As F THE MICHIGANNi Thursday, 5eptember a, 1771 fraternities to football to freaks people who are disappointed. There is not enough space for all. those who would like to join. Our house; full to the windows these days, is a "good" house. Ask anyone who lives in a fraternity or sorority and they'll tell you. It's not.quite as good'as'their house; they may say, but it qualifies for a certain high. rank of acceptability. It has always been a "good" house- but during the late 60's and early 70's it was difficult to fill. Not until just lately has it been so easy. I'm not really sure why I live there. The house is old and com- fortable, and after two years it is a: home. I know where the leaks are and -which shower has the hardest stream and which rooms get particularly cold in January and, February: it offers security of a sort, and a group of friends with whom I share meals and a roof and some, old fraternity secrets, .Bt I have friends elsewhere in town, too. And our fraternity is bothered every semester by some old men in Louisville, Kentucky who tell us how to run the house, and too many of the members go along. So I'm not sure why I stay, but I do, without much complaint. * c* * * TBALL SATURDAY IS still THE day in Ann :Arbor. Days when vacation start, days when school opens, even the first euphoric days of spring-none match the noise and tumult of those autumn Saturdays, just about 12:30,: when rivers of people flow down State St. 'and Hill St. and Hoover to Michigan Stadium. Don Canham, the Univesity's athletic director, 'has built an institu- tion here, and it was unscarred even by the uproars of the Sixties. The stadium is nearly always filled to-the top every game. It is still the same. First-year and second-year students find the occasion particularly magnetic; they hurry out of Markley and West Quad and South Quad and Bursley at about noon, plow through the deepening crowds on State to assure themselves of their block seating. Great hordes of them group together. The crowds drink astounding amounts of liquor. A tradition that faded somewhat last year, but was a matter of course my' first and second autumns here, showed it: about the middle of the third quarter, perhaps earlier, a great cry would come from above, calling for the empty bottles to be passed from hand to hand to the top of the stands. Bright green bottles, drained of their cheap wine, gleamed in the afternoon sun-little rivulets of glass running upward all across the broad student sections. Drunk! My god, the people roar! It must help the team. The band's funky little "SHIT!" tune gets people to screaming. And the team is very good every year, which makes the screaming more fun and more justifiable. I have a friend who is a very serious fan. He watches every play, and though he gets drunk with the rest, the importance of the football Saturday to him is the statistics, the yards gained, the decisive tackle. The win. There are many people who follow the games and the whole season as he does, as serious football fans. . But when the games are over, even the big wins, I think there is something missing. The trudge back up to the campus, past Ferry Field and the Intramural Building and Pizza Bob's, is long and tiresome. Even the drunks drag on the way back. There seems little.joy over the win. It is just another part of the year, as expected as classes and Ann Arbor cold. On the walk back, the serious fans are still serious and the drunks are still drunk, but no one shouts much and there is very little spirit. But everyone goes every Saturday. And the few who don't go seem a little rude. A FEW YEARS AGO, A crowd of people gathered on the Diag on an April day and smoked dope when it was still against the law in Ann Arbor. Well, it's still illegal, but barely. We weren't around then, but we always hear -about what it was like. Very mellow, but radical, too, with glowering Ann Arbor policemen powerless and most professors disapproving. It was the first Ann Arbor Hash Bash. It was evidently a rather moving day-fun, but with a feeling that the people there were proving something. The next year, it happened all over again, and the next. I don't know whether the first event happened on April Fool's Day, but at some point that got established as the traditional date. But by this past April, things had changed. Rowdy, dirty high school kids had come in and made the event their own. The Hash Bash was foretold on Detroit radio stations, and everybody from Trenton to Utica to Bloomfield Hills had heard that there was cheap dope there. Students shouldered through the lazy-eyed adolescents, books in hand, annoyed and angered by the intru-. sion. The Hash Bash had passed to the hands of boorish teenagers who were trying to get stoned and pick each other up, and hardly anybody from Ann Arbor treated the spectacle as more than a cheap, one-day, traveling menagerie. And the police will probably get tough next spring, or the 'spring after, and the whole thing will end. 10E ARE STALLED HERE IN Ann Arbor. We are looking around the Diag and South University and Angell Hall and the Stadium for something. We either lost it or haven't found it in the first place. In the reborn fraternities and sororities, students cast about for the fun they have heard their fathers and mothers had. Per- haps they did have it. But no one in my fraternity has much more fun than anyone else in town. There are close friendships, but there are close friendships elsewhere on campus. The guys in my fraternity hope for something special, something they, don't.have yet. Football Saturdays