- -r ~ _ -- - Page 8-Sunday, October 1, 1978-The Michigan Daily edes (Continued from Page 5) Though the Chicago native admits Congress isn't always receptive to the policy positions Edes promotes, he rejects charges that the president has turned against the labor interests that helped put him in the White House. "The so-called disagreements between the president and (AFL-CIO president) George Meany and the labor movement have been somewhat exaggerated," he says, adding that perhaps people expect too much of the president. "There is a general frustration in Washington,'' he observes.:"Problems are a lot more difficult to solve than people feel they are. You have a new president for the first time in eight years who is of the same party as the Congree, (but) who is a very different kind of man than Lyndon Johnson." Edes is well equipped to handle both the policy- making and policy-pushing ends of his job because he has divided his years in Washington between working for the Labor Department and on labor issues in the Senate. After graduating fromf the University Law School a decade ago, Edes joined the Labor Department's Office of the Solicitor, where he served as a staff at- torney for two years. Next, he joined Sen. Harrison William's staff as a legislative assistant. In 1971 WilliIm advanced to the chairmanship of the Senate Labor and Welfare Committee, for which Edes worked as special counsel until the new ad- ministration came in and he was selected for his current post. Despite disagreements between labor interests and the administration over specifics and priorities, Edes says progress is being made. He claims that most people think "we've done a lot of important things and that we agree in terms of our general ob- jectives." berry (Continued from Page 4) come to Washington to worry about your programs, you have to go to bout 10 or 20 different places," she says. Currently, Berry is the person responsible. The 40- year-old administrator coordinates the management of all education programs in; the federal government, a task so immense she uses a large organizational chart of black boxes to aid her in explaining the extent of her authority. Berry's cube sits at the top. The National Institute of Education, the National Center for Education Statistics, and the Fund for Im- provement of Post-Secondary Education are just a few of the boxed over which Berry wields her "power of persuasion, coordination, and leadership." Despite the position she holds, Berry looks more like she spends her days lecturing college students than supervising the nation's education programs from her office in the new Hubert Humphrey building at the foot of Capitol Hill. She projects a manner of enthusiasm and in- volvement and communicates a sense of personal at- tachment when describing her programs. She speaks of successful administrative reshuffling like a teacher enthralled by the prospect of a student on the verge of learning a new concept instead of a high-level official who spends hours poring over statistics and charts. Berry says that since she left the University, her taste for statistics has been "enhanced." To generate policies Berry must wade through reams of figures to discover which techniques or plans are most likely lto work effectively, Although Berry has acclimated to government work, she intends to return to a university to continue her academic interests. In fact, she took a leave of absence from the University of Colorado, where she taught history and law, to take her government post. She says she wants to avoid becoming a stereotypical bureacurat, a fate she fears would accompany a long stay in government. "I wouldn't want to stay in this job for eight years," she says. "It would be crazy." goldman (Continued from Page 5) He predicts that unless steps are taken soon, oil demand will exceed supply capacity, prices will skyrocket, and "very serious economic damage" for the world will result. Oil companies, whose assets are in traditional energy areas, could delve more into researching new energy sources, Goldman says. But he charges that the government has not taken enough initiative in prod- ding corporations to begin these projects. "It really has to be a role. . . of government to get those things (research projects) going now so that we . . . unless steps are taken soon, oil demand will exceed supply capacity, prices will skyrocket, and ''very serious economic damage' for the world will result.' have them on the shelf, ready to go when they become economical," he says. "It has to be a combined effort between private enterprise and government." The 33-year-old administrator seems to operate in the center of a controlled hurricane. One moment he is enthusiastically rattling off statistics on horizontal divestiture and coal gassification; the next he is racing out of his office on an errand, arriving back just in time to jump for the phone. In a rare free moment, Goldman might conduct business for the chain of kite stores he opened in Boston, Georgetown, and Ocean City, New Jersey, in a joint venture with his brother-in-law. Veering the conversation back to his work, Goldman claims the key to averting a world energy crisis is to "convince people that they have to make sacrifices" when there is an oil surplus. "That's the guts of it," he says, then turns to his next challenge: devising energy strategy that stretches beyond 