r4 e ia an Eighty-two years of editorial freedom Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan LSA reform: Students and the faculty j. 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Mich. News Phone: 764-0552 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1973 Indians protest to deaf ears MONDAY AFTERNOON about 75 In- dians staged a minor demonstration in an attempt to impress upon the Uni- versity (Regents) the seriousness of their request regarding the return of an Indian Skeleton. It is disgusting that institutions such as the University can frustrate people to such an extent that they feel compelled to dramatically get their point across by means of a staged protest. Why does the University find it so dif- ficult to return the ancestral skeletal re- mains to the Indians? "We want the bones back," says Dean George, president of the North American Association of Detroit. "It can't get any simpler than that," he said. ON FEBRUARY 15 the Indians present- ed their request to the Regents and were told by Allan Smith, Vice President for Academic Affairs, that they could get no immediate reply because the Regents wanted to "have a staff discussion of the issues and problems in order to determine the nature and purpose of the Indians' claim." After the "staff discussion," - which was supposed to take place Monday, but instead turned into a publicity-oriented affair - the Indians' request is to go be- fore the Regents in the form of a spe- cific motion. Hopefully it will be presented at the Regents' mid-March meeting. Maybe then the Indians will receive an answer ... unless the issue is postponed for fur- ther study - a common practice among University decision makers. At the February 15 meeting, Smith stated that the University feels "the In- dian skeletal remains should be retained for scientific research and not display purposes." But according to Ed Wilmsen, curator of the museum of anthropology, the is- sue of science having a need for the ma- terial is not legitimate. "Basically," Wilmsen said, "it is an is- sue of discrimination and non-parity of treatment." He also expressed the belief that there is an "amount of insensitive feeling on the part of archeologists.". According to Frederick Boyd, commun- ity relations chairman of the Detroit North American Indian Association, the Indian community recognizes that scien- tific investigation is necessary to some extent, but they also feel that excava- tions of Indian remains should be re- turned to a religious environment and "not made to sit on the University shelves for 20 years." Perhaps even more basically, it's a matter of people gaining an understand- ing of other people's beliefs and tradi- tions and then honoring those beliefs and traditions which the University has failed to do. By BOB BLACK AT THEIR LAST monthly meeting, the LSA faculty-or rather the small minority in attendance-voted down, 226-45, the comprehensive "merger" proposal for grading reform placed before it by the Joint Student Faculty Policy Committee. This plan combined proposals devised after long study by the LSA Curriculum Com- mittee and, especially, the Committee on the Underclass Experience (CUE), whose massive research effort de- bunked many of the pro-grading claims still rehashed by some faculty at the February 5 meeting. This long-term effort has involved scores of people and years of work, and had strong support throughout by the LSA Student Government, which partially financed CUE, pro- vided volunteers to administer opin- ion surveys and placed the major grading proposals on the last LSA student ballot. There, students over- whelmingly demanded g r a d i n g. change, and favored the "=merger" plan over the others. As it turned out, nothing happened. If there was so little faculty sup- port for reforming our academic sys- tem, why did it establish CUE in the first place? This raises other, similar questions about cases where the gov- erning faculty has almost casually destroyed the work of various tem- porary and standing committees of its own creation. Why did it empower a Joint Student-Faculty Policy Com- mittee to present it with proposals for policy changes, and then routinely vote down its two major efforts to date-the "merger" plan, and the ex- cellent revised tenure procedures con- sidered in the fall? Why was a com- mittee on governance formed over two years ago whose two proposals- after A year of worok-were rejected or ignored? And the most baffling question is this: Why, in all these cases, did the various proposals which proved abhorrent to the faculty have the support, not only of the students on the committees involved, but us- ually of most of the faculty commit- tee members also? THE FAILURE to act to change grading was a tragic abdication of responsibility and, even worse, an os- trich-like effort to hide from the es- tablished fact that grading has never fulfilled its supposed educational pur- poses. But the issue is even more ser- ious for what it reveals about the paralysing contradictions built into the present political structure of the College. The old formula for muffling de- mands for change-creating a new student-faculty committee or refer- ring an issue to an established one- doesn't work any more. The demands only return a little later in polished form, carefully supported by evidence and argument. And the committee's faculty members (who usually begin with moderate a n d conventional views) find themselves supporting a plan that faculty not involved in that, creative process cannont begin to tol- erate. culty do not attend in case their vot- ing (which is public) offends their tenured superiors. Privately, even many conservative faculty admit that, except when it be- stirs itself to reject reforms, the gov- erning faculty is an anachronistic farce which reigns but does not rule. Real all-College power is divided be- tween the standing committees and a sort of deanly dictatorsihp. The gov- erning faculty's procedural and poli- tical performance is often embarrass- ing. Its debates often sound like so many classroom lectures, and at a typical meeting like February's, unde- batable motions were debated, mo- tions to adjourn were entertained and then ignored, and finally-in a ridi- culous move-the faculty somehow voted both to consider more grading proposals in March, and to refer grad- :'M "The failure to act to change grading was a tragic abdica- tion of responsibility and, even worse, an ostrich-like effort to hide from the established fact that grading has never fulfilled its supposed educational purpose. But the issue is even more serious for what it reveals about the paralys- ing contradictions built into the present political structure of the College." R :{"E: { 4 T4 :'i :::tn p.1"V VII.i"r { :1 ?X {G ;;r. p w":, > :} S.r~kT~r{i4:, }L4 .{} Y''O~S 1 ?}{.S?:,..} y" ..{ ^t..::{n::r}::. .". { " ?.tf::. .r:"T'Y"{::":*s .. : The parity Policy Committee will surely continue to exercise its power to place before the faculty matters it would rather ignore. Even the Execu- tive Committee has approved a plan to add two voting students to the Ad- missions Committee, and it has just received an LSA Student Government demand that the latter's executive of- ficers be seated ex officio on the Ex- ecutive Committee itself. The LSA government's involvement with the Dean's latest delaying action, the Graduation Requirements Commis- sion (only 40 per cent students), was secured only by the Dean's public ac- knowledgement that only the LSA government has the right to appoint students to LSA committees. WHERE INTERDEPENDENT sets of institutions fail to mesh, at least one set has to undergo adaptive modifi- cation. One alternative for the facul- ty would be to slam the door on stu- dent participation, purge the students and student - contaminated faculty, close. their meetings and Tule (or let the Dean rule) by repression. At a time when the implementation of Black Action Movement demands and other volatile issues are impending, this would likely touch off a student/ community mass movement of awe- some proportions. The other way to ease the strain would be to restruc- ture College legislative processes, minimally by shifting to an efficient representative system, but better yet by also inviting students into the sanctuary from which it is impossible on grounds of consistency and demo- cratic principle, to exclude them any longer. Those faculty who blamed the uni- versity crises of the 60s on outside influences - the war, the draft or whatever - may have been right in identifying catalysts but they were wrong to consider these sole causes. Students are wide awake now to the injustices and unquestioned irration- alities in both the universities and the communities with which they are related. They would like to help the faculty shake off their fears and their apathy and their moral bankruptcy. Bob Black has been a member at large of the LSA Government. l Practically as well as morally, the fundamental problem with LSA today involves the organization and compo- sition of the so-called governing fa- culty. It meets only once a month for about 90 minutes and, although per- haps 1100 faculty are eligible to at- tend, it rarely exceeds its 100-man quorum by very much. Those who attend are a small self- appointed elite - mostly department chairmen and others who feel offi- cially obligated to attend but are not primarily interested in or committed to College legislating per se. Those who attend are mostly aging, white and male (seemingly much more so than the faculty at large) ,and form- ally accountable to no one under this "community government" system. This ruling group is small and inti- mate enough that Dean Rhodes usu- ally has no trouble recognizing speak- ers by name (although on February 5 he did fail to identify a speaker nam- ed Mark Green). Most untenured fa- ing for study to the Graduation Re- quirements Commission which does not report until June 30! Whatever happens, either the faculty or the GRC is going to waste a lot of time on a matter either already settled or pre-ordained to be delayed. Mean- while, other business and proposals are piling up. THE OTHER FUNDAMENTAL in- consistency in LSA governance is the inclusion of students on many com- mittees but not in the legislative pro- cess. Students have a democratic right to participate in any decisions affecting them, the more so since they outnumber their faculty tenfold. Each faculty rejection of reasonable reforms increases student awareness of their common rights and interests, and no student who attends a faculty meeting ever believes again that the faculty have a mandate to rule the College based on expertise, intelli- gence or moral superiority. .f k Super sewer system sound? MICHIGAN'S PROPOSED "super sewer" system poses a financial threat to Ann Arbor and an ecological threat to the whole state. The proposed tri-county system would pump the sewage from the Wayne, Oakland and Washtenaw areas to a treatment plant on already polluted Lake Erie. Ann Arbor's problems with joining