Eighty-one years of editorial freedom Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan ,420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Mich. News Phone: 764-0552 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. The ins and outs f yut culture By RICK PERLOFF THINK SOMEBODY ought to clear the air. Certain things must be pointed out. I mean, thigs have gone long enough. ;First off, nothing is cool or neat or sharp anymore. Those words went out with the Beach Boys, or maybe Elvis Presley. I can't re- member. I mean, if someone's saying cool, you know there's some thing wrong with him. It's like your grandmother saying "that's the bees knees." You just look at her and shrug. N You have to get it into your mind that things are freaky. And far fucking out. And things are often right on but not always. Another thing. No one is normal in this world. Or don't tell anyone they're normal. They'll shout at you for hours.' Listen. No one wants to be normal. That means you're straight. And bland. Everyone wants to be crazy. It's sort of neat to be crazy besides. I mean, normality went out with the '50s. Don't you understand? And there are no hoods or greasers anymore. Shit. Kids have got :.. to see Sha Na Na to get a taste of history first hand. My little sister $ ' doesn't even know what a hood is, I take that back. A hood by any j j other name wil smell as foul. Hoods are junkies these days, and they are into heroin. There's another word. Into. You must remember .: