…. r .V ;_ CV WL r..~' ..*.. ........ . x .Y:Y::' :i.*;?..YFY:?f. :? .... .. No tall tales Giant Steps By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Peter Knobler Bantam Books pp. 324, $14.95 W HEN I WAS assigned to review the autobiography of Kareem Ab- dul-Jabber, I was expecting the typical sports biography, written either to make the necessary amount of money needed to ease the star's retirement or a boring, unimaginative and usually arrogant account of ...…
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…w w w w VV Beards from Page 1 pensity for both mathematics and English. He eventually chose a mathematics concentration, but pot before taking a heavy dose of English courses. Mike's most noteworthy accomplish- ment as an undergraduate was using a radical line of thought to reduce a previously inviolate proof from nine steps to eight. His second greatest accomplish- ment was the cultivation of an extraor- dinary beard; he seemed to ha*e been ...…
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…Newsweek Ol 0M March 1984 CAREERS FOR THE'90s The High-Tech Payoff [Even for Liberal Arts Majors] WOW I …
…Ford Escort Diesel: Better mileage than this leading import. We didn't believe it at first, either. But EPA testing figures established it. Our new Escort Diesel is rated approximately four miles per gallon higher than a Honda 750. Just take a look at our numbers: EPA And because 46 EST. this diesel is MPG. an Escort, 68 HY. there's a lot 1VV more to talk about than great economy. Like the fact that Escort's the best-selling car in the world....…
…Newsweek MY TURN OnCampus You Can Go Home Again By DAVID HANDELMAN Bernard Gotfryd-NEWSWEEK 0 a 0 i CONTENTS MARCH 1984 You can't go home again." That's what they say. Yet after a postgraduation summer bumming around Europe, I woke up one night having no idea where I was, slowly realizing as my eyes focused that I was back in the bedroom of my childhood. Unemployed. Undecided. Home. While comforted by the knowledge that many other recen...…
… 0 0 MEDICINE Newsweek OnCamuusN OvrcomingDyslexia A misunderstood disorder frustrates its victims, but new programs help them continue their education. D ebra Schulze, a 26-year-old engi- were administered, 80 percent of them to neering student at Hunter College, the learning disabled. has spent more than two years in Colleges do give allowances for certified therapy. She now feels in control of her life, learning disabilities when making...…
…0 0 0 C L A S S I F I E D S LETTERS Newsweek OnCampus Campus stereo sales represen- tatives needed. Terrific earnings potential. Dealer catalog $3.00 SVC.REP 85 Columbus Avenue, Pleasantville, NY 10570 MEET FRIENDS NATION- WIDE-For hobbies, sports, vacations...Write Electronic Exchange, Box 68-N6, Manhat- tan Beach, CA 90266 ORIGINAL MOVIE POSTERS! WINTER/SPRING CATALOG $2.00 (REFUNDABLE). POSTER GALLERY, P.O. BOX 2745-DEPT. 14-ANN ARB...…
…Newsweek CAREERS OnCampus The High- Tech Pa iff As machines replace many routine jobs, new worlds will open for people who think. he future used to look like a pretty jobs for the '90s will require college gradu- this June (and maybe double that number *good place to be. A now-forgotten ates who display not only technical mas- in 1990); L TV Aerospace and Defense Co. writer named W. Parker Chase tery, but the ability to think and manage will v...…
…-y_ LIFE/STYLE ble. So you can sing your rugby songs, you can do your home- work, you can do anything here." Firm but fair, that's the Oasis. Its bartenders are well known for being the toughest "carders" around. On the other hand, when a junior or sen- ior turns 21, legal drinking age in California, the O staff is among the first to offer its con- gratulations . . . with a free pitcher of beer. WILLIAM ELLIS III mind if customers stretch o...…
… te_ 1 _ . -+ . i_._ti _. 0 Newsweek OnCampus } 1 1 e I I I CAREERS LIFE/STYLE Thel1w fige of thl iiBd While Americans ponder how much technology will change the work place of the near future, another factor-a non- technological one-promises to have as stunning an effect on the job market: the graying of America. More than 1,600 peo- ple turn 65 every day and by the year 2035 the number of people over 65 is expected to double. "There w...…
…0 0 A Home Away romDorm Every college has a hangout-a place where you can eat, drink, talk, study or cry. college without a good hangout is right, a student can count on being left other college memories have faded. If the like a ship without a lifeboat. A alone when he wants to be, or fussed over place has closed, their grief becomes al- hangout is a place where a student when he needs that. Also, there's food. A most unbearable. Listen t...…
… @1 K. -1 0_ CAREERS i 1 --- Too iMeangj Profession6Iase Legal, medical and business degrees once were golden passkeys. Now they are losing some of their luster. nee upon a time, the letters J.D., tion and federal cutbacks have also created O1 M.D. and M.B.A. seemed to spell a glut of lawyers in Washington, D.C. In the "guaranteed jobs." A diploma three highest-paid business fields-man- from law, medical or business school was a agement ...…
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…MUSIC - OnCampus Triumph of the 'New' By JIM SULLIVAN __ - O- 1f' I.jb The year 1983 will be remembered as the time the rock and roll tide finally turned. Actually, "turned" might be too mild a word for what has happened over the past 18 months. Last year American rock and roll fans embraced a brave new world of pop called New Music, and this commercial and cultural tidal wave crumbled the sea wall of stodgy mainstream rock. A new crop of...…
