Eighty-one years of editorial freedom Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Mich. News Phone: 764-0552 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1972 Rich people's party PRESIDENT NIXON just can't imagine, publicly, what he has done to deserve such fervent support, but he definitely is the candidate of big business. Only myopia can describe the view that the moguls' support is not based on "spe- cial consideratio'ns" - considering the cheerful outpouring of speeches, testi- monials, and greenbacks into the Nixon campaign. Editorial Staff SARA FITZGERALD Editor PAT BAUER ..............Associate Managing Editor ROSE SUE BERSTEIN ....Associate Managing Editor LINDSAY CHANEY .................Editorial Director MARK DILLEN ......................Magazine Editor LINDA DREEBEN ........Associate Managing Editor TAMMY JACOBS ....... . .............Managing Editor LORIN LABARDEE ...............Personnel Director ARTHUR LERNER ..................Editorial Director JONATHAN MILLER .,...............Feature Editor ROBERT SCHREINER ..............Editorial Director GLORIA SMITH .........................Arts Editor ED SUROVELL ..........................Books Editor PAUL TRAVIS ...........Associate Managing Editor NIGHT EDITORS: Robert Barkin Jan Benedetti, Chris Parks, Gene Robinson, Zachary Schiller,dTed Stein. COPY EDITORS: Diane Levick, Jim O'Brien, Charles Stein, Marcia Zoslaw. DAY EDITORS: Dave Burhenn, Daniel Jacobs, Jim Kenteb. Marilyn Riley, Nancy Rosenbaum, Judy Ruskin, Paul Ruskin, Sue Stephenson, Karen Tink- enberg, Becky warner. ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS:ySusan Brown, Jim risinger, Matt Gerson, Nancy Hackmeier, Cindy Hill, John Marston, Linda Rosenthal Eric Schoch, Marty Stern, David Stoll, Dris Waltz. Photography Staff TERRY McCARTHY.............Chief Photographer ROLFE TESSEM ......................Picture Editor DENNY GAINER ..................Staff Photographer TOM GOTTLIEB............. ....Staff Photographer DAVID MARGOLICK ............Staff Photographer Sports Staff JOHN PAPANEK Sports Editor ELLIOT LEGOW Executive Sports Editor BILL ALTERMAN............Associate Sports Editor BOB ANDREWS....:.........Assistant Sports Edtor SANDI GENS................Assistant Sports Editor MICHAEL OLIN ..........Contributing Sports Editor RANDY PHILLIPS .......Contributing Sports Editor NIGHT EDTORSr Chuck Bloom, Dan Borus, Chuck Drukis, Joel Greer, George Hastings, Bob Heuer, Frank Longo, Bob McGinn, Rich Stuck. 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Today's staff: News: Robert Barkin, Dove Burhenn, Sara Fitzgerald, Diane Levick, John Marston Editorial Page: Mark Dillen Photo technician: David Margolick The newest plans for utilizing business support is a Nixon campaign dinner scheduled two weeks hence in Detroit's Cobo Hall. Such luminaries as Henry Ford II; Edward Cole, president of Gen- eral Motors; Lynn Townsend, board chairman of Chrysler; and Roy Chapin; board chairman of American Motors will co-host the festivities. Those in attendance will cough up $1,000 each to hear Nixon and Vice Presi- dent Agnew. Republicans w e a 1 t h y enough to dole out such sums for one meal must be the same crowd who tossed in hundreds of dollars per person to "make the scene" at a Republican pre- convention party in August. DESPITE ALL this attention from the industrial giants, the administration is very sensitive about reports that it has favored big business at the expense of labor Cost of Living Council Director Donald Rumsfeld said yesterday that such remarks were "fantasies," since "prices are being held down more than wages." Yet Rumsfeld did not discuss the oil depletion allowance, broad tax credits, or industry's soaring rate of profit com- pared to the tortoise like pace of real wages. THE REPUBLICANS have everything going for them this fall - the opin- ion polls and chests of campaign trea- sure. Indeed it makes one wonder why they bother to be crooked, if in fact the smelly business of Watergate is con- firmed as a GOP stink. -ARTHUR LERNER Editorial Director Soviet saga WHILE THE President was closeted in the- Kremlin and Soviet newsmen and officials were charming the Ameri- can press over caviar and vodka, the tele- phones of such well-known dissident So- viet liberals as physicists Andrei Sak- harov and Valery Chalidze were discon- nected for the duration of the visit. Jewish activists were either called up for military duty or simply arrested and kept in detention until after his departure to insure that there would be no untoward demonstrations. On the day President Nixon left Mos- cow, after his widely viewed television address to the Russian people and sev- eral televised signing ceremonies in the Kremlin, shoppers were literally locked in stores or research institutes along Leninsky Prospekt while his motorcade made its way to the airport. -THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY September 1972 Crime: A By ZACHARY SCHILLER The in "The first civil right of every American is ous crin to be free from domestic violence. And that year is right must be guaranteed in this country . . . failure o Time is running out for the merchants of candidat crime and corruption in American society. The cnia wave of crime is not going to be the wave of the future in the United States of America In the . . . Our goal is justice-justice for every seen th American." - Richard Nixon, acceptance one of t. speech at the Republican NationalaConven- tion, 1968. posed t "The large American city has become like an crime. C armed camp." - The New York Times, Janu- ary 24, 1972. sure is clash w HOSE WHO remember the 1968 Presi- proven