Page Ten THE MICHIGAN DAILY Wednesday, June 29, i97
Cheerleaders romp at 'U'
By DENISE FOX South Quad cafeteria worker. girls will also learn mounts, founded by Pauline Hess, a spe- the Track and Tennis su
"When you open the door, they chants, tumbling and pom-pom cialist in physical education at where each squad as well as the
For most people, it's difficult all run in at one time." routines." Michigan State University and staff will be performing.
enough to roll out of bed at eight "Rah-rah." said orientation coach of the cheerleading team
in the morning, let alone be hub- leader Jeff Coleman in response "WE HAVE to encourage spit- there for 16 years. BUT IF, by some stroag fg
bling with enthusiasm. to the cheerleaders' spirit. "I'll it," says instructor Fred Pizza, Besides the actual workout for you don't hear or see the chee
But not so for a group of 150 see ten across the street cheer- a former cheerleader at UCLA the girls, the camp sponsors a leaders by Friday, don't worry
high school cheerleaders at- ing in unison on Madison or himself. "A cheerleader is not a competition between squads and you haven't seen the last
tending a 3 and a half day clinic William." cheerleader if they can't have gives ribbons for the best cheers. them yet. Two more grops wil
on campus. The girls belong to Most observers find the cheer- spirit." On the last night of the pro- invade the city's strects nex
the U.S. Cheerleaders Associa- leaders amusing, even if their The 22-year-old camp was gram, there is "guest night" in month.

tion (USCA) which sponsors a
camp which holds concentrated
cheerleading clinics across the
country. -
"WE'VE BEEN cheering from
eight this morning and I lost
my voice the first day I came,"
said Renee Turner, a 16-year-old
from Flint. But even her hoarse
voice has not dampened her en-
thusiasm for the camp and
cheerleading. "I want to cheer
for U of M, when I graduate,"
she said.
Participants in the clinic have
been staying in West Quad, din-
ing in South Quad and practic-
ing their routines on the baseball
diamond and in the Track and
Tennis Building. And wherever
they go, their presence is known.
"I'd like to have all that en-
ergy," remarked Max Smith,
South Quad building director.
"THEY WERE sitting here
cheering really loudly before
we fspened for lunch," said a
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running and yelling are a little
hard on the eyes and ears. But
Coleman said the girls have a
different effect on him.
"I NEVER felt so old in my
life," said the college junior.
"When you are in 8th or 9th
grade you look up to them and
they are the epitome of woman-
hood. Now they're little kids
running around."
Coleman contends that al-
though some of the girls are the
same age or only a little young-
er than his orientation students,
there is a great difference be-
tween the two.
"Not that freshman are exact-
ly sophisticated," he said, "but
compared to them, it is a big
difference. Freshman try to put
on an air of sophistication," said
Coleman. "The high school girls
are not even attempting."
BUT THE cheerleaders seem-
ed to be oblvious to other's re-
actions to t h e m, concerning
themselves only with having a
good time and getting a lot of
instruction from the camp.
"We have staffs that travel all
around the country," explained
Ida Basco, director of the group
staying in Ani Arbor now.
"We will teach 32 cheers,"
Basco said. "In that time the
Some 90,000 artifacts-includ-
ing 40,000 coins-dating back to
the early Egyptian period 5,000
years ago are housed in the
University's Kelsey Museum of
Ancient and Medieval Archae-
ology on State St. Many of the
items come from University
excavations of the 1920's and
1930's at Karanis, Egypt and at
Seleucia in Iraq.

VA defense blasts gov'ft case

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O'Brien told the jury, that
there were many other hos-
pital workers and visitors who
had been with the patients in
the five minutes before each suf-
fered a breathing failure. "Why
is it so select?" he asked. "Why
the Filipinos? Why not the
others?"
O'BRIEN AND fellow defense
lawyer Edward Stein gave sepa-
rate closing statements,
O'Brien's lasting barely an hour.
Both attorneys asked the jury
to consider the testimony to the
defendants' g o o d character.
O'Brien said neither defendant
had so much as a parking ticket
"and you're expected to believe
that for one month they -came
up with this scheme."
Stein added to O'Brien's re-
marks by saying "the United
States government, with all its
chemists and its hypnotists and
its models, couldn't put one wit-
ness on the stand to say 'You
know, now that you mention it,
they were acting kind of sus-
picious.'"
STEIN WENT on to rap the
government's handling of the in-
vestigation and blast the con-
duct of the FBI who doggedly
pursued the case for 10 months.
"Leonora Perez said that (FBI
special agent) Richard Guttler
told her that if she didn't con-
fess she'd never see her son
again. Why didn't Guttler take
the stand?" Stein said. "Why
did they put (FBI special agent

Daniel) Russe on the stand to
deny it for Guttler? What is this,
a game, where you put one on
to deny for the other?"
Stein said that the VA hos-
pital, the U.S. attorneys office
and the FBI were "trying to put
the case away." Stein also ac-
cased VA chief-of-staff Dr. Mar-
tin Lindenauer of wanting to see
the defendants convicted. "What
the hell's he (Lindenauer) doing
here today?" Stein asked, point-
ing out the VA staff chief in the
back of the packed courtroom.
"Be's here because he wants a
conviction."
STEIN ALSO hit on the sore
point in the prosecution's case-
the conspicuous lack of a mo-
tive. "How'd all this start?"
Stein asked. "Did they go into a
conference room in the ICU (in-
tensive care unit) one night and
one says 'What do you want to
eat?,' and the other says 'I'm
not hungry, let's go out and
poison patients?"
Stein added, "Until you know
the why, you'll never know the
who."
It was believed that federal
prosecutor Richard Yanko was
suggesting that the motive was
discontent with understaffing at
the VA, and the belief that a
series of breathing problems
would force the hospital to hire
more nurses.
MONDAY, HOWEVER, in his-
closing statement, Yanko said,
"Motive, ladies and gentlemen,
is not an element of the crime.
We have not tried to prove it,
and you should not try to find
it."
Yanko said "You have heard
a lot about understaffing, but we
do not try to contend that that
was the motive . . The real
motive lies not within the evi-
dence of this case."

Yanko went on to ask ith
darkness of the sot, what wick
edness of the mind wTuo)d drive
any human being to srike wi
such frequency?"
THEN, IN A Sur) e muse
the prosecutor theorved that the
defendants never meat to kil
anyone. Vanko brought out hos
each "vi c t i m" only stoppe
breathing either shen ther
were doctors nearby at whe
they was a natural breatthin
failure going on nearhv and lth
resuscitation machinery w a
close at hand.
"On each occasion, there va
a safety valve, a check, a pre
caution, a means to preven
death. And usually the precau
tions worked."
Yanko used his new theoryto
explain why defendant Narcist
would alert doctors to one of the
patients she allegedly poisoned
"On this occasion, the system
failed," Yanko said. "No ons
had discovered (patient) Adas
Olberg. She had to discover 01
berg herself."
Yanko asked the jury to "con
sider the misfortune" of the VA
victims-"those who were the
pawns in a senseless game of un
detected treachery . . , those
who were the numbers on a rou-
lette wheel of spinning danger?
Yanko said at the outset of hi
statement that there were 4
reasons why the two nurses were
guilty. After nearly three and a
half hours he said "There's a
44th reason. The 44th cannot be
found in the transcript. The 44t
is more powerful than an sing
uar reason. The 44th is a com
bination of the other 43"
He asked the jury "What re
the probabilities, the chances
that all these 43 reasons co
exist, and the defendants caoh
still be innocent?"

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