Opinion
Page 6 Saturday, June 12, 1982 The Michigan Daily
The Michigan Daily JU-Cellar moves out;
Vol. XCII, No. 28-S
Ninety-two Years of EditorialFreedom
Edited and managed by student,
at the University of Michigan
Kelly takes the stand
AFTER A STORMY begin-
ning and a 12-year tenure in
the basement of the Michigan
Union, the University Cellar
R CW Orbookstore has closed and is
11 IwY o rI\ packing up its textbooks and No.
A MIDST TWO major wars and a presiden- 2 pencils to move out.
tial trip to Europe, the largest gathering of U ar obt reg tboth glad
and aad about leaving the Union e
anti-nuclear activists will take place in New - sad because the move will
York today. Although other news items mean an off campus location
threaten to overshadow the protest, the sheer away from beaten student paths
size of the rally will ensure that calls for (the corner of Liberty and
Division Streets), and glad
nuclear disarmament are not ignored. because it will be out from under
This peace rally is bound to cause some rum- the thumb of Union restrictions
blings in Congress, however, not only because and steep rent hikes. AFTER 12 YEARS in the Union the U-Cellar is moving out to a ne
of its size, but because of its content. No longer The creation of the U-Cellar location on the corner of Liberty and Division Streets.
is the peace movement a group of liberal ac- was prompted by student he could not remember the even- ts in his childhood --
tivists. Scattered among the crowd, you will see protests in 1969 in favor of a ts surrounding the April, 1981 assassination of Presidentt
University discount bookstore Bursley murders he is accused of Kennedy and the 1967 De
young and old, conservative and liberal, all because of high book prices at committing. race riots.
voicing the need for a reversal in the spiralling Kelly, testifying against the
stockpile of nuclear weapons. advice of his own attorney, said
The world cannot have such a concentrated The W eek he remembered nothing from the The student lob
effort toward greater nuclear weapon *nReviewtime he returned to his room the
without something going wrong in in daybefore the shootings until the HE ERA of high-poweret
technologies wtotsmtiggigwogi time he was arrested in his room I terest groups pressuring
a crisis situation. They call it a nuclear arms shortly after the incident. lobbying legislators in Lan
race, but the mere use of the word race implies private stores. In the end, the U- Kelly also testified that he and Washington began sev
that at some point there is an end - an Cellar's move was prompted by couldn't explain how the sawed- years ago. Now student lea
inevitable climax. disputes with Union management off shotgun found in his room got around the state have decide
Does that climax have to mean armageddon? over renovation fees and rent ,aonanalsfud hs tyaltl r wsig
g hikes initiated by Union Director room contained the name of arguing of their own.
More than 500,000 protesters are expected to Frank Ciancola which Cellar of- hallmates - including murder At a conference Ield at East
converge on the United Nations today to cast a ficials thought were exorbitant. victim Edward Siwik - was Michigan University, stud
resolute "no" to that question. Instead, they The U-Cellar was also restricted merely a way to remember leaders from various colle
suggest that among all the ideological and from selling profitable Michigan names of neighbors. around the state, including
political differences between the United States insignia items so as not to com- Later in the week, two medical University of Michigan, me
, hr soesrn hed'pete with the Michigan Union eprstsiidta el a discuss how students can reve
and the Soviet Union, there is one strong thread Shop.win not in comtrol of his actions at the recen trend sf w end sup
that binds the two nations together - survival. On June 21, the U-Cellar em- time of the shootings. for higher education.
barks on a freer, and perhaps "There is no doubt in my mind What they came up with was
i prosperous new beginning - if that the behavior (of Leo Kelly) "action plan" to mobilize stu
o r Ab o r students continue to show it sup- is psychotic, insane behavior," ts and sympathetic voters
Sport. psychiatrist E dwar d Nol pressure legislators for increa
- _ - - testified. Dr. Thomas Gunnings, in funding for colleges. With st
OT EVERYONE can make it to New York Kelly takes stand a clinical psychologist and and federal support of hig
j to participate in the huge anti-nuclear___ _____ _____ Michigan State University education on the declinetime
arms protest. But thousands around the coun- N A SURPRISE move this professor, said that Kelly's tell if the plan can generate,
try still have something to say about the arms week, Leo Kelly took the stand psychological disorders may action or if the lawmakers k
raceand .her is t . in his own defense, testifying that have been triggered by two even- on cutting
race and where it is taking this country.onctig
The huge throng that will not make it to New j., -. --H
York is undoubtedly several times larger than
the 500,000 expected to rally there. To ensure
that many more of the multitudes against
nuclear bombs are seen and heard, com- I
munities around the the country, including Ann
Arbor, are holding rallies coinciding with the fj//1
one in New York.
Tomorrow at noon a rally sponsored by local i
groups calling for reductions in nuclear1-_
weapons will be held at the Federal Building. e7
Student involvement in national issues has ,
been lagging on campus in recent years, but the
disarmament issue has reversed some of this =
apathy and helped revive Ann Arbor's proud
tradition of social activism. A strong turn-out of
students at today's rally could help demon-
strate that this generation cares about what -
happens to the next. As the poster asks: Arms
race or human race? _______
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