THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three 0 Publications of law, engin, ISR survive U's throw-away culture By LESLIE WAYNE Although no authoritative studies have been made, it has generally been assumed that the life span of student publi- cations is quite short.'Day-old Daily's have been used to wrap fish and janitors have found slightly dated Gargoyles, dis- membered and worn, stuffed behind bookshelfs. Yet in this throw-away cul- ture, there are a few magazines produced by the University that manage to escape this fate. In fact, some people have found favorite works worth saving for future use. LAW REVIEW The Michigan Law Review is one of these treasured journals. Law School alums have been known to sentimentally hoard every Review since '05 arld judges are often found peeking into a copy to find out what was really thought about their decisions. Recruiting its staff from the top 10% of the freshman class, the law review combines stu- dent opinions with articles by professors, practicing lawyers and judges to. produce a sur- vey of current legal decisions and problems. Traditionally, the law review staff has limited itself to writ- ing "notes" or commentaries on recent legal developments and decisions. However, this year the staff began publishing feature articles on fields gener- ally related to law. PROSPECTUS Within the past year, the law review has received a bit of competition fromra new jour- nal produced by the law school. The new journal, Prospectus - Journal of 1,aw Reform, is a reaction to the rule that only those in the top 10% of the freshman class are eligible to write for the review. Articles for Prospectus may be submit- ted by any member of the law school. MICHIGAN TECHNIC One look at the Michigan Technic will dispel any prior notions about the lowly Mich- igan 'engineer. From the sup- posedly gray engineering de- p a r t m e n t comes a glossy monthly digest of current hap- penings in engineering sparked by feature articles and abun- dant artwork. Within the past year, Tech- nic has covered the retirement of Doc Losh (complete with a center foldout of the Doc) as well as a discussion of the "Theory and Practice of Stu- dent Power." In past years, the Technic has been selected as the best college engineering publication and -has been sent to all parts of the world - South Amer- ica, Europe and the Soviet Union. , However, not all of the "save- able" journals are produc'd by students. The University is also the home of a number of jour- nals'produced by its staff mem- bers. WORM RUNNERS Probably the best known journal in this category is the Journal of Bio-Psychology (for- merly known as the Worm- Runners Digest until too many librarians objected to that name.) Produced by Dr. James Mc- Connell of the psychology de- partment (the man who sadis- tically cut up planaria to find how animals learn), it is a duo- journal. Skipmming through tie magazine from front to back, it is a highly technical and sci- entific journal. However when it is turned upside-down-and- backwards, it turns into a book of jokes about Dr. McConnell's beloved planaria. Some departments almost go into the printing business in publishing their staff member's papers. Within the past year, Institute of Social Research staff members produced over 240 articles. Although most of, these ar- ticles are aimed at an audience of sociologists, the Instit pe is planning to develop more jour- nals for the layman. Right now, they are compiling a computer- ized and categorized mailing list of 6000 names. Publications by the Institute cover an almost endless realm of topics. Recently one staff members made a survey of ran- dom consumer use that can tell when a housing or auto slump is pending. Several other mem- bers have produced a book Youth in Transition analyzing the reason why students drop out of high school, and have sent it to high school principles across the county. If the first magazine you come to looks like fishwrap, hunt around - the University has publications to fit almost any interest. From a converted funeral parlor . . Collecting news of and for the ' TSR p)ublications to fit ' every interest °P v4 By LUCY KENNEDY Prom a converted funeral par- 1460 on Maynaid Street and the orange Literature, Science and Arts Bldg. a wonder of informa- tion and culture is disseminated by the University through the work of WUOM radio, the Uni- versity television center and the. University News Service. Through these three bodies, all under the Vice President'for Uni- versity Relations, Michael Rad- ock, the educational programs and professors of the University are shared with the state and in some cases the nation. The radio and TV stations can remain fairly "pure" in the sense that they cai}i concentrate on cul- tural programs or informational programs of a fairly non-contro- versial nature - such as sports. U ,NEWS 0 The University news service, however, is in the more tenuous position of attempting to give newsmen an accurate account of what's going on while soothing the apprehensions of state voters about any University unrest. In seeking a'- respectable Uni- versity image to present to the public the News Service often finds itself covering different areas than the more controyersial student-orientated publications. Employing more than 15 staff reporters and clerical workers, the University News Service blankets i the University's research opera- tions with full-time reporters for engineering, general sciences, the medical school, and research in- stitutes. In addition to sending regular bulletins to area papers- and broadcasters, !news releases on a particular area - such as prob- lems with Negro students - are sent to related journals world- wide. The University Record, distrib- uted to all faculty members, and the University of Michigan News, distributed to all- non-academic employees are also produced by the News Service. RADIO STATION WUOM, like the News Service run entirely by professionals, is operated solely as a-service to the state. Its services vary from broadcasts on how to teach chor- al music to Saturday football games taped for re-broadcast at convenient times.. In addition to its own regularly scheduled programs on FM from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., WUOM sends taped programs to 90 other Mich- igan stations. Classical music forms the bulk of WUOM broadcasting, but news specials such as discussions on the late Dr.