Conmnmittee says House ean diseipline Diggs WASHINGTON (UPI) - The House Ethics Committee decided without dissent yesterday that Congress can discipline Rep. Charles Diggs Jr., (D- Mich.), for his kickback conviction even though voters have since re- elected him to a 13th term. Attorney Robert Barnett argued in vain that the Constitution gives voters an absolute right to decide who represents them. Diggs, senior black member of the House, was convicted and given a three-year sentence last October on charges that he padded staff salaries to get kickbacks to pay personal and congressional expenses from July 1973 toJune 1977. DIGGS HAS FILED an appeal that is The Michigan Daily-Thursday, May 17, 197 to be argued June11. The committee decided to investigate whether this violated House rules and warrants recommending that the House discipline him either by reprimand, censure or expulsion. Diggs last November won re-election by a majority of nearly 80 per cent in his downtown Detroit district, where he operates an undertaking establishment called "The House of Diggs." "THERE CAN BE no doubt ... that Congressman Diggs' constituen- ts ... were fully aware of the charges against him, the trial and conviction," Barnett said. "It was on the front page almost every day in the Detroit newspapers." See COMMITTEE, Page 7 Samoff supporters to address By SARA ANSPACH Ten to 15 students belonging to the Samoff Support Committee will ask the Board of Regents at its meeting in Dearborn today to intervene in Assistant Political Science Prof. Joel Samoff's tenure appeal to the LSA Executive Committee. The students said they will protest the appeals procedure, and claimed the process has taken too long and has been unfair. THE LSA Executive Committee deliberated on Samoff's appeal last Thursday, after receiving a report from the three-member appeals committee, which, according to Samoff, has recommended that his appeal be denied. Members of the Executive Committee declined to comment on whether a decision has been reached. LSA Dean Billy Frye last week told a group of Samoff supporters that he believed the committee's deadline for deciding Samoff's appeal is tomorrow, although the group said he was unsure. Other members of the Executive Com- mittee have declined to confirm the deadline date. The LSA appeals process requires that tenure decisions be appealed on procedural grounds, rather than on the basis of the actual decision. Samoff said the appeals committee "took a narrow Regents view on what was procedural." He said his appeal listed ten major complaints about the procedure which the political science department used in denying him tenure, but that the appeals com- mittee heard evidence on only two of his points. Samoff said that committee did not feel the other points were procedural issues. THE APPEALS committee took four months to make a recommendation to the LSA Executive Committee, a process, Samoff said, which is supposed to take one month. "A person could be old and gray before the appeals process is over," said Samoff. Because the appeals process is so cumbersome and because most of his appeal was not heard by the committee, Samoff said, "There are not really any viable channels" by which a professor can appeal a tenure decision. If the Executive Committee should heed the appeals committee's recom- mendation and deny Samoff's appeal, Samoff said he will appeal to a Univer- sity body similar to LSA's grievance system. Samoff said he has "certainly considered" suing the University if his attempts to go through formal appeal channels are continually unsuccessful. Next year Samoff will teach at the University's Residential College and at the Center for Afro-American and African Studies. Daily Photo by LISA KLAUSNER Going once, going twice Auctioneers eagerly sell objects darts from the Horner House, built in 1836. The estate of the N. Divison Street house are being auctioned off by Braun and Helmei Auctioneers. today I Let them eat cake While the nation wonders how much the price of gasoline will rise each day, Sen. S. I. Hayakawa (R- Calif.), former president of San Francisco State College, yesterday proposed his own solution to the problem. Hayakawa suggested that gasoline prices should be allowed to rise up to $2 or $3 a- gallon, because the wealthy would still buy it. "The impor- tant thing," said Hayakawa, "is a lot of the poor don't need gas because they're not working." Hayakawa made the comments after California Gov. Jerry Brown met yesterday with President Carter. Hayakawa, whose office said he owns four cars, mentioned nothing about oppressing the masses. Out of the horses' mouths The scene: Dearborn Street in downtown Chicago. The time: yesterday afternoon. The characters: Greco and Nebo, two dark-colored Quarter Horse geldings;. .p.bert (Mooney, attorney for an 80-year-old man who is suing the city because, he claims, his hip was broken during a fall caused by one of the police department's horses; 12 city-bred jurors. Clooney requested the horses be brought into the court proceedings so that the citified jurors could be close enough to one of the animals to understand how it could be frightening, and, presumably, capable of knocking down his client. But a group of admiring onlookers burst into applause as the trained horses performed their neat maneuvers before backed-up traffic. "At least they got a close look at the horse," Clooney admitted. Clooney's client, Vladas Valineviciuc, who claims the horse made him fall and break his hip during a rock-and-bottle throwing incident connected with a 1977 civil rights march, remained in the courtroom 24 stories above the equestrian scene on the steeet. Valienvicius (who speaks no English) told an inter- preter "he'd prefer not to go down." Happenings... . don't begin until 7:30 p.n., when the Ann Ar- bor Historic District Commission presents a film/discussion program in the Conference Room of the new fire station at S. Fifth Street and Huron Ave. Tonight, the film, A Future for the Past, will be shown, and a discussion on "Buying, Financing, and Maintaining the Older Home" will follow ... also at 7:30 p.m., the Rackham Student Government will meet in the Rackham Board Room in the Rackham Building... again at 7:30 p.m., in Conference Rooms 5 and 6 in the Michigan Union, the Arbor Alliance will discuss plans for a June 2 rally at the Fermi II nuclear plant in Monroe ... at 8 p.m., there will be an ice cream social at Hillel. 2400 Ged- des at Hill Street ... Ypsilanti High School presen- ts "I Remember Mama" at 8 p.m. in the school's theatre at 2095 Packard. The play continues through Saturday. * On the outside There's re-runs on TV, and there's re-runs in the weather. Today will be much like yesterday, sunny, warmer, winds 10-20 miles per hour. This is one channel no one really wants to change. A 7.