Page Six THE MICHIGAN DAILY Sunday, March 31, 1974 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Sunday, March 31, 197'I rr .. JAMIE KEN WORTHY THE JOB OF GOVERNMENT IS TO PROVIDE SERVICES FOR THOSE WHO: NEED THEM J. Kenworthy has been endorsed by the: ANN ARBOR TENANTS UNION ANN ARBOR SUN The Republicans tried to influence this election by curb- ing voter registration in liberal neighborhoods of the Fourth Ward. My opponent told residents near Packard-Platt that the Chatham Food Store should not be built, and voted for it the next day. He has consistently ,voted against tenants rights, the $5 Marijuana fine, and enforcement of the Human Rights Ordi- nance. My opponent, William Colburn, would like to become the next mayor. End the Republican Reign of Error VOTE Monday, April 1 DEMOCRAT Fourth Ward w (continued from Page 3) up in an attempt to decipher thet shifting of political currents. "We see an apparent loss of power in< the liberal faction of the Council," commented one senior political analyst. Speculation has centered on the apparent disappearance of Marcia and Daniel Fishman, who have not been heard from in over two months. "The best guess is thnt they were purged," says one ob- server. ROBERT GORDON, the newly named Minister of Information, ex- plained the decision this way, "Since we have a clear mandate from the people, we'll continue to lead them." Faye, Gordon, and Matthews claim they have received 19 of the 31 votes allegedly cast in the last three years. The new amendments to t h e Constitution make, it a crime to criticize the Council, any of i t s ministers (formerly Council mem- bers) laws, or procedures. THE PRESS is also censored un- der the new regime, since, as Matthews explained, "Campus newspapers had a regrettable, ten- dency to publicize our actions too: closely." Matthews noted, omin- ously, "There's more than one way to skin a liberal, you know." "The criminal code has also been given an overhaul," Mat- thews continued. "Burns security guards have been given orders to shoot to kill in all cases of suspic- ion of conspiracy, to commit a crime." SGC takes hard line Immediate student reaction to the move was difficult to assess, since most appeared to be in mort- al terror of speaking out against the new regime. In concluding his remarks last night, Faye once again invoked the Holy Trinity of SGC politics - David Schaper, Bill Jacobs and John Koza - in an. attempt to sanctify his actions. "I have con-j sulted with the spiritual heads of3 state, I have prayed to them for guidance, and they have assured me it is what they always dream- ed of doing with Council," Faye said. BOTTOM OF BARREL Macbeth': Idjotic tale By FRANCES BACON Daily Drama Critic Out, out, damn playwright! Bill Shakespeare has b e e n shucking us for years. He's a shrewd businessman, all right, and knows what the public wants (every one of his recent dramas have been easy million-sellers)- but his latest offering Macbeth is nothing more than a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing. THE PLAY is simply a fifth- Bill Tremnble nostalgic over city's road apples (continued from Page 3) SYNONYMOUS with the Spanish-American War. Things are different now. It is 76 years later. THE STRAIGHT Arrow Bar is gone. Replaced by the Indian! Summer Restaurant which does not even serve beer. The Michigan Theatre showed "The Sting" last week. In the movie women revealed their breasts and the bad guys won. In 1927 Slim Trueblood died of mouth cancer. The green slime is thick on his grave. NOW LONG-HAIRED drug addicts burn Old Glory. Now mom's brownies are laced with marijuana. Now the Spanish American War is over. rate hack rewriting job of Ro- man Polanski's fine film of the same name. Macbeth is a general in t h e Scottish army who kills King Duncan, maneuvers his way into becoming king himself and is later killed by a nobleman nam- ed Macduff. Still, Shakespeare shows he has some talent -the plot tiself isn't all that bad; it has all the elements of a fair mystery mur- der story. GRANTED, Shakespeare does not have the genius of a Mickey Spillane in this genre, but the play certainly could have been respectably thrilling. Unlike the Polanski film in which the emphasis is placed properlyhon theablood'n'guts, there's something rotten in Shakespeare's Macbeth. He tones down the film con- siderably (likely thinking of the financial damage an "R" rat- ing could have) and gets hung up on Macbeth's guilt complex as he got hunt up on Hamlet's inability totmake up his mind in Shakespeare's regrettable pro- duction from last year. INSTEAD OF letting the aud- ience wonder who killed Duncan, he tells the audience whodunit from the planning stages of the murder. This is unforgivable sin in any work in the mystery- drama form. He also makes a series of weak attempts to show his flair for "poetry," which point up his limitations as a writer. Shakespeare may be able to crank out his detective pieces and Gothic romances in be- tween his busy schedule as a pro- moter and brush salesman for the Avon Corp., but he's no Mc- Kuen when it comes to express- ing serious themes. ONE OF Shakespeare's great- est weaknesses is that when he backs himself into a corner in the plot, he resorts to using a variet of spirits, hobgoblins and witches on broomsticks to get himself out of trouble. Shakespeare seems to be jump- ing on the Exorist bandwagon in his use of the supernatural in Macbeth. The three wierd sis- ters aren't involved in anything as deliciously perverse as in the Exorist, but some of three visions they conjure up f o r Macbeth present chances for some rousing entertainment. Un- fortunately these are the only moments of relief in the entire production. Shakespeare's worst lapse oc- curs at the end ofaMacbeth. Ap- parently, he has added up the bank balances on his = earlier plays and has decided that his so-called "tragedies" are m o r e profitable than his "comedies." THEREFORE. in Macbeth, Shakespeare has tackled a com- pletely forced "tragic" ending. Macbeth is told by the t h r e e sisters that "No man of wo- man born" shall kill him and so is confident of success. Macduff, it turns out, is a pre- mature birth and so is able to do the deed, to Macbeth'sr sr- prise. The whole idea strains any conventions of believability beyond the breaking point. This sort of trick demonstrat- es just what's wrong with this work - Macbeth is clearly Shakespeare reaching for t h e bottom of the barrel. 