Tuesday, May 22, 1973' THE SUMMER DAILY Page Three NIXON BUDGET CUTS Med school may lose funding AN LN . ta LE Ar t concept osnow r a piaaoype ve usbeenueciueu upon mfr cooling te seare dski 0n ofy- lab, spokespersons for Marshall Space Flight Center said yesterday. The raft or parasol would be deployed from a scientific airlock and would not require a space walk by astronauts. A backup system will also be carried along that would require a space walk to set up a two-pole sail sun-shield. Willow Run labs' ' t - - . rrmnif rc'0efM Iiir By REBECCA WARNER and Wire Servi(-e eporis Federal budget cuts in funding for bio- medical research will cost the University- medical school $1.6 to 2 million if Nixon administration pronosals are approved, a Medical Center snokismsn said yesterday. The funding cutb ck, part of a national plan to cut by 40 per cent funds allocated for new medical res-rch in areas other than cancer and hert and lung disease, would hit the Uni-ersity hardest in train- ing grants for nedic'1 personnel. LOUIS GRAFF, director of information for the Medical Center, said yesterday there is "no expect-tion that teaching services will be reduced" if the cutbacks go through. Graff also denied that medical school enrollment wild siffer. No full-time tenured faculty will be dis- missed, Graff said. Bridget cuts affecting the School of Public Health recently necessitated a 30 to 35 per cent reduction in faculty, because the grants cut were in the area of staff salaries. The impact inside the medical school will be on "training programs," Graff said. Employment of graduate students and post graduate fellows will be signifi- cantly reduced. THESE STAFF members hold- import- ant teaching responsibilities, as well as helping with patient care at University Hosnital Also in line for losses would be re- search grants tot lling about $400,000, special projects for medical education, and health personnel training programs. Graff said Medical Center administra- tors cannot yet project how the losses will be absorbed "It's a day to day watch and wait and see situation," he remarked. If the cutbacks go through, there is "hope, and some expectation of relief from the state." HOWEVER, SUCH emergency aid "would not be helpful in the critical area of research, because it would not apply'" Graff said. U.S. medical schools had expected to receive about $446.3 million in research contracts and grants for the new fiscal year, but administration proposals would leave them with $373 4 million, says a re- port released yesterday by John Cooper, president, of the Association of American Medical Colleges. ANOTHER $39 million will be lost in salaries and other research costs, Cooper sans. The Nixon budget would also: * Cause the dismissal of about 1,400 medical school faculty members unless other support can be found. * Work to the detriment of innovations in curriculum. * Force medical schools not to increase first-year enrollments. * Impair the ability of medical schools to become involved in neighborhood com- munity health programs - this due to the elimination of regional medical programs. Busing stalled WASHINGTON The Supreme Court yesterday refused on a tie vote to rein- state an order for the merger of city and county schools at Richmond, Va. The decision left the question of cross-county desegregation still unresolved. State At- torney General Frank Kelley stated the court's action "gives cause for optimism as to the eventual outcome of the Detroit busing case." U.S. District Court Judge Stephen Roth has ruled that Detroit must establish cross-district busing to remedy school segregated conditions. Klansmen convicted DETROIT--Calling the Ku Klux 1n1- a "racist organization," a federal judge yesterday found five Klansmen guilty of a bus bombing plot to disrupt a court- ordered school busing program in Pontiac. Ten empty school buses scheduled for use to integrate Pontiac's schools were de- stroyed Aug. 31, 1971. Convicted were former state KKK "grand dragon" Robert Miles, former "exalted cyclops" Dennis Ramsey, and Wallace Fruit, Alex Distel, and Raymond Quick, otherwise undistin- guished Klansmen. Happenings. .. . . are light today, but the imaproved weather should provide entertainment of its own -.. WUOM "Symposium 73" wilt feature live questions and answera with President Fleming, new SGC president Lee Gill and Cart Cohen, philosophy pro- fessor and member of SACUA. Call in your questions starting at 8 pm. . . . Rackham Galleries are