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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1973
Regulating land use policies
ANN ARBOR'S latest monument to land
use non-planning opened Wednesday.
Briarwood shopping center is an ex-
cellent example of howthe influence of
big business money and the political pres-
sure it can create can overcome the com-
paratively meager resources of local gov-
ernments and the general public. The
promise of large profits often vastly ov-
errides any possibility of any careful
planning of how America's decreasing
land resources can be used.
The proposal to construct the Briar-
wood shopping center was first presented
to City Council in 1971. The proposal was
greet'ed with considerable opposition from
local environmental and limited growth
advocates.
These opponents argued that the shop-
Editorial Staff
CHRISTOPHER PARKS and EUGENE ROBINSON
Co-Editors in Chief
DIANE LEVICK .........................Arts Editor
MARTIN PORTER ... Sunday Editor
MARILYN RILEY........Associate Managing Editor
ZACHARY SCHILLER .............. Editorial Director
ERIC SCHOCH .......... .. . ....... Editorial Director
TONY SCHWARTZ...................Sunday Editor
CHARLES STEIN ... .... ..... City Editor
TED STEIN ...................... Executive Editor
ROLFE TESSEM.....................Managing Editor
STAFF WRITERS: Prakash Aswani, Gordon Atcheson,
Dan Biddle, Penny Blank, Dan Bugerman, Howard
Brick, Dave Burhenn, Bonnie Carnes, Charles Cole-
man, Mike Duweck, Ted Evanoff, Deborah Good,
William Heenan, Cindy Hill, Pack Krost, jean Love,
Josephine Marcotty, Cheryl Pilate, Judy Ruskin,
Ann Rauma, Bob Seldenstein. Stephen Selbst Jeff
Sorensen, Sue Sttephenson, David Stoll, Rebecca
Warner
DAILY WEATHER BUREAU: William Marino and
Dennis Dismacheck (forecasters)
Sports Staff
DAN BORUS
Sports Editor
FRANK LONGO
Managing Sports Editor
BOB McGINN................Executive Sports Editor
CHUCK BLOOM . . ...... Associate Sports Editor
JOEL GREEK ...........,... .Associate Sports Editor
RICH STUCK ..............Contributing Sports Editor
BOB HEUER. . .......Contributing Sports Editor
NIGHT EDITORS: Jeff Chown, Brian Deming, Jim
Ecker, Marc Feldman, George Hastings, Marcia
Merker, Roger Rossiter, Theresa Swedo
STAFF: Barry Argenbright, Bill Crane, Richard Fa-
herty, Cary Fotias, Andy Glazer, Leba Hertz, John
Kahler, Mike Lisll, Jeffrey Milgrom, Tom Pyden,
Leslie Riester, Jeff Schiller, Bill Stieg, Fred Upton
Business Staff
BILL BLACKFORD
Business Manager
RAY CATALINO............... Operations Manager
SHERRY CASTLE. .............. Advertising Manager
SANDY FIENBERG..................Finance Manager
DAVE BURLESON....................Sales Manager
DEPT. MGRS.: Steve LeMire, Jane Dunning, Paula
Schwach
ASSOC. MGRS.: Joan Ades. Chantal Bancilhon, Linda
Ross, Mark Sancrainte, S u a n n e Tiberio, Kevin
Trimmer
ASST. MGRS.: Marlene Katz, Bill Nealon
STAFF: Sue DeSmet, Laurie Gross, Debbie Novess,
Carol Petok, Mimi Bar-on
SALESPEOPLE: W en d i Pohs, Ton Kettinger, Eric
Phillips, P e t e r Anders. R o b e r t Fischer, Paula
Schwach, Jack Mazzara, John Anderson
Photography Staff
DAVID MARGOLICK
Chief Photographer
KEN FINK......................Staff Photographer
THOMAS GOTTLIEB ..............Staff Photographer
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KAREN KASMAUSKI ..............Staff Photographer
TERRY McCARTHY ..............Staff Photographer
ping center would merely extend "urban
sprawl" into Ann Arbor, provide added
impetus to the conversion of Ann Arbor
into a "bedroom community" and would
cause serious environmental problems.
HOWEVER, THE political power of mon-
ey, business interests and city offic-
ials carried the day over expert and pub-
lic protests.
