From on high: Fleming's view of the 'U' By DAVID STOLL 'The prevailing myth is that the University refused to give the students a bookstore," Presi- dent Robben Fleming says of the controversy which resulted in the establishment of thesUniversity Cellar .three years ago. It was the bookstore issue that convulsed the campus in Fall, 1969 when 107 people were ar- rested after an ISA Bldg. sit- in. in other semesters, it has been other issues that have pitted students against the Re- gents and Fleming, head of the University administration since 1968. "The issue could have been settled at any point had the student leadership really been interested in the bookstore rather than in confrontation," Fleming says now. . The final "compromise" solu- tion, which Fleming says was suggested by the faculty, "could have been settled' upon without the sit-in." Similarly, in the Black Action Movement strike of Spring, 1970, Fleming says, the strike itself was not the determining factor in the Regents' decision to im- plement its minority admissions program. Rather, Fleming says, the strike may have influenced the "faculty's willingness" to allo- cate funds out of the college budgets to meet BAM's goals. The college's self-professed abil- ity to pay for the program had serious impact on the Regents, Fleming says. Fleming remarks that "student militancy" peaked in 1969-70. The downward turning point in the "rising tide of dissension" coincided with the killings at Kent State and Jackson State. Many students were at that point "turned off from the more violent approach," Fleming com- ments. State legislators have often criticized the campus' history of activism when the University's budget was being discussed in Lansing. "I hardly ever go to Lansing when some legislator doesn't make some adverse com- ment to me about student pro- test," Fleming says. "Higher education is unpopular in the legislatures these days," he notes. "Some (of the legis- lators) believe that students ought to pay a much higher per- centage of the cost of their edu- cation." "They think that far too many people are going to college and that the economy doesn't require more college-educated people," he adds. Fearing loss of "public sup- port," Fleming shies away from using University resources for political purposes. "We get our support from a heterogeneous group of people, and when we take a position on a political issue, we alienate peo- ple," the president asserts. Asked if the University's in- volvement with classified re- search can also be termed "po- litical," Fleming replies, ' You can't talk about an issue with- out looking at its history." "When classified research be- gan during World War II, there was not the divisiveness that there is now," Fleming com- ments. "Doubts" about Vietnam caused "doubts" about the Uni- versity's relationship with the defense department, says Flem- ing, who in 1969 made a widely publicized speech explaining why he "thought the war was wrong." But it's hard to be in the forefront of some fields, without being involved in defense pro- jects," Fleming says, The University is now help- ing to set up an independent corporation to handle the clas- sified research which is now done at Willow ,Run Laborator- ies. "This would "remove the University from operating clas- sified research, but it is entire- ly likely that the operation will stay in Ann Arbor and that the same people will be working on it that are working on it now." In the past two years, the ad- ministration has also been the target of severe criticism on the issue of discrimination against women. Fleming says that the University, like every- See FLEMING, Page 8 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN ::Thursday, June 15, 1972 News Pho e: 764-0552 Page Three. U.S. bomb strikes over N. Vietnam hit new high Autograph hunters Democratic presidential candidate Sen. George McGovern (D- S.D.) is besieged by autograph seekers yesterday during a visit to Staten Island Ferry terminal in Manhattan. McGovern is campaigning for next week's primary in New York. THREATEN STRIKE: Bus drivers reject eity contract offer SAIGON ()-U.S. fighter- bombers pounded North Vietnam with a record number of raids, crumbling factories, toppling bridges, and knocking out more than 100 supply trucks, barges and boats,' military officials re- ported yesterday. One of 10 bridges reported hit in 340 raids Tuesday was a rail and highway bridge at Hai Duong, midway between Hanoi and Haiphong. The attack by Navy pilots from the carrier Midway de- stroyed the bridge, severing the main rail line between North Vietnam's capital and its main port, the U.S. Command said. American jets also swept with- in 45 miles of the Chinese bor- der to attack the northwest rail line, hitting four small bridges with a c c u r a t e laser-guided bombs. Then the jets roared south- ward and smashed a pontoon bridge assembly line on the northwestern edges