.Page 4-Sunday, April 16, 1978-The Michigan Daily Eighty-Eight Years of Editorial Freedom 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Vol. LXXXVIII, No. 157 News Phone: 764-0552 Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan LOOKING BACK THE WEEK IN REVIEW Don't delay on LL SPECULATION ended last week with regards to possible Uxiversity-Central Intelligence Agen- cy connections. For the first time, significant details were made ,ayailable under the Freedom of Infor- xiation Act (FOIA) about previously s ret relationships between Univer- sity faculty and the CIA which existed as long ago as the mid-1960's. Professors in various departments and in the Center for Chinese Studies kept running correspondence with Agency personnel, frequently offering to scrutinize their students as possible CIA recruits. With the limited materials released by the Agency, though, it was impossible to determine whether such recruits were being used for actual spying or just for analytical work. Faculty members and possibly ad- ministrators were also taking advan- tage of field trips, seminars, and classified documents offered by the CIA, sometimes offering questionable favors in return. Right now, the names of such University employees are not as crucial as finding out to what extent their involvement with the intelligence agency may have hindered their responsibilities here or their overall commitment to education. Some evidence suggests that professors may LII CIA guidelines have been more enthusiastic about maintaining a CIA connection than their teaching duties. , The detailing of University-CIA ties brings up again the question of whether there should be formal restrictions on what a member of the University community can or cannot' do in cooperation with the nation's in- telligence agencies. Guidelines have already been adopted by some univer- sities - Harvard being the prime example. That campus' guidelines prohibit secret relationships of any kind between faculty or staff and agencies like the CIA. Identical guidelines have been con- sidered at this University, but have been given low priority by some of- ficials because there has previously been no documented proof of secret relationships with the CIA. There is proof enough now to satisfy even the most skeptical of community members. We suggest that the Regents and the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs (SACUA) examine once more the merits of the so-called Harvard guidelines. In light of the recent disclosures - and of possible future disclosures of even greater magnitude - the Univer- sity should adopt restrictions which guarantee students an education free of government manipulation. another hike U NIVERSITY PRESIDENT Robben Fleming warned last week that students will likely face another tuition hike next fall. The increase, which is now almost an annual event, will help prop up a sagging general fund. The University has been troubled by a large year-long deficit - which is currently estimated at $1 million. Over $5 million of increased state appropriations has already been committed for next year. Despite several other actions already taken this year - such as the campus-wide hiring freeze - Fleming said, "There will clearly be a need of a tuition hike." Fleming declined to comment on details of the proposed tuition in- crease, which will be submitted to the Regents for discussion this week. According to Fleming and Vice-President for Academic Affairs Harold Shapiro, who is also the University's chief budget officer, the size of the tuition hike will depend on how much money the University eventually gets from the state, which, at the earliest, will not be determined until May. intelligence roles uncovered OVERNMENT SPYING was in the news last week in Wash- ington and in Ann Arbor. As the nation heard news of the indictment of former CIA chief Patrick Gray and others for illegal surveillance in the early 1970's against the Weather Underground, the University of Michigan was hearing for the first time details of covert campus recruitment by America's overseas spy agency, the CIA. From documents released by the CIA under the Freedom of Infor- mation Act, it was revealed that a number of faculty members in the Political Science, History, Economics and Geography Departments - as well as from the Chinese Studies Center - have served as secret recruiters in cooperation with the agency. The China Center, in particular, had a close relationship with the agency over the years, according to the documents. According to President Robben Fleming, there is really nothing wrong with this form of recruitment by the spy agency. But, wrong or right, the faculty members involved seem intent on keeping their activities with the CIA under tight wraps. legal aid saved U IVERSITY LEGAL AID won a major victory in last week's MSA election. A record number of students cast ballots in the student government election, overwhelmingly approving a new, man- datory MSA funding increase. The Campus'Legal Aid Office will receive the bulk of the funds - $1.74 per student per term. If the Regents approve the funding in- crease, the Legal Aid program will expand its legal staff three-fold. The office will now be albe to serve all students, rather than just those meeting strict income requirements, as at present. In Assembly elections, veteran Eric Arnson eased past the Peoples Action Coalition's Kate Rubin and Bullshit's Irving Freeman to become the next Assembly president. His SABRE Party captured near majority of the MSA seats. This should give him the clout to fulfill his promise to make MSA a more effective voice for students. In all, some 33 candidates were elected to seats on the expanded Assembly, from a record-breaking field of almost a hundred. -0 pot shenanigans L EASES OF six members of Bursley's Board of Governors were terminated early this week because the group had spent half of a $400 dorm party allocation to purchase marijuana. Acting Housing Director Robert Hughes' decision was based on a recommendation from Bursley Building Director Tod Hanson, who has since made provisions for the six students to remain housed