Page 2-Wednesday, June 6, 1979-The Michigan Daily State panels hear 'U' request for money By JULIE ENGEBRECHT University officials criticized state officials yesterday for placing higher education on a low priority level, and told appropriations subcommittees that they need more money than has been proposed to operate the University's three campuses. Administrators from the University said Gov. William Milliken's proposed $144 million budget for the coming fiscal year is $3 million short of what the University actually needs to operate, according to Rep. Gary Owen (D-Ypsilanti), chairman of the House Higher Education Appropriations Sub- committee. OWEN SAID University officials reported that they plan to increase faculty salaries by only seven per cent, instead of ten per cent as originally proposed, to keep in line with President Carter's inflation guidelines. He also said the University men- tioned inflationary pressure as one of the key reasons for requesting ad- ditional money. While Owen said it was difficult to judge the total amount the University eventually would receive from the state, he said he expects the University would be allocated an amount "fairly close to what it needs" - above the governor's recommendation. THE LEGISLATOR also said sub- committee members were critical of the University's energy conservation efforts, claiming it had the highest energy costs of any state college or university. Owen said he and Sen. Bill Huffman (D-Madison Heights), chairman of the Senate subcommittee, will write a let- ter to the University Board of Regents requesting that an intensive study be done on energy consumption. Owen said legislators were concerned about energy matters and want the Univer- sity to "substantially reduce costs." However, Interim University President Allan Smith and Vice- President for Academic Affairs Harold Shapiro said a study on energy con- sumption at the University was done recently, and the University has taken measures to reduce usage significantly. "WE HAVE MADE substantial progress in reducing energy usage by the square foot," Smith said. "The legislature is looking very hard at energy (concerns), and we agree with that." Smith said the University has many buildings which are great consumers of energy - specifically, the computer building, which is used 24 hours per day, seven days per week. Shapiro said the University's use of energy is bound to be greater than that of other institutions because of its heavy emphasis upon computers and research, and is expected to be "con- siderably in excess of a teaching college." BOTH SMITH and Shapiro, who ap- peared with University Dearborn Chancellor Leonard Goodall, Flint Chancellor William Moran and Vice-Presidents Richard Kennedy and James Brinkerhoff, said in addition to presenting the University's needs to the legislators, they requested that higher education across the state be given higher priority in terms of funding. Smith cited figures which ranked the state of Michigan 34th in terms of fun- ding for higher education. He also said the legislators gave a separate hearing to the University's medical and dental schools. The state likes to consider health services education on a different basis, accor- ding toSmith. Even though Shapiro, who is chair- man of the University Committee on Budget Administration, said he could not estimate what the impact of the legislative hearings would be, he said, "We certainly feel we need con- siderably more than has been recom- mended." Smith said the hearing, which took one-and-one-half hours yesterday mor- ning, was done "very expeditiously" and that legislators were in "kind of a hurry to complete the hearings." The University's fiscal year begins July 1, and officials have said that if the budget is not completed by then, they will probably ask the Regents for authorization to continue spending at current levels. Presidential search Salary info by position called inadequate by state (Continued from Page 1) Smith said, "The U-M Regents' present directly confront the issue of name- policy is one of non-disclosure of name- linked salary disclosure. linked salaries, a policy position sup- ACCORDING TO Schnetzler, state ported also by our faculty Senate attorneys were consulted yesterday to Assembly." see if the University could legally If appropriations committee attor- release names under the conditions of neys decide the University can release their pending litigation, salary information by name, Schnetzler According to University General said she is not certain what the commit- Counsel Roderick Daane, "the Univer- tee would do to force the University to sity could release names without submit the requested information. violating any restraint of the court." One of Hart's aides said Monday that Smith said the question was one of committee could ask the attorney policy, not legality. "We haven't general to intervene and procure the treated it much as a legal matter," he salary information from the Univer- said. In a statement released Monday sity. DO YOU SOMETIMES HAVE DIFFICULTY -asking professors for extensions on papers? -telling your friends that you really care? -showing anger when people cut ahead of you in line? If you are interested in working on these and other assertion problems . . . Peer Counselors at Counseling Services is looking for students who are interested in joining us for a ONE-DAY WORKSHOP JUNE 14 in ASSERTIVENESS TRAINING 7-10:30 p.m. Assertiveness Training is a strategy for increasing our ability to respect our own individual rights and to clearly express ourselves without infringing on the rights of others. To register or obtain more Information, please call 76 Guide or drop in at the 76 Guide desk, First floor Michigan Union, 10-5 Mon.-Fri. Sponsored by Peer Counselors at Counseling Services ean didate (Continuedfrom Page i1 And, while Nederlander, chairman of the Regents' selection committee, would not say whether or not he was meeting with the students on Sunday, he said he makes it a policy to get together with the committees, and that he tries to get other Regents to come along if they can. REGENT DAVID Laro (R-Flint), said he was not meeting with the group. Other Regents, along with alumni committee chairman Sam Kruglak, could not be reached for comment. Both Nederlander and Laro said the process is going "fine" and that they are in no hurry to choose the new president by any specified date. Laro said he was not worried about competition for candidates from the MINIMUM TILLAGE BARTLESVILLE, Okla. (AP)-By the year 2000, an estimated 85 per cent of America's farmland will go un- plowed, according to Phillips Chemical. Crops on this land will be planted using a method called "minimum tillage," the company says, adding that 10 per cent of the nation's farmland employs minimum tillage today. Minimum-tillge machines, expected to have wider use in the 1980s, have knife-like prongs which slice into the soil, leaving a protective blanket of crop stubble behind. The same machine then fertilizes the soil, drops in seeds and pressed the earth closed. Today, farmers plow up their fields two or three times a year, exposing them to radiation. Rich topsoil is being blown to dust at a rate of 4- to6-billion tons a year, com- pared with the Dustbowl Era of the 1930s, when the nation's soil was blown away at a rate of 3 billion tons annually. KEEL LMW COST FLIGHTS- EUROPE-ALL CITIES (212) 689-8980 Outside N.Y. State FE1-800.223-7676 "te cent. fr sedeenetrvel 1140 BROADWAY .N Y.C . .Y listscut many other universities across the country conducting searches because "I think that the University of Michigan is important enough that we can be called... 'one of its kind.' We don't have a great deal of competition." The Regents refuse to commit them- selves to a time by which they will choose the new president. NEDERLANDER said the Regents were pleased with the job Interim University President Allan Smith was doing, so they could feel secure about almost any arrival time for the new president. Smith said yesterday that he had earlier agreed to stay in the post until the Regents announce a successor, but that he has not been asked to stay past the summer, even though he could arrange his schedule to do so. The Regents have maintained a policy of not revealing any details of the search since early in the process. Faculty, student, and alumni commit- tees have, for the most part, gone along with the Regental policy, but have been willing to give out some information, while the Regents answer questions about the search with a "neither con- firm or deny" or "I really don't care to comment on that." Search committee members and Regents have said that public discussion of candidates would impair the search. They often cite problems with Michigan State University's (MSU) presidential hunt, which has continued for over a year and one-half, as something they do not want to hap- pen here. MSU's selection has been hampered because candidates whose names have been leaked often dropped out of contention. THE MICHIGAN DAILY (USPS 344-900) Voiume LXXXIX, No. 25-S Wednesday, June 6, 1979 is edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan. Published daily Tuesday through Sunday morn- ings during the University year at 420 Maynard Street Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109. 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