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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1972
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Vote Postill for Sheriff
FOR EIGHT YEARS now Sheriff Doug-
las Harvey has been running the
Sheriff's Department like a medieval fief-
dom. He has shown little respect for the
law and even less for the human rights
and civil liberties of the very citizens he
is supposed to be protecting.
Harvey's administration has been rid-
dled with scandal. His numerous stunts
ranging from the blatantly illegal to
those involving a more hazy kind of
dishonesty which often characterizes the
administrations of people who are out of
their intellectual depth.
For example:
" Harvey has put both his son and
his wife on the county payroll-his son
as a deputy sheriff, his wife as a jail ma-
tron - at a cost to the county of over
$20,000 per year;
* Harvey has surrounded himself with
fancy equipment, such as $8,500 automo-
biles, While ordering, for alleged budget-
ary reasons, reduced patrols in the out-
lying areas of the county;
" Harvey has attempted to establish
a so-called Intelligence Squad to spy on
student activists and minority groups.
(He was fortunately thwarted in his
scheme by a vocal public outcry);
" Harvey has spent his time attending
conferences in Hawaii and elsewhere, on
County money, but no talking with the
p'eople of the county - many of whom
never see their sheriff from one election
to the next;
*Harvey's campaign workers have
used tactics of intimidation against peo-
ple who refuse to support his candidacy.
(A towing company which didn't want
to get politically involved lost its towing
business with the sheriff's department.
One elderly woman was threatened by a
campaign worker because she had a
poster for a rival candidate in her win-
dow);
O For all his law and order rhetoric,
Harvey bungled the co-ed murder inves-
tigation so consistently that the Gover-
nor was finally forced to order the State
Police to take charge of the case;
" Harvey has established a parliamen-
tary network of over 200 part-time depu-
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SARA FITZGERALD
Editor
PAT BATER...... ........ Associate Managig Editor
LINDSAY CHANEY. . . Editorial Director
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ties, all of them armed, who police pub-
lic events without any of the training
required for police officers. He has depu-
tized dozens of other local residents as
a political favor, and these men too are
allowed to carry weapons;
* Harvey has more than doubled the
Sheriff's Department budget but failed
to bring about any reduction in crime;
0 Harvey has unlawfully sold recover-
ed stolen property to his daughter and
overseen a sheriff's department where
respect for the law concerning stolen
property seems minimal. His acts have
been called illegal by the county prose-
cutor; and
* Harvey has been uncommunicative
at best with minority groups and young
people in the county. His retinue of jokes
include dozens of racial slurs. His reac-
tions against student demonstrators
have often been brutal and unnecessary
in maintaining peace.
IT IS without any hesitation, therefore,
that we find ourselves unable to en-
dorse Sheriff Harvey for four more years
of brutality, lawlessness, and stupidity.
We find ourselves opposed to the Sher-
iff not only for these reasons but because
of his political affiliation. Although the
Sheriff has been elected in the past on
the Democratic ticket, this year he runs
as an American Independent Party mem-
ber - the party of George Wallace
which is here heavily under the influence
of the John Birch Society.
We are left with two alternatives. The
first is Undersheriff Harold Owings, a
Republican who has served Harvey faith-
fully for many years. Owings has never
spoken out publicly against the Sheriff,
and his late murmurings of discontent
seem hollow in the heat of the campaign.
The remaining choice is Frederick
Postill, a former deputy fired by Harvey
for Union organizing, rehired for im-
proper dismissal and then fired again
for insubordination. Postill is a graduate
student in sociology,. specializing in
criminology, at Eastern Michigan Univer-
sity, a liberal who says he will not chase
after marijuana law violators. Further
more, Postill promises to clean out the
cobwebs in the Sheriff's Dept., make it
more open to public scrutiny, and give
equal opportunity to women and blacks.
HIS NEWSPAPER unequivocably en-
dorses Frederick Postill for Sheriff.
We believe that he will clean-up Harvey's
mess and that he will make the Sheriff's
Department more responsive to the needs
of the public.
