Ninety-Two Years of Editorial Freedom C I tr 4w t9 an I43kII THE SAME Partly cloudy with a high in the mid-S0s. Vol. XCII, No. 59 Copyright 1981, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, November 17, 1981 Ten Cents Ten Pages Proposals may save 'U program Shapiro cas onhanced Officials list 3 alternatves to axing physical therapy U' research By ANDREW CHAPMAN Research has the potential to grow in size and in quality and must continue to play a role of central importance at the University, President Harold Shapiro said yesterday. "It is possible to both do more and do it (researchY better," Shapiro said to a'meeting of the University Senate at the Rackham amphitheater. t SHAPIRO SAID it was important to enhance the quality of research at the University, though the University is con- sidered to be at the forefront among research institutions. "There is room for great growth and improvement," Shapiro said of the University's research environment. The University is striving for higher quality research projects as opposed to a larger quantity of projects, Shapiro explained, adding that conducting more research at the University is a possibility. SHAPIRO SAID the University administration could make efforts to improve scholarship and research here, but this would require reallocation of funds. University faculty, students, and administrators must vocalize their opinions on what areas they want to see this money reallocated from, Shapiro said. He said some of the major research questions that must be addressed by the University's academic community were how to increase graduate student research support, how to deal with the indirect costs incurred by See SHAPIRO, Page 6 By ANN MARIE FAZIO University administrators have come up with three possible solutions that would spare the physical therapy program, currently under review for possible discontinuance, from elimination in the University's effort to become "smaller but better." Although Edward Dougherty, the University administrator who is in charge of gathering in- formation for the review, said elimination of the program is still being considered, another University administrator and the president of the Michigan Physical Therapy Association said the University would not likely discontinue the program primarily because of mounting pressure from state officials. THE ADMINISTRATOR added, however, that the physical therapy program would almost certainly not continue as part of the medical school. The three options most strongly being con- sidered by administrators, according to MPTA President Dale Fitch, are: " Transferring the physical therapy program from the University's Ann Arbor campus to the Flint campus. " Relocating the program in the University's School of Education. " Transferring the program to Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti. Dougherty, an assistant to Vice President for Academic Affairs Billy Frye, and Dr. Richard Darnell, the director of the physical therapy Dougherty ... meeting to be held today program, added, however, that in addition to these three options, outright elimination and continuation within the Medical School were still being considered in the review. See PROPOSALS, Page 3 Doily Photo by BRIAN MASCK UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT Harold Shapiro addresses the University Senate yesterday on the topic of "Whither Research." In his remarks, he said the University could have a bigger, and better, research program. Defense research depends on faculty attitudes, not 'U' policy, professor says Regents may review MERC ruling on GEO By BARRY WITT Arguing against the notion that the University administration is leaning toward the Depar- tment of Defense for more research dollars, the chairman of the faculty research policies com- mittee said yesterday that the attitudes of in- dividual researchers determine the amount of defense research done on campus during any one year. Medical School Prof. Raymond Kahn told the Senate Assembly he has not seen any shift by faculty members toward defense department research to date, but he added that more resear- ch dollars will be available in defense as other federal agencies lose out in federal budget juggling. KAHN STUDIED defense department spon- sorship here at the request of the faculty's governing group. Medical School Prof. Donald Hultquist, who Are University researchers helping to build the bombs of the future? Tomorrow,. the Daily begins a three-part series on the nature of defense department research here and the reasons why it should or should not be done. initiated the request, said he had been concerned that the University was actively pursuing defen- se research, in light of the recent appointment of a former defense department director for research to a high administrative post at the University. But Kahn reported that the Pentagon's con- tributions to University research has been relatively small-approximately 3.5 percent of all research done here. "THERE'S NO evidence" to support the idea that the University is making an effort for gaining more defense sponsorship, Kahn said. "I was under the impression there was a great push (toward defense research) underway, but now, we see that's not necessarily true," Hultquist said last night. Kahn's remarks contrasted with "the im- pression we've had from the press in the past few months," Hultquist said, referringto published interviews with George Gamota, the Univer- sity's new director of the Institute of Science and Technology and former director for research in the defense department. The interviews left the impression that the University is pursuing defense money, Hultquist said. GAMOTA TOLD the Michigan Student Assem- bly last week that he sees part of his job here as matching scholars with research sponsors. The defense department, he said, is a potential spon- sor. Kahn told the Senate yesterday that he feels Gamota is looking more toward developing ties See FACULTY, Page 2 By JANET RAE The Regents may decide later this week whether to appeal a legal decision ordering them to recognize graduate student assistants as employees, thus allowing them to collec- tively bargain with the University. The agenda released yesterday for Thur- sday's 1 p.m. Regents meeting in the Flem- ming Administration building did not include a request for an appeal on the decision handed down by the Michigan Employment Relations Commission confirming the graduate assistan- ts' employee status. THE DECISION, however, requires the Regents to file an appeal by Nov. 24, or a con- tract negotiated between the University and GEO in 1976 will take effect immediately. Graduate Employees Orgainzation leaders have scheduled a membership meeting for 7:30 tonight in an effort to drum up support for the MERC decision. University officials have refused to indicate what action if any, may be taken on the decision. However, Regents Gerald Dunn and Nellie, Varner earlier gave their, support of the decision. Other Regents could not be reached for comment. OTHER ISSUES that will be presented to the Regents. Thursday include approving the assignment of a chair for a $1.2 million en- dowment, examing the