Ninety-five Years of Editorial Freedom cl ble Lit i4a ~Iai4jF Mutability Sunshine in the morning followed by clouds in the afternoon. Highs 20-25. Vol. XCV, No. 108 Copyright 1985, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Saturday, February 9, 1985 Fifteen Cents Einh Pn y ww=Q 'Gorillas' encourage students. to go ape By SEAN JACKSON Just when people thought a tide of conservatism had swept college cam- puses, three students wearing gorilla masks and paws descended upon University classrooms vesterday. The sophomores - who would identify themselves only as Dave, Dave, and Dave - did handsprings, cartwheels, and flips through classes in Angell and Mason Halls, as well as the Frieze and Modern Languages Buildings. PROF. DIANE Kirkpatrick's Art History 102, held in Angell Hall Aud. A, was invaded by the gorillas. She said she had not seen such antics since the late 1960's and 70's. The gorillas hope to bring back thea liberal spirit of the 60s and 70s. "Con- servativeness is spreading rampant, we want liberal ideas to spread across campus," the Daves said. "What we're trying to do is tell the students here to loosen up ... to let their hair down, to go apes, to go bannanas," said one of the three Daves. THE FURRY trio made a dramatic entrance into the art history class. They raced down the aisles doing car- twheels and flips, and bounced up on stage to greet the dumbfounded Kirk- patrick. See GORILLA, Page 2 Safet By ERIC MATTSON After six years as head of University security, Director of Safety Walter Stevens said yesterday he will retire at the end of this month. Stevens' retirement will not be an- nounced officially until Monday, when the University begins to accept ap- plications for the post. DIRECTOR of Business Operations John Weidenbach, who will appoint Stevens' successor, acknowledged that at least one person from within the safety department has already applied for the post. He declined to elaborate. Other sources, however, said the heir apparent is Leo Heatley, assistantj director of safety and a candidate in last year's county sheriff's race. Anne Ryan, chairwoman of Michigan Student Assembly's Women's Issues Committee, said she thinks Heatley will succeed Stevens. "IT'S MY impression that the' decision has already been made," she director retirement said. "It was a chain-of-command in- stead of an interview process. Heatley last night declined to com- ment on the report. The biggest issue the incoming direc- tor will face is the perennial question of whether to make the University's security department an official police force. STEVENS said the new set-up, which is common practice at campuses throughout the country, would have a number of advantages. For one thing, he said, a University police force would be "completely dedicated to The University of Michigan.' He added that students could benefit from a police force that is "totally familiar with the University." As it stands now, Stevens said, responsibility for campus security is divided amongst the Ann Arbor Police Department, the security department at University Hospitals, and general See NEW, Page 2 Stevens ... to retire this month Investigators clear U-Club Daily Photo by MATT PETRIE The three gorillas who bounced through classes yesterday take a minute to pose for a group photo. The apes dropped in on classes in Angell and Mason Halls and the Frieze and Modern Languages Buildings. Exiles: Communists repress art By BILL HAHN When Communism was young in the early 1900s, writers and artists in Eastern Europe enjoyed substantial freedom. But by 1956,"the year of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's death, culture was severely crippled under the sup- pressive reign of Communist gover- nments. THESE WERE the impressions of Czeslaw Milosz, a Polish poet who won the Nobel Prize in 1980 and who has sin- ce moved to the United States. Milosz was one of four exiled writers from Eastern Europe who spoke last night at a symposium sponsored by the slavic department. Communist leaders tightly control the content and type of literature authors can write, Milosz told a packed audience at the Rackham Auditorium. They limit political viewpoints to the pro-Communist stance. "I feel a boredom with one theme," Milosz said. "One thing I would advise is that the Polish government allow the publications of other articles. Other- wise, they'll bore the people in Poland to death., STANISLAW Baranczak, another Polish poet, added that a person in Poland caught carrying an unapproved leaflet could be sent to jail for as long as three years. The imposition of martial law has not completely suppressed culture in Poland, however. The government does forbid publication of ticles, not realizing such a ban only drives the literature to the underground press. Once the literature is printed in legal publishing firms, the government will censor the contents. Suppression of art and literature is worse in the Soviet Union, the speakers said. "RUSSIA will exit this country without one great writer," said Russian poet Joseph Brodsky, one of the other speakers. "Censorship has killed the best and silenced the mediocre." "Art can neither be owned by the patron, the state, nor the artist," he ad- ded. The Communist ideology has dwin- See EXILES, Page 3 ofliquor By JERRY MARKON The Union's University Club Bar ap- parently did not violate Liquor Control Commission rules when it ran an adver- tisement for Labatt's beer on a poster promoting last November's "World's Largest Nacho Platter." Liquor Control Commission (LCC) of- ficials recently launched an in- vestigation of the U-Club in an attempt to determine whether it had knowingly cooperated with Labatt's in the adver- tisement. This would have violated an LCC rule