Ninety-four Years of Editorial Freedom C I be St an 1 ai1t! Congested Mostly cloudy today with more thunderstorms likely. High in the low 80s. F Vol. XCIV - No 11 Copyright 1983, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Tuesday, September 20, 1983 Fifteen Cents Eight Pages Students lne up for spots In dorms By KAREN TENSA University residence halls began eeping waiting lists yesterday for tudents who are unhappy with their present rooms and want to move. Each dormitory has a list at its front desk which current dorm residents may sign. Students may sign as many lists as they wish before they close tomorrow, including the list at their own dorm. ON THURSDAY EACH building rector will draw names to create a riority list for moving into the dorm. The number of spaces in a given dorm will be determined by the number of empty beds. Spaces that were never assigned or belong to students who never showed up will be available to those on the waiting list. The University has not determined the number of vacant spaces yet, ac- cording to Assistant Housing Infor- mation Director Jo Rumsey. She said that the empty spaces are scattered ,throughout the University residence hall system. ALTHOUGH figures were not available yesterday for every dor- mitory, all reported that students are signing the waiting lists,. South Quad and Mosher-Jordan showed more than 30 people on their lists after only one day of sign-up. The list compiled from Thursday's lottery will be used to determine iriority for moving into a dorm for the rest of the term, Rumsey said. Rumsey said people can begin moving into their new rooms over the weekend. Students who merely want to swap rooms do not have to go through the lottery, and some dorm residents have already changed rooms. SEVERAL* years ago, students' priority for the empty spaces was determined by the order in which they signed the dorm lists. "It was inhumane," Rumsey said. "People would be in line for days. They'd skip classes and meals and sleep in line." Worst cuts are over, Frye says Daily Photo by DEBORAH LEWIS. Sen. Gary Hart (D-Colo) recognizes a student in a question and answer session at the Union Sunday. P r esidential candi 1bring1s '84 bid to campus By THOMAS MILLER Just days after the approval of a 40 percent cut in the School of Education budget, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Billy Frye yester- day announced the worst phase of University budget cutting is over. Speaking to the faculty Senate Assembly, Frye promised a new struc- ture for future budget reviews and predicted that "the worst (of the budget cutting) is unquestionably past. "THE OUTLOOK for the next several years is optimistic," Frye said. "The period of uncertainty is past." Frye's announcement marks a new phase in the University's "five-year plan," implemented two years ago to provide direction for reallocating the University's resources. Since the plan was officially announ- ced in February of 1982, the schools of art, natural resources, and education have sustained severe reductions in their budgets. FRYE WARNED that, although he has no immediate plans for further major budget reviews, "that does not rule out the possibility." He said any future reviewswould be structured differently to avoid some of the controversy surrounding the process so far. "There is a great deal of room for im- provement in the review process," Frye said. "The strain on morale was greater than imagined at the outset of the plan." FRYE BLAMED much of the problem on the length of the reviews. He said the time spent on the reviews, which ranged in length from just under a year to over 18 months, "was an un- duly long time. The duration of the reviews has accounted for 90 percent of the problems." He said any restructuring of the process would be based on an increase in communication between those in- Frye ... says 'U' was strengthened By NEIL CHASE Colorado Sen. Gary Hart opened his Michigan campaign. for the Democratic presidential nomination Sunday with a sharp attack on the Reagan administration's Central American policy. Appearing before more than 400 people in the Michigan Union's Pendleton Room, Hart said his solutions to the problems in Central American came out of his recent tour of, Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador with Sen. William Cohen (D-Maine). "I RETURNED to this country with a clear sense that (the Reagan administration) has the wrong policy for Central America, because it has focused on the wrong enemy," said Hart, who is a member of the Senate Armed Services Com- mittee. "The principal enemy is not communism. It is poverty," he said. To combat the poor living conditions in Central America, Hart proposed establishing a "Peace Corps II" - a group of Americans who would help to improve education and public health in the region. AT THE SAME time, Hart said his administration would press diplomatic