Eighty-two years of editorial freedom Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan City needs safe, eficient transit system i 420 Maynard St, Ann Arbor, Mich. News Phone: 764-0552 FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1973 DAILY ENDORSEMENTS MAYOR-BENITA KAIMOWITZ (HRP) 3RD WARD-ELIZABETH KAUFMANN 1ST WARD-ANDREI JOSEPH (HRP) (DEM) ITH WARD-ETHEL LEWIS (DEM) 2ND WARD-FRANK SHOICHET (HRP) NTH WARD-MONA WALZ (DEM) The choice-is clear: Kaimowitz for mayor By JUDI EGBERT - Some transportation notes for and from women, children and others who would like to get around town easier, cheaper, faster, and with less pollution ... How about getting around in Ann Arbor? Every week the Daily, "What's Happen- ing", and Diag flyers clue you in to scores of happenings around campus and the rest of the community. But, unless you live on one of the scarce routes served by infrequent campus or city bus schedules, you are dependent on a car, a bike, your feet (or a skate board). By foot may be good exercise, but you can be late to many events and exhausted by the end of the day. A bike is only slightly better - but after dark or if you are transporting a child the bike is just as unsafe and tiring as walking. (And skate board casualties run high.) So, how about a car? If you are a female in American society, you earn approximate- ly 54 per cent of what men earn and you are less physically safe (especially after dark). These result in less ability to earn enough money to afford private transporta- tion, and taking more risks walking or hitch-hiking. And be you a woman or a man, if you are a student or otherwise short of cash, the $1200-1500 annual main- tenance cost fur owning each car can be horrendous for the budget. If you care about the environment you see and breathe, you should be concerned that 30 per cent of this city's land is de- voted to moving, storing, and feeding the great horseless carriage, and that taking a breath on Washtenaw or South U. or State Street - or getting into the 4:30 jam in a parking structure - you are about as likely to develop cancer as a regular smoker. Examples can go on and on and - with rare exception, each. of us has ex- perienced difficulties in getting around town. It is especially true for women, who, because they earn less and their parents will less readily provide them a car, are both more dependent upon public trans- portation and more obliged to live closer to campus - captives of an inflated hous- ing, food, clothing, and general consumer market. While earning less than men, living expenses are generally higher. Often in two-parent families, to save on child care expenses, a woman is relegated to working at night after her husband or boyfriend comes home to watch the children. No fur- ther comment is necessary about a walk- ing woman's safety after dark around cam- pus or town. When children are involved, not only are babysitting arrangements a pressing problem. But, if the child attends a day care center or nursery school (or in Ann Arbor! If you are to depend on the current public transit system, you will find you can travel only between 6:45 a.m. and 6:15 p.m. (no evenings or weekends) to a very limited number of areas, from which you still must walk to your destination. Fare is 35c and service is very infrequent. So, you are still restricted in mobility to classes, work, recreation, child care cent- ers, shopping, etc. AATA has proposed a partial solution to such ills as immobility, high living costs, and pollution. It is a new comprehensive public transportation system called TEL- TRAN. A vital step in moving people rath- special devices for the handicapped, and there is a possibility of having propane instead of diesel busses. TELTRAN not only can increase and ease your individual mobility, but also can re- spond to such needs as child care center transportation and recycling pickups. To be sure, there are problems with AATA's current proposal - namely a regressive tax base and lack of transit-user input in designing routing and hours; it is hoped that post-election citizen pressure can ef- fect round-the-clock and county-wide serv- ice and community control of the board, all of which are vital for women and low- income people. However, the crucial issue is securing funds for expansion and improvement of a transit system. There appears on the April 2nd ballot "Proposal A", which will auth- orize the city to collect 2.5 mill in tax in- crease and devote the funds to implement- ing a better public transit system. This means that the average family would spend about $300-$400 yearly to cover tax in- crease and bus fare, as opposed to the poor choices of $1200-1500 for each or no mobility! If this proposal is defeated, we may even lose the skeletal system we now have, and certainly could hope for noth- ing better (particularly if city hall'swings to a more conservative composition after April 2nd)! To cast