Page 4 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, April 4, 1990 04t1w LrEIdl n aiI1 EDITED AND MANAGED BY STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 420 Maynard Street Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 ARTS NEWS OPINION 763 0379 764 0552 747 2814 PHOTO SPORTS WEEKEND 764 0552 747 3336 747 4630 Unsigned editorials represent a majority of the Daily's Editorial Board. All other cartoons, signed articles, and letters do not necessarily represent the opinion of the Daily. MSA elections CC has had its chance; time to vote for ACTION TODAY, STUDENTS WILL AGAIN sion. Her party is made up of students cast theik votes in a Michigan Student involved in MSA as well as students Assembly election, in hopes of choos- active in other groups. ing leaders who can effectively address Action has promised to focus on students' concerns. The same was the students, rather than on petty politics case last year, when students re- within MSA. sponded to MSA's ineffectiveness by Action has promised to oppose a electing a president and many repmsen- University code of non-academic con- tatives from the Conservative Coali- duct, which would allow the adminis- tion. tration to control students' personal But many of the problems facing lives. In the past year, the CC has pub- students a year ago have only gotten licly opposed a code, but has done worse in the past year, so now students nothing to block University attempts to must again look to new and different implement one. leaders. The reason is that the Conser- Action has promised to oppose a vative Coalition, which beat out three University-controlled police force, other parties in last year's election, has which would be responsible to the been unable to change MSA into a administration and not to the citizens of body which -can succeed in winning Ann Arbor. Van Valey and other mem- concessions for students. bers of Action lobbied in Lansing last Tuition, which rose by double-digit week, and convinced a House commit- percentages last year, is still running tee to delay their vote on such a pro- rampant; complete University control posal. of students' personal lives is edging 0 Action has promised to push for ever closer to reality; and student inde- University-wide recycling, which pendence has been rejected by the Con- would help reduce the amount of waste servative Coalition, which asked the produced at the University. University administration to iterfere in 0 Action has promised to oppose a student affairs after it botched last Student Group Bill of Rights, which :term's MSA election. would allow groups to discriminate yet But most importantly, MSA has de- still receive student funding. CC has generated further into a body which initiated and supported the proposal. cares more about political infighting Action has promised to listen to and than about fighting for the students it stand up for students' concerns, in- represents. cluding increased lighting on and off To see what little progress MSA has campus and meal credit reform. made in one year, all one has to do is Most importaptly, Action has prom- look at CC's campaign posters: CC ised to be the voice students have claims responsibility for a meal credit lacked for the past year. reform plan that was initiated by the MSA has been ineffective, and Residence Hall Association. That's it' change is sorely needed.fAction is the In one year, the best the party could do best choice for students who wish to was steal someone else's proposal. It is see MSA return to a government which clear that MSA needs change. stands up for their needs. Students No other party will more effectively should guard against voting for the make that change than Action, which other two parties, because splitting 1s led by LSA sophomore and presi- votes among CC's challengers will dential candidate Jennifer Van Valey. only ensure another CC victory. Van Valey currently serves as chair That's the last thing students need; of MSA's Women's Issues Commis- VOTE ACTION! Publications Board TPI-4' -J ANN f pis r r ._.. --- . ", ' r f , r ..j U+ V r-" _ . UNCM t 1 $ L6\W% Daily coverage poor 'Yes' on Bill of Rights Clarification of UPSAO0 To the Daily: I just wanted to say thanks for printing that sensational photo of me taken a at Monday's rally for Lesbian and Gay Men's Awareness Week (3/27'90). I never knew I looked so good in leather and I've gotten a lot of compliments. Maybe I'll order some 8 x 10 glossies? But where was the article about the rally? Is the Daily a paper for students and the University community or is it a New York Post wannabe? What kind of pewspaper will print a photo of a man dancing in a leather jacket, tank-top, and a chain, but won't mention the speak- ers, the participants, or the organizers of a significant rally? It makes me angry that several