The Michigan Daily-Saturday, March 31, 1979--Page 5
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Daily Photo by PAM MARKS
A sure bet
Entertainer Gamble Rogers, singer, songwriter and raeconteur is appearing
at the Ark this weekend, and is shown here during his performance last
night. Rogers, who made a sensational appearance at the Ann Arbor Folk
Festival in early January, is a wry and incisive commentator on Public
Radio's "All Things Considered".Performances will be both tonight and,
Sunday, and doors will be opening at eight thirty.
YSA aims to educate
through social chan ge
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"We feel that every issue affects
students because we're all part of the
same society," Warren said.
The ten points YSA members em-
phasize are:
" funding student needs, not apartheid;
w defending women's rights;
" supporting free 24-hour child care; t
" supporting the boycotts of Cam-
pbell's, Libby's and Nestles-products;
defending affirmative action;
* supporting gay and lesbian rights;
* opposing nuclear power, nuclear
weapons;
* keeping the FBI and CIA off campus;
* supporting international student
solidarity; and
*,demanding worker-student-faculty
control.
Graduate student Denis Hoppe, YSA
vice presidential candidate said, "Our
conception of MSA is more to provide a
forum for groups that want to
organize." He said in the past MSA
should have worked to build a divest-
ment movement, and sought support
for a day care center.
The group also said students
shouldn't pay a mandatory assessment,
but MSA has no other viable form of
funding. Warren said the University
should provide funds to run student
governemtn.
ANOTHER TOPIC the candidates
emphasize is the protection of women
on campus. Warren advocates a;
women's defense guard made up of
women. He said one was recently ini-
stituted at Michigan State University.
They also said the University should
pay more attention to courses such as
those in the women's studies program
and those aimed at Africans, Chicanos,
native Americans, and Asian
Americans.
"We would try to make the Univer-
sity a more welcome place for students,
and try to use MSA and its resources to
make it better for minority students,"
Warren said.
YSA MEMBERS said they support
quotas for admissions, and also faculty
positions.
Although the candidates said many of
their issue positions are similar to those
of the People's Action Coalition (PAC),
they are somewhat more to the left of
some PAC members' positions.
"We're running as socialists,"
Warred said. "We don't want to get
elected under some other name and
then say, 'Surprise - we're socialists.'
We want people to know that these are
the things, socialists stand for. People,
then begin to get a picture of what
socialism is about."
YSA MEMBERS also said that as
Assembly members they would bring
interest groups to meetings for
discussion on the issues they are con-
cerned with, and then push MSA to pour
special projects resources into these
groups and activities.
They said they would see to it that
MSA not only passed resolutions, but
took action on them. "We would take a
more active role - beyond just endor-
sing issues," Hoppe said.
"There is too much busy-work that
goes on in MSA meetings," he added.
"We feel MSA should become more of a
forum for social change."
Warren added, "Students do have
power, and we're trying to educate
them about it."
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CIVIC THEATER SCORES:
Little Nightmusic a big success
By CAROL KOLETSKY Egarmai household where Fredrick Collem, as Fredrick, was a trifle ner- Must Meet My Wife," he is stunning.
The Ann Arbor Civic Theatre's voices his frustrations concerning his vous when singing, especially on the In fact, the performance was
production of A Little Night Music second wife, Anne, who, after 11 months low notes when he lost a little volume, remarkable for the significant number
would not be mistaken for the original of marriage, is yet a virgin. Madly in His acting, though, is almost flawless, of memorably good performances.
Broadway or London casts, but to say love with Anne, Fredrick's son Henrick and in songs fitting his range, like "You
that it is impressive would be an under- is teased and ignored by everyone
statement. As trite and mundane as it The fascinating plot tangles as
sounds, the musical, with an all-around Fredrick and Desiree, once lovers, Woody Allens 1975
marvelous acting crew, some quality become entangledagain, and Desiree's LOVE AND DEATH
singing, and quite simple but lovely horrified present lover dispatches the
choreography, is community theatre at information to Anne. A weekend in the Who but Woody Allen could reduce Waterloo to usthe matter
its best. country becomes an utter fiasco of en-of desserts(Napoleon and Josephine) losing out to the main
The famous team of corn- course-Beef Wellington? With Diane Keaton, plenty of amus-
poser/lyricist Stephen Sondheim and ing philosophical musing and in color.
producer/director Harold Prince, A Little Nightmusic Sun: Hitchcock's STRANGERS ON A TRAIN
whose first collaboration was West Side Stephen ondheim and Hugh Wheeler
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Night. Hugh Wheeler joined the team as Henrik Egerman ..............David Kitto
an author, and A Little Night Music was Madame Armfeldt...........Cathe Wright MED IATRICS
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