Unlike Undersheriff Owings, we can
believe Postill when he talks of the need
for change and we are enthusiastic
about his willingness to involve youth
and minorities in the process of law en-
forcement.
The voters of this county have their
first opportunity in a long time Nov. 7
to rid themselves of a Sheriff so corrupt
that he has become the living epitome
of everything a cop should not be. In his
place, we believe, Fred Postill will be a
welcome change.
This endorsement represents the majority
opinion of The Daily's editorial stiff.
This is the first in a series of articles dis-
cussing academic reform - including both
faculty and student problems-in the liter-
ary college.
By TED STEIN ,
LUDICROUS AS IT may seem, chemis-
try Prof. Mark Green doesn't know
what the departmental committee review-
ing his suspension is all about.
A lot of other people are in the dark too.
As the committee nears its second week of
meeting, even it seems confused about
how to proceed with this unprecedented
case.
On Tuesday, therefore, Green and his
attorney in the case, law Prof. Robert
Burt, met with the committee for two hours
to find out some basics about the commit-
tee investigation and ask for certain funda-
mental legal rights.
Burt, on behalf of Green, asked the com-
mittee to:
-Clarify just what it is enquiring into;
-Define more clearly its powers and to
whom it will make recommendations; and
-Grant Green the right to confront wit-
nesses and cross-examine them.
At stake in all of this is a fair hearing
in which everyone involved will feel they
have been accorded due process.
YET THE CONFUSION over what the
committee is about runs deep. Burt said
after his conference with the committee
that he felt "by the end of the discussion,
that they decided they were the court."
A megber of the four-professor, three-
student chemistry department committee,
Prof. John Groves, yesterday emphatical-
ly disagreed.
"I think we are relatively solid that we
are not a tribunal, or the lowest court," he
said.
What has plagued the committee from
the first is the lack of guidelines govern-
ing its creation and proceedings.
As Groves says, "The committee was
essentially given carte blanche power to
proceed as it sees fit. The only restraints
are things outlined in the letter from Dean
Rhodes."
Groves is referring to an Oct. 10 memo-
randum from literary college Dean Frank
Rhodes to Dunn requesting that the chem-
istry faculty create "an ad hoc department-
al committee to review Professor Green's
performance . . in cornection with
Chemistry 227,.
"The heirt of the matter is the corres-
pondence between Dunn and, Green. The
rest (interviews) is jist to give us per-
spective on that correspondence," he
added.
Although Groves pointed out that one of
he committee's recommendations would
protests .too much. It seems to be more con-
cerned with the witnesses, than with those
directly involed in the committee's judge-
ment-namely, Green and Dunn.
Moreover, if Green wins the right to face
his accusers, the witness will lose his cloak
of confidentiality. But then again in
Green's case, an entire career is threat-
ened.
Secondly, we're talking about an ad hoc
in-house committee - which means that
on two counts it may be too close for com-
fort to the situation at hand.
A FAIRER COMMITTEE would have
been a permanent body drawn from a much
wider jurisdiction - the college, or even
University at large.
Because there are objections to the com-
mittee and its procedures does not neces-
sarily mean that a fair decision is not
forthcoming. As Burt puts it, "I think they
want to be fair, they're just not sure how
to be."
But even if the hearing is in fact merely
a grand jury probe, the people involved
in the case deserve the legal trappings
of "due process".
If the committee does not honor Green's
requests, the validity of its judgment is
jeopardized.
Moreover, even if just recommendations
come out of the committee's investigation it
must be careful not to set a poor precedent
for similar cases in the future.
As it now stands, it is necessary for ev-
eryone to "assume good will," as one com-
mitee member says, on behalf of the com-
mittee.
.This is a strange premise for a hearing,
no matter how preliminary.
As the overwrought, yet applicable adage
goes, "The road to hell is paved with good
intentions.'
Ted Stein is a ni h/ editor for The Daily.
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Chemistry Prof. Mark Green
Rhodes instructed that no- one "closely
involved" in the case be on the commit-
tee, but that it paradoxically should report
to Dunn - who is a primary player in
the Green drama.
