4w PINION Page 4 Sunday, March 7, 1982 Th icianDil. ~i 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 A; _________________________________________ Edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan LETTERS TO THE DAILY: 0 Abortions and Medicaid don't mix Vol. XCII, No. 122 420 Maynard St. 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 0 Sinclair I400 10 VA Uf~ 01 i I W