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Regents Raise Tuition by Joe Coletti Students are hearing the usual refrain upon returning to Ann Arbor this year: "Tuition's gone up ." In th eir July meeting, the regents voted unanimously for what is being called a "shared sacrifices" budget that calls for an average tuition increase of approximately 9 percent, including a retroactive registration fee increase of $20 and a 100 percent increase in the infrastructure maintenance fee from $50 to $100 per year. The tuition increase for in-state students was higher in percentage terms than that for non-residents since "the gap between resident and non-resident tuition hard] grown too large," according to the U-M's General Fund Budget for Fiscal Year 1992-93. Interestingly, however, non-resident medical school tuition remained unchanged due to "market pressures." Regent Deane Baker (R-Ann Arbor)

criticized the increase in student fees accompanying the tuition hike. He added that the percentage increase in tuition would be a misleadingly low 7.5 percent if one did not include the 2 percent increase for which the fee hikes account. Over two weeks after the tuition vote, President Duderstadt's wife, Anne, was offered a $35,000 position with the University. Baker was also highly critical of this offer, and stated that it went against the idea of shared austerity in the budget Since then, Mrs. D~rstadt has reportedly offered to fbrgive her compensation, although the dur~ion of her offer is unclear. (See story on page 3.) Regent Veronica Smith (R-Grosse Isle) said that one reason for her vote in favor of the tuition increase was that "not one student spoke against" it, whereas in previous years at least a few students sent in letters of objection. She was concerned, however, that the parents of stu-

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the lack of growth in state funding and dents would once again have to bear the reductions in the amount of federal fundbrunt of the proposed sacrifices. Another possible worry, one voiced ing to the University - usually in the form of research grants - for indirect by Regent Neal Nielsen (R-Brighton), is costs. that some students would bear part of the burden for other students. Over 46 The reductions in federal funding have resulted from changes in the percent of the tuition increase ($12 million) " will go directly back into student government's rules regarding research grants. The U-M's federal funding had finattcial aid," according to Provost Gil been growing considerably, but in the WhiW<er. Thus students are not just purwake of scandals involVing federal rechasing their own edU(::ation, but are paysearch funds at Stanford last year, the irg 3.45 percent more specifically to subgovernment reduced the percentage of sidize others. indirect costs that it woud compensate The increased financial aid was cited from 56 percent to 471 percent, with each by some as a benefit of the tuition propercentage point representing $1 milgram because it ensures continued aclion, ~ording to Whitaker. The U-M is cess to the University regardless of financial situations. Regent Nellie Varner (D- "....tryl;g to obtain a "new, better rate," one closer to the original 56 percent, said Detroit) added that although the 9.9 perWhitaker. If the U-M succeeds, the budcent increase for in-state students was get only counts a $3 million shortfall "not something I would like to see," the rather than the $9 million that would University is still a bargain compared to result if the 47.2 percent were to be mainprivate institutions. Varner noted that tained. although the U-M's obligation to nonAlong with reduced government residents is not as great as to Michigan funding, the amount of money available residents, the University is still competifrom the University's endowment has tively priced. decreased due to lower interest rates. The budget also includes a wage The result in 1991-92 was "a loss of over freeze for non-union employees earning $4 million" from what was originally over $25,000. Union employees' salaries budgeted. A further "net reduction of are determined in negotiations with the $3.3 million" from last year's final $13.1 University. million is anticipated in the new budget. The budget has been designed to Diminishing income, however, is not accomodate slow but steady revenue the only fiscal burden facing the U-M. growth in the coming years with this year's "very restrictive budgeting." The Please See Page 8 proposal includes appropriations for use in the 1993-94 academic year and beyond. For example, of the $2.3 million slated to improve undergraduate education, $2 million is set aside for the 199394 academic year to aid program development. Most of the regents echoed Varner's statement that an increase in tuition does not make anyone happy, but they also felt that it was needed to compensate for

