MICHIGAN PRIMARY See Editorial Page P Ninety Years of Editorial Freedom 1 I UIQ OFF AND ON High-z50 Low-53 See Today for details Vol. LXXXX, No. 22 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Sunday, September 30, 1979 Ten Cents Ten Pages plus Supplements ELIfaces conflict between teaching, research By JEFFREY WOLFF Second in a two-part series Throughout the University, research is a highly-prized activity, often to the despair of students. But at the University's English Language Institute (ELI), research has taken a back seat to teaching. Recently, however, concerns have been raised that extensive teaching loads are posing a major threat to ELI's continued excellence by preventing instructional staff from devoting sufficient time to research. .THESE CONCERNS, expressed by several ELI instructors, as well as ELI Director Larry Selinker, and Literary College (LSA) Dean Billy Frye, have already generated a stronger research orientation policy at ELI. ELI currently enjoys a prestigious reputation as the world's pioneer in teaching English intensively as a foreign language and for its impressive output of texts and teaching materials in the field. r ELI lecturer Joyce Zuck teaches two one- hour classes, Monday through Friday. In ad- dition, as ELI Writing Coordinator, she. works closely with the teachers of over 10 ELI writing sections as well as working on development of classroom materials for the writing sections. ZUCK'S TEACHING-RELATED commit- ments are the rule, not the exception, among ELI's 10-12 permanent instructional staff, all of whom have at least an M.A. (generally in fields related to linguistics or education). Those who are not subject coordinators, as Zuck is, are most likely teaching three classes daily. Most University students would be amazed and envious of those who receive such close daily classroom attention from an instructor with Zuck's qualifications - over 20 years teaching at ELI, a Ph.D., and widely recognized as an innovative thinker in her field. In addition, the high quality and depth of ELI's teaching role in providing intensive English training to the more than 200 students who enroll for each of the six eight-week terms provide dividends for the University. THE $500 TUITION each student pays per term goes into the University's general tuition fund. ELI offers no financial aid. The tuition payments generate annual revenues between $600-$700,000 for the University. In turn, ELI is allocated a budget through LSA. This year, ELI received approximately $410,000, which pays for its permanent instruc- tional staff, ELI administrative personnel, and the 20-25 graduate students (most in Depar- tmental Linguistics) who teach one or, sometimes two classes daily as teaching assistants. Texts produced by ELI instructors have been recognized as a major innovative force in English language teaching since, the first publications of ELI's founders in the late 1940s and are used worldwide. Sales from ELI publications accound for nearly half of the ap- proximately $12 million annual revenue of the University of Michigan Press, according to director Wallace Sears. ELI TEXTS TEND to be very profitable, and See CLASSROOM, Page 7 Pollution an issue a s U.S., Mexico chiefs end talks 'From AP and UPI WASHINGTON - President Carter and Mexico's Jose Lopez Portillo con- cluded two days of talks yesterday by announcing their agreement to cooperate on matters involving energy, the environment, and illegal aliens. The pair said they would give "a high priority" to discussion on air and water pollution that crosses the border bet- ween the United States and Mexico. The two leaders agreed to try to negotiate an agreement that would 'lessen or eliminate environmental damage in the future" from such sour- ces as the Mexican oil well blowout, which created a huge oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico and tarred Texas beaches. The discussions also will include U.S.- spawned pollution that crosses the bor- der into Mexico, officials stressed. IT WAS uncertain, however, whether See CARTER, Page 2 Record Irish throng greets John Paul' HII From AP, UPI, and Reuter DUBLIN, Ireland - "In the footsteps of St. Patrick," Pope John Paul II came to Ireland's tragic and pious isle yesterday where he blessed a million Irish in a Dublin park and pleaded "on my knees" for an end to violence in a land long steeped in it. More than half the nation - perhaps two million people - thronged to air- ports, parks, and motorcade routes waving flags, shouting greetings, and AP Photo holding smah children aloft to see the Polish pontiff, the first pope to visit rts to Ireland. THOUSANDS WEPT openly at the greatest gathering in Irish history as the pope celebrated Mass in Dublin's emerald-green Phoenix Park. The congregation went wild with joy and enthusiasm at the end of the three- hour service on the park's playing fields under a bright cloud-flecked sky. Near the northern border at the an- cient walled city of Drogheda, John POPE JOHN PAUL II greets more than one million Irish in a Dublin park. The pontiff called for increased effo curb the sectarian violence that has plagued the Irish people for years. HOW OLD IS 'U'?: Ireland, the more the danger will grow that this beloved land could become yet another theater for international terrorism," the pope added. It would "drag down to ruin the land you claim to love and the values you claim to cherish," the pontiff said. Armed Irish soldiers, evidence of the tight security operation mounted for the papal visit, ringed.the 35 acre site where the pope made his strongest statement on Northern Ireland - where mostly Catholic guerrillas are fighting to end Protestant domination and British rule in the latest round of centuries of sectarian strife. IT WAS AN emotion-filled start to a 10-day pilgrimage to Ireland and the United States, a tour the 50-year-old pope says he hopes will contribute to the cause of peace on this divided island and in the world. He leaves Ireland Monday for Boston. John Paul became the first pope to visit the land where St. Patrick spread Christ's word. He knelt to kiss the Irish soil, then plunged without hesitation in- to the subject of sectarian strife that has claimed more than 2,000 lives in this decade. The pope's original plans to visit Nor- thern Ireland were scrapped when Lord Mountbatten died last month in, a terrorist bombing. Unersty's