THE MICHIGAN DAILY Tuesday, August 27, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Tuesday, August 27, 1968 The Ann Arbor touch UNIQUE FUNCTION Michiganensian: No one re-sells it- can never quite be sure what you're going to get until you start getting it. The station plays everything from rock'n roll to classical music, with many stu- dents in supervisory positions de- signing their own shows. News broadcasts are generally considered the easiest to handle so are used to train prospective new DJ's. WCBN's local news coverage includes everything from debates bewteen Student Govern- ment .Council candidates to Wol- verine sports. Other WCBN high points in- clude special informational and cultural programs rebroadcast by professional stations. IAs a student radio, WCBN has one potentially dangerous aim in that it tries to be a participatory as well as auditory sport. While getting ready to pick up, Your dat some Friday or 'satur- your date some Friday or Satur- takes requests. The idea is to call up the sta- tion and dedicate a favorite song' to your date. Who knows, she may be listening, too. Needless to say, after breath- lessly awaiting my selection for a half hour, it was played while the DJ announced, "Marty sends, this song out with all his love to . ." THE WRONG GIRL. WCBN must know the sorrows as well as the joys of being a stu- dent organization. A By ANN MUNSTER Although the Michiganensian, Michigan's yearbook, may not be able to claim that it is the best selling publication on campus, it is definitely the one book which is never re-sold, 4. 'Ensian stresses photos Garg humor OAnythinggoes For the 'Ensian serves a unique function amng campus pub- lications in its offer of some 400 pages of vivid, visual representa- tion of the year's most significant events. The yearbook is not a cut and dry chronological or categorized record of what happened at Michigan during the year, amply docu- mented with confusing facts and figures. The dreary compilation of these items is relegated to other media. In the yearbook, the 44 pictures are allowed to speak for themselves. The glob of sophomoric copy, frequently to be found in college yearbooks, is increasingly being erradicated from the 'Ensian. This has been particularly true of the '68 Ensian, and the success of this volume h s inspired the staff to continue the trend. The technique of allowing the element of design to dominate over the content of the pictures, standard form in most tradition- * ally styled yearbooks, is being less and less adhered to by the 'Ensian, ever seeking to adapt itself to the changing demands of its readers and the changing needs of its subject. The 'Ensian staff, has not been deterred by the myriad diffi- culties incurred in working with'color. The abundance of color pictures which contributed so much to the success of this year's book will also be repeated in the '69 edition. And there will be innovations in the photography in the forn of special effects in the pictures. The use of color pictures in a yearbook, particularly of, the sort which grace the '68 'Ensian, large pictures which serve to con- vey the mood and spirit of the campus, and which have captured unique moments are not frequently found in college yearbooks. This is because color poses a rather formidable challenge since one only sees the pictures after the book has been printed. Photo editor Tom Copi, '69,.-describes the one-color technique, which will be used in next year's 'Ensian as "a graphic technique, widely used in the' world of commercial art. It's use will add a new dimension to next year's 'Ensian and make it a better book." It involves the use of one or more unnatural colors to highlight something about a picture or to help express the mood of the picture. Another significant innovation in the '69 'Ensian will be the organization of the book chronologically instead of by subject. Editor-in-chief Sue Schultz, '69, expects th t this will greatly help the book to be responsive to the unique events of the year, instead of subjugating the material of the book to an arbitrary, pre- conceived design. On the whole it ought to be an exciting year at the 'Ensian for those who are interested in participating in the creation of a living and responsive' pictorial representation of the events which they themselves will actually be living through. The trainee program offers freshmen the chance to learn all the skills involved in whate ter aspect of putting out the 'Ensian which interests them. Those who return after their first year on the staff may move up to junior staff positions, which consist of heading the various sections of the yearbook. Two other positions are sales manager and personnel direqtor. Senior staff positions are editor-in-chief, managing editor, business manager, copy editor, design editor, and photo editor. By MARCIA ABRAMSON Gargoyle is more than a mere magazine - Gargoyle is an es- sence that readily pervades every- thing that comes into contact with it. The humor, often humorous enough, varies from the sublime to the stupid to the purely unin- telligible. So does the staff. If none of these descriptions sound appropriate, make one up