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U-M Hires Pre$id'e nt's Wife for $35,000 by Karen S. Brinkman Regent Deane Baker (R-Ann Arbor) nizing and pOSSibly compensating the ization" of work she was already doing As students who remain in Ann Arwork that she already does as the on an ad hoc basis. expressed concern about the hiring in bor during the summer months know, light of this year's budget constraints. president's wife. As the Ann Arbor News The hiring took effect last week on Baker said that regardless of whether the University bureaucracy is no less acreported, ''Duderstadt has a full schedSeptember 1. Duderstadt's job duties Duderstadt personally benefits finantive from May to August than during the ule of fund raising events, speaking enwill include organizing and directing rest of the year. cially, putting her on the payroll will cost gagements, hostessing and accompanyfundraisers, maintaining alumni and This past summer was no different the University as much as $8,000 in taxes ing her husband to various functions." donor relations, and coordinating proand benefits. Prior to her hiring, Tuition was raised, Director The situation, however, motional activities which relate to the Duderstadt already received health care of AffirmatiVe Action and has evolved since then. The President's House and Inglis House. Part coverage under her husband's insurance Special Advisor to the PresiUniversity created a job posiof her efforts will be directed toward the plan with the University. dent Zaida Giraldo curiously tion, posted it as required by Campaign for Michigan, a five-year Both Baker and Nielsen believe that "resigned" on June 30, and a law, and received approxifund raising campaign designed to raise the matter should be brought up before new director for the Sexual mately 25 applications. Ac$850 million dollars, which the Univerthe Board of Regents at their next meetAssault Prevention and cording to Associate Vice sity will kick-off on September 18. ing, which is in mid-September. Regental President for Development When she accepted the position, Awareness Center was choBylaw 2.13 grants the regents the power Joseph Roberson, the personDuderstadt stated that she would donate sen in late August. This sumto control all University hirings. nel department screened the her salary to the Center for the Education mer also saw an unprecAs of press time, U-M spokesman applications and only preof Women. In a letter she later sent to edented hiring, as the U-M Walter Harrison has not returned calls to sented one applicant, Anne R~berson, she said that she will work hired President James his office or home regarding Duderstadt's Anne Duderstadt Duderstadt, as meeting the without compensation. Roberson said he Duders.tadt's wife, Anne, as hiring. minimum qualifications. Dedoes not know if her pledge extends bean institutional advancement spite this "full schedule," Duderstadt was yond her first year of employment. It is officer (read: a fund-raiser). Karen S. Brinkman is the publisher of offered and acceptea a $35,OOO-a-year ". also unclear whether the position could According to Regent Neal Nielsen the Review. She'll need a job in May. part-time position which includes du-. '" one day be overtaken by someone who (R-Brighton), there was private talk of ties and superviSOry. responsibilities in Will not forego the salary. compen'5ating Duderstadt for some time addition to her activities as the president's before the subject came before the rewife. Roberson, Duderstadt's supervigents. Original press reports state that I The Official ReYUmrChallenge: I sor, says the position is simply a "formalthe University was interested in recog-

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We Can All Trust the Administration - Can't We? Many of you have probably already seen Draft 101 of the University of Michigan's Statement of Student Rights and Responsibilities, since it was mailed home to all students who attend the Ann Arbor campus (for an estimated cost of over $20,000) along with a survey about it. The reaction of those returning their surveys has reportedly tended strongly toward the positive, but the administration plans to wait until October 9 before enacting a tentative policy. Accompanying the survey, you probably noticed a letter from U-M President James Duderstadt and Vice President for Student Services Maureen Hartford, which explained in part that "the University has had in place since 1988 the Interim Policy on DiSCriminatory Conduct," The letter neglects to mention that the Interim Policy's predecessor was ruled unconstitutionally broad and intrusive on First Amendment rights. Worse, rather than simply stating that as a result of the Supreme Court's recent decision in RA. V, the Interim Policy itself would almost surely fail if contested in court, the letter euphemized, a Supreme Court ruling in another case rendered key portions of our policy unenforceable." . Stil~ a cursory read of Draft 10.2 might lead one to believe that the U-M has finally learned its Jesson. Not entirely so. Granted, the Draft is less intrusive than its predecessors. But, although'the materials the University sent downplayed the proposed policy's relevance to the First Amendment (of the six sample cases illustrating the alleged need for the code, one involved physical harassment, one sexual assault, one stalking and harassing, two assaults, and one brandisfJi.ng of a handgun), the c·. proposed code for student,behavior remains dangerously.-iague, particularly on the"" issue of speech. Criticisms of the proposed procedure for hand!iJlg complaints aside, the very definitions of the standards to which students will be forced to conform are disappointingly elusive. II

