OPINION 4 Page 6 The Michigan Daily Thursday, June 9, 1983 The Michigan Daily Vol. XCIl, No. 14-S 93 Years of Editorial Freedom Managed and Edited by students of The University of Michigan Editorials represent a majority opinion of the Daily Editorial Board Court costs rub salt in wound UING THE government is an arduous and time consuming process. In the case of the Liuzzo family, their defeat last week in a celebrated $2 million dollar lawsuit against the FBI means over $160,006 in court charges and seven years of fighting in vain. If $160,000 sounds like a lot of money, it is merely a reflection of the expense involved when the government of the United States is brought to court to stand liable for its actions. Within the $160,000 dollars owed are $100,000 of cost incurred by the government in their defense case which the Liuzzos, as the losers in the case, must pay. Monday, the family filed a motion with a federal judge to force the government to pay for their own court costs. In the interest of respon- sible government it is a motion that should be granted. Sinclair ( QK. WE'VE GiOT A PmuflNVQtON-OUR L4AJPS. I VANTf0WAll TOLQcOJ -= :tFORE XThEW 1SS R TEIma~s1 ~ ~'H ~ J o~ ri~ps . t i a. LAD I I I Too often the only means of redress against the government is through the courts. By making the process of suing the government excessively expensive and time consuming the government is unfairly protected from claims by those without the necessary funds.j B For gradua seem in the fewer more them Busine med u years the '80 surpas their p do as w Buti weigh3 tly bec conditi well" climbi Behi gradua hear a you too to a lad Redefining'doing-well' Oddly enough, this is less true are doing this both out of in the '80s - for all the rough necessity and because of the y Sandy Close times - than in previous greater value they now place on decades. Consider these trends: the kind of work they do, the First, more people are actively people they live and work with, those who have recently searching out their own options and the need to act in sync with ated the prospects may rather than obtaining them their beliefs. Once these quality- much bleaker than they did through credentials. The number of-life concerns were considered past. There are not only of self-employed people in the a luxury that meant sacrificing job ladders around but business world, especially status and financial success. Not people trying to clamber on women, is soaring, as are the any more. Even people on the and at higher costs. number of artists, musicians, in- fast track go to great lengths to ess Week magazine sum- ventors and people doing com- fit these concerns into their lives. p the implications several munity or religious work. At the The message of all this? For ago: Most young people in same time, they are generating a those who know what they want 0s can no longer hope to vast array of cooperative ven- and are on track to get it, "more s the standard of living tures, small businesses and other power to you." For those who arents achieved, or even to innovative living and working slipped off the ladder or never well. arrangements. had access to it, "don't be afraid if your anxieties now out- In contrast to the lone in- to take zig-zags." The multiple your expectations, it's par- dividual scrambling up the lad- options you find moving sideways ause for so long we've been der, the driving force behind may take you as far as the single oned to think of "doing these ventures is people hooking ladder that moves straight up. as meaning only one thing: up with people like themselves, The world today belongs to those ng one's way to the top. pooling their resources to pursue who can innovate with their lives. nd the well-wishes of things they do well that fill a ation ceremonies, you can social need. Futurists have called thinly veiled warning: "If this trend the shift from the "me" Close wrote this article for the don't hurry up and get on- to the "we" decade. Pcicws evi e r ider, life will pass you by." Second, more and more people I 4 I The Liuzzos expect to have difficulty raising the $60,000 they have incurred so far in court costs and have not determined how they will fund their appeal should they make one. Adding the burden of the defense's expenses only serves to rub salt in an already very sore wound. "ARGAINING CHIPS" ~~ / f t' !+J\' ~ I LETTERS TO THE DAILY: Let's discard draft registration is needed to maintain it. Never- he may be imprisoned with mur- To the Daily: theless, this program continues derers for disobeying a law that Prosecution of Daniel Rutt for to alienate millions of our most might lead him to kill others is failing to register for the draft thoughtful adults and future the ultimate irony. ("Hearings begin for registration leaders. Draft registration has inverted resister", Daily, June 2, 1983) is Mr. Rutt, whose conscience our most sacred ideals. Let's pointless and divisive. will not allow him to kill another, discard it, and dismiss penalties The U.S. Army enlisted 104% of should be praised, not threatened for non-registrants. its quota last year by its own with prosecution, jail, and fines reckoning, dispelling any for not supporting the Army's - Robert M. Levine lingering claim that registration . Selective Service System. That June 7, 1983 4 4