a YES vote for "Pro- posal A" on April 2nd is not to'vote for the current AATA plan. But rather, it is the first step in securing better transporta- tion, by committing the tax increase to public transit planning and implementation. Let's vote YES to PROPOSAL A on Mon- day and make a comprehensive, useful city transit system a reality! ldi Egbert is a volunteer at the Ecology Center. If you have further questions, call the Ecology Center 761-3186, or the Transportation Task Force members at 763-1850, 761-7219 (Sue or Roxanne), or 761-7435 (Judi). ANN ARBOR STANDS at the cross- roads. They mayor we elect next Monday may well determine which path this city will follow in the 1970's. Thus, we, as voters, have a most im- portant decision to make. Are we to elect a mayor who cares for the basic needs of all of Ann Arbors citizens, rich and poor, black and white? Or are we to select a mayor who dances to the tune of big real estate developers, or rails ineffec- tually at injustices while ignoring the people on whom the injustices are be- ing perpetrated. We think the choice is clear-we feel that Benita Kaimowitz should be Ann Arbor's next mayor. Kaimowitz, of the three mayoral can- didates, has shown the most consistent concern for the problems that face Ann Arbor-and America today. She has a long record of community service - from helping black people in the most racist parish in Louisiana, to aiding Indians living in desperate pov- erty in South Dakota, to helping young people scarred by drugs in Ann Arbor's own Ozone house. Kaimowitz's politics are the politics of reality - she both understands and seeks to deal with the issues that will face her as mayor. On a wide number of issues - com- munity control of the police, drug laws, planning and zoning, and rent controls, among others-Kaimowitz has a reveal- ed a depth of understanding that proves her capable of leading this city. The casual observor may see little dif- ference between Be Kaimowitz and her, Democratic opponent Franz Mogdis. Their public stances are quite similar on the face of it, attacking the present administration and promising to insti- tute change. But her past record of concern and her profound understanding of the prob- lem of this city, put the vital ring of truth into what Kaimowitz has been say-j ing-and a promise of action once the campaign rhetoric has died away. We, as voters and residents of Ann Ar- bor do have the power to select a mayor who will listen to our concerns. Be Kaim- owitz, despite gloomy predictions to the contrary, can win, and can defeat her Republican opponent Jim Stephenson. A vote for Kaimowitz is not a vote for Stephenson. On Monday, you will have the power to determine whether the Ann Arbor of the '70's will be remembered as a place where all of us could live together in har- mony, or as a place where our fears were, exploited to destroy our aspirations. On Monday, vote like your whole world does depend on it. Vote for Benita Kaimowitz, Human Rights Party. } even goes to a babysitter or any social events), the parent must work out a pick up and delivery schedule with work and classes and other obligations - even more of a burden if there is only a single par- ent. Centers and schools usually operate on such a shoe-string budget that they cannot provide such service, nor even go on en- riching field trips. Given the current fed- eral budget cuts and fragmented finan.- ing of child care centers, coordination of transportation services has so far been an unattainable goal. TRANSPORTATION IS A crucial problem er than cars, the system would combine Dial-a-Ride and express busses for door-to- door, low fare, city-wide transportation. Simply by calling a central dispatcher you can be picked up and delivered when and where you want, anytime between 6:30 a.m. and 11 p.m. weeknights and 6 p.m. on weekends. And if you are making re- gular daily trips you can "subscribe" for transportation simply by calling to re- mind the dispatcher once a month. Further fare reductions are planned for low-income handicapped and elderly persons, or if a family buys a monthly pass. Several busses will be equipped with Traveling overland to India Y1 Vote Joseph for ward I IN THE FIRST ward, the Daily is en- dorsing the Human Rights Party candidate, Andrei Joseph. Joseph is running against the Demo- cratic incumbent, Norris Thomas, and a Republican, David Wiarda. At first glance, Thomas looks like an appealing candidate. He is young, black, and has the reputation of being a lib- eral. A close look at Thomas' record somewhat shades this liberal reputation, however. Thomas professes to be in favor of rent control. However, he voted against es- tablishing an open file at City J-all which would provide comparative infor- mation on landlords and rent. Thomas' reasons sounds mighty conservative: "It would have cost the city untpld thous- ands to implement." Thomas won the council position in 1971 