0 OPINION A Wednesday, November 4, 1981 The Michigan Daily y 1* Vol.X Sa me dbtdnsatn aity Edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan Wasserman KCII, No. 48 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, M1 48109 Editorials represent a majority opinion of the Daily's Editorial Board Controlling the MRC OUTLAWI,'& ABORTION 15l 140T ANTI-WOtAAN- IT'S PRKO-FAMI1LY R5 .w i. SU)CH LE61SI ATION~ WILL ONCE P A( AAKE~ M\OTHERHOOD., r- RESPECTE, G0iE~l5 1EV HiONORED".". wf, AND1 MN4DATORY I,,. w 3,~ 6 0 N OCTOBER, administrators proposed creating a University corporation to recruit industry support for, research at the University. If properly implemented, the corporation could benefit the University both academically and financially. Certainly the University's fiscal woes are not news. Declining state subsidies and rapidly diminishing federal grants for research will take their toll on the financial well-being of the University in the upcoming years. A research corporation could serve as a liason between the University and the business community, soliciting corporate funds for research and more fully developing the University's ties with the private sector. TiIt id Mit hian R V to abandon traditional scholarly research for less worthy, but perhaps more financially rewarding develop- ment. Currently, it has been proposed that the corporation come under the control of the Regents. However, both the Regents and administration have a tendency to view such entities as money-makers rather than an element in an academic compound. The Regents' relationship with the Board of Inter- collegiate Athletics is evidence of this. However, one way to help deter such a problem is by establishing a strong controlling board composed primarily of faculty members. Faculty mem- bers are the group least likely to allow research at the University to stray from its scholarly intent and therefore keep unethical research in check. The board should also have some student representation - research at the University should also benefit the students. If any group at the Univer- sity can remove itself from the profit- making motive it is tie students. Therefore, they can help dissuade University researchers from engaging in research for purely mercenary reasons. The MRC can easily provide a boost for the University and the State of Michigan - but only if it is properly adminstered. \-.. ;". .. I ul~. :; GOP an ti-en vironmen talism may mean costly lose n'2 Tne proposeu in icnigIaLI beOiQA Corporation would give faculty the op- portunity to participate in various types of research they might not otherwise have the opportunity to in vistigate. The corporation could also help make Ann Arbor a center for high tdchnology, stimulating growth ani d*velopment throughout the state of Michigan. IMRC research if not properly con- tolled, however, could run contrary tc mnjy of the academic ideals of the 1 iiversity. Since its primary purpose i: that of a money-making operation, the MRC could encourage some faculty Reparation, 'S ONE OF those things your gung ho, rediwhite-and-blue, football coAch history teacher in high school jug. didn't mention. And, even though th e are still a few people around wko will speak in its defense, it seldom draws coverage in the nation's press. B it still happened. 1942, under direct orders from Pfsident Franklin Roosevelt - and with the support of members of Cojgress and the Judiciary - 117,000 Aericans, whose only "crime" was to-have Japanese ancestors, were stematically rounded up and placed in relocation centers." They were, in less bureaucratic ter- 4 put in concentration camps. s much as many people would like to forget it, their issue of the inter- nment of Americans during World War II has been brought back into the public light by the hearings this week of; the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians. The commission, established by Congress in 1980, is to determine what compensation, if any, is due the 80,000 camp survivors. Despite the round condemnation the internment now receives from civil libertarians, a former Army official testified before the commission on Monday that the internment was ii lS t 1- eO ;h dd for Americans justified. Karl Bendetsen, who direc- ted the relocation program for the government, argued that it was necessary to round up the Americans because there was a "very real and present danger" of a Japanese in- vasion of the West Coast, and that if the Japanese-Americans had not been evacuated, their lives would have been in danger. But what Bendelsen portrays as a policy of benevolence, was, in fact, a real and severe violation of the civil liberties of American citizens. The in- ternment caused lasting phychological, physical, and financial loss to the Japanese Americans, and was, if anything, more a display of American racism than of American benevolence. Argue that America made a. mistake. Argue that we were caught up in war hysteria. Argue that it's been too long to justify paying money; even argue that the budget precludes paying money to the victims. Argue anything but don't suggest that the in- ternment was a good idea. What was . done to Japanese- Americans wasn't right, and no amount of blather is going to make it so. The issue now is what sort of reparations are owed to the American victims of an American mistake. By June Taylor WASHINGTON-Fear is spreading through Republican congressional ranks that public opposition to the Reagan administration's en- vironmental policy may translate into costly election losses in 1982. As environmentalists recently delivered petitions from 1.1 million Americans to oust Interior Secretary James Watt, and as Congress was interrogating Environmental Protection Agency administrator Anne Gor- such on her management of that agency, pollster Louis Harris released a survey showing continued overwhelming support for environmental issues. THE POLL ALSO indicated that the public would trust a Democratically controlled Congress to protect the environment more than a Republican Congress by a margin of 60 to 25,percent. In an interview, Harris noted that his sur- vey was conducted in late September, before much of the criticism of EPA management had surfaced in the media and before the culmination of the "dump Watt" campaign. Harris said his organization will continue to ask this question in the future and he expects the trend to show even greater distrust of the Republicans as a result of such publicity. Some legislators fear that Republicans in Congress are reaping the public criticism for the environmental actions and attitudes of President Reagan and his political appoin- tees, despite a long record of Republican sup- port for environmental protection. SEN. ROBERT Stafford (R-Vt.) who heads the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee,has been a major player in the passage of environmental legislation over the last decade. Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker (R-Tenn.) is given credit for much of the Clear Air Act. In the House, numerous Republicans, such as Tom Evans of Delaware, Millicent Fen- wick of New Jersey, and Jerry Lewis of southern California are given high marks by environmentalists. Another such Republican is Rep. Jim Leach of Iowa, the new chairman of the moderate Republican Rippon Society. Leach has called Secretary Watt "an aberration from the Republican tradition," which he feels is the "strongly pro-environmental tradition of Teddy Roosevelt." LEACH ADDED: "As the etymology of the world would indicate, conservation is the lin- chpin of historic conservatives. It is ironic that some so-called conservatives today are giving a higher priority to environmental abandon than conserving our natural resour- ces. These neo-conservatives are forsaking LETTERS TO THE DAILY: Interior Secretary James Watt's anti-en- vironmental policies could mean big losses for Republicans at the polls in 1982. traditional conservative philosophy and jeopardizing the political party most iden- tified with conservative values." Stafford said recently that he thought the Reagan administration is mistaken if it thinks it has a popular mandate to weaken environ- mental laws. Stafford holds the reins in guiding the Clear Air Act through Congressional re-authorization. Many in business, industry and the, Reagan ad- ministration want to see that act altered sub- stantially. Testifying before a House committee working on amendments to the law, Harris told the politicians that his most recent poll indicates that 80 percent of the American people want to see the Clear Air Act kept as it is now or made even stricter, and noted: "This message on the deep desire on the part of the American people to battle pollution is one of the most overwhelming and clearest we have ever recorded in our 25 years of sur- veying public opinion." RESPONDING TO questions about the political implications of his poll, Harris told the congressmen: "If you Democrats stay with the Clear Air Act as it is now, you've got quite' an issue going for you. Republicans, if you appear to cut back or circumscribe, you've got a real problem in the elections." Environmentalists intend to make sure politicians understand that problem and are mobilizing election workers and doubling the budget of their political action committees to work for pro-environment candidates in up-' coming state and national campaigns. While they would like to keep a bipartisan balance of environmental endorsements, and will in- deed be campaigning for many Republican candidates, one environmental lobbyist, him- self a Republican, said: "Frankly, it would be an environmental disaster if Republicans took control of the House." In such an event, some of the important committee chairmanships would transfer to senior Republicans who, in most cases, are not sympathetic to the environmentalists", agenda. ANOTHER environmental lobbyist said he thought the major problem for the Republicans is that the public perceives the Republican Party as the "party of big business." He noted, "The public distrusts big business generally and especially on en- vironmental issues." Rep. Claudine Schneider (R-R.I.) a staunch. ally of environmentalists, agreed with this analysis, but said she thinks the perception is; unfair. "We're fighting for small business and' human health," said Schneider, who sits on the House Science and Technology Commit- tee, which recently held hearings on the toxic regulation in the new EPA. Schneider said she is very concerned about, talk within the administration of reducing en- vironmental and health regulations. But on the record of'her party, she noted: "We have a strong Republican heritage for en- vironment." SEEKING TO KEEP the Republican Party in the mainstream of environmental support, Republican national chairman Richard Richards met recently with some 85 Sierra Club volunteers from around the country who had come to Washington with their "dump Watt" petitions. One member told him, "I've been a Republican all my life, but I can't take what Watt and Gorsuch are doing. The money I used to send to the Republican National Committee I'm now sending to the Sierra Club."t" That sentiment is shared by many. The National Wildlife Federation, the country's largest conservation organization, polled its members and found that while they over- whelmingly voted for Ronald Reagan they also overwhelmingly disapproved of Secretary Watt's policies. Yet in the face of such sen- timent, White House political strategist Lyn Nofziger is reported to have recommended that Reagan not campaign for Republican candidates critical of Watt. In his testimony before the House, Louis Harris called the environmental issue ''a rather sacred cow." In a feistycexchange with Reps. Cleve Benedict (R-W.V.) and Don Ritter (R-Penn.) Harris emphasized the continued over- whelming support for the environment shown in his poll, and told them: "The Republican Party is at a crossroads on this ... You go on like this and you're going to lose the '82 elec- tion." Taylor wrote this article for Pacific News Service. a :. ._ " The 'U' needs midterm study days Kt -N To the Daily: Now that my midterms are over and I have time to do things beside study, and while the physical and emotional drain are still fresh in my mind, I would like to address the problem of midterm anxiety. Midterm anxiety is the feeling of apprehension one gets before midterm exams. It is brought about by the recognition or tne importance of the exam and the desire of the individual to do well, conflicting with the confidence (or lack of confidence) one has in iL rn.nrn. preparing for these exams is sacrificing in other areas. In this way, getting a good grade means cutting classes, losing wages, and losing sleep. In the end, instead of midterm grades being a measure of knowledge of the course, they only reflect the priority of the amount of time alloted to studying for them. A student could do poorly on an exam, not because he didn't understand the material but because he didn't have as much time to prepare as the next guy. A student should not With this system students would be able to commit suf- ficient time to studying for these exams. Test scores would be more equitable because they , would reflect the degree of knowledge and understanding of all students, not just those with ample time to study. With this method, doing well on midterm examinations would not have to be at the expense of other classes, activities, and personal health. -Cheri Jacobs October 30 Letters to the Daij ly should be typed, triple-spaced, with inch margins- All vuI mivin1 mlat h" i _" a~fxI ~ - 'tw' . U - 1 '-'-/ I