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Bentley Historical ubrary 1150 Beal Avenue Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2113 Putting lAS 10 tne Test by Beth Martin vice in the United States." Briggs further swers questions from an "audience" com- date will utilize a vastly different v - ~ .."T" " " ,.·.· ._. _ ' '''_._ HH ''" .. ·'_ <_~", ' ..·, __.,, ~ .. _ ... _ . -T ~"--> "• .'_ '-..-.....'''''''_'"''''.,.''''.__ " _____'''''' __.~'lC _____ .... _ ___...... ' .. IlS...... ___ .... _ ...... , .... ____ _ 2 THE MICHIGAN REVIEW February 10, 1993 I III \ 11 C II )( ; .\ '\ I{ E , IE'" Serpent's Tooth The Campus Affairs Journal of the University of Michigan "We are the Establishment" EDlTOR-IN-CHIEF: Tony Ghecea In the tradition of Zoe Baird and Kimba of Housing and Urban Development made up. PUBLISHER: Aoorew Bockelman Wood, the Clinton administration Henry Cisneros has requested that the EXECUTIVE EDITORS: Joe Coletti, Jay D. t.A:NeMl, Tract proudly announces the casting call for White House review lithe inadequate Dan RosMnkowski (D-IL), Chairman of Robinson, Stacey Walker CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: Beth Marti! Alien 3. government response to last year's riots the House Ways and Means Committe, in South Central Los Angeles and to press declared on CNN's Evans and Novak, ASSISTANT EDITORS: Ryan Boeskoo~ Nate Jarrlson, From the February 4 issue of the Wall for more help there." We can think of "I'm not particularly enthusiastic about Brian Schefke Street Jaurnal: "It's hard not to notice that several billion reasons why the secretary dates or schedule&" Especially not April MUSIC EDITOR: Chris Peters the stock market has been doing rather might be mistaken. 15th. UTERARY EDITOR: Adam Garagiola GRAPHICS EDITOR: Win Ryan well of late, adding 45 points to the Dow EDITORIAL STAFF: Matt Anderson, Eddie Amer, Eric Jones industrials index yesterday. We've In a letter to the Daily, the Ella Baker In yesterday'S Daily, graduate student Berg, McheIe Brogley, Jason CarriII, Andrea Cousino, KIm been trying to square this optimism with Mandela Center for Anti-Racist Educa Mechele de Avila whined that she was Conley, Joe Epstein, Frank Grabowski, Crxey HiI, Aaron the goings-on in Washington. We've con tion identified UCAR as the "United offended by the decision of two West Kanter, Gene Krass, Eric Larson, Eric Lepard, Erin M::EIIigott, Crusty MIncher, Tom Paska, Dave Perczak, cluded that the Clinton administration Coalition of Racism." Freudian slip? Quad residents to display a "Pussie Rd." Drew Peters, Shamon Pfer4, Dave PoweY, Jay Rarros, can take full credit. The market has sign in their window. We were offended, James Roberts, Charles Rousseaux, Renee Rudnicki, TS watched twQ weeks of nomination fail Seminars offered at New York Univer too ... by the Daily's decision to use the Taylor, Doug Thiese, Peny"Tl1ort1lSOn. Martin VIoet, Gloria ure, g~ys in the military, threats of 40% sity include: The Semiotics of Orgasm, word "nigga" in a headline on their op Vulcano, Jeff Weinrmnn, Mchelle Wietek, Martin Will<, tax rates, and talk of a health-care over the Orgasm of Semiotics; Holding Your ed page. Matt WII<, Tony Woodlief, Andy Wu haul, a welfare overhaul and a short Own: Masturbatory Threats in Low Ger MTS COORDINATOR: James Elek term stimulus package to create jobs while man Ecclesiastical Polemics of the 16th Golfer John Daly recently revealed that SYSTEMS ANALYST: Mtch Rohde simultaneously trying to pass the Family Century; Classical Homosexuals: The Ins during his three-week alcohol rehabili Leave bill. In short, the market sees and Outs of Socrates; Celtic Queers: The tation program, he was forced to open a ADVERTISING DIRECTOR: Jonathan Lajiness gridlock in Washington, meaning the CIRCULATION DIRECTOR: Aaron Steeman Per-Verse Dramas of W.B. Yeats; The book for the first time since his junior FUNDRAISING DIRECTOR: Erica De Santis economy may be left alone long enough Phallocentric Canon - Cutting it Down year in high school. Daly graduated from BUSINESS STAFF: Jacob Boorne, Arnold Chang, Peter to simply grow." to Size; and Wusses, Wimps, Wonks, and the University of Arkarisas. Daugavietis, Tori DlrOO1.laldo, ArTPf East, Chris Fruendi, Weirdos: The .AInerical\. A~demic Patri John GustIIson, Jeny Kowal,Qany Stem,Chet ladul The ]euTnalals<)rejx)rted thaf 5ecretary archate in the 90S. Guess which one Answer: the one abOutSocrates. we EDITOR-AT-LARGE: Adam DeVore •. ,,~~ PUBLISHER EMERITA: Karen S. Brinkman ... (.;.,.' ----Roving Photographer ----- EDITORS EMERITI: Brian Jendryka, John J. MIer The Mchigan Review Is an IndepeOOent, weekty student run journal at the University mMchigan. We neither soIictt nor accept rronetary donations from the Unrversly of What are you dOing over Spring Break? Mchigan. ContrWIons to the MclNgan Review are tax deductible under Une SOt (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. The Review Is ~ affiliated with any political party. by AndyWu Unsigned ed~orials represent the opinion mthe edHorial board. Signed articles represent the opinions of the author and not necessarity' those of the Review. We welcome letters and articles and encourage corrrnents about the journal and Issues discussed in it. Please address aU subscription inquiries to: Circulation Director c/o the Mchigan Review. AI ac;,.ertising inquiries should be drected to: Awertising Director c/o the Afchigan Review. EDITORIAL AND BUSINESS OFFICES: SUITE ONE Sam Norling. Engineering freshman: 911 N. UNIVERSITY AVENUE Mike Corlett, LSA senior: "I'm going to Ross Mcfarland, Engineering senior: ANN ARBOR, MI 48109-1265 "I'll be spending my vacation at a nudist the Big Apple to find a job ... unfortu "I'm going parachuting with Japanese camp in Alaska." nately." aborigines in Hawaii." TEL (3t3) 662-1909 FAX (313) 936-2505 " i-' " Copyright C 1993, by The MIchigan Review, Inc. All rights reserved. "Capital is a collective product, and only by the united action of many members, nay, in the last resort, only by the united action of all members of society, can it be set in motion." Brian Arnholt, Engineering sophomore: Nicole Homer, Engineering freshman: Hilary Wilson, Engineering freshman: - Karl Marx "I'm going to Mardi Gras and I'm going '1'm going to Jamaica to bungee jump off "I'm travelling across the U.s. in a Yugo to try to avoid being shot in the French cliff s. " in search of the funk. I wanna find ou "[1] wish that Karl would accumulate capital Quarter. I'll also be throwing beads at who stole the funk!" instead of just writing about it." -Marx's mom people." .. , , , • ~ + ( .... " ... ". - ". - . " . -~---~" '~"" ... "",~"~,,,,~-'''}''''''''~'''-._.~"" " '"'''''·''''''''''''_'''''tI)'''''''''''''·'W'';:'''''N'''''''''''''I''WI~'Wi>'''H~@____ ""'_""_""""_"""""""""""""' ___ ""_""_ February 10, 1993 THE MICHIGAN REVIEW 3 Scientifically Speaking Chaos and Galaxies by James Elek and Brian Schefke until it is finished. Sanyo Electric Milky Way, but this is the first direct galaxies." "Chaos engineering." It sounds like Company began marketing what it calls evidence confirming the 'galactic The researchers believe that galactic an oxymoron. Engineering is usually "chaos logic-controlled oil fan heaters" fountain theory.'" storms may serve as a "pressure release associated with precision and certainty, last June. The heaters act like miniature Bregman went on to explain that the valve" for galaxies, limiting the degree of while chaos calls randomness and wind machines by blowing out air in force of shock waves from these stellar new star formation and playing a confusion to mind. Chaos engineering, changing patterns and strengths, much explosions creates bubbles of gas with fundamental role in a galaxy's evolution. however, is responsible for computers unlike mechanical air conditioners. temperatures as high as 10 million "Stars form when very cold gas, dust that allow appliances to work Several computer software companies degrees Celsius. The larger the bubble, and other material get denser and denser automatically, as if a human were using are also offering services that use chaos the greater the likelihood that it will reach until it finally collapses to produce a them. Scientists and electric appliance engineering to help predict weather the edge of the galaxy's disk and burst star," Bregman explained. "Massive stars makers alike believe that chaos forecasts and stock prices. open, thereby triggering the galactiC live briefly, but generate a great deal of engineering will become a key phrase in Despite its potential, Aihara warns storm cycle. heat and pressure. The galactic storms 1993, according to an article in the January of chaos engineering's limitations. Using the 94-inch Hiltner telescope may relieve built-up pressure and heat 25-31 issue of The Japan Times Weekly lilt is true that chaos engineering is at the Michigan-Dartmouth-MIT by re-distributing mass and energy International Edition titled, '''Chaos , capable of predicting the weather more Observatory on Kitt Peak near Tucson, throughout the galaxy arid limiting the Engineering' coming in 1993." accurately than any previous system But Arizona, the astronomers found a cooler level of star formation in anyone area." What exactly is chaos engineering? this doesn't mean that it can predict the skin surrounding the hot bubbles Chaos engineering analyzes patterns of future precisely all the time. detected in NGC 891. James Elek is a senior in physics and fluctuations in natural phenomena, such "No matter how high technology The images gathered from the MTS coordinator of the Review. Brian as water flows and wind streams, and develops, there are many things we will telescope show numerous bubbles 1,000 Schefke is a junior in chemistry and applies the patterns to control the never understand. We should recognize to 5,000 light-years across that are on the cellular and molecular biology and an operation of electrical appliances. this but at the same time we should verge of breaking out or have already assistant editor of the Review. They Kazuyuki Aihara, an associate promote possible uses of high broken out. Pildis commented, "We've consider their lives to be excellent professor at the FacuJty of Engineering of technology ." seen bubbles of hot gas in the Milky Way examples of chaos engineering. Tokyo Denki UniverSity, gave this galaxy, but here we see evidence for desc;.tiption of chaos, "lfyou puttriilk From analyses of X-ray emissions bubbles and bubble breakout in other into a cup of hot coffee and stir, the white from NGC 891, a spiral galaxy similar to mixes with the black to look like stars in the Milky Way, University of Michigan the galaxy. astronomers have found the first direct "Despite the massive size of the evidence of giant galactic storms, or active world, coffee in a cup and stars in space "weather" patterns. are both controlled by the same rule." According to Joel N. Bregman, U-M Aihara, an expert in and original associate professor of astronomy, ~he advocate of chaos engineering, went on storms take place in the galactic halo, a to explain that similar patterns exist in diffuse cloud of gas molecules and relationships between water currents in interstellar matter that surrounds the disk a washing machine and air streams in the of a galaxy like a bun around a hamburger atmosphere; waves In an electric wire patty. network and brain pulses in a neural The storms appear to be triggered network; and the rise and fall of share when huge bubbles of superheated gas prices and increases and decreases in burst open, shooting gaseous plumes populations. 20,000 light-years out from the galaxy's While many people believe that the disk (one light-year equals about 5.8 human heart beats regularly like a trillion miles). As the gas cools, it loses machine, the fact is that the pulse of a buoyancy and crashes back onto the healthy heart fluctuates in a chaotic galaxy itself at speeds of over 100,000 manner. Bearing this knowledge in mind, miles per hour. Computer Convenience Company, a Bregman and U-M astronomer Fukuoka-based data processing Rachel A. Pildis, in cooperation with Ulrich's is your Official Spring Break Headquarters company, has developed 'The Pulse Chaos James M. Schombert of the Infrared Analysis System. Processing and Analysis Center at for Maize and Blue shirts & shorts, tees & tanks, According to the company, this Pasadena's California Institute of caps & coats, flags & mugs and much more. system senses changes in the blood Technology, detected evidence for circulation at the tip of a user's finger, galactic storms in NGC 891, located 30 analyzes the patterns, and gives a reading million light-years from Earth in the Go Bluel Go Ulrich's! of the user's current state of health, ability direction of the constellation Andromeda Main Bookstore: to concentrate, and psychological "NGC 891 is speciaL because we view 549 East University condition. its galactic disk edge-on, which lets us ArtJEnglneertng Store and Electronics Showroom: 41 A __ HIII,''!; Already there are several other see gaseous material ejected from the 1117 South University chaos-engineered products on the disk," said Pildis, a graduate student at Ann Arbor. MI 48104 313-662-3201 market. Matsushita Electric Industrial U-M. MOf)oFrt 9~:OO Sat 9:30-5:00 Company is due to market an automatic Bregman added, "Astronomers Sunday Noon to 4:00 THAN A BOOKSTORE cleaning robot. 'The robot, once placed in believed hot gas was being expelled from V~RE aroom, will automatically clean the floor the disks of many galaxies, including the .... 'n '. '. _ ., '., ."'· ,,.,.,""""' '''',' _,=.''. >'M,'''''< ': ''''''''''' ' '~.'''''''''''' '''n.' ,~"""""" ""' ~\"" ",''''''''''''''-w<> !>o.''."""",, m _''' \''''''m'':''\'t· ~~~~WI.{'j:'~V' "''' ~''''''~ i"'~A~MAW 4 THE MICHIGAf'iREvIEW February 10, 1993 From Suite One: Editorial Offices, Schmoffices, 8 O'Clocks Reek At a recent Michigan Student Assembly (MSA) meeting, Vice President for student who has ever attended class in the building could readily list a profusion of Student Affairs, Maureen Hartford announced that the Administration will cut 77 of 'tomplaints ranging from lack of heat to poor insulation between classrooms and approximately 250 LSA classrooms in the next year. Forty-four of these classrooms uncomfortable chairs. But a larger issue is at stake. These same students will also will be eliminated over the summer, with most of the loss occurring in the East complain about overcrowded classrooms throughout the University and the fact that Engineering Building. office time in which to approach professors is already profoundly limited. The No one within the Administration with whom the Review spoke was quite sure difficulty is compounded when one considers the number of professors who have two where this directi ve Originated. Yesterday's Daily made reference to a $275 million or more offices. These eve important questions that the East Engineering renovation bond approved by the Regents, but this information was not supplied to Review in no way answers. Indeed, it only adds to them. reporters. Hartford's office is concerned only "with the repercussions of this decision." One must certainly doubt the Administration's expressed concern about improv Apparently these repercussions include the fact that the classrooms are to become ing the quality of undergraduate education at U-M in light of the East Engineering faculty offices for LSA instructors, specifically within the math and psychology renovation. The decision seems to directly contradict the administration's purported departments. This information was stated at the MSA meeting. However, Associate goals. It is easy to dismiss this as yet another example of bureaucratic doublespeak; at Vice President for Academic Affairs Mary Ann Swain could not say one way or the the very least it reflects, once again, poor planning on the part of the U-M. other what would happen to the classrooms. According to Swain, the rooms, specifi It is time for students to demand what they pay for. Animal tuition hikes and an cally those in East Engineering, are to be "renovated," and "of course, we will be minus infrastructure maintenance fee that doubles one year after its introduction ought to those classrooms during this period, which will extend beyond the summer allocation ensure that necessary nuisances such as East Engineering renovations do not directly time." Contrary to the Daily report, Swain would not say whether the renovated inconvenience students. Unfortunately, we will be affected. Currently crowded classrooms are to remain such or if they would become faculty offices, stating only that classrooms will become even worse, not to mention the subsequent displacement of "there are no full plans for East Engineering after the renovation." current office holders. The nebulous benefits of such renovations become alarmingly Several academic departments could be severely constrained by this measure. suspect when office space is prioritized over classroom space. Many political science and economics courses are regularly scheduled in East Engi Should the proposed Gateway Center come to fruition, the current problem of neering. This loss is, according to Swain, to be absorbed through cJassrooms in the c.c. classroom space might be alleviated. The administration should consider creating the Little Science Building, the ChemiStry BUilding, and others. "We also plan to schedule new Gateway Center out of the remains of East Engineering. Or, more simply, the more classes throughout the week and later in the day.If In other words, expect class University could limit the number of offices available to professors. Whatever the U from 8 a.m. until early evening, five days a week. . M's decision, it is cdmost guaranteed to complicate students' lives further, and, no . There is no doubt'that l!'astEngineering is iri desperate need of restoration. My doubt, to cause even more traffic jams in the areas surrounding East Engineering. '\ i Do you know what Ues behind the self-embeUishing rhetoric of the UniversUy of Michigan? If not, then you need IN UGHT oF 7HeR.