I Eighty-Six Years of Editorial Freedom 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, M1 48104 Tuesday, April 6, 1976 Edited and managedE News Phone: 764-0552 by students at the University of Michigan lmd - Support Soc for MSA THE MOST IMPRESSIVE candidates for the 13 seats available in this week's Michigan Student Assembly (MSA) election are the five mem- bers of the Student Organizing Com- mittee (SOC) party. More than any of the other candi- dates who sought the Daily's sup- port, the SOC members demonstrat- ed an eagerness to use positions on MSA to advance the interests and influence of students in both aca- demic and non-academic affairs, The five are all against CIA and NSA recruiting on campus, in favor of mandatory collection of an MSA funding fee from students, and in favor of reduction of the number of members of the Central Student Ju- diciary from ten to six. QOC MEMBER MIKE TAYLOR, a freshman in economics, consid- ers increasing "student involvement in University decision-making" an important goal. "There are no stu- dent members on the LSA Executive Committee," he point out, and pro- mises to press for the seating of a voting student member on that panel. Freshwoman Wendy Goodman, who is studying education of the deaf, lists as her top priority raising the ratio of minorities in the stu- dent body. "The University should fulfill its affirmative action pro- mises," she says. "An educational system where you have all non-mi- nority people will be less enlighten- ing" than an integrated one. Good- man favors increasing the number of courses in minority affairs. Amy Blumenthal, a junior in the Residential College, also holds re- form as one of her top priorities. And she favors the establishment of grie- vance procedures for students alleg- ing violations of the Title VI or Title IX rules forbidding discrimination against women in athletic competi- tion and facilities. Freshman Nathan White, an engi- neering student, is particularly inter- ested in making MSA as orderly and efficient as possible, so that the body will be better able to exert its influ- ence in whatever areas it decides to act. (ALVIN LUKER, a senior in politi- cal science, lists as his major priority making MSA "more effec- tive in the presentation of student concerns to the administration." He is also in favor of holding the ceiling on tuition. The five SOC candidates are the only MSA hopefuls who the Daily can endorse without reservation. CIA: It is the strange nature of our politi- cal spectrum that the far right and the far left, somewhere in the hazy reaches of their domains, circle back and join hands in a dangerous void of irration- ality. Today and tomorrow the students of the University may voice their dis- approval of this sinister partnership with their vote on the question of CIA- NSA recruiting on campus. Editor's Note: The Daily staff was so divided on the controversial issue of CIA-NSA recruitment on campus that neither faction could be satisfied with only one consensus editorial. That is whyi both arguments are being represented on today's editorial page. This opinion was written by Daily staffers Ken Parsigian and Jim Tobin, along with LSA junior Bruce Chew. The harsh scrutiny of the intelligence community throughout the many months since Watergate has been, we feel, large- ly justified. However, the trend has be- come fashionable, and in such a fad we see a blindness to the crucial is- sue of civil rights. The issue here goes beyond the confines of the campus and beyond any ethical consideration of the I performance of the CIA and NSA. THOSE WHO WOULD deny access to the agencies expound upon the need to "draw the line" of morality against their crimes. This is nothing more than a righteous disguise for a compromis- ing of principles, a selling down the river of civil liberties. No matter how grave the CIA's past infractions, Uni- versity students have the same right to be interviewed by them and to hear them out as they do to hear out the colleges, universities, and corporations which recruit here every day. Of course, a fine precedent for such a "line of morality" has become ab- rasively apparent in recent months - the CIA drew a similarly oppressive line against radical groups in the U.S., the Allende government in Chile, and a fair number of mail-receiving Ameri- cans. Sure, declared the intelligence of- ficers, they had civil rights, but only to a point. .William Colby and his boys had to draw the line against civil rights, privacy, and self-determination. Shall we remember the reason for career placement and planning? The Uni- versity offers such non-partisan services