By TED STEIN L The Coalition for the Use of tha Learning Skills (CULS) doesn't go eva in for- a lot of fanfare. In fact, por it moves so quietly, you barely "th know it's there. sup But it is. toi And according to many observ-T ers, this auxiliary service-which tim provides minority students with for special classes, counseling, study me groups and skills workshops-has me been highly successful. mi Just how successful may be de- on termined soon. can The literary college is presently Mc designing an ,evaluation of CULS co which should be completed by theT end of the year. exa CULS is treated as a depart- rec ment within the literary college. It ist primarily involves black students. ifo C h i c a n o s and underprivilegedA whites also participate. for Suporti SA Dean Frank Rhodes says proach more in tune at the survey, which will also perience. aluate the other minority sup- "We're not a bo rtive services, should point out ganization," Yates he best methods of academic "We're not trying pport" and the "ways we need students more like improve". rhe evaluation is particularly nely as this is the last year be- "We're not e the Fall, 1973 deadline for eting the University's commit- dents more ent to achieving a 10 per cent get the best nority enrollment. CULS was e of several programs that me out of the 1970 Black Action ovement strike which led to that """..... "" """". ammitment. dents in the Univer Therefore, this is a year of self- "But if you're gc amination for CULS. As its di- route of broadenin ctor Frank Yates puts it, "This sity," he says, "the the year we expect to find out staff will have to h our approach is a good one." range of experience. According to Yates, CULS seeks "We want them its students "a learning ap- students) to get the ee with their ex- otstrapping or- quickly warns. to make our the other stu- service education," adds Yates. CULS therefore includes: -Special course sections for En- glish 123, Math 115, and Math 105; -Special counseling, including four jointly - appointed CULS-LSA without anf are geared to the black experience, students in special course sections are given an opportunity to brush up on basic study skills - such as notetaking and studying for exams. Similarly the study groups, a bootstrapping organization. We're not trying to make our stu- like the other students in the University. We just want them to possible education." -CULS Director Frank Yates "We're encouraging people to come in and talk" and saying to them, "someone's 'in your cor- ner," comments one counselor. So far, the program appears to have won the kudos of adminis- trators and students alike. Rhodes says he is "encouraged with the start CULS has made." Vice President for Student Ser- vices Henry Johnson says CULS is "providing valuable assistance" to minority students. Lee Gill, head of the Council on Black Concerns, calls CULS "one of the most effective tools for blacks on this campus." Perhaps the strongest vote of confidence for CULS comes from its students. "I think it's a great course - it tells me about my heritage," says one student enrolled in a special English 123 section. k Another adds, "You get every- thing in this course - all the ba- sic English plus the regular course material." Despite the favorable views, CULS goes out of its way to avoid any public exposure and discour- ages the press from printing stor- ies about it. CULS policy, in fact, forbids any- one in the program, except Yates and a few designated people, to discuss the program with report- ers. Yates says that if CULS catches the University's eye, opposition from faculty and administrative ranks might ?be stirred up, thus upsetting what he terms CULS' "precarious balance" within the University. Another of Yates' fears is that the white community will attach See SUPPORTIVE, Page 7 sity." ing to go the g the Univer- n the teaching handle a wider (the minority best possible counselors this year; -Study groups, which meet after class to discuss various regular LSA courses; and -Skills workshops, which teach such things as the use of the slide rule. In addition to course material which include sessions in engi- neering, emphasize basic skills along with discussions of various regular LSA courses. The attitude emphasized in the special counseling also typifies the personal approach that CULS of- fers. TAX EXEMPT PRIVACY AND DISCRIMINATION See Editorial Page Y Sw 43ig~U :E3a~t4 PURGATORY High-68 Low-45 Partly cloudy and fair I Vol. LXXXIII, No. 14 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Friday, September 22, 1972 l en Cents Twelve Pages Anti-hijack bill passes Senate WASHINGTON (M - The Senate passed and sent to the House a tough anti-skyjacking bill yesterday providing for a new airport security police force, screening of all airline passengers, and the option of the death penalty for sky- jackers. Under the bill, the President would be given the authority to suspend service of a U.S. airline to a foreign country or service of a foreign airline to this country if: -A country aids, or harbors skyjackers, or is host to or aids terrorist groups who use air piracy as one of their prime weapons; -A country does not take adequate precautions to guard against skyjacking; or CAMPAIGN STOP: McGovern 11 n Detroit on ecoloy MOSCOW (P)-The United States and the Soviet Union agreed yes- terday on a series of joint projects to monitor and protect the world environment. Russell Train, the American dele- gation chief, said the agreement he signed with the Soviets at a brief ceremony was "the most comprehensive agreement on en- vironmental cooperation ever en- tered into by any two nations." The projects, on which both So- viet and American scientists will work, range from water pollution to earthquake forecasting, from wildlife protection to studies of the biological consequences of pollu- tion. Train, chairman of the White House Council on EnvironmentalI Quality, said results of the joint projects would be available to other countries. The agreement, actually a mem- orandum implementing. a Soviet- American accord signed in MoscowI by President Nixon May 23, pro- vides for "about 30 items" of co-' operation, Train said. Train listed what he said were the highlights of the agreement, saying, "None of these projects -have ever been undertaken be- fore." Joint studies of air pollution will' be established in St. Louis andj Leningrad.j An attempt will be made, Train. said, to, develop "joint compara- tive models" of air pollution and its control. A similar study of river basins will be conducted around the Del- - ware River on America's Easy Coast and a Russian river yet to7 See ACCORD, Page 12 -A country continues its service to another country which aids or abets skyjackers or sky terror- ists. The Senate vote was 75-1 to send the bill to the House with Sen. Harold Hughes (D-Iowa) voting against. He said he objected only to the death penalty option. The death sentence would be at the discretion of the jury if there is a skyjacking conviction. The other choice is a minimum sen- tence of 20 years. In a 5-4 decision last June, the Supreme Court declared the death penalty, as now administered gen- erally in the United States, to be unconstitutional. The court left the. door open for new death penalty laws that are applied uniformly. The bill's manager, Sen. Howard Cannon (D-Nev.) said he believ- ed, "that part of the alarming in- crease in hijacking has been the failure of the US. court system to: impose stiff penalties." The screening of all passengers would take place for at least a year with the federal government footing the bill for electronic wea- pons detection devices.I At the end of the year, the.Fed- eral Aviation Administration would review the program and decide1 to continue or modify it. If a passenger declined to be searched after being flagged by a} device, security police would have the authority to detain him and the airline could refuse him a seat. The new National Terminal po- lice force would be called the Airj Transportation Security Force, aI replacement for the sky marshal program which has been abandon- ed amid charges that it was inef- fective. The security police would alsof screen baggage and freight. The bill authorizes $35 million a year for the force in federal money. t Part of the failure to curb sky-1 jacking, said Sen. R i c h a r d Schweiker, (R-Pa.), was quarrel-r ing between airlines and the FAA1 as to who should pay for air tra- vel security.1 By making the federal govern- ment foot the bill, Schweiker said, this matter should be settled "once and for all." AP Photo Happy birthday to you Pope Paul VI gives a blessing outside the Vatican in Rome in honor of his upcoming birthday. He will turn 75 on Tuesday. POLITICAL GATHERINGS: Esc* Stempien speak here in local congressional race By MERYL GORDON and DEBRA THAL Special To The Daily DETROIT - Sen. George McGovern, looking strained and tired after two and a half weeks of non-stop cam- paigning, arrived in Detroit yesterday and received an enthusiastic reception from an invited audience of 150 leaders of the black commun- ity. It was McGovern's third visit to the state since Labor Day, and his second this week. He was accom- panied by his rival in the Demo- cratic primaries, Maine Sen. Ed- mund Muskie. McGovern stayed in Detroit ov- ernight. This morning he was scheduled to address trade union- ists at a breakfast meeting before leaving for Rochester, New York. In a fifteen minute speech to the blacks, who included politicians, clergymen and union leaders, Mc- Govern repeated much of his anti- President Nixon rhetoric of the past weeks, but did not mention the hottest political issue in Michigan - the busing of school- children -for racial integration. Neither did McGovern repeat the stand he took in Chicago earlier this week, when he gave support for tax credits for the parents of children who attend parochial schools. What McGovern did stress was his opposition to the Vietnam war, a theme he has been hitting more and more in recent days on the campaign trail. His audience reacted with plea- sure when he called for an end to sending blacks to die in Vietnam. "On Oct. 9, 1968, Richard Nixon said anyone who can't bring about a peace in Vietnam in four years doesn't deserve another chance," McGovern reminded the black leaders. "I agree he certainly doesn't de- serve another chance," McGov- ern said to prolonged applause. McGovern also hit what he called dishonesty in the President's handling of a recent increase in Social Security benefits. "In the next batch of Social Se- c.rity checks, recipients are go- ing to note an increase in bene- fits and they're going to get a note from the President implying that he was responsible for that in- crease," McGovern said. "I want to tell you that is a lie." He went on to tell the leaders that the 20 per cent increase was legislated by a Democratic-con- trolled Congress against the wish- es of President Nixon. McGovern also drew applause when he talked of the problems of the black aged, the neglect of schools in the central cities and the housing policies of the Nixon administration. See McGOVERN, Page 12 Daily Photo by TOM GOTTLIEB Sen. McGovern House approves Esch By JIM O'BRIEN A small, reserved crowd heard Representative Marvin Esch dis- cuss the issues of increased federal spending for education and the volunteer Army last night in Cou- zens Hall. Esch also touched on