'R* lk*-kft "5 .ry, Ab- Ninety-Tiwo Years of Editorial Freedom E Mit 43UU ~tE aiQ NOSTALGIC Cloudy today with a good chance of snow showers. Vol. XCII, No. 138 Copyright 1982, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Friday, March 26, 1982 Ten Cents Twelve Pages plus Supplement Oakland U. reels from budget cuts By ROB FRANK While University faculty and students await decisions mn the recent string of program reviews, the Oakland niversity community is facing a proposed immediate elirination of seven academic programs, and consolidation of five others. In a report issued last week, the Oakland Committee on Academic Missions and Priorities (CAMP) proposed the immediate phasing out of the university's programs in journalism, theater and dance, secondary education, in- dustrial health and safety, and human resources develop- menit. The committee also recommended strengthening 'rograms in engineering, computer science, and health Orvices. CAMP compiled the report at the request of Oakland's recently selected President Joseph Champagne, in an effort to, find the best way to cope with a $4.6 million shortfall in the university's state appropriation for the 1981-82 fiscal year. Champagne told the administrators to review the "mission" of the university, which has an enrollment of 11,000, to determine what its goals should be during the next three tofive years. According to George Feeman, Oakland's acting associate Aroyost, the proposals are designed to achieve a "balance teen liberal arts base and the graduate program." CAMP proposed four criteria on which all departments are to be reviewed: Quality- How will the quality of students, faculty, and general education at Oakland be affected by cuts? * The relationship of the department to the selected goals of the university: Which programs are essential. *,The department's ability to match its goals with resour- ces: If these goals are not attainable with the present resources, what increases are necessary? Are these in- .creases feasible? ' ti See PROGRAM, Page 5. Government rehires three air controllers WASHINGTON (AP) - The Reagan administration acknowledged yester- day it has rehired three air traffic con- trollers to the nation's flight system, but insisted that it was not reversing a general policy barring reinstatements White House communications direc- tor David Gergen said he assumed that any controllers being rehired were found to have been victims of harassmept during the strike. "I am not awar of any change in policy, cer- tainly," he said. THE FEDERAL Aviation Ad- ministration acknowledged that it retired Joan Plummer, an air traffic con- troller from San Antonio, Texas, who was among 11,500 striking controllers Reagan fired early last August for ignoring his order to return to work within 48 hours. The FAA also confirmed that two others have been rehired, but they were not identified. FAA spokesman Fred Farrar said the agency is reviewing 1,000 such "hardship cases' and that "some" fired controllers might be reinstated. AT THE WHITE House, Gergen said, "Shortly after the incident (the strike) occurred, we said that individuals who had been subjected to harassment and were not able to meet that 48-hour rule were allowed to come back in." Linda Gosden, spokeswoman for Tansportation Secretary Drew Lewis, declared, "there has been absolutely no change in -President Reagan's or Secretary Lewis' position on rehiring the striking controllers." In a telephone interview from San See GOVERNMENT, Page 2 Job market bright for business grads *Daily Photo by BR IAN MASCK Good as Goldfish The festivities connected with this week's Greek Week celebrations continued last night at the Michigan Theatre with the Mr. Greek Week competition.'Jay Van Derest of Lambda Chi Alpha exhibits the style that made him one of the 10 semi-finalists, swallowing a few of the goldfish that were swimming in the tank he is wearidg. Union student groups discuss grievances By LISA CRUMRINE Although University seniors are keenly aware of the dampening effect the economy has had on the job market, business graduates may not have it so bad; the number of companies recruiting in the School of Business last, fall increased 34 percent over last year, and salary offers are up about 9 per- cent; according to administrators. "The number of interviews conduc- ted last fall were up 20 percent over the fall of 1980, and the number of firms went up 34 percent," said Peggy Carroll, director of placement at the School of Business. BUT TWICE as many companies recruit at the school in the winter than in the fall, Carroll said, and at this point, "winter recruiting looks about' the same as last year." While the economy has not adversely affected the numbers of firms recruiting at this campus, Carroll claimed that employers are cutting back at some other business schools. "Companies look at how productive their recruiting is, and decide to build in areas where they're getting better recruits,"said Carroll. "Michigan students are a good value. They have more realistic ambitions than students at some other schools," she claimed. BETSY STEVENS, assistant director of placement at the school, said she has noticed that companies are frequently changing their scheduled times and dates to recruit, noting that this is a trend which "seems to. be a function of the economy. "Companies change their minds about the time and dates of their recruiting schedules and also about the' type of degree they are looking for," she said. "But we haven't seen that many more actual cancellations," Stevens said. See JOB, Page 5 By JIM SPARKS Members of student organizations criticized the Michigan Union yesterday for its requirement that groups using Union facilities hire the building's food. service. The high prices of the Union's catering service are stacked against student organizations putting on functions," said Will Hathaway, vice president of the LSA-Student Government, which has offices on the Union's fourth floor. When groups use the Union for functions, they must, buy food from the Union Food Service because of health regulations. The resultacoCrding to Union Boa r,ofepresg- tatives member Jennifer Skiertz, 'is tiat "the