t, Suridoy', b tuber 7. 1973 I HE MICHIGAN DAILY P4ge Five Si.~irid0y, October 7, 1973 1 HE MIQZHIGAN DAILY Page Five U I Perspective: Moves toward By MARNIE HEYN CAME TO Ann Arbor this fall without misconceptions-I had been keeping in touch and knew that students were no longer politically mobile, that politics were, for all intents and pur- poses, dead. But I wasn't in any mood to be reminded of these things: The Sixties was its own decade 'and now it is not the same and it doesn't matter. $ure the sixties were fun but I wouldn't live through that time again for all the gold in Acapul- co. That late, lamented decade was an exciting departure from what went on before but it was no nirvana. Nor am I one to wax nostalgic. I have no tolerance for com- mercial nostalgia, for the Madi- son Avenue Fifties hype that pa- rades the ugly clothes, grotesque th Tuition: More murky It was yet another week for administrative hedging about the tuition hike. Round one of this week's version of dodge 'em be- gan Monday when the University Aecord printed a "simplified but a c c u r a t e" breakdown of the budget that raised as many ques- tionS as it answered. The 'Statement listed a $1.4 mil- lion "contingent liability" that had never before appeared in liany of the now numerous official explatations for the hike. And the statement also ignored "the weighted average" that in pre- vious weeks had been a favorite phrase used by financial officials to, make the increase seem smaller. Jujgling statistics may be the forte of the University's budget officials' but theirs is one talent that shows no promise of winning the administration any friends. Perhaps sensing that fact, Presi- dnt Fleming called for an open hearing on the tuition increase Friday afternoon. Fleming proved to be a master It. 4 0 d g i n g and sidestepping tricky questions. He refused to emmit the University to grant- irg student refunds in the event that the tuition hike is proved to have produced surplus rev- enue. "I can't comment on that until all the figures are in the bowl," the President said in varying forms. He added that the figures sre due in November so hang in there. State of the L' More on the President. Robben Fleming sounded like a permis- sive parent whose kids have somehow gone wrong. Lament- makeup, and pedigested culture that typified the fifties and com- mands us to remember it fond- ly. Because there's no Eden to go back to. The entire escape-to-the-past phenomenon is symptomatic of a culture which can't anticipate any future. And when radicals, progressives, people who see themselves as organizers start pining for acoustic Dylan, the 1969 Moratorium, and radical chic, they've got the same prob- lem. There's no going back, but there's a lot of unfinished work to do. So when I heard that Tom Hay- den's antiwar road show was coming to town, my feelings were ambivalent. Part of me was ready to center my political life around Indochina. Another part was dead set against doing any more fall-and-spring pil- grimages to D. C. to listen to movement heavies bicker and rave while folks in the streets are beaten, gassed, and busted. Trying to keep a rein on my confusion, I went to a meeting to help arrange the coming, event. The contradictions esca- lated from there. We knew the motions well, God, we had been through it all before. Posters, leaflets, press releases, room reservations all fell in place, or rather would have if anxieties, many of them mine, hadn't erected all sorts of dysfunctional defense mecha- nisms. A lot of time was mis- spent on theoretical scarecrows. I rocketed into Monday morn- ing on a very spooky rollercoast- er of precarious highs and intro- spective bummers. The entire experience began to audience came together glide as soon as the show and the audience came together. People came to communicate and to learn, and metaphysical nightmares shrank into livable differences once exposed to the light of reality. IPC troupe members reacted easily and enthusiastically to each chance to talk to people. There was no vaudeville, no at- tempt to embellish illusions. Holly Near, folksinger, actress, and feminist, ate lunch at a brown-bag in the Women's Stu- dies office. Bob Chenowith and Jean-Pierre Debris did a half- hour talk show on a local radio station. No one acted out fan- tasies of stars with bad politics. Although the day wasn't perfect. In, was good, it a late after- looking actk week as it was noon gathering. Tom Hayden got off some cheap shots about, nameless Other Left Groups be- ing nihilistic and authoritarian. It's difficult to believe he doesn't know by now that launch- ing attacks on other groups is both stupid and self-indulgent in the face of trying to build a united front organization. It was Holly Near, not Tarn Hayden, who made the whole ex- perience, and possibly some lives, change shape 'was Holly Near. Her warmth and deep con- victions are infectious She re- tracked a lot of my panic reflex- es with something like hope. When I listened to her, I could believe that a new culture is growing from good seed. Music hasn't been used this powerfully since the early days of civil rights struggle. 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