4 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Sunday, September 18, 1983 'U' dishwasher rises to the top By GEORGEA KOVANIS Carolyn Copeland, assistant LSA dean for administration, raises a few eyebrows when she tells people she began her University career as a dish- washer in the Mosher-Jordan cafeteria. "We had to wash all the egg dishes by hand," she remembered with a grimace. COPELAND held her dishwashing job as a freshwoman in 1948, and at the time, never dreamed she would someday become the chief financial of- ficer of the University's largest college. "I think I'm right smack dab in the center of the University," Copeland PROFILE said of her position as assistant dean. "I think if you move higher up in the ad- ministration you move a little farther away from (the center)." Being a student at the University in the late 1940s meant taking courses in temporary classrooms which were set up to handle the influx of servicemen attending school under the G.I. bill. BUT FOR Copeland, it also meant abiding by curfews students today would label ludicrous. "We usually had to be in by 10 or 11 pm.," she said, remembering Univer- sity policy also meant women could not enter the Michigan Union through the front doors. Copeland said she and her girlfriends took it all in stride. "I think what we did was say the fellas couldn't come into the garden of the League (which was then the women's hang-out," she said. HER FIRST time around at the University, Copeland lasted only a short while. Disappointed because she didn't get a summer job she applied for, the Scarsdale, N.Y. native left school before the end of freshman year. Copeland secured a job at a New York City advertising agency after leaving the University. She earned about $32 a week at the agency and ac- Daily Photo by DEBORAH LEWIS Carolyn Copeland, LSA's assistant dean for administration rose from dishwasher to dean during her years at the University. ted in off-Broadway productions in her spare time. "Off-Broadway was really off Broadway," she said with _a grin. "It was really amateur theatrics." IN REAL LIFE, Copeland played the role of a struggling career woman. She paid $60 a month for an apartment she estimates was about 7-feet-wide and, in the winter, stored her food outside the window sill to keep it cold. Copeland's second time around at the University was the result of what could be described as a fluke. In 1967, her husband decided to return to the University to do graduate work and Copeland took a job as a clerical in the LSA dean's office to support her husband and their two children. She also decided to try to finish her bachelor's degree. It took Copleland - who took classes during her lunch hour and at night - five years to earn her undergraduate degree in art history. WHEN SHE first came back to the University, an academic counselor told her she'd be collecting social security before she graduated, but Copeland wasn't discouraged. "I think I had a lit- tle more push than that," she said. And when push came to shove, Copeland forged ahead. In 1978, while still employed by the college, she received a master's degree in art history. Two years later, Copeland ac- cepted her current position. Over the years, Copeland said she has seen the Universityiandsits students change with the times. "Today's students seem more concerned with their goals," she said. ALTHOUGH Copeland said she didn't encounter any major hassles on the way up the ladder because she was a woman, she recalled there was a time when her male colleagues were con- fused about how to treat her. Present LSA Dean Peter Steiner has done the most to make her feel a part of the office, according to Copeland. Not that previous deans weren't en- couraging, . but Copeland said Steiner was the first to let her sit in on meetings of the college's executive committee. As a freshman kitchen helper, Copeland thought more about dancing to the sounds of big bands on Saturday nights than she did about LSA budgets and faculty salaries. Things are different today, but you wouldn't know it by talking to a humble Copeland. "I never had that much aspiration," she said. "I just sort of moved up over the years."~ IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press international reports Walesa suspends Solidarity, seeks Soviet partnership WARSAW, Poland - Lech Walesa has called on Polish workers to drop the banned Solidarity union temporarily and create new grassroots opposition gros with new names. "We must suspend Solidarity for the time being without forgetting its ideals and create new regional, community-wide opposition unions that would have their own names," Walesa said in statements to an underground Solidarity publication that was distributed yesterday. It was the first time the former Solidarity leader publicly voiced the idea of suspending the organization that for more than a year operated as the first free labor union inside the communist bloc. Walesa commented at length on what he called the errors of Solidarity. He said the union erred by making its propaganda excessively anti-Soviet and that Polish workers should signal Moscow their desire to be partners. "We cannot turn our backs on the Russians and constantly dwell on the wrongs they did us," Walesa said. Boston cardinal dies suddenly BOSTON - Cardinal Humberto Medeiros, who led Boston's 2 million Roman Catholics for 13 years, died of heart