Annual faculty salary listing inside Ninety-T'wo Years MELTING of LIIMostly cloudy today with a _ _Oftija E U I chance of light rain, Editorial Freedom t I or drizzle. The high will be around 40. Vol. XCII, No. 114 Copyright 1982, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, February 17, 1982 Ten Cents Twenty-two Pages Police nab econ arson suspect Tenure denial upsets LSA eomimiittee By LISA CRUMRINE Sparked by the denial of tenure to English Prof. Barbara Bono, members of the LSA Curriculum Committee yesterday said they were concerned that some very good faculty members might be denied tenure simply because they devote their energies to teaching rather than scholarly research. Bono is appealing the decision to deny her tenure and the English department will take her case, tomorrow, to the LSA Executive Committee, a faculty administratvie board. SOME MEMBERS of the Curriculum Committee said Bono, who last year received the Class of '23 distinguished teaching award, 'may have been discriminated against in the tenure See ENGLISH, Page 3 Police arrest suspect in econ building fire By PERRY CLARK Fifteenth District Court yesterday arraigned a former University secretary, fired late last year, on charges of setting fire to the University Economics Building Christmas Eve, and breaking and entering the building earlier in the year. Arthur Arroyo, a 30-year-old native of New York City, was arraigned before 15th District Court Judge Pieter Thomassen yesterday at 10 a.m. and charged with "arsony, real property." Court set bail at $10,000, and scheduled a preliminary examination for Feb. 24, a court official said. ANN ARBOR police detectives Craig Roderick and Sgt. Daniel Branson arrested Arroyo last Thursday in San Diego, charging him with a Thanksgiving Day break-in at the Economics Building, from which a typewriter was stolen, officials said in a press conference yesterday morning. Arroyo waived extradition and volun- tarily returned to Michigan, City Ad- ministrator Terry Sprenkel said at the conference, given by police, fire, city, county, and University officials. Investigation revealed a connection between the fire and the break-in, Sprenkel said, and Prosecutor William Delhey yesterday morning issued a criminal warrant for arson of an unoc- cupied structure. THE COURT arraigned Arroyo-who has no previous criminal record in Acquaintances and co- workers describe the suspect as a loner. See story, Page 2. Michigan, according to Delhey, on the breaking and entering charge last Saturday, setting bond at $25,000. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison for each charge. Police Chief William Corbett said in- formation received through a special tip hotline and other evidence gathered by investigators led to Arroyo's arrest. He refused to comment on how the fire See FORMER, Page 2 Daily Photo by PAUL ENGSTROM ANN ARBOR Fire Chief Fred Schmidd, Police Chief William Corbett and City Administrator Terry Sprenkel, at a press conference yesterday, discuss the arrest of former University employee Arthur Arroyo for allegedly setting fire to the Economics Building last December. Faculty forsees By PERRY CLARK While inflation has been taking off like the space shuttle in recent years, faculty salaries have been floundering in the exhaust., What's worse, with the University's emphasis on retrenchment and austerity, many professors are afraid. that they will continue to lose money for the next several years, if not more. "This has been happening since 1972, but the inflation rate has accelerated in the last two or three years," said economics Prof. Ronald Teigen, chairman of the Committee on the Economic Status of the Faculty (CESF). "The faculty's rate of loss has accelerated," he said. According to Frank Stafford, chair- many of the University's economics department, inflation has caused a 25- percent decline, in the standard of living for faculty members during the past ldcade. CESF recently mailed questionaires to faculty members, asking their opinions of salaries and other concerns, including the possibility of a faculty union. Results of that survey are expec- ted next month. School of Music Dean Paul Boyland said the CESF questionnaire was an salary appropriate response from CESF to the question of lagging faculty salaries. "All of a sudden, it came into all oui consciousnesses that we had to d( something about this," Boyland said. Charles Allmand, assistant to the vice president for academic affairs, said that "most of the professors that raise these issues do it every year. Salaries have been number one for the last five years. Jacob Price, chairman of the Univer- sity's history department, recalled that in a period of high inflation following World War II, there were similar rum- blings about salaries among facult: Some pro E lecline members. In the 1950s and. 1960s, when faculty salaries kept pace with in- flation, Price said there was less discussion of the issue. Several professors had a different viewpoint on the salary issue. "We're greedy," said English Prof. Bert Hor- nback. "The faculty talks. more about salaries than anybody else does." Hornback said the first priority of faculty members should be keeping the University afloat. He said a number of faculty members would like to see a salary ceiling similar to those of many other universities, including Harvard SEE FACULTY, Page 7 r7 2f ,,- J""' c, rir p Fs upset by salary publication By PERRY CLARK When salaries were first published at the University several years ago, con- cerns arose about the effects of such a public disclosure. Many felt such knowledge would result in politicing within departments for equal salaries or raises. Others feared that public disclosure might make it more difficult for the University to attract top-flight scholars through offers of special salaries. This has not been the case, however, according to University President Harold Shapiro. "I think that publication of salaries has not caused any unusual problems to date," he said, echoing a statement he made a year ago. Several department chairpersons, who bear the brunt of salary decisions, agreed with Shapiro. "I think people are more aware of the differences, but it hasn't become divisive," said Thomas Dunn, chairman of the chemistry department. In the medical school, where salaries are the highest, Dave Bachrach, the director of administrative and financial See 'U', Page 7 1 ! _- - __ - -__ Mix-up snags financial aid letter wr'itiong to Congress By BETH AILEN Organizers of a campaign to encourage students and faculty members to write letters to legislators protesting cutbacks in financial aid said their push generated 600 letters, somewhat fewer than they had hoped for. The campaign's leaders, which included students from the Michigan Student Assembly and the Public Interest Research Group in Michigan, said the num- ber of letters was lower than expected because faculty members had not been notified of the drive in time. THE GROUPS planned to ask instructors to take time out of class to write letters to congressmembers protesting financial aid cuts. But the cover letter explaining the drive was not distributed to instructors because of a misunderstan- ding over whether or not the letters could be distributed through campus mail. MSA Financial Aid Task Force Chairman Dan Perlman said MSA was not notified of the difficulties with the mail system until it was too late to organize another method of distribution. "BY THAT TIME, the direction sheets were out (to the faculty members) without the cover letters" ex- plaining the drive, Perlman said. "We're disappointed," Perlman said, "but we un- derstand the mix-up." MSA committee member Steve Belkin said that despite the problems with Friday's campaign, the plan for the drive was a "realistic concept," and the students would be organizing other letter-writing campaigns, possibly coordinated with schools around the state. See MIX-UP, Page 2 Daily Photo by PAUL ENGSTROM GERMAN TA MARK MELICHAR plays "horsey" to motivate and involve foreign language students as part of his creative teaching method. TA turns lang'uage learn ing into play By GRETCHEN WRIGHT A tall, blond man crouches in a classroom as if sitting in a car. He propels himself around the room, manipulating an invisible steering wheel, making motor noises, and asking students for a fill-up in falsetto German. The seemingly deranged man is Mark Melichar, a German teaching assistant at the University. Melichar's odd behavior is merely his flamboyant way of teaching German - a style quite in contrast to the standard University textbook method. MELICHAR'S TECHNIQUE, pioneered at Dartmouth College, uses theatrical methods to motivate and in- terest students. Turning language class See GERMAN, Page 7 I'. TODAY Hit the road, cabbies JLUMP IN A CAB in Chicago, experienced city dwellers say, and you may never reach your destination. Passengers have been complaining that the recent influx of immigrants who have obtained chauffeurs' licenses has resulted in a city filled with cab drivers who can't speak English and don't know where they're going. Mike Royko of the Chicago navigational incompetence. For any cabbies exam it'll just be time to hit the road-no fare. who fail the .R If at first you don t succeed.. . Robert M., the 9-year-old who held up a bank last year and sent the cash on hamburgers, French fries, and a musical watch, has been arrested again and charged with stealing a sled at knifepoint from two boys, it was learned No one wanted to get involved A dirty look by a woman shopper was the worst thing that happened to three high school students who stuffed their pockets at a suburban store in plain view of 50 customers as part of an experiment on shoplifting. "They got one dirty look," said Richard Baran, marketing teacher at suburban Wheeling High School. "I thought maybe 15 percent would report them. The indifference underlines what we're seeing more and more-a society that doesn't want to get in- volved." The students, Gayle Young, Chris Mader and Scott The Daily almanac On this date in 1975, 250 minority students camped out over night in the University Administration building to protest the University's unwillingness to accept demands issued by the Black Action Movement (BAM). Also on this date in history: " 1967-Governor George Romney of Michigan was "ap- parently giving serious consideration to the appointment of a negro to the U of M Board of Regents." e 1969-LSA Committee asks for the removal of ROTC I I i