Smoke Signals, Wednesday, October 11,1978 — Page 3
Cheerleaders in new stunt formation are, from left, (fore ground) Jackie Bass, (ground level) Julie Andleton, Joanne Collins, Pam Harris, Danny Nelson,
Joey Bunce, Denise Martin, Lynn McKinney, (upper level) Kathy Lemon, Joy Braswell and Diane Palmer,
Bigger College Column
Offered by Magazine
To meet the needs of the working stu
dent, the college returnee as well as the
undergraduate in a traditional four-
year college program, Glamour
magazine has revised and expanded its
monthly College column. The new
feature, titled “Education,” will cover
all forms of education including voca
tion training, part-time studies and
graduate programs. It makes its debut
in the October issue of the magazine.
Topics that are covered in the first
Education page; “How To Get Into The
School You Want,” a 13-point plan
directed toward improving a woman’s
chances of being accepted by colleges
and graduate schools acknowledged to
be the ‘‘Mst job^ft-fiAiH^ IlfoundSf’'**'
“College Without Classes," a guide to
six publications which detail where and
how to get an external degree; and
“College Calendar,” a regular feature
of the new format, which spotlights
dates of the month of special interest to
students.
“College Calendar” for October gives
the application deadline for Rhodes
Scholarships, for example, lists
registration and test dates for five dif
ferent national exams including the
Law Admission Test and the Scholastic
Achievement Test, offers advice on tak
ing advantage of Thanksgiving airline
fares, financial aid information, and a
summer job exchange.
According to recent surveys, 80 per
cent of the magazine’s readership
works full or part-time, 28 per cent in
professional or managerial capacities.
The high achievers among Glamour’s
young working readership want to work
indefinitely, advance themselves in
’tTiMWiKSl'SWd fiilfiB'themselves in a
career above and beyond the financial
renumberation that accrues. It is in
their interests that the “Education
page has been devised. It is Glamour’s
intention, with its expanded educa
tional coverage, to help each of its 6.5
million readers reach her own in
dividual goal.
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PLAYERS IN REHEARSAL — Jean Sexton and Earl Howard (above) act out
a dramatic moment In "Love Is Better Than the Next Best Thing" which
will be presented in Marks Auditorium Oct. 12 and 13. Mrs. Sandra
Boyce, the play's director, (below) coaches Taghi Noktehdan on a bit of
stage business for Oct. 2 and 4 assemblies. Photos by Paul Kelly.
Paraquat
Funding
May Stay
WASHINGTON, D.C. (CPS)-After be
ing delayed by the Camp David summit
meeting. President Carter is expected
to finally sign into law a bill that was
originally drafted to halt U.S. funding
to Mexico’s paraquat spraying pro
gram. The bill, however, will probably
end up allowing U.S. funding to con
tinue.
Introduced as an amendment to the
International Security Assistance act of
1978, the measure would have stopped
U.S. financing of a Mexican program
officially called Operation Condor -
started in 1975 to spray marijuana
fields with a herbicide called paraquat.
Marijuana lobbyists, though, protested
that paraquat-sprayed marijuana could
cause severe lung damage if smoked,
with symptoms of shortage of breath
and the vomiting of blood. Consumers,
moreover, could not tell without
laboratory testing what marijuana had
actually been sprayed.
In response, the amendment cut off
U.S. monies for Operation Condor. At
the last moment, though. Congress in
serted a provision that funding could
continue if the Mexican goverment
found a way to color the paraquat, and
thus warn its potential consumers.
Sure enough, Mexico started dyeing
its paraquat with something called
Rhodamine B in July, even before the
bill passed Congress. The U.S. State
Department told CPS that the dye won’t
wash off, and will glow under a black
light. The State Department
spokesman also said the dye met the
provisions of the Act, and would allow
U.S. funding to continue.
Mexico is also considering using
other paraquat “markers,” i.e.,
substances that would make it obvious
to consumers if marijuana had been
sprayed. One of the markers under
consideration would make the sprayed
marijuana “smell likea skunk.”
Mexico has informed the U.S. that it
will use any kind of marker the U.S.
wants it to, as long as it does not violate
Mexican environmental laws.
Helms Acts
To Slice
HEW Funds
Reacting to the Carter administra
tion’s request that the United States
Senate approve a $55 billion HEW
budget for 1979 Jesse Helms of North
Carolina and Harry Byrd of Virginia
have drafted two amendments to cut
HEW spending next year by $2 billion.
“Senator Byrd of Virginia and I think
that $55 billion is far too much for Joe
Califano’s crowd of bureaucrats to
spend,” stated Helms.
Helms pointed out that the U.S. In
spector General reported recently that
last year alone the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare wasted
$7 billion. Helms said, “The $7 billion
that HEW wasted last year through
carelessness, abuse of regulations, and
fraud represents the total federal taxes
paid by 5 million American families
with incomes of $15,00 a year.
