THE Michigan Daily Vol. LXXXIV, No. 11-S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, May 22, 1974 Ten Cents Twelve Pages r 1 { 1 1 R 1 1 U' keeps student records secret By JEFF SORENSEN and "backer cards," which provide up to the colleges. mer chairman of the University Civil Like the federal government, the accounts of college counselor com- Liberties Board, declares that all coun- University k e e p s secret records on ments. "MUCH OF THE information in the selors' comments a h o u 1 d be made adult citizens. All counseling - offices Counselors have exclusive access to students' files, especially in counselor available to students if they are used presently collect files on students which this information, although faculty mem- comments, was recorded without the by the University. the subjects are forbidden to see. bers may request interpretations of knowledge that students would later However, the University-most not- the records. Similarly, students may see the information," says Chuck "IF A COUNSELOR should transmit ably the literary college - is moving request summaries of the material. Judge, associate director of LSA coun- the records to anyone, he should trans- slowly in the direction of more "open University policy strictly forbids fur- seling. Judge is a member of the LSA mit them to the subject," Gold says. access" to student records. nishing any confidential student in- Administrative Board, w h i c h makes Gold admits, however, that very few formation to outside groups, employers policy decisions on students' records. legal precedents exist on the "right to THE PORTIONS of a student's file or agencies., "Since the remarks were made on know" issue and says the matter is that he or she is not usually allowed The Board of Regents adopted a the basis of confidence, they can't very open to interpretation. to see include letters of recommenda- student records policy last summer well be opened up now," Judge con- John Arnett, an LSA junior who un- tion, test scores, high school counselor that is vague at crucial points and tends. successfully tried to see his own record, comments, original application forms leaves interpretation and enforcement Psychology Prof. Martin Gold, for- See 'U', Page 8 I I Magruder sentenced to 10-month minimum WASHINGTON (M - Jeb Stuart Magruder, conceding that "I lost my ethical compass," w a s sen- tenced yesterday to serve at least 10 months in prison for his major role in the Watergate break-in and coverup. Magruder, once the No. 2 man in President Nixon's re-election cam- paign and a key figure in breaking open the Watergate affair, told the sentencing judge: "My ambition obscured my judgment." U.S. DISTRICT COURT Judge John Sirica imposed a 10 months to four year term on Magruder to be served at a Other Watergate developments: WASHINGTON (A-The House Judici- ary Committee heard two key Watergate tapes yesterday including one in which Nixon discussed payments of hush money with his aides. Rep. Jerome Waldie (D- Calf.) said Nixon, when talking to Dean about hush money said, "Jesus Christ, get it." Waldie said the statement "was a command. * With the deadline for Whitehouse compliance with a subpoena for 11 more tapes passing at 10 a.m. today, White House lawyer James St. Clair said yes- terday he saw no indication that Presi- dent Nixon will turn over the tapes. * The Senate Judiciary Committee an- nounced a special vote of confidence in Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski and his effort to obtain White House tapes through the courts. The unusual an- nouncement followed a closed committee meeting prompted by Jaworski's disclos- ure Monday that the White House had claimed he had no authority to litigate against the President. A White House spokesman, meanwhile, said no consid- eration was being given the possibility of firing Jaworski-even though his prede- cessor, Archibald Cox, was dismissed over the same issue. * U.S. District Judge Gerhard Gesell dismissed charges against one of the Ellsberg conspirators and told defense lawyers they could not wrap defendents "with the mantle of the Presidency." minimum security institution. Sirica said he will recommend that Magruder be sent to the federal facility at Allenwood, Pa. It is a five-hour drive from the Washington area for Magruder's wife and four children. Magruder, assistant to the President for a year and a half before taking on the re-election committee job in May 1971, had pleaded guilty last Aug. 16 to a single count of conspiracy to inter- cept communications, obstruct justice and defraud the United States. The charge carried a maximum sen- tence of five years imprisonment and a $10,000 fine. HE WAS the sixth former White House employe to be sentenced to prison in connection with post-Watergate scandals. The others were Dwight Chapin, Egil Krogh, Herbert Porter, Howard Hunt and Gordon Liddy. In pleading guilty, Magruder admitted that he helped "devise, implement and carry out a strategy" to break into the Democratic Party headquarters and that he conspired to cover-up involvement through lies, paying hush money and de- stroying evidence. "It will take me a long time to under- stand the ease with which I surrendered what I always considered my funda- mental, immutable beliefs," Magruder said in a brief statement before sen- tencing. "I KNOW what I've done . . . I am confident the country will survive its Watergates and its Jeb Magruders." He spoke of seeing 'confusion in the eyes of my children, heartbreak in the eyes of my wife, contempt in the eyes of others," and said: "somewhere be- tween my ambition and ideals I lost my ethical compass." Magruder and John Dean, the Presi- dent's counsel, were the first White House insiders to carry details of the Watergate cover-up to federal prosecu- tors. Then Magruder, followed by Dean, told the story publicly for the first time in the Senate Watergate hearings. MAGRUDER testified that his commit- tee boss, former Atty. Gen. John Mitchell approved the break-in plan at a meeting in Key Biscayne, Fla. Mitchell later denied it. He said he had "no direct knowledge" that President Nixon was involved. CONVICTED WATERGATE CONSPIRATOR Jeb Stuart Magruder after being sentenced yesterday to a 10 month to four year prison term for his role in the Watergate coverup.