against "cooperative adver- tising." THE LCC also originally suspected that the U-Club had violated the rules by advertising a specific brand of alcoholic beverage. According to Walter Keck, director of the LCC's licensing and enforcement division, the U-Club will not be cited for violating the LCC rules, "because neither the U-Club nor anyone from Labatt's actually had anything to do with (the advertisement)." "We don't think (the U-Club) violated the law because they didn't pay for the ad; it wasn't their ad," Keck said. Members of the University Activities Center (UAC) - a co-sponsor of the nacho platter event - paid for the ad without any evidence that the U-Club participated, he said. BUT KECK altered his position yesterday when he learned - apparen- tly for the first time - of a comment made by Carolyn Sherman, the UAC member who was in charge of the ad. Last week, Sherman told the Daily that the nacho platter, ad was per- sonally approved by Michael Crabb, the director of Union Food Services. "If I had known that earlier, I might have issued a written warning to the U- Club," Keck said. Crabb, however, refused to comment on the ad, and Union Director Frank Cianciola said that Crabb "couldn't recall whether he had seen the ad or license violations not." "WE HAVEN'T made it a practice to approve the advertising by student groups - there's been no mechanism for this," Cianciola said. He added that the Union is presently looking into changing its advertising practices in an effort to "help us adhere to the law." See U-CLUB, Page 3 Illini center out ofaction Illinois center George Mon- tgomery will not be seeing action against Michigan today .due to a broken foot he suffered Thursday at Michigan State. See story, Page 8. TEMPLE NEEDS MORE PRIESTS: Followers of Buddhism increase in Ann Arbor By BARBARA LOECHER At Zen Buddist Temple in Ann Arbor, devotees of the religion perform the centuries old foot washing ceremony in a porcelain bathtub with Ivory soap. Then, clad in traditional gray, belted robes and Michigan sweats, they bow before the image of Buddha before assuming the (crossed legs) they maintain throughout three or four hours of meditative practice. BUDDHISM is the fastest growing religion in North America and its appeal has not gone unrecognized in Ann Ar- bor. "When I came here three years ago," says Sanbul Sunim, the temple's priest, "I was in a small apartment. (A year later) there were enough students here to get together to buy this temple." Sunim's temple is now located at 1214 Packard. "We are... developing a North American Zen here;" Sanbul says. "We are not limited by doctrine." "We change all the time, every moment, this maintains our vitality." ACCORDING TO Sunim, what is learned at the temple is applied to all aspects of everyday life. "This training is hard work, in your everyday life, not in passively sitting reading something," he said. It's possible to learn proper meditative practice, but it is difficult to learn it on your own, Sanbul explains. "We say," Sanbul says, " The master, he walks straight.' This is to say his (meditative) practice is right." Many have what Sanbul calls "right experience" but for most it is only momentary. For example, the athlete who, af- ter completing a long-distance run, rests without following his thoughts to any conclusion has "right experience." He neither reflects upon the past nor anticipates the future. He simply experiences the present. THE WAY the athlete experiences this moment is the way the student of Zen learns to experience every moment, initially, every moment of meditation - ultimately, every moment of every day. "Practicing meditation helps me experience everything more full," says Elisa Seltzer, a University student who became interested in Buddhism while taking a University course on Eastern religion. "Taking the time to focus helps See ZEN, Page 2 Daily Photo by DAN HABIB I Zen Buddhist Temple member Janette Shepherd, children Ziranda Miranda (left), and Karima Lundquist (right) beat on drums during the evening chanting ritual. I I I TODAY- Bargain lover's paradise ODAY IS THE last day you can pick up that rench coat, circa 1950, grandma's primer, or chest you've always wanted for your room. The 59th Annual mwftm mory. In 1967 the sale moveds to its permanent home ... " If you're a bargain lover, or just like to rummage, grab your wallet-this is your paradise. For God's sake G EORGE LEVI of Dayton, Ohio hopes to find a faithful following for his business venture - a grocery store named after God. Levi, 40, avborn-again Christian, said he plans to open God's Grocery Store to thank the Lord for all his blessings. "A lot of people might criticize me Zipeode gets zapped D OGS AND mail carriers are often not the best of frien- ds. But Zipcode, the mascot at Rye, New York's post office, is another matter. Postal officials who evicted the dog after nine years aththe post office have responded to protests by workers there by saying they will hold a ceremony to retire the mutt and erect a plaque in her honor, says Gordon Hensley, a spokesman for U.S. Rep. Joseph DioGuardi. But Leonard Braccio, the mail carrier who's heen takin care of Zinode sine she was kicked nut of the regulations, only seeing-eye dogs or those serving "of- ficially" are allowed to live on the premises. After Zip- code's eviction, postal workers began circulating petitions. Enter DioGuardi, a freshman Republican from New Rochelle. Several weeks of negotiations with postal officials resulted in the decision to retire the dog and put up the plaque, Hensley said. DioGuardi met with Postal Service regional manager Raymond Murphy two weeks ago to lob- by for Zipcode's reinstatement, but Murphy said he had to stick to regulations. i I I