V~ ArtIean ailui Ei ghty-two years of editorial freedom Editedcland managed by studerts at the University of Michigan Keeping people poor and unemployed 420 Maynard St, Ann Arbor, Mi ch News Phone: 764-0552 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1973 Funding the new TM facilities THIS WEEK the Regents will consider and in all probability give final ap- proval to plans to fund and construct -at last-new intramural athletic facili- ties on -this campus. The real issue facing the Regents, however, is not whether to build the fa- cilities but rather how many should be built, When, and most crucially of all, who will pay. This hot potato has been batted back and forth between the executive- officers and the Advisory Committee on Recrea- tion IntramUrals and . Club S p o r t s (ACRICS) for the last month or so. The result has been a plan which calls for construction of two buildings-one on North Campus and one on Central Cam- pus, Editorial Staff CHRISTOPHER PARKS and EUGENE ROBINSON Co-Editors in Chief ROBERT BARKIN. DIANE LEVICK ... DAVID MARGOLICK. MARTIN PORTER. KATHY RICKE. . ERIC SCHOCH. GLORIA SMITH...... CHARLES STEIN : TED STEIN ..... MARTIN STERN . ED SUROVELL ROLFE TESSEM. ...Feature Editor .....Associate Arts Editor .Chief Photographer ...Magazine Editor Editorial Director .....Editorial Director ............Arta Editor . ... .City Editor Executive Editor ..Editorial Director .....Books Editor .Picture Editor Business Staff BILL BLACKFORD Business Manager RAY CATALINO .... . . . Operations DAVE LAWSON ,...........,....Advertising SANDY FIENBERG ..............Finance SHERRY KASTLE ...........Circulation JIM DYKEMA ... .. ...Sales & Promotions' Managert Manager Manager Director Manager DEPT. MGRS.-Caryn Miller, Elliot Legow, Patti Wil- l inson ASSOC. MGR.-Joan Ades, Linda Coleman, Linda Qycowsk+i, Steve LeMire, Sandy Wronski ASST. MGRS.-Chantal Banctlhon, Roland Binker. Linda Ross, Mark Sancrainte, Ned Steig, Debbie Weglarz STAFF-Ross Shugan, Martha Walker SALESPEOPLZ-Deva Burleson, Mike Treblin, Bob Fisher, Debbie Whiting, Alexandra Paul, Erie Phulips, Diane Carnevale Photography Staff DAVID MARGOLICK .......... .Chief Photographer ROLFE TESSEM ....... , ... Picture Editor KEN FINK .. .... .... Staff Photographer THOMAS GOTTLIEB........,...Staff .Photographer STUART HOLLANDER ........ Staff Photographer STEVE KAGAN ......... . Staff Photograp her KAREN KASMAUSKI . Staff Photographer JOHN UPTON ....... Staff Photographe Sports Staff DAN BORUS Sports Editor F'RANK LONGO Managing Sports Eitor BOB YcGIN.......... ...Executi e Sports ]editor CHUCK BLOOM ..,., . ,. Associate Sports. Editor JOEL GREER ..... Associate Sports Editor RICH STUCK .............Contributing Sports Editor BOB HEUER .............Contributing Sports Editor NIGHT EDITORS: Jim Ecker, Marc Feldman, George Hastings, Miarcia Merker, Mark Ronan, Roger Ros- siter, Theresa Swedo, Robin Wagner. STAFF. Barry Argenbright, Jeff Chown, Clarke Cogs dil, Brian Dening, Leba Het, John Kaler, 'Mike Lisull, Mike Pritula, Bob Simon. We certainly need. at least -two new buildings. However, the current plan, which has received ACRICS' blessing, would call for a per term student fee of $7-10. jN VIEW of the anticipated tuitio hike, an increase in housing rates and the general cliib in the cost of living, such a tax on student would be burdensome, prohibitive and unacceptable. Worse, it is completely unfair. When new facilities for varsity ath- letics are needed, somehow the money always seems to be there. There is mon- ey for artificial turf, money for stadium renovations, money for almost anything and everything Athletic Director Don Canham needs or believes he needs. But intramural athletics do not garner headlines in the statewide newspapers nor do they bring in television money nor do they seem to promote generous contributions from fat cat alumni. All they do is provide recreation for the tens of thousands of students on this cam- pus who were not fortunate enough to receive one of Canham's "free ride" ath- letic scholarships. So'when this campus' crying need for new intramural facilities is pointed out, the reaction is, "Fine. We'll start build- ing as soon as students come up with the money." JT'S TIME to call a halt to this "soak the students" attitude. Student Government Council and the Rackham Student Government have both gone on record as opposing the im- position of, a $7-10 per term fee. Instead, they have