a OPINION Page 4 Friday, September 10, 1982 The Michigan Daily4 After all, it's only money The following is a look back at some of the top events that occurred at the Univer- sity this summer. E VEN AFTER this year's tuition hike of 15 percent, the bottom line is that there seems to be no relief in sight for students. In the past two years, the University has hiked its tuition by more than 30 percent-far more than the rate of inflation. But tuition in- NEW TUITION RATES The University of Michigan - Ann Arbor Campus (PER TERM) RESIDENT Undergraduate Lower Division Upper Division .... Graduate . . . . . . . . . . .. 82.83* $ 988 1106 1458 Increase (%) $113 (16%) 149(16%) 165 (13%) NON-RESIDENT creases which exceed the rate of inflation are nothing new; what's new this year is that the government is no longer expanding the aid programs for college students. Add to that a beleaguered state budget and a beleaguered state economy, and the prospects for many students' futures are not good. It seems certain that University ad- ministrators will continue to use students to make up the share of the budget that the state is dropping. It remains much easier to hike student fees than to go after additional programs and personnel. And relief is going to be elusive. The Univer- sity of Michigan is by no means alone in raising tuition by leaps and bounds, although tuition here remains the highest for any public in- stitution in the United States. Administrators are able to justify their own tuition decisions by pointing to the other guys and saying they're doing the same. It may be years before the state's and the nation's higher education systems decide either that they're overbuilt or that students in general should have to pick up a greater part of the burden of maintaining the nation's in- stitutions. At that point, many schools may find they have priced themselves and their students out of the market. Undergraduate Lower Division . . .. Upper Division .. Graduate . . . .... . . . .. * Includes Health Service Fee of $49 (approved in May, 1982) 2874 3090 3130 393(16%) 423(1 6% ) 357(13%) After the reviews SHARPENING UP for its fall chores with three major schools, the University's review axe has felled one program and left one unscathed. The Institute for the Study of Mental Retar- dation and Related Disabilities received an almost certain death blow when a key budget review committee recommended that the unit be shut down. The review committee's decision is ISMRRD's first step down the bureaucratic road to official elimination by the Regents. The Center for the Continuing Education of Women fared better in a review that eventually could have proved just as devastating. A com- mittee appointed to examine CEW's perfor- mance decided that -o budgetary review- which can lead to elimination of a unit-was necessary. Lack of support for research and community projects was cited as a major factor behind the vote to cut ISMRRD. But Herbert Grossman, the institute's director, blasted the review committee's conclusion, pointing out that federal grants worth more than $300,000 recen- tly have been awarded to the unit. Grossman also added fuel to charges that the reviews are little more than administrative hatchet jobs. ISMRRD's director accused the review committee of making up its mind before the review even started-the same charge leveled by the former chairman of the geography department during the University's last go at program-cutting. Red blood,_blue blood S TUDENTS TOOK turns putting on airs and taking off clothes this summer to greet some out-of-the-ordinary visitors. In June, the campus rubbed shoulders with European royalty during a visit from Queen Beatrix and Prince Claus of the Netherlands. Stopping at the University as part of a goodwill tour of the United States, the queen met with faculty, administrators, and Regents at a for- mal reception, then waved to the collegiate masses as her limousine sped down S. Univer- sity. 6 6 Playgirl audition: Less is more Making Title IX fit THE OFFICE of Civil Rights is not a very pushy organization. " That's why, after a full summer of wrangling, the University athletic department has been able to comply with the federally im- posed Title IX guidelines, which govern sex discrimination in public institutions. The athletic department has been found innocent, so to speak, of discriminating against its women athletic teams. Actually, the University is violating the Title IX guidelines, but after begging and bargaining for a half year, the OCR gave Canham and company two years to de-violate itself. The OCR began its investigation of the athletic department in 1973, when several University women charged that there was "gross discrimination against women," at the University. This summer, the University was found guilty of !giving more scholarship money to men than women, giving more travel money to men than women, providing women with less of an opportunity to receive coaching than men, and spending less money on recruiting women than men. The University, in a Shapiro/Canham brain- trust, came up with a plan to remedy these allegations last month, even though the ad- ministration claims Title IX does not apply to the University because it does not directly receive any federal funds. But excitement over blueblooded guests was overshadowed earlier in the month by Playgirl's hunt for red-blooded University males. Representatives from the magazine held auditions at Campus Inn for its October spread on Big Ten men, which will feature models from the University, Ohio State University and the University of Wisconsin. Although several men expressed mixed feelings about becoming beefcake for Playgirl, most were ready and willing to get the ex- posure. "I figure I run around town with little run- ning shorts on," said finalist Mark Gibney, a graduate political science student, "so it would be the same to run around town without shor- ts." The Summer in Review was compiled by Daily editors Andrew Chapman, Mark Gindin,' Julie Hinds and Daily staff writer Barry Witt. Edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan Why do the jobless acquiesce? Vol. XCIII, No. 2 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Editorials represent a majority opinion of the Daily's Editorial Board Bargain basement U NIVERSITY Cellar was very busy yesterday. Undeterred by having to walk a couple of extra blocks, throngs of students were packed into the store merrily buying their textbooks for the semester. The Cellar's customers seem to ap- preciate the extra floor space of the new location, and the Cellar itself seems to be luxuriating in its new- found freedom to sell whatever it wan- ts. The Cellar's initial success is splen- did, of