c' -s "53 ;?»<3 Q. ^ ^ - 4' ? $ 3 s Irs 3 s"^J"?. c?3 A Bi-Weekly Supplement to the State News May 14.1974 Fishing in the Red Cedar How plants affect you Black tennis stars shine at fDSU and more mensa: intelligent people searching for the completely unique experience Many of them are antique car freaks or civil war freaks. I don't mean they're strange or oddities. I simply mean they're passionately interested in intelligence ratings of the DENISE CRITTENDON what they are doing." general population, come from all professions and majors. — Anne Garrison Hie steady pace of life has a Saper mentioned Jill St. John, H. R. Haldeman, Theodore tendency to bore ewn the brightest Bikel and Iaasac Asimov as a of people, who sometimes get few of the international caught up in the humdrum world. That is one of the members. reasons for Mensa, an Saper described Mensa international social activities as a series of game It from they need." the Mensa activities there and nights, literary sessions and organization for individuals was Saper's late with high summer plans that the group of "If you're exasperated or wanted to join a nearby new idea discussions. intelligence bored with what you've been chapter. The discussions are an quotients. Lansing - area residents in Mensa was founded at a different occupations met and doing all day, you look for "The good times I had with important part of the group, London university in 1945. It began investing their time in some alternative, and Mensa is their group is what prompted Saper said, because they help the alternative," he said. initiate the sharing of ideas, was established as a local group the organization, which me to form a group up here," he in East Lansing in August cultivates the mind with new Prior to forming the East said. one of the purposes of Mensa. Lansing chapter, Saper said, To become a member of "Hie reason you become a 1973, when Roy Saper, an activities and interesting new MSU the closest Mensa chapter was Mensa, Saper said, an member is to share your graduate student in people. located in Detroit and interested person has to meet common interests with other economics, set up the chapter, According to Saper, who is one of 125 in the country. the local chapter secretary, international Mensa members certain admission requirements people, and often they want to Mensa is a Latin word for after an eight - hour day of in Lansing were unable to fully and "place in a certain share common interests with round table. It symbolizes classes and work, Mensa is an participate. Saper, who joined percentage or reach a certain you," he said. outlet for intelligent people Mensa during high school in percentile on an IQ test." Mark Hoover, an MSU equal stature in the group which "fills a void for what Louisville, Ky., said he enjoyed Depending on the test, a chemical engineering graduate among all members. certain score must be reached and Mensa member, said the and the person must be above group gives him the the 98 percentile rank, he said. opportunity to associate with For the Stanford Binet, the others and exchange ideas. standard IQ test most familiar One idea, in particular, is to students, a score of 133 is his remote control robot which needed. Some of the other is designed to salvage objects tests are the Weshsler Adult, from abandoned, underwater score 130, the College ships. Hoover is a self - Entrance Examination Board employed inventor and says Aptitude Test, combined score most people seem frightened by of 1300, and the Graduate his ideas. Record Exam, combined score "Hiey think I'm going to 1250. About 30 tests are take over the world, which is accepted, allowirfg for true, or that my inventions individual preferences. won't leave people anything to "Mensa people, locally, give do, which is not true," he said. two tests," Saper said, "so if Anne Garrison, professor of you don't score high enough business law and office on one you may score high administration, said she was a enough on the other." member of Mensa for 10 years Mensa members, who rank m the top 2 per cent of (continued on page 7) W& - Roy Saper, Mensa member , goes over computer printouts. Saper helped start the chapter of high IQ students at MSU Photo by Dave Olds Two black tennis players slice their way in Big Ten By JOE KIRBY Tennis has traditionally been a game associated with the color white, but in recent years other colors have entered the game. Tennis balls come in colors like green and pink and some of the players are now black. Currently MSU has two black players on its tennis teams, Dave Williams and Allison Scruggs. Williams, a senior, competing in his third and final year on the tennis team, has spent the past 14 years playing