Bianks ri NEW YORK (AP) - This week's wide- spread increase in the prime lending rate was long overdue, according to in- dustry analysts, but they disagree on whether it would stall recovery from eeconomic recession.- The prime rate, the base upon which baiks calculate interest charges on short-term business loans to their best- risk custorners, was raised Monday to 16.5 percent by Citibank, the nation's second largest bank, and No. 12 Crocker National Banlk, after holding firn at 15.7 percent since last Dec. 1. MOST MAJOR banks matched the The Michigan Daily-wednesday, February 3, 1982-Page 7 " " 10 aise prime-lending rate 16.5 percent prime rate yesterday, in- they decline," Regan said at the FEDERAL FUNDS representing cluding No. 1 Bank of America. Chase National Press Club. "I believe we'll billions of dollars in overnight loans of Manhattan Bank, the third largest see the same pattern this time." uncommitted bank reserves, traded at commercial bank, and No. 14 Marine CONSUMER loans are not based on more than 15 percent on Tuesday coin- Midland Bank held their increases to the prime rate, but shifts in the prime pared with around 12 percent in early 16.25 percent. rate signals movements in the cost of December. In Washington, Treasury Secretary consumer loans. Ninety-day certificates of deposit, Donald Regan said yesterday that the "The prime rate is just a symptom of representing minimum deposits of 'rise in the prime rate was discouraging, rises in interest rates that have occurred $100,000, also jumped to more than 15 but suggested it {might signal a since early December," said Thomas percent from around 11.5 percent two recovery ahead. Thomson, chief economist at San Fran. months ago. "Recessionary history indicates that cisco's Crocker National Bank. Thus a hike in the prime rate "was interest rates often bounce briefly Two interest rates that reflect bank way overdue," said Robert Sinche, an higher once a recovery starts and then costs have climbed sharply in.the past economist at the New York investment two months. firm of Bear, Sterns 7 Co. Subscribe to The Michigan Daily Students cheer controversial author GIRARD, Pa. (AP) Students cheered author Studs Terkel wildly yesterday as he visited Girard High School to defend his book "Working"against at- tempts by some parents to have it banned for its profanity. "What astonishes, surprises, and disappoints me is people picking up on something that's irrelevant," Terkel said during an assembly for the school's 650 students. 0 TERKEL RECEIVED two standing ovations from majority of studenits, who appeared to support the school's use of his best-selling book. He also an- sweed questions, as students debated the use of vulgar language. Earlier, he visited English classes. Terkel said he used the profanity because "people talk as people talk. Sometimes they use street language:" "When a student folks his arms and says 'I won't read the book because there are bad words in it,' he's kidding himself," he said. JIM RICHARDSON, a senior who wants to be a tool-and-die maker, challenged Terkel to read a passage from the introduction in which a Brooklyn firefighter uses profanity to describe his view of the world. Terkel read aloud, but substituted dashes for the profane words.' "What do you remember most-the words I dashed, or the thoughts he said? I leave it to you," Terkel said to the student. "I CAN'T SAY I never used the words," Richar- dson said later. But he said, "It's something that shouldn't be taught. It's just making it a little more socially acceptable." Terkel arrived from Chicago Monday night. He said he was visiting Girard, a town of about 8,800 people on the edge of the factory city of Erie, Pa., TAKE THE LEAD Help New Students Discover the Diversity of Michigan BEA FALL ORIENTA TION LEADER Pick up applications at the Orientation Office (2530 SAB) or call 764-6290 for further information. * an affirmative action non-discriminatory ernployer * Applications Due Friday. February 5 because he was curious and "a little bit angry." "I want to find out about these hard-working people," Terkel said. "The funny thing is that this book is about them." "WORKING," published in 1974, is an "oral history" of conversations with ordinary workers who discuss, in sometimes earthy language, the joys and disappointments of their jobs. English teacher Karolyn Nichols has used the book in classes for vocational students since 1977. A group of parents wants the Girard School Board to ban the book from classes for 14 vocational studen- ts. All eight students in one class have told the teacher they object to the book, but six students in another class have not joined the protest. Terkel visited English classes during the morning and was to address the 650-member student body at an afternoon assembly. Budget and enrollment reductions affect Ed School (Continued from Page 1) Allowing for a projected attrition rate of 16 percent, the school, which now has 65 full time and 16 part time faculty members, would have 56 full time professors by the 1987-88 academic year, Wilson explained. "Not only do we have to shuffle the deck," Wilson said, referring to the proposed consolidation .of programs, "but we've got to play with less cards." "WE HAVE been intending to re- vitalize the school in order to strengthen it, however at the same time, we've been downsizing in the last few years," Stark said. Last year the school.had intended to hire four new faculty members, but due to budget constraints, hired only two, she added. "'We would like to get better, even if our faculty does