. I 14w £friijan aihj Eighty-one years of editorial freedom Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan Reflections on the triumph in Detroit, 1972 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Mich. News Phone: 764-05521 Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of staff writers or the editors. This must be noted in all reprints. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1972 Booing Tiger management BASEBALL is a great game, and the peo- ple of Detroit take it as seriously as anybody. They absolutely must, or they never would have taken the inexcusable abuse heaped upon them by the Tiger management last night. It was a big game, one of the biggest the Tigers have ever been in, and John Fetzer, the Tigers' incredibly insensitive owner knew it. He was assured of a sell- out no matter what happened. But honesty can never stand in the way of making a buck, so Fetzer reneged on Monday's announcement that bleacher tickets for last night's game would go on sale at 6 p.m. Instead, he decided that making $10,000 in the morning is better than waiting for night, and he went ahead and sold every ticket he had be- fore 1 p.m. The thousands of loyal Tiger fans who went to workeyesterday never had a chance for a ticket. Early in the afternoon, people began to line up at the locked bleacher gates to get choice tickets when they opened at six. But they were told by a voice over a loud speaker, "There are not tickets available for tonight's game. If you have no ticket, please leave the area." The, fans, thousands of them, became an- gered and refused to .leave. Meanwhile, those 10,000 fans who had bought tickets earlier in the day were crowding up be- hind the rest, pushing everyone into the still closed gates. IT WAS A FIASCO. The Tigers refused to open the gates because those people without tickets, they feared, would charge in. The crowd pressed close and tight. Tempers flared and people yelled and cursed while the heat from thous- ands of pressing bodies grew stifling. A squad of Detroit Police Reserves and 'some regular Detroit Police moved in to try to control the crowd, which was grow- ing restless after two solid hours. Some people screamed for the crowd to "knock down the gates", but the mob, genuinely anxious to see the game, exercised admir- able control. Finally at 7:45, one single gate was opened, guarded by a horde of police- men, checking tickets one at a time to keep out crashers. The massive push by the crowd was almost unbearable. Little children and small adults were being pushed down and virtually trampled. People were yelling and screaming, while one city policeman was shouting, "My God, you people are just animals." I finally got through the gate, soaked with sweat, and hurting with minor bruises from the police pushing me around. I scrambled for a seat and pro- ceeded to boo the Tigers with all the vigor I could muster. In 15 years of go- ing to sporting events, big and small, never had I suffered the indignity that the Tigers had the audacity to wield last night. IT IT TIME that sports fans stop allow- ing themselves to be treated as ani- mals by avaricious team owners who are continuing to neglect the dignity of the people who support their teams. Ten thousand letters to John Fetzer might do the trick. The Tiger players won. The manage- ment clearly lost. -JOHN PAPANEK Sports Editor By DAN BORUS BASEBALL, AS Joe Garagiola pointed out, is a funny game. The last vestige of the Horatio Alger myth, baseball provides the setting for some of the most improbable occurrences in American life. In the course of a 162 game season (154 if you have a strike) the world can end up a little inverted. An example of this reverseness, this perversion of form, was brought forth Tuesday night in the Motor City. The Tigers, baseball world's version of the Summerhill Rest Home, eked out a victory over the Boston Red Sox, securing the championship of the Eastern Division of the American League. And Detroit went wild. Streets were covered with wild, frenzied fans who tore the Stadium apart. And over what . ..? An honest appraisal of the situation reveals that the Tigers possess the baseball adeptness of P.S. 149. The greatest advertisement for Geritol and the ability of our elderly citizens to live useful and productive lives without resorting to welfare in existence today, the Tigers reached their lofty position by smattering such giants as the Milwaukee Brewers, who rumor has it will play with a hard ballnext year. THE EASTERN DIVISION, after. all, was the weak sister; the comedy division.'No one team could put together a winning streak of any great duration and that wasn't a result of superior, play. A quick glance at the statistics of the league show Western Division clubs with a true superiority in pitching, hitting and power. If the league was divided geographically as is logical, then the Allen- Wood White Sox would be playing the Oakland Athletics for the title and the Red Sox-Tiger showdown would be just another Billy Martin wet dream. Rational minds must ask what is all this bruhaha about. A 