4 OPI I Page 4 Saturday October 27,13984 The Michigan Daily Weapons research debate goes to trial research (At that time most weapons culminating in the adoption of non- suchrresearcthepfsto thte ant By Tom Marx work was classified, which is not the classified weapons research restric- Thecorthasruedtht w wn' b case now.) lions by the Michigan Student Assem-Tecuthsrldta ewntb able to talk about why we did what we Two days after the November 6 In 1971, the student member of the bly and the Faculty Assembly in the dd hssesqieujs.Ia nuclear free zone vote another impor- Panel examining classified research Spring of 1983. Then, to the surprise of w i, Tissemstnd te unrmybju s um tant event in the local anti-weapons broke a story to the Daily showing the most everyone involved in the issue, Iin should bestn able tlt or eliefshyumy research. debate will occur. The first guidelines weren't working and that the regents voted aganst the eiescsdmexl ai why mdd.' trial of the 11 PSN members arrested plenty of weapons work was still being guidelnes, 7-1, thus leaving the Univer-belienca smto t thole wId id.hiss for non-violent protest of weapons dn.AerlgeProet n ek iY wt nyth 192rsrtis I never thought I would be jailed research on campus is scheduled for long hunger strike by some faculty, the against classified weapons research.eas fi.Btteatos(n nc 8:30 a.m. at City Hall. We urge all those regents, in 1972, adopted stricter Thus the regents have condoned ion) ofbeasthi.u the administration( and the con, in avo ofdisrmmen an anendtoguidelines and divested from Willow weapons research on campus against tiutnoftswrkhsordmet the University's participation in the Run labs (now ERIM, a non-profit, the wishes of the students and the tk tn.Iws intne o u arms race to come and show your sup- private corporation which does manly faculty. Iakdo. Newnweapowis int nedhnoogyu port. Department of Defense research and IN THE FALL of 1983 the Progressive I .Ngse eaposehologirsrk On March 6 of this year, after ha ist ueosUiest tdn ewr PN, oeo h and accidental nnuclear war. We have a' almost three years of debate and an un- professors). Immediately, DoD resear- main organizers for guidelines, decided responsibility, a was made clear in the democratic rejection of weapons ch at the University dropped from this issue of the University's moral Nuremberg trials of Nazi War research guidelines by the regents, I third in the nation to negligible amoun- responsibility was too important to let criminals, to take action against or felt it was necessary to put my body on ts. die. We began a series of informative government's preparations for the final, the line to try and stop our University's THE CONTROVERSY arose again in vigils on the Diag, lasting in total overwr.Wsstdnsadmm rso involvement in the arms race. Eleven 1981 when George Gamota was hired. 140 hours. Seeing much support but lit- >sthr eUnasesitydetsnmm be o of usb ok d d hed rof hew p ns F r ry a Pentagon research ad- tle action we decided it was tim e to seU iavrsp biity o m tyw rka geans research lab of George Haddad, and ministator, Gamota was hired to head directly confront weapons research,s the University's involvement in the in were arrested and charged with the Institute of Science and Technology and we began a campaign of non- sane arms race. There are many difs trespassafterrefusingtoleave. (IST). He announced his intentions to violent civil disobedience in the entwytodthsW.msta. TWANT nesdesinndheincrease the University's share of the tradition of peace and social justice ferenoway our os is. We. must all.b consequence of our action has been a DoD research pie, despite the movements everywhere. In November, Nkgit ytnes s orefa m disruption of our lives, harassment, guidelines. He has been very suc- through a peaceful blockade, we shut Last spring eleven members of the Progressive Student Networ were guitybtand qerski, youthrelferean im- a challenging of our postion, and an cessful. In the past few years, DoD down Thomas Senior's lab, where arrested for a sit-n staged to protest weapons research. Their case comes to pontclear ques tomorrowo, fthrwhaetcyo u examination of our beliefs and our role research has more than doubled, to a stealth technology for such items as the trial early next month. sayrasagns fyoia cane dridio fgreofabu 65relinvolasnntris isilt? Ivloedfndsathudieo reensweIfte nse has caused some controversy and bth fiscal year 1983., . ilindllr rsearch into hardenenng missls and presure, no acions have been initiated ceqenh cs which could include ithing, r mldae ieither you not cause Ian d litoexas ineprthe intrntonbsdstudens and Gaculty tromagnetic pulse)tetfects o a nclea Thus, on Marchrese1rof us entered SINCE OUR ARREST there have We'll have our day in court. The his.Iyouhedebatoexmnthereethe began investigating weapons research blast is performed. The blockade lasted the lab of George Haddad. We came to been numerous pre-trial hearings and University will continuopse wea pons Mh6ryofahedbate, the sumntsize at the University and found that it was 48 hours and effectively raised the issue temporarily stop his work on the one set of trails was postponed with the research. Wel otnet PPos ahywefeelduractionaneessaryz indeed making quite a comeback. Most of weapons research again Phoenix Missile, soon to be equipped November 8 date set. We have sub- We will change things because we must any justfied.u cinwa eesr projects are non-classified, so they do In January of 1984, again through with a nuclear warhead. We accept the poenaed President Shapiro and some of change things. It is your responsibilit Thd just fi theU.ve ,it'sotr fall within the 1972 guidelines civil disobedience