tennis. f 4 While the Chris Everts of the tennis world were taking private lessons on a backyard court, Williams was learning how to play at a summer recreation center in Newport News, Va., with a In his first opportunity to \ $1.98 tennis racket. play against white students in a state high school "I did it because I was too small for football Williams placed fourth and thus became championship and too short for basketball," Williams said. the first black in Virginia to place in a Williams stuck with tennis and as a high school sophomore in high school was asked by Walter championship. Johnson to play on the American Tennis Assn. Following graduation from high school Williams won a scholarship to (ATA) junior development team during the Hampton summer. Institute, a predominantly black college in The ATA is national program Virginia only a few miles from his home. a for black tennis players and it was Johnson who helped But, after playing a year at Hampton Williams was dissatisfied and wanted to transfer develop black tennis star Arthur Ashe in his to a school where the Virginia program. competition was stiffer. Williams spent two summers "At Hampton, the best playing for players in the Johnson and says, "It made me a conference were on Hampton's sharp tennis team," he said. After transferring to player." MSU, Williams had to sit out his first year on the team, but the Being a black tennis player in Virginia did present some problems since for many years following year he became the No. 2 player, a blacks were not allowed to position he held until this year when he compete in the same high school championships with whites. Blacks dropped to third. "I improved my total were also not allowed to play in tournaments at game just by being some country clubs. here," Williams said. "The competition really Finally in his senior year the white and helped my game." black schools were merged. (continued on page 7) Above, Dave Williams waits before warming up on the courts. Left, precision backhand. Williams returns his opponent's shot. Right, Allison Scruggs executes a Photos by John Martell Spring has sprung; So have ITISU plants cents each. Besides tulips, almost 3,000 JOHN TINGWELL petunias, 2,000 to 3,000 chrysanthemums and 500 geraniums will adorn the grounds. The bone - chilling April showers have come On other parts of campus, employes of the and gone — May has finally arrived. Rather than park and planning department will transplant some 25,000 plants from Beaumont Nursery to standing under an umbrella and watching buds and shoots pop out of the ground, the time has the grounds near the Administration Building, arrived to deliberately "forget" your 1:50 p.m. the Library and Kellogg Center before the end class in Berkey Hall to catch an eyeful of nature of May. This figure includes 12,000 petunias, and plenty of sun in the horticulture gardens. 2,900 begonias 2,800 impatiens and 92 varieties And why not? What better place is there to of annuals. In all, 422 species and varieties of enjoy botanical beauty than at MSU, one of the urbacious (stemmed) plants will enhance the few places left where people do not outnumber campus this summer. In addition, 9,000 woody plants. plants, like English ivy and honeysuckle, will be Fall term, horticulture students planted planted during May. 5,000 tulip bulbs in the gardens located next to MSU maintenance workers will plant 2,000 the Student Services Building. Imported from pounds of grass seed and dump 72 tons of Holland, the bulbs cost between 10 and 15 fertilizer on campus to spruce up for spring. Terrariums: How to keep your mini-garden mighty By After arranging the plants to satisfaction, one PAT NARDI can achieve imaginative finishing touches by Do - it - yourself terrariums are rapidly adding stones, pieces of wood, colored gravel and ceramic insects or frogs. becoming a common sight in residence hall rooms and apartments. Many students choose Overwatering is the major cause of terrarium failure. If the soil is slightly moist when first uniquely tshaped jars and aquariums to house their mini gardens, which are self • maintaining - planted, only one - fourth cup of water is needed to last for several months in a covered if built correctly. terrarium. Occasional condensation on the sides "Terrariums are popular with students of the container is evidence of the natural rain because you can ignore them," commented a salesgirl at Stanger's greenery, 230 MAC Ave. cycle occuring. Fred Flassig, assistant manager of Barnes "They take care of themselves." Terrariums can be likened to incubators. Floral, 215 Ann St., warned against Photo by Bob Kaye They provide a protective environment in overwatering: "If you see