Thursday, September S, 19TI THE M l (.1-i l GAN DAILY Page Erevers Thursday, September 8, 1977 ThE MiLt-tIGAN DAILY Page E~e~~I Budget problems lead to p (Continued from Page 1) John Gronvall said the program had -lost its accreditation which was provisionally restored after two appeals. In addition, Gronvall said the' Medical School Executive Com- mittee reviewed the 1973 report and concluded: 0 The program was not es- sential to, the central mission of the Medical School. 0 It would be inappropriate to fund a program not central to the mission in lieu of. depleted finances. " Increased funding would be necessary to improve the' qual- ity: of the program to an ac- ceptable level-and the funds are not available. Acting Director of Speech and Hearing Sciences Donald Sharf took exception to Gronvall's' clain that the section had lost accreditation. IN AN UNPUBLISHED letter to the Daily, Sharf said SHS did not lose its accreditation. He said there was only one appeal to withhold accreditation by the Education :and Training Board. Sharf said accreditation was extended until Sept. 1, 1978 rather than provisionally re- stored. Sharf said a letter from the Chairman of the American Board of Examiners in Speech Pathology and Audiology said the reason for extending accred- itation rather than reaccredit- ing was "to allow for clarifica- tion of the administrative pic- ture at your institution." The Chairman was referring' 'to the absence of a permanent director for SHS. Sharf has been acting director since 1974. THE MEDICAL School has halted the section's efforts to get a new director until a Chair- man can be found for the De- partment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. When contacted about the dis- crepancy between Sharf's and Gronvall's statements, a spokes- person said Gronvall did not disagree with Sharf's claims, but viewed the information dif- ferently. Shaf said the recommenda- tion to discontinue the program was based on outdated informa- tion contained in the 1973 report. He said upgrading the program was a difficult task because he wasn't allowed to see the re- port. But Sharf said he felt the program had improved greatly nonetheless. The Medical School appointed a review committee to update the 1973 report, but SHS faculty members said the review was not under the guidelines set by the Office of Academic Affairs to deal with discontinuing pro- grams. "It is a question of whether the review committee appointed by the Medical School wouldn't be influenced by the decision (to scrap the p r o g r a m)," Sharf said. SEVERAL MEMBERS of the rogram cuts. Ram's Head Leather review committee were also cited as reasons for the depart members of the 1973 committee. ment's demise. W orks carries the finest As a result of the controversy, demic Affairs Frank Rhodes of the program, a review com-b named a review committee to mittee, headed by then-Vice conduct the study headed by President Rhodes, came up with Dean of the School of Graduate a new program . that would Studies Alfred Sussman. guarantee "a minimum core T h e committee completed curriculum in Population Plan- ;./ their review the first week of ning." July. The core includes the degrees Master of Public Health and RHODES SAID no decision Masters of Health Service Ad- would be made at that time. He ministration, Master of Science said the report would be sent and a Doctoral Degree. Profess- to the literary college (ILSA) ors will teach these degrees Dean, the Dean of the Medical through t h e Interdepartmental School and the acting director Program. of SHS. They will discuss the findings with their faculty col- leagues and give their recom- TH E mendations to the Office of Aca- demic Affairs, Rhodes said. BELL He added he didn't expect any decision to be made before Oc- TOWER TA negative decision would not 4 only eliminate SHS, but the H O T EL Speech Clinic and Audiology programs as well. These facili-- ties offer therapy to people in Ann Arbor's the community with speech and Ca'p-pHotel . . Rs nead hearing disabilities. Cam pusH tl..d THE DEPARTMENT of Popu- Just a short walk to Leather Works lation Planning (DPP), a depart-I ment of the.,School of Public dorms, classes, theatres, 539 E. Liberty Health (SPH), has already re- and shops. 