ow cuts CMU aid

The Michigan Daily-Saturday, October 29, 1977-Page 7
after Fonda speech

MOUNT PLEASANT (UPI) - The
Dow Chemical Co. said yesterday it has
cut off° direct financial aid to Central
'i higan University (CMU) because it
i actress Jane Fonda $3,500 for a
ampus speech attacking Dow and
ther big corporations.
haul Oreffice,apresident of Dow
hemical USA, announced the fund
itpdrawal in a private letter to CMU
resident Harold Abel Oct. 12 that
efrred to the activist actress as "an
v wed Communist sympathizer."
HE LETTER, made public by the
illand-based multinational after ex-
Ceipts were obtained by the campus
evspapr, said Dow was acting "to
nke certain our funds are never used
o support people intent upon destruc-
iou of our freedom."
tQniversity officials said Dow con-
triuted $73,566 in direct grant aid to
he state-supported institution during
he past fiscal year and had been expec-
ed to provide a similar amount this
e4r. They said none of that money was
dctly used to pay Fonda.
A Dow spokesperson said the cutoff
i_ be rescinded once the firm is
ssired its money is not being used "to
finnce the efforts of those who want to
ov4rthrow the country." A meeting
between company and university of-
ficials is being arranged, he said.
IONDA, AN outspoken activist on
liberal causes who was a vehement op-
ponent of the Vietnam war, charged in
ni Oct. 10 campus speech that the
ation's economy was becoming
onopolized by a few giant cor-
prations and singled out several, in-
tluding Dow Chemical, by name.
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In his letter to Abel, Oreffice asked
that he be invited to speak on campus to
give an opposing view in the interest of
presenting a balanced picture to stu-
dents. He said he would expect the same
fee Fonda received, but would donate it
"to a nonprofit organization which sup-
ports the free enterprise system."
"It is your prerogative to have an
avowed Communist sympathizer like
Jane Fonda or anyone else to speak at
your university and you can pay them
whatever you please," Oreffice wrote.
"I haveabsolutely no argument with
that."
BUT, HE ADDED, "I consider it our
prerogative and obligation to make cer-
tain our funds are never used to support
people intent on destruction of

freedom." aid payments to several other univer-
In her speech Fonda said big business sities. When asked if it had ever taken
has manipulated the nation's tax laws action similar to that taken against
to avoid paying its fair share in an at- Central Michigan, he said, "Not to my
tempt to establish "a new social order" knowledge."
that will force the middle class out of "This can easily be distorted to an
existence. issue over free speech, and that's not
"We have a new body of correct," the spokesperson said.
rulers-tyrants whose names you don't Oreffice issued a statement yester-
know and whose faces you don't day saying his letter "states exactly
recognize, but who control your life," howlI feel."
she said. "I have no quarrel with the univer-
sity's right to have whomever it wants
A DOW spokesperson ackpowledged to speak," he said. "I'm only concerned
that the company makes similar direct that the other side is heard equally."
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