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Most obviously, the code would threaten sanctions - up to and including expulsion from the U-M - for unacceptable behavior "within and without the University." The victim of a student's misconduct, furthermore, apparently need not be the one who files a complaint with the U-M. But it's hard to imagine being penalized in Ann Arbor for a scuffle in New York, isn't it? Although Section III of the Draft offers a list of "[b ]ehavior or situations that may be found in violation" of the policy, the list is not exhaustive. Nor does it indicate where the remainder of proscribed activities can be found. But it's hard to imagine someone being held accountable to a law that he never knew - and could not find out - existed, isn't it? One of the disfavored behaviors is issuing "threats of injury or harm." That seems pretty reasonable - as long as everyone has the same understanding of what counts as a "threat." Nowhere does the Draft specify its operational definition of this pivotal term. Granted, the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) has claimed that a sly glance can amount to "psychological rape," but surely nobody would ever believe that an angry or annoyed glare amounted to a "threat." That's taking things a bit too far - isn't it? ~ Another unacceptable mode of behavior includes, "discriminating against ll!l individual or group in any activity, opportunity, or organization on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, creed, national origin ancestry [sid age or marital status," states the Draft. That standard alone provides 60 distinct scenarios in principle; fraternities and sororities, for example would almost certainly have to be disbanded. But the Draft gives no definition of "discrimination." Thus a theocentric student organization may have to offer homosexuals the same privileges - from group membership to leadership opportuniti~:;.:: as heterosexual students, even if the students in the group understood their-religion to dictate an altogether different attitude. East Quadrangle's Women's Weekend featured a women-only program segment; is that now forbidden? What of the infamous Take Back the Night march, which consciously seeks to exclude men? Could a group of homosexual students exclude a heterosexual student from one of their meetings or discussions, however sensitive? Of course, there are already many laws governing discrimination, so it must be rather paranoid to imagine that one's jury (composed of half a dozen randomly selected students who need only decide 4-2 that the accused is "more likely than not" guilty) might accept a dangerously broad definition of the term - isn't it? "[H}arassment that unreasonably interferes with an individual's work, educational performance, or living environment" is also prohibited under the Draft. (As there is no definition of harassment provided, one might substitute the following: "Anything that unreasonably interferes ... " After all, if it interfered and seemed deliberate, it more likely than not constituted a form of harassment.) But whether any given action or verbal remark "interferes" with another's work, educational performance, or living environment depends upon the supposed sensitivity of the alleged victim. Who are the student jurors to say whether a particular comment or gesture had a given effect? Yet if only the victim can know, how can anyone be certain that the victim isn't overreacting, or perhaps blaming one rude person for some upset arising from other causes? Of course, the problems that the U-M is seeking to overcome are so serious and widespread that it is reasonable to entrust our academic status, among other things, to six random students (who may not be legal experts on harassment and discrimination) and a handful of administrators - isn't it? Given the ambiguity from which the proposed code suffers in its most important section, one must imagine that it will have a chilling effect not only on speech, but on many kinds of social interaction. But that's to be expected and accepted - isn't it? It seems evident that Draft 10.2 is in need of more than superficial clarification. Despite its good intentions to combat violence and harassment, it has great potential to be abused and, due to its ambiguity, jeopardizes many harmless activities that a free society would permit. A far simpler (though hardly ideal) alternative exists, however. Under Regental Bylaw 2.01, the President of the University has the authOrity, without limitation, to take the necessary action to preserve "order among the students." That power should suffice for coping with the kinds of situations the Duderstadt/ Hartford letter highlights, especially since such authority could subsume even the EmergenCy Suspension pro~6nthat the Draft outlines. AS a safeguard for students' liberties (to which fhe adminis~~ti6n's mailing repeatedly suggests it is committed), the U-M : mi~ht a~opt a ~oli<?,~cally empowering ~~de~ts to sue~eir accusers and the , ~verstty Presldetit<shtktld the bylaw be exerpsed mappropnately.

