The army booms, See Editorial, Page 4 E LIE 43I Ninety-three Years of Editorial Freedom 4@w Mundane Partly cloudy today and really blah with a high near 60. V XCIII No. 31 Copyright 1982, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Thursday, October 14, 1982 Ten Cents Ten Pages School o By FANNIE WEINSTEIN "There was a SThe University simply doesn't realize what a feelings," he s gem we are, but we're going to show them. Since studen That, according to Dean George Bayliss, with the revie sums up the art school's strategy in the fight to has changed, survive its current budget review. are now very THE SCHOOL'S plan, Bayliss said, is to turn impending 'd the potential disaster of the review into a chan- timistic. If any ce to strut its stuff. That the ar "Once we're on the (review) list," Bayliss process that explained, "we might as well make a benefit of school's budg it." provoked a And art school faculty are taking the same faculty. *pproach. "SOME OF "Any time we can "get a chance to tell me," painting someone that we're good, and we are, it is of the others definitely positive in that sense," said art justified that education Prof. Thomas Larkin, a member of kind of readin the school's governing board. tain departm "I DON'T see anybody skulking in the corner The admin or biting their nails," Larkin said. quality of th Initial student response to the review was other art sc confused, according to David Glaze, president isolation from of the school's student steering committee. notably New 'U' lab 4 f lot of m said. .nts hav w proce Glaze s confide loom," I ything,N t school could re :et or it "why u the qu gProf. % s are p the Uni ng on w ent is." nistrati e school hools the na York Ci Art bravely nisunderstanding and bad money. If the faculty, student, and administrative e familiarized themselves committee reviewing the school decides a ass, however, their opinion budget cut is necessary, any of the following aid. "Most of the students options may be considered:. combining the nt. There isn't a sense of school's design program with the schools of ar- he said. "I'm very op- chitecture or engineering; eliminating the we stand to gain." graduate program; or merging some of the was chosen for review-a school's programs into other University esult in severe cuts in the colleges and possibly dropping a few is complete elimination- altogether, depending on the severity of the s?" reaction among the cut. THE ART school's autonomy makes it uestions raised, surprised unique among peer institutions, and keeps it a Nilliam Lewis said. "Some quality program, Bayliss said. "Most other ?erfectly reasonable. It's places have big programs in aft but they are versity wants to get some departments in a college of art and letters." hat the standing of a cer- Those departments, he explained, have to compete for funds with other departments on has questioned the within their college. 1, especially compared to One of the more controversial review across the country; its charges questions whether the art school's tion's leading art centers, isolation from major cultural centers makes it ty; and its current lack of difficult for the school to maintain its battles review reputation. "It would be similar to saying if the History of Art department doesn't have a facility in Florence, it shouldn't exist," said Larkin. "If that's the case, you might as well ban the whole University." Students don't seem to think they're at a disadvantage, either. "I don't think it's that isolated," said Andy Keenan, the school's Michigan Student Assembly representative. "New York is huge. It's a cultural center for everything. But that doesn't mean that all art schools are going to be in New York." THE SCHOOL'S location has also led to con- cern over the opportunity of students and faculty to exhibit their work, although Bayliss said there are major galleries in Chicago, Toledo, and Birmingham. The school, however, has been considIering opening a facility in New York for the past several years. "It is not an absolute necessity, but it would be an extraordinary advantage," Bayliss said. The former dean of Parsons School of Design in New York City also stressed the advantage University students have over those who attend smaller art institutions. They have the chance to go to central campus for "other-than-art" classes, he explained. "Artists today have to have the capacity to function in a changing society. You don't have to know just how to draw, but what to draw," Bayliss said. BUT A LACK of funds has detracted somewhat from the school's ability to provide as many advantages as it would like, he said. A $70,000 reduction from the 1980-81 budget to $1.3 million in 1981-82 has led to classroom overcrowding and layoffs of laboratory assistants, he said, which have forced faculty to spend more time on "housekeeping duties." The financial crunch has also hurt the school's faculty recruitment effort. "We are not able to compete as well as we should," he said. In addition, because the school has had trouble repairing and replacing equipment, it has had to temporarily eliminate See ART, Page 7 ' research develops new fuel *out of garbage By VERN LINDQUIST A new fuel made from rotten vegetables and.spoiled butter may soon replace the (ob)noxious fumes of diesel guel with the smell of buttered popcorn, if researchers at the University automotive laboratory have their way. Prof. John Hilliard and his students have developed a diesel fuel substitute using low-proof alcohol and waste vegetable oil. THE NEW fuel is almost in- distinguishable from petroleum-based fuel on the highway and releases only about one-half the pollutants of regular diesel fuel, Hillard said. Although the idea of making a syn-. thetic fuel from alcohol and vegetables has been around for a while, this is the See 'U', Page 7 spending shows decline {'- Doily Photo by DEBORAH LEWIS Hey good lookin' Confident of his canine charm, this street wise dog carefully avoids eye contact with ogling passersby on Maynard St. yesterday. By JIM SPARKS After nearly a decade of steady in- crease, the amount of money spent on University research projects showed a decline last year. Reduced federal support is largely to blame for the drop, officials say, and a dramatic increase in other research in- come was not enough to offset the losses. SOCIAL RESEARCH suffered the brunt of the cuts, said University Vice President for Research Charles Over- berger. The University's Institute for Social Research (ISR) was hardest hit, spending $1.2 million less than it did a year ago. A sustained decline in research ac- tivity may affect future University enrollment, said Byron Groesbeck, associate dean