CHAIRMAN SPEAKS TO REGENTS The Michigan Daily-Friday, November 21, 1980-Page 7 SACUA By JAY MCCORMICK The faculty held the ears - at a respectable istance - of the Regents yesterday as they presented their plans and methods for facing a reduced budget for the next two years. Arch Naylor, chairman of the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs, said the com- mittee must educate the rest of the faculty on issues involved in reducing the University's budget, and told the Regents at yesterday's meeting of the board that he hopes the ad- ministration and faculty will maintain a climate Pf confidence between them. "WE'RE GOING to need all the good ideas we can get," he said, stressing the importance of cooperation. SACUA has been considering the University's propose options in handling budget cuts, and the methods that would be most fair and effective. Naylor said, "We want to use the Senate Assembly as one of the few University-wide forums for discussion," he said, adding that the assembly actions hopefully will inspire other groups to discuss the budget as it applies to the University as a whole. Bruce Friedman, a member of SACUA and professor of pathology in the medical school, said there are two methods of handling budget. cuts; program reduction and "The theory of shared poverty." "I THINK that (the shared poverty theory) can lead to much more damage," Friedman said, adding that he believes the shared- poverty" method would fail to meet the extent of budget options budget cuts the university faces. "I THINK THAT (the shared poverty theory) can lead to much more damage," Friedman said, adding that he believes the "shared pover- ty" method would fail to meet the extent of budget cuts the University faces. Regents and SACUA members that a wide discussion of methods for handling budget reduc- tions is very helpful and necessary, but, "we are not going to eliminate the level of uncertainty. We're going to have to walk up to that and make a decision, and I hope we have the courage to make that decision. "If we accept this as a negative challenge," Shapiro said "we will have a negative results." A more positive approach to budget cutting will lead to more constructive ideas, he added. REGENT GERALD DUNN (D-Lansing) war- ned his fellow Regents and the SACUA members that if the University is unable to solve its budget woes on its own, the state legislature might be tempted to try its had at the problem. The decisions the administration will make on what programs will be reduced or discontinued will affect the University as a whole for at least ten years, Naylor said. It really is a situation where we are at a tur- ning point," he said. Universities around the country are shifting from a period of rapid growth to a period of equilibrium, he added. *1Q Sgaef lle The roosa or by Chekhov The Imaginary Cuckold by Mohere November 20-22-8 pm November 23-2 pm Matinee 1/2 price for students Admission $200 R.C. Auditorium r .- . 'U' budget crunch worsens (Continued from Page 1) five percent below what the University- received in alloeations from the state last year. 0 Ae higher education budget bill is currently in the stae legislature's House-Senate conference commit- tee4The conference committee has not scheduled any netings, but Rick'Bossard, a House Fiscal Agency, official said yesterday there is "no question" that the appropriation will be finalized by January. The con- ference committee has only informal timetables aimed at finishing the budget bill, Bossard said. SIAPIRO ESTIMATED yesterday that- the legislature would finish the state budget by Christ- mas. As big a problem as the six-month delay in ap- proving the state budget might seem, it's nothing compared to the difficulties the University has faced in trying to pare down its budget to accommodate the decrease in state funds. Staff layoffs - some this year and even more next year - will inevitably result from the budget cuts, University officials agreed. The state has generally contributed just under 60 percent of the University's general fund money. The rest of the money comes from tuition and other sour- ces, including donations. / GIVEN A 10 percent inflation rate - which Shapiro, an economist, says is conservative - the University effectively has 15 percent less state sup- port this year than ithad last year. ''That is a very major adjustment for us to deal with in one year," Shapiro said. No one currently working at the University has ever had to adjust to as drastic an appropriation decrease as the one expec- ted to be handed down this year, he said. As late as