w w w w w w w w w w w w v w w w w w mr 14W IRW lqw iqw Daily If you ever want to stop by the Michigan Daily, it's pretty easy to find. We're in the Student Publications Building on Maynard St. Just look for the old building with the green steeple and the not- so-green lawn, trampled down by years of writers too rushed or lazy to use the sidewalk. If you're having trouble finding it, don't worry. Just follow the smell of paint remover. That's what you use, see, when somebody breaks into your building and spray-paints all over the walls. That's what somebody did, here, two uweeks ago today. Jew-haters will pay F k0. Daily Long live Israel I'm still not sure whether I should even be writing this column. Why mention it? Why give free attention to any asshole with two bucks and a lack of eloquence? Well, I am writing it. Because, one, I still have enough trust in the power of words to believe that someone who'll vandalize a news- paper doesn't spend a hell of a lot of time reading. And because, two, I really don't care about the spray- paint. Theabuilding was looking a little drab, anyway. What I do care about is what was really spray-painted on those walls. I hate you Not because one person felt it, haters: Say it, 4 but because a lot of you do. Just take a look at our readers' poll - the journalistic equivalent of cutting a switch for yourself. Every year, we ask you to tell us the best and the worst of the Daily, and, like the menu at a German restaurant, it's heavy on the worst. "Perpetuates lies, rumors, and stereotypes", "Immature, Pavlovian, leftist politics"; "Pretentious, pseu- do-intellectual columnists"; "I could go on for days." And you do. Whether because of pro-Palestinian editorials, coverage of minority issues, or esoteric record reviews, you're sick of us. . Sick. Sick. Sick. You look at us with contempt and loathing. You open the paper in your morning lecture and see the stupid gram- matical mistake or the gratuitous bit of editorializing and wonder how anybody that stupid could memorize a 26-letter alphabet. You turn to the crossword or Bloom County and pick us up again tomorrow morning and get sick of something else. How do I know? Because I'm one of those readers, too. Anybody here is. Stick around the Daily long enough and you'll love it. Stick around five minutes more and you'll also hate it. There is incompetence here. There are jerks here (all of whom arereading this and thinking I'm talking about PON JIM g EWOZIK someone else). People who laugh at things you take seriously, people who take seriously things you laugh at. I've quit this place in my head more times than I can count. And stayed here, anyway. A Daily writer is by definition neu- rotic. You hear someone in class criticizing an article that you know is as bad as they say it is, but you want to stand up for it, anyway. Not a day goes by that you don't feel like dynamiting the building, but when you see insults sprayed on the walls. you want to hit somebody, hard. Then you want an explanation. One isn't coming, I guess. So I'll give you one. About us. It's easy to look at any organ- ization from the outside as being a monolith. The phone company isn't a group of individual workers, some of whom hate each other, acciden- tally hit the "0" key three times instead of twice while tabulating your bill, or getdistracted from their work sometimes because they're having marriage problems and just found out their daughter is pregnant. No, it's the PHONE COM- don't spray PANY, by God, and that's it. It's a (which, by the living being, an organism that means you -i thinks one thought and moves with pound fists, poi one body. You stick money in at all the nasty one end and it comes out the other as reserve for t a dial tone. If you see a stupid TV Sometimes it commercial for their service, then exchange of i the Phone Company ran a stupid TV like turning th commercial. Not the person who graders. wrote it, or the ad agency that pro- So what's m duced it, or the executive who know. Which commissioned it. The Phone Com- point. pany did, and that includes the That we're operator as well as the president, know. And th because they're both the same per- iness of knov son, anyway. nature bound t Likewise with the Daily. Stick hell of a lot. B an issue in and it comes out an And by the o editorial. Right? spray paint. Don't we wish. Ever read that That this is; little box in the upper left hand for all of us. V corner of the Opinion Page? The one (sometimes e that says, "unsigned editorials repre- abuse, and to sz sent a majority of the Daily's edi- power grab.". torial board"? Ever wonder just what skeptical of the this "editorial board" is? And also, I It's all of us. Well, sort of. At a black box; w two weekly meetings, anyone on talk and touch staff can show up to propose, debate, to you in c and vote on the topics and contents probably have of that week's editorials. Out of a So if you do staff of some hundred-odd people, welcome to co this sometimes means about ten. take anybody. Sometimes 50 or more. articles some And though you see one opinion believe it. when you open the paper, you'd see But do me millions if you came to a meeting spray can at ho way, anyone - that is allowed to do). We ut, and call each other names we usually the administration. 