Ninetyfour Years of Editorial Freedom Litb]9a ; Iai1 Valikyrie Sunny and cold today with a high in the low 20s. Vol. XCI V-No. 87 Copyright 1984, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Sunday, January 15, 1984 Fifteen Cents Eight Pages Nothing trivial about students pursouit By SHARON SILBAR "I am definitely an addict. I tried quitting but I start- ed smoking. When I tried again, I started eating and put on weight. I have resigned myself to the deliquent lifestyle of a Trivial Pursuit addict." Such is the sad but true testimony of Lloyd Scott, an LSA senior who admits to playing the 1983 "game of the year" at least once a day. SCOTT IS ONE of the growing number of Univer- sity students caught in the grips of trivia mania. Some students skip class to play the board game Trivial Pursuit manufactured by the Selcho-Richter, the same company that created Scrabble. Other students play it late at night and find themselves talking about it during the day. Ann Arbor toy store merchants are struggling to keep their shelves stocked with the $30 game. And toy manufacturers have already begun producing spin- off s. "We've been averaging about 100 calls a day (for the game)," said DeWight Plotner, owner of Campus Bike and Toy Center on East Williams Street. Plotner said he hasn't seen a game "take off" at the quick rate Trivial Pursuit has in the past 40 years. The rage for a simple board game such Trivial Pursuit is also a sharp shift from the passion for video games which have dominated the toy market in recent years. Answering trivia questions in six categories - ranging from history to entertainment - such as "Who's buried in Grant's tomb?" or "who played Beaver Cleaver's mother?" is certainly not as flashy as battling a crew of space screen. creatures on a video BUT STUDENTS are hooked. Pete Gutman, another self-proclaimed addict, said the game is so popular because "it's not just a game. You're actually learning something." "One guy got the game for Christmas and since, it's circulated from room to room," Gutman, a junior in the engineering college and a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Gutman and his friends split uv into teams - with names such as "Team America," "Team Slow," and "Team Idiot" - and are "fairly strict" with the rules. "You're especially strict if you're winning," Gutman added. TO WIN THE game players try to move pie-shaped tokens around the board by rolling dice and an- swering one of the 6,000 questions written on cards. It's not all good clean fun, though. Some players have turned Trivial Pursuit into a drinking game by rewarding correct answers with beer. A formal game of trivia was kicked-off yesterday with 32 teams of students competing at a College Bowl tournament sponsored by the University Ac- tivities Center (UAC) at the Michigan Union. With names such as The Inphomaniacs, The Alice Lloyd Pilots, and The Potato Head Liberation, four- member student teams faced off for a week of knuckle-cracking and nail-biting competition which will send the winners to a regional College Bowl tour- nament at Kent State University in Ohio in February. THE TOURNAMENT style mimicked old TV game show favorites such as Jeopardy and included a slick- talking moderator and buzzers for each player. Going by the nickname of "Doc M'," Math Prof. Eastern Michigan University Richard Marshall helped UAC run the tournament. Players were in high spirits as clenched fists ac- companied correct responses and slapped foreheads and sighs followed the wrong ones. Joe Pip, a senior in the engineering college and co- chairman of College Bowl, said the questions cover a wide field 'of interest, "but have an academic slant. Co-chairman, Larry Garvin, noted that there were very few women at the game. "I'd like to see more women at the tournaments," Garvin, a graduate student in neuroscience, said. Teams paid a $10 entrance fee to compete in the double-elimination tournament. A correct answer to a "toss-up" question earned the team ten points and an opportunity to answer a more valuable bonus question. Marshall assumed the role of game show host with predictable responses. Right answers elicited, "that's the one I was hoping for" from Marshall. New questions were asked with encouragement: "How about this one for a 20-pointer?" Students return to the Anderson and Kuenzel rooms of the Union today for more competition and the public is invited to sit in. Yesterday, the audience was limited to teams waiting for their chance to climb the ladder of trivial information. Trivial Pursuit (pictured above) is the game which students can't play enough and storekeepers can't keep on the shelves. 0y Wolverines slip, get. punished b Badg9ers By RANDY BERGER Special to the Daily MADISON - Ricky Olson's 39 points propelled Wisconsin to a 71-64 victory over Michigan yesterday b efore 8,646 Wisconsin Fieldhouse fans. It was the Wolverines' first loss in the Big Ten conference this year, bringing their conference record to 3-1. However, Michigan could easily have seen its record boosted to 4-0, as the Wolverines blew many chances to pull out a victory. "I THOUGHT we played hard in the second half," said Michigan coach Bill Frieder. "We had our chances but we missed crucial free throws and lay-ups and had a couple of turnovers in the end that hurt us." It wasn't so much that Michigan played. poorly, but rather that Wisconsin played perhaps its best game of the year, especially in the first half. Olson, who pop- ped in 23 of his career-high 39 points in the first stanza, gave the Michigan guards fits . "We were on (Olson), but he just made 71-64 some great plays," added Frieder, who saw his team's record drop to 11-3 overall. "I thought (Dan) Pelekoudas did the best job guarding Olson in the second half. But in the first half no one could cover him." OLSON PICKED up where he left off Thursday, whenr he scored 29 points in- Wisconsin's upset win over Michigan State. The sophomore was 14 of 20 from the field and 11 of 12 from the free throw line. Rich Rellford paced the Wolverine scoring attack with 15 points. "They were on me, but I was able to get the ball before they could adjust their defense," said Olson. "In our last two games it just seems that the flow of the game has come to me." IT WAS OLSON'S 20-foot jumper