4 OPINION Tuesday, November 18, 1980 Page 4 iS , Anita in the Now I don't mean to start any gossip or anything, but you'd never guess who I saw in the Rubaiyat last week. No, it wasn't Harlan Hatcher. It wasn't Deane Baker. It wasn't But- ch Woolfolk. Believe it or not, cuddling together near the dance floor of Ann Arbor's hottest gay/straight bar/disco were Anita Bryant and Bailey Smith. ANITA BRYANT you've surely heard of. She is the world-famous Miss America-turned- orange-juice-hawker who was born again as a part-time moralist and full-time homosexual BW tticisms By Howard Witt Bailey Smith, on the other hand, m a bell for you right away. He is the pa First Baptist Church in Del City, and president of the Southern Bapti tion. PARSON SMITH is the same mant who last month told a crowd of 1 national evangelical conference in I "God Almighty does not hear the p Jew." More recently the good pastor-m he is not at all anti-Semitic - congregation that Jews have fun noses. Sounding peculiarly Jewish t said: "There are some people with works more intimately than others say? I don't know. Why did Hec Jews? I don't know why He chose t think they got funny-looking noses, n So anyway, here I am shaking my ding my own booty, when I suddenly perfect half-turn and find myself Anita and Bailey. Rubbing my conta disbelief, I quietly boogied over to on their conversation. Anita seemed "OH, I CAN'T stand it, Bailey. h been so turbulent. I was Miss Ameri sex queen. I sold millions of Americans orange juice. Then I'm t do my faithful duty and call a queF and what happens? My Sunshine Tr up at the roots." "There, there," Bailey soothed. "J God. He will hear your prayers." "But Bailey," Anita countered, praying. Then I got hooked on V sleeping pills and wine-" "What kind of wine?" Bailey inter "Oh, I think it was Gallo Chablis, Rubaiyat ay not ring remember. Then I started fighting with my astor of the hunk of a husband." Oklahoma "Thank God it wasn't Manischewitz," Bailey st Conven- sighed in relief. "NO, IT WAS Bob, my husband. I was driven of the cloth to consider suicide. I did that embarrassing in- 5,000 at a terview with Ladies' Home Journal as a kind of Dallas that confession-I thought it would purge my sins. )rayer of a And now here I am; in this filthy den of heathens. Why did you bring me to this hideous vho claims place? There's fags everywhere!" told his "Now, Anita," Bailey cautioned. "Remem- my-looking ber your new philosophy: 'Live and Let Live, himself, he Dance and Let Dance.' This kind of thing is whom God good therapy for you." Why, you Anita bowed her head. "I suppose you're choose the right, Bailey. It's just that they're flaunting-it he Jews. I so. I mean, look at that awful man with the nyself." ankle bracelet. It's disgusting!" body, min- "That's not a man, dear. That's a woman. y execute a The one over there with the earring is a man," staring at Bailey corrected. ct lenses in "Oy, could I use some OJ," Anita moaned. eavesdrop "You know, it's not just for breakfast hysterical. anymore," she added, as if to apologize. ly life has "Waiter!" Bailey called out, "An orange ca, a young juice for the lady!" clean-cut THE TWO SAT quietly for awhile, trying to born again,. decide which gyrating bodies on the dance er a queer, floor would soon be burning in hell. Bailey took ee is pulled a sip of his wine. "Ugh! This wine tastes like Mogen David!" Just turn to he coughed. "Oh, Jeez!" Anita exclaimed, not paying at- "I tried tention to the pastor. "Do you see that stud over 'alium and there on the dance floor? Ooohh, what a man!'" "What, you mean the guy with the.huge jected. nose?" Bailey asked. but I don't "Yeah, and the curly brown hair. If I could S Yup! only make sure he isn't gay. Talk about a physical attraction-" "But Anita-he looks like a...a...Hebrew! He's a Jew! A Pinocchio face!" Bailey blurted. "I KNOW, I know. But I'm attracted to him. I can't understand it." "Anita . . . Why?" Bailey asked, tears welling up in his eyes. "I don't know," she answered. "Why did you choose the Jew?" he asked. "I don't know why I chose the Jew," she an- swered. "He's got such a funny-looking nose," Bailey wailed. "Look at him bumping into everyone on the dance floor. He's so pushy!" "Oh, they're all like that," Anita agreed. "My daughter is taking an economics course at college and she says there are always hundreds of them with their little beanies pushing to get the best seats-" "SEATS! Seats! Oh, praise the Lord!" Bailey jumped. "I'd almost forgotten. I have a surprise for you-I bought two tickets to see 'Drag' tonight over at the Mendelssohn Theatre." "Oh. . .uh. . .great, Bailey. Do you have a Valium?" I couldn't hear Bailey's answer, for during the entire conversation I had been drifting away from the pair, trying not to be noticed. It was just as well. I had an econ test the next morning and had to get going anyway. I blew my nose and pushed my way through the crowd. I haven't seen them since. Howard Witt is the co-editor of the Daily's Opinion page. His column appears every Tuesday. hunter. In the December issue of Ladies' Home journal (available on the newsstands today, I am told), dear Anita tells of her new life hilosophy-"live and let live." Among other things, she admits she married her former husband because of his "physical attraction," ,,suggests that she may have been unfaithful in her marriage ("I can't say I'm totally in- '',nocent. I can't pretend to be lily-white"), con- cedes she has