g~c Our Tan Eighty-Six Years of Editorial Freedom Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan Wednesday, October 29, 1975 News Phone: 764-0552 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Mi.,48104 Support NO W strike today THERE WAS A TIME when political strikes were almost as big a tra- dition as football games around here. Now, with tears welling up in our eyes, we observe that both the strikes and the football games just aren't what they used to be. If you will par- don our prejudice, both the team and the movement seem to have suffered from an influx of freshpersons. But the frosh on the football team have played well, and today the frosh on the campus, and everybody else will have an opportunity to flex their little-used political muscles. The Na- tional Organization for Women (NOW) is urging women in all roles -- students, workers, housewives, bu- reaucrats, whatever - to take today off and participate in "Alice Doesn't Day." The purpose, says NOW, is to demonstrate that women in all capa- cities are vital to the country's econ- omy and obviously equal status and equal p5ay. Thse "Alice Doesn't" slogan refers, albeit a bit awkwardly, to the movie "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore," in which Ellen Burstyn plays a wo- man who goes it alone after her hus- band dies. NOW hopes women who are forced to work today will wear armbands with the slogan to demon- strate their solidarity. In Detroit, women will rally at Fisher Theater to welcome feminist Germaine Breer at 10 a.m. Locally, the NOW chapter and the Women's Studies Program invite "all femin- TODAY'S STAFF NEWS: Elaine Fletcher, Jo Marcotty, Robert Meachum, Jim Nicoll, Ken Parsigian, Cheryl Pilate, Jeff Ris- tine, Annemarie Schiavi, Jim Tobin EDITORIAL PAGE: Nancy Grech, Paul Haskins,. Jon Pansius ARTS PAGE: Jeff Sorensen PHOTO TECHNICIAN: Steve Kagan ists, male and female" to an evening get-together at the Unitarian Church. THE DAILY URGES Ann Arbor's women, young and old, to take the day off and make the point. Kathy Fojtik, county commissioner (D-Ann Arbor) and NOW activist, calls it "a day to just take it easy, to rest and recuperate from all our work," and that sounds like a good idea after all these years of unequal pay. NOW's technique is somewhat troublesome. The "Alice Doesn't" slogan weakens when one remem- bers that "Alice" culuminated her term as an independent woman by falling into the arms of a less-than- liberated man. More significantly, NOW has apparently done little to publicize the strike and Foj tik ad- mits that she doesn't expect wide support - "maybe five per cent of women in the county," she says. Also, NOW is asking housewives and workers to stress their own eco- nomic importance, without clearly protesting the oppressive nature of their roles. It would be sad if women returned to their homes only to hear their husbands declare, "I appreciate you more now - especially in your role as a housewife. I'll take you to dinner more often." TpHE ECONOMIC ISSUE must be raised, but the facts of women's oppression, as well as the value of their labor, must be underlined. So take the day off, and let the "Alice Doesn't" slogan take on larger meaning: Alice Doesn't need a man around all the time; Alice Doesn't like the fact that her work is not fully appreciated. And If Alice Doesn't get to live and work on an equal basis with men - in the house and on the job - then Alice Doesn't work at all. On'th By STEVE STOJIC DEPARTMENT of Defense guys are fun ta talk to when ya can catch one. One I got ta know pretty well was named Ed. He was with the Air Force and gave me the inside story of what it's like up in the wild blue yonder and underneath it too. "Can I ask ya somepin that I been always wantin' ta know, Ed?" I asked one day over lunch. "Sure, shoot." "Do they have toilets on these military planes or do they just use a hole in the floor?" "Well, to tell the truth, the holes are being phased out since we've lost a few men due to turbulence. On the older planes, though, we now require every- one to wear a parachute at all times - all times. "What about the missing guys?" "They're being duly prosecu- ted for desertion." "Who would desert a plane at 50,000 feet without a para- chute?" "WELL, IT'S NOT the easiest way out of the Air Force." That's what I like about Ed, he was truthful and to the point. "Our navigators," he added, "through advanced trigonome- try, radar scans, and computa- tion, have pinpointed the area where the last man left us." "Oh? Where's that?" "Somewhere