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The Michigan Daily-Thursday, September 10, 1981-Page 19-B
Gay community active
By JOHN ADAM
Among the various groups
throughout the University and city, the
local gay community is one of the most
ambitious. Struggling to increase their
numbers and improve relations with
the general population, gays in Ann Ar-
bor are currently determined to assert
themselves.
According to spokespersons for
various local organizations, Ann Arbor
is a relatively comfortable city for such
an effort.
"IT'S SURE BETTER than most
places I know, said Jim Toy, direc
tor of the Gay Advocate Office in the
Michigan Union.
Toy estimates that about five to ten
percent of the city's population is gay,
but he says it's hard to guess. "I don't
know how people define themselves,"
he said.
Many homosexuals still have
problems of anxiety, low self-esteem,
and confusions of sexual identity, Toy
said, adding that students often call and
say, "I, don't know if I should tell my
parents."
THE GAY Advocate Office operates a
"gayhotline" and provides four major
services-peer counseling referal,
education, advocacy for the rights of
gays, and outreach and community ac-
tion. The office works closely with the
Lesbian and Gay Male Community ser-
vices, a group which sponsored a "Gay
Pride Week" last summer in which
about 1300 people participated in ac-
tivities such as a march, dances, con-
certs, and movies.
Various groups
planning for
increase in
participation
meetings. But he said the group is in its
infancy and still needs to register with
the Michigan Student Assembly as an
official group.
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Annette Wilson, LGCS's chairperson,
said the liberal atmosphere of Ann Ar-
bor provides a rather good environment
for gays and added that the city is one
of the few places in the nation that has a
human rights law for gays. But, she
said, the situation can still be im-
proved.
Wilson says she wants to start a "Gay
Youth Group" to go along with the
many other gay groups in town -
health professionals, business
professionals, law students, a
volleyball group, to name arfew.
CURRENTLY, THERE are only two
night clubs in town where gay people
can feel comfortableraccording to
Wilson. She said they are the Rubiyat
and The Flame. But occasionally gays
congregate at the Star Bar on Reggae
night, she said.
Two students are now trying to
organize a general group for gay
University students. Jeff Schunk, one of
the organizers, said he wants the group
to serve as an alternative for gay studen-
ts to the bars.
"It's hard to come out when your gay,
to learn to accept yourself," said
Schunk. He added that he thinks many
students at the University are afraid of
admitting they're gay.
Schunk said he wants the general
student group to reach out to the
students and to possible have bi-weekly
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lt in the artment of Political i
1,,4. 4,flitiwnt ~too nn, l ti ist,.a Tom, +te Uniersitv Since then he has
Ivy league schools as Harvard, Radclif-
fe," Yale, Princeton, Berkeley, and
Stanford.
'University statistics show that 2,465
full=tine instructional staff members
were employed as of Fall Term 1979,
teaching on three major cam-
puses-Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and
Flint. The 1979 mean salary was $22,100
per-year-this mean ranks only 21st in
e nation.
nd how do students benefit from the
umented quality of the University's
instructors? Statistically, it ranks fifth
(behind Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and
Columbia) in the number of graduates
listed in who' Who.
The list is fairly impressive. Among
the more n~oteworthy University
graduates are:
-Former U.S. president Gerald
Ford, a Wolverine football captain tur-
Adjunct Professor who now ap-
ars regularly on campus to deliver
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Science.
-Harry Edwards, a former Law
School Professor, was named to the
U.S. Sixth District Court of Appeals in
Washington D.C.
-Playwright Arthur Miller received
a B.A. from the College of Literature in
1938, and an honorary degree from the
Law College in 1956.
-Mike Wallace, CBS news
correspondent of "Sixty-Minutes" fame
received a B.A. from the College in
1939.
-James Earl Jones, black actor and
star of a movie production "The Great
White Hope," received a B.A. from the
College of Literature in 1955, and an
honorary degree from the Rackham
School of Graduate studies.,.
-l~U Spo LCal acLVL v Vl
Hayden was a staff editor of the
Michigan Daily and founded Students
for a Democratic Society while attending
th ilu b y. OI% {i-1, 1% A"
stayed involved in politics, and ran for
Senate. Hayden graduated with a b.a.
from the College of Literature in 1961.
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