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PRJ,CMARY PJWVIEW r - On February .19 Ann Arbor partisans will go to the polls to vote from.among their parti~s: hopefuls . those who will emerge as candJ.dates for the munJ.cJ.pal electJ.ons coming up this April. Res Gestae selected a few of the more interesting of these candidates for interviews which appear in this issue, Since balanced reporting has invariably been a hallmark of R.G. coverage, you will find that our staff went out of it-s -way ~th-i.s, - · time to seek diversity: the three candidates interviewed ·ate .j.i,.~ A R"Y: all from the same party. Two , however, are law students and ~he th~rd is a woman running for may<;>r, so we at least gQt; ~~m~3 73 news. We also want to make one thJ.ng perfectly clear: the inclusion of any candidate in this . Preview does not _r.epresent our endorsement of his or her candidacy. But, thatJ s Snat to I~ ,..,-:T. say we can't be bought. ·· - '=-'=A:!i -- The Editors. Ann Arbor, Michigan . "Had leyburg, U.S .A." February 16, 1973 ftoichet minock "Acquiescent and inactive" is how John Frank Shoichet has no trouble~uaring off h i s radical politics with his Minock J.escribes the Ann Arbor City status as a second year l aw student. Council •.' "It's not economically viable to be a "This city has been run like a bus wi th professional revolutionary at this the city administrator as uhe bus driver. point in time," he said, "the movement He has been making decisions based on 1 jUSt Can t SUpport them. II virtually no citizen input and l ittle counc-il input," said Minock, the HRP can­ "I plan to use my 'lawy~r's skills' to didate . for city council in the fifth help the people survive while we try ward (bounded by Miller, Main and to change the system." Pauline). With several years experience in city Too often the city adminstrator's de­ and university politics and a degree cisions have favored select financial i n political science, Shoichet is very interes,te at the expense of the city familiar with the mechanics of political at large, according to Minock, a second change. year law student. "Law per se is not an instrument of For example, for the construction of social change, it merely reflects what's the Tower Plaza Apartment Building quite N happenin g in the outside world," Shoichet a few zoning variances were granted . No says . "The Supreme Court didn't rule parking facilities were required, the on t he abortion :issue until there population density regulations were was a mass abortion movement." waived and the building was allowed to be built higher than firefighting cont'd p. 2 equipment can reach, Minock said. large plot of land left in Ann Arbor on which such housing could be built-­ LETTERS clearly a case of mis~laced priorities. Perhaps the most influential factor in Shoichet's decision to run for To the editors: council, notwi thstanding the demands In response to Ms. Harper's letter, of law school, was the ~rowth of factionalism among HRP members. While suffer in' last year (Dec. ' 71) from the first semester law school sub­ '~ radic~l should be terranean final exam blues I chanced committed to build­ upon the women's lounge as a quiet spot ing a broad-based to ingest Prosser, Perkins et al. After movement rather than several sessions I was requested to internal factional­ leave by a married Ms. who politely in­ ism. A l ook at the formed me that, "the girls sometimes record shows that like to sleep down here and, wouldn't it David Sinclair, my be better . " opponent, can't do that," Shoichet Webster defines sow as "the adult female says . " The balls tolled for me! '~e is more inte­ Is/ Bob Ba~r '74 rested in conduct­ ing a '~ard driv­ An anonymous lounge-scrounger adds, in ing r ock and roll reference to Ms. Harper's implication campaign that ad­ that the "WOMEN" sign refers only to the dresses itself to a lavatory facilities at the lounge: very .small segment of people-:-:..the "to the reasonable person perhaps, but R~inbow People's Party," says Shoichet. not to a hung-up janitor worried about orgies in the lounge . Although the sign .It seems that if HRP is going to seems to refer only to the lavatory, it offer alternatives to the old line appears that the janitorial staff has politicians it can only do so as a taken a different position in the past-­ unified front. as I have been confronted by various custodians for being in the 'co-ed' Help uni ~ y HRP. Vote Monday. lounge." -- C. Harper SHOICHET cont;d from p.--( ­ MINOCK cont'd from p. 1 Sh0ichet sees the Ann Arbor housing crisis as the central issue of this For these reasons Minock would like to campaign. He propose s a comprehensive make the city administ ration and depart­ city wide rent control program and a ments more responsive to the council. tenant controlled code enforcement One way of doing this is revising the board. city charter so that elected officials have more authority. Most importantly, Shoichet believes t hat the University and the city "Jack McCormick, the Republican incum­ should pool thei r resources to provide bent is a good example of the ol d acqui­ rr.ur e low cost housing for University escent style of city council," said employees as well as students . Minock. "He is only involved with the cfty council on Monday nights." There is a whole c lass of peop l e who work f or the University and want to McCorm ic~ has been using drug abuse c..s live in Ann Arbor but are forced to a campaign i s sue but dQes no t seem to live in Ypsilanti because rents a re want to solve the pr oblem, acco:cding to so high here , accordi ng to Shoiche£. Minock . He hhS voted against present Meal,'.vhile, t1e University maint ains dr ug help programs and refuses to con­ a golf course that is losing money sider drug manu fac turers as part of the -- -- - ;_ 1 - - .... .... .,...,......,. 1. 1 n co r1 v-1-: rr n1 1 c h or Q Kaimowitz Benita ("Be" to her friends) Kaimowitz is a Human Rights Party (HRP) candidate for mayor of Ann Arbor. She characterizes her campaign as "action-oriented" and as "seeking unity on an issue-by-issue basis" with other political groups in the community. On the one hand, Ms. Kaimowitz criticizes Democrats in Ann Arbor for adopting a passive "let's make a study" sort of posture on pressing local issues. And, on the other, she chides elements of the HRP for embracing "abstract ideological differences" and for putting forth an often "self-defeating image." Kaimowitz (KAY•mo•witz) plans that her cam­ paign will follow a conciliatory, non-rhe­ torical, issue-focussed line that would avoid either pitfall. Her pragmatic approach is based upon the assumption that a potential constituency for her candidacy lies among three groups in Ann Arbor: 1. those who identify themselves as "liberal" in politics and would join forces with a radical only on specific issues; 2: disaffected or apolitical radicals (comprised mainly of university students) who feel divorced from the politi­ St. Joseph~s Hospital has und~rgone cal arena; and 3. activist Democratic regulars severe· financial difficulties in Ann Arbor who fear that their party's frontrunner, and is scheduled to move to Superior Franz Mogdis, is a do-nothing candidate. Township, ,beyond reasonable commut fhg distan.;;e from the city. The void left Between the first two groups, Kaimowitz by St. Joe's departure will generate be l ives, many law students may fall. Herself increased demand on the remaing health married to a Michigan Legal Services lawyer care facilities: U-Hospital, Free and Reginald Heber Smith Fellow, she is Peoples Clinic and Summit Street Clinic. aware that many socially dedicated lawyers The city may well need additional clinics have "split their political energies.i• They to pick up the overflow. find expression for their political beliefs t hrough their work in poverty law, consumer Other issue~ that present the possibility advocacy, civil rights, or the - iike but- do of coalition, in Kaimowitz' opinion, not undertake active political party par­ includ~ rent control , day care and t icipation. Kaimowitz hopes that her candi­ municipal ecology. In each case, she dacy will offer such voters the opportunity foresses that sources of funding will to re-channel po l itical concern into the be an ongoing challenge for this city. electoral process. The drastic cuts made by the Nixon administration in monies for social What this means strategically for Ms.