MnronthTy supplemeTTtcHh^tat^e^ Tuesday, January 22, 1974 multi-medio shocks, innovates in electric show Don Trammel (left) tapes a session of Intermediary auditions while Terry observes players' movements. Both head the multi media group. Photo by Craig Porter "It (the planetarium) can be By CRAIG PORTER anything you want it to be," explained Terry N. Terry, 130 People don't try out for Center St., another organizer. He was talking to a Intermediary; Intermediary group of tries out for people. people who had responded to Intermediary is posters and newspaper notices a group of actors, dancers, videotapers asking interested people to and other assorted media meet in 138 Natural Science freaks who want to put Building Thursday night. together shows for something The meeting was a free - they call "environmental form acting and get - theater." Their theater takes acquainted class. into account its "This isn't a play; it's surroundings, a striving to integrate a science process," said Trammel as he they invented and call watched about a dozen people "biototics." amble around the lecture hall "Biototics assumes a level of in pairs, exchanging "yeses" understanding where and "Noes" in as many everyone can communicate," said Don different ways and tones of Trammel, 130 Center St., who voice as they could imagine. helps organize the group. He Then they formed a large circle said the "science" is one where and took turns leading others those in the know can use the in making strange motions and understanding to eliminate sounds. selfish motives — a sort of Players engage in follow - Nirvana. the - leader type games, and The goal of the group is to other sensitivity - oriented create theater which could be exercises involving different performed in most any bodily motions and sounds. environment. Right now the The goal is concentration, group is producing shows to which Trammel says is the be presented in the Abrams difference between good and Planetarium. bad acting. "We see the planetarium as "If you believe what you're the arena of the future, well doing the audience can't help equipped to handle but believe it," he said. the demands of an increasingly Intermediary presented one Two participants in the multi media activities huddle together during a aware audience," says a show last term in the Persons involved in the auditions act out taping session. statement written planetarium. The emotions, feelings and situations. by group is Intermediary members. (cont'd on p. 8) Photo by Craig Porter dnojb oipeLu-.a/nyj Gymnastics: the sport for swingers (really!) Former Spartan all - around performer. "Factor's know - how and experience will Ken Factor, is now the assistant gymnastics be a tremendous help to the team." coach. Coach George Szypula says Photo by Milton Horst By Another Spartan gymnast, control his body. That's why "I tried out for the team and "A top - heavy gymnast will BILL COSTABILE Glen Hime, got into the sport you don't see too many big have been with it ever since," be performing at a in a more conventional way. men in gymnastics. Ever wonder how some Rosengran said. "I don't like to disadvantage," Morse said. "A "I used to watch Southern "Muscle coordination is athletes wind up comDeting in compete in any other event long, slender body is ideal far a Cal's gymnastics meets and easier for a smaller man," Hime either. In all the other events their respective sports? gymnast Upper body strength decided to give it a try. But the said. "The only event that Quite obviously, physical a you're upside down during is most important and the event that I was most small person is at a attributes dictate limitations your routine and that scares slender person can use his interested in was the horizontal body upon certain individuals. A kid disadvantage in is the side me. I like to know when and weight more effectively." bar. horse. It takes a tremendous bow I'm going to fall." who is 6 - 4, 230 pounds While body size is "It looked like it was the amount of body strength to be Assistant women's coach usually leans toward a contact important, attitude has a lot to most fun. I started getting good on it." and former Spartan gymnast sport such as football or do with gymnastics success. better on it and have stayed Sophomore Dave Rosengran Charlie Morse explained why lacrosse. "Everyone has the physical with it ever since. My main said that gymnastics was not smaller built athletes comprise But, what does a smaller tools to perform goal now is to win the Big Ten gymnastics," man do, and what motivates always his first love. most gymnastic rosters. Morse explained. "But mental horizontal bar title," Hime "I love to play baseball and him to particpate in a sport "If I had to make an