Former gold medalist speaks on motivation The Michigan Daily-Saturday, March 24, 1979-Page 7 February inflation highest In 4 2 'years By MARY FARANSKI Motivation was the topic of Wilma Rudolph's lecture last night at the University Business School-a sub- jet the 38-year-old knows a lot about. Rudolph won three gold medals in track during the 1960 Olympics, and her record time of 11 seconds in the 100 meter dash still stands. But what is remarkable about Rudolph's suc- cess is that she had polio during her childhood and could not walk without braces until she was eight years old. MUCH OF Rudolph's motivation came from her childhood experien- ces, she told some 200 people at Hale Auditorium who are participating in Freshman Weekend, a .high-school recruitment event. Rudolph was the twentieth in a family of 22 children,tbut because of her handicap she said she was not accepted by other children when it came to sports and physical ac- tivities. She said that at backyard basketball'games, she was always the scorekeeper because other children didn't want her oon their team. When she began walking without braces, Rudolph didn't tell her mother or doctor. Later she developed so much strength in her legs that as a seventh griader she tried out for the eleventh and twelfth grade girls' basketball team. "The most important thing for me was to win at that point in my life-to participate," she said. "I was determined that I was going to play on that team." RUDOLPH AND her best friend were the star players on the team, but her friend always managed to beat her game total by a few points. Rudolph recalled. Later, when her high school started- a girls' track team, Rudolph and her friend joined-and Rudolph beat her friend. At the age of 14, Rudolph was in- vited for a summer track program at Tennessee State University, where she met the coach of the women's Olympic track team, Ed Temple. Rudolph helped the 1956 women's Olymic relay team win a bronze medal when she was only 15 years old. Later she attended Tennessee State and carried a class load of between 15 and 18 credits, worked two hours a day, trained by herself and with the team for about five hours a day, and cared for her baby daughter. AND SHE still kept alive her goal of winning a gold medal. "Goal set- ting is very important. Never lose sight of it (your goal)," she told the audience. Although her years of training at the university were not always easy, she said her early determination helped her. "To stay involved, you have to develop a love (of a goal) very early." She did win her gold medal, but said that occasion was a fleeting moment in her life. "You can never go back. The most important thing is what you do with your life after that." (Continued from Page 1) economic indicators were too mixed now to determine if new policies were needed. KAHN SAID better weather gave "every reason to believe the food price increases will taper off, and substan- tially." Two of the nation's top labor leaders said the administration's voluntary wage and price guidelines are not working and said workers cannot be blamed for seeking wages that keep up with prices. The February increase came on the heels of an 0.9 per cent rise1 in prices in January. "The only answer is full and complete controls on the price of everything and the income of everybody," said President George Meany of the AFL- CIO, who again demanded that Congress approve mandatory wage and, price controls. FRANK FITZSIMMONS, president of the Teamsters Union, which is negotiating a contract with truckers, issued a reminder that the union's willingness to comply with the seven per cent wage guideline depends on the government's success in slowing rapid price increases. , An Associated Press-NBC News poll, meanwhile, showed that an over- whelming 72 per cent of Americans ex- pect inflation to get worse over the next year. The poll of 1,600 persons was con- ducted prior to the release of the February price report. Kahn declared the administration will not resort to wage and price con- trols, but he disclosed that it will soon announce intensified monitoring of price increases by business. He also said the President will become more active in the program. KAHN ALSO said the administrion would deny plans to impose wagelnd price controls even if it planned to im- pose them. "But I would not administer such a program - period," he said.- Gramley indicated the "ad- ministration now believes inflation ay be worse than its 7.4 per cent for st for the year. , "IT IS possible the rise in prices-this year will exceed our forecasts, but I don't know how much," he said. Asked if he thinks it could be as high as 10per cent, he said: "No, I do not." ISLAND HOUSE HOTEL Mackinaw Island, MI ON CAMPUS INTERVIEWS MAR. 27-28 STUDENT ACTIVITIES BLDG. Daily rhoto by PAM MARKS WILMA RUDOLPH (center) was welcomed at a reception for Freshman Weekend yesterday. The Olymoic gold medalist spoke last night about motivation and some of her childhood experiences. Smith speaks on 'U' divestiture (Coninued from Page 1) in the Law Quadrangle," has adjusted to his new roles. They include providing a link to the outside world, and acting as communicator between the many parts of a complex University. SMITH SAID he has found that "well over half" his duties fall in the area of external relations of the University, while the nuts and bolts of everyday policy are determined by the vice- presidents. "I have to know both the top line and the bottom line for our institution," Smith said of formulating University policy. "What happens in between, that's their business." While Smith denies taking a deliberate behind-the-scenes role during his short tenure, little was heard from the third floor of the Ad- ministration Building until last week's: student takeover of the Regents' mon-v thly meeting thrust Smith into the limelight. Characteristically, he ap- pears to have taken the surge of student activism instride. "I HAVE NOT made any conscious decision to be either low-key or high- key," he said. "I don't expect to be a high-profile president. I don't think there's any particular reason why any interim president should be. If you get a headline because of an incident, why, you get a headline. That's just one day." Smith said the Regents will hold an open meeting again in April and that he hopes students will not stage a sit-down strike as some observers have speculated they may. But he declined to predict whether he would have students removed by force as his predecessor Fleming chose to do when students oc- cupied the LSA Building in 1969. For Smith, the divestiture controver- sy raises the larger question of whether a university should take a political stance, on any issue, and he firmly believes the answer is no. "WHEN AN institution says 'This is our position,' they areineffect saying, 'We don't want to talk about this anymore'. We're imposing an or- thodoxy on anybody who is around here. And I just think, overall, that is wrong for an institution that prides it- self on continuously being willing tc hear any idea. "I think (the University) had better try very hard to be apolitical," Smith .continued. "I've seen politicized universities in South America . . the: are not educational institutions in an' sense of the word that we would think of them and we would want them to be. And the reason is, when you push politically, you get pushed bac politically, and you get pushed bac hard;" When Smith became interim leader of the University in January he stepped into the job in the middle of controversy about the Michigan Union, as well as the on-going issues of tenure decisions and the status of the University's Graduate Student Assistants. But his most time-consuming work has gone in- to a project that rarely made th headlines. "IN TERMS of time commitment and understanding, and being out of my field, the building of a new hospital is far and away the most difficult thing I've had to try to educate myself on,' r y Y of r d y, he said. 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