4 Page 4-Sunday, March 23, 1980-The Michigan Daily UlO irbi4an aiIy Ninety Years of Editorial Freedom / Vol. XC, No. 136 News Phone: 764-0552. Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan Course evaluations needed T IS TIME the push for consumer " protection was felt at the Univer- sity. Students for years have been paying high prices for their diplomas without a chance to see what they are buying: Choosing courses and instructors at CRISP is more like shopping with a blindfold than planning a valuable education. Students need a "truth in advertising" law governing classes and teachers, and student course evaluations can be the first statute. We do not mean the course evaluations some instructors in some courses provide at the end of some terms-these are too inconsistently developed, administered, and publicized for use as consumer guides for students. What is needed is a single evaluation form, with both quantitative and qualitative questions, to be completed. by every student in every class and then published and made available to every student preparing to register at this University. And because neither the administration nor the faculty has been interested in developing such an evaluation program, it is up to the students to create such questionnaires. . University Vice-President for Student c.rvices Henry Johnson has said that course evaluations should be a faculty matter, and he does not seem at all eager to let students see the results of University-administered evaluations. If Johnson is concerned that student- administered, published evaluations would not be feasible for use in top secret tenure decisions, he could be correct. But course evaluations have A disavowa W OULD IT BE too much to ask the Carter administration to get its story straight? When President Gerald Ford alliteratively jeered at candidate Jimmy Carter in 1976, com- plaining of the Georgian's "wavering and waffling on the issues, it sounded like little more than typical campaign rhetoric. Judging from the past three weeks, however, Ford's words appear to have been veritably prophetic. Ever since the March 1 U.S. vote in favor of a controversial U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israel's settlement policy, Carter and mem- bers of his administration have been busy trying to paint the vote as the result of a breakdown in com- munication. The U.S., Jewish voters have been asked to believe, never meant to question Israel's control of Jerusalem, despite the resolution's many mentions of that city. Just four days ago, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance was called before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to discuss the alleged U.N. gaffe. Vance insisted that the part of the "a Injury da Q: Racquetball is a popular sport. Are there many injuries associated with this game? A: Racquetball is popular-it has been estimated that more than 7 million persons actively participate in the sport today. It is an enjoyable sport because it provides a good work-out, develops eye-hand coordination and cardiovascular fitness, and is relatively easy to learn, even for those who do not consider themselves "athletically inclined." The injury rate is relatively low, but there are a number of potential hazards that result from:=(1) the speed of the ball in a confined space; (2) the presence of 4 walls to come into contact with; (3) the swinging of racquets; and (4) the inexperience or discourtesy of players. California State University at Long Beach found that 37 per cent of their racquetball injuries were the result of contact with the racquet (i.e., damaged teeth, lacerations, fractures), 23 per cent resulted from contact with the ball (particularly eye injuries), 14 per cent were caused by hard physical contact with the court wall (i.e., bruises and sprains), and the remaining 26 per cent were injuries not specific to racquetball but injuries that could have occurred with any sport (such as muscle strains, abrasions, ruptured Achilles' tendons, blisters, etc.). Many of these injuries could have been ngers prevented by doing adeq cool-down exercises, s exercises, wearing eye go the guidelines for safe, co Eileen Dickinson, RPT RPT, ATC, the Physi University Health Se following suggestions: " It is better to "take action when your oppone Health c Handb rather than to risk hitting her; " Never look behind opponent is doing; most this way. If your eye is have it looked at by a phy " Play regularly to m and coordination. Q: What is fiber, and w A: Fiber is the part o broken down by chem digestive system and is t "non-digestible." This sh be construed to mean it c in racquetball quate warm-up and simply means it passes trough the system in uch as stretching muchthe same way it enters, providing no )ggles, and following nutritive value. urteous