7 I MOST OF US can only sit back, shake our heads, and ask has happened to Old Ann Arbor Town. The answer is the lack of road apples. what $l00 except Fri., Sat., Sun., $1.50 Today you can look for days and days and never see one. And after all, as the popular song goes, "If God didn't mak little road apples, it don't rain in Indianapolis . .. e Arti1 ends Tues., Apr. 2 Li I "Funny Car Summer" Weekdays. 7, 9; Fri., Sat., 7, 9,. 1 1; Sun., 3, 5, 7, 9-rated G Art 2 ends Tues., Apr. 2 DERANGED rated R Week, 7:15, 9; Fri., Sat., 7:15, 9, 10:45; Sun., 3:30, 5:30, 7:15, 9:00 31 N. Washington Ypsilanti 482-3300 PREMIERE PERFORMANCES. uac MUSKET 'd THE ORIGINAL USICAL COMEDY 28-31 suh." 47Pm / menldeiSSOb k. for futu her infot u1 JA coin .' - Paid Political Adv. . w, __. Reprinted from the Ann Arbor News, Sunday, January 20, 1974 Rent Fiures N WATERSHIP DOWN A new novel by RICHARD ADAMS for people from eight to eighty We've Got It We Love It You Will Too WATERSHIP DOWN by RICHARD ADAMS 0 05 6ooks~ore 1205 S. University 1... _~ 763-1107 COUNTERPOINT: An original n musical y AVI Misleading comedy set in the wild west by KRIECHMAN (a senior at U of M) TODAY at 2and 7 p.m. .._ Editor, The News: The rent control article which appeared last Sun- The rent control article which appeared last Sun- day, Jan. 13, indicated that 1970 census figures showed Ann Arbor to have the second highest median rent in the United States. The article further indicated that such exceptionally high rents constituted a strong ar- gument for rent control. This statement as it stands is to some extent inaccurate and could be very mis- leading. The median gross rent figure quoted for the city- $167 month-is not the second highest rent of any city in the country. Comparable 1970 census figures for other cities in Michigan (from Detailed Housing Char- acteristics, Michigan) include: Troy-$213, Farming- ton-$192, Birmingham-$198, Westland-$173, South- field-$256, Livonia-$176, and Beverly Hills-$300. These, and nine other cities in Michigan alone have rents ranging from slightly more to nearly double those in Ann Arbor. The most important problem in interpreting these numbers arises from confusion among several categor- ies used by the Bureau of the Census to present rental data. This difficulty is the distinction between the geographical categories "city" and "SMSA" (Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area). In relation to Ann Ar- bor, the "city" refers to only the City of Ann Arbor. An SMSA includes a principal city plus the area around the city which is closely related to it economi- ,cally and socially-for the Ann Arbor SMSA this is de- fined as all of Washtenaw County. The rental figures listed in the article-$167 and $160-represent the median gross rent for the city and the SMSA, respectively. (The gross rent includes esti- mated utility payments, and is distinct from "rent" or "contract rent," which may or may not include such payments.) As previously indicated, many cities even in Michigan have median gross rents considerably higher than those in Ann Arbor. Thus, rents paid by the rest of Washtenaw County) does indeed have the second highest median gross rent among the nation's SMSAs. The principal reason for the difference in our standing between the two types of areas is that many SMSAs are dominated by large central cities which have older, frequently decaying housing stocks, and are characterized by larger resident populations in low income brackets. The Detroit SMSA, for example, in- cludes many of the suburban cities noted earlier which have higher median gross rents than Ann Arbor. How- ever, it also includes the City of Detroit, with a com- parable figure of $98/month. The Detroit SMSA is large, diverse, and contains substantial areas of both very high and very low cost rental property. The Ann Arbor SMSA is much less diverse. In con- trast to the Detroit area, proportionally fewer rental units are found at the extremes of the rental cost range. Thus, the median gross rent for the SMSA is high relative to other SMSAs, while for the city it is not unusual relative to other cities with comparable income characteristics. This clarification is not intended to be an argu- ment on either side of the rent control issue, and by no means does it suggest that Ann Arbor is without problems in the rental housing market. Indeed, other data imply that problems do exist. The forthcoming report of the Mayor's Commission on Rent Control will discuss some of these issues, as did the Ann Arbor Growth Study previously published by the City Plan- ning Department. One final point should be made. With an issue as complex as rent control, care must be exercised in in- terpreting published figures. When numbers are used on either side of a current political controversy, over- simplification frequently occurs to the detriment of understanding the issues. We hope that everyone will take the time to Evaluate the implications of conflict- ing claims. William Duddleson, LAST 6 DAYS' D1' AUCTAIDE NO GIMMICKS-Just Good Old Fashioned Bargains Because of the thousands of items which we carry-it would be impossible to mark down each item-oil regular price merchandise will be discounted 20% at the Registers. Special priced itemsor items with a Larger discount will be tagged. This sale is ULRICH'S way of thanking our Regular customers and intro- ducing ourselves to the many new people who might not of heard of us-HAVE FUN- DVVRI U C 549 EAST UNIVERSITY ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN X3OO,OOO INVENTORY SALE INVOLVING EVERY ARTICLE IN OUR STORE ON BOTH FLOORS EXCEPT TEXTBOOKS AND CALCULATORS GREAT SALE 1I A'VC I SAVE 20, to ,50 nW FVFRY not tUI AD AR nl SPENDf E I - ~~./I~VN LVCI NV'L.LAiKl I V J .gl I.