A bi-weekly supplement to the State News Tuesday, March 5,1974 "The Exorcist" — How to get that special feeling from being scared to death... ...and enjoy every minute of it from being "scared to death" reverting back to individual and enjoying every minute of solutions to crises, and the it. occult is consistent with this "It's part of human nature ideology." to enjoy the feeling of being Simons suggested that the totally frightened and enveloped movement toward by a movie," Daniel Wegner transcendentalism, Jesus, said. A graduate assistant who vegetarianism, and even yoga, conducted a study of the are attempts to "discover occult as a psychology course something to act as an last year, Wegner cited "the anchor." classic example of such Adding to these insecurities, feelings" to explain, Bill science has failed to solve the Cosby's recording titled problems it seemed to have had "Chicken- heart." under control in the post - "Little children used to World War II era, Lester listen to radio horror Hyman, psychologist, said. programs, relishing the "We've been anamoured thought of such total anxiety, with physical sciences and they knowing they would end up have been incredibly By seven weeks in theaters. less inhibited about seeing the sleeping with their parents. successful, but things are JOHN TINGWALL Why will people pay the violent "Exorcist." The same psychology is starting to fall apart at the prices and fight the lines to be "The Exorcist" has made a responsible for the throngs of seams," he said. Exorcism. entertained by a movie that has timely appearance at movie people waiting to see "The Arthur Elstein, professor of If the " word of the year" left people anxious, sleepless theaters. Curiosity about the Exorcist," he said. psychiatry, shared this view, awards were held today, this and sick to their stomachs? occult and psychic phenomena, Is the reaction to "The "lliere is a new mistrust in word would be the hands - Psychiatrists and psychologists a mystic revolution seems to be Exorcist" unique to 1974? science. The nuclear holocausts down favorite to win. at MSU offered a variety of in full swing. Some psychiatrists and have made the values of science The word appears, in one opinions to explain the frenzy The cover of Newsweek psychologists believe the questionable and added more form or another, on the cover and its uniqueness to 1974. magazine (Feb. 11) depicts a conditions for such a reaction real fears to everyday living." of nine million books, on ''The classical priest clutching a crucifix, a are ripe in society. "We're disillusioned with movie marquees throughout crucial part of the exorcism The psychoanalysis used to explain economic conditions our science," Hyman said. "So the country, on bathroom interest in such a movie, rite that expels the devil from today that may bring recession instead of sending someone to walls,("Don'timpeach Nixon, according to Freud, as possessed souls. Inside, a or depression scare people who a psychiatrist, why not an exorcise him") and in almost have never experienced a projection and extemalization six-page spread traces the exorcist?" every other joke told on of a person's repressed sexual interest in exorcism from depression," Barbara Reimer, Others dispute the position television. and aggressive impulses," author to social psychologist, said. priests to nauseated that such a frenzy over "The William Peter Blatty baited Joseph Reyher, clinical viewers, including actual case "People who feel they can do Exorcist" is unique. people with a tale of demoniac psychologist, said. "Man sees studies of exorcism, past and nothing about their lives "Nothing has really changed possession wheh "The these rampant in society and present. identify with the simple -since the 1940s. People stood Exorcist" first appeared in himself, but won't admit it. He Time magazine (March 4) explanation involved in in line for four hours for bookstores in 1972. The public wants to disown them, but gets features in exorcism." "Frankenstein" and fainted an - depth study of has swallowed his bait, savoring vicarious satisfaction from the interest in parapsychology, Father Michael Murphy, a there, too. It's just a loosening the taste of mysticism, violence seeing his sexual fantasies and the study of psychic priest at St. Gerard Church in of the screen code that allows and perversion served in one murderous impulses acted phenomena. Lansing, said economic factors us to see more on the screen helping. The film version, out," Reyher said. "There has been a re - are "probably the biggest force today than in the 1930s or whether it disgusts or enthuses Norbert Enzer, chairman of awakening of interest in non - in attracting people to "The 1950s." Lionel Rosen, asst. people, may challenge "The the psychiatry department, scientific modes of thought," Exorcist." The Godfather" as the biggest possibility of