= Martin Luther King, the "Quiet Revolution In Quebec" and Ann Arbor report are also part of an average day's programming. Although covering a wide range of topics, WUOM concentrates on coverage of the arts in Ann Arbor. Eleventl4 Hour, an 11 a.m. pro- gram conducted by station man- ager Ed Burroughs, reviews books and plays interspersed with clas- sical music. Also a teacher, WUOM, broad- casts to elementary schools on closed circuit TV. The' University's television cen- ter on Maynard is really a for- mer funeral parlor - inappropri- ate to the constant activity it sees and nearly a quarter of a million dollars worth of television equipment housed therein. WSDM, appropriately, got its call numbers on the suggestion of some speech department students (speech department at Michigan) who use the TV center for train- ing in. technical and artistic as- pects of programming. CRITICAL LOOK A typical schedule for student broadcasting starts off with a newscast. Next, "A Look Prophe- sy," part of a series on the occult arts. Finally, a critical look at the television coverage of last sum- mer's Detroit riots, followed by faculty-student critical discus- sion of the program. For the archives, and as pat of its regular programming, the center interviews famous persons who come to the campus. Norman Thomas and Ayn Rand have been interviewed, and the TV Center's taped press confer- ence with Robert Frost is be- lieved to be one of the only two or three video recordings ever made by the poet. Events like Sesquicentennial, the inauguration of a new Uni- versity President and student power rallies have been covered by the center's film unit. A news- reel of the year's activities is produced each year from the film in the archives, for use by alum- ni groups, summer orientation leaders and others. WSDM does not have .its own transmitter, but 13 Michigan sta- tions and some 57 stations in other states use programs pro- duced. by the television center. Over 8,000 programs are circu- lated by the Center over some 70 commercial and educational sta- tions from coast to coast. Week days, at 6:30 in the morn- ing, KNXT in Los Angeles broad- casts the art appr'eciation series "Painting with Guy Palazzola," produced by the center. television station WWJ in Detroit, every Sunday at 12:30 p.m., broadcasts .programs produced by the center. COLOR SYSTEM The center's work in closed.cir- cuit television includes the most extensive closed circuit color sys-. tem in the country and the na- tion's first, closed circuit' system originating from inside a court- room. Color cameras were first set up for the Medical School in 1958. Since then a library of videotapes has been collected. Two hospitals, St. Joseph's Mer- cy, and the Veteran's Hospital, have been linked up with the sys- tei and ,the practice of giving demonstrations and general ob; serving sessions has been con- tinued. A special viewing room in the Law School serves as an Adjunct Courtroom for the Washtenaw County Circuit Court. Two of the courtrooms are con- nected with Hutchins Hall, allow- ing observation of court proce- dures that cannot be fully ex- plained in classes, or textbooks. The system was set up through grants from Law School alumni in 1962. AUDIO-VISUAL All the programs produced at the center are available for edu- cational audio-visual use by busi- nesses, organizations and other schools. Over 1,000 rentals a year are made for this purpose. ponsidering the disorganized and over-crowded space the for- mer dace. hall (in; addition to once being a funeral parlor) left to the television center, it is easy t ounderstand that new facilities are desired. "We really would like to get a transmitter," says Professor Gar- net R. Garrison, director of broadcasting at the ,center. With a transmitter, and its own educa- tional channel! the center could broadcast its own programs every day.' LARGER BUILDING "And we really should get some color equipment, since nearly ev- eryone is converting to color,", Garrison added. With new equip- ment and a transmitter, the cen- ter would have to move to a lar- ger building. It would take about $3 million to get everything we need to mo- dernize the center," Garrison commented, "and with the cur- rent state of the University's bud- get, it is not forthcoming in the foreseeable future." Although all of these organiz%- tions may sound alluring, WSDM is the only one that actively en- courages student participation. WUOM is, however, an excellent station to listen to if you have an FM radio, and University News Service is the place to go to publicize information or find it if turned away by the friendly student paper. Student directory sweeps humanity, GOOD THINGS Coe In Small Packages a 2us STORE HOURS- 9 A.M" to 9 IV.M. . .. Closed, Sundays and Holidays CHARGE IT! * " Prescriptions the 0 Cosmetics 0 Men's Toiletries. A Othe caryne 1 11 2 South University Phone 663-5533 Highest Quality Always The assertion that every stu- dent is a number is no myth. In fact, over 200 pages of publica- tion have been devoted to expos- ing each student in the University down to his barest number. The 1968-69 Student Directory, published in October, bard noth- ing. The directory is published through the facilities of the Board in Control of Student Publications and prepared by the campus chapter of Alpha Phi Omega, the national service fraternity. In its own way, the directory sweeps across the complete scope of humanity - a nearly:random sampling of the world, achieving nearly complete ambiguity. Let there be no doubt about it, the directory is not an easy book to read, but it isthe book of life, and nature does not easily yield up her secrets unto lazy students. Deceptively purporting simply to list its characters alphabetic- ally, the directory embodies the most perfect symmetry of human experience ever achieved. And there is no dialogue, that old distorter of experience - the reader communicates directly with the meaning. There are a few subtle guide- lines for the novice readers of our generation, but with what ele- gance and persuasion do they op- erate! Notice, for instance, the change in type size between Ron- ald Davis and Samuel Davis; type size indeed! And the book is not without its private jokes either: look at the pace of Lowrie .. . Lu . . Lubin . . . Lucarelli, or the charming turn-about in late regis- tration: Averbach . . . Baar . Ackes . . . Baehr. Prepare yourself for 7 the Stu- dent Directory. Though it might not spell the final word in the writer's craft, it will replace tho craft. ------- I' '-'I Make WAHR'S your headquarters for all your textbook and college supplies SERVING U OF M STUDENTS SINCE 1883 TV, center equipment -1 i p OfL I"" "aC a - 9lkhtlOU lwuegktfucl FTS! rxrr: r :"rV rJ I :"r "rx rr. t"."rr.. ." ... yb. .ye. ..... t.. .. .. :........ .... .... ,*':... rYl..lG .. f. . }......, r s.. r %. r " -. rrr .:.". r.. :" :", , . r.... ..w." v "r"."."*x.. x" a. .".:". '."-"r". ". ^.v " r"r r. r tio-." " r. ".".rrrr",, rv . - v r r r .vx "r. v. ....... rY ..:fi: r. . r. .lvx .vr ... 8 :....:{rrr . :: ,":.v. ...{. 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