Thursday,,, I September .6,19173 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three Thursday, September 6, 1973 THE MICHIGAN DAILY 4 uiet radicalism 0l By CHARLES STEIN In the spring of 1970, thous- ands of students effectively shut down the University with a strike led by the Black Action Move- ment. Demanding a 10 per cent black enrollment by 1973, both black and white students boy- cotted classes until the adminis- tration acceded to their demands. At a meeting of the Regents in the spring of 1973, University of- ficials admitted that the 10 per cent goal would not be reached according to schedule. That an- nouncement as far as one could tell, produced no significant re- action in any segment of the Uni- versity community. Homecoming 1970 began, as it always has, with a parade down State St. - a parade, however, organized to protest the indict- ment of 25 people involved in the Kent State protests. Absent were many of the traditional floats and the Michigan Marching Band. Instead, students from SDS, and the S t u d e n t Mobilization Committee, and even a joyous contingent of Yippies led the pro- cession with anti-war chants, leaving visiting alumni shaking their heads and muttering about the good old days. Homecoming 1972 was dedi- cated to the glorious days of the 1950s. After the parade students took part in such celebrated bits of memorabilia as phone-booth stuffing and a hula-hoop contest. The main event of the week- end was a giant sock-hop in the Union ballroom. Several thous- and students attended in bobby ades socks, leather jackets and greas- ed - back ducktails. A homecom- ing "greaser queen" was select- ed and a good time was had by all. * * * AN OBSERVER LOOKING back on these scenes need not be blessed with great powers of per- ception to realize that the cam- pus of 1973 is a far different place than just three years ago. Once the focal point of cam- pus life, politics - particularly street politics - have seemingly faded into obscurity. No ma- jar demonstration in the past year has drawn a crowd of more than 300 or 400 people, and the few rallies that are held look hopelessly out of place amid the quiet. The Student Government Coun- campus cil, a prime mover in the days of campus activism has also fallen on hard times. A series of cor- rupt administrations and mini- Watergate style election scandals has virtually destroyed the Coun- cil's credibility among students. With the decline of the issues and institutions that once served to draw the campus together, students have moved out in a va- riety of directions. Some have turned to religion, some to drugs but for the vast majority getting back to more traditional colleg- iate pursuits seems to be the trend. STUDYING, FOR INSTANCE, has made a major comeback in the past year. Large crowds pack the libraries nearly every night of the week. Interest in graduate schools - especially law and medicine - is at an all- time high, and a series of lec- tures that brought top name aca- demics to the campus was among the most popular activi- ties of the Winter semester. Always a big drawing card at the University, sports had perhaps its finest year in 1972- 1973 in terms of student interest. M i c h i g a n passed perennial champion Ohio State in football attendance while the Wolverine cagers booked their largest ad- vance ticket sale since the days of Cazzie Russell. Local bars featuring music and dancing have also benefit- ted from the change in campus mood. Establishments catering to young people are frequently See MOOD, Page 11 Fraud plagues Soc Daily Photo by TOM GOTTLIEB I lomecoming: Return to the, greaser days By DAN BIDDLE An angry Ro Nageyslammed his fist down on a desk in the Student Government Council (SGC) office. "Goddamn it," he shouted. "If I had ever thought I'd get drag- ged down in the slime like this, I never would have gotten in- volved in SGC." But Engineering Council Presi- dent Nagey, whose SGC presiden- tial bid failed in a problem- plagued campaign, wasn't the only one. For the first time in its his- tory, SGC had to invalidate its By'CAROL MITCHELL An unmourned casualty of changing lifestyles, the tradi- tional Homecoming has passed into oblivion at the University.; And something a bit more crea- tive - and a little weird - has taken its place. Since the last old fashioned Homecoming in 1969, the fes- tivities have centered on a basic slogan or theme. Last year's ac- tivities celebrated the 1950's with a nostalgic attempt to re- capture the era of duck tails and malt shops. There was a telephone booth- crowding contest, a free showing of a 1950's beach movie starring Frankie Avalon, a hula hoop con- test, a touch football game, a tug of war across the Huron Riv- er, and even a Homecoming queen. Homecoming weekend began with a "sockhop" in the Michi- gan Union and dancing to "gold- en oldies." An applause contest was held for the first annual "Homecoming Greaser Queen." The winner, Jennifer McLogan of Chi Omega sorority, sporte'd a costume including see-through blue shirt, black fishnet stockings and wedgies. Other contestants tried to re- rive the image of the 1950's bobby-soxer, all innocence with loose flowing