professor of psychiatry,said. concurred with Reyher, saying Simons said. "Formerly a losing material goods scares "The psychoanalytic money-making film in history, that the success of "The dream - like interest, people are people." conditions, have always existed and since its opening Dec. 26, Exorcist" real came as no really curious about the occult The loss of faith in for such a film like this," 3,775,000 copies of the book surprise to him. today. They want real answers government has added to have been sold. Reyher said. "It has the same appeal to to their curiosities," he insecurity. Student reaction to the film Regardless of objections to violence and sadism that a continued. "The Exorcist" is "People want the system fluctuated between, "It was its graphic portrayal of movie like "Bonnie and Clyde" definitely cashing in on the legitimized, and when it cannot gross," and "It was a waste of possession, or to media had, and that drew capacity times." be, it produces anxiety in their "overkill" you will probably money," to "It kept my crowds, too," he said. "The movie and the topic usual secure outlook," Reimer interest," and "It was better succumb to curiosity sooner or ''The later and end up in a block thinking and are certainly more believable said. than a roller coaster ride." - considering of violence is more today than before this Peter Manning, associate Very few, though, long line paying $3 to see "The acceptable today than in the occultism fad," Reyher said. professor of psychiatry, discounted possession by a Exorcist." Some may hold out recent past, psychiatrist and Beside the Freudian analysis furthered this point. devil as impossible. One for lower prices at the box anthropologist Ronald Simons and the interest in the occult, "When fear is induced and student remarked, "I don't office, but before the end of explained. "It's not that people the simplest explanation of the year, most will join the people lose faith in the future, know jf there can be have changed that much in the interest in "The Exorcist" it leads to the study of simple ranks of the four million that possession, and I doubt that last few years, but that remains an important things, as in the existential there one — is, but, I'm really not have seen the movie in its first the acceptance has made people special pleasure derived philosophy," he said. "We are sure." ■■m 0 '"W*#?■ -I'cw v_^4 Would you believe an armful of cats could run a radio station? They do! By Old Tom was found last dog, but he was turned down. everybody brings them treats." "They are generally WOODY AYEN December by one of the disc "Most people here like the Chris McClure, newsman and unobtrusive," he said. "Like What type jockeys in an alley behind cats or at least tolerate them" sportscaster for WVIC, said he women, they know their of mascot would Sorrell remarked. ^And does not mind the cats. a rock radio station have? Cats, Beggar's Banquet restaurant. place." The cat had evidently lost in a of course. torn fight and was half frozen. WVIC radio in Lansing has Since the disc jockey was on just that: four feline friends. his way to work, he just But the cats are not mascots; brought the cat in. they are residents of the "We have had as many as 13 station, some of them having cats in the station at one been there longer than some time," Sorrell said. "And employes. The oldest is probably close to 30- in the Chantilly, who past eight years." belonged to an engineer who When the first cat, Chantilly, was called into active National came to the station, she Guard duty. He had nowhere to leave his provided & badly needed pet until he came service of ridding the place of back, so it was agreed he could mice. Now there are no mice in leave it at the station. The "We have had as many as 13 cats in the station at one time and probably close to 30 in the past eight years." -Jane Sorrell engineer finally returned, but the building itself, but the cats Chantilly had become a manage to find them outdoors permanent fixture. and bring them to the back Jennifer is the daughter of door of the station. Chantilly, and has been raised The cats have pretty much at the radio station. free run of the station, except One cat is extremely unusual in the control room or in appearance. She is tortoise - production studio. shell gray and has no tail. The Sorrell told of an incident in reason for the lack of a tail is 1969 when one of the kittens that the kitten is half manx, a living at the station jumped on wild feline, which has no tail, the back of a newscaster while from the Isle of Man. The cat is he was on the air. Another commonly referred to as time one of the cats unplugged "Little Girl" or "Kitten," even a turntable. though she was named Lisa Bob Sherman, principal Strata after the famous woman owner and licensee of the in Greek mythology who station, said "I don't know organized women