FROM DISCUSSIONS, however, with
members of the committees over the past
few days it is apparent that they will make
their recommendations to the chemistry
faculty at large.
Furthermore, according to Groves, and
another member, chemistry Prof. Peter
Smith, the primary goal for the committee
is to find out the facts of the situation
which gave rise to Green's suspension.
Both liken the committee to a grand
jury. "We'll decide whether there will be
a hearing or a trial, says Smith. Our
strongest recommendation may be that cer-
tain policies of the University be quali-
fied."
not be to fire Green, Burt told the body
Tuesday that it in fact "has the power to
ask the chemistry faculty to reassign him
and that the faculty generally acts on re-
commendations from a fact-finding com-
mittee.
Thus, the grand jury analogy, according
to Burt, is not valid. Hence, Green must
have basic legal rights.
EVEN IF WHAT GREEN has proposed
is granted, and certainly clarification is
desperately needed, there are other rea-
sons for attacking the committee.
First, it's hearings are closed and its
evidence is confidential. The committee, of
course, argues that those who testify woul=I
not do so if the hearings were open, and
that rumors which the committee would
reject might gain currency.
Both of these arguments have merit, but
it seems that in this case the committee
iI
HRP dE
By MATTHEW ROBBINS
IN LAST Thursday's issue of The
Daily a local Democrat, Tom
Wieder, accused the Human Rights
Party of hypocrisy with regard to
taxation. Specifically, the author
claimed HRP could not both be in
favor of a steeply graduated in-
come tax and opposed to the so-
called BEST-proposal circulated by
the Democratic Party. In fact,
quite the opposite was true: non-
support for the BEST proposal was
the most principled position HRP
could have taken.
Whilethe author goes into a de-
tailed and tedious description of
this tax proposal, it is precisely
when he comes to its most signifi-
cant features that confusion sets in.
Essentially, the BEST-proposal was
an attempt to combine in one re-
ferendum a limitation on the use
of the property tax with the adop-
tion of a graduated income tax.
While one might question the pro-
priety of combining these two dis-
tinct issues in one proposal, t h e
Human Rights Party's objections
were the nature of the income tax
that would be instituted.
ACCORDING to this proposal a
minimum rate of 0.1 per cent is
charged to the first $1,000 of tax-
abzle income and an additional .05
per cent for each additional $2,000
of income up to $25,000. So the
reader can see how "progressive"
this proposal is, let us use the same
of thing the wealthy routinely use
fen ds it
rate to 1 per cent. Using this basic
rate a person with $1,000 income
would have a 1 per cent rate, some-
one with $15,000 income would have
a 4.5 per cent rate, and someone
with $25,000 income would have a
rate structure and raise the basic
tax rate of 6.5 per cent.
In addition, the proposal made
no provision for increasing the tax
s position on tax reform
es. Therefore, persons in higher in-
come brackets would probably pay
even less than this Basic rate struc-
ture suggests.
IN ADDITION, this particular
rate structure would, if it had
passed, been frozen into the state
constitution. Let me quote from
the proposal section entitled Grad-
uated Income Tax. -
"If Proposal D does pass, it will be tip to the
legislature to enact a specific graduated income
tax. Here, HRP has a specific proposal-one
that begins with the call for a 100 per cent tax
on all income over $50,000.. .."
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With the failure this year of the
Michigan Marijuana Initiative and
the BEST-proposal to gather enough
signatures, one can see just how
difficult the petition is. Indeed,
if the Democratic Party with tens
of thousands of members and a full
time bureaucracy cannot manage
it, then what chance have ordinary
citizens got. Of course, this as-
sures the Dems actually made a
serious attempt to get the BEST-
proposal on the ballot.
HRP THEN, had two objections
to thisproposal. First, we held
that it was not a particularly pro-
gressive rate structure. Second,
we said that by freezing this rate
structure into the constitution, po-
pular demand for a steeper grad-
uated rate would be blunted. By
requiring a constitutional amend-
ment it would be several t i m e s
harder to gain any change at all.
