MICH-ELLANY FILM Stop the fight, the bus is leaving z O z 0 O LU INTERVIEW Leo Heatly Public Safety Director wants Univ. officers to be a sworn police agency Leo Heatley has been the director of the University's Department of Public Safety and Security since 1985. He spoke to Daily staffer Stephen Gregory on a variety of campus concerns, from making campus security officers a police force to the effectiveness of the new emergency phone system on campus. Daily: What did you do before you were the director of campus security? Heatly: I came here in 1979 as the assistant director. I retired from the Michigan State Police in 1979; I spent a little over 25 years with the State police before coming here. D: What are your duties as director? H: The Department of Public Safety is responsible for the students and the faculty, and it makes the campus safe. It does that in several ways. The main way we do it is to have uniformed officiers driving in radio- dispatched, marked patrol cars. They patrol the campus, and they answer calls. We get a variety of calls ranging from criminal offenses, assults, or larcenies to a broken window or leaking water from a ceiling. We received about 24,500 calls in 1986, so we're extremely busy. We also coordinate the activities of Housing Security and Hospital Security. They send reports to us, and we keep track of them for statistical purposes. We have contracted seven patrol officers, two detectives, a sheriff and 30 percent of the command officers from the Ann Arbor Police Department . When we need law enforcement we call them. Our people are not sworn police officers. D: In many college campuses, the security department is an actual police force. Why isn't ours? H: Well, one of the goals I set for this department when I became the director was that one day we'd have a sworn agency. I think that is a realistic goal and something we are working toward. The authority has to come from either the Washtenaw County Sheriff's Department or the state legislature. There has been some movement in the legislature to get a bill introduced in the past, but it has been rejected. D: What other colleges have a campus police force? H: Michigan State, Western Michigan, and Eastern all have departments sworn in by the local sheriff's department. D: Is Washtenaw County reluctant to give campus security this authority? H: No, the county sheriff I'm sure would agree to do that. We haven't gotten anything formal from him saying that, but we have discussed it, and it is a realistic possiblity. D: Is the issue locked up in the legislature? H: We were hoping to get the legislature to pass a bill last year, but it was not passed. To get that bill introduced will be something we'll Continued on Page 9 GRADE-SCHOOL FIGHTS: we all had a few, we all survived them. Boy, were they stupid!. My first fight was a pretty one- sided affair. Actually, it was a completely one-sided affair. I made the mistake of pegging Mike Nagel in a gym-class game of dodgeball. After that, I made the further mistake of taunting Mike in precisely the way he and his buddies taunted me, by tapping my index finger to my chin, daring him to sock me, when we both knew that he could do no such thing. I compounded my errors by dutifully reporting to my Safety Patrol Post, rather than rushing home and barricading the door until Nagel forgot the day's events. At least, through a brilliantly employed stra- tagem of alternately begging and curling up into a fetal position, Nagel quickly tired of kicking me, and by the time the little kids arrived to cross the street, I was once again a proud Lieutenant in the Triple-A Safety Patrol, cou- rageously defending them against oncoming traffic. In sixth grade, I beat up Scott York because he irritated me. Scott was a hyperactive kid with hygiene OFF THE WALL FOR A GOOD TIME CALL 665- 1212. -Graduate Library HOW CAN I FIND THE STAIR - WAY TO HEAVEN? (in reply) Take the elevator to hell and turn right. -Graduate Library The best revenge is getting over it and meeting someone else! -AngellHall Ferrous Wheel problems and a voice like Grover's on "Sesame Street." I had to ride the same bus with him, and he never shut up, even when the bus driver told him to. One day, he challenged me. We got a witness /judge, and I beat him up. The other kid saw me as a hero (Scott really bugged him, too). After a day, I told him to shut up about it. After about two days, Scott was every bit as irritating as he had always been. After about three days I began to feel like shit for being so mean to him. But that didn't stop me from fighting Allen Sinke a year later. Allen was a brooding, gangly kid with messy blond hair and mossy, crooked teeth. When he challenged me to a fight, some of the same guys who had taunted me in fifth grade told me to stand up to him, so I did. The fight didn't last long, but I'm still proud of the finish. Allen pulled my hooded sweatshirt over my head, but by swinging wildly, I managed to drive him away. I was suddenly a cool guy. It didn't matter that I won only because Sinke was using both of his hands to hold my sweatshirt; he ran away, so I got two weeks worth of back-patting. In the last week of eighth grade, somebody