to refuse anything about those cats." their men bedmates. But, Sorrell said, "If Bob "The men working here just didn't like them they wouldn't be here." One of radio station WVIC's feline friends sits atop a turntable while one of never liked the name," said Jane Sorrell, corporate Walt Sorg, WVIC newsman, purrs on the microphone. secretary of WVIC. said he offered the station his Photo by I The end of political radicalism: fire students tasting a return to the '50s? By MSU McGovern campaigner but for the sake of expediency. major reasons protest rallies no R.D.CAMPBELL reminisced. They didn't want to get killed in a longer surface is because "they are Massachusetts became the isle of senseless war, Larrowe said. not effective political tools." Most MSU 1974 undergraduates serenity amid the 49 seas of "Most people are incapable of "Rallies show a sense of never occupied a building or threw confusion, yet there was no mass thinking about issues in the outrage," he said. "I never got into a rock. exodus. The activists had channeled abstract," Larrowe said. "They act outrage. I never even threw a rock." The age of student activism that their energies into the accepted only when they have been impinged Spiritual and religious climaxed in Chicago at the bloody political process only to be beaten upon." movements are also taking in old 1968 Democratic Convention and once He more. Fatigue was sees employment uncertainty protestors, Grebner said. again with the fatal shooting of overwhelming, yet there remained and other economic problems as "The four Kent State students more psychologically following the adrenalin for one final being the most immediate student disturbed activists are now getting the May 1970 Cambodian invasion into Jesus," he said. "Not only statement, the inauguration. concerns these days. has quietly faded into history. "We knew this would be the last Henry Silverman, professor of Jesus, but the Gooie Maharishi The last major surge of campus American protest," Joanne Geha, 242 Mason thought and language Bunghole. I think followers of activism at MSU came in the spring Hall junior, recalled. She was one of Gooie would have thrown rocks." and author of "American of 1972 when 4,000 students a handful of MSU students who Radical Thought in the Libertarian Walter Adams, past MSU blockaded Grand River Avenue, an worked in Democrat Richard Tradition," thinks American college president and now a distinguished action symbolic of the mining of Vander Veen's upset victory in the youth have entered a period of wait University professor, agrees in the Haiphong harbor. A sense of race for Vice President Gerald and see. sense that students outrage and frustration about an are becoming Ford's congressional seat. "I believe there still is radical more interested in the a spiritual apparently senseless war has the So the obvious question is: concern among students, "he said. world. bond between protesters. Where have all the protesters gone? "They say things they wouldn't "Students have turned from mass But de-escalation took the wind The answer is complex because have said 10 years ago." action and protest to what might be out of the war protest. the protesters have scattered in a He also says that economic called the contemplative life," he Fewer students were being variety of directions for many conditions are "what is causing said. drafted. Fewer Americans were reasons. Vietnam and the draft listed as was anxiety among students." "Bull sessions are becoming dead in the Walter the stimulus which led to Cronkite protest During the unrest of the '60s intensely personal," he explained. postbattle us - them and criticism not groups like SDS grew as the war statistics. only of the war "Questions as to whether the war but of the social spirit grew, Silverman said, and not Then too, the nomination of injustices and may be still going on or about race problems that were root causes of becuase the new members were issues come up quite infrequently George McGovern at the 1972 the Vietnam conflict. espousing the Marxist views of the and quite peripherally. Ideals are Democratic Convention signaled Charles P. Larrowe, MSU organization. quickly seared. When that happens new hope in the American political economics professor and He sees fallacy in the belief that process to college youth across the long - time the student turns away and inward labor activist, said that "because students aren't burning nation. MSU students who had protest upon himself." spread from minority to majority down buildings, we think blockaded Grand River Avenue they're Adams perceived that the appeal "in '69 when the sons of the apathetic." were now major upswing in activism began in spreading the good news middle class started being drafted Mark Grebner, manager for the 1965 when Presidentr Johnson of McGovern by knocking on doors because of the end to college