water condensed on A mini the side for three or four days and the plants - garden in a mayonnaise jar is only one of which temperature and humidity are carefully inexhaustible ideas for unique and beautiful greenery. This start looking a little soggy, you'd better controlled. one is in a Wonders Hall room. uncover them." It's not hard to establish the self - maintaining terrarium, if do - it - yourselfers Light and temperature should also be follow basic steps to insure proper humidity, regulated in terrariums. Extremes in temperature and lighting. temperature should be avoided. An indirect A layer of gravel and crushed charcoal is the first ingredient on the bottom of the container light is needed, and terrariums should be rotated often so that tropism (leaning towards COUNTERPOINT the light/) is not evident. to insure proper drainage. This drainage prevents soil from getting "sour," a condition According to the greenery department of Stanger's, appropriate low - growing plants for Counterpoint is published Jane Seaberry is in which water turns stagnant after sitting too terrariums include: pothos, fittonia, English biweekly as a supplement to Counterpoint director. Persons long in the soil. ivy, prayer plant, fermoshia fem, palms, baby's the Michigan State News. It is wishing to contribute tefuture A layer of potting soil should go on top of the charcoal and be at least as thick as the dirt tears and artillery plants. published by students of issues should contact the State Taller centerpiece plants include: Chinese Michigan State University in News. in the pot from which the plant is transferred. The plant should be watered in the pot its evergreen, maidenhair fem, dracaena florida 341 Student Services Bldg. beauty, nephthytis, draecaena sanderiana and bought in before transplanting, so that the soil doesn't fall apart. peperomia. $17.1 million said spent on Nixon's homes five years of the Nixon report saying that $17.1 million in federal money has administration." Clemente, Calif., $8 #. connection with President Nixon's private homes. AH but two million for Key Biscayne, Fla. and Republicans on the House Operations Committee for the Grand $176,000 improper expenditure of federal funds." *en joined Democrats in Cay retreat in the Bahamas — includes all The report alleges no nort said action should be taken to recover any improper approving the report. It attributed the high personnel, communciations and other protection costs. specific improper spending on Nixon's co6t without alleging any specific improper spending primarily to loose spending by the Secret Service and other homes and that no effort was made by any Republican to knock - agencies and the fact that Nixon has three Rep. John Buchanan of Alabama joined fellow that recommendation out of the tfpel Mixon homes - and recommended that permanent Republicans in report. security The report also properties. saying that the report accurately concludes that excessive 00 security The report elsewhere includes, under "unauthorized „ the future be limited to only one of a president's recommends that the government be spending — some of it for home items procured lystems in reimbursed for any by Nixon's aides expenditures," $388.78 fireplace exhaust fan and $4,815 in spending to improve a president's home. rather than proper a It concludes that some agencies - should be controlled. ^ ^"blames the $17.1 million in expenditures largely on Tar in excess" of of the spending on Nixon homes was security requests. Buchanan later told newsmen that the overwhelming property survey direction of the secured for San Clemente under the President's then personal lawyer, Herbert ^Rca"5 inadequate spending management by federal Chairman Jack Brooks, D - drafted the report, said one of Tex., of the subcommittee that the Republican vote for the findings of excessive damage Nixon. spending should not Kalmbach, and paid after the fact by federal agencies. It says Nixon aides also contracted or \ result," it says, "government expenditures for all high is that Nixon has three the primary reasons the cost is so properties to protect. "But in view of the way things have been going," he said, "Yes, brass lanterns, a beach cabana, paving and bought $5,000 worth of cat privately owned property have risen from practically These are $17.1 million costs I think it may do him some a sewer line at San damage." Clemente for which the government later '"iffduring the Roosevelt - Truman era to over $5 million in Brooks said, "if the President that would not have had not had those homes." occurred," The report's harshest recommendation affecting President It accuses the federal paid. agencies involved of having "abused the Johnson