a month ago, the University's "worst case" budget projection anticipated a zero increase in state allocations. UNIVERSITY UNITS, including schools and colleges, have been asked by the administration to reduce their budgets. Once the state appropriation is finalized, administrators will distribute the cuts: Vice President and Chief Financial Officer James Brinkerhoff and Shapiro told the Regents yesterday that the administration would need more than one or two months to make those selective cuts. For instance, the Financial Aid office's budget probably won't be cut much because of the in- creasingly heavy workload there, Brinkerhoff said. "THERE ARE HARD priority choices being made," he told the Regents. "We're putting extreme pressure on the directors of -units." Even the request for a state appropriation increase of 9.6 percent next year is unrealistic, University administrators concede. Although the 9.6 percent figure is a "maintenance" figure based on estimates of the inflation rate, the state's economy will not recover quickly enough, they say. Fred Whims, director of the education division of the state budget office, said most of the state colleges and universities will have next year's appropriation requests within the next week. The state hopes to cat- ch up to its usual schedule, and Whims said he expec- ts the 1981-82 budget recommendations to be presen- ted to the legislature in late January. The University has already gone through hearings with the State Department of Management and Budget, and Shapiro met with Milliken Wednesday. Shapiro said he told Milliken there is no question that during the financial adjustment process the University will dismantle programs that have taken generations to build. He also told the governor there is no guarantee that the University will be able to bring these programs back again when money is more plentiful. Is There" Something You've Got To Say? SAY IT IN THE CLASSIFIEDS CALL 764-0557 MAJOR are EVENTS incooperation with pleased to announce in concert Ni J Editors arraigned in trespassing case A judge yesterday entered a plea of not guilty for two Michigan Daily editors who were charged with trespassing in connection with an at- tempt last month to enter a closed meeting of the University athletic board. Editor-in-Chief Mark Parrent, 21, and Joshua Peck, 23, an editorial page editor, stood mute in the 15th District Court arraignment before Judge George Alexander. According to attor- neys, standing mute can possibly offer procedural advantages to actually pleading not guilty. PARRENT AND Peck were arrested October 28 when a contingent of Daily staffers insisted that they had the right to cover a closed meeting of the Board in Control of Intercollegiate Athletics. Daily editors have contended that the board determines policy and therefore should open its meeting to the public in compliance with the state Open Meetings Act. University administrators, however, insist that the Regents are the only University policy-making board and therefore should be the only group to fall under the Open Meetings Act. A pre-trial hearing has been scheduled for January 13. MUSIC, DANCE, & SONG 1 st Night of Chanukah Luad Chassidkc fG~tld 0 1980 r r 5 TUES., DEC. 2-7:30 PM RACKHAM AUDITORIUM ALL SEATS RESERVED $6 (STUDENTS $4) Sponsored by Hillel, A4 1 I Iflan rot hers - jand with special guests THE OUTLAWS Crisler Arena December 3 8pm Tickets are $1000 and $900 and are available at the Michigan Union box office, Hudson's ,and CTC outlets, sorry no checks. A MAJOR EVENTS presentation. More info call 763-2071 Ia it The performances were extraordinarily detailed, and the range of dynamics from the softest pianissimos to the loudest fortes, gave the pieces their full dimension in terms ofsound. . . a stimulating as well as a moving experience. The New York Times Carlo Maria Guilini, Condpctor ~lLos Apoees Pbilbarnopic Haydn: Symphony No. 94 in G major Copland: Quiet City Verdi: Overture to "La Forza del destino" Brahms: Symphony No. 2 SupdayNov.23at8:30 HillAudorun) Tickets at Burton Tower, Ann Arbor, M 48109 Weekdays 9-4.30,.Sat. 9-12(313) 665-3717 Tickets also available at Hill Auditorium 1F hours before performance time. AEnh jQ T Z BT Tickets available at Hillel, 1429 Hill St. j (663-3336). Free party after the concert. The University Choral Union and The University Orchestra Donald Bryant, conductor Elizabeth Parcells, soprano Leonard Johnson, tenor Victoria Grof, contralto Edward Pierson;bass Bejun Mehta, boy soprano ,,,Dec. 5,6,7 Fri., Sat.at8:30, Sun.at 2:30 Hill Auditorium ,-..,. I *..e I --*, i