McNeil / Brown city council removed graduate school draft until their knuckles were raw. But deferments." campaign last fall thinks that deferments. November came and the missionary "It scared the shit out of the protest and political activism was a He thinks the waning of activism fervor was stilled once more as faculty to see what students were Walter Cronkite issued a new set of passing fad, "just like cross - is partially due to the "attention doing," he said. "Students were country skiing." span of young people, which is postbattle statistics. saying that the reason for the war "I remember my rommate "People became disenchanted naturally and understandably was that the older when generation lost they learned that in the end relatively short." turning the TV on Tuesday night touch with social problems." you don't recapture the Holy ''Students have become and her scream. I thought we had it, Students not were initially Land," he said. disillusioned with the efficacy of but the people were too stupid," disturbed by the war for principles, an Grebner thinks that one of the (continued on page 5) Masses of students join together in antiwar activities while numerous unseen -students take over the Administration Building during the spring 1972 antiwar protests. 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He was their The increasing availability of "You are being invited to kind of guy." only 1,000 students voted while entertainment in East Lansing McNeil I Brown campaigners were remember the Earlier that '50s, and if you are same day about 50 coupled with the 18 - year - old expecting 5,000. invited to forget the '60s, then your picketers marched at Cunningham's drinking law and the increasing ease are invited to waste your lives," Drug Store, 101 Grand River Ave., in finding drug - and sex ■ oriented "Naturally I'm disappointed with the student turnout, but I still Ellsberg said of the current protesting the sale of Gallo wine. diversion has also paralleled the East Lansing is the state think we have the potential for nostalgia craze. subisiding of student activism. headquarters for the Gallo boycott Students are looking for a more something here," Brown said on The crowd once more came to its The United Farm Workers union election night. feet. Apparently students are not comfortable, compatible moral argues that Gallo producers are "I just can't believe we're going willing to forget the days of student code to live by," Silverman said. back to the '50s," he added. activism. oppressive employers. James Heyser, Democratic Though there is a visible Silverman said the speech evoked Cunningham's in East Lansing Ingham County commissioner responded to the pickets Saturday nostalgia for the 50s, as exemplified "residual sympathy" from people elected in 1972 from a heavy in student acceptance of the movie who didn't know what Ellsberg was by taking all Gallo wines off their student district in East Lansing, "American Graffiti," an ideological shelves. said the activism today involves specifically saying. If these two apparently return to that era would ignore the much more than lending body and But though many students were unconnected events, the progressive social change of the Ellsberg voice to protest marches or trashing foggy on the subject matter most '60s. speech and the Gallo wine boycott, sprees. understood that the man at the illustrate anything, it might be the "It takes more commitment to Last Thursday, Daniel Ellsberg of podium- who had believed in the activist sentiment is willing and sit behind a desk and do the Pentagon Papers fame received a people's right to know so intensely eager at MSU, but the flesh it takes important, but unexciting work standing ovation from 3,000 that he risked criminal prosecution to implement that thought is weak. than march in a protest," Heyser, who works at the Coalition fo' Human Survival in East Lansing, said. The coalition purports to be an umbrella organization taking in a conglomerate of issue - oriented activists with similar political, philosophical and moral leanings. Its membership usually fluctuates with the local political fluctuations. In January, the coalition began publishing the newspaper The Outrider as a viable alternative to Joint Issue, an ideology - oriented rather than issue - oriented paper. But the small numbers of students working at the Coalition compared with numbers of activists in the late '60s implies that student concerns have changed. One coalition member said he would like to know how extra help for projects could be enlisted, but given the attitudes of students in 1974, thinks it is next to impossible. Last fall the "student" candidates in the East Lansing City Council elections, Margaret McNeil and Nelson Brown, were defeated by Mary Sharp and John Polomsky, the "homeowner" candidates. Many students voted for Sharp and Polomsky while