TUITION HIKE See Editorial Page I due i1 tau 41P :43 a I Ily FEVEVISH High-48 Low-3a See Today for details Vol. LXXXIII, No. 135 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Thursday, March 22, 1973 Ten Cents Ten Pages (KFOU $EENE'WS W(APEN CAL76I)AJIX a , ,; Movie melodrama It seems that during the big snowstorm on Saturday, some- one slipped into the Michigan Theatre and made off with a "Ladies Parlor" sign. According to theatre manager Jerry Hoag, the sign is something of an heirloom and simply can not be replaced. Hoag assures us that his love for the sign is so great that if it is returned, he will not prosecute. In fact, he hinted that he might even reward the culprit to the tune of several free passes to the movies. RC success Maybe it's the food they eat, or perhaps it's the dope. What- ever the reason the people at the Reidential College seem to have produced a number of rising literary stars. Yesterday we re- ported that Lynn Eden, formerly of the RC, had been nominated for a National Book Award. We neglected to mention, however, that the RC's writer-in-residence, William Christian, was also nominated for his work "Person and God in a Spanish Valley." Christian's book is being considered in the category of religion and philosophy. Jones' contributions Carol Jones, Democratic candidate for City Council in the second Ward, released her list of campaign contributions yester- day. Jones has to date collected $847.54. Topping the list of individual donors were Prof. Mike Morris, former Congressional candidate Mike Stilwagon and the candidate's own parents. Each gave $50. Happenings,. An appearance by the candidates for mayor and City Council tops a heavy file of happenings today. The candidates will be introduced by the League of Women Voters at 7:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers at City Hall. . . . "Pollution is only the visible tip of the turd, in a society so wrong." The author of this out- rageous statement, Arthur Rubin, will be here as part of the Future Worlds Lecture Series today at 3:00 p.m. in Aud. 3 of the MLB . . . in other Future World's happenings there is a meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the UAC offices on the second floor of the Union for people interested in working for the Future World's Festival. People with new ideas, even faculty members are invited . . . the History Undergraduate Association is sponsor- ing a coffee and donut forum at 7:30 in the fourth floor common room of the MLB. The topic of discussion will be women and the grad experience . . . space freaks might want to be at the Faculty Club Room on thefirst floor of the Union at 8:30 for the showing of the film, "Space in The Age of Aquarius" . . there is a meeting sponsored by the pharmacy student govern- ment council to discuss job opportunities in the pharmacutical industry. The time, 3:00 p.m. The place, room 3554 of the C.C. Little Building . . . finally Mona Waltz, Democratic City Council candidate, will adress the Democratic Lunch Box Forum at noon at the International Center, 603 E. Madison. Insult to injury DETROIT Stanley Ingles should have quit while he was behind. Ingles was slapped with a $25 parking bill at Detroit Metropolitan airport yesterday. Ingles disputed the charge with parking attendants who . eventually summoned Wayne County sheriff's deputies. The deputies checked their records and found Ingles was wanted on another traffic violation. The car was searched and the cops turned up 15 plastic bags of heroin valued at $250,000. Nixon survives CONCORD, N.H. - A measure asking for the impeachment of President Nixon was defeated by the New Hampshire House yesterday by a vote of 277-22. The resolution sponsored by Rep. Eugene Daniell, a Democrat, accused Nixon of showing "com- plete contempt for our constitutional form of government and of "a deliberate attempt to provoke revolution leading to dictator- ship." At least one Republican was said to have supported the move. God on his side JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Billy Graham yesterday came out in favor of castration for rapists. "I think that when a person is found guilty of rape he should be castrated," Graham told a press conference. "That would stop him pretty quick." It is unclear whether Graham cleared his speech with God be- fore delivering it to the press. On the inside . . ... the Arts Page features Mike Harpur and Ken Altsculer with speculation on a possible Beatles reunion . . . Sue Stephenson writes on the issue of Indian bones on the Edi- torial Page . . . and the latest in the world of sports will of course grace the Sports Page. The weather picture Today will be partly cloudly or partly sunny, depend- ing on your mood. Highs will be in the mid-forties with lows near thirty. We can expect more of the same to- morrow. emiN By JONATHAN MILLER Like death and taxes, tuition increases have become inevitable. And next month, the University's executive officers will ask the Regents for yet another hike in the fees charged to students, President Robben Fleming told The Daily yesterday. The size of the increase - which will be the fourth hike in four years - is not yet deter- mined. But informed administration sources and independent estimates indicate it may be sub- stantial and perhaps as much as ten per cent. Whatever the average size of the increase, highly informed sources within the University administration