Page fight' THE MICHIGAN DAILY TuesdQy, January 13, 1970 Page Eight THE MICHIGAN DAILY Tuesday, January 13, 1970 SWEEP WEEKEND SERIES: Erratic Icers (temporarily on right track By BILL ALTERMAN - Theoretically, it's simple. If you score a lot and the op- position doesn't score at all, you win. Saturday the Wolverine icers were theoretical. Or as Coach Al Renfrew put it, Michigan "work- ed, forechecked, skated and goal- tended well." They did everything in beating Colorado College 6-0 and gained their first series sweep. Still it is too early to forecast the emergence of a super power. Michigan has been erratic a 11 season, splitting four weekend series on route to a 7-6 record. Their front line of Bernie Gag- non, Brian Slack, and Paul Gams- by has had little trouble scoring this year, often putting in a late game winning goal. The second and third lines- however, weren't clicking regularly. When t h e y didn't, Michigan went down, Lately, however, things h a v e been picking up. Michigan scored 14 goals last weekend, although the first line got only three. Right now, as far as Coach Renfrew is concerned, there is no f ir s t string. Not only will they score more, but if this continues, he can alternate the players at will, allowing everyone a chance to rest. The most satisfying perform- ance of the weekend was doubtless turned in by goalie Karld Bagnell. After giving up seven goalsin Fri- day's 8-7 victory, Bagnell blanked them Saturday, his first shutout of the season. Indeed Friday the Wolverines were lucky to win. Although they looked rather ragged all night, they had what appeared to be a comfortable 8-5 margin going into the last three minutes of play. Then Colorado wing B ill Bal- drica hammered in two goals in the space of fourteen seconds nar- rowing the difference to one. In the last few seconds Colorado got the puck down close again, just missing the tieing goal. ; Michigan's eighth and winning score was the result of dumb luck. An errant shot by Paul Gamsby hit the skate of Colorado defense- man Bob Langin and bounded in- to the net. Saturday Colorado only got off 17 shots as the icers forechecked superbly. Until now, however, Bag- nell had been allowing a rather high average of 4.1 goals per game. WCHA STANDINGS One problem did appear out of ' Saturday's game. Forward Doug Heyliger severely injured his knee and appears to have had it for the year. However, if Michigan can con tinue to skate well and if Bagnell ''.< can match the job done last year by goalie Jim Keough, -the Wol- verines could conceivably emerge: as WCHA champions. As they showed Saturday they qre capable of superb performances.: Part of the problem facing; Michigan this year is increasing quality of play throughout t h e WCHA. Teams like Wisconsin,: which gave the Wolverines little trouble last year, have improved '>/ considerably. In fact only t w o games separate the second placeĀ« team (MSU from the eighth place team (Wisconsin). ':>: <:>.:" Although both of the g a m e s against Colorado were at home for the Wolverines, that seemed to : be an irrelevant factor. "Norm- ally," Renfrew commented, "the home team has an advantage. This year is doesn't seem to make any difference." 'Ill' goalie Bagn When asked how he gets his- team up for a game Renfrew could only shrug and wonder "if only a.Y A 1THLETES coach knew." - AA re PLEASE NOTE PRICE CHANGE! Minnesota MSU Michigan Tech MICHIGAN Duluth Denver North Dakota Wisconsin Colorado W 8 4 2 6 5 4 8 4 0 L 2 2 1 4 5 5 10 6 6 T 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 Pct. .800 .667 .625 .600 .500 .450 .444 .400 .000 -Daiy-Thomas R. Copi eli working a shutout 0] SKI CL MASS MEETING Tues., Jan. 13th I T O I T! 7:00, Union Ballroom * NEW YORK (A) - Former Olympic champion Harold Con- , olly recommended Monday sweep- ing track and field changes in the Amateur Athletic Union, includ- ing more financial help for ath- letes and clubs. Connolly, 38, and a gold medal winner in the hammer throw at the 1956 Olympic Games, repre- sents a group which he says num- Madon-Meeting House S A OF4 DIVERSITY TRAVELOGUE MORDECHAI EIDELS TEACHING FELLOW, SPEECH DEPT. Tues., an. 13, 8 p.m. at The Huse-1429 Hill berg more than 100 of America's top track and field stars. "The whole thing came about at Lake Tahoe," Connolly s a i d. "We athletes discussed our trip to Europe last year in which t h e track team had .poor housing and meals among other things."n Other improvements or chang- es that Connolly seeks are- -Returning a major share of revenue from televised meets to track clubs around the country to' help finance club programs. -Unite the men's and women's track and field program to streng- then both for the 1972 Olympics. The teams now train and compete separately.. -Ask meet directors for a nomi- nal contribution to help finance trips for athletes representives toj AAU and international meetings. -And open quicker lines of communications between the AAU and the athletes. "Athletes on the AAU board is a great step," Connolly said. "B u t our objective is to get more. We need a larger voice so we can broaden our participation in de- cision making. We're not looking toward professionalism. We just want a modernization of t h e arachaic amateur rules." Against The Wall Defense Depart ment' rips of f mountain By JONATHAN MILLER TOPEKA, KANSAS has become something of a joke; it is a town which has only one claim to fame, and that is being the Burbank of the Midwest. But Topeka is an interesting place, after all they did have Brown vs. School Board, but that was in 1954. Since then, Topeka has turned into a model of idyllic su- burban life, and