M Go Boom See Editorial, Page 4 P Ninety- Three Years of Editorial Freedom ttti Soggy Mostly cloudy today, with a chance of showers and thunderstorms, and a high in the mid-80s, . XCIII, No. 5 Copyright 1982, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, September 14, 1982 Ten Cents Ten Pages Shuttle bus: long waits, noseats By BETH ALLEN For students who live on North Cam- pus, these first few days of classes have brought extra aggravations-crowded buses and longer rides. "I've never seen that many people waiting at a bus stop except on football Saturdays." said art school junior Margret Korfhage, who said her trips to North Campus have become more dif- ficult this term. Other students estimated 15- to 20- minute waits for buses, 'with rides lasting as long as 20 minutes, about twice as long as last year. "THE BUSES used to come about 10. See BUS, Page 7 Plan repay .cut tc From staff and wire reports State budget officials and key law- makers agreed last night to a plan which would slice $8 million in aid to the University immediately but includes a promise to pay the money back next year. The plan - part of a $150 million package that will bring the state's budget in balance by September 30 - involves eliminating payments t Michigan schools and colleges planned for the final days of the state's fisca year and making it up to those in stitutions on June 30. THE AGREEMENT came following a 90-minute meeitng by budget official and leading lawmakers. State Budget Director Gerald Miller said he plans to reissue Gov. William Milliken's $150-million executive order to the legislative appropriating com mittee tomorrow. THE CUT WILL be identical to an executive order rejected by those committees two weeks ago. But Univerdsity President Harold Shapiro last night described the plan as "a decided step forward" over Milliken's earlier proposal. He saida deferral of funds would create a tem porary cash-flow problem, but that the University would be spared a per manent budget cut. The state's ability to return the money will "depend on the priority would huge 'U' (state officials) put on if," Shapiro said. Other important decisions concerning - the future of the University's state ap- e propriation will be made within the next few weeks when the legislature considers next year's budget, Shapiro added. Last night's proposal, which has the support of legislative leaders and the s governor, helps the state out of its fiscal muddle by tinkering with the differing ° fiscal years that Michigan .and its school districts operate under. 1 The state is on an Oct 1 to Sept. 30 -' fiscal year and is unable at this time to afford the $112 in payments to schools g and $38 million for local government s revenue sharing. Schools, however, began their fiscal r year on July 1 and will end it June 30. a To make ends meet, the state will make r the August school aid and college payment on June 30 - still in the educational budget year, but into a new e and hopefully better state fiscal year. e THE STATE is counting on at least a d partial economic recovery early next year to provide the money to pay back s the schools. The state has used the r same strategy all year in deferring aid a payments to schools, but a previously hoped for economic upturn never came e about. University Vice President for State Relations Richard Kennedy said last e ySee STATE, Page 5 [bav Photo by ELIZABETH SCOTT A rare smile contrasts solemn faces in this familiar scene to North Campus dwellers. Crowded buses and long waits plague these commuters during their first days of school. Geography maps out new home By KENT REDDING Although they Are still waiting for the official go- ahead, professors left behind after the closing of the geography department two months ago say they are Wset to go with a new, smaller "Program" of Geography. "We (the proposed geography program) haven't been formally approved yet," said Prof. George Kish, who will be the program's director. "But we've had our stationery printed. I think it (official recognition) is just a matter of administrative procedure." THE NEW PROGRAM will offer undergraduate courses and degrees in geography, just as the depar- tment used to. The major difference is that the program, with a smaller staff, will not offer a graduate program. The University's Department of Geography was of- ficially closed July 1, a year after the Regents ended a long and controversial review of the unit by voting to eliminate it. But a faculty committee, working since January to, keep the discipline of geography alive at the Univer- sity, won tentative approval for the smaller program. Though some top administrators, including Vice President for Academic Affairs Billy Frye, said they 'The decline (in the num- ber of Geography studen- ts) is noticeable and it can only be attributed to the fact that people think Geography is dead." - Prof. George Kish like the idea, the program still awaits formal ap- proval from the LSA Curriculum and Executive committees. PROBABLY