THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Five daily dialogue op/ ed r l i 1 i i 1 i 3 1 7 I 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) All Nudsons $6, $5. $4 impeach'm.ent . agenda ar r « . 4 i ...o 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. 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