OPINION - * ', r 4+ i" aS t ^ # +r . Page 4 Friday, December 5, 1986 The Michigan04 theAth4an tWl Edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan Vol. XCVII, No. 65 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Unsigned editorials represent a majority of the Daily's Editorial Board A1 other cartoons, signed articles, and letters do not necessarily represent the opinion of the Daily. Administrators: hands off the Greeks! Greek non-academic life DON- MAYBE WE SHOULD NtMIT TH~E IRAN DEKL WAS A MSTK MAKE. YOU LoOV WEAK BUT IT ?AIST M TIME ro CUT OU .LO~S 'f f S11 T'A\ GOIN& To LET YOU OFF EASy THIS TIM AROAUND. IN HER.E A&AI t1 00 GUILT,~ Y00 1 "op 00 F 00 _(E = u a 0 I UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATORS have re.;ently intervened in conflicts between Greek houses and their non-student neighbors. Associate Vice-President for Student Services Thomas Easthope has served as a tattle-tale by informing the national directorships of Greek organizations of alleged Greek improprieties at chapters here in Ann Arbor. While the Daily has long held reservations about life in the Greek system, the Daily has even more serious reservations about administrative control of non-academic life. Neighbors of some Greek houses are up in arms over loud and rowdy party behavior at Greek houses. Such a conflict will always exist between Greek houses and their Ann Arbor neighbors. There is great potential here for administrators to set themselves up with permanent jobs policing the Greeks. Administrators have no sanction I ri.i :.: . :.i to nark on the Greeks, however, because the University does not own the property of the Greek houses. Nor does the University provide funding to the Greeks. There is and should be no connection between the Greek houses and the University administration. Like the administration's proposed code of non-academic conduct, the administration's interference in Greek non-academic life is a symptom of the power struggle between students and administrators. Far from even claiming to facilitate student education here at the University, the University administration openly takes the side of non- student neighbors. The University administration has no business reporting on Greeks or otherwise taking sides on issues in the private lives of Greek students. It is a misappropriation of University resources and a power- grab by the administration. -11 t 1 L WSNEIGH-1FCki COM~PANISSr-LIEvE So OUR7Z Po&IPM FoRPRPERITY IS IN A1(RMT IMPLE: SoL~t1oN.. NOT Gc0JP-9NMENT I J. CUT" AND Z. REDUCE \NERtRECE TA\XES REGULATIM~\ r o r ,KTr.Ttow CtTLZ-NS of 'oL.AND - IAQ ?MU~K \WILL COST YOU MoZt,.. $1EADV FotLoWIN&?OLICIE5 \NILL COST v5 NOW. Yo t'rAOP F! P555s MUMBALE A. POUND) OF MMAT W! JLL COST YOU TWICE YOURl YIOUQLY/ YOU'LL BE IN RAL SEIo TloUS 2LU IE TRUIS HAPPENS A TENT T AM FRO WAIT STRET s sAN asaut0d tol anyo.. dtO 'LhEm IN a N tha USt hey ha MinTAY aCtTACgTS coNf!r 'x undestanableand uiteco a 4m1,1- on O e - yt o d eap - J w i t ~L~v~v AWN A PIROTSTR rIKE. WILL COST 'YOU 'ThQGV- tAs 1sw peIoplN eseial mn T ke sexually assaulted told anyone. Women also do not know that this does not have to happen them and that they hae survived a rape. Kulkis' anger and deferi - siveness at having to confroi this reality of our culture.i& understandable and quite cons 2. mon. rOne way. to -deal with this is to talk with oiier; people, especially men. Th t~f are also workshops available and more information about rape prevention at the Sexiual' Assault Prevention and Aware -" 1nesss Center, 3100 Michigan't Union, 763-5865. ' Police state logic ROWDY GREEK PARTY behavior has engendered an hysterical response by neighbors and the city government. The city has established a special squad of police officers to tame or break up Greek parties on weekends. So far, the police have managed to make Greek parties more to the liking of neighbors. The Greek system may even have needed some kind of outside help to deflate the competitive social pressures amongst the houses involved to throw the best parties with the most beer and unrestrained behavior. Unfortunately, the tactics used by the police include entrapment. High school age informers infiltrate Greek parties to find out whether or not minors are obtaining alcohol. Once again police intervention has involved an extravagant use of city funds - $4,000 in police overtime Blue roses: it's onl THE BIG TEN season has reached its natural culmination: Bo Schem- bechler's