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…F U Pallottine FATHERS & BRO1THERS SINC E 1835 The Pa ottine Fathers &Brothers- A group of men dedicated to the general increase, defense and propagation of faith and charity. / Pa 1ottine -'Fathers & Brothers P.O. BOX 1838, P.G. PLAA I HYA T5VILLE, MD 20788 Please sendinforation I I about the PllottineI I Q Priesthood 0 Brotherhood 9o I Name I Address I city State/Ap I Phone Age- NATIONAL Mondale receiving birthday cake at Alabama: The cand...…
… CAREERS 0 dawn to sign up for interviews with particu- larly desirable employers. Craig Seitel, a senior economics major at Minnesota, re- cently managed to make the lists by arriving at the guidance center at 6 a.m.-and count- ed himself lucky: "I know a couple of really sharp guys who didn't get interviews be- cause they were all filled up. They have only 12 spots per company." growing number of universities are switching to a "bid syste...…
…NATIONAL AFFAIRS Newsweek OnCampus The New Political Realists While most students ignore Campaign '84, the dedicated learn their lessons. L ong beforehetrooped toNew Hamp- dents is taking a pass on politics, a signifi- organization has more than doubled, from shire in early January to campaign cant minority is working hard. While this 50,000to 125,000,infouryears. (TheDemo- for Gary Hart, political-science ma- year's campus campaigners may ...…
… Here's your chance to find out what our policy makers know about this year's major foreign policy issues... and to tell them what you would do if the decisions were in your hands. Great Decisions '84 is a lively briefing that lets you be a political insider. Pub- lished by the Foreign Policy Association, a nonpartisan educational organization, this booklet gives you unique insight into this year's most important issues. You'll learn about U.S...…
…MULTIPLE CHOICE Princeton Talks, America Listens 0 0 i CAREERS I i This year, as it celebrates its 10th anniver- sary by donating its tape archives to the Museum of Broadcasting in New York City, "American Focus" claims the biggest audience (2 million-3 million) and widest network (more than 400 stations) of any public-affairs interview-and-discussion se- ries on radio. Its guests have included Sen. William Proxmire (who called it "rele...…
…00 Newsweek MULTIPLE CHOICE OnCampus i f f f oup ks They'd Sooner Smoke a Clove Strange, the things a school term can be remembered for. At Oklahoma, late 1983 became the Season of the Clove as a sud- den and seemingly insatiable demand for imported clove cigarettes competed for at- tention with the Sooner football team on the Norman campus. Everyone from greeks to New Wavers was smoking them-at parties, at meals, in the libraries ("I've got...…
…Ninety-four Years of Editorial Freedom E Etc 43UU all I t Reprieve A break from the bitter cold today, with mostly sunny skies and mild temperatures in the high thirties. Vol. XCIV-No. 102 Copyright 1984, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Thursday, February 2, 1984 Fifteen Cents Eight Pages Farmhand says he. told was stay to Daily Phcto by BRIAN MASCK Furry foreign fellows European reindeer take advantage of the warmer tempe...…
…Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, February 2, 1984 Cable company plans to strike By SHARON SILBAR Unless workers and management at Ann Arbor Cablevisin come to an agreement by midnight February 6, workers will go on strike, a spokesman said yesterday. By a 16 to 2 vote taken late Tuesday night, employees agreed to strike unless a settlement is reached. Ann Ar- bor Cablevision employees are represented by the Communications Workers of Am...…
… Dorms fast to raise money for hungry The Michigan Daily - Thursday, February 2, 1984 - Page S Jewish tales teach on phone By MARK SMALLWOOD It's the moment of decision for students in four dorm cafeterias today -- the choice is to go for a helping of hot dogs smothered in Cheese Whiz, or sit out a meal for World Hunger Day. The Committee Concerned With World Hunger has spent the last week trying to persuade students to skip a meal in order ...…
…OPINION - - - ------- Page 4 Thursday, February 2, 1984 The Michigan Doily Reaching the young who fail to. vote 'a' By Barry Checko way and A my Gibans Recent assaults on education, human services, and social programs have worsened conditions for poor people, minorities, women, and students. But the poor and others do not always par- ticipate in decisions which affect their lives, or even see themselvesas a con- stituency that cou...…
…ARTS he Michigan Daiiy Thursday, February 2, 1984 Page 5 NOON LUNCHEON Optional Lunch Available at $1.00 "HOMEMADE SOUP AND SANDWICH" Friday, Feb. 3, 1984: HOWARD SIMON, Director, Michigan ACLU: "Civil Liberties in Reagan's America" at GUILD HOUSE 802 MONROE 7 HAIRCUTTERS *NO WAITING DASCOLA STYLISTS ,:# Confidence a major step for min orities 'Hill Street' sings the blues E VERYBODY NEEDS a hand some- times. You get thrust into an un- fa...…
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…4 ~SPORTrS* The Michigan Daily Thursday, February 2, 1984 Page 7 'M' CAGERS HOPE TO EXTEND MSU SKID THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN KIBBUTZ Summer Session in Israel June 3 - August 8 EARN 8 CREDITS " Language Studies (al levels) * Seminar on Kibbutz Society Tours and Hikes with the Society for the Protettion of Nature MEETING FOR ALL INTERESTED STUDENTS: FEBRUARY 2, 1984 3050 Frieze Bldg. - 4:00 p.m. STUDY ABROAD 764-4489 HEBREW PROGRAM 764-3016 ...…
…Page 8 - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, February 2, 1984 Healthy Latora aims for championship Grappler overcomes several key injuries took the Michigan State championships at 119 and 126 pounds, respectively. Over the two-year period he posted an 83-0 record which he capped off with a freestyle Eastern National Cham- pionship. ALTHOUGH the team has stopped running together as it had last semester, Latora has added some extra roadwork to make...…