behavior. Fiber is considered beneficial because it Fand Pete Loubert, holds water, making the intestinal contentse cal Therapists at bulkier, softer, and more easily passed rvice, make the through the intestines. As a result of this, there is less strain on the intestines. Also, the a hinder" and stop increased speed of transit is thought to be nt is blocking a shot beneficial because it lessens the amount of time the intestines can be exposed to toxic ~ substances. Some evidence now indicates an. ervice additional benefit of fiber is that it increases bile acid secretion, thus lowering blood )o ok cholesterol which may decrease the chance of o ok -heart disease. Wheat bran, whole grain cereals, legumes and fruits and vegetables contain a lot of g and injuring him or fiber. If you want to increase the amount of fiber in your diet, do it slowly while the body to see what your adjusts to it. And keep in mind that it is t eye injuries occur possible to get too much fiber, resulting in struck by the ball, increased intestinal gas, diarrhea, and sican; and, inadequate utilization of nutrients. aintain conditioning Health Service Handbook answers a variety of health-related questions each f a plant that is not Sunday on this page. Questions should be ical action in the directed to Gail Ryan, Health Educator, herefore considered University Health Service, 207 Fletcher another, equally important function beyond providing promotion informaton-they are an important resource for students when they register. Fifteen cents of the $2.92 Michigan Student Assembly (MSA) assessment collected from students each term is earmarked for a student course evaluation project; this money has been accruing unused for several years. In recent weeks, MSA has begun the long-postponed task of creating a course evaluation project. MSA members plan to distribute evaluation forms at CRISP registration in April and then circulate the results of the evaluations next fall. While this is an admirable beginning-it represents MSA's first real progress toward an evaluation project-the CRISP plan is inadequate. Most students are too preoccupied with registration at CRISP to think carefully about course and teacher evaluations. At best, only a few students in each class would write meaningful evaluations. Evaluations for a student handbook should be distributed in each class at the end of the term. If professors will not cooperate in such a program, then forms could be distributed as students leave each class. Admittedly, such an evaluation project - is a huge endeavor; compilation of a handbook containing thousands of comments would require much time and money. But the student consumers at this University deserve such effort from their student government. I disavowed resolution that criticizes the West Bank settlements meets with Amercan foreign policy goals. He said the U.S. would have endorsed the decision if not for the references to Jerusalem. On Friday, however, a new chapter was added. The Secretary said that Carter's disavowal of the vote was not offered because the resolution violated American policy, but rather because of concern it would upset the current negotiations on Palestine self-rule. Vance, speaking before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said the resolution-all of it-is in keeping with past U.S. policy. While Vance was on Capitol Hill disavowing the disavowal, Rosalyn Carter -was in Albany, New York, telling Jewish voters yet again that the vote was a "mistake." We have yet to hear from the president on the latest development. But it will be amusing-and perhaps a little frightening-to see how he tries to pat- ch up the ever-widening credibility gay his administration's bungling has opened. hould not, however, auses indigestion; it Ave. 'Higgins 1' I YES I AGREE. IT"S LESS KILLING... I PRAY FOR~ A TCIE K ) 4? ' (3\ SXXSE-w LET i OTh SALOON Lt. n 1k'' FOR SHERIFFY DEM. --~ R IN sli . 6 6f II, rg LETTERS TO THE DAILY: Allen on Cohen onProsterman hit 6 To the Daily: The personal attack on Prof. Cohen by J.L. Allen (Daily, Mar- ch 14), concerning Cohen's com- plaints about H. Scott Proster- man's one-sided and shallow ar- ticles, deserves some answer, too. Instead of attacking Cohen's just condemnation, Allen should note the following examples of Prosterman's "balanced" writing: Writing about the Lebanese countryside ravaged by "Israeli shelling," Prosterman never mentions that a civil war was and is going on there, or that the in- digenous inhabitants of Southern Lebanon (both Christians and Shiite Moslems) are fighting the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) there (in- deed with Israeli backing). He ignores the fact that some of their former villages are occupied by the PLO (which is helped by an even larger occupying army from Syria). From