say that a major revision of fee structures could be asked, and this could in- volve raising some fees more than others. One means of increasing revenue being dis- cussed is an increase in fees charged to up- perclass undergraduates, these sources say. Graduate school fees would be another area con firms tuition where fee increases would be made. The reasons for the proposed changes are manifold. In an interview yesterday, Fleming said that the University has already lost half a million dollars in revenue this year because students are dropping out of school for six months in order to meet Michigan residency requirements. But that is not the only fiscal irritant. Wilbur Pierpont, the University's chief finan- cial officer, points out that there are three other major financial problems that either will or could have a grave impact on the student purse. By far the most significant is the suit brought against the University challenging the whole basis of a separate fee scale for Michigan resi- dents and out-of-state students. University officials are pessimistic about the suit, and they are already bracing themselves for the possible loss of 11 million dollars in revenue over three years should the court rule against them. The University is also presently facing an eight million dollar cutback in funds from the feeral government. While it seems certain that these cutbacks will be partially offset by pro- gram reductions, some of this cost will be passed along to the students. Lastly, the University has still not received the Governor's budget recommendation for the. 1973-4 school year. But even when Gov. Milliken does reveal his financial plans for the Univer- sity, officials are convinced that the dollars allocated to the scchool will not be able to offset the costs of inflation. Because of all the variables involved, not even the University's executive officers are quite sure just how much the fee hike will have to be. "There's going to be a raise, but we have no idea how much," said Vice President for Stu- dent Services Henry Johnson. The rising price of education Year 1916-17 (LSA only) 1925-26 (LSA. only) 1959-60 1965-69 1969-70 1970-71 197i-72 1972-73 1973-74 Undergraduate resident tuition per year $42 85 - men 80 - women ' 250 480 same 560 660 696 Undergraduate non-resident tui- tion per year $62 110 - men 105 - women 600 1540 same 1800 2140 2260 rise HIGHEST IN 22 YEARS High court OKs school funding property tax By AP and Reuter The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that local property taxes are a legal means for financing public school systems. By a 5-4 vote, the high court reversed a U. S. District Court decision that held the system in Texas unconstitutional on grounds that children in poor districts got a second-class education compared with those in wealthy districts. Voting in the majority were all four Nixon appointees plus Democratic holdover Potter Stewart. It is evitable that some localities are going to be blessed with more taxable assets than others," Justice Lewis Powell said for the majority. In cases alleging violation of the constitution's guaran- tee of equal protection under the laws, Powell said, the court -- ----- -:,---- is barred from interfering with istate schemes unless the right in' question is spelled out or at least I' t suggested in the Constitution. vinlg sul)rges upward UN action in Panama PANAMA CITY (Reuter) - The United States last night vetoed a Security Council resolution calling for a new Panama Canal treaty to replace a 1903 agreement granting America perpetual rights in the Canal Zone. It was only the third time in U.N. history that the United States has exercised its veto. The vote in the 15-member coun- cil was 13 to 1 on the resolution, which called on Washington to ac- celerate negotiations with Panama for a new treaty governing the U.S.-controlled zone. Britain ab- stained. U.S. Ambassador John Scali said he deplored having to use the veto, but the United States felt U.N. involvement in a bilateral matter was not "appropriate or helpful." The issue of the treaty now is under negotiation by Washington and Panama and the resolution - offered by Panama and seven other1 nations-"oversimplifies a compli- cated issue," he added. The Security Council has been meeting here since last Thursday. "Education, of course, is not among the rights afforded explicit protection under our federal Con- stitution," Powell said. "Nor do' we find any basis for saying it is implicitly so protected." This takes nothing away from the "undisputed importance" of education but forces the Supreme Court to keep hands off," he said. While he voted with the major- ity, Stewart found the position un- comfortable. "The method of financing public schools in Texas, as in almost ev- ery other state, has resulted in a system of public education that can fairly be described as chaotic and unjust," he said. "It does not follow, however,' and I cannot find, that this system violates the Constitution of the United States." Those activists who want to re-' duce or reform the dependence of the schools on the local property1 tax will probably shift their em- phasis from federal courts to state courts and to state legislatures. Already there has been action; even in states where no court has ordered it. At almost the same' time the court rendered its de-, cision, Virginia Gov. Linwood Hol- ton signed a bill that will