Page 2-Wednesday, November 25, 1981-The Michi D ]an Daily $ 1t S ho* for Wednesday 30 30. \34 s0 K 1 H 60 50 "w Fi gvr e s %h ow ,.60 h ig h 7XX 70 4%*' tempe r t u r W o r r e'a> Cold W(rrfAIIrar, 80 0 w«St"r v OScItd .d N A T ONATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE -m NOAA, U S Dept o f Cormnm e r< Are you snow-bound?9 The National Weather Service predicts snow flurries for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, especially in the Midwest. Those traveling further west should expect a rainy holiday. r Art history profs ask for facts " on union, (Continued from Page 1) sity's practice of granting its top professors - called academic hotshots by some - disproportionately higher salaries. The merit-based salary system, as the policy is called, grants raises based on excellence in research and teaching. The hisory of art professors' petition cited the erosion of faculty income and salary distribution programs as being troubling matters to the professors who signed the statement. BISSELL SAID he believed there is uncertainty among the faculty about the policies guiding the University's merit-based salary program. "In a general sense, it's unclear how salary distribution is established," Bissell said. "It's unclear what criteria are used for giving hotshots a lot and other professors a little." Teigen noted that the real "crisis" among faculty on campus was not that petitions have suggested interest in a union, but that the faculty is concerned about how the recent 5.5 percent salary increase was distributed. Teigen said this year's merit in- creases seemed to have created some ill will among the faculty. * "The perception of the average faculty person is that he's getting the short end. We hope the faculty will recognize the questionnaire as an effort to do something about the inadequate salary program," Teigen said. Bissell said professors who signed the petition had many different views on unionization, but all agreed the option should be investigated. History of Art Prof. Graham Smith, who signed the petition, said it was designed to register support and sym- pathy for the original petition by physics department faculty. "It's time to consider the issue," Smith said. IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports 48 rescued from oil rig caught in North Sea storm STAVANGER, Norway- Rescue helicopters lifted 48 stranded men from an oil platform in the swirling Iorth Sea yesterday after 100 mph winds and mountainous 50-foot waves ripped the rig from its mooring. Another rig with 112 men aboard was ripped loose in the hurricane-force wind and drifted dangerously close to a fixed platform with 82 aboard. But tug boats secured the errant platform to avert a disaster. Storm tides 16 feet above normal inundated much of the Scandinavian coastline and forced 1,200 people to leave their homes. The drama in the raging sea was played out near an area where the Alexander Kielland platform capsized last year, killing 123 persons in the worst offshore oil disaster in history. Soviets send MiG-21 jets to Cuba WASHINGTON- The Soviet Union recently sent Cuba 17 improved MiG-21 jet fighters, which may foreshadow transfer of some older MiGs from Cuba to Nicaragua, U.S. intelligence sources said yesterday. The new MiG-21L fighters, most advanced of that type exported by Russia, are described as equipped with more powerful engines than older versions which the Soviets have been supplying to Cuba for years. U.S. intelligence analysts said they believe it likely the new MiGs will replace earlier types of MiGs for eventual transfer to Nicaragua, which now has a tiny air force with fewer than a dozen fighters converted from U.S.- built training planes. Researchers able to detect sickle-cell anemia in fetus NEW YORK- Sickle-cell anemia and other common blood disorders have for the first time been detected in the fetus during the very early weeks of pregnancy, a team of British researchers says. The disorders were found by directly examining the genes of the fetus- a technique that might also be used to detect cystic fibrosis and other disor- ders, according to an editorial in the current issue of the British medical journal The Lancet, where the research was reported. The researchers found that very small samples taken as early as eight weeks into pregnancy would provide enough genetic material for an ac- curate determination of the presence of sickle-cell anemia. Doctors have been able since the mid-1970s to detect sickle-cell anemia and other disorders by sampling fetal blood, but the samples cannot be taken until about four months into pregnancy. Earlier diagnosis of such disorders is important to the mother, whose health can be jeopardized by abortion late in pregnancy, according to the research team. Senate won't investigate I U; GMI consider affiliation (Continued from Page 1)' Frye said there were certain details that would have to be studied carefully before any decision would. be made. Among those details were the question of finances, relationships between the University's and the institute's faculty members, and the comparable quality of the students at the two institutions. President Shapiro said "it goes without saying that there would be no monetary commitment" between the University and GMI. "All our-current programs are under- funded," Shapiro said. The University couldn't possibly find any additional money for new programs, he added. DUDERSTADT said the University- particularly the engineering school-is interested in GMI's cooperative education program. At GMI