the plan are many. First of all inclusion in the mass plan would oust provisions, now being made by the city to upgrade its plant and provide tertiary treatment. This method of treatment is far super- ior to the Erie plan which calls only for secondary treatment of the wastes. Upgrading the present system in Ann Today's staff: News: Bob Barkin, Mike Duweck, B ii I Heenan, Judy Ruskin, David Unne- wehr Editorial Page: Kathy Ricke Arts Page: Gloria Jane Smith, Jeff Soren- sen Photo Technician: John Upton Editorial Staff CHRISTOPHER PARKS and EUGENE ROBINSON Co-Editors in Chief ROBERT PARKIN.................Feature Editor DIANE LEVICK ...............Associate Arts Editor DAVID MARGOLICK.......... ..Chief Photographer Arbor is considerably less expensive than joining the new unit to Lake Erie. An added cost to the actual construction of the new system would be that Ann Ar- bor would have to buy its water supply from Detroit, which in the long run would make the new method even more expensive. Pumping Ann Arbor's sewage all the way to Lake Erie would also have serious consequences on the Huron River. There would be no provision to replace the wa- ter lost in the pumping procedure, which could leave the river low or even dry dur- ing the dry season. ANOTHER MAJOR drawback to the new plan is that it would probably be in- adequate to handle the increased amount of sewage that it would be required to after twenty years. So that in twenty years a system developed to last fifty years and costing upwards of two hun- dred million dollars would be at least par-. tially ineffective. The added expense that the tri-county system would be to Ann Arbor, and the lower quality of the refinement system makes it impractical and ecologically un- sound for this city to adapt. We hope that the Ann Arbor city officials fighting the city's inclusion into the new system win the support of the state decision makers, and be allowed to improve the system here for cleaner water. .. . ..: .:.. ::.. ,.. ::.. , . .. ..':. r :ra..: ,;n.,... :;: f..4 .a,..},c..& a;'ve::...."r...x..,f rs..:1 : ... . . . . . . -........:., .. .. . I:.*. V .....n..n . ,.,. ::.. .. .: ; ... ..1 4 i.Fr4y. ,' x" >: tt.Yo.,., .., :..a':: :" k.. Letters:oo~ Arel human ri~ghts a threat? .. ...... s... 1 ; .I I. .II - F .If2 U uwa 7 ~r zT To The Daily: THIS IS written as a sequel to the eloquent statement by JRB (Daily Feb. 22) concerning prob- lems encountered by gay people in bar integration. Last Wednesday we again paid a liberation visit to a local bar and dancing establish- ment - the same to which JRB referred. However, this visit was very different in that hostility from the management was rather blat- ant - blatant to the point that one person was asked to produce 3 pieces of ID. And later in the eve- ning the music was stopped in mid- song, the electric floor was put to rest, and waitresses were or- dered not to serve some (obvious- ly) gay people. I asked one of the owners of the bar what this bizarre behavior meant. After some hesitation she revealed that, in effect, we were posing a threat to her investment because some straight people had left. And besides that, she thought it very unfair that we chose to plague her bar. If one bar is to be punished, why should it be hers? And what were these crazy guys doing in "chicks' clothes" anyway? I'd like to answer some of her questions. (1) There are no such things as men's clothers or women's clothes. There are men, women, and cloth- es. Period. (2)If the presence of gay people anywhere in this town poses a threat to someone's investment, then so be it. I can no longer ghet- to myself to protect anyone's in- vestment. If a person must deny a group its human rights in order to maintain a profitable business, the solution is obvious - get out of that business. (3) There have been many people at this bar who seem to be not at all concerned about who is dancing with whom. More power to them. The machos to which JRB re- ferred were by far the vocal minor- ity. (4) Under the Human R i g h t s Ordinance of the City of Ann Ar- bor, discrimination against g a y NOT to change any bar into a gay bar, nor do we wish to drive any- one out of business. Our ultimate goal is to destroy the entire con- cept of a "gay bar" - not to ex- pand it. As JRB stated, we simply intend to exercise the same free- doin of choice that the straight world does.And for everyone's sake, let's hope that patrons and management are behind us. --Neal Elkin Feb. 23 Correct violation? To The Daily: YESTERDAY, THE front page of The Daily carried an article en- titled "SGC treasurer files charg- es in CSJ . . ." referring to a suit filed on Monday. This suit called for the correction of violations of an SGC resolution, directing t h e SGC Executive Board to make copies of all printouts from the fall- 11972 student election publicly available for inspection along with a copy of that election's computer program, and violations of Chap- ter 14.62 of the compiled code re- quiring that the computer program be "maintained in a permitted file" in the computer, where it is not now located. The article in The Daily expand- ed out of all proportion the least part of the case, that referring to John Koza. Dr. Koza's involve- ment extends only so far that SGC member and Elections Direc- tor, Kenneth Newbury stated, in the SGC meeting of Feb. 11, that Dr. Koza is currently revising the computer program for the Spring 1973 Election. The purpose of the action in CSJ is to have the violations corrected. It was never intended