“Moreover,” Helms continued, “I
might mention that the amendments
that Senator Byrd and I are proposing
will save the people of North Carolina
$40 million; and that will be a pretty
good day’s work I’d say
National Group Formed to Fight
Government Spying on Campuses
(Continued from Page 1)
similar red squad files on other cam
puses in the Chicago area. They include
Northwestern University, the Universi
ty of Chicago, and the various cam
puses of Chicago City College.
At the national level, it’s known from
recent CIA admissions that professors
and students are secretly used to collect
information about the ideas and per
sonalities of foreign students.
Teacher
Recounts
Scrutiny
By RICHARD MEISLER
ANN ARBOR (CPS)—My own ex
perience with governmemt
surveillance on campus testifies mainly
to the ineptness of the FBI. It is also
disturbing, for the FBI had no valid
reason to be investigating me. The FBI
collected information about me for
several years in the late 60’s and early
70’s while I was a faculty member and
administrator at Antioch College and
later at Buffalo State College. My
knowledge of their activities comes
from the FBI’s own files, turned over to
me as the result of a lawsuit I initiated
under the Privacy Act. Other lawsuits
have established that Antioch College,
as an institution was investigated by
the FBI for a number of years.
My file was begun when an FBI
special agent walked past the faculty
lounge at Antioch and saw that I had
signed a petition protesting police
violence against demonstrators at San
Francisco State. Later that day the
agent entered my office and examined
the materials on my desk and walls.
Back issues of local and campus
newspapers were then searched for any
mention of my name. The most exciting
clipping was the announcement of the
birth of my first son. I’ve often
wondered whether they started a file on
him that day.
When a prominent civil rights activist
came to speak at Antioch, the FBI was
at the airport to watch me meet the
plane. They did, however, fail to notice
my participation in civil rights and
anti-war demonstrations, even though
these activities were open and well-
publicized. The file shows that the FBI
received cooperation from two local
police forces, the telephone company
and a credit bureau. Nonetheless they
turned up no hint of any illegal behavior
on my part, for there was none.
The content of my FBI file, when it
isn’t trivial, is a partial chronicle of my
very mild exercise of First Amendment
rights. The investigation was improper,
and this was recognized by the govern
ment, claiming that it contained in
formation whose disclosure would
damage national security. The govern
ment claim was obviously rediculous,
and when I won the case they were
ordered to pay my lawyer’s fees.
My story is a minor footnote in the
history of FBI campus spying. But the
implications are ominous. The FBI
clearly overstepped its authority. It
was operating as a secret police
monitoring the thoughts and expression
of educators and students. The only
possible effects of their action were ero
sions of First Amendment rights. I have
little doubt that such was their inten
tion.
The CIA uses the information,
gathered in both academic and social
situations, to recruit foreign students as
spies. Ahmad Jabbari, an Iranian-born
economist, told the conference of how
the CIA tried to recruit him while he
was a graduate student. The agency
wanted him to return to Iran for two
years as an informant.
When he refused the offer of money
and assistance in becoming a U.S.
citizen, the CIA asked him to invite
other foreign students to social events,
and to collect information about their
political views. Jabbari refused again,
but he speculated that such spying
among foreign students is probably
very widespread.
In another example, the FBI kept a
file on every member of the Black Stu
dent Union at the University of Califor
nia at Santa Barbara. A paid student in-
format was used to collect information
on BSU members, and BSU leaders
were “harrassed.”
Conference participants also describ
ed spying at other campuses, where the
targets ranged from women’s groups to
gay activists, black, native American,
Chicano, Puerto Rican, and even
university reform organizations. The
participants were convinced that spies
were at the Ann Arbor conference, too.
The conference’s major issue was not
whether campus spying existed, but
how to stop it. Conferees generally
agreed on three major approaches to
starting their campaign.
Organizers usually start by using the
Freedon of Information Act (FOIA) to
get secret government files. The files
typically help putline campus in
telligence activities, and often lead to
lawsuits to force the release of addi
tional information. FOIA requests have
already been intiated by individuals,
groups and coalitions at nearly 100 col
leges.
Another, increasingly freguent,
strategy of the anti-spying groups os to
draw up guidelines that would regulate
cooperation with intelligence agencies.
Harvard, for example, adopted
guidelines covering its staff’s coopera
tion with intelligence agencies last
year. The guidelines require professors
who recruit for the CIA activities and
the passing along of names of potential
student recruits without the student’s
prior permission. CIA director
Stansfieid Turner has responded that
such limits on staff contracts amount to
abridging academic freedom.
Nevertheless Syracuse University
and Ohio State University have adopted
similar guidelines, and they’re being
considered at more than 20 .‘'other
schools.
Anti-Spying Activists will also be lob
bying for strong legislation to limit
governmental surveillance on campus.
Recommended bills would limit the
FBI to the investigation of cri/nes, and
prohibit it form following political ac
tivities. Legislation providing penalties
for CIA actions that violate the CIA’s
charter, which prohibits domestic
surveillance, was also recommended.
We address and stamp a letter and
send it on its way confident that it will
reach its destination; but we doubtfully
wonder if our prayers will be heard by
an ever-present God.
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