94C 3A1rc4an Daihu Eighty-two years of editorial freedom Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan 'U' and. war research: Still friends 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Mich. News Phone: 764-0552 Editorials printed in The Michigan Doily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1972 Dem chair goes to Strauss JJST NOVEMBER 7, Richard Nixon and his 46 million supporters put a halt to the insurgent left wing of the Demo- cratic Party. The Democratic National Committee's nomination of R o b e r t Strauss as its new party chairman last Saturday could mark the next major step in the McGovern wing's slide back into obscurity. Born out of the debacle of Chicago four long years ago, the Democratic re- form movement surprised and bewild- ered America last year with its power. While Edmund Muskie was following the traditional path of big labor and big name support, George McGovern was playing by the new rules, success in the primaries and the local conventions. Un- der the new reform rules the Democratic convention in July had more blacks,, wo- men and other previously under-repre- sented segments of society than ever be- fore. And they had the party's nominee in George McGovern. ONE OF THE senator's first acts was to appoint Jean Westwood as party chairwoman, and it was at her that the wrath of the Democratic oldliners was directed after the election. Old pros like Hubert Humphrey and George Meany laid blame at the feet of Westwood and demanded her ouster. But their real tar- gets were the recently enacted Demo- cratic reforms, which had reduced the power of the party politicians consider- ably. Westwood was able to beat back a di- rect ouster vote Saturday, but quickly resigned in the interests of party unity. Named to replace her was Strauss, a for- mer party treasurer and a moderate-to- conservative politically. And although Strauss declared Saturday he would not tolerate "or condone a turning back of the clock on reforms," it is safe to say that the close friend of John Connally has not been in the vanguard of political reform. ADMITTEDLY it is too early to tell whe- ther the reforms will survive or not. Nevertheless, it is clear the new leader- ship of the Democratic Party is not go- ing to push hard for participatory de- mocracy in decision-making. -WILLIAM ALTERMAN By REBECCA WARNER WHAT DO high University officials do when they approve of war-related re- search and want its money on campus, but find their position is not popular with most faculty and students? For several years large numbers of stu- dents and faculty at the University have struggled to rid the campus of involve- ment in war research. January 1, 1973 will mark the deadline for severance of Willow Run Laboratories, the chief seat of the University's classified research. BUT OPPONENTS of classified research here find the trends in University pol- icy which underlie the University's past policy on research have changed little, in- wardly or outwardly. Faculty and students attempting to blow the whistle on weapon system research continue to run up against firm philosophi- cally-based resistance from University officials. One of the most recent faculty mem- bers to say "no" to the procedures sur- rounding the continuation of classified research here was history Prof. Ernest Young. Young was invited to join the Senate Assembly's Classified Research Committee last summer but ran into a number of contradictions involving h i s opposition to classified research and re- striction of his power as a committee mem- ber to publicize proposals he reviewed. Young represents the culmination of a chain of faculty and student peace advo- cates considering the possibility of trying to change research policy through mem- bership on the committee. He decided, however, that his presence as a single dissenting voice on the CRC would be pointless. "I felt the committee was too stack- ed to make this useful," Young said: "I just didn't want to lend myself to a mas- querade." THE HISTORY of administrative inac- tion on the classified research in the past few years has been just the masquerade Young cites. University policy statements have gone with the flow of campus senti- ment but failed to indicate substantive change in restrictions on war research at any point. For example: ! In 1968 the director of north campus' Cooley Lab called his facility "the tech- nical right arm of the Army Electronics Command." " But in February 1972 the Regents claimed there would be an insignificant amount of classified research left on campus when Willow Run Lab was disas- sociated with the University. " In spring 1971 President Fleming re- marked, "It's not the business of the University in normal times to be involv- ed in what is simply and distinctly mili- tary research without civilian applica- tions." THE REGENTS last spring rejected the Senate Assembly's guidelines for classified research. They claimed the problem was "administrative, not philosophical." * Yet in spring of 1972 he rejected the Senate Assembly-approved guidelines which prohibit approval of research whose "specific purpose or clearly forseeable results are injurious to human life or wel- fare". But more disturbing perhaps than all the outward contradictions in the University's stand are occasional indications of th. sympathetic environment the University provides for classified research, and war related academic activities. The CRC was appointed to screen classi- fied research proposals in a period when students and faculty widely acknowledged that most of the University's Department of Defense (DOD) research contracts could only be construed as directly