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FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1972 News Phone: 764-0552
Plastic food fiasco-
"They paved paradise and put up a parking lot."
-Joni Mitchell
WITH THE RECENT renovations and "improvements" in
the basement of the Union, the campus community
has once again seen the fruits of the same tasteless and
moronic mentality that razed a civil war landmark to
build a contemptable plastic Geno's on the corner of State
and Washington.
In the name of progress (and incidently profit) the
old Union cafeteria has been replaced with a shiny new
hamsburger stand of the McDonald's and Geno's genre.
The management of the Union has allowed Manimart
Co. to construct the "Union Station" in the cellar and use
the space to rip-off the community with poor quality
food at outrageous prices.
I At a time when the Union is slowly moving toward
student management this is surely a serious step in the
wrong direction; especially considering the fact that the
Union put up $20,000 of the costs of the remodeling.
Not that the old cafeteria was all that great. But it
did provide a quiet, tasteful place to go, wih a variety of
good food (not just burgers and fries) at reasonable
prices.
The Union Station with garish decor, Geno's-style
production line service, sky-high prices and burger stand
cuisine however, makes its predecessor quite desirable by
comparison.
A private enterprise like the Union Station has no
place in a building which should concentrate on service
to the campus community, rather than exploitation.
STUDENTS AND FACULTY members should boycott the
place in disgust but they probably won't. They won't
because its easier to allow yourself to be exploited than
to protest. That's what happened with Geno's and it's
what allows places like that to survive. It's kind of sad.
-CHRIS PARKS
Today's Staff .. .
News: Jan Benedetti, Dan Biddle, Carla Rapoport
Editorial Page: Alan Lenhoff
Photo technician: Denny Gainer
Summer Staff
EDITORIAL STAFF
Da. Biddle, Jan Benedetti, Meryl Gordon, Jim Kentch, Lorin
Lab.rdee, Alan Lenhoff (co-editor), Diane Levick Maynard, Chris
Park, Carla Rapoport (co-editor) Marilyn Riley, Gloria Smith,
Paul "'ravis, Ralph Vartabedian.
0 SPORTS STAFF
Bob Anirews, Dan Borus, Elliat Legow.
BUSINESS STAFF
Andy Golling, Business Mgr.; Sherry Kstle, Circulation Mgr.;
Karen Laakko, Classified Mgr.; Fran Scherger, Display Mgr.;
Diane Carnevale, Supplement Mgr.; Elliott Legow, Deborah Whit-
ing, Carol Wieck, Assistants
PHOTOGRAPHY STAFF
Denny Gainer. Rolfe Tessem, Gary Vilani, Jim Wallace.
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"And now, back to the carmpaign ..-,-"
Rumors inside the news
... as compiled by The Daily staff
Aiming to please
In the past, no political cam-
paign has been complete with-
out the voter pleasing "ethnic
food tour". The smiling candi-
date would trip from one
neighborhood to another gob-
bling pasta with the Italians,
bagels with the Jews baclava
with the Greeks, etc.
But these are modern times,
and George Sallade - Demo-
cratic candidate for county
prosecutor - has shown him-
self to be the living refutation
of the' old sying that "you
can't teach an old dog new
tricks."
When his campaign rounds
brought him to a Michigan
Marijuana Initiative party re-
cently, Sallade - a former Re-
publican State Legislator -
obligingly stepped up for a toke
from a foot-long marijuana ci-
gar.
Sports grow,
students pay
Sports is big business, but none
of your business dept.
In an attempt to boost their
season ticket sales above last
year's 53,000 level, the Michigan
Athletic Department has taken
out ads in national magazines in-
cluding Sports Illustrated, Time,
Newsweek, U.S. News and World
Report and Business Week.
In addition, as the campaign
gets in to high gear, ads are ap-
pearing in Detroit area news-
papers, and leaflets are being
mailed to residents in Michigan's
high-income suburban areas.