over the state of Texas." I thought that one over for a bit before I said, "Gee, the people you fly over must really love you." "They think it's birds." "The toilet paper should make them suspicious. Either they got mighty tidy birds or somebody's not being polite." "Anyway,awesclear out fast." "Yeah, ya strike with the speed of lightning then head for the hills. How would you like ta clean that off year car wind- shield?" "JUST BE THANKFUL that cows don't fly." (Ed was kinda the philosophical type.) "ThankrGod for small mira- cles," I replied. The military part of me got to thinking. I thought I'd let him in on what I thought was a bril- liant scheme: re underside of militarism "If you guys could train a whole flock of birds to fly in formation and synchronize their drops, you could really foul the enemy's radar. If you could train a bunch of whales to make cumulative deposits, you could block a harbor. - Think of the possibilities." .uiiv.Y. r .....tiv....:",.. v.....W4t .....sv "Gee, the people you fly over must really love you. "They think it's birds." "The toilet paper should make them sus- picious. E i t h e r they got mighty tidy birds or somebody's not be- ing polite." "We are. The C.I.A. is work- .ing on it." "No Shirt!" "Yeah, we figure it's a neat way to mess things up and come up smelling like a rose." "Not quite a rose, I bet." "Well, at least we wouldn't have any egg on our faces." "No, not egg." "WELL, ONE GOOD load-and we could flush 'em away." "You little stinkers, you think of everything." "Yes. We don't sit around with our heads up our caps, you know." I got to thinking about the whole deal. Knowing the C.I.A., they probably won't have their, shirt together. They'll aim for a radar site and hit some poor farmer. Can's you just see it? From hell they came obscur- ing the sun, laying waste upon the land: Day of the Deluge. Old farmer Jonesovitch, look- ing out the window, says to his wife, "Gosh, Myrtle, it's really com- ing downoutside." "You mean it's raining cats and dogs," she answers with- out bothering to look. "Shucks no. This don't look nothin' like cats or dogs, but I figure we'll save a heap on our fertilizer bill. Too bad little Alice is walking home from school though. She forgot her umbrella." "WELL, NOTHING is as re- freshing as a warm spring show- er." "Well, it may be warm and it may be spring, but I figure you'll really need a shower aft- erwards." Maybe this is what Brezhnev meant when he warned about developing weapons much more terrible than those already pos- sessed. It's environmental war- fare of the worst kind. In fact, at their last meeting, Lenny said to Jerry, "You know, Jerry, we don't mind you Americans subsidizing our agriculture, but watch how you do it. We got plenty of fertilizer, thanks." AstutefJerry, aware that his nation faces a similar threat from the same weapon replied, "Well, Lenny, you know that famous American warning 'Don't tread on me'?" "Da." "Just so we understand each other, I'm having it changed to 'Don't dump on me!" Steve Stojic is an LSNA senior and a frequent contributor to the Daily editorial page. I Letters to The Day SpainSpaniards possess, and we add to it the recent spectacles of To The Daily: tourist buses being stoned in DESPITE THE PRINCIPAL, Italy, schools for immigrant indeed vital, role that Spain has workers' children being burned played in European history and in France, the regime doesn't despite the well documented have to prod people to attend horrifics of its civil war, it is a pro-Franco rally; they'll simp- still virtually an unknown coun- ly go running. The mistake is stil vrtall anunnow con~to assume that even these are try. Hence when ignorance is all true-blue Fascists (like the wed to a rush to judgment, the members of the Fuerza Nueva result inevitably is distortion,mgrso the F era fuea half-truths and cliches, perfect- group on the front cover of last ly exemplified by two recent week's Newsweek). Quite simp- commentaries in The Daily, ly they are not, but even if they a letter from the Revolutionary were, the far Left cannot claim Student Brigade (10/14/75) and that there is, "universal oppo- "Xenophobia grips Franco's st Spain" by Richard Boyle sition in the country. (15/14/75). ANOTHER PATENT TRUTH Both contributions give a pic- about Spain is that Madrid for ture of Spain as being a country the last thirty-five years has at- whose people are seething with tempted to legitimize itself be- revolt, held down. If indeed that fore the rest of Europe and has were the