CHEER UP, RON See Opinion Page Ninety-Three Years of Editorial Freedom hflIQ BLUE PREVAILS A sports prediction" M a'e that, too, but it will be blue skies over Michigan Stadium today, with a wonderfully-warm high around 85. lk' Vol. XCIII, No. 3 Copyright 1982, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, September 11, 1982 Free Issue Fourteen Pages Student aid saved by Senati By FANNIE WEINSTEIN University students will receive almost $600,000 more than expected in federal financial aid this year, due to yesterday's Senate vote that passed a controversial budget bill. The Senate's vote handed President Reagan his second major political set- back in as many days, passing into law a $14.2 billion supplemental ap- propriations bill that the President vetoed two weeks ago. THE SENATE vote was 60 to 30 in favor of the veto override. Thursday, the House voted 301 to 117 to kill Reagan's veto. Nationally, the bill will provide an additional $217 million for student financial aid programs. The bill will also provide the Univer- sity with a much needed $250,000 for the Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant Program, bringing its total 1982- 83 allocation to about $1.2 million. The University originally expected this year's SEOG appropriation to drop by 25 percent, or more than $260,000. IN ADDITION, the bill will increase the maximum Basic Educational Op- portunity (PELL) Grant for University students from $1,674 to $1,800. In the BEOG Program, the University was scheduled to lose $600,000, a 12 percent -cut. The bill will also have some impact on the 1983-84 financial aid budget because it sets a precedent for in- vote creased funds, said Harvey Grotrian, director of the University's Office of Financial Aid. In last February's 1983-84 budget proposal, the president called for a devastating 50 percent cut in financial aid funds from the 1981-82 level. "IT WAS ONE thing to call for a 12 to 13 percent decrease for 1982-83, and quite a different animal to even propose a 50 percent reduction for the following fiscal year," Grotrian said. A bill passed by Congress last March called for a freeze of federal student aid funds at the 1982-83 level. For this freeze to remain eff ective, Congress must pass another such bill by Sept. 30, according to Grotrian. Another vote on that bill, he said, "would go right up to the final hour.' PRIOR TO the Senate' vote, Univer- sity officials were cautiously op- timistic. After the. vote, they were pleased with the outcome of what many considered a long, uphill battle. "Everybody's very happy here," said Thomas Butts, who represents the University in Washington. "Certainly it's a case where we can all feel the money is legitimately needed and not a pork barrel situation," he said. "Obvi'usly we're extremely delighted," said Grotrian. "Congress has sent the president a clear message. A line has been drawn which says that's enough." See SENATE, Page 11 FRESHLY COATED in true Maize paint, the letters of "Michigan" stream across the stadium's new All-Pro turf. A stadium groundskeeper (right) prepares Maize-colored flowers to be planted at strategic locations around the stadium. Renovations make 'staim'reBlue' Attorney hints Arroyo Staff protests possible pay freeze By'BILL SPINDLE When the administration's top brass meet in the Regent's room next week, they will be sitting two doors and a few steps away from a crowd of angry - and potentially underpaid - University employees. A group of clerks, librarians, and technicians, who do everything from blow glass to operate the CRISP computers, will gather around the cube on Regent's Plaza Thursday to protest the fact that they may not get a pay raise this year. THESE NON-faculty staff, none of them unionized are angry because the administration announced this summer that unless the University gets more money than expected from the state, their salaries will be frozen in lplace this year. On the other hand, if current University plans hold, professors will be given salary hikes on the basis of teaching and research excellence, a bias the clerks find appalling. 'We feel this is being made a school for rich kids and professors, and everybody else can go to hell.' -Shirley Silverman, psychology department clerk "We are protesting that people won't be getting a raise, but especially the discriminatory nature of the pay plan," said Shirley Silverman, a clerk in the psychology department. "WE FEEL THIS is being made a school for rich kids and professors, and everybody else can go to hell," she said. The protest - to be held between noon and 1:30 p.m.-is being organized by members of a group called the Organizing Committee for Clericals (OCC) - which has tried several times to unionize the University's non-faculty staff. Although the protest is not another attempt to unionize, it may leave the door open for another try, OCC members said. "THERE ARE STILL a lot of clericals interested in it (unionizing)," said Dawn Chalker, one of the protest's organizers. "It's an important decision as to whether this is the. right time (to unionize). " It has become more apparent given recent hints from Lansing - that the University will not get the money it wants, and that non-faculty employeees will not get the raises they want. While fighting for their own pay increases, protest organizers have insisted that they are not protesting against groups that did receive increases, nor ad- vocating higher tuition so that students must shoulder the burden of a pay hike, Silverman said. "We still protest the student tuition increase ... we don't want to be pitted against students," Silverman said. Chalker said she wasn't sure how many