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

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Contents PROLOGUE The ' Re-Decade Are student attitudes reverting to those of the 10 s? 5 MICHIGAN LIFE Ann Arbor and 34.000 classmates make for intense times 19 The news and newsmakers of 1986 67 ACADEMICS An education at Michigan means more than just hitting the books 87 SPORTS 131 A challenging year for Wolverine teams ARTS There ' s always something happening 201 GREEKS Fraternity and sorority membership is at a twenty-year high 237 ORGANIZATIONS Fun and friendships out of the classroom 311 RESIDENCE HALLS Everyone ' s first home at the University 367 GRADUATES 399 The Class of 1987 EPILOGUE 471 What will the next decade bring? A compilation of names and subjects 482 RETROSPECT INDEX

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Back to the 50s? This is a decade of conservatism By Rebecca Cox When the quintessential product of this can leadership and a healthy economy. pus this year just as activism was last decade, Marty McFly, found himself suit- America ' s world supremacy was unchal- year ' s. denly returned to the 1950s in the block- lenged. Nuclear weapons took center stage. The 198S-86 academic year was marked buster hit Back to the Future. he felt and the possiblility of using them and star- by the protests of thousands of students quite out of place: clothing, hair styles and viving their usage fascinated most political against President Reagan ' s foreign policies, music just weren ' t the same as in the sleek and military figures. Star Wars, an appearance by Vice Presi- eighties. In the 1950s, the key phrase was to keep dent George Bush. CIA recruitment on Perhaps beneath the surface the world cool. to go along with the Eisenhower campus, and apartheid. Nearly 200 Uni- McFly found wasn ' t all that strange to him. presidency and be happy. This kind of pub- verity students were arrested for acts of Certainly, technology has advanced, and lic complacency permitted McCarthyism civil disobedience, and activists urged stu- traditional institutions have changed. but and America ' s intial involvement in Veit- dents to get involved before the impending the political and social life of the 1950s nam to grow. Code was passed, depriving everyone of reflects an era when the world was so much Perhaps the same scenario could also be their constitutional rights to petition and simpler. An era that the students of the 80s used to describe the Reagan presidency. assembly. seem to yearn after. The popularity of Rambo and public sup- Such activity prompted University politi- If the 1970s were the Me Decade then, port of Star Wars underlies an American cal science professor Sam Eldersveld, con- as some social pundits have suggested, the desire to reclaim dominance over the world. ductor of a formal study of student atti- 80s are the re-Decade . Everything old is and this conservative attitude has swept tudes over the past two years, to declare new again. The 1950s are back. In the over Ann Arbor and the University as it has that the activism that characterized the words of Huey Lewis, It ' s Hip to be the rest of the country. 1960s isn ' t dead—just dormant and wait- square. But just as complacency in the ' 50s her- ing to return. The ' 505 were characterized by a long aided the arrival of McCarthyism. Don ' t write off students of today just period of feel-good conservative Republi- Complacency was the key word on cam- because they aren ' t morally outraged at so- PROLOG VE • '