Ninety-Two Years ofr Editorial Freedom eLi tti BLAH Partly cloudy with a high in the low 40s. ,Vol. XCII, No. 77 Copyright 1981, The Michigan Doily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, December 12, 1981 Ten Cents Twelve Pages .: 6 of 9 geography profs relocated . By JULIE HINDS At least six out of nine geography ofessors, whose department will be discontinued in July, have received unofficial word of their relocation to other positions in the University. When the Regents voted to discon- tinue the geography department last June, the administration promised to make "good faith" efforts to relocate tenured professors in accordance with University- program discontinuance guidelines. GEOGRAPHY Chairman Prof. John Nystuen said he expected relocation of all nine tenured professors, but added that he himself had not officially found Molecular iology at'U to aid state By MARK GINDIN Molecular biology has a future in the state of Michigan and the University will likely play a major role i? its development, according to University officials. Because of the on-going focus by the University on the high technology area of molecular biology, the state already has an advantage over many other states in recruiting firms to diversify the economy, said University Biochemistry Professor Dale Oxender. GOVERNOR William Milliken set up a High Technology Task Force earlier this year to investigate ways to diver- sify the state economy. It branched into two separate committees, one devoted to the development of robotics, the other devoted to molecular biology. Because the field of molecular biology is so wide, it is unlikely that research in the field would be cen- tralized in the manner of the p'oposed. robotics institute, said Alan Price, University Assistant Vice President for Research. The Robotics Task Force has proposed a $200 million robotics center to be located in an appropriate area of the state. Governor Milliken, although he has not picked the location yet, has said that Ann Arbor is the leading can- didate. ONE OF THE possibilities con- sidered by the Molecular Biology Task Force is to set up specialized centers at universities already dominant in the field, rather than at a single central location, Price said. The University, for example, 'is presently well-established in'the area of medical molecular biology, while See MOLECULAR, Page 2 a position yet. Regent's bylaws state that tenured professors whose departments are discontinued are eligible for dismissal. Nystuen said there would be "wide ramifications" throughout the Univer- sity if a tenured professor was not relocated. THE PROFESSORS said they plan to relocate in various LSA departments, the Residential College, and to a special chair created for geography. LSA ean Peter Steiner, who is coor- dinating relocation efforts said he hoped to announce within a month the final results of the. relocation. He 'Having to be relocated is something like having been shot and saying I'm pleased with the surgery. '-John Kolars, University geography professor "There had to be some bums in the tenured faculty in the department if it was lousy enough to kill. They didn't fire those bums. They fired the assistant professors," Outcalt said. THE ASSISTANT professors in any department are the best people," Out- calt said. "They're the most active; they do the most." Steiner said there have been no for- mal relocation efforts for the three assistant geography professors who do not have tenure. None of their contracts have been terminated, Steiner said, but renewal of the contracts seems doub- tful. Some ill will remains among the professors concerning the depar- tment's discontinuance. "HAVING TO be relocated is something like having been shotdand saying I'm pleased with the surgery," Kolars said. The professors' salaries wilU remain the same, Nystuen said. The University is transferring money for salaries to the departments where the professors relocate, Nystuen added. THE FOLLOWING professors say they have received some confirmation of their future plans: Prof. George Kish was awarded the William Hobbs Chair in geography and will remain as a geography professor in the LSA college at large; See GEOGRAPHY, Page 3 declined to speculate on whether all professors would be successfully relocated. Geography Prof. George Kish said the position of the tenured faculty in the geography department-was still uncer-" tain because none have received of- ficial confirmation of a relocation. "WE CAN'T jump the gun and say we'll be teaching at department 'X' for sure," Kish said. "But we have totally reliable verbal statements that we'll be replaced." Prof. Samuel Outcalt said the ad- ministration lacked the "guts" to fire tenured faculty members. Severe cuts expected in state, budget Daily Photo by MIKE LUCAS From the North Pole . . Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without trees to put the presents under. Al Taylor (left) and Dutch Geisler guarantee a merry one with their Balsam and Red Pines, which they sell on the corner of Detroit and.Division streets. Reagan,.to deeide o-n diraft By ANDREW CHAPMAN Gov. William Milliken, facing huge state revenue losses for the months of October and November, may be forced to issue another executive order budget cut before this summer, officials in Lansing said yesterday. A $300 million executive order budget cut can be expected by late Februray or early March, state representative Perry Bullard (D-Ann Arbor) said. MILLIKEN'S last executive order cut, which came Oct. 22, slashed $4.5 million from the University's budget. That order eliminated a total $22 million from the state's funds for higher education. Bullard said a budget reduction of approximately 5 percent could be ex- pected for Michigan's colleges and universities. This would amount to about a $7 million cut in state funds to the University. The reason for the possible reduction is the state's revenue shortfalls ir the first two months of its 1981-82 fiscal year. The shortfall for October alone was $30 million, said Doug Roberts, deputy director of the office of management and the budget. THE REVENUE intake for Novem- ber was just as bad, if not-worse, said Thomas Clay, state budget director. Bob Sauve, budget assistant to Vice President for Academic Affairs Billy, Frye, said there was little the Univer- sity administration could do to an- ticipate the cuts except worry. Sauve said the administration is WASHINGTON (UPI) - President Reagan is expected to decide "within a few days" whether young American men will have to sign up for a peacetime draft, an administration spokesman said yesterday. Reagan campaigned firmly against the draft, and aides hinted he will keep his word when a special committee studying defense manpower need submits its report. Anti- draft leaders say any such decision would be politically ex- pedient and temporary. "WHAT WE'VE got is a presidential position in the cam- paign anal a commission studying it," said Larry Speakes, deputy press secretary. "He will make