s4e £iAfrihn aDn Eighty-two years of editorial freedom Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan Law students should picket Rehnquist 4 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Mich. News Phone: 764-0552 FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1973 University law suit defended TH EFINAL STEP has been taken to force the University to disclose the salary lists for faculty, staff, and admin- istrators. Nearly a year ago The Daily requested the Regents to release the list. They refused and have continued to do so. As a result several local organiza- tions, including The Daily and Student Government Council filed suit Wednes- day in the State Court of Appeals to force the University to release the list. Filing suit against the University is a drastic undertaking, but we feel that it is necessary. The Daily must have access to the salary lists to make proper and independent analysis of the progress that the University is making towards eliminating the racial and sexual dis- crimination that prevail in its employ- ment practices. We feel an obligation to provide the University community with accurate cov- erage on this issue, and this is impossi- ble without such information available for, an analysis. FURTHERMORE, we feel that the citi- zens of this state as well as the Uni- versity community have a right to know Today's .staff; News: Laura Berman, Michael Duweck, Bob Murray, Charles Stein, Sue Step- henson Editorial Page: Denise Gray, Kathy Ricke, Eric Schoch Arts Page: Barbara Bialick, Richard Glat- zer Photo Technician: Rolfe Tessem how state and student tuition funds are being used. Not only do they have the right to know the status of the Univer- sity's sexual and racial affirmative ac- tion programs, but they have a right to know other University priorities. For example, releasing faculty salaries would provide some insight into the Uni- versity's attitudes toward teaching in re- lation to research. These are priorities which the students should be especially concerned. Does the University reward professors with high salaries for teach- ing or largely for research? The salary lists would provide an answer. University officials and the Regents have both based the withholding of the salary lists on the right of privacy. How- ever, because the University is a state supported institution, no such right to privacy exists. Unfortunately, th whole mess of filing suit and arguing a case in court could have been avoided if the University had voluntarily supplied the public with the salary lists. Hopefully they will still do so. They would not be the first. Michigan State University voluntarily made the salary schedules for its staff, faculty and administration public last year. Court suits also forced Delta College and Sagi- naw Valley College to release their lists earlier this year. Based on the past reaction to this is- sue, it is doubtful that the University will volunteer disclosure of the salary lists. But we feel along with the other filing suit that the University has an obligation to do so. And if ncessary we will force its release with court action. By MARTHA BERGMARK WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST, Associate Jus- tice of the U.S. Supreme Court, will grace the law school with his presence next Tuesday, March 6, when he presides as chief judge of the Campbell Competition finals. There was a day when such a person as Rehnquist could not have appeared on the University of Michigan campus without a lively greeting of protest from the many who disapprove of this political philosophy and actions. Times have changed, thanks in part to the actions of Rehnquist and other members of the Nixon administration, but Rehnquist will nevertheless receive an unwelcome when he arrives at Room 100, Hutchins Hall, next Tuesday afternoon. LAW STUDENTS and others whose civil and economic rights are jeopardized by Rehnquist's presence on the S u p r e m e Court will picket and leaflet at the entranc- es to Hutchins Hall starting at 2:15 p.m. on Tuesday. All are invited to join in the unwelcoming activities planned for Tues- day, and to attend a meeting at 7:30 p.m. Monday, 116 Hutching Hall, to make picket signs. IN 1964, Rehnquist publicly opposed a pending ordinance providing for equal ac- cess to public accommodations, a concept which was soon to be embodied in federal law in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He stated to the Phoenix City Council, The ordinance summarily does away with the historic rights of the owner of the drugstore, lunchcounter or theater to choose his own customers. By a wave of the legis- lative hand, hiterto private businesses are made public facilities, which are open to all persons regardless of the owner's wish- es . . . It is, I believe, impossible to justify the sacrifice of even a portion of our his- toric individual freedom for a purpose such as this. In 1967, Rehnquist opposed a voluntary school integration plan proposed by the superintendent of the Phoenix schools. The plan proposed only voluntary desegregation with students paying their own transporta- tion costs and educational exchanges be- tween schools, but even this was too much for Rehnquist. In a letter to the Arizona Republic, he wrote, We are no more dedicated to an "integrat- ed" society than we are to a "segregated" society; we are instead dedicated to a free society, in which each man is accord- ed a maximum amount of freedom of choice in his individual activities. Those who aban- don it (the neighborhood