,; , : The Michigan Daily-Friday, April 8,1983-Page 5 Students rally against redirection By JACKIE YOUNG While 35 students sat in the Ad- ministration Building to protest redirection policies, another 100 gathered outside in Regents plaza in support of the demonstrators. "There are two purposes for what we're doing," said Vicki Shapiro, one of the rally and sit-in organizers. "First, the desire to show our commitment to the issue of redirection. Second, to help publicize the issue of redirection. We want to show them (administrators) that this is something that affects every student on this campus." SHAPIRO SAID the students in Frye's office for the sit-in were making five specific demands to Frye and would stay there until they came to some kind of agreement. Students cheered and later sang "If he (Harold Shapiro) only had a heart," to the tune of the Wizard of Oz's "If I Only Had a Heart." 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Maple Road West Bloomfield, MI 48003 (313) 661-0600 A Jewish Welfare Federation Agency Daly roto by DUEBRAH LEWIS University Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Billy Frye discusses the redirection process at yesterday's Campus Meet the Press. Frye justifies closed By DAN GRANTHAM Meetings of committees involved in budget reviews must remain closed so the groups can hold discussions "without restraint," a top University administrator said yesterday. Speaking at Campus Meet the Press, Billy Frye told a crowd of more than 100 people gathered in the Michigan Union's Pendleton Room that the type of questions the committees must ask could be disturbing to the public. Frye is University provost and vice president for academic affairs. "SOME OF THE questions are very sensitive," he said, adding that they might be considered "offensive or im- polite." The closed nature of Budget Priorities Committee meetings is a policy decided on by the committee it- self, Frye said, and one that he suppor- ts. Frye said the committee decided to have only. one spokesperson to avoid any misinterpretation of the group's decisions. "(The committee) felt that if too many people are speaking, then there may be many different messages sent," he said. FRYE DENIED charges that units are targeted for review on an arbitrary basis and that he alone makes such decisions. "I do not make autocratic decisions. I make recommendations to the Regents," he said. The University has a reputation for offering a wide variety of programs, but in light of the University's current budget situation, Frye said both quality and variety cannot be maintained. "We cannot retain the same scope and the same quality, because both cost money," Frye said. Frye said he had met with members of the Progressive Student Network who were conducting a sit-in in his of- meetings fice, but failed to reach any agreement with them. The students demanded a student advisory group on budget decisions be formed, but Frye said he did not see the need for such a group. "So far, in the discussion I have had with this group, I fail to see what would be gained in terms of participation, quality of decision-making, and representation," he said. After the question and answer session with Frye, a representative from the Progressive Student Network read a statement from those participating in the sit-in. "In many areas we share a common philosophy (with Frye)," said Vicki Shapiro. "However, Dr. Frye has been unwilling to commit himself to substan- tive action directed toward achieving our common goals Therefore we have decided to remain here and are still open to constructive dialogue with Dr. Frye." Group stages sit-in: Demands democracy (Continued from Page 11 "THE BUILDING is closed. We just couldn't keep opening it up and closing it," said Walt Stevens, director of the Department of Public Safety and Security. Telephone lines to the floor were also shut off. The students and Frye disagreed fun- damentally on whether the budget process should be opened up more. Frye said instead of being closed, "the process is so open now it's almost out of control." He said making meetings of the! Budget Priorities Committee (which makes recommendations on budget cuts) open to the public would expose too much of the "dissecting" that schools go under in the meetings. FRYE SAID the views of the group are not widely reflected on campus, and pointed to the four sparsely attended forums on redirection as an example of failed attempts to give the community more of a voice. Organizers of the sit-in said apathy is one of the main reasons for their protest. LSA senior Jeff Selbin said he hoped it would "Let students know that other students are essentially willing to go to jail." In fact many of the par- ticipants did have bail money in case they were carried out of the building. But Stevens said the group would be allowed to stay in the building for the night. ONE OF the points the students kept emphasizing was how Frye decides which schools and departments should be cut, and which ones are "high- priority." Frye said that the decisions to review the School of Natural Resources, the School of Education and the School of Art were not "pluced out of the air," but came from concerns about their quality. "There is no question that if there were to be any reviews at all they would be on the list," Frye said. LSA SENIOR Tom Marx asked why increasing the number of minority faculty and students wasn't one of the priorities of the five-year plan, and pointed to the fact that certain units designed to aid minorities are currently under review. Frye responded, "We don't know to what extent money is the problem. A disproportionate amount of financial aid already goes to minority students." But Frye said Marx had 'no basis to allege ... that we're not committed as an institution." He said in the last three or four weeks the University has been considering major changes in its minority efforts, but would not elaborate. Afater Frye went home, leaving the students alone in the building with University Safety officers, several students said Frye had "listened" without hearing, and was not being receptive to new ideas. "Frye tried to turn it into, you have one philosophy and we have another. But in a University community you need many philosophies," said graduate student Ben Davis. r I ---- --------- NAME - ADDRESS CITY i Mail7 JOHN CARROLI Director of Sum University Cleveland( C OR CALL: (2: - -------- * STATE ZIP To: ' L UNIVERSITY nmer Sessions Heights )hio 44118 16) 491-4318 - - - --