JACK ANDERSON
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1972
Stop the grab bag
FOOTBALL GAMES at the University
are one big party for students - in-
cluding the well-known Boone's Farm,
grass, and even a drinking raccoon.
Amidst the guzzling of wine and en-
thusiastic cheering for our team, females
are constantly being passed up and down
the stadium like balloons. Originally, this
was meant to be all in the fun of the
game. Girls squealed with false terror as
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they were picked out from the crowd to
be the next one to go up.
Recently, however, this sport has
turned into a sexual outlet for our frus-
trated male students. A female does not
merely get gently passed up bleachers-
she gets pinches, pokes, squeezes, and
tugs at her clothes along the way.
There are not many girls who seem to
enjoy partially disrobing in front of
thousands of football fans. Instead of
getting an ego boost out of being picked
for a pass, (literally) girls now cringe at
the thought that they might be next.
Now if the males at this University
really consider all this sexual stimula-
tion at our games necessary, then why
not give the females a chance at humil-
iating the male intellects? Or better yet,
why not quit this grab bag?,
-JEAN LOVE
WASHINGTON - Democrats once again
are dredging up the old familiar question
about Richard Nixon. Political posters are
asking voters: "Would you buy a used
car from this man?"
The question is especially unfair in this
political campaign, since George Mc-
Govern actually has had more experience
dealing in used cars.
A few years ago, in fact, McGovern
swung a sweet car deal back home in
the Dakotas. He exchanged his used Che-
vrolet for a new Pontiac and then let a
friend pick up $700 of the bill.
The friend is Paul McCann, a Minnea-
polis businessmen, whose family owns an
interest, in James River Motors in James-
town, North Dakota. McGovern sold his
Chevy for $2,800, then picked up a $3,500
Pontiac at the factory. McCann made up
the $700 difference.
At one point, the Internal Revenue Serv-
ice investigated the deal. Agent William
Heath questioned McCann about it and
travelled to Jamestown to inspect the auto
firm's records. The IRS, however, found
nothing incriminating.
Senator McGovern himself has discussed
the transaction frankly with us. He called
the money he saved on the deal a gift
from a friend.
The deal was all perfectly legal, but it
does provide a new twist on an old ques-
tion. A Republican might well ask: "Would
you buy a used car from George Mc-
Govern?"
-Chinese Control Drugs-
New evidence has come to light that
Mainland China is virtually free of drug
problems.
. Last summer, we quoted an internal
White House memo which strongly refuted
rumors that China was heavily involved
in the international flow of illicit drugs.
Recently, we obtained a secret intelligence
report which backs up the White House
memo.
The document's authors state: "We be-
lieve that opium production and consump-
tion is under effective control inside the
People's Republic of China and that any
possible illicit export is in miniscule
amounts."
The intelligence report concludes: "There
is no reliable evidence that Communist
China has either engaged in or sanctioned
the illicit export of opium or its deriva-
tives to the Free World."
Our sources tell us that the Chinese
have a three-pronged antidrug program.
First, they exercise strict control over the
cultivation of opium. Second, they have in-
stituted a vast program to educate the
public on the evils of drugs. Finally, they
have rehabilitated old opium addicts and
put them to work.
-Around the U.S.-
NIXON PUZZLED - President Nixon
has told Republican leaders privately that
he does not understand why the North
Vietnamese are cooperating in his election-
eve peace negotiations. They must know,
said the President, that they are helping
his campaign by holding secret peace talks
before the election. The President hinted
to his friends, however, that Moscow and
Peking have quietly brought pressure upon
the North Vietnamese to settle the war.
The President has suggested that per-
haps the two Communist titans have told
Hanoi that Nixon would be tougher to deal
with if he is re-elected.
OILY BIRDS - The American Petrol-
eum Institute has come up with another
face-saving way to treat oil spills. It has
published an expensive, full-color booklet
on how to scrub down birds once they
have been drenched with oil. The booklet
is called "Operation Rescue" and t o o k
three years to prepare. A better title for
it would be "Operation Double-Talk." The
oil industry offers the public helpful sug-
gestions on the dos and don't of cleaning
oil-soaked birds at the same time that
it continues to loby against legislation
that would prevent oil spills in the first
place.
COLLEGE QUOTAS - Representative
Bert Podell, D-N.Y., is investigating
charges that the Health, Education and
Welfare Department is quietly pressuring
universities to set racial quotas for pro-
fessors. According to Podell, unqualified
minority professors in many colleges are
getting jobs that should be going to more
able men. HEW denies the charges,
SMOKESCREEN - The Air Tansport
Association is proclaiming in newspaper
ads around the country that airlines have
put an end to smoke emissions from jet
aircraft, but environmentalists tell us that
by getting rid of the smoke the airlines
have actually caused the amount of in-
visible and highly toxic pollutants from jet
engines to increase. Despite AT's latest ad
campaign, the Northern Research Cor-
poration predicts a 200 per cent increase in
invisible nitrogen emissions from jet en-
gines by the year 1980.
