October 24, 1985
Eleven
demonstrators
protesting recruitment by
the
Central
Intelligence
Agency on campus, were
arrested yesterday in the
second day of protests in the
Student Activities Building.
A total of 26 demonstrators
were arrested in the two
days of CIA protests. Most of
those who were arrested are
University students.
Protesters
accused
the
agency of helping overthrow
legitimate governments in
Chile and Guatemala, as
well as helping in trying to
overthrow the Sandinista
government of Nicaragua.
They also say that the agency
has
helped
train
secret
police in South Africa as
well as “death squads” in El
Salvador.
Despite
the
protests,
Deborah Orr May, director
of the Career Planning and
Placement Office, said CIA
recruiters interviewed all
eight
University
students
scheduled
yesterday.
Seventeen
students
were
interviewed Tuesday.
The
arrests
yesterday
came
in
two
stages,
beginning
with
four
University
students
who
were arrested early in the
morning and charged with
disorderly conduct.
According
to
Mark
Weinstein, an LSA junior
involved in the protests, six
protesters
were
chanting
“CIA go away” outside one of
two back doors to the career
planning office. Two were
also banging on the doors, he
said.
He said police opened
the doors and arrested four
of
the
protesters,
while
the other two — including
Weinsten — fled.
“The cops just went, ‘get
him, and him, and him, and
him,’” said John Iscrow, an
Ann Arbor resident who
was arrested. Peter Rosset, a
Rackham graduate student,
Bill Michael, an Ann Arbor
resident, and Bob Krause,
an LSA junior, were also
arrested.
“If chanting in front of a
police officer is disorderly
conduct, then we’re living in
a totalitarian state,” Rosset
said.
The other arrests came
shortly afterwards. About
30 students gathered outside
the other back door to the
office and began chanting.
As police opened the door
to let in a Detroit television
news crew, seven of the
protesters blocked the door
open with their bodies and
began chanting, “USA, CIA,
out of Nicaragua.”
After May read them the
trespassing act, giving them
the choice of leaving the
building or being arrested,
police carried the seven
to police busses waiting in
front of the building.
Arrested
were
Phyllis
Flora, an LSA junior; David
Miklethun, an Ann Arbor
resident;
Dean
Baker,
a
Rackham graduate student
and president of the Rackham
Student Government; Hugh
McGunness,
a
Rackham
graduate
student;
Carey
Garlick, an LSA senior; John
Hartigan, an LSA junior; and
Steve Latta, an Ann Arbor
resident. They were later
charged with trespassing.
All
arrested
yesterday
were released on their own
recognizance,
and
given
court dates late this month
and early next month.
May said she decided to
read the trespass act because
the protester’s changing and
singing were disturbing the
interviews.
thousands of racist objects
with the goal of educating
people and using “objects
of
intolerance
to
teach
tolerance.”
The
objects
themselves
range
from
postcards
to
newspaper
clippings to lynching trees.
Depictions of blackface and
caricatures of Black people
are displayed in a variety
of mediums such as license
plates and kitchen tools.
“Our
approach
is
to
document, not to serve as
a shrine to racism, but to
document
the
existence
through material objects of
attitudes, taste and values
that permeated our culture,”
Pilgrim said.
The museum is formatted
so people can walk through
and view the artifacts
without a guide.
“We want people to
experience the museum
the way they experience
it,” Pilgrim said.
Pilgrim spoke about
the ways in which to
conduct
meaningful
conversations
about
race. He described the
tendency
of
educated
people
to
“crush”
ignorant
ideas
or
thoughts that are not
developed when having
race conversations.
“Sometimes
when
you’re
an
instructor,
there is this temptation
to punish your students’
ignorance ... If you crush
a person, you can’t teach
them anything,” Pilgrim
said.
LSA
junior
Alice
Hanlon
commented
on
Pilgrim’s
idea
of
conducting meaningful
conversations
about
race.
“(Using
objects
of
intolerance
to
teach)
It’s
definitely
a
position
that’s kind of against what
we’ve been taught, especially
in a very liberal place like
Ann Arbor, I think we are
pretty censored with good
intentions,” Hanlon said. “But
I think people do often feel
like they have to kind of walk
on eggshells when talking
about things like this, like
talking about race. I definitely
think Dr. Pilgrim brought up
so many good points about
teaching and being able to
have
these
conversations
without feeling like you’re
going to offend anyone just to
actually learn.”
In a similar vein at the
University,
the
Bentley
Historical
Library
is
expanding
its
efforts
to
record the histories of Black
Americans on campus.
“Having
these
records
digitized is important because
student
activism
is
often
erased in U-M’s diversity
effort,” LSA senior Kayla
McKinney,
Black
Student
Union speaker told The Daily
last week.
Pilgrim
concluded
by
speaking about the future
expansion of the museum
and the importance of future
dialogues about race.
“We’ve got to grow up as a
nation,” Pilgrim said. “We’ve
got to be able to have real
conversations.”
LITE R ATURE VS TR AFFIC
ON THE DAILY: ART INSTALLATION LIGHTS UP LIBERTY STREET
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: ELEVEN MORE ARRESTS: CIA PROTESTED FOR SECOND DAY
A portion of East Liberty
Street near the University of
Michigan campus was shut down
Tuesday as part of a “Literature
vs. Traffic” project. Thousands
of discarded books lined the
streets and were illuminated
at night with LED lights. Ann
Arbor is one of several cities,
including Toronto, New York
and Melbourne, to participate
in this art installation created
by Luzinterruptus, a Spanish
undercover art collective.
The event was organized by
the Institute for the Humanities
at the University in an effort to
have literature fill the streets,
allowing
passersby
to
be
surrounded by the written word.
“What was just a street will
become a beautiful installation,
as we bring the power of art,
education, the written word, and
free thought to the entire Ann
Arbor community by essentially
‘paving’
Liberty
St.
with
thousands of glowing books,” the
Institute’s website reads.
Luzinterruptus began public
installations in Madrid in 2008
and since has focused on using
light as their main artistic
material. “Literature vs. Traffic”
has been one of their most
popular exhibitions, using over
10,000 books in one exhibition.
“A city area which is typically
reserved for speed, pollution and
noise, will become, for one night,
a place for quietness, calm and
coexistance (sic) illuminated by
the vague, soft light coming out of
the lighted pages,” their website
reads. “Cars will eventually fill
their space but for many of those
who walked by this place that
night, the memory of those books
that took the same space will
improve their relationship with
these surroundings.”
Volunteers from the Ann
Arbor community and University
campus began working with
artists the week before the event
to prepare books and attach
lights. Visitors who viewed the
installation after 8 p.m. Tuesday
were able to take books home for
free.
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If chanting
in front of a
police officer
is disorderly
conduct, then
we’re living in a
totalitarian state