dential campaign should recall the "law has beer and order" image of Richard Nixon - the study of man who called for "a militant crusade against crime" because "the right to be free froi domestic violence has become THE the forgotten civil right." town Lai Justice c This was the candidate who said just was inv over four years ago, "It is too late for more of a tote commissions to study violence. It is time dants w for the government to stop it." bia cou It is therefore not only legitimate but al- afctually most necessary to ask, what has the ac- detentioi complishment of the Nixon Administration the cour been in the field of crime and violence?A Late last month, Attorney General Rich- And x ard Kleindienst presented the latest statis- quote Se tics on crime in the nation. Owing to the time an fact that there was only a seven per cent preventi increase in crime last year, according to were co FBI records, Kleindienst said he was "en- approva couraged by the trends." In Ma were rot Murder-up 11 per cent. Aggravated as- violation sault-up 10 per cent. Forcible rape-up that a 11 per cent. Robbery-up 11 per cent. Only were ev for crimes against property was there a victed. slight decrease in the rate of increase. Jus a And yet, the New York Times reports Justa that "This is likely to be a useful election- sault on year statistic to the Republicans." This bit York toc of information comes but seven months A repor after they had reported, "Shopkeepers and this we ordinary citizens fight gun duels with hold- Nelson1 up men and intruders in their homes. The to the p streets are empty at -night, cab drivers which it huddle behind bulletproof shields, and some of the world's largest corporations protect the most their property and employes as though not pro they were under siege." aftermat dismal record crease of what the FBI calls "seri- nes' to just under six million last merely one statistic indicating the of the Administration to live up to e Nixon's promises. past three years, we have also e failure of preventive detention, he key Republican measures pro- o deal with the rising rate of Outside of the fact that this mea- of doubtful legality owing to its ith the precept of "innocent until guilty," - preventive detention n proven unnecessary by a detailed its effects in Washington, D.C. STUDY, conducted by the George- w School and the Vera Institute of of New York City, reveals the law oked against only 20 suspects out al of more than 6,000 felony defen- ho entered the District of Colum- rts during the first ten months aw. Of the twenty, only ten were ordered detained and five of these in orders were later reversefd by ts. while, the Justice Department, to en. Sam Ervin, (D.-N. C.) "wasted d energy in a fruitless effort at ve detention," some real crimes ommitted with .the direct or tacit d of the White House. y, 1971, over 12,000 demonstrators )unded up by capitol police in open of the law-attested to by the fact mere fraction of those arrested er brought to trial, much less con- few months later, the armed as- prisoners at Attica prison in New ok the lives of over 40 individuals. t on the Attica incident released ek concluded that New York Gov. Rockefeller should have first gone prison before ordering the assault, self was organized poorly, utilized t risky type of firepower, and did vide for medical attention in its th. 0 for Ni0o "I don't understand how people can say they still don't feel safe from crime. Since I've token office I find many more instances when I feel safe-like when I'm inside the White House, or inside the Florida White House, or inside the Cagifornia White House, or .. . YET, THE REACTION of the President dominated Supreme Court as well as the to the events at Attica was to congratulate less-than-trustworthy behavior of top Nixon the governor. officials - witness the ITT affair and the iI rI In a more comprehensive analysis, of the Nixon Administration's activities concern- ing crime and public order, it would be Watergate caper. Here, we may herely note that four years later, in Nixon's words, "We hear 1 proper to mention the actions of the Nixon- sirens in the night." Term paper sales idea finding new converts rI By BILL LEAVITT In reaction to the success of var- ious term-paper writing companies, I discovered several profit-mind- ed organizations had banded to- gether to form one catch-all cor- poration - Students Unlimited. Here is one of their advance not- ices. Students, do your University troubles stop with papers? Of course not. For your benefit, and in the interests of higher learning, we have created Students Unlimit- ed. We start where other compan- ies stop. Our motto: University in a nutshell. Choose from our huge stockpile of experienced class attenders and rent a student to attend your lec- tures: -$5/hour for English lectures -$10/hour for Political Science lectures -And many others. (Sorry, no philosophy lectures. We must pro- tect our employees.) Pick from our unlimited supply of bright-eyed students to attend your recitation: --$3 for each page of notes tak- en. -15c for each yawn, to m a k e your teaching fellow believe it's really you. -$1 for each question asked. Choose from our experienced stockpile of shitslingers: -Only $5 for each fifteen minutes or fraction thereof for remaining after class for a "chat" with your profesor or teaching fellow. -As low as $20 for an office visit "chat". **Our slingers are well versed in traditional asskissing: " W h a t are you doing your dissertation on?" as well as innovative tech- niques: "I think Genet is more interested in homosexuality, don't you?" Disgusted with your dormitory or apartment? Choose