school concept) concern themselves not with the g r e a t majority for whom it has worked well, but with a small minority for whom they claim it has not worked well. They .assert a claim for special privileges for this minority, the members of which in many cases may not even want the privileges the social theorists urge to be extended to them. In 1969, Nixon appointed Rehnquist As- sistant Attorney General in charge of the Office of Legal Counsel, which gives legal advice to all departments of the federal government. NIXON NOMINATED Rehnquist for the Supreme Court in October 19'1. At his Senate confirmation hearing, Rehnquist as- serted an attorney-client privilege with the government, based on the shaky legalism that he was the lawyer for the Attorney General and the President in his role as head of the Ofice of Legal Counsel. This privilege normally encompasses only con- fidential material, not personal views of the attorney on issues, but Rehnquist asserted it throughout the hearing. On December 10, 1971, the Senate voted 68 to 26 to confirm the nomination. Since his appointment to the Court, Rehn- quist has done justice to his prior record, if to no other cause. The positions taken by Rehnquist in the following cases are representative of the consistent way in which he has voted to limit the scope of civil and economic rights in all areas: -In Moose Lodge v. Irvis, 407 U.S. 163, Rehnquist wrote the opinion for the Court, which held that state's action in regulating and licensing private club's sale of liquor was an insufficient state connection to warrant award of injunction prohibiting rac- ial discrimination in the admission of guests to the club. -In Milton v. Wainwright, 407 U.S. 371, Rehnquist joined the other Nixon justices and White in holding that the admission at trial of a confession, made by an in- carcerated defendant to police officer pos- ing as cellmate at time when defendant had been indicted and had retained counsel, was harmless error. -And, of course, Rehnquist dissented from the Courts recent holding that a state may not prohibit a woman from obtaining an abortion. Martha Bergimark is chairperson of the Executive Committee of the Ann Arbor Lawyers Guild. 31 niot insane One day-one vote rule for SGC? I U nfair trials abroad By JANE ANDERSON NEARLY 900 AMERICANS ar- rested on drug charges over- seas are finishing their trips in foreign jails, according to Septem- ber, '72 statistics from the U.S. Denartment of State. Travelers contemplating doing dope should know that strict anti- drug laws and hostile official atti- tudes aren't the only pitfalls in get- ting high abroad. The legal philoso- phy and tradition of most foreign nations lack the procedural rights American citizens take for grant- ed and often assume to be univer- sal. The make believe arrest of John Smith in the hypothetical country of Spannocco illustrates just how risky and unpredictable getting busted abroad can be for an Amer- ican. Following an unofficial policy of stopping young tourists at random, the Spannocco Border P o1ic e searched John for drugs but al- lowed his three companions to en- ter the country. Even though his backpack, levis and shaggy h a i r were similar to his friends, his ap- pearance was the only possible jus- tification for the police action. OFFICIALS seized his posses- sions, locked him up and twelve hours later, carted him off to a remote Spannoccoan village. A few days later an assistant American Consul to Spannocco who had learned of John's arrest by word of mourth paid him a call. He ad- vised John that the Spannoccoan government was holding him on a drug charge. The young vagabond was given little reassurance from the official American presence in Spannocco. The consul could do nothing ex- cept notify John's parents in the States and arrange for a lawyer and interpreter to be financed by John's nearly depleted travel funds. Since bail was not a provision in Spannoccoan criminal law, John waited in jail until his lawyer and interpreter visited him. Their conference took plape under the surveillance of a prison guard, a legal procedure in Spannocco. The lawyer informed John that he was required to appear before a judge in a pre-trial examination' without counsel. During this pre- trial examination anything J o h n said or refused to say could be considered evidence of probable guilt. Witnesses would be present, but John was prohibited from hear- ing their testiinony against him. JOHN OPTED for silence during the 'preliminary hearing. The judge observed that John's refusal to denyrthe allegations againstahim would be considered as evidence of the truth of the charges. Nobody appeared at the trial to. testify against John. Instead, writ- ten statements from the border po- lice and a chemist werd read. Even if witnesses had appeared, Spannocoan law would not h a v e permitted John's lawyer to cross- examine them. Afteer the verdict of guilty was announced, J o h n' s lawyer finally took an active role in the trial. He made a brief plea for mercy and light punishment. If John had been arrested in the U.S., he probably wouldn't have gone to trial. Whether or not he was guilty, he would have been set free because many of his rights as a defendant were violated. He was arrested and searched without probable cause. The police detained him for twelve h o u r s without informing him of t h e charge. He had no access to free counsel nor bail. He was allowed to incriminate himself. He was unable to con- front witnesses or cross-examine them. He was not accorded