I r Sgir jn Ia i Eighty-Six Years of Editorial Freedont 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104 Saturday, February 14, 1976 News Phone: 764-0552 Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan On Kissinger and secreey IN A NEWS conference, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger angrily condemned the leaking to the press of the House Select Committee report on intelligence. Excerpts from the so-cal- led Pike Report, which is highly crit- ical of the Secretary and the CIA, were published in the Village Voice. The report holds Kissinger respon- sible for the lives of thousands of Kurdish Iraquis who were killed after Iranian support for their independ- ence movement stopped. It blames Kissinger for being too secretive in handling recent concern over possible Soviet violations of the SALT agree- ments. But most importantly, it blam- es the CIA for provoking the Soviet military build-up in Angola. Kissinger charged that the report violated an agreement between t h e executive and legislative branch, and used classified information in a dis- torted manner. To top off his com- plaints, Kissinger accused the com- mittee of McCarthyism. Kissinger's first charge may very well be accurate. But all three com- plaints are very reminiscent of a re- cent vice-president and his boss. Spiro Agnew seemed to think that it was the duty of the press to always cooperate with the administration's policies and goals. T[E PENTAGON Papers criticized the Administration policy in Vietnam. The Nixon-Agnew reaction to their publication was clear a n d prompt: The news media had leaked out information very damaging to the national security.Looking back, t h e publication of the papers did no damage at all to national security. In fact, it had the benefit of hastening the end of our senseless involvement in the Vietnam War. It is all too obvious that the issue in Kissinger's complaint is not na- tional security but his desire to con- duct foreign policy in secrecy. When the American people learn the whole truth about Angola, chances are that they will not think very kindly of Henry Kissinger, or the CIA, or Pre- sident Ford. And there is an election coming up. The Pike Committee Report is dam- aming to the reputations of the CIA, to the administration, and to Henry Kissinger. An informed public will see through the myth of national security and judge the issue for what it is. Editorial positions represent consensus of the Daily staff. Sgt. R By GORDON ATCHESON 5GT. ROCK IS A no-nonsense guy - he has to be. After all, consider his plight. He's been fighting World War II for the past 35 years. And unlike some of those Japanese sol- diers who've gotten stranded on woe-be- gotten South Sea islands, Rock has been in the thick of the campaign without so much as a day of R and R. Comic book character Rock regularly leads his company against waves of German tanks or into hand-to-hand com- bat with Teutonic hordes at least ten times the size of his force. Without fail, however, he emerges victorious. THAT'S NOT an easy record to main- tain for a few months - let alone over 30 years. But the grizzled non-com does it. And he does it by direct action, tough talk, and eschewing any reflection on the higher philosophical implications of the job. Those three qualities are just about as important in surviving a good liberal education. Direct action and tough talk come into play in bluntly telling the guys that you can't go out for a beer be- cause you've got 20-page takehome to polish up for that miserable 8 o'clock Nat Sci course. It would drive anybody insane to contemplate the philosophy of spending thousands of dollars and four years to get a piece of paper that qualifies the bearer either for law school or unem- ployment. BUT A BIT of Rock's wisdom has been a great comfort to the University stu- dents who are tired of tilting with wind- mills and sensile economics professors. On the wall of the UGLI's basement stairwell are scrawled the immortal words : "Sgt. Rock's Maxim: Knowledge is Shit." N0 TRUER A thought has the earthy . Rock ever uttered - I suspect he never committed it to paper, either be- cause he was too busy dodging German bullets or because he's a functional il- literate. But the worth of the words cannot be underestimated Just ask any student toting an arm-load of books on the psy- cho-sexual implications of Moby Dick up those very stairs. Perhaps the greatest testimony to Rock's motto is the longevity and per- sistence of the words themselves. I came to the University in September. 