Michigan Wolverines won the conference championship and now travel to Pasadena for the Rose Bowl.' Recent history is abnormal. The Wolverines have not played in the New Year's Day classic since 1982, when the UCLA Bruins beat them 24-14 after knocking Michigan quarterback Steve Smith out of the game with a shoulder injury. Since then, Bo's boys have visited the Sugar, Holiday, and Fiesta Bowls but triumphed in only the last, a 27-23 win over Nebraska last Jan. 1. The Wolverines are the .Big Ten's most successful team. With 675 victories against 224 defeats, Michigan has posted a "W" on Saturday 75 percent of the time in the last 107 years. The last 18 seasons, Schembechler has reigned on the Michigan sideline, a king in regal'maize and blue attire - and a pay for the first weekend of party- bashing alone. Perhaps over- reacting neighbors of the Greek houses should pay for this police service for a weekend, so as to put their complaints in. better perspective. Obviously if every social problem including quarrels amongst neigh- bors requires police involvement, then sooner or later, every third person will have to work as a police officer. Thus the response to the Greeks' distasteful behavior is equally immature and certainly more dangerous in the long run. With one-quarter of that $4,000 spent for one weekend of party- bashing, the city could have paid the University-wide Greek organizations or some outside agency to police individual Greek parties. This would leave the police force to work against rape and other serious unresolved problems in Ann Arbor. LETTERS: Passit To The Daily: I am writing in response to a letter on the issue of "passing up" women at football games ("New Feminists Attack Men Too Much;" 11/19/86) as there are many issues raised in that letter that I feel an urgent need to address. It is unfortunate that Kulkis constantly focuses on many stereotypes of feminists because it allows him to ignore the main issue. In the original article on passing women up, author Yvonne Bloch did not solely criticize men and stated that both women and men need to work to change our culture. The reality is that more than 90% of perpetrators of sexual assault are men. This does not mean that all men are rapists, but it does mean that men need to ask themselves why rape is a crime by men against women and realize that the occurence of rape is connected to our attitudes about women and not just a random violent act. Using statistics alone we know that rape is not a random act. FBI statistics tell us that 60-80 percent of all assaults are by someone the rape survivor knows and 1 out of 3 women will be sexually assaulted in her lifetime. To explain why someone we know and trust would do this to us and why rape is so pervasive in our culture means we must lookrat attitudes involved that per - petuate myths about rape: the myth that rape is sexual vs. the fact that it is an act of power and domination; and the myth that women are supposed to be weak and passive while men must be forceful and aggressive in every situation, especially sexual ones. These myths are perpetuated by the media, by our friends and family, and by dangerous rituals like passing women up at football games. Unfortunately, passing wo - men up at football games is not harmless fun brought about to heighten the. compet - itiveness of the moment. If in fact other objects, like beach - balls, have been passed up why then do we pass up women or representations of women? Is a woman the same as a beachball? Batting a beach ball around is not a violent assault s Igup is being abused in football stands) it creates a climate in which violence against women is condoned because we learn that it is alright to take our anger out on women and that women somehow deserve this kind of abuse, which they do not. y natural not har v' After winning so often in the regular season, it is about time Bo prevailed in Pasadena. Unlike Michigan's 26-24 clipping of the obtuse Ohioans, nothing is guaranteed in the Rose Bowl. But Bo knows well the unpredictability of California. He also knows how to win. And for the first time in his career, Schembechler will find an advantage in Pasadena: a non-West coast opponent. Bo captured his first Rose Bowl victory in 1981 when the Wolverines ripped Washington, 23-6. In previous years the opponent's home-field advantage, arguably hurt Michigan. But this year Arizona State is the foe, and although the Sun Devils present a difficult challenge they cannot