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Vol. XCIII, No. 151

Copyright 1983, The Michigan Daily

Ann Arbor, Michigan - Sunday, April 10, 1983

Ten Cents

Eight Pages


'UT officials:
Minority
senrolLment
low due to
lack of aid
By SHARON SILBAR
Although top administrators say the
University's inability to attract and
retain qualified minority students is not
a financial problem, speakers at
yesterday's conference on minority af-
fairs said insufficient financial aid is
keeping such students away.
"This University must get four-
square into the business of providing
substantial scholarships,' said Dave
Robinson, an assistant director of ad-
missions. "We need more competitive
awards because we are not com-
peting."
ROBINSON WAS speaking at the LSA
Student Government-sponsored
minority conference entitled, "What's
Wrong With the 'U' for You." At-
tendance at the conference in the
Michigan Union yesterday was sparse,
never exceeding more than 20 par-
ticipants for any of several discussions.
An official from the financial aid of-
fice who said he was speaking as a
minority and not as a University em-
ployee, also criticized the University's
efforts.
"The University has not made the
commitment for those who do not have
the (financial) resources," said Carlos
Acevedo. "One out of four students at
the University is out-of-state. Financial
aid programs are designed to meet in-
state needs, but not out-of-state. The
University (says it) is committed to
*quality. If the committment to quality
is real, (the University) should put
enough of its money to allow high
quality yet low income students to at-
tend," Acevedo said.
Roger Doster, an assistant director in
the financial aid office, said the Univer-
See 'U', Page 7

Rowland,
Soglin
win IMSA,
election

By LAURIE DELATER
It took three days to figure out, but
Mary Rowland and Jono Soglin of It's
Our University (IOU) emerged the vic-
tors yesterday morning in the race for
the top posts of the Michigan Student
Assembly.
The team eclipsed their closest op-
ponents by a two-to-one margin,
receiving 1613 of the 4267 votes cast for
the president and vice president spots.
Fewer than one in-every seven students
on campus voted in last week's elec-
tions.
WINNERS OF MSA seats from the
four largest schools on campus - LSA,
engineeringi Rackham, and business -
are expected to be announced
tomorrow, after election workers count
the ballots by hand. Problems with a
computer system instituted this year to
tabulate the votes have caused the long
delays.
IOU's closest contenders - Marc
Dann and Kim Fridkin of the ACT party
- garnered 822 votes. Steve Schaum-
berger and Lynn Desenberg of Improve
Michigan's Policies, Academics, and
Communications Today (IMPACT)
came in third with 699 votes. Duane
Kuizema and Laurie Clement from the
British Humor Party drew only 464
votes.
Rowland said yesterday that she
wasn't too surprised when the results
finally came in because she had been
told by election officials after polls
closed Wednesday night that she had a
strong lead.
SHE SAID she is optimistic about the
election of her party's members to MSA
seats. IOU candidates secured half of

the 12 positions announced Friday night
from the smaller schools.
Rowland said her primary goal upon
entering office is to "set up a commit-
tee of faculty and students to seek
alternatives to the redirection
process."
prThree of five proposals on the MSA
ballot received approval from students,
including a recommendation to
establish a student research center on
education. The center - which was ap-
proved by a 2144 to 1459 margin -
would use professionals to survey
student interests and provide students
with the background necessary to ac-
complish their goals, according to the
plan's supporters. The Regents must
approve a $1.50 per term hike in student
fees in order to create the center.
Proposal A, which called for renewal
in MSA's mandatory $4.25 student
assessment, passed by an over-
whelming 3431 to 451 vote tally.
Proposal A also asked that the MSA fee
be tied to inflation. The Regents must
approve the fee later this spring for it to
continue.
ALTHOUGH STUDENTS soundly
rejected Proposal E, MSA members
considered the vote a victory. Proposal
E asked voters if they felt the "process
outlined in the five-year redirection
plan has been an adequate response to
the current financial crisis at the
University." "No" votes outnumbered
"yes" votes by a 2185 to 691 margin.
More than 1400 students didn't respond
to the question.
A constitutional amendment that
See IOU, Page 7

Sailing, sailing. .

Wish the weather had been like this yesterday? Nancy Robberson, left, and Marc Gallin of the University's Windsurfing
Club probably did, too, but they made do with Friday's balmy breezes for their outing on Gallup Pond.

