The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, September 28, 1983 - Page 3 MSA to hire 'U' budget researcher ' considers By GEORGEA KOVANIS The Michigan Student Assembly last night voted to hire a budget researcher to keep them better informed about how the University makes budget decisions. The newly-created position would pay about $80 per week, and would require the researcher to report on the progress of the University's "five-year plan" to reallocate $20 million. MSA MEMBERS say they hope the researcher will be able to tell them how tuition increases are determined, where the University could be cutting back, and how various student fees are established. Last year, the assembly employed a military researcher to check into defense studies being conducted on campus. This year, in addition to the budget researcher, the assembly has also created a coordinator position to oversee volunteers working for MSA. The assembly already employes Ann Arbor Councilmember Larry Hunter to report on problems minority students face at the University. IN OTHER action last night, assembly members voted to urge law officials to reduce charges against a 20-year-old University student charged with selling cocaine. In a letter to police, attorneys and the presiding judge, MSA asked that the charge against the student be reduced to a single count of possession, which would allow the judge to remove the violation from the student's record. "I would just hate to see anyone 20 years old get hit by the book hard," said MSA representative Tom Mendelssohn. "I really think that would be a shame." EIGHT representatives voted against the motion. MSA vice president Jono Soglin said he was concerned the ac-, tion would create a precedent for future assembly action. In a move designed to make the assembly "more efficient," MSA voted to hold business meetings only on alter- nating Tuesdays, instead of weekly. On those Tuesdays when the assem- bly is not meeting about business mat- ters, members will meet in committee. The proposal passed over- whelmingly. "I'm tired of just sitting at meetings and waiting to get something done," said representative Paula Bass. new tuition payment plan By JODY BECKER University financial planners are examining new ways to restructure the way students pay their tuition each term. Among the proposals being examined are options which would require tuition payments in two parts-paid earlier than the current three-installment system requires-or which would move the current payment schedule back by 30 days, effectively asking students to pay a major portion of their tuition before the term actually begins. THE CHANGES are being con- sidered, University Comptroller Chan- dler Matthews said, because the University's current policy has proven to be less cost-effective than systems used by other universities in the state. He said bringing more money in earlier would increase the amount of interest the University could earn on its invest- ments. He said it is unlikely any changes would be implemented this year. "We always keep an eye on what other schools are doing, so this is some consistent analysis," Matthews said. "We examine the whole spectrum of the impact of a thing like this." OFFICIALS first began discussing changing the University's payment policy two years ago, financial aid director Harbey Grotrian said, but little progress has been made toward creating a concrete proposal. He predicted that either proposal would complicate finiancial aid procedures because student accounts are rarely credited with government aid before early October. Both of the new plans being studied would require first payments several weeks before then. One of the options begin considered for the two-payment plan would require that half the tuition be paid during registration. Finance officials have scheduled a Thursday meeting to discuss the proposals. America's loss AP Photo John Bertrand, skipper of the Australia II, smiles as he receives the America's Cup trophy, signifying the first American loss in the prestigious sailing race in 132 years. The trophy, which has been bolted to a table in the New York Yacht Club since 1851, had to be pried loose for the presentation ceremony. -HAPPENINGS- Highlight The Progressive Student Network is sponsoring a silent candlelight march tonight, beginning at 11 p.m. at the School of Public Health. Stops will in- clude North Hall and President Shapiro's house, in a demonstration against military research on campus. Films AAFC - Eleven Days in the Life of Martin Luther, 7:30 p.m., Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Memories and Perspectives, 8 p.m., MLB 3. CFT - How to Marry a Millionaire 7:30 p.m., Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 9:15 p.m., Michigan Theater. Cinema Guild - In Cold Blood, 7 & 9:30 p.m., Lorch. Industrial Commonwealth Committee - Controlling Interest, 7:30 p.m., Anderson Rm., Union. Performances Germanic Languages - Open-air play, "The Pardon Peddler," 12:15 p.m., southwest corner of Law Quad. Ann Arbor German Society Tricentennial Committee - German Armed Forces Staff Band, 8 p.m., Hill. Musical Society - Ballet Nacional Espanol, 8 p.m., Power Center. School of Music - Open tower carillon demonstration, 4-5 p.m., Burton Tower. Ark - Mary Watkins and Gayle Marie with Jan Martinelli, '7:30 & 9:30 p.m., 142 Hill. Washtenaw Community College - Michael Kernahan and his 21st Century Steel Drum Band, 11 a.m., WCC Community Park. U Club - Life Boys, 10 p.m.; Laugh Track, Bill Thomas, 8:30 p.m., Union. Speakers Chemistry - Organic seminar, Minn-Chang Cheng, "Collman's Reagent & Its Application to Organic Synthesis," 4 p.m,., 400 Chem. Chemical Eng. - James Wilkes, "FORTRAN IV Programming Language - - liI," 7 p.m., Nat. Sci. Aud. Psychiatry - Mark Gold, "Covert Hypothyroidism in Depression?" 