brought up the fight, and I pounded my flabby chest, and ticked Allen off, and he told the whole bus he could lick me if we fought again. A date was set, and kids stayed on the bus until our stop, or got off early, to see the fight. Thinking that the hooded sweatshirt had been the only thing preventing me from an even more stunning victory, I wore a T-shirt. Bad mistake. Without a quasi- strategic garment to grab onto, Allen instead used his hands to pound me. I was an excellent bobber, and I was pretty good at weaving, but when it came to wrassling, or punching, I sucked. I yelled "give" well before Allen had a chance to really hurt me, and Allen didn't stop. In retrospect, I Continued on Page 9 -1 0- Pryor's co By Geoffrey Riklin One of Richard Pryor's first lines in his new movie, Critical Condition, is "I don't belong here." How true. Pryor plays a n'er-do-well en- trepreneur who gets arrested while receiving money from a loanshark. The latter, believing that Pryor set him up, swears to kill him. So Pryor, attempting to avoid going to the same prison as his enemy, fakes insanity in order to go to a mental hospital instead. Realizing that his act is failing, Pryor tries to escape but can't because of a hurricane, and finds himself mistaken for a doctor. He plays along and the resulting hijinks constitute the film's plot, to the extent that a plot exists. The film possesses so many fatal and near-fatal flaws that it self- destructs. Michael Apted unfor- giveably misdirects Pryor. The character Pryor plays is more than slightly stupid, and he implausibly thinks up solutions for the multitude of problems he en- counters. The solutions themselves are childish and unamusing. Pryor's best moments - and they are few - are somewhat serious, not the slapstick/screwball rubbish that dominates the film. The supporting cast does not impress. Ruben Blades, the noted salsa singer, has a small and insignificant role. Tex Cobb, the former boxer, has a somewhat larger on but he can't act. The female lead is Rachel Ticotin, and while she is gorgeous, she does not seem destined to fashion a career in comedy. But, in her defense, it's clear that she has been given little to do. For that matter, no one, including Pryor, has much to do. This film looks as if much of it was written while it was being shot, and some of Pryor's scenes seem almost entirely improvised. There are so few laughs and so much amateurishness that one can't help wondering if anyone associated with it really gave a damn. Imagine, Richard Pryor on screen for nearly two hours and no more than two or three funny bits. If Apted had filmed Pryor sleeping for two hours we'd have a more entertaining movie. It is indicative of the extent of this cinematic mess that an escaped murderer is tossed in, apparently to try to stir things up. The attempt fails. In additon to all that, Michael Apted regards insanity as comic material. Surely it can be, but only when treated appropriately. Apted treats it clumsily and offensively. ndition worsens -----r-- ; THE TASTE 01 IS WAITING FI Look into the :; >, 4 We're looking for the following SPECIAL INGREDI Garrett Morris, formerly of Saturday Night live, stars with Pryor. There are several melodramatic scenes, a bit of preachiness, the score irritates and intrudes, and the ending is one only a second-grader could find convincing (and con- sidering that Critical Condition is "R" rated, few of them will see it - they're lucky). All this must lead us to wonder about Pryor. This is yet another in a series of Pryor movies that are mediocre or worse. They haven't even a chance of being good, and with Critical Condition this is most emphatically the case. As everyone knows, Pryor has an extraordinary talent. Let's hope that he gets serious about his film career and puts it to good use. If not, Pryor or his producers musi pay for the crime of wasting the talents of one of America's funniest men. Adt " Food Servers " Line Cooks " Bartenders * Dishwashers " Waiters RIDGE STRING QUARTET Fe Fe Fe Fe Fe Fe Ba [Na]2 "Banana" DAILY FILE PHOTO Unhappy Geography graduate students discussed the proposed cut of their department with a review committee in March of 1981. 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Sartre replied, "I think not." -East Quad Marriage is a three-ring circus: first the engagement ring, then the wedding ring... then the suffering. -Graduate Library 15 years ago- - January 23, 1972: The University Coun - cil was preparing to propose a new set of student conduct rules to replace interim rules established in the wake of the Black Action Movement (BAM) strikes in 1970. The BAM actions, staged to protest low minority enrollment at Michigan, virtually shut down the University. In a debate much like today's over the University's proposed code of non-academic conduct, the Student Government Council de - nounced the proposed rules as too harsh; a faculty group said they were too lenient. ".. .a remarkable three-year-old ensemble that plays with vision and insight." L.A. Times Program: Haydn, Debussy, Mendelssohn. Tickets: $13, 11, 9, 5. Sunday, Jan. 25 at 4pm, Rackham Aud. PAGE 8 WEEKEND/JANUARY 23, 1987 WEEKEND/JANUARY 23, 1987 J , , ''t f" , V 0 1