Page 4-Thursday, June 15, 1978-The Michigan Daily -michigan DAILY It's not the same any more by M. Eileen Daley I haven't seen her since last boots leading animals from the Eighty-eight Years of Editorial Freedom When I was in junior high summer. barn. There was no manure school, my Novi home could The other day, while practicing smell. There were no horses. 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI. 48109 reasonably be called "out in the my new hobby, photography, I THERE WERE TWO empty Vol. LXXXVIII, No. 31-S News Phone: 764-0552 country." True, we did live in a decided to trek to Hilcrest to snap stables and scattered debris. subdivision, but our surroundings a few shots of some horses. I There was nothing but old tires in Thursday, June 15, 1978 - dirt roads, farms, fields - hiked down the same dirt road the corral where students prac- were country. The best part of Julie, Michelle and I took several ticed jumping and the fence was Edited and managed by students all, at least to Julie, Michelle and years ago, but somehow it was broken in several places. The at the University of Michigan me were the stables. There were different. Most of the farms and field where we used to ride, was four within walking distance, but trees have been plowed under by overgrown with tall grass and our favorite was Hilcrest Stables. growling bulldozers to make weeds. The barbed wire fence R eg ents slh Ouldn 't Everyfew Saturdaymornings, way subdivisions with ety was torn and waving in the wind. thtre f us hiked down dusty nature-like names - Village Indwalethsm ortainsabed Nine Mile Road to Hilcrest. Oaks, Lakewood, Whispering and, with some effort, pushed o lESometimes we would ride, Meadows. Ironic, I thought, that open the door. It was dark and sometimes we just watched and they name developments after musty inside, but some light horses, what they destroy. poured through the cobweb- s aAN ELECTED body representing signs of Hilcrest's former life A thousands of people, the University's FOR 350 we could gallop and I HE DS I suld see s HresRe ders trot across the hills and fields for' the white barns of Hilcrest. It was wstlthers e. Reierso Regents are politicians - whether they want to an hour. The horses weren't the still there. As I approached, I stable hands (keep gates closed be or not. sleekest or most beautiful in the could see something was wrong. at all times!') were postednthe While there are undoubtedly many political world, though in our world they No horses were in the pasture, walls, and the names of former issues too removed from the University, or too were. We ignored the fact that the and the grass was at least two residents - Sparky, Blue, Dusty complex for the Regents to consider, it seems animals were sluggish and dull feet high. it was apparent no -still hung above a few stalls. from hours of carrying, other animal had grazed there for mon- . , g odd that the group would fail to address an issue riders on their tired backs. ths. All was very quiet as I aside dried hay and God knows of such immediacy and consequence as the Rather, we fashioned ourselves walked up the path to the stable, what else, I noticed someone had rights of American women. But that's what expert horsewomen, the horses and when I reached the main bid the stable a sad farewell. A President Fleming urged the Regents to do in were our own. barn, my suspicions were big hert was etched in charcoal response to a request by the American It has been several years since verie words, "Hilcrest we loved you " Association of University Women that the our equestrienne trio has taken to Hilcrest was empty. the saddle. Julie married There were no leathery women M. Eileen Dale is a Dail Regents 'boycott conventions in states which soon after we graduated from with clipboards to assign you to a m.nie eydt isn isy haven't yet ratified the Equal Rights Amen- high school, and I haven't seen horse, no scraggly young men in smanaging editor tengthis dment (ERA). her since. Michelle moved away, work shorts and dirty cowboy Detroit. At last month's Regents' meeting Fleming correctly pointed out that the University should not officially rush into every issue that comes along and that other schools have gotten into trouble that way. He said, however, that the Regents would be wise to avoid action supporting AFjI+A UNIMD AE the ERA because they should not "intervene in _ matters which are essentially political matters." Fleming hasn't taken this position from lack of support for the ERA - he happens to be a longtime supporter of the measure. Moreover, the - University has an affirmative action program and at least pays lip service to the concept of equal opportunity. Why then, if the group is willing to take steps to hold South African investments in check in abhorrence of a much more distant prejudice are they unwilling to face up to the ERA issue? The ERA and the boycott of conventions in unratified cities is an issue warranting the sup- O _,m - n SAe port of every responsible body in the country.- 90,00 The Regents have failed as representatives of r the people as well as the University if they are only willing to consider political issues on the basis of economic import, as they did in their failed attempt at a compromise on the South African issue. =_ bNu The urgency of the amendment drive should by now be apparent to the Regents. As politicians,Qf after all, they understand the likelihood that QUESTION: Everyone keeps that following the night fast, the saying to eat a good breakfast. digestive tract has been at rest future individual anti-sexist bills will probably AAl . gi. qWhat is a good breakfast and the blood sugar is low. stumble in the political shuffle. anyway? Eating will stimulate digestion We cannot afford non-involvement. The and raise the blood sugar, and a Regents should not sacrifice the University's in- SerVice ANSWER: Recent studies number of studies demonstrate terest in equality with a ludicrous claim of seem to show that a "good break- that productivity in the late mor- isolationk fast" is one which is high in ning hours is greater for those protein - one which includes who eat a good breakfast than for --Ieggs, ham, cheese or fish, for those who skip it or only eat a example, rather than a popular snack on their coffee break. michigan DAILY one which consists of such items Send all health-related as coffee, cereal, bread and juice questions to: BUSINESS STAFF (high in carbohydrate). It has NANCY GRAU . ........ . .....,Business Manager By Sylvia Hacker been found that reducing, The Health Educator JOANNE SCHNEIDER ....... 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