as services to students. The CIA is not disrupted by our refusal to allow them. on campus. Only interested students are hurt. Our dissenting colleagues argue that the banning of the agency does not vote on civil >revent students from being hi rey need do, they say, is dro in the mail. Easy as that m s not right to deny all stude ccess to the organizations hoice Of course, our opponen rgue that students who wis recruited do not deserve equ o such an immoral organiza regard that as their own bu THE FLAMBOYANT indig ur colleagues is inspiring in demnation of the alleged crim :IA, which we heartily agre pugnant. But beyond the rh ee a die-hard defense of the eft, an attack on the right n what the consequences to tho >ersuasion. We wonder what their react >e to such an exclusion of the or a Democratic Society from n organization which include onvicted felons. The linei gainst the CIA's overthrowo governments, but it is prov he bombing of buildings would s well on this side of the1 This blunt dismissal of th intelligence community is hard ight of, the House and Senat ations thereof - the judgme the archaic practice of refusin onvicts who have served thei Strange. vibrations in posi Vote CIA, NSA off campus THE DAILY URGES a "no" vote on the advisory ballot question of whether the CIA and the National Security Agency (NSA) should be al- lowed to recruit on campus. Mention the CIA today and many followers of current events will think of cloak-and-dagger dirty tricks - assassinations, pay-offs, and spying --perpetrated on the citizens of the U.S. and foreign countries. Mention the NSA and many news- paper readers won't know what you're talking about. But just be- cause this lesser-known intelligence agency doesn't have its abuses ex- posed by the press doesn't mean that we should trust that NSA functions either within the law or within the bounds of morality. NSA, second fid- dle to the CIA, carries on domestic intelligence gathering as well as sup- plementing the CIA's collection of foreign information, A SUPERPOWER LIKE the United States needs an intelligence gathering service to stay afloat in the modern world. But the CIA is the wrong one. By having CIA re- cruitment on campus, some argue, more responsible people will have the opportunity to rise in the agen- cy's ranks, paving the way for re- form. But reform isn't enough to make the CIA into an acceptable govern- ment body. Its faults are so deeply ingrained - the attitude that it is permissible to flaunt the law is so intergal to the agency's mentality- that the CIA should be scrapped completely. A new intelligence gath- ering body should be started from scratch, and properly supervised. Until the NSA submits to scrutiny by some proper watchdog group, no number of responsible recruits will insure a legal and ethical agency. Until intelligence gathering be- comes demonstrably legal and ethi- cal, the University should not have a part in helping these agencies gather new recruits. The results of the ballot nuestion will not bind the University to either retaining or halting on-camus CIA recruiting. The question Is only in- tended to gauge student oninion. But the University administration should learn whether students are opposed to the recruitment. Vote against CIA/NSA on campus. By PETER GRIFFITHS HANOI, (Reuter) - To make a "Saigon cocktail" mix togeth- er milk, orange juice, a jigger of cognac and a raw egg, then serve ice cold. It's the most popular drink in the bamboo-lined bar of Hanoi's new Thang Loi (victory) Hotel. TO THE FOREIGN visitor, the North Vietnamese capital, recovering from longest war in modern history, is an even stranger mixture - a cocktail of old and new, of communism with a dash of private enter- prise. The modernistic hotel, built last summer by Cubans among fishing villages and crumbling Buddhist temples on the banks of Hanoi's big Ho Tay Lake, is the pride of the city. Most of the guests' like the cognac served in the bar, are Russian. At dinner they share the almost empty restaurant with a handful of other East Europeans and Swedish aid of- ficials. THE THANG LOI is the only noticeable new construction in post-war Hanoi apart from a pagoda-like guest house for foreign dignitaries and the som- ber, gray marble mausoleum housing HoChi Minh'snbody. The tomb, reminiscent of a giant pillbox, is guarded by goose - stepping soldiers. Five days a week, hundreds of Viet- namese line up to file slowly past Ho's embalmed corpse. In the city center, unkempt French colonial - style houses line quiet avenues dotted with tropical trees, their bark peel- ing like the stucco on the build- ings. HANOI IS a strangely