from v a s t storage of "residents" and f o r $30/week rent a resident to oc- cupy your room while you live someplace else. **Other special services: -Choose from our stockpile of "studs" to sleep with your g i r 1- friend or boyfriend while you study or rest. -Select from our wide selection of "sons" and "daughters" to call home once a week to assure Mom and Dad that you are fine, and "working your tail off!" -Or our fantastic Blue P1a t e Student - For $3000 you can have one of our experienced "students" attend the university for you and maintain a B- average, while you work or live in a different city. We don't stop with papers! Check with us first. Remember the Uni- versity in a nutshell - Students Unlimited. **Soon to be offered: -Ghost writers for the Hopwood Contest -"Patients" to take your al- lergy shots for you -"Weepers" to cry their way into closed courses for you -Short-haired bullshit artists to attend your job interviews for you (will wear ties at extra cost). , I mI 41 More money for a dubious election i Y Ron I _ By ROBERT BARKIN In case you hadn't noticed, Stu- dent Government Council (SGC) has joined the ranks of the estab- lished bureaucracies. "Our" stu- dent government has committed the grand sum of $9,000 for two SGC elections in the coming aca- demic! year. Consider the cost this way: If the voter turnout is similar to last year's--when only 15 per cent of the students voted - each bal- lot will be mailed, processed and tabulated at a cost of approxi- mately one dollar per voter. In contrast, the recent city election, which presumably has more bear- ing on our lives, cost less than fifty cents per vote. The cost of running the SGC circus has skyrocketed. Two years ago $4,125 was enough for an elec- tion. Last year, it was $7,129. But now, with bigger and better plans, it will cost $9,040. This is over a 125 per cent increase in only two years. The rising costs come while participation in SGC elections is plumetting. The spring election of 1971 has a turnout of 33 per cent. 30 per cent voted the following fall and in the most recent election there was a meager 15 per cent turnout. David Schaper, SGC treasurer, said that the new election system was "the cheapest way to have a secure election." This raises ques- tions: Why was last year's election one of the most controversial in SGC history, even though the cost was ..ary in s.ahln ha of ho nrvi, were so contested that the results had to be examined by Central Student Judiciary (CSJ). CSJ fin- ally decided that the charges of fraund were not adequately sub- stantiatedeand the election was validated. The new system involves the mailing of identification stickers to all 30,000 students on campus. The mailing, at first class rates, will cost about $2,400. The poten- tial voter will then put one stick- er on his registration card, which will also be mailed. The other sticker will be "stored" on the voters ID card. Ballots will be distributed all over the campus. According to Schaper, there can be no fraud be- cause the ballot will be valid only when a sticker is attached. The voter will be able to mark the ballot in the "comfort" of a classroom and then drop it off at a ballot box when finished. A fur- ther check against fraud will be a receipt taken from the voter at the polling station. All this for the meager cost of $9,000, which Schaper says "is worth it" for an "honest election." The cost, says Schaper, have grown due to aynumber of factors. First, there has been inflation. But the 15 per cent rise is insignifi- cant to the 125 per cent rise in election costs in the last two years. There are other costs involved in running the elections. SGC pays up to $50 of the campaign costs for each presidential campaign and up to $30 for each council member costs. According to Scha- per, this enables students "with- out financial means" to run for office. However, a candidate must garner a set minimum of the vote to get reimbursed. In addition, there is an elec- tions director who receives $200. for his services and four assistants at $50 per person. This is the first year in which four assistants will be used. Previously, there was only one. With costs rising all around us, it would not be surprising that an SGC election might cost more now than two years ago. But a 125 per cent increase in the name of security is a bit too much to swallow. Not only must we now examine the effective- ness of this election process but also its worth. 4 ,' Letters to The Daily >,- .. 'i ?' s, II I .f I ''"" Anon anon To The Daily: IN THE Sept. 7 Daily CUL- TURE section I saw Anon describ- ed as "the English department's annual journal." Although t h e magazine has many friends, con- tributors and past editors assoc- iated with the English department, Anon is not exclusively affiliated with any department in the Uni- versity. We welcome submissions of fic- tion, poetry and art from anyone. We begin accepting material for our April issue in November. Our editorial address is: Anon 444 Mason Hall -Warren Jay Hecht Co-editor Sept. 7 would have mentioned that t h e University's executive officers turned the plan down on July 6. The proposal was not killed out- right, however. So, it is s tl i II possible that a flat fee for health care services will eventually be instituted, entitling students to use virtually all Health Service facil- ities at no additional cost. -Rob Bier Sept. 7 (et involved-- write your reps! Sen. Philip Hart (Dem), rm. 253. Old Senate Bldg., Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. 20515. Sen. Robert Griffin (Rep), Rm. 353 Old Senate Bldg., Cap- itol Hill, Washington. D.C. -- ~.j 51 I~MI4J~ ~Jfi~1 W~ i