Monday, July 2,2012
The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com
Port Huron Statement mary were University students
- principally Ann Arbor resident
AlnHsber, who reconstituted
celebrates 50 years SDS in 1960, and Tom Hayden,
then-editor in thief of The Michi-
gan Daily and the manifesto's
Student protest whole society root and branch, main author.
from top to bottom, into a genu- When SDS members gathered
manifesto continues inely democratic society." for a convention at a United Auto
That notion of participatory Workers retreat in Port Huron,
to make impact democracy, as both a means Mich., on June 11, 1962 to draft
and an end, galvanized tens of the Statement, it had been a small
By ANDREW SCHULLMAN thousands of students to protest group with a few hundred mem-
Daily Staff Reporter nationwide. By the mid-1960s, bers and several chapters since
SDS had printed 60,000 copies 1960.
Before the winter iced over of the manifesto and was flour- But the group, headed by
Occupy Ann Arbor's encampment ishing on college campuses from Hayden, had more than a half-
in Liberty Plaza last October, a the University of Michigan to the century of radical socialist move-
small but sworn group of members University of Chicago to the Uni- ments, the burgeoning civil rights
gathered there for the local move- versity of Texas at Austin. and peace movements and a cur-
ment's third meeting. For an ach- Guiding a generation of stu- rent of intellectuals railing against
ingly deliberate two hours, they dents through a national protest what they saw as the post-war con-
ground out their decision-making movement, the principles codified' centration of power and wealth to
procedures, dwelling on even the in the Statement became not just rest on for inspiration.
hand signals used to approve or those of the movement but of the "When SDS came to write its
disapprove motions. young students' generation, the manifesto, it had all those ele-
But if the exercise was tedi- historian Kirkpatrick Sale wrote ments in its backpack," Brick said.
um to some members, who filed in his book "SDS: The rise and "It's that long socialist heritage,
out before long, it was also the development of the Students for a the new critics, the intellectu-
embodiment of the principles out- Democratic Society." als and the civil rights and peace
lined in the Students for a Demo- "The Port Huron Statement movements - all of that together
cratic Society's manifesto, The so thoroughly plumbed and provided the stimulus and the
Port Huron Statement. The mani- analyzed the conditions of mid- clues for SDS for the manifesto."
festo, which turned 50on June 15, century American society, and What emerged from the con-
called to action the most active so successfully captured and vention on June 15, 1962 was a
generation of student protestors shaped the spirit of the new stu- 70-page agenda for action that
through what its authors termed dent mood, that it became not at once waxed disenchanted and
"participatory democracy." only a statement of principles for professed hope through the par-
"They viewed it as an agenda for the few hundred students around - ticipatory democracy of grassroots
action, and participatory democ- SDS, not only a political expres- movements aimed at overturning
racy was both their goal and their sion for the hundreds who were the social order from below.
message," said History Prof. How- to come into the organization in While Haber and Hayden
ard Brick. "They wanted their own succeeding years, but even more a drove to Washington after the
organizations and the movements summary of beliefs of the student conference hoping they could
that they joined to be models of generations as a whole," Kirkpat- seize President John F. Ken-
participatory democracy and at rick wrote. nedy's attention with the State-
the same time aim to change the Among the authors of that sum- ment, they never intended to ply
Monday, July 2. 2012
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the Statement through official
channels, Brick said.
" The whole Statement was
geared to the idea that they were
engaged in promoting social pro-
tests and grassroots movement to
change society, not that they were
goingtoget the ear ofthepresident
and getofficials to change things,"
Brick said. "It was mass movement
that they saw changing things, not
a benevolent leader."
In fact, one of the hallmarks
of the manifesto was that it saw
universities as pivotal hosts of the
insurgent social movements.
"We believe that the universi-
ties are an overlooked seat of influ-
ence (in pursuit of social change),"
the manifesto read. "They must
make debate and controversy, not
dull pedantic cant, the common
style for educational life. They
must consciously build a base
for their assault upon the loci of
power."
The Statement and its prin-
ciples still reverberate, even after
SDS dissolved due to internal frac-
tures in 1969.
Brick said Occupy Wall Street
and its local offshoots, the Arab
Spring and the student pro-
tests in Quebec, among others,
are similar to the protests car-
ried out in the 1960s by the New
Left - the collective name of the
activists who in the 1960s sought
a "new left" that fought for social
justice and equality.
"The Occupy movement, by
advocating dramatic social change
for the purposes of equality and
justice, has something of the spirit
of the old New Left, and its com-
mitments to democratic practice
resembles the New Left," he said.
what (higher education) is doing in
social media based on what Michi-
gan is doing."
The University has a wide array
of social media accounts, including
a Facebook, a Twitter, a Pinterest,
a Tumblr, an Instagram and a You-
Tube channel.
Miller has also been hosting
Spreecasts, or online seminars,
about social media in higher edu-
cation to discuss strategies with
other higher education profession-
als.
Miller said her office is cur-
rently in the process of overhaul-
ing the University's YouTube
channel and is working on several
other major projects that should
come to fruition in the near
future.
"There is so much that you'll
see coming out of the UMSocial
office," Miller said.
