For your subscription, call 764-0558 Ninety-One Years of Editorial Freedom Vol. XCI, No. 3 Copyright 1980, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, September 6, 1980 Free Issue Sixteen Pages *Low funds may keep 'U' band at home By BETH ROSENBERG Financial strains may prevent the familiar sound of "The Victors" and the high-stepping Block 'M' formation of the Michigan Marching Band from gracing the field when the 'Wolverines play at Notre Dame and Ohio State this season. In fact, it's likely the band will miss all the team's away games. MUSIC SCHOOL ASSOCIATE Dean Paul Lehman said Thursday that funds' allocated by the Athletic Department were "not enough to take the band to any of the games." He said the band hopes to go to the away games, but does not know where the money to send them will come from. The athletic department reportedly budgets $15,000 to cover the band's ex- penses and transportation costs. Ad- ditional funding traditionally has come *from private sources. But, Lehman ex- plained, inflation and business con-, ditions have affected contributions. The associate dean said the Music School 'has had no direct contact with the athletic department during the past few weeks regarding arrangements for See NO, Page 3 Defeat of education bill may imperil 'U' financial aid By JOYCE FRIEDEN The future of the University's federal student financial aid programs is in limbo following the defeat of an S=.educational reauthorization bill by the U.S. Senate Thursday, said University Associate Director of Financial Aid Jim Zimmerman. "The authorization of the bill involves money our office is counting on because the bill allows the continuation of essen- tially all the federal aid programs in education," explained Zimmerman. The National Direct Student Loan, Guaranteed Student Loan, Supplemen- tal Education Opportunity Grant, Work/Study, and the Basic Education Opportunity Grant programs are direc- tly connected to the bill, said University Director Harvey Grotrian. These programs (not including the GSL) con- Daily Photo by PAUL ENGSTROM tributed almost $21 million to the EXHAUSTED FROM ANOTHER grueling practice (back to front), LSA sopho- University's student financial aid more Hal Wolfe, freshman Leonard Johnsor and sophomore Scott Small prepare program last year, he said. for the upcoming Michigan Marching Band season. Due to cuts from the athletic GROTRIAN ADDED that if Congress department, the band may have to eliminate away games from its schedule. continues to delay the reauthorization bill an act passed by the House Ap- propriations Committee last year will allow the federasl aid programs to be funded at slightly higher levels through Oct., 1981, and thus negate the Senate's move Thursday. The reauthorization bill was slated to take effect Oct. 1, 1980. The bill, which was passed over- whelmingly by the House but shot down by the Senate by a 45-43 vote, would have extended the operation of the federal aid programs through 1985. Over the five year period the bill would have: " increased the maximum grant for the BEOG from $1750 to $2500 per year; ,increased the maximum GSL from $2500 to $3000 per year, and raised the aggregate amount an undergraduate can borrow from $7500 to $10,000; * increased the interest rate on the GSL from 7 per cent to 8 per cent; and * increased the interest rate for the NDSL from 3 per cent to 4 per cent. Grotrian added that the bill would have also removed an indivdual's family assets (house, property, etc.) and $10,000 of his liquid assets (money, bonds, etc.) from his financial aid evaluation. He added that the bill would have established a commission to study financial aid programs, too. According to a legislative assistant to U.S. Rep. Carl Pursell (R-Plymouth) the Senate voted to send the bill back to the separate House and Senate commit- tees rather than return it to the Joint. Conference Committee. "The commit- tee members feel freer to negotiate in their 'private' committees," the aide said. "If they debated about it in the joint committee they would have to write a report. This way it will come through more informally." GROTRIAN NOTED THAT there has been a large increase in the number of students applying for GSLs. "We've had a 97 per cent increase since last year," he said. Applications for other federal programs, including BEOG, Work/Study, and National- Direct Student Loan have gone up 8.5 per cent this year, which Zimmerman said was normal. "We anticipate 10 per cent increase in application volume every year," he explained. Although the Financial Aid Office is processing applications faster than ever before, the increased volume ,of requests makes it extremely difficult for the office to keep up with the workload, according to Zimmerman. "So- far this year we've completed processing 5,528 GSL applications, while last year at this time the figure was 2,221. That represents an increase of 149 per cent, but we still have more applications left to process this year than we did at this time last year," he said. Zimmerman explained that a high, priority in the office now is the development ofa new computer system to support the increase in applications. "The computer system we're working with now is one that was put in during 1969-70, and we've simply outgrown it. With the new system, we hope to even- tually be able to sit down at a terminal and look on a screen at a student's financial aid record." 