exact preparation is a must. I'd say said. football," Rosengran said. such as gymnastics? measurement, I'd say between that gymnastics is 75 per cent Some of MSU's varsity Though he is only 5 - 8,140 "The only thing is I'm rotten 5 - 5 and 5 - 9 would be the mental. Without the right pounds, Hime is the perfect in both. When I was a ideal height and between 125- mental preparation, a gymnasts offered varying size for a gymnast. reasons for choosing their sophomore in high school, I 155 pounds. The main thing is potentially great gymnast will "Little guys have the best began to fool around on the particular sport. that the weight should be turn out to be an bodies for gymnastics. It's side horse with average some friends of evenly distributed throughout Sophomore all • around man easier for little to performer, and average a man mine. the Bernie Van Wie got into body. gymnasts are a dime a dozen." gymnastics in a unique way. "I'm a real movie freak and I saw an old Kirk Douglas movie where he played a trapeze artist," Van Wie said. "That got me interested and I tried out for the gymnastics team in high school." "I'm a real movie freak and / saw an old Kirk Douglas movie where he played a trapeze artist. That got me interested and / tried out for the gymnastics team in high school. Van Wie has been connected with gymnastics for six years now and has not lost any enthusiasm for the sport. "If anything, I'm even more interested in gymnastics now because of the top gymnasts I've seen and competed against. When I see some of the things they can do, it makes me work that much harder.. "I had a good season last year, but I want to improve even more this year. I want to get a firm knowledge of the basic moves so they'll be second nature to me. Doing the difficult routines will come Sophomore Steve Murdock is one of the reasons why coach squad. Murdock's steady improvement on the side horse has late; but with a good basic Geogre Szypula has an optimistic outlook for his 1974 helped the Spartans shore up a weak spot in the routine they'll be that much lineup. easier," Van Wie said. Photo by Milton Horst •4 Michigan State News Hast Lansing, Michigan Gerald Ford: One heartbeat from the presidency By R.D. CAMPBELL college football star. He was a 60 - minute center In a one — on — one situation Ford is a on University of Michigan teams from 1932 -34. While touring Washington in July 1970, totally charming man. The voice that washes out Princess Ann told Prince Charles she thought it "There's nothing wrong with Jerry Ford when nationally televised is warm and rustic, was odd the colonial* had picked a bald eagle as except that he played football too long without a very much like a benevolent grandfather heard their national emblem. helmet," the late Lyndon Johnson once said. from across a table. He appears to be a nicer guy Rep. Gerald R. Ford R - Mich., was Johnson also joked that Ford couldn't walk and than his voting record indicates. accompanying the Royal Family. Prince Charles chew gum at the same time. Rep. Andrew Young, D. - Ga., was the only asked him about the bird. Ford was baffled. But back in Grand Rapids, where Johnson black House member to vote for Ford's The same Gerald Ford 25 — year carried the fifth district in 1964 only because he confirmation. He said he was "torn between representative of Michigan's fifth congressional was considered the lesser of two evils, folks political and personal instincts" but decided to district, has moved in the wake of the Spiro didn't put much credence in the Texas cowboy trust his personal instincts. Agnew scandal and resignation to the time and his Great Society. The district was, in 1948 James Havenga, a Pentagon clerk enrolled in honored heartbeat from the presidency slot. when Ford was first elected to Congress, and is the MSU preveterinary program for this summer, Depending on the disposition of Congress during today, a Republican stronghold. said Ford is a regular sort of guy who would the next few months, however, he could be much return honesty to the presidency if the situation closer than that. Seven years after Ford earned his law degree presented itself. Ford became the 40th vice president of the from Yale he ran a successful primary fight "You could trust him with your United States on Dec. 6 after withstanding the against incumbent Bartel Jonkman. Jonkman, a grandmother's savings but you wouldn't want most rigorous congressional investigation of any couple years ahead of Joe McCarthy thought the him to lead you into battle," the Grand Rapids candidate for any State Dept. was crawling with subversives and office in the nation's history. native said. communists. Ford, 60, and the first Michigander to be And just in case granny