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most major American universities, scrapped any semblance of a core curriculum in favor of a sprawling smorgas. by John J. Miller bord of options. While this is on the surPeople always argue that one of the face appealing, it does not serve students chief benefits of attending a large school well. Instead of gaining a grounding in like the University of Michigan is the vast Western thought, American history and range of curricular choices available to government, and the fundamentals of students. No matter what tickles one's scientific knowledge, students are invarifancy - a detailed survey of Spenser's ably pulled toward the trivial, esoteric . Faerie Queene, a starter course in the comers of some professor's hyper-speOjibwa language, or the advanced study cialized research interest. One can graduof color theory - the U-M's course offerate without having acquired the learning ings can satisfy. Guidance counselors that ought to come with a college educatypically sing the virtues of this enortion. mous academic menu which allows stuThe National Endowment for the Hudents to pick and choose what they think manities conducted a comprehensive will best nourish their minds. Sure, a few survey of college seniors in 1989 and distribution requirements must be met, . discovered that, among other atrocities, but they won't get in the way of free- J fully 23 percent thought Marx's phrase, wheeling intellectual exploration. "From each according to his ability, to That's too bad. The U-M has, like

each according to his need," came from the U.S. Constitution. It's no secret that all levels of American education stink, and nobody can claim that the U-M hasn't contributed to the widespread decline. What the U-M needs most is a substantial core curriculum which requires students to study the underpinnings of American democratic capitalism, its most thoughtful detractors, and the scope of the human condition. Right now, students who look can find a good education at the U-M; the problem is that they actually have to search.

John J. Miller graduated from the U-M in May with an honors degree in English. He is now a reporter for The New Republic in Washington, D.C.

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fessor, trying to be helpfuL told me that a the classroom, however, is almost always good way to calm jittery nerves was to relevant to reatlife. What's more impordrink 1/3 of a beer just before the exam. tant, knowing the derivative of sin x + (It had occured to neither of us at the time .,.,3x2 or knowing how to pour a Pschorthat maybe it was my math skills, and-nOl -- Brau Weisse beer? And would you have test-taking skills, that were suspect). ever discovered so fine a brew if you had spent all of your time studying derivaRegardless, I followed his advice, and all I got for my four ounces of beer at 8:00 AM tives? was a headache and another C-. In short, you don' t want to leave the What does this mean for you? The University of Michigan with just a diploma and a pretty good grasp of differsingle most important thing to know when coming to an institution of higher ential equations. Think of how sad you education like the University of Michiwould be if, ten years from now, your gan is to accept absolutely nothing on roommate died, like in the Big Chill, but blind faith - or visionary faith, for that you were all by yourself in a comer at the matter. Whether the information is from funeral home. Not only would it be ten the Daily, President Duderstadt, or even years too late for a free 4.0 for that semesthe Michigan Review, don't believe a word ter (which, by the way, is a big lie), but unless you can justify it for yourself. you also wouldn't get to sleep with your The other single most important thing dear friend's wife, because you wouldn' t to know (OK, so there are two Single have any dear friends, because you were most important things to know) can be always studying integrals when everysummed up with the best - and worstone else was going out for late night thing my father ever told me pertaining snacks at the Brown Jug or Ashley's. But as I said earlier, don't ~ =~ c__ to college. He told me that when he was interviewing for a job, "nobody ever just believe this because you're looked at my grade point average." Now reading it on the pages of the maybe that's a load of dung and maybe it Review. You can't believe evisn't, but for an impressionable young erything you're told . Come to freshman looking for a way to minimize think of it, maybe my father studying, it was gospel. In other words, told me that grade point averdon't let college get in the way of your age thing because he graduated education. with a degree in engineering, Yes, the diploma is important, but which is infinitely more maryou need to get a good education along ketable than an English major ... with your diploma - and that doesn't necesSarily mean good grades. With the Brian Jendryka is a fifth year senior in English and economexception of abnormal p sychology, ics and an editor emeritus of bartending (so you can pour your preexam beer) and other classes that you the Review. He is adversely will need to deal with society, reality /life affected by entropy every skills play a very minor role in most single day. liberal arts classes. Learning outside of

