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MSU Accused of Aiding CIA Front EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP)— Michigan State University was ac cused in a magazine article Thurs day with having provided a front for Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operatives in Viet Nam. The university acknowledged the CIA presence, but said the article contained Inaccuracies and distortions. The accusation was made in the April issue of the monthly magazine Ramparts, which said MSU also bought guns and am munition for South Vietnamese security forces during the re gime of President Ngo Dinh Diem, who was deposed and slain in lfl<13. Terming the article “full of distortion and plan fabrication,” an MSU official said the univer sity's Viet Nam project was un dertaken merely to provide ad Schuyler to Speak At Sheldon High (leorge Schuyler, noted Negro i columnist, will address a public audience in Eugepe on Monday, I April 18 at 8 pin. Schuyler will apeak at Sheldon High School auditorium, 2455 Willakcnzie St.,! sponsored by the Emerald Em- ; pirc Speakers Bureau. The Negro columnist has climb ed steadily in national prominence as a conservative leader. Ilis re cent speech at the University of New Hampshire was typical of' his firm stand for free enterprise and the capitalist system. Schuy-! ler said, "We must lead a crusade for freedom, and a return to the principles that made this coun try great. . . . We must not accept the alibis that all that is wrong j is due to 'human nature’ or the vicissitudes of urbanism or the' inevitable workings of capital- j ism.” Alaska Cultures Study Continues A University study of the pre history of south central Alaskan cultures will continue this year j tinder the direction of Albert C. | Spaulding, former head of the de-1 partment of anthropology at the University. Spaulding’s study will focus on the Athaba.skan Indians In the' Knik Arm region 60 miles from1 Anchorage. The study will be fi nanced by a $13,900 National Sci- j cnce Foundation grant. Since 1960, University research teams have been doing field stud ies in the Katmai National Mon-1 ument and other areas on the Alaskan peninsula, probing for: evidence which would help to describe the cultural development of the people of the area through as much time as possible. The previous University stud ies were concerned with Eskimo cultures on the peninsula. There are two distinct groups found in the area who were living in close proximity. This year’s study will extend further inland to the head of Cook Inlet in the vicinity of Knik Arm. Evidence has been found here of a group of Athabaskan speaking ndians They are the only known Indian group to have migrated to the coast in southern Alaska. The Athabaskans have never been the subject of a major ar chaeological study, and have rarely been mentioned in previ ous investigations of the area. It has been noted in past studies that they were inhabiting Knik Arm at the time of European con tact but no further effort to pin point a date or define the cul ture that has been made. Spaulding and two graduate students from the University will make the effort when they begin a 10-week field study in June. Magazine Accepts Drake's Poems Albert Drake, teaching assistant in Kn^jlish at the University, has hail a poem accepted for publi cation: “For Monica Durrell, Daughter,” in the Wormwood Re view of Drake’s other. Two of his poems, "Crap Game” and Odyssey Beun,” have been pub lished in The Goodly Company. Two of Drake Drake’s other poems, “Memory; I” and Con versation With My Father,” have been published in Trace, the An glo-American Villiers quarterly. “People in the future,” Schuy ler has pointed out, "will look hack upon the free enterprise capitalist system as the golden age of humanity which provided rnunkind for the first time with the mass means for the well-being of all.” Schuyler has also taken a firm stand against many of the cur rent Negro “civil rights” tactics. “Proud of his race, he has fought all of his life for the betterment of the Negro in the United States and everywhere in the world," editorialized the Manchester Union-Leader. Schuyler has taken the position that "the road to progress for the Negro in the United States was not to be found in street demonstrations, in riots, in Com munist and Socialist led racial movements" (Union-Leader). A staff editor of the Pittsburgh Courier, Schuyler is a much traveled reporter, having filled writing assignments as a foreign correspondent in South and Cen tral America, West Africa, An-1 gola, Rhodesia and Mozambique, as well as many European coun- ! tries. His impressive biography has appeared in every Who's Who in America since 1934. The Cieorge ’Sch uy 1 er speech is open to the public and tickets will be available at the door. Prices are $1.25 for adults and SI for students. Firm Halts Own LSD Distribution