are great fun, but I expected something a bit different three years ago. Go down to the Pretzel Bell on Liberty St. some football Saturday evening. That's what I mean. College spirit-ask all the alumnae at the Bell; they'll know what I mean. I don't know if it's a good thing or not. I haven't seen it. At the diseased Hash Bash last April Fool's Day, there was a residue of something we all heard about when we were in ele- mentary and junior high. Radicalism. We thought we were part of it in high school, but we weren't, not quite. People around town complain that we've lost it, but somebody else lost it. We never had it. We're just waiting. Jim Tobin is the Daily's Co-Lditor-in-Chief. A ' A S OF tHE AGE OF BREAKTHROUGH IN HUIMAN POTENTIAL Consciousness dscovered as the field sof all. posbiflioes. E~perI'encee for yoiurself the re- sults of rocent 'discoveries at *M.'harishI European Research University In Switzerland, now. Turning from the Word of God ENLIGHTENMENT M AHARiSHI M AniSilYOGI Founder ofcedethe ,Aleditatiun Program' Highly developed"mind-body cootdination verified by direct experience of LEVITATION-- command ofethe law of gravity, whereby t'he Body lifts up, moves forward and gently coshes down - inner experi- ence of great freedom and bliss, release of deep stress. (Continued from Page 3) THERE CAME a point when every community . activity be- came traumatic for me. I just didn't want to go, but I felt if I didn't there w a s something wrong with me-I must be a bad person. "t 1,+ tnRn t 4rn the rules as I could get, but an- members from the incomin other part of me said, "If you freshman class as they can, and leave you will be condemned their idea about women's roles. f or e v e r. There's something Still, the members of the com- wrong with you if you can't munity are some of the nicest live this kind of life." and most genuine people I've It was almost November, near- ever met. ly a year since it began, when It's not a life for everyone;R Ifcame to my decision. I had to it certainly wasn't for me. The TR4SCENTAL MEDITATION FREE gNTROtiUCTORY LECTURES cven' .WEDN4ESDAY at 2 Noon Rn. 4111 M.chiqon !union for nrc or emat'.n and icheddtcset .dddtiooI Iccturcs CALL 668 82W6 STUDEN'TS IN-ERNAIIONAi MEDITATiON. SOCIETY 1976 World Ptc w txccvtva Loum.it U S All Bqkts ,vsertcd Tronecnrdental M-d totrun p. and TM . rc scryrce morlks of WLPEC-U.S a non....oftteawco toil arqoorsenOOW I - . . 'V. «a /r "- /f5 f f ' t / j /.1- 7f r ' ".t must have too much free- leave to protect my sanity. dom in the apartment," I ra- With t h e backing of my tionalized. "When fall comes friends on the "outside," I left and I'm back in the regular rou- the Word of God. It wasn't easy.tA fll A rL tine of the dorm, everything will I still saw the same people be okay." every day-many of them lived And fall came. Things were right on my hall, my roommate not better, though. The day I belonged to the community. moved back into the dorm I SUDDENLY my life was emp- wanted to move out. It was back ty again. I had holes in it where (Continued from Page 3) to the same old routine of being the Word of God had been. I de- gay males also gather at the here and going there all the cided it was time to fill my life Rubaiyat disco on Tuesday time. Again I was torn, this up again. through Saturday nights.d time between the community, Now I have my life pulled to ua school and my job. gether fairly well. I'm on an But whatever g a y s 11 k e ON THE OUTSIDE, I was even keel with the things I do to do for entertainment, the re- cheerful, but inside, I was fight- and with my religious beliefs. cent defeat of the Gay Rights ing with myself. I couldn't sleep I'm not sorry it all happened. Ordinance in Dade'County, Flo- at night, I couldn't work, I True, there are a lot of things rida serves as a reminder that couldn't study. Part of me want- about the Word of God I don't gayness is certainly not all flip ed to leave them ... to go as agree with, like their practice and games. fat away from the pressure and of trying to recruit as many new Craig Wilder, a Methlodist minister in Ann Arbor, 'warns: W*PINTO *MERCEDES*VEGA *PORSCHE*A UDI*BM "Local conservative Christians' -" who have been openly anti-gay 9MRL.Lin the past might be all too will- ing to wage Anita's crusade right here in Ann Arbor." I / OW NEP9 .0 Is recommended by Huron Valley's leading foreign car dealers conveniently located 215 Beakes Street in downtown Ann Arbor , , Call Dan Walters 1'EVERYONE'S READINC 662-4141 i A R E Ann Arbor's oldest continuously operating body shop. gcommitment is too gkeat, the rules too rigid for a lot of peo- ple. For some, my friend Judy for one, it is the right place. A place to find security and a place to belong. Judy plans to spend her whole life with the Word of God. I never could have considered it. )or gays:. ]"an Tsang points out, "In Nazi Germany, 250,000 gay men and women perished In concen- tration camps. Gay prisoners were forced to wear a pink tri- angle in the camps, just as Jews had to wear the yellow Star of David" Gays, increasingly conscious of their past, have taken up the pink triangle as a new symbol of gay lhberation. In Ann Arbor, an initial 1,000 pink triangle but- tons have been produced and are being distributed free of charge through the Gay Com- iunity Sg vices to anyone wish- ing to take a positive stand on this basic hunan rights is'ue i i f s , 1 IN i f x /I § Touchdown hfoil fashionis slackscans shirs, dresses Sweaters, sti\rts and coots ''C Km G DAILY CLASSIFIEDS YOU ? 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