University of Michigan - Michiganensian Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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Studying and research occupy varying portion ' s of students time, but sooner or later they ' re at the top of everyone ' s agenda. Working outdoors or in pairs goes a long way toward easing the academic pressure as do naps in the reading room of the Law Library. I Drugs have lost their political sym- olism. The Ens an talks with two ptudents who use drugs in an 80s node, beginning on page 29. Michigan ' s low minority enroll- icnt caused a campus-wide uproar 5 years ago. Now it ' s cause for ad- linistration hand-wringing, negative sublicity and racial tension. Stories gin on page 181. Fall visits by Vice President eorge Bush and NBC ' s Today Show sparked major protests. Stories begin an page 194, with more pictures on ges 12 and 13. PROLOGUE 9

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Blockades and sit-ins at Colum- bia, Berkeley and Wisconsin. Anti-apartheid shanties at Dartmouth and elsewhere. What ' s really happening? Are we on the verge of a new era of mass activism? Or do students care most about upward mobility, money, and Me? Things aren ' t as black-and- white as media cliches would sug- gest. Preliminary results of an elaborate survey of University of Michigan student attitudes and political activism, conducted this year, reveal surprising trends. Campus Republicans now out- number Democrats by a slight margin. And slightly more than half of the students questioned approve of President Reagan ' s handling of his job. We ' re not a wildly liberal or radical campus by any means, said Political Science Prof. Samuel Eldersveld, who designed the survey. I think this is a relatively conservative campus. But the students of 1986 are not as far removed from the Tom Haydens of the 1960s as it might seem. According to the study, a considerable minority of Michigan students are currently involved in some sort of political activism, and under certain cir- cumstances, that minority could quickly become the majority. The students are not really ex- plosively active, said Eldersveld, a longtime pollster in his 40th year at Michigan. But one senses that that ' s not the whole story. The whole story on campus CONTINUED Michigan ' s campuses contain an eclectic some say confused mix of architectural styes. Amid the monumental, there is much of architectural interest on a smaller scale. Ornament takes innumerable forms, like the Law Quadrangle gargoyles or the dainty Art Deco-inspired turret atop the Student Publications Building. Tappan Hall ' s handsome Post-Modern addition, opened in the fall, is respectful of its surroundings. Opposite BillMareh PROLOGUE 11