--Intelligence Items-
TERRORISM IN ATHENS - B1 a c k
September, the underground Arab terror-
ist organization, may be planning strikes
against U.S. installations in Greece. In-
telligence reports warn that the strikes
would be intended as retaliation against
the United States for making Athens home-
port for the U.S. Sixth Fleet. In Arab
eyes, Athens has now become a U.S. naval
base esetablished to support Israel.
SECRET ARMS TRADE - French and
American arms salesmen are engaged in
an ominous, secret rivalry in the Middle
East and Mediterranean. They are com-
peting to sell arms to the Israelis and
Arabs, as well as the Greeks and Turks.
Secret diplomatic dispatches from Kuwait,
for example, tell how the U.S. embassy
is working behind the scenes to help Amer-
ican munitions makers peddle their goods
in Kuwait. This undercover French-Amer-
ican arms rivalry has helped stimulate an
arms race between Israel and her Arab
neighbors, and also between Greece and
Turkey.
SECURITY CHECKS-The FBI is quiet-
ly checking on 7,000 Arab students and
teachers in this country. The G-men want
to make sure none of these Arab visitors
are terrorists who might attempt terror
tactics against Israelis in the United
States. Meanwhile, in Russia, intelligence
reports tell of police checks on hundreds
of thousands of Soviet citizens. The police
are asking to see their registration cards
- a sort of domestic passport which Soviet
citizens are supposed to carry. The rea-
son for the crackdown, the police explain,
is to catch "criminals."
U.S. REBUFFED - The island of Mad-
agascar which has served as a strategic
diplomatic base for the West in the
Indian Ocean may soon open its doors to
the Russians and Chinese according to an
intelligence report. Madagascar was solid-
ly pro-American until President N i x o n
appointed Anthony Marshall, a political
contributor, to replace David King as
ambassador. King's friendly ties at all
levels of the government were lost when
Marshall took command. Now, the island's
new military rulers are reassessing their
commitments to the West.
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Death to the
'sweet tooth'
By MARK GREEN
FROM CANNED soups to frozen
vegetables, baked beans to
prepared tomatoes, luncheon meats
to Coca-Cola and, in fact, in most
of what you bother to inspect on
supermarket shelves, sugar has be-
come a popular and cheap chemi-
cal for the food processing indus-
try to add to our food.
In many desert foods, it has ac-
tually become the major compon-
ent (listed first on the label). In
other foods you'll find it listed as
an ingredient, along with notations
for natural sweeteners, dextrose
and various syrups, all of which
add to your body's intake of sugars.
This proclivity of the food in-
dustry to add increasing amounts of
sugar to our food has the advantage
of hiding our increasingly vapid
processed food behind a veil of
sweetness, as well as appealing to
our society's constantly prodded
sweet tooth.
Thus in 1971, out of 525 lbs. of
total dry food consumption t h e
average North American took in
101.6 lbs. of sugar - two-thirds of
it from processed foods!
What exactly are the factors
which have converted table or cen-
trifugal sugar (sucrose) from a
scarce luxury sold by the spoon-
ful to an abundant and cheap food
additive?
The answer can be found in the
techniques taught at this Imiver-
sity in Chemistry 227. Recrystalli-
zation, vacuum evaporation, pre-
cipitation, extraction, steam distil-
lation and activated charcoal puri-
fication have, on industrial scale,
lowered the price and allowed a
yearly production of 70 million tons
of highly pure beautiful w h i t~e
crystals of surcrose from h i g h 1 y
impure syrups obtained from the
sugar cane or beet.
SUCROSE and related molecules,
because of their structure a n d
economic importance, have con-
tinued to be the subject of wide-
ranging chemical research. It
would not be an overstatement
to say that the sugars have play-
ed a central role in the practical
and theoretical development of or-
ganic chemistry.
Sucrose is actually a composite
or dimer of two simple molecules,
glucose and fructose. Hence the
name - disaccharide. These two
molecules are also sugars (mono-
saccharides) and although some-
what less than sucrose, still taste
sweet. Because glucose is a neces-
sary component of our blood (with-
out which we lose energy) and su-
crose quickly releases its compon-
ent glucosei advertisers boasted
about "quick energy."
Notwithstanding these hosannas,
sucrose supplies what is known nu-
tritionally as "empty energy" or
calories, that is, without other nu-
trients. Moreover, necessary blood
glucose, and thus energy, may be
maintained without eating sucrose.