995-1866 ceived the ax. "Major academic weakness- 300 So. Thayer es" and a predicted million dol- 769-3010 lar deficit within SPH were Just call him Professor Ford (Continued from.Page 6) He said Ford "knocked every one of (the questions) out of the ballpark. He was in. the slo-pitch league." Singer said, however, that Ford has "a number: of saving graces." But he said he still had doubts about lbe worth of theI ex-president's visit. "DESPITE THE real advant- ages and gains, there were some problems," he said. "We can't overlook them." Bill McGee, a political science teaching. a s s i s t a n t, said he "wasn't that impressed" with Ford's appearance before an in- troductory p o 1 i t i c a 1 science class. "I don't think there's a great deal to be learned from 50-min- ute question and answer ses- sions." HE SAID A seminar format might have enhanced the value of the visit. McGee said he thought the 300 students in the introductory class enjoyed the visit nonethe- less. But he added, "In terms of what they learned,, I don't think it was that extensive." Students, too, had mixed feel- Rapes, attacks leave campus in fear ings about the ex-president's campus stay. "IT WAS worthwile," junior Jeff° Lieberman said, "but it wasn't spectacular. I kind of got caught up in the aura of the thing while he was here." "I wish he could have been more inspiring," said Rachel Solonm. Solom, former president of the literfry college (LSA) student government, dined with Ford and. student body presidents. "THERE WAS a very pleas- ant dinner with a world leader," she recalled. "(I was) really looking into his eyes, seeing his realness. "Maybe that is why I was so depressed afterwards-the inter- action was so smooth, he was so real." Solom said Ford. was "pleas- ant, informative, knowledge- able." But she added, "I didn't vote for him." U I (Continued from Wage 1) saults, and so the crimes-at least officially-remain unsolv- ed. Though it is difficult to pin- point exactly when the rash of' related attacks began, the con- nection between them came to light in early Noyember. In that month alone, ten assaults took place, including two rapes.. The attacks followed little semblance of a pattern, ranging from muggings to rapes at knife- point.' However, one similarity emer- ged in each instance which led police to link the crimes. The description of the assailant - Slack male, about :5'10", stocky )uild, usually wearing some kind of head apparel - repeated itself in every case. After the rash of attacks be- ian, the University provided an escort service, first to residents )f Oxford Housing, where sever- al of the assaults took place, later to the entire University ominunity. University security officers were taken off their reg- ular patrols to drive women to .heir homes. In late November, four days' after the second Oxford resident In three weeks was raped at South University and Oxford, the University resurrected the ,Nite awl bus service. Buses ran every day on the ialf hour from 7 p.m. to I a.m. \fter 1 a.m., students were to tse the escort service. The Nite Owl buses had run uring the time of the "Co-ed .illings," a series of murders hich took place in 1969 and 19- 70, but were discontinued when ridership dwindled. The' Univer- sity is unsure of the service's future for this fall. Rumors of attacks ran ram- pant. One freshwoman recalled an evening when several women on her dorm floor were gathered in her room discussing the dif- ferent "mad rapist tales" like they were ghost stories. By the time the group broke up, some of the women were afraid to go to the showers alone that night. "There were stories going around that were just too hard to believe," said one junior.. Police now have in custody a man they believe could be res- ponsible for the attacks. The man, Robert Finklea, was ar- rested last January and charged with the unarmed robbery of a woman at South University and Oxford, and with the rape of a woman who knew him intimate- ly. Shortly after his arrest, . he was also charged with another count of sexual,. misconduct for allegedly assaulting another man in jail. Finklea was convicted of the unarmed robbery charge, and still faces trial for the other two charges. Aside from the robbery, Fink- lea has not been charged with any of the fall attacks, nor is it likely that he will be. None of the women who were assaulted have been able to identify him as the man who attacked them. Although he would not confirm that he believed Finklea was still a suspect, Major Raymond Woodruff of the Ann Arbor Po- lice Department detective divi- sion noted, "There have been no reported rapes of that type since his (Finklea's) incarcera- tion." Prosecution attorney William Delhey said last May that Fink- lea was still a suspect in the ser- ies of assaults. End of the line for old CRISP system THE IIE {A . I A 00 oa oa 091 I I A (Continued from Page 6 classes. A, freshman has four senior it's the last chance. Also, the course override problem is going to get 100 times worse. I can't believe it." The University's largest col- lege, the literary college (LSA), is affected most by the change- over. 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