Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan Editorials printed in The Michigan iDly express the indisidual opinions of the author. This must be noted in oil reprints. TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1972 News Phone: 764-0552 _By Jerk Anderson HRPnominations THE LOCAL Human Rights Party chapter, which met this weekend in preparation for its Aug. 24 County convention, has acted positively toward making their party a more open one. Last weekend, party members haggled over which county and state offices to run for, and discussed pos- sible nominees. The nominees will be chosen Thursday. In addition, HRP discussed a platform, which will formally be adopted or rejected at the Thursday session. Part of the platform discussion focused on recent criticism that candidates for state and -county offices only announced their intentions this weekend-less than one week before the party would choose its nominees. With such a brief period between- the candidates' an- nouncements and the formal nominations, those who don't attend HRP meetings have little idea of the politics of the candidates, and have little basis for choosing intel- ligently. Thus, argued both The Daily in an Aug. 19 editorial, and members of the party also, the nomination procedure served to close the party also, the nomination procedure served to close the party to many of its constitutents. When the procedure came up for discussion Sunday, however, the party took action to change things. A new procedure was passed stating that all future candidates "are required to announce his/her intentions" to a meet- ing of the party "at least one month" before the final nomination date. Further, candidates will now be required to prepare a press release announcing their intentions at that time, and "should feel free to agitate for support of their nom- ination (i.e. political philosophy)" during the period be- fore the nominations. While this new procedure does not by any means clear up all the problems HRP has had in getting new people involved in its inner workings, it is a step toward opening the nominations to all who are interested, and towards a more intelligent means of choosing between candidates. THE PLATFORM will be formally voted on Thursday, and most party members believe it will be rubber- stamned without changes. Hopefully, then, this new procedure will be formalized into the party's rules and will be used in the future. The Daily has often supported HRP as the most open, by far, of the three parties. It is gratifying to see that group make a new effort to grow more open. -TAMMY JACOBS Today's Staff: News and Editorial pages: Alan Lenhoff, Carla Rapoport Photo technician: Jim Wallace Editor's Note:iColumnist Jack Ander- snis 0n vacation. His distent ceesin Jerk has consented to take over for the infamous muckraker this week only. WASHINGTON - Intelligence re- ports from CIA agents in Kansas indicate that this year's crop of wild marijuana from the "golden belt" between Topeka and Law- rence will be sufficient to keep the entire midwest stoned for 3-4 months. My son Kevin, who has long hair, told me that hippies will attempt to inject the substance into their body, by crushing the weed, rolling it into cigarette papers, and light- ing it in the same manner as Fidel Castra smokes his blatantly Com- munist cigars. According to the CIA reports, longhairs fromthe University of Kansas have been nurturing t hea wild marijuana crop this year with anti-riot gas they obtained when cannisters failed to explode after being fired at them by Kansas State trooperstdurng student riots in Lawrence last summer. This gas, designed to choke off oxygen from the air, gives the Kansas marijuana a distinct ad- vantage over its conventional counterparts by increasing the plants' carbon dioxide surplus - making the plants full of the tar- ry resin which makes the hippies delerious. MEIR FOR MAYOR? Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, making ever-frequent trips to America,'reportedly has her eye on a new job: Mayor of Los An- geles. Meir thinks the large Jew- ish population in L.A. will offer her the needed support. Current L.A. Mayor Sam Yorty is expect- ed to discontinue his weekly tele- vision comedy show in order to meet this new challenge. Meanwhile, Meir is considering a face-lift to help change her im- age from her present distinguished world-stateswoman appeal, to the dashing dynamic image she will have to project to win over the all- important Hollywood Hebrew vote. SYPHILIS SILVER Stalwart southern Senator James Eastland of Mississippi may have been caught with his hand in the till this time. Insiders say the 'Tus- kegee Project", which was respon- sible for the deaths of hundreds of unwitting blacks due to syphilis, was actually the outgrowth of East- land's high school science project. Eastland's science teacher, 94- year-old Emmet Cras'y of Crack- er, Miss., says Eastland's 19 0 8 prize-winning experiment involved injecting several hundred rabbits with differing doses of terminal psoriasis and watching to see which ones died fastest. Local doctors liked the idea, and Eastland sold it to them for an estimated 15 per cent of the gross. But the grim experiment proved to be a lot more gross, certainly, than Eastland had expected. The senator denies all involve- ment in the matter, and his press secretary tells us he has "stood solidly behind both rabbits and ne- groes" for most of his life. GO TO JAIL "Monopoly" magnate Sam J. Parker of Parker Brothers, Inc., seems to have been working over- time to improve his game lately. A New Jersey grand jury has sum- moned Parker to answer questions about what Ocean County. District Attorney Fred Schmeer calls "con- niving efforts to swindle the gul- lible" into paying him for beach- front lots in Atlantic City that did not exist in reality. Schmeer says he's been barrag- ed with complaints from people who bought "land" from Parker in the 3000 and 400 blocks of - you guessed it - Ventnor, Baltic, Ver- mont, Connecticut and Kentucky Avenues, only to discover that those so-called addresses are sev- eral miles out in the Atlantic Ocean. Parker hasn't made himself public yet, but when .he does it'll take him a lot more than rolling doubles to get out of this one. THEY'RE PICKING ON ME (PART II) Last week I reported the FBI was following me. This week I'm even more paranoid. Last night, my car started by itself. Dandelions are sprouting all over my lovely suburban lawn, and the last magazine salesman that came to my house still hasn't left after four days. Naturally, my family and I are taking precautions. I have stopped consuming all foreign products in an effort to clear my name. I no longer use my telephone and I haverthoroughly interrogated my mailman, milkman and fortune teller. One can't be too careful! BITS AND PIECES Noted humanitarian John Wayne gave a benefit party for a child- ren's home. John gave each of the youngsters a toy gun, a tin sher- iff's badge, an American flag and a haircut. Wayne then told t h e children proudly, "Orphanages are the backbone of America - and the predominate way of life for children in South Vietnam." According to sources at the As- sociated Press (and my trusty tele- type) South Vietnam plans to en- ter only one sport in this sum- mer's Olympic Games. The sport? It's pistol shooting, and the entry will be President Nguyen Van Thieu's personal palace guard. Extended forecast - Lows this week in the upper sixties. Mostly sunny and warmer, in the midwest. 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