Briarwood is now here to stay,'for bet-
ter or worse. Some problems have already
become apparent, such as the inability of
State Road to handle the traffic.
But rather than cry over spilt milk in-
terested citizens and public-minded ex-
perts should look to the future, and study
what decisions may be upcoming-or are
being presently considered - in the field
of land-use planning.
The political pressures against care-
ful scrutiny of how land is used are tre-
mendous, due largely to the strong bonds
between business and politics.
For example, a proposal to form a state
commission to study land use on a state-
wide basis died an untimely death last
year. Luckily, some impetus for such a
group still exists.
Land use is not an issue which often
gathers great citizen awareness, for such
mundane matters as zoning changes are
often tedious and boring. Yet such deci-
sions are increasingly important, and de-
serve increased public participation.
War powers
FINALLY, IT APPEARS that Congress
will pass a bill that would limit the
power of the President to engage the
country in war without the Congress
consent.
Considering this country's recent ac-
tions in Indochina alone, which occurred
largely through Executive fiat, such ac-
tion has come none too soon.
The measure emerged Thursday from a
committee of Representatives and. Sena-
tors who hammered out a compromise
version of two different bills previously
passed by the House and Senate.
The measure would require the Presi-
dent to end undeclared wartime actions
in at most 90 days, thus giving the Presi-
dent some latitude to act in situations
considered to be emergencies.
It is a moderate proposal, to say the
least, yet President Nixon has indicated
that he will veto the measure, asserting
that it infringes on his power as Presi-
dent.
Of course, this is exactly the point. The
power of the President to engage in war
without the approval of Congress has
grown to unacceptable heights. If the
President vetoes the bill, Congress should
not hesitate to override the veto.
TODAY'S STAFF:
News: Della DiPietro, Cindy Hill, Marilyn
Riley, Stephen Sebst, Charles Stein
Editorial Page: Zachary Schiller, Eric
Schoch
Arts Page: Diane Levick
Photo Technician: Karen Kasmauski
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By BETH NISSEN
A NN ARBOR has an eerie atmos-
phere on a Saturday night. For
those who have the security of an
assured companion, or those with
a well-established circle of friends,
it is tolerable. There are several
good places to go with friends to
laugh, to dance, and to drink.
But for those who are still rela-
tively new here, those with no
pressing homework, and those still
searching for a compatible group
of friends, Ann Arbor can be dis-
mally depressing.
There are a few generally ac-
cepted courses of action. One can'
walk confidently into a bar, order
a drink and either try to pick some-
one up or try to be picked up, and
usually end up staring through the
bottom of the glass. There are par-
ties, if one knows where to go and
when, but there is an uncomfort-
able uneasiness in a solitary merge
into the -chattering traffic of strang-
ers.
If you live in a dorm, chances
are the majority of the inhabi-
tants will be out until early, leav-
ing you to wander the halls in
search of another wanderer or lie
on the floor of the television room
smiling stupidly at off-color com-
mercials.
IT IS SURPRISING how difficult
it is to find anyone to talk to in a
town where one would logically ex-
pect to find a substantial number
of people with similar interests,
ideas and values. The student w h o
feels very much alone has few al-
ternatives. Reading the D a i I y
Personal column usually uncovers
pleas for friendship but with an
underlying hint of perversion. One
can take creative hold of a Flair
and release his or her anguish on
a bathroom wall, or scrawl his or
her phone number somewhere in
Basis for Arab apprehension
By AHMAD BESHAREH
THE RECENT events in Vienna
dramatize another facet of the
Arab-Zionist feud. The Arab guer-
rillas principal demand , was the
termination of Austria's official
collaboration with the Israeli Zion-
ists in channelling Soviet Jews to
Israel. When Austria's J e w i s h
Premier Kreisky acceded, a world-
wide campaign was mounted to
pressure him into rescinding that
decision. I would like to comment
on the guerrillas' demand.
Since the turn of this century the
Arab Middle East has been the host
of Jews from around the world.
This is especially true of Euro-
pean Jews escaping persecution or
seeking a greater freedom of ex-
pression. The early commers were
welcomed ' by the Arabs of the
area.
