Page 2-Sunday, December 4, 1977--The Michigan Daily RAJIRLINGS/ann marie lipinski M Y FIRST LESSON in photography was a simple one: "I kinda like f/8," my teacher said. "A lot of people around here seem attached to 250 at f/1l. but I like f/8." I didn't even know what f/8 was, let alone if I liked it or not, but I took the novice advice to heart and went out clicking with my aperture tuned to the popular mark. I shot sunlight at f/8, moonlight at f/8, indoors at f/8, outdoors at f/8, kids at f/8, cats at f/8, and a rabbit that looked like Groucho Marx at f/8. Taking pictures was easy. Taking good pictures was not. My photographs, needless to say, were dismally inconsistent. With a light setting meant for something just this side of a solar eclipse, pictures of less sunny settings came out looking like mud. To save stopping up to something as dull as f/4 I suggested the addition of a flash to my photographic stash. My teacher frowned. "They look so ugly just sitting up there on a camera," she said. "You're having problems with f/8?" My "teacher", of course, knew nothing. Both reporters by trade, we had been handed cameras by unfeeling editors and told to find photos along with our features. A veteran of six mon- ths in the bureau, she was assigned to teach the summer intern the mystery of recording images. No one, however, had taught her. But we learned to compensate. Since we couldn't seem to cultivate photographic images, we learned to cultivate our own images as photographers. We looked great. Nikons dangling like black goddess pearls from our necks, bright yellow canisters of Tri-X for- ming fat chic bulges in our pockets, the convincing sound of our, shutters 'as they purred under our touch-there was nothing to distinguish us from Susan Ford. AND WE NEVER, of course, held the camera horizontally. Real photographers always set the black boxes in their palms, pointed the "magic" skyward, and snapped from behind the vertical object that mysteriously darkened one half of their faces. There was something special about photographers. In Europe lilting Italian voices called them paparazzis, and women would dance for their cameras, washed in rich Roman sunlight. In Hollywood Faye Dunaway was posing as one, looking long and rapturous un- der harsh, cruel kleig lights. Even at The Daily they were a special breed-called photogs and never photographers as if the common classification was too crude for their artistic lot. But despite my glamorous masquerade, the beauty of my image would be marked by a trip to the camera store. The equipment I had to return to my employer at the end of the summer would be replaced by bigger, better, shinier stuff, and now was when my future as a photog would really take hold. HE SALESMAN showed me Leicas. and Nikons, Kodaks, Konikas, Canons, Kalimars and Petris. There was Pentax and Praktica, Yashica and Vivitar, Mamiya, Miranda, Minolta. There were lenses called micro, others Al Wheeler, the battlin'hizzoner EVEN THOUGH HE'S been mayor of Ann Arbor since 1975, Albert Wheeler has few illusions about the extent of his power-it ends, he knows, where that of career kingpins like Sylvester Murray and Robben Fleming begins. "I'm just a momentary disturbance as far as those guys are concerned," he says ruefully. Since the day he first took office, Wheeler has been fighting a two-edged battle for political control of the city. On the one hand, as a Democratic mayor committed to large-scale programs of social welfare, he has faced a City Council dominated by Republicans who have consistently thumbed down his proposals. On the other hand, as an elected official, he has fought a holding action against the municipal bureaucracy headed by Murray. Still--as much by virtue of his personal tenacity as of the office he holds- Wheeler has been able to steer at least some events over the past two years. Born Dec. 11, 1915, in St. Louis, Mo., Wheeler took his AB from Pennsylvania's Lincoln University (the same school from which Murray was to graduate years later) and earned an MS from Iowa State College. After moving to Ann Arbor, he received a master's degree and a doctorate in public health from the University, where he is currently an associate professor of microbiology. Both Wheeler's mayoral victories have been hotly contested. In last year's race, he won by a single vote-and defeated City Council member Louis Belcher (R-Fifth Ward) is still fighting the results in court. Much of Wheeler's power as mayor is admittedly negative; the city charter provides for a "weak mayor, strong administrator" form of government-thus stacking the cards in Murray's favor from the outset. Wheeler's major weapon against both the administrator and the Republican Council is his ability to veto legislation, forcing his opponents into "doing a little horse-trading now and then." But he also has two other important sources of influence which have probably- served him better than his veto power. First, he is able to appoint members of, Taking pictures was easy. Taking good ones was not. as a photog rarely crept into my photos. My fledging photographic attempts were feeble ones, and the prints I called pictures looked more like finger pain- ting to