proposed that con- struction go ahead only on the North Campus facility, with a student fee of $4 per term to finance it. For the Central Campusfacility, they suggest a number of alternate sources of funding, including a minimum con- tribution of $250,000 per year from Can- ham's intercollegiate athletics war chest. We endorse this plan. It is on North Campus where there are currently no recreational facilities under roof that the need is greatest. CLEARLY, THERE is also a crying need for new facilities on Central Campus. But the precedent that the students must pay the full shot is so destructive that it cannot be allowed to continue. Let's fund a North Campus building out of student fees now. But we believe that the money to go ahead with further I-M construction should in all fairness come from somewhere else, TOday's staff: News: Bill Heenan, Deborah Pastoriah, Kathleen Ricke, Judy Ruskin, Charles Stein Editorial Page: Eric Schoch Arts Page: Gloria Jane Smith Photo Technician: Rolfe Tessem \ ~\ 1 D - ., ,. .. i. \ By EVERETT EHRLICH PRESIDENT NIXON last week sent Peter Brennan, one of the second-string members of the Washington goon squad and, inci- dentally, Secretary of Labor, to the American people to bring down the latest edict from the mount. Apparently the New Amer- ican Reich intends to raise the minimum wage to $2.30 an hour by 1976. President Nixon's "let 'em eat poptarts" attitude has always been clear, and given this new "in- come policy," his contempt for the one out of five of us who live in poverty stands out now more than ever. Permit this writer to lav the mad bomber's proposal to rest post haste. Our economy is no long- er capable of employing more than 95 per cent of those people within it who are actively seeking work, and that 95 per cent figure does not include those who are "underem- ployed"; part-time workers, those who have given up looking for jobs, those who go from one odd-job to another. Guaranteeing incomes by way of a minimum wage is ludi- crous considering our economy's complete inability to guarantee each of its members any wage, period. Why is that? Several reasons come to mind. First, economic planners in Washington conscious- ly create unemployment in order to keep inflation at a tolerable lev- el, (for an operational definition of tolerable, consult your local meat counter). Second, large corpo a- tions like to see higAi rates of un- employment, particularly among low wage workers, to keep a down- .ward ;pressure on wages. Thir, large segments of the work force are "tracked" into the ranks of the "marginally employed" and in- to no-skil jobs, by the school sys- tem. Witness the "general" as op- posed to "academic" diploma giv- en in high school. It is of course riot without coincidence that those people are usually black or Span- ish-speaking. YET EVEN outside of the f' 4t that a minimum wage conceptually is inappropriate for dealing with poverty, its specifics constitute a practical joke. For example, 'peo- ple who work in burger j-int.- like MacDonald's are not covered by the wage law. (Keep in mind that the owner of nationwide Mac- Donalds gave $300,00 to Nixon's last campaign - if it was a cam- paign - proving conclusively Rich Levy's hypothesis that Nixon is the best President money can buy. Rumors that Henry Kissinger is really Ronald MacDonald are vet to be denied by Ziegler. And last, of course, is he S32_0 an hour figure. This adds up to $4,600 a year. Why so low? HoW does the President expect any- body's family to live on that? The answver is he doesn'; not if he's familiar with government s:atis- :ics that define a "moderate but adequate" income as being more than twice that. I may bl critici!- ed for assuming that onl,, one member of this hypothetical fam- ily works, but the facts are that 10 per cent of the women who, do work are already heads of hous- Bolds, and in most cases, women who would work can't, usually be- :ause there just aren't any jobs, and often because there are no child care facilities available - a situation aggravated by Nixon's re- :ent slashing of child care funds, which he considered "inflationarv' tread; "created too manv jabs"). The reasons that Nixon has mov- ed in this manner - proposing an ineffective and inadequate mini- mum wage law - is that given a bleak future in terms of the num- ber of people unemployed, it has become imnerative that he main- tain a strict social division be- tween those who work