>ber 23, 1977-The Michigan Daily JOOKING BACK THE WEEK IN REVIEW lots of space E ISSUE of space for student activities has been brewing on the us's back burner for months, but itil last week did it finally emerge ull-blown, important concern. The rts told two students, Steve Carne- >f UAC and Scott Kellman of MSA, ke proposals for resolving the is- ast week, the two were ready with rints, options, conclusions, and a critique of the way the University ushed student groups into nooks rannies and practically swiped the n from under their noses. lman's and Carnevale's research ed a couple of things clearly: the conceived and named for student ities, boasts only two places for students to use - radio station N and a dilapidated work shop; activities in the Union are so ned up that play rehearsals are of- onducted in lobbies and hallways, v feet from other organizations' ings, IAT WAS not quite so clear was may happen now. The students e several strong recommendations e Regents on Thursday, but the sure of other issues .at Friday's session forced the issue to be d until next month. Kellman and Carnevale want the Uni- versity to build a new activities build- ing next to the Coliseum on Hill St. They call it a "rough" building, one where the walls could be moved around to ac- commodate rehearsals and construc- tion projects. They also want the Union to be taken out of the hands of the build- ings Board of Directors - a group in which alumni and faculty outnumber students. They want.the building to be run by Henry Johnson's Office for Student Services. BUT THE University was heading Kellman and Carnevale off at the pass. How about the Argus Building? suggested Vice President for Finance Jim Brinkerhoff. The what? Turns out the partially occupied building on the west side of town would be just fine for the students' purposes, except that it's a mile from campus. One theatre group leader, when told about the offer, said they might have the nicest rehearsal studio around, but there wouldn't be a cast; no one would walk several blocks west of Main St. at all hours. Kellman and Carnevale also suggested using surplus space in the Coliseum itself. Sorry, said Athletic Director Don Canham, I've got my own plans. Nobody around here argues with Don, of course. Various suggestions for renovation of the Union were made as well. And it seems that these should be taken the most seriously. There is administration opposition to a new building, and no one wants an activities center that isn't even near the campus. What's wrong with the Union and the League, which are supposed to take care of these needs in the first place? At any rate, the controversy is far from concluded. The students will haggle with administrators in the com- ing weeks, and the outcome is likely to emerge only after more maneuvering and compromise. union accepts AKE NOTE! The Graduate Em- ployes' Organization (GEO) and the University agreed on something last week! The union told the admini- stration it would accept the offer of an immediate 5.75 per cent pay raise. But that doesn't have much to do with the parties' struggle to come up with a new contract, which the bargainers have been trying to hammer out for well over a year. The process is stalled by a tangle of grievances and court bat'- ties; the main issue is a University ap- peal to a Michigan Employment 'Re- lations Commission decision that graduate student assistants are Univer- sity employes as well as students. The University would dearly love to reestablish the latter, but MERC has ruled in favor of the union once already. In any case, it looks like many more weeks will pass before the dispute is- cleared up. a smile for Detroit PRESIDENT CARTER brought his famed smile to Detroit Friday, in yet another attempt to show the com- mon folk that he understands and cares their. dilemmas. Carter met with some 300 midwestern community leaders and poor people, and discussed issues from health in- surance and unemployment, to the high cost of energy and making the Washington bureaucracy. "The purpose of this meeting," Car- ter said, was to "learn in a human way about the special needs -of people who have quite often been deprived and most alienated from a sometimes dis- tant government." But the President didn't seem to have "learned" any new promises from his campaign days. He promised national health in- surance, a lower unemployment rate, and more housing. He also urged sup- port for his embattled energy program. Carter also praised Detroit's efforts in lowering its crime and unem- ploymentrates. Detroit Mayor Coleman Young was with the President all day, and local politicos considered Carter's visit a boost to Young's reelection campaign. resigned and replaced W HEN SCOTT KELLMAN wasn't W cooling his heels and biting his nails waiting to try his hand at talking the Regents into approving a new stu- dent activities building last week, he was surveying the political whirlwind his resignation as president of the Michigan Student Assembly (MSA) had caused. After