when I was last there someone told me (with a face beaming pride), that Topeka was the hundreth biggest urban conglomeration in the country. Topeka has it's share of problems, but it's biggest one is the lack of a mountain. People all over Topeka will tell you how sadly they miss a mountain. The whole state is aware of Topeka's lack of a mountain, but then Topeka is, believe it or not, the State Capital. Topeka's problem of not possessing a mountain began about five years ago when the Department of Defense came along and took it away. There were of course protests, petitions and let- ters from the Jaycees to the Governor (a nice guy the gover- nor, but I'll come to him later), but there wasn't you might say a 'real' protest. The Nation's Capital did not have delegations from Topeka beseiging it, and there were no sit-ins on the min- uscule campus of Washburn University. SOME OF YOU may be wondering why Topeka is so upset about their non-mountain. It is like this you see. Topeka lies in Shawnee County. Shawnee County is named Shawnee coun- ty because the Shawnee Indians were always the people who lived there until they were put in reservations tb amuse the few tourists that found Kansas at all. Well the Indians are happy, this story is not about the In- dians at all, but they are happy, you ask the Governor if the Indians are happy or not, and ten to one he will admit to you that the Indians are happy. The point is, that the Indians had a legend. The legend was that if Burnets Mound (it never really was a mountain, just a mound), was ever lifted up to the happy hunting grounds, a great evil would befall Topeka. Now nobody ever really believed this, including the Defense Department who discovered that their B-52's couldn't take off. from the runway at their nearby base if the mound was in the way. They forgot about the mound when they built the runway you see. It so happens that Topeka has always been rather prone to tornadoes, but they never really mattered because they always seemed to swerve from theirpath at the last -minute and go through the Negro section of town, and because the Negros never really owned very nice houses it was cheap to replace them when they were destroyed. The Negro LIKES tornadoes, you ask any Negro, so it made sense for 'the tornadoes to co- operate by going through the Negro section of town. NOW JUST AFTER the Defense vandal removed the moun- tain there was a tornado. But this tornado was different be- cause it went straight through the very best middle class neigh- borhoods, ruined the best middle class schools, and destroyed the acres of crab grass that went with it. It was very strange that the tornado had done this terrible thing, it had never done it before. Then someone remembered the mound, mountain or whatever, and someone found that the lack of same had FAILED TO DIVERT THE TORNADO. But never mind, the Negros are happy because the nice white area got demolished, and their shacks were not, and the Indian is happy because he was right all along. The military-industrial complex has been accused of some pretty henious crimes recently, but to the (white) people of Topeka-Kansas this is the biggest, foulest, most underhanded thing they have ever done. That is why there was a moratorium in Topeka, Kansas, and there will be more until Nixon realizes that the silent majority want their mountain back. Nixon, you better build them the newest, biggest, shiniest mountain in all history if you want to carry Kansas in '72. transcendental , meditation os taught by b < Maharishir' " . Moheshx^ s Yogi Wednesday,.Jan. 14 AU. C-AHie 8:00 P.M. 1~ * 4r -SKI MOVIE- i ALSO Sign up for Sugor Loaf Trip Jan. 16, 17, 18 ._.. ___.... $10 DEPOSIT L I Engineers & Scientists iS COMIUNG MONDAY, JANUARY 26 See your Placement Director today to ar- range an appointment with the Xerox representative. Discover what Xerox is doing in color xerography, 3-D imaging, laser applica- tions, and systems that mate xerography and computers. Learn, too, of the contin- uous refinements being developed for and incorporated in our line of office cop- iers and duplicators. During the question and answer ses- sion, you'll also get a better idea for some of the reasons behind our growth. From approximately 3,000 people in 1960 to over 30,000 currently. Ask him, too, about the Xerox philoso- phy. How we've always operated on the premise that you can make meaningful contributions to society that contribute quite gainfully to yourself. And us. This investment of your time could be _ the start of a rewarding future at our sub- urban Rochester, New York facilities in fundamental and applied research, devel- opmental andmanufacturing engineering, or programming. 0- p I I i - ~-I = :1 -U i " . ..1 """" / Try your wings at Alcoa. Come fly with us. We need bright, young people for all kinds of Engineering and Management positions. And in Accounting, Research Write: Aluminum and Development, Company of America, Sales and Marketing. Manager of P rof essIonal We'll give youPoent, 1002 plenty of freedom. Alcoa Building, That's a promise. Pittsburgh, Pa. 15219. RAYTHEON JANUARY 19 We need, and would like to talk to BS and MS Candidatesin: ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING MECHANICAL ENGINEERING INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS PHYSICS For work in: RESEARCH and DEVELOPMENT DESIGN MANUFACTURING QUALITY CONTROL ENGINEERING ENGINEERING WRITING SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMMING Sign up for interviews through your Place- At Alcoa, there's nowhere to go but up. An Equal Opportunity Employer A Plans For Progress Company