The Michigan Daily-Saturday, May 26, 1979-Page 3 'U' officers to discuss salary disclosures By SARA ANSPACH Regental policy," and added that the matter may have we have come down from," he said. However, Kennedy University executive officers will meet Tuesday to to be brought before the University Board of Regents. also noted, "certainly there is a state right to know discuss their reply to a request from the state Senate In an earlier interview, Smith said it would be "very whether information they need (to appropriate funds to Appropriations Committee, which asked that salaries hard" to make a decision on whether to comply with the University). We want to be as cooperative as of University staff be submitted by name to the com- Hart's request by June 1. possible." mittee by June 1. In the past, the University has refused to reveal in- The "serious" question, according to Kennedy, is Earlier -this week, Senator Jerome Hart (D- dividual salaries, insisting that such an act would be an whether "name-linked" salary information is Saginaw), chairman of the Senate Appropriations invasion of privacy. Smith said he thought tradition necessary for the state to appropriate funds fairly. Committee, mailed letters to ten Michigan colleges, will play a big role in the decision. IN ADDITION to the University, nine four year including the University, requesting "individual There would be no problem getting a list of names colleges-Central Michigan University, Ferris State names, positions, titles, and current salary, exclusive matched with salaries, said Smith. "It's on payroll. College, Lake Superior State College, Michigan State of fringe benefits." A previous letter sent May 3 asked The computer does all the work. The issue is strictly University, Michigan Technological University, Nor- colleges to send salaries listed by rank and position, one of policy," he said. thern Michigan University, Oakland University, but the committee has never before requested salaries VICE-PRESIDENT for State Relations Richard Wayne State University, and Western Michigan be listed by name. Kennedy called the issue of providing personal salary University-were requested to send personal salary in- INTERIM UNIVERSITY President Allan Smith said information to the statea "darn tough question." formation to the Appropriations Committee. The he expects "fairly extensive discussion" on the subject "We do believe that the personal privacy issue is a remaining three state universities-Eastern Michigan at Tuesday's meeting. He said, "It's a matter of very legitimate legal position. Thus far that is where See 'U', Page io Handicapped Laughlin plans to cover 15 miles in wheelchair By MATT FRUMIN The Dexte Nearly 3,000 people are scheduled to two and on participate in the annual 15-mile Dex- In prepa ter-Ann Arbor Run, which begins at 8:30 a.m. today. But only Larry Laughlin hi Laughlin will cover the course in a Arbor ina wheelchair. pressure in Laughlin, a 25-year-old student at moving th4 Washtenaw Community College, rainy days studies computer programming, data equipped v processing, and math. He lives with his practicesc parents in Ann Arbor. said he h SITTING IN his parents' living room, enable him Laughlin talked about the motorcycle about two a accident four years ago which left him RACEt confined to a wheelchair. He said he is courage" h determined to get the most out of life to Laughlin and not to allow his handicap to get in him to star the way of his happiness. Before his ac- than the r cident, Laughlin swam and played avoid traff basketball. He still pursues both these he does no hobbies, swimming with a handicapped "in Califorr group in Ann Arbor, and shooting three minu baskets in his back yard. the runner Laughlin spent the winter of 1978-79 in thinned out California. In his own words, "seeing with traffi handicapped people active in California there (to th got me involved and encouraged me in still people sports." While he was there, he par- make a big ticipated in two races similar to today's The race run, each approximately six miles long. Bank and See HA today- Oops! I mean no In an unusal departure from strict partisanship at the City Council budget meeting Thursday night, Third Ward Republican Councilman Louis Senunas voted along with the Democrats. Senunas, whose roll call vote follows the four Council Democrats, voiced an affirmative vote on a proposal to eliminate the Assistant City Planning Director's position. The other six Republican voted against the motion after him, while the usually composed Senunas looked on in bewilderment. He quickly raised his hand after the roll was called and said he had inadvertently voted yes when he meant no. Amid chuckles, it was pointed out that the motion was defeated regardless of his vote.. But Mayor Louis Belcher immediately directed the City Clerk to change Senunas' vote for the record. Senunas towed the party line for the rest of the evening, thereafter. 'Yertle the Turtle'and other tales And you thought Dr. Seuss was just for kids. r-Ann Arbor race is nearly e half times as long. ration for his longest race, as been driving around Ann a wheelchair with low air the tires in order to make t chair more difficult. On , he drives his specially- 'an to Briarwood Mall and on ramps there. Laughlin opes his preparation will to complete the course in nd a half to three hours. OFFICIALS "didn't en- im to participate, according . He said the officials want rt his trek 15 minutes later est of the field, in order to ic problems. Laughlin said t think this is fair, because -nia, the wheelchairs started tes earlier and by the time s caught up, the pack had and there were no problems c or passing. I want to get e finish line) while there are there and 15 minutes can difference." is sponsored by Ann Arbor Trust and the Ann Arbor NDICAPPED, Page 10 TWENTY-FIVE year old Larry Laughlin (above) and almost three thous- and runners will participate in today's Dexter-Ann Arbor Run. The run, scheduled to start at 8:30 a.m., is an annual 15-mile event sponsored by Ann Arbor Bank and Trust and the Ann Arbor Track Club. Theodor Suess Geisel, the man behind "green eggs and ham," was quoted in the current Parents magazine as saying his characters are based on real people, such as Adolf Hitler and Richard Nixon. Hitler was the model for "Yertile the Turtle," a lit- tle known domineering guy who pushes people around, according to Geisel. The Watergate scandal prompted the book "Marvin K. Mooney, Will You Please Go Now," Geisel continued, and Marvin is based on Nixon. That book, published the day before Nixon resigned, concludes: "I said go and go I mean The time had come so ... Marvin went." Dr. Seuss appears to be more relevant to our times than some books University students are required to read for classes. Memorial holiday Your Tuesday morning coffee will not be accom- panied by the Michigan Daily. The Daily staff will be enthusiastically observing Memorial Day, so the paper won't hit your doorstep again until Wed- nesday morning. Happenings .. . ... at noon, Dr. Richard Williams, Jr. of the U.S. Geological Survey in Reston, Va. will discuss "En- vironmental Studies of Iceland with Landstat Imagery" in Room 1512 in the C.C. Little Building ... senior dance students once again will present their dance concert at 8 p.m. in the Dance Building, 1310 N. Univesity Ave. . . . The Lighthouse, a Christian performing company, returns to the Power Center at 8 p.m. Call 761-8507 for more in- formation ... SUNDAY and MONDAY have nothing planned ... TUESDAY, Jim Houser of the Michigan Center for the Education of Returning Vets and Jim Dries of the Washtenaw County Vietnam Era Vets will discuss "Veterans-Continuing Victims of War" at 7:30 p.m. in the Kuenzel Room in the Michigan Union. On the outside Rumor has it the sun will shine today, with a high temperature in the mid-to upper 60s. It'll be chilly tonight, though, with a low around 40°.