The Michigan Daily Vol. LXXXV, No. 45-S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, July 19, 1975 Ten Cents Twelve Pages khi es tuition rates by another 6 per cent emmalmmmeamaioomnesmnimoitai~smmmiiTakNM~ies e f c September 1 By BILL TURQUE The University Board of Regents, saddled with an "austerity year" state appropriation, gave formal approval yesterday to a widely anticipated set of tuition increases, averaging six per cent. The hikes, at both undergraduate and grad- uate levels, are effective September 1. FRANK RHODES, University vice president for academic affairs, told the Board, "We recognize that the average six per cent fee increase will create hard- ship," but defended the measure as "the lowest, most modest increase we could recommend to the Regents." For Michigan residents, the increase wilt bring underclass tuition to $424 per semester, with in-state juniors and seniors shelling out $480, an increase of $28. The hike will jack out-of-state fees for freshpeople and sonhomores to $1,378 per semester, an increase of 58. Non-resident upperclasspeople can expect to pay $.1,484 come this fall. BOTH IN and out-of-state graduate students in many of the University's schools will be subject to fee in- creases. Resident Rackham and law students are slated for the full six per cent hike, as well as ap- proximately five per cent hikes for all medical and dental school students. Other increases approved by the Regents include a 2.5 per cent boost for the School'of Public Health, and a 4 per cent hike for out-of-staters attending law school here. The increases come in the wake of a bleak, infla- tion ravaged state appropriations picture for fiscal 1975-76. While the University's $109.8 million budget package passed by the Senate still awaits final action by the House, University officials felt the figure would be accurate enough to present to the Board for tenta- tive approval, with minor adjustments to be made in September. See 'U,' Page 5 SIX-YEAR-OLD Rachel Holmberg seems very content as she makes the decision w panda or the horse at yesterday's Art Fair. The event will last until 6:00 today. t::: Y 4:..,74'.5 ,- ,,,,vv".'. i : ,, 55,...... ....4......5 5ss a5 heby tKEN t Spacemer HOUSTON (AP) - American and Soviet spacemen celebrated a festival of friend- ship aboard united ships yesterday and proclaimed their adventure in detent as the dawn of "a new era" for men. "When we opened this hatch in space we were opening back on earth a new era in the history of man," Thomas Staf- ford, the American commander, said during a 30-minute news conference from space. THE astronauts and cosmonauts, in a hymn of hope, talked of a vast new age of cooperation and peace, of factories in space, of international voyages to new worlds, and of peace among all mnen., Televised views of the men during the news conference showed Stafford and' declare 'new era' for world Alexei Leonov, the Russian commander, together in the Soviet Soyuz spacecraft. Americans Donald Slayton and Vance Brand were grouped with cosmonaut Va- leri Kubasov in the Apollo craft. The conference came only a few hours before farewells and the final closing of hatches, separating the men of So- yuz and Apollo for the last time in space. The spacecraft will unlock and part on today. LENOV said he viewed their joint space flight as "only the beginning of a great human . journey into outer space," and called the adventure "a great, grandiose human- effort in space. Cooperation between men, said Brand, will lead mankind to new and distant worlds. - "The time will come when we'll ex- plore planets together," he said. "It would bring benefits back to the whole world." Kubasov, who became the first welder in space on an earlier Soviet flight, fore- cast an age when space would create a better life on earth. "THE TIME will come when space will have whole plants, factories for the production of new materials and new substances with new properties which could be made only in space," he said, Earlier experiments in space have ' raised the hope that by smelting metals in space, where there is no gravity, they will be stronger and more durable. Mol- ten metals cooling on earth develop weak spots due to the affects of gravity. Slayton, a World War II pilot over Europe, was asked how the continent looked from space now and he called "mighty beautiful from up here . I just wish everybody down there could have the opportunity to look at it from space for themselves." LEONOV was asked about his sketch- es in space and the Coyuz commander produced what he called-a "portrait gat- lery in space." The sketches done in or- bit included two of Stafford and a whim- sical view of Slayton wearing a cowboy hat. See SPACEMEN, Page 5