a decision within a few days." HE SAID THE decision will be made "in light of the needs of the armed services" after the president receives the study. "The draft has caught the administration in a bind," responded Jack Calhoun of the Committee Against Registration and the Draft. "THE LOGIC of the administration's massive military buildup and interventionist foreign policy makes the draft inevitable at some point in the not too distant future," Calhoun said. Reagan announced formation of the Defense Manpower Task Force in May during a speech to West Point cadets. He said then military manpower needs could be met with volunteers if adequate pay and benefits were available. He later approved a payhike for armed forces personnel and said in November both enlistments and morale were up. More than 800,000 draft-age young men have not complied with the registration program, which began in the summer of 1980 as part of President -Carter's response to the Soviet in- vasion of Afghanistan. The Selective Service recently sent the natnes of some 185 non-registrants to the Justice Department for prosecution, but the agency Thursday decided to put off any such legal action pending the president's decision. Clay ... says state funds low preparing to make selective cutbacks at the University, but he added, "we haven't put together any figures yet (for specific program reductions)." "WE HAVE A reallocation plan, working on the assumption that this is not going to be a very good year for the state," Sauve said. Frye will send a set of long range retrenchment, plans to the University community in January, Sauve added. Roberts explained that if the state's revenue collection continued at the See SEVERE, Page 5 Molecular biology f f ers hug By JOHN*ADAM Scientists, who as a group are known to be rather staid and cautious in their predictions, are using words like "astronomical" and "awfully exciting" to describe the potentials of biotechnology. One University researcher even said "you kind of get the feeling that almost anything is possible." Biotechnology involves the manipulatiort of genes within a living organism to create an inherently dif- ferent organism which may be helpful to humans. PROGRESS already is being made toward modifying the genetics of plan- ts, animals and even human beings. Potential Although the research is still in its in- fancy, it promises to have a profound effect on medical science, human health, and food production. Research using recombinant DNA technology-one of the fields of biotechnplogy-has already produced such valuable hormones and potential drugs as insulin, interferon, and human growth hormones, said Dale Oxender, professor of biochemistry at the University. In the future-as early as five to ten years, contends Oxender-applications of genetic engineering will produce "super breeds" of animals which will raise the yields of beef, hog, poultry, See BIOTECHNOLOGY, Page 3 Justhow I guaranteed is aGSL? By PAMELA KRAMER A number of University students have had good cause this year to question just how guaranteed a Guaranteed Student Loan is. Last March, 156 students sent loan applications for spring/summer term to Chase Manhattan Bank in New York, and about 60 of those loans still have not come through, according to Elaine Nowak, a senior officer in the University's Office of Financial Aid. "SOMEWHERE along the line, Chase completely blew it," Nowak said. "It's amazing that an in- stitution like Chase Manhattan can get itself in so deep." Because of the problems it has had with Chase, the University now sends its students' GSL applications to Lincoln #irst Bank in Rochester, N.Y. "As early as mid-May, we began suspecting something was really wrong (with Chase's processing),"-Nowak explained. She called Chase to try to find out what was wrong, but this attempt and dozens of subsequent calls and letters yielded no, results, she said. "IT'S A VERY unfortunate situation," said Harvey Grotrian, director of the Office of Financial Aid. "We've been working with the students, forwarding money to many of them." But the advances are beginning to fall due, accor- ding to Nowak, and "it's a real mess. People are just now getting paid for loans they applied for last Mar- ch." The loan applications sent to Chase were for students who are ineligible for state aid, and whose hometown banks could not provide them with loans. THE UNIVERSITY used to guarantee such loans itself. But last year Nowak explained, University of- ficials decided the University could no longer afford its $2 million per year direct loan program so it star- ted working with the United Student Aid Fund. USAF is a non-profit, New York-based guarantor serving universities and other organizations around the country. For every dollar the University deposits in a bank associated with USAF, the aid fund guaran- tees that $50 worth of loans will reach the University students who applied for them. "We're encouraging the schools that have accounts to,use our other lenders," said Bob Moore, USAF See SOME, Page 2 TODAY- See you in '82 GOODBYE FOR AWHILE. The Daily won't pub- lish again until January 6, 1982 when classes re- sume. Happenings for the rest of December start on Page 3. Good luck on your finals, and have a' happy New Year.e Try, try again A billboard Romeo who tried unsuccessfully to snare a days after they met. But she turned him down, saying "I -was too pushy," he said. Acklen said he rented the movable sign because his work hours prevented him from meeting women interested in marriage and raising a family. On his next campaign, Acklen said, he plans to advertise in magazines, move the sign to another area and raise his minimum age requirement from 18 to 22. Q Where the trees are- Money doesn't grow on trees, but a couple of trees in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. are growing on a lot of money. The pair of pany agreed to the 1978 tree resolution. But that was before' he wanted to build the tower there. "I like trees, too," said City Zoning Inspector Dick Van Wyk. "I can remember delivering papers near there 50 years ago. They are nice trees, but we're talking about a $25 million building." City commissioners could pass a new resolution to bring on the chain laws, and Commissioner Rober Cox said he and his colleagues will study whether the trees can be moved. E Food fight School cafeteria manager Marian Lockaby says her wake of Anne's protest, brown bags were popping up everywhere. The protest was dubbed the "Brown Bag Society," and it has had an impact. On Wednesday, for example, sales of the once-popular spaghetti were down from the usual 400-500 to 195. "The boycott's not going to stop," said student activist Bill Latham, 14. "Whether we're successful or not, a lot of people are going to continue to bring their lunches.",But Lockaby thinks she's getting a bum rap. "Today we had hamburgers, french fries, lettuce, tomato, pickle and onion for 85 cents," she said Thursday. "Where else can you buy a hamburger for 85 cents?" 0 i i . I I,: