The Michigan Daily-Friday, September 11, 1981-Page 11-B ........................ .... ........ ......... ..../,^ ..:...... ................... .. . . .. , n~~~~~~~~.. .. .. ... .. . f..a.. . .. #...\. n......... v.~ [,:KY.;.Y'....... i[.. . SEATTLE (AP)- When James H. Petrie was ac- education loan, he reported to the college in neth Haynes, then superintendent of the Marine cepted into a Merchant Marine training program at a Galveston on Aug. 24. Academy, "was agreeable to me coming.. . Haynes Texas college, he borrowed $2,400 to pay his tuition That's when Moody College President William told me I'd raise the average age of cadets." and set off eagerly to start classes. Clayton wrote Petrie to say he couldn't stay because PETRIE SAID trouble started when he failed to put,', But as soon as he showed up, the school sent him "you could not graduate from the license-option his age on a housing application. He put his age on all. S tu d e n t , 7 1LSP THhome-saying that at 71 he was too old. program until you are 76. other documents and talked about his age with "I SPENT THREE years trying to get into the "THE POTENTIAL is virtually zero that com- "deans, associate deans and department heads" . program and finally it was nailed down and some lit- panies hiring ... graduates of this institution would But "the corps adviser, J.B. Mainord, and some tle twerps, young'ns, threw in a monkey-wrench," he employ a man of you- age," Clayton wrote. other underlings objected that I didn't show my ae said Wednesday. "It's pure age discrimination," said Petrie, who on the housing application. Mainord took me before s e i Last year Petrie, a retired railroad and Boeing plans to sue "to get back into the program, to get my the president," Petrie said, employee who lives in Kirkland, Wash., was accepted expenses back and for some punitive damages William Whartle, assistant vice president for by Texas A&M University's Moody College Merchant because I put a lot of effort into this." academic affairs, said university officials accepted Marine officer program. After securing a federal Petrie says he visited Texas A&M in 1980 and Ken- Petrie on the basis of test scores and grades ................................................... ..............................n"c.r r,4 ,J .. ............... C... .,.,,.:. '.'.:.:.,c,'U noRIEf.$ State cutback could eat into faculty rais OUR APOLOGIES By MARK GINDIN There is a "distinct possibility" GV William Milliken will issue a Aas7 i F , I I minute executive order to reduce state expenditures to make up for a projected ortfall of $50 million to $100 million or the current fiscal year ending Sep- tember 30, according to a source in Lansing. Although the state is attempting to cope with a shortfall in its 80-81 budget, the reduction of state appropriation from the executive .order would be felt by the University in its 81-82 fiscal year budget, according to University Chief Financial Officer James Brinkerhoff. "THE REDUCTION will mean less by way of a salary increase for faculty tad staff during our fiscal 82 year," id Brinkerhoff. "We will have to ac- commodate" when submitting the budget for the 81-82 year, he said. The planning of this year's budget has been delayed because of the uncertainty of state appropriations. Brinkerhoff said that if Milliken does reduce the state's September allocation to the University, the administration would probably have to reduce the size of salary raises for faculty and staff which are already set below the in- flation rate. He said the cutback would probably not force further program reductions, however. One bf the two areas most likely to receive the brunt of the reduction is the state's universities, said James Storey, director of the House Republican news bureau and Communications. The other area would be the cities and localities dependent on the state for funding as well as the local school districts, he .THE UNIVERSITIES will be hurt' more than other state agencies, Storey said, because the schools as well as the localities have only just started their new fiscal years, and therefore have more unspent money to be recovered by the state, whereas other state ageiies are nearing the end of their fiscal years and have little money remaining. The reduction would be on the order 1 percent to 2 percent across-the- board of the annual state budget, depending on the actual deficit at the time of the decision, which will be after Sept. 15, Storey said. Any executive' order by the governor would have to be approved by the state House and Senate appropriation com- mittees before actually taking effect, Storey said, and those bodies will reconvene Sept. 15 after the current vacation. Because the state constitution Wequires a balanced budget by the end f each fiscal year, the decision of how much to cut would have to be made before Sept. 30, he said. The University would not be prepared to absorb any such cut in its September allocation easily, said Ralph Nichols, the University's coordinator of budget information in the office of the vice- president for academic affairs. "We've been planning the budget on he assumption that they wouldn't come back (for money)," Nichols said. If an executive order was issued, Nichols said, it would mean a reduction in the state's September payment to the University and would affect the 81-82 budget, under which the University is presently operating. AN EXECUTIVE order reduced the state appropriation in September of last year, Nichols said, but the University had been notified of the impending cut LU LA"'L Brinkerha off ..salary raises at stake the previous May and had time to prepare for it. The state has given the University no igdication this year it cannot balance the current budget, he said. THE BUDGET can be balanced by Sept. 30 if the state makes internal ad- justments and an executive order may not be necessary, said Bill Lobenherz of the state relations office at Wayne State University. However, Ralph Nichols said that-if there is talk of an executive order in the first place, "they (state officials) have already exhausted all the other possibilities." If the governor does issue an executive order for the current fiscal year, it would probably only be the first of ,two required this year. ,Both state and University officials believe that the entire amount appropriated for the next fiscal year -a 12 percent in- crease-will not materialize, and an executive order will be necessary in Oc- tober reducing or eliminating that in- crease. Most University and state officials concede that the state does not have the funds to eventually make good on its budget outlays and the 12 percent in- crease to the University, Storey said. This story was reprinted from the Daily's summer edition. HIGHLAND EMPLOYEE S. We've decided to celebrate S8 our 48th Anniversary with one of the biggest sales our customers have ever seen. To wit we've cut every price iln everx y Highland store. Of course; this means our stores will be busy with customers for 9 exhausting days. 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