Besides, politicians could t h e n
respond to demand for t a x re-
form by saying, "There's nothing
we can do, its in the constitution."
HRP does, however, support pro-
posal D which is on the ballot Nov.
7. If enacted, it would allow the
state legislature to formulate and
adopt a graduated income tax.
Thus, each year every member of
that body would have to go on
record as being for or against mak-
ing the income tax more progres-
sive, i.e., more steeply graduated.
AT THE END of his article, the
author criticizes HRP for not
knowing that the Dem state con-
vention also supported this pro-
posal. Well, allow me to congrat-
ulate them on joining HRP on this
question. Unfortunately, most
HRP activists (like most other peo-
ple), do not read the minutes of
the Dem state convention. Rather,
we read the literature our oppon-
ents distribute publicly. And, as
a trip to the local Dem campaign
headquarters will demonstrate, not
once is proposal D mentioned in
their literature, much less made the
topic of a special campaign. This
is a shame, since the open sup-
port of the Democratic Party might
supply just the needed margin for
the passage of proposal D.
If proposal D does pass, it will
be up to the legislature to enact
a specific graduated income tax.
Here, HRP has a specific propos-
al - one that begins with the call
for a 100 per cent tax on all in-
come over $50,000. That is, we
would like to use the tax system as
a method of achieving a more
equalitarian distribution of t h e
wealth. Would the Democrats sup-
port this 'plan? Who knows? Cer-
tainly not the Democrats. Judging
from our local Democrat's article,
they do not even know what they
have proposed in the past.
Matthew Robbins is an active
member of tfe Washtenaw Coun-
ty -Human Rights Party.
rate for incomes about $25,000.
That is, someone with a taxable in-
come of $500,000 would have the
same tax rate as someone with
$25,000 income.
Now, our local Democrat several
times loudly proclaims how "steep-
ly graduated" this tax proposal
was. Yet to apply such terms to
the above rate structure is utter-
ly ludicrous. Certainly, no signifi-
cant redistribution of income would
occur. But let the reader decide
for him/her self. Beware, how-
ever. This rate structure takes no
consideration of exemptions, write-
offs, and other loopholes; the kind
to avoid paying even minimal tax-
"The rates may be decreased or
increased by statute, but the same
multiple shall be applied to all of
them."
This means, for example, if one
wanted to double the tax rate for
incomes of $25,000 the tax rate
would have to be doubled for all
other income levels.
This fact, however, seems to have
escaped our local Democrat who
claimed these were only "the min-
imum rates of graduation" and
that the legislature could make the
rates even steeper.
Once this rate structure w a s
frozen into the constitution it could
only be changed by amendment,
principally the petition method.
Letters:
these di
To The Daily: ulcers, D
I'M ALWAYS AMAZED by the often di
power of Journalism; I'm amazed trition a
at how much can be said without
saying anything, or by simply omit- Ms. D
ting relevant information and tak- tion are
ing incomplete quotes out of con- styled r
text, Ms. Davis was made to look her und
like a foolish fadist. I believe that's Universi
called yellow journalism. Berkeley
Your reporter obviously took work at
pleasure in the fact that Adelle UCLA.
Davis, the nutrition expert who of Scien
lectured last week, was "slight- from th
ly overweight, poorly postured," Californ
and wearing glasses. He/she, how- hamtow
ever, neglected to mention the Ms. ham ho
Davis is 67 years old and in the
midst of a rigorous lecture tour. PERH
She was on the East Coast a few of Ms. D
days earlier and was in Ann reporter
Arbor at her own expense to bene- have me
fit the Co-op movement and share "Hundre
information with those who were quilizers
interested. is magi
Your reporter spoke of Ms. Dav- that inst
is as if she were a crusading treatmei
"quack" telling of miracles and easier a
wonder drugs, "haranguing to the rid of i
crowd as if she were at a travel- needs.
ing medicine show." In fact, the I'm re
traveling medicine and snack-pack er felt t
show is exactly why she has been dismiss
writing and lecturing about nutri- is coma
tion for some forty years. isThe only
T ihen
SHE HAS seen a whole country Aliment
Two views on Ade lle Davis
iseases such as arthritis,
MS, and heart disease are
rectly related to poor nu-
nd vitamin deficiencies.