32 year- old pitcher who couldn't throw a curve ball in the National League? a journeyman catcher who couldn't stay with even the lowly Indians? . . . a thug of a manager? Humph, it is a strange game. STRANGE ENOUGH that a team with as much speed as a drugged turtle and the hitting of an anemic cow could cause a celebration that could engulf an entire metropolis. Strange enough that old men could finish like young ones. But let's not take anything away from the Tigers. They do have assets - the second best fat pitcher in the league for one, and Stroh's beer for another. Perhapstwhen they enter post-season play they will reveal the stuff they are made of, much to the chagrin of their proudest and loud- est boosters. A World Series berth, replete with television coverage so the whole country can be appraised of Tiger exploits, would present the farcial situation at its height. The Pirates (or Reds) would parade their hitters and their stats across the screen with frightening repetitive- ness . . . .355 batting averages, 25 home runs. The Tigers will be forced to counter with their stick artists like Willie Horton ".228, 10 hrs." As my high school coach used to say, "class will out." Of course, as any good social scientist will tell you, no event is outside the realm of possibility but merely beyond the realm of pro- bability. And Tiger Stadium was the site of a lot of improbability. The Tigers, being' the wheeler-dealers that they are, didn't leave it all to chance. A forgotten waiver regulation here, a trade deadline ignored there, and the aging Bengals are fighting for glory. All legal, it is true, but shaky nonetheless. The cream, one learns, will inevitably rise to the top. Sometimes, however, one is ironically forced to add, "Wait till next year." Dan Borus, a sports night editor for The Daily, still firmly believes that Lou Brock was safe at the plate in '68. 4 14 SHORTSTOP AURELIO RODRIGUEZ blasts one of many circuit clouts for the Bengals. Winning isn tallbut.. By CHUCK BLOOM A WIN IS a win is a win is a win, and the Detroit Tigers won. It wasn't the Yankees or the Orioles or the Red Sox, it was the Tigers. As old and slow and bad as they are, they won the East Division of the American League and no one else in that division can claim that distinction. True, the Tigers weren't running away with the title like everybody else, but what would the President say if there wasn't an exciting pen- nant race to thrill all America. So what if Detroit was in a division that didn't live up to its expecta- tions and finished not too far obev .500. They won and that is all that counts. ,? Al Kaline played out of his head and Woodie Fryman pitched like some infamous gambler the Tig- ers had in 1968. They backed into the lead when no one else wanted it so they took advantage of a good thing and grabbedit. All the criticism of the Tigers generally comes from jealous peo- ple from other American League cities whosebteams did not win. (See story above). Not only is this attitude bush but a 1 s o not fair to all the Tiger fans who are at- tempting to savor the sweet, suc- culent juices of victory. THE TIGERS got hot during the last two weeks of the season and won when they had to win. This includes victories over upset-mind- ed teams like Milwaukee who are capable of derailing a pennant- bound express. When it came down to head-to-head competition with Boston, the Tigers flashed t h e i r fangs and choked off the puny Beantown sticks. Instead of acting like sore los- ers, the American League fans should be congratulating the cour- ageous effort the old men put forth. One admires good work, and should not admonish it. The De- troit fans deserve better than ver- bal abuse. People like Dick Young of the New Yory D a i 1y News, saying that the American League East should not even exist, should apply his wisdom to him- self. The Tigers will walk into Oak- land confident as the true champ- ions that they are. They will play to the best of their ability even thought it may not be too good. And if they fail to beat the A's, it will not matter for the Bengals will always be champs in the hearts of the fans. Class will prevail, age will con- quer flair, and Detroit will wipe out all that stands in its way of the World Series title. Chuck Bloom, alias Mr: Con- stricTOR, is a sports night editor for The Daily. Exposing Detroit's shame' Environment finds friend in DAILY CHIEF Photographer Terry Mc- Carthy was just doing his job early yesterday morning, mingling with Ken- nedy Square crowds, snapping pictures of the street disturbances that followed the victory of the Detroit Tigers a few hours earlier. Unfortunately, several Detroit police officers felt that their duty to control the crowds included beating McCarthy with nightsticks, threatening him with abusive language, and stealing the film from his camera. This might seem an isolated incident, something that jumpy cops might do in the heat and tension of battle. But when The Daily called the Detroit Police yes- terday to file a formal complaint, we learned that both The Detroit News and WXYZ television news'had encountered similar harassment. The police promised to investigate. The real tragedy of what happened is not the few bruises and loss of film suf- fered by three reporters engaged in their duty, but the fact that the Detroit police are so undisciplined that their command officers are unable to restrain themselves from running wild. Special onions must go to Police Commissioner John Nichols, who was supposedly in personal con- trol of the situation. Reporters from this newspaper have covered demonstrations throughout the nation. In no other place, with the ex- ception of 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago, have they encountered such obstacles as those in Detroit yesterday morning., In contrast, police in Washington, D.C. and Miami, Fla., managed to maintain a healthy relationship with the media, de- spite situations far more tense than a victory celebration. The Daily can do without the roll of film, and McCarthy's bruises will fade away in time. But the public must not tolerate this type of behaviour on the part of its police. -JONATHAN MILLER two-year-old, By MARTIN STERN Yet in overf ICHIGAN'S Environmental Pro- have been filed tection Act is two years old as ception, the maj of this month, and though neither favorable to the a great cure-all nor just another suit, either thr weak pollution control measure, tions or out-of-c it does seem to have more posi- One specific c tive than negative merits. This that of the Wa is an encouraging sign. Dept. (WCHD) Specifically, the Environmental ber Avenue in Protection Act (EPA), as drafted oerAinewih by University Law Professor Jos- operating with eph Sax in 1970, allows anyone lution control d to bring suit in circuit court erally coating against any private or public en- neighborhood titly which is in some way pollut- EXirt. ing or harming the air, water, wild- EXISTENT P, life, or other natural resources of trols couldn't sa the state. the matter, so University student Roger Connor, suit against Chi who is a member of the state Air EPA, which at1 Pollution Control Commission, was and untested. TI one of several lobbyists who help ing that a soluti ed push the EPA through the state ed outside of t legislature two years ago. Com- Chrysler, unco menting upon the law's effective- new law, allow ness, Connornotes that itnhas been drag on and on successful, and "has been a bene- Finally, a gri fit to the state." dred local resid( pollution act forty cases which since the law's in- jority have proved parties filing the ough court convic- ourt settlements. ase Connor cited is Dye County Health v. Chrysler Corp'. st foundry, at Hu- Detroit had been inefficient air pol- evices and was lit- the surrounding with heavy indus- POLLUTION c o n- atisfactorily handle the WCHD filed rysler under t h e the time was new he WCHD was hop- on could be reach- he courtroom, but oncerned with the ved negotiations to up of several hun- ents intervened. as plaintiffs against Chrysler. Nov caught in the middle between the extreme revengeful demands of the residents and the more mod- erate requests of the WCHD, Chry- sler capitulated and a compromise solution was soon reached. ANOTHER MAJOR aspect of the EPA is that it serves as prevent- itive medicine. Administrative and pri'-ate enterprises, before making decisions which could affect the environment, now have second thoughts about their actions, aware of possible repercussions which could arise from them. Thus,the Environmental Protec- tion Act seems to be celebrating a happy second birthday. Involving both citizen participation as well as a means of constant' pressure on government and industry, it definitely seems to be a step in the right direction towards con- trolling pollution. Marty Stern is a staff writer for The Daily: I Zolton' s breach of ethics Fireside Chat LI ZOLTONFerency, a founding member of the statewide Human Rights Party (HRP) and one-time Democratic gubernatorial candidate, has goofed. Badly. Ferency, it was announced at an HRP press conference Tuesday, has given Perry Bullard, Democratic candidate for the 53rd State Legislative District, a personal check for $100. It is not quite clear where the money for this check came from. Ferency claims it came from others, who wish to remain anonymous. Bullard has been saying that Ferency himself is a campaign contrib- utor to his fund. Either way, Bullard is $100 richer and Ferency is in trouble. If Ferency actually donated the money himself, he was vio- Editorial Staff SIRA FITZGERALD Editor PAT BAUER ...........Associate Managing Editor LINDSAY CHANEY..........Editorial Director MARK DILLEN ..................... Magazine Editor lating a long-standing party ethic for- bidding support for candidates of other parties. If Ferency was merely being a "bag man" for people who, in his own words, are "interested in your (Bullard's) can- didacy," then he is probably in violation of state election law. WHEN HRP scheduled the press confer- ence that merely muddied the topic it was intended to clarify, the idea was to disclaim Bullard's public announce- ment that