Ninety-Three Years of Editorial Freedom e~ir iau 1 atiQ Survivable Partly cloudy with a high around 50. Vol. XCIII, No. 149 Copyright 1983, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Friday, April 8, 1983 Ten Cents Ten Pages Frye under fire: Students stage sit-in MSA still waits for. election * results By LAURIE DELATER In this year's Michigan Student; Assembly election, the computer won. Results of the election still were! unknown last night because of a com- puter back-up, forcing anxious can- didates to wait just one more day for the results. The election results weren't expected until early this morning, officials said. But, most candidates weren't too up- set by the delay.. "THE WAIT was rather frustrating, but with finals at the Law School I'm too busy to worry about results," said Jamie Zimmerman, an independent candidate. The actual cause of the delay was un- See MSA, Page 3 Group demands more open review process By JIM SPARKS Thirty-five students spent last night in the administration building after a sit-in in which they demanded more democracy in the University's "smaller-but-better" plan. Frye discussed the review process at yesterday's Campus Meet the Press. See story, Page 5. The students, most of them in the Progressive Students Network, walked up the back stairs of the building at about 1:30 p.m. and sat in front of the office of Provost Billy Frye, the ar- chitect of the plan to cut and redistribute $20 million. WHEN FRYE who is also vice president for academic affairs came in about 10 minutes later, he calmly sat down and ate yogurt as they chargd that his budget process is too secretive and not open to new ideas. "The process begins with you and ends with you . . ., we believe that autocratic decision-making has no place in the University," said LEA freshwoman Naomi Braine. The group demanded a new, more representative body to set University priorities; no further cuts over 10 per- cent until such a body is established; an end to closed meetings of budget review panels; a statement of why cer- tain schools are picked to be cut; and that the University take no legal or disciplinary action against the protesters. "WE ARE determined to remain here .. until these demands are met" said LSA freshwoman Valerie Flapan. It was, however, rumored that the group would leave today at noon. Frye talked to the group for abut two and a half hours, but refused to grant any of the demands. "We're not going to make those kinds of decisions or agreements on demand," he said. The group did come prepared with some granola, crackers, and fruit, but University officials would not allow a shipment of food in last night. 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China's ban doesn' worry'U By HALLE CZECHOWSKI with wire reports The announcement by the Chinese government that it will suspend cultural and athletic exchanges with the United States probably won't affect the University exchange programs, said officials at the Center for Chinese Studies. Albert Feuerweker, director of the center, said although he had not read the statement by the Chinese government he felt that academic programs will not be affected. "The academic exchanges and the cultural exchanges are two different programs," he said. THE SUSPENSION was announced yesterday af- ter the United States granted political asylum to a 19- year-old professional tennis player. Hu Na defected nine months ago during a tennis tournament in California. Hu said she defected because she feared prosecution because she had resisted pressure to join the Chinese Communist Par- ty. MANY OBSERVERS said that the Chinese would retaliate carefully, limiting the fallout to nonessen- tial sports and cultural exchanges. According to Feuerweker there are hundreds of visiting Chinese scholars at the University, but there are as few as six University students in China. He added that he felt the issue could become "a tempest in the teapot" for the University. MANY OBSERVERS believe China has made the Hu case a test of U.S. commitment to good relations. The decision to suspend all further contacts under a two-year-old cultural exchange agreement was an- nounced by the Ministry of Culture, which accused the United States of purposely manufacturing "a serious political incident" to set back Sino-U.S. relations. A similar move was later announced by the Sports Federation, which said the granting of asylum to its star tennis player had "impaired the normal at- mosphere in sports'exchanges between China and the U.S." THE CANCELLED events included a summer tour by the Julliard String Quartet, a U.S. film week, trips, an exchange of visits by the directors of Peking Radio and The Voice of America, and several sports tournaments. "Hu Na is just the latest in a series of problems, minor issues in themselves, which taken together amount to something more, especially in light of overall bad relations," said one foreign diplomat. If China thought progress was being made in the problem of U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, diplomats said, then Hu would not be such a thorn, But China says the United States is not honoring a commitment to reduce arms sales to the rival Nationalist island. 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Wo men's newsletter State to release deferred 'U' aid From staff and wire reports LANSING - State Treasurer Robert Bowman announced yesterday a plan for paying 85 percent of the money deferred from colleges and universities earlier this year, by June 30, but war- ned the schedule could be affected by tax collections. The University has lost $45 million in state deferrals since Jan. 1. THE STATE will also make paymen- ts to schools and local governments, Bowman said. Under the payment schedule, the state will shell out $416 million - 56 percent of the amount owed - on April 18, and another $299 million on May 23. The final June 30 installment will total $296 million. See STATE, Page 2 to continue By SHARON SILBAR University officials announced Wed- nesday the University would continue to fund the Women's Information Net- work Bulletin, a quarterly newsletter dealing with women's issues. Bulletin editor Deeda Stanczak charged last month that Viriginia Nor- dby, the University affirmative action director, told her the newsletter's funds pl bshing would be cut off because University administrators were unhappy with an article in the November issue in which non-instructional staff members criticized the University's salary program. BUT NORDBY denied that the future of the bulletin had been in doubt because University administrators were unhappy with the article. See WIN, Page 3 """"""""""""""AP Photo Out on the town A ht Astronaut Donald Peterson floats outside the cargo bay of the space shuttle Challenger during the first U.S. space walk in nearly ten years. TODAY- I.O.U. A TINY ALPINE village in Switzerland wants French President Francois Mitterrand to honor a debt incurred by Napoleon-when his army passed by 183 years ago. Mayor Fenand Dorsaz of Bourg- St. Pierre said yesterday a bill for $75 million will be presented to Mitterrand during his visit to Switzerland something for the benefit of your community," he said. A bill was duly sent to Paris for 2,037 destroyed trees, the use of 188 cooking pots of which 80 were never returned, 3,150 logs used to roll cannons over the mountain pass, local labor at three francs daily per man, and the rental of mules at six francs each per day. Nothing was heard from Napoleon, and the village since then has regularly updated the bill to include interest. Ql great idea," agreed Jim Irwin, a 24-year-old photocopier salesman who dropped by the Hall of Justice Wednesday to protest a $20 parking tag. "This is convenient, because sometimes you're without cash." Clerk Vadim Menechayeff said no publicity has been given the ex- periment for fear of an avalanche of plastic money that un- trained clerks couldn't handle. "We're still in the training period," he said. "The word that we were accepting credit cards didn't exactly leak out, it trickled." The politicians hope it will facilitate the flow of cash into the coffers of the city. In the past. San Francisco police refused even to take arrested after they allegedly took part in a strike at a local bowling alley. Those arrested were charged with disturbing the peace, speaking without a license, and using "profane language." * 1946 - On the eve of campus elections, 500 students at- tended a debate over the merits of two rival campus con- stitutions which were up for student approval. * 1968 - 200 students marched on the National Guard Armory in protest of the preparations for possible deployment of guards in Detroit. The troops were preparing to quiet potential rioting following Martin Luther King's I II I