page three t IA I a vt j GRATIFYING Hiigh -Il Low--40 Windy and, variable cloudiness Saturday, May 8, 1911 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN News Phone: 764-055:' /Activist barred from, / talkingat oc'al sh o 8'-y A (eIr monstrator throws a tear gas canister back at nationalgur troops during yesterday's disturbances on the U'niv'ersity of Mary- land ecanpus in ('ollege Park, Maryland. K 1A)(AL IARNs Lawtus to allow citizen poltons Suits urged By JIM IR NV IN when it passed the Environ- Experts called yesterday at a mental Protection Act seven hearing in Ann Arbor tar ged- months ago. erallegilatin whch wuld Sax and others who testified grant citizens the right to ini- si hyfl h rpsdlgs tiate suits againsat polluters and lation is an indispensible ate]) S challenge governmsent admnin- toward achievinge a tmethod by istrtot wh alow olltio to which citizens can demand and isror ho ltsk olutont obtain the kind of decent co- go ucheeged.vironnient they hare a right to. The recomnmendations were Sax said that much past and made at a hearing here by the proposed legislation, such as the House Subcommittee 0n Pisheir- administration's waste pollutions ies and Wildlihe Conservation, bill, are "too generous with pot- S Law Pro]. Joseph Sax, testi- luters" and imake it impossible fying before the subcomimitter, ior citizens to challenge govern, said that recent environmental ment administrators wht1 hey bills backed by the Nixon admin- ar' lenient. istration are "mer e shadows" at Many critics hasve argued that the kind at legal mandate need- the proposed citizens-suit legis- ed by the courts to vigorously lation swould result ins cloggiing protect the public interest in the federal courts sith petty p.tollution cases, and unreasonable suits. The subcommitteef~ is conssid- This, however, has not htap- erig legialation wOhich wrould pened in Miclhigan. Since Mich- hermit citizens to sue polluters igan's Environmentat Protection us federal courts. Act scent into efiect on October Michgan wa thefirt aong 1, 1970, there have only been Miciga wa th list isstig 12 law suits, against the stale several states to pass shmilar and local goverineitts as well as l, egisation on tht state level polluters. By MARK..DiLLEN A socialist anti-war activ- ist has been denied permis- sion to address stusdents at an Ann Arbor j unior h i g h school amid charges the de- cision was based on t h e specaker's political views. Tthe speaker, Massachsusets Student Mobilization Commsit- SMC)le'ader Peter Osenejo. svas to savs addressed a Sear- le'tt Juniior Hligh Schsool assein- bty yesterday spotnsore'd by lie school's SaMC chapte'r. School prinscitpatl.ttss'h Va- choin de'nie'd thes'rt'qoest Wed- itt'sdtt:y clasimiing school rule's ettis'ringthe'daft' aindeast at st' ss'ib w ere' iot''adic- quately" cotnplied ,stll. Hostever, studes tantd fa- rutty atrganizitng tithpogruim claiiithteys reeivted approval seveiat aeeks ago.,ttnd t ha t Camejo's deinial svas ftor surely' tiolitical reasoiss. "I'm sure it's th1et'cast' that the dettialwas iiade for politi- cat reasoins," says SMC faculty advisor Gail Reed. "He verbally agreed to it, the requt'stt aiid I handled it juat like every other request. We never hsad to hsave' agreemeint in ariting before'." "It was obviously dont' for pol- itical reasons," agrees studet'i SMC member Gary Prince yt's- terday. "Vachon showed no sonic i'ed-baiting article its a small eastern newspaper against Canmejo ahein he denied our re- quest." Vachoin said the article, sp- plied to hini by Attn Arbor Pionrzr High School principal Theodore Rokicki, "Certainly did arouse my suspicions of w h at Camejo as about,' but con- tends he did not base his de- cision on it. Vachon claimis the dettial was chiefly based ott the lack o1 a "formal" approval by the stut- deints' pareints, However ,Vaclion's letter to ftted, says that "irnformatioti vise school systeti has received," rathser than the' tackt of it, caus- ed the denial of SMC's "informt- at" request. Rokicki, declined to coimmnt ott the dispute last isight. Despite Rokicki's letter to Vachon and a meeting betwveen city public school principals in whsich the request was diacussed - both of which closely ore- ceeded Vachon's action Vachois claims the denial was "an in- dividual decision." "I don't know what hsis See SPEAKER, Page 16 .. 'Hlogs Are Be ati if ul' Prcesident Nixon poses with an Iowa farm poster bearing the in- scription "Hogs' Are beautiful" prior to yesterday's "Salute to Agriculture" observance in Washington, The dlay's activities included a ,farm exhibit on the White Hlouse lawn followed by an address by the President at an Agriculture Department ceremony. MOTIVE UNCERTllAIN: Local dmcxpods; poieseek susel An explosion avt adttmt at nearby Iroti Laks'.Mstnehester 'lownship Thtursday night catised flooding at roads anti croplandt in st'e antibut no injuties or extensive property damage. State police ate as yet unstire whsethter the chsirge vised to blow a breach in the 10 foot aide dam was gunpowder or dynansite, but cx- perts frost the SpecialIticestigatison Unit of thse State Crinse Lab ir Lansinsg are continuing investigations. State Police have no suspects and no leads on the crime. The 15th acrg lake is owened by Allan Whiteman, wbase sen operates a niarina ass a peninsula by the lake. None of his boats were damaged, Whiteman is seeking a condi- tional use permit to establish a park on 12 acres of the peninsula n eed s opposition" to his plans. "I sore 'ould like to know who did this,' he said. John Flook, county drain corn- missioner, said yesterday the water level oh Iron Lake has been a source of local controversy tar ;:...some timge-many local reaid',.to seem to disagree with the as a rle of the dam. In196 the Board oh Coinmusi"- sioners treat to circuit court rind secured an order setting a h1g' 1 water level. He also said the court ]1 a in ste past, attempted to zn an ceasement" on the tntihlc lirh would enable them to stainsesa I unit control over .'h' tratr level, but Wiiteman i_.s's sftised Local ?res1 idnt hae setsit boCat d to ccondensa the.7'n..t so that Lshe county camstttv sito Charles Kidd eves the dam, Flookrsidand they may try again. Kidd to work on black By ROBERT SCHRREINER "I wrouldn't be here if I didn't thinik I could accomplish something in this job that aill benefit all students at the Uni- versity," says newly appointed Asst. Vice President for Student Services Charles Kidd. Explahning he wilt work closely with Vice President for Student Services Rob- ert Knauss, and have all the same duties, Kidd says he will have also primary re- sponsibility for seeing that the University meets the needs of its black and other nit- inority studesits. Starting next aeek, Kidd will head a task force which oil] reviea' all the work done over the past year in terms of sup- portive services for blacks, including an assessmenst of the Univ'ersity's response to the Black Action Mov-ement IBAM 5 de - mnands. "We hare the responsibility of coming up with a plan for nmeeting immediate staf- fisng needs its order to broaden our capacity for handling black students," he says. "This isnvolves a reasseasment of our pres- ent personnel, as well as checking to see if we need asnysnew staff positions." Kidd, a professor in the School of Pub- lic Health, was named to the new post Ap- ril 16. Be was selected by a ,student-faculty search committee from over 30 candidates. Kidd's appointment makes him the high- est rankitng black in any admisnistrative: capacity its the University. Last month, b e f a r e his appointmenst, Kidd and several other prominent blacks wrote an article appearing in The Daily concerning black administrators at t he University, "The fact is that black adtiii!stratara See VP, Page 16