:Page Six THE MICHIGAN DAILY Sunday, February 16, 1975 Page Six THE MICHIGAN DAILY Center for Near Eastern and North African Studies, Dept. of Near Eastern Studies and Program in Comparative LiteratureE presents PROF. ARNOLD BAND Chrmn. of Comparative Literature, UCLA "An Explication of Agnon's Story- 'The Lady and the Peddler"' MONDAY, FEB. 17-4:00 P.M. LEC. RM. 2 MLB 0 "The Historical Background of Kafka's THE TRIAL" MONDAY, FEB. 17-8:00 P.M. EAST CONFERENCE ROOM, RACKHAM 0 "Love and Family in Agnon's Literature" TUESDAY, FEB. 18-4:00 P.M. LEC. RM. 2 MLB -- -- -- -- -- -- -- - - - - -- -- - -- $3.00 FRI.-SAT.-SUN. the Ark's Annual MINI FOLK FESTIVAL WITH Sam Hinton Michael Cooney Joe Hickerson Barry O'Neill 1421 Kill STREET 1Nisa i LO THE WEEK IN REVIEW Str ' theysdetermine the number of teach- ing fellows and research and AS THE Graduate Employes staff assistants not reporting for Organization (GEO) strike work or the number of under- moves into its second week, the graduates who have failed to at- battle between the union and tend class because of the strike. the University administration Not all graduate employes are has become a war of attrition on strike. Reports from the rather than a blitzkreig. Business and Natural Reourc- And, time, it would seem, is es schools indicated "business on the administration's side. as usual" was the norm. Sirmil- The walkout, which began lost ary teaching fellows in m a a y Tuesday, has not shut the Uni- literary college departments versity down, as some fe~vent have been meeting their regu- GEO supporters had promised. larly scheduled sectionseither Many classes have been incon- on or off-campus. I venienced, disrupted, and can- celled outright as a resilt of the GEO work stoppage. But on the whole, the school appears to be operating at a near normal pace: executive de- cisions are still being' made, most classes taught by profes- sors go on as scheduled, and nearly all extra-curricular ac- tivities associated with the Uni- versity continue. Before the strike began, GEO spokesman David Gordon cited undergraduate suport of the walk out as crucial to 'ts suc- cess. But that backing has not been overwhelming, according to reports compiled by the Daily. On Tuesday, undergraduates seemed, by and large, willirg to respect the GEO picket lines,} which blocked entrances to all the prospect of no pay, and the likelihood of at least ancther week of the same thing. Also among undergraduates the strongest, pro-strike senti- ment emanates from the Resi-1 dential College, where students voted to halt all classes until the walk out ends. They voted to donate Residential College office space in East Quad to GEO as a strike headquarters. In scheduling the strike for the middle of February, the GEO may have made a stra- tegic blunder. Because t est s, counting a large portion of rinal grades, are in the offing, stu- dents have a positive motivation for attending class. FURTHER hurting the G E 0 in the long run has been the lack of backing from Gther unions at the University. Al- though the powerful Teameers Union has supported the strike, much of the material usually delivered by the truckers has still arrived because supervis- ory personnel picked up t he slack, according to GEO lead- ers. Neither the American Feder- ation of State, County, and Municipal Employes union members nor the clericals have as groups come to the aid of GEO. Some of these employes have, nonetheless, engaged in informal work slowdowns. But the longer the strike gtes on, the better the University ad- ministration's bargaining poc i- tion should become. That's due to the economics of the situa- tion. The striking graduate employ- es will receive no salaries and the union has virtually no funds. Within a short time, simple mathematics dictates, that the strikers will be-in a word- broke. O0KING BACK At the same time, the Uni- feelings toward the University versity can continue to function administration rather th n the without the services provided GEO - a much less visible and by the graduate workers unless pressure is applied from outside sources. Most likely that -proldiag would come from parents of un- dergraduates whose classes have been cancelled because of the strike. The parents, angry at paying high tuition bills while seeing their children get norhing in return, would direct their ill approachable target. But that is a storm the Uni- versity could weather. Right now, however, GEO and its strike are both running pri- marily on human energy, com- mitment and direction. Those are sometimes fragile qualities that wane quickly as time passes. -GORDON ATCHE3ON Read and Use Daily Classifieds THUS EVEN AFTER five days of picket lines and protest, it remains difficult to gauge exactly how much sup- port GEO and in particulir the strike itself has drawn from1 the academic community. Neither the union nor the ad- ministration has been able toj major buildings on central cam- pus. Attendance was down by about half. A S THE WEEK wore on, how- ever, it appeared that more and more students returned to their classes - feeling the pres- sure of upcoming miderm exams and research papers. On Friday about 2,500 !ieople joined in a pro-strike rally - one of the largest campus gath- erings for something other than football or streaking since tte legendary Black Action Move- ment (BAM) - but that alone is an accurate barometer of very little. To be sure in some quarters the commitment runs high. Those graduate employes - probably in excess of 800 -- phy- sically walking the picket lines remain undeterred by the cold, wcbn 88.3 fm TOLEDO WINDOW BOX CONCERT in (wherelse) TOLEDO MASONIC AUD. SUN., MAR, 2 at 3 p.m. ' Toledo Masonic is just off U.S. 23 about 45 minutes from Ann Arbor. For tickets phone 419472-1157 or mail in coupon. Mail to H.L. VanTassel Presents, 4612 Talmadge, Toledo, OH 43623. Enclosed is a check payable to H.L. VanTassel for $ for tickets to Georqe Carlin. (Please include a 50c handlinq charge and self-addressed, stamped envelope. ) NAMES ADDRESS ipectacular o ,unda SPECIAL PROGRAMS on wcbn from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 Monday morning HERE'S A SAMPLING OF TODAY'S FARE: 12-3 P.M.: GLOBAL VILLAGE 12-1: Dimensions in Global Folklore 1-2: Asian-Americans and Americans 2-3: Phone in discussion featuring the candidates running in Monday's Primary Election. Host: MAURICIO FONT 3-4 P.M.: THE FOLK SHOW Host: JOHN RAFTREY 8-10 P.M.: THE OLDIES SHOW Host: GARY DE K I (HRAF? 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