skirt, anklets, and pony tail. Yet the audience seemed to favor the sleezy greas- ers instead. ANNE COLE OF Alpha Chi Omega sorority, first runner-up, and Diane Levick of The Michi- gan Daily, second runner-up, lost the coveted title of "Greaser Queen" and a 1949 Cadillac de- scribed as "in working order." In another contest, a Univer- sity student managed to spin eight hula hoops around his neck simultaneously. A 10 - student team succeeded in cramming themselves into a phone booth, walking off with a case of wine as first prize. Even the University's March- ing Band got into the act by per- forming a tribute to rock and roll at the Michigan-Minnesota foot- ball game. Homecoming for this fall is still in the planning stages at the University Activities Centers Ac- cording to 1972-73 Coordinating Vice - President Frank Begun, Homecoming is basically a fall events weekend. "The students just aren't up for a traditional Homecoming," he says. "We're still kicking around ideas for this fall, but I can promise one thing - it won't be a 'normal' Homecoming weekend." Gill Grappling By DAVID BURHENN It is the early fall of 1959. You are a newly enrolled in- state freshperson at the Univer- sity of Michigan, talking with your roommate from New York as youwait to go downstairs for breakfast in one of the newly built residence halls. The conversation turns to the chaotic state of your double room. "You'd think that the maid could come in once a week to clean, like she's supposed to," your roommate says. "We're paying $815 a year to live here, and you'd think they could at least provide a maid." The subject of tuition comes up when your "roomie" discovers the tuition bill under a pile Elvis Presley records. "Just because I come from New York, I have to pay $600 a year to come here, while you only have to fork over $250. What a gyp!"' Despite the difference in tui- tion, you wonder whether your summer as a soda jerk in the neighborhood malt shop would be able to care of the costs of col- lege. * * * IT IS NOW the fall of 1973. You are a newly enrolled fresh- person at the University, dis- cussing the absence of a break- fast this Sunday morning - and vith college every other morning - with your, The cost of a college education, roommate from Ohio. lilke the price of meat, eggs, and "We're paying to live in this even marijuana, has skyrocketed dump, this decaying excuse for a in the past 14 years. The cul- maximum security prison, also prit, of course is that old bug- called South Quad," says your aboo, inflation. roommate, "and the johns some- times bring back memories of THE VIETNAM-FED monster raunchy summer camps." that has shot all other prices in- "And furthermore," adds your to the stratosphere affects the "roomie," searching for the tui- University, too. Yet the rate of tion bill amongst the water pipe the increase is approximately and Alice Cooper records, "I'm the same as that of the overall paying over $2,200 a year to come cost of living, a fact that ad- here-what a rip-off." ministrators point to with pride. You agree, and wonder about ,"The University is still one of your own in-state tuition rate, the best higher education bar- now over $700 a year. "Was that gains in the country," says one. trip to Europe last summer real- And despite what may seem ly a good idea?" you think. like incredible amounts that have own March 1973 all-campus elec- tion due to massive vote fraud. The voided spring election pro- vided a fiting end to a year of unprecedented ineffectiveness and organizational chaos for the stu- dent government, which once had been a vital force in campus political activism. Under the administration of President Bill Jacobs, SGC took on the appearance of a poorly- run debating club with negligible power and swiftly decreasing stu- dent support. JACOB'S OWN election in March, 1972 was clouded w i t h controversy as numerous charges of fraud were directed at form- er SGC Election Director David Schaper, Election Computer Pro- grammer John Koza, and Jacobs himself. While the Central Student Judi- ciary (CSJ) cleared Jacobs and the other voting officials of the charges, CSJ noted in its decis- ions that "at least some fraud" had clearly taken plape and that the new administration should take steps to insure prevention of such problems in future elec- tions. But SGC's problems - electoral and otherwise - multiplied in the next few months. Council's meat co-op, a pro- ject designed in large part by Jacobs to provide students with a cheaper source of food, fell apart due to financial entangle- ments and lack of student inter- est. Fall 1972 saw the creation of a costs to be paid out for tuition and room and board, these sums alone do not pay for the entire cost of your education. The difference must be made up by the state of Michigan in its annual appropriation to the University. Here is the way that process works: Each fall, the University makes up a budget request to send to Lansing. It is usually more than they expect to receive, because administrators know that a sub- stantial sum will be knocked of.f in the budgetary process. The governor's office takes the University's request and makes out a new budgetary