HANOVER, N.J. (AP) — The only licensed American distribu tor of the hallucinatory drug LSD has voluntarily halted distribu tion. The action by Sandoz Pharma ceuticals was attributed to un foreseen public reaction against LSD, or lysergic acid diethyla mide, produced in Switzerland by the company's parent firm, Sandoz Limited. Dr. Craigh Burrell, medical di rector for Sandoz, said Wednes day night, “We brought it, LSD, in from Switzerland for experi mental purposes and released it only to highly qualified clinical ; investigators. Our stuff hasn't I gone into the black market, but the impression does persist among some people that it may i have gone there.” vice for setting up police organi zations and establishing a civil service program. "We did not knowingly hire any CIA men — and when we found out about their role, we dropped them,” said James Deni son, director of university rela tions and assistant to MSU Pres ident John Hannah. Denison denied guns and am munition were purchased by MSU for the Vienamese govern ment. However, in its capacity as adviser, the university some times made recommendations on what equipment might be need ed by security forces, he said. MSU’s international programs have ranged around the world in such areas as Nigeria, Turkey, Brazil, and Okinawa. Most of the overseas operations are designed to help govern ments get started on projects such as agricultural planning, po ASUO Petitions Available Now Petition* for 26 ASUO offices are now available in room 310 of the Student Union. The following offices may he petitioned this term for the general student body election in May: For the student body—pres ident and vice-president; For the Senate—six senators at-large, three class representa tives (one from each); one fra ternity representative, one so rority representative, one men’s co-op representative, one wom en’s co-op representative, one men's ofT - campus representa tive, one women’s off-campus representative, one married student representative, one up perclass men’s dorm represen tative, and one upperciass wom en's dorm representative; For class officers — sopho more', junior, and senior class presidents, and sophomore, ju nior, and senior class vice - presidents. All persons petitioning must pick up a copy of the ASUO election rules when submitting petitions. Faculty Members Publish Works Two English department fac ulty members at the University have recently had works accept ed for publication. "The Hired Woman,” a poem by Ralph J. Salisbury, associate professor of English, has been ac cepted by the Wascana Review of the University of Saskatchewan. An article by Dudley L. Has call, NDEA Fellow and part-time instructor in English, will be pub lished in the William Morris So ciety Journal. It is called “Vol sungasga and Two Transforma tions.” PATRONIZE YOUR • ADVERTISERS • lice administration and school programs. The magazine said hy advis ing the Diem government on po lice and security measures, MSU : violated the 1954 Geneva agree- j ment, which limited the military capability of both North and South Viet Nam. Kalph Smucklcr, acting dean of the university’s international programs, commented: "The International Control Commission is the enforcement agency for the Geneva agree 1 ment. The ICC was aware of what we were doing in Viet Nam arid never filed any complaints.” Although the article says that | the six-year Viet Nam project— | which ended in 1962—was worth $25 million to MSU, Smucklcr ! said the basic contract did not ; exceed $1 million in any one ! year. The article was endorsed in an introduction by Stanley Shien baum, who was campus coordi nator of the project for more Pikes Elect Officers Pi Kappa Alpha announces its newly elected officers for 1966 67. Leading the Pikes next year arc: Hod Shipley, president; Chuck Gahlsdorf, vice-president; Marv Tripanicr, secretary; Pat Howard, treasurer; Dean Burget, house manager; and Steve Carlson, cor respondent. than three years and is now with the Center from Democratic Studies in Santa Barbara, Calif. The article, by Shienbaum and Robert Schcer, said the MSU project showed “the decay of tra ditional academic principles found in the modern university on the make.” Stadium Plans Group Named The Central Lane Planning Council fCLPC), a group of 10 local municipal agencies, has appointed a five-man committee to work with the University in the planning of the proposed North Bank stadium. Named were CLPC Chair man Kenneth Kohnen, Gerald Attig of the Lane County De partment of Public Works, Eugene City Manager Hugh Mc Kinley, L. E. George of the Oregon Highway Dept., and Lynn McCready, the retired Eu gene banker who headed the fund drive that raised more than $1 million for the sta dium. University President Arthur S. Flemming agreed last week to have University planners of the stadium work closely with such a committee. 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