I N Reagan prefers deficit -AI The Michigan Daily-Thursday, November 5, 1981-Page 7 Profs petition for union .... .. « .f. i rai tl in MCU f t yl ever tncrec WASHINGTON (AP) - By rejecting ;proposal by his budget director and a WkeySenate Republican to raise up to $80 billion in new taxes over the next three years, President Reagan has virtually pbandoned his promise to balance the government's books by 1984. - Administration sources said yester- day the president told his economic ad- visers that he opposes major new tax increases even if the alternative is a red-ink budget in the final year of his current term. Those same advisers concede a deficit is inevitable without new revenues to close a widening gap Swrought by recession. INSTEAD, Reagan will continue to pressure Congress for deep spending cuts to deflate a deficit that could balloon to as much as $90 billion in 1982 and $150 billion by 1984 without further isea taxes budget savings, according to the sour- ces, who did not wanttto be identified. White House deputy press secretary Larry Speakes confirmed the president's position as to larger tax in- creases, saying, "It's certainly not our decision to add new taxes to those in our Sept. 24 package." That package called for gaining $22 billion through 1984 by narrowing several business and per- sonal deductions. The president's economic advisers have begun to admit in recent weeks that their original plan for a record boost in defense spending, a record cut in taxes and a balanced budget - all by 1984- will no longer succeed because of the deteriorating economy. But the ad- visers have been at odds over what elements of the program shouldwbe scaled back. r (Continued from Page 1) had been for years "vaguely" in favor of unionization. Sanders said faculty salaries appeared to be "not a very high priority for the state or for. the University." Whether or not the issue reaches a binding vote, Sander said, "the ad- ministration should be aware of our concern." PHYSICS PROF. Joachim Janecke, who is undecided about faculty unionization, said he signed the petition because of concern over small salary increases. He added, however, that statements attributed to LSA Dean Peter Steiner concerning "academic hotshots" who would benefit dispropor- tionately from future salary increases also disturbed him. Janecke said there was "a con- siderable amount of unhappiness" over implications in Steiner's statements. Faculty unionization currently is an issue at Michigan State University, where a formal union election is expec- ted in April, accoring to Gladys Beck- with, president of the MSU faculty associates. Beckwith said the drive for unionization at the East Lansing university stems from faculty problems with an "autocratic" administration. Beckwith said the unions interested in representing Sa iacwlty currently are working out an agreement with the administration on which faculty members would be included in the bargaining unit. The MSU ad- ministration is pushing for a limited definition of "faculty," Beckwith said. A Michigan Employment Relations Commission hearing on the matter is set for early December. r Lmns I Needs ride out of town? Check the aiHt classifieds under transportation Reagan ... abandons balanced budget 'Wings' a dismal failure. for MET (Continued from Page 5) this otherwise oppressive production. In their respective roles as Mrs. Tim- _.ons and a nurse they have less than a dozen lines, but when they speak, they give a sense that they uniderstand what they're saying. It's a nice surprise con- sidering the awkward performances that surround them.. But where MET should be held most accountable is its association with the Wnewly-created Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program in acting. MET and the MFA program are meant to sup- plement one another: MFA students are supposed to appear in MET produc- tions in supporting roles and receive in- structions from the visiting professionals who make up MET. I emphasize supposed to. In Wings the four graduate students \*ho appear are mere stage dressing: a couple of nurses who change bedpans j and some doctors. It's nothing too rigorous where one might be forced to apply Stanislavskian be-a-caterpilar- o type exercises or other strenuous ac- ting technique. Two graduate students a had supporting roles in Mirandolina, but there were none at all in The Blood Knot. A handful of other advanced students have worked behind the 'seenes. ,Jheoretically, the MET professionals tre supposed' to teach supplementary *lasses while they are on campus. The ±_ehearsal schedule has been so tight, iowever, that such instruction has been deduced mainly to one informal "chat" between cast members and students for ,ach production. There's also the mat- 4er of the two theatre instructors who .were not available to their students the lirst few weeks of the semester because ihey were "in production." Ah, the benefits of education. Under its current method of operation, MET isn't benefiting anyone: neither the theatre-going public, the grad students in the program, nor the student body at large. *(These two groups are somewhat mutually exclusive; students only receive a discount if they subscribe to the entire MET season; no student discount is available for individual shows.) Joint MFA/professional theatre programs have achieved great success on other campuses, giving ad- vanced students the opportunity to work with seasoned actors and winning :'national acclaim by the superior level ;of performance-the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis and the Yale Repertory Theatre, for example. The presence of professionals does not grant undeniable success to the future of MET or to the education of the ,graduate students. Acting is not as Osmotic process; apprentice actors learn from practice, and they are not getting this from MET. 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