However, as soon as the political
significance of immigration became
evident the Arabs of Palestine vio-
lently revolted against this political
threat to their entity and social
fabric, as demonstrated by the po-
pular uprisings of the 1920's and
1930's. Their fear was justified in
the developments of the 1940's that
lead to the establishment of Israel
and displacement of the Palestin-
ians.
SINCE THEN, Israel and h e r
champions in the U.S. Congress
have been pressuring the Soviet
Union into letting her citizens of
Jewish descent emigrate to Israel
-without of course soliciting t h e
opinion of these people. This pres-
sure has increased immensely since
the 1967 war and immigration has
become significant (about 70,000 in
the past three years, 30,000 of
which in 1972 alone).
In view of these events, t h e
Arabs cannot help being appre-
hensive. And the resultant image,
magnified by Israeli statements
and actions, can only be bleak.
Moshe Dayan has recently stated
that the Soviet immigrants w i lI
make Sinai (captured from Egypt
in 1967) Jewish. And the multitude
of Israeli settlements in A r a b
lands confirms the Arabs' worst
fears, i.e., that continued Jewish
immigration from the Soviet Un-
ion will realize Israeli's implicit
policy of annexation and expan-
sion. Annexation leads to displace-
ment of Arabs and the sequence of
the pre-1948 events is repeated.
The Arabs uphold the humaniter,
ian principle of choosing one's land
of residency. But they also uphold
and defend the equally important
right to one's land. The outcries
over Soviet Jewry in the Western
media seems to be concerned with
the first right and completely ob-
livious to the second. It is in de-
fense of this right among others
that the Arab masses have taken
up arms, with the Palestinians as
vanguards.
Ahniad Beshareh is president of
the Organization of Arab Stu-
dents at the University.
hopes of a miracle contact. There
are clubs to join, but not everyone
wants to meet people on the pre-
text of a specific interest, or feels
the social -urge consistently every
Wednesday at 8:30.
THERE IS ALWAYS the inner
sinctum of your room, where you
can busy yourself with homework,
scrape Tuesday's peanut butter off
the knife, write a newsy letter
home or read last week's Poli Sci
assignment. A reach for the tele-
phone . can give verbal comfort if
you can find anyone at home, or
deepen depression if number after
number, rings unanswered. And a
trained 76-GUIDE voice is always
ready to say reassuring things to
those who can admit to themselv-
es they have no one to talk to but
a strangerat the end of a coiled
line. And sometimes, despite hero-
ic efforts, the frustration at not
being with people on a people-or-
iented night is overwhelming and
refuses to be ignored or buried in
the cranial background.
Saturday night is an American
institution, one in which being
alone denotes a personal failure.
Friends are associated with suc-
cess, personal growth and matur-
ity with a secure coupled relation-
ship. The sixth night of each week
is the traditional provation and
celebration of this success: it is
for good times with Special Peo-
ple. Commercials on television in-
sist you can't be happy unless.
hand-in-hand with a lover and a
balloon in a sunny park, unless
staring love-eyed into the Perfect
Set of Eyes.
BEING HALF of a couple =- or
at very least a part of a group
-is a Saturday night religion; fail-
ure to convert throws doubt on
personal salvation as a working
member of the human race.
If male and unattached, by socie-
tal norms you a r e suspected of
aimlessness, abnormality and in-
stability. It will be years before
you make your first $10,000 or own
your own car. If female and un-
attached, by the same standards,
you are an assumed lady-in-wait-
ing, biting your lip and biding your
time until someone proposes to
take you away from distribution re-
quirements and substitutes an op-
pressive life of Dove detergent,
Pampers and Gerber food.
Except for the most hermitic, f-w
students actually seek to be hn-
ers. Being alone has its undeniable
good points; the luxuries of silence
and privacy are well-valued. But
there are times when even the
most confirmed loners become
bored with themselves and want to
reflect other personalities instead
of wallowing in their own. Some-
thing about Ann Arbor doesn't
make it very easy. There is no an-
swer, no programmed solution,
only terminal relief in feeling very
sorry for yourself.
'Letters to The Daily
parking
To The Daily:
I WISH TO comment on the total
inequities of the parking system
around the University. Possibly it
will be seen by someone in author-
ity who will have a sudden flash of
enlightenment, and will do some-
thing about it.