the article one might think that Lebanese forces have spontaneously joined the PLO in fighting Israel, while just the opposite is true. Prosterman frequently distorts the facts and misquotes his sour- ces. He attributes the following to unidentified Israeli officials: "If they are killed in their cars, they must have been Palestinian militants." Prosterman omits the word "military" before "cars," which was actually spoken. Also, the word "militants" ought to have read "paramilitary forces." The whole meaning of the statement is thus changed. Did Prosterman research the authen- ticity of his version or did he just present convenient hearsay? He misleadingly establishes a "symmetry" between Arafat's terrorism and Begin's "terrorism" in the '40s. Indeed, the British called Begin a terrorist because he attacked their soldiers and officers in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Begin did give the order to blow up that part of the King David Hotel that housed the British military headquarters (a warning was phoned in so that lives would not be lost, but went unheeded). But no British school children, either in London or Jerusalem, were taken hostage and gunned down, unlike Israeli children in Maalot. No supermarkets or student cafeterias were bombed, and no innocent foreign citizens were blown up in foreign civilian airplanes (remember Swissair, TWA, etc.?) Arafat's "distinction between Zionism and Judaism" (Mr. Prosterman) did not keep all the Jews from being marked for destruction in Entebbe, while all non-Jews, "Zionist" or not, were freed. Had Prosterman been there, all his protests of being a non-Zionist would not have helped him. Prosterman claims that the one-time PLO goal of "liquidating the Zionist presence in Israel" is no longer spoken of. He ignores the fact that it was never spoken of in those words! The slogan twas and is to "liquidate the Zionist presence in Palestine," because for the PLO all of Israel is Palestine, and always will be. Prosterman im- plies that the PLO's willingness to establish a state "in any territories evacuated by Israel" is the same as a willingness to establish its own state in those territories, and that this is a genuine move toward peaceful coexistence. It just ain't so. It may be news to Mr. Prosterman, but the leaders of the Israeli "Peace Now" movement, who support a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, consider themselves to be Zionists. Furthermore, Arafat's latest pronouncements include a call for bloodshed "at the gates of Haifa and Beersheba" and even for ='marching victoriously into Tel Aviv." Prosterman consistently ignores these official quotes and instead bases his views on third person naive impressions, hear- say, and wishful thinking. Thus he serves the very-well- lubricated PLO propaganda * machine. Finally, let me commend the Daily for its Decent printing of a number of well-balanced articles on the subject - articles that are not stained by Washington's recent preoccupation with Arab and Moslem oil. -Raoul Kopelman March 14 i f,'R i/ r I 1rfY7// D 7 'll THE/MEl_'Ril ItR.rlfiri'R\.1t/ . , / >% //// u°' , LATELY, I FEEL WORLD SERIE$I ,f I t/ 4 "~~ Stegeman plan opposed Stop preferential voting To the Daily: MSA (Michigan Student Assembly) elections will take place in just two weeks and it is time for a change. The two-party system is just not working. PAC (People's Action 6oalition) and SABRE (Student Alliance for Better Representation) seemto be diametrically opposed in ideology and their members have represent the students and not just the political ideologies of PAC and SABRE. This can be ac- complished by the student body if the referendum concerning the discontinuance of preferential voting is passed. As it now stan- ds, preferential voting is a major obstacle for any student who wants to run for MSA. A number a To the Daily: We sent the following message, to the Board of Regents. To the Regents: The two of us have between us served ten years on the Ann Ar- bor City Council. We both were in office when the city's two tallest buildings, University Towers and Tower Plaza, were approved. From this experience and others we learned several things we would like to share with you. First, developers who propose tall buildings do so in the hope of maximizing profits while keening land costs at a minimum. and regulations-is the best guide. Third, decisions made in respect to large buildings such as the one under consideration are unique in their 'repercussions. They can alter the character of a sector of Ann Arbor, including the campus, for scores of years into the future-far beyond the life-span of even the youngest member of the Board of Regen- ts. Our conclusion: Each of you bears a heavy responsibility to resist the proposed building, for although it promises the t H