relat- ed to killing. In two and a half years of existence up to Michael Knox's attempt to expose and stop CRC war collusion, the committee rejected only one proposal. FURTHER, the whole process of CRC approval seems much less crucial when it is uncovered that classified research at the University operates on a "reimburse- ment" basis. This means the University extends the necessary funds to the re- searcher until the project is completed, when the sponsor repays the University. In this situation, the committee 1 o o k s even more like a figurehead. Just how uninportant the CRC's okay really is was demonstrated by the fact that this summer Vice President for Re- search A. Geoffrey Norman sent through two contracts without the committee's de- liberation. At the CRC's next meeting the members approved the proposals retro- actively without protest. Special privilege for war has been a ruling trend at the University. Last year, a classified course in electronic warfare was discovered here which could only be tak- en by pilitary =personnel with top secur- ity clearance. This course is in effect a service the University provides to 'each military personnel how to use the equip- ment developed here. Snecial defense research facilities, like the Willow Run Laboratory, contribite nothing to the education of any but a very f-w students. These facilities, however, bring tremendous amounts of money to the University. At one point the U.S. Gen- eral Accounting Office reported that al- most a fourth of the Univeristy's research b"dget in federal grants, the third high- est in the nation, was sponsored directly by the DOD. Snin-off from the University's top rank- i-g war research establishment has even made fortunes.. Conductron, a research cornoration founded by former electrical engineering Professor Keeve Siegel, and staffed by 25 University professors, rose from one cent a share in 1960 to $41 in 1967. DISCUSSION of classified research on campus inevitably returns to the question of the University's priorities. As federal grant money for social science or human- ities projects gets harder and harder to find, defense research still retains a level of prosperity that must seem unfair to numberless defunct projects or any facul- ty and students who believe productive civilian-oriented research is important. As we near the deadline for W i 11 o w Run's severance from the University, sign- ificant amounts of war research still re- main on campus. And as activism over war research dies down, power to approve contracts drifts back toward the Vice President for Research and other inside University figures. DOES IT seem incredible that people are closed out of introductory level cours- es while the University provides facili- ties, staff, and financial credit for such projects as "Microwave Target Signatures and Sensors Investigations" or "Missile Launch Detection analysis", to the tune of $98,865 and $37,500? It seems everybody wins at this Uni- versity except the ones who don't ask to kill, Robert Strauss Year's end brings no peace A8 ANOTHER Christmas approaches, it appears that once again "peace in Vietnam" may be a gift that will not be given this year. On the surface, conditions appear the same. Bob Hope will entertain the troops. POW wives and families will again be un- happy and bitter at not having their loved ones with them to celebrate the fes- tivities. And in North Vietnam, the U.S. Air war goes on, intensified to a fiercer level. Lit- 01 jrg 1Mirtyigalt it-j 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 ARTHUR LERNER............ Editorial Director ROBERT SCHREINER ............ Editorial Director GLORIA JANE SMITH ............ .. Arts Editor ED SUROVELL...IT...........Books Editor PAUL TRAVIS........Associate Managing Editor Today's staff: News: Angela Balk, Linda Dreeben, Beth Egnater, Tammy Jacobs, Marilyn Ril- ey, Rebecca Warner Editorial Page: Arthur Lerner, Kathleen Ricke, Martin Stern Arts Page: Herb Bowie Photo technician: Terry McCarthy erally tons of bombs are being dropped daily near the Demilitarized Zone, hit- ting North Vietnamese supply depots and troop positions, attempting to weaken enemy morale. Yet the irony of the situation appears to be in the misdirected peace talks, where the North Vietnamese have al- ready expressed willingness to sign a fairly liberal peace agreement. In fact, when henryhKissinger announced two months ago that peace was "at hand," it was. Furthermore, the North Vietnamese have given further indication of their de- sire for peace in an agreement, reported Sunday, that they will release all priso- ners of war at one time as soon as the peace pact is signed, instead of a grad- ual release, coinciding with US troop withdrawals, as once believed. It would appear that government pres- sure would be directed instead onto the South Vietnamese side. At any rate, Kissinger is trying hard, and for this deserves credit. It is just discouraging for all of us war-weary per- sons to see peace held up by, what Presi- dent Nixon calls, "our friends and allies." Peace rumors are discouraging, be- cause so many prove false. Some observ- ers believe peace will be achieved soon. Let us sincerely hope so.' -MARTIN STERN Rebecca Warner is a copy editor The Daily. for Letters: Social work academic freedom p IAN To The Daily: THE MARK Green case is by no means a single island of dis- content regarding issues of aca- demic freedom. On October 18, students from Michigan's School of Social Work tape-recorded an interview between themselves and the Dean of the school, Philip Fel- lin. They asked the Dean to ex- plain why he had refused an un- paid faculty appointment