I Page 8-A -The Michigan Daily, Thursday, September 8, 1983 THE ANN ARBOR CANTATA SINGERS BRADLEY BLOOM, Conductor Announces the Auditions for the 198384 Season Engineers pay for new computers Beethoven Britten Missa Solemnis War Requiem St. Andrew's Episcopal Church N. Division at Catherine St. 7:00 - 10:00 pm Sunday, Sept. 11 2:00 - 5:00 pm for specific appointments and further info., call 995-3014 after Sept. 5th. CHILDREN'S BOOKS CHILDREN'S BOOKS* CHILDREN'S BOOKS CHILDREN'S BOOKS CHILDREN'S BOOKS Visit th e lower level to enjoy Children's literature af its finest. The warm and special store on campus 1205 South M-S 9:30-6 University Th, F 9:30-9 bl) 4" 761-7177 By MIKE WESTON Staring this fall, engineering students will have unlimited access to their own computer system-a privilege that carries a price tag of $100 a term. Under the plan, students will put up $1.1 million in annual fees added on to their tuition to help pay for the new system. IN THE NEXT two years the college expects to spend -$10 million to install the system, according to Engineering Dean James Duderstadt. Student fees will pay for $2.2 million of that figure with the remainder coming from donations, loans, and the college's general fund. Duderstadt said the college needs its own computer network because the University's Michigan Terminal. System (MTS) does not offer enough equipment or computer time to meet engineering demand. DUDERSTADT said the new Computer Aided Engineering Network (CAEN) will be a great im- provement over MTS because of its speed, graphics ability, and capacity to communicate between depar- tments. But students who don't expect to use the system much, view the $100 fee as an unfair burden. "Since Engin. 102, I've had only two or three com- puter assignments," said Mechanical Engineering 'Since Engin. 102, I've had only two or three computer assignments. . I've used maybe $35 (worth of computer time) on MTS, and now they want me to pay $100 per term.' -Anthony Searing, an engineering senior Senior Anthony Searing. "I've used maybe $35 (worth) of computer time) on MTS, and now they want me to pay $100 per term." LING YANG, a senior in engineering sciences said. "I never use the computer - it's not fair." Duderstadt said the system is needed because engineering students will increasingly use computers in their work. For the time being, the college plans to install 400 to 500 computers, but the number may eventually run into the thousands, Duderstadt said. Unlike the MTS, each machine will be a self- contained computer, not a terminal hooked up to a system shared by many users. THE EQUIPMENT will have varying capabilities - the college is now looking at the Apollo Domain for its more powerful computers, and the Apple Lisa, and the IBM personal computer for less complicated work, according to Daniel Atkins, the college's associate dean for research. By fall, the college expects to have about 200 com- puters installed. Work stations will be located in the Dow Building, the Chrysler Center, and the East Engineering building. While some schools have forced students to buy their own computer equipment, Duderstadt said he hopes the college's system will save students money. "INSTEAD OF investing in a personal computer, the college will ask its students to pay the computer . user fee each term to support a vastly more sophisticated computing environment," he said. While a student would probably have to buy a com- puter at full price, the college expects to get significant discounts on the equipment, Duderstadt said. Already some of the system has been donated - a powerful $350,000 computer from the Harris Cor- poration of Melbourne, Fla. Regents'vote blocks fight to restrict research (Continued from Page 1) Last spring, the Progressive Students Network, a group of students affiliated with MSA, planned laboratory sit-ins prior to a vote on the guidelines. But the group backed off the idea fearing it might raise sympathy for researchers by making them appear persecuted. ROWLAND, A MEMBER of the group, said actions like the sit-ins would not be coordinated by MSA. The -proposed guidelines received EVERYTHING IN THE LIVELY ARTS A Publication of The Michigan Daily 523 e.liberty U;,:SED & RARE 514 e.w4 01m am 668-1776 overwhelming support from the University: many students actively supported them, the faculty senate voted for them 2-1, and the ad- ministration asked that they be adop- ted. So when the Regents- refused, Herb Hildebrandt, head of the faculty senate said he felt like he had been "run over by a steamroller." Hildebrandt described faculty mem- bers as "quiet but unhappy" with the decision, and said he did not think that now is the time to "badger the' Regen- ts" with another proposal. AN ALTERNATE approach may be to write a faculty senate resolution on non-classified research similar to the failed guidelines, said Medical School Prof. Donald Rucknagel. Although the resolution would not be binding because it would not come before the Regents, "We want it understood that these are 764-0558 - the values that ought to be embraced," he said. Another action for the fall may be opening up discussion with faculty doing DoD sponsored research and trying to persuade them that their research can indeed incapacitate human beings. "There might be some gentle pressure, colleague to colleague. That may be more effective than the legislative approach," Rucknagel said. ONE DIFFICULTY in establishing guidelines for non-classifed research, Rucknagel conceded, is deciding which projects are essentially basic in nature and which have close applications to weapons. "Where do you draw the line?" said Roach. "They're yelling about, radar research which guides things, it doesn't kill anybody." Buttdefense research critics point out that the radar mapping project, by Geology Prof. Philip Jackson, is the type of technology used to guide the Cruise missile. Jackson agrees that his work can be used for such guidance, but he says it has many civilian uses as well. For example, remote areas such as the Amazon River Basin could never have been mapped without the type of radar technology Jackson works on. ENGINEERING PROF. Thomas Senior, one of the University's top recipients of DoD funds, uses similar arguments to defend his work, which critics say has appllications to the Stealth Bomber and for "hardening" airplanes to protect delicate equipment from a nuclear blast. Rucknagel contends that although the research does have civilian ap- plications, the Defense Department is not sponsoring the projects for their peaceful uses. In the abscence of. any guidelines, Rucknagel said he will probably con- tinue to point to the restrictions on classified research, which were adop- ted during the Vietnam War when the University was one of the top recipients of Pentagon dollars. Yet even if critics continue to use the guidelines as a standard, there is no way of enforcing them. While classified research proposals go before a review panel to decide whether the projects conform, non-classified projects do not face similar scrutiny. 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