real age uncertain By ALISON HIRSCHEL. This year the University is celebrat- ing its 162nd birthday. Or is it its 142nd? Or maybe even its 138th. Well, it depen- ds on whom you ask and where you look. It seems that if there's one thing a university would know, it would be its own founding date, but that's a bone of contention at this University. The sign outside the Graduate Library says 1837. So does the mosaic on the floor of the Old Architecture and Design building. But the official University seal reads 1817. And there is a plaque on the corner of Larned and Bates Streets in Detroit which claims to mark the first site of the University and bears the date 1817. According to historians, the real truth of the matter is that an institution called the Catholepistemiad was established in'Detroit on Aug. 26, 1817. This institution, which was described by the Board of Regents in 1928 as "feeble" and "sickly," began with a humble staff of two-John Monteith, Professor of Universal Sciences,a nd Gabriel Richard, * Professor of Mathematics, Astronomy, and Intellec- tual Sciences. In 1818, Monteith offered the first an- nual report of the University 'of Michigania to the governor and judges of the territory. Apparently, the University has existed without-a break, ever since. The date of '1837 crops up, however, because it was in that year that the State of Michigan was accepted into the Union, and the state legislature passed a resolution "to, provide for the organization and government of the' University of Michigan." In addition, Ann Arbor was selected as the site of the University. Harlan Hatcher, president emeritus of the University explained, "The state was incorporated in 1837. That's how that date got into it." Hatcher also said, "No students actually arrived in Ann Arbor until1841."' In 1928, the Regents investigated the confusing situation and, based on the information about the institution foun- ded in Detroit, officially resolved to alter the seal of the University to read 1817. So why, in 1937, nine years after the inatter was officially settled, did the University decide to have a centennial celebration? The answer to this per- plexi problem lies hidden in several must volumes in the Graduate Libarary. According to the author of this sour- that celebration on the reorganization Paul told some 250,000 -m ce, Rank Culver, Class of '75 (1875, that of the University in Ann Arbor in 1837," came down across the North is), even after the Regents resolved to said Howard Peckham, author of The border, 39 miles away - th officially change the founding date to Making of the University. "They had to terrorists must "walk t 1817, members of Little's entourage do that to smooth over the fact that the reconciliation and peace." "deliberately and maliciously" sup- seal had already been changed," "ON MY KNEES I beg3 pressed the truth about the University's Peckham said, away from the paths of viol beginnings. Nevertheless, in 1967, only 20 years return to the ways of peace," "There was considerable emphasis in See WHEN, Page 7 ,The longer the violence Here &tere S fRock loses Blue cage es rr YB 0 Nroll, 45-1l4 Cal, 14-10 By DAN PERRIN By BILLY SAHN The day of The Rock was not to be. Special to The Daily Going into yesterday's Pen- BERKELEY, Calif. - In spite of nsylvania Conference battle with their faltering kicking game, the Shippensburg State at Michigan Michigan Wolverines maintained Stadium, Slippery Rock had their coinposure as they defeated everything going for it. They had the California Golden Bears 14-10 at been labeled the home team, they Memorial Stadium before a crowd of had the majority of the 61,143 Band 57,000. Day fans rooting for them and they Michigan quarterback John had all the pre-game hoopla pointed Wangler, who started the game over their way. In other words they had it B. J. Dickey, played brilliantly as he made. led his offensive unit down the field But the hot and humid day instead time and time again. However, the belonged strictly to the Shippen- offense only scored twice, both sburg State Red Raiders, who spit in touchdowns coming in the second the eye of adversity and rolled to an half. Michigan placekickers Ali easy 45-14 victory over the Rockets. Haji-Sheikh and Bryan Virgil com- Freshman fullback Steve bined to miss five field goal attem- Moskowitz led the crusade to put pts. Shippensburg on the map as he The total offensive yardage for the A bone crunching pile-up See SHIPPENSBURG, Page 10 See BAD, Page 10 Slippery Rock-Shippensbu any of whom hern Ireland hat religious he path of you to turn lence and to 'he said. continues in Harlan Hatcher ... former 'U' president One thin booklet, righteously titled "The Truth About the Founding of the University," asserts that the date of 1837 was merely a practical joke on the part of Clarence Cook Little, who inven- ted an alleged 100th anniversary of the founding of the University to be celebrated in June, 1937. .. . I OP, , t e to , b. mot' ems se 00 U_ 1 1 11 J__-- i I We were Khanned He was a savage general, a brilliant leader. He unified more than ten Mongol tribes in 1206'and then went on to pillage China and sack Peking nine years later. His name is hardly ever mentioned without reference to raping and pillaging. But now, the legendary Genghis Khan is getting his rep reworked. Chinese historians are calling the chief- tain a hero of the Mongolian people. Khan, they say, ac- tually had a positive influence on Chinese history by helping to end political fragmentation. China has more than 50 nationalities and is currently emphasizing the importance of its ethnic groups. I you will visit" on whether America can get along without nuclear power. The Edison Electric Institute, an association of investor-owned electric companies, is spon- soring Keifer and Draper as a "truth squad" to tail Jane and Tom.(" Jordan to be cleared Department trying to separate the truth from "circum- stantial evidence" against the White House aide. It's not a Deep Throat investigators need in the case but a Numb- Nose. On the inside For an analysis of the continued dominance of Fraice over its colonies, see the Editorial Page . . . The jazz festival is soff to a fine start according to a review on Page 5 ... Michigan was the victor over California yesterday and ,.h atrp' .ia j mn nPgop in n The FBI is expected to. clear Ham Jordan this week of allegations that I