Pot law smoldering once again See Today's Weekend NieyTreYears 1 ~ t ~ tRegressive N O f eYearCloudy with a chance of rain and a Vo XCIII, No 131 Copyright 1983, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Friday, March 18, 1983 Ten Cents Twelve Pages m atieaction - i Liveon. Regents get bad news in their annual report By SHARON SILBAR at the clerical/secretarial level "I'm in a way sorry that we have to look and GLEN YOUNG remained unchanged, the report said. at data (retroactively), instead of being eport on the University's progress Nordby said there are no female vice in a leadership role. We can do a lot bet- - ._L-presidents at any level, only one female ter." A r in affirmative action drew negative reactions from the Regents, at their monthly meeting yesterday. The report, prepared by Affirmative Action Director Virginia Nordby, in- dicated deficiencies in the University's recruitment and retention of women and. minority staff, faculty, and ad- ministrators. THE NUMBER of minority workers dean (in the Nursing school), and only one female department chairperson (in the medical school). One other female dean, Joan Stark in education, will soon leave her post. "From these numbers, this report is very discouraging," said Regent Sara Power (D-Ann Arbor). POWER LAUDED Nordby's effort in preparing the 175-page report, but said While several departments reached affirmative action goals, most of these were attained through attrition - not hiring, Nordby explained. One regent expressed concern over the effects proposed budget cuts could have on affirmative action within schools under review. Regent Gerald Dunn (D-Lansing) called attention to See REGENTS, Page 5 D ivest! Daily Photo by DOUG McMAHON Dumisani Khumalo, projects director for the American Commitee on S. Africa, tells a group of more than a hundred students that the Sullivan Principles are not really working. Students from the schools of Natural Resources, Art, and Education gathered in Regent's Plaza yesterday to protest the University's review process, which has targeted them for budget cuts. Reagan calls f or stiffer Law Review moves to initiate own plan student WASHINGTON (AP) - President Reagan asked Congress yesterday to require college students to contribute 40 percent - or at least $800 - toward their education expenses each year before they would be eligible for federal grants. The 40 percent contribution from students would be in addition to con tributions expected from parents, ac cording to John Haines, an Education Departmentofficial. STUDENT contributions would come from loans, savings, and the work a 7 aid requirements study program. The maximum grant, Within hours after Secretary of which does not have to be repaid, would Education Terrence Bell announced the be increased from $1,800 to $3,000. details of the president's package, a Monday for the work-study and the spokesman for the American Council on grant program would be increased by Education said the proposed changes in about $300 million each. But three the student aid program would not be current student aid progams that now enacted. receive nearly $600 million would be "That one is not going anywhere this - eliminated. The net funding level would year," said Larry Zaglaniczny, the remainthesame. council's assistant director -for z eThe programs scheduled to be drop- congressional liaison. He said the ped are: national direct student loans, House and Senate committees that supplemental educational opportunity would deal with the bills "have in- grants and state student incentive dicated they are not going to act or grants. this." if e a n n e s e r e t n By BILL HANSON Following in the footsteps of the Har- vard Law Review, the outgoing editorial board of Michigan's Law Review has proposed a modest affir- mative action plan for selecting its junior staff. Although most law schools - like most universities in general - have adopted affirmative action plans to in- crease enrollment of women and minorities, the nation's law reviews largely have remained bastions of meritocracy, where only grades and writing performance determine accep- tance to the presitigious journals. BUT THE Harvard Law Review, the most respected in the nation, went through a long and heated debate last year over establishing an affirmative action program. That journal's editors finally decided on a watered-down plan in which educational barriers are taken into account to give certain applicantsa slight edge on acceptance. The Michigan editors have proposed a stronger, - though still modest - program, which offers membership to the top two minority students whose writing samples rank in the upper half of those submitted. But should no minority student's writing entry rank in the top 50 percent, no minority students would be offered a position on the Review that year via the affirmative action program. The proposal is part of the 1982-83 editorial board's lengthy report on staff selection procedures. Issued last mon- th, the report recommends that the See LAW, Page 6 44 A~W"9~' 7 . . A ~' ~; * Johnson . "encouraged" by plan Panel suggests no cuts for LSA support units By DAN GRANTHAM Three LSA support programs will get a reprieve from the budget ax if the college's executive commit- tee accepts a review panel's recommendation. A