94t Mrgan DaI4 Eighty-Seven Years of Editorial Freedom 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109 A lesson on crossing the stree t Thursday, April 14, 1977 News Phone: 764-0552 Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan Wil ie Hortorwllaas a Tiger in our hearts THE NAMES HAVE been changed; not so much to protect the innocent or any of that but simply be- cause the woman (whom we will call Arlette) is now a patient in a psychiatric hospital not too far from here, and this is in essence a confidential tale. This story comes from a tradition of presenting wacky tales for your enjoyment and, possibly, edification. I It seems that Arlette was a student in high school on the east side of Detroit somewhere, and she had this friend across the street (whom I shall coyly name Beverly, because I like the name). Beverly was some- what mature for her age, which means she had this way of becoming involved with strange men. Very strange. This had a way of disturbing her parents, but I don't know what became of them, or Beverly either. But one of Beverly's pals was this ebanese fellow named Jose (also changed but it was something Spanish -HIS parents had some kind of a thing for Franco, and you all know what happened to him). Jose introduced Arlette to his business partner, an engaging suave crea- ture named Ahmed or something like that. Ahmed had this little habit of wearing expensive clothes and pre- tending to be a doctor. NOW JOSE AND Ahmed were con artists of a sort, and apparently a rather good sort at that. It seems that this wholesome duo was over visiting Beverly, Arlette was present, and Ahmed suddenly shed large tears (cro- codile, I presume), threw himself down on bended knee, and proposed marriage. Naturally, Arlette was taken aback. Why, she wanted to know. No cad he, Ahmed informed her straight from the shoulder that he wanted to gain American citizen- ship. They kept their marriage a secret from her parents. Of course, her mother wanted to know why she wasn't going to the prom, and dating boys, and like that, but Arlette always had a side-stepping snappy answer at hand. It further seems that Jose and Ahmed were engaged in something that smelled faintly of illegality, that prob- ably involved more than simply the imports and exports that they were purportedly doing. Whatever they were doing, it apparently annoyed the Canadian government, because Arlette received a phone call in the middle of the night. Her mother picked up the call, came out of her bedroom in curl- Up adCmn By JEFFREY P. SELBST - ers, and said, "Arlette, there's someone on the phone babbling in Lebanese. It's for you." Her niother was not to be ruffled. Until Arlette mumbled sleepily, "It's probably my husband." Her mother raised an eyebrow. ARLETTE IS NEVER very coherent when sleepy. Ahmed babbled at her that he was being deported from Toronto to Switzerland and the only way she could prevent this would be to get on a plane, he'd pay, and fly to Toronto, and swear undying love for him. She responded that she couldn't possibly, she had finals to study for. Which, presumably, ended negotiations. He was deported, went off the Lebanon from Geneva, and she heard no more from him, for a while. Jose, meantime, seized his opportunity and began making passes at her. She demurred, citing her married status. Then she began receiving odd overseas phone calls from Ahmed, who demanded that his "wife," Arlette, come over to be with him. Arlette, who hadn't even consummated her marriage ("Hell," she told me pri- vately, "we only kissed once and that was just to see what it was like"), thought about it for scarcely a moment, and then consented. A number of days passed, and she was in Beirut. WE PICK - UP Arlette's story again when she was living with a heroin addict,once againaround Detroit. She goes to a doctor because she has just happened to also pick up this little $45 per day habit, too. She goes to a doctor who lo and behold (admit it, you peeked) just happens to be Jose, who's out to black- mail Arlette by claiming that a) she was engaged in smuggling with Ahmed (with whom Jose was still communicating) b) a trumped-up charge of bigamy (Jose was going to claim that Arlette was married to both of them at once). All of which sent Arlette into the psychiatric hos- pital. She told Jose that she couldn't be blackmailed, her parents already know about the marriage. Jose said, parents, hell - the U.S. government, baby. Arlette went to the police (all this since she en- tered the hospital) with her story; they contacted Jose who said, who's going to believe that fantasy? She is a psychiatric patient, after all. And all that for going across the