hundred people can attend and support an important hour--long rally and the Daily lets it go unnoticed while piles and piles of newspa- per sit on the Diag for a day and it gets front page coverage. Speakers at the rally included the President of Rackham Student Government, a city councilmember, a can- didate for city council, and a representative from Lesbian and Gay Law Students. These speakers had some very important things to say. Approximately one hundred people showed great courage by taking the risk of publicly coming out at the end of the rally in order to end our silence and in- visibility as lesbian, gay, and bisexual people. The Daily, unfortunately, missed all of this and by doing so contributed to the problems that Awareness Week is try- ing to address. Maybe the Daily thought that printing a photo of the host of the rally was enough. I say it is insulting and does a great disservice to the University commu- nity by trivializing and avoiding issues of great social importance. You would have been well advised to use that space for an article instead of a photograph. Let us hope the Daily gives better and more balanced coverage of cam- pus events in the future. David Horste Residential College senior To the Daily: I am rather disappointed in some of the recent publicity concerning the "Student Group Bill of Rights" ammendment to the MSA constitution which is up for vote April 4th and 5th. Some people have sug- gested that this will bring in groups like the Nazis and the KKK which MSA will then be forced to fund. That's nonsense. MSA doesn't have to fund anyone. The referendum only deals with recognition, and it is true that if any U of M students wanted to start such an offensive group, they could do it. Just like in the real, unprotected by MSA world, these groups are permitted to exist and demonstrate. As things now stand, if the political climate were to change, there is nothing to protect groups which are now in MSA's favor from being kicked out. For instance, a resolution was brought up to derecognize UCAR on the grounds of discrimination. (I might add that the pur- pose of this was not to derecognize the group, but to point out how silly the whole affair derecognizing CCF was). What will now protect UCAR from a white supremist bringing a great number of his/her friends into UCAR and voting themselves into power? Any attempt to keep them out would be "discrimination" by either race or political view. I support the right of UCAR to exist. And La- GROC. And CCF. To my knowledge no one has attempted to enter any of these groups with the purpose of sending them off in a direction different from the reason they exist. Butnall are vulnerable to it if the political climate of MSA does not fa- vor them, and allow them to fend off such attempts. Let a group determine the pur- pose for its existence, and support the ref- erendum. Tim Wagenmaker Rackham Graduate Student conference confusion To the Daily: This is my personal response to the story "Invitation to Communist sparks controversy in campus groups" (3/19/90). I never personally, or in false represen- tation of the Undergraduate Political Science Association, invited David NorthI* National Secretary of the Workers League, to the Undergraduate Conference. Everyone on the Conference Planning Committee was authorized to send letters of inquiry to anyone whom they would like to see participate in the conference. I informed Conference Committee Chair Lorne Baker in October that I was contact- ing Mr. North, and then-president Stacy Singer. I also sought the advice of Profes- sor Roman Szporluk, Chair of the depart- ment of Russian and East European stud- ies, and received a most positive response. The trouble began when the Workers' League accepted my letter of inquiry as an invitation, which it obviously was not. I placed the Workers' League accep- tance letter in Lorne Baker's mailbox on January 18. I heard nothing from him about it until the first week in March when he told me there was no room for Mr. North on the panel. In mid-February, I had sent a letter to Mr. North, which was not on University stationary, so that he could have more pre- cise information about the conference; This letter was clearly not an invitation ei- ther, but merely a "fact sheet." I also had no reason to think that Mr. North would not be allowed to speak. Indeed, many of the speakers on the panel were invited without the direct approval of the Confer, ence Committee, which had met only three times since September. Thomas Martin LSA sophomore Protect freedom; vote for. IN ADDITION TO THE MSA ELECT- ions, the three student seats on the Board for Student Publications will be up for election. One graduate student and two undergraduate students will win places on the Board for two-year terms. The Board for Student Publica- tions