Campaigning 4t Arisan a&A" 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. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1972 The Silversein saga THE DISCOVERY of Student Govern- ment Council member Joel Silver- stein in Pacific Grove, Calif. is not shock- ing in itself. After all, another member, Marty Scott, lives in Detroit and attends Wayne State University, and a third, Mi- chael Davis, lives in Cleveland. SGC sent a letter to each of the long- distance members asking whether they wished to retain their seats. Scott and Davis replied they would remain on Council. However, there was no reply from Silverstein. Consequently, his seat was declared vacant on September 19. Shocking, however, were the telegrams that have since been sent from Winni- peg, Canada, bearing Silverstein's name. One sent to SGC and another sent to The Daily clearly had led people to believe that Silverstein was backpacking in Can- ada and would return to his SGC seat in three weeks. BUT THE REAL shocker is that Silver- stein was not in Canada at all. The Daily was informed of his whereabouts by one of his numerous friends who knew where he was. It took less than a half hour to find him, and that he wants to stay on SGC, after that. He is listed in the Pacific Grove phone direc- tory. Yet, SGC President Bill Jacobs could not, or at least said he could not, find Silverstein after a month-long search. It is not difficult to find motivations for Jacobs' laxity. With Silverstein's seat vacant, and Scott and Davis voting, Ja- cobs would be in a good position to fill the vacant seat with a member of his own GROUP party - to replace Silver- stein. If, on the other hand, Scott and Davis were off Council, GROUP would lose much of its power to the competing Responsible Alternative Party. IF SGC cannot even locate its own mem- bers, there is a real question as to what they can do. Perhaps, Silverstein is right, "I can represent the students (on SGC) from here (in ~'California) just as well as there." -ROBERT BARKIN By PAUL TRAVIS "IF ONE votes for any of the other candidates, especially the t w o major ones, it is a racist vote," Thomas Dennis says. Thomas Dennis is a black middle- aged Communist waging what is sure to be a losing battle for the U.S. Senate in Michigan. Dennis argues that his "long involve- ment in people's struggles" makes him a better candidate than Human Rights Party candidate Barbara Hal- pert. "I'm not a middle class subur- banite," he says. During the McCarthy era Dennis was followed, bugged and threatened. In the early fifties, as a full-time Communist Party worker, hefwas in- dicted under the Smith act. "We were indicted for conspiring to teach and advocate the violent overthrow of the government. It was a thought control charge," he contends. Dennis still complains of police har- assment, telephone tapping, and FBI tails. "There were times when neith- er I nor my wife could leave the house without 'company'." DENNIS' campaign is aimed at the working class and young people. He really doesn't expect to win. He is just hoping to get enough votes so the party will be granted a plac ballot next year. He says it was only whent the "CP that I really begant stand the big contributions history the black people have this country. I also began the real reasons behind racis "It also surprised me to f people fighting for the rightsc It just wasn't done back the nis comments. Now, Dennis is shocked by nomic conditions in the state igan is facing the prospect o ing the next Appalachia." "The hardest hit is the you 40 per cent of the black you of work. Most of them neve job and have no prospect of ting one," he says. But neither this issue, no: outspoken opposition to the w CIA and to the FBI are like him many votes. "You can't solve the pro the people with capitalism. ism exists for profits, not Dennis contends. As of yet,] voters have not demonstrat finity for Communism. In as went overwhelmingly for W. May, it is doubtful that ma munist voters will emerge tb commie' ca e on the Dennis hopes his compaign is serv- ing an educational purpose. If elected he joined he could use his office as a focus for to under- issues. "The media, which has been and the ignoring me so far, will be unable if made to I am elected." to learn But the establishment, and even un- sm." derground, media are ignoring Den- Ind white nis. Most of the media would x ather of blacks. not use up copy space on a "sure en," Den- loser" - especially when the Human Rights Party is much more in the the eco- news as the third party of record. e. "Mich- f becom- NONETHELESS; Dennis continues his campaign, knocking his oppon- uth. 30 to ents, especially Democratic candidate ith is out Frank Kelley and incumbent Republi- t had a o can Robert Griffin. For them he has ever get- these words: Griffin: "Bought and paid for can- r Dennis' didate of the auto industry. His con- 'ar, to the tribution list reads like a Who's Who ly to win of industry. He has taken over the blems of b of fanning racism from NAG and Capital- people," Kelley: "We call him Jelly Kelley. Michigan He has no backbone, nothing. He's a ed an af- gutless wonder." 