Committee's work may give aid to frustrated students in LSA By P. E. BAUER And although the committee is not empowered Literary college freshmen and sophomores who to enact its recommendations, it is able to make find themselves bored with introductory courses, suggestions on their implementation to the LSA restricted by course offerings, and generally dis- executive committee. satisfied with their lowly position on the Univer- The committee, headed by chairman Ron Al- sity totem pole, now have an advocate in the pern, '74, is optimistic about working with newly Committee on Undergraduate Experience. appointed literary college Dean Frank Rhodes. The committee-formed in 1969 as an ad-hoc "Dean Rhodes seems to hold a positive view to- committee to Dean Willam Hayes, then dean of wards change in the University," says secretary the literary college-consists of eight students to the committee Andy Weissman. "I'm sure we and ten faculty members. will be able to work well together." When it was formed the committee was The committee, relatively unstructured in its charged with investigating and solving the prob- composition, has addressed itself to a variety of lems students face regarding course offerings and student problems since its beginning. requirements. See COMMITTEE, Page 6 -auy-uary Vmtani CHAIRMAN RON ALPERN discusses the goals of the Committee on Undergraduate Experience. FAR OUT page three ACM;i40,t Lit o warmer Thursday, June 17, 1971 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN News Phone: 764-0552 Panther ref uses to . tes yi Detroit Li. c s irac case By GERI SPRUNG The chief prosecution wit- ness in the conspiracy-mur- der trial of 12 Black Panth- ers in Detroit refused to testify yesterday. John (Jerome) Lee. 17, one of the 15 Panthers originally ° rindicted last fall in the slaying of Detroit Patrolman Glenn Smith, had been granted im- munity to testify for the prose- Daily- Gary villant cution after giving a statement d (to police last February. After stating his name and Fred (the mongoose) prepares to receive the revenge of the cobras address on the stand yesterday, in this taxidermist's recreation of what Fred's last moment might Lee confered with his lawyers have looked like. The valuable piece was recently brought back as and refused to answer any other a souvenir from Vietnam by Marty Szokola, a young Ann Arbor man. Judge John Murphy held Lee [T TAW . R in contempt of court and sen- SE T * S TAR 1 tenced him to 30 days in jail. Lee smiled as he heard the sen- tence. State it was not clear why Lee approveschose not to testify. He is already serving a four- to-10-year sentence for arson in his jail cell and one of the po- lice security officers in court remarked, "What the hell dif- By ANITA CRONE ference will 30 days make to Dial-a-bus is coming closer to implementation in Ann Arbor. Lee's refusal to testify comes The city has received a letter from the state saying that the state as the prosecution is winding up is prepared to fund the project. However, implementation of the open- its three-week case against the ing stages of the project is not expected until around the middle of 12 Panthers eventually charged i September. with conspiracy to murder in Dial-a-bus is the name given to a unique concept in city trans- the slaying of Smith last Oc- portation. It combines the large passenger capacity of a bus with the tober near the Detroit Panther destination mobility of a taxi-cab. headquarters. e An Policemen have testified that The Ann Arbor proposal would initially have three vehicles, persons from inside the head- People in a given operating neighborhood would call a number to quarters shot at them during a reach the bus lines. They would give their desired destination; these 12-hour seige. would include regions as campus, downtown shopping area, or State According to the testimony, Street shopping area. The dial-a-bus vehicle then would pick the all but three of the Panthers party up at his door, and take him to his destination. who were inside the house sur- The return trip would be run in much the same manner. The user rentere peacefly ater re- would telephone and give his location. The dial-a-bus would pick him porter Nadine Brown of the up at the shopping area and return him to his door weekly-was admitted into the Dial-a-bus would be able to service a large number of people house to negotiate. Brown said in a given area. Due to its larger size, the dial-a-bus service would the -Panthers finally decided to cost less than taxi-cab rates over the same distance. come out after she "told them The city has yet to draw up a final contract with the state to the people outside had vowed to finalize the $105,000 necessary for the one-year trial program. The protect them." state would pay $56,000, with the city assuming- the balance of the The other three Panthers were program's cost. See KEY, Page 6 It is hoped that the program would provide better transporta- The Michigan Daily, edited and man- tion for city residents, particularly in areas where there is little or aged by students at the University of Michigan. News phone: 764-0552. Second no bus service at the present time. Phase one of the prgram would be Class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Mich- implemented in that area. igan. 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Phase two would bring about additional dial-a-bus service to other da 4hSeugsSPublished daily v- areas of the city, and perhaps include other destination areas as well. sity year. Subscription rates: $10 by Phase two is scheduled for implementation after an analysis by the carrIer, $55 by mast. Summer Session published Tuesday Ann Arbor Transit Authority of the initial phase. through Saturday morning. Subscrip- The program has been in the planning stages for over two years. tion rates: $5 by carrier, $5 by mall. Pipe (ream? Nearly 160 miles of pipe lie in storage in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. The pipe is to be used for the proposed Trans-Alaska oil line pro- ject which is presently being held up due to objections from environmentalists. BARGAINING UNIT: State a ppeals court accept s ,'IRA case By ROBERT SCHREINER The Michigan Court of Appeals has agreed to hear a case in which the University is contest- ing a ruling by the Michigan Em- ployment Relations Commission (MERC) that found the Interns and Residents Association of the Medical Center (IRA) an appro- priate unit for collective bargain- ing purposes. However, no date has yet been set for the hearing. The Court's decision may influ- ence a related hearing set for tomorrow, in which MERC is scheduled to rule on an- unfair labor practice charge brought against the University by the IRA. The IRA is seeking a MERC ruling to order the University to bargain with it in its attempts to obtain a union contract.. Interns, residents and post-doc- toral fellows at the center com- pleted the final step May 7 in becoming the first group of un- ionized students at a university by approving IRA as its official collective bargaining agent. But the University had refused to accept a previous 2-1 MERC decision granting IRA status as a collective bargaining agent, and so on April 5, the University ask- ed the Court to review the MERC decision. The University has steadfastly opposed IRA's year-old drive for unionization, maintaining that in- terns are not really employes of the University but instead are in- volved in a training program with a status similar to students. At the time of the appeal, the University had asked for a stay of the election approving IRA. The court declined the request but at the same time said the Uni- versity did not have to begin bar- gaining until the appeal was act- ed on.