administration and over $17 million during the first The report Nixon says "appropriate says the $17.1 million - $9 million for San government agencies should seek discretion given them" by the fact that restitution or take other appropriate action with respect to any Congress has not put restraints on spending for protecting presidents and other officials. Volume 67 Number 158 Wednesday, May 15,1974 Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan 48824 Judiciary panel ends first full day of hearings; finds evidence gaps FROM WIRE SERVICES For that reason Rodino ruled St. Clair"? Mitchell after the break in, took place on - WASHINGTON The House memo as The Times quoted highly reliable — Judiciary unacceptable. a telephone not included in the White sources Committee, digging deeper into the One member said St. Clair's brief also House recording system. as saying the letter went from Nixon to U.S. District Watergate coverup as part of its concluded that the committee had no House members describe the material as Judge Gerhard A. Gesell in Washington. impeachment hearings, found more gaps in need to subpena an April 4, 1972, tape in interesting and illuminating. Rep. Jerome the evidence Tuesday as a result of the effort to discover whether Nixon had With the submission of Nixon's an Waldie, D - Calif., asked whether what he letter, some lawyers White House refusal to supply prior knowledge of the Watergate break • had heard tended toward impeachment said, the defendants have more tapes. At the close of the first full in because evidence furnished bv the White greatly improved their chances of day of rather than away from it answered, "Yes. I hearings, chief counsel John Doar House makes it clear he did not. wish I could say more." successfully arguing that their intent was to follow the President's recommended the committee consider The April 4 conversation took place instructions on a During the first day's hearings last matter of national issuing subpenas Wednesday for four days after the plan for the Watergate security. as many Thursday, Doar recommended the April 4 Democratic leaders said Tuesday that as 10 of the 76 presidential conversations break • in had been approved by Nixon's tape be subpenaed. The talk took place Republicans were trying to save their it has requested. re election committee, according to - between Nixon, Haldeman and Mitchell. testimony by committee official Jeb political necks by calling for Nixon's The Judiciary Committee also obtained Chairman Peter Rodino, D - N.J., Stuart Magruder. In addition to that resignation and made clear they want his said the request will be considered at public documents on the inquest into the fate to be decided conversation, Doar cited nine other gaps in death of Mary Jo Kopechne, but its by the constitutional a 9 a.m. process of impeachment. meeting Wednesday before the the evidence he is presenting to the chairman said Tuesday the papers were committee resumes hearing evidence committee. wanted solely for procedural guidance - gathered by the impeachment inquiry Six deal with meetings and telephone Key Senate Republicans, meanwhile, and proved useless. staff. conversations on June 20, 1972, between agreed that a presidential resignation A Rodino said the panel's interest in the would be a mistake, but they declined to legal brief opposing Doar's request, Nixon and his former aidesH .R Haldeman prepared by President Nixon's chief legal briefs had no connection with the go along with a White House suggestion and Charles Colson. Also, tapes of three Watergate lawyer, James St. Clair, was Chappaquiddick incident itself or upon they organize an effort to oppose it. meetings between Nixon and Haldeman on Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D - Mass.. in Tom Korologos, the White House's rejected by the committee on the grounds June 23, 1972, were not supplied to the it contained confidential material. whose car Miss Kopechne died. chief Senate liaison man. suggested an committee, Doar said. In another Watergate - related matter, St. Clair's brief had been distributed In material justifying a request for a organized effort to several senators while the New York Times disclosed AP Wtrepholo when objections were raised that it dealt Monday GOP senators were holding their weekly subpena, Doar noted that the June 20 that Nixon has sent a letter to federal Chairman Peter W. Rodino, D • with secret grand jury evidence covered in a policy luncheon. N.J., of the House Judiciary a closed - door session last week. meetings and conversations took place judge saying that the White House At least one of those approached by Committee leaves his office for the Tuesday afternoon