made the mistake of either vice president, answered with frankness The 35 year - old Ford, then considered a misplaced trust, say, for example, that a double - and dignity, the questions from the judiciary progressive, won by more than 9,000 votes and dealing Democrat had slipped out with her loot, committee investigating his fitness for office. subsequently, won the general election with 60.5 Ford would be first on the scene making sure 6he Though many Democrats believed Ford had per cent of the vote. He's been a virtual shoe • in was reimbursed. made in every election since then. political bungles over the years, especially His Grand Rapids office earned the reputation in his The 1970 Grand Rapids voters approved a of leadership of an impeachment attempt to having the sharpest pair of red tape scissors in oust Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas resolution calling for the immediate end to the the Midwest. Early releases from the armed in 1970, he still received an overwhelming Vietnam War. Ford a staunch defender of services, straightening out welfare problems, bipartisan approval from his congressional President Nixon's war policies, still amassed providing Library of Congress booklets on rabbit another mandate vote against local attorney Jean colleagues. raising for rural waifs, distributing a how - to - The Senate confirmation vote was 92-3, McKee. She also lost to Ford in 1972 when one feed your - favorite - Republican - cookbook while in the House of Representatives, where he of her bumper sticker slogans urged to "Recall and reuniting lovers separated by oceans and had been minority leader since January 1965, the the '48 Ford." unattainable visas were all specialties of his final vote was 387 - 35. The effectiveness of the slogan was perhaps office. His acceptance even among many diminished because Ford was referred to liberals was An MSU junior majoring in physical education typified by Rep. Clarence D. Long, D - Md., who affectionately as "Jerry", not Ford, by who wished to remain unidentified said Ford got said, "I'm going to vote for Mr. Ford. He's wrong thousands of fifth district residents. Almost an Internal Revenue Service auditor off his most of the time, but he's decently wrong." everyone in Grand Rapids who cared to meet father's tail a couple years ago. That was reason Ford has been the butt of many Washington Ford had met him and those who hadn't knew a close friend who had. enough to get the family's votes regardless, of jokes alluding to his years as a high school and (cont'd on p.5) Vice president Gerald R. Ford reads a paper in a barber shop in Washington before leaving Wednesday for his trip back to his hometown. Grand Rapids. The city held a celebration in his honor.. (AP Wirephoto) ££ ^£-8 -2 £ I 2i8 (cont'd from p. 4) In the afternoon Ford shook governor, dropped out of the or more campus protests on hands and signed autographs primary race. Ford balked at the MSU campus," Ford said in how they viewed Ford's for thousands of old friends the suggestion saying that he letter to HEW a secretary politics. and constituents who lined up foresaw Republicans gaining Robert H. Finch. Dawn Acey, a sophomore at in the cold outside the City - control of the House which Ford's conservatism, though Grand Rapids Junior College, County Building. would have made him majority he always claimed to be a said Ford expedited the release "Not more than a handful leader, a goal he had aspired to middle - of the - road of her older brother from the said they hoped since becoming minority politician, was again evident I would Navy so he could begin classes on time at Ferris State College. She said even though she opposed Ford's conservative political stands she voted for him because of the service he performed. "There's nothing wrong And those type of votes do, indeed add up. Grand Rapids Press columnist Ed described the "Vote for Jerry VanStee with Jerry Ford Ford" Potholder that was widely distributed during the '72 campaign - - "No frills. Square, white, thick and well padded, so that no housewife using it could burn her voting except that he finger." Ford got a hero's welcome from his old constituents last Vice president Ford played football too - Thursday when he returned to Grand Rapids for the first time representative for the NAACP, since his inauguration Dec. 6. said concerning Ford's stand on this legislation. A joint declaration of the Grand Rapids City Commission His constituents never cared and the Kent much how he voted on County Board of long without helmet. national issues as long as he Commissioners proclaimed it was "Jerry Ford Day." A visit to his old high school a Lyndon B. Johnson took care of them. B ut constituency he has now. anew