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Budget cuts
provoke reviews, rallies
MOVING QUICKLY to locate $2 million
in expendable. programs and services
under the first year of the University
administration's five-year budget reallocation,
plan, officials announced last week that three
campus institutes have been targeted for cut-
backs of 15 percent or more.
Programs slated for major reductions are
the Institute for Labor and Industrial Relations
(ILIR), an institute which conducts research
on. labor issues and sponsors educational
programs for labor and industry; the Institute
for the Study of Mental Retardation and Related
Disabilities (ISMRRD), a clinical training
program; and the Center for the Continuing
Education of Women (CEW), a center that
provides counseling, scholarships, conferen-
des, and workshops for women, especially
those whose educations have been interrupted..
Combined, the three programs draw $877,000
from the University's general fund.
None of the units are expected to escape the
reviews intact.
CEW, however, will first undergo a long
gverdue general evaluation which will provide
information for a budget review to follow im-
mediately.
Vice President for Academic Affairs Billy
Frye has asked the general review committee
to study any CEW activities duplicated
elsewhere in the University and to examine
whether there is still a need for such a center.
Late last week, budget administrators
assembled faculty-student committees to
evaluate each program. The three panels have
a "n April 30 deadline to report back to Frye.
One local realtor and officials of ILIR reac-
fed quickly to the announced budget reviews.
The realtor, Edward Hudge,, added insult to
injury by sending letters to staff members of
two units on the administration's hit list, of-
fering help in selling their homes.
'-.Officials at the labor research institute,
Imeanwhile, issued the first in a series of press
'-eleases to inform the community about its
programs and services.
Said Acting' Director Malcolm Cohen: "Our
plan is to demonstrate to the University the
role of our institute and the loss a closure would
create."
The Budget Priorities Committee-com-
prised of faculty, administrators, and studen-
ts-approved the three budget reviews in mid-
February after recommendations made by
Frye and his staff.
Schools and colleges, meanwhile, have until
April 9 to submit to Frye contingency plans
suggesting how they would save money when
required to do so.
Rallying for education
THEY CAME to Washington because they
were afraid they would be forced to leave
school. Five thousand college students con-
verged on Washington Monday to put the
pressure on legislators to defeat more cutbacks
in financial aid proposed by the White House.
President Reagan, they claimed, was making a
college education available only to the rich.
So they descended on the capital. They
straggled off buses groggily in the early mor-
ning after spending much of the night traveling
from their campuses, which ranged from the
University of California - Berkeley to
Wesleyan University in Connecticut. They
spent most of the day marching through the
high-ceilinged hallways of the House and
Senate office buildings, crowding into one
legislative office after another.
After a full day of lobbying, they gathered on
the steps of the Capitol and listened to a suc-
cession of speakers-many of them key
congressional leaders-promise to fight the
new round of cuts. Out of the day's rally
emerged what seemed to be a growing bipar-
tisan coalition of legislators who were opposed
to the administration's cutbacks in aid to
higher education. Of course, the traditional
Reagan adversaries-Democratic leaders like
House Speaker Tip O'Neill-seized the oppor-
tunity to blast Reagan's cutbacks. But, more
important, some Republican leaders like New
York Sen. Alfonse D'Amato joined the rising
chorus of opposition.
The day after the rally, the discontent within
Reagan's Republican ranks continued to
spread. When Reagan's secretary of education,
Terrel Bell, testified before the House
Education and Labor Committee Tuesday,
several GOP members warned Bell that the
administrations cutbacks in financial aid, par-
ticularly in the Guaranteed Student Loan
Program, simply would not be ok'd b -a.
Congress increasingly disillusioned with the
trend, saying there had been little change in the
number of defense department contracts
sought by University scholars. But several
student opponents of defense-sponsored
research- attribute the increase to an all-out
University drive to recruit Pentagon dollars. 2
The spending jump will likely stp up student
efforts to restrict Pentagon business by
tightening review policies on research. A
Michigan Student Assembly report in January
already has called forethe creation of a new
review committee to examine all Univer-
sity/defense department research transac-
tions.
Sharing high technology
T HE UNIVERSITY must share its
wealth:
So claimed state Rep. Gary Owen (b,
Ypsilanti) this week after meeting with assor4
ted University officials on the topic of high
technology in Michigan.
The University, which originally had planned
only to aid in the development of high-
technology parks in the Ann Arbor,
area-specifically a park planned for 400 acres
beyond the North Campus-now will share its
resources and aid in the development of parks
throughout Washtenaw County.
The parks Owen was most concerned about
lie in his: voting districts of Ypsilanti and
Superior Township. Owen felt that the Univer-
sity should devote some of its prestige and in-
fluence in the development of superior quality
high-technology parks outside Ann Arbor, thus
benefiting ,the economy of the entire region.
He claimed that these out-of-Ann Arbor high-
tech parks might not be as productive without
the University's help.
A high-technology park is a complex of
related businesses and research institutions
that work together on scientific projects.
In addition to paving the way for increased
University commitment to area parks, Owen
accused the University of being a bit too
secretive in its negotiations for the North-Cam-
pus land for the park. University President
Haiold Shapiro blamed a lack of com
munication for the secrecy. Owen defended his
claim by saying that the people of Michigan
should be kept informed of the development of
such high-tech parks because of their impor-
tance to the state's economic future.
The'W7eek in Review was compiled by
Daily editors Andrew Chapman, Julie
Hinds, David: Meyer, arid former Daily
editor Julie Engebrecht.
