The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, November 27, 1979-Page 3 SPEAKER SAYS CASE WON'T HURT MINORITIES r HEW offic By JULIE BROWN "There are any number of ways of increasing the number of minority students on your campus without offending anyone's constitutional rights," said HEW official Meldon Hollis, yesterday afternoon. "We've had one hundred years of finding ways of getting people on campus without getting into Bakke issues." Hollis, speaking at the University's School of Education on "Minority Access to Higher Education," told an audience of approximately 30 that the 1978 Supreme Court decision in the Bakke case, disagreeing with the use of specific racial quotas in college admissions policies, does not have to work against minority students. "THE COURT decided where there is not a history of segregation, you can take socio-economic status into consideration," said Hollis, the special assistant to the assistant education secretary. "This is the reason the Bakke decision could not ial: Bakke no barrier e arise in a de jure (legally) segregated state. Where there is no history of past discrimination, both parties simply specify how to determine increased minority enrollment methods." The 34-year-old attorney specified three crucial areas of concern surrounding the issue: access to higher education, distribution of minority students within academic progra'ms, and the retention rate of minority students. "One of the main barriers to access is the money you pay for higher education," he said. "Where you find minorities is in community colleges and in less prestigious four-year institutions." HOLLIS NOTED that approximately 50 per cent of black and hispanic college students are now enrolled in two-year institutions. "We have a new kind of predominantly black and brown institution," he said. "The urban community college is similar in cost to the historically black i_- stitutions, which tend to be low cost." Addressing the issue of distribution of minorif students within various academic programs, HollIs noted that at the graduate level, some 70 per cent if master's and doctorial degrees awarded to minority students are in education. "MINORITIES, EXCEPT for Asian American , tend to show this trend," he said. "There are few ai- plicants and few students in law and medical school, few in the soft sciences, such as economics qr psychology, and fewer still in the hard sciences." Ho'llis added that minority graduate students are more likely to be part-time students, with greater loan burdens. "The real question is one of values, just how f r should an institution go in accommodating differe- ces," he said. "Cultural and geographical barrie s need to be accommodated." Daily Photo by CYRENA CHANG SPECIAL ASSISTANT to, the Assistant Secretary of Education Meldon Hollis tells listeners at the School of Education yesterday that the United States Supreme Court's Bakke decision will not affect minority enrollment in higher education. Council says no to the construction of runway, By PATRICIA HAGEN Capping off several months of de City Council voted 9-2 last nigh maintain the status quo at the An bor Municipal Airport. The vote reaffirmed a February council decision not to construct a east-west runway or install an strument Landing System (ILS) a city's airfield. . COUNCILMAN James Cmejrecl Fifth Ward) who submitted resolution to maintain the present way configuration said the airp( = currently safe and that it was fru to continue discussion of issues tha -been dealt with two years ago whe * council first approved the master for the airport. "I came to the conclusion thatt was no change in circumstanc Cmejreck said. "We should put it t for a while" until .a need is show reconsideration of the issue, he ad( At council's request, the city's tport Advisory Committee recoi ded in September that a 5,050 foot west runway be constructed and a installed. The committee base decision on the 1975 Transplan s done by an airport consulting firm study indicated increased air t was likely in the future. TWO RUNWAYS are' present operation at the airport south of th at State and Airport roads. The 2,700 runway runs southwest to High Court federal we! landing system theast. The other runway, designated could app bate, the 12-30 (based on compass orien- less popul ht to tation) is 3,500 feet long and unpaved. The oth n Ar- Since September, residents of Ann Louis Sen Arbor and nearby townships and many agreed wi ~1977 points have presented their views on said, wol new the airport improvement issue at coun- highly po n In- cil meetings. safety. it the Proponents of airport development, The res mostly pilots and representatives for quo at the k(R airport-related businesses, said a new, that the p - longer runway with an ILS to guide ap- not be pla the proaches would increase safety. could be d run- CITIZENS OPPOSING expansion or BELCH ort is change at the airport said a longer form a la itless runway would increase air traffic, t had noise, and safety problems. They n the derided the use of city tax dollars to plan subsidize the "sport" of a small group of pilots. there "When this issue was brought to us it ces," was a safety issue," said Councilman o bed Edward Hood (R-Fifth Ward). He said n for the airport now is "unquestionably" ded. safe and said he saw no need to install Air- an ILS to make it "safer than safe." He men- also said it was important to keep the east- airport "alive and well .. . and small." n ILS A resolution submitted by Mayor d its Louis Belcher to specify developments tudy, at the airport was not considered after . Th- Cmejreck's resolution passed. Belcher raffic voted against the resolution, because he? said he was in favor of a new east-west ly in runway with the same length and e city weight-bearing capacity as the present main main runway. nor- HE SAID IT would be safer if planes may rule on fare abortions - at A2 airport proach the airport from over ated areas. er negative vote was cast by nunas (R-Third Ward) who th Belcher. A new runway, he ild "take .traffic away from pulated areas" and improve olution reaffirming the status e airfield includes a provision paving of runway 12-30 would nned until financial feasibility emonstrated. ER SAID he would like to and-use study committee to consider development around the air- port. The committee would include representatives from Lodi Township and county planning commission, and the city. During the audience participation portion of the meeting, David Gell, a representative from the University of Michigan Flyers, cited several reasons the 400-member group was in favor of airport improvements. He said, "there would be fewer accidents with an ILS" and the traffic pattern would be moved further from the residences if a new runway were built. WINTER REGISTRATION Through error in Winter 1980 Time Schedule, following history lecture courses (Division 390) were not listed: 415-EuropeanIntellectual, 16th to ,8thC T Th 9-10:30am E. Eisenstein 423-European 19thC Social History T Th O-1:30am L.Tilly 565-Ante Bellum South/Afr 531 TTh 11-12:30p.m. THESE COURSES WILL BE OFFERED The Center for Chinese Studies PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES THE PEOPLE!S REPUBLIC OF CHI1NA AFTER 30 YEARS NOVEMBER 28 Chins's New Economic Polic Wednesday ROBERT DERNBERGER Professor of Economics Congratulati'ons, you're a member. The University Club welcomes all University of Michigan students, faculty, and staff to full member- ship status. Membership fees have been paid on your behalf. Celebrate at the University Club Bar Monday- through Friday. Happy Hour is from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm. Lunch and Bar are available from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm. THE UNIVERSITY CLUB IN THE MICHIGAN UNION ALL LECTURES WILL BE HELD IN 150 HUTCHINS HALL (LAW QUAD) FROM 7:30 to 9:00 PM J WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court said yesterday it may decide whethey Congress can refuse to pay for most abortions wanted by women on welfare. Once again taking up one of the nation's most divisive legal and social topics, the court agreed to hear arguments over the constitutionality of the spending restrictions on abortions. But the justices left themselves an escape route. First they will have to decide if they have the proper jurisdic- tion before ruling on the constitutional question. ARGUMENTS likely will be heard this winter and a decision announced sometime before the end of the court term in June. The so-called Hyde Amendment, at- tached to the budget for the Depar- tment of Health, Education, and 'Welfare, (HEW), was first passed by Congress in 1976. Various versions of it have been enacted for each fiscal year since then. The court will study the Hyde amen- dment passed for fiscal year 1978, which bars Medicaid spending for abor- tions unless a woman's life would be endangered by childbirth, in cases of promptly reported rape or incest, or when two doctors say childbirth would cause "severe and long-lasting physical health damages to the mother." CONGRESS earlier this month agreed on a new and more restrictive spending ban for fiscal year 1979, eliminating the "severe and long- lasting physical health damages" exemption. A federal judge in Chicago last April struck down the spending restriction - both the Hyde amendment and the Illinois law patterned after it - as un- constitutional. -S.W FILMS Cinema Guild-The Magnificent Ambersons, 7, 9:05 p.m., Old Arch. Aud. Cinema II-Trollstenen, 7, 9:15 p.m., Nat. Sci. Aud. MEETINGS Center for the Continuing Education of Women-"Gearing up for the GRE's, LSAT's, GMAT's," 7:30-9:30 p.m., East Conference Room, Rackham Building. SPEAKERS Museum of Art-Cynda Mercer, gallery talk, Renoir's "Woman With a Fan," 12:30 p.m. Residential College Writers--Arturo Vivante, short story reading, Ben- zinger Library, East Quad, 8 p.m. Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations-Prof. William Whyte, "Saving Jobs Through Employee Ownership," 7:30 p.m., Hale Auditorium. Michigan Republicans Club-Lt. Gov. James Brickley, 8 p.m., Union Assembly Hall A miniature sleigh andegh tiny reindeer... --- - .. .or a rusty VW four tiny cylinders whatever. Ulrich's load it up with gifts - all of your family and fries Ulrich's guarantees you the lowest prices in town, with a selection that of something for everybody. Pens and pencils, calculators, globes, books, art supe frames, prints-it's all th First, stop at Ulrich's. Then home for the Holid and s. Or can is for nds. ffers plies, here. days. I