Tuesday, JRne 24, 1975

THE MICHIGAN DAILY

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CSSG blasted for stand
on student participation


By TIM SCHICK
The Commission to Study
Student Governance (CSSG) has
drawn criticism from both stu-
dents and faculty for recent
changes in its report concerning
the role of students in Univer-
sity decision-making.
The original report, issued
last year, recommended giving
students voting membership in
schools, c o Il e g e and depart-
mental executive committees.
However, a supplement released
in April backed down on the pro-
posals so that the report now
recommends allowing student
participation "w h e r e appro-
priate."
ELLIOT CHIKOFSKY, presi-
dent of the Michigan Union,
yesterday blasted the changes

from the original version of the
report. On the other hand, Act-
ing Literary College (LSA) Dean
Billy Frye asserted that even
with the supplement the report
goes beyond the scope of the
commission's assignment.
Chikofsky pointed to the elimi-
nation 'of the proposed Student
Executive Officer, which has
been replaced in the new report
by a student representative to
the Board of Regents.
According to Chikofsky, the
original idea was to give a stu-
dent representative access to
meetings of the University's
executive officers.
HOWEVER, Robert Stephens,
a CSSG member and the Uni-
versity's educational advocate,
claims that access to executive

officers' meetings would depend
on more than just the title the
student holds.
"It would depend on how the
Regents wrote the by-law (for
the executive office)," he said.
In addition, "the executive offi-
cers might decide not to allow
the student to attend their meet-
ings."
Chikofsky pointed out, how-
ever, that the by-lava could be v
written to prevent the exclusion
of the student representative.
STEPHENS said that while
the commission changed the -
name of the job, the duties re-
main essentially the same. "We
discussed it with the Regents A -
and decided that (the new
name) was a better description
of the job we were talking
about.
Chikofsky also charges that
the group which wrote the sup-
plement was not the whole com-
mittee but only the "self-ac-
claimed leadership." In addi- AP Photo
tion, he said, no effort was made UGANDAN President Idi Amin clenches his fist during
to replace students who left the a news conference yesterday when he announced that
committee, the end result being he plans to go ahead with the execution of Denis Hills,
a different group making the the British school teacher who called him a village
changes.
CSSG members were unavail- tyrant in an unpublished manuscript.
See CSSG, Page 9
U.S. Supreme Court postpones
capital punishment case decision
W A S H I N G T O N i'l)-The Supreme Court Nixon wrote from his home in San Clemente,
yesterday postponed - probably until next year Calif., that he does not intend to practice law
-its decision in a case in which the constitution- in the future.
ality of the death penalty is challenged. -Ruled six to three that states and cities may
There are 287 men and women on death row not prohibit drive-in movie theaters from show-
in 25 states. A lawyer with the NAACP Legal ing nude scenes to guard against people unwill-
Defense Fund, which is seeking an end to capital ingly glimpsing them from highways or other
punishment, predicted that none of them would places.
be executed before the court reaches its decision. -Agreed to hear arguments next term on an
THE JUSTICES restored to their calendar for Alabama anti-obscenity law, whether federal in-
re-argument the case of Jesse Fowler, a 27-year- stallations need state approval to discharge pol-
old North Carolina black man whose appeal it lutants in the waterways and whether hospitals
heard in April. may buy drugs at cut rate prices and then sell
The re-argument will take place during the them.
court's next term, beginning Oct. 6. A decision
would be unlikely until sometime in 1976. THE COURT, as usual, gase no explanation for
In other actions as it neared the windup of its its decision to call for further arguments in the
current term, probably late this week or early death penalty case.
next week, the court: It was the eighth time this term that the court
-Allowed former President Richard Nixon to had set a case over for reargument. This is a
resign from the Supreme Court bar. See SUPREME, Page 10

Past and present V
Commemorating Washington's occupation at Valley Forge,
Pennsylvania, Douglas St. John, regularly stationed outside
the capital, shows his continental uniform to Green Beret
Captain Billy Cook.
Executive inacti delays
Sinvstigation: Church
WASHINGTON (A') - White Huse reluctance to turn over key
documents is forcing a delay in the Senate Intelligence Commit-
tee's investigation of alleged assassination plots involving the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency, chairman Frank Church, (D-Idaho), said
yesterday.
"We have not yet received from the White House materials
that we had requested and that had been promised to the com-
mittee and that were really necessary to a thorough interrogation
of the witness," Church said in announcing the postponement of
the scheduled appearance of McGeorge Bundy, former national
security adviser to the late President John Kennedy.
THE testimony of other high officials in-the Kennedy and
Johnson administrations, including former Secretary of State Dean
Rusk and former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, also has
been postponed, Church added.
Without the documents "it's quite useless for us to bring these
witnesses before the committee - all of them are essential, all of
them have to be very carefully questioned," he added. Church
described the documents as "minutes of the National Security
Council and minutes and other documents of the special group
that had control of covert activities during the late 19S0s and
early 1960."
Earlier, on the Senate floor, Sen. Barry Goldwater, (R-Ariz.),
'See EXECUTIVE, Page 5

Skyward bound
Firebird (the horse) seems to have taken this woman for a ride. Both horse and rider survived
the jump, though at the time the rider wasn't so sure. The horse is a resident of Woodlawn acres
on Joy Rd.