The Michigan Daily-Thursday, October 11, 1979-Page 3 SCHOOL BOARD TO DISC USS DESEGREGATION PLANS Advisory panel dissolved Daily Photo by PAUL ENGSTROM LAST NIGHT Jack Hall, MSA representative, proposed a coalition to seek out a person to represent student interests and run in the Board of Regents 1980 election. Students propose coalition to find 1980 Regental candidate By NICK KATSARELAS The Ann Arbor Board of Education last night formally dissolved the ad- visory committee created last Novem- ber to propose plans to desegregate city schools, and announced it will begin discussing the various proposals in ap- proximately two weeks.. Superintendent of Schools Harry Howard would not speculate on when the board would vote on their choice of desegregation plans, but said "it is unlikely any plan could be implemented by next fall." THE CITIZENS' Advisory Commit- tee on Radical Balance and Educational Opportunity was disban- ded after sumbitting to the board 10 days ago six plans for achieving racial balance in the district. The committee was created after the Michigan Department of Education found that the ratio of black to white students in six Ann Arbor elementary schools was in violation of a state regulation requiring that school enrollment of black and white students must not vary by more than 15 per cent. President of the School Board of Education Kathleen Dannemiller said the committee submitted a written report of their fundings and proposals last June, and a month later gave a verbal report to the board. THE 60-MEMBER Committee was comprised of students, teachers, com- munity members, and school ad- ministrators. Former committee member Lyndon Welch said the group was split into ".about eight or nine" task forces which looked into specific topics, like achievement tests, housing patter- sn, and the legal obligations of the school district. Welch explained the committee sub- mitted six methods of desegregation, plus a report written by the majority of the members and one composed by the minority. One of the proposals was con- ceived from the desegregation plan in Battle Creek, Michigan, which is under a similar directive from the state board of education. The Battle Creek plan calls fqr the funneling of more money into achieving a better quality education, and organizaing after-school and summer activities which would integrate both black and white children. The school district also promised to raise the level of achievement scores of the city's students. IN RETURN, the-state would not hold the city responsible for meeting the 15 per cent limit on racial variance, since the program would indicate not only a better quality education, but one that would offer more educational oppor- tunities as well.1 Welch said some of the other plans submitted to the board include ad- justing school boundaries, changing housing patterns, busing; and setting up "magnet" schools, which would Q~ i~ites -z o c tetfzE- n2c 9zz1tliw12S 75 bircir az present educational programs "that are truly interesting and effective," and which would encourage enrollment and integration, according to Welch. Welch expressed some dissatisfac- tion with the haste in which the reports were concluded. "Some members of the advisory committee were unduly op- timistic on how soon we could im- plenent the plans," he said. Welch ad- ded the committee should have asked' for one or two more months to complete its report "so there would have been more unanimity in the reports." INSTEAD THE committee was. unable to calcualte the costs of each plan, something that will be time- consuming for the school board, accor- ding to Welch. "Misinformation can be very damaging," explained Welch. "None of the plans proposed will work unless the community understands them." (Continued from Page 1) is not just a bureaucrat. The Democrats have tradition- ally been more sympathetic to student needs." MOST OF THE 15 students attending the meeting were representatives of various politically active groups- on campus who had been contacted earlier in the week by organizers. HALL, THE Legislative Relaton Committee Coor- dinator of the Michigan Student Assembly, and prime organizer behind the coalition, told the others that the new group could consolidate the efforts of their individual political groups. "Just., getting students involved we begin to influence the Regents and other decision-making mechanisms within the University, just by showing the students can work together," Hall said. Every two years, two Regents on the eight-member board are elected bystate voters for eight-year terms. Because of the relative obscurity of the office and the statewide electorate, Regental candidates generally do not campaign actively throughout the state: - COALITION MEMBERS said they hope to obtain much information about running their campaign by examining a recent election of a student-supported regent at Wayne State University in Detroit. The committee members said that along with strong student support around the state, added backing of special interest groups, such as the AFL-CIO, is essential to the candidate's success. 13 October SPm-tam jOttiiCAtLOI24,,.inde SALT II hearings close; officials still question treaty From Reuter and AP WASHINGTON - The Senate Foreign Relations Committee last night. ended its hearings on the SALT II treaty amid signs of a potential dispute. with the Carter administration over linking the pact to the issue of Soviet troops in Cuba. In a final closed meeting with the committee, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Defense Secretary Harold Brown warned against tampering with the new Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT II) in a way that might require new negotiations with the Soviet Union. Signaling the administration's willingness to try to placate senators seeking military spending increases of five per cent beyond inflation as a price for ratification of SALT II, Brown said the administration's five-year defense plan will'require annual expenditures of at least three per cent real growth and could well, after analysis, require more." abortion. Free Pregnancy Testing Immediate Results Confidential Counseling Complete Birth Control Clinic ' Medicaid Blue Cross (1)9411810Ann Arbor and Downriver area -,Na(313n 5P9590 southfield area ( 1oNorthland Famiy Planning Clinic, Inc e &m7Alzlr2 Cbf friars, birtb .ja c KE XnT2 r 6(z Itf 6irticz 6zjusbecr dEs, b(z, grAss. 2E JAZZ6A37r4 lc A2d rocK roll Ca nzet ... *orfre- .2t i 9 FILMS Arbor Alliance-More Nuclear Power Stations, UGLI multi-purpose room, 7,8, 9p.m. Cinema Guild-Pat and Mike, Old Arch. 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Studio Theater Series-Moliere's "Sganarelle," the Arena Theater, Frieze bldg., 4:10 p.m. Guild House Campus Ministry-poetry session with Lou Brothers and Carolyn Gregory; Guild House, 802 Monroe, 7:30 p.m. U-M School of Music-University Philharmonia, Stephen Osmund conduc- tor, Hill Aud., 8 p.m. The Ark-Ramblin' Jack Elliott, the Ark, 1421 Hill St., 9 p.m. SPEAKERS Center for Western European Studies-Thomas Anton, Professor of Political Science, "Elections inSweden," Michigan League, 12 noon. Department of- Communication - Michael Schudson, University of Chicago, "Why news is the way it is," 102 Arch., 1:10 p.m. Distinguished Senior Faculty Lecture Series-Professor Angus Campbell, "Well-Being Through the Life Cycle," Rackham Amphitheratre, 8 p.m. Chemistry-Prof. Stuart W. 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