The Michigan Daily-Friday, September 10, 1982-Page 5
ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES NO LONGER FREE
'U' to charge
departments
By KRISTINSTAPLETON
University departments that thought they were get-
ting free legal, accounting, and personnel services
from the administration received a rude shock this
summer.
Nineteen departments that do not receive money
directly from the University's general coffers will
now be charged for all business and finance-related
services they use, including lawyers, auditors,
clericals, and accountants, according to Harlan
*Mulder, assistant to Vice President and Chief Finan-
cial OfiCer James Brinkerhoff.
THE CHANGE should save the University "hun-
dreds of .thousands of dollars," Mulder said, but it
will also cost the individual departments anywhere
from $10,000 to $40,000 per unit.
That cost, in turn, will be passed on to patrons of
the departments, clinics, programs or stores being
charged. That increase could force some popular
departments, such as Health Services, to start
boosting student fees.
The cost transfer will begin with the 19 University
departments which ranked highest on the ad-
ministrative services cost list.
The cost shift will take two years, with departments
paying 50 percent of the fees this year and 100 percent
in 1983, Mulder said.
ALSO INCLUDED on the administrative "charge
list" are the athletic department, parking operations,
the Michigan Union, and the Michigan League.
Not on the list are all departments that receive
their money primarily from the University's General
Fund.
Mulder's explanation of the charge relies mainly on
the University's recent drastic loss of state ap-
propriations. In addition, he said the State Auditor
General recommended such a move last year, and it
has been under consideration ever since.
AS CAN BE expected, the departments involved
were not enthusiastic about having to pass on higher
costs to their customers, especially to students,
Mulder said. He added, however, that most depar-
tment heads agreed with the need and the logic
behind the move.
University Health Service Director Caesar Briefer
said his department will try to escape hiking student
fees but when the cost for the administrative services
goes up to $40,000 next yar, he will be hard pressed to
find alternatives.
The Michigan League, according to one official,
will be forced into discontinuing its check cashing
policy because of the new accounting costs.
OFFICIALS AT THE athletic department said the
charge should not have too much effect on its budget,
if any at all, because it stocks its own administrative
facilities.
The next round of charges is currently under study,
Mulder said, and may include those departments
which are lower on the cost list.
iEcon arson trial
begins; Judge
allows confession
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By GEORGE ADAMS
After a two-month search and seven
months of pre-trial investigations,
testimony for the prosecution Wed-
nesday opened the trial of the man ac-
cused of setting the University's
economics building ablaze last Christ-
mas Eve.
Arthur Arroyo, 30 also is charged
with breaking into the 125-year-old
K tructure and stealing a typewriter a
month before the fire.
ASSISTANT Public Defender Mit-
chell Nelson, Arroyo's attorney, tried
unsuccessfully at a hearing Tuesday to
stop prosecutors from using as eviden-
ce a confession made by his client shor-
tly after his arrest.
Arroyo testified that he had made a
tearful confession to both crimes to Ann
Arbor detectives Daniel Bronson and
4raig Roderick on the flight from
California, where he was apprehended
in February.
Nelson argued that the detectives
should not have discussed the charges
with Arroyo. He said an attorney, Molly
Reno, had asked police not to question
the defendant until he reached Ann Ar-
bor.
ASSISTANT Prosecuting Attorney
Robert Cooper said that Reno's request
did not reach the officers until they
*rrived in Detroit-after the confession
has been made-and that Reno had not
been formally retained as Arroyo's at-
torney.
Cooper also said Arroyo made the
confession voluntarily, and signed a
statement waiving his right to remain
silent until consulting an attorney.
Arroyo had testified that he signed the
statement because he "felt it was too
late."
Washtenaw County Circuit Court
Judge Henry Conlin decided to allow
the confession as evidence, saying it
was given voluntarily,
WEDNESDAY'S start of the non-jury
trial included testimony from
prosecution witness Shawn Slotnick,
the University security guard who
discovered the building had been
broken into last November 27.
Slotnick said he found two basement
windows broken, and an interior win-
dow shattered.
Prosecutors also called Shannon An-
derson and Donna Smallwood, both
secretaries in the economics depar-
tment. Anderson and Smallwood
testified about the typewriter Arroyo is
accused of stealing, and about the
building's floorplan.
Nelson made no opening statement,
and after the recess he would not com-
ment on his plan for Arroyo's defense.
The State Center for Forensic
Psychiatry ini Ypsilanti earlier found
Arroyo criminally responsible for his
actions.
The charred remains of the
economics building, the oldest struc-
ture on campus, were demolished this
summer.
Arroyo's trial will continue today at 2
p.m. in the Washtenaw County Cour-
thouse.
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