on a promising human rights plat- form, emphasizing better grievance pro- cedures against police misconduct. He subsequently assumed the chairmanship of the city council committee on human rights. The Human Rights Department of this city is still a powerless, though well-meaning instrument. A dispropor- tionate number of grievances still come from blacks and young people in Ann Arbor. Finally, Thomas' vote against the es- tablishment of a Community Women's Clinic really places his politics in ques- tion. Thomas says his reason for a nega- tive vote was because the money for the Clinic "had to come" from the indigent medical aid category of revenue sharing funds. Yet, HRP says that the money can be taken from the debt retirement cate- gory. Joseph has conducted a vigorous cam- paign, and his pledges are good. Among other things, he is firmly in favor of rent control, shaking up the Human Rights Department and de-criminalizing victim- less crimes. We feel that Joseph will live up to his pledges. While Thomas has not lived up to his. Editor's note: This is the sixth in a series of articles on travel abroad. By DAVID BOSCH THE OVERLAND ROUTE to India and other points East begins in Instanbul. Inter-contin- ental travelers in "Indiamen" buses, Bedford trucks, two-cylin- der Citroens, volkswagen buses and transit vans congregate here with vagabonds, on foot and hitch- hikers to rap about rides, routes and expectations. Istanbul's famous "Pudding Shop" restaurant near the Hagia Sophia attracts international tra- velers with is sign covered walls: "Ride to Rabul, leavingetomorrow. arrival seven days - share driv- ing," "Whatmandu - $40 in VW camper'," "Ride wanted by two American girls - Delhi or part way." The major routes to India can be traveled a variety of ways at some amazingly low costs. Pub- lic transport from Istanbul to Del- hi costs about $25 and takes ten days. Hitching rides with fellow travelers is even cheaper. Hotels are inexpensive - less than a dol- lar a night - and food - native rather than Hilton style - runs about 50 cents a meal. From Istanbul to Tehran by "through" train, bus or auto is a 2000 mile trek through Central and Eastern Turkey and the flatlands of Iran. Be sure to have your Irani visa BEFORE you get to the border, or you'll be sent back a few hundred miles. Tehran is a modern, fairly expensive city, but there are cheap hotels around the bus stations. If you have your own vehicle, the Gol e Sahra camp- ground outside the city has rooms for a dollar, complete with mod- ern toilets, hot shower and even a swimming pool. From Tehran, there are two possible routes to India. One goes south to Quetta through the humid length of Pakistan. The other runs through the more temper- ate regions of Northern Iran and Afganistan. If you choose the northern route, you'll pass through Eastern Iran on a dirt track me- andering through remote villages and hot stretches of sand dunes. The Iran-Afghanistan border is in- credibly desolate, markedr by a soldier sitting beside the road in a 20-mile no-man's land. Afghanistan, an arid land rising in elevation to the East, is belt- ed by a 2-lane paved highway. The road, stretching without a curve through the shimmering waste- land, can tempt you to roar half the 800 miles to Kabul at 120 miles per hour. Since the only avail- able gas is 67 octane, the high- way is littered with junked auto- mobiles whose engines were burn- ed out by heat and poor gasoline. If you arrive in Kabul hungry for an American-style meal, go to the Rhyber Restaurant for straw- berry upside - down cake and whipped cream. Kabul also offers the major money market east of Beirut. Here the knowledgeable traveler "buys" "cheap" Pakistani and Indian rupees, often getting them at close to half the official rate. Kabul is the last place to cash in your travelers cheques for real green dollars, or these days, whatever "hard" currency you're using. A word on carrying money - it's probably best to use travel- ers cheques, mostly in small de- nominations, and to change only the amount you're likely to use in any given country. Since it's illegal to "import" "cheap" Indian or Pakistani rupees, be sure not to get caught with currency by cus- toms officials. From Kabul you descend on a winding road through the Kabul G:orge, across the border into Pakistan and through the Khyber Pass, as countless invaders be- fore. Then it's only a full day's drive past Peshawar, Rawal- pindi and Lahore to the Indian border near Amritsar, and from here, less than a day to Delhi. A word of caution - the India-Pak- istan border has been closed re- cently. Check before you get there, since yon may haveto btake a ship from lKarachi to Bombay. MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION Travel by train, bus or shuttle flights within countries has two major advantages - cheapness and freedom from the worries and hassles of being tied legally and mechanically