silent city. There is little motor traf- fic on its bicycle - crowded streets, no private cars and no taxis - except three-wheeled pedicabs propelled at a snail's pace by bearded old men in tropical pith helmets. The only public transport consists of rickety cream-color- ed streetcars and a few an- cient, overcrowded buses. In the suburbs, a maze of low, thatched dwellings with clay walls blend in with an oc- casional small factory. ALONG THE meandering Red The wreckage of U. S. bomb- ers is displayed in various parks around Hanoi. Hotel souvenir shops sell alloy combs made from the remains of B-52s. On them is engraved a Ho Chi Minh quotation: "Nothing is more The wreckage of U.S. bombers is displayed in various parks around Hanoi. Hotel souvenir shops sell alloy combs made from the remains of B-52s. On them is engraved a Ho Chi Minh quotation: "Nothing is more precious than in- dependence and freedom."' sound of rei and gunfire{ voice announ totally liberat eign forces." ON THE 0 noi in the mu lution, former toms house, t U.S. War Cri Examples c flame - throve sonnet pilots, with steel dat "pineapple"4 In Hanoi's fewer uniform in nearby Chi signs the city a war until1 ago. CONSUMEF scarce and needed to buy grain in state Even the R~ nuoc marn fig ed. But there is market in m1 liberties red - all prison. Moreover, the Daily in today's p a card editorial admits the need for an Ameri- ay be, it can intelligence organization, but then nts equal proposes to deny it sources of person- of their nel. Mightn't Ann Arbor foster the type nts might of candidates who would. make for an sh to be honest and responsible intelligence ag- al access ency? At any rate, can we deny our ation. We fellow students the right to make such usiness. a try? nation of WE ALSO OFFER a plaintive hope its con- that the University might rise above es of the politics, that it establish itself firmly e are re- as a community devoted to the free etoric we exchange of ideas, however far right political or left, up or down they may be. Let o matter the American Nazi Party, the Weather se of its Underground, the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the Jewish Defense ion would League make all efforts to convince us Students of their respective positions under the campus, sunny skies of the Diag. Let us wel- s several come dissent and controversy from the is drawn farthest extremes. We owe it to our- of foreign selves. able that We emphasize our own condemnation d be seen of the wrongs of the CIA and NSA. line. But by allowing the organizations to e nation's recruit on campus, however, we neither ly fair in support nor condone their past actions. e investi- We wish merely to treat them as we nt is like treat all other corporations and organi- g to hire zations, while leaving our fellow students r time in the right to determine their own future. rwar Hanoi volutionary music A big indoor food market of- dies down and a fers a wide variety of seasonal ces: "Vietnam is vegetables, live carp, eels and ed and free of for- poultry. At night, dimly-lit streets are dotted with the glowing lan- 'THER side of Ha- terns of little food stalls where iseum of the revo- toothless old women, their lips ly the French cus- stained red with betel nut,' sell here is a "Hall of tea and cook hot spicy snacks imes." on spirit stoves. of napalm bombs' SOME PEOPLE even make a shae anga ss case living by standing on street co p. shrts adgbalsfrom ners with bicycle pmps offer. cluster bombs. ing to inflate the tires of pass- cluser b mbs, ersby for a couple of su (about streets, there are four cents). s to be seen than There is no shortage of en- na and hardly any tertainment. Movie theaters y was involved in show Russian and East Euro- less than a year pean films (a Soviet version of "Hamlet" was proving popular during my visit) and the ma- R ITEMS are jestic opera house, French- ration cards are built in 1911, was featuring a y meat, butter and North Vietnamese pop group. e-run shops. -ous sietnamese Two youth with tight black sh sauce is ration- suits and pointed shoes strum- med an electric guitar and sa flourishing free plucked a double bass to a back- aos forshingcfre ground of accordion, clarinet ost foods except and drums to produce a sound not unlike the bossa nova. THE AUDIENCE, packing or- on the city nate galleries on fading red-up- Ote, a little iholstered seats, applauded wild- of the Amer- Hanoi's many Buddhist tem- ples are well cared for and still revolutionary attract worshippers. "Many old people come here d a voice an- to pray," an elderlyFrench- 'ated and free speaking custodian told me in one of the city's