1972 and stumbled onto Sgt Rock shortly there after - conjuring up Easy Com- pany exploits I'd read years before. Of course, there's no telling how long Rock has been immortalized in the UGLI. Afriend of mine swears thatit was there at least a year before by dis- covery. But beyond that, the lineage is lost to the ages and graduation. DESPITE THE best efforts of the UGLI's maintenance personnel, Rock en- dures. Periodically, the janitors break out the Top Job and brushes and try to drum Rock's words out of academia. But, thankfully, they always fail. Each time the maxim is erased, some one who appreciates its import appears on the scene. LAST DECEMBER, as my friend and I labored over our typewriters whipping out page after page of shit . . . er, knowledge for a couple of courses that ought to be retired faster than the Edsel was, I chanced to mention that the maxim had again fallen prey to an eag- er. though unenlightened, janitor. My friend stopped typing amid word. He looked up. We both knew what had to be done. "Ill take care of it," he said bran- dishing a black magic marker. le put on his coat and made his way through the snow-filled night air to the UGLI. With stealth and cunning Rock himself would have admired, my friend returned ock versus intellectualism Otis Pike Sgt. Rock points victoriously to the machine. the golden prose to its rightful place. THE NEXT day, I passed through the UGLI just to see that the words were intact . .. they were. Having spent over three years as a student at the big U', I recognize that we cannot forget Sgt. Rock or we'll come to take our tasks too seriously. A lot of people - all gronks with four points and designs on Harvard law - probably dismiss the maxim with stone faces and acid comments about juvenile vandalism. BUT TO those of us who have no captured secret files of the Nazi war qualms about Saturday Night specials - papers researched and written between 8 p.m. Saturday and 3 a.m. Sunday, with an hour and a half out for the late movie - Rock provides the kind of re-enforcement we need to slog through this morass. Whereever Sgt. Rock is today - still battling the Nazi buzzards, sitting in a comfortable armchair sipping a Bud, or having gone to the "Big One" in the sky -we salute him. Gordon. Atcheson .is a former Co- edi/or-in-chief of The Daily. ' placement and social responsibility Henry Kissinger El l1 Editorial Staff ROB MEACHUME Co-Editors-in-Chief By DAVID SOBEL Befitting the liberal education offered at the University, many members of our community are quick to criticize, while at the same time slow to act on their stated beliefs. This syndrome can be seen in the barrage of condemnations recently directed against the illegal activities of the Central Intelligence Agency and major American corpora- tions. One gets a sense from this righteous indignation that If only university students could somehow be in the right places (always far-off), this society of ours would be the model of morality that we all envision. But in actuality, we are power- less to implement change. Or are we? It is baffling that the moralists among us fail to recognize the very real power that we do, in fact, possess. The university, and perhaps this one more than most, is an integral part of the American system. Both government and industry are tied more intimately to the university than they are to any other institution in the society. YET WE continue to view the world as if we were cut off, trapped in an institution which holds no relevance to the inner- most workings of our system. Perhaps a closer examination of specific issues will clarify the extent to which we possess the potential to make our voices heard. We are supposedly outraged by the gross transgressions com- mitted in our name by the Cen- tral Intelligence Agency. from assassination plots to the over- throw of democratically elect- ed governments. We are sup- posedly equally outraged by the illegal dealings of the largest corporations, from the domestic bribery of Gulf Oil to the inter- national bribery of Lockheed Aircraft. But our outrage does not go far enough to be heard at our University's Office of Career Planning and Placement, a fa- cility which increasingly takes on the appearance of a den of thieves with each additional dis- closure of governmental and corporate corruption. WE MUSTN'T be deceived, however. Career. Planning is merely the most visible sign of the University's involvement with these unprincipled govern- ment agencies andmultination- al corporations, though cer- tainly not the most significant. Day after day, we give these 'The University, and perhaps this one more than most, is an integral part of the American system. Both government and industry a r e tied more intimately to the university than they are to any other institution in the society.' J.at:1:::::':"".. . . " . . "' . "f:?:. .i:: .,. 