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mer President Gerald Ford
has undoubtedly left the big-
gest mark on the University. The man
has a library and an entire school
named after him.
A more personal legacy, though
can be found at the fraternity Delta
Kappa Epsilon. When Ford wasn't
studying for a dual-degree in political
science and economics or playingcen-
ter and linebacker for the Wolverines,
he could be found at the DKE house at'
1912 Geddes.
While he was an active member
in DKE, Ford covered part of the
cost of school by washing dish-
es at the fraternity house in
exchange for room and board.
Ford's involvement with
DKE didn't end when he grad-
uated. In a place called "The
Shant" at 611 East Williams
Street, DKE has accumulated a
large cache of Ford related fra-
ternity memorabilia. Inside the
display, are pictures of Ford out-
side the fraternity house, a wood
carving he and his pledge broth-
ers made, and letters of support and
encouragementto a number of pledge
classes.
In a letter to the DKE pledge class
of Fall 1987: "It is no coincidence
that three Presidents of the Unit-
ed States have been Dekes and
that our flag was flown with
the Stars and Stripes on the
first expedition to the North Pole
and the first manned landing on the
moon. The individual qualities that
DKE seeks have certainly withstood
the test of time and served us all in
good stead."
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Before he went crazy and started sendin
bombs to universities, Ted Kaczynski (a.k.
The Unabomber) was one of the brightes
mathematicians at the University of Michigan.
Before he went crazy and started send
ing bombs to universities, Ted Kaczynski (Th
Unabomber) was one of the brightest mathemat
cians at the University of Michigan.
Kaczynski came to Michigan in 1962 to
earn his masters, and eventually his doc-
torate, in mathematics. While here, he
received the University's Sumner B. Myers
Prize, which is awarded to the best Ph.D. dis-
sertation of the year. The dissertation, titled
"Boundary Functions," is listed on a plaque
of Myers prize winners in East Hall. The work
Kaczynski published while here was on the cut-
ting edge of mathematics for the time.
"I would guess that maybe 10 or 12 people i
the country understood or appreciated it," Math
ematics Prof. Maxwell O. Reade, who was onKac
zynski's dissertation committee, told The Ne'
York Times in 1996.
The future Unabomber was also worked her
as a graduate student instructor, and was evalu
ated by his students as merely average, and in on
case, incompetent. Evidently, he spent most of h
time focused on his own research, primarily sol
ing difficult math theorems.
The five years spent on campus were miserab
for Kaczynski, who now resides in a super-max
mum security prison in Colorado.
"My memories of the University of Michiga
are NOT pleasant," Kaczynski wrote in a letter t
a Daily reporter in 2006.
.g According to Kaczynski, his professors rarely
a came to class prepared, arid even if they did, they
st couldn't even figure out the problems they had
assigned.
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e his professors stayed with him - 10 of the 16
i- bombs he sent during his Unabomber spree were
to institutes of higher education.
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"I would guess that maybe 10 or 12 peo-
ple in the country understood or
appreciated it."
-former Mathematics Prof Maxwell
0. Reade about Kaczynski's award
winning dissertation.
"It is no coincidence that three Presidents of the
United States have been Dekes and that our flag was
flown with the Stars and Stripes on the first expedi-
tion to the North Pole and the first manned landing
on the moon." -Ford, in a letter to DKE pledges
William AYERS
Arthur MILLER
By MIKE DOLSEN
Daily StaffReporter
ILLUSTRATIONS RY ALLISON GHAMAN/Dily
The author of "The Crucible"
and "Death of a Salesman"
was first recognized at the
University with the Hopwood
Awards he won for the plays "No
Vilin" in 1936 and "Honiors at
Dawn" in.1937. -
.Before Arthur Miller was on
his way to becoming the pre-
eminent American playwright,
Excerpt from "You Simply Must Go To College" in an 1938 issue of The Gargoyle
Really, we college people are the pick of the crop. Whatever these reformers say about
education being all wet is just so much melonwater and anybody will agree. Education
is fitting us for life and already we are making our influence felt even before we have
received our diplomas, and everybody knows, that the full brunt of our influence isn't
supposed to be felt until after we have our diplomas well in hand..
