l E itt An optimist's eye-view ofA2 By SHELLEY SEEGER Market and Kerrytown are some- always something to do. Ann Ar- Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, home of the Mighty Wolverines, say many of you Uni- versity students. But a good place to settle down and raise kids? Ha! All you see is high rent, bad traffic, crowds, and lousy weath- er. Why would you ever want to live -here longer than it would take to get a Ph.D.? Sure, you want the right to vote in city elections because you have an interest in the amount of rent you pay. But you don't want to, reside here for the rest of your days. You'd be like us townies who have to battle the football traffic on home game Saturdays. I wish Michigan would be in at least sixteenth place just one sea- son so I could get to the grocery on Saturday mornings. In the summer you can wade your way through the hordes at the Art Fair. And all of the other times play dodge the student in your car. If it's so terrible, you may ask, then why do I live here? I'll tell you why. AS MUCH as I complain about Ann Arbor I wouldn't 'live any other place. Do you know of any other town that has a reputation for being the "Dope Capital of the Midwest?" Or how about the "Research Center of the Mid- west?" What town can boast hav- ing such famed citizens as Dr. Diag and, Jake the Shake? Ann Arbor is also the birthplace of the Rainbow People's Party, the S.D.S., the annual Hash Bash, and the polio vaccine. Ann Arbor is also known for its unique shops: Sam's, Good- year's, Moe's Sports Shop, Ul- rich's, and Drakes candy store. Drake's is as much a part of Ann Arbor history as the Michigan stadium itself. The Farmer's thing you don't see every the Farmer's Market3 purchase fresh produc from the farmer who gi And Kerrytown is like round ethnic festival. Ann Arbor has som places to eat, too. Yo really get stuffed eating .bo's, Weber's, Metzger's, German, Bicycle Jim's, Tree, The Victors, and tl zel Bell, which has all-3 eat dinners almost every the week. AFTER DINNER yday. At bor has plays, concerts, bars, you can rock theatres, sports events, mu- e right seums, lectures, libraries, exhib- rows it! its - and if you find those boring a year - the city has over ten movie houses and drive-ins to choose e great from. Not to mention the co-op u could films shown on campus. There's at Bim- always something going on in The Old Ann Arbor. Whiffle Ann Arbor has Veteran's Me- he Pret- morial Park, with its baseball in you-can- the summer, and sledding in the night of winter. Nichols Arboretum, own- ed by the University, is a nice place for weekend outings. The there's Huron River provides canoeists WPM\E REAsO STUDENcS - KB1 ..you're not Just getting an education here - you're part of a fine community." and picnickers with lovely scenery on warm summer days. Ann Arbor has enough activity to keep its whole population happy. I guess Ann Arbor is just in a pretty good location for things to happen. It's only 37 miles from Detroit, and only 53 miles from Toledo. Although Ann Arbor is situated around big industrial cities, it is a light research indus- try city itself, so there's not much noise or pollution. Ann Arbor, home of the Mighty Wolverines. Sure, Ann Arbor has its faults, but it really is an ex- cellent place to live. With its stores, restaurants, entertain- ment and recreational facilities, schools, light research indus- tries, and other attributes, you're not just getting an education here - you're a part of a fine com- munity. Ann Arbor is a good place to settle down and raise kids. Why, if you stay in Ann Arbor you won't have to pay out of state tu- ition or high room and board fees when your kids go to the Univer- sity. They can live at home and still get an excellent education for half of what they'd pay else- where. Anyway, I'll bet you're won- dering why I even bother to ven- ture out on football Saturday mornings. Heck, it's so I can buy sandwiches and beer to eat and drink at the game! Shelley Seeger, who man- ages the Daily's Classified de- partment, is an (almost) life- long resident of Ann Arbor, and admits she is an incurable optimist. / -' I.".. - I OK! All terrorists, psychos and innocent victims through the no- check gate. The rest of you through the other gate!' Progress IKE THE BIBLICAL w OTj Red Sea, debate and 5finally subsided in the camf search issue, clearing a d University scientists to p experiments. The University has con federal rulings and establis ally-designed laboratory certified last Saturday. R ,will begin controversial risk" recombinant DNA ,sometime this week. Some $430,000 has bee safeguarding the lab so as Zthe release of any lethal c tganisms to the outside w( afeatures include separate tion systems and ultra-v sealing all openings to the la on DNA research raters of the If all is in order, then let's go. The delay have research is in capable hands here. The pus DNA re- fears expressed by many University ry path for community members were well found- ursue their ed, and for the most part, have been remedied in designing the DNA npiled with research program. hed a speci- Michigan now joins a mere handful which was of other prestigious universities who Iesearchers have been courageous and reasonable "moderate enough to take on the challenge of the k research mysterious DNA molecule. n spent on The long philosophical debate over to prevent whether man should tamper with DNA or alien or- will no doubt continue to rage - no rld. Safety matter what benefits are derived from air circula- such activity here at the University. iolet lights Congratulations and good luck to ib. faculty researchers. Onward science! Health Service Handbook By SYLVIA HACKER and NANCY PALCHIK QUESTION: Can you say something about Librium? Is it addictive? I know lots of people who are on it. ANSWER: Librium was first discovered in 1933 when there was some interest in it as a muscle relaxant. It wasn't until 1960, how- ever, that researchers reported "taming" of hostile animals with low doses of this drug. When the taming was extended to monkeys, it was inevitable that it would be tried on humans for its tranquilizing properties. In- deed, early studies demonstrated its effec- tiveness in relieving anxiety and nervousness without causing sleeping or sedation when taken in low dosages. Thus, in 1960, Librium was marketed as the first anti-anxiety agent in a family of related drugs (eg. valium) which