- That Means Happy Hanukkah, Goyim VOL. 11- NO. 10 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1969 United Republic of Oakland "In giving "dinners," the apparently The Union Life Cook Book (1846) trifling details are of great importance when taken as a whole." From the private collection of Don Downing 1 OBSERVER/2 THE SENATE 1 ANSING,_ CHIGAN SIXTEENTH DISTRICT 'ill" STATE AFFAIRS, CHAIRMAN ROBERT J. HUBER ADMINISTRATIVE RULES, CHAIRMAN SENATE OFFICE CORPORATIONS ROOM 129 CAPITOL BUILDING CHAIRMAN, SPECIAL SENATE COM- LANSING, MICHIGAN 48902 MITTEE TO INVESTIGATE COLLEGES TELEPHONE 373-17513 AND UNIVERSITIES 19 NovemberNovember 1969 TEAR GAS Dear Editor: I was ticketed and am being dragged Michael D. Hitchcock In recent weeks it has become Oparent into court by the university for selling Oakland Observer the that the peace movement is splitting into a newspaper on campus. Of course or the militant and moderate wings. The increas- Oakland University newspaper is not the Free Press News. The Bulletin, is ing militancy of certain groups has created Rochester, MI 48063 Detroit paper, The League, a a great deal of fear, not only in the govern- a publication of the Worker's ment and the silent plurality but also in Trotskist organization. Dear Mr. Hitchcock: This ticketing infringes on one's po- the moderate peace groups and the para- litical rights. It should not be tolerated. military neutralists. Certain findings of this reporter may be able to quell some of the Our present plans call for a release of the After all, my right of press and speech is also your right. The Dean of Students' dismay. final report on campus unrest some time in position on the selling of the Bulletin is It seems that the police are turning more January. In view of the. possibility of mis- university or- and more to the use of tear-gas to disrupt that it is in violation of a interpretation of staff documents, it is the dinance. court alledged violence at demonstrations and This is idiocy, as innumerous opinion of those ordinance. rallys. Exploding tear-gas bombs make most connected with the study decisions have antiquated this I have American Civil demonstrators turn and run but apparently that the material would be of little value for appealed to the likewise not all of them. A certain amount of move- your purposes at this time. Liberties Union for assistance. I appeal urge all ment people who have been involved from the to your paper and also students to support this struggle to re- beginning often linger around the gassed areas Sincerely, Inhaling the fumes for their hullucinatory tain one of the few rights we have. All concerned students should contact: effects, some tripping out for as long as two weeks. Jim Zupan The discovery was made by a 30 year- ex. 3034 old graduate of Vassar, with the help of the 'ROBERT J. HUBER Chicago pigs. The girl, who wishes to remain State Senator URG anonymous, had been in the movement since !6th the early part of the 60's and had been gas- District sed a number of times before, always with the same disturbing effects. She had always run before, but with her kidneys badly beaten, The Michigan Daily wins she lay in a Chicago alley unable to run when the up-un- the prize for the most glam- til-then noxious fumes engulfed her. She started to gag orous Washington set-up dur- but soon noticed that (for the first time) the gas had a ing the recent Moratorium. pleasant odor. Sniffing deeply and holding it as long a s The Daily rented a suite of Hil- she could she found herself tripping out in a matter of rooms at the Washington minutes. She is reported to have lain in the alley until ton and brought more than Sunday afternoon without coming down or complaining. 40 members of its staff. Un- After hearing this report, certain of her friends attemp- fortunately, the Daily was not ted to purchase large quantities of tear-gas but they able to use the plane it had couldn't find it on the market. They decided that the only chartered because of ad- way to obtain it was to be gassed in a riot, so they went verse weather conditions. to the Washington rally with the intention of provoking some (CPS). scientific experimentation. They were able to obtain large quantities of the alleged hullucinogen free of charge. Reports of the findings are sketchy but appear to be pos- The list of birth dates itive, with one major exception. It appears that only those drawn in the draft lottery who had been gassed three or four times before could get is posted on the door of the off. Those who did