Meanwhile, Don Canham, Uni-
versity Athletic Director, contin-
ues to act as if the athletic de-
partment were a separate cor-
poration that has no obligations
to the University community.
"User fees" are Canham's euphe-
mism for saying that varsity ath-
letic facilities just aren't for stu-
dent use.
The result is that students must
The Sun
By DAVID SINCLAIR
YESTERDAY edition of The
Daily contained an ad run
by Sheriff's candidate Fred Pos-
till to which we feel compelled to
re.,ply.
Sn essence, Fred Postill accuses
the Sun and the Rainbow Peo-
ples' Party, its publisher, of lying
to its readers in order to "smear"
Postill and thereby repay an al-
leged debt for favors done by
Harold Moon, a bailbondsman
who is also a candidate for sher-
iff in the Democratic primary.
This is a serious charge, and one
which se do not take lightly.
Postill refers to an article its
our July 21 issue which reports
an incident wherein Postill as a
Washtenaw County Sheriff's dep-
uty fired several so-called "warn-
ing" shots at a fleeing black
AWOL. In his ad, he denies fir-
ing these shots, attributes them to
his partner Roy Couch, and ac-
cuses the Sun of teaming up with
Couch (who is now, we are told,
a Harvey campaign manager) to
distort the facts and lie to its
readers.
Our information consisted of a
complete report of the incident,
filed by Postill himself, not
Couch, and given to us by a re-
porter for another area newspa-
per. In his report, Postill says he
fired several shots, calling them
'warning shots." There is no
mention of Couch emptying his
pistol firing at the fleeing AWOL.
Since the report is supplemented
by follow - up reports detailing
citizen complaints of ground-level
damage in neighboring buildings
caused by these "warning shots,"
we concluded, and continue to
conclude, that the liberal Mr. Pos-
till was trying his damnedest to
nail the AWOL with his "warn-
ing shots."
Postill also says our article has
him radioing to another deputy
while giving chase. Actually, it
reported that Postill radioed from
his car while chasing the AWOL
pay to use the University's ice
rink, swimming pools, and golf
course. The Michigan Stadium is
open otnra very limited basis to
intra-mnural teams, but only be-
cause its Tartan Turf was in part
purchased with student funds.
But the real slap in the face is
the operation of the University's
Hoover St. tennis courts. During
the summer the courts are oper-
ated as a private tennis club. For
$35 per season, you can use the
courts, and you can take lessons
from Varsity Tennis Coach Brian
Eisner for $10 per half-hour. Ap-
parently, no one seems very con-
cerned that Eisner is using Uni-
versity-owned courts for per-
sonal profit.
Canham claims the Athletic De-
partment can do these things be-
cause they are financially inde-
pendent of the University. That's
simply not true as the entire op-
eration is based on the prestige
gained by using the University's
name to promote Canham's ex-
pensively recruited varsity teams.
In addition, Canham likes to for-
get the $314,135 in student lees
that the Athletic Department re-
ceived last year.
Onion and Orchids
Onions go to The Detroit Free
Press for its glaring nonsensi-
tivity to the lettuce boycott
sponsored by the United Farm
Work e r s. Wednesday's Food
Guide section was plastered
with recipes, pictures and stor-
ies on the leafy vegetable. Not
one sentence in the nearly full
page spread was devoted to the
boycott.
UFW supporters in Detroit
probably wish the Free Press
food editors would drown in
their lettuce soup.
Orchids go to Henry Johnson,
new University VP for student
services, who, in his other iden-
tity as an Ann Arbor School
Board member, has strongly
supported the reinstatement of
Forsythe Jr. High School Prin-
cipal Fred Leonard, above the
loud objections of many of his
fellow board members.
Sudden departure
Don Tucker, McGovern's Michi-
gan campaign director has been
transferred to Connecticut. Some
in the McGovern Camp are view-
ing the action as a demotion,
while other point to the standard
practice of post-convention shifts.
