The Michigan Daily--Friday, March 20, 1981-Page 9
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Undeiad
forestry
program
second
in nation
By LARRY LaVERCOMBE
Not very many people know about the University's un-
dergraduate forestry program, but a recent survey ranking
it second in the nation may just give it the recognition it's
looking for.
"I seriously doubt whether people on campus know we're
here," laments Program Director Douglass Mackinnon.
Now, thanks to the survey conducted by the National
Education Standards Inc., Mackinnon says the program
deserves equal footing with all the other prestigious
programs at the University.
THE REPORT, WHICH ranked the forestry programs at
the University of California at Berkeley first, and the
University of Minnesota third, based its criteria on faculty
quality, the scholarly work of students, and alumni perfor-
mance on the job and at graduate schools.
Mackinnon stressed that the University forestry program's
integrated approach to the study has set it apart from similar
programs.
"Our faculty members include specialists in economics,
botany, biology, and ecology," he said.
"WE ALSO HAVE joint degree programs with the
(University) business and law schools."
Forestry students said extensive fieldwork opportunities
and the program's small size (it graduates 25 students each
year) are reasons why they chose the University's forestry
program over those at other schools.
"EVERY ONE OF our graduates can get a professional job
if they are persistent enough," Mackinnon says. "And I'm
not talking about civil service field work; I mean high level
decision making positions in private industry."
Some students, however, said the program is excessively
geared toward the private sector and lacks instruction on
ecology and environmental regulation. But other students
disagree, stressing -the program's emphasis on the private
sector is appropriate since that's "where the jobs are."
Students and faculty, moreover, participate in a number of
research projects. Forestry Prof. Bill Drake, for example, is
currently examining how wood can be used in a variety of
areas, including construction and energy.
Drake said there is currently enough technology and
resources to make wood a producer of "eight percent of our
energy needs-twice the amount presently contributed by
nuclear power."
But according to Ecology Prof. Burton Barnes, if too many
trees are cut down too quickly to meet other needs, the
ecological balance will be upset, which will hurt the state's
wildlife and tourist trade.
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Best seat in the house?'
Chuck Solc of Theta Chi Fraternity gets the chance to sit atop a telephone
pole in the fraternity's first annual Poleathon. Within 100 hours, Theta Chi.
hopes to raise $5,000 for Jerry Lewis' Labor Day telethon to help in the fight
against muscular dystrophy. After 43 hours, the fraternity had already
collected $2,000.
Researchers report
+ynost teen agers drink
Reagan
group d
WASHINGTON (AP) - A group for-
med by some of President Reagan's
friends to drum up public support for
his . economic policies was disbanded
yesterday after reports that it. used
strong-arm tactics to solicit hefty cor-
porate contributions for a televised
gala featuring the chief executive.
With its demise, plans were canceled
for a 90-city, closed-circuit television
gala and a direct mail program inten-
ded to build public pressure upon
Congress for Reagan's budget-and-tax
cut program.
Before it disbanded, the group,
known as the Coalition for a New
Beginning, had received commitments
for $800,000, according to a spokesman,
Herb Stone.
He denied there were any im-
proprieties or strong-arm tactics in the
fund-raising.
"I:THINK WE, the group as such,
have not done anything illegeal, im-
moral or sexy," said Stone. "I don't
think it's been an embarrassment to the
White House."
Newsday, a Long Island, N.Y.,
newspaper, reported the White House
had killed the $1-million fundraising ef-
fort after hearing that "strong-arm tac-
support
isbands
tics" were being used.
In a copyrighted story from
Washington, it quoted an unidentified
White House official as saying there are
concern the coalition may have violated
federal laws in taxation, lobbying or
other areas.
SENIOR REAGAN AIDES said
White House disapproval was made
known to the coalition last Thursday,
after word of the pressure tactics was
heard, the newspaper said.
While the White House refused to say
yesterday if it had demanded that the
group go out of business, officials "may
-have made some suggestions to them,"
said press secretary James Brady.
