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About the
ISupplement
Welcome to the University of Michigan
and The Michigan Daily. This supplement,
the Daily's largest newspaper of the year,
is a handbook from us to you designed
to acquaint you with the ins and outs, the
ups and downs, the rigors and joys and
the quirks and characteristics of Univer-
sity life here in Ann Arbor. The supple-t
ment has been divided into six sections.
This is the first section-something old
. ... something news-which was separat-
ed into two parts to accommodate all the
t major news events of the past year. The
following five sections each ponder and
explore a different aspect of the some-j
times crazy but always interesting student:
life here. Read and enjoy. We'd like to
extend a special thank you to Steve Ka-
gan for designing the covers oaf the sup-v
plement, and for supplying the art for
section covers one, two, three, four andt
six. The photo for the cover of section
five was taken by staff photographer Scott
Eccker. An additional thank you to the
Daily's spring and summer staff for writ-
ing the supplement copy under a never-
ending deadline.
The Editors
Supplement staff:
Editors:
Elaine Fletcher and
Ann Marie Lipinski
Sports Editors:
Rich Lerner and Bill Steig
Advertising:
Nancy Granadier, Sue Marsch
and Pete Petersen
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draws student fire
Fuel
cloud
study
By LOIS JOSIMOVICH
As this year's debate over the University's
proposed DNA recombinant research grew, an-
other controversial project -a fuel cloud deto-
nation study being conducted by the Aerospace
Engineering Dept. -- came before the public
eye in late February.
Brought to the University's Research Review
Committee, the study was believed to violate
Regental guidelines which prohibit any .re-
search, "the specific purpose of which is to de-
stroy life or incapacitate human beings."
THE U. S. AIR FORCE, which funded the pro-
ject until its discontinuation May 20, admitted
on several occasions it was using the results to
further develop its Fuel Air Explosive bomb.
The bomb, called a "CBu-55", was used in the
last days of the Vietnam War by the South
Vietnamese Army. It operates by the release
of a cloud of ethylene oxide gas from a low-
flying airplane, which then ejects a spark,
detonating the gas and effectively destroying
everything for about a third of a mile around.
Opponents of the project argued that while
the University' was not making bombs per se,
its research provided the Air Force with a ma-
jor study of the same principles used in wea-
ponry development.
Professors James Nicholls and Martin Sichel,
who directed the research, claimed in spite of
this information that their work was all theo-
retical and "open-ended", and that a major
use for it would be the prediction of mine and
grain elevator explosions. Nicholls conceded
that "It would be wrong for us to design a new
weapon," but added, "We'd almost have to for-
get doing anything if we worried about what it
could do all the time."
OPINIONS OF THOSE reviewing the research
for the University varied from extreme con-
cern to inattention. Elham Elahi, the only stu-
dent on the Review Committee, spoke out most
forcefully against the project.
"I'm less concerned with the possible ill
effects of Nicholl's and Sichel's research in
particular than with the fact that many Univer-
sity research projects may have military ap-*
plications," he stated.
Physics professor Jens Zorn, another mem-
ber of the Research Review Committee, appar-
ently did not share Elahi's negative approach
to the research. While agreeing that "a bit of
light and air let in (on the matter) couldn't
hurt," he added that "that's on open question,
whether something too closely weapons-related
should be going on at a University - and I
think there's no obvious answer."
ELAHI, A PHYSICS student, had recommend-
ed that the study be re-examined by the faculty
Senate Assembly's Research Policy Committee,
which had approved the project twice earlier In
its five-year duration.
But the Research Review committee never
even *met to formally discuss the matter. Elahi
reacted to what he felt was apathy on the part
of the University community saying, "What has
been made clear to me is that the University
endorses the status quo in terms of who decides
what research is done for what purpose.
"People are willing to get money from any-
body to do research, without regard for whether
the, information is used for weapons develop-
ment," he added.
MEANWHILE, UNIVERSITY President Rob-
ben Fleming and other administrators had come
out in support of continuing the research, say-
ing they did not find it undesirable in terms of
the Regental guidelines.
Late in March the Daily learned that the
Air Force planned to discontinue the program
due to, "changes in program priority," accord-
ing to an official statement.
But should another weapons related project
come under scrutiny at the University,
most observers feel, it will, in all probability,
pass through the regulations again.
Elahi summed up the matter during one in-
terview, when he said, "The regulations for
barring research couldn't be any more mini-
mal than they are."
"These guys think they're making great con-
tributions to society," he said, referring to re-
searchers who aid the Defense Department, and
"I think they're doing a great deal of the harm
to the world."
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