a trial by jury. In Spannocco, however, the court was only concerned with John's guilt. Violations of procedural safe- guards were irrelevant in Spanno- cooan law. AN AMERICAN facing a drug charge abroad must be aware that he can't take his legal system with him when he travels. Even the cherished common law assumption that a defendant is innocent until proven guilty does not exist in the civil law codes of most foreign nations. DRUG LAWS OVERSEAS (Taken from the ICXchange For- um, October, 1972, published by the International Cultural Exchange.) Denmark - Possession: fine and detention up to 2 years. France - Possession, use or trafficking: prison term of 2 months to 10 years and fine. Cus- toms Court will also levy heavy fine. GERMANY - Possession: pri- son sentence and fine. Trafficking: maximum 3 years plus fine. Greece - Possession: minimum 2 years in jail. Trafficking: max- imum 10 years plus fine. Iran - Possession: 6 months to 3 years. Trafficking: 5 years to death and fine of 3,000 rials per gram. Israel - Possession: heavy fine and expulsion. Trafficking: maxi- mum 10 years and 5,000 Israeli pounds fine. Italy - Possession: minimum 3 years and 30,000 leire fine.. Max- mum 8 years and 4,000,000 lire fine. Japan - Possession: pre-trial de- tention, suspended sentence and expulsion. Trafficking: maximum 5 years. Lebanon - Possession: 1 to 3 years in prison. Trafficking: 3 to 15 years. Mexico - Possession: 2 to 9 years plus fine. Trafficking: 3 to 10 years plus fine. Illegal ex- .port or import of drugs, 6 to 15 years plus fine. Persons arrested on drug charges can expect a minimum of 6 to 12 months pre- trial confinement. Netherlands - Possession: fine or 6 months in prison. Trafficking: maximum 4 years. Spain - Penalty depends on the quantity of drugs involved. Less than 500 gramscannabis, fine and expulsion. More than 500 frams, minimum of 6 years in jail. Sweden - Possession, or sale: up to 19 months and permanent ex- pulsion from the country. Switzerland - Possession: max- imum 2 years or fine up to 30,000 francs. Trafficking: maximum 5 years. Turkey - Possession: 3 to 15 years. Trafficking: 10 years to life. United Kingdom.- Possession, use, trafficking: maximum 10 years and heavy fine. Possession of small amount for personal use us- ually punished by a fine or light imprisonment and expulsion. Jane Anderson is a student at the University doing research on travel abroad. If you've been busted in a for- eign country and think that your experiences could help someone else out, contact Jane Anderson at the International center, 764-9310. By BOB BARKIN Feature Editor DAY HARDLY passes without news of another controversy among student governments. If it is not one disenchanted member threatening to sue another, it is one disenchanted member threat- ening to sue The Daily. Being in student government is not easy. It takes a special breed of animal. It takes a certain amount of ego, a certain amount of asceticism, and a certain lack of intelligence. Why else would people waste vast portions of their lives and commit scholastic sui- cide only' to dole out money to oth- er people? All of us are not made to be a student official. How many people would even consider walking through the Diag in the bitter cold or driving rain screaming "Elect me, elect me," at the top of their voice? One such self-appointed martyr, Ro Yurbote, has been kicking around a new plan to revolution- ize Student Government Council and I decided to investigate. . "RO, I SAID, "I understand your new plan guarantees self-deter- mination for all students." "You've got it," Yurbote said excitedly. "Each morning before classes students will vote In a daily plebicite to determine which stu- dent government will represent them that day." "How will you get students to vote every day? They refuse to vote once a year." "We've got that figured out. The entire campus will be enclosed in an electrified barbed-wire fence with guards at checkpoints: To get to classes students will have to vote. We'll only shoot in an emer- gency, though." "The University is just a con- centrator's camp, anyway," I in- sisted. "Right," Ro said as he saw I was catching on to the idea. "It sounds tough but only coercion will insure democracy. "But nobody goes to classes any- way. That's no solution." "WE'VE TAKEN care of that. We'll place resisters and evaders in alternative service. Like work in the SGC Meat Co-op. After a about a week of chopping ham- burger they'll be marching in with the rest of us." "And what if they still refuse?" "We have the ultimate mental torture. Holdouts will be forced to watch SGC meetings until they give in or go insane." "That's cruel and inhuman. You are a madman!" "This is no joke. When you mete out punishment like this there is no room for error. Too many SGC meetings and its all over. Look at the present members." "I can see what you mean. But what will the administration say?" "They've been trying to cage the students for years. And now Regents will be able to take at- tendance. This will, send the Uni- versity back on the road to great- ness. As a kicker, SGC will be able to inform parents, for a small fee, of course, when their kids c u t classes. What a great fund-raiser!" "And you'll be able to come up with even more creative projects. Maybe hourly elections." "BUT ONLY voluntary funding could hurt us. Students who don't like what we're doing will never give us any funds." "Oh, I wouldn't worry about that," I said' gloomily. "If stu- dents hand SGC ten grand for two elections a year, they'll