Daily graphic by DAVID MEYER
president's economic program.
Several political staffers in Washington at-
tributed, at least in part, the revived opposition
to Monday's rally. "Seeing over 5,Q0O students
demonstrating against budget cuts really
boosted the congressmen's morale who stayed
with opposition to education budget cuts," said
Thomas Butts, a University assistant vice
president who lobbies in Washington for
Michigan. ,
Most of the students, however, acknowledged
that the fight to block the cutbacks is far from
settled. Said one student from Temple Univer-
sity of the bitterness setting in from the battle:
"It's alienating students who can't afford to go
to school. That's not what this country is all
about."
Striking it rich militarily
B USINESS MAY be slowing up elsewhere,
but it's booming for the military-on both the
national and University level.
Records from the University's Division of
Research Development and Administration
show that sales are up for defense-sponsored
research. The Pentagon funded nearly $3
million worth of research at the University
during the last six months of 1981, compared to
only $1.4 million for the same period in 1980.
The increase reverses a 10-year trend of
declining military-sponsored research on cam-
pus.
University officials describe the'100 percent
rise as merely a dividend of the record business
the military is doing under the Reagan ad-
ministration. Some suspect that the defense
department may be sending more spending the
way of an old friend-former Pentagon resear-
ch official George Gamota, currently the'direc-
tor of the University's Institute of Science and
Technology.
Administrators dismissed the notion that the
spending increase represents a significant
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Vol. XCII, No. 122
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Ann Arbor, MI 48109
To the Daily:,
Not surprisingly, the Daily
moans that the role of "New
Federalism" is "destined to
put an end to Medicaid-funded
abortions" (Daily, February 10).
While it is anything but clear that
this will in fact result, if so, it is
Editorials represent a majority opinion of the Daily's Editorial Board
Paying attention to protests
With no due speed
SOME,.50 protesters, decked in
various paints and costumes, spr-
awled on the ground Thursday,
writhing, crawling, and making a
general spectacle of themselves out-
side- the LSA building. Students busy
walking to or from class hurried by the
scene. Some observers were mildly
amused, while others with less of a
sense of humor resented the nuisance
blocking their paths down State Street.
The spectacle was more than just
another example of Ann Arbor
exhibitionism. The frenzied antics
were part of a "Die-in" sponsored by a
new student group called "Not the
Spartacus Youth League." The mock
deaths coincided with the monthly test
sounding of an emergency civil defen-
se signal.
Most students probably viewed the
demonstration as nothing more than
an aberration-a holdover from Ann
Arbor's history of student activism.
Thursday's "Die-in", however, was no
leftover from the past. The nuclear
proliferation protest was inspired by
recent European anti-nuclear demon-
strations. Thousands of students have
swarmed European capitals to plead
their anti-war case, and have pushed
government leaders to new concern
over arms build-ups.
may be negligible in comparison, but
events such as the "Die-in" and the
recent student rally in Washington
protesting financial aid cuts show that.
student protest still has a viable place
on our nation's campuses.
Activists; however, form a pitiful
minority of the entire student body.
Recent surveys show that incoming
freshpersons place concerns over
nuclear proliferation far below their
concerns for their own financial future.
While the economic pragmatism is un-
derstandable, students committed to
the high grades/high pay syndrome
have little time left for political or
social involvement.
Maybe it's time for student who limit
their vision of the future to grades,
jobs, and financial security to broaden
their focus and pay more attention to
the implications of the "Die-in," and
other such protests. Unless students
become involved now, they likely will
carry their apathy to the future, and
eventually add to the ranks of the unin-
formed, uninvolved public.
The "Die-in" undoubtedly will be
written off by the majority of students
as little more than a flamboyant
prank. But more of such protest, even
if it borders on theater of the absurd, is
necessary-if only to make today's
students think of their future in terms
To the Daily:
I certainly feel that it is unfor-
tunate for an educational in-
stitution like the University of
Michigan to have such an
unorganized billing system.
I would appreciate from now on
if my bill would be sent to me five
days (minimum) prior to its due
date-as opposed to after the due
date as I have received my last
two bills.
I have discussed this issue with
many fellow students. For some
of us, it is necessary to writenfor
money from out-of-state and
thus impossible to meet these
deadlines.
I do not intend to pay any fines
or to register late because of this.
delay. I find the memo at the end
of University bills that states,
"Mail payments at least five days
before due date" a bit sarcastic.
It should be revised.
-Kimm Lathrop
February 28
one aspect of "New Federalism"
that should be applauded.
While the Daily was appalled at
limiting the choice of abortion to
those women who can afford its
the Daily did not discuss the lack
of choice for Michigan taxpayers
who oppose abortion, yet are for-
ced to support it through
Medicaid funding. More than
17,000 abortions a year are per-
formed under Medicaid, at a cost
of nearly $5 million, according to
The Detroit News.
The Daily also assumes too
much about the meaping of
legalizedabortion. Legalization
does not imply entitlement
through government subsidy. If
marijuana were legalized, the
government would not be
obligated to provide marijuana to
those who could not afford it.
The Daily says: "Abortion
may thusabecome too expensive
for an entire class of American
women." Decent education,
nutrition, and housing are ' also
too expensive for an entire' class
of women. So why don't we con-
centrate on making these basics
more available to the
economically-disadvantaged ra-
ther than ensuring the demise of
their future generations?
-Andrea Allen
Chairperson, Univer-
sity Students-Right
-to-Life
March 4
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