Ninety-One Years of Edtra Freedom e~4it IEItU USUAL Partly cloudy, highs in the low 40s. .Vol. XCI, No. 132 Copyright 1981, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, March 14, 1981 Ten Cents Eight Pages 14 Don't count on a loan next school year By NANCY BILYEAU . University students counting on Guaranteed Student Loans to finance their 1981-82 school year may have to look elsewhere if President Reagan's student loan cutback proposals are enacted. The Reagan administration wants students to start paying the 9 percent interest on their GSLs as soon as they receive the loan. Currently, the federal government subsidizes GSL interest rates until after students graduate. IF , CONGRESS passes Reagan's proposal-which could happen within the mon- th-student finances, patterns of enrollment, and University revenues will be adversely affected, financial aid officials said. Banks, credit unions, and other commercial lending institutions might not want to provide GSLs if the government no longer subsidizes the interest rate, University Senior Financial Aid Of- ficer Carol Raphael said yesterday. "I suspect a ot of lenders will have to pull out," Raphael said, predicting a vast increase in paperwork and other complications as reasons why banks would stop sponsoring student loans. OFFICIALS FROM Manufacturers National Bank of Detroit and First Federal Savings and Loan Associatiion of Detroit declined to comment on possible changes in their loan policies. It is too early to tell how Reagan administration plans would affect the availability of student loans, they said. Financial aid to University students could be cut anywhere from $3 million to $33 million if Reagan's proposed cuts materialize, said Univer- sity Financial Aid Director Harvey Grotrian. To handle the revenue losses, Grotrian speculated, the University might have to rely more heavily on its reserves and possibly im- plement further program cutbacks. - "IT DOESN'T APPEAR the state will relieve (us)," Grotrian said. Students from low-income families and out-of- state students will be hardest hit by the financial aid cuts, he said. "This would affect the diversity of the Univer- sity," said Grotrian. And less diversity would cause the educational quality of the whole Univer- sity to suffer, he added. GROTRIAN SAID without financial aid some students will have to come up with the money they need on their own. More parents will probably have to pay the full amount of a student's education, and more students will likely be forced to obtain jobs during the academic year, he said. Raphael predicted that students would seek loans through Michigan's State Direct Student Loan Program if GSLs became unobtainable. However, the state program, which finances students whose applications have been rejected by the commercial institutions, is grappling with its own funding crisis. Last November, state education authorities placed a 90-day suspension on acceptance of student loan applications for spring and summer terms. A state-wide increase in applications, coupled with soaring interest rates, has made it more dif- ficult to sell bonds necessary to fund state student loans, State DSLP Director John Hoejke said at the time the freeze was instituted. According to Raphael, the state is still having problems selling bonds, and she said she suspects "we'll be lucky if they open the program back up by September." Daily reporter Charles Thomson also contributed to this story. Many University students, especially those from out-of-state and low-income families, will be forced to find other ways to finance their educations if Reagan administration proposals to cut financial aid are adopted.__ ~1 if Mackey assailed at MSU budget cut .hearing EAST LANSING (UPI)-About 800 anguished students' and faculty mem- bers at Michigan State University at- tended a public hearing, yesterday to protest proposed budget cuts and heap abuse on their author, MSU President Cecil Mackey. Mackey-a subject of controversy since he took over MSU in 1979-has come under increased fire since proposing elimination of the univer- sity's nursing unit and two residential college programs as part of a scheme to pare $19 million from the university's deficit-plagued budget. MACKEY'S PLAN-which has triggered almost daily protest marches on Michigan's largest university cam- pus-will go to the MSU Board of Trustees March 26. Yesterday's meeting was the last chance for public input on the unpopular proposals based on recommendations from advisory committees. Mackey sat silently in the cavernous MSU Auditorium with eyes averted while a parade of students and instruc- tors from threatened schools-many carrying placards-denounced the cuts for more than four hours under the wat- chful eyes of campus security guards. Several students accused the president of what they called "Mackey- avellian tactics" and said his ad- ministration is "destroying the univer- gity." "YOU'RE destroying all the programs here at MSU. You're destroying the integrity ,of this univer- sity," said Gary Swanson, junior from Bloomfield Hills. "You've been sitting up there like a robot," Swanson said of Mackey. "This is pointless." Comments centered on issues such as tenure for professors, procedures used in making the cuts, accreditation and the alleged lack of other programs in the state to replace those being cut. "Is our situation so grim that the quality of education must be trampled underfoot?" asked Steven Troost, a junior from Bloomfield Hills. Pentagon board proposes new version of WASHINGTON (AP) - A Pentagon advisory board has proposed reviving the draft in a new "try it before you buy it" form giving youths a six-month-long taste of military life before making them choose between longer active or reserve service. The prop'sal was advanced by the Reserve Forces Policy Board as a way of solving a chronic lack of trained manpower available in the event of mobilization. The board's chairman, Louis J. Conti, told Congress the Reser- ve and National Guard still fall short in strength._ HIS REPORT given to Congress this week indicated the board primarily is thinking of drafting young men, but at one point he left open the possibility of drafing women, "if mandated by, Congress." As proposed by the board, youths would be obliged to serve six months on active duty, starting - with "military orientation" lasting three to four weeks, followed by basic and advanced individual