I understand the premise that the
University of Michigan is not a
commuter school. However, there
are a number of students who do
commute, often because they sim-
ply cannot afford the outrageous
rent in Ann Arbor. So, the com-
muter has the problem of finding a
place to park every day. Unless
you arrive at school at six o'clock
p.m. and finish sleeping in front of
Angell Hall, this is impossible. One
must park at least a mile from
campus. If one parks a mile from
campus, how are they supposed to
get to their car during ten mii-
ute between-class-breaks to feed
the parking meter? Obviously it is
impossible, and who could afford
all those dimes for parking every
day, anyway? Consequently, one
receives a parking ticket for an
expired meter.
When one accumulates ten bark-
ing tickets, which isn't hard to
do, the city tows their car with-
out any notification to a junk yard
outside of town. There it sits,
until the culprit pays 1-the t.)w-
ing fee; 2-a fee for having the
car sit in the junk yard; 3-all the
unpaid tickets. No one seems con-
cerned that since the city took the
person's car, they have no way
to get out to the junktyard where
the car is. Of couse, there are no
buses that go that way.
A great portion of these difficul-
ties could be alleviated if there
was somewhere on campus fir
commuting students to park. But
who gets to park in University
parking? Faculty members, who
pay a small fee for the privilege
of the omnipotent parking sticker.
Students cannot get one.
It seems to me that since stu-
dents are usually poor and profes-
sors usually are not, that is it
grossly unjust to provide inexpen-
sive parking for them and not for
commuter students.
There is a simple solution. A just
system could involve a student
proving that he lived 'X' number of
miles from campus, a distance too
great to walk and from which there
is no bus service. These students
should be able to purchase park-
ing stickers and park in University
designated parking lots. It's about
time the University stopped ignor-
ing the commuting student.-
-Sherry Spalding
Whitmore Lake
Sept. 22
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Duck Soupi
Reefer Madn
UAC-Mediatrics, Nat.
7, 9:30 Sat.
Duck Soup is the. u
lustration of politics as
Or, in the words of a D
goer, "It's just hilari(
all."
Although Duck Soup
have the style or grac
at the Opera, it has1
Groucho Marx stars as
Firefly, ruler of Fred(
Chico and Harpo spy f
ponents.
Reefer Madness, at t
funny, hits home withi
Unfortunately, the audi
see the film are often
and boring as the pic
laughter in the theater
hard to concentrate on
humor.
Nevertheless, Madnes
viewing if only for its
of harried contempt - f
ers.
-MICHAEL
Some Like It
and The Mis
New Morning, MLB A
Both films at 7:15, 9:30,
After 10 years of beir
and ed to the late late show, Playboy's
first Playmate, Marilyn Monroe,
ess is finally receiving long overdue
Sci. Bldg. recognition for her considerable
acting talent.
iltimate il- Directed by Billy Wilder, t h e
absurdity. 1959 Some Like It Hot stretches
aily movie- one basic joke into what must be
ous, that's some of the funniest two hours of
film ever made. The film also fea-
may not tures Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon,
e of Night and Joe E. Brown.
the talent. The Misfits unites Monroe with
Rufus T. a far older Clark Gable. Thanks to
onia, a n d Marilyn's on-set temper tantrums
for his op- and the resulting producing delays,
Misfits ended up as one of the
-STAFF most expensive black and white
films ever made - and the ten-
sion, some say, contributed to
times very Gable's death shortly after t h e
its parody. movie's completion.
ences that Nevertheless, the picture pro-
as drugged vides conclusive proof that Monroe
ture. The really could act.
makes it - -DAVID BLOMQUIST
the film's * *
almost as long.
The film juxtaposes footage of
Marjoe in action as an ecstatic
holy roller, of Marjoe lolling on a
waterbed, parodying h i m s e 1 f
("Glory gee to Beezus") and de-
livering monologues on hypocrisy
to the camera.
Produced and directed by Village
Voice writer Howard Smith an d
Sarah Kernochan.
-JAMES HYNES
with Charles Grandval in a me-
morable Renoir masterpiece about
Paris in the 30's.
-MICHAEL WILSON
* * *
a fine effort from
itely worth seeing.