most beauti- ful incense-filled temples. IN ONE NARROW street, I saw a Buddhist funeral proces- ef for those who ion, weeping women fingering gherbeads preceded by young men plaving a lament on pipes. o the bazaar dis- The coffin was in a battered a wide spectrum bus crawling along in the mid- capitalism along- die of the procession. Behind p-run sector. Ev- it followed 40 mourners with nHo Chi Minh T- white armbands - the Buddhist ctrical goods im- color or mourning. Saigon can be roadside stalls and Peter Griffiths is a Reuters news service staff writer. River, villages, huddling under palms and banyan trees, oc- cupy islands and strips of re- claimed land. There the sam- pan replaces the bicycle. Hanoi's biggest surprise is the absence of bomb damage. Foreigners who lived there dur- ing the American air raids re- port very few bombs hit the city proper. They say accurate pinpoint attacks destroyed vir- tually all bridges, roads and railways into the capital. The big Long Bien Bridge, the only rail and road link over the Red River and the main route to China, was knocked out and repaired three times before the Vietnamese finally gave up and relied on ferries and pontoons. Trains still crawl over the re- paired span at a walking pace. HANOI DID SUFFER some casualties. Visitors are shown a little monument in rebuilt Kham Thien Street near the, city railway station. It was there that 283 people are said to have been killed by bombs from B-52s on Christmas Eve in 1972. There were foreign casualties when two F-4 fighter - bombers dropped their loads over the French Embassy. The ambas- sador and several of his staff were killed by a direct hit on the embassy residence. precious than independence and freedom." IN A SOVIET - BUILT ex- hibition hall, visitors are shown an elaborate "display of 30 years war." Outside, Russian- supplied surface-to-air missiles, MIG fighters and tanks face captured American planes and 'As lines of toy tanks converge and miniature field guns puff sir helicopter lifts off from the roof ican Embassy. The sound of r music and gunfire dies down an nounces: "Vietnam is totally liber of foreign forces.'' CSJ: Needs streamlining guns across a gravel walkway. . Inside, hundreds of Vietna- mese, many in uniform and some with missing limbs, crowd around the star exhibit - a working model of the fall of Saigon. As lines of toy tanks converge on the city and miniature field guns puff smoke, a little heli- copter lifts off from the roof of the American Embassy. The pork and be can afford hi A VISIT ti trict reveals of small-time side the stat erything fronr shirts to ele ported from bought from tiny shops. THE SCARCITY OF qualified can- didates for MSA seats is strong evidence that it is difficult to find good people willing to work on stu- dent government. This supports the argument that because there aren't enough qualified people to fill ten Central Student Judiciary (CSJ) seats, the number of members should be reduced - from ten to six, as spe- cified on the ballot, The CSJ issue is a sticky one on the wake of MSA's disbanding the pre- vious CSJ court. Critics of the dis- banding argue that the move was un- ethical, simply intended to prevent the issuing of several unwanted rul- ings. But defenders of the action assert that the expected rulings would have constituted an overstepping of CSJ's authority, and would have been needlessly nullifying the three years of preparation that went into the forming of MSA. Apparently, the de- fenders of the move are in the right. One approach to attacking the pro- posed change in the number of CSJ members centers on the assertion that MSA should stop its rough han- dling of the court, and allow it to re- main the same kind of check in the student government system which it has been up to now. JT IS ALSO ARGUED that one prob- lem with the ten member court is that few of the justices would show up during any one session. With only six members, it is pre- dicted, absenteeism will be even more of a problem than it was before. But six dedicated CSJ members would do a better job than would a ten member court consisting of six qualified judges and four unquali- fied. I Letters to The Daily the fees voluntary, as ordered by the November vote. In Feb- To The Daily: ruary, five days before the full DURING THE PAST few hearing on the matter, MSA im- months and weeks, students peached all of the court justices have witnessed corruption on on CSJ (Central Student Judici- behalf of MSA (Michigan Stu- ary). This obvious political dent Assembly) almost unparal- move prevented student due leled even with the old SGC. process, and the right to a In