increase state aid per pupil to $628, in an' effort to make spending per pupil more equal within the state. Price of food chief offender WASHINGTON - The cost of living made its biggest jump last month in 22 years -headed by a 5.4 per cent In- crease in meat prices - and consumers were told they can expect further price increases at least until the end of May. The cost of living index rose 0.8 percent, compared with 0.5 per- cent in January, and food costs rose by 2.2 percent, also the.big- gest increase since February, 1951, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said yesterday. The price of meat - the object of buyer'~s boycotts in a few scat- tered parts of the country - went up by 5.4 per cent in February and accounted for 40 per cent of the rise in food prices. The grim news on the price front came only a day after the Nixon Administration, under increasing attack over. rapidly rising food prices, 'had predicted a drop in food prices later this year. The figures reflected the first fell month under President Nixon's Phase 3 wage-price controls, and White House officials predicted the situation will get worse before it gets better later this year. "We shouldn't be in the position of promising you a rose garden," said Herbert Stein, the President's chief economic adviser. AFL - CIO President George Meany called the figures shocking, but said they were not surprising. "Every housewife in America knew what was happening," Meany said in a statement. He urged Con- gress to insist on food price con- trols "from farm to market" as a condition for renewing the Eco- nomic Stabilization Act. Consumers noted that in many parts of the country the price of chicken has gone up from 29 cents to 59 cents a pound in the past 18 months. Prime beef now costs between one dollar and 75 cents a pound and two dollars and 29 cents a pound in the stores, depending on the cut, and pork chops cost about one dollar and 40 cents a pound. The Nixon Administration con- tends it has already taken all nec- essary steps to increase food sup- ples and that the situation will improve greatly in the next few months. But pressure is growing in Con- gress for further action to control See COST, Page 10 Daily Photo by JOHN UPTON Better than Mays Showing moves that would make any center-fielder jealous, the frisky fellow in the foreground hauls down a screaming line-drive. NO DAMAGE REPORTED: Libya attacks U.S. jet i I Scientists report on evil weed By BOB ANDREWS During the late 1930's consternation gripped the minds of white1 America when the use of the weed, Cannabis sativa I., better known as marijuana, spread beyond the ghetto confines. The U. S. Govern-{ ment, employing propaganda films like "Reefer Madness", franctically campaigned to convince the ignorant public that the intake of this' "evil drug" would assuredly lead to perversion, insanity or the hard- core criminal instinct. 'Since that time, abundant research, highlighted by the U. S. and Canadian Commissions Report on Marijuana, has unquestionably dis- proved these rash assertions. <:. Wh-ile there ar etilla number of noints on which scientists dis- WASHINGTON (Reuter)-Two Libyan Mirage jets fired on an unarmed U.S. Air Force C-130 transport plane as it flew over the Mediterranean Sea yesterday but failed to hit it, the state de- partment announced. State department spokesman Charles Bray, terming the at- tack "unpardonable," said it occurred in international air space 83 miles north of the Libyan coast and roughly south of Malta. The plane, which had taken off from Athens and returned there after the attack, dived into a cloud bank and lost the French- built fighters, Bray said. Diplomatic observers speculat- ed that the Libyan air force may have confused the plane with an Israeli aircraft. There have been rumours that Libya would retaliate for the downing by Israeli planes of one of its commercial airliners, with the loss of over 100 lives, over the Sinai desert last month. The TTnited States and Iiva gation and accounting for this un- pardonable incident," he added. "I want to stress the aircraft was operating over international waters and international air space at the time of the attack. There could have been no confusion in anyones mind on that account." Bray refused repeatedly to say what the plane was doing. "It was an unarmed military aircraft on a military mission," he said when asked whether it was on reconnaissance patrol. Informed sources said U.S. aircraft conduct reconnaissance mission along the coasts of Libya and Egypt but the planes fly beyond the 12-mile limit recog- nized by the United States as the territorial waters of coastal states. The C-130 is one of the basic U.S. transport planes, but a modi- fied version, known as the EC- 130, is equipped with radar and other electric equipment for re- conaissance missions. Detroit News charges scandal in OEO's allocation of funds DETROIT (R) -- The Detroit News reported yes- terday that federal funds were used to pay for recent protests against cutbacks in antipoverty programs. It said the funds involved came from the Office of Economic Opnortunity. the government anti- had cleared his program of the charges. But the OEO said in a statement yesterday that the accusations still were under investigation. The newspaper said OEO personnel are checking into the Feb. 7 demonstration in Washington which drew an estimated 3,000 persons from Nassau and