to a vehicle. In or- der to enter India and sometimes Pakistan and Iran, a Carnet de Passage is required for motorists. The Carnet requires that there be a deposit in a bank somewhere which you cannot touch until the car is out of the countries it was used in. The deposits may equal 100 per cent of the value of the vehicle. If you have an old clunker that dies beside the road, you are likely to lose your Carnet deposit. Re- strictions are designed to pre- vent the sale of vehicles. But while there are hassles associated with owning vehicles, it's one way to really get the feel of the land, to conquer the vast emptiness. WHAT TO TAKE Travel light. Bring lightweight clothes and an anti-biotic (Tetra- cycline and something like Entero- vioform) for intestinal bugs. Get lots of shots before you go. Have visas, at least for India, before you go. An International Student ID, good for trains, planes and tourist sights is also recommend- ed. LANGUAGE German is particularly useful in Turkey. English presents no prob- lem in India and Pakistan. HASHHISH TRAIL The Turkey - Nepal route i called the Hash Trail. While good, really cheap hash is available, it's not legal anywhere except Nepal. Laws in places like Turkey and Iran are tough, and jail condi- ditions are deplorable at best. Americans can expect practic- ally no help from their Embassies if they're busted. Be polite to bor- der officials and all authorities. Take Irani soldiers seriously. The penalty for trafficking in drugs in Iran can be a death sentence. Eat and live local style to do it cheaply - anything Western will be at a premium. Don't expect American standards of cleanli- ness, efficiency and comfort - just relax. Local attitudes toward woman along this route vary radically from Western ideas. Be forewarn- ed, and aware of the differences, so you can handle the situations appropriately. Always have a bit of hard cash tucked away - $20 to $30 - for use in an emergency. A pseudo- bribe may get you o,;t of a tight situation. Read Asia for the Hitchhiker by 1Mk Schultz, 1972, Student Guide to Asia by David Jenkins, 1972, or Overland to India by Douglas Brown, 1971, before you go. Things change rapidly so talk to experi- ened travelers for tips. All guide- oks are available at the Inter- national Center along with first- hand resorts from students who've traveled through Asia. David Bosch is a graduate stu- dent in the School of Business Ad- ministration. He has lived in Leb- anon and traveled extensively through the Middle East and Eu- rope. He is presently a member of the International Center Work/ Study/Travel Abroad Office staff. lI 1. Letters: Politics, rape and- Shoichet for second ward AT FIRST GLANCE, there doesn't ap- pear to be much difference be- tween the Human Rights Party candi- date in the Second Ward and his Demo- cratic opponent. HRP's Frank Shoichet and the Demo- crat's Carol Jones both give much lip- service to radical change in the city. Both favor such things as rent control, day care, low cost housing, and a govern- ment which is generally more respon- sive to human needs in the city. When one is considering candidates whose public positions so nearly coin- cide it becomes necessary to look a little deeper, for such factors as depth of committment, experience, and past re- cord to predict how they will perform once in office. It is on the basis of such deeper inspection that we wholeheart- edly endorse Frank Shoichet for Second Ward Councilperson. Through involvement in the Urban Corps, the anti-war movement, and sup- port for the Black Action Movement and University employes strike, Shoichet has demonstrated a committment to social justice which is impressive. TONES' HISTORY and experience is her selection by the Democrats as a city council candidates seems to be based largely on the fact that she is a student in a student-dominated ward. This experience gap shows in Jones' somewhat naive view of politics, which leads her to the simplistic notion that city hall can be opened up by "remov- ing" unresponsive department heads. Sub-surface differences between Shol- chet and Jones are most apparent in their seemingly similar positions on rent control. Jones supports the Democratic posi- tion that rent control should be studied by a landlord-tennant commission and implemented "if it proves workable." Shoichet, on the other hand, recog- nizes that strict rent control - enforced by a tennant - dominated board - is years overdub. Anyone who has lived in commercial campus housing - as Jones has not -- knows it is by and large shoddy and out- rageously overpriced. Students need protection from avaricious landlords now, and Shoichet has the understand- ing and experience to realize this. To The Daily: I WOULD LIKE to respond to BenitaUKaimowitz's campaign statement. Her incredible distor- tions, I believe, make the integrity of her candidacy very doubtful. In addition, I find her description of