been hooked on Valium, sleeping ills, and wine at various times in recent years, 'and explains that she has contemplated suicide. "I guess I can better understand the gays' and the feminists' anger and frustration," Anita says. "I'm more inclined to say live and let live, just don't flaunt it or try to legalize it." Anita Bryant ~1 Edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan 420 Maynard St. Vol.XCINo65Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Editorials represent a majority opinion of the Daily's Editorial Board SALT and the test ban LETTERS TO THE DAILY: Sexism column harassed engineers I To the Daily: Apparently, Julie Selbst had an unfortunate experience with her summer job (Daily, November 12). This is regrettable. No one can condone sexual harassment in any form. It seems equally un- fortunate that, in reporting this summer of misery,' Ms. Selbst chose to get in a few digs at the members of an ancient - an honorable profession, namely engineers. She had an opportunity to write an article that could have opened some eyes; instead, she came up with another skirmish in the unending war of words, mostly carried on upon bathroom walls, between those studying the sciences and those studying the humanities. She has trotted out most of the weary cliches that my compatriots in the School of Engineering and I are thoroughly tired of hearing. - She sees engineers as "dull," illiterate-"coqldn't even discuss. Yeats, let alone John Stuart Mills (sic) '-sexist persons of little consequence ("no kidding, 'materials handling con- sultant' "). These stereotypes are thoroughly inaccurate, as well as valueless. Specifically, how many people discuss Yeats on their coffee break, anyway? And, what better name for an ex- pert on materials handling, a person, incidentally, without whom Ms. Selbst probably would have been unemployed last summer? She bites the hand that feeds her. As to the harassment, I am the first to agree that there are sexist engineers, just as there are sexist telephone linemen, airplane pilots, nurses, and yes, political scientists. However, there may have been a small misinter- pretation on the part of Ms. Selbst of several innocent gestures. A man saying, "She's ours now; we can molest her" in this day -and age is almost certainly parodying the action expected of him by a feminist. And, "God, you have a sexy voice' could as easily be a mere flip remark as it could an attempt tamake time with a secretary. I agree that "the real issue is changing behavior and changing attitudes." I suggest that this ad- vice may be equally valuable to both women and men, scientists and humanists. -Michael R. Moon November 13 4 INCE THE United States obliterated Hiroshima,.and Nagasaki in 1945, international pressures have become infinitely more dangerous. Many world problems arethought of as strictly in- ternal political matters, but hanging over each and every confrontation between adversary nations (par- ticularly those aligned with the op- posing superpowers) is the spectre of nuclear war and devastation. Many observers believe the greatest hope for minimizing the likelihood of annihilation is approval of the nuclear test-ban accords now being negotiated in Geneva, Switzerland. Since 1977, the U.S.S.R., United States, and Great Britain have been meeting intermit- tently in an attempt to hammer out an agreement that would prohibit the testing of any nuclear device. *Leaders of the nations expect (reasonably enough) that a ban on nuclear testing would dictate a slowing or cessation of the development of new nuclear technological monsters and perhaps slow the further production of already-established weaponry. News reports from Geneva indicate that the four-year-old talks are looking up; the Soviet and American negotiating teams have even worked out such details as the establishment of seismic stations that would gauge the other's large-scale explosive detonation. All three nations' diplomats agree that changes in American nuclear weapon policy are a setback to the passage of the test-ban treaty. The Carter administration's vacillating approach to the problem has seriously hindered the talks, but worse still is the uncertain fate of the second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, the goals of which tie in to those of the test ban. Ronald Reagan has signaled an in- tention to scrap SALT II altogether in favor of a treaty more favorable to a U.S. buildup.eOn this point, we would hope to see a bit of Republican incon- sistency, if for no other reason than that any further delay on SALT could spell the death of the test-ban treaty. And that would leave us with very little hope of ever derailing the suicidal ar- ms race. Popular books defended To the Daily: It is clear from Abigail Meisel's letter to the Daily on November 14 that she has misunderstood the purpose and management of the UGLI's popular reading (PRON- TO) collection. The collection originated in response to repeated patron requests for best sellers and leisure reading. The books are leased from a com- mercial firm at a cost of well un- der $3 per book. Books are retur- ned to the vendor when there is no longer a demand, but we are allowed to keep a certain percen- tage of the titles at no additional cost. The UGLI book budget has not been cut, and this contract does not affect the purchase of books needed for course work. Staff costs have been minimal since the books come partially processed, but it is possible