Davis credentials in nutri-
slightly better than "self
nutrition expert." She did
ergraduate work at Purdue
ty, graduated from UC
y, and did postgraduate
Columbia University and
She received her Master
ce degree in biochemistry
he University of Southern
da Medical School and went
cork at Bellevue and Ford-
spitals in New York.
APS IN THIS light, some
)avis' statements, that your
so glibbly reproduced,
ore import. For example:
eds of people are on tran-
when all they really need
nasium." This is to say
tead of putting a band-aid
nt on tension, it would be
nd more -effective to get
t by balancing the body's
ally sorry that your report-
he need to be so cute and
the importance of Adelle
nd her cause; for the cause
on to all of us: good health.
y thing that I wish to com-
M. Gordon on was the
To The Daily:
THE RECENT Daily article de-
scribing Adelle Davis' brought out
some rather startling statements
which must be evaluated because
of the possible harm that may
come to persons who would opt for
one of her regimens for treatment
of disease states. In addition some
of her statements are simply unl
true.
She suggests that magnesium be
used in place of tranquilizers, es-
pecially in the case of the hyperac-
tive child. There are really two
issues here which need explica-
tion. Magnesium can be used for
central nervous system depression
in cases of seizures brought on
by certain kidney ailments and by
the pregnant state. In such cases
the patient must be monitored clin-
ically and chemically because an
excess of magnesium can cause
death by respiratory depression.
Magnesium is not indicated for
tranquilization -- there are drugs
which, when properly used, do this
job.
A second issue is concerned with
the choice of drugs for hyperac-
tive children. Some children, a
very few, have suffered neonatal
brain damage which causes be-
havoral disorders. These kids may
benefit from the use of certain
stimulants, not tranquilizers. The
drugs of choice, methylphenidate
Ms. Davis' statement about milk
is also somewhat suspect. Certain
individuals will produce mucus in
response to milk. This response
appears to be due to the genetic
makeup of the individual's sali-
very gland and is less likely to be
the result of some arcane problem
such as mother on the mind, al-
.though this cannot be ruled out.
Some of the other statements
that Ms. Davis made appear to be
the result of some rather short-
sighted thinking. One of her favor-
ite habits is to make general state-
ments about the efficacy of a cer-
tain vitamin or ion or whatever
based on her observation of that
entity being efficacious in one iso-
lated instance. Surely this type of
thinking is not productive in our
quest to gain a firmer understand-
ing of nutrition and its impact on
man.
-Mike Shea
Oct. 18
Kauffman ruling
To The Daily:
IT IS quite realistic for citizens
to express their concern for the
safety and welfare of women as a
result of the well publicized Kauff-
man decision.
Obscured in the confusion of co-
erage and interpretation is the fact
that the State Department of Health
under the direction of M. Reizen,
to exercise the authority of the
health department.
The standards require facilities
providing pregnancy termination
services to be staffed by licensed
physicians, qualified nursing per-
sonnel; they specifically prohibit
the use of coercion to force a n y
woman to terminate her pregnancy
or submit to sterilization; they pro-
tect physicians, nurses and other
health personnel from participation
in the procedure against their be-
liefs; and they require the facility
to have a back-up arrangement
with a hospital to handle any emer-
gency that may arise as a result
of, during or after the procedure.
The standards require evidence
of competency on the part of phy-
sicians and provision of respon-
sible health care to any woman
seeking heln with an unwanted
pregnancy. The intent of the stand-
ards is to protect Michigan women
from exploitation and medical in-
competence and to provide Michi-
gan women with an acceptable, ac-
cessible and available resource for
pregnancy termination, while at the
same time promoting pregnancy
prevention as the more desirable
alternative to the control of repro-
ductive activity.
Passage of Proposal B is an es-
sential, if Michigan is to have safe,
sane and economic pregnancy ter-
mination services.
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