Page 4-.Wednesday, June 28, 1978-The Michigan Daily ,michigan DAILY Eighty-eight Years of Editorial Freedom 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI. 48109 Vol. LXXXVIIl, No. 34-S News Phone: 764-0552 Wednesday, June 28, 1978 Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan Regents sympathize with tuition woes T HIS SPRING the Regents tentatively ap- proved 8.75 per cent tuition hike for un- dergraduates. This will undoubtedly deny many deserving students a chance to attend one of the country's finest public institutions, and things will be much tougher for those who can afford to stay. As the financial guardians of the University, the Regents are, along with the administration, ac- countable for increased demands on students' already narrow budgets. But during their June meeting, the eight public officials made two en- couraging - if not completely unexpected - financial statements. In a resolution supported by the entire group, the Regents came out against state legislation ap- proved in April which grants up to $600 in public funds to private, non-profit colleges and univer- sities. Public Act 105 of 1978 would pump money into private schools on an annual basis at a rate deter- mined by the legislature, based on the amount of aid granted per student to public universities. The Regents were voicing their disapproval of a program which denies money to the educational institutions established by the state to serve Michigan residents who want a college education. Also, during the June meeting, the Regents made another commitment to this same goal in supporting student aid in heartingly strong ter- ms. Regent Thomas Roach (D-Detroit) said if a student needs financial aid and can't get it elsewhere, the University should provide funds "to the full extent of the need." Almost 60 per cent of the students here shared more than $52 million in total financial aid in 1976- 77. This works out to $2,707 per student - a seem- ingly large sum, but when compared with chronically high tuition in- creases, it is always in danger of falling short. In addition, the Regents learned, a greal deal of the aid goes to the minority students the University has such a hard time keeping on campus. If aid is allowed to slip, so will the University's long promised 10 per cent minority enrollment The question now is whether the Regents will carry out their public statements in the form of University po poicy in the coming years. , ,.. . LETTERS TO THE DAILY: WCBN for students To The Daily: As a student actively involved with WCBN-FM, one of two student radio stations on campus, I have been following with great interest and restraint your recent series of articles and editorials regarding the current controver- sy over non-student participation currentlyinvolved at WCBN-FM. -Richard A. Barr Budget Director, Campus Broadcasting Network (WCBN-AM, WRCN-AM) ti f p C It ti n at thestation. Arab blackmail F The Campus Broadcasting To The Daily:P Network, including sister station Our President Carter is a very t WCBN-AM, is not your ordinary stubborn man who strives long r campus student organization. and hard to have the nation's fi Rather, it is a University student great problems solved on his own U program currently running terms, and in his own way. He l almost exclusively on nearly has demonstrated this repeatedly y $22,000 in annual assistance on the energy problem, the farm through the Office of Student problem, the Middle East peace Services. This University- problem etc. But he is a soft provided lifeline - along with touch for blackmail - and no one other assistance (faculty ad- knows that better than Anwar visors, free office space, free ac- Sadat. T counting services), and the fact President Carter has pursued that the University is the FCC peace in the Middle East relen- ei licensee - all point out the tlessly from the day he took of- is jurisdiction the University has fice, but his entire campaign for th over the non-student controversy, peace in the Middle East is a long a] Without the University, WCBN series of shameful capitulations L dies. Simple as that, to blackmail perpetrated by a Sadat through his repeated in Several members of WCBN threata to resume war if Carter ai point to a vote taken on the non- does not extract for him what P student issue last Winter term. Sadat wants from Israel. O0 Several important facts were First, it was the threat not to li omitted. First, only some 30 resume the Geneva Conference s student members, out of a unless it would deal with the hi reputed staff of over 200, voted. Palestine question. So Carter b To say the staff has spoken is a capitulated with his statement of Pi fallacy. Many members were not a "homeland for the th aware of the election due to the Palestinians." This was followed th exact nature of their infrequent by a long series of pressures put bh visits to the