that if our personnel budget continues to be reduced, the PRONTO collec- tion will be eliminated. All in all we feel that this small service has been a workable and successful method of responding to our patrons wishes while main- taining the quality of our per- manent collection. It is apparent from its heavy use by students, faculty, and staff that many others share this opinion. Rose-Grace Faucher Head, Undergraduate Library November 14 I Reeves RA defended Profs signed Carter ad To the Daily: An advertisement on page E7 of the November 2 New' York Times endorsing Ronald Reagan for president was signed by the following University professors: Joseph Adelson, Marjorie Doehrman, Gunter Duffy, Mar- tha Gyzinski, Raymond Tanter, and Stephen Tonsor. They ap- parently agree with the following premises, which were listed in the ad: (1) A Reagan Administration will establish a consistent and ef- fective foreign policy. (2) A Reagan Administration will offer promising and in- novative approaches to domestic economic growth. (3) This nation cannot afford another four years of Jimmy Car- ter's disastrous foreign policy or another four years of inflation and recession. Fortunately, Ronald Reagan has been more specific on these issues than was this adver- tisement. A consistent and effective foreign policy should begin with basics, like knowing the differen- ce between Taiwan and Thailand. It should continue in the traditions of U.S. foreign policy, such as the recognition and development of detente with decisions); or tax programs which are potentially regressive and proportional at best. President Carter was correct in his attack on Reagan's call for additional military spending beyond the present three- percent-above inflation commit- ment to NATO. In the aftermath of the election, not only have the Soviets spurned Reagan's ap- peal, they have publicly joined the new military build-up. Mr. Reagan has accomplished in four days what Jimmy Carter could not do in four years. As for the inflation and recession, extended economic, hardships are the result of many things beyond a president's con- trol. Within the president's con- trol, through tax manipulation, are long-term commitments by the private sector toward resear- ch, development, and plant im- provement. The eight years of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford did more to devastate the economy of the past four years than has any effort on the part of Carter. The election ploy of pum- ping the economy (committed four times between 1968 and 1976) was inflationary. And decisions by the big three auto companies to refrain from expanded small car competition (until recently) To the Daily: , I am a resident of Reeves House at Markley Hall, and I am writing in response to the hazing incident involving a freshman hockey player and fellow resident' on October 12 of this year. I had not originally intended to com- pose such a letter, for I hadn't thought it was necessary-until now. I am a friend of the hazing victim and of Steven Krahnke, the resident advisor of my floor. The fact that the information given to the press by Krahnke concerning the hazing incident was misconstrued to varying degrees does not seriously con- cern me at the moment. What does concern me is the stand that Athletic Director Don Canham has taken on the issue. I cannot understand how anyone who was not a witness to the result of this crime or a resident of the 4th floor of Reeves House could draw an accurate conclusion about the en- tire incident. How could a man of Canham's stature act so irresponsibly? I'm afraid only he could answer that. I would like to have it known at this time that I believe it was Canham, not Krahnke, who acted irrespon- .sibly. Some complain that the in- tegrity of Krahnke, the freshman hockey player, and the residents of 4th Reeves in general, has been insulted. I believe that it has-but only through misinterpreted fact. I believe that it was Canham who insulted the integrity of The University of Michigan as a whole by speaking out so foolishly. I am proud to be a resident of this hall and I am proud to be a student at The University of Michigan. I believe that I am a fortunate person to be able to call the men of 4th Reeves my friends and they in return to call me a friend. I feel hesitant to speak out against a man as powerful as Canham, but I feel that it is my responsibility as a resident of 4th Reeves and right as a citizen to do so. It is a sad thing to see a man like Canham show no com- passion in a situation like this. I believe that Canham owes not only Steven Krahnke, or the freshmen hockey players that were hazed, or the residents of 4th Reeves, but also the Univer- sity as a whole, an apology for the actions and/or lack of action that he took concerning the hazing in- cident. -James P. Wood November 13 Thanks to city council To the Daily: The Michigan Student Assem- bly Security Task Force would like to thank Ann Arbor Mayor Lou Belcher and city council for their recent addition of overhead night lighting on Hill Street. Through the efforts of Panhellenic President Kathy Kelly and other concerned in- immediately. Now, thanks to this effective collaboration, both the University of Michigan students and the Ann Arbor community can travel in safety. We hope the mayor and council will continue to listen to student concerns in the future. -Beth Dochinger Michigan Student Assembly Representative ral ~ ~ ~ ~ a j !/ is IWAsis ms's .W2. I