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Thursday, Septerriber 9, 1976

THE MICHIGAN DAILY

Page Seven

Thursday, September 9, 1976 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Seven


Ghosts of a
By JIM TOBIN HAD NEVE
M Y FAMILY USED to come to Michigan football first place
games about once a year. My parents, both body had eith
alumni, were neither voracious nor indifferent fans, ed to me. Too
so that usually averaged out to one game per fall. Williams oute
I was more a baseball fan back then, so the hour But after t
drive to Ann Arbor and another hour back home tions made it
seldom seemed worth the trouble for a mere foot-
ball game. But on those weekends I got my first ing to go aloni
tastes of the city.wadufoa
Trundling in to town on North Main off U. S. 23, couln't ida
we would pass the faltering frame houses of that the place besi
quarter of town - paint peeling around the eaves,
screenless screen doors, driveways chewed up. And I was tough
up on the roof would sit a gallery of rowdies who had convinced
hooted at every car that went by, and I, a junior-, mount the ch
high-schooler, thought to myself that I didn't want tifyingly alone
to spend four years of college like that. That was in front of Ali
my first impression of Ann Arbor. It lasted a long crib, a little k
time. bug bonnd fnr

freshn
R WANTED to go to Michigan in the
My parents had gone there; every-
er gone there or was about to, it seem-
big, too. I wanted to go to Brown or
east.
he admissions offices of those institu-
painfully clear that they weren't will-
ng, I faced up to the fact that my ass
long stretch in Ann Arbor. And after
in't seem so bad, for what reason I
e; I had few other impressions of
des those jerks up 'on the roof.
h, though. Three years of high school
d me that I was cool enough to sur-
allenge of college. But, oh, how mor-
e I felt when my parents dropped me
ice Lloyd Hall, a waif tossed from the
kid with a runny nose thrust on to the
r his first summer camp. I played my
role for all it was worth for my par-
e, of course - I staunchly gripped my
l, waved a hearty farewell, and strode

ian year
toward Lloyd's entrance without looking back. My
parents pulled off into the sunset, their bumper,
vanishing around the corner of Couzens Hall, the last
lifeboat in the storm.
My orientation leader was a saint. Gary, his name
was; he was a pre-med student. Did I have my res-
ervation and check? he wanted to know.
Shaking, I showed him that I did.
"Terrific," he said. "You're gonna do just fine
at the University."
Such was my state that I really believed he could
tell such a thing from such a trivial question and
response. God, do you really think so? I wanted to
ask him, do you really think I'm going to do okay?
If I had asked, I have no doubt he would have said,
"Oh yeah, no question about it, you got no problems
at all, I can tell." At any rate, I was off to a more
comfortable start than I had expected. May Gary,
wherever he is, be on his way to being a rich doc-
tor.
All those meetings and conferences and rap ses-
sions they put you through during orientation run
SEE RECALLING, Page 10

Jim
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Tobin, a Daily nig ht editor, is a University

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