is a committee made up of stu- dents, faculty, and members of the pro- fessional media, which oversees the fi- nances of the Daily, the Michiganen- sian, and the Gargoyle. In the race for the graduate seat, first-year Law student Peter Mooney, the current graduate student on the Board, is facing Rackham sociology student Henry Park. Both Mooney and Park have served the Daily as Opinion Page editors and both would serve the Board well. However, Mooney, who has also worked as an Ann Arbor free- lance writer and a Daily news staffer, would be the much better Board mem- ber. Mooney has had experience on the Board and he understands the needs of the student publications better than his opponent. His integrity, honesty, abil- ity, and knowledge cannot be denied ; and the Daily urges all graduate stu- dents to vote for Peter Mooney.] Mooney, Panschar In the undergraduate election, two members of the Conservative Coalition are running for the Board on a platform which advocates editorial control over the Daily. David Macquera and Mark Hiller are representing the CC and their only competitor is Jonathan Paine, an independent. It is imperative that the CC candidates be defeated. For 100 years, the Daily has main- tained its editorial freedom to print whatever the staff and editors of the paper see fit. The Board, which meets monthly, only serves to manage the fi- nances of the three publications and not to shape editorial policy. If the CC members were to win their seats, they would try to infringe tipon the Daily's editorial freedom. Do not vote for them. Instead, vote for Martha Pan- schar. Panschar's name will not ap-, pear on the ballot and must be written in, but she is very capable of serving on the Board. Panschar understands the purpose of the Board and the needs of the publications and has been staging a write-in campaign. Vote for Peter Mooney and Martha Panschar. In bowling, you can have fun even if you stink By Dave Barry If you're looking for a sport that offers both of the Surgeon General's Two Recom- mended Key Elements of Athletic Activity, namely (1) rental shoes, and (2) beer, then you definitely want to take up bowling. I love to bowl. I even belong to a bowling team, the Pin Worms. How good are we? I don't wish to brag, but we happen to be ranked, in the World Bowling Association standings, under the heading "Severely Impaired." Modern science has been baffled in its efforts to predict what will happen to a given ball that had been released by a Pin Worm. The Strategic Air Command rou- tinely tracks our bowling balls on radar in case one of them threatens a major popula- tion center and has to be destroyed with missiles. But the thing is, we have fun. That's what I like about bowling: You can have fun even if you stink, unlike in, say, tennis. Every decade or so I attempt to play tennis, and it always consists of 37 seconds of actually hitting the ball, and two hours of yelling " Where did the ball go?" "Over that condo- minium!" etc. Whereas with bowling, once you let go of the ball, it's no longer your legal responsibility. They have these won- derful machines that find it for you and send it right back. Some of these machines can also keep score for you. In the Bowling way to the end of the lane without stopping. So on her last turn, she got up there, and her daddy put the ball down in front of her, and she pushed it with both hands. Nothing appeared to happen, but if you examined the ball with sensitive scientific instruments, you could determine that it was actually roll- ing. We all watched it anxiously. Time passed. The ball kept rolling. Neighboring bowlers stopped to watch. The ballkeptrolling. Spec- tators started drifting in off the street. TV news crews arrived. A half-dozen communist govern- ments fell. Still Madeline's ball kept rolling. Finally, incredibly, it reached the pins and, in the world's first live slow-motion replay, knocked them all down. Of course by then Madeline had children of her own, but it was still very elcit- ing. flails his way back to the ball-return tunnel where he sticks his head DOWN INTO THa HOLE, barking furiously, knowing that hij ball is in there somewhere, demanding that it be returned IMMEDIATELY, and then suddenly WHAM there it is, hitting Poncli directly in the face at approximately 4Q miles per hour, and HE COULD NOT BE -To tE.UfIcA'rlON l r C ,.r 't 1WVT I DENT TY!.l NA~ZI P-(*OES r - - S ----*.. For real bowling excitement, however, you can't beat Ponch, the bowling dog. I'm not making Ponch up; he holds the rank of German shepherd in the Miami Police Department, and he bowls in charity tournaments. He uses a special ramp built by his partner, K-9 Officer Bill Martin. Bill puts the ball on the ramp, then Ponch , 0 s-i ~ SI*t h e Mt 6wcg.ioft AN " Aihs R-eid "4 i7 ADDTDD Taa ;o rlX/VI? T(IVPT) to cPA h;e