station. Further- on Israel that brought about the pl more, the station's Board of "working paper" for the Geneva w Directors had already decided on Conference which Carter extrac- th the issue, mandating a policy of ted in his meetings with Moshe sa not accepting any new non- Dayan. o students to the Network while But this did not give Sadat all s permitting natural, voluntary at- he wanted, so he killed the Con- t trition of current non-students. ference altogether by his trip to p Glaring contradictions evolve Jerusalem ploy and direct sa from your articles. While on one negotiations with Israel. This p hand stating that non-students brought about a meeting in which la comprise only 7.5 per cent of the Israel made the huge sacrifice of h station crew, one member states offering return of the whole Sinai, e that the Network could not run and autonomy for the Arabs in without these alumni and other the West Bank. non-enrolled. The broad subjec- Having gained this much, tive nature of these predictions Sadat felt he could extract some underscores the significant fact more, so he complained that Car- that many students, including ter's acceptance of such myself, are not in Ann Arbor this autonomy was not enough, so summer to tell the other side of Carter stopped off at Aswan and le the story. capitulated to Sadat by revising t Not very often do I find reason his views to call for "self- o to stand up and support the determination" for the Arabs in li University administration with the West Bank. t its conflicts though I have served But this too is not enough, so q on the Central Student Judiciary, Sadat tries another blackmail lii MSA. and other organizations. ploy by breaking off negotiations a But this is one instance when my with Israel. This time he does not t full support is behind the Univer- want the return of Sinai with sity in its efforts to find an provisions to insure defense R equitable solution to returning security for Israel. That he had N WCBN-FM to an exclusively already agreed to. Now he wants P student organization. "every inch of the occupied lan- L I urge the University and ob- ds"-his, in the Sinai, and Syria's jecting WCBN staff to agree to a in the Golan Heights. If he does L plan similar to that passed by not get this, there is the usual N Campus Broadcasting's Board of blackmail ploy - the threat of Directors. This plan would call war. J for (1) no new non-students This is not merely a disaster for N joining WCBN-FM or WCBN-AM, Israel. The Russians are quick to and (2) a yet undetermined time learn this lesson and apply it to P limit established for the phase-in their negotiations with us on N of students into thqse time slots nuclear arms limitation. India is currently held by noA-sidets. quick to learn this lesen andtells a This plan would, be equitable to0us toq'o to-hell" af gard4 im- ,L both students, and non-students posing conttsls on to isure-°. hat she does not use the niclear uel we supply India for roducing atomic weapons. So arter caves in and we now give ndia the nuclear fuel on her ter- is. In short, in every area in which he U.S. is engaged in egotiations with other countries - with Japan, on trade; with rance, on limiting the roliferation of nuclear echnology; with Chile, on human ights - they will all learn this rom Sadat: in dealing with the .S., a little blackmail goes a ong way toward getting you what ouwant. -Hyman Olken recession o The Daily: According to bourgeois conomists and professors there going to be a recession, no ere ain't, yes there is, no there in't. But we of the Socialist abor Party say that we are (ready in a recession, with illions of workers unemployed, d millions more living under overty level, and millions of ther workers and their families ving on welfare. Moreover, we ay that capitalism is definitely eading towards a depression, ecause the working class roduces so much more than eir wages can buy back that e result is over production, ulging warehouses, unem- oyment and a depression. The orkers have to suffer because ey have produced too much. We iy that this contradiction can ily be solved by social owner- hip and democratic control of fe means of production and roduction for use instead of for le and profit, then the more we roduce the better, the instead of ying off workers we will cut ours and days of work and still- njoy an abundance. -Frank Troha prisoner's appeal From time to time we receive tters from prisoners who want o establish correspondence with ur readers. Due to space mitation it is impossible to print hese letters which are frequently uite lengthy. Instead, we simply st the names and addresses of 11 the prisoners who have writ- n us in this regard. obert C. Jordan, o. 21132-149, O Box 1000, eavenworth, Kansas; eonard L. Wilson Jr., o.143-701; ames W. Wells, o. 146-296; aul Cole, 0.146-254; 1 threezilP.O. 45699 Meaix*iIr, 6 'he 99