Eighty-Six Years of Editorial Freedom Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan Tuesday, September 30, 1975 News Phone: 764-0552 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Mi. 48104 Senate: Too many closets THE POLITICAL jungle is a land of worn soles, sharp minds and typi- cally extreme ideological adjustment to changing conditions. The political animal is consistently on the hustle, ready to swing from one political branch to the next depending most- ly on which can support him or her best and only incidentally on what kind of fruit it bears. Political terrain is uninhabitable for those disposed to reflection and calm, yet it succeeds each year in at- tracting young legions who cling to the hope of someday emerging as king of the hill, or at least as lesser bluebloods. Apparently, all too many members of Congress view their positions as kingly rewards for past battles rath- er than as a forum for bigger ones, and they use their powers accordingly. How else does one account for the U.S. Senate - that great deliberative body in this great nation of immi- grants - allocating over $2 million to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization while committee members haven't had the inclination to hold a meeting in over ten years. PLACING SEVERAL generations and socio-economic brackets between themselves and recent immigrant sta- tus, the Senators who gathered at the subcommittee's last meeting - it took place some time between "Meet the Beatles" and the Miracle Tigers - must have decided their gloves didn't fit the immigrants' hands and the bottom rung of the social ladder just wasn't worth attending to. Always ones to recognize a golden goose when it stared them in the face, the Capitol Hill crowd didn't let the subcommittee's lack of zest appeal keep them from spending its money. According to a report in yesterday's New York Times, the subcommittee Business Staff DEBORAH NOVESS Business Manager Peter Caplan .................Finance Manager Robert F. Cerra ............Operations Manager Beth Friedman ..................ales Manager David Piontkowsky .......Advertising Manager DEPA. MGRS. Dan Brinza, Steve LeMire, Rhondi Mae, Kathy Mulhern, Cassie St. Clair TODAY'S STAFF News: Ted Evanoff, David Garfinkel, Jo Marcoty, Cheryl Pilate, Stephen Selbst, Tim Schick Editorial Page: Marc Basson, Lee Berry, Steve Harvey, Paul Haskins, Debra Hurwitz, Ted Lambert, Rob- ert Miller, Ruth Miller, Tom Stevens Arts Page: David Blomquist Photo Technician: E. Susan Sheiner Patty I By ROSALIE RITZ SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 24 (PNS)- THE COURTROOM DRAMA of Patricia Hearst is unfold- ing in San Francisco's federal court in an atmosphere of near- mayhem and hysteria - but without a trace of the sullen armed-camp surroundings that have marked so many of Cali- fornia's trials of political mili- tants. On all three occasions, cour- teous, civilian-suited U. S. mar- shalls fended off a belligerent mob of reporters and would be spectators vying for access to the courtroom where the Hearst heiress was to appear. For many reporters, the scene was in stark contrast to hearings for such controversial defendants as black intellectual and communist Angela Davis, San Quentin prison inmate and jail house lawyer Ruchell Ma- gee, and the San Quentin Six - now on trial on charges stem- ming from the alleged escape attempt of George Jackson in August 1971. There, the press was mugged, fingerprinted and investigated before it could get the special press credentials re- quired to enter. Here, from the start, it has been every reporter for him- self. At the first two hearings, where only 30 seats were to be distributed, reporters crowded around marshals, pleading to be let in. Some, who had never been excluded before when celebrated defendants went to court, were elbowed out by spectators and local press. For several minutes, they banged angrily on the closed courtroom doors. AT THE THIRD hearing, moved to a larger courtroom to learst: accommodate the crowd, net- work reporters lined up at 4 a.m. to assure access inside. Hearst's own appearance in court did little to explain the paradox of the princess and kidnap victim turned urban guerrilla that has brought out such huge throngs. In fact, there still seemed to be two Patty Hearsts - the defendant in court, every inch the lady, diminutive, quiet, hands neatly clasped, a look of studied boredom on her face. And the prisoner, driven to and from the courtroom, her hands manacled, flashing bril- liant smiles and raising clen- ched fists to the hundreds of onlookers who had stood for hours to catch a glimpse of her outside. When such people are pic- tured over TV and on front pages of newspapers, they seem bigger than life. But Hearst, on her first public appearance after 19 months of being pur- sued, seemed so small specta- tors gasped when they noticed her. Standing before the mag- istrate's bar in a courtroom overwhelmingly male, she bare- ly reached the elbow of her at- torney Terence Hallinan, and U. S. Attorney General James Browning, who flanked her on either side. At the defense ta- ble, she occasionally lifted her eyes behind slightly tinted glasses, and glanced toward her family in the spectator section. Her face seemed almost emo- tionless. FOR THOSE WHO have cov- ered almost five years of spec- tacular trials in California, the dominant impression of the Hearst hearings thus far is not the figure of Patty Hearst her- self, but the relative ease and Every inch (a paradox casualness of the security sur- rounding the whole affair. Fear of armed attacks on courtrooms by political terror- ists - inspired by the Marin County California courtroom seizure in August 1970 