reap the rewards of a USC or UCLA playing the Rose Bowl before its hometown faithful. Hostile ASU fans will not force a loss on the Wolverines, nor will It is impo'rtant to understand that people's stereotypical attitudes of 'what women and men should be in our culture are elements that feed into sexual assault, especially date and acquaintance rape. Passing up women, whether plastic or real, at football games, is not merely a game. It is one act along the continuum of violence against women which reinforces the stereotype that women should be weak, passive, playthings who would not mind such treatment. In defending this type of action, Reagan has To the Daily: For the past six years, the Reagan Administration has been remarkably successful in its conduct of a series of disinformation campaigns designed to win public support for its militarist and right-wing agenda. "Peacekeeper Miss- iles""and the "Strategic Defense Intitiative" envelop the nuclear arms build-up in a benign and peaceful glow; anecdotes about welfare cheats and drug-crazed criminals portray the assault on social welfare and civil liberties as a righteous mission; mercenary terrorists in Central America are labeled "freedom fighters" to justify U.S. involvement in and funding of the bloody Contra war; the failed Rejkjavik summit is described as an arms control triumph; and the list goes on and on. Yet in 'his most recent effort to rewrite the news - by casting his arms-for-hostages deal with Iran in terms of a strategic coup to promote U.S. interests in the Middle East - President Reagan appears for. once to have left even most of his loyalhsupporters incredulous. What accounts for this first and major failure? Surely the President's Iran story is no more preposterous his disinformatio (and especially Col. Qaddafi and the Ayatollah Khomeni) as "madmen," communism as the root of all evil, and the poor as promiscuous and lazy, it is not hard to sell policies which blame or injure these demons. But in rationalizing his Iranian venture, the President had to tell us that there are people in Khomeni's entourage - in the very lair of the hostage-takers whose demoniacal behavior n Waterloo was so useful to Reagan's 1980 election campaign -3 whom we must now consider good guys! Little wonder that it just won't wash. Dare we hope, that this failure will amount to Reagn's disinformation' Waterloo? -ThomasE Weisskopf November 14, 1986 Kulkis is defending dangerous sex role stereotyping which forces men to only relate to women in eggressive, dom - inant, and violent ways. Kulkis also feels the feminist view is that all men want to rape women. Ideo - logical positions aside, men and women are not concious of what rape is. In fact, in a recent study of 7,000 students at 35 colleges around the country, researcher Mary Koss found that 1 out of 12 men admitted to having fulfilled the pre - vailing defintion of rape or attempted rape, yet virtually none of these men identified themselves as rapists. That means that men do not consider forcing women to have sexual contact against their will rape. Koss also found that less then 1/3 of the women on college campuses who had been -Jennifer S. Akfital Administrative Assistant UM Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center T y "4 T T Daily caption lacked taste To The Daily: raising ceremonies worldw On November 12, you and they were all synchron printed a photograph of three to take place at the same t "unidentified Reserve Officer that President Reagan place Training Corps" members wreath on the Tomb of raising the flag near North Unknown Soldier. The Hall. The caption, "Flagging," Force ROTC detacment her made the photo humorous and the University participated remarkably similar in nature to this ceremony. By neglec the photo and caption to print the story, and insi innappropriately and incorrectly turn the photo into labeled "Defiant" in a previous lighthearted item, the D issue of the Daily. Therein failed to recognize and ret lies the problem. Tuesday's *the significance of1 ceremony was a special ceremony. By the way, ceremony for Veteran's Day. "unidentified" cadets are C I provided the Daily news Col Russ Mathers; C/Ltf office with information in Mike Crawford, and C/C advance, about the ceremony, Greg Green. The did a sup which the Daily neglected to job as the flag detail. Drint. Perhaps your readers - r1U iucl ' ide ' ize ime ed a the; Air, e at d in :tin~ ea aily por thed the; C/Lt' Col' :apt: perb