Page Ten THE MICHIGAN DAILY Thursday, November 18, 1971 Thrsay Nvebe_1, 97 Apathy: An offbeat SGC elections fill nine seats candidate', By ARTHUR LERNER How can apathetic students elect an apathetic candidate to SGC w i t h o u t compromising their apathy? Graham Moses, who ran as an independent on a platform of apathy in this week's SGC elec- tions, contends it can be done because "there are different layers of apathy." "There arethe totally apa- thetic, the partially apathetic aiid the 'hardly any'. apathetic who support the cause of apa- thy," he explained in an inter- view before election results were in. "I'm trying to get these par- tially or borderline apathetic People to vote for me." William Graham Moses ar- gued he could represent both "people who are apathetic and don't vote and those who show their apathy by voting for me." "If 50 to 70 per cent of the students vote in the SGC elec- tions it would show that apathy is dying out. If not, then those people who don't vote need to be represented just as much as anyone else," he asserted. Anxious to dispel any notion that he has not been a truly apathetic candidate, M o s e s pointed out that "the philoso- phy of apathy is hard to un- derstand. It's not a state of mind or being." "I can be apathetic when I do something, if what I'm trying to platform (Continued from page 1) Krebaum, Steinhaur and Dunas- Of the 12 voting seats on Council, kis campaigned with the Respon- the election filled 9 of 11 member- sible Alternative Party (RAP), at-largenseats. The executive vice presenting a conservative platform president, Jerry Rosenblatt, has which claimed that "SGC has not; the remaining vote, while Presi- always acted in the best interests, dent Rebecca Schenk votes only of students." in case of a tie. RAP spoke strongly against the The tenth member-at-large seat increased funding proposal, sup- is held by Brad Taylor, who was porting the resolution to abolishI the subject of an unsuccessful re- SGC's present allotment from stu- c mpaign heelion. dent fees of 25 cents per student The eleventh seat was held by per term. Barbara Goldman, who resigned Elected as members of GROUP, suddenly Monday night following Davis, Koza, Oesterle and Scott confusion and criticism following a have all had former experience on; $1500 SGC allocation for a Univer- Council. sity Print Cooperative. Goldman' had presented the motion for the GROUP is an anagram from allocation. previous elections standing for In line with comments by ear- Government Reform of University lier members as they resigned, Policy. The members-only one of radical issues although they too supported the increased funding proposal. They proudly boasted that their slate was the only one with women and the only one with third-world students. However, the Asian stu- dents on the slate, Art Nishioka and Jean Teshima failed to be lected, as did Coalition member Allison Steiber. The Coalition campaign stressed the importance of combating sex- ism and racism, as well as all Uni- versity involvement with the U.S. military establishment. They also stressed the need for a strong stu- dent involvement in the Ann Arbor community outside of University affairs. PAUL NEWMAN4 in Alfred Hitchcock's TORN CURTAIN Thurs., Fri., Sat., Nov. 18, 19, 20 9:00 75c STOCKWELL HALL The Original PAUL CAMELET Dean Tailor for Men and Women alterations and remodler, also specialties in shortening ladies coats, slacks, and skirts. NO LONGER WITH CAMELET BROS. in business for himself NO 3-4381 321 S. MAIN Whittaker Building No. 204 Moses do is put apathy on SGC, in- stead of just being apathetic by myself." "By putting out the posters I don't think I am going against the philosophy of apathy which is very complicated," he re- marked. "I'm an active apathetic," he observed. "Freshman year was totally apathetic and sophomoretyear ..pretty well apathetic," recalled Moses, who used to live across the street from former Georgia Gov. Lester Maddox. Moses is "indefinite" on his plans should he lose the elec- tion. "If I lose, and there is a lot of apathy I will probably run again, maybe," he con- cluded. '00", - --- W. - Goldman charged SGC with being! "a non - representative tinker - toy" body composed of ego-tripping in-' dividuals . .. As the series of resignationsj opened an unusually large number of seats for election students had the opportunity to greatly alter the face of Council. In the new SGC, with the varietyj of candidates elected, students may expect a wide span of viewpoints1 to crop up in SGC debate. . Michigan Union Dining Room Buffet Lunch Mon.-Fri. 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This space is contributed as a People Service by The Van Heusen Company ily Classifieds Get Results I 4 'p NOON BOOK 3545 Student A THE BLACIK Edited by T( TOMORROW IS by JOYCE reviewed by GLOR --Next EDUCATION A OFFICE OF RELIC Michigan Uni II ---,'l U 4 The Housing Office feels that all students should be free to concentrate academic (and other) pursuits without added worry of dietary requiremer on its. Therefore, University Residence Halls offer "Optional Me a any University student. " available at all Halls I Contracts" for " select one convenient location " initiate or cancel contract at your request " select lunch, or dinner, or both * reasonable prices (lunch and dinner meal contract for a year would cost $2.91 a day). Re-serves on nearly all foods. Salad bars, soft drinks, and soft serve ice cream available for both meals. CATCH 22--not really, but we should mention that there are specified dining hours at each residence.