prohibitive cost of the food services is taking people out of the Union." Frank Cianciola, director of the Union, insisted that everything possible is being done to reduce costs of food service, including-reducing the caterer's staff, and cuting worker's salaries by 6 percent. Union food service sales, however, have increased 47, per- cent over the last year, he added. Defending the high prices, he said "'the financial realities are that if the food service doesn't make it, we will have to subsidize them." Gigi Bosch, membership coordinator of the Inter- See UNION, Page 5 Pentagon strengthens ties evith major universities a w 17701 45410 171% 1I By JOHN ADAM 'In an effort to reverse trends started during the last days of the Vietnam War, the Pentagon is beginning to form intimate relationships with major research universities across the nation. At Johns Hopkins University, for in- stance, Department of Defense funds - which originate from the Pentagon - Pnounted to a staggering $163,490,000 for fiscal 1980 obligations. This total is up 95 percent from 1973, when anti- defense research sentiment'was at its strongest. The majority of the funds at Johns Hopkins are targeted for 'the school's engineering department and its special Applied Physics Research Laboratory. STANFORD University recentiy formed an $8 million contract with a ecial projects agency of the DOD. he money will be funneled into Stan- ford's new Center for Integrated Systems, which will specialize in microelectronics. 'in addition to the increased univer- sity-related defense spending, the Air Force branch of the DOD hopes to establish two automated manufac- turing (robotics) centers somewhere in the United States. Of the 12 applicants for the two huge Air Force grants, the University of Michigan is among the top four conten- ders, according to former DOD Direc- tor for Research George Gamota, who now is the director of the University's Institute of Science and Technology. OTHER TOP competitors for the grants are thought to be Stanford, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Carnegie-Mellon University. A decision by the Air Force is expected within a few weeks. If the University wins the $7.3 million Air Force grant, it will more than double the amount of DOD money ear- marked for research on campus, ac- cording to fiscal year 1980 figures. This will sharply reverse the declining trend of DOD research obligations at the University - a trend which has already been reversed at many major research institutions. GAMOTA, however, said he thinks a negative stigma stil exists concerning defense research on camus. "The DOD should not be viewed as a separate agency, but just one of the many federal agencies (a researcher) may go to to look for funds," he said. SOME STUDENTS activists at the University, claiming that research sponsored by the military conflicts with academic ideals of the University, want the Pentagon research funds to go elsewhere. A common complaint among anti-defense spending activists is that some of the DOD research on campus violates a Regent's by-law prohibiting research where the direct application can be used for thedestrue- tion of human life. But Gamota disagrees with these students claiming that "any work you identify on campus has the potential to be destructive." The decisive factor involved in whether certain research should be conducted at the University is whether the results can be published freely, he said. (Some research fin- dings cannot be published because the results are classified, and classified material cannot be made available for national security reasons.) See PENTAGON, Page 5 94.6% 65% 4 4 4%.... .....:::: 28.407 r 13.9%. A 0 0*s 40 """"M " C .. .. .. .. C Defense research on cam puses The figures above the bars show how much defense research has grown on various campuses between 1973 and 1980. The figures that follow the names of the schools show how much of that school's federally-sponsored research is related to defense projects. The schools represented are the 10 universities with the most research sponsored by the federal government. Although defense research at the University of Michigan declined markedly over the eight years plotted, it has begun to climb steadily over the past two years. 41.1%v TODAY One for the road OB HARTMAN, owner of Safeway Shell Tire and Auto garage, continued his 99-cent "happy hour" gasoline prices and the bargain prompted dozens of idling customers to line up, causing a traffic I that harna nn tn o nnearhv interstate highwavy "If Hahour A bar s run-in with the law will mean free beer for elderly mental patients. Hamilton County Municipal Court Judge Clayton Shea has ordered a trendy downtown bar to provide $1,000 worth of free beer and pretzels to geriatric patients at Longview State Hospital in Cincinnati. Shea ordered Flaningan's Landing to provide the libations for the hop- sital's twice-monthly "happy hour" sessions after owners of the singles-oriented bar pleaded no contest to a charge of nverernwdina "I'm delighted we're getting this unexpec- Alabama and the Florida Panhandle into one state called the Gulf Coast. But Alabama Gov. Bob James decided to better the deal by offering to buy part of Florida and add it on to neighboring Alabama. James put up $500 million in cash for a sizeable portion of the Disneyworld state. But Florida Gov. Bob Graham has announced firmly that his state-contrary to popular rumor-is not up for sale at any price. One Forida lawmaker, however, hopes the Panhan- dle will move to Alabama-and soon. State Sen. Tom Tobiassen of Pensacola thinks the Panhandle should move ;wrnm _ . n~ fn Alh mnni-nahn n W nc l:n e.i na - - m : i in bers cited low wages, lack of job security and lack of representation as their major complaints. Also on this date: " In 1957, Prof. Lionel Laing of the Political Science Department suggested a study be made of the freshman- upperclassman structure of residence halls, saying that it might lead to a "change in philosophy" toward the present housing program. * In 1951, 1,517 students were announced as candidates for the 51 offices in the Student Legislature. Tn 1Q91 President Warren G.Harina w aiven an J .-I i .I I