WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7,1968 THE MICHIGAN D,4ILV PAGE SEVEN WEDNSDA, FBRUAY 7196 THEMICIGA DAIY PGE EV1 Behind Closed Doors BOB McFARLAND About this time of the year, I'm normally in the most desperate of moods. I'm cursing the fact that I ever decided to attend college4 in a climate that with a little imagination, seems worse than that of Nome Alaska. I'm staring umpteen midterms and papers in the face, knowing that the knowledge I've accumulated since the semester be-7 gan would hav trouble filling the flysheet of my favorite textbook. Add to that the cynicism, skepticism, and the lack of faith in almost everything that always reaches a personal peak during the month of February. I just can't find much to cheer about. Before going any further, let me say that I'm not writing this with the intent of depressing everyone. Rather, I want to tell about my renewed faith in the month of February. Only yesterday, the restoration occurred. Ann Arbor was en- joying one of those brief winter respites, the mercury soaring close to the 50-degree mark. The Michigan cagers had finally won w another Big Ten game, proving that the better team stil can win a contest, and those heralded high school All-America recruit- ments of almost three years past have begun recently to play the part. And this University's Board of Regents had passed the first major revision of Chapter XXIX of its Bylaws in a quarter of a century. I'm sure the first two events bolstered the dikes holding back the troubled mental waters of many a Michigan student. The third event and the most portentous probably needs some explanation. You see, Chapter XXIX of the Regent's Bylaws concerns the Depart- ment of Physical Education and Athletics. Like many state con- stitutions, these governing provisions aren't altered to any significant degree very often. Monday was one of those 'rare occasions. The Regents created two positions. an AssociateAthletic Directorfr Intercollegiate Athletics. and an Associate Athletic Director for Physical Educa- tion (and presumably intramurals). Equally important in my mind was the establishment of an Advisory Board that will concern itself with the flagging problem areas of student recreation, intra- murals, and club sports. The Advisory Board, if constituted along those lines suggested by the President's Athletic Advisory Review Committee, will have sub- * stantial student representation, and hopefully provide the bargaining voice which intramurals has so desperately lacked in the University community over the past decade The weather "happened" yesterday. The creation of the Ad- visory Board didn't "happen," however. It wasn't as if the Regents all woke up Monday morning with the collective brainstorm that intramurals were in terrible shape, and rushed into emergency N deliberations to find the solutions. The establishment of that Boards was a grinding, plodding process, like three-yards-and-a- cloud-of-dust, that stretched over weeks, months, and years. By the time of Monday's announcement, there were several groups pushing for an improvement in the intramural program at Michigan who had never even considered the problem two years before. I thank them for their efforts. and their receptivity to a glaring deficiency in * a University that prides itself on total excellence. The people who really deserve the acknowledgement, however are those that started the outcry, those that foresaw the dim future of student recreation at Michigan when the program started to take a turn for the worse, some 10 or even 15 years ago. (Archi- tectural plans were drawn up for a new IM building as far back as 1951.) These made up, as one administrator so aptly put it, the voices crying out in wilderness. John Telfer, University Planner, was one, of these "voices." He be- came concerned about the lack of fields and recreational facilities as early as seven or eight years ago, and has pressed consistently for improvements, often, it must have seemed, in near isolation. Earl Riskey and Dr. Rodney Grambeau, Director and Associate Director of Intramurals, also deserve commendations for their worl. Closest to the deterioration, they witnessed the tragic metamorphosis of a dia- mond into a pieca of coal. William L. Stuede, Director of Student-Community RelatIions, and his assistant, Dr. Peter Ostafin, have my special thanks for the many hours they spent on a problem that was not really their responsibility. They took the risk of stepping on some people's toes, prepared two studies on the recreational situation, and in general provided the needed staff work that is helping the program climb back on its feet. I commend that much-maligned Vice-President Dr. Richard Cutler for, along with his staff members, taking much of the initiative that led to the realization of the decay. No matter how immodest it may appear, it is also necessary to state that The Daily played a large part in exposing the deficiencies. So I also include those members of the sports staff who spent large portions of their time writing articles and gathering information, along with Chuck Vetzner, Sports Editor in 1966-67, who provided the im- petus behind The Daily campaign. We may have devoted an inordinated amount of space to the issue. One former staffer, no longer living in Ann Arbor, reported that he felt like switching on the news to see how many people had been killed when he read our coverage on the collapse of the IM pool roof. But the first step was -taken this week on the long road back to respectability in intramurals. rmmmm mmmmm inmmm mm.n ......... ------ -inminmmmmm4 i i Thompson's Pizza - TH I SCOUPONGOOD FOR ---off 50c off- ON A LARGE OR MEDIUM ONE r TEM (OR MORE) PIZZA 4 : Coupon Is Good Only Monday-Thursday Feb. 5-Feb. 8; 1G- mm m - mm m mm mm mm mm.........m..