The ingpin of' I athletics See today's Weekend. Ninety-Three Years Kafka Sof Increasing cloudiness today with a Editorial Freedom high in the mid'40s. 60 percent chan- ce of rain tonight. XlIl, No. 143 Copyright 1983, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Friday, April 1, 1983 Ten Cents Ten Pages Jraft law angers medical Students By BARBARA MISLE University medical students, upset over being asked to voluntarily prove they registered with the Selective Service before receiving financial aid, yester- day said the request violated their con- stitutional rights. "I felt obligated to do it so my aid wouldn't be held up," said Robert vine a fourth-year student in the niversity's six-year Inteflex medical program. "I believe (the medical school) thinks they are doing what is in my best interest, but the request is self- incriminating. They should've con- sidered the ramifications of requesting students to fill out forms that are un- constitutional." THE REQUEST was first made in early March to help the school prepare for a law, scheduled to go into effect *uly 1, which would deny federal aid to See MEDICAL, Page 7 Cut Engin. lit. classes, review sa, By NEIL CHASE the humanities cred The College of Engineering's fulfill graduation requ humanities department'will lose its The department's p literature classes and seven faculty technical writing a positions if a review committee's report focus on technology w is accepted. be spared under the pi The report, released yesterday, im- by the seven-membe mediately drew criticism from the ' tee. department and from one review com- The committee, m mittee member who said his views had engineering profess shifted since the completion of the professors, and o report. student, received its THE REVIEWERS called for the college's executive department to phase out over a seven- Fall. year period great books program and THE COMMITTE upper-class literature seminars and evaluate "the pr send engineering students to LSA to get See REVIE' its they need to irements. opular courses in nd courses that ith society would roposal submitted r review commit nade up of three sors, three LSA ne engineering charge from the committee last E was asked to eliminary con- W, Page 2 Rock art Daily Photo by SCOTT ZOCTON The much abused rock on the corner of Hill and Washtenaw got some tender loving care yesterday. Scott Gordon, a junior in the Residential College, created "wrapped Rock a la Cristo" as a project for a fiber arts class. Candidates battle for city's top spot Belcher: Mayor 's job Morris says Belcher has too much power is to be aggressive By RITA GIRARDI and THOMAS MILLER Democratic mayoral candidate Leslie Morris may think that Mayor Louis Belcher is too aggressive and runs the city like a dictator. Belcher would probably tell her there's no such thing as a "too aggressive" mayor. "I may be too much of a leader for her, and I may take too much initiative, but that's my job as mayor, I think, and that's what the city charter says I'm supposed to do," Belcher said. Judging from the criticism Belcher and Morris have leveled at each other, this year's mayoral race promises to be as colorful as it will be close. City eleCtions 83 Belcher, running for his third term as mayor of Ann Arbor, has spent much of his time fighting the "King Louis" image and staving off attacks made by his Democratic opponent that he has See BELCHER, Page 5 By RITA GIRARDI and THOMAS MILLER For Democratic mayoral candidate Leslie Morris, the personality of Republicap incumbent Lou Belcher is the major issue of this year's election. "He's off the deep end, way off the deep end," Morris said. "I think he's lost it ... I don't think he understands what's going on and I think some people have found that out. I think they're taking advantage of him." Morris, who has served three terms as 2nd Ward city councilwoman, feels Mayor Belcher is trying to run the city all by himself. "All he is, is one mem- ber of an 11-member council. He doesn't understand that," Morris said. "Strong direction (in city government) is a group strong direction, not an in- dividual strong direction." Morris is not favored to win the elec- tion at this point, but has gained some ground in her campaign through at- tacks on Belcher's supposed mishan- dlings of the Ann Arbor Airport expan- See MORRIS, Page 5 Belcher ... defends his actions Shapiro: comnmty not aware of facts By CARL WEISER University President Harold Shapiro yesterday refuted many of the "misperceptions" that members of the community have about the University's financial priorities. Speaking at Campus Meet the Press, Shapiro criticized the notion that money was being taken away from the humanities in order to boost technical research. He said that outside of faculty salaries, more money from the Univer- sity's