4 its capitalism state that allace in any Com- his fall. Paul Travis is a Daily associate managing editor. Government hy manager :. THE CITY MANAGER-city council or- ganization of municipal government has been, for the last decade or so, prais- ed by everyone from high school civics teachers to, oddly enough, the city man- agers themselves. The original concept put forth by good government groups was to remove the conduct of city affairs from the hands of hack mayor-politicians dispensing cor- ruption-ridden patronage and to place municipal affairs in the hands of a pro- fessional city manager or administrator. Counterbalancing the city manager would be a popularly elected city council of "city fathers" who would make the major policy decisions and act on the recommendations of the city manager. The city manager would be responsible to the city council which could remove him if, in a crunch, it came to that. The whole thrust of the city manager- city council type of government has been to lift city affairs out of the gutter of po- litics to the clean and efficient plateau of business. Efficiency ' production and professionalism would become the goals of city government. Municipalities would be run like American businesses and the most would be gotten out of each tax dol- lar. For many medium-sized cities the city manager-city council system worked very well in enabling them to meet the mount- ing demands on city governments and the services they provided. 'HOWEVER, as the administrative role became more important and the technical aspects of running a city more complex, the role of the city administra- Editorial Staff SARA FITZGERALD Editor PAT BAUER .............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, Ted Stein. COPY EDITORS: Diane Levick, Jim O'Brien, Charle Stein, Marcia Zoslaw. DAY EDITORS: Dave Burhenn, Daniel Jacobs, Jim Kent'ch, Marilyn Riley, Nancy Rosenbaum, Judy Ruskin, Paul Ruskin, Sue Stephenson, Karen Tink- lenberg, Becky Warner. ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS:, Susan Brown, Jim Frisinger, Matt Gerson, Nancy Hackmeier, Cindy Hill, John Marston, Linda Rosenthal, Eric Schoch, Marty Stern, David Stoll, Doris Waltz. Business Staff ANDY GOLDING Business Manager BILL ABBOTT ............Associate Business Manager H ARRY HIRSCH..............Advertising Manager FRANCINE SCHERGER ...........Personnel Manager DIANE CARNEVALE ..... . ............. Sales Manager PAUL WENZLOFF ............... Promotions Manager STEVE EVSEEFF ................ Circulation Manager DEPARTMENT MANAGERS, ASSOCIATES, AND AS- SISTANTS: William Blackford, Sherry Kastle, Ray Catalino, Linda Coleman, Jim Dykema, Sandy Fien- berg, L'Tanya Haith, Dave Lawson, Elliot Legow; STAFF AND TRAINEES: Joan Ades, Easat Ali, Dawn Bare, Michele Becker, Roy Chernus, Linda Cycow- ski, Donald East, Michele Engel, Harriet Erlick, Deborah Geistein, Gregg Gunnel, Bo Hartrick, Nancy Karp, Cynthia Kaufman, Alan Klein, Steve LeMire, Beryl Levine, Jon Licht, Mike Luerich, Joyce Mc- Clendon, Carol Meyer, Paula Schwach, Valerie Sief- man, Ton Slykhouse, Edward Stieg, John Totte, Darai Voss, Debra WegIarz. Jonnie williams. San- tor, like that, of other technocratic-ad- ministrative roles in other areas, has be- come more and more important and dom- inating. The members of the city coun- cils have become increasingly inclined to act as a rubber stamp for the city mana- ger's recommendations. Command of the city bureaucracy and the technical knowledge to run .the city have given the administrator a great ad- vantage over those popularly elected members of the city council who suppos- edly are to make the real decisions. A member of a city council can ask a city administrator if there is an alterna- tive to the action or policy that the man- ager has proposed. The administrator can pause, look like he has countless prob- lems and headaches on his mind then say no, there is no alternative. The coun- cil member is left with that answer. Although the city manager-city council system may be an efficient way to run a city, city council members find themsel- ves at an ever-increasing disadvantage, as the administrative post involves greater technical experience and a more intimate knowledge of the workings of city government. IT IS VITAL therefore, that members of a city council - including, of course, ours - be both able, and more important, be willing to challenge and question the basis of administrative recommendations and decisions.f If the seats on City Council are filled with those who refuse to do so, then whatever voice the community has in the