Page 2-Sunday, October 16, 1977-The Michigan Daily RAIIBLINGS/ Jim tobin The Michigan Daily-Sunday, Oc shelter T O USE the day's inane idiom, I am INTO The Daily. My days are filled with mastheads, logos, reverse dingbats, cut-lines, streamers, dum-' mies, crits, 2-point boxes, benday boxes, free art, break-slugs, edit ears, weather ears, s-lines, by-lines, cold type, bullets, gits, bits, and banners. I worry about these things all day long. After three years at The Daily, I have come to believe that no one has quite so much to worry about as I, that no one is INTO anything quite so much as I am INTO The Daily. So what I am not INTO, of course, is school. Students, like animals in the zoo, fascinate me, but I am INTO something else, and so have little time to spend trying to understand them. But last week I found a chance. By some juxtaposition of luck and circumstance, I happen to number among the senior history students writing honors theses. Having missed the two-hour thesis seminar a couple of times already, I decided that on this particular day, no excuse would keep me from class. And from the back of my mind came a fanciful thought: "How nice it would be to spend an hour or two among mere students who can pass their days browsing through his- tory's delights, never caring for the pressures of a daily newspaper, isolated from commitment, sealed off from The Real World. How relaxing it will be to speak with people who are not so INTO'any- thing!" So at twelve minutes after the hour, I sprinted out The Daily's front door, raced around the appropriate corners on State St. and North University, dodged speech majors in the Frieze Building lobby, dashed up the stairs, through the door, and into a seat. "So this is the cream of the University's history crop," I thought, returning the curious half-glances shot in my direction from around the little room. The cream of the University's history crop makes for a rather small harvest. There are two sections of this class, but it includes a total of only about twenty students. The ten about me traded smiles, chuckles, and insights on how a certain Professor Suchandsoian's lectures are inevitably shallow. Professor Tentler trudged in, bearded and flannel-shirted. As he cleared away administrative miscel- lany, I sensed a tensing in the studious stars around me. Unlike the stars of gridiron and hardcourt,.the stars of undergraduate history do not stand out physically. They are plain looking people. They are mostly male, for some reason, mostly short- haired, and mostly endowed with an, ability to flip through hundreds of Xeroxed sheets to find the passage being considered by a professor with remarkable speed, as I soon realized. The topic was the U.S. Constitution as an economic document. "Import- ant, I guess," thought the Dailyite. "Wouldn't make tomorrow's front page, though." "The founding fathers," Tentler was saying, "operated under nothing more noble than class interests, economic interests." "Mildly interesting," thought the Dailyite, "But a little too esoteric, and let's face it, confusing, to worry over. I'll keep my mouth shut. I'm INTO something else." But it quickly became clear that Tentler's assertion, (or Beard's; it was hard to tell whether Tentler agreed) was more than enough to set the stars aglow. The tension in- creased; bodies leaned forward in eager anticipation of joining the intellectual fray. As I shrunk into my little wooden chair, I began to understand my grave misconception of these people. One school agreed with Beard; another school argued, "It is difficult to identify a compelling reason to .support the belief that the framers were motivated by causation wholly directed by bourgeois class concerns, that in fact a spirit of nationalism and a faith in natural rights did not profoundly influence the framers in various and important ways." A third school replied savagely, "Any belief is,ill-conceived that is dominated by faith merely in Beard's vievf or merely in its opposite; in fact, the framers were clearly moved by a dichotomy of the elements of class interests AND elements of the contemporary commitment to an idealism of the natural rights of man comprised.in and protected by civil government." I stared. Mired in the kindergarten of each of these schools, I reconsid- ered my whimsical expectation of intellectual relaxation. I had imagined myself INTO The Daily. INTO it! These people wrote the INTO book. (Continued from Page 3) A LONG WITH managing the house, Miller and her staff of six provide support and referrals to women for needs ranging from legal and medical resources to welfare and daycare programs." Everyone participates in counseling in varying degrees of formality. "We may end up talking about something really heavy while potatoes and apples are being peeled," says Miller. And then there are times when people want to come into the office, shut the door and talk privately." The women staying in the house cook the meals, sweep and care for children on rotating schedules. And more often than not, the cooperation in household matters develops into friendships which outlast their stay at Hiatus House. " "Part of the pattern of their lives is that they've stayed very much to themselves," explains Miller. "This is the first time a lot of the gals have met anyone else who's been beaten. And forming some kind of friendship is very much a part of the self help process." For instance, when one woman moved out she found a night job that she would not have been able to take because of her small child, "except a couple of kids here chipped in and found a babysitter for me." "They give you a lot of support," con- cludes Carol, but fleeing to a shelter is no panacea, "If you can't cope you shouldn't be here either." But I don't believe you can make the assumption that it's better to do that in every situation. There are women who want a clean break, but others would rather return to their husbands and go into counseling. Unfortunately some go back in an unplanned and chaotic way." THOSE WHO GO back hormie can always return. The House has a readmission policy in recognition of the fact that some women need a couple of dry runs before they are convinced