course, since it seems to in- dicate that the student-owned bookstore will indeed be able to sur- vive outside the Michigan Union. But still something at the new store seems wrong; the character of the store seems to have changed. Suddenly, the Cellar seems very conventional. In its move from the Union, the Cellar has lost the militant charm that used to make it different from the other bookstores. Its new glitter seems more in tune with a shopping mall than with the student protests which forced the Regents to establish the store in the late '60s. Gone are all the shelves of books on radical political thought and way-out religions; in their place are racks and racks of M-Go-Blue schlock. The casual confusion of bookrush in the Union ballroom is over for good; now the Cellar has rows of neatly ordered texts. It's all very neat, very precise- and very capitalistic. But it's not as if the Cellar had any choice either. Forced out of the Union last year by high rents and confronted by a series of operating losses, the Cellar has done what it's had to do: It's streamlined, it's started carrying more profitable merchandise, it's become much more professional. In the process, it's also become much more dull. In doing what had to be done to continue serving students, the Cellar has lost some of the at- mosphere that made it exciting-some of the feeling that it was part of a lingering protest. The Cellar's moved, and it will never be quite the same. By Franz Schurmann There are plenty of signs today that the economic upswing the United States is en- tering probably is not going to mean a decline in unemployment. Indeed, it appears in- creasingly likely that the United States and other Western nations are going to have recovery at the price of permanently high unemployment. The August U.S. rate of 9.8 percent, a post-World War II high, is expected to climb past the double-digit mark before the November elections. Britain, where Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher launched her own version of Reaganomics four years ago, was the tren- dsetter. The British economy recovered respectably, but with a significantly reduced work force-an apparently permanent level of unemployment hovering around three million, or 13.8 percent of the work force. A HALF-CENTURY ago Britain's John Maynard Keynes predicted that the con- sequences of such "involuntary unem- ployment" would be violent, Bolshevik-style revolution. His entire economic theory was designed to provide government with effec- tive policy tools to return the economy to "full employment." In practical terms, that meant deficit spending and large public works. Franklin Roosevelt, unaware of Keynes' writings, nevertheless did just what the Englishman taught:sHe primed theapump with big government spending and launched all kinds of public service programs, as did other Western nations. Today, many countries face not just recession, which can be resolved by lower in- terest rates, but the deeper depression of wholesale de-industrialization. Unem- ployment at high levels has appeared in Spain (15 percent), Holland (12.3), Canada (11.8), Italy (10.4), and now in prosperous Germany (7.4) and France (8.2). There are even signs of it in Japan (2.5). Canada and France briefly tried large- scale, government-funded jobs programs, only to retrench when they failed to make an appreciable dent in their unemployment. Thatcher consistently has refused to do anything to alleviate unemployment except to leave it to the marketplace. The Reagan ad- ministration has followed exactly the same course, IF KEYNES' theories and warnings are inannrnnvuift h toinnr nntime Dthere a- nn --w 7.46 FACE ON -1NE B Q1OOt.A FL00% Fifty years ago, most Western governmen- ts developed a policy tool to guard against upheaval from the unemployed: police power. Germany got its Gestapo, Italy ex- panded its carabinieri, and revolutionary Russia developed a vast secret police. In the United States, as well, national and local police power has expanded under the influen- ce of J. Edgar Hoover, motivated by fear of riot or revolts. Yet in 1982 there is little sign of any major pu'sh to beef up police powers or numbers in Western countries, though that is what the East European countries have been doing, as in Poland. Even stranger, signs are ap- pearing from several Western countries that police reform, rather than police power, is getting priority attention. PERHAPS ONE of the explanations for this relative lack of police repression today lies in another peculiar condition of permanent unemployment in the 1980s-the calm of the unemployed themselves. In the United States and Britain, at least, there have been no big riots, no noticeable swings to the left, no response by people in unemployment lines to haranguers denouncing the evils of capitalism. Classical economists before Keynes simply would have argued that there is no such thing as unemploymeht. If people want to work, they can always find some as long as they are willing to take lower wages. The rapid'growth of alternative economies suggests that these classical economists may have been partially right. Italy, for instance, has high official unemployment, but it also has a thriving alternative economy estimated to account for. some 40 percent gross output, and the highest, economic growth rate in Europe. It would be foolish to deny that there is growing misery and suffering today; the rise of interpersonal frustration and violence can be seen in climbing suicide rates and child- beatings. But it alsoawould be shortsighted to overlook the possibility that many of the unemployed may have decided to give up on government as a remedy for their grievances. MAYBE WHAT is happening in Poland~* provides a hint'of what is to come. Faced with a regimeathat is economically impotent and politically repressive, Polish workers seem to have decided to rely on themselves and the "underground society" they have woven. Certainly, what the Poles call "self organization" is a powerful and positive trend, and it may already be happening here. The growth of America's own non-criminal underground economy indicates the possibilities. But it is unwise to simply turn one's back on government as a potential ally.? Survival for 10 million out-of-work Americans will require the best efforts of both the people and the policymakers. And so the questions persist: How long will the unemployed remain silent and invisible? And how long can the government ignore their plight? t&AS TR WFJS;TN ON~CE AMb Fo,RA:t- ANOTHER IDEA..,. 1 r r, r r r s a w Schurmann is a professor of history and sociology at the University of California at Berkeley. He wrote this ar- ticle for Pacific News Service. mm >'s ' . :