4 OPINION Page 4 The Fights: Art Sunday, March 6, 1983 The Michigan Daily school and others r- HE CRUCIBLE continues and it is the School of Art now under the fiscal flame. Last Thursday art students and faculty filled Chrysler Auditorium on North Campus to plan a reaction to the Budget Priorities Committee recommendation to cut the school's budget by 25 percent. School of Art Dean George Bayliss outlined a campaign that he said would be "feisty," but not "violent, foolish, or unproductive." The campaign will include student paint-ins on the Diag, sending a message on paper ground from The Week in Review one -inch squares of donated clothing to Univer- sity administrators, circulating petitions, and writing letters and sending telegrams to University officials, alumni, art gallery owners and others associated with the fine arts. Besides the over-all 25 percent budget reduc- tion, the budget committee recommended.a 40 percent cut in faculty, reducing undergraduate enrollment from 570 students to 300, expanding non-art student classes, and working on the enhancement of distinguished faculty. Bayliss said he believed the committee has tried to be fair in their evaluation of the school, but admitted his fear that the recom- mendations are "short-sighted" and will be "unproductive and damaging" to the school in the long run. !-../ C/ 1 like a solid hook just may put the consumer organization on the floor. PIRGIM, properly known as the Public In- terest Research Group in Michigan, will ask University authorities later this month for a new fundraising system that will make it a lot easier to squeeze a few bucks each term out of cheapo students. PIRGIM thinks students should fork over $12 each term automatically, while those narrow-minded individuals who choose not to give to this important cause could ask for a refund. But a group of students - many of whom are wallpapering their South Quad dorm rooms with The Michigan Review - has squared off against the campus bleeding hearts and threatens to drive PIRGIM straight from the superior position it holds today. The opposition believes PIRGIM shouldn't be allowed to use the University's registration system in any way for fundraising - as it presently does. Last month, the right collected 7000 signatures to support its position, while the left could do no better than 5200. Meanwhile, the National College Republican Organization has decided to attack public in- terest research groups throughout the country, with a tactic similar to the one used in Ann Ar- bor. The local group claims no affiliation with the national cause, though PIRGIM leaders suspect one exists. What's to be done? The Regents will have to decided if 7000 names are enough for a knockout, or if 5200 names mandate the heavyweight crown. The likely result will be a draw. But no doubt there will be calls for a rematch. I Wasserman Profits vs. Divestment D IVESTMENT PROPONENTS better think twice if they think the University's plan to ask the Regents to authorize the sale of stocks in four companies is a step toward com- plete divestment. The University is selling stock because the companies aren't showing progress toward social reform in apartheid South Africa, according to University invest- ment officer Norman Herbert. And such a move wouldn't prevent the University from in- vesting in other companies operating there. It would be only the second time since the Regents endorsed the controversial Sullivan Principles that the University has divested from a company in South Africa. The principles are a set of anti-apartheid guidelines aimed at social, political, and economic reform for em- ployees of firms operating in South Africa. The University has been unable to obtain detailed reports from Carnation Co., Dunn and Bradstreet Corp., Dart and Kraft, Inc., and Trane Co. despite Herbert's attempts to get such information. In several letters to some of the companies Herbert warned that if they didn't comply with University requests, the University would be forced to divest. The University's new intentions come on the heels of increasing pressure from students, faculty, and state lawmakers urging divest- ment. The height of this renewed movement came late last month when the Senate Assem- bly voted to ask the University to divest - the first time the faculty has taken.action on the issue as a group. But advocates of divestment cannot claim much of a victory, at least not until the Univer- sity moves away from using the Sullivan Prin- $5 fines vs. Apathy 4 A NN ARBOR'S unique $5 fine for those caught with those funny Colombian cigarettes v'ill be a thing of the past if city voters repeal it in next month's election, but a meeting this week aimed at saving the law drew a surprisingly low turnout. The Committee Against Recriminalization held a mass meeting in the Union's large Pen- dletom Room, but the 10 people who showed q' barely filled the front row seats. Nevertheless, conmittee coordinator Scott Prosterman said he thinks there will be enough people between his group, the group supporting weatherization of rental units, and the omnipresent Progressive Student Network to wage an effec- tive campaign, but he conceded ,that most students won't get involved unless the law is repealed and enforcement becomes mote strict. The committee hoped to muster support through a voter registration drive, but it's tQo late for that since tomorrow is the last day to register and be eligible to vote on April 4. - The group will raise funds by peddling "$5.is FINE with me" buttons, and they hope to she lots of the buttons at the annual April 1 HaSh Bash.' Prosterman said, however, that toe smokers' ritual will probably be a boost for the folks trying to repeal the law. It looks like the price of getting high will be getting higher. Week in Review was compiled by Daily staff writers Neil Chase, David Spak, Jon Stewart, and Barry Witt. ciples as its guidelines and toward more per- manent and complete measures for getting out of South Africa. The next big test for the school will be at a public hearing on the recommendations March 14. In the meantime, art students and faculty will be organizing and planning to convince University administrators to reconsider the budget committee recommendations. PIRGIM vs. The Right THE FINAL round of PIRGIM's bout with the local Reagan youth is near, andit looks 01iE ib:M tdt,&an ill atg Edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan Vol. XCIII, No. 121 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Editorials represent a majority opinion of the Daily's Editorial Board Governors T HIS PAST WEEK, another