situation, the recent failed miserably to do so. It is, huge waves of protests through- in effect, a regime that has ex- out Europe would have been isted for years now in an ideo- more than enough to bring down logical vacuum, and the wonder the perpetrators of "the most is that it has not fallen under fascist terror." That the regime its own weight. An obvious an- is stronger than ever as a di- swer is that its impressive eco- rect result of those protests can nomic record of the last fifteen only mean that a serious reap- years has stemmed serious op- praisal is in order. One truism position, but it's also clear that that has clearly escaped those as regards democratic institu- commentators is that awareness tions Spain after France has no- of oppression is in direct pro- where to go. Tied to lip-service portion to levels of political con- to the altisonant principles of sciousness, and the sad but the Fascist Movimiento Nacional manifest reality of present-day it too has substituted rhetoric Spain -s the endemic political for reality and the losers are apathy of the vast majority of the Spaniards themselves. In its people. Within that apathy, this context both the Basque that same majority can thus go ETA and the Maoist FRAP about its business as it has for will become increasingly im- the last thirty-five years, never portant, but the political future see the secret police, and never of Spain will depend much more have a run-in with the more vis- on the Socialists of Tierno Gal- ible variety either. When this van, the Communists of Santi- situation is compounded by a ago Carillo, the Christian Demo- strong ethnic pride that most crats of Ruiz Jimenez and oth- ers whose respective have been put back yeE the recent foreign-induce of xenophobia. THE BEST WAY t Spain just now is to al political rhetoric,be it fr Left or the Right and c trate on ways of promoti growth of democratic insti within the country. Desp dications to the contrary, co will not last foreve Right can and must coexi the Left, and Spain, Go her, had enough with on War. To advocate the economic aid and the br of diplomatic relations is mote the same siege m that gripped the country i Perhaps there are thos seek to achieve precisel I for one do not. After F Spain is going to need; time it can get to mON ward. To accept the dist of rhetoric is precisely t Spain that time. James Maharg Asst. Professor of Spanish and Portu To The Daily: AS U-M's Internationa en's Year staff, we wou to thank both media peal individuals who have res to Betty Friedan's appe at Hill Auditorium Sep 30th. Our hope in sponsor speakers series is to pr( forum for the expression osophies within the w movement - both on tf of speakers and audien We have on file the a mately 100 written quest causes ars by d wave o help bandon om the :oncen- ing the itutions )ite in- Fran- r. The st with d help e Civil end of reaking to pro- entality in 1940. e who y that. tended for Ms. Friedan. We would be happy to share them with any individuals or groups who might be interested. We are aware that the question and answer period was frustrating for many, and welcome sug- gestions as to format for fu- ture events. We invite people to stop by the U-M IWY of- fice, 110 Administration Build- ing, any week day morning. We'd very much like community involvement and feedback. Lila Green U-M IWY Program Coordinator Rita Davies U-M IWY Program Assistant Cctober 8 alternatives 10'.....ct: ....N.:. .".........S...............A... Editorial Staff GORDON ATCHESON CHERYL PILATE 00-Editors-in-Chief DAVID BLOMQUIST..............Arts Editor BARBARA CORNELL .. 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 LOPG .......... Sunday Magazine Editor STAFF WRITERS: Susan Ades, Tom Allen, Glen Alerhand, Ellen Breslow, Mary Beth Dillon, Ted Evanoff, Jim Finklestein, Elaine Fletch- er, Stephen Hersh, Debra Hurwitz, Lois Joel- movich, Doc Kralik, Jay Levin, Andy Lilly. Ann Marie Lipinski, George Lobsenz, Pauline Lubens, Rob Meachum, Robert Miller, Jim Nicoll, Cathy Reutter, Jeff Ristine, Tim Schick, Katherine Spelman, Steve Sta ic, Jim Tobin. Bill Turque, Jim Valk, David Wein- berg, Sue Wilhelm, David Whiting, Margaret Photography Staff KEN FINK Chief Photographer STEVE KAGAN.............Staff Photographer PAULINE LUBENS.........Staff Photographer Sports Staff BRIAN DEMING Sports Editor MARCIA MERKER ....., ... . . . Executive Editor LEBA HERTZ . .. .. Managing Editor JEFF SCHILLER ......... . ..... Associate Editor CONTRIBUTING EDITORS: Al Hrapsky, Jeff Liebster, Ray O'Hara, Michael Wilson NIGHT EDITORS: Rick Bonino, Tom Cameron, Tom Duranceau, Andy Glazer, Kathy Henne- ghan, Ed Lange, Rich Lerner, Scott Lewis, Bill Stieg ASSISTANT NIGHT EDITORS: Enid Goldman, Marcia Katz, John Niemeyer, Dave Wihak DESK ASSISTANTS: Paul Campbell, Marybeth Dillon, Larry Engle, Aaron Gerstman, Jerome Gilbert, Andy Lebet, Rick Maddock, Bob Miller, Joyce Moy, Patrick Rode, Arthur wightman Business Staff SENIOR STAFF DEGORAH NOVESS Business Manager Rob Cerra.Operations Manager Peter Caplan ........ .. Finance Manager Beth Friedman . ..............Sales Manager Dave Pontkowsky ............. Display Manager Pete Petersen ................ 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By the Ann Arbor Teach-In Committee "Gentlemen, this is dirty business. If you have any qualms about it, get out now." -unidentified instructor at the U. S. Army Intelligence School, Fort Tolabird, Md. 1968 THROUGH THE GENRE of the spy fiction of Ian Fleming and others of his mold, intelli- gence has firmly taken its place as the Ameri- can virility symbol. Glamorized spies shoot their way into board rooms and bedrooms to defeat whatever insidious enemy is threatening our American way of life. The truth is much less glamorous but no less insidious. The real intelligence operatives of American may not fit the Bondian mold of dash and daring. They operate very much with their feet on the ground, but, in their own muddling way, they can come down just as quickly and finally on their unsuspecting targets as any of their fic- tional counterparts. Real-life intelligence agents as" a rule don't resort to the sensational tactics of liquidation partially because they can't get away with it, but mostly because they don't have to. DOMESTIC SPIES ARE bureaucrats above all else, and as such can readily manipulate the courts and law enforcement agencies with the paralyzing cry of "national security." They can control behavior and neutralize "subversive" threats just as effectively through surveillance and constraints on freedom as they would through more primitive strong-arm techniques. Surveillance of dissenters is not new. , Major General Ralnh Van Deman, considered by the Army to be the "father of military intelligence," which many Americans, including Emmz man, were deported for radical activity. ISOLATED VOICES WERE raised these infringements of civil liberties, them the great iconoclast H. L. Menck public opinion bit the government line a ple acquiesced in the surveillance, seein a necessary function of the U. S. governn The present public furor over governme veillance arises out of the mood of the Vietnam and Watergate have made peopl suspicious of their government than ever The Army's surveillance program, the "Operation CHAOS," and the FBI's "CO PRO" program have all raised disturbin tions about the government's conduct. Government is supposed to be a pact, of trust between those who hold the r power and those who feel the effects c power. When that trust is broken, when, a dore White says, there has been a br faith," then it is time we all reexami pact. It is fitting that this all comes upon us year of the Bicentennial, for the first Ar Revolution was a reaction to a breach o Men and women could not stand idly bl their "inalienable rights" to "life, liberty; pursuit of happiness" were being eroded THESE DAYS, IT is very hard to happiness when your name is permanen bedded in the memory banks of somef commuter, while some just as faceless ment agent monitors your every move. remain inalienable only so long as the ment deems convenient. The Ann Arbor Teach-In is a major e F'ranco, To The Daily: all the I- AM CONCERNED about ve for- serious unresolved safety and ortions atomic waste disposal problems o deny in the current atomic power program. For this reason I would like to make a plea for alternative forms of energy. uguese The average citizen today, af- ter watching several television commercials on nuclear power IWy could easily be persuaded to believe that nuclear power is a safe, efficient means of sup- I Wom- plying energy. A study of nu- id like clear power convinces me that ple and these commercials are mislead- ponded ing to say the least. The utili- earance zation of nuclear power is actu- tember ally a dangerous means of sup- ing the plying energy that consumers ovide a should be aware of. Thus far of phil- very little money has been omen' s put into developing alternative he part sources of energy such as solar ce. and wind power so it is no won- approxi- der that nuclear energy is be- ions in- ing universally developed. Biologically, utilizing nuclear power is extremely dangerous. -Radiation damage can cause mutations in the genes either somatically or genetically. If the damage is somatic it will harm only the individual ex- posed by possibly causing ab- normal cell growth, namely can- cer. If the damage is genetic it is passed on to future genera- a Gold- tions and abnormal births, in- creases in disease, and mental retardation may occur. In Michigan we have a unique against and interesting experiment in among solar and wind energy at the en. But Upland Hills Ecological Aware- nd peo- ness Center located near Ox- g it as ford. About three years ago vet when an energy class was be- ient. ntaught at the Uplandwschool, ent sur- some teachers and students be- times, came interested in solar and e more wind energy. Out of those in- before. terests grew a solar and wind CIA's energy system and the Upland INTEL- Hills Ecological Awareness Cen- ig ques- ter. THERE ARE SEVERAL in- teresting features at the Aware- a bond ness Center. Among them is the eins of geodesic dome classroom. This of such dome is heated by the solar col- s Theo- lector. One unique feature of each of the solar system is that it is ne that integrated with the wind ener- gy system. This is because the wind system provides electricity sin the for the two pumps used in the merican solar system; one which pumps )f faith. water up to. the corrugations y while on the solar collector and one and the which pumps water from the away solar collector to the dome. liar- aw'.ay. nessing the wind provides three killowatts of power which takes pursue care of all the electrical re- Itly im- quirements of the dome. Besides faceless the solar heater and wind gen- govern- erator there are other ways of utilizing energy. The Awareness Center is usually in the process of building new energy equip- ment. Among some of the new equipment is a solar fruit dry- er, a green house, and other useful items. The philosophy of the Aware- ness center is to provide the education and practical build- ing experience for people inter- ested in alternative energy sys- tems. They hope to heighten people's awareness of the fact that positive solutions to the en- vironmental and energy prob- lems do exist. The Awareness Center will continue to function as a working demonstration util- izing non-polluting sources of energy. Since the Awareness Center is an ongoing process, new mem- bers can always join. A mem- bership entitles one to attend workshops and work on projects at the center. Also, members have full access to the center's library, and will receive a news- letter published quarterly. Be- cause of the serious problems involved with nuclear energy, I hope that in the future people start supporting individuals and groups like the Awareness Cen- ter. If we all wait too long it just may be too late. Faith Birchali October 10 hypocrisy HYPOCRISY HAS been one- thing that we've never been able to stomach. A certain pow- erful faction on Student Gov- ernment Council, which got elected by claiming to be lib- eral (or even radical), has al- lowed power to go to their heads, and has been acting in a manner that would warm the heart of John Birch himself. On Thursday, three alternative sets of amendments to the SGC Constitutio, all with the purpose of implementing the recom- mendations of the Commission to Study Student Governance (CSSG), were brought before Council to be presented to the students in the coming All- Campus Election. Only one of the three will appear in, the coming referendum - the one presented by a member of this faction. The other two, present- ed by "outsiders" (an inde- pendent member of Council and the Treasurer of SGC), were refused even consideration as motions by a solid chorus of "nays" from this unshaking voting bloc. Acting as the most benevolent of dictators, the Student Organizing Committee decided that the student body of the University of Michigan is not intelligent enough to choose three differen plans for their own government, and casually ignored arguments in favor of submitting all proposed alternatives to the people- where all power supposedly rests.. WE CALL UPON the student body to insure that never again will those who masquerade as liberals be allowed to push us into repression. G. J. DiGiuseppe Irving Freeman Oct. 24 Letters should be typed and limited to 400 words. The Daily reserves the right to edit letters for length and grammar. I 1 i ::d ' , C '' ' A .. Y Contact, yOUr reps- ,. , ..