Ninety-Oine Years Of Editorial Freedom . eH tI U I IIII DREARY Cloudy today with scat- tered snow flurries and a high in the upper 30s. Vol. XCI, No. 137 Copyright 1981, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Thursday, March 20, 1981 Ten Cents Twelve Pages Washington debates student loan future By NANCY l ILYEAU Hoping to escape looming federal cutbacks in guaranteed student loan programs, many students are wondering if Fall 1981 GSL ap- plications turned in now might slip by before new laws are imposed. ' " Despite students' anxieties about paying next fall's tuition bills, both University and federal financial aid officials are saying, "It's just too early to tell." SENIOR FINANCIAL Aid Officer Elaine Nowack urged students to send in their ap- plications as soon as possible to secure the necessary funding from participating banks and other lenders. However, other officials cautioned that the date GSL forms are submitted may make no difference at all, and might even delay a student loan if applications have to be updated this summer to meet new federal requiremen- ts. "It all depends on the language of the bill Congress comes up with," Jane Bryson, direc- tor of the GSL policy section under Secretary of Education Terrel Bell, said in a telephone in- terview yesterday. CURRENTLY, A full. or part-time un- dergraduate can receive a GSL through a bank or credit union of up to $2,500 per year. The federal government subsidizes the nine percent monthly interest until the student graduates. Students then have 10 years in which to repay their loan: The three proposals President Reagan hopes will carve as much as $138 million from the GSL programs are: * Eliminating the federally subsidized in- terest rate while the student is in school, " Allowing the current nine percent interest rate to rise to the current commercial rate of 17 percent, and, " Requiring a need analysis placed on GSL applications. The borrowing limit might then be the difference between the required family contribution, plus any grants, scholarships, or work-study, and the total cost of attending the institution. THE FIRST proposal is receiving serious consideration in Congress, Bryson said. "If that bill (removing the federal subsidy) was formed today, it would say 'effective for loans dispersed after July 1,' " Bryson said. This bill would apply to all Fall 1981 GSLs, since banks and other lenders never disperse. funds until after the beginning of the academic year, Nowack explained. HOWEVER, IF THE bill specifies loans approred after July 1, GSLs processed and approved before that deadline would not be af- fected by federal cutbacks, said Senior Finan- cial Aid Officer Carol Raphael. Another student pitfall could arise if a future bill places a need analysis similar tq the one currently required to determine eligibility for Basic Educational Opportunity Grants (BEOG). Such a change would cause "massive delays and problems," Nowack predicted, since all applicants would have to be re-assessed before receiving their GSLs. NOWACK SAID that some students eligible under the old system might not be eligible if Reagan's cutbacks are approved. The wording of the bill is difficult to predict since congress has not started drafting a proposal yet. First, the Senate and the House of Represen- tatives' budget committees must set ceilings for spending amounts, not only for educational programs, but also for the entire 1982 federal See CONGRESS, Page 2 U Caulking procedure *changed for Mo-Jo windows By STEVE HOOK Mounting pressure from Mosher-Jor- dan residents has spurred the Univer- sity to make several changes in its win- dow replacement project at that dor- mitory, a Housing Department official announced yesterday. Norman Sunstad, the associate direc- tor of residential operations, said that there will be a change in the caulking used to seal the new windows because the caulking has irritated residents with its strong fumes. The new caulking will be a milder, "butyl-based" com- pound, Sunstad said. SUNSTAD ALSO SAID that workers will, apply much less caulking corm pound on the remaining windows - just enough to make them secure - and workers will return this summer to ap- ply: thfll vlrehtlruiling empty. "It's not the most efficient way to do this," Sunstad said yesterday. "But we try to meet the needs of the residents when they express concerns." "The University has been totally un- derstanding about our needs," said John Maksym, Mosher-Jordan's House Council spokesman. "We showed them that there was a real problem here, that this wasn't just a facade we were throwing around. We're glad that the 'U' is listening." YET THE NEW PLANS still don't address a primary Mosher -Jordan complaint, Maksym explained. The complaint concerns the manner in which the project is being executed. He said that many rooms are being entered without the resident's consent, and that there is insufficient security personnel on hand to supervise the workers. These practices amount to an "in- fringement" of the residents' leases, according to Maksym. Despite this, he said, "we have abandoned plans for legal action." Sunstad said he and his associates have been surprised by the vocal com- plaints registered by Mosher-Jordan residents because they have supervised similar projects in six other University residence halls "with very few problems." "The hoopla at Mosher -Jordan was quite startling to us," he said. Although the installation of new win- dows remains mandatory for all rooms in Mosher-Jordan, University President Harold Shapiro is considering a request to ,make it optional for the remaining rooms, according to Maksym.. Either way, residents at the hill dor- mitory have been promised that the project will be halted by April 3 so they'll have "time to study for exams," Sunstad said. "We dearly hope to be done this summer," he added. Cagers~ d9: ends, didn't play that' By MARK FISCHER chance here wew special to the Daily ter job containing SYRACUSE, N.Y.-Maybe it was the to keep them und bright lights above their heads at the SYRACUSE, ( huge Carrier Dome. Maybe it was the trip to the NIT se television cameras. Or maybe it was City, was asr the 20,695 wildly screaming Syracuse Orangemen shot fans. from the floor in Whatever the reason, the Michigan almost unbelieva basketball team didn't seem to be second for a gam ready for action in its National In- "They were ju vitation Tournament quarterfinal game they missed a sh last night, as the cagers fell to Michigan's leadi Syracuse, 91-76, to finish their season at ts. 19-11. Syracuse's ( "Syracuse really played well," said Schayes, who w Michigan head coach Bill Frieder. "We field, led a balan season 1-76 well. For us to have a would have to do a bet- g their scorers. We had er double figures." 21-11), which earned a emifinals in New York ready as ever. The a sizzling 61 percent n the first half and an able 88 percent in the e total of 72 percent. ust hot. I didn't think ot," said Mike McGee, ng scorer with 30 poin- 6-11 pivotman Dan ent 10 for 14 from the ced Orangeman attack which included four players with at least 16 points apiece. "Schayes was in- credible," noted McGee. BUT 6-4 Orangeman forward Erich Santifer was even hotter. The former Ann Arbor Huron star missed only 2 of 11 field goal tries for 21 points. But the man who brought the partisan house down was 6-4 Tony "Red" Bruin, who slammed home a total of five two-hand dunks on his way to eight of 10 from the field and 18 points. Despite Syracuse's torrid pace, the Wolverines did manage to keep pace in the first half, as they' went into the locker room at halftime down by only four, 46-42. See RED-HOT, Page 10 Doily Photo by BRIAN MASCK 'U' OFFICIALS and vineyard owners are disputing over the right to use the M-Go-Blue' slogan. Sour Grapes Who has riht to 'M-Go-Blue? Regents hear both sides of U' minorities report By LINDA RUECKERT It may be difficult to bottle the University's school spirit, but John Colman of Vendramino Vineyards is certainly giving it the old college try. Three years ago the vineyard star- ted bottling and selling "M-Go- Glue" wine. Now the Regents are trying to stop the corporation from using the University's slogan as its trademark. "The slogan is ours, not theirs. They have no right to use it and we don't want them to have a right to use it,' University attorney Roderick Daane said. "M-GO-BLUE isn't exclusively owned by the University of Michigan ... We suspect that others have used it," claims Vendramino Vineyards' attorney, Robert Sloman. To demonstrate his point, he cited the companies that manufacture Go- Blue bumper stickers. Danne said he is "uncertain of the facts" regarding other companies that sell Michigan memorabilia. "There are pirates out and about you know," he said. "Some of them may be legal and some may be illegal." J Another product using the slogan is "M-Go-Blue" potato chips, Coleman said. But according to Daane, that slogan is also being used unlawfully, although the University has not opposed the firm before the Office of Patent and Trademark ap- peals because it never registered the slogan as its trademark. ON AUGUST 19, 1980, Vendramino Vineyards published the "M-Go- Blue" trademark for "opposition" in the offical Patent and Trademark Gazette. Several months later, the Univer- sity filed an opposition with the Board of Patent and Trademark Ap- peals in an attempt to stop registration of the trademark. THE PATENT BOARD will probably not reach a decision regar- ding the vineyard's use of the. trademark for a long time, accor- See WHO, Page 5 By BARRY WITT Minority students and University administrators offered differing inter- pretations of this