group has come before the president to complain of excessive defense spen- ding and paltry aid to the nation's poor. But this time the group's interest was neither small nor insignificant; the nation's governors represent the same people as the president and their bipar- tisan statement should not be ignored. The collective wisdom of the nation's governors told the president that unless the budget deficit (to which high defense spending is a major con- tributor) is reduced, it will eventually choke off the economic recovery. In a characteristic reaction, Reagan said he resented the "unfair" criticism and would stick to his guns over butter policy. But the president forgets that both Republican and Democratic governors have their own deficits to worry about. Combined state revenues are off by nearly $8 billion. Whether you live in Michigan, California, or Pennsylvania, your state is in the midst of a budget crisis with many governors pointing to federal spending and economic policies as the chief problem and right- fully so. More than a year ago, Reagan an- nounced his "New Federalism" fight back proposal with great fanfare. Though much of the program never received more than a congressional hearing or two, the central idea of shifting federal responsibilities to the states has brutally hit state and local governmen- ts, as the companion principle of federal compensation for such a move was lost. A $7 billion decline in federal grants to state and local governments com- bined with the recession and drastic cuts in social spending have forced local leaders to budgetary scissors, leaving millions of unemployed and working poor without vital federal and local support. States are not making up for federal cuts and poor economic policy made at the White House. Even though tens of states are planning to increase their own taxes, most of this will only make up for lost tax revenues due to the recession. Thus, Republican and Democratic governors alike have big complaints about Reagan administration policy. And in spite of the projected recovery, the federal aid cutbacks and lingering recession governors must cope with now have blotted out the rosy picture of the future painted by the ad- ministration. Groot News, 512- LooK Li k. VA EC~oNOM AG @iowT1M, WeRQ WNFtAT0o I\NWD LESS UNEkM'LoYMtwr hAcTUhLYSIR". .MOST' of T1Ak is )UE To TNE DR~OP IN O1L .PRICE. BPOU@1T P ABOUT By TME RCESSION 1 NOW'N 1ENVZE 1N~tUY ( &oIW@To 1'e To RDM1T My? PAN\R ~7( 4 Z1~ .-, ( WELL.. 10 lg lWIek u i . M ' O Y' ..f.. 1""--- " Q . A . ' w ^ ._ _-. - -. Beating Chicago 's Machine 4 YES, WITH OUR PAWNS ARE DISSATISFIED ECONOMIC CO9PMOrmOS OF LATE... ANDYOURS ? By Lynn Orr CHICAGO-Has the era of in- side connections finally run out? That's the question echoing out of Illinois in the wake of Harold Washington's Democratic mayoral primary victory. For here, in the very capital of "in- siders' politics," an outsider has nosed out not one but two favorites of Chicago's most powerful organized blocs. The "I Love Being Black" but- tons worn by Washington's many supporters-black, white and Hispanic-tell just one part of the story. The registration drive that added more than 130,000 voters to the rolls-ensuring that 40 per- cent of this city's registered voters were black-and the political fever that generated an unofficial 80 percent turnout in this election, tell another part. The voters' acceptance of the 60- year-old, two-term congressman's progressive reform platform should send a strong message to urban political candidates elsewhere. WASHINGTON pledged to raise taxes, to improve city race, a barrage of TV ads by both his opponents, and typical Chicago "dirty tricks" which prompted the presence of some 400 federal election monitors at the polls and an immediate im- pounding of the ballots. Pre-election charges of racial smears and unfair practices in- cluded allegations that Mayor Jane Byrne's campaign workers were passing out federal gover- nment butter and cheese to prospective supporters. Media reports said that Cook County's Democratic Party chairman told precinct captains that the elec- tion was "a racial thing" and urged them to "save your city" by helping Byrne win. WASHINGTON said it was a working people's coalition of blacks, whites, and Hispanics that gave him this victory. Washington's record as an in- dependent helped him garner support. The Independent Voter of Illinois-Independent Precinct Organization gave Washington its endorsement with nearly unanimous support based on his 16-year record in the state legislature and his congressinal record in the state legislature and Washington. She found the National Organization for Women's endor- sement for Byrne embarrassing. "The real story is that it's a new independent movement in the city. A big part of it is from the black community, but it's being supported by a lot of whites. There's alliances that have been forged in this campaign that will continue." Political analyst Don Rose qualified her assessment, saying, "It's scarcely a coalition. It's a left fringe of whites and Latinos." He sees no "white in- dependent groupings en masse." Rather it is whites from smaller, sometimes single-issue movements such as tenants' rights and consumer groups, as well as activists from the nuclear freeze movement who stumped for Washington on an individual basis and brought in the necessary 10 percent white vote. WASHINGTON'S conviction for failing to file his income tax in the mid-'70s probably alienated some of the traditional white liberal vote, said Michael Preston, associate professor of political science at the University grass-roots movement aided, rather than led, by established organizations such as Operation PUSH and the Urban League, said Robert Starks, associate professor at Northeastern Illinois University's Center for Inner City Studies. The voter registration drive began last summer, evolving out of a litany of complaints against Mayor Byrne, who won 63 percent of the black vote in her 1979 upset vic- tory. Minority gripes included last spring's appointments to the Chicago Board of Education, which resulted in a white- majority board setting policy for a 60 percent-plus black student population, and Byrne's attempts to unseat her own black alder- man appointee, Allan Streeter, who began voting as an indepen- dent. Black protest culminated in a boycott of last year's Chicago Fest, after Byrne appointed two white women to the Chicago Housing Authority Board, creating another white-majority board governing an 85 percent black residential community. Washington is expected to win easily in the mayoral election in