only a few homeowners voted for Brown or McNeil. From singing the Spartan fight song to hosting Jimmy Breslin: Fred Stabley and Nick Vista practice old Spartan fight songs while performing their duties at sports information service. Stabley and Photo by John Martell finally got his big break. "One part of our work is television and almost 100 Vista have "I got the chance to come back in and work in the sports publications such as programs, brochures, special publications photographers. You add them all together and you come up information department and of various natures and ticket with 745 people. this is what I had always information," Stabley said." "The first people to arrive done it all wanted to do," Vista said. In his 19 years here as No. 2 We produce, all told, better than 100 publications a year. came on the Sunday before the game. By Monday we started man, Vista has received "The other part is media having press conferences daily numerous opportunities for relations," he added. "We work in the press box with MSU becoming the boss at another with the mass media of coach Duffy Daugherty location including Western newspapers, television, radio presiding and visiting with the Michigan University, the wire services and magazines on writers. University of Wyoming and MSU Sports. We're actually a "By Wednesday we had Purdue and the San Diego service bureau acting as a about 75 people here. We kept Charger professional football midway point between daily written summaries of the team. He's turned each down athletics at MSU and the mass press conference, too, so a guy for the same reason. media." coming in Wednesday could "I've never felt that the Three incidents in recent pick up summaries from the By within a sensible range new job opportunity has years help to explain why press conferences held Monday JACK WALKDEN musically so he could make a surpassed the total picture that MSU's sports information and Tuesday. quick arrangement. exists here in terms of given department is at or near the "We set up special bus Preparing athletic booklets. "So that's just what I did. salary, salary potential, fringe top of its field. Tops on the list service for the writers to pick Hosting banquets. Serving as First, I whistled, it, then I benefits and what have you," would have to be the 1966 them up and get them out here hosts in the press box. hummed it and then I sang it he explained. ''The Notre Dame football game so they could go to the press Providing facilities for radio over the phone." administration here has seen fit which matched the top two conferences and watch some and television. Answering Even though singing the to make it very attractive to be teams in the country against practice and then take them special requests for materials Spartan fight song over the even to the point of singing the phone isn't one of the official Spartan fight song over the duties, Stabley and his staff are phone. prepared for anything. "We had everyone who amounted to anything in These are just a few of the Stabley's experience started many duties which Fred with a bachelor's degree in the Midwest plus tne people we like to call the Stabiey and Nick Vista journalism at Pennsylvania national press...the big wheels like Red Smith perform as the one-two punch State University and includes a in MSU's Information Services seven - year tenure with the and Jimmy Breslin and from the West Coast, sports department. The two are Associated Press. He came to recognized across the country MSU in 1947 and has been a Paul Zimmerman. " as the best in their field, and part of Spartan athletics since it's not surprising considering then. -Fred the way they handle requests, Stabley While Stabley has been especially the unusual ones. editor of the sports Probably the most unusual information department at a member of the staff in terms each other. back to their hotels. request was one which involved MSU for 27 years, Vista is now of salary adjustments and the "For that game we had 745 Vista and his "Some of the writers stayed singing of the in his 19th year as Stabley's atmosphere for practicing the people in the press MSU as far away as Jackson and fight song over the phone assistant. art of public relation* detachment," Stabley said. The Battle Creek. Some of them to a group in Lincoln, Neb. Vista, a Battle Creek native, "I feel it's important to facility adequately seats just "When the football team was is a graduate of the MSU work in an area where the 200. J'It stayed in Detroit. We didn't get over was the largest going great guns in the early School of Journalism and he any roomsourselves in Detroit, atmosphere, the general assemblage of media people but we did get 60s, I received a call from a got his first writing experience attitude and the outlook for ever to cover a college football Nebraska group holding a big on the State News. He worked