people would attend the rally, but they were expecting a "good number" of people to show up. may plead By GEORGE ADAMS Arthur Arroyo's attorney said yesterday he will try to prove his client, who is charged with setting the fire that destroyed the University's economics building last year, has "a true mental problem." The disclosure was the first serious indication thot Chief Assistant Public Defender Mitchell Nelson may try to prove Arroyo's innocence on the groun- ds of mental illness. Nelson made the remarks to a Daily reporter after yesterday's proceedings in the trial 'of the former University employee. EARLIER IN the day, two friends of Arroyo testified that he told them he broke into the Economics Building last Thanksgiving and one of the two said Arroyo also confessed he set fire to the building a month later. Ann Arbor Police Det. Daniel Bran- son also testified about the confession Arroyo allegedly made to him and Det. Craig Roderick after Arroyo's arrest last February. "He (Arroyo) said he was angryat the University," Roderick said.a"He said he had had three jobs with the University and was treated un- fairly because of his sex. He thought he was superior to other, female clerical workers, and was taken advantage of because he was a male." BRONSON SAID Arroyo was "very upset, concerned, and remorseful," and insanity "had something on his mind that he didn't quite know how to deal with." Arroyo said he had gone to the Economics Building in the early mor- ning after Thanksgiving and broken in, according to Bronson. "He went up- stairs and gained entrance to another office by breaking the window with a chair, and took a typewriter and typing materials," he said. Arroyo has "some very deep-seated psychological problems," Nelson said. "He's bright enough that he's very dif- ficult to treat. He often seeks help for his problems, then rejects it," he said. Earlier this year, the State Center for Forensic Psychiatry found Arroyo criminally responsible for his actions. "WHAT I'M trying to do is establish his mental state," Nelson said. "I think it's going pretty well. I think the judge is beginning to see that Arthur Arroyo has some sort of mental problem that needs attention." Roger Keller, describing himself as "a good friend and confidante" of the defendant, testified for the prosecution that Arroyo admitted the crimes he is charged with on Dec. 18-four days af- ter the Economics Building fire and the day that Arroyo left for California, where he was arrested Feb. 12. "He called me at 6 a.m. on the 28th and said he had to talk to men. He said See ATTORNEY, Page 8 TODAY Ah, art NOT EVERYONE in Ann Arbor is a lover of modern art, Matthew Hoffman learned early yesterday morning. Vandals took one of the steel sculptures from in front of his Maynard Street jewelry store shortly after midnight, and dragged it nearly a block away before they were apprehended by police. Weighing 250 pounds, the abstract silver sculpture is the lightest of the five that have decorated the sidewalkr outside Hoffman's store since mid-summer. The only question now, he said, is how he is going to get it back from the police station. Vandals have tipped over the sculptures before, Hoffman said, but this is the first time anyone has taken one.D New legal ground on the rights of cats was pioneered in San Antonio, Texas this week when a judge awarded cat support in a divorce suit. John Ross Nolan was granted custody of two cats in his uncontested divorce, plus a $5-a-month cat- support payment from his ex-wife. "The history of it is, he is going to keep the cats and she wanted to contribute to the support of the cats," said J. Lawton Stone, Lawyer for Nolan. The money will go toward keeping Nolan's cats well- fed, the court's order stated. The felicitous feline breakthrough was a surprise even for Stone. "I thought the judge was going to fall out of his chair when he saw the cat- support provision," Stone said. Cheers What's better than an all-night restaurant in a town full of students pulling all-nighters? According to the a drinkery, too, as of Sept. 24. Because there are only 57 liquor licenses in the city and new'licenses are not issued of- ten, Pantree had to buy a bar in order to take over its licen- se, according to Paul Kacer, president and part-owner of the restaurant. "We were anxious to get the license because our menu is changing," Kacer said. "People aren't eating quiche today, they are eating nachos . . . Nachos without beer is like bread without butter." The license cost the Pan- tree more than $100,000, and it will be transferred to the restaurant after next week's closing of the Wonder Bar, left dry by the change in ownership. The Daily almanac On this date in 1976, the Wolverines won their season opener against the Wisconsin Badgers, 40-27. Harlan Huckleby scored three times and rushed for 121 yards, and Also on this day in history: " 1974-University General Counsel Roderick Daane an- nounced that the University would be required to grant students access to their academic records because of the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act passed in Congress. * 1968-A group of 50 University students, together with a group of Flint citizens, chanted and booed Hubert Hum- phrey at a speech in Flint. Chants of "peace now" and "stop the war" caused Humphrey to interrupt his speech several times. "I'm not going to try to outshout my young friends," he said. On the inside.. . The Opinion Page has a dialogue with Republican guber- natorial candidate Richard Headlee. . . Arts previews Sun- day's free Eclipse Jazz Summer Send-Off Concert . . . and Sports gives football fans an idea of what to expect in .I