throughout the examination period. None of those evicted will be allowed to return to University housing next year. year. Whether or not any of the students fight the action, at least one of them indicated the lease termination should not have been a surprise to them.'The housing leases which the six students had signed con- tained clauses saying the purchase of pot was grounds for eviction. Student reaction to the decision by the Bursley Board to purchase the three quarters of a pound of marijuana varied. Comments ranged from "It was a pretty good party, to "They (Board members) were pretty stupid to get themselves involved in that in the first place." Later in the week, Hughes said he Was planning to form a student- staff committee to examine the structure of dormitory governments. He discounted speculation that the Bursley incident was the catalyst for formation of the committee, saying it had been "on the back of my mind." more consolidation talk T HE ON-AGAIN, off-again proposal to combine food service for Hill dormitories was on again last week. The Housing Office released results of a study by an architectural firm for a new, dining hall and kitchen behind Mosher Jordan. The facility would serve students in Couzens, Alice Lloyd, Stockwell and Mo-Jo. Existing food services in those dorms would be scrapped. Housing officials contend the plan, under consideration in one form or another for a decade, would help cut dorm food costs and make ad- ditional recreational space available on the Hill. According to the architect's plans, the new dining hall would create space for an additional 100 students in the four dormitories. It is not known when the proposal will go before the Regents. In the past, several Regents, including Ann Arbor Democrat Sarah Power, have expressed interest in the consolidation idea. However~Hill residents have, in the past, strenuously objected to suggestions for a common eating facility for their residence halls. But if the proposal is acted on during the summer break, past opposition may hardly matter. Stop the food service follies LETTERS TO THE DAILY HE END OF the school year is traditionally the time when University administrators let the mon-' sters out of the closet. Understandably, University managers figure that no news is better than bad news. And, when students leave for the summer and the campus paper shuts for the term break, why not take the opportunity to break the bad news when no one's here to hear or read about it? Well, they've done it again. Acting Housing Director Robert Hughes has just released plans for combining food services of Alice Lloyd, Couzens. Stockwell and Mosher-Jordan halls. The plan calls for scrapping food services in the four residence halls. In- stead, students would have to trek over to a new dining hall which would go up behind Mo-Jo. Ecch. The scheme is a social planner's delight and a dorm inhabitant's night- mare. . iughes contends the plan would save money. He may even be right. But any possible savings pale before the ob- vious flaws in the consolidation scheme. The Hill dorms are noted for their individuality, even eccentricity. Residents of Lloyd have a sense- of group identity. So do the people at Couzens and at Stockwell, and at Mosher Jordan. Consolidated food service would seriously detract from the sense of community within each of the Hill dormitories. It would impair the quality of life on the hill and help turn some of the most desirable University Housing into some of the least. We wonder how Robert Hughes would respond to the suggestion that he and his family eat all their meals at a house down the block because of the cost savings resulting from "efficien- cies of scale." Does he think students will look forward to skirting the mid- winter snow drifts and ice patches on the way to dinner each night any more than he would? The Housing Office puts forward one more argument in defense of the food service consolidation plan. By building the new dining hall, they say, space for 100 more student dorm spaces would be created. But if dorm space is the issue, why not attack it directly? Why not build a new dormitory or additional student apartments? The Housing Office should scrap the consolidation plan. If Housing officials don't do it, the Regents should send the ill-conceived scheme to the burial it richly deserves. On the dearth of true heroes To The Daily: Might I inquire as to the pur- pose of the "editorial" in the Thursday edition by a Mr. Jef- frey Selbst? This article's jour- ney into fantasy, in which was enumerated the hit and run mur- der of Robben Fleming, was remarkably base as an attempt at humor. Will the next Daily editorial be a series of jokes about birth defects? Furthermore, the essence of this editorial's political commen- tary was at best cretinous. For instance, the writer's labeling of Bryant and Schafly as "feminine ascists." Mrs. Bryant opposes homosexuality and Mrs. Schafly the Equal Rights Amendment. This does not qualify them as fascists, but rather qualifies your writer as a profound muddlehead of bovine intelligence who would throw all right-thinking to the winds in search of alliteration. Selbst's bemoaning the dearth of true heroes in the seventies was also somewhat ridiculous when we were informed that his own sixties idols were none other than that charming philosophical hack and confessed criminal Jerry Rubin, and the ever- lovable aronist and incendiary Abbie Hoffman. With the vapidity of its comment and the almost complete lack of judgment con- tained therein, one can but specualte as to why this article was immortalized in print. Has the "New Wave" in popular music burgeoned forth to become Punk Journalism? I would wholeheartedly agree with Mr. Selbst's statement that a Free Selbst campaign will begin in the near future. But this movement, I would hope, will be an effor to free him from the bounds of an imagination barren of all taste and judgment, and flourishing only with a sense of humor which should have been outgrown in elementary school. --Scott Kerr Ann Arbor lost ball To The Daily: We of the following black and minority student organizations have tried two consecutive weeks (4/4(78 and 4/12/78) to get a $50.00 advertising alloction for an African Dress Ball, sponsored by all of us for the cultural, political, social, and academic enrichment for ALL students, from LS&A student government, which pur- ports to represent all students in LS&A. We find it quite funny and sad that whenever all black and minority groups approach LS&A student government, they never seem to be able to achieve 'a quorum to vote on the allocation. Unfortunately, it is now too late for an alloction to help us, and as a result our ball will probably be cancelled. Again blacks and minorities will be excluded from taking full advantage of services offered by this University. We ask the Dean of LS&A, Billy frye, to do any and everything to save the ball and remove this gross disregard for the needs and problems of black and minority students and our organizaions, by the LS&A student government. -The Black Christian Nationalist Church College Cadre, Black Student Union, the African Students Association, Baits Black Council, Alice Lloyd Minority Council, and Alpha Phi Alpha arab bombings To The Daily: Great moral fervor is no excuse for ignoring facts or for rewriting history. Albert Ettinger (4/14) claims that "Egypt and Saudi Arabia have resisted the tem- ptation to bomb their neighbors." Let me correct him! Egyptian planes bombed Tev- Aviv for.months in the 1968 war and Egyptian boats shelled the city of Haifa in 1956; I witnessed both these events personally. Egyptian planes wiped out entire villages in Yemen(!) in 1967, using nerve gas.(as substantiated by the International Red Cross, May 14). True, they did not bomb Israel in 1967 but only because they lost their planes during the first two hours of the war. (In spite of their resulting air superiority, the Israelis did not bomb Cairo). In the 1973 war, the Egyptians launched long-range missiles to hit Tel-Aviv. For- tunately these were intercepted in mid air, close to the city, and catastrophy was averted. (Again the Israelis did not use their domination of the skies to bomb Cairo). Saudi Arabia has not yet bom- bed ANY of its neighbors simply because she did not have the means. Give her the' most modern plane on earth, the F-15, and targets will surely be found (guess where . . .). And why should Sadat, who ordered the sneak missile attack on Tel-Aviv in 1973, not use modern F-E5 planes? His personal history of serving the Nazis in World War II and his open letter of admiration to Hitler published in Al Musawwar, Sept. 18, 1953, are not the best recommendations. --R. Kopelman bursley 'expose' To The Daily: I can't help but think that "the Bursley six" would not be facing eviction if the Michigan Daily had not been so quick to run an expose. of the, :matter. Having spent two years as an RA, I know that this is not the first time dor- mitory government has sub- sidized an illicit drug' pur- chase-it is just the first time that anyone has been caught and reprimanded. Because the Daily drew attention to this situation. the powers-that-be were left with no choice but to evict the offenders as an example to others. Let's hope that the Daily shows better judgment next time. -Marth Daly Ann Arbor bank notes To The Daily: I would like to inform all the University of Michigan stuidents on how the Ann Arbor Bank and Trust Company is ripping them off. On April 1, 1978, the Ann Ar- bor Bank and Trust Company amended its rules and regulations governing savings accounts. These rules are in direct conflict with the interests of University students. To begin with, they are putting a service charge on savings ac- counts. They are going to charge fifty cents for each withdrawal over four per month on accounts of less than $2000. It is obvious this will hurt college students like myself in the Ann Arbor area. It seems that college students are "using their savings accounts like checking accounts,' according to the ad- ministrative office of the Ann Ar- bor Bank and Trust Co. This appears to be a scheme to take advantage of the poor college student. Also, there will be a service charge of $2.00 on all accounts which are closed within one year from the date of the first deposit (Again, effecting the eight-month college market). The attitude of this bank seems to be more in their own interest than in the interest of the customer. What I look for in a bank is the procurement of my business rather than attempts to terminate my accounts due to these abusive and unnecessary service charges. This is the last straw as far as I'm concerned. I have checked out the National Bank and Trust and found they have no such policy and do not in- Asylum for a refugee ECTOR Marroquin is no prophet. But Marroquin, a young, realistic Mexican citizen who fled his country in X1974 for refuge in the United States, will be here Tuesday to speak and his message should be heard. The U.S. government is now taking steps to deport Marroquin, an action -which would, in effect, put him back in- to the hands of a system which has im- plicitly guaranteed a ruthless welcome. Marroquin left Mexico in January 1974, not so much by free choice as by an instinctual desire for self preser- vation. As a university student, he was implicated by the government in a political assassination, and, knowing what methods Mexican police had used on close friends to "prove" their guilt in alleged criminal activities, Marroquin was being accused of taking part in numerous crimes in Mexico. He was arrested by U.S. authorities last September for carrying false identification papers and now faces expulsion as an illegal alien. Marroquin is likely not the vicious terrorist Mexican officials would have us believe he is. As a student, he loudly favored government change, but was repulsed by various guerrilla organizations. The Mexican government, by anyone's standard, is a repressive one. It has been documented by such groups as the nobel prize-winning Amnesty In- ternational that authorities have little concern for human rights - let alone for the fair trail and due process con- cepts we are so familiar with. 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