after Nixon had conferred by telephone impeachment The committee is conducting this phase with former Atty. Gen. John Mitchell. plumbers unit was operating under a Korologos, Sen. Norris Cotton, R - N.H., probe session. The committee found more gaps in White House of the general delegation of his authority when it said he didn't see any value in an inquiry in secret to protect The White House has said this broke into the office of Daniel Ellsberg's individuals mentioned in that evidence. organized effort, even though he strongly conversation, the first between Nixon and psychiatrist. opposes Nixon's resignation. Rising drug robberies First of a two part series took place in residence halls and at cutting down the increasing number of worry MSU police were following the armed robbery of a pot removed a .45 slug from the wall. marijuana a week. He makes a modest definitely attempts to secure drugs or the armed robberies in residence halls. Under dealer in a residence hall. One of those "Now that is a case where a profit selling the pot by the lid, and also person By PETE DALY money collected from the sale of drugs, that policy resident assistants are required arrested was a parole violator and the to turn in totally uninvolved with drug dealing just gets his own stash free. Successful small • State News Staff Writer Badgley said. drug dealers. other was an escapee from Jackson prison happened to walk into a robbery and was scale dealers of this type are often well Before 1967 the most common criminal So far this year the campus police have Following the. armed robbery in April who had been convicted of murder," almost killed," Badgley said. known in residence halls, y in MSU residence halls often of an Akers Hall pot dealer, an Akers Hall making them Badgley said. Campus police said they are sure that visible to prospective robbers. *d in a bad investigated eight armed robberies. RA, Jerome Jacobs, was asked to resign "These the kinds of hangover the day after. But Richard O. Bernitt, campus police are people we are probably none of the armed robbers are "If we can eliminate the selling in Today alcohol use by students on because he had not reported the pot dealing with," he said. students, but are probably the typical residence halls, then we will also "eliminate is no longer director, said he could think of only one dealer. A group of resident advisers has illegal, but the conviction in the last two years for an on • Badgley said in one incident in June drifters that often hang around drug - use those armed robberies," Badgley said. ad dealing of since asked North to reconsider his action 1973, a student in Armstrong illegal drugs has far campus robbery. He blamed that low Hall areas. But, he added, the great number of the hazard of student against Jacobs. surprised a prowler in the room of another a suffering figure on the reluctance of many victims "We often find out that these suspects small - time pot dealers on campus are not ed assault The primary concern of police and student, who allegedly sold during one of the ever • to report the crime and testify in court. marijuana. have been hanging around that dorm for a of prime interest to campus police. Tig drug ripoffs. administration officials on campus is that As the student pursued the "We know we have a few Campus police said that probably most stranger down while before the robbery, but that nobody pretty- big wmpus police records show that for someone will be seriously wounded or killed a stairwell, the fugitive suddenly turned dealers of all kinds of of the robberies go unreported because the paid any attention to them," Badgley said. drugs on this years (beginning and ending in July) victim thinks he will be during a drug - related holdup. and fired a pistol, missing the student by The most typical victim of a robbery is campus, and that is who we are watching," through 1967 there were no armed prosecuted for "Last year two arrests were made about six inches. Campus police later the student who sells a pound or two of Badgley said. " s on possession of drugs. ■°8 there was campus. However, for one, and three were "We can't charge a person with '4 for the year after that. By possession who had his drugs stolen <0 the number had increased to six. because we have to have the drugs as 'Blink that's when we started evidence," Badgley said. having problems on campus," said The increasing number of on • campus A. Badgley, head of the campus armed robberies of drug dealers has fueled investigations division. the recent controversy concerning the role ■ m!% 1971-72 the number of armed of residence hall assistants (RAs). In Vtn 1°" Campus leaped "e to 12. For September Gary North, coordinator of "umber was nine, all of which residence halls, issued a new policy aimed oil students y orrest in pot seem right to one Snyder Hall comment on the arrest. Students living on the third floor in i*' "ght to him that campus Snyder Hall were surprised by the arrest. SrJP bust Chr,s Barnes, 371 "I didn't like it, I thought it was kind of scary, like a police state," Bill McDowell, ueydid' 369 Snyder Hall, said. • rl,!!:ult.0f an investigation by the McDowell's roommate, Steve Hughey, -ryMonday Metro Squad, Bames was said he was shocked by the idea of police night and charged with coming into the residence halls. to°Jjn?njuana- "It didn't seem right having those guys th,t ,J} spem right about the bust in here," Hughey said. Another student who did not want to ^dmgnl todent daiedr.n0tC°nSlderBarneS who didn't want to be identified said he had seen people who be didn't live in Snyder Hall going around •""f lhader Lhat.more as far as he knew, asking people where they could buy drugs than a pound in and he suspected they were undercover agents. hchoT?"men.t Tuesdaypreliminary , . morning "You think he would be smart enough to waive the not to sell to people he didnt know, he lail" unden was returned to Ingham be said. . . failed to post $1,000 Geoffrey Howes, 368 Snyder, said the police being in the building made him Taken from the top of Owen Graduate Center, this time SN photo/l)alc Atkins w ?ent assistant for Barnes' nervous and must have put a lot of lapse automobile headlights of MSU night traffic on the Farm Lane Fixler, would not pressure on the RA. photograph of 2ft minutes shows the intricate patterns left by Boflue Street traffic circle. ioej }snf i uop eidoed rpouug Black aid, Greek conflict may come to an end By and this job is for the whole black student body," IRENE EVANS he said. Both Combs and Simmons agreed that pledging When Teresa Combs, 275 Phillips Hall, could affect an aide's performance. sophomore, and Barbara Simmons, B210 Rather "Pledging affects the activities you can initiate, Hail, sophomore, lost their jobs as black aides in but it does not affect your personal contact with their respective residence halls because they were students," Combs said. pledging a sorority, their first reaction was to "People still come and talk to me because I have protest. established a working relationship with the people Carl Taylor, director of minority affairs, has come under "On the spot, it didn't seem fair that we should in the hall," Simmons said. "I think I will miss fire by many black students for firing black aides who be fired," Simmons said. "But if you think about choose to pledge sororities or fraternities. being a black aide because it's something you it, especially the time elements that were involved, really take a lot of pride in." Photo by Mark Wiedelman you can tell it's fair." "I think students will still see me and Teresa as A number of black aides have lost their jobs in black aides no matter who replaces us," Simmons influenced the termination of Simmons and the last two years because they pledged a added. sorority Combs as black aides. or fraternity. However, almost all chose pledging Though termination of aides that pledge is not "If a person is qualified, he or she is over their black aide positions. written in the 1973-74 qualified," contracts, the rule has been he said. "But no one is an octopus, and they don't Many fired aides complained about the used with only two exceptions in the past two have eight inconveniences of the matter — that their rooms arms enabling them to do eight things at years. once. would have to be changed, financial aid programs "It was an unwritten rule that I inherited when "If students complain because they can't altered and about other problems because of their get in I first got the job," Taylor said. "But, for this fall touch with their aide, what can I say to them? firing. and thereafter, it will be in th£contracts. 'Your aide is pledging' just doesn't take care of Carl Taylor, head of the black aide program, it," "Whenever someone is hired as an aide, they are he said. explained the rationale behind the termination of told before they sign that pledging is out." Taylor wrote letters to all black sororities and many black aides that pledge sororities or "I really didn't think I would be fired," fraternities stating that he would meet with them fraternities. Simmons said. "Though I knew I wasn't supposed to discuss the policy. "Fm not anti - Greek," Taylor said. "But for to pledge, I always had this ray of hope, especially "I feel that pledging is an extracurricular the past two years, I have emphasized in since the first part of the year had been so good, activity, and it's not a must for