and for- tified by the rash of bombings and threats attributed to groups linked to or in open sympathy with the SLA - have led to increasingly massive se- curity precautions at Califor- nia's political trials since the early 1970's. Twenty four heav- ily armed, uniformed members of the San Francisco police tac- tical squad, for instance, shared corridor duty with 20 extra bail- iffs at the trial of Ruchell Ma- gee - former co-defendant of Angela Davis, tried in 1973 in San Francisco's superior court. Male spectators and reporters alike were searched openly, af- ter passing through two screen- ing desks and a metal detec- tor. Women had to, partially disrobe for matrons stationed behind a screen. Spectators viewed proceedings in a spec- ial courtroom equipped with a bullet - resistant glass wall sep- arating viewers from trial par- ticipants. ANGELA DAVIS, her- self, freed on bail during most of her trial, mingled freely with spectators and press away from court. Nevertheless those attending, including her fami- ly, had to submit to processing through an elaborate security system. The ultimate in precautions is the current trial of the San Quentin Six in nearby Marin County, where five of the six defendants are shackled and chained to their chairs and spectators a r e p a t search- ed with metal detectors and their belongings checked twice under the watchAul eyes of 65 armed sheriff's deputies and prison guards. 1 In contrast, a :swift check of belongings and a. pass through hastily erected n tetal detectors - manned by I'business-suited U. S. marshalls -- was all that was required of potential view- ers of Patricia H earst and her alleged compatricts. Yet hours after{ the appre- hension of Hearst, the Harrises, and Wendy Yoshimura, a group calling itself the George Jackson brigade took credit for' the bombing of a Safeway in Seat- tle - in retaliation for the ar- rests. ONCE AGAIN - only now in federal court - the gap be- tween images and reality which has characterized the Patricia Hearst-SLA story from the start, is accentuated. Eastland staff has busied itself in recent years processing thousands of bills request- ing exemption for one or more pri- vate citizens from provisions of fed- eral immigration laws. Apparently, the Senators find it more convenient to bypass obsolete immigration law- the present code does virtually noth- ing to prevent employer abuse of fearful immigrants and or displace- ment of citizens - in the name of favoritism than to re-assess inade- quate legislation in the name of re- form. Senator James Eastland, chairman of the subcommittee and its parent, the Senate Judiciary Committee, feigned frustration when queried about the panel's horrendous record: "We can't get a quorum, at least I can't."' Maybe if he promised to raffle off preferential immigrant treatment bills at the next meeting, Eastland could pull it off. ASSOC. MORS. David Harlan, Susan Shultz ASST. MGRS. Dave Schwartz STAFF John Benhow, Colby Bennet, Margie De- Ford, Elaine Douse, James Dykdema, Nine Edwards, Debbie Gerrish, Amy Hartman, Joan Helfman, Karl Jenning, Carolyn Koth- stein, Jacke Krammer, Anna Kwok, Vicki May, Susan Smereck, Wayne Tsang, Ruth wolman SALES Cher Bledsoe, Slyvia Calhoun, Marilyn Edwards, Steve Wright Editorial Staff GORDON ATCHESON CHERYL PILATE Co-Editors-in-Chief DAVID BLOMQUIST ................Arts Editor BARBARACORNELL .. Sunday Magazine Editor PAUL HASKINS .............. Editorial Director JOSEPHINE MARCOTTY Sunday Magazine Editor SARA RIMER .................. Executive Editor STEPHEN..SELBST .................. City Editor JEFF SORENSON . Managing Editor MARY LONG Sunday Magazine Editor STAFF WRITERS: Susan Ades, Tom Allen, Glen Allerhand, Ellen Breslow, Mary Beth Dillon, Ted Evanoff, Jim Finklestein, Elaine Fletch- er, Stephen Hersh, Debra Hurwitz, Lois Josi- movich, Doc Kralik, Jay Levin, Andy Lilly. Ann Marie Lipinaki, George Lobsenz, Pauline Lubens, Rob Meachum, Robert Miller, Jim Nicoll, Cathy Reutter, Jeff Ristine, Tim Schick, Katherine Spelman, Steve Stogic, Jim Tobin. Bill Turque, Jim Valk, David Wein- berg, Sue Wilhelm, David Whiting, Margaret Yao, Rosalie= Ritz is a courtroom artist and re- Porter wi o has covered major trials in Cali- fornia f r CBS and NET-affiliated stations. She is cuirrently covering the Patricia Hearst case. ka Letters to The Daily sports ING caption inspiring the car- toon of the enormous football To The Daily: player towering over four min- IN ANTICIPATION OF being iscule women in various sports, jumped on for a few of the was a statement by Don Can- statements in Doc Kralik's ham in the Daily of September write-up of an interview with 5: "I think you're going to have me in the September 25 paper, men's programs and women's let me put back into context my programs existing side by side, position on certain key issues and, as I said, we have that that mark the difference be- now." One of the women in the txyeen a workable athletic pro- cartoon, you may note, is hold- gram, and one that scares the ing a golf club. There is no in- pants off people who see Title tercollegiate golf for women at IX as demanding equal money the University of Michigan. for women and men up and Marcia Federbush down the line. Writer and Consultant As an inseparable component in Sex Discrimination of equal opportunity, both sexes in Public Education should be representing the Uni- NOW Sports Task Force versity at the same intercol- Coordinator legiate meets in sports in which Sept. 25 women and men have tradition- ally enjoyed participating. Its almost goes without saying that science men and women should share To The Daily: the spotlight as co-equal part-IN RECENT YEARS, various ners in such sports as