---------------m U.S. Icers Fall in Olmpic Debut, 5-1 GRENOBLE, France (R) - The United States dropped the first match of the hockey competit- ion, losing to Czechoslovakia 5-1 on the opening day of the Winter Olympics. More significant for the Games, however, was the compromise reached several 'hours later be- tween the International Olympic Committee and the International Ski Federation in the ski-trade mark controversy. The IOC, which had wanted all manufacturers' names removed GRENOBLE (P) - Winter Olympics visitors will kindly, stick to skating, skiing, hockey, bobsledding and toboganning and refrain from back seat driving. The French have pasted no- tices inside the vehicles used to transport athletes, officials and newsmen from place to place requesting that passengers "do not comment to the driver on his driving." from skies of competitors, ruled after a lengthy session that ski- ing would remain in the Grenoble Olympics but that no skier would be permitted to show any trade- marks on his skis at the end of a run. The decision appeared to be ac- cepted by the IOC of a com- promise formula proposed by FIS to leave the trademarks on but to make sure the skiers do not display their equipment to photo- graphers and television cameras. The 10C is opposed to skis bearing trademarks because it feels this practice is a commercial exploitation of the Olympics. FIS first agreed to have the skiers eliminate the brand names but then changed its decision, ar- guing that paint or wax used to coverthe names might.unbalance the skis. The compromise eliminated the possibility of the ski events being crossed off the Olympic program and being reduced to world cham- pionships. Tomorrow's Events The world's top girl figure skat- ers went through' their compul- sory-figure practice routine for the last time yesterday before competition for the Olympic title begins in earnest today. World champion Peggy Flem- ing of Colorado Springs, Colo., as usual looked best in the intricate but unspectacular exercise which still accounts for 60 per cent of the pointsntotal in international competition. Russia's defending Olympic champions crushed Finland 8-0 and Canada's strong team routed West Germany 6-1 * * * * * * * * Hiockei By DIANA ROMANCHUXC "Road trips will either make or1 break a team." Michigan hockey coach Al Renfrew made that comment last week following a two-game series in Minnesota, where double wins had moved the Wolverines into fourth place in the WCHA stand- ings. But there were still three more road gamesstraight to go. "After the two-game series inI Duluth (Minnesota), we'll know whether we can keep up the mo- mentum we have going," the coach continued. That series down, the momentum still holds. Not only are the Wol- verine icers in the midst of an eight-game winning streak, but they have edged into the third spot in the WCHA. The league leading Michigan Tech Huskies, two wins and one Hopes High a t Midseason loss ahead of Michigan, arrive in two weeks to test the invincibility of Wolverine home ice - Michigan remains undefeated in the Col- iseum this season. Michigan's league record stands at 7-3, all three, of course, losses coming on the road. The first two, against now second-placed Den- ver, opened the Wolverine's WCHA season. The remaining defeat - nine games ago - came against the Spartans of Michigan State. A re- turn engagements set for this Friday night. The battle for scoring leader- ship is as much a scramble as the WCHA race. As Coach Ren- frew observed, "We don't have any 'star' players - we're a team effort." The "team" has been spreading the scoring out with no one player leading all the time. Senior Bruce Koviak and junior Doug Galbraith have alternated the leadership most of the season. Originally, sophomore Dave Per- rin surged into the lead with two consecutive hat tricks in the open- ing exhibition games against Me- Master. But he ran into a few bouts with the flu bug as well as a back injury which has not stop- ped but hampered his playing. Perrin now stands fifth with 16 goals and 4 assists. Galbraith took over, recently relinquishing the lead to Koviak, who has the most hat tricks with three. However, the junior for- ward regained the lead last week- end in Duluth and now heads the pack with 13 goals and 14 as- sists for 27 points. Koviak trails by one point, accounting for 14 goals and 12 assists. Senior Lee Marttila, who sat out the first six games, is third with 25 points (14 goals, 11 as- sists); Ron Ulloyt ranks fourth SPORTS NIGHT EDITOR: ROBIN WRIGHT with 11 goals and 11 assists total- ing 22 points. Randy Binnie and defenseman Lars Hansen, singled out by Ren- frew as the two most improved players, are tied in sixth place with 20 points each. Binnie has 11 goals and 9 assists, to Han- sens' 3 and 17. The mainstay of the team, of course, has been goalie Jim Keough. The junior has been in the net for all except the second Western Ontario game, when H a r o 1 d Herman took over. Keough's often spectacular goal- tending has kept Michigan in many a close game. All in all, at midseason things are looking up for the Wolverine hockey team despite a rough road ahead. But, in the words of coach Renfrew, "We'll play each game as it comes." 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