From a public standpoint, the White
House had held the group at arms
length. Notices were posted in the of-
fices of press spokesmen instructing
them to refer any questions about the
coalition to a Washington public
relations company working with the
group.
HOWEVER, SOURCES said Lyn
Nofziger, the White House political
director and confidante of the
president, was designated as liaison
with the coalition.
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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK,
N.C. (AP) - Most American teen-agers
drink alcoholic' beverages, and one
third of the nation's high school studen-
s are "problem drinkers," a team of
researchers reported yesterday.
Based on a nationwide survey of
alcohol use by adolescents, the report,
issued by the Research Triangle In-
*titute concluded that three of 10 high
school 'students are moderate to heavy
'irinkers.
In 'addition, the researchers con-
cluded that drinking among girls is in-
creasing, that the South continues to
have the highest proportion ofab
stainers in the nation and that the
availability of alcohol is related to
heavier drinking.
"OUR STUDIES have shown that
ease of availability is related to heavier
drinking," said J. Valley Rachal, direc-
.@or of the study. "Those states that
allow 18-year-olds to purchase alcohol
have heavie: drinking. And that's
reflected in a growing tendency to
move the laws to a higher age."
The study also showed that despite
laws against minors purchasing
alcohol, seven of 10 high schools stud-
ents said they could "usually" or
"always" obtain it.
Fewer than one in 10 said they could
not obtain alcohol at all.
"BY THE 10th grade about seven of
10 can no longer-be called abstainers.
But it doesn't really matter whether it's
70 percent of 80 percent. The fact is that
a large portion of adolescents have at
least some experience with alcohol, and
a large percentage drink fairly
regularly," Rachal said.
,The, findings=:;are,..from., a follow-up
study of earlier research conducted in
1974. That study surveyed 13,000
students in grades seven through 12.
The present study sampled 5,000
students in grades 10 through 12 taken
at random from the 48 contiguous states
and the District of Columbia.
"Several studies in recent years
seem to indicate that girls' drinking is
becoming more and more like that of
boys," Rachal said.
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are not being cared for and accused
Vice President of Student Services
Henry Johnson of not being responsive
to her organization's requests.
MSA Vice President Virna Hobbs
-echoed Hunter's remarks, saying the
lack of a full-time black representative
in the office is a "blatant form of racial
idiscrimination." -
WiN ADDITION to the minority
enrollment issue, speakers during the
public comments portion of yesterday's
meeting asked the Regents to consider
allowing the Public Research Interest
Group . in Michigan to use a
refusable/refundable system of finan-
cing.
The Regents will vote today to either
continue PIRGIM's present positive
aheck-off system or institute a
efusable/refundable method in which
students would automateally be
assessed the PIRGIM fee unless they
specifically ask not to be charged.
:PIRGIM representative Bea Hanson
told the Regents that more than 7,100
students signed petitions last week in
support of the PIRGIM proposal.
STATE REP. Perry Bullard (D-Ann
Arbor) supported the PIRGIM
proposal, speaking specifically about
fhe organization's function as an
eucator of students in the democratic
process.
"PIRGIM offers students very
valuable, practical expreience,"
Bullard said.
"For the sake of democratic prin-
ciples," Joshua Peck, an LSA junior,
urged the Regents to install
refusable/refundable, saying that the
majority of students on campus is
asking the Board to do so.
LSA senior Mark Parrent was the
sole speaker against the PIRGIM
proposal. "By no means is there a
student consensus (on the issues *for
which PIRGIM fights)," Parrent said,
implying a majority of students on
campus are not necessarily in favor of
the proposal.
IN " OTHER ACTION, the Regents
heard a detailed report on the $210
million Replacement Hospital Project,
scheduled for groundbreaking this fall.
Project consultants presented the
Board with a construction and finan-
cing schedule and a report on contrac-
ting options for the hospital, the largest
capital project in the University's
history.
The Board approved a preliminary
design for the 1,000-car parking struc-
ture, which accompanies the RHP with
a separate $7.5 million budget. Con-
struction on the structure is expected to
begin this summer.
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