appeared soon after. These drugs fast became the most highly promoted and pre- scribed drugs on the market. In addition to its use as a tranquilizer, Lib- rium is used to treat the D.T.s of acute alcohol withdrawal. It appears to have very few side effects although patients are instructed to ob- serve caution when engaging in any activity requiring full alertness because it sometimes causes drowsiness. Another precaution we at Health Service suggest for patients on Libri- um is to never use it and alcohol together. The effects are additive and can'be harmful, the same as usingebarbiturates and alcohol to- gether - they can cause an increase in seda- tive and nervous system depressant effects. Librium is not thought of as an addictive drug although it is advised that those who are ad- diction prone use it with' caution. There ap- pears to be a possibility of developing a psy- chological dependence on it as well as a toler- ance to its effects. With very high doses, some sources say that frank physical dependence can result, characterized by some withdraw- al symptoms when discontinued. It is there- fore emphasized that people not take low dose prescriptions of Librium indiscriminately or increase the dosage on their own. Here at Health Service, physicians generally confine the prescription of Librium to low dosages for a short term to patients experiencing temp- orary stress periods in their lives. QUESTION: I hear so many rules about what a good diet is and warnings about dis- eases that it gets confusing and I get turned off. I really feel skeptical that anyone really knows anything for sure. What's wrong with. eating anything you want as long as you don't get real fat? ANSWER: You're right in one respect - no one really knows anything for sure (except, of course, death, taxes, and the unique weather creasing evidence that "we are what we eat." That naturally does not mean that we are sweet if we eat lots of sugar but it does mean that there may be a correlation between high consumption of certain foods with some of the diseases we get. The Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs has put out a number of basic guidelines to follow which seem simple enough to reduce your confu- sion about all the reports you've been reading. They are as follows: " Increase consumption of fruits, vege- tables and grain products. " Substitute nonfat milk for whole milk. " Consume less butterfat, eggs and other high-cholesterol foods. " Eat fewer foods high in sugar and salt content. It sounds simple, but they promise that such a diet can reduce the risk of heart disease and diabetes, lower the incidence of bowel cancer by providing more fiber and supply more vitamins and micro-nutrients at less cost. In- cidentally, these are good basic rules to follow even if you're thin because girth is not the only indicator of health.- Please send all health related questions to: Health Educators U-M Health Service Division of Office of Student Services 207 Fletcher Ann Arbor, MI 48109 sFffT/91L4'Wy cjP016 /'s T//97rw$/4' s/7U4q 71F kA/,r T/A0 6oM2 0/ Y{c , V 61'6W,9C '~n1 'N ll ___ /7, LLI in Michigan). However,, there seems to be in- Letters to The Daily 4 subsidizing students To The Daily: Over the past three weeks an important debate has been taking place in the editorial pages of The Daily, the debate over the MSA's attempt to evict left, labor and national student groups from of- fices in the Michigan Union. Paul Andrew Fitzsimmon's October 23 letter to the Daily is a pseudo- sophisticated apology for this at- tack on student's democratic rights. Fitzsimmons argues as follows: 1) ". . . the University is not exempted from basic economic forces. . .. these for- ces (are) a factor in determining the recipient of any scarce resource, even office space in the Union." 2) "What (the student groups) are demanding, then, is not a 'right to be there,' but a right to be subsidized." Why is the MSA unwilling to "subsidize" left, labor and national student groups,'when it subsidizes so many others? Fit- zsimmons answers that the MSA .. . {. «r~ . n a _ n nf n n e n c look into this more closely. A university like Michigan is a large social undertaking, to which students themselves can contribute little financially. For the most part, the bills are "footed" by the government, by the corporations, the foundations and their wealthy owners, or by the parents of students, largely professionals, technicians, managers or small owners. But the revenue of the government comes from taxes, and the revenue of the corporations, foundations and owners from profits. Taxes, profits and the high salaries of upper-middle- class parents all are taken from the workers' production. In the final analysis, the workers "foot the bill" for ,all University students, no matter what class they come from. The fact that workers foot the bill for non-working (or part- time) students is not in itself ob- jectionable, although the relative exclusion of working class and minority students from UM cer- . ... . . k- . .1. TP ..I - - The demand, "No evictions!" is simply a demand that the University, which spends tens of millions to indoctrinate students with capitalistic ideology, spend a few hundred dollars to make it possible for the various trends in the labor and national move- ments to put forward a few of their ideas to students, too. Under capitalism the workers* are obliged to give the capitalists and their hangers-on a "free lun- ch." It seems reasonable that the workers, who "foot the bill, should at least get a few crumbs from that lunch! However, in or- der to end the free lunch of the real small minority - the cap- italists - and let the real vast majority-the workers-enjoy the educational fruits of their labor, we need: -Free, quality education for all, from elementary school through university or technical school. Open admissions, no tracking, no tuition. Full worker- student-teacher control. No com- pensation to the owners of private schools and colleges. -For a workers' party based on the trade unions to fight for a workers' government. -For workers' democracy and a workers' government to ex- propriate the.capitalists' resour- ces and build a workers' ecenomy rationally planned to meet human needs! -Clericals for a Democratic Union Contact your reps Sen. Donald Riegle (Dem.), 1205 Dirksen Bldg., Washington, D.C. 20510 CPn aRort Griffin (Ren). 353 Russell Bldg., Capitol Hill.