IaiIg S cl . te Eitr Ninety-One Years of EditorialI Freedom Vol. XCI, No. 1 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Thursday, September 4, 1980 Eighty Pages Regents increase tuition by 13o President Shapiro urges program. reductions By KEVIN TOTTIS The University's bleak financial situation calls for cutbacks in its "heartland" if it is going to maintain a high quality level of faculty and studen- ts, University President Harold Shapiro told the Senate Assembly last June. "We cannot maintain our current programs at a quality level (without making program cuts)," the president told the Assembly and more than 150 faculty members in the Rackham Auditorium. ACCORDING TO SHAPIRO, in fiscal ear 1980, state revenues from income tax did not grow, and those from sales tax grew about three per. cent; however, the state budget grew about 12 per ceit. As a result, Shapiro said, the state had to use up a $300 million "rainy day fund." In 1981 the first thing the state must do is build, back this fund, he said. In January, Shapiro continued, Gov. I illiam Milliken recommended a 9.5 r cent increase in state allocations to the University. The most recent in- crease in a bill by the Senate was only 4.7 per cent. According to Shapiro's predictions, higher education will not be funded at a 4.7 per cent level next year, but rather, no more than a three per cent level. "This is at least eight percentage, points behind the inflation rate," Shapiro told the audience. There are several options the Jniversity has to handle this decrease, hapiro explained. One is to make cuts in administration, which has been done for several years, he said. But he added there were limits to these cuts, because of regulations dealing with matters such as safety, affirmative action, and research administration. Faculty members and staff researchers are. also asking for in- Students victims of sluggish economy By MITCH STUART Students at the University this year will be paying 13 per cent more in tuition than students here paid one year ago. The 13 per cent tuition hike, one of the largest in the University's history, is one of several budget proposals ratified by the Regents at their July 18 meeting. Also ratified was a nine per cent increase in faculty and staff salaries which will take effect Sept. 1. All tuition rates have esca- lated by 13 per cent except Law HE ADDED, "THE cost-cutting School rates, up 17 per cent, measures they're talking about should and Extension Service fees, up have been decided before the amount of and xtesionSerice ees up any tuition increase." 10 per cent. Tuition rates range Regent James Waters (D- from $682 per term for Michigan Muskegon), like Dunn, voted against undergraduates to $3,336 per the tuition hike. "I think there are other term for non-resident medical things that can be done without making students. any significant reduction in the quality AFTER LENGTHY discussion, at of education," he said. the Interlochen National Music Camp, For example, Waters said, he thought .the nine per cent salary increase should the Regents voted 5-to-2 in favor of the hebnin oeretalloy fratushod 13 per cent increase. Regent Robert have been lowered to allow for a tuition Nederlander (D-Birmingham) said, "If wer onn to et the moneknow where A chart listing tuition rates for the 1980- Concurring with nederlander were 1981 academic year appears on Page 2. Regents Deane Baker (R-Ann Arbor), - Paul Brown (D-Petoskey), David Laro increase of 10 per cent t most. "The Saline), and Thomas Roach (D- University has to suffer a little now Regent Gerald Dunn (D-Lansing), with the rest of the public," he said. however, said he was .not convinced LARD, WHO VOTED in favor of University administrators . had raising the tuition, warned University exhausted all the possibilities for administrators to crack down on over- budget plans that would prevent the spending now, since he said he would necessity of such a large tuition in- seesagewu crease. See REGENTS, Page 2 Requests for financil aid hit record levels Daily rnoto by r E SERLING INDEPENDENT PRESIDENTIAL candidate John Anderson speaks to University students Tuesday afternoon. PR ESIDENTA L CANDIDA TE A SSA IL S PRESIDENT. Anderson, stops in A2 By JOSHUA PECK Some 2,500 rain-drenched University students crowded into the walkway behind the Graduate Library Tuesday to hear independent presidential candidate John Anderson speak about his campaign, this nation's economy and foreign policy. "For the first time in maybe a dozen years, students are a part of the political process," said Anderson, in an apparent reference to the heavy student support of presidential aspirant Eugene McCarthy in 1968. " ANDERSON TAILORED his speech to the interests of the student crowd, drawing his greatest ovation with criticism of both President Carter's draft registration plan and the possibility that the president might send American troops abroad: "I've been critical of Carter's intent to defend the Persian Gulf," Anderson said. "We ought first to make an effort here at home" that would avert the need for foreign intervention, he continued. The white-haired Illinois congressman has been falling in opinion polls lately, and his speech here generally reflected a defensive posture. Rather than focusing on his own goals as president, he assailed many of President Carter's policies. "I AM CRITICAL of a Democratic president who promised to lead us along a path, not only of reduction, but of elimination of nuclear weapons," and who has instead escalated the arms race, he said. Of Carter's recently issued President Directive 59, which makes provisions for a "limited" nuclear war should one occur, Anderson said, "I can't accept that, I just can't accept it." The rally, which was scheduler: for noon, was delayed by a heavy rain shortly before that time. Many of those who wanted to hear the candidate headed for the Michigan Theater, which was supposed to house the rally in the event of rain. The location was moved again to the south'side of the Graduate Library, which afforded both protection from the weather and ample space. While the majority of Anderson's audience seemed to support him, there were moments of dissent. In past years, the candidate has expressed more