1l,:" :Xf:.tiM .:..".: ::: . :"'::...'::.....::tX-"-.'"h....... .. "1..... . . more socially conscious voca- tions are not available, in the end many of us must resign ourselves to the economic facts of American life., BUT WHAT of our outrage? It seems that it might find a voice in demanding that the ad- ministration of our university ficient numbers, the University should act on behalf of its stu- dents by taking the lead in en- couraging and supporting the establishment of such vocations, rather than placing its students in a position where they must become parties to murder and bribery. For in the final analysis, hasn't the univesrity, and per- haps this one more than most, always served as the consci- ence of this nation? THE GOVERNMENT and thW corporations understand quite well the "dangerous" potential which is present on campuses such as ours. Witness the great sums they have set aside to sell themselves in the pages of this -newspaper. Allied Chemi- cal tells us that "profits are for people," while the National Security Agency reminds, "Think about your future; we do." Perhaps it is time that we gave them their money's worth. David L. Sobel is a senior in LSA. BILL TURQUE JEFF RISTINE .. . ............. Managing Editor TIM SCHICK.Executive Editor STEPHEN HERSH Editorial Director JEFF SORENSEN.. . .............. . Arts Editor CHERYL PILATE .............. Magazine Editor STAFF WRITERS: Susan Ades, Tom Allen, Glen Allerhand, Marc Basson, Dana Bauman, David Blomquist, James Burns, Kevin Counihan, Jodi Dimick, Mitch Duntz, Elaine Fletcher, Phil Foley. Mark Friedlander, David Garfinkel, Tom Godell, Kurt Harju, Charlotte Heeg, Richard James. Lois Josimovich, Tom Kettler, Chris Kochmanski, Jay Levin, Andy Lilly, Ann Marie Lipinski, George Lobsenz, Pauline Lu- bens, TenManeau, Angelique Matney, Jim Nicoll, Maureen Nolan, Mike Norton, Ken Par- sigian, Kim Potter, Cathy Reutter, Anne Marie Schiavi, Karen Schulkins, Jeff Selbst, Rick Sobel, Tom Stevens, Steve Stojic, Cathi Suyak, Jim Tobin, Jim Valk, Margaret Yao, Andrew Zerman, David Whiting. TODAY'S STAFF News: Mitch Dunitz, Lois Josimovich, Rob Meachum, Jeff Ristine, Jim Tobin Editorial Page: Michael Beckman, David Garfinkel, Stephen Hersh, Stephen Kursman Photo Technician: Pauline Lubens organizations access to our fa- cilities and ourselves. We must, after all, find gainful employ- ment upon leaving the Univer- sity and it increasingly seems that the only place to find it is with the government or the giant corporations. While we might regret that withold its hospitality from those employers of questionable moral character and channel the great resources of this in- stitution instead into the com- pilation of information dealing with morally sound vocations. If it becomes apparent that such occupations do not exist in suf- Letters to J'lhe Daily Vor"16 ALL t. %NOWJ.6t46E ABCLII !NNWi &A COWGRE55 ?%' '. , 4 Frye To The Daily: The news that Billy Frye had been chosen as the new LSA dean comes as no surprise to me or to any of the others that had followed the case of Jewel Cobb. It was easily ap- parent after the farce in which the University administration offfered Ms. Cobb a two-year contract with no tenure even though the standard con-rait offered is usually a five-year contract with tenure. The whole affair and now its supposed conT clusion proves it as a move- ment to maintain the status quo. Even though the elected iepre- sentatives of the - people of this state voted for Jewel Cobb as the new LSA dean, President Fleming and Vice-President Rhodes evidently felt it would be over their dead body that a black woman would become dean of one of the outstandirg Lit colleges in the country. Billy Frye can take pride in know- ing that he was selected as second choice, and praferred as first only because of his gender and his sex. Jewel Cobb was obviously as qualified if not more qualified tha 1 Frye or she would not have been the unanimous choice of the Re- gents when the time came for voting their choice as dean. And the regents have also let us down. They are charged with the responsibility of represent- ing the interests of the people pus. And this we must do. For all black people and f)r all women this was just ano'her step in the same direcion of sexism, racism and discrimina- tion. And we cannot let it con- tinue. Cliffford