being president of the assembly for a year, Kellman was ready to toss in the towel in favor of his school books and the student space issue. But -it didn't come off as neatly as he had planned. Observers were certain that Kellman wanted his vice president, Chris Bachelder, to take over. But when the assembly debated and voted on Tuesday night, it was an LSA senior named Jon Lauer who came out as the new president. Lauer, MSA vice presi- dent for personnel since last spring, beat Bachelder by only a few votes. Like many before him, Lauer wants to bring MSA closer to the students. Nothing like fresh promises. No space? A Ei, hty-Eig~ht Years. of Editorial Freedom 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Vol. LXXXVIII, No:40 News Phone: 764-0552 Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan You KuoW, AS A PE ArlVT FARMER, Z CAN t ' .t-ATE. TO THE 4RAE .EhtS of TNT 1 toRK Ky MAN ! r ' l 4 V i 8 F 5C RS SHS program: Mangled, but saved just the same we MY t'EA it T stow, AS 'THt; ARM MADE Mtu. at 5r E~A"fNE.R pF A p cAN AtSo tO-YEAR-QLb G1Q ., ;Ei.AZE 'TO THE S CAt t R tAT , $USINESS MAN I TO 'TNT 6 MS PARENTS' FACE, ...; i !311 I 1 0 QIIT OUN ' t=aRc ET MY gtzoTNER g1L.L CAL>+5 Ir11.M EI.F A ' "RF©KECK" A p is CAMPAtcrt lSy oR GEOR ,E WA tAC E! ,, 3 fir. , - \ , _ ., .. 1 _-'° ti V AND S KCE M ' OwN r b 1 R S wEu OVER 5r I CAN ' E . 'FbR Tt E PROf3 - NLS Of ouR N/'tTtON'S EG. ERCY. --..;:- , ( _ , ' ' ' , 1 .,.. { t 1 ,.. SoM o MY gE5T' FRIENDS ARE PatitfuAXS! ,- ] f r FTER NEARLY a year of contro- t versy, it appears that the Speech and Hearing Sciences (SHS) program has a new home in the School of Educa- tion. The move would be good for the 45-year-old program. The Medical School just doesri'tAVit.C ° Last December, Medical School Dean John GronAvailand his Executive Committee decided that teaching SHS students to be speech pathologists and audiologists "was not essential to the school's central mission." They asked the University to drop SHS classes. ° from the University's curriculum. Despite the fact that the best. clinical and research facilities for the a study of speech and hearing handicaps are in the Medical School, its admini- , strators wanted to shed responsibility for the SHS degree program. Fortunately, the School of Education realizes the necessity for. continuing the study of communication disorders on campus. School of Educa- tion Dean Wilbur Cohen has said that his school has a vital interest in the. work SHS does. The plan presented to the Regents 1.yesterday by Vice-President for ' Academic Affairs Harold Shapiro calls for SHS to relocate under the Special ; Education department. If planned un- der the able leadership of Dr. William Cruickshank, Special Education department chairman, SHS will find an :: administrative structure sensitive to > its needs. Dr. Cruickshank also heads the ' University's Institute for the Study of Mental Retardation and Related Disabilities (ISMRRD), a facility. : where the clinical work of SHS can be h fully integrated and appreciated. The Medical School, the most isola- ted and aloof unit on campus, was ob- - vious in its disdain of the speech path- ; ology program during the past year's r= review. An independent review com- mittee, commissioned by Academic Affairs last spring, heard the testimony of outside consultants from other universities who were outraged with the Medical School's contemptu- ous attitude toward SHS. Despite the advice of the consultants, the review .' committee recommended that SHS " stay in the Medical School where its clinical functions could best be utilized. But the Medical School wanted no part of the committee's recommenda- tion. It was obvious that for the SHS to stay in that school would be damaging to the program's development and service to students. While it is good that SHS will relo- cate in the School of;Education, it is also sad that the University feels com- pelled to sacrifice the SHS undergradu- ate major to concentrate on the program's graduate offerings. It is - at the least - ironic, since President Fleming only last February called for the University to place greater em- phasis on undergraduate education. Still, if that is the price to be paid to save the SHS from complete disband- ment, it will probably prove a bargain. The program, which trains people in the handling of those with speech and hearing defects, is symbolic of this University's concern with the disad- vantaged and should undoubtedly flourish in the nourishing atmosphere of the School of Education. t i0w AS A 54;JTNERIS -fir I K.tsow Zl1 . 4Ro ..EM$ $ ACK ?EOPtE MUST FACE! ... T>"tnz's wH t z N 1.PEfl FIGHT SE.CaRF. ,P+SION tN Mgt CHURCH; _ .--- _ I _ r,: f y ¢ a % _ , Letters to The Daily c . e .r c rt. r 3 1 EDITORIAL STAFF ANN MARIE LIPiNSKI Editors-in-Chief JIM TOBIN LOIS JOSIMOVICH Managing Editor GEORGE LOBSENZ ....... ......Managing Editor STU McCONNELL. Managing Editor JENNIFER MILLER ..Managing Editor PATRICIA MONTEMURRI ....... ....... 