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The Board of Control of Intercollegi-
ate Athletics has for some time been
unrepresentative of the large numbers
of Black athletes involved in the
sports sponsored by the University of
Michigan.
It is my feeling that although there
are many problems that are shared by
both Black and White athletes, there
are those which are peculiar to both
separately. The best spokesman for a
given group is a member of that group,
and as a Black athlete, I feel that it
is incumbent upon me to try to speak
about the needs of the athletic de-
partment as it affects Black players
and spectators. Also, as a football
player, I feel that I have a great in-
sight into the athletic department
due to my two-year involvement.
I understand the problems facing the
althletic department, such as support-
ing programs that operate at a deficit,
budgeting, personnel control and gen-
eral control of the department.
It is obvious that each of these
areas in some ways touches Black peo-
ple, either directly as participants
or as spectators; and it is necessary
that our views be given an opportunity
to be heard, considered and acted up-
on. There are programs, such as the
clinics for the community children,
which I feel should be continued, and
if possible, expanded. I also feel
that the Board has a responsibility
to the Ann Arbor community, which
supports it monetarily and morally by
attending many of the sporting events
at the University. One method of ex-
hibiting its appreciation would be to
establish a scholarship fund for an
underprivileged youth from the Ann
Arbor community.
rose sue berstein
THE STUDENT MEMBERS of this Board have
traditionally been athletes who have
an unfair and vested interest in pre-
serving the present system which allo-
cates huge amounts from the student
budget for athletic events including
only a small number of students.
The intercollegiate athletic pro-
gram Michigan participates in is by
nature sexist and racist. As a mem-
ber of the board, I would try to avoid
needless spending of student money for
luxuries for our elite athletic corps
and for building unnecessary buildings.
Instead, I advocate providing recre-
ational facilities available to all
students at low costs.
I further advocate funding all inter-
collegiate sports on a self-sustaining
basis without eliminating entirely
those sports now on a club basis, but
perhaps relegating all non-revenue
sports to club basis, with equal allo-
cations.
AN ADDITIONAL important difference
between me and the other candidates
is that as a woman I shall fight for
more facilities and money for women's
sports.
WHY elect a member of the athletic
elite so that he can make further
allocations in an elitist way? It
seems logical that a person with no
vested interest in perpetuating the
athletic system would determine these
policies in a fairer way.
ISN'T IT TIME to end sexism, racism,
and elitism in every part of the Uni-
versity? LIBERATE ATHLETICS/
david mildner
I HAVE BEEN a member of the Advisory
Committee for Recreation, Intramurals
and Club Sports for the past three
years, and I serve on the Facilities
and Recreation Building Subcommittees.
I was also a student member of the
Faculty Senate Committee reviewing
the Board-in-Control's budget.
I ADVOCATE:
1) a fundamental reorganization of
the current athletic program; 2) the
e4pansion of intramural facilities as
the highest priority of the Board;
3) a deliberate policy of building up
surpluses for a new intramural com-
plex; 4) the reduction of financial
aid and tenders to the minor sports
(that is, the sports other than foot-
ball, basketball and hockey); 5) a
shift of minor sports to club status
with a resulting reduction of coaches;
6) the savings of $400,000 per annum
from the above recommendations (plus
additional revenues from extra foot-
ball games) be allocated to the pay-
ment of a new Recreation Building;
7) a reduction of the General Funds
$147,000 allocation to the Board-in-
Control; 8) sports for all, not just
the professionals.
I BELIEVE that football proceeds
should go primarily to the operation,
maintenance and building of recrea-
tional facilities, not to money-losing
varsity sports.
james bidges
rick rater
ltera ture, scier
WE BELIEVE that student governments exist solely for the
benefit of their constituents. Our main goal is to strive
toward making education in LS&A more meaningful. We will
guide the LS&A Executive Council toward solving problems
that students are faced with everyday in obtaining an edu-
cation at the University.
Potentially, the LS&A Student Government is an ex-
tremely viable force in instituting change within the
Literary College. Having been members of LS&A Executive
Council, we are in a position to see that all that stands
between the government and real progress is the strong
leadership that we feel we can provide.
SPECIFICALLY, we will work toward:
1) Instituting a Complaint Service which students can
contact when they are having problems with instruc-
tors, counselors and classes. The LS&A Student Govern-
ment would act as a liason between students and whatever
it is that is causing the difficulty. Also, the Complaint
Service could be a way of finding out what specific prob-
lems students are having, and alleviating the problems.
2) Consolidating Student Services by integrating these
functions. If it could be possible to have Student
Counseling, Course Mart, Course Evaluation, and Complaint
Service in one area, anyone with almost any type of prob-
lem will know where they can be helped.
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Student Caucus (cont'd)
than 10% of the student body. No
government, especially one so unrepre-
sentative, has the right to make our
moral and political decisions. For
this reason we support an open re-
cruitment policy. Racism and sexism
are undeniably intolerable in our so-
ciety. We do not need SGC to tell us
this. Each of us is capable of making
our own evaluations or we wouldn't be
hereat U.of M. Nor do we think that
SGC should have the power to deny any-
one the option of participation in
ROTC at a governmentally supported in-
stitution. We also think that SGC's
present position on classified re-
search is simplistic--neither economic
or academic consequences to students
have been analyzed. Again the issue
is a fundamental one. It is absurd to
allow 14 people to make moral and po-
litical decisions for over 30,000 indi-
viduals (thus violating their academic
and intellectual freedoms) on the
grounds that some abstract disembodied
academic and intellectual freedoms are
being violated. The real issue in
this campaign is whether SGC will con-
cern itself with students rather than
slogans. In the past SGC has support-
ed SDS, Phoenix Anarchist Coalition,
Repression Movement, Ann Arbor Con-
spiracy..... We intend to support you.
The purpose of SGC as stated in the
SGC Constitution is "to guarantee
every University student a good and in-
expensive education; sufficient, sat-
isfactory, and reasonably priced
housing, commodities, services, and
other conditions of life; and full le-
gal rights as citizens." It's time
SGC concerned itself with the real
issues at hand! Help us throw the
rascals out. Vote Student Caucus.
3) Conducting a survey of all LS&A
vernment is to be truly represen
specifically what people want change
4) Printing a newsletter which woul
Body of the actions taken and ai
dent Government will be dealing with
newsletter would serve the dual func
students about what their government
dents to have a means by which they
at their government.
5) Attaining student parity on gove
the Literary College. The Admir
decisions affecting hundreds of stud
should have student representation.
parity a step further, the effect or
cisions of the Curriculum Committee
representation for students. Passag
proposal which would give students e
governing faculty is one of our majc
THESE ISSUES are ones we feel need 1
of the representative student bodies
which our government can function e
strong and sincere guidance, which i
could provide.