and these who are denied the opportunit to work, as opposed to those who don't, like corporate fatcats or bi bank joybovs. The first and most fundamental principle of apy cap- italistic society is that some peoie awn the wealth and ever bod. else works for them, and if fhey don't. thev may invoke their democratic right to live in squalor r'd disease and to watch their children e a t pnint chips instead of food. ,n- able to see the forest for the trees, most of us usually don't recognize this basic fact. WERE IT NOT for the fact that if von don't work you would st rve, nobody in capitalistic society woUld work, because work is a drag. For those reading this wto h a v e ever worked, that is an obvious point. Work consists of doing wh, t some boss, manager, foreman; overseer, supervisor, or what-bave- Vou tells you to do, despite the fact that they usually don't know their asses from their elbow, and take some delight in the oowe" that comes with their position. It is a thing to be avoided, and it would be avoided were it not for the threat of poverty. Were we to guarantee incomes at a decent, humane level across the board, large numbers of people would not work. Because they're lazy? No, because work offers P satisfaction or sense of purpose; because work is designed to laio- tomize the worker, because factor- ies are like forty-hour-a-week pri- sons. Capitalism demands this, be- cause work tinder capitalism is no: intended to produce goods a n d services, nor to give the worker fulfillment, but to make a proft for the capitalist. (If the w a r I1 "capitalist' seems heavy-handed, some up. with a good description of Henry Ford or Fast Eddie Gersten- berg and substitute it; 1- don't care.) Seen in this light, the problem of poverty in our society is - Ipro- duct of our economic way o' doing things, and as the corporate en- tente that runs the economy thick- ens, it will be made woree. Guar- anteeing incomes eliminates the blackmail that compels the work- er to punch in at nine and produce for somebody else's profit until five. When work places are turned over to the people who work there, then equality of income will be- come possible. When that happens, then the Peter Brennans and the 1 J r , "fere we to guarantee incomes (it a decent, humane level a c r o s s the board, large numbers of people would not work. Because they're lazy? No, because tork offers no satisfaction or sense of purpose; because t'ork is designed to lobotomize the worker, because factories are like forty. hour-a-week prisons.' 5"ussssanesasasannsamansadsasaaasasassaseasns2W~a. 1+.EMEMM r Letters: Book-burning issue rages on 4 Richard Nixons, the Henry Fords and the David Rockefellers, the gook-bombers and the nigger-shoot- ers will not have solved the prob- lem, but will have been eliminat- ed by its.solution. Our resnon.;bil- ity is to figure out the best wvay to get there. E" recrett ELhrilich is a member of the Union for Radical Political Eicononucs atnd the Human Rights Part . He is a teaching fellow in econoinics at the University. To The Daily REGARDING The Daily's asser- tion that Advocates for Medical Information should have submitted a scientific, scholarly research pap- er to the media and the academic community rather than using the tactic of a book burning - Evidently The Daily has a very poor memory. In September of 1972, Kay Weiss of A.M.I. came to The Daily with a 17-page medi- cal research paper documenting the cancer-causing properties of die- thylstilbestrol (the morning-after pill), and the dangers surrounding its use at the U of M Health-Serv- ice. In addition to her own re- search on the adverse side effects of the morning-after pill, W e i s s brought out a number of political points: female students at t h e Health Service were used in medi- cal experiments without patient in- formed consent. What was the response to A.M.I.'s scientific study and re- search?- The Daily refused to print it. Instead, The Daily assured wo- men students that thi morning- after pill was "safe and harmless" (Daily, Sept. 29) and that there was "no cancer link." (Daily Sept. 29). It was only after Advocates for Medial Information went to Wash- ington D.C. to present its research to Nader's Health Research Group that The Daily took notice. A.M.I. used what The Daily might con- sider to be "boorish" tactics when it threatened to picket Kennedy's congressional hearings on human experimentation if time were not allotted for A.M.I. testimony. The Daily must have been "disgusted" by A.M.I.'s confrontation with John Jennings, M.D., Assoc. Med. Com- missioner of the FDA when A.MAI forced the FDA to hold hearings on post-coital administration of DES Only after the AP wireservice senit out a story about the morning-af- ter pill, was Advocates for Medi cal Information taken serioush y The Daily staff. How can any student group make its complaints'or concerns or re- search known to the student body, when the only student newspaper refuses to print them No wonder groups must report to spectacular demons rations! NO One wills otherwise. . Least of all t1, Daily editors. -Belita Cowan April 16 Editor's note: The I)aily has never I93:- "When Advocates for Medical Information alerted the student body to the dangers of the morning-after- pill The Daily applauded its efforts." To The Daily: ,IF BOOK BURNING is going to replace marches, sit-ins, etc. as a means of protest, let's not stop with just one book. Why not have a huge conflagration to w h i c h everyone is invited to bring her or his most unfavorite book? At such an event, we can pro- bably expect one or two printings of The Godfather escorted by Ital- ian-Americans as well as hundreds of copies of Jonathon Livingston Seagull with loyal atheists, Lord of the Flies with children, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest with sev- eral levels of psychiatric hospital employees - and The Merchant of Venice with local loan sharks, just to give you some idea of the wide- -spread participation that can be anticipated. This "great fire in the sky" will conserve local energy output by eliminating the need for central heating in surrounding buildings for the rest of the season. Further- more, it is estimated tat the staffs of both the Grad and the Under- grad Libraries will be immediately cut by 90 per cent. Therefore, we can count upon administration sup- port for this activity. By the way, which book am I planning to honor at this happen- ing? Being unmarried, disabled and female (not necessarily in the or-, der of importance) my top choice is Tennessee Williams' The Glass, :Menagerie. -Yvonne Duffy '73 April 12 To The Daily: . IN THlE DAILY on Saturday, April 14, Richard Parks condem- ned the recent book-burning held by AMI on the grounds that. book- burning is a "morally reprehen- sible" act which "displays a coin- plete lack of taste, class, and rev- erence for history" on the part of A.Ml. I would like to know, Mr. Parks, why women should feel re- verent towards a history which de- fines them as invisible, a history in which they are never mentioned --unless they are the wife or a mis- tress of a famous man; a history which denies their accomplish- nents and disguises their oppres- Sion. I would like to know, Mr. Parks, why women should be concerned about "taste" when that word ineans simply that women should lower classes. We want to destrom the institution of social ,class -o that all people may be free. Radi- cal feminists do not care about taste. We are not asking for our rights, we are taking them. If this offends you, Ir. marks, then per- haps it is time for you to change. You, and others like you, have a great deal to lose, Mr. Parks, if we have our way. Perhaps this is why you so firmly state t h a t "social and educat'onal change is brought about by kleen-kut coat- and-tie types who swim upstream in the established channels."i would like to remind you that wo- men do not 'ear c-ats andt tie. We do not move in the "established chaninels" because our aim is lont to introduce petty cbaintes in tis system but to cre ve a differevr system. There is no rom for c n- descending self-styl -d aristocrats in social change, Mr Parks. I r,- commend thate you justsettle back and enjoy your privleeges woka you still have the. -Rachal Kamel April 16 To The Daily: A.M.I. as Hitler? HELL no! Let us call your attention to the following quote. In Confession of a Gynecologist the physician-author advocates computsory automatic sterilization as a "penalty" for producing . an excess child: "The answer I come up with makes me seem something of a Hitler . .