and the Garg will list it in the staff box for you. Past Gargs have included such eclectic themes as the highly suc- cessful "magazine that grossed out our printer," a Christmas- Hanukkah issue that easily trav- els back to the third grade (shades of the Hanukkah bush), and highly literate, well-done parodies like "Tyme" and "The New Forker.", Last'fall's issue titled "The Garg goes underground" included a full page picture of the Garg emblem being held by an expres- sive hand rising melodramatical- ly from Pthe sewer;- very ap- propos for a great deal of Gar- goyle content. The realm of the gross pro- vides the backbone for much of Garg's humor, in true college hu- mor magazine style - not to deny the gross the validity of its own unique appeal., You will undoubt- edly find suggestive pornographic advertisements throughout the magazine. One restaurant own- er picks out nudie pictures him- self for the men of the Garg staff to caption in their own brand of lechery, whatever that may be. Garg issuest were actually banned in 1950 and 1961. And the "magazine that grossed out our printer" probably could have done without "From the Proc- tologist's -Stool" and "From the Gynecologist's Stirrups." But then again, the dirty jokes are usually quite fresh and fairly funny - the kind you would want to tell your friends. The magazine certainly has had a lot of highs. For example, this true-as-life' piece of television analysis "An amazing lack of emotionality on the Nelson program probably had something to do with their 15- year tenure. While Ward Cleever and his lovely wife June were deeply concerned about Wally turning into a juvenile delinquent or, flunkging geography or hanging around with Eddie Haskell, the best Ozzie and Harriet could do was worry about David coming home a little late from a, date." And Garg of.course becameno- torious just last year for the rnartyrdom of Steven Coombes, who wrote of his experiences with a marijuana arrest and was p r o m p t l y reincarcerated for breaking parole with "anti-social behavior" writing for Garg. Much of Garg's best offering is parody of contemporary liter- ature and magazines, such as a straight-faced look at former U ni v e r s i t y President Harlan Hatcher's "Pictorial History of the Great Lakes." Garg also provides such thrilling emotional moments as:.. "And then he took me in his. arms and kissed me, and asked me to be his girl. Sitting there with the dew rising on the ,grass, and the leaves getting all wet and misty-smelling, I saw the sun rise for the, first time, and now there would be many more wonderful sunrises just like it with Rod by my side. FOREVER." You never know what will hap- pen with a Gargoyle. And if you like to draw or cartoon, sell ad- vertising, take photographs, or be funny or find yourself unwant ed elsewhere, the Garg .staff def- initelyF has a place for you. GENERATION'S PAGES OVERFLOW: 1~ Magazines channel literaryefforts a I' po"= r I featuring the famous are MONOGRAMMEDl CIIRC4I L IEIPIIN Now a Campus Tradition a wide selection of gold and sterling earrings S as original stories and poems. In the Winter, 1968 issue Martin Zimmerman, a graduate student in city planning, examined the, role of art in modern society and. the question of changing taste which arose after the August'1967 unveiling of Picasso's sculpture for the Chicago civic center. Philosoplay student Michael Davis offered a critical analysis of James Lophtyfellow's "the Spar- tan Cycles" in the Spring; 1967 issue. Also in that issue, literary critic and then writer-in-resi- dence Leslie Fiedler commented upon the generation gap in litera- ture and the importance of ex- periences. Unlike- Generation, Overflow is completely autonbmous. Editor Ron Bodner says the year-old magazine operates on the strength of its sales. The first issue last August was financed by personal contributions. Bodner explains the primary aim of Overflow is . "to publish previously unpublished writers, and to encourage them to de- velop their talent.", A' recent Overflow issue in- cluded: several poems as well as a variety of short stories. One reviewer commented that the quality of these works was un- even. He insisted, however, the magazine very definitely possessed "freshness, liveliness, 'and variety .. . qualties we need to recognize and appreciate." Overflow main~ains a "personal rather than official" tie with the University, Bodner says. Several faculty members have..voluntarily aided the Overflow staff in con- ducting writers' clircs where in- terested students and teachers discuss literary techniques. Contributions to Overflow print- ed solely in Ann Arbor, have thus ifar come primarily from Univer- sity students and faculty. How- ever, the magazine also has offices on other campuses to collect contributions for each publica- A tion. Overflow offices have been set up at the Santa Cruz campus of the University of California as well as the campus of New York University, and in Chapel Hill, N.C. Bodner expects future Overflow f issues to include .contributions from these various sources. Work on "Overflow is presently on a volunteer basis. 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