£C£NT ... rr HAS COM£'7() MY ,IlTTDJTTON IIIF COiJC£RN A5()IJr J1Y NOMI 7HlfTf:I)IJTH M£R!CIIN 1LL£(fA' \IWIIIGY'RE'OIEW NATfO).fS FOR 117itJRJ.JEY ALIENS ME LflI'6£L¥ lJ./f)£!2... G-[)./fi!.AL .. REfA£S£NTED IN MV C/tBIN£{ ANIJ SXlar AS p, WHO/-E. 1HEJt£FC:PE, I'~ tflJDa> 70 E}I/) "Says here that they're spending your tuition dollars on a film about flY SfHJa.( AA Atu:wAN CAN - militant lesbian anarchists who try to convert nuns. " /)IOA-rE 1Wl> M.f)ULt:> fJ)W U!4& With your tax-deductible donation of $25 or more, youll receive a one-year 10 /~ you 10 1NE. M subscription (28 issues) tQ the Michigan Review. You'll read insightful articles Am RAJ£. Y(j-£)J Dl.IIt- ... about the wasteful U-M bureaucracy, be the first to hear of First Amendment violations, and keep abreast of the forcea working to erode traditional Western education. YES! I WANT TO BE INFORMED! I'm sending my tax-deductible contribution of _$25 _$50 _$75 _$100 _$250 _$500 Other Name Address City/StatelZip Telephone ( 930210 Send to: The Michigan Review, Suite One, 91.1 N. Universi~ Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48~O~-1265 0 \ . • • I _ l . --~<~ """,..,. •-. """" __• ______."".. ,,, ,,,~ __,,~_,...,, ______,..~_ .. ,,,,,,, ,,..,"__ • f"__ ~_""''''\llll'' __ ' ___ ..,. ____.... ______.. February 10, 1993 THE MICHIGAN REVIEW 5 ~ ',,, j Journal Editorial Brings Public Outr~ge by Karen S. Brinkman and freedom and openness that made me so Adam DeVore loyal to the University. On January 5, 1993, the Wall Street If the University should lose that Journal printed an editorial on University Total number of letters * 46 Allusions: tradition, I am afraid that all that would of Michigan sophomore Shawn Brown's Supportive letters 0 Hitler's Germany 6 be left would be a lot of brick and mortar experience in Political Science 111. Brown, Critical letters 46 Stalin's Russia 4 - and oh yes, a very good football team. I for one think the U-M should stand for as readers are now aware, employed a W J8 editorials enclosed 13 General totalitarianism 5 hypothetical example involving "Dave more than that." Stud" in an essay for the course and was "Lighten up!" 3 Voltaire/Rush limbaugh 3/3 - California subsequently reprimanded by his Donations lamented or cut 8 Obscene invitations 2 teaching assistant, Deborah Meizlish, Brown was harassed 4 Reprimand or resignation** 7 " ... Chop your logic as fine as you like, who noted that the course's professor, *Letters received by U-M personnel as of 13 January 1993 from non-University sources. Figures speak with Jesuistical subtlety, the fact is Steven Rosenstone, had encouraged her are minimal. as ambiguous comments were not coUnted. **Letters calling for at least one of these. your institution and its sisters are engaged to interpret his example as sexual in the suppression of free speech . ... " harassment. Meizlish took no formal declined irrevocably into a black to get me for saying such nasty J}lings." -Flushing, New York action, but she instructed Brown to intellectual pit not even I foresaw." - Farmington, Michigan consider himself "forewarned." - Wellfleet, Maine " ... As a graduate with two Master's After the Journal editorial, a flurry of "It seems like only a week since I sat degrees from your University, I find letters from outraged readers descended "My husband and I are both graduates of down in the rosy glow of pleasant myself very ashamed that aUniversity upon the U-M. By January 13, nearly 50 the University . ... memories and wrote a check for $1,500 both I and my wife have attended l)as letters made their way to Rosenstone, We are finally at a financial position for your Partners in Leadership fund stooped so low ... If Meizlish, U-M President James in our lives where we can afford to make drive. - Mahopac, New York Duderstadt, or Department of Political meaningful contributions to worthwhile In fact, it was only a week. But what Science Chair Arlene 5axonhouse. The institutions and organizations. Actions a difference a week can make. "In 1965, when I graduated from ... the follOWing excerpts are taken from those such as these cause many of us to question Had the ... editorial from the Journal [U-M, it] was world~wn for its liberal letters, which were obtained under the whether the U-M should be on our appeared a week earlier, who knows approach to ideas and the spoken word .... Freedom ofWorrnatlon Att don.. Uon·list." .' )V~en I would ever stop boiling enough How things have changed during ~lfltds ~fbhio to wlite a ch~ for $15, Jet alone $1,5007 your regi me and that of your recent II • • • This degree of emphasis on political Right now I feel only shame - 1wish to predecessors.... .•. . correctness is ridiculous and, in my "Last week it was the Political Science crawl into a comer and hope my friends ... 1 finally feel that I am financially estimation, makes the University look Department ignoring the First will have the grace not to bring up this able in a small way to support the foolish. I am not alone in this opinion." Amendment; this week a group within situation to me. There is no way that I can University .... - Brevard, North Carolina the Law School. One begins to wonder defend or justify it. ..." Obviously, I have very little influence whether a fifth column within the - Grand Rapids, Michigan on University policy .. . however, I must " ... Speaking from the political left, I of University has set about producing horror register a protest. ... I will be unable to course share many of the aims of those stories for Dinesh D'Souza .... " "Since 1936 I have traveled the over the support the U-M financially or in any who would circumscribe First - Ann Arbor, Michigan world and been proud of my association other way until the 'thought control' Amendment rights on campus, but as a with the U-M as a student and alumnus. policies of the University are stopped .... " civil libertarian I 'find their means " ... One definition of sexual harassment But when I read the editorial in the Journal, - Ann Arbor, Michigan troubling in principle and is, loosely stated, the use of sex or one's for the first time I was ashamed of what counterproductive in practice." gender in a threatening manner; is it one of the world's great universities had " ... [O]nly a small mind could construe - Ann Arbor, Michigan possible that Mr. Shawn Brown rather become .... that innocuous paragraph as 'sexual than Ms. Meizlish is the one who has I had been led to expect such stifling harassment' and only a small person "My life as a feminist and writer makes been harassed in this case?" and unscholarly actions from Dartmouth, could plumb a personal affront out of it. me perhaps too socially seMtive at times, - Kansas City, Missouri Stanford and Wisconsin. A billion dollar That you employ a few teaching assistants especially when I read the editorial page endowment is a tragic waste of resources of that caliber is unfortunate. That you of the Journal, but notl)ing bugs me so " ... If you are going to limit speech, why if administered and implemented by apparently employ a professor of the much as when otherwise well not bum all the books that are offensive faculty with the mind set displayed in same caliber is deplorable. That a intentioned people go over the top . ... to the school, or question all incoming this instance." Department Head endorses their Like our friends at Ms., I hope to see students before registration? How does a -Southgate, Michigan pettiness is appalling ...." the day when PC stands for "plain manifesto of correct speech or thought -MarqueHe, Michigan courtesy", however, if you had addressed sound? Golly, it sounds