conduct of city affairs is lost. -FRED SHELL What's new at the nearby 'U'? BY NOW 122 students at Eastern Michi- gan University have been notified of their suspension from the university for failure to comply with a notably archaic housing ordinance that -requires fresh- men and sophomores to live in dormitor- ies. Only freshmen and sophomores who are over 21 (or who are married, are vet- erans, or live with their parents) are ex- empted from this regulation. However, the age of majority in this state is now 18 rather than 21. Eighteen-year-olds who legally have all the rights and res- ponsibilities of adults certainly should have the right to choose their living quar- ters at a state-supported institition such as EMU. Eastern Michigan has ignored the cur- rent change in the age of majority sim- ply because the university stands to gain financially by requiring sophomores and freshmen to live in university housing. A CHANGE in housing policy that would allow students 18 and over to choose their place of residence would not result in a mass migration from the dormitories. At our own university, for example, . . .... ...b .. 1...,v. .sl w i it n f n JACK ANDERSON Wheat crop may oust Soviet chief WASHINGTON - Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev may soon face serious political opposition in the Kremlin, according to a recent intelligence report. The late Nikita Khrushchev was ousted as Soviet premier after a bad harvest and a dispute over Mideast policy. Now another bad harvest and a setback in the Mideast has shaken the authority of Brez- hnev, Khrushchev's successor. Brezhnev is counting on negotiating a highly favorable comprehen- sive trade agreement with the United States to revive Russia's sagging economy, which according to the CIA is in far worse shape than the U.S. press has so far reported. Brezhnev's moves toward the United States have angered his con- servative opponents in the Kremlin. Unlike Khrushchev, Brezhnev has been able to downgrade some of these critics, but he has not silenced them all. A secret CIA report reveals that a showdown in the Kremlin could come at a meeting of the Central Committee this week. Meanwhile, White House aides tell us President Nixon has decided to delay a second round ,of disarmament talks with the Russians until after the election for fear of angering big labor at home. The President, we are told, wants to avoid reminding voters - especially in California - that the SALT talks may eventually mean more job cutbacks for defense workers. SLOOPING Republicans are chortling over newspaper accounts that Senators Ted Kennedy and John Tunney recently spent four days aboard a sloop with two lovely ladies who definitely were not their wives. The story appeared in the Manchester Uigion Leader. Kennedy's companion was identified as Mrs. Amanda Burden, a pretty, 28-year-old New York City socialite. In checking the story out, we talked personally to Senator Tunney who told us that Senator Kennedy was definitely not accompanied by Mrs. Burden. Tunney, himself, admitted he brought a lady friend, but at the time, he noted, his wife was filing for divorce. Since then, the two have been reconciled. To prove the story was overplayed, Tunney told us the senators were also accompanied, at least on part of the trip, by their 11-year- old sons. INTELLIGENCE REPORTS Priestly Disguise - Leaders of the Black September terrorist group have disguised their agents as Muslim and, Christian priests and sent them abroad with orders to kill top Jordanian leaders. A secret CIA report warns that Palestinian guerrillas may attempts to assassinate top Jordanian officials whenever they travel outside the country. AROUND THE U.S. FBI Rebuffed - Actor Marlon Brando has ordered his lawyer to take legal action, if necesary, to stop the FBI from snooping into his private affairs. Brando has never committed any crimes nor supported any subversive causes, but the FBI nonetheless has kept a file on him. For some unknown reason, the FBI has spent more time investigating Brando, the movie godfather, than many real-life godfathers. POW Gimmicks - POW wives are complaining to us that rock con- cert promoters, door-to-door solicitors and even cemetery owners are trying to use the wives to line their own pockets. The standard gimmick is to advertise that the enterprise featuring the wives will help the POW cause although frequently the promoters keep most, if not all, the profits. Copyright 1972, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc. MOOSEHEAD? It seems I've heard "He was the very mo-del of a mo-dern ma-jor gen-er-al !" Letters to The Daily Abortion bandwagon? To The Daily: AFTER SEVERAL LONG years of exposure to pro-abortion argu- ments and advocates (including Gloria Steinem fans), I find myself in the uncomfortable position of being completely unconvinced. In most ways I