accommodations for quite a positive public relations all game in the history of the few of the writers well out of banquet," Vista related. "The as a student assistant in the exist. sport. town. Th e re were no music group, the Mills sports information department "Even though staying here "We had everyone who under accommodations of any kind Brothers, was entertaining Stabley from 1952 meant turning down a change amounted to anything in the left here in town." there and they wanted the through graduation in the at being the boss, I'm not Midwest plus the people we music to the MSU fight song summer of 1954, afraid of it. I prefer to work in call the national press," he In 1971, Spartan running right then. After a few months with the an operation that's big league continued. "We had the big back Eric Allen broke a total "Well, there was no way to United Press, now United Press all the way and I think we wheels like Red Smith and of 17 records including NCAA mail it to them," he continued. International, Vista came back are." Jimmy Breslin and from the Single game rushing record as "How could we do it? Finally to MSU as part of the news Stabley places the work of West Coast Paul Zimmerman. he rambled 350 yards against he got out the tape recorder at bureau portion of Information the sports information They were all here. Purdue. Had it not been for the other end and had me sing Services. department into two major "Besides that we also had 19 the fight song over the phone In the spring of 1955, he phases. radio originations, national (continued on page 71 OuiOuis Rrmenians: Still 'flipped out on the Rmerican dream?' 1973 Armenian queen keeps faith in her heritage predecessors. Armenians in this country BOB OURLIAN Informed historians have became less loyal to the referred to the Armenians as heritage and will suffer another Sociologists often remark the "Jews of World War I." one when the original that cultures displaced to the Those years were the immigrants have all died off, United States become, in time, culmination of many centuries Darakjian says, but she is sure "Americanized." of persecutions of Darakjian's the culture will revive. When this happens, the ancestors, however, and today For Darakjian, her trip to culture's members subscribe Armenians are scattered the Armenian Soviet Socialist less and less to tenets and throughout the world. Republic in 1968 was one of values of the culture before The sociological the most influential events in Americanization and tend to phenomenon of her lifetime. adopt American value systems. Americanization of Armenians "That just completely Gradually, the culture in this country seemed to be brought back everything," she dilutes and spreads out under coming off during the lives of this process as its members try thought bade. second generation immigrants, to realize the "American Spending three weeks at a who, Darakjian admits, "were boarding school and two dream" and, in the final flipped out on the American additional weeks at a camp, analysis, all traces of the dream." Darakjian feels she has had culture fade away. And while the original quite an exposure to Armenian Kathy Darakjian's ancestors immigrants were concentrated society, even though it is now came from Armenia. in cities and ghettos, the Darakjian under the heel of the Soviet herself is a third generation second generation, seeking Union. immigrant residing at 328 affluence, spread to suburban She says the optimism she Landon Hall. climates. expresses comes from what she Between 1895 and 1920, Consequently, many third has observed here since her systematic massacres by generation immigrants, exposure to Armenian culture. Turkish nationalists and an Darakjian included, grew up in A confirmed Christian, attempted deportation of the an American society with only Darakjian teaches Sunday entire 1.7 million population mere hints and incidental frills school and says the way in Kathy Darakjian looks out her Landon hall window, a long of the country resulted in the of the ancestral heritage. which five - and six - year • old way from her Armenian homeland. deaths of more than three Darakjian says she does not kids pick up the language Photo by Dale Atkins million of Darakjian's know enough of the language amazes and reassures her. to carry on a conversation with "I have a lot of confidence someone fluent in the in this generation and in language. generations to come," she said. "I totally regret that I didn't In downtown Detroit, Stabley and learn it," she said. "It's so easy, annual ethnic festivals include and I would get just so much an Armenian festival at which out of it." Darakjian was crowned queen But Darakjian emphatically in 1973. denies that her heritage will "I do feel very much part of dissipate and be forgotten in it," she said. "By everybody the United States. Vista It suffered a setback when the second generation of contributing what they can, and working together, we can make it a unity." (continued from page 6) Vista said. 