420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Mich. Edited ond managed by students at the University of Michigan Editorials printed in The Michigan Daily express the individual opinions of the author. This must be noted in oil reprints. Friday, May 21, 1971 News Phone: 764-0552 NIGHT EDITOR: JONATHAN MILLER sex On abortion referral I r iri rooi i r I Sunday rock concerts: A call for support F OR SEVERAL SUMMERS, a number of community- minded people have worked together to arrange free Sunday rock concerts in Ann Arbor parks. The concerts have increased in popularity every year, but due to fi- nancial problems, this year's concerts may be reduced in number or even cancelled entirely. In past years, the concerts have gone on in spite of harassment from right-wing elements in the community and from city agencies - most notably the police de- partment. But last year, the city helped out greatly by giving the concert-organizers the use of Gallup Park and providing essential police and sanitation services. The recent city budget cuts, however, have forced the city to cut these services, and the Ann Arbor Tribal Coun- cil has estimated that $29,000 is needed for these and oth- er expenses for the 13 weekly concerts. The reality of the situation is that "free concerts" are hardly "free." Often the burden for paying the, unseen costs of these ventures falls upon groups like the Rain- bow People and local bands who volunteer whatever time or money they might have. BUT THIS YEAR, The Tribal Council wants to provide for more of the needs of both the people who attend the concerts and those who have expended their energy to make Sunday programs as popular as they are. They want to provide food at cost, pay each band a "token" $100 per performance and pay each of the Psychedelic Rangers (who supervise the concerts) $5 per concert. In addition, medical and drug help facilities are need- ed and the council wants to buy a permanent sound sys- tem for the park. Adding these costs to the expenses of providing the services that the city has discontinued to- tals an enormous sum --- but not an impossible one to raise. In the past few weeks, the council has been working hard to raise the needed money, but it faces an uphill fight. A concert at the Union Ballroom May 7, raised $500, a three-day radio marathon on a local station raised sev- eral hundred dollars, and the search for funds continues - but there seems little hope of success unless commun- ity people offer support by donating both their time and their money. Today and tomorrow there will be a city-wide bucket drive. Saturday and Sunday a Flea Market will be set up on the Diag with proceeds going for the park program. Saturday evening, Bob Seeger and Teegarden and Van- Winkle will play a benefit concert at Hill Auditorium for $1.25 to help raise money. Support these activities - they're your concerts! THIS MAY BE the last chance for people in Ann Arbor to come out and support community music. We aban- doned Canterbury House when it fell into hard times, we crashed the gates of the Ann Arbor Blues Festival and left it with $20,000 in debts. Let's not let it happen again. -ALAN LENHOFF (EDTORS' SNOTE: This column k beiug initiated i nco-opeation xith the Offie it Student services.) By ROBERT KOOP IN RESPONSE to a need in the University community f or more accurate sex information, the Student Services Counseling Office, in conjunction with The Daily, is initiating a regular ques- tion and answer column dealing with sex-related concerns. My job is to write the column. To be perfectly frank, I pro- bably don't know a whole lot more about sex than you do. What I do know is how to find out about it. A number of experts in the various fields that deal with sex-related issues have placed themselves more or less at my disposal for this purpose. They include doctors, population plan- ning experts, psychologists and a lot of books. Some of the things they know about are contraception, abortion, available services for students with sexual concerns, reproductive bio- logy, sex roles, VD, the-law and values for sexual decision-making. You are invited to send ques- tions about these things (or any- thing else you want to find out about) to Box 25, The Daily, 420 Maynard, Ann Arbor, or to call your questions in to Student Af- fairs Counseling at 764-7430 or 76-GUIDE. All questions will be answered, and your name will not be made public. All my answers will be checked with experts before they are printed, of course, and I will try to serve first accuracy, and then the people. OK? Onward. As you may have guessed, the following questions are phony. But the answers are real, so what the heck, Q. OK, you know so much, what's the story on abortion re- ferral services? A. Glad you asked. Abortion re- ferral agencies seem to be sprout- ing up like mushrooms, and no wonder. There's lot of money to be made in this business. Commercial referral agencies are basically in the business of making appointments for you with hospitals or clinics in New York where you may legally have an abortion. For this service t h e y charge something like 50 or 75 dollars.