street. I would guess that Arlette and Beverly don't speak anymore. "SEGUI SETS ... and delivers ... Hor- ton swings and 'it's a drive to center ... it's over the head of Gos- ger ... Stanley scores ... McLain wins his 30th ... the Tigers mob Willie out at first base." Detroit baseball fans haven't had much to cheer about since that fabu- lous World Championship in 1968. In nine years, the Tigers have gone from baseball's best team to one of the worst. During this time, there have been few bright moments of star per- formers for the loyal fans to get ex- cited over. An exception was Willie Horton. Since his first full year as a Tiger in 1965, Willie has been one of the most feared hitters in baseball. In 1968, he hit 36 home runs. A notori- ous streak hitter, he would carry the Bengals with his bat for weeks at a time - and just as quickly, he would slide into a terrible slump. / Whether he was hitting or not, Willie was always a favorite with the fans; especially the young kids who would sit out in the left field stands on Tiger home Saturdays and cheer Horton on. Willie enjoyed it as much as they did. NOW WILLIE IS GONE. On Tues- day, he was traded to the Texas Rangers for an obscure right-handed relief pitcher. Five years ago, you couldn't have traded Willie Horton for half the Texas team. But Willie is 33 years old, and yearly injuries, plus the rise to big-league status of young Steve Kemp, limited his play- ing tim'e with the Tigers. As a ten- year veteran of the same club, Hor- ton had the right to decline the trade, but he looks at it as a chance to play more than he would have in Detroit. We hope that Willie has a banner year with, Texas. He is a class ath- lete, and was an important symbol to the youth of Detroit. It won't be the same following the .Tigers without Willie Horton in the lineup. But oh, the memories! A c1~- SA. TS CS IGER YOU FROM. COMMlrfto&M MY~i MOE txvts' r WITE WTX SAM y IF~ WAS RIV W Cam}- IMu ! r WUS 5VSTDCL £lev FIE SAk. ~a4i( Abp AFFOW ACW Carter wise to commute Liddy's prison sentence WE FEEL THAT President Carter's decision to reduce G. Gordon Lid- dy's prison sentence is a wise move. Liddy had been sentenced to twenty years in a federal penitentiary, but yesterday Carter, on advice from At- torney General Griffin Bell, commu- ted it to 8 years. Liddy has already served over four years, so he will be eligible for parole in July. It has been the consistent pattern of the Watergate prosecutions that the lower echelon conspirators-the men who were following orders-have received the harshest punishments, while the men who gave the orders have been left virtually unscathed. Men like Charles Colson, Egil Krogh, Frederick LaRue, and Herbert Kalm- bach have all spent varying amounts of time in jail. But Richard Nixon was given a full pardon, and was ex- iled to San Clemente with more pomp and financial security than Napoleon at Elba. John Mitchell and H.R. Hal- deman are still at large, sitting out the lengthy appeals process of their ,convictions. F THE LESSER conspirators, none served over a year in prison. Lid- dy has been in since January, 1973. The only other man connected with Watergate still in jail besides Liddy is John Ehrlichman, incarcerated in Arizona since last October. It is under these circumstances that we believe that Liddy should be set free. Why should he be forced to serve out his entire sentence-a sen- tence that is more harsh that Ehr- lichman's, Haldeman's or Mitchell's - when all of his fellow conspira- tors have been freed? We do not condone the actions of Gordon Liddy and his kind. Richard Nixon should be behind bars right now. But he isn't. And -most of those who aided and abetted him are also free. Liddy should be free also. Editorial Staff I OJTOVOW THOE J1RC JPA$I \ N~O MAW WtHITiV (OR- Ct ASS MU 'R i (0OU R HCAV. .)F_'N OP/ /~rl~ t+r~eyrMsrt F O6O- (kTWP1E I0YO /~fa S ANN MARIE LIPINSKI Editors-in-Chief JIM TOBIN Letters KEN PARSIGIAN ..............Editorial Director LOIS JOSIMOVICH.................Arts Editor JAY LEVIN......... ..... ..... Managing Editor GEORGE LOBSENZ............Managing Editor MIKE NORTON..............Managing Editor MARGARET YAO..............Managing Editor Weater Forecasters MARK ANDREWS and MIKE GILFORD SUSAN ADES ELAINE FLETCHER Magazine Editors z rAiF WEITERS: (wen Barr, Susan Barry, Brian Blanchard; Michael Beckman, Phillip Jokovo", Linda Brennersa BiCarruthers, Ken Chotiner, Eileen Dale? Ron TDeKett, Lisa Fish- er, David Goodman, Marnie Heyn, Robb Ham- es, Michael Jones, Lani Jordan, Janet Klein, Giegg Kruppa, Steve Kursmah, Dobilas Matu- oonis, Stu McConnell. Torn Meyer, Jenny Mil- ler, Patti Monteamaui, Tom O'Connell, Jon Parsius, Karen Paul, Stephen Pickover, Kim Potter, Martha Retallick, Keith Richburg, Bob Rosenbaunm, Dennis Sabo, Annrnarie Schiavi, Eizabeth Slowik, Torn Stevens, Jim Stimpson, ilke Taylor, Pauline Toole. Mark Wagner. Sue Warner, Shelley Woason, Mike Yellin, Laurie Young and Barb Zahs. Sports Staff KAHYHENNEGHAN..........Sports Editor TOM CAMERON ........ Executive Sports Editor SCOTT LEWIS .......... Managing Sports Editor DON MacLACHLAN .. Associate Sports Editor Contributing Editors JOHN NIEMEYER and ENID GOLDMAN NIGHT EDITORS: Ernie Dunbar, Henry Engel- hardt, Rick Maddock, Bob Msiller, Patrick Rode, Cub Schwartz. ASST. NIGHT EDITORS: Jeff Frank, Cindy Gat- ziolis, Mike Halpin, Brian Martin, Brian Miller, Dave Renbarger, Errol Shifman and Jamie Tur- Photcgraphy Staff ALAN BILINSKY ANDY FREEBERG Co-Photographers-in-Chief BRAD BENJAMIN...........Staff Photographer JOHN KNOX............... Staff Photographer CHRISTINA SCHNEIDER ... Staff Photographer to ti F- Hash Bash To The Daily:; We, Gays in Support of Youth Liberation, want to take issue with the Anti-Youth position in your editorial and feature ar- ticle "It ain't like the 'Good o' days"' which appeared in the April 2 issue of the Daily, con- cerning the Hash Bash. The statement in Gregg Kru- pa's article that "the prepon- derance of children and outsid- ers has alienated many Hash Bash regulars" is blatantly anti- youth. Your editorial reinforces this position when you snobishly speak of the "affront to all self- respecting dope smokers, area residents, and thinking people everywhere" created by what you insensitively describe as "a semi - spontaneous influx of disgusting non-local non-stu- dents who leave their brains and their manners elsewhere." Leaving aside the disturbing provincialism and middle-class mentality reflected in your posi- tion, we are surprised to find it articulated in a student news- paper whose staff and reader- ship is largely composed of young people just emerging from the oppressed class of "children". A similar contempt for young people under 18 was demon- strated by the University ad- ministration. The hand-out "Anti-Youth University to, Smash Hash Bash," distributed on the Diag last Friday morn- ing, focused on facts linking the University full scale attack designed to discourage the Hash Bash as a campaign clearly aimed at the systemat- ically exclusion of young peo- ple. This included, the policy of strictly enforcing public nuis- ance laws combined with an all-out campaign (according to the University Record of March 28th) of "contacting area (and greater Detroit) school officials, parents, and other community persons to communicate the se- clrity precautions being taken this year". If the Hash Bash "initiated as a political act" in 1972, as your editorial states, no longer is so for the University community, this merely means that campus politics have fizzled out. From its ashes, the phoenix of Youth Politics has risen. Consequent- .7l -- '1 sic human rights. Concern about possible disruption of classes by the noise, and the fear gen- erated by the flow of people in public buildings simply look- ing for a rest room, mustn't ob- scure the central issue which is' that fascist tactics are being planned to smash a politically significant people's holiday. "Young people must demon- strate their solidarity by ignor- ing the University policy and by congregating on the Diag as us- ual on April 1st. Any disruption of 'business as usual' will only be incidental to the clear ies- sage we will send to the same ruling class that only a few years ago condemned 2,000,000 Vietnamese and 55,000 Ameri- cans to death: "We will resist your convert- ing us into mindless adult con- sumers like our parents. This symbolic victory will be ours. "From Ann Arbor and the greater Detroit area be on the Diag for the 6th Annua Arbor Hash Bash, and them the message." We, lesbians and gay actively support younga in their class struggle as dren" against sexist and wise oppressive societalr We are affiliated with Ar bor EASY (Easy Access t vices for Youth), and m the Gay Commlnity Se Center, at 612 S. Forest - B. For more information the GCS Center 665-8838. Gays in Supporta Youth Liberation To The Daily: It is necessary for more said about the current P1 uation. We are disappoin the lack of coverage tha Daily has given to this lem. The truth has not told, and I wish to reve ie.IJauly i Ann facts about PBB. The foods that send contain the chemical include the following: Milk, cheese, but- males ter, sour cream, ice cream, yo- people gurt, chicken, pork, and low- "chil- grade beef. These foods are other- contaminated with PBB and norms, are harmful to the human nn Ar- body. The human body does not to Ser- decompose PBB, nor can it be eet at removed as waste. The PBB ervices stays in the body where it - Suite harms the digestive system phone causing stomach and intestinal disorders. The chemical also of has been linked to disorders of the skin and nervous system. These include a chemically-in- P811 duced acne, excessive growth of hair and nails, and possible loss of memory. These facts to be were made available through a BB sit- study done by scientists here at ted by the University of Michigan. 