THE biggest obstacle to the program's success now, admitted Kish, is finding the students to fill the classes. Apparently, he said, many students assume the discipline died with the depar- tment. The new program's courses will be taught by the same professors who made up the old department, but they have been transferred to the payrolls of other University departments. By downsizing the department to a program, and by eliminating six non- tenured faculty and staff, the administration plans to save about $200,000 a year. But at least one former geography professor doubts that much will be saved in the end. Prof. Samuel Out- calt, now a geology professor, said the savings in eliminating the four non-tenured faculty members will be offset by the loss of revenue generated by graduate students. VICE PRESIDENT Frye, reached last night at his home, said that while he did not have specific budget figures with him, he stands behind his earlier estimate of significant savings: The program has a "very modest budget" accor- ding to Kish. It includes only the salary of a part-time secretary and office expenses, he said. Kish has been named professor at large in the University, so his salary is payed outside the program's budget. Kish maintains that the University is committed to keeping a geography curriculum alive. "I think it will fly," he said of the program. OTHERS INVOLVED with the program are not so sure. "I don't think it will last," said John Op- penheim, who is finishing up his Ph.D. in geography. See GEOGRAPHY, Page 7 Stills steals the show Singer upstages senator at Dems rally L By KEVIN TOTTIS Don Riegle may hae-been the head- liner, but most of the people who showed up at the Michigan Union An- derson Room yesterday were there to hear his backup, Stephen Stills. The senator and the singer were in town yesterday calling for a nuclear arms freeze and generally assailing policies of the Reagan administration. * - - But it was Stills who stole the show. I HADN'T heard of Riegle until I saw the ads (for the rally)," said Doug } - Dougherty, an out-of-state student in the Institute for Public Policy Studies. "Mostly I came because Stills were here." Riegle who is running for re-election, spoke for about 10 minutes and then relinquished the floor to the folk-rock singer from Crosby, Stills, and Nash. Looking somewhat rumpled in.a blue t three-piece suit with an open vest and J M~scKloosened tie, and relying heavily on a eMASC K glass of water to combat the heat in the ectoion. room, Stills encouraged the crowd to AP Photo I'm Clean Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan raises his hands before reporters yesterday to comment on a special prosecutor's report that there is "insuf- ficient" credible evidence to link him to mobsters. Stephen Stills (right) belts out a song for Sen. Donald Riegle (left), who is running for re-ele Two hundred people showed up to see the pair yesterday at the Michigan Union. See SINGER, Page 7 TODAY Handshake hazard TAKE NOTE, aspiring politicians: Runners may develop shin-splints and tennis players, tennis elbow, but being a congressman has its own hazards, as Rep. Charles Pashayan (R-Calif.) discovered. He disconnected a tendon in his elbow as a reu1t of ton much handshaking on the campaign trail. The their pates Saturday for a showdown over who has the pret- tiest, sexiest or most kissable hairless head in the nation. A Morehead City. N.C. restaurant was chosen as this year's convention site and the slogan for the event was: "Morehead-less hair." Contests for the sexiest bald head, best all-round bald head, prettiest bald head, smoothest bald head and most kissable bald head highlighted the con- vention. Held annually during the second weekend in Sep- tember, the convention ends the "Rub a Bald Head Week." (Did you forget to rub a bald head last week?) John T. Cap- ps III founded the club in 1973 and claims about 9,500 mem- bers in all0 st atesa nd 20 foreien ncontries .Cnns advises Beef up a tree Never underestimate the talents of your friendly neigh- borhood firefighters. Rescuing treed cats may be an everyday feat for them, but firefighters in Union, Mo., were faced with a more unusual rescue. Fire Capt. Vernell Kasmann and about 20 firefighters responded to a report from a canoeist on the Bourbeuese River in Franklin Coun- ty Sunday, who said a 250-pound calf was entangled in tree limbs overhanging the water. The calf apparently had stepped off an incline and fallen into the tree, Kasmann voted overwhelmingly to strike down rules imposing a cur- few on freshmen. Also on this day in history: 1962-Two University graduates, Edward White and James McIvitt, were named to the new U.S. astronaut team. 1963-South Quad dining halls went coed. 1972-Women were allowed to perform in the University's marching band for the first time since restrictions barring women were abolished the summer before. 1976-Two male athletes charged the University's athletic department with discrimination under Title IX provisions. ma I