'But the game had to be goes out well ahead of the team to were all singing the fight song. It postponed due to the death of visit with the media there. sounds kinda corny and childish, Stabley and his crew, however, President Kennedy. "It's the same kind of work but it was genuine and we had a lot Allen might never have set the "His death happened on a Friday done at home; arranging press of fun doing it. record. ^afternoon when the game was conferences, going loaded with "I also remember one in baseball "Late in the game Allen had already to go with a full house and pictures and biographical in 1970 when Stave Cerez was a been substituted for and we press people all over the area. It was information of the athletes and freshman. We're playing Ohio State checked with press box officials really trying with the impact of coaches and statistics. and we're not in the championship and found that at that point Allen this tremendous tragedy as it "One of the other top memories race, but Ohio is. had 325 yards, 22 short of the unfolded. We didn't expect the would be the great basketball teams "It gets down to the last pitch of record," Stabley recalled. "We national mourning because we did we had in the late 50s when we the game, a three and two count on checked to make absolutely sure not have a modem precedent for went to the semi-finals of the the batter with two men on and and then went to the coaches booth that sort of thing NCAA championships and lost in Ohio State winning 3-2. If Ohio and told them the situation. "Finally at 10:30 Saturday triple overtime to North Carolina. State gets that out, they win the "They called down to the bench morning, we postponed a game The and told following night North Carolina Big Ten championship. Duffy. Duffy then called which everyone was already starting won the national championship also Allen and said to "Well, Cerez knocks the ball out over him, 'You out to go to. We rescheduled it for in triple overtime over Kansas and of the park and one last pitch costs have a chance to break a national the following Thursday. jumping center for Kansas in that Ohio State the game and the Big rushing record so you're going back "It was just the physical drain in game was Wilt Chamberlain." Ten title." into the game and you're going to getting all this huge project done in Vista has always been one to The job done by Stabley and carry the ball every play until you terms of hundreds of phone calls to root for underdogs and the two Vista does not go unrecognized. break the record.' let people like the radio and highlights he remembers the most Bob Reid, the statistician for the "When Allen went back into the television know about the involved underdogs who came Western Collegiate Hockey Assn. game, we had the ball on Purdue's postponement. It was the most through in surprising fashion. probably summed it up best. In 27-yard line and on the first play, colossal mess you'll ever see." "One of my top memories compiling the statistics for the he ran it in for a touchdown to With a combined 46 years of involved the 1966 hockey team," WCHA, Reid has to rely on the break the record." experience at MSU, Stabley and Vista said. "We had a team going sports information departments of Vista recalled one trying Vista have many memories of their nowhere early in the year and then, the league's 10 schools tc phone occasion in 1963 when the Spartans time here. gaining a hot hand, it won 12 of its him the results on Sunday after two were preparing for an important "Certainly the three Rose Bowl last 14 games to go all the way and weekend games. football game with Illinois. experiences were great ones," win the national championship. "Nick Vista is always the first or "We were scheduled to play Stabley reminisced. "Each of them is "We had been second one on the phone," Reid a complete Illinois for the Big Ten about three weeks work for the underdog and riding back with the said. "He's so prompt, I can usually championship and Rose Bowl bid," sports information directors. He team on the bus to the hotel, we set my alarm by him." 0*' *0- m Free breakfast program: low funds but full stomachs the government is supposed to Hanson said the program THOMAS WHITFIELD started provide one," he said. "What was by George Fleming Black, Chicano and white the children get at these as part of the Black United children stuffed themselves schools are milk and crackers Front, a black student with "Cap'n Crunch" cereal because the majority of white organization at MSU, in 1970. and hot chocolate at a parents are able to give their "George saw a need to community drop - in center on children a decent breakfast. provide a free breakfast for the west side of Lansing before Some of the West Side parents black children