Ninety-One Years Of Editorial Freedom £f3IiE43UU 43ttti SNOWY Mostly cloudy today with some light snow changing to flurries. High will be around 30. &Vol. XCI. No. 109 Copyright 1981, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Friday, February 6, 1981 Ten Cents Ten Pages O ice vacanc upsets minorit students "aps SI 1.IldfUI~II.VUId f I By NANCY BILYEAU An eight month vacancy for a full-time black representative slot in the Office of Minority Student *Services has created a dispute between University administrators and concerned student groups over the need for such a position. In June 1980, MSS Black Representative Richard Garland was discharged for "behavioral problems," according to Community Services Director Thomas Moorehead. Since that time Jemadari Kamara, Trot- ter House director, and Greg Fawcett, student ser- vices program analysis director, have been appoin- ted to perform Garland's research and counseling duties. t However, both staffers stressed that their time commitments are limited due to other jobs. "I assist them in-data gathering," Fawcett said. "I am not a replacement for Richard Garland." Until recently, the office was staffed with four full- time members-an Asian American, a Black, a Hispanic, and a Native American-to coordinate per- sonal, academic, and cultural programs for minority students. Now there is only one full-time staff mem- ber. According to Moorehead, who supervises the Office of Minority Student Services, the recent departures of the Asian American and Hispanic representatives are due to a combination of 6ersonal and professional reasons. He said Margaret Torres, the Hispanic staffer, left the office recently to take a better job in Chicago. Asian American representative Ann Lyons also left her job last week, Moorehead added. Lyons could not be reached for comment. Moorehead said appropriate search committees are being formed to fill the vacancies. Meanwhile, the lack of a full-time black replacement for Richard Garland has alarmed student groups. Efforts by the groups have been made since September to secure a replacement for Garland. "That office is supposed to assist black students on campus,' said Regina Hunter, coorainator oI the council of Black Student Organizations. "Everytime I talk to them (Henry Johnson, Vice-president for Student Services, and Director Moorehead) I get something different." Hunter said Johnson and Moorehead told her in December that there was sufficient need for a full- time black representative, and that interviewing for the spot would begin in mid-January. "They said there would be someone by the end of March," she added. BECAUSE OF THE, budget crisis facing the University, special review committees have been established to review MSS and all non-academic counseling services, Johnson explained. A number of academic and non-academic units at the University, such as the geography department and Recreational Sports, have been subject to exten- sive reviews which will lead to staff layoffs, service cutbacks, and program discontinuation. Hunter said she called Student Services officials in See VACANCY, Page 7 4'norityUo EL ervices a 'E tier f r,,ity Snt feiirs i*a Fh ~ , Former *governor Grasso dead at 61 HARTFORD, Conn. (AP)-Ella .Grasso, Connecticut governor for six years and the first woman in U.S. history to be elected governor without following her husband into office, died yesterday night of complications due to cancer. She was 61. Hartford Hospital spokesman James Battaglio announced Grasso's death just a few hours after he said she had slipped into a coma and was "totally" unconscious. The former governor, suf- fering from cancer of the liver and in- testine, had been listed in critical con- dition since Sunday and had slipped in and out of consciousness. BATTAGLIO SAID then that Grasso became comatose as of 7 a.m. yester- day, and that her "family has been called and has been with her all day." She was not on any life-support systems. Mrs. Grasso, a hard worker known for frugality who was a force in Connec- ticut politics for some 30 years, ended her second gubernatorial term'at the midway point because of liver cancer. "I make this decision with a heavy heart but with full appreciation that the people's business must continue at the highest level," she said in announcing W her resignation effective Dec. 31, 1980, for adding "all of my life has been one of ov See EX-GOVERNOR, Page 7 *iReview c proposed By SUE INGLIS The director of the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching said he is trying to find a way to make the 25 percent cutback in the center's budget without losing 25 percent of its effectiveness. CRLT - an instructional resource center which provides faculty workshops, course evaluations, and placement examinations - is one of the non-academic programs targeted by the University administration for sizable fnancial cutbacks. CRLT DIRECTOR Wilbert McKeachie submitted a preliminary outline of the cen- ter's programs and services to be reduced by the budget cutback in January to Univer- sity administrative committees that will ultimately decide in which areas the specific cuts in CRLT's service will be made. According to the proposed outline, $93,350 would be cut from CRLT's budget of Reagan cal drastic cut halt fiscal'i Black students need black counselors, says Vice President for Student Services Henry Johnson. But black students are wondering why there is no black representative in the Office of Minority Student Services. ls for mess choose between fighting inflation and fighting unemployment. "In the past we've tried to fight in- flation one year and then when unem- ployment increased turn the next year to fighting unemployment with more deficit spending as a pump primer," he said. "So again, up goes inflation. It hasn't worked." Reagan's speech offered him one of his first opportunities to use his office as a lever on Congress, which may be reluctant to go along with his proposals to reduce the growth in federal spen- ding on some politically popular programs. By giving the speech last night, one day before Congress begins a long Lin- coln's Birthday recess, he hoped to warm up the public to his budgetary