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THE MICHIGAN DAILY

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outrage
To the Daily:
CRAM IT UP your liberal asses!
Just to begin with the Michigan
Daily telling the Human Rights
Party to "check the facts first" is
like Nixon going on TV to chide
the citizens of the country for not
filling out their income tax forms
honestly.
Fact No. 1: Clyde Colburn was
not assailed for the slur made over
the radio about the "faggots and
hippies." I distinctly said "a Re-
publican spokesman" made the
statement (since my attempts at
WCBN to find out who in the Re-
publican party had actually made
the statement were to no avail).
Fact No. 2: Only one person who
spoke Tuesday night spoke as a
representative ofgthetHRP. In fact,
several of those who spoke have
no connection at all with the party
except for friends in the party.
Now to get back to Tuesday
night. Many of us in the gay com-
munity have felt a special affection
for the two HRP representatives on
city council and felt the need to
publicly thank them for the thou-
sands of people hours they have
put into city government. That we
did.
There are also many of us who
feel more and more that city gov-
ernment is an enormous farce
crammed down our throatsinethe
name of democracy. The rules of
the game as you would have us
play it are as follows:
THE MICHIGAN DAILY RULES
FOR CITY COUNCIL
Rule No. 1: Present your ideas,
suggestions, or complaints in a
polite, gentle manner and ignore
the fact that one of the Republicans
on council is reading a shoe cata-
logue, and two of the others are
discussing the pros and cons of the
last basketball game.
Rule No. 2: Be nice, don't display
emotion; just because city council
is about to rape the rape proposal
or attempt once again to dismantle
the Model Cities Program doesn't
mean you should flaunt your feel-
ings like a new car.
Rule No. 3: Above all, show re-
spect, just because you are speak-
ing before seven fascist pigs who
would machine gun down all the
blacks, chicanos, hippies, and fag-
gots were it legal (and they are
working on it) and who pay no
attention to anything any woman
says or anything a young person
says or does; just because these
men are the epitome of everything
that is wrong with this country
doesn't mean you should not re-
spect them. Remember they re-
spect your right to be oppressed so
you should respect their right to
be oppressive.
Rule No. 4: Be nice to the Demo-
crats. Just because they say one
thing and vote another; just be-
cause they want to send every
problem of any merit to a com-
mission to study it (a commission
appointed by the Republicans);
Sjust because Thoroughly Moderate
Militant is flirting with Clyde over
her inability (very well played I
might add) to open a Coke bottle

during the presentation of the Rape Egnor who a few weeks ago filed
Proposal, be nice. Remember, a multi-million dollar action suit
sometimes if they think it won't to end extortion and kick backs
lose them votes they might vote prevalent in mobile notne parks
for something liberal. throughout the State. Tnis was the
WELL, I'M SORRY Michigan second such class action to be fil-
Daily. I am angry and I have no ed, with a third in preparation. In-
intention of hiding in my cloest deed, for his diligence, corporate
with my anger just as I hid in my mobile home sellers and park own-
closet with my gayness for so ers grumble that he is "private at-
many years. I'm angry because torney general" in this area.
blacks are still being oppressed Egnor's civil rights record is
100 years after we liberally gave similar, he being the attorney for
them their freedom. I'm angry be- black Junior High School Principal
cause women in this country are Fred Leonard, of Ann Arbor, in
still second class citizens 50 years his confrontation with the school
after they were liberally given the board. Did you know that Egnor
vote. I'm angry because the elite held found a prototype of the
student body at this campus hasn't present Legal Aid System while a
got the time or the energy it takes :law student here? Or that he serv-
to vote, to be aware that the war ed as a legislative aid to Con-
is still going on in Vietnam, that
Chicanos in the Southwest are be- gressman James O'Hara, head of
ing ppresed y te Temstes ,liberal Democratic Study G r 0 u p ,
ing oppressed by the Teamsters wile at U of M? Or that he work-
and Big Business and that their3 ed for two years for the National
refusal to stop eating scab lettuce;L
and grapes and stop buying Gallo Labor Relations Board as an ap-
wine is directly aiding that op- pellate attorneytrepresenting that
pression. Board before the U.S. Circuit
I'm angry because I am still not Courts of Appeal?
free to walk the streets of this COLGAN DID, though he ne-
Liberal city with someone I feel glected to mention them. The re-
close to and show that affection porter also fancies himself a Con-
because he is the same sex as I stitutional authority, able to pose
am. I am angry because my gay ' rhetorical questions about impeach-
brothers and sisters are being sub- ment. This is curious, since the im-
jected to lobotomies, electroshock peachment provision of the Con-
and chemotherapy in the name of stitution was written some 200
mental health. I'm angry about years ago, and interpreted once, in
these and a 100 other things that what is generally considered to
are wrong with this blood soaked 1 have been a political "witch hunt."
country, and you have the out-|Knowing nothing of the reporter's
rageous gall to ask me to be nice! basis of expertise, and with limited
-Dan Byrne personal knowledge, I still feel
confident in stating his assurance
Egnor is misplaced, his position question-