failure yesterday at the age of 67. The death of the gentle theological conservative stunned doctors who operated on him a day earlier for heart problems. Medeiros, who opposed the nuclear arms race and backed integration as cardinal of the nation's third-largest archdiocese, was a "humble giant of a peace," said Gov. Michael Dukakis. "His moral leadership during Boston's darkest hours stand as monument to courage and deenev." Auxiliary Bishop Rev. Thomas Daily said the archidiocese would make ' funeral arrangements atter cnurcn officials had read Medeiros' will, which Daily said probably would contain instructions about where the cardinal desired to be buried. Medeiros is survived by two brothers and a sister. Yom Kippur marred by fire WEST HARTFORD, Conn. - In the fourth attack on the local Jewish community in the last two months, an arsonist torched the home of a state legislator yesterday, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. The home of state Rep. Joan Kemler and her husband, Dr. Leonard Kemler, was set ablaze before 6 a.m. The Jewish couple and their two children escaped safely and firefighters contained damage to one outer wall of the two-story house. Mrs. Kemler had spoken out against the arson attacks on two synagogues and a rabbi's home since Aug. 11. The Kemlers are active in West Hartford's Conservative Emanuel Synagogue, one of the buildings set afire last month. "It definitely was a case of arson," West Hartford Police Chief Francis Reynolds said as he stood on the Kemlers' front lawn. "We found a bottle containing accelerants." On Aug. 11, fire destroyed the chapel area of the Orthodox Young Israel of West Hartford Synagogue. Emanuel Synagogue was set afire Aug. 15. The following day, an arsonist torched a library in the home of Rabbi Solomon Krupka, leader of Young Israel. The militant Jewish Defense League said earlier this month an anti-Semitic group was behind the fire and the JDL began armed patrols. DeLorean changes defense LOS ANGELES - John DeLorean, whose cocaine trafficking trial is little more than two weeks away, says he has information about his arrest that will leave the public "outraged." There is no longer any talk of pleading entrapment at the trial, scheduled to begin Oct. 4. Instead, the lawyers, Howard Weitzmann and Donald Re, say they will be "trying the government" for its investigation of DeLorean. "I'm a guy who has never done anything illegal in my life," DeLorean said. "I have no criminal past. I had a reputation that everyone knew. But the government wants people to believe I'm someone else. They have created this entirely new person. That's not me." Weitzmann and Re plan to attack the government undercover operations that led to DeLorean's arrest. Marcos meets Vatican official MANILA, Phillipines - Vatican Secretary of State Agostino Casaroli, second-highest official in the Holy See, met yesterday with President Fer- dinand Marcos whose regime has been sharply criticized by leading Catholic churchmen. In a news release Marcos said that in this time of global stress "We need faith and we need the church and more spirituality." The latest anti-Marcos protest broke out Friday in the usually staid finan- cial center. Agapito Aquino, brother of the late Benito Aquino, said that the opposition to the regime has now spread to "the group that buys." He also said there would be nationwide rallies Wednesday, the ninth an- niversary of the imposition of martial law, which Marcos lifted in 1981 - although he kept many strict powers. It also marks the first month since the assassination, and Agapito said it will be a "day of sorrow." Agapito added that at least 1 million Filipinos would demonstrate if President Reagan visited the Philipines in November as scheduled. University Activities Center MAS NMEETING! MONDAY SEPTEMBER 19, 1983 7:30 P.M. ANDERSON ROOM MICHIGAN UNION Committees: 6 MEDIATRICS HOMECOMING 0 MUSKET SOUNDSTAGE 0 MICHIGRAS Q IMPACT DANCE 0 COLLEGE BOWL SOPH SHOW 0 LAUGH TRACK MINICOURSES 0 SPECIAL EVENTS TRAVEL 1 COMEDY COMPANY Q VIEWPOINT LECTURES FOR MORE INFORMATION: CALL OR COME TO UAC, 763-1107 2nd FLOOR , MICHIGAN UNION Sci-Fi fans invade League (Continued from Page 1) tion's gaming aspects. Gaming, the fantasy acting out of a fictional charac- ter's life, has increased in popularity since the spread of such pastimes as Dungeons and Dragons. "You actively perform someone else's life that you have created, an ad- venturist's life," said Tim Lasko, a graduate of the University's engineering school. Lasko, clad in a "Do it in the dungeon" t-shirt, said the games usually stay on paper and in the realm of the imaginary. "We don't dress up and go running around in steam tunnels," he said. Although the object of most of the fantasy games is to survive a plethora of life-threatening situations, gaming enthusiasts say the emphasis is not on violence. "(It is) an experience for the mind rather than the sword arm," said Residential College sophomore Ken Hughes. "There is less fighting in the better games." TUESDAY LUNCH DISCUSSIONS September20th and 27th, 1983 September 20th: "IS BRAZIL ANOTHER CENTRAL AMERICA?" Slide presentation and discussion with The Reverend Jeanette Good, American Friends Service Commettee "LEBANON CRISIS-WHAT NEXT?" September 27th: Dr. Antony Sullivan AT THE INTERNATIONAL CENTER 603 E. Madison st. 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