Ninety- Three Years of Editorial Freedomw I E Sirt igan 1 IaiIQ Florida Incredible. The Diag is once again the place to spend a lazy March afternoon. Sunny and a high near 60. Vol. XCIII, No:117 Copyright 1983, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan -Wednesday, March 2, 1983 Ten Cents Ten Pages All Michigan grid action to be on Panel advises T.V . in '83 25% for a slash By RON POLLACK Michigan football fans will get to see all 11 Wolverines games on television next fall-but they'll have to wait until the game is over. Assistant Athletic Director Will Perry said at yesterday's Board in Control of Intercollegiate Athletics meeting! that a $60,000 deal with Con- solidated TeleCommunication would bring Michigan fans tape-delayed games on Saturday night or Sunday morning. Athletic Director Don Canham said, "We're of- fering an exclusive, contract. They get television rights to the state of Michigan and we get the rest of the country using (CTC's) pictures." MICHIGAN'S OPTIONS with the broadcasts will depend greatly on a court decision of a lawsuit filed by several colleges against the NCAA. The suit claims that the NCAA should not be able to dictate the television rights of a University. Perry said a ruling is expected sometime this month. "If the NCAA loses we could go national at 10:30 at night," said Perry. "Those rights are worth a helluva lot more than if we have to wait until 10:30 Los Angeles time. If we beam the game up at 10:30 Ann Arbor time, a lot more people can pick it right off the satellite. You might even be able to go live. You don't know. The possibilities are unlimited." Said Canham, "If the court decision goes against the NCAA we could put a replay on 10 minutes after the game ends. And if you could send it to Florida and New York on a Saturday night, you'd have a heckuva market." EVEN IF the NCAA wins its case, Michigan would not be without alternatives: "If the NCAA wins, then we develop our delayed TV package," said Perry. "Even if the NCAA wins we might go national on Sunday mornings." Perry also said that discussions are going on with the Marathon Oil Football Highlight Show, which sponsored a major part of the Big Ten highlight show for the first time last year. "WE'RE GOING in next week because Marathon was so pleased with the response (to the show) that See ALL, Page 7 irt school Daily Photo by JO Yehuda Blum, Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations,warns the audien prevailing anti-Israel feeling at the U.N. A1mbassador blasts 'anti-Israeli'U.N. By GLEN YOUNG A key committee has asked for a 25 percent slash in the School of Art's $1.5 million budget. The University's Budget Priorities Committee recommended yesterday that the University cut more than $350,000 from the school's budget. The recommendation came after a review subcommittee said it would be "unhappy" if the school's budget is cut more than 10 percent to 15 percent. ALTHOUGH THE subcommittee didn't strongly object to the BPC proposal, it met with strong op- position from many levels of the University. "These people (the BPC members) are desperate people, they're acting out of desperation," in light of the University's bleak financial situation, Art School N SNOW Dean George Bayliss told the Daily. nce of a In a statement released yesterday, Bayliss also said the recommendation "is without any justification for its severity." The cut "would create damage wholly disproportionate to the 'net' saving." Prof. Sherri Smith, a member of the School of Art executive committee, agrees with Bayliss. "There is some feeling the University is acting out of panic without looking at the long range goals," Smith said, adding "some people feel we've been the victim of an ill-conceived process." e mem THE RECOMMENDATION is now in the hands of ocracies the University's executive officers who will make a .y of the final decision after a March 14 hearing. The Univer- sity's Regents do not have to approve the executive He U.N. officers' decision unless they call for the school's He said closure, which is unlikely in light of the committee d the ias recommendations. The art school report is the second of three to be g, were completed as a part of the Universit-y's five-year, $20 own by million budget-shifting strategy. The administration )re than last month followed in part a BPC recommendation that the to cut the School of Natural Resources' budget by a wartime third. But the administration has given that school's faculty a chance to come up with a plan for a smaller, 5 budget cut of 20 percent before a final decision is attack made. School of Art steering committee member David Glaze was highly critical of the BPC recommen- dation. "They're totally out of the ballpark on this one (the recommendation)," Glaze said, "With a 25 per- cent cut we're going to lose distinguished. faculty members, they can go anywhere and make more money," Glaze said. Fellow art school steering committee member An- drew Keenan echoed Glaze's views. "Any good students with any money at all will get the hell out," Keenan said. He also said he believes the budget cut would hurt the school in the long run. "It will work against us," Kennan said, it'll scare a lot of people away, mostly freshmen and sophomores, and maybe some juniors," he added. 4, BOTH COMMITTEES, the BPC and its review subcommittee, emphasized the importance of the art school to the University community as a whole and said they feel a strong committment to improve the school. "The school's influence ought to be both in- tensified and extended," the BPC report said.' Subcommittee members said the school can still achieve these goals in light of the budget cut. "It is more than we ideally recommended, but I would hope the school could manage and go with it (the cut)," said Classical Studies Prof. John D'Arms, the sub- committee chairman. Law Prof. Theodore St. Antoine, another member of the BPC subcommittee agreed with D'Arms. "I really have no particular reaction. I felt the BPC was understanding of what we were trying to say; they were looking at (the review) from a superior view, that of the University as a whole. I don't feel let down or undercut," St. Antoine said. BOTH GLAZE and Keenan said the school can't be upgraded and withstand budget cuts. "The art school, in relationship to other art schools, is still a good deal. But we won't get the out-of-state people, so the 'U' will lose lots of money. It could kill us," See COMMITTEE, Page 3 By TRACEY MILLER Israel's ambassador to the United Nations warned of growing anti-Israeli feeling in the international peace keeping body last night. "Out of 88 meetings last year in the security council, 49 of the meetings were about Israel, while South Africa and the Falklands were not even men- tioned," Yehuda Blum told more than 150 people at Hillel. "The U.N. of 1983 no longer