living on the can't afford to give their kids West Side," he said. "Now he is being bused to school. breakfast in the morning. Each somewhere up in Buffalo, A tall, black MSU student, dressed in blue denim jacket morning the children drop in N.Y., doing social counseling between 7:30 and 8:30 to get a after getting his doctorate in and jeans, served them breakfast on a long table in a breakfast here before going to psychology at MSU." one - floor recreation hall. school." Despite the apparent success of the project, Hanson pointed Ralph Hanson, head of the The center is situated on the out that the program had its Free- Breakfast Program, corner of Butler Boulevard and West Kalamazoo Street in a share of problems. discussed the project as he "The government was served the youngsters slices of poorer section of Lansing. bread, toasted from an oven. Deteriorated homes make up a supposed to provide money for free breakfast, but it was cut "The purpose of the Free large percentage of the off two years ago," he said. Breakfast Program for children neighborhood. "We didn't choose the "We used to get the food free is to give them a breakfast from the Lansing school before they go to school," he neighborhood because it was said. "It feeds 65 kids: 50 poor," Hanson said. "No child system, but they changed their is turned away because he isn't attitudes toward the program. blacks, 10 Chicanos and 5 "Another problem is the whites." poor. I can't afford to separate Hanson, a senior, stood at the kids and send them back changing of the old Capitol. home." Landlords are trying to get the the breakfast table and watched a group of children Hanson left the table and people to move out of the West Children seem to have a good time while receiving a warm, strode over to the food counter Side area. The city wants to playing creative games while nourishing breakfast every morning at the free breakfast the others finished their laden with large boxes of cereal expand the capitol area four blocks, wiping out this program held at the Lansing West Side community center. breakfast. packets, cups of juice and a The children are bused from soup pot of hot chocolate. He neighborhood. I'm not worried Photo by Craig Porter because I haven't heard Lansing's West Side to scooped the hot chocolate out the food from the campus of the pot with a soup ladle anything more about it." food helped black people. I heard predominately white schools. store without getting a about the program and George and served it to the children in Hanson said he gets Hanson says this presented a donations from the Akers Hall discount." got me into it." problem for most of the black plastic cups. He said he does When the Black United not have disciplinary problems blacks and various black Hanson said he recruits children. with the children. fraternities and sororities in the Front, declined on campus, the black students from residence "When the kids are bused to MSU community. He added Office of Black Affairs took its halls and maintains a staff of white elementary schools, like "If they misbehave, I put them outside," he that the program is non profit. place and funded the project. 10 MSU students who help him Everett, Maple Hill or Sheridan said. "Center of Urban Affairs They gave Hanson a voting to distribute food. Road, they don't get a "Generally their parents gave us $1,000 and a van to membership on its executive A yelllow Lansing school substantial breakfast though discipline them." council for his work in the carry the food from the bus pulled up at the bus stop campus to the center each program. outside the center. morning," he said. "The "I have taken some pressure "The bus for Maple Hill is off of them," he said. "Since I COUNTERPOINT management of Akers Hall allows me to use storeroon to store the food. their get donations from other sources, they don't have to here," Hanson yelled. Children from Maple Hill school dashed through the "I purchase the milk from contribute as much to it as center's door for the bus with Counterpoint Jane Seaberry is the school system and I get they used to. their schoolbooks. A chubby, free bread from the Schafer "The present need right now little black girl ran for the bus, biweekly as a to Counterpoint director. Persons Bakery, Hanson said. The is to find somebody to take my hut Hanson grabbed her the Michigan Stat* It it wishing to contribute tofuture •f Schafer people have been real place," he said. "I'm around the waist before she published by issues should contact the State nice about it George was the graduating from MSU soon and could escape. She had State I plan to go to medical school. one who get the deal started. forgotten her hat. He gave it to 341 Student ServMMl He When I came to MSU, I got her and she ran off to school approached them and they involved in anything that with a fuH stomach. agreed to do it. I buy most of