fund this. You'll have no trouble at all." Yubote, overjoyed at my fore- cast, waved good-bye and saunter- ed over to the hardware store to >rder the fenceposts and barbed wire. z Y 's 'Gee, fella, you're in such rotten shape I suggest you quit work.' Sylvi& ~s Sign s FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1973 Your Vacation Horoscope: an overview of the week ahead. Pisces. (Feb. 19 - March 20). The stars favor travel plans for vacation time, but don't feel sad if you stay at home. Be careful driving since you probably will be behind the wheel a lot. A good week to shop for spring wardrobe. Aries. (March 21 - April 19). A good week for you to visit with and spend time with friends and relatives you haven't seen lately. There will be much catching up to do. If you travel by air, take precautions to prevent airsickness. Taurus. (April 20 - May 20). Romance will flourish over spring break. A lover you haven't seen lately will definitely play a major role in your vacation plans. There will be a lot of catching up to do. Have fun! Gemini. (May 21 - June 20).*Travel aspects will be good, es- pecially around March 3 - 4, whether one is homebound or head- ing toward the sun. A few interesting erotic affairs are in sight for later in the week. Cancer. (June 21 - July 22). Your vacation should be spent well. Travel would be best in a foreign land but regardless, avoid driving for long periods of time. Spend time with tried and true friends rather than new acquaintances. Leo. (July 23 - Aug. 22). You week away from school will best be spent seeking new changes. Buying new fashions, a brand new hair style or a week of diet can only be of benefit when you return back to Ann Arbor. Virgo. (Aug. 23 - Sept. 22). Part of your vacation should be spent lining up a job for the summer. A good time for you to get a jump on future competitors. A weekend jaunt could bring you interesting and enjoyable diversion. Libra. (Sept. 23 - Oct. 22). Most of your vacation hours will be spent with new acquaintances regardless where your time is spent. Make sure your appearance is at its best and avoid mak- ing any important decisions. Scorpio. (Oct. 23 - Nov. 21). There are many entertaining spots you have desired to go. Now is the time. Discoteques, restaurants, and theaters will bring much enjoyment. Also a good time to go sightseeing. Sagittarius. (Nov. 22 - Dec. 21). You definitely will be on the go. :s L ettern To The Daily: PLEASE, REPORT accurate news. Re: Indian seizure of Wounded Knee; released by AP, UPI and Rueters in reference to the Indian massacre, at Wounded Knee in 1890. The Indians did not resist disarmament as stated i the article; but all lay down their weapons except one young Indian who was hard of hearing and could not understand the proceedings. He was trying to hold on to his newly acquired gun and 'was spun around by a soldier and in the confusion his gun discharged. The cav- alry opened fire and massacred 200 Indians. My source of information is Dee Brown's Bury My Heart At Wound- ed Knee. I thin/ I would rathei' believe this historical account than that of typical Inaccurate reporting of Indians Bones of March 1, I would like to say, I un- To The Daily: derstand your personal reaction of ALL TOO LONG the Indians have grief and outrage at the downing of been appressed. Make no bones about the Lybian plane. However, I wonder it and that is why I amwriting. About what sentiments you felt when inno- the bones. The Indians need them, cent people were massacred at Lod The University doesn't, they have plen- Airport, when an Israeli diplomat was ty of bones. Why just the other day I killed by a letter bomb, and when Is- was in my anthro class lyooking around raeli participants in the Munich Olym- the room and I saw plenty of bones. pic games were ruthlessly killed. Why do they need more bones? What's These acts of Arab terrorism and so sacred about bones anyway? To other threatened actions such as the the Indians they are sacred. But not recently announced intent to take a to the University. They have all the commercial plane, fill it with explos- old fossils they need. Professors, I ives, and crash it into the middle of mean. Half of them are eighty or Ttl Aviv, have certainly given Israel over. They can hardly walk. Why don't reason to fear the worst. we use their bones instead? The pro- After repeated warnings and no an- fessors, I mean. h'fserfr ep ted f thni Ly an poan , By the way. Whv don't T ever ye swer from the pilot of the Lybian plane, who were responsible for the Munich massacre. -L.C.R. March 1 Drugs To The Daily: IT WAS a wonderfully sunny day, and a smile stuck to my face as I walked the five miles to my job at the Ani Arbor bus station where I have work- ed for the last *ten years. While pass- ing one of your newspaper stands (I admit that I have never bought one previously), I was struck with the headline about the East Quad resident who is being evicted. I was appalled and repeated over and over - enough is enough. The university 'Aas finally a den of depravity and debauchery. Enough is enough. -Jethro Kloss March 1 Senior citizens To The Daily: THE NEWLY-ORGANIZED "Lunch Bunch" in Willow Run meets f o u r times a week in the Community Center for a hot meal and an hour or two of fun and fellowship. The "Bunch" sponsored by Washte- naw County OEO are all Senior Citi- zens with very limited income, and one of their greatest pleasures is sing- ing together after lunch. We are now searching for a piano, perhaps no longer of interest to an I a C-