Revolutionary Communist Youth Spartacist League tax protest To The Mily: NAT01AL TAX Protect Day is April 13, 1974. Varkniu groups acros the country (nationally co- ordinated by the Society for In- dividual Liberty) are organizing Constituti nal righ:i seminars, guerillh cheaters, and demonstra- tions for that day. Our goal is to stop tt e IRS from wantonly plundering people. Some of the things we copose are * the 10,.0ou federal emproyces who receive government pensions alng wri .neir salarie;. Some of the warst "Double Dippers" are Speaker cf the House Carl Albert, General Alexander M. Haig, Jr., and S.-.tor Barry ,'oldwater. * the c Mection, in I?', of over $29 billion too much =r withheld stitution bi the IRS. If a taxpayer invoke the Fifth Amendment and refuses to supply incriminating in- formation on Form 191C, he risks imprisonment or incarceration in a mental institution. 'ihe IRS us- es the public's ignorance of their rights to collect informaaon and money ncyond what is legally re- quired A pe-son is a slave to the extent he is crered to pay for an insti- tution he does not sanction. On April 13, some of the slaves are going to complain. Please join us. --Patrick A. Heller '74 March 18 Robben To The Daily: I HAVE just heard our dearly be- loved President Robben Fleming give a lecture for the Future World Lecture Series on the topic of ethics. This lecture (which, in my opinion, was a masterpie'1 of empty rhetoric) and the ensuing question and answer period 1 e f t me with one distinct impression: that President Fleming and his Board of Regents are shrewd busi- nessmen who are quite skilled in ahp r oA in~itf llnfit-mnlking.i promised because the September tuition hike caused an 'unexpected surplus' in funds, are occurring during the Spring and Summer term - when the least number of students will be affected and the least amount of profit will be lost. FLEMING HAS refused to reveal salaries of individual professors - to defend their personal privacy, as he puts it. Perhaps the true rea- son is not to defend their privacy but to spare them embarassment. The University is raking in huge amounts of money and has surpris- ingly little to show for it Course selections are dropping drastically, recreational facilities (such as the IM Building) are overcrowded and underequ'pped, and dormitary con- ditions are sinking to an all time low. It would seem logical to n e and