Saturday, July 28, 1973 THE SUMMER DAILY Page Three 'U' students sing the tuition blues By JO MARCOTTY When students here found out about the University's newly-announced record tuition hike, some were angry, some resigned, and some simply felt they had been defeated. But none of the students polled by The Daily yes- terday afternoon were happy about the big boost. BOB FISCHER, a literary college (LSA) undergradu- ate from Birmingham, Mich., uttered the universal feeling: Bob Fischer "It's a real shame." The increase came in response to the Supreme Court's decision voiding the old six-month nonenroll- ment residency statute, a ruling which would have cost the University an estimated $2.5 million loss in tuition revenue. TO ABSORB that loss and the ever present inflation factor, the Regents approved fee hikes averaging 24 per cent for all students. "For the working student who has to put himself through school, the tuition hike is an added burden," " Fischer continued in yesterday's interview. "How can he concentrate on his education and still make enough R. Kessman money to make it through? A FEW STUDENTS felt that certain aspects of the increase were justified. Maurice McDonald, a California-born graduate stu- dent in economy, commented, "I think it's okay that juniors and seniors have to pay more for their educa- tion. Freshmen and sophomores take lectures with 500 or more people in them. Upper classmen's classes are smaller and they use more teachers. They should pay their equal share of the costs." "I wasn't in favor of lowered out-of-state tuition," said Janet Nelson, a Rackham linguist from Port Hur- Janet Nelson on, Mich. "People who don't live here don't pay state taxes, even if they do vote here. But then, I expected a tuition hike." ANOTHER linguistics major from New York, R. Kessman, voiced his opinion of the tuition increase as being "pretty awful." One very resigned student was Betsy Alexander, a graduate from Detroit. "I didn't know about it until today. After a while my reaction is just, 'Oh, well'. I'm so used to being screwed by the University that it doesn't make any difference any more." JEANNI LIN, an LSA student from Louisiana didn't Maurice understand the Regent's decision at all. "It's not too MacDonald cool. I don't know why they did, I just don't know why." jeanni Lm Beef from the bank? If you can't find any beef at your groc- er's try opening a checking account in a St. Louis bank. They're giving away steaks with every new $200 account. Beef is now a prize item because Phase IV controls are making marketing of beef unprofit- able, with rising production costs and froz- en selling prices. If you can't go to St. Louis, go fishing. Workingman's heroes DETROIT - The two Chrysler workers who shut down the Jefferson Avenue As- sembly Plant for 13 hours this week will speak at a victory celebration Sunday sponsored by the United Justice Caucus- a group of rank and file workers at the plant. Organizers of the event said they hope it will show the management and the UAW brass that rank and file members will continue to fight for decent working conditions. Larry Carter and Isaac Shor- ter, the two men involved, staged their protest to demand the firing of supervisor Thomas Woolsey. Clean air costs $ The Environmental Protection Agency said yesterday the transportation controls and other clean air measures it has pro- posed may wind up costing the average motorist from $32 to $175 - and the na- tion as a whole somewhere "in the low billions." GIs home? The Senate Armed Services Committee voted 11 to 0 to trim U.S. military troop strength at home and around the world by seven percent. The action came as De- fense Secretary James Schlesinger ap- pealed to the Congress to forego sub- stantial troop reductions until he can make arrangements with NATO allies to share the burden of maintaining a U.S. garrison in Europe. The House Armed Services Committee has recommended a smaller cutback, which would save over $1.6 billion in next year's budget. Happenings... . . . The Medieval Festival gets under- way this weekend with performances at three different locations. There will be one at 3:00 p.m. in the Arb today. Tomor- row there will be one at 11:00 a.m. at the Ark and another at 3:00 p.m. at West Park . . Those interested in joining a black tennis club should call Tom Mason at 764-2011 . .. Truffaut's "Shoot The Piano Player" will be shown at Angell Hall, Aud. A at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. . . . the Preston Sturges Weekend will show "Christmas in July" at