am a good enough liberal, and practically all of my friends have jumped on the abor- tion bandwagon, but I dawdle. The pro arguments about im- proving the quality of life (espe- cially that of the prospective mo- ther) and lowering the popula- tion of unwanted children would serve just as well to justify infan- ticide or general elimination of burdesnome people such as the aged or insane. Certainly an unwanted pregnan- cy can be tragic; certainly it would be nice if a woman could always have control over her own body. But the real question is whether a fetus is a person. If it is, then it is immoral to kill it. If it is not a person, then we must find some transition point where it be- comes one, since a baby is a per- son. At some point this mass of cells acquires a morally relevant prop- erty that makes it wrong to kill it. No one has succeeded to my satis- faction in finding this property; most women six months pregnant are quite sure that it is, indeed, a baby in their belly. When I ask myself, "When did I begin?" I do not say "The mo- ment I popped from the womb" or "The moment I began to kick" or "The moment I stopped looking like a lizard fetus." The only answer that seems right to me is, "I began at con- ception, when the two germ cells united to yield my unique chromo- some complement." T- -... - .3 I personally feel that anyone who can so willingly embrace such con- venient generalizations as "As al- ways, men view women solely as physical objects . . .", etc., de- serve to remain ignorant, with all the misery that will attend. But they do not deserve to-be able to peddle their half-baked philosophies with impunity, in the guise of a constructive enterprise, to others who may unfortunately be suscep- tible. May the readers of Her-self be advised of the extreme bias of its editor, if the title does not al- ready indicate that. I have a suggestion: why don't the relevant women's organizations employ a determined quota' of qual- ified men? This is liable to not only add some muscle and organi- zation to their efforts, but to dis- courage the tendency for e a c h legitimate cause to deteriorate in- to a narcissistic exercise in pole- mics, which is now so evident. --Aaron B. Corbet, '73 Sept. 23 TV outrage? To The Daily: YES, things are hard all over! It certainly was a "TV Outrage" to miss the last three minutes of "Columbo" as countless thousands, maybe even millions of martyrs were created. Yes, isn't it as you say, a callous world we live in when we can't even see the last three minutes of a TV show? - The truth of the matter is, that WWJ-TV, acting in the public in- terest, did in fact show the last three minutes of this vitally im- portant TV show during the wea- ther portion of the news. Nevertheless, we're quite proud of the moral outrage that you ex- pressed over such a serious, press- ing matter. Who knows, maybe since they've started editing such "Columbo"). That's happened to me too, darn annoying. After working for a TV station, I know what happens. Had the storm warning run any later, they would have had to preempt com- mercials - which would have cost them money. Those warnings ran all evening. WWJ's excuse was pretty weak. All TV stations get warnings at the same time. I know Channel 7 did not cut into their show. The dollar always wins. -George Johnston September 20 'Whining' editorial To The Daily: I FIND it disheartening t h a t your editorial director, Lindsay Chaney, should become so dis- traught over a weather bulletin in- terrupting a television program that he would call for revoking the station's license. If informing the public of a se- vere weather warning is, as Chan- ey suggests, "against public in- terest", then perhaps, he would prefer no intrusions to his view- ing and the next time, say, a tor- nado is in the. area he can be blown to oblivion with his eyes still transfixed to the electronic box. An editorial director, who be- comes so infuriated over an inter- rupted televisioin program is (again in Chaney's own words), "exhibiting callous disregard" for his, readers (on purely selfish grounds) and does not deserve the space to whine about it. -Donald Kubit Sept. 19 rr that line before.* *0 By BILL LEAVITT SELECTIONS from the An- thology of Great Univer- sity of Michigan One-liners. "I know this reading list looks long, but some of the books are quite short-take War and Peace for example . . "I want this class to be loosely run, with a lot of feedback and you students in control-now here are ing for the course, and I came across your article in ..." "Hey that's amazing, I'm from Moosehead, Maine too, I can't be- lieve we've never met . .. "Have you got a quarter for some shampoo? ." "That is a good question and I'd like to return to it later . .." "What is your ID number? . .. "No, I've never been proposition- ed at the UGLI, why do you ask- hey wait a minute ...