to Dr. Richard Kunnes, radical psychia- trist, when: 1) Similar appoint- ments generated by student re- quests were a clear precedent in the school, (2) the appointment was temporary - for a single a c a - demic course, (3) Dr. Kunnes' cre- dentials were beyond reproach - in fact he has a continuing ap- pointment in the University School of Medicine, (4) the request and all necessary credentials w e r e submitted with due process, (5) There was no incumbent faculty member more qualified to handle the specific outlined course con- tent. As conveyed by the transcript of that tape, the Dean's statements were a virtual pathology of deceit, evasion and hypocrisy. He various- ly denied that he had made the refusal, attributed the refusal to an assistant dean, or admitted he had made the refusal for reasons such as his "lack of control" if he were not paying Dr. Kunnes. The issue became one not only of poli- tical repression and encroachment of academic freedom; it became a contest of students' right to be treated without degradation a n d clumsy bureaucratic falsehood. A REQUEST for a second course specifying Dr. Kunnes as instruc- tor was submitted following the in- terview. A petition of over 200 student signatures was filed in the same regard. The appointment was again denied without substantial reason.t We are organizing an open hear- ing of this case, and We demand the resignation of the Dean of the School of Social Work. -Social Work Students for Professional Integrity example of Mr. Jacobs' strength was the vote on funding for a Jew- ish newspaper. K e n Newbury promised me three times before the meeting that he intended to vote for the funding. Mr. New- bury spoke up throughout the de- bate in favor of the motion. When the roll-call vote was takent Mr. Newbury abstained knowing that if he did so, the funding would pass. However, this enraged Mr. Jacobs, who at this point physically threatened Mr. Newbury to change his vote. After pasing me a note which read, "Mat, I'm sorry but if I go against him he'll ruin my political career," Ken Newbury,. obviously under duress, changed his vote. I think the above incident points out, that if anything, Jacobs is too strong a leader. -Mat Hoffman LSA '75 Dec. 5 Family planning To The Daily: THE CO-ORDINATING Commit- tee for the Representation of Wo- men in Health Planning will be meeting again tonight to discuss negotiations with the planning com- mittee of Family Planning Medical Services, Inc. and to plan further action. The Co-ordinating Commit- tee has been working to achieve a greater representation for c o n- sumers and especially women on Showing By RICHARD GLATZER HE BOOKING and showing of films on campus is a tricky business, and not ordinarily an es- pecially lucrative one. Careful. money management and energetic membership may enable a film so- ciety to remain afloat-if it's lucky. Actual continuing profit can only result from truly inspired, busi- ness - oriented management or the Board of Directors of a new family planing clinic that F.P.M.S., Inc. is planing to open soon in Ann Arbor. We feel that since women have struggled to change attitudes to- wards contraception and abortion, and will pay for this facility with their fees, women consumers should control this facility. Furthermore, the area of family planning is a politically sensitive issue, and this facility will hold a near monopoly on scarce and vital resources. A Board of Directors with s t r o n g consumer representation can as- sure that service to the commun- ity will always be the chief concern of the facility. All interested women are invited to attend the meeting, which will be held at 7:30 p.m. in St. Andrews Episcopal Church, 306 N. Division, in the basement recreation room, which can be reached by entering the church through the door mark- ed Women's Crisis Center, just off the parking lot. -Co-ordinating Committee for the Representation of Women in Health Planning Dec. 7 Dope co-op To The Daily: MY, MY haven't the SGC child- ren had a nice week or so of fun and games? A dope co-op! I've never heard of anything so asin- ine and foolish in my whole life, "PAC:K!' 1)'NP\(' TXCKFirPA(l i F JAPA(A" PAjr1 . :~ .Psychological peocefore F especially from an organization that is supposed to be a responsible governing body. Well, here's a resolution some- one can bring up at your next ses- sion (meeting): why not have an 'TRICKY BUSINESS' films to the campus co all-campus vote to see if the stu- dents would like to abolish SGC and not have any representative government at all? It sure wouldn't be much different than it is now. --K.W. '76 mmunity new rulings, in which case noth- ing will have changed substantial- ly. But also possible is the ap- pointment of a panel or an individ- ual, familiar with the problems of both film societies and film dis- tributors, who will overlook cam- pus organizations and interpret SGC's rulings. Campus movie organizations would then suffer the inevitable loss of freedom that comes with actions with campus film societies that do not pay their bills, or that show a movie several more times than they've contracted for. Nor can film distributors afford the time and effort needed to in- vestigate each film society on a campus. If a town seem to at- tract disreputable film organiza- tions, the distributor will just as soon discontinue all business with been building on SGC for quite a while now, and the Council has finally proposed a plan that would, in effect, attempt to license cam- pus movie organizations and there- by assure distributors that they are working with honest organiza- tions. 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