efforts to end the fighting and would push to freeze U.S. military involvement in the area at its current levels. Hart charged that American dollars sent into Central America are pocketed by Central American governments in- stead of needy civilians. In addition to sending American health and education specialists, Hart called for a revival of a common market in Central America, and a new international bank to help establish small businesses to provide basic services to cities and villages. See HART, Page 3 volved in the review and University administrators. Although Frye said the University is in better shape than when the budget reviews began, he stressed that "guarded optimism" is necessary. "WE'SHOULD not expect to return to the growth levels of the fifties and six- ties," he said. He cited several reasons for his restraint: * Although the economy is reboun- ding, most experts feel it will not reach 1978 levels for some time, if ever; * Michigan legislators have not, and probably: will not, make education one of their highest budget priorities, as in the past; * The declining number of college age students will contribute to a declining enrollment, making it more difficult to maintain the University's high stan- See FRYE, Page 3 Lebanon: Navy's biggest action since Vietnam BEIRUT, Lebanon - U.S. naval guns hammered away at Druse artillery positions in Lebanon's central moun- tains yesterday and for the first time a U.S. spokesman said the firing was in support of the Lebanese army's defense of Souk el-Gharb. It was the biggest U.S. naval action since the Vietnam war. "The naval gunfire support was con- ducted on military targets threatening the Lebanese armed forces defending Souk el-Gharb," said U.S. Embassy spokesman John Steward. "Successful Lebanese armed forces defense of the area is vital to the safety of U.S. per- sonnel, including the U.S. multinational forces, other U.S. military and the U.S. diplomatic corps personnel. The naval gunfire support missions are defensive actions." Although the statement called the naval bombardment "defensive," it marked a sharp escalation from the initial American policy of going into ac- tion only when artillery was directed at Marine peacekeepers. A State Department official in Washington, who requested anonymity, suggested that the loss of Souk el-Gharb could spell a major defeat for American policy and lead to a reassessment of whether the Marine force should remain in Lebanon. The sharp U.S. escalation came as the Lebanese government said its tiny air force had attacked Syrian artillery emplacements in northern Lebanon-- the second direct clash between their forces in less than 24 hours. The naval gunfire support from the USS Virginia, an 11,000-ton nuclear- powered guided missile cruiser, and the USS John Rodgers, a 7,800-ton destroyer, pounded mountain positions See U.S., Page 2 Snowballs in September APPhoto The first major snowstorm of the season delightedHelena, Montana residents yesterday with more than a foot of snow, while Ann Arbor residents sweated through another 80 degree day. TODAY Understudies ° F YOU HAVEN'T been doing volunteer work because See you later ... W ALDO THE ALLIGATOR is getting a new home, not because she's too big - at 10 feet - or fierce, but because she's too friendly. "I hate to see her go," said 86-year-old farmer Charlie Stevenson, who had kept the beast in a pond on his farm. "She has been my pet for 18 years," he said. "She is just one of the family. She has a friendly disposition." Stevenson's wife said the family feared the creature would walk up to a stranger or a young child unaccustomed to seeing such a sight and scare anti-government activists and painted with slogans criticizing President Mohammed Aia Ul-Haq. Opposition leaders said later all 400 of the dogs were clubbed or shot to death on government orders. The edict to kill all stray dogs came after anti-government protesters decorated the animals with painted slogans and paper banners declaring "Zia is a dog." The protesters released the animals in Dadu, a small town near Islamabad, when Ul-Haq arrived there during a political tour. The same group earlier had released dozens of donkeys wearing banners which said "Death to Zia," when the president was visiting the .._ . r " te ,.- T_ - Z .- , ,>>,... .,..,1,..... - Also on this date in history: * 1967 - A poll of University faculty revealted that, after four years of experimentng with a trimester system, professors overwhelmingly favored returning to the semester system. " 1973 - Michigan swimmer Tom Szuba and seven other U.S. swimmers returned to the country after a six-day delay in Santiago, Chile where they were trapped following a coup d'etat by a military junta. * 1974 - Dr. William Coon, a surgeon at the University Hospital, said former President Richard Nixon risked sud- Am ant i a : nn.tnn-a 4..ntmnof nhaii ia ni- I. I,