The latter is so since many sub-
stances we normally eat and which
abound in necessary vitamins and
minerals yield in vivo, chemically
bound glucose. The most serious
and unquestioned drawback to our
high sugar consumption derives
from this.
Since our modern sedentary lives
require only two to three thousand
calories a day and a substantial
part of our diet - 20 per cent -
consists of nutritionally empty su-
crose, we must eat that much more
to get essential nutrients. We
don't, and this is a substantial con-
tribution to our nutritional deficien-
cies.
Since general good health is
founded on a nutritionally adequate
diet, sugar consumption, in lieu
of nutritionally rich energy sourc-
es, must contribute to ill health.
SUGAR, nutritional authorities
say, tastes good but is definitely
a prime factor in overweight and
also is responsible, with associated
agents, for the tooth decay which
arises from cavities.
Others, on less firm but reason-
able ground and admitting the
great complications involved, claim
that sugar consumption correlates
well with heart disease with or
without high fat intake. This claim
is supported by findings that high
sugar intake apparently leads to
chronically high insulin levels.
High insulin levels have been
found to correlate with high choles-
terol levels in aortal blood in the
rat and coronary disease in man.
It is interesting in this regard
that coronary disease is more ser-
ious in men than women; among
people over 65, men in 1969 con-
Get involved--
write your reps!
Sen. Philip Hart (Dem), Rm.
253, Old Senate Bldg., Capitol
Hill, Washington, D.C. 20515.
Sen. Robert Griffin (Rep),
Rm. 353 Old Senate Bldg., Cap-
Itol Hill, Washington, D.C.
20515.
Rep. Marvin Esch (Rep), Rm.
112, Cannon Bldg. Capitol Hill,
Washington, D.C. 20515.
Sen. Gilbert Bursley (Rep),
Senate, State Capitol Bldg.,
Lansing, 48933.
Rep. Raymond Smit (Rep),
House of Representatives, State
Capitol Bldg., Lansing, 48933.
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Letters: Hit massage parlor story
sumed 38 per cent more sugar
than women. This greater male
consumption is the case from child-
hood on.
EVEN IF sugar's only deficiency
were tooth decay, the price is
phenomenal. We now spend two
billion dollars per year on caries
repair and it would be eight Wil-
lion if all people were treated.
Army surveys show that every 100
inductees require 600 fillings, 112
extractions, 40 bridges, 21 crowns,
18 partial dentures and one f u 1 1
denture- most of the damage de-
riving from high sugar intake.
Tooth decay, definitely connected
to sugar consumption, is known to
follow from the ability of certain
oral bacteria (streptococci and lac-
tobacilli) to break down sucrose to
lactic acid. This acid can dissolve
the basic calcium sals (hydroxy-
apatite) which constitute our tboth
surface. The bacteria are a 1 s o
able to form polymers or very
large molecules from sucrose.
These polymers, or dental plaque,
act as a scaffold on the tooth to
allow the bacteria and sugar time
and proximity to do their thing.
It should be pointed out for the
health food advocates that every-
thing said above applies for both
brown sugar and honey. The lat-
ter, a water solution of glucose,
fructose and little else, arises by
virtue of a sucrose splitting enzyme
invertase found in bees.
Sugar, a ubiquitous food additive
in the American diet, is a highly
suspect and over-consumed chem-
ical material which may, as a re,
sult of scientific studies, someday
face restriction.
. Mark Green is an assistant pro-
fessor of chemistry. He is willing
to discuss references for this ar-
ticle with any interested person.
To The Daily:
LAST WEEK'S raid of Cesar's
Retreat and the American Massage
Parlor is simply another example
of misdirected police activity and
selective enforcement of unjust
laws. Laws against pandering and
prostitution are useless, discrimin-
atory and hypocritical.
The Human Rights Party is
against all such laws that punish
victimless "crimes". Any consent-
ing individuals have a right to any
sort of relationship, and t h e i r
civil liberties must be protected.
The Ann Arbor police arrested
and charged three employes of the
above businesses with a felony and
"will seek misdemeanor warrants
against some of the customers"
(though they have access to re-
cords of all thehclub members). The
actual operators of the establish-
ment will probably remain safe and
unrevealed.
As for the assumed "protective"
purpose behind the Daily's story,
the women subjected to police
search, detention and harassment
are not thankful! Sexism is pre-
valent throughout our society. Wo-
men have limited career choices
and, in fact, most roles they a r e
forced into are exploitative. In the
case of prostitution, neither t h e
most nor the least exploitative,
there is the additional injustice of
verely while the owners and most
customers remain respectable and
free.