They aren't now an inner city middle school - held more surprises primarily Republican or Democrat. They are mostly than Ford was expecting, succeed Mr. suspicious of politicians and including a soul shake from a Nixon," Ford told leader. when he tacked on that's where Ford might be rotund student government a reporter after arriving in In July, 1969, Ford took amendments that severely good for the nation. Despite leader. Ford, a major stumbling Washington. aim on Dhirendra Sharma, an watered down open housing his politics he is an honest block for civil rights legislation MSU professor, who had legislation in 1968. man. in the 60s, had become to the Once before, in 1968, Ford's received a $21,245 federal "Our biggest difficulty Hie next time he is asked name was mentioned as a grant to study ancient Indian audience, at least for a today is that Jerry Ford is still about the bald eagle he will moment, something more than possible vice presidential philosophy. working with the vice president. He was a contender after George "I am reliably informed Dr. probably still admit he doesn't Strom Thurmond," CJarence know brother. Roraney, a former Michigan Sharma has been active in one why the damned Mitchell, Washington colonials picked the bird. They still remember Jerry Ford, football star By manufacturing company in California. Brandstatter saw Barrie at the 1966 Rose Bowl R.D. Campbell game, MSU's last visit to Pasadena. Jerry Ford had hopes of squaring off against Ford was on Michigan teams which won national championships in 1932 and 1933. In Bronce Nagurski in the 1935 All - Star Shrine 1932 U M beat MSU, 26 - 0 and in 1933, 20 - 6. game against the Chicago Bears but never got the - chance. But during the vice president's senior year The All - Stars were deep in centers that year. when he was voted Most Valuable Player on the By his own recollection Ford was a scrawny squad, the Wolverines sunk to new depths. They character when he went out for the freshman finished last in the Big Ten. football team at Grand Rapids South High MSU broke a 19 - year losing streak against U - School. His coach, Cliff Gettings, asked him what M that season with a 16 0 victory. - Ford is still a big football fan. At a prayer position he played. When Ford didn't know luncheon for "Jerry Ford Day" last week in Gettings told him he was a center. He went on to become All - City in his junior Grand Rapids he stated certain values that an and senior years before going to the University of athlete earns last for a lifetime. "The value of humility, for instance — Michigan. Howard C. Zindel, chairman of MSU's Poultry humility achieved when the flush of triumph Dept., played against Ford both in high school disappears into the dust of defeat. Or when a for rival Union High and again during the 1934 football team which has played its best game MSU Michigan game. - learns it has been voted out of the Rose Bowl," "He was a hard nosed football player both in Ford said in obvious reference to the Big Ten - Athletic directors' vote to send Ohio State to the high school and college," Zindel said. "Ford wasn't spectacular but he was steady. Rose Bowl. That's what you need on the line," he added. Ford, curiously enough, as a U - M football But Zindel never had a chance to play Ford alumnus, is involved in efforts of the MSU one - on - one because he was a tackle. Joseph Alumni Assn. to bring better high school players Barrie was the MSU center who played head - up to MSU. He was scheduled along with Denny Gerald Ford was captain of the U - M football team in his Stolz to speak at a December dinner in Grand against the vice president. younger days. Ford has become co - captain in the Nixon - A.F. Brandstatter, director of the Criminal Rapids hosting the area's finest prep grid talent. He was unable to attend but sent a message to Ford team. Justice Dept. and a halfback on MSU's '34 team, said that Barrie is now the president of a textile be read in his absence. Photo courtesy of Sports Information Dept. U - M sxi|6u RdM^o To fight or not to fight? Only the player knows By though, a fight on the ice MSU aad three of the four STEVE STEIN players are here for an sometimes you miss a game means nothing, it's just a other Big 10 schools with education. They are not with a different opponent the wrestling match. Half the time, hockey teams are members of making next week. It was first Fighting is Dot i feature a living at it," he said. nobody gets in any good the WCHA. There is no Big Scotty Morrison, the referee instituted to curb fighting unique to ice hockey. 