Brown February 13, 1976 Mideast To The Daily: The calumny of the Arab big lie has seen print in the pages of the Michigan Daily. Interest- ingly, the Organization of Arab Students now resorts to the plaintive cry that the Arab peo- pIe are being falsely pilloried by the Zionists. To hear the Arab spokesman put it, Jews never had it so good in the Arab countries wherein they had resided for several millennia before emigrating to Israel. In fact, Iraq recently invited all her erstwhile Jewish coun- trymen to return to their for- mer homeland. This plea by the Organization of Arab Students is rot. Although Jews dwelt in Iraq and other Arab states a full thousand years before the advent of Arab hegemony in the region, they were subjected to constant ha- rassment, taxed prejudicially and placed in separate comnu- nities. The Star of David badge, pre- sumed a Nazi German innova- tion, was created by a 10th Century Arab ruler who de- manded that all Jews display Lebanon, the only Arab state that has not made the Moslem religion the state religion has disintegrated. What chance have Jews or other minorities in the Arab lands? The Arab students are now telling Americans that they too, wish to see changes made in current Arab regimes. Let them tell this to the Black Christian Sudanese who were massacred by the Sudanese Moslems; let them tell this to the Kurds whose penchant for self-determination was quashed in a bloody revolution; let them tell this to the Maronite Chris- tians who have become ourcasts in their own land; but above all, as Americans are wont to say, let them tell this to the Marines. Eldridge Cleaver recently penned an article from the con- fines of a prison in California. He elected to comment on the 'Zionism is racism' issue by stating that the concept of rac- ism is anathema to all Jews and Zionists. He concluded, an the basis of having lived in Arab countries, that the most racist people on earth are the Arabs. I am one of 800,000 Jews who were driven from Arab lands bereft of all possep3sons but not of dignity. My family arrived in Israel from BogO nd and spent the following 7 years in a discarded Red Cross tent in tent cities permeated by muddy ruts called streets. Mvy fellow Jews did not confine me there, rather they sac-"iiced rand and Assyrians. I do not choose to return to Bagdad and provide future sports by joining Jewish martyrs who were hung in the central square. Aviva Mutchnick Chairperson of The Israeli Student Organization in Ann Arbor February 12, 1976 MSA To The Daily: For the first time in three years, I decided to attend one of the now infamous student government meetings. I waw, to say the least, doubtful concern- ing the Michigan Student As-. sembly's ability to get oni ts feet. However, my feelings were unfounded. I witnessed a group of people trying as West they could to get a new and hope- fully more stable government off the ground. The meeting was .handled in a most competent manner and seemed to get through the necessary business. What I liked most was the MSA's unwillingness to be in- timidated by factions bent on trning MSA into a tangle of suits and petty political funds. Although I didn't agree with all of the specific actions taken, on the whole, the MSA has earn- ed my respect and aenhusiasm. I think the MSA has taken the first steps in achieving a repre- sentative and responsible sIu- dent government and hope they method ffor appointing Commis- sion members. The Court eY- plicitely indicated that there would be no problem with a commission appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. By saying this, and by allowing the present commis- sion to exercise its powers for 30 days, the Court virtually in- vited the Congress to pass new legislation resurrecting tihe com- mission on a constitutional bas- is. We of Common Cause believe that a strong, indepnrdent com- mission is an essential ingredi- ent of an honest,, open cam- paign free of under-the-table financing. The Mikva-Frenzel bill recently introduzcd in both houses of Congress would re- constitute the Federal Electon Commission, and we are vigor- ously supporting it. We have written to Repre- sentative Marvin Esch to urge his suoport of the measure and to ask that he oppose any amendments to weaken the commission's enforcement and investigatory powers, or to transfer its authority to other agencies. Our hope is that if enough citizens act to focus at- tention on campaign reform, the Congress will do its duty. Paul Metz, Media Relations Chairperson, for the Steering Committee of the Second Congressional Di trict r