3t The They examined 300 residents of prob- lower Michigan and found ex- been cessive doses of PBB in many al the of them. They also found doses of PBB in the breast milk of many females. These facts sup- port our argument which is in favor of banning all foods which contain PBB. We also would like to see all mothers have their breast milk checked for any measurable traces of PBB, and if any traces are found we feel that they should nurse their babies only with non-Michigap cow's milk. The foods containing PBB are still being sold, and for ,p time being if is necessary or every citizen in Michigan to re- frain from consuming these contaminated foods. It would also be helpful if this newspap- er told the public the true facts about PBB. We would apprec- iate a concerted effort by the Michigan Daily and by our leg- islators in Lansing in order to rid this state of this dangerous poison. Leonard Mutnick Brenda Dudzinski 4 By MARY BUCALO rVHERE IS A NEW KIND OF GROWTH taking place on cam- pus right now. For lack of a better label, it is called "The Returning Student Movement." I am part of that movement, and I find it the most rewarding experience of my life, for I have begun to grow again at the age of fifty, and thanks to academic consideration, it is a growth of a measurable kind. Unlike the conventional LSA student, I returned 'to the university already educated by long experience with that real world from which I came. But my education there, systematized by my natural role of full time wife and mother, employed dynamics of a different kind. The mental faculty which that natural role utilizes for learning is perception, rather than the abstract verbal-conceptual faculty developed here at the academy. As a mother I was prompted by that natural perception to consider first those who were totally dependent upon me, and then myself. That kind of consideration became a habit, which continued until I perceived the roles of adult and child beginning to reverse. As my children's verbal-conceptual abili- ties grew, due to formal education, and mine remained the same, a communication gap appeared between us, and gradu- ally widened. It was a gap which not only interfered with I was clumsy with the simplest study procedures at first, while all about me took their academic capabilities for grant- ed. That clumsiness, combined with the automatic revival of self-consciousness, which afflicts the mature adult made to compete with youth in a world of the young,- made me miser- able, and misery loves company. That's how I came to know other equally pained people, who were caught up in this new kind of growth. With the help of the University, the Center for Continuing Education of Women, and the Commission for Women, together we generated an academic aid for ourselves in the form of a Returning Student Lounge, which now operates from Room 3205 of the Michigan Union. There, peer support, coffee for a nickel (while it lasts), and a wealth of informa- tion sources specifically designed to help the returner are now available for the asking. YET IT WAS WORTH all of the discomfort involved in my reentry to formal education to discover as I have, how dif- ferent the returning mind is from the advancing mind of the young. You could call it the difference between reaping and sowing. Translated into intellectual terms it is the difference between recognition and cognition. And now that I have ex- perienced how the returning mind operates; and the sense of ultimate growth which it brings, I am anxious to pass that experience on. For it appears from where I now stand that the growth of the individual, when extended far enough, reveals a natural energy source as yet undeveloped in our society, for the simple reason that there is no systematic means available as yet for developing it. sMy experience withLSA gives me ample reason to be- lieve that the human faculty for recognition, guided by a suit- able academic program, is capable of developing to the point where personal truth can be identified with universal truth, energizing the physical truth can be identified with universal trnt n riza gthe nhvili na f l,,,y ratinal wav in the ii Z! f, V i I