we got University consequences of our actions. We acted the regents. We claim our action and mine. None of us are "inocent, thiisstion i the Unms iacesint ar- against classified weapons work. President Harold Shapiro to attend a out of a belief that peace begins at was justified and legal because we were and none of us will escape the effects of onTicpto he irstr""efiscusotn (However, these guidelines are being forum on military research. We had home, that if we are to disarm, we must acting out of necessity, a legal defense. WWIII. Please attend the trial and begn Th irsr7,ndh'ncamduspecessac- violated, as classified weapons resear- been trying for two years to get an ad- work locally and nationally. We acted We feel a direct and personal threat to show your support. Protest and s-- begavists 19roeste hnivempsty'sdirect ch is still being done here, including an- ministrator to such a forum. It took because we felt we are all responsible our lives from nuclear weapons and vive. patiit o(throhreer hadisbmrnywrar sdblisiirec . d t action before they finally agreed for the actions of this University, and nuclear weapons research. We tried the prariigprog rm)ug hreeammd i-sil ubmane,)arfaeadbaisc re3 e opepakdth edltn that if we don't work to sto weapons legal channels available to us and were Mr a n ftoearse WrIn196rgrams)gntsothe edam hest uidensadflybgane.)oomr35 oeke dteendetonsk research then we are responsible for unfairly denied. Thus we felt it Mr n ftoearse Wgridlnsins68thclasifegensaostodgTheinstudentsudfcuyrea, uRons to hagaihedespite thiortsf the consequences of such research necessary to take direct action aganst and is a graduate of the Universit.: guidlme agmst lasifid wapon oraniingagaist uchreserch qustins. ut gai, dspit ths srtq th ihgan t il Edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan Sinclair . .f e Vol. XCV, No. 45 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Editorials represent a majority opinion of the Daily's Editorial Board Morton Grove's success 0 N TUESDAY two students were shot inside a Detroit high school. The students were involved in a fight that went beyond the verbal abuse and fistfight stage. Wne youth broke away from the fighters, drew a handgun, and ffired. The superintendent of the Detroit schools said that there are many strict security measures in place in the schools : police and security guards watch the area and students who carry guns are expelled. Yet, as the superintendent rightly noted, "The situation which occurred... was unavoidable in light of the availability of guns in our society." Last week the Illinois Supreme Court upheld the nation's first handgun ban in the Chicago suburb of Morton Grove. This affirmation of com- munities' right to regulate the use of handguns should be a signal to other cities around the country that citizens can at least attempt to limit the over- whelming prevalence of guns in this society. It may be that if Detroit had a handgun law Tuesday's shooting would still have occurred. But at .least the residents could feel they had taken some measure likely to save a few lives. In Morton Grove, four residents challenged the 1981 law, contending that it violated their state con- stitutional guarantee of the right to bear arms and was not in the scope of local officials' authority. The ordinan- ce permits the possession of rifles and shotguns but restricts handguns to law officers and security guards. The judge, however, ruled that as long as not all guns are outlawed it is perfectly legal. More importantly, the judge said that the law was justified "because of the ease with which handguns can be concealed and handled, as compared with other types of weapons." This is an important distinction to make. Shotguns are large, difficult to conceal, and are used primarily to hunt game. In contrast, the primary purpose of handguns is to kill or wound another human being. They are small and all too easily hidden in a pocket. Detroit, with the nation's worst mur- der rate and third worst violent crime rate, has good reason to prohibit the possession of the latter more dangerous weapon. So far the Morton Grove law has resulted in three arrests.. These three people might not have taken the lives of others. Then again, they very well could have. When a community has a history of handguns being wrongfully used to commit crimes and murders, it's time to take action as Morton Grove did. 4 i 1 71, --, g 1 } {' n __ o v , ,-= " '- ,. t ,r-, , L' /^' ' G LETTERS TO THE DAILY 4 Little choice for the American voter TAftter wthing the debates on Sunday, it became clear to me that with regards to foreign policy, the American voter has no choice on November 6. ''nde ciballed Che Guevara that he (Guevara), is a figure of heroic dimensions in the eyes of Modl;scting ofathis man as contemptible, would be equivalent to de la Madrid (the current president of Mexico) calling Martin Luther King despicable. The parallels bet- ween these two men's lives are our har d earned dollars into staged democracies and election masquerades, not to mention the millions that will go into forging this pseudo-reality out of per- sistent military agression and the senseles death-toll of thousands The Mondale-Ferraro ticket, like the Reagan-Bush ticket, will dependent spirit and the right to self-determination of each and every one of these countries. They all perceive any kind of BLOOM COUNTY revolutionary spirit in terms of f a n t a s t i c simplistic ideological conflict, and in doing so demonstrate a Unsigned editorials ap- of this page represen t a Daily's Editorial Board. i gn or a n ce. -Tamara Williams October 23 ' p"3 NOW by Berke Breathed I ZI M *RAIO 7wr i _ j - I 1 A