fact, the $20,000 law suits democratically chosen judiciary, against former SGC presidents as ordered in the constitution. Lee Gill and Bill Jacobs look Furthermore, it prevented the benign in comparison. impending order to return the Last November, the student money to the students. Again, body passed a constitutional the students were screwed. amendment, byta 62 per cent In March, however, Fleming magito institutet ornta changed his mind, and stated fundngryinpaefundsthat pending this week's elec- Unfortunately for the students, ion, funding would become vol- the student government leader' nutary next year. Unfortunate- met with University President ly, it gave MSA another chance Robben Fleming before the De- to pass a mandatory funding cember Regents meeting. At proposal, and once again de- that Regents meeting, no stu- feat voluntary funding. dent government member spoke, up in support of voluntary fund- MSA HAS MADE the most ing. Instead, Fleming recoin- of that opportunity. MSA is mended to the Regents that considered a non-partial body mandatory funding be continued with respect to elections, since regardless of the student vote. it runs the elections which are Students were obviously upset supposedly fair. Nevertheless, at both Fleming and SGC when MSA is dumping undetermined they received their January tu- amounts of money campaigning ately overspent the $60 cam- paign limit specified in its own election code. This is evidenced by huge ads in the Daily, and hundreds of leaflets posted on campus. The election director, appointed by MSA, has done nothing. The student court, hand-picked by MSA just in time for the election, has re- fused to take any action until after the election, despite a court suit filed against MSA. THERE IS ONLY one way to end once and for all the student government tyranny and corruption. MSA will become re- sponsive to the students only when funding is voluntary. How many students even know when MSA meets, or what they spend their money on. With voluntary funding, MSA will have to in- form the students of such things if they expect to be supported. Further, as outgoing MSA mem- her Greg Higby said at the March Regents ieeting, volun- tary funding would take away MSA's "playground money." There is no doubt that this is true -- students are tired of hating student government play their illegal mandatory assess- ments, their attempt to buy this election, and their disregard of their own campaign finance laws. For this corruption to ever end, mandatory funding must end. Return government to the students by voting NO on Proposition I. Otherwise, we may have only seen the beginning of MSA corruption. Bob Garber President, Committee for an Honest Student Government capitaltsm To The Daily: WAS THERE a sociological error in the Daily editorial, March 25, which editorial was entitled "U.S. Cuba Threat Ut- ter Folly."? Should not the next to last paragraph have stated But with capitalism at the helm instead of having stated "But with Kissinger at thehelm..."? What can be expected but con- stant threats by both sides when both United States capitalists and Russian bureaucrats exploit their working classes and con- tend for control of the markets entirely new form of govern- ment which will be based on Industrial-occupatipn constituen- cies. Local productive and ser- vice units will possess the per- sonal and day to day democracy of the colonial town meetings. Higher administrative positions will be filled by representatives elected by workers according to industrial classifications and to a national industrial congress which will bring together repre- sentatives from all industries. The whole administrative pro- cess will be geared to making the best uses of materials and of human capabilities to provide an abundant livlihood for each individual in a healthy and hap- py environment. An atmosphere of self-respect and mutual es- teem will then arise under which greed and special privileges for a few will be socially unaccept- able. Ralph Muncy March 25, 1976 Letters should be tvned and limited Favor mandatory funding HE DAILY URGES campus voters to cast their ballots in favor of continuing the automatic assess- ment on tuition bills of 75 cents to fund student government. Student government allocates much of its money to commendable community projects and organiza- tions predominantly involving stu- dents. Recent donations have in- cluded a contribution to the Ann Ar- bor Tenants Union to deal with legal problems in the recent tenants strike, a disbursement to the Alpha Phi Omega blood donation drive, and an allocation for child care center op- erating funds.