recommen- dation to send to the legislature. T H I S. RECOMMENDATION is considered by the state sena- tors and representatives, and after hearings and debate, a final appropriation is decided upon and sent to the governor. The final figure is usually smal- ler than what the University needs when it considers its bud- getary allocations. The differ- ence, then, is usually made up by the students in the form of higher tuition. Of course, not all fees go to- ward the direct of cost of school -there are added fees for the book store, Student Government council, and the intramural ath- letic program, among others. The funding of the athletic pro- gram has been a sore spot among students for a considerable length of time. With your tuition, for example, you're helping to pay the cost of a gigantic white elephant, commonly called Cris- ler Arena. THIS MONUMENT to athletic prowess swallows an enormous amount of money a year in up- keep and mortgage payments. Ironically, because of its high rental fees, the arena stands empty much of the year, big as a rliritri in 'An-nrar and ittet Vnhrnit permanent SGC legal counsel, a position which would provide le- gal services to Council and act as a students' legal advocate. BUT JACOBS and his assistants came under fire with the hur- ried appointment of Thomas Bentley, a '72 law grad, at a salary which law school admin- istrators said was as much as $2000 higher than the figure us- ually paid to someone of Bent- ley's experience. And several Council members raisedrstrongeobjections to th e manner of Bentley's selection. In January, Council appointed Eliot Chikofsky as acting treas- urer after Schaper had resigned the post, claiming he needed more time for his studies. Al- most immediately Chikofsky com- plained that Schaper had left SGC's financial records in a tang- led and confusing mess. From February to April, Chik- ofsky was unable to establish a figure on Council's assets and debts. Finally the 10-member Council voted in April to suspend SGC's chief role as a sponsorship organization until a proper ac- counting could be made. Meanwhile, there was an elec- tion. Jacobs and Ken Newbury, the new elections director, said nothing would go wrong. New- bury claimed that a new voting system involving stickers on stu- dents' ID cards was "foolproof" since no one could vote unless their sticker number matched up with their ID number. BUT EVERYTHING, it seem- ed, went wrong. The voting itself wasn't much of a problem - except for the fact that only some 4000 stu- dents - about 12 per cent of the campus electorate - bothered to vote. But after the counting pro- cess began, it didn't take New- bury long to discover that at least 300, and possibly as many as 1200 ballots were frauds. "It's as if the whole election process were one big crap game," he declared in frustration, "and somebody just cracked the sys- tem." Several days after Newbury's discovery, Council voted to in- validate the March election and ordered an unprecedented second balloting to take place in pre- registration lines, at the end of April. The new election occurred un- der the watchful eye of uniform- ed Sanford security guards, con- tracted by SGC to prevent further fraud attempts. Jacobs predicted high turnouts since "everybody has to go through registration any." BUT ONLY 25 per cent of the students voted, and the prob- See STUDENT, Page 11 Daily Photo by TOM GOTTLIEB Biiarrep, crazy,.. The 'U' art school By LINDSAY CHANEY Weird, insane, crazy, strange . . these are only a few of the adjectives popularly attributed to students in the University's School of Architecture and De- sign. Actually, it's only the art stu- dents, as opposed to the archi- tects, who give the school its reputation for being a zoo. "A lot of artists see their ac- tions as part of their art," says Karen Kohn, a member of the art school student government steering committee, "so they don't get uptight about being seen as bizarre." An example of what outsiders might call bizarreness was an artistic "happening" last year called "All Aliens Must Report." Art students placed posters around campus ordering all aliens to report for registration thought the whole thing was for real. When she finally figured out what was going on, she was less than happy, and left with the observation that "you people should be locked up." Another happening was the bur- ial of a time capsule under the new art school under construction on North Campus. The capsule a wildly realistic attitude toward the world. Everyone else is crazy, not us." Art students tend to form a rather closeknit group, due in large part to their small num- bers and" the long hours they spend with each other. There are approximately 350 undergraduate art students. Since most of their "'They (art students) have a wildly real- istic attitude toward the world. Everyone else is crazy, not us.'" --William Lewis .m4%..VW..."ri{-::1:J: : p"}:"?r. ~ nq contained artifacts relevant to the 1970's, and its burial was accom- panied by long-winded speeches and other pompous ceremony as courses are labs, they spend any- where from 30 to 50 hours a week in the A & D building. Sometime in 1974, the A & D ~(. ~