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Dining at the Free Lunch Cafe by Adam DeVore "Free Abortion on Demand," read a hand-lettered poster adorning the National Women's Rights Organizing Committee's booth at the Art Fair this summer. Free? That word gets bandied around rather loosely in this town, although sometimes it parades in sheep's clothing. One perpetually hears activists of one stripe or another proclaim that everyone has a right to hOUSing, medical care or a college education. Those who cannot afford such commodities and services deserve them anyway: HOUSing, post-secondary education and medical care, among other services, are rights, not privileges. They must, therefore, be

Right Over Might by Andrew Bockelman In "Tales of a Wayside Inn," Longfellow offered this timely aphOrism: " All things come round to him who will but waiL" Under most normal circumstances, his observation rings true. At the University of Michigan, however, circumstances are far from normal. At the U-M, all things do not necessarily come to those whose arguments have substance. In fact, a more appropriate King James Duderst"dt version of this popular postulate might read: All things come round to him who will but whine loudly enough." Want something from the administration, say a speech code? Just chain yourself up to the Dude's desk and call up a few reporters. Make the administration look bad, and it will cave in. It is II

seldom concerned with the legitimacy of your cause or its consequential infringements on liberty. The game is repuatation, which is why you must whine loudly. The most glaring example occurred in the late 1980s, when a few students turned some unfortunate instances of racism into an opportunity to advance their radical agenda. Contrary to their claims, their plan wasn't going to eliminate racism, but only cover it up. The resultant public relations fiasco managed to make national headlines, and as soon as the public heard about "racism at the University of Michigan," the administration acquiesced to the political doctrines of the vocal few. The administration must not pander to those who prefer making noise to offering thoughful arguments. The legitimacy of protestors' claims - not to mention " progressive" administrators' must be questioned. Such scrutiny is of-

No Compromise, No Progress by Tony Ghecea

Welcome to the jungle. Yes, the junglethat's probably the mildest name I can think of for Ann Arbor, and certainly the most telling. Ann Arbor is four, maybe five, years of hard work and fun in the strangest (albeit most endearing) town in Michigan. Your time in Ann Arbor will also expose you to a nearly lethal dose of the most fruitless

political bickering outside of Washington, D.C. You see, everyone in Ann Arbor has the answer. Not just one answer, but a whole agenda for saving the world with a little ingenuity and one good protest march. Sometimes it seems like everyone has the same goal in mind and that if they'd all just put their heads together they would almost surely succeed. But a strange thing happens to most well:meaning students in town. It's called politics. That's when everyone puts their heads together and comes away with headaches and lumps.

.... ten impeded by the whining of an unruly mob or the unaccountable, low-profile functioning of the U- M bureaucracy during the summer months. As long as rambunctious rabble rousers are allowed to take advantage of the administration by striking fear into its heart and wallet, administrators cannot be expected to legislate according to reason. Appearance-preserving, piecemeal solutions rarely solve, but often exacerbate, that which they seek to rectify . So while we would all be better served by prudently and maturely seeking cures for the problems that afflict our community, many find it easier, and more politically expedient, to pressure the administration into distributing mere Band-Aids. So let us hope that this year the administration sides with reason, however unpopular that may be. Let us hope that all things come round.

There is precious little cooperation in Ann Arbor; disagreement abounds. In place of rational debate and negotiation, Ann Arbor's political climate promotes thinking with prejudiced caricatures: conservatives are reactionary good-ol'boys who want to constrain everyone's rights; liberals are left-wing 1960s throwbacks who want government funding for homosexual art. The truth is likely somewhere in between. . While having opinions is almost a prerequisite to being alive - and certainly to living as a social animal- unwillingness to compromise can be the death-knell of progress. What you will

Andrew Bockelman is a sophomore in economics and an executive editor of the Review.

see on this campus is the inevitable product of political polarization: a place where everyone wants to help, but virtually no two groups are willing to work together. So have an open mind, and keep your grain of salt handy -:- people here would rather convert you than teach you to think for yourself. Whatever you do, be part of the solution. The problem is big enough.

Tony Ghecea is a junior in English and an executive editor of the Review. He is sick of Ann Arbor divisiveness.