gymnas- elements of the public, includ- tics, tennis, swimming, golf, ing prominent citizens, public track, cross country, and bas- officials, and, most particularly, ketball; traveling together, re- elements of the university corn- ceiving joint recognition, and munity, have developed an in- sharing in bringing in revenue. creasingly hostile attitude to- Spectators and income are al- ward science in general, and m o s t invariably increased technological progress in par- greatly when both sexes per- ticular. We feel that, contrary form, and transportation and to these ideas, science and tech- coaching costs are cut when nological progress can exist for women and men work as a the benefit of man, and that to "team." If there is room for deny the intellectual need for "Pom Pom Persons" on a char- progress is definitely not in any- tered plane, there is room for one's best interest. women basketball players. MANY PRESENTLY devel- Right now, women do not re- oping trends are indicative, not ceive scholarships or charge only of an anti-science attitude, admission at the university. In- but also of a growing distrust stead of thinking in terms of of intellectualism. We feel many equal money, the concept, then, of these attitudes have their should be, "same or similar foundation in a general lack of sport, same or similar fund- scientific knowledge. Some of ing." Certainly, for example, the results of this lack of know- women and men tennis players ledge are evident to anyone who deserve equal - preferably si- even occasionally reads a news- multaneous - coaching, access paper or views television. It is to facilities and equipment, manifested in the rise of the oc- transportation, and competition. cult "sciences," genuine belief E Q U A L PROTECTION in the uninhibted speculations IS a two-way street. Students of books like Chariots of the of both sexes come equipped Gods and The Secret Life of with a Fourteenth Amendment Plants, and the tendency of po- right to participate in all the litical officials to chop down activities of the publicly funded scientific research whenever university - including those possible. When a distinguished traditionally reserved for the group of scientists feel com- other sex. Therefore, men must pelled to issue a statement de- have the chance to participate bunking something as utterly in every sport available to wo- ridiculous as astrology, we feet men, as well as the other way there is a serious problem. around. It is the obligation of THE ILL FEELING between the university to arrange team the lay world and the world of set-ups to guarantee that one science, it seems, arises from sex will not swamp out the the inability of the general pop- other, causing de facto dis- ulation to defer satisfaction/ crimination, such as when men vindication to some future date. want to play intercollegiate The space program provides volleyball - which they have an excellent example of this. every right to do if it is offered Many ask, what is its value? to women. De facto discrimina- Where is our tax money going? tion is no more acceptable than Isn't it wasted? Without NASA de Jure. and space research and de- Hiring a woman specificaliv velopment, however, we would to be the Women's Athletic Di- be without solid state electron- rector, and a man to be the ics, without wireless biomedic men's, is, or will surely be information t r a n s f e r, found to be, illegal before long. without laser, and without In public education it will be- knowledge of the "final fron- come increasingly difficult to tier." Social programs are hire one sex to work with one sought and subsidized in pref- sex. Both are to be considered erence to basic research sim- members of a common popula- ply because of the short-term feel anything is to be gained by opposing science or technology because of this. Indeed, it is because of the possibility of un- desirable consequences that we view the increasing anti-science attitude with great alarm, as we feel it will lead to a world where the disastrous effects proliferate, as people become more steeped in fantasy, and have even less scientific per- spective with which to judge events in this area. A social responsibility for the scientist is vital, but even more vital is the general knowledge level of the publicI We hope in some way to help increase science li- teracy and demonstrate that many aspects of scientific pro- gress are indispensible to ev- eryone's growth and develop- ment. A LETTER ALMOST identical to this appeared in the Daily of August 8. At that time we so- licited comments artd the aid of anyone interested in joining our organization. The response, much to our dismay,. but rein- forcing our ideas, wt3 nil. We only hope that this wras due to the fact that a sizealile portion of the university community was not in the are a at that time. So, once again , we ask that you please direct com- ments ,or requests for informa- tion to: Association for Scien- tific Knowledge (ASK), 2260 Fuller Rd., Apt. 22, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48105. Perry Clark Jay Shayevitz Sue Shayevitz Sept. 26 .. ......:.n. .... . ...... . ... . . . . ContcIct your reps- Sen. Phillip Hart (Dem), 253 Russell Bldg., Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. 20515 Sen. Robert Griffin (Rep), 353 Russell Bldg., Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. 20515. Rep. Marvin Esch (Rep), 2353 Rayburn Bldg., Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. 20515. Sen. Gilbert Bursiey (Rep), Senate, State Capitol Bldg., Lansing, Mi. 48933. Rep. Perry Bullard (Dem), House of Representatives, State Capitol Bldg., Lansing, Mi. 48933. .masm asas msamssmeessaaasgs HRP stra'tegy under revi!sion - K