of Hanoi in in the biggest strikes of the day. Eight Air Force F4 Phant6ms dropped 16 of their 2,000-pound laser-guided bombs, leaving 28 buildings at the Hung Hoa fac- tory in ruins, according to a senior Air Force official. He described the pontoon plant, the only known factory of its kind in North Vietnam, as one of the most important tar- gets. Pontoon bridge making is now a critical industry in the North because scores of the heavier steel and concrete bridges have been knocked out by U.S. air strikes. The U.S. Command said that nine of the bridges reported knocked out during Tuesday's strikes were railroad bridges, in- cluding four on the northwest train line linking Hanoi withs China. Navy jets destroyisg four other bridges along the main rail line connecting Haiphong and Hanoi. Navy pilot also laun'hed night attacks. against supply accidentally fired on each other trucks rolling south on Highway 30 miles northeast of Saigon, ac- 1A near Ha Tinh, 120 miles cording to the U.S. Command. north of the demilitarized zone. Another American was wound- Sixty-six supply trucks, 56 ed when an Army UHt heli- supply boats and eight supply barges were destroyed or dam- copter was hit by communist aged in the raids Tuesday, the ground fire and crashed six U.S. Command said. miles south of the provincial B52 bombers pummeled com- capital of An Loc on Highway munist troop concentrations and 13. staging areas yesterday along Field reports said South Viet- South Vietnam's western border namese commando troops raised with Laos and Cambodia. their flag atop a small hill just About a score of the giant north of An Loc after finding bombers attacked North Viet- the bodies of hundreds of com- namese forces in the A Shau munist troops killed by U.S. and Valley near Hue. Six other South Vietnamese air and ar- Stratofortresses hit troops of' tillery strikes. two communist regiments that Reports reaching Saigon said have been assaulting the towns An Loc had been virtually clear- of Tuyen Binh and Moe Hoa on ed of remaining North Viet- the Cambodian border, about 60 namese troops but was still un- miles west-of Saigon. der fire from the east and west. Light action was reported in South Vietnamese officers the ground war in the South. have said the 69-day siege of the One American soldier was killed city cannot be considered lifted when two patrols of the 3rd until the overland route to An Brigade, 1st Air Cavalry Division, Loc is completely opened. Fake tickets blamed in Stones' show riot. By PAUL RUSKIN City bus drivers rejected Tues- day night a contract offer from city officials and threatened to go on strike if a settlement isn't reached by July 1, when their present contract expires. The drivers, who belong to local 369 of the American Fed- eration of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFS- CME), are more concerned with non-economic issues than with increased salaries, according to AFSCME spokesperson William Wise. He said that the city's salary proposal "showed move- ment ois their part." Wise said tghat there are cer- tain non-economic clauses of the proposed contract which are unclear, adding that the mem- bers won't sign contracts until the "unclear language is cor- rected." As one example of the im- precise language, Wise cited part of the contract which states that drivers can't receive sick pay for less than four hours of missed work. Thus, a driver who 'becomes ill during the middle of his route might not receive pay for the few hours he did not work. Last night, another branch of Local 369, consisting of city street cleaners, park cleaners, and utility workers, was sched- uled to vote on a new contract offered by the city. Earlier in the day, Wise said that he "didn't believe the contract would be ratified, SAN DIEGO, Calif. ()-A police spokesperson yesterday said counterfeit tickets to a Rolling Stones concert were the cause of a riot in which 15 per- sons were injured and 60 persons were arrested Tuesday night. The rioting broke out when holders of counterfeit tickets were turned away from the Sports Arena. The incident evoked memories of the Stone's 1969 Altamont, Calif. concert, which was marked by violence and murder. Police battled an estimated crowd of 1,000 youths who threw rocks and fire bombs during the two-hour disturbance. Although no damage was re- ported insde the arena, six win- dows on the outside wall were broken by rocks. A door was also smashed. The arrests in the riot were for throwing fire bombs, assault- ing police, possession of drugs, possession of forged tickets and failure to disperse. Inside the arena, the Rolling Stones. led by Miek .agger, per- formed before a sellout crowd of 16,000 persons which police de- scribed as "quite orderly" Jagger was informed of the riot while he was on stage, but the performance continued as scheduled. An estimated 2,000 counter- feit tickets were sold--some re- lort.dly for a' nuch as $50.