'Crater' Arrests Criticized

A statemenWritical of the UnjCersity's I action in obtaining arrest warrants I against four persons allegedly involved I in digging symbolic bomb craters on Central Campus during a May 19 antiI war demonstration was issued today by I the local Interfaith Council for Peace, a sponsor of the demonstration. r "- The statement, issued by the Interfaith Council's director, Mrs. Russell Fuller, says in part: "The University of Michigan, in its current prosecution of 'some' of the persons who dug craters on its main campus in a peaceful, non-violent demonstration, not only looks hypocritical, but also has obscured a vital educational resource ... "By charging the diggers with malicious destruction, the University has willfully contributed to the gross misconception that those who want an end to this immoral and illegal war are violent v and als. "No one was killed or maimed, no buildings were destroyed, and the land was easily filled in by University ground crewmen. The craters created by all of us, including the U-M, in Southeast Asia, aré the more tragic vandalizing in this world . . . "May we assume, since the University feels it is important to uphold the law in this extremely minor and unharmful incident, that it would also recognize the propriety of prosecution, under the Nuremberg principies, of the U-M itself for its part ... in its war-related research ... in the vandalizing of Southeast Asia." Warnings that persons who drug craters on Central Campus, rather than on a U-M authorized site between Hill Auditorium and the Michigan League, were voiced by President Robben W. Fleming and other officials during the anti-war demonstration. Complaints were signed in recent days by U-M Safety Director Fredrick E. Davids against U-M students Jay Hack, John Goldman and Richard England, and Genie Plamondon. The defendants are scheduled to report at Ann Arbor District Court Monday.