sibility rests with many of us in
the Residential College.
-Jens Zorn
member of the RC Executive
Committee and the RC/LSA
Joint Board
inadequacy
To The Daily:
Two weekends ago, the commu-
nity of the University of Michigan
witnessed the creative potency of
the Dance Program in a five-per-
formance series at the Power Cen-
ter.
The average concert-goer, judg-
ing from the extravaganza-like.
qualities of the program could
hardly guess that the 150-strong
cast was rehearsed in two rooms
in the Waterman Gymnasium, un-.
der the direction of a highly cap-
able, but overworked, three-mem-
ber staff.
From the technical strength and
skill of the individual dancer, the
average concertgoer woulddhave
little idea that that very dancer
had been trained in an overcrowd-
ed studio, receiving the absolute
minimal in individual attention and
correction.
JUDGING FROM the concentra-'
tion level, commitment and dedi-
cation of the performers, one could
not easily guess that the dancer
is stifled by the non-creative, dog-
matic curriculum requirements of
the traditional, non-artistic school
of Education, the absurdly located
home of the Dance Major Pro-
gram.
As an out of state dance major
paying high tuition for a less than

An

THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Five

By TOM DeKORNFELD
"I THINK impeachment would
be a healthy thing for the
country even though it would
bring on some equally as miser-
able," said the co-chairman of.
the Ann Arbor Committee to Im-
peach Nixon (AACIM) in an in-
terview recently.
To impeach President Nixon
now would mark a boundary
beyond which future Presi-
dents would know not to stretch
their power, said Co-Chairman
Daniel Ruben. And it would
prove that the punishment for
exceeding that boundary was
more than just a theoretical pos-
sibility.
In its effort to influence Con-
gress to impeach Nixon AACIN
has several activities planned
for the coming month:
On April 26, Congressman John
Conyers will give a talk about
the House Judiciary Committee
and impeachment.,
On April 27 there will be AA-
CIN buses going to national im-
peachment demonstrations in
Washington D.C. and Chicago.
For U. of M. impeachment sup-
porters this date is unfortunate
because it comes during finals
but Ruben points out that a
student could go to Chicago, par-
ticipate in the demonstration and
return in the same day losing
only one day of study.
A DOOR TO DOOR campaign
will also be started in an attempt
to involve more nonstudents in
the impeachment effort.
Obtaining the money to pay for
for all these projects presentssa
serious problem however, so
fiend raising activities will also
fill a large part of the AACIN
agenda. Before the national dem-
It you are interest-
ed in revtewlng
poetry. and music,
or writing feature
stories abeo ut the
drama, dacfim
Editor. c/o The
Michigan Daily.

onstration AACIN will hold sev-
everal film benefits and a Phil
Ochs concert to be held April 23.
So far the committee's main
task has been to staff a table at
the Fishbowl and in front of the
Cellar where people could write
letters to Congress declaring
their support of impeachment.
About 5.700 letters have been
sent; two-thirds to Marvin Esch
o and one-third to those Re-
publicans on the House Judiciary
Committee most likely to favor
impeachment.
Dan Ruben, himself an under-
graduate, works at the AACIN
tables and has found that most
students now favor impeach-
ment. But apathy remains so
strong that many cannot be
moved to write a letter express-.
ing their, views.
IN AN ATTEMPT to appeal to
as wide a following as possible
AACIN has not formulated an
official stand on why they want

Nixon impeached. Consequently
their supporters range from So-
cialists to Liberal Republicans.
Ruben became involved in AA-
CIN when "The secret bombing
of Cambodia and the Plumbers
made me realize how close to a
dictatorship we were coming to
in this country." He sees im-
peachment as a safeguard which

can keep the president's power
from expanding to tyrannical pro-
portions. And a safeguard which,
in light of Senator Mansfield's
recent statements, promises to
be effective.
"I think he'll definitely be im-
peached." said Ruben. "But
whether he gets convicted or not
is another thing."

