'P"ge 2-Friday, December 4, 1981-The Michigan Daily House OKs worker's comp bills LANSING (UPI)- The House passed *piajor six-bill package of worker's cpmpensation reform measures last night after nearly seven hours of caucuses and floor debate. -,Gov. William Milliken immediately ,labeled the bills "a deliberate and premeditated step backwards which would seriously damage our attempts i6 turn the Michigan economy around." THE BILLS, aimed at reducing the costs of providing benefits to injured workers, now go to the Senate where agrainst i Orr dis mi ssed some of them will almost certainly face stiff opposition from Republicans, con- servative Democrats and Milliken. The major bill passed by the House was a heavily amended version of a measure supported by Milliken. Most provisions of the governor's original bill, however, were changed or eliminated in the face of strong Democratic opposition. The bill was approved on a 56-48 vote, the minimum majority needed to send the legislation from the lower chamber. All 56 "yes" votes were cast by Democrats. Reps. Claude Trim of Davisburg and Dana Wilson of Hazel Park were the only Democrats to vote against the measure. THE BILL provides that injured workers may continue receiving benefits until they are offered "suitable work." If the job is refused, the worker's benefits can be cut. However, the measure also provides that if an employee accepts a job that pays less than his original employment, he or she will receive benefits equal to 80 percent of the after-tax difference. "Suitable work" is defined as a job that takes into consideration risk to the health and safety of the worker, the employee's physical fitness and the distance of the job from the worker's home. The legislation also provides that worker's compensation benefits will be "coordinated" or reduced by the amount of other benefits he may be receiving. By JANET RAE The Michigan State Court of Claims dismissed a suit on Wednesday charging the University and former Michigan basketball coach Johnny Orr of conspiring to push a former Detroit high school basketball star through high school and junior college so he could play basketball for Michigan. According to Special Assistant Attorney General Peter Davis, Judge James Kallman dismissed the case after hearing one hour of oral argument. Davis was assigned to represent the University in the suit, which sought $15 million in damages for "severe mental disabilities" allegedly suf- fered by Curtis Jones after being academically "carried" through high school and junior college. DAVIS SAID Kallman, in dismissing the suit, called it "the strongest case he's ever seen for application of the gover- nmental immunity doctrine," which protects educational in- stitutions from most lawsuits. Davis had noted earlier that the University had no official involvement with Jones, and therefore should not have been named in the case. The suit alleged that Jones, a "slow learner" according to standardized IQ test scores, was given an unmerited high school diploma in 1968 so he could enter a junior college and improve his academic record to become eligible for ad- mission to the University. Jones, 33, was hospitalized for a mental breakdown he suf- fered while at the college, according to his mother, Henriet- ta, who filed the suit in September. He was allegedly the vic- tim of "unrelenting" harassment from other students when they discovered he couldn't read or write. The suit, which names a number of defendants, is still being considered in Detroit courts, but the University is not a defendant. " r lngon ponders i~sive GSL cuts Dll'lt DO Al0"JI PHD TOGRAPHD I DRAMG qt OF V ©N EE EXUBtRANT "SUNIFIEDNT RATED 99 . v, X . exteE IN BRIEF Complied from Associated Press and United Press International reports Reagan orders Mandel freed WASHINGTON - President Reagan yesterday commuted the sentence of former Maryland Gov. Marvin Mandel, ordering him immediately released from prison and freed completely on Dec. 20, the Justice Department said. The department said Reagan decided on clemency for Mandel, 62, because he has already been in jail for 19 months, longer than any of the codefendants who were convicted with him in 1977 on federal charges of mail fraud and racketeering in connection with an insiders' scheme to obtain favorable dates for a racetrack in Maryland. The Justice Department said Mandel will be transferred immediately from the prison camp at Elgin Air Force Base near Pensacola, Fla., and assigned to a halfway house for emerging convicts in the Annapolis- Baltimore area. The department did not identify the institution. Haig's OAS speech delayed; Imeets with foreign ministers CASTRIES, St. Lucia- Secretary of State Alexander Haig met privately with the foreign ministers of Brazil, Argentine and Chile yesterday while waiting his chance to address the Organization of American States. The Brazilian and Argentine diplomats said the turmoil in El Salvador came up in the conversations, but they provided few details. Haig also plan- ned to meet with the foreign ministers of El Salvador-where a U.S.-backed government is battling leftist guerrillas-and Colombia. Haig had been scheduled to speak to the assembly before lunch, but the session moved so slowly that by midday it had accomplished only one major piece of business-admitting to membership two newly independent Carib- bean states-Antigua and Barbuda, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Their membership boosts the OAS rolls to 29 countries. Conference on aging ends on near-unanimous note WASHINGTON- The White House Conference on Aging ended yesterday with near-unanimous adoption of approximately 600 recommendations despite an undercurrent of complaints that pro-administration forces had rigged key committees. By the end of the four-day meeting, even 81-year-old Rep. Claude Pepper (D-Fla.), an early critic, was praising the outcome. Pepper called the conference's Social Security proposals "wonderful recommendations." President Reagan saluted the delegates for "unselfish contributions and for making the 1981 conference a productive, memoable event." Polish protest breakup sets back relations, Solidarity says WARSAW, Poland- Solidarity declared yesterday that Polish authorities wrecked chances for reconciliation by using force to end a protest by firefighter cadets, and that the union will consider a retaliatory general strike. A statement by union leaders blamed the government for ignoring a new law giving greater autonomy to factory workers, and attacked the Com- munist Party's call in Parliament to give the government "extraordinary" powers to end strikes. "The ushering in of the so-called extraordinary measures . . . is tan- tamount to an attempt at liquidating civil and employee rights won in 1980, the statement said. Union chief Lech Walesa, who put his 9,5 million members on alert after the raid Wednesday, said he may ask for a referendum among factory workers on a strike call if the Parliament grants such powers to the gover- nment. S STARRNG BAMBI WOODS AS DEBBIE ' Natural Science, Sunday, December 6th 7:00-8:45-10:30 $3.00 K P R « A truly magical sond - The Washington Star (Continued from Page 1) THE GOVERNMENT is considering a number of changes to reduce the cost of the GSL program which could range from reducing loans for graduate students to complete elimination of the GSL program, Butts said. But elimination of the GSL program is "not politically feasible," Butts said. University Director of Financial Aid Harvey Grotrian said he would be sur- prised if the federal government cut the whole GSL graduate student program, because graduate students are already under tight financial constraints. NEITHER DESKINS nor Graduate School Dean Alfred Sussman would speculate on whether Congress would agree to cuts in the GSL program. Butts, however, said some federal reductions in the GSL program were a #e\? 9e,, 9'Y certainty, but he added that there may be alternatives to drastic reductions currently being considered in Washington. The most equitable alternative to wholesale cutbacks in the GSL program, Butts said, would be basing eligibility for the loans on the financial needs of the students in question. SUSSMAN SAID University students must be made aware of the possible GSL reductions so that they may protest the cutbacks. There are no University funds available to substitute for reductions in the GSL program, Deskins said. Sussman said some universities, par- ticularly the Ivy League schools, have student loans funds within their in- stitutional budget, but he added that it would take millions of dollars to create such a program at the University. Sussman said the University will try to protest the cuts by 16bby ng in Washington through various national education groups such as the American Association of University Professors and the Association of Graduate Schools. If the GSL funds are cut this year the reductions would not hit students until the 1982-83 academic year, Butts said. The interest rate on GSLs is 9 per- cent, which is paid by the government until the students complete their education. Six months after graduation, students must begin payments on their GSLs, said Grotrian. 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