-DAVID
* *
Jewison defin-
BLOMQUIST
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Fat City
Cinema II, Aud. A
Sat., 7, 9:30
Huston's chronicle of the
world through two case
makes this one of the bet-
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Sat., Sun., 7, 9:05
Marjoe is the most powerful at-
tack on evangelism since E 1 m e r
Gantry; it is even more power-
ful, since it is true.
The film documents the last tour
(before attempting a more legiti-
mate career in show business) of
Marjoe Gortner, evangelist from
age three and a non-believer for
Boudu Saved
from Drowning
Cinema II, Aud. A
Sun., 7, 9
This 1932 Jean Renoir film, made
just two years before his innova-
tive Madame Bovary, concerns a
desolate tramp and a bookseller
who cares for him. The great
French heavyweight character ac-
tor Michael Simon (Candide) stars
j.
N.J : .
Poco 's efforts pay off on
new LP;
By TOM OLSON1
Poco has evidently put a lot off
work into Crazy Eyes, (Epic KE
32354) and it has paid off. The titlei
song is a genuine epic, with a
melody that sounds like what1
Strauss would write if he were
asked to compose the Marlboro
Man theme.t
For the occasion, Richard Furay1
has even traded in the usual Pocoi
fiddles for a set of violins. Doors,
Looking Glass OK
ter films of 1972. It is Huston's
best directorial effort since African
Queen and surely ranks as one of
his best films.
Stacy Keach is the pathetic slap-
happy comeback fighter. Jeff Brid-
ges in contrast plays a young box-
er on the make. Both perform-
ances are superb. His characteri-
zation of the wash-up is not to be
missed - but prepare yourself for
a mammoth manic depression af-
terward.
-MICHAEL WILSON
Jesus Christ Superstar
State
Will Jesus ChristtSuperstar bring
down the government of G o 1 d a
Meir? Probably not. But Norman
Jewison's latest film, produced in
Israel with the assistance of the
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Heavy Traffic
Fifth Forum
Heavy Traffic is a highly per-
sonal, semi-autobiographical car-
toon by Ralph Bakshi (Fritz. the
Cat) about coming of age in New
York City.
The film is much more like the
city it portrays: gaudy, violent, of-
fensive, morbidly funny. Yet it
is an oddly powerful, moving film.
If it seems rough around the ed-
ges, it is only because Bakshi is
breaking away from both the Dis-
ney and the Yellow Submarine
brands of animation and forging
off on his own. -
-JAMES HYNES
* * *
Siddhartha
Campus Theatre
Siddhartha, finally released af-
ter seven years of preparation in
India, is one of the larger disap-
pointments, for this is a film I al-
most desperately wanted to like.
Conrad Rooks' earlier Chappa-
qua, a film about his hallucinatory
withdrawal from heroin, was a
demonically creative, if disjointed,
work. And so, with Bergman's mas-
ter cinematographer Sven Nyk-
vist, one might assume that the
Herman Hesse tale would come
alive in all its simple grandeur.
The simplicity is there, but with
nothing else but a mulling-over of
eternal questions shot with back-
grounds of winding rivers and, old
men blowing hashish. I'm glad
someone got high.
-BRUCE SHLAIN
Romeo and Juliet
Michigan
The adaptation of literary clas-
ics to the screen is always cause
T S
banjos and all, the song makes a
fascinating nine minutes.
The rest of the album contains
no major breakthroughs for the
group, but the songs are excel-
lent state-of-the-art Poco.
Looking Glass's new album,
Subway Serendade (Epic KE 321-
67), is a competent and thorough-
ly commercial recording of origi-
nal songs by the band members.
Looking Glass lyrics are typical
of the forbiddingly intellectual
New Jersey School of rock and
roll: "Jimmy loves Mary Ann!
Jimmy wants to be her man/Jim-
my loves Mary Ann/She thinks it's
all right." But even these austere
abstractions sound natural sung
over the bubbly Top-40 back-
grounds that are the group's spe-
cialty.
Elliot Lurie is the leader of the
band. He seems to have learned
his vocal techniques from Van
Morrison, the man who elevated
miushmouthedness to. an art form.
He and bassist Piet Sweval can
turn out lightweight soft rock with
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