10 hockey association. in chief for NHL officials, between two teams," Bessone Other contact sports such as - - It seems that no one, except Three years ago, the NHL said referees in the professional said. "This is the only sport baseball, football and spectators, really likes to see basketball have had their adopted its "third-man in" rule game look at fights as an where you are penalized an fights during the games, which states that whenever extra troubles with players or entire escape. game." teams going at it. Sports fans especially league rulemakers. two players engage in a battle, "We'd rather them Bessone pointed out that the Both the National Collegiate the third man and see drop witnessed the Minnesota • Ohio any their gloves instead of slash (hit college rule puts a strain on the Athletic Assn. (NCAA) and the successive men entering the State basketball fight a couple someone with a stick) or official, who must make the National Hockey League fight will be thrown out of the highstick," Morrison said. intricate decision between seasons ago, and the Pete Rose Bud - Harrelaon melee (NHL), one of the two contest. Morrison believes that if the giving players penalties for professional leagues, have Most referees believe each NCAA rule were adopted for last October in the baseball roughing (or a variety of other developed strict penalties for rule is appropriate for that level the pros, the penalties would no-nos) or giving them the playoffs. players engaging in full • scale of hockey. But hockey be too severe. heave-ho for fighting. seems to see fisticuffs. Bob more skirmishes and Gilray, a veteran WCHA "In college, there's more "There's a big burden on the fights per The Western Collegiate official, said after MSlTs recent season than any other sport. emphasis on the game instead referee, and you get a lot of Hockey Assn. (WCHA) game with Colorado College of fighting," Morrison roughing penalties," Bessone Why? developed a rule nine years ago that he personally likes the commented. "So, at that level said. "Hockey is a more volatile which was adopted by the rule. of hockey, it's a good rule." MSU's most memorable sport," Spartan hockey coach NCAA in 1971. It forces a "I think it's a good rule for Bessone does not believe the brawl-filled weekend was Jan. Amo Bessone, MSU's head man player to miss the next game if college hockey. You don't see miss - the - next - game 29 30 for 23 seasons, believes. "It's all the fighting as in - , 1971, when the ejected from a game for collegiate rule is fair. Spartans faced Notre Dame, more impulsive. Usually, fighting or misconduct. professional hockey. The "It's not fair because (cont'd on p. 7) Referees attempt to calm down Colorado a College player during a game. The referees must decide which penalty the player will receive. Photo by Bob Kaye I V -JL Hockey fights (cont'd from page 6) Bessone, a big advocate of college hockey, believes the game is so fast that the players just Fifty penalties for 108 minutes were called do not have time to worry about - one getting into a and six players were ejected from the games. skirmish. Notre Dame joined the WCHA the next "It's » much a skating game that the kids just don't have time," he said. MSU's Jerry DeMarco was tossed out twice "Nobody condones fights," the Spartan coach and Bob Boyd, another Spartan player, was emphasized. ejected "I don't think the game is once. quite as physical as it was," Morrison commented. "Some games see "Things like that happen when you get some heavy worked up on the ice," Boyd said at the time. hitting, but you don't see the heavy- "It's just part of the game." body - checking on a regular basis any more." Morrison said he was not sure if the "third Bessone said most fights start around the man" professional rule had cut down on fights. goals, where defensemen are protecting their "But it has cut down the bench • emptying goalie. brawling," he noted. Those brawls really delayed "What you also have to watch out for is when the game." there's a line change when something starts. One thing about the two rules is obvious, Sometimes, you just can't bring them back," he though. Players who might be thinking about said. getting into a real battle might also consider the Whatever the reason, both Bessone and the consequences. NHL's Morrison believe that the game has calmed "It's always in the back of your mind," down appreciably in recent years. Spartan defenseman Norm Barnes said. "But Daryl Riot, Spartan icer, (right) and a Western Ontario "Hockey has quieted down quite a bit," whether you think about it really depends on the player spar a few rounds during a hockey game. Bessone said. "We had worse fights way back." situation." Photo by Ken Ferguson Editor's note: The following is the first of a "I don't seem to have any time with, you number of articles written about the "man on know, classes and all. I like to