1985, when the proposed energy guidelines ex- pire. I l - I 'I IL film magus (Continued from Page 7) defunct New World Film Co-op, but has continued to branch out with a staggering virtuosity. Although it sometimes seems to carry esoterica a bit too far (are Attack of the Crab Mon- sters or Invasion of the Bee Girls really worth an admission charge?), the co- op's "something for everyone" philoso- phy seems to hit more often than it misses. Not least among its attractions is an unprecedented lineup of free movies, including an exclusive series of contemporary Yugoslavian films and a large number of American auteurs.' delights. The Ann .Arbor Film Co-op's only deficiencies seem of a technical nature. The problems include a recent and sur- prising inconsistency in focusing its films,,plus a current tendency to blast its soundtrack at a sonic level evidently geared to the half-deadened ears of rock concert veterans, a contingent of which some of us are not a part. Despite the gargantuan qualities of the film societies' lineup, a gluttonous film critic still finds himself wishing for more. One would hope someday one of the groups will do a retrospective on Czech cinema of the 1960's - surely one of the most spectacular, though tragically brief, bloomings in the history of cinema. One can also lament the virtual extinction of silent film showings. Yet at this moment of economic and cultural pinch it seems wise to support our film societies with a fervent loyalty. Their facilities are tolerable, the price (a buck-fifty) is still relatively cheap, and most importantly, until the com- mercial chains abandon their current chicken-heartedness, the co-ops are really the only outlet we've got. (Continued from Page 6) helpful in reading either version of The Magus. According to the forward to the revised edition, Fowles received many inquiries about the meaning of the en- ding. To these he answers that people are confused because they ". . . have not given due weight to the two lines from the Pervigilium Veneris that close the book." Resting the outcome of a story on a two-line Latin quotation seems off-balance, especially in a story the author has labeled "adolescent". The problem is not really that Fowles aimed the story at any one highly literate group of readers, it is that he wrote - and worse, revised - a story with no focus. The subtleties would probably be lost on the average adolescent reader (as they were on me), but an older, more broadly educated reader would probably have little patience with the egotistical characters and self-indulgently com- plex plot that seemed so fascinating to me. Fowles' major revisions had little ef- feet on the book. It remains the same story, only updated with current clothes and freer sexual attitudes. Fowles got the chance a writer dreams about; the chance to make reparations for the mistakes made earlier in his career. He summed up the paradox of this opportunity well in his forward to the revised edition "Magus": The est of the world can censor and bury their private past. We cannot, and so have to remain partly green till the day we die ... callow-green in the hope of becoming fertile-green. It is a constant complaint in that most revealing of all modern novels about novelists, Thomas Hardy's agonized last fiction, The Well-Beloved; how the much younger self still rules the sup. posedly "Mature" and middle-aged ar- tist. One may reject the tyranny, as Hardy himself did; but the cost was also (though quite unconsciously) an out-of-hand celebration of acceptance of the yoke. .Q. bauer (Continued from Page 5) just don't want to get into that. I mean, that's ridiculous." Bauer says her experiences at the University trained her well for her job as the nation's premiere news watcher. "I started out doing this at the (Michigan) Daily when I was day editor," she recalls. "It's very much the same thing except when you're day editing you have only AP and UPI to worry about and here we've got a whole lot more than that." Among Bauer's beats at the Daily were local and college government and sex discrimination. She served as a managing editor before moving on to t the Ann Arbor News where she worked on the wire desk for two years and as a reprt=er one year, before, going to Washtngton. Having sifted through miles of newsprint, Bauer has discovered what she calls distrubing perspectives on the nation's media. "Most of the newspapers that we get seem to be speaking in the same voice-the middle-class white American view of the world, which is very limited," she says. "Woman lives to 100" is a classic, or "couple married 50 years" ... they just go on and on. "(Newspapers) don't touch the poor, the underprivileged, minority groups outside the mainstream. And stories about people under 25 tend to be written as cute features." Now Bauer is only an observer-a news junkie who pushes her habit on the president. Maybe when she gets off the reading habit and gets back to writing, she can initiate her hope-for changes in 'he American press.. sundamv dagazine Co-editors Elizabeth Slowik Sue Warner inside:A Books Editor Brian Blanchard Cover photo by Dan Fager courtesy of the Tampa Times 'U' alumni in power in Washington Books: Wicker Film: looks at the press Overview campus g Supplement to The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor. Michiaan-Sundav. October 1, 1978 ! 1!ll.. f.+ ! MYlp a s!b!!!yM ++g.(