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Deadline set for MSA candidates
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'U' prof. speaks on colleges' role
By JULIE ENGEBRECHT
Prospective candidates for positions
as representatives and officers of the
Michigan Student Assembly (MSA)
have until March 22, at 4:30 p.m. to file
for candidacy.
Thirty-sevefi spots, including
president and vice-president of the
campus-wide student government, will
be filled during the election April 2,3,
and 4. Filing forms are available in the'
MSA offices, 3909 Michigan Union.
Last year's election saw a record 104
candidates in competition for seats on
the Assembly.
THEFOLLOWING schools and
colleges will have one seat on the
Assembly with one-half vote: Architec-
ture and Urban Planning, Art, Library
Science, Pharmacy, and Public Health.
The following schools and colleges will
elect one representative each with one
vote: Dentistry, Education, Law,
Medicine, Music, Natural Resources,
and Nursing. Business Administration
will have two seats, Engineering, 3;
Rackham, 6; and the Literary College,
11.
While school and college represen-
tatives can be elected only by students
of their respective schools, the
president and vice-president will be
elected as a slate by the entire student
body.
STUDENTS INTERESTED in
positions must file individually, but can
affiliate themselves with a party if they
so choose. Two or more students can
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Brad Canale, MSA treasurer, and
Jim Alland, MSA vice-president for
personnel, said they feel this year's
election will draw more groups from
outside of those already involved in
MSA.
"MSA has become .established, is
more responsible, and more widely
known than before," Canale said. "I
think we'll see more serious party af-
filiations in this year's elections."
ALLAND SAID, "I doubt that the
number, of candidates running will be
greater (this year). It's also getting
more and more difficult for indepen-
dents to get elected. We'll probably see
more parties."
Several parties have already in-
dicated their intentions to run. Yester-
day, the Young Socialist Alliance
(YSA), a group which has not
previously run for MSA, announced its
candidacy for the coming elections.
A YSA spokesperson said the group
decided to declare its candidacy early
in order to gain attention for for student
involvement on the South Africa issue
at the Regents meeting Thursday.
Candidates on the YSA slate are:
President - Bob Warren, Vice-
President - Denis Hoppe, and
representatives Pat Phillips, Louis
Head, Phillip Kwik, Brian McGee, An-
dy Hope, and Stan Hills from LSA, and
Jackie Rice, Education.
Other groups which have indicated
intentions to run are the People's Ac-
tion Coalition (PAC), Student Alliance
for Better Representation (SABRE),
and the United Students.
By TIMOTHY YAGLE
Most of today's universities are suf-
fering from identity crises and are con-
fused about their meanings to society,
according to University Prof. William
Medlin.
In a speech at the International Cen-
ter yesterday, Medlin said that some
universities' decision-making
processes are "disturbed" by thre.
functions:
" Shrinking supplies of resources and
their uncertain future.
di"Serious imbalances" in resource.
distribution.
. Distortion of knowledge in certain
areas.
THE NOTED scholar told a small
audience that "administrative growth
seeks out resources to be used for in-
structional purposes, and this is "for-
cing greater competition for scarce
resources, students, and solutions that
will be with them for 10 to 20 years."
Some colleges have become "a
marketplace where the highest bidder
has the choice of which program gets
funded. This is unhealth-
ful ... unethical," Medlin said.
Universities have also tended to lose
their sense of belonging, Medlin
claimed. "Faculties sense a loosening
grasp on what their mission is and their
concerns(arey 'more peripheral and
selfish. (They) inadequately display
what man knows," Medlin said. He
cited the need for a "reintegration of
our knowledge and technologies.
Technology has been in the process of
destroying that image." Universities
have to "identify with the goals of a
freely-constituted government," he ad-.
ded.
PART OF this developmental
process, Medlin said, is competitive
budgeting. "University (of Michigan)
departments should compare their
costs with those of similar departments
across the country. We need this
criticism," he concluded.
Medlin said the degree by which
universities succeed will be determined
by "how well interacting parties can ,.z
mesh to promote a good climate of
learning."
Medlin recounted an anecdote
relating to his recent teaching ex-
perience in Europe. He said the
teacher-student relationship was not
what it could have been. For instance,
Medlin said, instructors did not even
have "office hours." One day in class,
Medlin announced he was having office
hours and students were welcome to
talk to him. Only two students showed
up. When Medlin asked them why they
came, they had no reasons for being
there, but rather "just wanted to see
what office hours were like," Medlin
said.
