Page 16-Saturday April 21 1979-The Michigan Daily Regents O"K MSA fee, eleetion review (Continued fromkPage 1) making that portion voluntary. BAKER SAID he thought it was im- portant for a wide perspective of views to be expressed on campus, but added that he felt those who don't support a particular view should not be forced to provide funding for it. Several Regents, including Thomas Roach (D-Grosse Pointe) and Robert Nederlander (D-Birmingham), were concerned about the accountability of MSA, but said they don't feel the Regents should place restrictions on which groups MSA could fund. "I don't think we ought to tell MSA how to spend its money," Nederlander said. "I just think it's a bad policy for us to tell student government how to spend its money." THE REGENTS also considered separating Legal Services funding from MSA funding in order to give the Legal Services staff more security, a concern expressed by both Johnson and Interim University President Allan Smith. The funding resolution approved by the Regents requires them to review the MSA mandatory assessment next year. MSA had originally requested a three-year funding approval. The resolution, formulated by Smith, directs Johnson and his staff to under- take an elections review. It was passed yesterday with little discussion. JOHNSON SAID he hoped he could begin the review quickly, and also en- sure that he receives testimony from both major student political parties in- volved and the Central Student Judiciary (CSJ) justices. He also said he would meet with his staff to decide on a format for the review. "I'm not sure how one really starts at ,this," he said. "I don't intend to do it in an arbitrary manner. I've been given an assignment by the Regents and plan to fulfill my duties to the best of my ability." Current MSA President Eric Arnson said he had "mixed emotions" about the Regents' decisions. He added that he felt the decisions aren't major set- backs for MSA. PHO0N E 76 9 -7 940 ON VSoi VI'05 VISA visit our PROFESSIONAL BOOKS DEPT. featuring a wide selection of reference texts and current technical literature covering a broad spectrum of subjects, including..... ALSO YESTERDAY, CSJ released its formal decision on the decer- tification of the election. The April 8 CSJ decision to decertify the MSA elec- tion was challenged because the original certification hearing allegedly was held in violation of the CSJ manual. CSJ justices decided at an April 11 hearing to turn down a second cer- tification hearing, thus allowing the decertification to stand. The following day, two CSJ justices resigned from their posts, and two other former justices sent copies of a single letter which they co-authored to the administrative officers of OSS and to Smith, charging that CSJ was violating its procedures and its alleged mistakes should be rectified. A former Assembly member who wished to remain anonymous, said Ar- nson and the former justices who sent the letter, Richard Barr and Tom Pot- ter, were presenting a "tainted" view of CSJ and its decisions. The former MSA member claimed Arnson, Barr, and Potter thought the elections should be certified and saw administrative channels as a last resort. SOME MSA members also said Ar- nson delivered the letters for Barr and Potter. "They (the letters) were given to me, and I forwarded them," Arnson said. Johnson said of the Barr-Potter let- ter, "I suppose it alerted us to the fact that there was strong concern (about the election problems) It was certainly a motivating piece, but so was direct contact with those involved." ARNSON ALSO was charged with preventing CSJ's formal decision on the election from being typed and posted in MSA Offices, which is required for of- ficial certification of the election. Bill Smelko and Dennis Persinger, CSJ justices, said the decision was given to the secretary to be typed two days after decertification of the elec- tion, but claim it was never typed. Smelko also said he delivered another copy of the letter, but that was not typed either. Another former MSA member con- firmed that Arnson had taken CSJ's decision and would not allow it to be typed. ARNSON SAID, "There seemed to be some confusion about thedissue (of the election). People looked at it (the decision), but it wasn't typed up." When asked why the decision was not typed, Arnson responded, "I don't know, I don't know. I felt no real need to have the statement typed up." The unanimous CSJ decision read: "On the basis of evidence adduced at the hearing, CSJ finds: 1) The election was one in which hundreds of students were denied their right to vote. 2) The election was one which was rife with the potential and appearance, if not the ac- tuality, of fraud. 3) The election was conducted in a manner inconsistent with notions of fairness and well established principles of neutrality. 4) The composite effect of these findings, as well as any individual finding is suf- ficient to justify a denial of certification of the election of MSA candidates and officers because any of these distor- tions of the process were sufficient to materially affect the outcome of the candidates' races. BIO/GEO SCIENCES BUSINESS / ECONOMICS COMPUTER SCIENCES ENGINEERING / SCIENCES LAW MATHEMATICS MEDICINE NURSING / ALLIED HEALTH PROBABILITY /STATISTICS SOCIAL SCIENCES SPEECH / EDUCATION we have standing order agreements with most major scientific publishers whereby we recieve new books as they are published. Included are - ACADEMIC PRESS ADDISON-WESLEY! BENJAMIN GRUNE & STRATTON MCGRAW HILL MIT PRESS PRENTICE HALL SPRINGER - VERLAIG VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD WILEY! INTERSCIENCE we also stock a wide selection of other references, including ...... EXAM PREPARATIONS & LICENSE REVIEWS FOREIGN LANGUAGE DICTIONARIES & REFERENCES JOB HUNTING & RESUME GUIDES STUDY AIDS & COURSE OUTLINES STYLE GUIDES & WRITING MANUALS GROUND FLOOR, MICH. UNION Mon-Thur 9-9 Fri 9-5:30 Sat 10-5 Sun 12-5 l h - - TL t' f ' r f I IFS + " u, . !uy ^ w . "THESE FINDINGS are premised upon the plethora of evidence presented at the hearing which indicated convin- cingly that the election should not be rN=as.. ' !k w