week's minority enrollment report at yesterday's Regents meeting. While Vice President for Academic Affairs Bill Frye-acknowledging that the administration is still "concerned" about the declining figures-stressed the "positive features" of the report, minority students saw "no reason to rejoice" over the current situation. Frye cited the decline in the pool of high school seniors, the cost of higher education, and high admission stan- dards as factors which contributed to the diminishing numbers of minority students on campus. BUT FRYE emphasized the Univer- sity's successes in dealing with the problem of too few minority students. The University "is making con- siderable progress in recruitment," Frye said. The University has made con- siderable gains in the retention of minority students, according to the vice president. He noted "the remarkable improvement in the academic perfor- mance" of minorities and said the drop-, out rate has declined considerably, compared to only four or five years ago. Frye added he would like to see future reports contain more of the positive steps that the University has taken to improve the status of campus minorities and concentrate less on statistics. GEORGE GOODMAN, director of the Opportunity Program, a University- wide counseling and academic support system, said the University must ac- tively recruit prospective high school students well before their senior year. "We have to look at students in 11th grade, 10th grade, and junior high. school," Goodman said. Many "youngsters hear negative experiences (about the University) in early, im- pressionable years . . . one bad im- pression lasts for many years," he said Goodman said he thinks some of the problems minority students encounter at the University stem from a lack of communication with faculty members. HE ADDED that faculty members "need to understand and appreciate cultural differences" between minority students and other students. "The current status of financial aid will be a problem in helping minority enrollment," Goodman told the Regen- ts. "If this institution can not "stay competitive with respect to its financial aid package, we will slip farther in our ability to bring minority students to this campus," he said. Goodman urged the administration and Regents to keep in mind the fact that minority students, proportionally, look more at the availability of finan- cial aid than other students. ALTHOUGH THE Opportunity Program director encouraged the University to "highlight its success stories," Valerie Nims, an LSA junior, said the University must "give a realistic view to high school students." And that would include many negative experiences, according to Nims. "Things are not as rosy as you may think they are," Nims told the Regents. She described a black student's situation at the University as "desperate" and called it "a matter of survival" for them. ON A RELATED subject, Regina Hunter, a representative from the, Council of Black Student Organizations, repeated her plea for a black counselor in the Office of Minority Student Ser- vices. She said the needs of black students See REGENTS, Page 9 Fr ye relates minority successes TODAY Course Encounters MICHIGAN STUDENT Assembly has released a second "updated" edition of Course Encounters, an LSA course and teacher evaluation guide. The booklet, which was probation listing of 26 professors who have consistently received low evaluations. Fiarman expressed concern that future issues of the course evaluation guide are jeapordized by a lack of students committed to working on the project. "There's so much that can be done, but we're barely able to} retain the progress we have made so far," he said. Let's hope for the best for Course Encounters of the third kind.Q _' T_ T.. The 13th You may have made it through Friday the 13 without a mishap, but today is the day you should really be wary of. Today is the first day of spring, and the first time in possibly 100 years that the vernal equinox coincides with a full moon. And that means the superstitious will tread especially lightly. "Friday the 13th is a superstition that doesn't have much occult significance, in my opinion," says bona fide occultist Richard Miller. "It doesn't have any major energy to it. Seasonal changes are much more White House. "We made out a requisition for that one," an aide was quoted as saying. In addition to National Review. the two aides asked for free copies from Newsweek, Human Events,, Commentary, The Nation, The New Republic,, Time and Forbes. The publisher of the business-oriented Forbes, said he was happy to make a relatively small con- tribution to the feds, as opposed to what he pays in cor- porate and personal income taxes. But the publisher of The Nation said he sent a bill for $17, the student rate, "since they're in the learning business." I