become smaller," Berger said. The school's office staffs are also being reduced by attrition, Stark said in Morris is still cool (Continued from Page 5) in the bag we're doing because the ap- proach I had was a little bit different, and that made things more fresh. There's a lot of things I copy from myself. We make a video at each per- formance, and I'll watch it, and I can pick out things I like and want to use again, or stuff that I don't like and want tor change. So I just build up my own persona from that. Q. I want to hear another album, when will it be coming out? A. I'm looking towards spring for a new record. We're cutting in Min- neapolis; we have a studio there, but if we have run .out of toys we will go to L.A. and rent one of those . .. things . .. to help us out. As fas as production goes we're not slick; we have a basic sound for each song, and we go to the'studio and play it. We leave things open to improvisation. We go for it and put our hearts into it. The next album will be different, but we are still The Time, and we're still cool. ANNOUNCING: IValentine's Day Page! LAST CHANCE FOR PLACEMENT! her 1981-82 annual report to the school. "It has been the practice during the year not to replace retiring staff mem- bers, but to consolidate workloads and reassign current employees," she ad- ded. IT IS U4tCLEAR how all the con- solidation and reduction in faculty will affect the students, Wilson said. The ratio of faculty to students will. definitely drop, Wilson added, but this decrease will only bring the ratio into line with other academic units at the University. Barritt said the consolidation of programs may necessitate a broad review of course content. "I would think that the course work would be dif- ferent, (after the school's reorganization and hopefully, it would be. better," Barritt added. The reduced number of faculty has led some of the school's programs to reduce the number of spots available for undergraduate admissions, said Harry McLaughlin, academic services director. The result has been increased competition for the available spots. STUDENTS enrolled during the re- structuring of the school, however, most likely would not be affected, Stark said. Students probably would have their choice of the program they wish to complete she added. The overall plan- ned transition time is six years, she said, which should give them plenty of time to finish their programs. The School of Education's enrollment has dropped drastically over the past decade. In 1970 there were 1,441 un- dergraduate and 2,000 graduate studen- ts in the school. As of fall 1981, there were 641 undergraduate and 778 graduate students enrolled, a 24 per- cent reduction from 1980. The only program in which un- dergraduate enrollment has increased is Kinesiology (formerly called the physical education program).' McLaughlin said 309 of the 641 un- dergraduates in the school are enrolled in the Kinesiology program. "High numbers of freshmen continue to be admitted in physical education while restrictions on enrollments in other un- dergraduate programs continue. Con- sequently, the school's undergraudate population is more predominantly composed of physical education studen- ts than in the past," Stark said in the annual report she issued in December. ANOTHER PART of the school's con- solidation plan is an upcoming attempt to put a greater emphasis on educational research, Stark said. Training students to become teachers curently takes up less than 30 percent of the school's efforts, Stark said in art in- terview last fall. Although research grants to the school were down by $617,000 last year, Wilson claims the school is still "heading toward a more research-oriented institution." "One of the strengths of the school is that it is at the forefront of research," said Associate Dean Berger. "The en- tire University offers broad research resources for our graduate students, something other education schools can'toffer," he continued. The school also hopes to aid its research programs by bringing natinally recognized individuals to Ann Arbor who specialize in resedarch, an Executive Committee report stated. ALTHOUGH they would be quick to deny it, the school's staff are worried about possible further budget cuts. "Vice President (for Academic Af- fairs) Billy Frye has looked at what we're doing and he approves of the method we're taking," Stark said. She said rumors that appeared in the Ann Arbor News last fall that the school soon was to be slated for serious budget reductions were untrue. However, minutes of the school'°s Dec. Executive Committee meeting reveal that preparation for a broad academic review has been discussed. "The Execuive Committee than discussed the possibility of the School of Education being one of the units chosen for a review and asked what other ac- tivities the school should be involved in as well as reorganization. Dean Stark mentioned the improvement of disser- tation quality, the improvement of research training in the school, and the ability to obtain data on our students and faculty in a timely fashion as items of continuing importance in a review," the minutes stated. Barritt said once the school's reorganizations plans are completed, his concerns will be, "Have we done things right? Have we saved money? And will the administration support us?" Correction In a story yesterday about the closing of a fraternity in Amherst, Mass., "Delta Upsilon Delta" fraternity was: incorrectly referred to as "Delta Up- silon." The Daily regrets the error. 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