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Smith, Elizabeth Slowik, Mike Taylor, Pauline Toole, Sue Warner, Jim Warren, Linda Willcox, Shelley Wolson, Tim Yagle, Mike Yellin, Barbara Zahs Mark Andrews, Mike Gilford, Richard Foltman Weather Forecasters PHOTOGRAPHY STAFF ALAN BILINSKY..... ...............Chief Photographer ANDY FREEBERG Chief Photographer BRAD BENJAMIN .., Staff Photographer JOHN KNOX Staff Photographer CHRISTINA SCHNEIDER Staff Photographer ethnic space To The Daily: For any person of even marginal intelligence who has lived in Ann Arbor any length of time, it is perfectly obvious that the University is not exempted from basic economic forces. One would assume that these forces would be a factor in determining the recipient of any scarce resource, even office space in the Union. Some, though, seem to give this aspect little or no consideration. Richard Garland was quoted as saying, "There's no reason to deny ethnic groups space on the basis of how many students they reach." This statement is naive, at best. There would be no problem, with this or any other situation, if economics were not involved. Unfortunately, they are. The people in our student government feel that it is a disservice to the students as a whole to squander the student's resources on groups of highly specialized interests. This has caused quite a controversy. Don Alexander, of the Revolutionary Student Brigade,. is certainly wrong in his statement that, "As a student organization, we've got every right to be there." The fact that someone argues the "Rights" of any or all student' organizations on this campus to occupy one of thirty (or so) offices is indicative of the confusion of the situation. The problem is that many of these groups would find it dif- have every right to exist, but it would seem only natural that they should work within their own financial limits and not depend on others to underwrite their ac- tivities. It's slightly ironic that a woman finds that it is "discriminatory" that a largely capitalistic-oriented group refuses to support her organization, the Young Socialists' Alliance. They say in Congress that there's no free lunch. For those. small minorities who have been told that the vast majority will no longer foot. their bills, it looks like their lunch is over. -Paul Andrew Fitzsimmons To The Daily: I have been active in politics at The University of Michigan for a year now, and find that, contrary to your committee's opinion, the political and ethnic groups on campus do not reach out to a significant number of students. Several political organizations (e.g., the Spartacus Youth League, the Revolutionary Student Brigade) help to keep an intellectual andactivist spirit on campus. To replace a group like the SYL or RSB (or many others) with the Christian Student Union in an office is only vicious anti- communism and religious chauvanism. Also, the move being contem- plated by MSA to evict the ethnic groups adds racism to the list of crimes. If you go ahead with Fleming thinks) and add to the general socio-political awareness here. Our student body cannot afford to sink into anti-communism and, or racism. I protest most strongly the decision of the Student Organizations Board and ask the MSA to reverse it. Office space must be found for political and ethnic groups. I and many others would be extremely distressed should MSA become a part of the administration's anti-human power politics. -Bruce"Young .0 Miss Rose-Grace Faucher Head, Undergraduate Library 133 Undergraduate Library Professor Sidney Fine Department of History 3629 Haven Hall Assistant Professor Carolyn Frost School of Library Science 119 Winchell House, West Quad Professor James V. Griesen Director, Medical Center Office of Educational Resources and Research G-1111 Towsley, Medical Campus candidates Professor John R. Knott Associate Dean, College L.S.&A. 2009B L.S.&A. of To The Daily: " As you know, the University is seeking candidates for the position of Director of Libraries to replace Dr. Frederick H. Wagman, who will be retiring at the end of the current academic year. Since the University Library is of vital importance to all segments of the University community, it is important that we have the widest possible par- ticipation in the selection process. The goal of our search, of course, is to select a person who will provide strong and ef- fective leadership for the Univer- sity Library system. We invite members of the student body to recommend can- didates for the position as well as to advise the Committee concer- nin0 matters which it shnld con- Mrs. Lynn F. Marko Assistant for Personnel and Staff Development 818 Hatcher Graduate Library Professor Maurice J. Sinnott Associate Dean, College of 2 Engineering 248 West Engineering John Brandeau (Ph.D. candidate in Library Science) 1006 Island Drive Court, No. 15 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105 Thank you very much for bringing this matter to the atten- tion of your readers. -Robert M. Warner Chairman, Search Committee ; : : : :: :: ::. .:..