91 Page 2-Tuesday, March 17, 1981-The Michigan Daily .........................:........:..::......... .... ...."...:.....,.. rv, ...,...........{..........................r.........................r.., .... ........... Students submit cutback questions to Shapiro By BETH ALLEN Members of It's Our University student group presented University President Harold Shapiro a list of questions ad- dressing the administration's smaller but better policy yesterday. "In submitting this draft we have established a dialogue with the administration," said group spokesman Jay Rorty, a Residential College sophomore. Rorty said he felt that IOU's forum last Thursday may have been beneficial but that it did not provide adequate communication between the ad- ministration and IOU.I SHAPIRO TOLD GROUP members yesterday that the University intended to answer the questions publicly and would be addressing the answers to the entire University community. Rorty said that he hoped the public statement would covera all of the questions. Shapiro indicated that he is preparing a statement and would be revising it to address IOU's questions. "A broader statement addressed to the community would not be sufficient if it did not address these questions. They're specific questions that need specific answers," said Rorty. The questions were drafted last Saturday at East Quad and included issues discussed at Thursday's forum at Rackham Auditorium, where concerned students and faculty gathered to hear views of those opposed to budget cut procedures. Some of the 36 questions include: * Which faculty and staff positions are slated for elimination? * Is the University interested in improving the research environment at the University? * What priority has the University assigned to maintaining a diverse curriculum? * What effect will budget cuts have on student services such as housing, counseling and recreational sports? * What role will students, faculty and staff be playing in the budget cutting procedure? * Will the University make information more available to the University community? IN BRIEF e Compiled from Associated Press and United Press international reports MSU students charged with ... ..... v........... .......:". .r .. .#. .; r .::::.s::5yv;.; }}i =}:!:": iY:"}i:: 5;."'v:. :::::::. ":5{:. 't::...." .... ... ".v. ::::............ r . .... x ............... .......:......... ...... r....,.......r ...... ..............t .r. n ..k.. rr .. ..:; . ... ..... .. :........... .. 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Joel came in blaming anti-semitism rather than taking the responsibility himself. If the guy had been blue, or green, or purple, or black, Jewish or Christian, or Unitarian .., he would have been treat- ed the same." rof, at odds "WHAT BOTHERED me was the way he (Beyer) dealt with me," Okner said. "It was his attitude more than anything else..His tone was hostile; he was pretty mean." Since spring term, Okner said he has discussed Beyer's treatment of him with a family lawyer and several University officials, including President Harold Shapiro, former ac- ting Vice President for Academic Af- fairs Alfred Sussman, and LSA Associate Dean Jens Zorn. All sympathized, according to Okner, but offered little assistance in rec- tifying what he perceived to be an in- justice. He went to MSA "because I. really had nowhere else to turn," he said. "The University calendar is set trying to account for special holidays," said Virginia Nordby, executive assistant to the president and the University's director of affirmative ac- tion. "But it's up to the discretion of in- dividual faculty members. We try to give them maximum discretion in these matters, and it usually works out better than trying to issue mandates from on high." She added that the University is over exam onSabbath "caught in a bind" concering this issue: The constitution calls for a separation of church and state, which does not obligate Beyer to make special arrangements for students such as Okner. "On the other hand, citizens are en- couraged to enjoy religious liberty," she added. BEYER SAID HE sees no distinction between religious affiliations and other types of extracurricular activities that may involve students. "People set their priorities, whether it be their religion, intramural sports, or whatever. At the University, the reason that students are here is to learn - everythjng else is extracurricular. "You make your choice," he added. "If you're a football player, you don't have to play the game. Your first com- mitment is your class." Okner disagrees. "How can you equate your religion with intramural sports? I don't consider my religion as equal to playing intramural basketball. This goes much deeper; it's part of my life." "It bothers me that this can go on here, and sours my feelings about the whole University," he said. Black, minority enrolimefit down (Continued from Page 1).' satisfactory academic performance has fallen dramatically from 11:3 per- cent in 1977 to four percent in 1980, a study referred to in the report revealed. ACCORDING TO the report, the College of Engineering's pre-college recruitment and enrichment services '"should serve as a model for other schools." The Detroit Area Pre-College Engineering Program, a five-college consortium, offers services for over 600 students in grades 7-12 in over 30 Detroit schools. The report noted that although Black, Hispanic, and Native American studen- Graduste Students Improve Your Math and Statistics Skills WEDNESDAY 4-6 p.m. East Conference Room, Rsckham TOPIC: "TESTING THEORIES VIA STATISTICS" SPEAKER: Barbara Farah tSR & Political Science Dept. Sponsored by: Graduate Women's Network ts continue to have the highest rate of attrition, "the gap between these students and others appears to be narrowing." The minority report also points out that the University has the second highest percentage of minority students enrolled in the Big 10, after