Ninety- Two Years Of. I Editorial Freedom C -1 tr LIEt il aiQ PRAY FOR RAIN Partly sunny today with a high around 60. Vol. XCiI, No. 1l Copyright 1981, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, September 22, 1981 Ten Cents Ten Pages ggkF rye warns faculty of impending Blue Monday After a long and warm summer, the realities of cool fall are beginning to set- tle in. Fewer people can be seen relaxing on campus benches. A lonely kiosk advertises the traditional fall trademarks; fraternity and sorority rush and football ticket requests. Everyone's pace picks up as students resemble blurs as they scurry to and from classes. if things seem bleak now, just wait until winter. bue By ANDREW CHAPMAN Predicting that another executive or- der from Lansing may call for a five percent cut in state allocations to the University, Vice President For Academic Affairs Bill Frye told the faculty yesterday that the ad- ministration is preparing a contingency plan involving across-the-board reduc- tions and programmatic cuts. Last week, the legislature rejected an executive order from Governor William Milliken asking for a $6.1 million reduc- tion in the University's general fund budget. BUT FRYE SAID he believes Milliken will issue another executive order, forcing the University to respond with a contingency budget plan in- volving two phases. "In phase one we will restrict expen- ditures from the general fund budget," Frye said at yesterday's Senate Assembly meeting. The Univeristy will "put off a certain amount of main- tenance activity, putting the University another year behind in the upkeep of facilities," he said. Phase two, Frye said, will include both a base reduction in the budget and programmatic cuts. FRYE'S OUTLOOK for coming years was also bleak. "In the next three to five years we shall have to retrench and reallocate another 10 percent of the genral fund budget," Frye said. "IN THE FUTURE I would like to see less across the board reductions," Frye Continued, and more programmatic reductions. Frye said the University must be realistic in viewing the budget, "but we must not be driven to too-pessimistic views." Frye also told the faculty that he thought the six percent salary raise for faculty members was "far from adequate," adding that it could not compete successfully with other peer institutions. FRYE SAID he wished he could see a way to boost salaries. "This budget does not provide for an See FRYE, Page 2 cuts Chlorine gas fells 33 people at Harvard Midland nuke, plant rating disputed JACKSON (UPI)- Consumers Power Co. officials yesterday disputed an unpublished Nuclear Regulatory Commission report rating the Midland nuclear plant construction site "below average." The report, which also rated reactor sites in six other states "below average," was released to the news media by Critical Mass, a Ralph Nader group. Robert Wischmeyer of Consumers Power's news and information department called the report "disappointing and puzzling" and said the poor site rating was based on outdated information. HE ALSO SAID the report, which rated the two-unit Midland construction program from mid-1970 to mid- 1980, "contradicts statements made by the NRC's own field staff people who personally inspected the Midland project." According to the NRC report, a "below average" facility shows evidence of "significant ad- ministrative, managerial or material problems in several activity areas.", But it cautioned that its ratings "are only relative" and that "a finding of below average does not imply that a facility must be shut down or that construction of a facility must be interrupted." WEAKNESSES associated with "below average" facilities occurred in radiation protection, plant security, radioactive waste management, fire protection and emergency preparedness. "Simply stated," the report said, "a below average facility displays negative characteristics or un- desireable qualities that are not typical of a majority of facilities." Wischmeyer said Consumers Power Co. and Bechtel Power Corp., its contractor at Midland, have made improvements since the time period covered by the NRC report. "WE WERE AWARE over the time period that this report covered that there were some aspects of the construction project that weren't up to our standards or the NRC's, but we've taken actions during that time and since then to overcome them," he said. Wischmeyer cited sworn testimony in July from James Keppler, the NRC's Midwest director, that an on-site NRC inspection in May found "clear evidence that Consumers Powers Co. and Bechtel Power Corp. had formed an effectively integrated and coordinated construction and quality management team at the site." CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (UPI) - High levels of toxic chlorine gas filled a Har- vard University athletic building yesterday, overcoming at least 33 people and forcing 800 students to leave a dormitory one block from crowded HaryardSquare. "The leakage has stopped," Cam- bridge Fire Chief Daniel Reagan said shortly before noon. "I-don't see any cloud vapor anymore." THE INJURED included nine firefighters, 22 students and faculty members and two graduates. Sixteen were suffering from burns, skin irritation or chlorine inhalation serious enough to require hospitalization. The rest were treated and released. The smell was so powerful it was easily detectable on the congested streets in the area up to a block away from the athletic building. A spokeswoman for Mount Auburn Hospital said one Cambridge firefighter was brought there for treatment and identified him as Robert Blake, 25, in stable condition. The other victims were not identified. "None are in critical condition," a university spokeswoman said. A representative of the state En- vironmental Quality Control Office said, "The chlorine gas levels are in- tolerable in there" and said the facility would not be reopened before today at the earliest. THE GAS CAUSES burns on the skin, he said, and if a victim is not removed quickly it can irritate mucous mem- branes in the lungs and result in death. The Indoor Athletic Building, a four- story brick structure occuping a block and housing a huge swimming pool and facilities for basketball, weightlifting and other intramural sports, was evacuated. At least 800 students from Lowell House, a large coed dormitory across the street, also were evacuated. TODAY Win a free subscription OU SAY YOU haven't had time to subscribe to the Daily yet? Subscribe within the next two weeks and you may win a free term's subscrip- tion. Here's how the contest works: Call 764-0558 and order a subscription. Check the Happenings column the next day and if your name appears, contact the Daily's cir- :- on his or her report card and will be charged for the course unless the Academic Action Office decides that the student has a reasonable excuse for missing the deadline. Engineering students have an extended deadline of Oct. 21 to drop or add a class. An engineering student who drops a course after the deadline will be charged for the course but won't be given a "W" on his or her report card. Drop/add forms may be obtained from the Academic Counseling Of- fice and from the Engineering Record's Office. QJ Haywire horse race ployee in Fairfield said that five to 10 minutes after Satur- day's pre-recorded horse race ended on TV, 11 people were lined up in the store with tickets showing the winning pony's number. At other stores in Maine, there were unofficial counts of up to 25 people holding winning tickets, each good for a cool grand. It was unclear yesterday whether they would be allowed to cash in, and some customers were reported to be livid. Officials at Hannaford Brothers Co., the parent firm for the Sampson's stores, declined to comment yesterday. "I don't have a whole lot to say," Wilson said. "They haven't told us what to say." QJ Reynolds said in a statement yesterday. But the state Civil Liberties Union says it may challenge the action as a violation of due process rights. "Police chiefs sometimes feel they can invent laws and pass sentences," said New Hampshire CLU director Randall Ment. "We heartily disagree." Police Capt. James Rowe said more names may be added to the list. "These three individuals have had repeated contact with the department," Rowe said. "Anything that can lessen the police load for any com- munity our size ought to be tried." The law bans the sale of alcohol to minors, drunks and insane people, or to anybody else as directed by any court, selectman of a town, chief of police, overseer of the poor or the liquor commission." E , i I 1 1