a lot like " .. . How long is this nonsense going to me with your self-righteous hysteria, I communism. Oops, I gave myself away. be pursued? Please get back to teaching " ... I regret that I [a high school academic most certainly would have told you to You can now throw this letter in the and learning at an early date." counselor] will no longer be able to piss off." garbage knowing I am a right wing - Alturas, California recommend the Political Science - Washington, DC wacko, or maybe I am a left wing wacko? Department at the U-M as a possible Lets see, now liberals are on the left and "I am an ardent supporter of the U-M ... school choice to any of my high school students until I see evidence that the II Are you on drugs? What a farce. You liberals favor individual freedoms. Yeah, I have considered setting up an academic make it harder for all women. Get a life." I am a left wing wacko. scholarship in the future .... students' education takes precedence - Newton, Massachusetts ... I am a graduate of the U-M and I When I was"a freshman at your over an instructor's obsession." refuse to give money to fa scist University, I read Voltaire's statement -Chicago Heights, Illinais " ... As one who taught at the U-M (1955- Universities (look it up, it fits). So please that 'I disagree with what you say sir, but 1970) and quit at what I considered the remove me from your alumni I will defend with my life your right to " ... Where will it all end?" moment of ultimate cowardice and contribution list. .. . say it.' It seemed to me to typify the -Houston, Texas stupidity by the administratioo, I concede p.s. I hope I don't get tortured too University's attitude of intellectual error. The University has subsequently long when the men in black shoes ceme . freedom and openness. And it was that "~"' ~ " ' '''~''''''''''''' _ _ ''''Y<''''''-''--'' ' ______"",,*, _l1»'l><'~*''I'' _ _ '9;1''_""""""*' ; ;~~Jmf4fl'4"'''''''''''''''''' __''''''''_'''''''''''''''_ "'''' __''''_'''' _____ - 6 THE MICHIGAN REVIEW February 10, 1993 Revelations of a Fifth-Year Senior .',.;" ". .- Of Schlitz, Shanties, 'andSchembechler by Brten Jendrykll the team would get our hopes up, amass self it big, juicy, Diag-squirrel sandwich. open areas to protect the inside of his There are, it seems to me, two types ing a 1~1 or 9-2 record. Every year, Michi 'No mo~ "decaf double- .,."m ___~_ ..__ _ __~, ______.... ______February 10, 1993 THE MICHIGAN REVIEW 7 Book Review '~.~ --1' God, Nuclear Power and Revenge ShIIdow PIIIY functionary in the city government to tragic consequence of Wyatt's Though the distance, both physical and Ch .... Baxter ensure that the local authorities don't get collaboration with Schwartzwalder. metaphOriC, puts an end to the conflict W.W. Norton' Co. upset when" a little hooh-.h," as he calls Cyril, after working at the plant for a between the two men, it is a conclusion Hardcov ... 388 pegea it, gets spilled or released into the air. while, falls ill from exposure to dangerous that leaves much unresolved. There is no $21.95 Wyatt is initially apprehensive about chemicals. Wyatt comes to realize that sense that Wyatt has triumphed, or that the risks. Although the price of the .Cyril has been avenged. The moral By Adam Garaglola he professionally prosperity which the ambiguity which surrounded the There is, one can reasonably assert, inhabits a world of chemical plant bringS agreement between Schwartzwalder and no such thing as a wholly ordinary or bureaucratic con to the town is the Wyatt permeates the denouement as well, typical life. Each person's existence siderations, it is not health of the people and no one can claim righteousness in presents its own particular challenges, unemployment stat who live in it; more the face of it. and each individual fonnulates his own istics, development immediately, he must In the end, it seems that Aunt Ellen's set of principles for dealing with the costs or property cope with the guilt of understanding of the world is not only world. Shadow Plizy, Ann Arbor resident value figures that knowing that, in justified, but also possessed of profound Charles Baxter's second novel, works convince Wyatt to prOviding his cousin truth: the notion of a divinely inspired from this premise, presenting the reader help Schwartz with the ticket to sense of justice seems, after the resolution with the outwardly conventional life of walder; rather, it is model citizenship, he · of this story, a quaint and obsolescent Wyatt Palmer. the image of his is at least indirectly notion. Her notion of an unconcerned, After graduating from college and formerly idle and responsible for but curious God, a spectator of the h~ getting married, Wyatt returns to the dissipated cousin Cyril's terminal ill condition, quite unmoved by the problem small central Michigan town of Five Oaks, Cyril holding a ness. of evil in the world, is vindicated by this where he grew up, and takes a job in the respectable, well After Cyril's story's conclusion. local government. Committed to building paying job, leaving death. Wyatt under Shadow Play is an intelligent novel his career and establishing a household, his self-destructive, goes a transform which raises serious questions about the Wyatt is t;eSCU.~ . fr9m bland domesticity delinq uent past ation. Tiring of negative side of contemporary affluence, by a colorful ~ of relatives. behind rum .... ;." .. , :. ~!. decency and its inadequacy/' he vows the value of so-called civic virtue as Wyatt's mother, who suffered a The conversation during · which to avenge his cousin and make life hell practiced by someone l ike nervous breakdown soon after her Wyatt agrees to help Schwartzwalder is a for Schwartzwalder. Resolving t~ bum SchwartzwaJder, and the chaJlenge of husband's death in Wyatt's youth, is an masterful example of narrative down the businessman's house, Wyatt's acting ethically in a world which values archetypally crazy-yet-wise old woman, foreshadOWing; even Wyatt suspects that perception is dominated by a expediency. But more importantly, who speaks in a language all her own - the choice he has made is destined to romanticized notion of retributive justice; Shadaw Play tells an interesting and highly a mixture of metaphor and made-up have terrible consequences, as his he sees himself as something of a populist engaging story as it raises these issues. words, not easily comprehended by apprehension makes apparent: vigilante: Baxter's rendering of his characters makes anyone else, but nonetheless rich in it easy to accept them as individuals obscure insight. Wyatt had the sensation '" that he It was one of those nights for deserving of our empathy and Cyril, Wyatt's beer-dmnking, hell was in the foreground of a scene, gasoline and disaster, one of those understanding; without being raising cousin, is his temperamental behind which large gears were about nights when things get done in this melodramatic, he portrays the dramatic opposite; despit their differences, there to mesh and tum, bodies rise and fall, c~untry: good-time violence, a show potential of an ostenSibly ordinary life. is a great affinity between them. souls given and exchanged, and that of hands, then flames and broken Wyatt's Aunt Ellen, who raised him he was in the presence of someone glass. Adam Garagiola is senior in creative after his mother checked out on her who was both businesslike and writing and comparative literature and permanent cruise, also plays a central whimsical ... Wyatt, swept up in his own revenge staff writer for the Review. role in this novel. Ellen is convinced that fantasy, very nearly carries the reader everything written about God so far is This effect is heightened by Wyatt's along with him, but Baxter is too wrong, and occupies her time, amassing impressions of the enigmatic character of sophisticated to allow such a simplistic Coming to a Review "evidence" for a new Bible, one which Schwartzwalder, a Mephistophelean resolution. The arson attempt is botched, will explain God's apparent indifference figure with inscrutable motivations, who and has unintended consequences. near yOU: The latest to the world. She is gifted with an ominously speaks of his success as a form While the conventional triumph of installment of the awareness and sense of understanding of revenge. good over evil may be the staple of the that Wyatt lacks, and as the story After the two men make their pact, heroic adventure story, Baxter recognizes Fortnightly Fed develops, her informed perspective all seems well for a time. In exchange for that life is far more complicated than functions