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 
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