Page 2--Sunday, October 1, 1978-The Michigan Daily IN OTHER The Michigan Daily-Sunday, ( WORDS! shaw liver nor(e RAMRLINGS/ david goodman RAN INTO Amy on State St. about a I week ago. "David?" she asked, ten- tatively, when she first spotted me. Af- ter all, it had been a good seven years since our paths had crossed. Memories fade and appearances change with time. We were religious school classmates, and hadn't seen each other since high school graduation. I did not even know she was'in Ann Arbor. "So what have you been up to these past seven years?" I inquired. Amy ex- plained that, after graduating from Kent State, she had entered a Near Eastern Studies masters program here and was now studying economics. Two degrees down and working on a third. "What about you?" she asked. Where had I been and what had I done? "I've been in Ann Arbor pretty much straight through," I replied, hesitating. "I'm still working on my BA - just about finished." Seven years on a BA? Well, it's a long story, but ... There used to be a popular saying that went, "Don't let classes get in the way of your education." I can honestly say I have followed that advice very well. Too well, my parents might argue. Along with hundreds - perhaps. thousands - of others, I was swept up in, the ferment and excitement that marked this campus and community in the first half of the seventies. The anti- war movement, the 18-year-old vote, student political activism and the youth cointer culture all made their mark here during those years. I knew that I wanted to be part of- those things, so I dove in head first. As for academics, my ostensible reason for being here, well, they would have to take a back seat. S O NOW, here I am, 25 years old and still plugging away at my un- dergraduate degree. My peers, mean- while, are finishing law school and med school, making money and making babies. Have they all lapped me in the track meet of life? Sometimes, I feel that way. John Belushi, aka Bluto, when told of his expulsion from school in the film Animal House exclaimed, "There go seven years of college down the drain." Have my seven years gone down the drain? Sometimes, I find it useful to have a repertoire of glib one-liners on hand to toss out when some 18-year-old classmate, who was a sixth grader when I started college, asks what in God's name I'm still doing here. "I'm involved in a special decelerated learning program for the intellectually deficient," is a typical retort. Such responses mask my sense of unease about my super-annuated un- dergraduate status. But, when I sit down and ask myself what I would have given up in order to make up those "lost" years, I'm hard pressed to name anything. Would I forego the experience of par- ticipating in efforts to build a third par- ty in Ann Arbor to challenge the traditional power structure for Poli Sci 160? Would I give up the chance to join the successful campaign to decriminalize marijuana in the city, and the unsuc- cessful effort to create rent controls? Might my life be better if I hadn't tried my hand at politics by running for city council, ringing doorbells and pumping hands? My smiling muscles hurt for months afterward. M AYBE I should have returned to school and not gone to world as an underpaid staff writer for the late - and little lamented - Ann Arbor Sun, which was then one of underground journalism's dying embers. Maybe I should have stayed away from the Byzantine, Barnum and Bailey arena of student government. And wouldn't it have been better if, in- stead of joining the staff of the college newspaper, I had kept my ass in the 'UGLI and my nose in my textbooks? In this lies the answer, or at least my answer. There is really very little I would want to give up in exchange for those years. Those rich experiences have given me insights that I will have with me always. Besides, how many people would be in a position to write the definitive guide to college student life in the seventies entirely from personal ex- perience? Who knows - if I ever graduate, maybe I'll try. In Other "Words is a new weekly column designed to offer faculty a forum through which they can laud, criticize or simply ex- pound upon topics relevant to students and the University community. "The kids today are passive and grubby-not nearly so interesting as those ten yearsago.', A friend was assessing his students and had made a common observation, the current cliche in his circle. He went on to the customary horror story about the student objecting to a B plus because he "had" to go to medical school and to a sigh about stirring days in the late 1960's. There are many, of course, who welcome the change, but the sense of loss is pervasive. What's at issue here? Perhaps it is nothing more than the settled careerist's familiar fantasies, of tilting with those who torment the world, throwing off prudential restraints and wading into the dragons, only to see his reverie cloud over and the real world beckon again. That's harmless enough, but perhaps there is at least a small note of bad grace about it. It might appear in a kind of double message from teacher to student. If you are going to amount to. anything-and, by extension, if you want to be worth my time-you had better tie into this subject and keep at it. Yet, if you are not out there stirring up the social pot, taking on the bad guys, you are dull and self-centered. The vicarious version of the old fantasy can thus be damaging. Pushing students out in front of the armchair army is a dubious practice. Shaw Livermore is a history pro- fessor. MBIVALENCF, ABOUT making a living has always been around university halls, as well as elsewhere. Teachers will on occasion remind one of how they scratched their way to stardom and on another occasion expatiate on learning for learning's sake, the joy of illumination and the values of a liberal education. On still other occasions they will condemn the world's moral ills and fancy themselves among the new Galahads. These are honest thoughts and they should be taken up directly. It is when they are expressed through a