as a counterpoint to his often the favors Wyatt has done him, that, and the moral question raised may eralist, by Laurel confused perceptions. Schwartzwalder gives Cyril a job at the have no clear answers. · Revenge is a Complications begin to develop in plant. Cyril, in the meantime, has questionable motive upon which to base Schippers. (It's a Wyatt's quiet life when he meets Jerry apparently turned his life around: he has one's actions, and the complications it Schwartzwalder, an erstwhile high school gotten married, bought a house, and creates undermine Wyatt's attempt to week off schedule, classmate who has become a successful found religion in the form of R/Q right the wrongs done to his community. but it's just as good businessman. Schwartzwalder wants to Dynamics, founded by R. Stan Drabble. Instead of driving Schwartzwalder out build a chemical plant in the area, which Seeing him assume the mantle of middle of Five Oaks, Wyatt's actions, and his as before). would bring jobs and prosperity back to class respectability, however, Wyatt is resultantguiltyconscienc~impelhimto the economically depressed town. The troubled by the sense that he has lost the leave the town. Schwartzwalder, and nature of the business, however, makes disreputable, fun-loving cousin he knew presumably, his factory, remain. Look for it on March 3. dilemma inherent to it: Schwartzwalder and loved. At the end of the novel, Wyatt and wants Wyatt to use his influence as a !hi!> vague sense of los.s fOJ,'etellsthe his f~ly leave the Midwest entirely. '<-- ~~ ' -" - -- " "~-- .'-~ ...... ~, ~~~.,...,-""~ ",-"""".., .,. ..-.~"",,,~ ...... -,-,,,,' ___ "'n' ...... ~ ._~ __~ ... ·""_ ,,_ ..... ,,_ _ _ ""_~ 1< _ , . £Ii !'II Ji!!!iilIIIIIt 8 THE MICHIGAN REVIEW February 10, 1993 Book Review Economics and the Environment The Ecological Vision When he examines business prac government, and the influence of private disequilibrium. In his Capitalism, Social Peter F. Drucker tices, therefore, Drucker does so with a .foundations that provide a true market ism and Democracy, Schumpeter states that Traneactlon Preas knowledge of what other institutions for ideas - has been lost as the govern the inherent danger of this disequilibrium Hardcover,457 pages need; a knowledge he has gained through ment gained more control of the economy in a democracy is that politicians would $34.96 many years of working with hospitals, and society. attempt, as Bill Clinton is, to soften the universities, and other non-business or Drucker recognizes this attempt in impact of structural dislocations and the by Joe ColettI ganizations. Because of "Keynes: Economics as a system would fall into socialism. One of the most pressing concerns this knowledge, he is able Magical System," written Drucker contends that the belief in facing large, bureaucratic organizations to discern general manage pfterF~ . shortly after John Maynard governmenfs ability and responsibility like the University of Michigan is a lack ment trends that apply to Keynes' death in 1946. to "do something" about the economy of communication among relevant mem many types of organiza Drucker Drucker states that was a result of an arrogance among econo bers throughout the organization. The tions and to society at large. "Keynes's economic poli mists bred by the success of debt financ U-M and others have adopted the Total Among these are the in cies do not follow from his ing in World War I. Government, he states Quality Management System in an at creasing specialization and THE basic theories; indeed they repeatedly, is ineffective at solving soci tempt to alleviate this problem by chang accompanying need for ccr are hardly compatible with etal and economic problems. America's ing the organization's structure and cul ordination within organi ECOLOGICAL them:' It w~ only after the strength in the past was its reliance upon ture. The realization which led to this zations, the evolving con spell was broken by the private sector, and that is where the attempt was an understanding that uni cept of manufacturing, and VISION Roosevelfs New Deal af initiative for future social change will be versities are like corporations in that their the revaluing of education. ter 1935 that the theory located. As a result, social innovation has survival depends upon successful man Drucker was among Reflections found its policies under the become the top priority of management, agement. t on thr the first, inJ954, to see the k ~ml'ril3 1l Ne<>-Keynesians. again, this is not simply business man Peter F. Drucker has been writing on shift in demand from S~I'- Condil :'\I~ In his refutation of agement, but the management of all in the problems of management in all insti manual labor to knowl ,f ... ._ Keynes, Drucker goes to stitutions. tutions since the 1940s. The Ecological Vi edge work. In his 1991 es the core, the static mod~l In the ~.erlVord'i written specifically' sion is a collection of essays SP~ his say,.'The New PrpductivityCluillenge," underlying neo-classicaJ, Keynesian. and for this coUection of essays, Drucker cata career which includes pieces from the he contends that technology and capital Milton Friedman's economics. He even logs some of his ideas and the ways in Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street are the tools of production in knowledge questions the Austrian school's stron which his thought has evolved. He also Journal, and many other publications. and service work, and that to make all gest voice, Friedrich von Hayek, for never details his vision of the "field" of "social Many of his recommendations are tar members of the company more produc attacking the economic validity of social ecology" and its origins. Because he geted at management and could be effec tive it must become a learning and teach ism but merely its social consequence "see[s} as central to society and to civili tively utilized by the University admin ing organization. until the later 1980s when socialism's zation the tension between the need for istration. Fundamental to this transformation failure was already evident. continuity and the need for innovation The need for internal communica of organizations is the recognition that Joseph Schumpeter, according to and change," Drucker sees himself as tion is one of the recurring themes of technological change demands innova Drucker, is a much better guide to the both conservative and liberal simulta Drucker's essays in The Ecological Vision. tion and creates its own"objective real problems of economics, since he views neously, but not as either exclUSively. By this phrase Drucker does not mean ity" against which progress can be com capitalism as a dynamic system which His work is on society, but his back informatiQp-sharing, but the actual pr~ pared. Drucker explains this in 'The First thrives on "creative destruction." As ground in religion and philosophy adds cess of providing knowledge to others Technological Revolution and its Les Drucker notes in his 1983 essay a depth to his writing that is missing within the organization. In a chapter en sons," but he emphasizes that technol "Schumpeter and Keynes," Schumpeter from that of most business and social titled, "Information, Communications, ogy only outlines broad parameters realized that the power of government commentators. and Understanding," which was origi within which policy is confined. He notes "to control the distribution of the na nally a speech delivered in 1969, Drucker that the particulars - for example geog tional product ... was an invitation to Joe Coletti is a senior in Asian studies states, "Communication is the act of the raphy or societal structure - change and political irresponsibility." Schumpeter's and an executive editor of the Review. recipient." Communication establishes that it IS in the various responses to these key was that innovation led to economic the meaning of information by establish particulars that cross- "W""-'"~,,,~_,_~ ______~~_, :Februap' 10, 1993 THEMICHIGAN REVIEW 9 TA Testing Continued from Page 1 minus scoret and that there is talk about blocking the blackboarQ." Hofer stated of engineering do not require new IT As which serve as reinforcement for T As. phasing out this "half-way" category and that this is the favorite part of the work- to attend the 3-week workshop at CRLT When complaints do arise, the ELI inves establishing a scor? of four as the re shop for the candidates, since it allows that new LSA ITAs must attend. tigates them, said Briggs. ''Things aren't quired score to enter the classroom. them to interact with students. The instruction