- age 4-Sunday, January 8, 1978-The Michigan Daily

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By ANDY GLAZER
r In four years of undergrad at
Iichigan, this newly-minted alum
,ould never quite figure out why alumni
'f Michigan, or any other sports-
minded school, should grow so angry at
a late season fade, or a season that went
wrong from the opening kick, pitch or
tap.
Alumni, after all, supposedly have
more important things to worry about.
Not for them the idyllic, if crazed, life of
the undergrad.

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THE UNDERGRAD, as the lifeblood
of a university, ought to feel the most
pain. In many ways, he does, because
he is reminded of a defeat more often,
6imply by being on the grounds of
Failure U.
But as most alums will tell you, those
first few days after a defeat are in-
finitely more painful for these ghosts of
the past. For they have left the protec-
tive shell of their beloved college com-
munity, where they can commiserate
with some of the best friends they have
ever known.
Instead, new associates may joke,
smile, or laugh.
For Michigan alumni, the story is a
little worse, for the critical defeats
Piave come mostly in the season finales,
;.*vhere national tglevision audiences are
tuned in . The stumble is there for all to
$ee ... and to remember, in inglorious
detail.
THE SCORES come to mind without
t much trouble. USC, 10-3; OSU, 20-9;
Stanford, 13-12; OSU, 14-11; OSU, 10-10;
'OSU, 12-10; OSU, ;1-14; Oklahoma, 14-
6; USC, 14-6; and of course ...
... The two former Michigan Daily
Sports Editors settle back comfortably
on the couch. One is recently graduated
and in law school, the other out for,
ree years and now a CPA'(Two oc-
cupations where virtually all of one's
colleagues have gone to college. Dif-
ferent colleges, mostly). We'll call
them Andy and Marc, due to a lack of
creativity.
Well, I'm glad these JV games are
over with," says Marc. "Time to see a
real ballgame now.' The two have just
finished watching Alabama demolish
Ohio State, much to the delight of
Harold, another onlooker and an
Alabama grad. Andy is a bit nervous,
because he had enticed Harold into a
"sucker" bet earlier-whether
Michigan or Alabama would win by a
greater margin, or lose by a lesser one.
NOW THE sucker bet looks awfully
solif for Harold, who has a 29 point vic-

tory margin in his pocket. Harold
leaves the room to watch the Rose B.owl
on another set, where he and his
girlfriend can be alone.
Marc and Andy don't mind in the
least. They want no one to infringe on
their long awaited three hours or nir-
vana. For hours they have been recoun-
ting tales of past Michigan glories,
chosing to skim over the few bad results
that each remembers all too well.
The bad results are history. These
are the WOLVERINES and they will
win, of course.
"ALL I have to say," mutters andy
only moments before the opening kick,
"is that we BETTER win."
Michigan receives and moves down-
field smoothly. The Wolverines are
stopped near midfield, though,, and
must punt.
No complaints are offered up in front
of the tube, though. Pinning an op-
ponent deep in its territory early in a
game like this can be almost as good as
points on the board.
The snap comes in low, but John An-
derson fields it deftly and boots the ball
away. Suddenly a whistle blows. An-
derson, in fielding the ball, is ruled to
have had his knee on the ground.
Washington will have the ball at
midfield.
ANDY AND Marc stare at each other
in disbelief.
"I've been watching football for 15
years and never saw a play like that,"
offers Marc. .
"Twelve here, and neither have I,"
answers Andy. "Let's see, 27 years,
maybe 30 games a year, say ten punts a
game .. . oh, I don't even want to think
about it."
THE TWO look at each other silently.
Sports are the last American
stronghold for superstition, and the
malevolence of this omen is plain.
Washington soon scores and leads, 7-0.
"This can't be happening
again ... can it?" pleads Marc.
"It can and it is," answers Andy. "I
just don't believe it."
WASHINGTON SOON kicks a field
goal, and Andy calculates that it will
now take 40 unassured Mchigan points
for him to win his bet.
Washington's lead, incredible, moun-
ts. The 17 points Michigan trails by at
the half is the largest deficit the
Wolverines have'stared into at any time
in any game in the entire decade of the
70's. Still, it is not too much to over-
come.