North- western University. Student hit by auto A senior engineering student was hit by a passing car early Sunday morning as the car approachedthe intdrsection at South University and East Univer- sity, according to Ann Arbor Police Sgt. Harold Tinsey.. Sherry Jacobson, 22, of Ann Arbor, was driving westbound on South University when Robert Fisher, 21, ap- parently jumped out in front of the car as she began to slow down for a stop sign, Tinsey said. There was no sign of hazardous driving, according to Tinsey. "There are indications that Fisher ran out in front of the car," he said. Fisher was taken to University Hospital, treated and released. -Daid Spak arson for dormitory fire EAST LANSING-Two Michigan State University students were charged with arson yesterday in a "prank" that touched off a $50,000 dormitory fire and resulted in injury for a firefighter. Christopher McCarthy, 20, of Grand Ledge and Timothy Collins, 19, of Brookfield, Wis., were arraigned before District Judge Daniel Tschirhart. They were released on $10,000 personal recognizance bond. Preliminary examination for the two, whom authorities said are room- mates, was set for April 14. The two are accused of setting off a blaze that broke out about 2:15 a.m. Sunday. MSU officials said they allegedly tossed a firecracker-like device under the door of a room on the sixth floor of North Case Hall, where the two share a room. The fire forced the evacuation of 1,100 students from the dormitory in the early morning hours. Those living on the sixth floor where the fire started were not allowed to return to their rooms for several hours.. Attempt to overthrow military government in Mauritania fails DAKAR, Senegal-An attempt to overthrow the military government of Mauritania failed yesterday after bloody clashes that left some dead, broad- casts said. Two exiled colonels led the insurgents and one was killed in an assault on the presidential palace in Nouakchott while the other was captured, accor- ding to reports on state-owned Radio Mauritania. Mauritanian leaders accused neighboring Morocco of masterminding the failed coup attempt apparently in retaliation for Mauritania's decision to stay out of the war in the Western Sahara, Radio Mauritania said. Fighting raged at the presidential palace, around the radio station and elsewhere in the streets before the attempted coup was put down after two hours, the radio said. "The situation is entirely in the hands of our forces," an official gover- nment statement broadcast on the radio said. "The commando-suicide has been annihilated." Forest fires rage across South Wildfires by the hundreds crackled through tens of thousands of acres of woods and brushland of the South yesterday, fueled by blustery storm winds and unchecked by a sprinkling of rain. The fires, many of them deliberately set, have killed one man, injured several firefighters, and razed several buildings in a renewed outbreak that began over the weekend in Alabama, the Carolinas and the Virginias. In Alabama, where 5,488 fires so far this year have charred about 210 square.miles-more than was claimed all of last year-47 of the state's 67 counties wereunder a fire alert, including three added Monday. More than $5.7 million in timber already had gone up in smoke, officials said. Cynthia Page of the Alabama Forestry Commission said thunderstorms in parts of the state Sunday night did more harm than good.with inconsequen- tial rains and high winds "drying out the land that much faster and spreading the fires that were already burning." She said 201 fires covering 19,828 acres were burning yesterday. Israel opposes Saudi plane deal TEL AVIV, Israel-Israel reacted angrily yesterday to reports that the United States plans to equip Saudi Arabia with flying radar stat ions, which Israeli military experts claim will allow the Saudis to scan Israel's most secret defenses "like a closed-circuit TV camera in our bedroom. Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir told Parliament that because of.the sale of new weapons systems to Saudi Arabia, "friendly relations with the United States are being clouded." He was referring to a U.S.'plan Israel contends could expose all military movements in the Jewish state. Reports of the AWACS (Airborne Warning and Command System) deal surfaced last Wednesday, a few days after the Israeli government decided to avoid a head-on collision with the new U.S. administration over the sale of extra equipment for Saudi Arabia's American-built F-15.je fighters. The United States decided to upgrade the Saudi air force in an effort to discourage Soviet expansion in the oil-rich Persian Gulf region, according to Reagan administration sources who said the United States had decided to sell four of the radar planes to Saudi Arabia. Miners continue contract talks WASHINGTON-The United Mineworkers of America, negotiating into the night with the soft coal industry, yesterday extended its informal deadline on reaching a tentative agreement to avert a nationwide strike. Eldon Callem, a spokesman for the union, said the union now could have a new contract ratified by March 27-the day the current three-year contract with the bituminous coal industry expires-provided a proposed settlement is reached by late today. Union officials had said earlier that at least 10 days would be needed for ratification by its 160,000 members, and set an informal deadline of midnight yesterday for a tentative settlement. But Callem told reporters, "We think we can dio it in nine days," in effect extending the informal deadline 24 hours. Callem said all the minor aspects of the proposed contract had apparently been resolved but said about a half dozen "life and death" issues for the union remained unresolved. G.e 1tidjigan UaiI Vol. XCI, No. 134 Tuesday, March 17, 1981 The Michigan Daily is'edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan. 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