bears any resemblance to the organization con- ceived by founders over 38 years ago. Authoritarian, dictatorial, and totalitarian states dominate th bership of the U.N., while dem( like Israel make up the minorit members," Blum continued. "Israel has no quarrel with t charter, though" said Blum.1 the principles of the charter, opposition to social injustice ant trinsic value of the human bein the same as "those handed d the prophets in Jerusalem mo 2800 years ago." He also said U.N. was an outgrowth of the v See ISRAELI, Page __ PIR GIM alleges By LAURIE DELATER PIRGIM leaders are charging that re- cent opposition aimed at eliminating their funding plan is the disguised at- tack of a national Republican student organization. Wendy Rampson, the head of the local Public Interest Research Group in Michigan, alleged that the local chapter of the College Republicans is behind a movement on campus to end PIRGIM's current method of funding. BUT MEMBERS os the Student Committee for Reform and Progress, (SCRAP), the group that launched the atack, say they are acting independen- tly of local and national College Republicans. However, the College Republican National Committee currently is coor- dinating a national effort to drive Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs) off campuses because of their special funding policies, which "un- democratically" generates money to "lobby against President Reagan," ac- cording to a committee memo. At the University, PIRGIM currently collect money by asking students to sign a stub on the Student Verification Form during registration each term. THE MEMO, which was sent to College Republicans state chairmen, further condemns PIRG-activities such as lobbying for handgun control, for a nuclear freeze, and against draft registration and contests that most PIRGs are also "anti-'big business.' " "It's time to quit sitting back and watching the left laugh at us. It's time to fight back," National Projects politicai Baldwin writes in the memo. In an interview, however, Baldwin said it is not political issues but the fun- ding system that is central to the College Republican attack on PIRGs. "WE WOULD still oppose them if their political interests were different," he said. "We would have no qualms- about the groups if they sought funding in the normal manner." The memo outlines several strategies for attacking PIRGs, one of which in- volves organizing a coalition of campus Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, and Independents to protest the groups' funding policy while side-stepping political issues. "This way it doesn't look like an attack on the left by the right," the 'Memo reads. These groups should employ a name unaffiliated with College Republicans such as "Students against Mandatory Fee Abuse," according to the memo. THE COALITION is just one of several anti-PIRG tactics outlined in the memo. Other strategies include threatening legal action, exploiting PIRG political stances through flyers and posters, and placing "lots of (College Republicans) in the audience to ask embarrassing questioks" when PIRG representatives speak on cam- pus. Last fall anti-PIRG groups began cropping up on campuses in Colorado, New York, North Carolina and at least five other states. PIRG represen- tatives believe these groups were organized by College Republicans said Rampson. See PIRGIM, Page 2 Director for College Republicans Scott House intensifies EPA probe WASHINGTON(AP)-A House subcommittee in- vestigating the Environmental Protection Agency said yesterday that documents withheld from Congress by President Reagan include references to political manipulation of EPA cleanup funds, despite White House denials. In a letter to Reagan and the Justice Department, Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) urged Reagan to release all documents relevant to his subcommittees in- vestigation of the agency. DINGELL, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce oversight subcommittee, said sworn statements by EPA employees "present evidence of wrongdoing, unethical behavior and potential criminal conduct. "It is because of this belief that the subcommittee now refers the matter . . . for consideration of prosecution." While the information Dingell referred to apparen- tly focuses on possible perfury by Rita Lavelle-fired chief of EPA's toxic waste program-the congressman also said his panel received sworn testimony Monday that there is evidence of "political manipulation" among documents the agency has refused to surrender. HE SAID the subcommittee was told "there were several tracks at EPA, one being a fast track, one being a middle track and another being a political track." The agency, headed by Administrator Anne Bur- ford, the former Anne Gorsuch, has been racked by allegations of political manipulation of dump cleanups under the $1.6 billion Superfund and ac- cusations it made "sweetheart deals" with com- panies that under law should pay all or most of the See EPA, Page 7 Daily Photo by JON SNOW Assembly line These students decided to get a head start on summer by bringing their studies outside of the grad library yesterday. f ODAY- One less Elgar HE UNIVERSITY administration is planning to take the pomp and circumstance out of graduating rt r,.a ..- inm me rl Fvie mnnremidnnt Jesus Christ Superstar CHRISTIAN TEENAGERS frequently burn their rock 'n' roll records and denounce the musicians as agents of the devil. But Lawrence Welk? Records by the cham- pagne music maker were burned Sunday along with the works of heavy-metal bands such as Black Sabbath at a bonfire sponsored by the Church of the Open Door in Green- sburg. "All that stuff tears down your body," Tom Gernert, 18, president of the 30-member youth group, said of the music. Gernert said Welk was blacklisted because he plays been known to make a burping sound before shooting a blast of water to the ceiling. "It's rather exciting, and em- barrassing," said Barnhart of the toilet's occasional lapse of manners. So far, it hasn't unleashed a geyser when a visitor was using the bathroom, he said. Town officials blame the spouting toilet on an underground "ejector" which is supposed to force sewage uphill with air pressure. If the air compressor fails to shut off, the pressure is released through a nearby manhole-and the Barnhart's toilet. Town Manager M. Lee Draper said there was no estimate of when the problem might be corrected. visit to Ann Arbor and I may say that no visits have ever given my greater pleasure"; *1936-History Prof. Dwight Dumond and one of his students tracked down the missing letters of famed abolitionist James Birney and prepared them for publishing; * 1951-A study revealed that a copy of The Michigan Daily burns faster than most American newspapers. The Daily burned in 36 seconds, while the New York Times took 71 seconds. i i