's a noble, honest deas. Sometimes it's e U.N. over to third- ny point? Damned if I is really itself the all damned if we ose of us in the bus- wing things are by o get damned a whole y you. By each other. ccassional jerk with a learning experience We learn how to write ven weli), to take ay "white male fascist You learn how to be media. guess, that we're not e're you. We walk and ourselves and sit next lass, although we n't done the reading. on't like us, you're me try it yourself. We Just read some of our etime if you don't a favor. Leave the me. it PLACE TO MEET PEOPLE The Diag On warm, sunny days, leave an extra half-hour to get to class - or you might never make it. PLACE TO TAKE A FIRST DATE The Arb Fresh air, flowers, trees, birds.... echoes of love and fertility, know what we mean? BIRTH CONTROL METHOD The Pill A perennial winner. What would we do without that little spot of hormone in our daily lives? It easily, 3 z5 and for obvious reasons, beat out - abstinence this year. PLACE TO GET AWAY FROM IT ALL The Arb Ann Arbor's own natural sanitar- ium. Be it traying in the winter or s has it all. laying out in spring, the Arb is a mini-vacation spot from the fast- is always featured in University paced world of campus. promos on T.V. during sports? Gee, I wonder why they never show the PLACE TO STUDY Grad SAB, the LSA Building, and the Stacks UGLi? And a Weekend Magazine favorite for getting Off-the-Wall graffiti. DORM East Quad Keep up the good work, guys!! Well, West Quad is prettier, South Quad is more fun; East Quad EXCUSE FOR A LATE is obligated to get something. Like PAPER The computer ate it says on the shirts, it's the place to it meet interesting people. That's Procastinators, take heart: they're putting it mildly. just about done with the Angell Hall if- computing center. The professors are going to wise up about this one pretty soon, so you better come up with something new. BEST PERSON IN ANN ARBOR Shakey Jake We may just have to make this into a lifetime achievement award next year and give somebody else a chance. As intrinsic a part of Ann Arbor as getting pieces of flier stuck to your shoes after a rainstorm, the city's favorite bluesman has been around Ann Arbor for longer than even most graduate students, and wi as ma fou Bi Ah an: ves in t ties law on From Abba to Zappa, Schoolkid Continued from Page 12 bringing you music by people you've never heard of for years to, come. LOCAL BAND (Tie) The Difference/Frank Allison and the Odd Sox. There are two meanings of the word "pop music," and both of them have their exemplars in Ann Arbor. First, there's "pop" as in "Lots of people who know how to operate a radio like it." That's the Difference. Slicker than the surface ofa CD, their funk-laden sound won't make you miss a dance step from shock. Then there's "pop" as in Jolt Cola. The kind that makes you want to run a few laps around the block and go play on the monkey bars and call somebody you don't know on the phone and propose to them. That's Frank. BUILDING The Law Quad Ever wonder why the Law Quad i 5 r OFF THE WALL I Vf EEKEAl ~4 SINCE 1989 4LMNN I I hate being sick (In response) I hate the sick (In response) I hate the haters of the sick Anyone who writes here but me is a jerk S... Contributions are now being taken for the "Heat the Graduate Library Fund." For more info, call 764- HEAT (In response) Amen 3KTC1AAIF£Z INN vtmRBORTOUGH TH AGE9, BEST 1%MS FOR CIVIL UNREST c61 SLAVE gy ' .m.E Al you need is the perfect . cut - ne * M.Mhe we Permanent Wave Special Reg. $40.00 NOW ONLY $30 with this ad Highlighting Special NOW ONLY $25 with this ad Expires April 8, 1989 ANN ARBOR 2738 Jackson Ave . 662-1696 Tanning Bed Specials Ann Arbor Store only YPSILANTI 448 Hewitt Rd. * 481-1080 Walk-Ins welcome Daily 9 to 9; Sat. 9 to 5 Eighteen Years ago... April 14, 1971 "The University executive officers hae asked the Regents to approve at their meeting Friday the largest tuition increase in several years, The Daily learned yesterday. "According to highly reliable sources, the executive officers' proposal... would raise tuition for out-of-state undergraduates from $1,800 to $2,140. "Tuition for in-state undergraduates would increase from $568 to $660 under the proposal." Forty Years ago... April 14, 1949 "A history-making anti-discrimination resolution was passed in a heated Student Legislature session last night. "...the resolution [would] refuse recognition to any future organization which prohibits membership because of race, religion or color..." "Supporting the motion Don Rothschild charged that "As representatives of the students, we can't endorse University recognition of groups which have discriminatory clauses." Items in the Weekend Almanac are culled from past issues of the Daily on this date in history. All articles are taken from Daily files which are open to public review in the Daily's library. i Y A1 Ai 4nn Arbor Civic Theatre ,MnStreet Productions A Presents With the Support of the Michigan Council for the Arts It s lonely in the Grad, but law sch PARTHENO JIstalv FINE GREEK FOOD - GYROS &SHISH-KA-BOBSANDWIC- " MOUSAKA . PASTITSIO -DOLMADES " SPINACH PIE " GYROS PLATE " COMBINATION PLATE -'LAMB CHOPS Liquor - Beer - Table Service After 5 p.m. Complete Carry-out Service 226 S. Main (at Liberty), A New Extended I' WASHINC CONGRATU GRADUATIN( COMMENCEMENT D/ 'we downtown restaw it 's potential to b Ann arbor s FOR RESERVATIONS 114 E. WASHINGTON (MA _i fvc L-ru { "".£ Michoel. Owner I I It's funny, when you understand things. study you Why do people drive in parkways and park in driveways? Feeling good is simply a sign that you aren't paying attention (In response) //uh? '''S To B-school or not to B-school, that is the question Ig~q , U The House of Blue Leaves A bizarre tale of love, jealousy & insanity on the day the Pope came to blew York. By John Guare Directed by Anne Kolaczkowski Magee At 8 pm April 6, 7, 8 13, 14, 15, and 20, 21, 22, 1989 1035 S. Main Street Tickets $5.00 * Two-For-One on Thurys For information call 662.7282. SMW CHINESE RESTAURANT t . ".I WE DELIVER AFTER 5 P.M.* "$6 min $1 charge, limited delivery area. 668-2744 carry-out/dine-in/ delivery 707 Packard (near State St.) SPECIALIZING IN HUNAN AND SZECHUAN CUISINE FOOD... 8 out of 10 SERVICE-- 10 out of 10 ATMOSPH ERE--- 8 out of 10 - by Ann Arbor News I { r . PAGE 16 WEEKEND/ APRIL 14 1989 PWEEKEND/.APRIL 14;1989