Arch. Aud. at 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. . .. Shaw's "Mrs. Warren's Profession" will be presented at the Power Center at 8:00 p.m. A2's weather Cool and cloudy weather will continue today with a chance of rain in the late afternoon. Highs should be near 80 Thousands jam into N.Y. rock* festival WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. (UPI) -- Four years after the founding of the "Wood- stock Nation," tens of thousands if young persons jammed rural upstate New York yesterday for another midsummer rock festival. Traffic deaths ,and drug arrests had started already. Police estimated 150,000 persons had "saturated" the area, a full day before the festival at the famed Grand Prix race course was to begin. Lines of cars and campers backed tip traffic for miles lead- ing into the small western New York com- munity in the Finger Lakes resort area. Three persons died yesterday in traffic accidents trying to get to the spot. The site of the festival was approxi- mately 120 miles west of the dairy farm where in the summer of 1969 about 400,- 000 persons converged for the Woodstock Festival that became the symbol of the youth movement of the late 1960s. The crowd that showed up at Watkins Glen yesterday was similar in appear- ance and manner to the earlier Wood- stock group. Many in the crowd just walked around, dressed in blue jeans and shorts. One youth wandered through the camping area shouting: "Spare change? Spare joints? Spare chicks?" Officials reported about two dozen ar- rests, mostly for drug violations. The crowd, some coming from as far away as California, will hear The Grateful Dead, The Band and the Allman Brothers Band during the day-long concert today. The lines were hours long, getting into the rock festival at Watkins Glen, N.Y. yes- terday as more than 150 thousand fans of the Grateful Dead, the Allman Brothers and the Band made their way onto the concert grounds. This sun worshiper found his auto roof the ideal place to wait his turn. ACCEPTS 'U' POSITION Arthur -Miller to teach. By DIANE LEVICK Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Ar- thur Miller, a former University student and Michigan Daily reporter, will return to campus this October to conduct inform- al seminars and advise faculty. Appointed adjunct professor in residence to the University's theatre area, Miller will conduct a major graduate seminar centered on whatever students desire to study. "WE'VE ASKED HIM to consider a course on his own works," says J. Roland Wilson, general manager of the Univer- sity Professional Theatre Program. "It will probably be a mini-course type set- up." If there is demand for Miller to con- duct a seminar on American theatre, says Wilson, undergraduates may well be al- lowed to enroll. In addition to running seminars, the au- thor of Death of a Salesman and The Cru- cible will advise faculty "in whatever ca- pacity they want," according to Wilson. "He can be brought in to lecture. And anyone interested in writing a doctorate on him would be in an ideal situation." Director of Theatre Programs Richard Meyer hopes to direct a work that Miller is currently writing somefime this season. WHAT HAS LURED Miller back to his alma mater? "He has a warm spot for Michigan," Wilson speculates. "He did an article 15 years ago on his- thoughts on Michigan in Life magazine. And he has worked with Meyer." The two worked at Lincoln Center on Miller's play After the Fall. Graduated in 1938, Miller studies play- writing under Prof. Emeritus Kenneth Rowe. "I've heard the scuttlebut view of him -- like you hear about many great writers - that as a student he (Miller) didn't set the world on fire," reports Wil- son. "He made a name for himself after- ward" Miller has periodically returned to cam- pus, as in 1965, when he addressed a Hill Aud. conference on alternative perspec- tives in Vietnam. "It was the first major Vietnam war protest of nationally import- ant figures getting together. Miller was strongly anti-war," says Wilson. MILLER, an Avery Hopwood Award winner himself, also visited campus in 1963 to distribute the awards in play- wrighting and receive an honorary Doctor of Letters. Dorothy McGuigan, now with the Center for the Continuing Education of Women and a Daily writer at the same time as Miller, relates a story she heard about Miller and the Hopwoods: "He was washing dishes to put himself through school. It was said he swore he wouldn't change his socks from the time he submitted his play until he won a Hop- wood. Two months later he got one,"