4 Page 10-Wednesday, January 5, 1983-The Michigan Daily Catchingup on the news College, business xww, ap Polish Nobel winner to teach in LSA leaders eN By GEORGE ADAMS When the pursuit of knowledge meets the pursuit of profits, many feel academic freedom is the victim. Leaders from academia, industry, and government, including University President Harold Shapiro, addressed those fears in Philadelphia last month at a conference on university-cor- porate relations. The meeting, dubbed "Partners in the Research Enterprise," drew more than 400 intellectual and corporate leaders to the campus of the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania to "explore the dimensions of the relationship bet- ween universities and industry, and see what the problems might be," said University of Pennsylvania President Sheldon Hackney. HACKNEY said the conference resulted from increased tension bet- ween big business and college resear- ch. that tension revolves around the differing goals of academia and in- dustry; while universities strive for the open pursuit and exchange of ideas, corporations prefer to keep new ideas secret to assure profits. "For instance," Hackney said, "do professors engaged in corporate research need permission to publish their results, or even discuss them iplore ties with colleagues? We didn't intend to reach any definite conclusions, but a great deal of information was ex- changed from all angles." - While industry has long been a patron of applied research, the current lack of federal funds for basic research has caused universities to look to the private sector to replace the lost dollars. HACKNEY said that universities currently receive about 4 percent of their research dollars from cor- porations and that he expects the figure to rise to 10 percent by 1990. University research in the United States currently totals about $6.3 billion, more than two-thirds of which comes from the federal government. Hackney and University of Michigan Assistant Vice President for Research Alan Price, wh attended the conference, agreed that both industry and university factions favored in- creased government funds for basic research. Price expressed dissatisfaction with the conference, saying he "didn't learn anything new." "It turned out to be a presentation of different views on the relationship between industry and academia, and it didn't lead to a statement of prin- ciples," he said.'' By BETH ALLEN Czeslaw Milosz, a Nobel Prize- winning Polish poet, will join the University this term as a visiting professor. Milosz, who received the award in 1980, has been appointed the Walgreen Professor of Human Under- standing and will teach two LSA mini- courses. One of the three-week mini-courses is tentatively scheduled to deal with author Fyodor Dostoevsky, focusing on "The Possessed" and "The Grand -Inquisitor," and the other with twent- ieth century Polish poetry, according to Slavic Languages and Literatures Chairman Benjamin Stolz. MILOSZ WAS given an honorary degree from the University in 1977 and has taught at the University of Califor- nia at Berkeley since 1960. He began publishing in the 1930s, and has written books on the history of Polish literature, literary and critical essays, and novels in addition to his poetry. His most recent publications are "The Issa Valley" and "The View from San Fran- cisco Bay." Born in a section of Poland that is now part of the Soviet Union, Milosz served as cultural attache to the Polish Embassy in Washington and Paris bet- ween 1945 and 1950. In 1951, he broke his ties with the Polish government and emigrated to the United States from Paris in 1960. University President Harold Shapiro, right, meets with Henry Wendt, president and chief executive officer of the SmithKline Beckman Cor- poration, which co-sponsored last month's conference on corporate and academic leaders in Philadelphia. Dickensian Christmas for English department 'U' Regents decide to end Saturday finals By SCOTT KASHKIN The Regents, at their December meeting, eliminated one inconvenience facing students by voting to no longer schedule exams on Saturdays. The Board, by restricting final exams to week- days, freed both students and professors for other weekend activities, including studying. The change will not affect the length of a term, since Saturday and Sunday will now be scheduled as study days. THE REGENTS then turned to discussion on a plan to reduce medical school enrollment by 25 percent, first proposed in November, 1981 by Vice President for Academic Affairs Billy Frye. According to Frye, a drop in the number of students would reduce expenses by eliminating some lab sections and courses. The plan would also raise medical school tuition to help further defray the costs of teaching the doctors. Regent Deane Baker (R-Ann Arbor), however, was skeptical of the plan. "I've never been per- suaded that reduction of enrollment increases costs," Baker said. The Board voted to establish a privately-funded research center involving the Departments of Chemistry, Physics, and Chemical Engineering. The Regents also approved more than $23 million in construction contracts to Michigan fir- ms primarily for the in-patient unit of the Univer- sity's Replacement Hospital Project. (Continued from Page 1) pay plan, upon hearing of the gift. Frye, vice president for academic af- fairs, refused further comment, saying he considers the action a private affair of the English department. One secretary said she used the money to meet car payments, and another said she would use it to help finance a Christmas trip to Florida. "When Karen (Van Raalte) handed: me a white envelope and gravely ex= plained she had nothing to do with it," wrote another, "I thought for one moment that I was being laid off. YouU can imagine my surprise and joy on discovering not a pink slip but an ex- tremely kind and generous gift from you. Daily Classifieds Bring Results Milliken signs law requiring University divestment Regent Gerald Dunn (D-Lansing) said that while he is "not adverse to divestment, the legislature is not being honest about this." Dunn said the legislature is "hypocritical" for requiring univer- sities, but not the state's huge employee retirement fund, to divest. Such legislation has been proposed but not acted on in Lansing. Among the options now available to the Regents are: " Comply with the law, though they disagree with its philosophy for promoting social change in South Africa; * Take the state to court, asking a judge to strike down the legislation; or * Do nothing before the April, 1984 deadline, and wait for the state to make the first move to enforce the law. Officials said yesterday that the issue likely will not come up at the January Regents meeting, but un- 'oubtedly would in the spring when the ad- ministration presents its annual report on South African investments. The law also requires the University to withdraw from companies working in the Soviet Union. But a list of firms that fall in that category has never been compiled, a problem recognized by officials on all sides of the issue. Enforcement of that provision may be even more difficult. STUDENT FAMILY HOUSING AVAILABLE WINTER TERM STOP IN ROOM 1011 S.A.B., TELEPHONE 763-3164 8 A.M. to Noon; 12:30 to 4:30 Weekdays State deficit tops $700 million; 'U expects cuts (Continued from Page 1) in his fifth day in office, has yet to decide what programs will bear the brunt of the cuts, but he recently told the Detroit News that he expected --U -ifi ULRICH'S the calculator center We stock the complete line of Hewlett-Packard calculators and accessories at competitive prices [hf3 education to be among the hardest hit in the state's effort to balance its budget. After a $15 million cut in state aid last year, the University can't withstand more reducing said one University of- ficial. "We're already trying to absorb enormous decreases as it is," said Vice President for State Relations Richard Kennedy. "We're hard pressed to figure where we can cut this place anymore." The University has already had to defer building maintenance and equipment buying, give inadequate staff salary raises, eliminated more than 600 positions, and "dump an enormous load on students" in the form of higher tuition, Kennedy said. A TAX INCREASE could help relieve some of the pressure to cut from state programs, but so far Blanchard has been cautious. The governor has ap- pointed an independent committee, called the Financial Crisis Committee and chaired by U.S. Rep. Carl Pursell (R-Plymouth), to look for solutions to the state's dilemma. That committee's report is due January 24, after which the governor will decide what cuts and tax increases will be needed. Both Kennedy and Pat McCarthy of the state budget office expect Blan- chard to mop up the state's red ink with a combination of the two. "At this point, there's no attractive alter- native," McCarthy said. 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