'U' ADMINISTRATORS DISAGREE: Bus service .CaU5( By ADRIENNE LYONS Two University administrators are still at odds over who should fund the now-defunct late evening-early mor- ning North Campus bus service. University Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer James Brinkerhoff, whose office funds the University buses, has said the financing for the ex- tended bus service could come from the Office for Student Services, headed by University vice-president Henry John- son. "He (Johnson) can make whatever priority he wishes for the funds," Brinkerhoff said yesterday, referring to the Student Program Funds, which he claims can be designated to finance the bus service. But Johnson has said he dges not have the funds to finance the extended hours. "(The bus service) is not a student program," Johnson said yesterday, "The Student Program Fund is used to fund student programs. It's not inten- ded to fund (the buses)." The University cut back late night- early morning bus service between North Campus and Central Campus this summer, because of lack of ridership and high costs of operating the buses at the late hours. Johnson explained that University funds are designated for specific pur- poses, but that funds have not been set aside for the buses. "It's (the bus service) a University- wide service, so it should be addressed as a University problem," Johnson said. The vice president noted that he in- /sfun din 4 tends to place the transportation question on the executive officers' agenda for their meeting on Tuesday. The executive officers are the Univer- sity vice presidents. "I want some resolution of the problem," Johnson said. / LAST YEAR THE buses ran until 2:15 a.m: nightly But under the new schedule, the buses operate until 12:15 a.m. Sunday through Thursday, 1:00 a.m. Fridays, and 1:20 a.m. Saturday. The new schedule affects North Campus residents most, since they depend on the buses for transportation to Central Campus. But it could also prevent Central Campus students from utilizing some North Campus facilities which remain open all night. Meanwhile, students at Bursley Hall Probe into alleged sex bias in U' athletic dept. to start in Oct. g fe .ud have organized a committee to protest the bus service cutbacks. The so-called North Campus Bus Protest' Committee is devising several strategies, including petitions and letter-writing drives, to try to bring back the late hours. One member of the committee, who asked not to be identified, said the group plans Monday to ask each of Bur- sley's 1,300 residents to sign each wait list for dormitory changes when the lists become available Sept. 15. ONE SORE SPOT FOR committee members is that $10,000 was spent to refurbish University President Harold Shapiro's football box at Michigan Stadium. "Ten thousand dollars went to Shapiro's box, that would have funded us for the rest of the year," said com- mittee member and Bursley Resident Adviser #Jim Gold, adding that the group was planning "to redirect out ef- forts to Shapiro.". Gold, who organized a mass meeting in Bursley Thursday night that ap- proximately 800 North Campus residen- ts attended, said the student-committee met yesterday with Harlan Mulder, assistant to the vice-president and chief financial officer, and a member of the original University committee that recommended the cutbacks. The LSA senior said Mulder told the .committee he would be willing to call members of the University committee together to hear the group's appeal, but the meeting would have to wait until Mulder returns from his vacation next week. GOLD SAID MULDER WARNED him the University cannot afford to finance the buses, but Gold said, "I find that hard to believe." Operating the buses at the extended hours costs the University $11,000 per year. The University attempted a similar cutback in services two years ago, but agreed to continue financing the buses See STUDENTS, Page 11 By SARA ANSPACH - The federal investigation to determine whether the University discriminates against athletes on the basis of sex is slated to begin in early October, a Department of Education spokeswoman said this week. The University is one of eight schools the