budget reallocation process has gone to libraries than anything else. SHAPIRO compared the $250,000 recently given to a new molecular genetics research center to almost $6 million that hasp been shifted to the See SHAPIRO, Page 3 LSA reviews theater and drama department By DAN GRANTHAM A seven-member committee is studying the University's theater and drama department to determine if it should remain within LSA, University officials say. The committee, which began meeting the first week of March is "looking at the question of the relation and place of theater in the University," according to Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs Bob Holbrook. HE SAID THAT THE department, which is currently part of LSA, could possibly move to another school, such as music, become an independent program, or remain within LSA. "The department of drama, with an emphasis on perfor- mance, is different in many ways from other liberal arts departmentsin LSA,"causing University officials to question whether LSA meets the department's needs as well as other parts of the University could, Holbrook said. While administrators see the theater and drama programs as performance oriented, some department faculty members maintain that the program belongs with other liberal ars programs within LSA. "(THE DEPARTMENT) HAS been and remains an academic program," said Lindsey Nelson, associate director of the Professional Theatre Program. Nelson said he felt that at the undergraduate level, the department is not very dif- ferent from other LSA departments., Theater department faculty and administrators agree that the review was suggested'by LSA, and not initiated by the department. "We're not a part of or in favor of" the evaluation of whether or not the department will remain in LSA, Nelson said. "But if the college of LSA deems it proper, that is cer- tainly their perogative." DEPARTMENT CHAIRMAN Walter Eysselinck said he thinks that the review is an attempt "to determine where in the university a complex unit like the theater department belongs." But he added that he thought the review might have a little to do with financial concerns, adding that this should be ex- pected when a University is facing economic difficulties. When the discussion turns to the question of "the best use of money," he said, "all these words like 'duplication' start to appear." EYSSELINCK SAID HE has faith that "search is being conducted by competent people," and will arrive at the best conclusion. While Eysselinck said he is hesitant to discuss the review at thistpoint, other faculty members say they hope to stay where they are. See THEATER, Page 7 Daily Photo by DOUG McMAHON University President Harold Shapiro said the critics of the University's reallocation process did not have all their facts straight at the "Campus Meet the Press" forum in the Union's Pendleton Room yesterday. TODAY The New graduation ceremony F YOU CAN find a better speaker, then don't come. That may be the theme of this year's commencement ceremonies, when Lee Iacocca, chairman of Chrysler Corp., comes to give the annual address. For his troubles, Iacocca will pick up an honorary doctnr of law degree at the Anril 30 ceremony. 0 An over-the-counter White Castle burger costs 24 cents in St. Louis, where 18 restaurants are located. The hotline was established because of the growing number of displaced Midwest residents who find themselves hankering for a "bomber." St. Louisans living in Fountain Hills, a suburb of Phoenix, Ariz., annually hold "White Castle Days" during which huge numbers of the burgers are frozen and trucked in. A White Castle spokesman said three tractor-trailers will be used to deliver 125,000 of the burgers to Fountain Hills in.May. During the past 12 years, said Dr. Steven Goldsmith of Springfield, Mass., he has stopped hiccups by massaging the mouth's palate with a cotton swab for about a minute at its center point, just beyond the spot where the soft and hard palates meet on the roof of the mouth. "It involves no special medical equipment and can easily be performed at home by a layperson who is trying to help a friend or relative suffering from hiccups," Goldsmith wrote in a recently published letter to the Journal of the American Medical Association. His letter came in response to a mdia ..rnnrtcavi t a ; 0mwtinnofth all home football games the following fall. No freshmen would be allowed to sign up for the honor, however. Also on this date in history: " 1933 - Dr. Buenaventura Jimenez of University Health Services sounded a warning to some 200 University studen- ts who had been found to be suffering from hay fever - all were asked to health services. * 1953 - Members of the Michigan Union and League boards of directors met to discuss the possibility of a co-ed student union. I I I i