Ferency had jumped his party to contribute to a Democrat's coffers. Instead, it became apparent that Fer- ency did contribute-or at least he wrote the check. This looks bad for Ferency-and well it should. It deserves to be taken into ac- count when people decide. who to send to the State Supreme Court, for which Ferency is a candidate in November. The problem is, it also looks bad for the rest of HRP's candidates,kespecially Steve Burghardt, who is running against Bullard, and herein lies the tragedy. In contributing to a Democrat's campaign, Ferency has made his own ties to HRP suspect. FERENCY SHOULD be severely repri- manded-at the very least-for what SG C president explains Council's activities By BILL JACOBS IN RECENT WEEKS, there has been con- siderable controversy in the pages of The Daily concerning Student Government Council. Controversy and criticism are al- ways welcome as they guarantee full air- ings of views on important issues. However, much of the latest controversy has been misguided in that it has been based upon inaccurate news stories and irresponsible editorials printed in The Daily. Rather than recite these inaccuracies here, it would be more useful to discuss the basic legitimate questions that have been raised by the students on campus. First, what is SGC supposed to do? The purpose of Student Government Council is to represent its constituency, lobby on behalf of that constituency, take action to provide for the social, academic and economic wel- fare of its constituency and provide a forum for discussion of significant campus issues. Second, what is SGC actually doing? Since the last all-campus election, the following concerns have been the objects of most of our efforts: -FUNDING - One of the basic rights of any constituency is to set its own level of Finally, the Regents did approve the one dollar. However, in direct opposition tb the wishes of the students, the Regents prohibited the SGC lawyer from suing the University and prohibited SGC from spend- ing money on a grocery cooperative. SGC plans to fight this denial of a basic constitutional right and is presently con- sidering the most effective means of doing so; -SGC LEGAL ADVOCATE - The pur- pose of the SGC Legal Advocate program is to place the student body on more equal terms with the Administration, the city and the state. A few of the projects that the Legal Advocate, Tom Bentley, is pre- sently engaged in are fighting the recent voiding of the Ann Arbor $5 pot law, open- ing all Regents meetings to the public as required by the state constitution, chal- lengingthe AttorneysGeneral's ruling that a student cannot sit on the Board of Regents, forcing the University to release its salary list with names in an effort to end discrimination against women, forcing the plagiarism merchants (Write-On and Crea- tive Writing) out of town, and forcing the City Clerk to enforce the new voting rights laws; This year, the SGC Voter Registration Committee is sponsoring a drive which is expected to register between 1500 and 2000 new voters; - REPRESENTATION ON UNIVERSITY COMMITTEES - Each year SGC appoints dozens of students to sit on University wide committees dealing with all aspects of campus life. Two of the more notable actions SGC has taken in the past week have been; a) ap- pointment of students to the Health Service Planning Committee who support a system under which all students would pay a small flat fee each year and receive health care free of charge the rest of the year, and b) mandating the students on the Office of Student Services Policy Board (a com- mittee on which students are in the major- ity) to force open meetings; - BAIL FUND -- SGC operates a bail fund which will bail out any member of the Ann Arbor community whose bail has been set at up to $150 and who can be ceasonably expected to pay back the bail. Over the years this service has proven invaluable to individual students as well as in times of mass arrests; INSURANCE - Each year SGC nego- THE FINAL AND PERHAPS most cruc- ial question is how is the student body is supposed to know what SGC and the school and college governments are doing? In the past, this service was provided by the Daily. However, in recent months, Daily coverage of SGC has been reduced to oc- casional shabby and biased attacks. In an effort to keep our constituency informed, SGC in cooperation with other student gov- ernments has created the "Michigan Stu- dent News," a weekly newsletter which is being mailed to all students. It should be noted that the News is not controlled by any one government, so that.students can expect accurate and unbiased reporting.. In addition, all SGC meetings are open and students are invited to attehd and par'- ticipate in debate. SGC meetings are held every Thursday at 7:30 in the SC Chamb- ers on the third floor of the Michigan Union. If you can't come to meetings, our office is open 9 to 5 Monday 'hrough Fri- day and there is always someone around to talk to. STUDENT GOVERNMENT COUNCIL was created and exists to serve she students on this campus. Yet, in the final analysis, , I