most of the students spend half of their time in class and the other half at on-the-job training. Students spend three months on cam- pus and three months getting work ex- perience each term, Duderstadt ex- plained. "They have extensive experience in cooperative education. We might give them assistance in academics," Duder- stadt said of the possibility of an infor- mation trade-off between the two in- stitutions. STUDENTS AT GMI currently receive $6,000 to $8,000 per year on their cooperative education jobs, all of which are funded by General Motors, Duder- stadt said. "The quality of students at GMI is superb," Duderstadt added. Winters said he imagined the Univer- sity would like to admit many of the students that ultimately go to GMI. "They (GMI) accept only the best students," he said. THE UNIVERSITY has no target date for a decision on a possible af- filiation with GMI, but Frye said the administration would probably have more information on the progress of the discussions within thenext few weeks. Winters said General Motors has not prepared a timetable for the possible financial release of the institute, but he added that the car company wants to implement changes by next summer. It was announced by GM in Septem- ber that GMI would attempt to increase its first-year enrollment by 50 percent for the coming fall semester. The in- crease is planned, Winter said, because the institute wants to gain a broader base of financial support through students' tuition. GMI, which currently enrolls 2,300 undergraduates, also wan- ts to attract other industries to sponsor cooperative education programs at the institute. Winters said no matter what happens to the institute, GM will make sure that all its students receive the chance to continue their education. "It's all a bit premature at this moment," Winters added. "But we hope something positive will happen in the near future." There have been no talks between GMI officials and the University ad- ministration, one GMI administrative official said yesterday. The only discussion has been between General Motors and the University. L oudon '5 lectures bring space home dBOWL TOURS and 0 FLIGHTS Call: (Continued from Page 1) moons of Jupiter and Saturn, let alone what they are made of and how-big they are. Loudon's, major concern at the moment is the NASA budget, which he said the Reagan administration is planning to cut by 30 percent, or $2 billion, over the next two years. "He (Reagan) wants to reduce NASA to a caretaker agency, running the space shuttle for business and the military," he said. The cuts would in- volve shutting off Voyager II, currently enroute to Uranus, he added. PUBLIC SUPPORT for the space budget is high, Loudon said. Citing recent public opinion polls that show two-thirds of those questioned favored more money for the space program, he said, "the people are in advance of their so-called leaders." Loudon termed the country's leaders "stupid and idiotic." Loudon said he thinks the media have done a poor job covering space. "I'm convinced it was the terribly bad mass media coverage of the Apollo moon program that killed it," he stated unabashedly. "It was on the level of a sports reporter not knowing what the term third base means." Media coverage of space has im- proved recently, Loudon said, at- tributing the advancement to Carl Sagan's Cosmos series. "Cosmos finally brought home to people who run the mass media, most of whom have no science background whatever, that there is tremendous public interest in science if it is presen- ted to them well and in a way they can understand," he said. LOUDON'S WANDERINGS take him all over the country, giving him a loner's lifestyle. He has spend many nights in campgrounds during his travels. He doesn't complain, however. "I'm a loner by nature, not a real gregarious type," he said. "I have nothing against people, though. Some of my best friends are people." Loudon said he had never been without a job. "It might not have been a well-paying job, but as you can see, I'm not starving,' he quipped, pointing to his expanding waistline. "There are all these auto workers making far more money than I do, and believe me, I feel they deserve it, but they hate the job so much. I get paid for doing what I love," he said. "It sure beats working for a living." CIA head s personal stocks WASHINGTON- The acting chairman of the Senate Intelligence Com- mittee refused yesterday to expand the panel's investigation of William Casey to include a review of the CIA director's control over his personal stock portfolio. Casey, who has access to the government's secret data on international economic developments, has broken the precedent of the past two CIA direc- tors and maintained control over his stock portfolio. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) dismissed concerns that Casey could use his insider-type knowledge about international economic developments to-increase his wealth, saying the CIA "knows about as much as Forbes" business magazine. At anews conference, Moynihan added that the Intelligence Committee will meet next week to review a draft report on the panel's four-month in- vestigation into Casey's fitness and vote on whatever recommendations the committee intends to make. Vol. XCII, No. 66 Wednesday, November 25, 1981 The Michigan Daily is edited and managed by students at The Univer- pity of Michigan. Published daily Tuesday through Sunday mornings during the University year at 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 49109. 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