their relationship or marriage is hopeless. For example, one victim, who will be called Carol, was at Hiatus House for the second time since she first left her husband in May. "I went back to him once on promises," she said. "I won't ever do that again. "It's different here. It'shappier,"she adds. "Before there was all this fighting. I couldn't cope with my little boy because I was too upset all the. time. I'd say 'Get away, get away.' But now I'm much closer to him." As the six week limit put on most stays draws near, Carol is looking for a job and planning a move to a new apartment. "I'll miss it here, I'm sure I'll call back every day. But then, too, I want to get back on my feet. You can't start a new life until you're out of where you're at." The pressur( woman by a des her to return ai soft words and while at home w "I saw him th on everything I believe that?" head. "He wal winking." Then disgust. "I don' again." 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The grid, when filled in, should read as a quotation from a published work. The darkened squares are the spaces between words. Some words may carry over to the next line. Meanwhile, the first letter of each guessed word at the left, reading down, forms an acrostic, giving the author's name and the title of the work from which the quote is extracted. As words and phrases begin to form in the grid, you can work back and forth from clues to grid until the puzzle is complete. Answer to Last Week's Puzzle "A good case can be made for our nonexistence as entities. We are shared, rented, occupied ... At the interior of our cells, driving them, are the mitochondria and in a strict sense they are not ours . . . They turn out to be little separate creatures."- Lewis Thomas The Lives of a Cell Bannon (Continued from Page 3) a gun in order to qualify as a legal weapon. "The law needs to be enforced as it reads now. All a police officer has to establish is that there is probable cause that a felony occurred." "We take each case as they come," says Ann Arbor Police Staff Ser'geant William Canada, explaining the at- titude of police in the department here. "If you go into a house and somebody is seriously injured-if he admits he did it, or if say he has a blade with him-we can arrest him for felonious assault; sometimes we do, sometimes we don't, depending on his demeanor." * * * "When I started my divorce, I got an in- junction against him. But an injunction is nothing but a piece of paper. I must have been beaten up eight times and I called the police and they said, 'Well, go to your attor- ney.'.An injunction is supposed to protect you but it does nothing. "-anonymous vic- tim's testimony before Michigan Women's commission Hearings on Wife A buse-1976. Although a woman undergoing divorce proceedings can obtain a restraining order intended to keep her husband from approaching her, the civil court injunctions have "no teeth in them at all," according to Mindy Resnik, law inforcement liaison for Washtenaw County's Assault Crisis Center. Wayne County Prosecutor William Cahalan notes that the usual penalty for a violation is "nothing," although Resnik does - know of one case where judge Henry Conlin broke tradition by han- ding out a one-day sentence. Says Resnik: Nobody in the courtroom could believe it." Because the restraining order is issued by a civil court judge, the police typically, do not arrest a violator until after a judge issues a bench warrant, another delay at best. "Sometimes it's a sad thing," observes Canada in view of the policeman's inability to im- mediately enforce a restraining order. "The guy's vindictive. He'll scare the hell out of them, harass them, and you feel bad you can't take him out of there." In what Bannon terms a "kneejerk reaction," domestic assaults are downgraded and delayed as they make their way through the entire criminal justice 'system. "Most could be aggrayated assaults (a - serious misdemeanor), or felonious assault, but by the time we see them they've already been reclassified lower by the responding police officers, the prosecutors or the courts.' While most misdemeanor complaints go to court within a day, the victim of a spouse assault, according to Bannon, faces unpredictable and inequitable delays due to: " a so-called "cooling off" period whereby the prosecutor stalls in authorizing a victim's complaint. " demands for medical certification of injuries. * efforts at conciliation on the part of the court. "Domestic disputes usually take a low priority in the police department," concedes Canada, "unless someone really pushes them, in which case things get done." Although a cooling off period is nowhere mandated by law, Canada does not deny that the delay Tactic is used among local prosecutors and police. "Usually we will have a cooling off period. Unless they (the vic- tims) come in we will wait a day, maybe two days, before letting them sign the complaint." Although Cahalan insits his office does not discriminate in the handling of domestic cases, he has drawn fire from feminists for his reluctance to look for solutions to the problem of spouse assault within the criminal justice system. N A SPEECH made last weekend before a state-wide conference on battered women held at Detroit's Cobo Arena, Cahalan cited statistics showing that 45 per cent of domestic assault cases are dismissed because a woman does not choose to prosecute. He asserted'that the problem of spouse assault is "really a private matter with social overtones." A public tongue lashing from NOW chairwoman Miller followed his statements.-"I'm tired of hearing it's the woman's fault." But she apparently failed to alter his opinions. He said later, "You're sitting up there handling murders, vicious robberies and along comes a woman whose husband punched her in the eye. Now that black eye may be very impor- tant to that woman but relative to society how important is it? 'The chances of a domestic assault of turfiin intd a homicide a "The lawy didn't know with a dog lec made out of was ruining n law relationsh crying or telli hell. Iprobab five of us wor ting right tf Without their to court. I wo it. 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