Inshort, thewaywe college people are goingto raisethe standards of conduct andthought
is already apparent. It will not be long before the United Press will say, "As Ann Arbor
Goes, So Goes the Nation." That's how important each and every one of us light beacons
are and the best way to prove it is to examine our well-lit community. -
Everybody knows that the only first-class indication of the extent of a civilization is the
home. Even Mr. Landon acutely remarked, "Everywhere I go in America I see people liv-
ing together in families, " so you see I'm not alone in my opinion. We must look to the
home, and in this case, the Ann Arbor student's room. It will show how the light of learn-
ing has illuminated such a vast city as ours. Buy since we can't properly enter any house,
come with me as we look for a room. That is, make believe you actually want to live in
Ann Arbor as many college people already do.
William Ayers -
the man who
the McCain
campaign would have had
sink Obama's candidacy -
garnered most his anti-es-
tablishment fame from his
involvement with the mili-
tant Weathermen in1968
and 1969.
Although his radical
leftism hadn't yet reached
the point of bombing pub-
lic buildings, Ayers was
already getting in trouble
with the law as an under-
grad at the University.
Tn notna b Is
two-part series, the most
distressing is how Ayers
spent his birthday in jail.
On that day, he and seven
other cellmates were put
into a tiny room with "no
toilet and absolute mini-
mum of ventilation" for
two days simply because
one of Ayers' cellmates
tried to make a little hot
chocolate.
The Universit has had a slew of famous
alumni - the man who voice Darth Vader and Mufasa
from "The Lion King," a modern-day Charlie's Angel, a
president, a famed playwright, several notorious murders.
Traces of these four illustrious alumni still survive on cam-
pus today, but rather than namesake libraries or theatres,
it's the smaller artifacts that reveal what these alumni were
like in their formative days at the University.
in vctoer aes
Ayers and 38
others par-
ticipated in a
sit-in at the
Ann Arbor
Draft Board.
A week later,r
they were
found gauilty
of trespassingt
and eventual-
ly sentenced to
15 days in jail.
Five days after
Ayers was released,
he wrote a two-part3
opinion article in The
Michigan Daily about his
experience in prison.
Among many reveal- N.,
ing anecdotes in the
Excerpt from All-American jail, part l:
I don't mind terribly much that I can't get books, because I don't think
I'll be able to do much reading anyway. I thought that being locked into a
quiet, unstimulating place would help me catch up on some work: actu-
ally, reading is very difficult and I've found that this place is most con-
ducive to sitting on the steel bench and dumbly contemplating the floor
(which is what most people do).
I was a bit hesitant at first to talk with the other prisoners about why I
was in, because I expected that there would be hostility towards an anti-
war or anti-draft position. But I decided that it would be stupid to keep
saying that I was in for trespassing (which is legally correct), because
that kind of becomes an admission that my position is weak or that oth-
ers don't understand and feel oppressed by the same things I do.
When I started talking about it I was amazed at how many people were
not only open to talk about the war and the draft, but seemed actually
pleased to be able to tell what their experiences had been and what-they
were going to do. One young guy was particularly articulate in telling
about how they'd been trying to draft him and how he'd been dodging it.
He's planning to refuse induction because he doesn't like "what's going
on over there."
The only open hostility has been from the police. One of the turnkeys
(jailers) has come down to our cell a number of times and, with a smile,
has sarcastically asked the other people in the cell, "Well, you learning
anything from these college boys?" A hillbilly kid from Ypsilanti shut
him up yesterday when he replied, "Yeah. I'm learning how to dodge a
draft."
SEE PAGE 6B FOR PART 2 IN FULL.
though, he was interested in pur-
suing a career in journalism. Dur-
ing his freshman and sophomore
year, Miller was a reporter for
The Michigan Daily and eventu-
ally became a night editor in his
junior year.
While working for the Daily,
Miller developed his liberal politi-
cal ideology covering events like
the United Auto Workers' union-
ization efforts in Detroit and Flint.
But Miller soon realized that
fact-based writing didn't really do
it for him.
"He said he stopped writing
for the Daily because he didn't
like sticking to the facts," English
and Theatre Prof. Enoch Brater
told the Daily after Miller died in
2005. "He much preferred making
things up. The rest, you know, is
history."
Late in college, Miller changed
his major from journalism to Eng-
lish and quit the Daily to write for
campus's satirical magazine The
Gargoyle, which provided Miller
a more fiction-focused outlet for
his writingtalents.