Space shuttle returns a success

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) -
Challenger, ship No. 2 in America's spacefiring fleet,
came home yesterday from a break-in flight of 2.1
million miles. More than 100,000 cheered the pinpoint
landing on a sun-splashed desert runway.
Paul Weitz, a retired Navy captain, and Air Force
Lt. Col. Karol Bobko guided the ship to a centerline
landing, on time to the predicted second. It was 42
seconds after 10:53 a.m. in California.
ASTRONAUTS STORY Musgrave and Donald
Peterson were the only passengers for the final phase

of Challengers five-day, 80-orbit flight, which would
have been an unqualified success had not a satellite
gone astray after it was ejected from the ship.
Musgrave and Peterson spent 3 hours, 47 minutes
in the ship's open cargo bay Thursday, making the
first U.S. spacewalk in nine years as they practiced
techniques that will be needed when the shuttle goes
up to retrieve and repair satellites.
The foursome left the shuttle a half-hour after lan-
ding and walked around the ship, which appeared lit-
tle worse for wear.

THE LANDING elicited no jubilant cries from the
businesslike crew which, at an average of 48, is the
oldest so far. On earlier flights there was banter
about the "Ace Trucking Company"-the shuttle
crews' name for themselves.
The problem that marred Challenger's debut lay
not with the spacecraft but with its cargo.
The $100 million Tracking and Data Relay Satellite
was ejected properly at the end of the ship's seventh
orbit Monday, launch day. But the satellite's at-
tached rocket did not fire long enough, for reasons yet
unexplained, and the TDRS went into a misshapen
orbit.
LT. GEN. James Abrahamson, head of the shuttle
program, said a North American Aerospace Defense
Command camera in New Mexico was able to
photograph the rocket at the moment it failed - a
tremendous help to the team investigating the
failure.
The photograph presumably was taken when the
rocket was 20,000 miles from Earth - 2,000 miles
short of its target.
Space agency engineers plan to use 1,300 pounds of
steering propellant aboard the satellite to guide it to
its proper station, in a circular orbit around Earth
22,300 miles high.
"THE MISSION was just incredibly routine," said
Abrahamson of Challenger's flight. "It really meant
the Challenger was a superb spacecraft."
With this flight, Challenger joined Columbia as an
operational shuttle, designed to go into space again
and again for as many as 10 flights. Columbia is in a
hangar at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape
Canaveral, Fla. being refitted to take up the
European-built Spacelab in September.
The next flight of the shuttle, tentatively set for June
9, will be the first to land at the 15,000-foot runway at
Kennedy, only a few miles from its launch site.
THE SHUTTLE fleet will grow to four with the ad-
dition of Discovery in 1984 and Atlantis in 1985. There
See CHALLENGER, Page 2

AP Photo
The space shuttle Challenger lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California yesterday, completing its five-
day space flight.

New MSA President Mary Rowland says the first priority for her term will
be to seek alternatives to the University's budget allocation process.

TODAY
Frisbee follies
HE DAYS OF campus demonstrations over dress
codes and the Vietnam War are long gone, but
there's still a boisterous spirit of protest at one
Deimar, N.Y. school - over a ban on throwing
Frisbees at lunchtime. About 15 students at Bethlehem


Fear of flying
A LL Robert Patterson wanted to do was fly from Los
Angeles back home to St. Paul, Minn. He ended up in
Tokyo. "They told me my airplane would be leaving at Gate
41 in 45 minutes," said Patterson, a union representative
for railway workers. "I sat down there and started talking
with several people...so maybe I missed the plane." Even-
tually, he got in line and boarded a plane. Somewhere over

son's happen "very, very seldom." The gate Patterson
walked through in Los Angeles was six gates away from the
right one, and the usual announcement of the destination
was made on the aircraft before it took off, Baskfield said.
The Daily almanac
O N THIS DATE in 1974, followng an enthusiastic wel-
come at Tru-City Airport near Saginaw, President

* 1942 - The Student War Board, channel for all campus
war efforts approved the two-day Post-War Conference,
which would feature nationally prominent speakers and
University faculty members.
S1961 - University President Harlan Hatcher announced
his decision to end the Platform Attractions series which
over the past few years had brought theatrical and other
entertainers to Hill Auditorium. 0

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