As if to justify their part in the
police action, The Daily pointed out
that the women can avoid prosecu-
tion by turning state's witnesses. If
they do not, and that appears like-
ly, they can be fined and/or sent-
enced to 90 days in jail. The
Daily, self-righteously and working
in conjunction with the police, as-
sumed they had the right to act in
behalf of the people concerned for
their own best interests. For its
complicity with the police and its
paternalistic actions The Daily de-
serves severe censure.
-The Washteliaw County
Human Rights Party
Oct. 23
Work with cops
To The Daily:
TWO LETTERS to the Daily, one
in Friday's Daily and the other in
Saturday's edition, are all too sym-
ptomatic of many people's think-
ing today. The letters contend that
cooperating with police is cause
for great disappointment.
Lest any of us have not noticed,
today's campus is markedly dif-
ferent from a few years ago. Crim-
es of violence occur on the Diag,
in our classrooms and in our hous-
of negotiations to buy or sell mari-
juana) or just a feeling of "why
waste my time," the result is to
make the campus somewhat of a
feel free to pursue their activities
sanctuary where criminals c a n
feel free to pursue their activities
safe from fear of detection and
apprehension.
Believing that the overwhelming
majority of students are respon-
sible, moderate, reasonable kinds
of people, the answer is for all of
us to feel a shared sense of com-
munity responsibilty to discourage
the criminal acts and to cooperate
with the University Department of
Safety and the Ann Arbor Police
Department through the prompt re-
porting of crimes with full and ac-
rurate information and assistance,
if requested, with any follow-up
investigation.
It shouldn't be every person for
himself, we can all help watch out
for the other person. And while I
don't want to encourage the buying
or selling of marijuana from any-
one or interfere with the free en-
terprise system, it might be well to
consider never doing business with
a stranger.
-Dave Foulhe
Oct. 23
'Fantasies'
To The Daily:
ing of the movie itself.
He goes on to encourage "any-
one who has never seen a well done
sex movie", to go and see it,
and he also mentions that y o u
shouldn't be "embarrassed" be-
cause everyone who goes is "re-
spectable". Since when does Mr.
Leemon have the authority to re-
commend a sex movie to "anyone."
In short, Sheldon Leemon is too
explicit about what happened in
the film and the social commentary
that he throws in as filler space is
worthless because of his graphic
descriptions.
-Ray Deppmann '75
Oct. 24
Happiness
To The Daily:
IT IS necesary to reply to Alan
Harris' article (Oct. 14, Daily)
with a clarification, and exposures
of an improbability and an out-
right falsehood. On whether capi-
talist man has become "more
and more" happy: It is generally
felt that individuals should be al-
lowed to strive for the greatest
goods within their value systems by
their own efforts.
This is a necessary condition for
nersonal Prmwt m th. eria e-
Counseling office adventure
By BILL LEAVITT
SOME FAMILIAR scenes f r o m
one of your favorite places, the
academic counseling office.
"Hello, I am your counselor. Let
us begin. I assume you are a stu-
dent?"
"No, I'm a cantelope. Of course
I'm a student."
"Well, have you got any ques-
tions?"
"Yes, first, why are so many
people being closed out of courses
for next semester?"
"Wonderful question. Wonderful.
Well, we are doing something new
for next semester. We are selling
tickets to Drop-Add at Waterman
Gymnasium, and to insure enough
advance ticket sales we have to
close quite a few people out, of
courses."
"I don't believe it. That's ridi-
cttnim " a
"Oh no, first the forms must be
processed."
"Who does that?"
"Well, this semester, all the
forms are being sent to a fourt
grade art class in Davenport,
Iowa."
"Fourth grade art class! What
do fourth graders know about sch-
eduling?"
"Nothing, but they certainly do
like to draw. At least it will be
more efficient than last semester's
method. By mistake, last semester
all the forms were sent to .a sopho-
more agriculture class specializing
in fertilizer techniques in Idaho."
"I can imagine. But why can't
the forms be processed in s o m e
office here?"
"Look, at least we are positive
that fourth graders can read."
<:I gues vhu're rni hWell a filme
catches. Aren't they just divine?"
"I think I had better be going."
"Oh yes, it's almost eleven, time
for lunch."
"That's another thing I meant to
ask you. Why is that university of-
fices are closed for two hours for
lunch?"
"ACTUALLY we only get thirty
minutes for lunch,. The rest of the
time we spend puting up "Out of
Order" signs all over campus. To-
day all the pay phones get "Out of
Order" signs. Tomorrow all t h e
xerox machines get them."
"Why do you do that?"
"Catch 213-"
"Never mind. I'm getting out of
here."
Bill Leavitt is a frequent con-
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