Ninety-Three Years of Editorial Freedom C I tic Sir tga ~Iai i Plunging Winter returns with a chance of snow flurries and a high around 41. ol. XCIII, No. 123 Copyright 1983, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Wednesday, March 9, 1983 Ten Cents Eight Pages x Student leaps lrom third floor in Law Quad blaze By HALLE CZECHOWSKI A University law student suffered second-degree burns and a broken vertebra when he was forced to jump from a third- floor dormitory window yesterday to escape a fire, which Ann Arbor Police suspect may have been set deliberately. James Picozzi, a second-year law student from Schenec- tady, N.Y., woke up at 4:15 a.m. to find his Law Quad room ablaze. When smoke and flames prevented him from getting to the door, he climbed out the window and held onto a ledge. BUT THE LEDGE became too hot for Picozzi to hold onto, and he fell more than 20 feet to the lawn on the Tappan Street side of the Law Quad. "It was fairly obvious it was just too hot-it was an inferno in there," said second-year law student Greg Frizzell. Friz- zell and hallmate Jim Martin grabbed fire extinguishers and ran into the room, thinking that Picozzi was still trapped sin- ce they could hear him screaming. A Martha Cook resident, who asked to remain anonymous, said that she heard Picozzi screaming and other people yelling at him to be quiet-for about 10 minutes before anyone realized that he was in trouble. ANN ARBOR Fire Marshall Wesley Prater siad that See ARSON, Page 7 Ed. school dean hits review by BILL SPINDLE The School ofEducation would have to eliminate at least 20 tenured professors if a panel's 40 percent budget cut recommendation is accep- ted, the school's dean said yesterday. The recommended $2 million budget cut - along with suggestions to drastically reduce undergraduate enrollment and save the physical education department by shifting it to another school - is the decision of a special student and faculty panel reviewing the school.r, DEAN JOAN Stark said that the proposals in the panel's report are "misdirected or at least misinformed." The school's faculty is working on alternative budget cuts to offer to the University's top budget committee, which presently is examining the report, she said. A 40 percent cut would not leave the school sufficient resources to retain the quality that the panel making the recommendation desires, Stark said. "I don't think the committee had any rationale for that kind of a cut. (It doesn't) flow from the goals and priorities set," she said. The report, leaked to the Daily early this week, advised the education school to cut its regular instructional staff from 105 to 60. Stark said yesterday that those figures only represent money budgeted for salaries and do not correspond to the number of professors working in the school. THE SCHOOL would be forced to lay off all seven of its assistant professors and reduce its tenured faculty ranks from 65 to 45 if the 40 percent cut goes through, Stark said. The University has never fired a tenured professor, although several have been relocated within the Unive- rsity after budget cuts. One professor from the former geography department was paid a bonus to retire early. 'Firings of tenured professors at other universities have resulted in many lawsuits. But administrators at the University of Michigan hold that they may lay off tenured faculty when a program is cut back. They say that they would be removing a position, not the professor. STARK SAID the $2 million cut recommended by the review panel really amounts to $2.5 million, when cuts to physical education and the Bureau of Student Services are added. Those cuts are not included in the 40 percent figure, she said. A cut of that size over three years would debilitate the school, Stark said. "It is,-impossible to cut (that much) in such a short time and not have chaos and demoralizing conditions in the school," she said. ALONG WITH the budget cut, the recommendation calls for the school to reduce undergraduate enrollment from See ED. SCHOOL, Page 2 Daily Photo by JON SNOW A log remains untouched in the blackened fireplace of a charred Law Quad room. A fire early yesterday morning injured one student and destroyed much of the room. *MSA surve By LAURIE DELATER Financial and academic problems outweigh social difficulties as major worries of foreign students at the University, according to a survey released at last night's Michigan Student Assembly meeting. The survey, conducted by the assembly last April with the help of the Institute for Social Research, specified and documented for the first time the problems facing some of the 2,468 foreign students at the University, according to MSA member Kathy Hartrick, who coordinated the survey. THE 105 respondents to the survey said that the major problem they faced was kee in up with the developments in their field of study tha take place in their home country. Finding work for themselves and their spouses s foreign closely followed as a big worry. Many foreign graduate students are promised jobs as teaching assistants at the University, only to find themselves denied a position because they cannot speak English well enough, Hartrick said. Looking for housing on campus also created problems for the foreign students who arrive at the University in August, long after the spring housing rush, the study indicated. Hartrick said that campus housing for foreign students at Baits on North Cam- pus often complicates the already confusing business of opening checking accounts, obtaining visas, and finding classes because it is so isolated from central campus. The University sets aside 100 places in West Quad as temporary housing for foreign students during students their housing search, Hartrick said. But often these students are urged to leave early to make room for others, only adding to the pressures. LANGUAGE DIFFICULTIES also handicapped foreign students' efforts to meet and communicate with American students-many respondents said they had trouble making good friends. "Americans are very businesslike; it is not possible to be close friends," said one student in the survey. Despite the problems they may face, the students were trying to adjust to their sometimes cold and confusing environment. "If you want to live here, you have to adjust, get up every morning with a smile, and be positive," said one student. "If you cannot do that, go-nobody likes sad people and you will soon be even unhappier." Offic iais say tax. increase necessary By GLEN YOUNG Warning of the possibility of further cuts to the state's higher education system, State Rep. Perry Bullard (D- Ann Arbor) called on students and Ann Arbor residents last night to sup- port an increase in the personal income tax, now making its way through the legislature. Bullard told a Michigan League audience of about 30 people that "it's going to be a fight to maintain the current level of higher education .. . Higher education is the one long-run tool we have for the economic develop- ment of our nation." THE TAX increase from 4.6 percent RENEE FREIER to 6.35 percent requested by Gov. an League James Blanchard and passed last week See STATE, Page 2 Signs of spring Daily photo by RENEE FRElER A professional traveling minstrel known only as Michael warms the Diag with his music yesterday. Douglas Roberts, deputy director of the state's department of management and budget, tells a Michiga gathering last night that if a tax increase is not enacted, it will mean more cuts to higher education. F TODAY Breaking away (and out)j MEASLES EPIDEMIC at Indiana University has infected up to 320 people, and health officials say the outbreak is so serious that Wonimmunized students may be barred from the Bloomington campus after spring break. State Health Commissioner Ronald Blankenbaker said Mondav that 170 cases of Safls.I to prevent students from attending college, but to guaran- tee that they, and those who associate with them, are adequately protected from a disease which is capable to killing one in every 1,000 persons who contact it." There also has been concern for the families of students who go home for break. Blankenbaker said preventing students from going home for vacation was "an alternative we con- sidered too radical" for now. But he said he doesn't rule out that possibility if the disease continues to spread. Q the best tables in France, worth a special trip - were awarded in the 1983 Michelin Guide, which goes on sale March 16. A spokeswoman for Michelin, as always, refused to comment on the decisions of the Guide's anonymous in- spectors. She would only say some of the establishments have had some problems, including illness of management. [] Thn a ivl nmann acr * 1963 - City bus drivers voted to strike for a wage hike to $2 an hour and a 45-hour work week. " 1970 - 150 University students marched from the Fish- bowl to the Admissions office to support BAM - the Black Action Movement - to demand a 10 percent increase in Black enrollment. C I I i i