any student," workshops and before contracts were signed that that I could keep my job. I really felt my Taylor said. aides should not pledge. performance as black aide and complex Both Combs and Simmons said if "The job is too demanding for someone who's coordinator had been faultless." they could do it over again, they would pledge and sacrifice their pledging. An aide's first function is responsibility, Taylor explained that only the pledging jobs. Barbara Simmons, left, and Teresa Combs, right, were black aides in Rather and Phillips halls, respectively, before their firing by Carl Taylor, director of minority affairs, for pledging Delta Sigma Theta sorority. Photos by Dale Atkins SmoTtpeopTeoontjustTeoJ dictionaries. They have a good time, too. (continued from page 2) before joining what she called the lively chapter here. She said she joined originally out of curiosity and finds the people in the East Lansing chapter intriguing, though most are younger than she. "They're likely to take their hobbies seriously and that's the way hobbies should be taken," Garrison said. "Many of them are antique car freaks or Civil War freaks." "I don't mean they're strange or odd; I simply mean they are passionately interested in what they are doing," she said. Garrison said a few people seem to think of the smart individual as one with an "enormous head who sits in the comer reading dictionaries," but who, in reality, has a good time. "You can have more fun using your mind if you enjoy using your mind, just like you can have fun eating steak if you enjoy eating steak," she said. The only husband and wife members of the chapter, Pat and Peg Wolfe, agreed that Mensa was excellent for conversation and interaction. "It gives us someone else to bounce ideas off instead of each other all the time," Peg Wolfe said. "We wanted a group that we could relate with mostly. We thought it would be interesting to see other people who are supposedly intelligent interact." To say that her instruction was not quite professional would be (continued from page 3) an understatement. Her instructor at the recreation center taught her to hold the racket wrong and it wasn't until the past few Williams has been team captain the last two years and has years that she began smoothing her strokes. become involved in the recently organized tennis club. Scruggs also became involved with the ATA, playing on the His future plans are to win the Big Ten championship, attend Detroit junior development team and the Motor City Tennis graduate school at MSU and then coach tennis on a college level. Club, headed by Eddie Frazier. "It's been tennis that's given me everything — travel, Scruggs plays for personal satisfaction and Tennis academics," Williams said. "Fourteen years ago I never knew this would happen." Allison Scruggs program learned to play tennis at a summer recreation in Detroit when she was 13 - years - old. She said she came to MSU because people she played against in high school, like Sue Sulke, the current No. 1 player on the womens' team, were coming to MSU. became interested in tennis when Arthur Ashe was beginning to For the past two years the MSU women's tennis team has won make headlines on sports pages. the Big Ten championship and Scruggs credits coach Elaine Hatten for much of their success. Scruggs, a junior in urban development, has won her number four position in each of the two Big Ten championships, which is a record. Scruggs said she was disappointed because of poor publicity the women's team received after they won the championship, adding that the men's team probably would have received better Play- She also said she hasn't encountered any problems by being the Allison Scruggs stands only black on the team and one of the few in the Big Ten. "At first it took a little getting used to," she said. beside Diane Suterko, another women's team Her immediate goal is to win the ATA nationals in Washington, member. The duo, doubles D.C., this summer and hopefully help revive a sagging black partners, won this year's Big women's tennis program because "There aren't any black girls Ten doubles championship. coming up in tennis," she said. Photo by John Martell Scruggs feels that if a younger player like herself or Williams could win the nationals and get on the pro tour they could help black tennis players the way Ashe did. Scruggs would also like to see scholarships for women athletes, something she thinks may be in the near future. By that time Scruggs maybe on her way to bigger and better things in the tennis world. "Fd like to go as far as I can," she said, flashing a smile that makes people hope she makes it all the way to the top. Red C&cfcxr for fun, andspo lower food