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believed students can get results by getting involved, and three- quarters said students should be engaged in political activism. That information is of great in- terest to the University ad- ministration, ever-mindful of the turbulence that rocked Michigan ' s campus for several years beginning in the mid 60s. Phil Block, an editor at The Michigan Daily in 1969, remembers well. We grew up with JFK being our adolescent idol, said Block, now 37. We were very patriotic Americans, and we were in for a very rude awakening that our patriotism was being betrayed. The betrayal was U.S. involve- ment in Vietnam. Fear and moral outrage pushed students into the streets. I was freaked out about getting drafted, sometimes irrationally so, Block recalled. As with many Daily reporters and editors of the time, journalism and ideology overlapped. He covered Students for a Democratic Society, the foremost political group, as a voyeur, of sorts, caught up in the excitement, fear and anger of the burgeoning protest movement. We thought we could make a difference and we did. We haven ' t gone to a Vietnam since them. People should notice that. The war in Southeast Asia wasn ' t the only target of protests. The Black Action Movement (BAM) presuaded most of the stu- dent body to strike the University in 1970 over low minority enroll- ment. And a dispute CONTINUED With its large old homes, parks, shops, preserves and wooded hills, Ann Arbor has a picturesque, small town quality that isn ' t likely to change. Increasingly, though it is side by side with large-scale development a building boom is changing the city ' s face. As the night view of South University from atop University Towers shows, Ann Arbor is no longer a small town. Opposite Bill Marsh PROLOGUE 17
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over a student-run bookstore sparked a student takeover of the LSA Building, where over 100 including Block were arrested after then-University President Robben Fleming called in the state police. There was a definite mystique about being in a protest where you could be arrested, kind of like a right of passage, Block remembered. Although the issues at hand and confrontations with authorities were serious, all the activity made things seem kind of like a big party. And everyone took part. You couldn ' t help it. You ' d go back to your dorm and if someone saw a political button or poster, you ' d have an all-night discus- sion. There was a definite closeness. They were nothing like today ' s students, Block said. He surveyed the campus during a fall visit, his first to Ann Arbor since the 70s. There ' s a lot of isolation. Students have real difficulty talk- ing with each other abgut their feelings other than the dfy-to-day stuff. People are afraid to start things. It ' s all looks and clothes and party hearty. Contemporary campus politi- cians have felt it, too. The biggest party on this cam- pus is apathy. Nobody cares, said Karl Edelmann, a CONTINUED There is much of visual interest on the University ' s grounds. Central Campus has an urban feel, with big buildings, crowded sidewalks, plazas and sculpture. North Campus is bucolic by comparison, defined by uneven, forested terrain. Both are best explored on bike or foot. BUULF m . . - BLiySATELLlT OCrO6ER14 - ft M..... ABE You Always Br? tx you Ae)hiAiwAirsUt! ' GETCONTSOU OF . :ll | ; ;- OURTME ANO L.FE HUNOAY 1 ' TIH. ' :S? 5 o
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