the Democrat Party totally unre- cognizable. With respect to the Defense De- partment contract "Analysis of Vietnamization," the issueywas never to approve or not to approve a contract, but to default on a contract. Franz's only option was to resign or to put his job on the line, which would have been the same thing. But he choose to stay and fight for redirecting the ac- tivities of his department away from war-related research toward the problems of an urban society. Courage is not always resigning in protest; sometimes to appear in a shady light in order to pressure for change is the greatest measure of courage. Ms. Kaimowitz also suggests in her statement that Franz would create a system of high bail. This is wrong. What Franz has suggest- ed is an alternative to the exist- ing system of high bail on a vol- untary basis. It is not a total solu- tion to either the bail system or me that they would not have made the charge unless it were true, but they have been either unable or unwilling to provide any evidence. Though McGovern lost, the Demo- cratic Party has fundamentally changed. It is not a radical party., but is no longer controlled by big business interests (as it was in part from 1960-1968), the regular party establishments or the leaders of organized labor. Initiative on is- sues and candidates can and does come from the bottom. Income re- distribution, community control and restructuring of governmental bur- eaucracy are now Democratic is- sues. And serious progress in these areas will come only in the forsee- able future through the efforts of people in politics and in the Demo- cratic Party. Ms. Kaimowitz describes in her statement a Democratic Party I cannot recognize. She forgets that not only the members of HRP, but others who are now what is the Democratic Party have lived through the liberal trends of the 1960's. What is important now is that others who have experienced this seize the present opportunity and begin to change America bas- ed on a new and more 'accurate perception. -Bruce Cameron candidate that I am supporting, the of teaching young men to express Democrat, Carol Jones. hostility. We suggest that every The contribution was intended as parent demand that self-defense be a gesture to keep the dialogue open taught to women in public and pri- between Democrats and the HRP vate schools. Major changes are until the latter return to the fold. needed in every state law regard- Meanwhile, since my offer was ing rape. Present laws are totally not accepted, I have continued ineffective in deterring or prose- raising funds for Franz Mogdis, cuting this crime. Laws s h o u I d and have contributed to three other also provide for medical treatment Democratic candidates for Council. of rape victims and for compen- I remain your loyal Democrat sation for physical and psychologi- and faithful servant, cal damages. Every law enforce- -Marjorie Lansing ment agency should retraineitsof- March 28 ficers so that they will no longer treat rape victims with contempt. We would hope that you would use Raipe yotir moral influence to further To The Daily: these proposals. Vengeance is not The Reverend Billy Graham: the answer. WE ARE MEMBERS of the Rape -Rape Education Committee Education Committee of the Wo- Women's Crisis Center men's Crisis Center of Ann Ar- March 29 bor, Michigan. Our center is a free counseling service run by Tenure women which provides counseling for rape victims, as well as people To The Daily: with a wide range of other con- AFTER I DISCUSSED tenure cerns. We have been working for policy with your reporter at her many months on educating the request, she then very seriously community about the problem of misquoted me in her story in Sun- rape. We have been considering day's Daily. Since my views on your suggestion for dealing with the importance of teaching are a this crime. matter of public record (Hooked Federal statistics from 1970 show on Books; The Naked Children; that 37,270 rapes were reported. the Doctor of Arts Program in the nure say it - to your reporter or any- one. What I did say, and have said in several hundred public speeches during the last decade, is that the importance of good teaching can- not be exaggerated. Furthermore, it should be required of all of us that tve be demonstrably g o o d teachers before we can be con- sidered'°for promotion or tenure in the College faculty. I believe that good teaching is the sole necessary justification of a faculty member's existence in the College. However, I do not believe that good teaching is sufficient jus- tification for awarding tenure. I believe good teaching must be ac- companied by significant published or publishable scholarship w h i c h promises the continued presence in our faculty of a careful, enquiring intellect willing to test and to share itself both within and beyond the context of the classroom. --Daniel Fader Associate Professor of English March 28 -M