Department of Education will investigate on sex discrimination charges .next month. The year-old federal department has also plan- ned investigations of at least 10 additional universities in months to follow, department official Jane Glickman said. The probes are a response to 124 complaints the federal government has received since anti-discrimination act Title IX became law in 1972. Glickman said approximately 80 *complaints were received about universities, and eventually the department will respond to every complaint with a full investigation. FEDERAL OFFICIALS contacted by The Daily would not discuss the specific complaints against the University Athletic Department, but Glickman said there were "multiple allegations," including charges of sex discrimination in granting of scholarships, assignment of TODAY Binding arbitration A N IOWA man and woman seeking to settle a "business" argument in a Fort Dodge motel only settled their lodging facilities for the night: They both landed in the slammer. It seems the man had agreed to purchase the woman's services for the evening for $100. After the ser- vices had been rendered, the man felt cheated and offered t av nl r,n Wa hs- m - an .4- thnnnr to e a hi coaches, and use of facilities and equipment. Associate Athletic Director for Women Phylis Ocker said she did not know the original complaint made against the University but speculated that it may have been one of several made six or seven years ago, "most of which have been remedied." She said she recalled a couple of complaints from 1973 and 1974 such as one about the lack of a male volleyball team and another concerning the lack of a female golf team. The investigations will be "detailed," said Glickman, and all aspects of a school's program-not just the area in which the complaint was made-will be thoroughly probed. THE OFFICE OF CIVIL Rights in Chicago will be conduc- ting the investigation at the University. Peter Fountain, "team leader" of the University's probe, said he was not sure exactly when the investigation would begin and did not know how many people from his office would be involved in the probe. The first step, according to Glickman, will be to send a let- ter to the University stating that there will be a probe and requesting data such as budgets for men's and women's See DEPT., Page 9 0 uists Cmuit~r ousta aiin Polish leader 4 From AP and UPI WARSAW, Poland-Communist Par- ty Chief Edward Gierek, whose regime v * x..,was jolted by the worst labor unrest in a * ~ ~ ,decade, was removed from his post yesterday bytthe party's Central Com- * .mittee, the Polish news agency PAP reported. It said Gierek, who suffered an ap- parent heart attack yesterday, was replaced by Stanislaw Kania. Gierek met the same fate as his predecessor, Wladyslaw Gomulka, who was removed as party leader in December 1970 after he used force to crush strikes in the port cities of Gdan- sk and Szczecin and 45 workers were killed. THE ANNOUNCEMENT was made around 1:30 a.m. (7:30 p.m. EDT) following an emergency meeting of the Central Committee at party headquar- ters in downtown Warsawyv PAP reported: "In connection with the serious illness of Edward Gierek, the Central Committee released him Gierek from the function of first secretary and ... strikes his downfall See POLISH, Page 9 potatoes. They're busy whipping up the world's largest bat- ch of mashed potatoes and gravy. As part of the Seventh Annual Potato Festival, the villagers will put 2,000 boxes of mashed potato mix into a cement truck, add water and dump the results in the middle of the street. And the Man- tuans won't miss the gravy train, either-some 55 gallons of the liquid will crown the white mass. The Guinness Book of World Records is aware of the stunt and notes the Ohio ef- fort as the first attempt at plopping 9,000 lbs. of mashed potatoes onto a street. A large industrial tank truck carrying a pump will suck up the splattered spuds and continued his speech without pausing or even changing his expression. O Bert Parks he's not For one quarter of a century tearful television viewers and Miss America pageant winners were soothed by Bert Parks' soulful rendition of "There She Is." This year, the crowds and contestants will be serenaded by the pre- recorded warblings of a former television Tarzan. Ron Ely, the , monn, :n pw Amr .mw llmae hic. lrc a trt i, Thesp iritofgiving Most cries wouldn't urn down gifts from generous citizens, but the city of Des Moines, Iowa has gone so far as to print a 10-page catalog listing presents the city would like; to receive. In exchange for the gifts, the benefactors get a tax break. Gift items in the city's catalog-the cost of which was donated by. the, Independent Insurance Agents of Iowa-range from an $8 phonograph record to an $800,000 library. D