25-yr-old CHRISTOPHER PARKENING
. .is a great artist-he is one of the most brilliant
quitarists in the world."-ANDRES SEGOVIA
The Detroit Institute of Arts
FOUNDERS CONCERT SERIES: Edith J. Freeman, Chairman
Auditorium, Fri., Apr. 26-8:30 p.m.
Art Institute Ticket Office (831-4678. 831-0360)
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To The Daily: able at best. adequate, depersonalized educa-
THE MARCH 23 editorial con- I short, I can attribute Colgan's tion, I must protest the deplorable
cerning Ron Egnor's candidacy for coverage to one of two motives: situation the dance major is in
U.S. Congress was an atrocity of either an overexuberant zeal in right now.
yellow journalism - at best. I which ends ustified means (sound As an artist, I am compelled to
will preface my remarks in a fash- familiar?), or a blatant example constantly re-examine the impossi-
ion which your reporter, Brian of political "dirty tricks." In ei- bility of receiving an artistic edu-
Colgan, did not. Presently a law ther case, it is inexcusable, and cation in a University that super-
student, I work for Ron's law of- further, not conducive to a healthy, imposes a rigid concept of the
fice as a clerk, consider him a energetic issue-oriented Democrat- "career" opportunities and dire.-
friend, and will work for his elec- is primary race, in w'iich a can- tion of the artist, manifested by
tion. That is my vested interest. didate can be fairly choen to de- the lack of flexibility of the Edu-
When Mr. Colgan drove up to feat Marvin Esch in the November cation School curriculum.
IEgnor's office to intetrview him, election. Finally, I think Ron Eg- Am
I salowd. reomnatlydi- oris heidalcandidacy. AND FINALLY, as a feminist,
Ialed . Predomiantymi-n iAndrewMuth I am disguested and appalled that
ped on his oar was a bump- -drew hlittle of the needed change has
ed sticker for one of Egnor occurred thus far in this female-
ponents in the Democratic primary, RC dominated field. I feel certain that
an opponent Colgan has given a To The Daily: dicatdents, for eample,
half-page of _glowing copy to in :IN FAIRNESS, some information would never put up with similarly
February. Talking afterwards, my should be added to the Daily's 17 overcrowded, understaffed, nade-
fears were alleviated when Egnor's April story about the RC director- quacies in their education.
campaign news secretary told me ship. Professor Orlin was asked to E s--A Dance Major
that he thought Mr. Colgan was a become the acting director of the Aprila18
responsible journalist who would college only late in the summer of __ Apr 18
give Egnor an obective treatment 1973, a time when the college badly
- regardless of Colgan's personal needed someone to pick up the
preferences. He was wrong. reins and under circumstances
In addition to the use of derisive which made his willingness to T E GRAN
insinuation and ridiculous rhetor- serve on a pro-tem basis particu- "An outrageous,
ic, the facts presented were sadlyj larly welcome.exes eflm N
unobjective, and calculated to ac- Well before he took office, the excessive film. N
complish a partisan end. Nowhere RC's fall term curriculum had to have seen anytl
in the article was menrion made been established by student/staffj-
of Egnor's activist role in fighting committees, so he saw the winter
sexism. For instance, ne is out- semester as the first opportunity "A liberatingly funny pitch
fielder Carolyn King's attorney, to influence the course structure. hilarious dirty movie tha
and will be arguing her case to Unfortunately, Orlin suffered a se- of Fellini and Resnais and
play Little League baseball before vere back injury early in Septem-:
the Federal Circuit Court of Ap- ber, an injury that kept him in Bergman."-oster Hrsch,
peals in Cincinnati April 17. the hospital and at home for an,
HE HAS ALSO been a consumer extended period. ENG RA
crusader for years. Presently Eg- During this period the adminis
nor is the attorney for the Michi- tration of the RC, and the plan-
gan Mobile Homeowners Associa- ning for the present Winter se-
tion. Mobile home owners are one mester, was done in large part by BO U F!
of the most exploited consumer others. It would be only too easy
groups in the state and nation, yet to blame the disappointments of
since not a cause celebre, they the past year on a single individ-
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