University operating budgets and research expenditures, and hearing an annual MSA financial report and several SACUA presentations. Regents will also be asked to approve a recommendation for assignment of the $1.2 million John D. MacArthur Chair to the physics department. Professor J.G. Veltman, a theoretical physicist who came to the Univer- sity last September, will be recommended for the position. According to the recommendation submitted by Vice President for Academic Affairs Billy Frye, the physics department should be awar- ded the chair "inasmuch as the long-range See REGENTS, Page 6 50 students vie for seats in LSA-SG election By NANCY NEWMAN The candidates are off and running in the annual LSA-Student Government election, which will be held Nov. 23 and Nov. 24. Fifty students, most of them mem- bers of four campus political parties, announced their intentions to enter the bid for the 15 seats on the student government in time for the filing deadline last Thursday evening. Ac- cording to LSA-SG President Sue Por- ter, the number of candidates is one of the largest in years. "It's going to be an interesting elec- tion" Porter said Sunday. "There are a lot of people running that have never been involved inLSA-LG (before)." Though the number of students seeking LSA-LG seats has been growing over the past few years, the chief issues in this year's election are not new. Leaders of three of the four-policitcal parties said that if elected they hope to concentrate their efforts on gaining more student influence in ad- ministration decision-making, im- proving minority recruitment and retention at the University, and im- plementing a training program for graduate teaching assistants. The four- th party, Elliot Erbas, has not yet developed a platform, its leaders repor- ted yesterday. All four parties are entering can- didates for the LSA-LG presidency and vice-presidency. The Experienced Students in Politics party is running Mark Klein and Mon- meta Wilson for president and vice- president. Running on the Students for Academic and Institutional Develop- ment ticket is Margaret Talmers, for president and Will Hathaway, for vice. president. Doug Meadow and Jeff Hagen are running on the Students Promoting an Increase in Knowledgeable Education ticket. And Jon Pheils and Bob Krasnick, of the Elliot Erbas party, are also making a bid for the executive posts. Five independent candidates have also entered the race, though none are running for president or vice president. Wilson of the ESP party said that her party will focus its efforts on the failures of the University's recruitment of and services to minority students. She said her party would like to establish a recruitment program in which minority students already at the University would contact other minority students who were con- sidering attending the University en- couraging them to apply. Like the SAID and SPIKE, Wilson said ESP hopes to improve and im- plement a plan already developed by LSA-SG to train University TAs. ESP would also seek more student input into decision-making by University ad- ministrators. Talmers, who is presently LSA-SG vice president, explained that SAID has a three-prong platform. First, SAID seeks to increase student influence in administrative decision- making by "developing strong depar- tmental associations for students and then using these associations to develop support for student involvement among the faculty," according to SAID can- didate Hathaway. Once this support is gained SAID would push for an amen- dment to the faculty code which would call for a student representative on the influential LSA Executive Committee, Hathaway said. A second component of SAID's plat- form is continued work on the creationof a TA training program. Third, SAID hopes to help the Univer- sity achieve its affirmative action goals by "more aggressively 'recruiting faculty and students from diverse cultural backgrounds and increasing the coordination between different minority support services," Talmers said. SPIKE's platform also calls for more student involvement ยข in University decision-making, especially in the University's retrenchment plans, ac- cording to its presidential candidate, sophomore Doug Meadow. SPIKE also, seeks to improve the security in the campus area through the placement of walking guards in the student residen- tial areas along Mill Street and by University dormitories, Meadow said. SPIKE has also developed a plan to raise money from University alumni and other private organizations to save University departments and programs that would otherwise be eliminated in the University's upcoming retrench- ment plans. According to the plan, students would develop fund-raising programs and present them before alumni as sales pitches for donations. Like ESP and SAID, SPIKE too wants to develop an effective TA training program. Leaders of the fourth party, Elliot Erbas, said they would announce their platform tomorrow after they have ironed out the details of their program. All but one of the candidates running on the Elliot Erbas ticket are freshmen residents of Elliot House in Markley dormitory. The party's presidential candidate, senior English major Jon Pheils, does not live on the Markley hall. Representatives of Elliot Erbas said the second part of their party's name is See RACE, Page 2 TODAY- Stockman sellout DAVID STOCKMAN should congratulate himself for creating an economic boom-at local book- stores. When employees from two local Community Newscenter bookstores put the Am :..A.. A S .....ma.. ""T a . +:rn n e: Q 1id , l Alumni news overflow Michigan State University officials, who have been feuding with the school's alumni association, have sent out a newsletter to tell their side of the story to former students. The first edition of the monthly MSU Today-167,000 copies-was mailed out last week and officials said the cir- culation list may be expanded to include the parents of MSU students as well. MSU Vice President Connie Steward said alumni have been complaining that they are "not hearing the other half" of the story about MSU. Asked if the neletter will conmter neaaative nublicity from the alumni Hairless protest Angry employees of the Bank of the Philippine Islands have grabbed razors and makeup instead of picket signs. When customers at ten of the bank's offices walked in the doors this week, they were confronted by totally bald men and women with beards and moustaches painted on with eyebrow pencil. The 75 men and 55 women employees were protesting to dramatize demands for holiday pay, meal allowances, overtime and other benefits, the Times Journal of Manila reported yesterday. It wasn't immediately clear and pregnancy never shows in roly-poly bears since the in- fants weigh between one or two pounds, said spokeswoman Robin Larsen. So until the birth occurs, Bandit is "lying in" at her den, separated from her mate Boo Boo. Spectacled bears, which weigh 20 to 30 pounds, are in danger of becoming extinct in Peru and Ecuador, where their, homelands are being destroyed by foresters and farmers. Should Bandit give birth, her cub will go to the zoo in Calgary, Alberta, Larsen said. Q Ak .1 * r^ I1 i i