liberal views than in his earlier years as a conservative Republican,, and members of the audience Tuesday wouldn't let him forget his previous stances. When Anderson expressed his disapproval of the proposed mobile M-X missile system, a dissenter See ANDERSON, Page 19 'Activists question tenure denials By LORENZO BENET The Committee on Academic Freedom, an ad-hoc group of about 30 self-appointed faculty, students, and staff members, is conducting an unofficial in- vestigation to determine whether three University assistant professors "who have been outspoken ac- vists for social and educational change on campus" were denied tenure for political reasons. The three professors whose cases are under the non-University-sanctioned investigation are Assistant Professors of History William Hunt and Norman Owen and Assistant Professor of English Alan Wald, according to committee member Robin Day. All three faculty members denied any in- volvement with the committee's activities. Com- mmittee members confirmed the professors did not initiate any investigation. THE COMMITTEE, which was formed last February shortly after the faculty members in question were denied tenure, is checking whether these "professors and past faculty members have been discriminated against on the basis of race, sex, political beliefs, curriculum issues, and research methodology," according to committee member Joe Summers, a Rackham student. Committee member Howie Brick, another Rackham student, stressed that the committee, in which "half a dozen faculty are members," has reached no conclusions about the presence or absen- ce of discriminatory intent in the tenure decisions. He added that "if and when the committee concludes that there are real issues of discrimination in any of the cases under consideration, it will challenge them publicly and seek redress." The LSA tenure process involves three steps. Usually, once an assistant professor enters his sixth year at the University, he comes up for a tenure- review by his department. If the departmental tenure review committee feels its faculty member deserves to be promoted, it passes the recommendation to the College Executive Committee, which begins the review process all over again. If approved by the College, the faculty member is tenured, subject to the final-and traditionally rubberstamp-approval of Regents. HUNT WAS REJECTED by his department, and is entering his terminal year. Owen was approved by the department, but rejected by the College, and is also entering his final year as a faculty member. Wald's department felt he was an exceptional case and thus he was considered for tenure in his fifth year. However, he was also rejected by the College, but will come up for tenure again this fall. According to committee member Beth Lori, an un- dergraduate, the committee believes the tenure denials of Hunt, Owen, and Wald are part of a trend in which instructors can be denied tenure on the groun- ds that their work is not good enough when the real reason may be they have taken dissident political stands or engaged in non-traditional teaching. "THE UNIVERSITY presents the image that it is a free market place of ideas," observed committee member Heidi Gottfried, a graduate student. "This is not so. The tenure denial of these professors is a clear indication of a trend where few faculty on the See ACTIVISTS, Page 19 By LORENZO BENET More University students than ever have flooded the Office of Financial Aid for requests for grants and loans, ac- cording to Director Harvey Grotrian. "Last year we processed 29,780 ap- plications for 17,800 students for a total aid package of .$48.2 million," he ex- plained "this year we expect to process 37,000 applications for 22,000 students for an estimated $67.8 million in aid." THE OVERALL upsurge in ap- plications,the said, was primarily due to dramatic increase in Guaranteed Student Loan (GSL) applications. Grotrian said the rise in GSL ap- plications resulted from the Middle In- come Student Assistance Act (MISA) signed by President Carter in 1978. The act removed any income ceiling for GSL eligibility, thus opening the door for middle- and upper-income students to receive the loan. "As of August 22," he noted, "the of- fice had received 8,591 GSL ap- plications. At the same time last year, he said, the office had received just 4,376. "That's an increase of 97 per cent," he exclaimed. "At the rate we're going, the GSL program could amount to $45 million. That's up $20 million from last year!" Grotrian cited several other reasons for the increase in aid applications: * Increased costs for students to attend the University; " No improvement in the national economy since last year; * Increased distribution of information regarding aid opportunity to high school students and their parents. " Increased access to the Basic Equal Opportunity Grants (BEOG) for mid- dle-income students GROTRIAN ADDED that the MISA also allows students whose families earn $20-30 thousand, and independent students, to be eligible for the equal op- portunity grant. Congress recently cut the BEOG budget, however, which has reduced most students' grants by $50. The maximum BEOG a student can receive is $1750. Grotrian said that cuts in the BEOG program, and changes in other programs, have put more pressure on state resources to aid students. "The Fair Share concept has seen campus-based program funds (Univer- sity grants, work/study grants, and National Direct Student Loans-NDSL) shift from state to state and institution to institution," explained Grotrian. "As a result the University has lost $800,000 from the NDSL program, while com- munity colleges throughout the state have received an eight-fold increase in NDSL funds from last year." GROTRIAN ALSO noted that the state has reduced its competitive scholarship program by $250 for every student. "This means a loss of $600,000 in state scholarship funds to the University," he said. In addition, increased workloads have made it necessary for office em- ployees to work overtime, even though the office has added five new full-time staff members in the last six months. "We're hoping for a modest increase in staff this year," remarked Grotrian. 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