t Moore wins MSA presidency By GEORGE ADAMS By a narrow margin, Amy Moore and Stephon Johnson won this week's elections for president and vice president of the Michigan Student Assembly, assembly officials announced yester- day morning. Barely beating out competing bids from can- didates representing two other campus political parties, Moore and Johnson will be sworn in as the assembly's top officers next Tuesday. OF THE 3,578 votes cast in the presidential race, 1,553 were for Moore and Johnson, who were representing the Voice party. Dave Guttchen and Ruste Fischer of the People's Action Coalition received 1,333 votes, and British Humour Party candidates Duane Kuizema and George DeMuth had 692. The election of Moore and Johnson ends the cohtrol of the presidency by PAC members, who have held that office for two consecutive years.i Amy Moore said in a telephone interview that she felt "wonderful" with the results of the elec- tion. She had traveled to New Haven, Connec- ticut, whereshe said she was resting. "I'm hoping everyone forgets the politics now and concentrates on MSA," she said. "Everyone ran to accomplish something for the students, I think, and now it's time to do that. I really hope everyone can forget the political aspect now." Outing MSA president Jon Feiger, who is a member of the People's Action Coalition, was not quite as enthusiastic. "My biggest disappoin- tment was the campaign, the way people han- died themselves, and the outcome, naturally," he said. Feiger was cautious in his predictions for the MSA next year. "There will be a lot of challenges. There will be some very important, difficult issues, and MSA will have to understand the connections between the issues, the in- terrelatedness among all the issues. It will be potentially very challenging. It's easy for MSA to be bureaucratic at times like this, but MSA has to be active now, not bureaucratic." NEITHER DAVE Guttchen nor Ruste Fischer were available for comment. Due to complications in counting the ballots, complete results for the MSA elections were not available at press time last night. MSA officials said final results would be available later today. THE REPRESENTATIVES elected from some of the University's smaller schools are known. Tom Goddeeris won the seat in Architecture and Urban Planning, Andrew Keenan (Voice) in Art, David Austin (Voice) in Dentistry, Barry Rudof- sky in Law, Andrew Metinko (PAC) in Medicine, Dan Munzel (Voice) in. Natural Resources, Sharon Bergmann (PAC) in Nursing, Shawn Fields (PAC) in Pharmacy and Sarah Cate (PAC) in Public Health. There is a three-way tie in the school of Music between James Frey, John Abbacciomento, and Celia Eidex. When the new MSA officials take of- fice next Tuesday, they will have to vote for a representative from among these three. The Business School representatives are Kathy Hartrick (PAC); and Robbin Cohen (PAC). 0 Moore ... feels 'wonderful' CHILLY Ninety-Two Years Snow diminishing to flurries this afternoon; _ _ _ eir i grnI a iI skies will be partly cloudy Editorial Freedom tonight igh ite mi -----= -----=the upper 20s Vol. XCII, No. 150 Copyright 1982, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Friday, April 9, 1982 Ten Cents Ten Pages k X 4 M e c rge e 0 e iew prompt b1 N. House rejects proposed Income tax hike LANSING (UPI) - The House rejec- ted on the first try yesterday a tem- porary, one percentage point increase in the state income tax - the most con- traversial element in Gov. William Milliken's budget balancing package. The vote, 36 for and 55 against, came only a feyv hours after final approval by the House of a 10 cent-per-pack cigaret- te tax increase. A re-vote on the income tax is considered certain. THE INCOME tax hike, if approved, will be retroactive to April 1 and remain in effect through the end of the- current fiscal year Sept. 30, generating $295 million to balance the 1982 budget by raising the levy from 4.6 percent to 5.6 percent during that period. The cigarette tax will raise $35 million 'in this budget year and $95 million next, ear-marked to solving the state's chronic cash shortages. Still pending are new levies on cable television, video games and other for- ms of entertainment. THE' CIGARETTE and income tax raise, combined with the proposed levies on video games, cable television and other forms of entertainment, would correct cash shortages and raise about half of the roughly $600 million needed to balance the state's budget. See HOUSE, Page 2 'Inefficiencies' review for potential program reductions By LOU FINTOR The University's Rackham School for Graduate Studies will be reviewed for possible cutbacks, becoming the fourth of the University's 17 schools and colleges named to face budget and per- formance reviews, the school's dean said yesterday. Rackham will join three other schools- Art, Education, and Natural Resources- in reviews as part of the ad-' ministration's Five Year Plan to reorganize the University budget, shif- ting about $20.million to "high priority" areas. ALTHOUGH University administra- tors will not announce their decision to review Rackham until later in the mon- th, Rackham Dean Alfred Sussman- confirmed yesterday that his school will be reviewed for possible cutbacks, probably in the ,fall. Robert Sauve, a University ad- ministrator and a member of the University's Budget Priorities Commit- tee, which will conduct the review, said the committee will pay particular at- tention to "inefficiencies" in the school's administration. Sauve, who is a budget adviser to Vice President for Academic Affairs Billy Frye, said any cutbacks the com- mittee might recommend for Rackham would probably not be as drastic as those recommended for some other University programs. He said the committee will not be reviewing the school with an eye toward its elimination. "THERE MAY be some reductions," Sauve said yesterday, "but not major ones. There . are a lot of inter- disciplinary ;programs supported through Rackham. I don't think there is any chance of us cutting (those See RACKHAM, Page 7 Doily Photo by JEFF SCHRIER ADMINISTRATORS CONFIRMED yesterday that the Rackham Graduate School is the latest of four academic units to be reviewed under the University's Five-Year Plan. States enact new student loan By the Associated Press A growing number of states are setting up "student loan authorities," permitting colleges to float tax-exempt bonds to raise money to lend to students who no longer qualify for federally guaranteed loans. Three states have enacted such plans, and several more are considering them. But officials admit that such loans will not be as cheap or as easy to repay as the federally backed loans. ILLINOIS SET up the first student loan authority in June 1981, shortly after President Reagan announced his intention to stop granting guaranteed student loans to youngsters from * families with incomes over $30,000 unless they could demonstrate need. Massachusetts established a loan authority in January, Iowa followed in March, and a similar plan in Maryland is on the verge of passage. Plans also have been introduced in legislatures in Florida and Connecticut and will shortly be taken up in New York as well. DEPENDING ON bond market conditions and other factors, the first such "college bonds" are expected to be issued by June, allowing colleges to lend the proceeds to students entering school in September. The plan was devised by James Unland, direc- tor of public finance for the Chicago-based in- vestment banking firm of William Blair & Co. He says it will provide a way for colleges and universities to use their credit to raise money to lend primarily to middle-income students who will be caught short of tuition funds as a result of Reagan's aid cutbacks. BECAUSE THE bonds will be tax-exempt, they will bear a lower interest rate-as little as 10 percent or 12 percent-which will be passed on to the borrowers. programs The interest rate on federally guaranteed loans is 9 percent. "What we're doing is issuing tax-exempt bonds backed by unsecured consumer loans,'that is, loans to students and parents. Public debt has never before been issued for loans of this kind that was not backed by government guaran- tees," said Unland. HOW MUCH each college can borrow will depend on its credit worthiness. The private credit market is no more likely to welcome a bond issued by a financially troubled college than it would a troubled city or corporation. Pressure on Argentina builds * as British fleet nears Falklands School officials call Twain 'racist trash' LONDON (AP) - Britain declared yesterday it will "shoot first" if any Argentine ship enters its war zone around the Falkland Islands, hinted British submarines already were prowling the area, and said other elements of its armada probably will be thereby the weekend. The warning sharply compressed the timetable for reaching a diplomatic resolution of the crisis, escalated the pressure on Argentina to withdraw from the British colony it seized, and com- plicated the peace-seeking task of Secretary of State Alexander Haig. HAIG, WHO called Britain "The United States' closest ally and friend," met for an hour with Foreign Secretary Francis Pym and conferred with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at a working dinner. After meeting with Thatcher for more than five hours, Haig said he was "impressed by the firm determination of the British government" in the crisis. He also said he and the prime minister "have been exploring various issues associated with this problem...." British sources said the leaders met in. a "serious atmosphere," and That- cher stuck to her position that Britain will not negotiate with Argentina unless it withdraws from the islands as demanded the U.N. Security Council. HAIG WILL fly to Buenos Aires today to meet leaders of Argentina's military junta. Argentine Foreign Minister Nicanor Costa Mendez told reporters in Buenos Aires after returning from New York: "The negotiations are going to be long, complex and difficult, but I think the threat of war is fading." Argentina has said it will talk, but will not, as a precondition, withdraw from the ar- chipelago, which it calls the Malvinas. Pym., in a special broadcast to the islands on the British Broadcasting Corp.'s World Service, said: We will come to your aid as soon as we can - we hope by peaceful means." FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) - An official at a school named for author Mark. Twain said Wednesday that Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"is "racist trash" and should not be part of the county school system's curriculum. "Anybody who teaches this book is racist," said John Wallace, an ad- ministrative aide at Mark Twain In- termediate School and chairman of the school's human rights committee. "THE BOOK doesn't measure up. It's damaging to black students, and that's been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt," he said. He said some of his committee's ob- jections pertained to the use of the word "nigger," adding, "It implies that blacks are less intelligent, can't be trusted and are not human. "How much can we bombard kids with this trash and still expect them to believe and trust the schools," he asked. The book, which describes a boy's adventures along the Mississippi River in Missouri in the 19th cen- tury has been a classic in American literature for more than 100 years. The book is acceptable for a college curriculum and for intermediate, junior high and senior high school libraries, Wallace said. The issue was brought to the human rights committee's attention late last year, following complaints by several parents, Wallace said. Pvm ... promises British aid ~TODAY- Hat off the presses T'S HERE-on time and ready for signing. The 1982 Michigan Ensian, the University yearbook, has arrived and is now officially on sale. This year's volume offers a look at campus life including the dorms, varsity sports, sororities and fraternities, and also. records special events such as the football team's trip to the Black Sabbath Blues The Black Sabbath rock group won't be performing in Phoenix on Easter Sunday because a local lawmaker objec- ted that their act is "absolutely degrading." Arizona Rep. Tony West complained about the performance at the state- owned Veterans' Memorial Coliseum, saying "apparently they have a propensity to be demonic, to ridicule the Christian religions, and they actually burn crosses ... " Les Schwartz of Warner Bros Records in Los Aneeles said cents apiece, explained George Bagby, former head of the state Game and Fish Commission, but free "to those who made it" through the first trip. Bagby, and aide to Democratic House Speaker Tom Murphey said the rides would be for "Republicans only." When the moss cleared, it turned out that the bill was misprinted, and should have read "alligator hides." Q The a )iv Almanac by cutting the German payroll. Meanwhile, Russian tanks surrounded the German forces in Vienna. " 1967 - The United States defense department defended the annual expenditure of $230 million on chemical warfare dedices. It called the devices a "vital" deterrent against war and a standby weapon. * 1970 - University officials announced that Oxford Housing was going to go coed. " 1977 - Only 3 members of campus political parties won election to the Michigan Student Assembly. Observers said the election, which drew 1700 students to the polls, marked {I I I