of TAs, however, so serious as they were before." In some cases, T As on the lower range According to Cindy Romer, an Engi- does not stop there. When ITAs enter Professor Ramanujan echoed these of the acceptability scale are required to neering sophomore who served as a paid their first classrooms, evaluators from findings. He said that in looking at the enroll in specific ELI courses concurrent observer at the CRLT workshop last ELI attend their classes to observe their statistics of complaints of T A language with their teaching dutie!;. In addition, August, most of the candidates make a performance and advise further language difficulties over the past three years, the some candidates not qualified for assign special effort to be effective teachers. In work in ELI. numbers have "appreciably fallen ments are required to enroll in Ell fact, they are much better than some of ITAs who aren't ready to begin teach- down." Complaints in the math depart courses, after which they can be re-tested. the T As she has encountered in regular ing are placed within their respective ment are handled at the faculty mentor A candidate can take the IT A test a maxi classes. Their performance in the work- departments in research positions or level, and Ramanujan stated that the com mum of three times per yeart and accord shop, however, may not provide a real is- other places where they can enhance their plaints he has received beyond the men ing to another ELI brochure, uexceptions tic representation of their future class- language capabilities. Putting IT As in tor level have been "practically rull" since are made only in unusual circumstances." room performance, as these candidates non-teaching environments provides "he took his post in the fall. He stated that Briggs stated that the tests are pretty are in a "try-out" situation which gives them with the funding they need to re- when complaints do arise, the problem is demanding, but that "there is no pres them an extra incentive to do their best. main at the university. usually resolved. Sometimes it is just a sure to pass someone when they are not In ma~y cases their performance, along Complaints about T A language dif- matter of a student not being "attuned" ready." Between 1989 and 1992, 26 per with the results of the ITA test, decides· ficulties have declined over the years, to an ITAs accent, he added. . , • cent of candidates taking the exam for whether or not these candidates will be according to Briggs. They are not as nu- Swales stated that from the "anec- the first time were not approved. This able to remain at the U-M. merous as they o~ce were, she states, . dotal" evidence he has received, the com. figure includes a wide range of candi "They seemed to feel a lot·of pres- because if they were, Ifa copy [of the plaints often concern the IIquantity" of dates, some of whom have been in the sure," said Romer. If I heard one of the complaints) would be forwarded here foreign teaching assistants encountered u.s. much longer than others. T As saying if he did not pass the work- and we aren't seeing them." and not the quality of their teaching. He After completing the IT A test, T A shop he would have to go b.(:lck home." Wlien Swales was asked about cur~ also stated that there is a "twenty year candidates must also attend a three- week Hofer said that in recent workshops/be- rent complaints, he also said that they history of this problem." and that foreign IT A workshop c<>-Sponsored by ELI and tween one third and one half of the can- have Qeciined, but noted that "there are T A horror stories tend to circulate exces the Center for Research on Learning and didates were not cleared for teaching. , still some." Swales stated that when he Sively among students. What under Teaching (CRLT). As stated by Barbara Most departments offer some form came to the university in 1986, the IT A graduates need to do, he feels, is look at Hofer, Coordinator of IT /:.. .. q.;~nin~,t .nf c9I1P~}1¢ ~~~,i~}a~~,i~?QJ~t~~~",\ is~~~}v ~~.,.~U~;,.. ~~g.,gU~,~~~e~e~.· .. I1~. each ITA objectively and not "jump to CRLT, in a November 30,1990 letter to received at ELl and CRLT .. Theriulth,"aad~d, j7h~mart'sbffi~mlystf$$tillit the Daily: ''The workshop offers oppor ematics department, for instance, holds a problem, butnot the top problem. " .. '~®~Ti~~;!dini~ii~~~~::~ri;:~' /·"i" tunities for practicing a variety of teach 4-5 day training period at the beginning Hofer stated that the Dean's office is downswing, it would be a boon for en ing skills (before a video camera) with of the term for all new T As, foreign and actively meeting on this issue, and that it hanced undergraduate education. The feedback from staff and peets as well as otherwise. According to the associate doesn't feel that the problem has been current testing and training standards Michigan undergraduates who are hired chairman of the graduate math program, completely solved. Currently, the U-M can only enhance the quality of educa to assist with the program. The work Professor M.s. Ramanujan, the success has some of the strictest standards for tion for America's undergraduate stu shop includes exposure to the culture of rate of this training period is high. IT As of any university in the country, she dents. The challenge is to lure under the American undergraduate classroom The School of Engineering also has said, adding that the "sentiment is that graduates back to graduate schools now plus sessions on diversity, gender issues, its own orientation, as well as individual the standards should be stricter yet." that the baby boomers are ending their nonverbal communication, etc." The departmental training within the school. 'There's a lot of work going on to reign and leaving many open spaces in workshop is offered in May and August, For instance, the Department of Naval continue to improve the quality of un- programs around the country. With the for students already on campus or ones Architecture holds practice classes that dergraduate instruction," she said. In her current job market as bleak as it is, per arriving before fall term, respectively. are videotaped to provide feedback for letter to the Daily, Hofer spoke of recent haps college graduates will once again CRLT hires undergraduates for five new T As. The Department of mechanical research conducted by herself and Briggs set their sights on a tweed coat and reen days to observe TA candidates during engineering conducts its own seminars that "indicates a Significant increase in ter the haven of academia. the three week workshop. The students in a similar vein. undergraduate perceptions of ITA effec- provide feedback on the teaching tech In addition, engineering T As are re- tiveness, as measured by student rat- Beth Martin is a senior in English and niques of candidates, comments such as quired to attend a two-day T A orienta- ings." This is partly due to the emphasis contributing editor of the Review. "You need to speak more clearly," "You tion at CRLT in September. Interestingly placed on continued training for ITAs in aren't looking us in the eye," or,"You're enough, some departments in the college English skills and teaching methods, legacy." Street Journal. versity on Brown's behalf. AlA One of the key purposes of Wheeler's AlA feels that the treatment Brown . AlA feels that both thought-polic visit, and of particular interest to U-M has received for his now infamous "Dave ing activities and lying to students have Continued from page 1 students in attendance, was a discussion Stud" reference is ludicrous and consti gone on for long enough at the U-M and of AlA's plans to become directly in tutes a perfect example of the thought other universities across the country. In In schools across the country there has volved in the Shawn Brown incident. policing that occurs at liberal universi the fight, AlA hopes to expose the truth been a drive to portray the Reagan years Brown, an LSA sophomore, first gained ties everywhere. Both Wheeler and AlA about cases like Brown's. As Wheeler as bad times for the nation. AlA feels that notoriety when a portion of his Political are determined to take actions against himself said, "the truth is more powerful this is partially a result of the current Science 111 paper was branded as sexual U-M. than its opposite." liberal dominance in academics. The AlA harassment by his teaching assistant, Said Wheeler, "Shawn is owed an is a strong pro-Reagan force, distribut Deborah Meizlesh last semester. The in apology, and he will get an apology by Jason Camhi is a sophomore in political ing posters depicting the former presi cident was initially reported in the Octo the time we are done. I guarantee that." science and a staff writer for the Re dent in a scene from one of his movies ber 28, 1992 issue of the Michigan Review, Wheeler went on to say that upon return view. with his head in a noose and a caption but has since been brought into the na ing to Washington, he will contact AlA's which reads: "Stop the liberal/ media tional spotlight by both conservative talk attorneys to discuss possible legal ac lynch mob.l'd1.