from the corner and his two free throws which boosted Wisconsin to a 27-22 lead midway through the first half. Michigan added three turnovers within a span of two minutes and Wisconsin was up 34-22 and coasting to a 45-33 halftime lead. Michigan came out firing in the second half, however, as it cut the Badgers' lead to 45-41. See OLSON, Page 8 Speakers tell. blacks to keep fghting for equality By GEORGEA KOVANIS and MICHAEL ROLNICK rParren Mitchell says he* has 'a fire inside of him that won't stop burning until racism is ex- tinguished. The black Democratic congressman from Maryland brought a crowd of about 200 to its feet in the Michigan League ballroom last night with a rousing denunciation -of racism, com- memorating the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth- day. MITCHELL, who appeared with U.S. District Court Judge Anne Diggs Taylor, warned blacks against being lulled by the "new, smooth, velvet racism.. "The movement did not begin with King, nor did it end with King," he said. Mitchell said the '60s were a time when blacks could easily recognize the enemies of equality, and unify to to fight thW,. "King had the magic to galvanize us all into one collec- tive force. We fought as one together," he said. TODAY'S struggle is in some ways more difficult because today's racist attitudes are far more subtle than the German shepards and fire hoses that King faced in protest marches in the deep south. "In a way his mission was easier," Mitchell said. "King knew what he was fighting .. . is it easy to identify the enemy who is in a three-piece Brooks Brothers suit?" he asked. Mitchell urged the students to look to the past in order to under- stand the struggles they may. soon face in getting a job or clim- bing the corporate-ladder. "WE DIDN'T know the whip. We didn't know the branding bar, See SPEAKERS, Page 3 "Never, ever give up," U.S. Congressman Parren Michigan League last night to commemorate Daily Photo by DAN HABIB Mitchell (D-Md. )told a crowd gathered at the ballroom of the the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. Students ignore fire codes in dorms By SUSAN ANGEL Toasted. English muffins or hot buttered pop- corn - foods many students eat daily in their dormitory rooms - are cooked in appliances that violate University fire codes. Under University Housing Division rules, common items such as toaster ovens, irons, hot plates, and coffee makers are considered fire hazards. ALTHOUGH students receive a copy of the fire regulations at the beginning of the school year, many disregard the rules and others aren't aware of them. "I have a toaster, a toaster oven and an oil popcorn popper," said LSA freshman Clayton Cole, who lives in Markley. "It's dumb-to have the rules because no one abides by them anyway."~ Residence hall staff are concerned with the -TODAY Cold balls A N ANY TYPICAL Saturday afternoon ir I have a toaster, a toaster oven, and an oil popcorn popper. It's dumb to have (fire) rules because no one abides by them anyway.' -Clayton Cole LSA freshman threat of fire, said Susan Harris, building direc- tor at Mosher Jordan. "We spend a lot of time training staff in preparation for a fire." BUT Harris said resident advisers don't police students' rooms to enforce the rules. Building staff members only enter students' rooms with a master key in an emergency, she said. Last month, a small fire in a Markley room was caused by burning Chanukah candles which are prohibited under the housing rules. After the fire, Markley Building Director Charla Weiss distributed a notice to residents to remind students that candles and open flames* are not permitted in their rooms. "WHETHER (students) are aware of (the rules) and abide (by them) are two different things," said Vernon Grigg, a LSA sophomore and president of Markley. "Most students are aware of the rules, and as a whole (the rules) are not respected." Some residents also say that the restrictions aren't needed. "It's hard to burn anything down with a toaster," said one student who asked not to be identified. "We use all these things at home and our home hasn't burned down yet." That attitude is dangerous, Harris said. All electrical appliances are a potential fire hazard. "The more electrical appliances, the more likely a problem will result." Resident advisers are supposed to confront residents who have fire hazards in their rooms and confiscate the item, said Harris. But studen- ts say this rarely happens. LSA freshwomnan Sheryl Brand said her resident adviser knows about the fire' code violations in her room, but hasn't done anything yet. Resident advisers don't enforce the rules because "they were students once themselves," said Brand, who has an iron and a hotplate in her room. If students are careful with electrical applian- ces there shouldn't be any problems said Brand, who lives in Markley. roughs untouched, making it difficult for the golf nuts to find errant shots. So with orange, yellow, white (for the real tough guys), and even purple (but no blue) balls flying past the skiers' heads, the familiar cry of "fore" was heard for the first time this year anywhere north of the Mason Dixon line. One frightened skier, frozen in her tracks, didn't quite know what to do when the fellows on the sixth tee yelled "fore." A cordial chap on another hole was good enough to offer this bit of golf etiquette: "Duck, fool." Oh, by the way, unofficial results show that a Daily editor came in with about the automakers' ads themselves, but that they ap- pear in the magazines. AMC is the only U.S. automaker that advertises in these publications, Wildmon said. AMC ad- vertised in Playboy because a large number of potential customers are readers, AMC spokesperson Jerry Sloan said. Other carmakers do have ads in the publication, Sloan said. The Federation is a non-denominational group made up of between 80,000 and 90,000 members, Sloan said. Q their confidential counseling files, which included recom- mendations from professors. " 1968 - Bursley students attended a teach-in staged to prove that students wanted to set their own hours and visitation policies in University dormitories. * 1956 -Ann Arbor Mayor William Brown called for an all- night parking ban, hoping to avoid a "continuous parking. problem" in the city. n winter, i