of the Rackham School of Graduate Studies. "I'm quite sure that the decline in money available for research could affect a student's decision to come to Michigan or go to another school," he said. Total University research spending dropped by $1.1 million, from $129.5 million in the 1981-82 fiscal year to $128.4 million last year, according to the Division of Research Development and Administration. NON-FEDERAL research support jumped to $24.5 million last year, an 11.3 percent increase over the previous year. Overberger said he was "not too con- cerned" about the $2.9 million decline in federal spending because it is primarily a result of a change in ac- counting procedures. Under an agreement reached last summer with the federal government, Washington reclaimed $3.6 million that would have been used to cover such costs as utilities and building depreciation, Overberger said. DESPITE THAT artificial drop, some areas were hit hard by federal reductions. The director of ISR, Thomas Juster, said that although the number of social research projects in- creased slightly, their dollar value and the duration of the projects has declined. While most social science research dropped or stayed the same, some schools had healthy increases last year. The Medical School spent an extra $4.8 million last year, and since 1977 has bbosted its research activity from $23 million to last year's $39 million. "Over the past five years, the Medical School has made a really significant committment to research. That has influenced (faculty) recruit- ment," said John Niederhuber, See 'U', Page 7 98 pass p." ORGEA KOVANIS' where grads go." The gov, Rackham vote erment ,a jf By GE * If 100 of the more than 6,000 students in Rackham Graduate School turned out to vote this week in its student government elections, that gover- nment's president said he will be a hap- py man. Although official results of 'the two- day election ending yesterday will not be released until next week, Rackham Student Government President Rick Luker said he expects that less than 2 percent of the school's students cast *otes for the 12 candidates running for 13 spots. LOW TURN-OUTS are "not in- dicative of anything negative," Luker said, blaming the work load graduate students have for their traditionally weak showing at the polls. Only 16 students voted in last January's elec- tion. The most common lament among students yesterday who didn't vote was *hat they simply didn't know there was an election. "I didn't know any of the candidates and I really had no idea that there was an election," said an economics student who asked not to be named. CARLA DEARING, director of the RSG, said the main problem with publicity is that "there is no one place plastered the Normh capus with signs, she said, and sent r campus publications and W( the student-operated radio stat Other Rackham students complained not about lack of publicity, but about lack of the government's effectiveness. Gene Goldfeld, a psychology student, said he didn't vote because "the ad- ministration does what it wants . . . I think student government is a put-on." RSG holds elections every year near the beginning of the fall and winter terms. This time around, 12 candidates from four of RSjG's five divisions - Biological and Health Sciences, Social Sciences, Humanities and the Arts, and Education - are vying for 13 open positions. Because some divisions have fewer seats available and more candidates trying for them than others, not all of the candidates will emerge victorious. Math and Engineering, the only division with no candidates, will seek representatives through personal requests 'if there are no write-ins, Dearing said. MSU beats out 'U' for biology institute By PERRY CLARK Special to the Daily LANSING - Unlike its football team, Michigan State University scored a victory over the University yesterday, when Gov. William Milliken announced that the newly- created Molecular Biology Institute (MBI) will be housed on the MSU campus. The Institute was created by the Michigan High Technology Task Force, which Gov. Milliken established in 1981. The MSU sight was chosen because the task force concluded that the type of work the MSU lab proposed would have more immediate relevance in providing jobs and capitalizing on the state's forest resources. While the University's proposal emphasized studies of protein syn- thesis, the MSU proposal stressed efforts to convert agricultureal and forest materials into improved wood products and chemicals that can be used in manufacturing plastics. "Studies have shown that molecular biologyhas the greatest growth potential of all high technology fields over the next two See MSU, Page 3 Daily Photo by DOUG McMAHON Rackham student government director Carla Dearing finds plenty of time to study yesterday during Rackham Student Government elections, as grad students carried on their tradition of staying away from the polls in large numbers. TODAY Homecoming puckers SOME CAME IN Halloween costumes, some came with bags over their heads, but all came to pucker up-more than 1400 couples for Oklahoma State University's "Big Kiss." Carey Pirtle, 21, an OSU H.J. phone home T HE MAKERS OF Heinz ketchup have found themselves in a pickle. Their robot, shaped like a giant ketchup bottle, is missing. The 5-foot-7 robot, named H.J., apparently disappeared on a plane between Chicago and Cleveland, said R.J. Heinz Co. spokeswoman Beth Adams. "He never arrived as far as we can tell from the paper work," Adams said. "The man who took him to the airport in Chicago said he remembers putting it on the plane." Although capable of being operated by remote control, H.J. ejildn'h avew aikrda wavh erause hiselitronic innards people a chuckle. But it is, in fact, true. And the reward is for real," Ms. Adams said. Q Hug your anxiety away DR. LARRY WILDES knows people don't like to go to the dentist. So, he tries to make them comfortable in his Madison, Wis. dental office sometimes with a warm hug. "It's much easier to hug the little kids and the old grandmothers than the 19-year-olds and the truckdrivers," WiliPC n mid Wiir3PC hacan Pioht-mamhar cinff which a contention" after a sit-in in the LSA Building. Also on this date: " 1924-The Student Council passed a resolution urging students attending the Michigan-Illinois game to cooperate in preventing the Illinois homecoming from degenerating into a drunken brawl. " 1949-After a nine-month trial. 11 leaders of the American Communist Party were convicted by a federal grand jury for conspiring to violent revolution against the U.S. government. " 1974-The prosecution against the five Watergate nn-i...s aftari,, e iounn:inWnchin~4a nnT) r, I