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By LIZ NAGLE and
MATT SLOVIN
Daily Sports Writer and
Daily Sports Editor
On Wednesday, the University
athletic department announced
that Erik Bakich will be the 19th
Michigan baseball head coach in
the program's history, following a
nationwide search that began when
former coach Rich Maloney and the
Wolverines parted ways on May 22.
Bakich, 34, is widely regarded as
one of the brightest young minds in
college baseball, as well as one of its
strongest recruiters. He will leave
Maryland after three seasons as
head coach. The Terrapins failed to
qualify for the NCAA Tournament
in each.
Bakich, who is the youngest head
coach among BCS schools, expects
his youth to help him, especially on
the recruiting trail.
"I've been very fortunate to get
an early start to a coaching career
and get opportunities at a very
high level, spending 11 years in the
ACC and the SEC," Bakich told The
Michigan Daily on Thursday. "And
not many people can say they've
had those opportunities."
Prior to Maryland, Bakich served
as an assistant coach for seven sea-
sons at Vanderbilt, under esteemed
head coach Tim Corbin. As the hit-
ting coach for the Commodores,
Bakich helped Vanderbilt rise to
prominence, where it advanced to
the NCAA Tournament five times
during his time in Nashville.
"(Bakich) will transition well,"
Corbin said in an exclusive inter-
view with The Michigan Daily.
"He fits my image of what a coach
at Michigan is, and that is a blue-
collar personality, but one that
respects the values of the student-
athlete and understands that aca-
demics (are a) premium, much like
they are here atVanderbilt"
Known as a tireless recruiter,
Bakich emphasized how much easi-
er it is to sell a recruit on a program
that has sound academics. Bakich
agreed with Corbin that it's no coin-
cidence his three stops have all been.
solid academic institutions.
"I've been very fortunate to
be at great institutions, and I feel
like those institutions have really
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idea that University students won't
want to tarnish the University's
reputation.
Davis added that she and Mill-
er agreed students should feel
free to tweet about their con-
cerns and how to improve cam-
pus life.
LSA senior Mark Chou tweeted
for the account last week. Like
Davis, he said what he enjoyed
most was the power of the account
to engage with individuals about
the University.
Chou tweeted often about the
Development Summer Intern-
ship Program, which he is a par-
ticipant of. Tweeting about D-SIP
even got the attention of Athletic
Director David Brandon.
So far, the account has reached
more than 580 followers in just
one week of existence. Miller said
she attributes the success to the
talent behind the account.
"Taylor and Mark have both
been incredible," Miller said.
"Honestly, I couldn't have asked -
or prayed - for better people. But
it kind of proves this point I have
- we talk about being (the) leaders
and best,, and our students really
are the leaders and best."
Miller said student demand
to tweet on the account is high.
She currently encourages anyone
who's interested in tweeting on the
account to direct message or tweet
@UmichStudents.
Business junior Maggie Chang
will be taking the reins of the
account this week. Chang, a blog-
ger on The Podium - The Michi-
gan Daily's opinion blog - -is
currently a social media intern for
the sports apparel company Under
Armour.
Miller noted that there has'been
a "visible surge" in the social media
presence in many of the Universi-
ty's specific units and departments
as well.
Though she declined taking full
credit for this so-called surge in
the University's social media exis-
tence, she did acknowledge that
her new post may have sent a mes-
sage to the University's many sub-
units.
Miller added that with the
help of people like Davis working
toward the same goal, she intends
to make the University a leader in
social media for higher education
institutions.
"We want to be the leader on
these social media sites," Davis
said. "We want everyone to (see)
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helped with the recruiting process,"
Bakich said. "And the highlight of
that will be here at Michigan and
with all the tremendous assets that
this university has academically
and athletically.
"Our focus is always going to be
on recruiting. There are some very
good players that are committed
to be here this fall. There are a few
that are committed to be here the
following fall. We're certainly going
to identify those guys and start a
relationship with them with our
new coaching staff immediately."
The new coach stressed that the
Michigan job is quite the "opportu-
nity" for him and went on to state
his lofty goals for the program,
which has struggled mightily in
recent seasons.
"Being in the ACC and the SEC,
I've been able to see some of the
best programs and the best teams
and how they recruit and how they
build a program and how they build
a team," Bakich said. "Coming to
the Big Ten, I think there's oppor-
tunity to win championships. And
we're certainly going to try to use
the blueprints of places that I've
had the opportunity to be in the
past, build the program, develop
our players with the recruiting and
development approach and bring
championships back to Michigan."
Bakich played collegiately at East
Carolina.
"For us, the focus is always
going to be the process orientated
approach on everybody getting bet-
ter every single day and improving,
even if it's one percent, every single
day in striving to reach whatever
their maximum potential is in all
areas of their life," Bakich said.
One member of Bakich's Mary-
land staff, pitching coach Sean
Kenny, is an Ann Arbor native.
Though the University's job board
lists an opening for an assistant
coach as well, it hasn't yet been
announced whether Kenny, with
his local ties, might follow Bakich
to Michigan. The Michigan staff
already includes assistant Wayne
Welton and pitching coach Steve
Merriman.
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