THE MICHIGAN DAILY Tuesday,, August 27, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Tuesday, August 27, 1968 ., The Ann Arbor touch UNIQUE FUNCTION Mihiganensan: 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 broadcastssare 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 isports. Other WCBN high points in- clude special informational and cultural programs rebroadcast by professional stations. As 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 thejoys of being a stu- dent organization. 'Ensian stresses photos 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. For the 'Ensian serves a unique function among 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 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 has 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 form 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 '4nsian 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 that 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 r 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 whatever aspect of putting out the 'Enslan 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 director. Senior staff positions are editor-in-chief, managing editor, business manager, copy editor, design editor, and photo editor. Gaghumor: Anything goes V 4 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 iit. 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." S Lastfall's issue titled "The Garg goes underground" included ia full page picture of the Garg emblem being held by an expres- sive hand rising melodramatical- ly from the 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 issues 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 c 15- Sar tenure While Ward Cleever nd his lovely wife June were deeply concerned about Wally turning into a .juvenile delinquent or flunking 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 became no- torious just last year for the martyrdom of Steven Coombes, who wrote of his experiences with a marijuana, arrest and was p r o m p t 1 y reincarcerated for breaking parole with "anti-social behavior" - writing for Garng. Much of Garg's best offering is parody of contemporary liter- ature and magazines, such as a straight-faced look at former U n i 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 yourselftunwant- ed elsewhere, the Garg staff def- initely has a place for you. GENERATION'S PAGES OVERFLOW: Magazines channel literary efforts I if By NADINE COHODAS The University offers any in- terested student at least two op- portunities to test his creative abilities. Generation, the inter-arts mag- azine published threetimes a year under the auspices of the Board in Control of Student Pub- lications and Overflow, an autono- mous quarterly publication, strive to give students an outlet for their artistic endeavors. David Appel, '68, Generation editor, explains Generation is a "group of highly talented indi- viduals seeking to improve their work and become involved in the cultural life of the University community." Generation is edited and man- aged by 'U' students taking con- tributions from many University sources a in Contr ference b cost. Eachi cludes b tion stor photogra the Gene being a" Instead,, are open enthusias competen Past G critical e ind relying on the Board as original stories and poems. In ol to make up the dif- the Winter, 1968 issue Martin etween sales revenue and Zimmerman, a graduate student in city planning, examined the issue of Generation in- role of art in modern society and oth fiction and non fic- the question of changing taste ies as well as poetry, which arose after the August 1967 phy, and art. Appel notes unveiling of Picasso's sculpture for eration staff is far from the Chicago civic center. "closed circle of'friends." Philosophy student Michael he explains, "positions Davis offered a critical analysis of to anyone who shows James Lophtyfellow's "the Spar-. sm, excitement, a n d tan Cycles" in the Spring 1967; rce." ' issue. Also in that issue, literary' enerations have included critic and then . writer-in-resi- ssays on the arts as well dence Leslie Fiedler commented upon the generation gap in litera- ture and the importance of ex- periences.