training. After orientation, the draftee would be given the option of choosing active duty of at least three years in the ser- vice of his choice, enrollment in a Ready Reserve unit or in the Individual Ready Reserve of the Army or Marine Corps. THE INDIVIDUAL Ready Reserve is the manpower pool from which active, reserve and National Guard units are reinforced in a crisis and from which casualty replacements are drawn in the early months of a war. Young people who chose active ser- vice would become eligible for full veterans' benefits after a three-year hitch. They would have to serve three more years in either Ready Reserve units or in the manpower pool. Iraft place now." The board serves as a principal policy adviser to the secretary of defen- se "on matters relating to the reserve components." It includes senior of- ficers in the reserve forces and on ac- tive duty as well as civil officials. Defense Secretary Caspar Wein- berger and President Reagan both have voiced strong opposition to reviving the "Registration has been a significant step in the right direction; (but) some -hard -but necessary decisions about the Selective Service system remain to be made." Louis Conti Chairman, Reserve Forces Policy Board Doily Photo by JACKIE BELL .initiation recipe New members of the Vulcans, the engineering college's secret society, were initiated in a cermony Thursday night and early yesterday morning. A por- tion of the ritual took place near the Vulcans' anvil, located near the Engineering Arch on the edge of the Diag. The anvil is covered with shaving cream, mouthwash, and after shave. See story, Page 3. Those who chose the reserves after the six months of active duty wodld be, required to spend an additional 7/z years with a reserve unit or 9 years in the manpower pool. THE BOARD recommended changes in the existing registration laws to require classification, which is not now carried out, and to move toward establishment of local draft boards to "enable the deferment process to take draft and have indicated misgivings about peacetime registration which began last year on orders of former President Jimmy Carter. Conti said the board "feels that registration has been a significant step in the right direction" but "some hard but necessary decisions about the Selective Service system remain to be made." q.................................................................... .......................................................................................:.....:.:.....:.~ *~... ~............ .....................-.,.".....'.......~'.. ..........~.......... . . . . . . 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The class, Introduction to Behavior Modification (Psychology 474), requires that each student design a behavior modification plan, called a self-change project,, to attach such common quirks and foibles as overeating, smoking, and fear of exercising. The project lets students apply principles taught in the class to their own lives. The course is required for psychology concentration, but is elected primarily by non-psychology majors. "ONCE YOU'VE examined your behavior and recognized the stimuli in which it occurs, you're in a position to do something about it," said Psychology Prof. James Papsdorf, the course's instructor. To modify their undesired behavior, students first record how often the behavior is repeated. Factors which affect the behavior-such as location, situation, and people who help provoke the undesired behavior-are also noted. Students then keep daily charts of their behavior. Positive decreases, for projects such as reducing smoking or overeating, are recorded as are positive increases for behavior such as becoming more verbally assertive. WHEN THEY SUCCEED, participants reward them- selves. Typical rewards include attending social events, buying clothes or records, or eating candy.e, But a good grade in the course is never the ultimate reward. Instead, students are graded on how well they apply the principles taught in the plass. STUDENTS CAN USE many different techniques to com- bat their undesired behavior. Pep talks, for instance, are helpful in fighting anxiety situations, Paspdorf said. A student with test anxiety can modify his or her habitual See STUDENTS, Page 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .tw:,.:. :.u .... . :: . . . s ,f.lt u.:. . . . . . . . ....:. . . ...'.. . . ....:... . . . . . . . . ..r.. . . . . . . ..,...r ..<_...K.r: ..w.. TODAY Identity crisis CASE OF MISTAKEN identity can pose a real problem-especially when one is running for mayor. In a letter to the editor of The Ann Arbor News recently, mayoral candidate Robert Faber complained that many of the people he has met while cam- paigning have confused him with another-namely News columnist Don Faber. "I was hoping that when Don Faber. ... shaved his mustache the problem of identification would through just fine. A grand old lady." Wouldn't a large dose psychological paralysis that, stills my tongue. I don't ac- tually take credit, but I simply smile wanly and wander off, hoping no one will ever put this prescient person wise." Faber, owner of Faber's Fabrics store, said he hopes he is not "doomed to go through political life being falsely praised and condemned." So what's in a name, anyway? ED Heavy operation Before dentist Pete Emily could perform his latest root- ..... in a -c. -tin ...ar ciw mn}ilioni t ... tttt ..;1M . through just fine. A grand old lady." Wouldn't a large dose of laughing gas have made it easier? Ql Double-take Newark Police Detective David Martinez was driving to the scene of a burglary when he gazed out the window and spotted his own personal car which had been stolen for two days. "He knew it was his because even the license plates were the same," said Lt. Armondo Fontoura, a department spokesman. Martinez pursued the 1976 Chevrolet for four blocks and stopped it, but the two young men in the car Pe.nnpiA r in tnva ,vmtnit. rmnx _ Fnnnura said Mar- from the top floor of a residence hall, plopped on the roof of a nearby car, causing $150 damage, campus security of- ficials said. Linda Cone, who owned the auto which absor- bed the blow, said she was just cruising along, and then pulled over to drop off a friend when the ballons splashed onto the roof. She probably never thought a little water could cause that much damage. Happy landing; and keep an eye on the sky, Linda. On thinsuie I4 i I