4 OPINION Page 4 Sunday, September 18, 1983 The Michigan Daily Ed. school budget down-Slu A BY UNANIMOUS vote Friday the Univer- sity regents finished off a year long fight between the School of Education and its sup- porters and Billy Frye, the University vice president for academic affairs and provost. As expected, the education school lost. Over the next five years the school's budget will constrict by 40 percent, the faculty will shrink by about 30 positions, and the variety of graduate course sequences will be whittled down to a fraction of their present number. Now that he has won the battle, however, Frye's main goal will no doubt be to make up with the other side. He has to if the school is ever going to surface as a quality unit. He has started by appointing a new dean, Prof. Carl Berger, to replace Joan Stark, who decided not to seek another term in the middle of the school's budget review. Berger brings a burst of much needed en- thusiasm to the deanship - as opposed to Stark who seemed to be constantly frustrated by the review - but whether he can pull together a frustrated and somewhat angry faculty remains to be seen. Already, three professors have begun to draw new battle lines which any changes in the school will have to overcome. Speaking for three members of the schools faculty executive committee, Prof. Ann Hungerman told the regents that Frye's usual practice of forming a faculty transition team preempted the authority of the executive committee and was a violation of University bylaws. N . , 4r Is v 1 y y r TIPr7'V Harold's allowance Daddy, daddy, how come I'm only getting a quarter a week and Jonny down the street gets 35 cents allowance? Well, son, these are tough times for your mother and me, you know. We've had to make a lot of sacrifices in the last few years. We've had to cut down on basics: food and other natural resources; the family art gallery; and even the savings for your very education. Before that, we even cut back on our recreational sports budget. I know Pa, but I've sacrificed, too. I've had to stay up late while all those protestors ran around outside my window. And I've had to cut down on the number of international trips I could take. And worst of all, I've suffered the indignity of having Jonny down the block wave those 35 cents in front of my face every Satur- day. But you're just going to have to realize son that unemployment has been terrible, a lot of people have been out of work, we haven't bought a new car in years, and all your brothers and sisters have had only meager raises in their allowances too. Even this year, they only got a nickel more. But Daddy, daddy, I deserve more than the rest of them. And if you don't, I'll run away. Okay, how's $10,000 sound? Well, it'll do . . for now. Who's teaching who? Why can't little Johnny read? In Ann Arbor, it's because little Johnny can't go to school. Ann Arbor's school teachers and school board still haven't reached an agreement to end the teachers' 12 day strike, making people wonder who the real children are. The big children at the negotiating table hav- e yet to agree on much, but the insurance policy arrangement is the major Lincoln Log in the President Harold Shapiro and his wife Vivian, always a happy couple, have even more reason to celebrate now.The regents raised Harold's allowance by $10,000 this year. The tree of education: Can it survive without the branches? On the surface the debate over whether the school's executive committee or a Frye- appointed transition panel oversees the changes may appear strictly procedural. From another angle, however, it appears to expose how threatened many professors in the school feel by many of the radical changes Frye has put forth. No one knows how great those tensions will get to be, or if they will prove too devisive for the school. But everyone agrees that Frye and Berger have their work cut out for them. way of a settlement. Teachers got so upset with their school board playmates' ideas on in- surance that they threw a collective temper tantrum and left the playroom. The little children left out in the cool fall air by all of this have been behaving much better. And parents have not been complaining about having their babies home for a few extra days. Instead, they have been complaining about the babies who are supposed to be teaching their children how to be adults. Humanities shuffle After 10 months the engineering college finally got what it wanted: to be rid of its humanities department. Last winter the college came to the "preliminary conclusion" that the department should be closed, and students should take their humanities requirements in LSA. And after an extensive faculty review of the idea, all of the regents agreed. So as soon as administrators work out a plan for transferring all the classes to LSA, engineers will be packing their books up and heading to central campus for at least some of their classes. Unlike most of the recent department eliminations at the University, the reasons for closing the humanities department have in- cluded everything but money, although ad- ministrators do expect to gain some in the long run. Instead, Billy Frye, the Universtiy vice president for academic affairs and provost, and engineering school Dean James Duder- stadt have stressed the positive aspects of engineers moving to LSA for some classes. They told the regents that engineers would get better literature instruction, and under- stand more fully the world of the English major if they moved to LSA. The Week in Review was compiled by Daily editors David Spak, Bill Spindle, and Barry Witt. Edie mdtganivsity ia Edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan UTOPIA .~'.. AH H UroPI A AT LAST' / // Vol. XCIV - No. 10 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Editorials represent a majority opinion of the Daily's Editorial Board Quieting South Quad aC THE LJNIVER\SI OF IICHI6) A TY WHAT:S THE MA7TER WALrER? 5CHOOL. COLLE6E 1S TnEp- WIORST.Lr JUST CAN' T TAND i-! LIFE IS UNBEARABLE. FLASH) IY's InltofARC?... 7Urusrtoo MUCH WOR.K... GO. 4 of ,,__, w F -I/- T/ I RESIDENTS OF South Quad have been crying "wolf" about a Detroit News article which portrayed the dorm's residents as rowdy, loud, and non-stop partiers. Instead of com- plaining about that well-deserved reputation, South Quaddies should realize that they are the wolves. The dorm's residents and staff are raising the roof over the article, "Frantic first days at U. of M," that presented a day in the life of two South Quad freshwomen roommates. The story concentrated on one of the women - Mary Jane Mayer - and her mostly negative impressions of the dorm and its inhabitants. The article depicted the poor, defen- seless dorm as a "rundown hospital" with "inmates ... living in grotesque quarters." That sounds like a pretty accurate description to us. South Quad is known as the jock dorm and the party dorm with good reason. The freshman football team inhabits the place, as well as other scholarship athletes. One can hardly every walk through the hideous struc- ture - it IS an eyesore - without being blasted by the sounds of AD-DC or catching the aroma of several variations of controlled substances. Where else do residents lean out the window on Madison street and yell, "West Quad sucks cock?" South Quad residents shouldn't be so oversensitive. There is nothing wrong with having a good time in your dorm. They do in most other dorms, although not quite as good. What South Quad people should be upset about and ashamed of is that some residents saw fit to harass the two women, constantly calling them on the telephone to make nasty commen- ts. The harassing - not the article - probably contributed to Mayer's decision to leave the school this past week. The Detroit News story was an ac- curate picture of one freshwoman's first impressions of life at the Univer- sity. It never pretended to be anything else. South Quad residents should stop crying in their beer and drink it. 4 2" __ , //lolL I r! . .Nr M07 tE AR L.OcK, SC/4- i5 I6 71E ,E -PLACE £9M EA~e7H. L-/FE //fE /65 SE~rT7: PROBLEMS To OFF/Fr: AND ~w,"ei./ l'2 ti r,': w . i }, ti 7 r 1T5 ALi.LAIN yOVf Aq777vDz YOU H-Ave 07THE )216 H7- AP A wo4v/E2 Cd.) 5 A -1s U roPIA! 777V DE2, Woiil T1*AT' H EAV Y O I 1 l I i m Menachem Begin is ill, tired, despondent over the death of his wife and increasingly depressed by the news each day from Lebanon. But that is not why he is resigning as prime minster of Israel. The central issue in Begin's life is not how he feels; it is the West Bank. He knew some four years ago, when he first annon- ced that he would retire in 1983 at the age of 70, how much time he would need to make a fact of the territorial integration of the West Bank to the rest of Israel. In his own judgment, which is confirmed by his severest critics, that is exactly what he has achieved, and on schedule. THE annexation of the West Bank has been Menachem Begin's central agenda from the very day that the state of Israel was declared. On the morning af- ter the U.N. resolution of Septem- ber 1947 which partitioned Palestine between Jews and Arabs, Menachem Begin, the leader of the Irgun un- derground, issued a defiant order. uN dar..a i itht h nr - -r West. Bank success is why Begin quit By Arthur Hertzberg politician than the pragmatists to whom the West is accustomed. On the contrary, Begin is an historic mystic who believes, against rational calculation, that the ideal to which he is dedicated will vindicate itself, despite the odds. What is crucial to the under- standing of Menachem Begin is that he is a Polish Jew. Abe Rosenthal, the executive editor of the New York Times, wrote that, on a recent trip to Poland, he finally understood the defiance by the Polish people of com- munist oppression. The Poles know that they have no rational hope, but they harbor a mystic faith that -(despite Russian un- willingness to free them - an in- 4 dependent Poland will somehow be restored. As a Jew, moreover, Begin grew up believing that in every age, the odds were against the survival of his people - but somehow the Jews have per- sisted. It is no large leap of faith for a political leader brought up as a persecuted Jew in Poland in the 10sf .and whn witnessed the ii Housing has been made available to settlers on much more favorable terms than are available elsewhere in Israel. Hence the widespread percep- tion that Begin has completed his agenda, through a de facto an- nexation process which appears irreversible. Secretary of State Shultz and a host of other unnamed high sour- ces have observed that the set- tlpman+c ma,, ha irrav,.rcihi facts as well as his critics, that he chooses to resign: The bills for his achievement are coming due. THE most immediate obligations are the war in Lebanon and the economic situation in Israel, but much larger problems loom over the horizon. Begin knows that he has created a Jewish state with a 40 percent Arab population. He realizes that the alternatives which this demnranhic iat