mildly patronizing dismissal of today's student generation that one can object. Teachers have a perfect right to make their claim for an appropriate salary, just as they have a perfect right to lament our blemished society or regret the decline of -enlightened reflection. They should not lay off on students, however, the dilemmas that are sometimes posed by these pursuits. Each of us must confront them as personal obligations and not be satisfied with indicting others. It is not at all clear how we should understand the 1960's. The student dimension, particularly, was nearly worldwide and had roots well beyond American engagement in Vietnam. Practices in schools and universities were attacked on a broad front and those practices were altered in sometimes dramatic ways. Telling points were made, mixed liberally with crudeness and destructiveness that still leave scars. The different today. T HAT MOST STUDE moned to the barric to that change. That the others that they have si IBM to fight for princij change on the job front sharply etched against ti not so lush. Can we translate observations into a cha discouraging for student vaguely expected of the inappropriate. I sensed summer I and three othe writing on the 60's with a college students. We tho stories of the good ohc Columbia, but instead th4 dutifulness. Perhaps th students wanted to be le lives in the late 1970's an made subtle surroga maunderings of others. The world is much too games. 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I 172 2T 17 P 174 B 175I 176'm 177 J 178±N ~ 1 157 V 1581G 159 L 160 J 161 P 162 I 163:B 164T 179 0 180 E 181°D 182 C 183 J 184.T 185 G 186 BY S TEPHEN J. POZSGA I Copyright 1978 INSTRUCTIONS Guess the words defined at the left and write them in over their numbered dashes. Then, transfer each letter to the cor- responding numbered square in the grid above. The letters printed in the upper-right-hand corners of the squares indi- cate from what clue-word a particular square's letter comes from. The grid, when filled in, should read as a quotation from a published work. The darkened squares are the spaces between words. Some words may carry over to the next line. Meanwhile, the first letter of each guessed word at the left, reading down, forms an acrostic, giving the author's name and she title of the work from which the quote is extracted. As words and phrases begin to form in the grid,. you can work back and forth from clues to grid until the puzzle is complete. 7 A. Informer 8. Plant eaters C. Put in peril; chance; risk D.. U.S. Coins E... as a mouse" (2 words) F. Refuse; rubbish G. Tomes; brings under control H. Parched; dry I. Engaged in rough or boisterous play J. Fat chance (coil.) (4 words) K. Mother of invention L. Mockjudicial proceeding (2 words) 19 7 169 90 36 100 1 14 104 133 140 168 175 164 155 119 9 60 98 125 183 71 105 136 30 53 72 117 152 108 182 4 46 148 181 73 116 135 31 2 20 62 11 56 24 26 43 49 61 74 83 138 143 153 159 186 8 65 75 122 144 157 63 -a- - - - .. --- - _. 28 38 88 91 101 147 103 113 163 172 176 141 6 35 51 94 109 131 134 161 172 184 5 34 67 81 111 123 139 50- 80 93 97 126 132 52 21 70 16 121 149 160 FILM I/ch ristopher potter Kitsch, cults, classics in A t M. Augments; strengthens N. Habitats supplysing the factors necessary for existence of species 0. Bug someone; imitate him purposefully (3 words) P. Tender attachments Q. Creeping bird that cracks open kernels to eat R. Copy; mimic S. Least possible or acceptable T. Terribleness; dreadfulness U. Linear magnitude; time duration V. Mediocre man and priest 12 23 27 37 41 82 87 120 129 142 177 77 179 69 92 17 156 13 32 47 55 66 85 166 180 137 118 40 86 162 95 174 112 127 76 146 15 22 25 48 59 78 178 68 ' 18 57 42 54 79 84 29 3 154 130 167 115 96 45 44 64 39 114 151 170 165 173 185 IF THERE is one cultural absolute around this town, it's .the remarkable fact that if you hang around here long enough, you can see practically every domestic movie ever made, plus a growing 'number of foreign offerings. While Ann Arbor has long been one of the relatively few meccas, outside the east or west coasts, boasting a massive variety of film fare, the past few years have witnessed a profound . shift in origin, with the impetus for screening innovative works taken over from local commercial theaters by campus film societies. It's a somewhat ironic transition: Though the number of local movie houses has doubled in the last five years, the number of modest-budget and foreign offerings has drastically shrunk in inverse proportion to the number . of available arenas. As in- ation soars and mainline film fdgets zoom comparably, theater chains panic over exhibiting anything less than a guaranteed blockbuster. Why, they think, take a chance on 1900 when Grease can make everyone rich? F OR INSTANCE, Ann Arbor's Camn- }us Theater used to be an almost excl-sive showcase of foreign films. Now adays, if the Campus' manage- ment has nothing new to show, they'll simply screen The End for the third time or Annie Hall for at least the seventh. Much the same metamorphosis has transformed the Fifth Forum Theatre, once a specialiat in small-budget. American "art" films, now geared , s n ' 4b One of the rare oodnis 4 , 2y Z . 9C'p 1 (r7 t J °n erly sound pcture tHi '.'a°s"aa SO~ O Os,1 r WOMEN IN LOVE d he bathroom set so r' rP°^;..P ° .M ctihae C, a t; ~he added to the "I i" so r. 49Pnao Ga lac iln v$P e t t :oDir..Ken Russell, 1970. Alan Ba an interestil 'n ' 4a -,e P^° sPl sb n° s 'a- + Oliver Reed, Glenda JacksonJeos too soph 7r bas.e,4'.s0e o". based 0r' a.0°e m a" «-Eleanor Bran. The D.H. " .'r' o ring thef" Od. le )O. 4 alaea'4 'n a ; IValsn4(swet"is a l uP~w :provided two sets of anck' S cat ..v tebek, m a a e i -a~ * 5 !Su F 'l 4roves in provincial q er i . °e 4 !^2 'PW'I.ita a4aw l e the' q runes .m p y ° 6 "t~ l suapn15s sac hell did w as to lace the csc ene .. sy : ~ ~'" 9.C ii ,~' .~a u 8se) sweeping. ulsi~n" 9.9 ',444.. 1.rona r ' eenayw o s r,1974)'"t'n mad as h awh' a 0res kC Lawrence loathed. ""..' 5 ' . n4.;NOvorit, Bo~b oteTbe spoof P-t °