- You pay this fee merely for an appointment. You get no guar- antee as to the quality of the care you will receive. Also, the cost of the abortion, regardless of this fee, is usually higher than it is when the client deals directly with the hospital or clinic. Face to face counseling before the de- cision to undergo an abortion, of course, is generally not available from these agencies. University counselors, the Free People's Clinic and the Women's Liberation Abortion Counseling Service refer to a non-profit cor- poration in New York City. The facility is certified, has been in- spected, and has been used by many Michigan women. In addi- tion, the Free People's Clinic re- fers to a commercial clinic in New York which has been inspected and which offers competitive pric- es and prompt quality services. Sincere, honest counseling and free referrals are available to members of the University com- munity at all these places. There is no need to pay extra referral fees. Q. Tell me more about t h o s e places you mentioned in the an- swer to the first question, A. Sure. If you're considering an abor- tion, you can go to any of the fo11owing problem pregnancy counseling services to discuss the possibility, as well as alternatives. If you want it, a referral will be made. The decision will be yours, in any case. The following services are avail- able at the University: Counseling Division, B ur e au of Psychological Services, -1007 East Huron. 764-9466, 764-9467. Mental Health Clinic, University Health Service, 207 Fletcher. 764- 8314, 764-8313. Office of Religious Affairs, 2282 Student Activities Building. s04.. 7442. Student Services Counseling Of- fice, 1011 Student Activities Build- ing. 764-7430. Off campus the following serv- ices are available: Free People's Clinic, 302 E. Lib- : erty (counselor available Monday- Thursday, 7:00-10:00 p.m., and Saturday, 1:30-4:30 p.m.). Women's Liberation Abortion Counseling Service, 663-2363. Letters to The Daily Sports critique To The Daily: RICK CORNFELD'S a r t i c I el Daily, May 12), entitled "Jim Bouton . . . in the All-Star game?" is the latest example of the irre- sponsibility which has crept onto the sports pages. The article is a criticism of a sports column by Richard Feuer in the April 28 State University of New York at Buffalo "Spectrum," In the article Feuer castigates pro- fessional baseball for its racism, sexism, exploitation and cut- throat profiteering. Feuer proposes a "Fans Lobby for the Liberation of Sports." He has even initiated the first action of the lobby: A write-in campaign to put Jim Bouton, former Yankee pitcher-turned TV newsman and a critic of professional baseball, on the All-Star team. Feuer is correct in his criticisms of baseball. Cornfeld is incidental- ly correct in his criticism of Feu- er's write-in campaign: "It ain't going to do much good," he wrote. But this is as far as Cornfeld goes. Aside from passing men- tions of baseball's hideous reserve clause and racism, C or n f e ld chooses to ignore the issues which caused Feuer to raise his protest in the first place. If Cornfeld has an honest in- terest in sport he might instead have used his column to illuminate the problems threatening to de- stroy professional althetics. Instead the article is full of con- denscending phrases like, "Poor Richard Feuer." Cornfeld distorts Feuer's arguments - chastising him for attacking Baseball Com- missioner Bowie Kuhn's associa- tion with Richard Nixon (whom Feuer characterizes as a "mass murderer.") while failing to note that Feuer's reference was a com- parison to Kuhn's suspension of Denny McLain for associating with mere gamblers. But Kuhn's hypocrisy is only of passing interest, and diverts at- tention from Feuer's more sub- stantive attacks on baseball. Feuer's major point (though he doesn't make it well) is that the system of organized baseball has a series of inherent inequities which make it a veritable human meat-grinder. YET WITH ALL these things to write about, Cornfeld chooses to Man on a White Horse make an opportunistic and half- baked criticism of Feuer's cam- paign. This is the irresponsibility which Daily Sports has exhibited for the past year and continues to dis- play. Last fall The Daily received a letter from the Michigan Club Sports Association concerning a new sports building which the Re- gents had authorized the Athletic Department to construct. The Association q u e s t-i o n e d whether the new building would be another palace for varsity ath- letes, or whether the rest of the student body would also be able to enjoy use of the new facility Daily Sports never printed the letter, never investigated the ques- tions the Association raised and has yet neglected to report the decision to commence the con- struction. Women compete athletically at the intercollegiate level at the University, yet one would never know this from reading The Daily. For over a year Daily Sports has ignored women's activity in bas- ketball, speed swimming and other sports. Th e Advisory Committee on Recreation, Club Sports and In- , tramurals, charged with making capital improvements in campus recreational facilities, is in danger of extinction or at least losing funding from the Regents. Not a word from The Daily. The right or wrong of these issues is not the present question. That these issues are of interest and affect large segments of the University community, however, is. And that Daily Sports has fail- ed its responsibilities is sadly clear. But if we are to continue in ignorance ,and bliss (?), then spare us sanctimonious and ill- considered articles such as Corn- feld's. PRINT THE box scores of base- ball games instead. Jim Forrester Associate Sports Editor, '69-'70 The Editorial Page of The Michigan Daily is open to any- one who wishes to submit articles. Generally speaking, all articles should be less than 1,000 words.