MEDLIN SAID the function of higher Medlin
education is to develop individual talen-
ts, then "invest those talents in the in-
terests of society." gd"embody itself in its culture;" and the
Medlin, who has taught and received deyet hc tcnstadahr
numerous degrees at both foreign and degree to which it can set and adhere
American universities, outlined to "a set of moral and ethical prin-
criteria for university program ciples." He also predicted that over the
development. He said success depends next 20 years, there will be "increased
deegrme.esawhiduchniesitypens denial of student and faculty rights."
on the degree to which a university can
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Tuition hike concerns MSA
By JULIE ENGEBRECHT
and CHARLES THOMSON
The Michigan Student Assembly
(MSA) expressed displeasure over the
proposed tuition hikes at last night's
JUMBO RAMPAGE
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meeting and MSA members suggested
the Assembly may make formal protest
to the University Board of Regents this
week.
"I have objections to student tuition
going up faster than the rate of in-
flation," MSA President Eric Arnson
said. He also expressed concern that
the University is becoming more
dependent on student tuition for funds.
"THE REGENTS should not balance
the budget at our expense," said MSA
member Mervet Hatem.
"I think we should talk to legislators
rather than Regents," asserted Assem-
bly member Richard Barr.
The continuing controversy of the
University Cellar was also discussed at
the meeting.
Senate approves bill calling
for revised Taiwan policy
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate
gave final approval yesterday to a new
American relationship with Taiwan un-
der which an attack by the Peking
government against the island would be
of "grave concern" to the United
States.
The measure was approved 90-6. A
House vote on a nearly identical version
of a bill implementing President Car-
ter's new China policies was set for
later yesterday.
BOTH PROPOSALS bear the clear
stamp of House members and senators
who believe that Carter's China policies
failed to adequately account for
historical ties between the United
States and Taiwan.
Both sets of China legislation include
a requirement that the United States
maintain a "capacity'' to defend
Taiwan if necessary. They also make it
U.S. policy to continue the flow of
defensive weapons to the Taipei gover-
nment.
Carter had initially opposed any
provision to protect Taiwan's security,
and only reluctantly accepted wording
reached in a series of compromises in'
both houses of Congress.
THE LEGISLATION gives the
President authority to go ahead with his
plans for an unofficial relationship with
Taiwan, and full diplomatic recognition
of Peking.
The President's supporters beat back
a series of attempts by conservatives to
restore various elements of gover-
nment-to-government relations with
Taiwan.
BUT THE SENATE did vote to create
a commission to provide congressional
scrutiny over U.S. relations with
Taiwan.
Another amendment easily defeated
in the Senate yesterday would have
required President Carter to obtain a
written pledge from Peking that China
had -no intentions of launching a
military attack on Taiwan.
There is pressure to get the China bill
to the White House for Carter's
signature quickly, in part because the
new relationship with Taiwan has been
frozen pending final congressional ac-
tion.
A COMMI.TTEE appointed by the
Assembly Feb. 27 will report next week
after hearing both sides of the con-
troversial issue on whether managerial
structure should be negotiated with
workers at the Cellar.
Alsoduring the meeting, Campus
Broadcasting Network (CBN) Program
Director Stan Freeman discussed, a
proposal for increased power funding.
The current 10-watt station must be in-
creased to at least 100 watts to prevent
possible encroachment by other
stations beginning Jan. 1, 1980. The
Assembly may act on the issue inthe
near future.
MSA elections were also a major
topic of discussion during the meeting,
and Emily Koo was officially appointed
as Elections Director for the elections
Aapril 2, 3, and 4.
THE ASSEMBLY also discussed th
removalof a constitutional provisio
which prohibits members fro
receiving salaries. If approved it will
take the form of a ballot question which
would pave the way for possible inter-
nal funding of Assembly members.
The Legislative Relations Committee
for MSA is currently soliciting
signatures for a petition calling for the
repeal of Public Act 105 which funds
students attending private colleges in
Michigan. The Assembly claims this
hurts the funding given to students at
tending public colleges and univer-
sities.
Voters to
face many
proposals
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