0 f. OPINION Page 4 Sunday, March 28, 1982 The Miciigan Daily Budgets on the loose, out of B UDGET-CUTTING and the panic it's brought has reached epidemic proportions. During a Detroit press conference last Mon- day, University President Harold Shapiro joined with the presidents of Wayne State University and Kalamazoo College to berate federal government proposals to cut student financial aid in half. The trio asserted that by slashing support to higher education,' Washington officials were forcing colleges and universities once again to become havens for the wealthy. hMeanwhile, back home in Ann Arbor, Art School Dean George .Bayliss tried to soothe frazzled nerves of Art School students anxious about an administration budget review that, at its extreme, could result in the outright elimination of the school. and New Hampshire town meetings and has been endorsed by 171 members of Congress. The Pentagon, however, has no plans to freeze its funds for Department of Defense research at major universities across the nation. DOD research funds have been steadily increasing since- 1973 at many research in- stitutions. While' defense research has actually been decreasing at the university, the trend is ex- pected to reverse itself if the University is awarded a $7.3 million grant to establish a robotics center. Some see DOD funds as a valuable aid for our financially strapped university. Others have complained that military research conflicts with the academic ideals of the University. The battle over military spending, on cam- pus and throughout the nation, is now set bet- ween those who say "more is better" and those who say "enough is enough." Engineers in hock THERE'S TOO much of a good thing hap- pening over at the University's College of Engineering. And the only solution appears to be more money. A staggering number of new college ap- plications and already overflowing classrooms Daily Photo by BRIAN MASCK ' Neo-Nazis confront demonstrators at last Saturday's rally. Bayliss told the assembled group that Art School students and faculty may even benefit from the careful evaluation of the school. As the University gears up to face its own budget reviews, Rochester's Oakland Univer- sity already is planning to eliminate seven of its academic programs and to consolidate five others. Oakland's program cutback criteria, by the way, are nearly identical to those the University is employing. In addition to a growing number of major program reviews, less obvious cutbacks are beginning to penetrate all areas of the Univer- sity. One example is a recently revealed plan to combine the reserve desks of the graduate and undergraduate libraries into a single reserve section located on the UGLi's third floor. The consolidation is expected to save the University $50,000 in personnel and processing costs. Library officials also are preparing to replace some library jobs with new com- puters-another money-saving move. Apparently, there's no way to escape this epidemic. A rally loses control T HE MORNING after the rally there were only a few reminders of, what had hap- pened the day before. The shattered front doors of the Federal Building had been quickly boar- ded up, although part of the plate glass that survived the clash was still streaked with splat- tered eggs and tomatoes. A battered cardboard sign reading "Mobilize To Stop The Nazis" lay mostly hidden beneath a clump of bushes near the plaza in front of the building. Less than a day before the plaza had been the scene of a violent clash between about 1,000 demonstrators and 15 teenagers from Detroit who called themselves Nazis. The neo-Nazis had come to Ann Arbor, dressed in pseudo-Nazi combat uniforms, to hold what they called an "anti-communist rally." But they were able to speak on the steps of the Federal Building only 10 or, 15 minutes before the mob of demonstrators marched there and pressed them back, cornering them against the building. Police insisted that the clash that followed was "absolutely not a riot." But most who wit- nessed the violence agreed that if it wasn't a riot, it came close. After all, it took about 50 police in riot gear to rescue the neo-Nazis from the mob's clubs, rocks, and bottles. When it was all over about .40 minutes later-as the neo-Nazis were whisked from the mob in a Sheriff's Department bus-it left the city with a $7,000 bill for the overtime wages it took to keep almost the entire Ann Arbor police force on the scene. It also left a bad taste in the mouths of many people who stood by helplessly and watched the mob clash with the neo-Nazis and the police. Many in the mob, however, insisted after- ward that the violence was the appropriate way to deal with the neo-Nazis, and called the clash a "victory." Said one demonstrator over the cheers of the crowd as the sheriff's bus drove off through the crowd, "If the police hadn't been there, they (the neo-Nazis) would've been killed." The military on ice WHILE SOME are looking for a nuclear freeze this spring, the University is in- volved in a heated competition for Pentagon research funds. The Michigan Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign brought its drive to halt production, testing, and deployment of nuclear arms to campus last Monday, with a series of films and workshops. The group is circulating a petition throughout the state to put the freeze issue on the November ballot. The U.S. freeze campaign began in Vermont :ontrol and laboratories-added to a shortage of funds to accommodate the problem-has placed the engineering college in 'a classic "Catch-22" situation, said Dean James Duderstadt. Reducing enrollment won't help, said Duder- stadt, because of the heavy demand for engineering graduates and growing numbers of applicants hoping to enter the school. What's more, the administration estimates,, cutting enrollment would cost the University $4 million in tuition dollars. But help may be on the way. The man who now holds the University's pur- se strings, Vice President for Academic Affairs Billy Frye, has agreed with , Duderstadt's assessment of the enrollment problem and has promised him more money. The engineers probably can't get too much of that. Money talks T HERE'S A LOT of money talk going on at the Michigan Union these days-some of it good and some of it bad, according to students. Students hope that "good" money for more Union renovations will come from an alumni fund-raising drive which began last week.0 Student members of the Michigan Union Board of Representatives have sent