~ tNth about the,a~(:ll) sho~ .~~ ~\I~h, Liplbauglt ,ap~ .t\l~ Wall _tions that can be taken against the Uni- - __~'_)""_~""<'.I"."i'·'<.' Sports ';' Martyring Marge Schott by Corey Hili concern is to keep their economic lever- did not have sizeable support among between the First Amendment rights of Race, sports and the First Amend- age in negotiations with the owners. As a -blacks because the Dodgers refused to Andre Cerrano, Ice-T and Marge Schott? ment make for an undesirable mix. The result, players with their own concerns sign marquee black players. Shortly there- Yes, if you believe political and social latest failed attempt at merging the three over public relations don't usually like to after the Dodgers beliefs should de- into some sort of stable union occurred make a big deal out of incidents like signed Darryl Straw- Q termine the extent on February 3 in Chicago, when Major Schott's. Managers, moreover, must keep berry and Eric Davis of a person's rights. League Baseball's Executive Council, both their players and the public happy, (two black players, Ce.rrano is best under pressure from their silent but and suspending Schott was an integral formerly of the new known for placing present liberal con- parl of that publicrela- York Mets and Cin- a crucifix in a jar science, voted unani- ~ tions puzzle. cinnati Reds, respec- filed with urine and mously to suspend Cin- ~ Perhaps the most tively). The criticism calling it art, while cinnati Reds owner prominent spokesman suddenly disap- Ice-T advocates the Marge Schott f previously admitted to Rev. Jeg;e Jackson. Jack- of Schott's suspen- j' ~;2' song "Cop Killer," using racially and ethni- son, a known anti- sion is composed of .. • ~ yet neither one is cally insensitive lan- Semitic, once referred to the multicultural required to attend guage. Jews and New York training. Multi- classesoncomrnon ThetermsofSchotfs ... City as "Hymies" and culturalismisappar- decency. Schott, suspension include limi- "Hymie Town," respec- ently no longer a fig- however, is. lations on her conlact - tively. "Let he who is ment of conservative The most im- with the team, a 25,000 without sin cast the first imaginations or a __~ _. portant qualities dollar fine, and comple- stone," said Jesus transient phenom- missing from base- tion of a multicultural Christ, and Jackson, enon confined to academia. No one dis- ball owners are conviction and principle. tra4ting program. Be::- . . . who was quickly.a~ putes that Schott's cOJl111lerttswere stu- More distutbing than radahIurs is the sides the incident itself, Several troubling solved of any blame for his remarks, pid and insensitive, but she did not com- deceit these owners are practicing by circumstances surround Schott's suspen- certainly cast it. That he should fault commit a crime and she is well within her suspending Schott The owners and other sion, including the comments and un- Schott for making similar remarks is bla- rights to express herself without being supporters of the suspension are em- derlying agendas of numerous promi- tantly hypocritical. Moreover, if we forced to pay for her comments by de- bracing symbolism instead of substance. nent people, many of whom are not di- should forgive Jackson because he prom- vouring a meal of multicultural hogwash. They have no intention of eliminating rectly involved in baseball. ised never again to utfer insensitive Schott's biggest blunder was making her racism. If they did, they would examine Let's examine the real reason behind words, why shouldn't we extend the same remarks in the presence of other people. their own souls and practices. Instead this suspension. First is the issue of pub- courtesy to Schott? The U-M is notorious for its attempts they prefer damage control; they have, in lie relations. Public relations playa fun- Although baseball and sports in gen- to muzzle the First Amendmenl Though essence, offered Marge Schott as a sacri- damentaJ role in the survival of profes- eral attempt to portray themselves as it has instituted numerous policies to ficial lamb so Jesse Jackson will move on sional baseball. Baseball thrives on nu- noble through actions such as Schott's facilitate racial harmony, none of these to his next assignment and leave Major merous ~eals which guarantee its expo- suspension, there is much evidence which initiatives have worked; in fact, racial League Baseball alone. Jackson eagerly sure on national and lcr slurs and profan- obliges because he is viewed as the slayer cal television and radio. rl ... ity were heard dUl'- of white oppression, whether it mani- Team owners annually I, the owners and Jackson were senous about eitmt- ing a national Me- fests itself in baseball or Haiti. milk as much as one bil- natingradsmfrom baseball they would not seek castoftheU-Mvs. If the owners and Jackson were sen- lion dollars from net- ••• • '. MSU game on Feb- ous about eliminating racism from base- works like CBS for to 11.1mt FfTst Amendment nghts or tmplement other ruary 2, 1993. The ball, they would not seek to limit First broadcasting rights. to- It' .1 th b d'd . t S d . slurs prompted u- Amendment rights or implement other cal markets push the SO U tOns 0, e an -at vane y. uspen tng MPresidentJames solutions ofthe band-aid variety. Sus- st.~even~gher,out- Schott amounts to nothing more than a smoke- Duderstadt and pendingSchottamountsto~more btddmg eaCh other to fi .. MSU President than a smoke-screen for covenng the broadcastgamesplayed screen or covenng the stns of other owners. Gordon Guyer to sins of other owners. Will Schott'sdepar- by the local team. rel~ a joint state- ture change racial attitudes in baseball? It is difficult to &ympathize with pIay- suggests otherwise. A case in point is AI ment labelling some fan behavior as "bIa- Not any more than the departure of ers, some of whom have contracts worth Campanis, former vice-president of the tantly hurtful and malicious." Will Campanis did. Why should we buy the more than many people can expect to Los Angeles Dodgers. Campanis had the Duderstadt and Guyer mandate that fans same fraudulent arguments twice? earn in their lifetimes. Many players se- misfortune of telling Ted Koppel of ABC attend decorum training classes before cure commercial endorsements for prod- News that many "blacks may not have they are issued tickets next season? If the Corey Hill is a junior in political science ucts ranging from athletic equipment to the necessities, let's say, to be a field Schott suspension is any indication of and a staff writer of the Review. cars, from which they reap astronomical manager or perhaps a general manager." proper procedure, they probably should. sums. Campanis was well within his rights to All of this raises a most important Yet it is the players who need to express his opinion, but he was fired question: Have we degenerated from a express their opinions about manage- because his continued presence in man- society which respects and protects the menl Unfortunately, the players' con- agement had the potential to become a First Amendment to one which only se- cems with management seldom extend public relations nightmare for the Dodg- lectively remembers inalienable rights? beyond the next contract negotiation. ers. If we have, then we must question who Surely some players may want to be- AfterCampanisleft, therewasgrum- performs the selection and what they come coaches '>"· "~~~ ~'~""-=~""""""'I'l"'~":~""'''~~'''A :;; Pffiw;;::;;:;;u;m3MW ,-. February 10, 1993 THE MICHIGAN REVIEW 11 Sports ~(» ;" Hiring Minority Management by Aaron Steelman matter. It was an effort to find the best." whole. Who would want to see a businessmen. Right now there are no On January 12, the Rev. Jesse Jackson "We've had black coaches, we've had basketball game involving mediocre, black-owned National Basketball met with the owners of Major League black general managers, and we've had albeit racially diverse, players when he Association (NBA) franchises, and only a Baseball (MLB) to present his 14-point black scouts. I am not sure you can ever or she could just as easily watch the best? few in baseball and football. This situation plan concerning minority affairs in regulate something like that," said A similar parallel can be drawn to could change without the use of baseball. Jackson's presentation came on Wilson. management and coaching positions in affirmative action. Rather than telling the heels of his announcement regarding Wilson's remarks were excruciating- sports. It would be highly unfair to fire blacks that they cannot get ahead without the formation of the Rainbow the help of white owners, Jackson should Commission for Fairness in Athletics. be pushing for more minorities to look Accord ing to Jackson, the JACKSON'S 14-POINT AGENDA into purchasing franchises. commission will be an independent Ownership is truly a means to group comprised of people selected by 1. Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott must be "removed" or "suspended." empowerment. With ownership comes 2. Bill White, current National League President, should be the next commissioner. himself. The commission will have greater financial reward as well as risk, 3. Affirmative action programs should be established for all baseball front offices. and, more importantly, the ability to hire branches in cities with major sports 4. Affirmative action programs should be established for major league umpires. franchises, where it will monitor the 5. Encourage the hiring of black baseball managers; , and fire. The last decade saw the rise of hiring processes. Three Detroiters have 6. Affirmative action programs should be established for all levels of management positions many large, black-owned businesSes in been invited to join Jackson's in baseball to end "institutionalized racism." this country, and there is no reason that organization: the Rev. Jim Holley of the 7. Summer internship programs should be established.for minorities. something similar could not occur in Uttle Rock Baptist Church, Lonnie Bates, 8. Hire black stars of th~ pa$t including, Willie Mays, Joe Morgan, and Bob Gibson. sports. a former member of the Detroit School 9~ Sponsor Little League baseball teams in the-inner cities. If Jackson's plan of boycotting Board, and National Association for the 10. Urge Bill Clinton not to tlli'ow out the first pitch on Opening Day unless every team has professional baseball were to go into affirmative action programs in place. . Advancement of Colored People effect, the people most hurt by it would 11. Minority and female vendors must be given equal consideration in merchandising. be the players - both black and white (NAACP) Executive Director Joann 12. Reprimand the players' union for its silence on-the Marge Schott comments. Watson. 13. Hire more minority journalists to announcing positions. and not the owners and management. It is Jackson's intention to bring what 14. The "degrading" nicknames Braves and Indians must be changed. Without revenue, owners could not ,',,'.: afford to pay their players. he sees as raci~ fairness to the hiring of . \ blacks and other minorities throughout Iy accurate. It is the responsibility of any PafRHeY,he.ad c6achof the New Y6rlt ,. ..aY'ndjr~qJy ~~~ ""y""-",~";;;;;;;;;;;:;::;:;:;;::;;;;;:;;;:;;;;':~;,;::;::;;,;;=;;,-..":",,,,..,.,,,,,~ =<--~"; • '" ~~'-~",C> ~,>( 'f: ~ ' <'~':'/ "'f 12 THE MICHIGAN REVIEW February 10, 1993 Music Biohazard: Too Tough to Contain by Joe Epatefn could be about any city, " he explains. problems are always the same: drugs, take-no-shit music. For one, the guys "Biohazard is everywhere, it's all "When you see somebody you know die, -racism, crime, violence. " aren't faking it. Biohazard have been around us. It is the shit we sing about. you realize life is too short for us to look Hambel feels that many kids can re down the road, and feel that their hon We're not Biohazard, we're just four guys around for reasons to hate people. The late to Biohazard's brand of in-your-face, esty separates them from most. from Brooklyn," said Biohazard founder "Some of us had problems with guitarist Bobby Hambel. "Our music is drugs, some of us had problems with basically folk music." violence, says Hambel. 'j3ut being in the With bassist and singer Evan band gave us a sense of direction because Seinfeld, guitarist Billy Graziadei and we learned how to focus our energy in a drummer Danny Schuler, Hambel and positive way. Instead of going out and company ferociously deliver their works getting fucked up over something that with primal, urban intensity exclusive to bothers me, we get out on stage and we New York's hard core scene. fucking slam it out and it feels good." The band's music can be called folk With their latest album Urban Disci only because the songs are angry and pline out on Roadrunner records, the boys often preachy tales from America's dark from Brooklyn have played with the best side. Biohazard are honest and straight in hardcore and thrash: the Cro-Mags, forward, but more like a steel-toed boot the Exploited, Slayer, and Obituary. or a pair of bra~uckles than John Den After a short European tour with ver. Kreator in January, Biohazard will tour "We're not just some heavy metal the States for three weeks. They make a band singing about Satan, fast cars, fast stop atSt. Andrew's Hall in Detroit on girls and drugs. All that shit is as real to Friday, February 19. Fellow hardcore gi me as Mickey Mouse and Woody Wood- ants Sick Of It All share the bill il.!ong. pecker," said Hambel...... with Sheer Terror. . . " "It's not just Brooklyn, the songs Offers To Warm You Up Latest Beethoven Concerto Flunks by Frank GrabowskI its superior lineup of talent and the suc cess of its prior recordings, one would Ludwig van Beethoven assume that the Beethoven Concerto Concerto for Violin in D would only follow suit, but alas, this is Nigel Kennedy, violin not the case. Klaus Tennstedt, cond., NDR Orch. The tempos are painfully slow, al EMIdassics most to the point of rendering the work This reCording of the Beethoven Vio of listening too depressing. Although the lin Concerto is a severe disappOintment, symphony's performance is solid, the to say the least. The team of Kennedy and fire and urgency are lacking, as is espe Tennstedt have combined in recent years cially evident in the somnambulistic first I A medium deep dish or round pizza i I A large deep dish or round pizza I for some memorable recordings, most movement. I with cheese and one topping only II with cheese and one topping only I notably the Brahms Violin Concerto re I have treasured the RCA Jascha leased about a year ago, but their latest Heifetz stereo recording of the Beethoven : $5.95 (plusbx). :: $8.95 (pi",,,,,). : effort falls far short of expectations. Concerto for years, and it may be unfair Kennedy has always been known for of me to judge the Kennedy recording by Valid only at Pack.ardlHill II (I ~ Valid only at PackardlHill I illJd Broodway locations. and Broadway locations. his 'artistic' tendencies - the fusion of the standards of the Heifetz, but the dis :(II ~ Not valid with other offers. II ~ Not valid with other o(fers·1 classical and jazz music with contempo parity between the two is obvious. Where . ?5~. One coupon per pIZZa. . IIC":. One coupon per plZZll. I Sinc:l19C8 r~ Umited delivery area. II Sia l!U8 rlZl.(l Umited delivery area. I rary themes. The liberties Kennedy 9ften Kennedy lazily shuffles through the piece, lIt,.. .. _ •• , Expires F.b. Zll, 1993. .J L 1At ___.Io' Expire. F.b. 31, 1993. .J takes most apparent in the final move Heifetz instills it with the Beethovian L ment cadenza composed by the violinist eroticism which has earned him his title ------Central------Campus--546 PackardIHill himself. This is not to say that Kennedy's as one of the greatest violinists of the 20th '" technical performance on this disc is in century. adequate, but it may be said with some The Kennedy and Tennstedt record 769-5555 certainty that his interpretive skills have ing is not bad per se, but it certainly does little appeal to 'traditionalist' ears. not come dose to the recordings of Heifetz Since 1948 , J 'HZ2ci North Campus--927 Maiden lB.. As for Tennstedt, he conducts an or even Friedrich Kreisler. With"other NDR Symphony in top form. I have al superior recordings already on the ~pUurmn.ntwbt· 995-9101 ways felt the NDR exhibited more integ shelves, I can hardly recommend this .. rity and emotion than some of the more one. commercial Philharmonics. Considering - ~- - ." .. '- --"-.'.'"_ _'~'''' ~' ' ''' _N'''~ __'''_''' '_ . ~_._. __...... ___ ._~ .., .. _..... ___ ._ .. _.... _ _ ....___ .______""" ______""' ...... ______