The Michigan Daily-Saturday, July 12, 1980-Page 3
COD'T Local Scene
SAYS COULDN'T JUDGE MA THES' MOTIVES
Witness cites no bad faith
By HOWARD WITT
Special to The Daily
DETROIT-Responding to a question o:
Engineering Humanities Department Chai
Mathes acted in bad faith toward Jonathan
witness for Marwil said yesterday, "I cani
to (Mathes') heart; I do not know what big
are."
Testifying in federal district cot
Humanities Prof. David Hughes added, he
had no evidence of bad faith on Mathes' par
MARWIL, A FORMER assistant profes:
engineering humanities department who ha
the University payroll since May 31, 1979, is
Regents and three members of the humanit
tment administrataive committee-Ma
Profs. Ralph Loomis and Dwight Stevenson
Marwil charges the committee member
both his constitutional rights and applical
tment and College policies when they den
review of his qualifications to receive ten
GOP new
chair calls
plank 'bill
of rights'
for women
By RICHARD BLANCHARD
The Republican National Committee's
likely new chairwoman called the GOP
women's plank a 'bill of rights for
women," and stressed the positive sup-
port for women in the Republican's 1980
platform.
"Our platform goes far beyond that of
the yet-undetermined provisions of the
ERA," said Betty Heitman, who will
probably replace former chairwoman
Mary Crisp. Crisp resigned Wednesday
after the platform committee over-
oe-whelmingly voted to abandon the par-
ty's 40-year support for the Equal
Rights Amendment.
The ERA has become an emotional
issue subject to vague interpretations
and legal problems, Heitman said.
The major points of the women's
plank, explained Heitman, are sen-
sitive to the needs of the working
woman. She said this sensitivity is ex-
pressed in the equal opportunity, equal
pay and adequate child care provisions
of the platform.
"The plank will focus on the problems
of the elderly women and the needs of
women below the poverty level-who
have 40 per cent of the nation's
children," she added.
Heitman disagreed with Crisp's
comment that the GOP was "burying
the rights of the American woman," by
lesving support for the ERA out of the
platform.
"We have worked for a compromise
for the American woman," she said.
Although the human resources commit-
See NEW, .Page 5
sixth year of employment at the University. The
University contends University-wide policies did not
entitle Marwil to a tenure review.
The administrative committee members, Marwil
contends, decided to drop him from the faculty in 1978
son and Loomis, adding that he didn't believe Loomis
was capable of acting in bad faith.
In direct testimony Thursday, Hughes said he
believed Marwil was hard-working, imaginative, and
an excellent scholar.
Yesterday, when pressed by Vercruysse, Hughes
conceded he thought in 1977 that Marwil was not
mature enough to serve as a representative of the
humanities department on college and University
committees. Hughes said he thought at that time
Marwil was abrasive.
HE ADDED, HOWEVER, that he never considered
Marwil should not be granted a tenure review
because of his abrasiveness.
Marwil's behavior during his six years as an
assistant professor-alleged by the defendants to
have been "abrasive," "contentious," and "intem-
perate"-has been a frequently addressed topic
during the first week of the trial, which began Mon-
day.
See MARWIL, Page 13
after he vigorously opposed several departmental
policies.
HUGHES ALSO SAID under cross examination by
University Attorney Robert Vercruysse that he had
seen no evidence of bad faith on the parts of Steven-
T'he great escape Daily Photo by MAUREEN O'MALLEY
Athlete Raimie Weber demonstrates how many steps it takes to jump a wall in a multiple-exposure image. It's only
a coincidence that she resembles a convict attempting to escape.
Options to registration available
By MAUREEN FLEMING
In a two-week period beginning a week from this Monday,
19- and 20-year old men will make one of the most important
-and difficult-decisions in their lives: whether to register
for the draft.
And according to a member of the Committee Against
Registration and the Draft (CARD), there are several op-
tions available:
" To register;
" To register under protest;
" To not register and make the decision public; and,
" To not register and keep the decision private (non-
compliance).
EDIT HELFEY OF CARD said that there is room on the
registration form to make a statement of protest. She said
that CARD is also providing stickers, stating "I register un-
der protest," that can be placed on the form.
The purpose of registering under protest, Hefley ex-
plained, is to immediately start building a conscientious ob-
jector (CO) file. She said a person seeking CO status must
prove to the draft board that he has had a moral conviction_
against war for more than a few days.
Hefley also cautioned that when a statement of protest is
made on the form, a duplicate copy, signed by the postal
clerk, should be made for personal records. "Often forms are
lost," she explained.
THIS YEAR'S DRAFT registration program will begin
Monday, July 21 and last for two weeks. All men born in the
years'1960 and 1961 are required to register.
A non-registrant could face a fine of up to $10,000, im-
prisonment of up to five years, or both.
Dale Ewart of CARD, a 19-year-old student not planning to
register, said a two per cent noncompliance- figure given
by the government is "ridiculously low.
"A five per cent minimum is more realistic," he added,
"and that's not including people who are not registering as a
protest. These are people who are just not aware that they're
supposed to register."
EWART SAID THAT even if the government figures are
accurate, the two per cent figure would translate into 80,000
individuals who would be considered felons. Since there are
no draft boards this time, he added, the FBI has to enforce
See OPTIQNS, Page "7 .