three-member review group has asked that the English Composition Board (ECB), the Coalition for the Use of Learning Skills (CULS), and the Pilot Program be spared budget cuts this year. THE REVIEW was part of the college's efforts to prepare for a budget cut order of unspecified propor- tions from the University's central administration. The: review panel will present its report to the LSA executive committee within the next three weeks, where a final decision will be made, said Eric Rabkin, the college's associate dean for long-range planning. Psychology Prof. Robert Pachella, a member of the review group, said his committee looked for the "cost- effectiveness" of each 'program by studying their current budgets. The panel based much of its study on past reviews of two of the programs, Pachella said, but that was not possible for the ECB, which had never un- dergone a major review. Wilton Barham, CULW' director, said he thought the review committee did a fair job. CULS - which grew out of 1970 Black Action Movement demands for sup- port services for minorities - serves educationally dis- advantaged students in the college. BARHAM SAID the program was run by student vol- See PANEL, Page 6 . Canham attacks USFL tactics By CHERYL BAACKE University Athletic Director Don Canham yester- day said the USFL should not be allowed to draft college players until their eligibility to play in college is up. "(The USFL) promised us they would not sign a player until his eligibility is up," Canham told about 30 students and faculty at the second session of Cam- pus Meet the Press. HE SAJD the main issue is not that the athletes may leave before they graduate, since there have been athletes from Michigan and other schools who haven't earned degrees, but that they could be draf- ted while they are still eligible for college play. If the USFL had drafted players in December as the league originally planned, he said, "every out- standing player who played in every bowl would have been ineligible for Bowl games." Canham said he was not as concerned about athletes earning degrees because he looks at education differently than others might. "(WE SHOULD) not be as concerned with a piece of paper as if you prepare somebody for life." He ad- ded that he believes Michigan's athletic program does provide adequate preparation. Responding to a question on whether Canham planned to stick with Basketball Coach Bill Frieder, who has had three weak seasons, the athletic director responded, "He's in no danger whatsoever, period." See CANHAM, Page 9 Airport controversy broadens By HALLE CZECHOWSKI State legislators will'investigate the Michigan Aeronautics Com- mission to decide whether or not actions by Ann Arbor Mayor Louis Belcher to expand the city's air- port were proper, Rep. Edward Mahalek (D-Romulus) said yesterday. Mahalek, chairman of the legislature's Joint Committee on Transportation, said the hearings are not intended to decide whether Mayor Belcher has committed a crime, but rather to decide if the Commission's policies need up- dating. "There's no civil or criminal liability here. We're just trying to get a handle on the position of the Michigan Aeronautics Commission,'' Mahalek said. HE ADDED that he had been trying to understand the policies of the Commission for many years and he hoped this incident would give the committee a chance to revise some of the Commission's policies. The committee has asked of- ficials from Ann Arbor, Pittsfield and Lodi Township, to appear at the hearings with the aeronautics commission. Mayor Belcher said the hearing See LEGISLATORS, Page 9 11 Dry Photo by DOUG McMAHON Athletic Director Don Canham attacks USFL recruting techniques at .yesterday's Campus Meet the Press. 1 1 TODAY Dog concert debuts COMPOSER KIRK NUROCK'S Sonata for Piano and Dog was a howling success, even though the performers were not unleashed. The piece, which features three dogs, had its debut Wednesday at Each dog howls separately for the first three movements of the sonata, and all join forces for the fourth. The perfor- mers were onstage with their owners, who held them by leash. "A lot of people laugh at the notion," Nurock said, "but it's a humorous piece." O A kick in the gludeus maximus Michigan State Highway Commission. "Only the emotionally insecure, mentally limited and professionally indolent would have the time or inclination to take umbrage at my comments," Fletcher told the man. "It was a very cold day and possibly the minuscule federal brains became congealed standing outside so long away from their customary desks." The society gives the award in memory of Samuel Johnson, a British lexicographer who worked on some of the first English language dictionaries. * 1933 - City Attorney William Laird banned the sale of beer in the University section of Ann Arbor. Only drug stores were exempted from the statute. * 1958 - The State Senate Appropriations committee proposed a $1 million slash in the University's 1958-59 operating budget. The proposed budget allotment called for the firing of approximately 175 instructors. * 1975 - 45 students gathered at the University Housing Council to air complaints about the dorm lottery. The University was also served with three court injunctions, all questioning the fairness of recent dorm lotteries. E I I i