- From Willson's Obstetrics and Gynecology: ". . . pain . . . is us- ually a valuable part of the ther- apy." Would Hitler burn his own books? Peter Zetlin Kay Weiss April 10 To The Daily: I FIND myself particu ar'v dis- tilessed by the recent burning o(f allegedly sexist books on the Diag. From my perspective, the entire controversy has centered on the issue of sexism rather than the - :u acy of the quoted statement, of which I h4e onbv out-of-context knowledge. My gut reaction is that the sta t- ments are sexist in that they dif- ferentiate and debase on the basis of sex. Furtler, the statements appear to be unwarranted general- izations which have been indiscrimn- inately correlated to sex, I would suppose that the auth- or's more offensive remarks are .ased on his empirically substan- tiated convictions. Categorical re- noda ti,-,nfnx-ious comme ,nnt. by To The Daily: I WOULD like to correct some sloppy reporting by The Daily. I attended the book burning cere- mony. There were no "boos and hisses" directed at A.M.I., as The Daily would have its readers be- lieve. The only boos and hisses occurred after each of Dr. Will- son's statements were read. The 150 onlookers were not "curious" as The Daily stated, but actually supportive, and downright excited that finally a campus group had the courage to confront the blat- antly sexist treatment given to women in medical textbooks. Christooher Hardy April 16 W ' om 's sports To The Daily: A ANYONE who uses IM facili- ties knows, nresent IM programs and recreation space is frustrat- inwlv inadequate. However, t h e preferential treatment of all men's IM snorts over women in every' area from eauinment availability to locker room accommodations to de- meaning and ins'ilting remarks from men on other courts (and there have been continuous aggra- vations to many women who play ha. kethall. volleyball, and paddle- ball. etc., during the winter months N has finally become intol- arablv blatant and unfair. As baseball weather rolls around again, there seems to be some aues- tion as to whethjer there will be "adeouate funds" for women's IM games --while it is assured that the men will have their baseball season. To be sure, not that many women's teams are formed. Each team pays a registration fee, which could be made to cover iimnire cost. That equipment can be supplied for men and not women makes no sense. Trophies can cer- tail be dispensed with if that hbs become a financial burden. So why can't women be assured of a snring baseball season as the meen a re. -Susan Smolenski April 12 To The Dailv: THE RECENT \TTACK into Le- hanon by Israel and the subsequent inwrders (as over and over again in the past) of innocent human be- ings -- tourists, o'lice security, citizenr ---- was jus ore m ire piece of eridence against Israel' n-,.-rrli "hr'ijnPc E,, ' ~i r, :'-'- st-_ What scares me is - will t:le U.S. support this kind of fs- cism? Our history says we wiu, we did in in Southeast Asia, in Greece, and in many parts of the world. The Israeii experiment of a pure Jewish states doesn't sound like a very far cry from Hitler's concept of a pure Ayran state of people. The obsession with a race, religion, sex or whatever always turns sour; there i no other way for it to turn. The Israeli's use the American dollar to terrorize people. I can- not. see how this i-, right. I don't see how it is right when anyone terrorizes and frigbtens people ail over the world. There is a bill in- troduced by Senator Jackson which would put sane1ions against the Soviet Union for not allowing Jews to immigrate to Israel freely -this is fair. But w:h inot put these same sanctions against Israel which also taxes highly :i o s e persons who wish to leave Israel? The Zionist 'cause is supported by very conscientious people I am sure, but if they do not support it, they have 'to be terrorized by being called "anti-semitic". If this is the case, what about the thous- ands of Jews who are strongly atd outspokenly opposed to the Zionist state? -Name withheld by request IHopwood To The Daily: - YOUR LACK of coverage on the Hopwood Awards in Creative Writ- ing was reprehensible. These priz- es are not only the most distin- guished and perhaps .the richest in the country, but also afford a rare impetus to the production of goad literary art, and an encouragement to the real talent that exists on . campus. In ignoring these awards T h a * Daily has shown the same kind of callous attitude toward the creation of literature and art that has made the English grad assistants here perhaps the poorest paid in the nation, and that has allowed the public entertainment medium to produce its trite pap and bad writ- ing for so long. -Nane withheld by requeist I x a a i - . . - \>2~:> >-&K->~K--A&KK I