read magazines, the street." Persons interviewed are selected at and I like to read mysteries, I've read Daphne Du random. Maurier and I enjoyed her. Did you ever read any of her stuff?" By No. You're an art major, how'd you get into JOHN LINDSTROM that? This story is about a girl named Janet Nixon. "Oh, 1 took classes in high school and my She is not related to the President. grandfather was head artist for a long time on the "Every now and then people ask, when they Detroit News or the Free Press, one of those first hear my name, if I'm any relation to him," papers. I'm taking a sculpture class right now, shesaidl. "I used to say in high school that he was but I really think I should be taking a drawing my dad's uncle, but I don't do that any more. I class. Maybe what I'll do later on is get a job in really don't care to be associated with him." something that I like and keep a studio at home." Does she support Nixon? "No," Nixon says, "Like last year, '72, I couldn't vote and I really "I like the old masters and there's one guy wasn't aware of what was going on. I know that that I particularly like, ummm, what's his nan.e? sounds like a poor excuse but I just wasn't The guy with the birds coming out of - ch keeping up with who stood for what." other." When I first decided to write this story, Escher, I say. profiling the man in the street, so to say, I picked "Escher, that's it," Nixon says. Janet Nixon by chance. I used a phone book and What other classes are you taking? a pin to select my interviewee. "Forestry..." Forestry-, why? Nixon was chosen and was skeptical when I called her. "Because I like it. I've gone camping - Ji my family. I'd like to go for a trip on the on "There was this guy who called me up, in the River this summer, but I've got to earn moiu . >o middle of the night and said he was on a radio I might not be able to go." talk show. He woke me up and well, you know, I was tryin' to figure out what was going on, and Nixon works in the Case Hall cafeteria to pay for a horse she and three others are so I thought this was all a joke." keeping Nixon lives in "I used to work as a counselor at the Ki.-v k Case Hall in a room cluttered with objects and people. A loft holds the beds River Farm and Ranch, you know, around V I taught horseback riding to the kids. And ' t and hangs over the desks and couch, requiring , that anyone over five feet tall stoop to get under you work there a while you get to keep ont of the horses so I'm and into her room. sharing it with these other girls to split expenses." When I interviewed Nixon, she was curled up What do you look for in people? in the comer of her couch while a stereo played Emerson, Lake and Palmer. The only light on "I like to look for a sense of humor and I like was a small wall Janet Nixon is busy at her desk while Rosemary Dow looks light perched next to Nixon. people who don't think I'm utterly strange. I Plants were scattered around the room, tea pots on. Nixon, no relation to the President, has a room full of think a lot of people, when they first meet me, were on orange crates and cigar boxes were think I'm really weird, but after they get to interesting objects, including the loft, designed for sleeping stacked beneath, filled with thread, needles and know me they realize that I may have a strange quarters. God knows what else. Her own Photo by Dale Atkins drawings hung on sense of humor but that I'm me and not the walls. absolutely weird." Auditions are for learning in multi-media (cont'd from p.2) and sound effects used registered as an MSU student individually or combined. organization but is unable to The group will begin to have get any funding from ASMSU. more structured workshops The planetarium gave $430, this week. Each is aimed at yet the program is largely self - financed. Trammel complained higher competence in such areas as acting, about the financial difficulties photography, of putting on shows which dancing and improvisation. require a lot of electrical Intermediary's immediate gadgetry. goal is to prepare and present its second show near the end of "That's our whole problem February. The group is equipment," he noted, organizing and needs people. It — "'cause we're electric theater." is not, however, too worried Electric theater requires a about overnight success. large amount of videotape "We're thinking in terms of machinery, unusual lighting years," said Trammel. "We can and special electronic visual wait." Intermediary participant (above) waves his limbs in the light of a stroboscope during one of the sessions that was part of electric theater. Left, a student appears to meditate while others (right) get involved in making living mirror images with each other. Photo by Craig Porter