the subject of abortion, opposing its use as a method of population control. He stated that it should be "a decision between patient and physician." Declaring his support for day care facilities, Esch termed Presi- dent Nixon's veto of a bill providing federal funds for children's day care centers "totally regrettable." The few students who attended, the question-and-answer session re- peatedly asked for clarifications of Esch's position on unemployment and education-topics which occu- pied most of the night.I Esch argued against the use of property tax to support public edu- cation, and called for an increase in federal funding to cover at least 35 per cent of the cost of primary education. He blamed the high unemploy- ment rate in the state partly on aE decision by Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler to move their plants and close down production facili- ties here. Esch also said about unemploy- ment, "Our system of manpower retraining is not working." He went on, to describe his plan for more retraining facilities to be lo- cated in the communities where they are needed. The congressman described the problems of the inner cities as the most crucial facing the nation to- day. "Unless we take action on these problems, within four or five years they will swallow us up,' he said. One theme which ran through Esch Stempien By EUGENE ROBINSON Democrat Marvin Stempien, 2nd District candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives, used local appearances yesterday as an opportunity to lambast his Republi- can opponent, incumbent Marvin Esch. Stempien, currently the State House majority leader, speaking both in Livonia and in Ann Arbor labelled Esch's voting record "ex- tremely conservative, despite the congressman's attempts to create a moderate image." Stempien spoke here at an in- formal gathering of his campaign supporters, attended only by about 15 persons. Local followers claimed the Stempien campaign in the city was still in the process of organ- izing. Stempien said he fully supported the presidential candidacy of Dem- ocratic nominee George McGovern, and that he had supported the sen- ator since last May. He did, however, decline to fully support McGovern's stance on aid to parochial schools, and expressed See STEMPIEN, Page 12 foreign WASHINGTON (Al) - After voting down a proposed $1 billion cut, the House last night passed a $4.2 billion appropriation bill for foreign air and related pro- grams and sent it to the Senate. The vote was 169-141. Nearly all the dollar slashing was proposed by Rep. Clarence Long (D-Md.) who said he sim- ply wanted to cut out most of the bill's $1 billion increase over last year's spending. The increase was roughly di- vided between extra military aid under the so-called Nixon Doc- trine for turning combat over to allies such as those in Indo- china, and extra money for in- ternational development loan in- stitutions. The House approved amend- ments to direct aid of not less than $350 million for Israel and to prohibit any aid for trade with the Soviet Union so long as it charges Jews high exit fees to emigrate. In proposing the 'cuts, Long attacked some of the basic no- M " aid bill, tions underlying American for- eign policy. "What we've got to learn is that dollars don't fight; we do," Long told the House. "You can- not give people the will to fight by pouring money in." As for the extra U. S. develop- ment dollars, Long contended, they go primarily to the rich abroad who know how to get them. "The great mass of the poor people all over the world are never touched by these aid pro- grams," he asserted. But the House shouted down by voice vote his efforts to cut $200 million off security aid and $571.6 million for direct U. S. de- velopment loans abroad and for the international development loan institutions. An amendment by Rep. John Dow (D-N.Y.) to cut another $192.3 million off military aid, particularly for Cambodia, also was rejected by voice vote. Lebanon Ibattles local Palestinian guerrillas By The Associated Press A Lebanese army patrol clash- ed with a group of Palestinian guerrillasayesterday, a daytafter Arab mediation efforts were said to have achieved a compromise between Lebanon and the guer- rillas. Reports reaching Cyprus said two army soldiers and one guer- rilla were shot in the exchange of fire in a village 80 miles south Jerusalem moved to crack a sus- pected plot of counter-terrorism against Arab diplomats as the Is- raeli diplomat killed in a Pales- tinian murder-by-mail campaign was laid in his grave. Government M i n i s t e r Haim Gvati eulogized Ami Shachori, the official killed by a parcel bomb in Israel's London embas- sy Tuesday, and said the Pales- tinian terrorist war has become ( i t c 't I 3 t I t 1 New twist in teaching Stempien COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL By CHARLES STEIN To some of us, the term "high school" conjures up memories of a rigid and stifling environment we were forced to endure for four long years be- fore coming to college. But to the students of Ann Arbor's Community High School, the repressive atmosphere associated with most American high schools must seem as far removed as the Dark Ages. 0- --o n oer thn anv- h xx--nprind, Open for the first time this fall, Community was created on a purely voluntary basis. Both students and teachers who wanted to attend had to apply for transfers from their old schools. Any student who wished to come was accepted, but teachers had to go before a 24-member screen- ing panel, eight members of which were stu- dents. "We asked them questions about their teaching nhinsnnhv and rioeentedi them with a lot of hvno.. r~1,,~e~ih~r~,r~ nrR~nt~ tb~ x..h ...o..f..vo.-