Surveying
the
crowd

gathered in Hutchins Hall at
the University of Michigan
Tuesday afternoon, the first
thing Justice Albie Sachs asked
of the more than 100 attendees
was that they sit down.

“It’s
wonderful
and
it’s

despairing to see so many
people standing — puts a lot
of pressure on the speaker,”
he
said,
referring
to
the

dozens of students, professors
and
University
staff
who

were unable to find seats
at the Law School’s 2018
William W. Bishop Lecture in
International Law.

The annual Bishop Lecture

has
previously
featured

Mary Robinson, the former
president of Ireland, and Judge

Navi Pillay, the former United
Nations High Commissioner
on Human Rights.

Sachs, a native of South

Africa,
was
a
freedom

fighter in the anti-apartheid
movement and a former judge
on the country’s constitutional
court. As a law student in the
1950s, Sachs joined the African
National Congress and began
advocacy work to combat the
racist statutes of apartheid.

He was first arrested at

17 years old for violating
segregation laws. When the
judge found out how old he
was, Sachs was released into
his mother’s custody.

“Which was a big letdown,”

Sachs joked. “I wanted to be a
revolutionary hero.”

Sachs was later raided by

the security police and placed
in solitary confinement for
168 days without trial. He
went into exile in 1966. Two

decades later, while living in
Mozambique, South African
government forces attempted
to assassinate him with a car
bomb.

The explosives were planted

on the wrong side of his
vehicle, and Sachs survived
but lost his right arm and

went blind in one eye. Sachs
said while he was recovering
from the attack, he received
a note from his allies in the
anti-apartheid movement that
read, “Don’t worry, comrade
Albie, we will avenge you.”

Sachs rejected an eye-for-

an-eye mentality.

“What kind of world will

it be if everyone is blind and
without arms?” Sachs said. “If
we get democracy, if we get
the rule of law, that will be my
soft vengeance.”

Included in the title of a

1991 book he wrote about his
recovery from the attack as
well as a documentary about
his
life,
“soft
vengeance”

signals retaliation based not
on retribution, but success.
Sachs said putting an end
to the oppression he spent

his life fighting was his “soft
vengeance.”

“What was the one good

thing
apartheid
did?”

Sachs said. “It created anti-
apartheid. And it was because
of apartheid I met Nelson
Mandela.”

In 1990, the South African

government yielded and the
apartheid
state
collapsed.

The country’s first national
multiracial
elections
were

held in 1994 and Mandela
was elected president. He
appointed Sachs to one of the
11 seats on the Constitutional
Court, South Africa’s version
of the Supreme Court. During
Sachs’s tenure on the bench,
the court abolished the death
penalty and overturned laws
criminalizing homosexuality.

Sachs
advocated
heavily

for the inclusion of a bill of
rights in South Africa’s new
constitution
and
argued

that the document should
include rights to housing,
water, health care and a clean
environment.

Nausiza Palawzo, a student

at
Washtenaw
Community

College, said she appreciated
Sachs’s discussion of Ubuntu
philosophy,
an
idea
in

southern Africa that roughly
translates to a belief that all
people are connected to one
another.

“I think that’s the way to go,

just recognizing each other as
human beings,” Palawzo said.
“In Western society, people
can focus a little bit excessively
on individualism.”

Caroline
Kim,
assistant

director of the Program on
Intergroup Relations, lived in
South Africa for five years. She
said having Sachs speak at the
University was an “incredible
honor.”

“This
was
absolutely

surreal,” she said. “I was just
in South Africa last week and
just having gotten back, it’s
totally surreal.”

The University of Michigan

set the stage for two Hollywood
personalities on Tuesday as
students frantically traced the
stars via social media. Steve
Carell, famed movie actor and
television star, was spotted
on a campus tour with his
daughter. “Star Trek” actor
Zachary Quinto was also seen
on campus purchasing a mid-
day coffee at Starbucks on
State Street.

The
celebrity
sightings

stirred up social media activity

with
photos
corroborating

their
campus
appearance.

Some tweets captured Carell
walking
into
the
Student

Activities Building to meet the
tour and standing outside in a
black baseball cap, black coat
and dark sunglasses.

According
to
WMTV

Channel
15
in
Madison,

Wis., Carell visited in the
University
of
Wisconsin-

Madison on Monday prior to
his appearance in Ann Arbor.
Carell is best known for his
role in the TV show, “The
Office” and movies including
the “Despicable Me” series and
“Crazy, Stupid, Love”.

LSA
sophomore
Rebecca

Bernstein saw Carell and his
family checking out of the
Graduate
Hotel
on
Huron

Street. While excited about his
presence on campus, she was
concerned about his celebrity
status as he roamed campus
for personal reasons.

“It was pretty cool to see a

celebrity on campus, especially
one who is so beloved by our
generation,” Bernstein said.
“I did feel bad for him because
I
could
not
imagine
him

simply trying to enjoy family
time while being stalked by
thousands of students.”

LSA sophomore Ilana Char

also saw Carell on Tuesday.

“I just hope his daughter

had a good tour and good luck
to her as she starts the college
process,” Char said.

While social media stirred

about the presence of Carell
on
campus,
Engineering

sophomore
Claire
Stemper

snapped a discrete photo of
another
celebrity,
Zachary

Quinto. Quinto most notably
played Spock in “Star Trek.”

“We made eye contact once,

but I don’t think he wanted
to be bothered so I didn’t say
anything, just stared a bit,”
Stemper said. “I was definitely
starstruck.”

March 28, 1981 (vol. 91, iss.

144, Page 1)

By David Crawford

Poised with one knee on a

chair, the phone receiver resting
on her shoulder, she looks into
the horizon. A floodlight hung at
the left lightens the shadows on
her naked body.

Half an hour later, she is in the

same position. After the students
finish drawing, she alks off the
stage and reaches for her robe.
Her job as a model for Figure
Drawing 102 is over for a while.

To some, the idea of model-

ing nude is risque, but for most
people enrolled in figure drawing
classes “it’s nothing,” said one
student.

Some students admitted they

were embarrassed the first time
they saw a naked model. Senior
American Studies Major Corinne
Coen recalled that at the first
drawing session, the model took

off his clothes before the class’
professor arrived. Coen said she
was shocked and intimidated
because “I didn’t know what to
draw.”

“Everyone turns red, but the

models aren’t embarrassed,” said
freshwoman art student Amy
Ewald.

Sophomore Art student Robin

Kandel explained that after a
time, “you’re not viewing (the
model) as a sexual thing. The
model becomes an object and
you concentrate on your work.”

According to Art School Dean

George Bayliss, using nude mod-
els instead of

clothed ones is “an essential

thing to do. Reference points
have to be seen.”

Administrative Assistant

Pat St. George, who hires and
schedules models, emphasized
that a “professional” approach
is taken in nude modeling. On
the stage, she explained, the

model is a figure for the artist to
draw, but in the five-minute rest
period between poses, the model
“becomes himself again.”

Since administrative guide-

lines state that the model
should be undressed only when
necessary, the model is required
to wear a fulhlength robe, she
added.

According to Art Prof. Julia

Andrews, the objective of Figure
Drawing (one of four art- school
prerequisite courses for upper-
level classes) is for students “to
learn about the proportion of the
human body, how it moves and
articulates, and how to transpose
a moving three-dimensional
form which exists in space to a
two-dimensional flat surface.”

“It’s hard to draw the clothed

form,”

Andrews explained, because it

is difficult to see “the structure
and mechanics of the body.”

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“What kind of
world will it be
if everyone is

blind and without

arms? If we get
demcoracy... that
will be my soft

vengeance.”