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.”