showing- the Ann Arbor Public Schools Youth Show--art work by kids from all over the city . . . and in case you feel like a swim, Mar- garet Bell Pool is open for svomen 12:10 to 1:10 and 5:10 to 6:10, co-ed 1:10 to 2 p.m., and Malt Mann Pool is open 3 p.m. to 6:30 for everybody. A2's weather Clouding over by a f I e r n a o n with a chance of rain by late this evening. A large lon pressure area moving southeast through Indiana wilt bring rain oar way as it posses south of us on Wednesday. We'll miss the worst of it, but the mid- southern states expect tornados and heavy thunderstorms. Bight temps will be be- tween 68 and 72 with lows tonight of 55 to 60. by heat in Skylab By SUE SOMMER \\hile an overheated Skylab orbits far above us, its foul-ups come close to home for at least one lo:uil group, the Environ- mental Resear ch Institute of Michigan (ERIM at ilow Rtun Airport. ERIM, formerly the Willow Run Labora- tories, was severed from the University in January as a resut of student and faculty protest ag-inst University par- ticipation in clissified defense research projects. Most of the war research was conducted at Willow Run. ERIM's COMPUTERS are prepared to analyze earth resource data collected by Skylab instruments. But these instruments must be set in motion, and the results transported back to earth, by the first crew of astronauts to venture out-if Skylab is ever deemed safe. "We're all anxious to see the vehicle operating again. We won't have the oppor- tunity to collect data anything like this for a good number of years," said Richard tegault, associate director of ERIM and former prominent defense researcher. EQUIPPED WITH 100 electronic "in- vestigators" able to collect new informa- tion on air and water pollution, agricul~ ture range management, and atmospheric conditions, Skylab would have scanned the earth inI 150 square mile plots. Many of the experiments may already be irretrievable, according to Legault. "They involve heat-sensitive film and magnetic tapes. There's a good chance that they've been damaged," he said re- gretfully. FAILURE TO obtain Skylab data will not, however, close down ERIM opera- See SKYLAB, Page 10 Physiologist hunts wild rats to learn about lead pollution By LAURA BERMAN Armed with peanut butter and wire traps, a University researcher has been scouring the countryside and the seamier sections of Detroit in a quest for wild rats. Physiology Prof. David Mouw is trying to determine the effects of lead pollution on rats. Laboratory rats, tame pink-eyed rodents usually used for research, are useless in his experiment. MOUW'S STUDY compares the lead levels in city rat tissue with those found in their country cousins. But although they may be unsophisticated, the rural rats have proved to be "much more wary than city rats," according to the physiologist. Mouw says he has peered over the edge of a decaying silo and found it teeming with rats, but after traps were laid, the -catch was small, He believes that city rats are used to burrowing in boxes for food, while country rats, accustomed to wide open spaces, become frightened by enclosures. In Detroit, Mouw has enlisted the aid of the Environmental Enforcement Divi- sion of the Department of Public Works because "they know where the rats are." Traps have been laid in various sections of the city to -ensure a representative sample. ONCE THE RATS are shipped to the Medical Science Building, they are pushed to one edge of their trap and flipped on their backs. After being injected with a general anaesthetic they are sprayed with an insecticide-to kill fleas. Selected tissues are removed for study before the rat is killed. Lead inhibits. enzyme activity and affects the nervous system when ingested in large enough doses. Mouw is attempting to prove that urban rats have a larger and more dan- gerous amount of lead in them than rural rats. If the study is successful, it could refute the oil industry's claims that lead in gasoline is harmless. "It is clear," Mouw says, "that most of the lead in city air comes from auto exhausts." MOUW'S WILD RAT excuirsiois into Detroit's inner city have given him "the feeling that the whole American system has failed." Be mentions the garbage in the alleys and the rats that live in aban- doned cars and the fact that he has been able to take away only a few of the one million rats that inhabit Detroit, "It makes you wonder if the appropriate model for man is the tame laboratory rat -or its wild cousin," he said.