as a per- sonal attack against any of the defendants. I wish to extend to Dr. Koza my most sincere apology for any inconvenience or embarrass- ment which yesterday'sDaily ar- ticle may have caused. If Ken- neth Newbury lied to SGC, and Dr. Koza is not involved with the computer program for this March's election, I will gladly withdraw any and all statements referring to him from the CSJ action, and is- sue any further apologies neces- sary. -Elliott Chikofsky SGC Acting Treasurer raeli state. The airliner was head- ing for Cairo airport, lost course due to a sand storm and flew over Israeli occupied Sinai desert. This came only hours after Israeli forces attacked Palestinian refugee camps in northern Lebanon, killing a large number of the refugees whom Israel itself had forcefully evicted from their homes in Pales- tine. In the 20th century, it is so dis- tressing to see a state such as Is- rael whose very creation came as the result of the cruel displacement of the indigenous population of Pal- estine, and whose continuous ex- istence is dependent on the per- petual denial of the basic human rights to the Palestinian refugees and constant acts of mass murder of neighboring Arab people using the most deadly American weapons and airplanes. It is equally dis- tressing to see how most of the American press distorts the news in favor of Israel portraying her as the fortress of western democracy in a non-western non-rational area!!! It is about time now that the American taxpayer ask whether the massive amounts of dollars the U. S. gives to Israel to subsidize its aggressive policies, may be put into a better use here at home to improve the quality of life for the living rather than to destroy hu- man life abroad. Peace will come only if Israel abandons its expansionistic poli- cies and allows the Palestinian re- fugees to return and participate as equal citizens with full human rights, in a democratic state where Jews and non-Jews could lead a joyful and peaceful life. How much more atrocities the world is willing to tolerate and how much more in- timidations are the Arabsmable to take is only a matter of time. May- be Israel has more deadly wea- pons and more destructive fire- power than the Arabs have now. But a higher capabilities of de- struction does not guarantee vic- tory or peace as has been tragic- ally demonstrated by the Vietnam war. Israel better learn from his- tory, for those who do not learn from history are damned to repeat it. Mohammed Saleh, Grad Feb. 23 Public health To The Daily: THE POSITION of County Pub- lic HealthDirector is a civil serv- ice-appointed position. The last di- rector, Dr. Otto K. Engelke, served in that position for well over 30 years. Now that he has retired, the County Board of Health is in the processof choosing a new Director. Before the Board of Health mak- es the hard decision about who will fill that vacancy, I hope they will take into account the opinions of the whole community, rather than just those of the medical profes- sionals. Traditionally, medical profession- als, particularly doctors, have re- sented and fought against the in- tervention of public health into the field of health care delivery. How- ever, the general public has, I am certain, a very different attitude about what the role of the Public Health Department and its Director ought to be. I hope that the Board listened to the representatives from the com- munity who spoke at the hearing on February 15. I hope that they will listen to the people on March 1, when the community is allowed to comment further on this important decision. -Charlotte Wolter Editorial Director Michigan Daily, '66-'67 Feb. 20 >I Sylvia'S Signs WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1973 A Pisces person is extremely psychic. S. Pisces. (Feb. 19-March 20) You tend to dwell on past mistakes whether you are to blame or not. Concern yourself with the present. Get down and enjoy yourself. In- teresting propositions are made over Te- quila. Aries. (March 21-April 19) A good time to cement your feet in a secure relationship. New acquaintances should be carefully evaluated. Person you say goodnight to now, looks quite different in the morning. Taurus. (April 20-May 20) Use your quick wit and socialability to avoid issues that may arise. You may be confronted about past work due by a professor. Have an excuse ready. Gemini. (May 21-June 20) You will find yourself in a relatively good mood today. Use your position to find out where you stand in a relationship. You don't have the upper hand. Make the best of it. Cancer. (June 21-July 22) Carefully plan any, actions today. Ac- tion based on suspicions will result in a false accusation. Your friends are not scheming against you as you may think. Leo. (July 23- Aug. 22) You should try a different approach in solving matters that may seem incomprehensible. Use your great talent in other ways if you want to be a roaring success. Virgo. (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Your advice will be sought today. Be ready to give assistance. It can only be of help to your cause. Share old papers and exams with a worthy individual. Libra. (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Opportunity knocks. Work with effic- iency and concentration for success and financial rewards. Learn to play by the rules for added Peace of Mind. Scorpio. (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Be confident and regulate your af- fairs of the day in a realistic scheme. Be satisfied with the course "I r I I *I