donation requests to 1,000 alumni, counting on Union nostalgia to spark a flow of contributions. Funds from the drive will help to augment current renovations at the student center. But students protested last week that the Union is getting "bad" money from a rule that forces student groups to hirethe Union food services for functions in the buildings. Leaders of several student organizations charged that the high prices of. Union catering place an un- fair financial burden on students. Union Direc- tor Frank Cianciola insisted, however, that the rule is necessary because of health regulations and financial realities. "The fact that we're a (student) union doesn't let us escape the financial respon- sibility of being a business," the practical Cianciola said. Aid when it comes to business, any sort of money can't be all that bad. The Week in Review was compiled byO Daily editors Julie Hinds and David Meyer, former Daily editor Julie Engebrecht, and Opinion Page staff writer Kent Redding. Duderstadt: "Catch-22" for engineers. ebt a n Michig an Edited and monaged by students at The University of Michigan LETTERS TO THE DAILY: Solving all the problers at once Vol. XCII, No. 140 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, M{ 48109 To the Daily: At the University of Michigan, as on many other campuses, there is a tendency for student groups to arise dealing with only one problem of the day. While this is certainly not a negative trend, it can sometimes result in a lack of focus and missed oppor- tunities. At a time when unified student opposition to Reaganism is crucial, such "misses" can prove costly. A current example of this problem is the relationship bet- ween the opposition to financial aid cuts on one hand and the op- position to U.S. involvement in El Editorials represent a majority opinion of the Daily's Editorial Board e Postponing the cuts* Die-in' implications T SEEMS AS IF students have won, a brief respite in their battle to save their federal financial aid. Students currently are rejoicing over congressional efforts to halt President Reagan's proposed student loan cuts. Several bright spots have appeared recently. The House Appropriations Committee has approved a large emergency loan - to tide over the guaranteed student loan program. And now it seems likely that the House will oppose Reagan's plan to cut graduate students out of the loan program altogether. Why has this welcome shift come" about? Perhaps it was the expression of student -outrage that spurred a legislative turnabout. The thousands of students who marched on the Capitol earlier this month may have been enough to prod 'legislators into ac- tion-legislators not willing to alienate the next generation of constituents. Or maybe the size and severity alone of the proposed Reagan cuts, made representatives realize how detrimen- tal such a sacrifice would prove. Cut- .~ ~ ting off the financial means for studen- ts to obtain an education would be like cutting our own throats-the loss of a vital, educated youth would have a painful impact on the nation's future. But whatever provoked Congress's change of heart, it was not enough of a change. Students still face an uncer- tain financial future in congressional hands. The rates and restrictions on, the emergency funds have not yet been set, and they may . be much more stringent. And' although graduate students have been spared a cut tem- porarily, their loans may be bargained away in the next round of budget wrangling between the president and Congress. Students may find themselves en- joying a momentary reprieve, but a long, hard fight remains. As students relish the congressional stay of execution on student loan cuts, they should look= carefully over their shoulders. When Reagan's proposals finally pass through Congress, the worst for students may be yet to come. To the Daily: I found the coverage of the "Die-in" (Daily, March 4) to suf- fer from poor reporting. The "Die-in" was a protest against the horrible threat of nuclear war, not a freak show. Rather than attention-getting photos, why didn't the paper show the shocking phenomenon of a mass' of people lying "dead" on State Street on a sunny afternoon? The majority of demonstrators were not "smeared with red paint," as the article implied, nor were the police idiotic, clowns who ran around directing traffic. Quality reporting is truthful and unbiased. Background infor- mation on the nuclear situation should have been included in the article to help explain the significance of such a protest. We were there because we're frightened, because we want the situation to change. I wish the Daily had been capable of relaying that message. -Nancy Marcozzi March 8 Salvador and nuclear weapons on the other hand. As yet there has been little in the way of united ac- tion between these groups. In fact, some of the organizers of the campaign to save financial aid have intentionally separated - their cause from the struggle for peace. To artificially separate the cuts in financial aid from their broader context hides" the an- swers to the questions "Where can the money for student aid come from?" and "Why is student aid beingacut in the first place?" This separation impedes- recognition that the program reductions at the University, the rising role of the defense depar- tment in academia, the cuts in student aid,and the threat of war in El Salvador are different aspects of the same general crisis. It prevents the for- mulation of a concrete strategy which can propose serious alter- natives and solutions for the problems of students. d Another mtajor ideological barrier to building a powerful student voice against Reaganism is the lack of attention devoted toward fighting racism. While financial aid cuts hurt all studen- ts, it is clear that black and other minority students will be hurt more severely. It is not enough for the student movement to say 'we are fighting for everybody.' We must fight -extra hard for those hit hardest and traditionally excluded. The time is now to forge a com- prehensive fight for student's rights. As a strategy,,I suggest that the pr9posed April 8 rally against student aid cuts be broadened into a rally for quality education and peace. Such a broad demonstration of student awareness would really send a message to Washington. - Tim Feeman March 26 Sinclair MR.II!\l&I'M AFRAID I CANT5AY J CAL(ZIEi- W-hC W3EL 0F)5T LzA~IZ N LRIT CA ZET C F0R r rr n-Tf-1-ar A11[^r- 14 kN. + t.. X5.1 . ' '. #J. Z r. , K'4 ', f«' r r; - - ~ 'A~E~VA~f UlfA iAJ