get off are comparing the gas to mes- Observer office and in front Commission Demands Rights caline. of Charlie Brown's. Check Not wanting to release findings on the basis of such a them out: find out if the im- Student Life small sampling, further experimentation is being planned perialist war machine has At the last meetinpt of the Commission on for the future. Also, seepage passed: your number. the following motion was Interhall 3 for an article dealing with Commission on Student Life directs the Mark Bennet "The Winter the complexities of the new 24-hour local option beginning Council to implement students lottery system. Semester in light of the support of the resident June 14th A note to Irving (an annonymous student) and Mr. X: and as previously passed by the Commission at the The Observer will not print letters unless they are signed meeting." explain by the writers. We will be glad to print the letters you • As a member of the Commission I would like to at that submitted if you contact the Observer office in person, my vote on this motion. I voted in favor because meeting of the Commission it was brought to my atten- by letter, or by phone (ex. 2196), and submit your name. Alphabet same favor over 1000 of the resident students voted in tion that mandate this vote as a clear Listing of local option. I viewed their THE OBSERVER from the students that they believed visitation was the question of the right is the order of the right. I was further aware that * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Following debated, alphabet to be applied to the one which had been demanded, of visitation was There first letter of last names in de- every major campus in the country. Editor Davis Catton and decided on by settled, Assistant Editor (Arts) Marty Wolf termining the order of call for was no doubt in my mind that the matter had been inductees with the same birth addi- been fought, and the right was ours. In Assistant Editor (News) Phil Boykin dates: the fight had of was the fact that the implimentation Advertising Manager Allen Einstein tion to all of this its 1 J 11 C passed by the Commission in Business Manager the 24-hour policy was Steve Gaynor 2 G 15- 10 this summer. 3. D IR-- emergence and Advertising Lialesman .Terry Kaptur, Tom Cohen We agreed to put the question up to a referendum 1 X 17 K getting our Photo Editor David Bernstein 5N IS--H to wait until the winter semester instead of voted, and Layout Editor Nancy Knight -0 19 S full rights in the fall. We have waited, we have Copy Editor Tom Krupp 7 Z 20.•L we have won. administration Sports Editor Mark Ott $1.--T 21 NI Regardless of any oppostion by either the 9—W 22--A Oakland Artists Bill Close , Rick Unger, John Kelly or the Board of Trustees, the resident students of 10--P -R when Photographers Mark Grant Bill Wren Dave Catton 11—Q 24- University will have their rights, their full rights, Writers: Mark Dublin, Ruth Louise'', Sue Lyn Weaver, 12-Y 25-B they return in •lanuary. David Bass, Barb Byrn, Fuzzy Bob, Bob Wait 13--U 26--V Bryan T. McMahon OBSERVER 3 Pollution, not Earthquakes Threat to California DRAFT INFO. San Franciso -- (CPS) revealed that the treasured Recently, a Los Angeles --October 27 became an his- San Bernadino pine t rees Superior Court upheld a Jus- toric day for the State of covering the mountains 60 tice Department request that (UPI)--Eighteen year olds will not be drafted any time California. It was the first miles outside of Los An- air pollution suits filed a- next year under the new lottery system, although some day in the state's history above 26 may geles are dying quickly be- gainst the tree maior auto- have to go. according to we athermen, cause of the smog. mobile companies under the There's still considerable confusion that the entire state was cov- The Sierra Club, the of how the draft Johnson administration be will work, even though the ered in visible smog. nation's most famous and ac- dates of birth were drawn from settled out of court, claiming the bowl at Selective Service From the redwood for- tive conservation club, an- headquarters Monday night. that it would unnecessarily Questions keep arising, ests in the north to the de- nounced it would probably such as this one: a youngster is upset the public. only 18 now, won't serts near Mexico, the 700 file suit in Los Angeles "in become 19 until late next year, but his birth date was picked mile -long state was pollut- some attempt to save early in the drawing so that it seemed the un- The Judge ruled in favor he would ed.