"The next team to score a touchdown
will win this game," says Andy. But
that team is Washington, driving 97
yards after stopping the Wolverines at
the three.
ANDY LAYS back. He has given up
hope, although the game is not even
2/3, done. Marc is speechless.
Then, "it" begins to happen.
Michigan, National Irony Champions

roses
three of the past five years, sets the all-
time Rose Bowl passing record with a
76 yard touchdown bomb.
Washington answers with a field goal,
but the Wolverines begin to pass almost
at will.
Andy matter-of-factly notes, "you
know what they're going to do, don't
you? They're going to make it close and
then break our hearts."
WASHINGTON fails to move.

27-20.
And, of course, that's how it ended.'
Michigan's magnificent comeback en-
ded at Washington's two on the "Im-
maculate Interception ." Marc and An-
dy sat in stunned silence, dazed both by
the comeback and the loss.
Harold allowed them a minute respite
before offering a few "good-natured"
jibes. They took it fairly well, both kn-
owing these would not be the last barbs

they would encounter.
They had lost, and
alone.

they, would be

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Y cails for full
HE CIA DISCLOSED recently that
I experiments involving the use of
drugs' for possible brainwashing pur-
poses were performed at University
Hospital some time in 1953. It was part
of an operation known as ARTICHOKE,
in which many hospitals were involved.
Both former University president
Harlan Hatcher and President Robben
Fleming have disclaimed any knowl-
edge of the affair, and University of-
ficials say that no one in a position to
have known of these operations is still
with the University.
This is an unsettling issue. How
.much do the nation's universities owe to
the state, and what responsibility do
they have to the public? We don't, at
present, know any of the answers to the
following key questions:
" What was the nature of the re-
search?
* Were the patients informed of the
nature?--
" Who are the patients, where are
they now, has anyone monitored them
for possible long-term ill effects?
" Who authorized the use of Univer-
sity facilities and by what authority?
There are more questions, but these


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cide? Were they mental patients? Who
were the doctors who permitted (or en-
couraged) this sort of thing? How can
we trust the University when this sort of
thing, this public outrage, can so freely
go on?
The issue fairly bristles with ques-
tions, and the University's responsibili-
ty now, as we see it, is to reveal the an-
swers as they are (currently) being
made known by the CIA. Only by a full
and complete disclosure of the facts can
trust be restored.
Luri e itb~an 13atg

pro-life
To The-Daily:
At the University of Michigan
Commencement, members of
NOW turned their backs on Jo-
seph Califano, Secretary of HEW,
because he does not support fed-
eral payments for abortions. In
their symbolic gesture, however,
NOW revealed that they are
really turning their backs on
children - babies whose lives
they would snuff out for a
woman's mere convenience. In
their way of thinking, nothing is
worse than an unwanted child.
But there is something much
worse: a person who cares more
for her own convenience than for
the life of another person, even
the smallest, most helpless and
most innocent of human lives, the
child in the mother's womb.
NOW is not an organization for
women, but for those who deny
the dignity, indeed, the sanctity
of maternity and the nascent life
that only a mother can nurture.
Killing children before they are
born into the world in order to try
to solve one's own personal prob-
lems is an act of savagery. No
truly civilized and compassionate
person can condone such an act. I
applaud Mr. Califano for hiscom-
passion on the unborn and for his
courage in the face of barbarism
disguised as feminism.
- Teresa Hlawes
"
v-d crisis
To The Daily:
A recent article datelined At-
lanta and distributed nationally
by United Press International
cited statistics and opinions of
federal health experts that would,
lead the reader to believe a turn-
ing point has been reached in the
struggle to overcome the prob-
lem of venereal disease. I must
take issue with these claims for
the following reasons:

eases is subsiding. On the con-
trary, indications are that these
infections still prevail at
epidemic levels.
Second, the statistics cited on
syphilis and gonorrhea represent
only the reported incidence of
these diseases. The statistics in-
clude those cases that are re-
ported incidence could result
from increased resistance on the
part of private medical care pro-
viders to notify public health au-
thorities of the cases they see.
Reported cases may indicate
nothing about the number of in-
fected persons who escape detec-
tion.
Third, and most importantly
reported, incidence data are in-
fluenced by how eytensive the
case-finding and screening effor-
ts are. If gonorrhea screening is
reduced due to cutbacks in fun-
ding, fewer diagnoses will be
made and the number of reported
cases will decrease. The national
gonorrhea screening program
during the period cited in the
news story was cut back by over
550,000 tests in non-VD clinics.
Historically, these sites found 2.7
per cent of their screening tests
to be positive for gonorrhea. Had
this program been maintained, it
is possible that an additional
15,000 cases would be detected.
Finally, the gonorrhea
statistics cited refer mainly to
early and generally uncompli-
cated stages of the infection. The
greatest cause for concern is the
serious, complicated and some-
times fatal pathology that results
from gonorrhea infection. Disre-
garding the complications factor,
the claim that the war against
gonorrhea is being won fosters a
false sense of security. The
venereal disease epidemic is a
problem too far-reaching and
dangerous to be toyed with in a
numbers game.
Dr i_ McClendn.

tacted from unsafe well water he
drank, it was a shock, both per-
sonal and scientific.
In a similar way, the labora-
tory workers engaged in DNA ex-
periments are endangered scien-
tists, for it is difficult to protect
their digestive systems from con-
tagion in the bacteria which they
are dividing.
The U.S. Senate hearings in
April shoWed no direct clash in
the arguments of the microbiolo-
gists and the environmentalists.
One group champions unlimited
freedom of experiments with .
dangerous viruses, the other
wishes strict regulation of such
work.
The microbiologists empha-
sized the probable benefits to ag-
riculture and medical science
stemming from their achieve-
ments, but the environmental-
ists, who are scientists of a dif-
ferent order, emphasized both
the dangers from infection
spreading to the community and
thedecision of some leaders of*
the microbiologists to enter
genetic engineering. This is the
field of making a new kind of
man, new forms of live, better or
worse than now existing.
On the Senate side, Edward
Kennedy tried to check the
charges ofBJeremy Rifkin of the
Peoples Business Commission
on this matter. Senator Howard
Metzenbaum of Ohio pointed out
that Du Pont, a great corpora-
tion, had refused to follow the
Federal regulation requiring a
report on the activity in its facili-
ty.
The Environmental Defense
Fund favored government in-
spection and enforcement of
guidelines on microbiological ex-
perimentation.eThebFriends of
Earth advocated public partici-
pation, extensive hearings and
the defense of society against the

of voters'should have weight in
decisions. Here is the role of
friends to the environment,
groups and individuals, the sup-
port of the great cause of pro-
tecting the human race from un-
limited experimentation with the
genes of mankind.
It is the self-proclaimed pur-
pose of some microbiologists to
move toward the shaping of a
new kind of man and woman. It is
worth noting that the National in-
stitute of Health has not yet en-
forced the draft guidelines for
DNA experimentation.
- Paul E. Hubbell
(U. of Mich., '38)
Emeritus Professor
of History, EMU
sociobiology
To The Daily:
In the Sociobiology Study
Group's reply to Barry Peterson
(Daily, November 29) they say I
''suggested" to my class that in
rape women resist "only enough
to be sure that they are being
raped by someone who is strong
and fit, and thus would pass on
good genes to their offspring."
This is poppycock. Rather, I said
that, in any species in which
males are able to force copula-
tions, the harder females resist
the less likely is rape to be suc-
cessful and the more narrowly is
it restricted to those males
unusually effective at it. As I also
said, this means that, even if rape
were a consistent method of off-
spring production, in evolution-
ary terms as well as any others a
female's best response would be
to avoid and resist rape to the
best of her ability.
There seems to be a tendency

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