medicine, White House aides said. Republican congressional sources said David Stockman, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, is predicting that the administration's economic plan will bring inflation down to a 6 percent annual rate by the end of 1982. The rate of price increases in 1980 was 12.4 percent. WASHINGTON (AP) - President Reagan, declaring that the nation is suffering from its "worst economic mess since the Great Depression," said last night that the government must make dramatic cuts in taxes and spen- ding because the economic judgement day is at hand. He held federal policies responsible for- "an economic calamity" and said his remedy would begin with three years of 10 percent income tax rate reductions and budget cuts "in virtually every department" of government. "WE MUST ACT and adt now," hli said. "We must not be timid." Solemn, seated at his desk in the Oval Office, Reagan said in his first broadcast report to the nation, "Over the years, we have let negative economic forces run out of control. We have stalled the judgment day. "We no longer have that luxury," he said. "We are out of time." Reagan's speech was studded with statistics, but short of details. He said those will come when he unveils a legislative program to Congress on Feb. 18. "It will propose budget cuts in vir- tually every department of gover- nment," the president said, and he directed the Cabinet to search out and eliminate "waste, extravagence and costly administrative overhead." "AT THE SAME time we are doing this, we must go forward with a tax relief package," he said. "I shall ask for a 10 percent reduction, across-the- board, in personal income tax rates for each of the next three years." He did not say when the tax cut would first take effect under his plan. Even as Reagan prepared his speech, congressional leaders were debating whether tax cuts should precede spen- ding cuts. "We cannot delay" either, he said. "There were always those who told us taxes couldn't be cut until spending was reduced," he said. "Well, we can lec- ture our children about extravagance until we run out of voice and breath. Or we can cure their extravagance simply by reducing their allowance." REAGAN, WHO earlier in the day described his speech as "a simple lesson in economics," decried having to Daily Photo by JOHN HAGEN Jumping J.,. OLVERINE GUARD JOHNNY Johnson stretches for a rebound while rward Thad Garner looks on en route to Michigan's 79-77 overtime victory er MSU. )mmittee examines .. CRLTc1 $361,143. The center's instructional development fund, which provides grants for faculty teaching projects, would be cut by about 90 percent and the Evaluations and Examinations Office would be virtually eliminated. Furthermore, McKeachie said about seven staff positions would be cut, and staff travel, utilities, and bookkeeping would also be significantly reduced if his recommen- dations are approved. McKEACHIE SAID ONE of CRLT's most widely-used services is the instructor- designed course evaluation questionaire, which is now used in at least 5,000 courses. The center also conducted almost 350 teaching workshops last term to train University teaching assistants. The proposal, drawn up by McKeachie af- ter consultation with CRLT staff, will be examined by both the CRLT review com- tbacks mittee and the University Budget Priorities Committee, both of which are composed of faculty members, students and ad- ministrators. The proposal, if approved by the two lower committees, will then advan- ce to the Committee on Budget Ad- ministration, which will grant final ap- proval or denial. DURING A HEARING of the CRLT review committee yesterday afternoon, Vice-President for Academic Affairs Bill Frye warned that the financial cuts being made are both permanent and long range. "I think we should keep in mind that this (budget-cutting) is not a shoilt-run phenomenon . . . It is really part of the process of the University's self-scrutiny. There are positive and elective reasons (for making the cutbacks). It's not just a respon- se to a deficit in the budget caused by the state, Frye added. See CRLT, page 7 xDaily Photo by DEBORAH LEWIS MEMBERS OF THE Center for Research on Learning and Teaching review committee listen to testimony of students who used the program in the past. Budget restraints may force CRLT to cut more than 25 percent of its budget. Rising enrollments HIGHER EDUCATION is gaining in popularity according to the current University enrollment figures for winter term. The University enrolled 396 students more than last year, bringing the total to 44,604. The enrollment at the Ann Arbor campus, 34,609. is 213 more than last year, officials say. Of that total, coordinate the proper etiquette, dress requirements, andj seating arrangements at formal city ceremonies and din- ners. Byrne said the aide will help build the image of Chicago as an "international city" in an effort to remove some of the crime syndicate stain from the city's reputationi that has lingered since the Al Capone days. The mayor has two other administrative aides, who earn $38,000 each, also responsible for arranging lunches and dinners with visiting foreign dignitaries. Who ever said a reputation can't be bought? l wine-producing town of Kitzingen. The original model for the vampire of Bram Stoker's 19th century novel is believed to be buried in Transylvania-although historians have conceded there is no proof. he is buried there. The Dracula cult in Kitzingen has caught on despite weary denials by the town's mayor who asserts the macabre grave is the resting place of a 19th century merchant family. "When asked, I tell people the historic facts, but you can't stop these young fellows from believing what they want," the mayor said. Li they arrested Misrapov in a closet where he was hiding, the newspaper said. Bet he's not singing now. Li Sinus stopper A 23-year-old London woman "just flipped" when she learned what had been causing her sinus trouble most of her life. As a toddler, Ruth Clarke apparently pushed a tid- dlywink up her nose which stayed there until doctors discovered and removed it this week. She is keeping the vllow tiddlvwink as a souvenir of her nose-job.