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Continued From Page 1 On the cost side, for instance: • The U-M has been establishing ties with some universities in South Africa to work on student and faculty exchanges, a program with a price tag of $1 million, according to the University Record. The U-M is dose to an agreement with the University of Durban, Westville to begin a program in public policy to help the transition to a government with black participation. Charles Moody will be taking over full-time responsibility for this project when a successor is found to fill his current position of Vice-Provost for Minority Affairs. .The Target of Opportunity is a five year-old program designed to attract minority faculty to the U-M which has been allocated another $1 million dollars of "base funding.1/ Under this program, according to the budget, II as many as 22 new minority scholars" may be added to the U-M's payron. .The recruitment of senior women faculty, those higher than assistant professorships, has also received increased funding in what Whitaker referred to as . "topping off." This program, combined with the Target of Opportunity Program, could put the U-M in a bidding war for faculty, Whitaker admitted, but he nevertheless defended the U-M's policy, noting that, "Everybody else is doing it." As the Review reported in March,the cost for the recruitment of senior women faculty is ~pected to be between $200,00 and $500,000 per year, although Mary Ann Swain at the time said that these estimates were like "picking numbers out of the air." This figure is buried in the current budget along with library acquisitions "and similar commitments" totalling $1.1 million. ·The $2.3 million allocation to LSA to improve undergraduate education includes a $271;000 increase from the state to provide underclassmen an opportunity to be<:ome involved in research. The money from the general fund is intended to encourage development of programs. Whitaker added, however, that no programs are as yet clearly defined. Further provisions were made in the budget for management changes. Grouped under the title "M-Quality," the proposals are meant to reduce "bu_ reaucratic restraints" and put ma'e power in the hands of those who actually are in contact with students. The initiative began last year and has thusiar not asked for student participation.

Joe Coletti is a senior in ARan studies II\d a COlltributiDg editor of the Rmew.

Growing Up Brady Barry Williams with Chris Kreski

HarperPerennial Softcover, 286 pages $10.00 by Brian Jendryka Let me admit something at the outset. When I was growing up, we used to play "Brady Bunch." Not just watch it mind you - though we did that, toobut actually play it. It just so happened that our neighborhood gang of kids consisted of a group of six - three boys, three girls, just like the Bradys. I don't think we recreated any actual episodes; it was kind of a free-form Brady Bun~ All I can remember is that the game ~ most invariably ended with Peter and me (Bobby) flushing our play Ehone down a pJ.a¥ toilet solely to upset Jan and Marcia: ... The Br~s are - whether we want to admit it or not - a part of our generation, which probably explains the book's rapid rise on the best--seller charts. What child of the seventies wouldn't want to read a book with a picture of Greg and Marcia smoocl).ing, right there on the cover, just above the picture of the Brady kids decked out in fringed polyester bellbottoms? . Despite everything you've heard about the book - Greg and Marcia as a couple, Greg and Mrs. Brady as a couple, etc. - perhaps the most remarkable thing is that it actually took two people to write it, i.e. that Barry Williams couldn't put in all of the "gonna" "coupla" and "y'see"s himself, but that he actually needed the help of MfV's Chris Kreski. It probably took both to create this sentence: "As she stood shimmering in chiffon, I stood stammering in the doorway." Actually, it is kind of reminiscent of episode #35, in which Buddy Hinton teases Cindy be<:ause she can't say things like "She sells seashells by the seashore." But masterful writing is not what Brady fans are after. If nothing else, Williams' colloquial writing style does make for easy reading, and that is what is ultimately important when one is skimming through the text, looking for juicy parts like: 1.) Greg's off-the-set feelings for his "mom": "Most everybody thinks of Florence Henderson as the quintessential television mom, and that vaguely Oedipal association seems to have successfully inhibited the American public from ever realizing what a totally white-hot babe she really is." - chapter 20, "Dating Your Mom" 2.) His relationship with his "sister"

Marcia (Maureen McCormick). Here, Williams teases us along by breaking the saga up into three chapters. After finally convincing himself that they weren't really siblings, the relationship finally blossomed on location in Hawaii: "I had to kiss her, but at the same time, I was terrified that she might reject my advances. My stomach churned as I made small talk and thought about kissing my 'sister.' 'Why not,' I rationalized. '1 mean, if millions of young guys all over America find Mo attractive, why can't I? After all, we're not really related.'" - Chapter 10, "On the Make for Mo" 3.) The other incestuous Brady relationships: Peter (Christopher Knight) and Jan (Eve Plumb), and yes, even Cindy (Susan Olsen) and Bobby (Michael Lookinland), making out in Tiger's dog house. Greg also gives us the inside scoop on the special episodes (Hawaii, Grand Canyon, King's Island), the Brady sequels ('The Brady Bunch Hour," a Donnie . and Marie-esque variety show th'!llastea'" seven weeks; l'fhe Brady Brides," based on Jan and Marcia both getting married and which only lasted 13 weeks; the illfated ''Bradys," a family-reunion-type show that lasted only six weeks, and the two hour" AVery Brady Christmas.") Although most were huge flops, "A Very Brady Christmas" was the second highest rated TV movie of 1988, which gives Brady fans hope for the future. Perhaps the most valuable part of Growing Up Brady is the Bradiography at the end of the book - over 100 pages detailing the plot and other tidbits of information of the show's 116 episodes. Here we find the naked truth about the Bradys. For example, one remembers Cindy

as the cute, lisping, lIyoungest one in curlS/I not the Jack Daniels-drinking, cigarette-smoking Susan Olsen whom Williams says hated the goody-goody Cindy personna. Similarly revealing is Robert Reed's (Mr. Brady) story recounting how he used to throw parties on the set where everyone would end up getting drunk, racing golf carts, and llboffing secretaries.'1 Even more shocking are Reed's recollections of shOWing up drunk for the show's taping. Or, better yet, Marcia and Jan trying to sneak onto the set bra-less. Most of the book, however, is about Barry himself - his childhood, his acting career, his flings with McCormick and Henderson. and even the time he showed up to taping high (chapter 17, IIOne Toke Over the Line") He does, however, give a good account of some of the behind-the-scenes goings-on; like the battles Reed had with the show's producer Sherwood Shwartz over the absurdness of some of the scripts or how the Brady's singing road show ultimately led to their undOing as a IIfamily.I' . The book doses with a "where are they now'1 chapter that gives fans a glowing ember of hope for maybe just one more Brady reunion. All in all, you can't buy a more groovy read for your ten clams.

Brian Jendryka is a fifth year senior in English and economics and an editor emeritus of the Review. His favorite episode is the one where Peter breaks the vase with a basketball and is haunted by the phrase "Mom always said don't play ball in the house."

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artin Gardner's Romp on the Wild Side On The Wild Side Martin Gardner Prometheus Books Hardcover, 257 pgs.

paper is found to have been based on fraud .... Such was not the practice of Joseph Banks Rhine./I He goes on to detail the body of flawed research, marred by $24.95 everything from simple chicanery to the willful by Adam Garagiola falsification of data, that One observation that reveals the masquerades as "scien_ paradoxical nature of our age is that as tific" evidence supportscience expands its breadth and depth of ing the paranormal. understanding of the physical universe, Gardner's account and as society itself becomes increasof the research methingly technocentric, the embracement of odologies used by superstition is on the rise. New Agepara-psychologists style mysticism, ranging from alleged reads like a comedy of psychic phenomena to ridiculous medierrors and incompecal practices such as homeopathy, finds a tence . Inadequately sizeable, credulous audience in our day. controlled experiments In On the Wild Side, Martin Gardner provided the opportu- , champions the cause of rationality and nity for sharpersskiUed defends the essentially objective nature in prestidigitation and the like to demon- , of the scientific pursuit. With righteous strate their "psychic pOW¢" Even such basic considerations as"the effect of obzeal, Gardner subjects the outlandish claims and dubious discoveries of server bias on experiroental...results were pseudoscience to unrelenting scrutiny. often neglected. Armed with the conviction that the sciThe irresponsibility of Rhine and his entific method is the best way to arrive at fellow travellers is glaringly apparent; even after experimental results published something close to the truth about the nature of the universe, Gardner demands in his journal were found to be invalid, that the claims of the paranormal fringe Rhine failed to retract the articles, and be subject to rigorous proof under conmade no effort to prevent subsequent trolled conditions. researchers from ' citing the worthless Gardner's mission is Wide-ranging findings in support of their own theories. and ambitious. The book's 32 essays are This pattern of improbable theory drawn from his columns for the Skeptical founded on incompetent research beInquirer (a journal devoted to debunking comes something of a theme in Gardner's the claims of parapsychology and simiessays. The truth, he would insist, is not larly marginal fields), critiques originally dependent upon widespread belief, but appearing in the New York Review of Books rather the objective nature of the world, and various other previously published which can be discerned through experiarticles. The targets of his vitriolic dementation. "Water With a Memory?" is a nunciations run the gamut from fundacritical appraisal of the history of homementalist Christian creationists to opathy that is revealing of both the effiGaiaism's advocates, who conceive of cacy and limitations of the scientific "Mother Earth" as a massive, living ormethod. ganism. After outlining the hypothesis upon Gardner's first essay, "The Obligawhich homeopathy is based (briefly, it is tion to Disclose Fraud," strikes a strong a th~()ry of medicine that postulates the blow against any daim to legitimacy that curative effects of solutions so dilute that pseudosciences such as parapsychology they theoretically contain less than a might have. Gardner first sets a rigorous molecule of solute) and finding it in total standard: "In a word, a research project contradiction with established principles in ESP does not become of conclusive of biology and chemistry, Gardner docuscientific importance until it reaches the ments the experimental results which point at which even the greatest will-tounderlie its widespread popularity in deceive can have no effect under the France and India. His account details conditions." He then focuses on the sloppy procedures and biased reporting, crooked practices of Joseph Banks Rhine, and reveals a blatant conflict of interest a former editor of the Journal oj Parapsyamong the members of one research team. chology. In spite of all the evidence against it, Gardner opens with a characteristihom~opathy still has its ard~nt adher~ '. cally blistering assault: ''It is customary ~nts, and Gardner assures us that the .' among editors of scientific journals to let ", itqriyof all this. is not lost on his readers';: their 'r eaders know

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L7: Barstool Humor, Punk-Rock NaIvete Magic EP. Bricks Are Heavy, L7' s latest "We were doing our first demo in a release (and first on a major label), was studio that happened to be owned by Mr. produced by studio-ace Butch Vig Brett. He came in one day, saw us work(Smashing Pumpkins and Nirvana). An ing and liked what he heard. He liked the MTV video and the Beastie Boys tour are demo and wanted to put out a record. We presently garnering the band a bit of were totally jazzed - whether or not we main$tream success. were ready to make our first record, I'm not sure." Such is guitarist! vocalW,.' ist Suzi .Gardner's description of L7' s first big break. Mr. Brett, owner of Epitaph Records and a member of t h e , . ;""".l hardcore outfit Bad Religion, . . signed the California-based group and took them on the road. Since then, the band has performed with Nirvana, Ann Arbor's own Big Chief, " and most recently, the Beastie Boys. In contrast to the group's recently Indie-label diehards caught on to L7 re-release<l punk debut (Which Sttzi dewhen they heard the band on Sub Pop scribe~,€'our training pants, period") compilation releases and the Smell the and the group's Sub Pop EP,Bricks is a

Oew bottles and many a rude jeer, L7 commercial effort for the most part. L7, however, has not sold out; their music is sweat, spit and stank like their male brethas crude and heavy as ever, but the songs ren. Expect the band to return to the Ann are more focused; melody has replaced Arbor area before the year expires. caterwaul; and the guitars have become more upfront and confident. Drew Peters is a freshman in LSA and a On Bricks, L7 combine the Simplistic staff writer for the Review. power chord riffing of the Ramones with the sing-along beach-rock vocals of the Newspaper TypesetterI Go-Gos. Lyrically, L7 cover Paste-up Person topics all too typical, but they do it with a proper balance of barstool humor and punk':" Small, busy Belleville newsrock naIvete. On "Shitlist," for paper has an immediate instance, Suzi sings, "When I opening for an aggressive, get mad, when I get pissed! I reliable individual willing to grab my pen and I write out a work on the Macintosh with list! Of all the people who won't be missed! You make various duties. my shitlist." Hling to train, Flexible hours, Recently L7 came through town and blazed through a set that included old Some weekends required, ge~s such as the Mudhoney,-like "Shove" and "Fast and Frightening," as Call The View well as a satisfying portion of tunes from Bricks. Amidst a shower of Mountaifr ."" ....-

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