costs By PETE DALY According to various MSU legends — some accurate and some not — the Red Cedar River is full of assorted junk, sewage and nasty organisms. As a matter of fact, the Red Cedar also thrives with more than 23 species of fish, induding 10 - pound northern pike. Hie river has become much deaner since a massive campaign began in 1965 to stop the sewage flow into it. Fish population in the river has risen steadily since then, but public unawareness of that fact has left it largely president at that time) saw our report and he saw worm can introduce it in the human body, where un fished. to it that something was done about it," Tack said. serious harm may result. However, the major snag stopping people from Tack said many of those sewers were storm "But the way people normally fry fish is more fishing the campus stretch of the Red Cedar is an drains from streets in East Lansing and the than adequate to kill any broad tapeworms in it," MSU ordinance prohibiting hunting and fishing. campus, which washed a lot of silt into the river, Tack said. As a declared Michigan wildlife refuge, the MSU covering many beds of pebbles which supplied the Tack said he occasionally fishes the Red Cedar, campus is off - limits to hunters. However, that fish with food in the form of insects. Tack said the using a fly rod or an ultra - light spinning rod. He Michigan law does not indude a prohibition on fish population was lowered by the loss of two - reports that the best fishing is usually upstream fishing. thirds of its food supply. from the Hagadom Road bridge, but that fruitful Because the Red Cedar is considered state A few of the sewers located by Tack and his but illegal angling could be accomplished right on property under the jurisdiction of the state Dept. group were more dangerous than storm drains. campus. of Natural Resources (DNR) Tom Doyle, a habitat "There was an 18 - inch sewer emptying into What would Tack recommend to people who protection spedalist in the Fisheries Division of the river behind the Women's IM. It was wanted to catch fish in the Red Cedar? spewing ) the DNR, thinks the MSU ordinance may be illegal. out toilet paper, feces, diced carrots from the "Just scoop up a can of worms and go to "If a person was prosecuted under that dorm kitchens, all kinds of raw sewage. work," he said. Ugh!" ordinance for fishing on campus, and they asked Tack said. One person who has been doing just that for a the DNR to appear in court for them as a After the word leaked out, a few years is Randy'Cain, a 24 - year - old self - friendly big interceptor witness, the DNR might do it," Doyle said. sewer system was built to safely reroute the employed salesman who lives at Park Trace Peter I. Tack, an MSU professor of fisheries and known sewers from the river. away apartments in Okemos. Randy fishes the Red wildlife with a doctorate in ichthyology, has Cedar from the campus up to Williamston, often recently caught as many as 23 spedes of fish on "Hiere might still be a couple of sewers practically in his own backyard. the campus stretch of the Red Cedar. Many of In August Cain landed a 36 - inch northern pike emptying into the campus stretch of the river, but those are of the minnow variety, but game fish I don't know of any," Tack said. weighing 10 pounds. He caught the lunker behind caught by Tack include smallmouth bass, northern At the same time, the city of Williamston Collingwood apartments, using light spinning gear pike, rock bass, bluegills, bullheads and crappies. stopped dumping its raw sewage into the Red with a Mepps spinner. It was his first cast of the Tack said the river was good for fishing up to Cedar and other upstream areas began cracking day. 1950, when the amount of raw sewage began to down on the river's polluters. "He didn't fight too much. I think he was reach levels intolerable for the fish. Tack said fish caught in the Red Cedar are pretty old and tired," Cain said. In the early 1960s Tack and some of his perfectly safe to eat if they are cooked. He He said the best thing about fishing the Red graduate students counted 68 sewers emptying explained that fish caught anywhere in Michigan Cedar is that it is never crowded with other into the Red Cedar on the campus alone. liable to are carry the broad tapeworm, which fishermen. "We started quite a ruckus to clean up the Red from comes dog droppings contaminating their "People just aren't aware of the fish that are in Cedar through the campus. John Hannah (MSU water. Raw consumption of fish carrying the that river," he said. Two students enjoy the refreshing ripples of the Red Cedar river behind the Administration Building on one of East Lansing's better days. Photo by Dave Olds