Leave a campaign director around
a district for too long, they say,
and he makes too many promises
and too many enemies.
Who's listening?
Now that grand jury investi-
gations of the Vietnam Veterans
Against the War have begun in
Detroit and other cities, local
VVAW members fear their
phone is tapped. Small beeps
heard in the background dur-
ing phone conversations have
kept some of the group's
straighter "professional-orient-
ed" members away from the of-
lice, sources claim.
China scholars
in vogue
Being a professor can mean
more than just teaching. For
many University professors the
job's main attraction may be a
shot for a glamor position in the
"big time" of the federal govern-
ment.
Perhaps the most handy at
landing those big government jobs
have been our highly touted
China scholars.
Political Science Prof. Rich-
ard Solomon is currently plan-
ning to return to campus follow-
ing a one-year stint with Presi-
dential globe trotter Henry Kis-
singer.
And colleague Alan Whiting,
rumor has it, is on the inside
track to be Secretary of State if.
George McGovern wins in No-
vember.
responds to Postill
in another car, enjoining depu-
ties up ahead to fire on the flee-
ing AWOL.
Postill's lying in the Daily ad
just reinforces our view of him
and of his candidacy. Postill's al-
legations about the Sun's honesty
and motivation in reporting his
past history indicate he will stop
at nothing in the way of pole-
cat politics in order to promote
himself to a position of power.
AS A POINT of fact, the Sun
and the Rainbow Peoples' Party
have viewed Postill with suspi-
cion since he asnounced his can-
didacy. His liberal mouthings,
seen in light of his two solid
yearstas a good Harvey deputy, si-
lent to ansy wrong-doing except
those issues addressed by the un-
ion question, did not ring true
anid prompted us to investigate.
The results tend to confirm the
deceit we suspected: that Pos-
till was, and remains, a typically
Harvey - styled aggressive, racist,
inhumane cop who has to settle
with Harvey, his former boss, a
big personal grudge that has ab-
solutely nothing to do with the
rights of citizens, equal enforce-
ment of the laws, or anything
like that. And that grudge will be
settled, according to Postill's plan,
by duping liberals and young peo-
ple with a cynically-contrived
platform based not on conviction
but on what looked most likely to
appeal to liberals and newly-en-
franchised youth.
WE WOULD LIKE to point out
that "Fred Postill's Reply to the
Sun" was received by the Sun In
the form of a letter, without the
desperate accusations Postill
makes in his ad, and that it does,
,in fact, appear in its 'entirety in'
issue No. 37 of the Sun, which
will be out tomorrow (August 41,
along with our response to it.
We would also like to point out
that we have received additional
reports, pone of which came from
Mr. Couch, that Postill brutally
beat a handcuffed prisoner near
a deserted gravel pit, that he
fired his pistol again in a brawl
at the Schwabin Inn, and that he
used to boast of carrying two
blackjacks while on duty at the
jail.
Finally, we owe nothing to Har-
old Moon, and Postill's report of
remsarks to that effect msade by
our representative is a lie. Moon
is a bondsman who has made
money bonding people out of jail,
among thenm members of the RPP.
We, like lots of friends and oth-
ers like us, have paid for our
bonds.
OUR SUPPORT of Harold
Moon is based on his platform,
which is progressive to the point
where we can endorse it enthusi-
astically, and on the fact that
Moon's history, unlike the other
candidates including Postill, is
not one of brutality and arro-
gance, but rather that of a small
capitalist who has at least done
continuous business with youth
and minorities in a manner be-
speaking some respect for human
rights and dignity. We have sup-
ported him as the best candidate
in a race that demands the un-
seating of Harvey by someone
other than a rubber-stamp rep-
lica in disguise.
David Sinclair is Chief of
Staff for the Rainbow People's
Party, the publisher of the Ann
Arbor Sun.
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