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The Michigan Daily
Vol. XCII, No. 25-S
Ninety-two Years of Editorial Freedom
Edited and managed by students
at the University of Michigan
Reversig trends
STATE AND FEDERAL support for higher
education has been on the decline for the
last several years. Yet far from inducing a
cohesive student movement to combat this
trend, the cuts have only drawn isolated weak
cries of protest.
Now student leaders are starting to get their
act together. At a conference held at Eastern
Michigan University, student leaders from
around the state met to discuss how students
can reverse the aid-cutting trend.
One of the most important points made at the
conference, however, was that those in higher
education can no longer sit back and wait for
funds to arrive. This is the era of the special in-
terest group. Unless students and ad-
ministrators fight for their money, they will get
crowded out by less important, but more active
groups.
The huge cuts in state support leveled at this
university (over $11 million), along with
similar cuts at other colleges throughout the
state, clearly demonstrate that the voice of
higher education is not speaking loudly enough
in Lansing.
The conference at EMU provided a good op-
portunity for student leaders to exchange ideas.
But now that the leaders have returned to their
respective schools, the cooperation must not
end. A cohesive group of student leaders now
should try to return support for education to the
state's high-priority list.

Wednesday, June 9, 1982

The Michigan Daily

Once again, the
U.N. gets no respect

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By D.B. Christy

A United Nations observation
post, somewhere along the
Lebanese border ...
"Good morning, Corporal.
Beautiful day."
"Beautiful day for D-day, sir."
"D-day was almost forty years
ago."
"That's what you think. Take a
look out there."
"Your eyes are better than
mine, Corporal."
"Tanks - a lot, sir."
"You're very welcome, Cor-
poral, but all I see is a cloud of
dust and a streak of light."
"It sure as hell ain't the Lone
Ranger, sir."
"By golly, you're right, I'd
recognize those blue stars
anywhere."
"It ain't the Dallas Cowboys
either, sir."
"That's the Israeli army,
soldier, What do you suppose
they're doing in Lebanon?"
"Maybe they ran out of feta
cheese."
"I'm going out to investigate."
"I'm going to enroll in Hebrew
school."
"We're supposed to keep the
peace, soldier."
"I intend to keep my peace,
sir."
"I intend to do my job."
"Motzah luck, Colonel."
The colonel, with more guts
than brains, marches out to the
advancing armored column. The
tank commander greets *him.

HA LT,
I SAY.
way..
"I knew you'd listen to
reason."
"Don't think you're getting off
light. I'm going to have to hit
you with the U.N.'s maximum
penalty. Hold out your wrist."
Once again, the U.N. has
proved it deserves all the respect
it gets. Clearly, this is just the
solution needed in the Falklands.
After all, Britain and Argentine
might just want to fight there
again someday. Old soldiers
never die, they just let the U.N.
tidy up the battlefield during
truces.
Christy is a senior in LSA.

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"Bless my yarmulke, if it isn't
the U.N. Peacekeeping Farce."
"That's Force."
"That's an opinion."
"Just what are you doing out
here?"
"Starting a war, what's it look
like?"
"I hope you have a good reason
for this."
"Sure we do. We're soldiers.
Starting wars is ourjob. We gotta
bring home the Begin somehow."
"That's atrocious. That's
abominable. I hate puns."
"Don't Menacham until you've
tried 'em."
"Anyway, I can't let you pass."
A turret swivels and a 75-mm
cannon aligns two inches from his
nose. "Since you put it that

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To the Daily:
On Friday, June 4, 1982, the
Daily exhibits a crisp Associated
Press photograph (Youth on
trial) who, the caption said, is a
defendant in California's Ventura
County Juvenile Court "charged
with three counts of arson and 14
misdemeanors involving petty
theft and property destruction."
Ever since the establishment of
the juvenile court system in the
earlier decades of this century,
the proceedings of juvenile courts
have been deemed confidential
and private. This is to protect the
children brought into such courts
who are not considered defendan-
ts, but, by and large, children in
need of special help. Their un- or
anti-social behavior, or their
abuse by adults, has been such as
to indicate that the state may
need to step in and act, inthe place
of parents who have not been able

to supply a child's needs.
What is the Daily providing for
its readers when it exhibits the
name and photograph of an ob-
viously troubled child? What is
the Daily's motives? I personally
can put the Daily in touch with
many worthy youth serving
projects and agencies here in Ann
Arbor which will provide the
Daily with really worthwhile,
civilized, and appealing
photographs of all kinds of
creative, useful, and meaningful
activities in which youth are in-
volved.
Perhaps the laws have been
changed so that photographs
such as the one the Daily has
chosen to display can be printed.
One picture is worth a thousand
words, especially when it is one
like this one which displays the
Daily's barbarism.
-William Phillips

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