the critical eye. However, as the summer progressed, do did my photos. I gambled with f/11 and even tried f/16. Moonlight was distinguished from sunlight, kids from cats, and I defaced my camera oc- casionally by fixing a flash to its side. I vowed my fall return to Ann Arbor called macro and some were too heavy to hold. There were filters for blue light, filfters for grey light and filters for no light at all. Breathless, I shut my eyes and grab- bed. "I'll take this one," I announced, tur- ning the Olympus under the soft store light. "Ah, the OMl," the salesman purred. "She's a real beaut. Go ahead and take a shot. Try her at f /R." Daily Photo by Wheeler. ". fighting a two-edge several key city committees, commissions and boards. This all those groups with people who share his objectives. Second, he is his public visibility as "the mayor" to organize and direct citizer important issues. Unfortunately, Wheeler's intransigence has rarely won him a his proposals; more often, the result has instead been a sta paralyzed city decision-makers for a week or more at a time. "But they know I've got my eye on them now," he says. "Tli before they go ahead with things now, and they never used to-do tlu sudaY magazine fCEIOSTIC PUZZLE A. Pioneer English canal.- . . - ..- builder (1716-1772)7 195 99 108 150 178 185 45 59 8. Resembling an automaton-.-.- 5 164 139 173 26 13 62 77 91 101 C. 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Austrian physicist (1838-1916) who gave his name to the ratio of the speed of a body to the speed of sound in the surrounding-. - atmosphere (Full name) 3 88 125 BY S TEPHEN J. POZSGAI Copyright 1977 INSTRUCTIONS Guess the words defined at the left and write them in over their numbered dashes. Then, transfer each letter to the cor- responding numbered square in the grid above. The letters printed in the upper-right-hand corners of the squares indi- cate from what clue-word a particular square's letter comes from. 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 an 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 "If you raise a question in physics or chemistry, any- one who knows he.possesses no technical knowledge will hold his tongue. But if you venture upon a psychologi- cal assertion, you must be prepared' to meet judge- ments and contradictions from every quarter." (Sigmund) Freud . (The) Question of Lay Analysis 49 102 191 146 70 157 Doer's prc Ulrich Si W HEN THE UNIVERSITY decic Road into a four-lane highwa Telephone wants to put a parking lot -nobody asks the residents of Ann think about it. Thankfully, they don't wait to be asks Years ago, a few outraged citizens n their emotional and ineffectual prob Council, only to be overwhelmed in I and smooth-as-silk arguments of the 'But things are changing now. Ann Ar ing together into influential and dis which can wage successful battle aga giants. These groups no longer respond to baked objections and threats they c on; instead, they make impact studi mation, formulate counter-proposah have adopted the techniques of the E such organizations are now at work, can be found floating back and forth them. "I'm an influential person, sure," powerful? No ... power is a state of n have it." Call it anything you want. A free lo is tne lifeblood of an: group, and Stoll is one who provide that flow. and a partner in the fir Nike the & Associates, he has lves to years developing chl are not munication between up new and the public. Stoll was born in De he little took his engineering element University in 1950. He orpora- manently in 1957 and y). But. behind the scenes i h when- Democratic politics, t successful bids for offi neither In recent years, he h fellows. of his energies into te firm government to the ying up public. verting He is, for instance, 4es and ber of Ann Arbor Tom get too well-funded and 1 downtown developme See STOLL, M. 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Randy White might just b your landlord T HIS TOWN (in case you haven't noticed by now) is a 1 landlord's paradise. Ann Arbor's tremendous num- ber of relatively affluent students makes rental manage- ment the city's biggest year-round industry. But while other forms of economic enterprise-even the most rapacious-contribute to the health of the com- munity by providing jobs, capital and merchandise, Ann Arbor's landlords make little or no contribution. L lamprey of the Great Lakes, they fasten themse the city and grow fat on its wealth. Their profits returned to the economy, but are used to buy 1 property from which more profits are extracted. Landlords come in all shapes and sizes-from th old lady who rents out part of her house to supp her social security to gargantuan management c tions like McKinley Associates (or the University large or small, they are a force to be reckoned with ever their interests are concerned. Randy White is an average Ann Arbor landlord, better nor worse than the great majority of his f As president of Wilson White Co., the real esta founded by his father in 1954, he specializes in bu run-down houses in the central campus area, con them into six or seven-apartment student huclh squeezing a tidy profit from them until theyl See WHITE, Pages U / II I