10:30, CPH Aud. Rackham; Classical Studies; American Academy at Rome - Paul Zanker, "Classicism & Archaism: A New Culture & the Language of its Ar- tistic Forms," 4 p.m., Angell Aud. A. Computing Center - Forrest Hartman, "Intro to Sigfiles," 3:30 p.m., 165 BSAD. Economics - "SHAZAM Econometrics Program," 7:30 p.m., 1443 Mason. CAAS - Colloquium, Ernest Wilson, "The Politics of Economics in Africa," noon, 1309 SEB. Study of Reproduction & Differentiation - Seminar, Denis Gospodarowicz, "Control of Cell Proliferation & Differentiations by Growth Factors, Extracellular Matrices, & Lipoproteins," 12:10 p.m., 11th floor, N. Ingalls Bldg. Dentistry - Semina'r, Brian Lang, "Opportunities in Geriatric Dentistry," 4 p.m., 1033 Kellogg. Gerontology - Sir Martin Roth, the current status of diagnosis, care & research regarding Alzheimer's Disease, 3 p.m., Kuenzel Rm., Union; reception, 4:30 p.m., Kuenzel Rm. Residential College - March on Washington participants Mary Simpson and Lou Turner, 7 p.m., East Quad Rm. 126. Martin Luther Quincentennial Conference - 9 a.m., John O'Malley, "Luther the Preacher;" Thomas Brady, "Luther's Social Teaching and the Social Order of His Age;" Heinz Bluhm, "Martin Luther and the English Bible: Tyndale and Coverdale;" 2 p.m., Herbert Henhert, "The Luther- Erasmus Constellation in Thomas Mann's 'Doktor Faustus;' Reinhold Grimm, "Luther's Language in the Work of Bert Brecht;" Guy Stern, "Dieter Forte's Play 'Luther and Muntzer' (or The Difficulty in Writing Historical Truth;" all lectures held at the Alumni Center. Meetings Science Fiction Club - Stilyagi Air Corps, 8:15 p.m., League. Academic Alcoholics -1:30 p.m., Alano Club. Michigan Gay Undergrads - 9 p.m., Guild House, 802 Monroe. Tae Kwon Do Club - Practice, 5 p.m., CCRB Martial Arts Rm. Lutheran Campus Ministry - Informal worship, 7 p.m., Bible study on the Gospel of Luke, 7:30 p.m., choir, 7:30 p.m., S. Forest at Hill. Ann Arbor Support Group for the Farm Labor Organizing Committee - 7:30 p.m., 4318 Union. LSA-Student Government -6 p.m., MSA Chambers, 3909 Union. Students for Michigan Abortion Rights Action League - Mass meeting, 7 p.m., Pond Rm., Union. Miscellaneous WCBN - "Radio Free Lawyer," discussion of legal issues, 6 p.m., 88.3 FM. CRLT - Faculty workshop, "35 MM Slide Production," 7 p.m., Michigan Media; TA workshop, "Test Construction and Evaluation,"7 p.m. Museum of Art - Art Break, Bobbie Levine, "Gerome Kamrowski: A Reagan won't fire Watt despite criticism From AP and UPI WASHINGTON - President Reagan says that whether James Watt remains in the Cabinet is "a decision that he himself will have to make." By the ac- count of his aides, Watt isn't even entertaining the question. In a newspaper interview published yesterday, Reagan said he will not fire Watt. Instead, whether he remains on the job is "a decision that he himself will hve to make - whether he feels he has made it questionable as to whether he can be effective or not," Reagan declared. PRESIDENTIAL counselor Edwin Meese later told reporters that "this is a closed issue" and even if Watt were to offer his resignation, Reagan likely wouldn't accept it. 'The town always needs a joke, and (Watt's) the biggest joke we've had in years.' - Thomas O'Neill House speaker House and Senate GOP leaders discussed the Watt situation at a morning meeting, and a Senate Republican aide said afterward the White House "is still taking congressional reaction and weighing." House Speaker Thomas O'Neill described James Watt as Washington's "biggest joke" yesterday, but the embattled interior secretary won strong support from wheelchair-bound Sen. James East, (R-N.C.). O'NEILL WAS asked about the controversy at his regular news briefing yesterday. "The town always needs a joke, and he's the biggest joke we've had in years," the Massachusetts Democrat said. IN A LETTER to Senate colleagues defending Watt, East declared that the interior secretary is not insensitive.. . not a bigot." "Rather, he is frequently the target of unfair and ad hominem attacks from those who seek to drive him from office because they do not approve of the public policy positions that he represents," the letter said. East has been confined to a wheelchair since he had polio at the age of 24. Shooting violates cease-fire in Lebanon (Continued from Page 1) tingent of the multinational force said the wounded man was reported in good condition after being struck in a thigh by a bullet. Several Italian positions in the capital are near Lebanese army posts that came under sniper fire. With tension still running high, Walid Jumblatt, leader of the Syrian-backed Druze Moslem rebels, threatened President Amin Gemayel would be assassinated like his brother Beshir who died a year ago in a terrorist bom- bing. ,I'm keeping a future in store for Amin Gemayel like that of his brother Beshir," Jumblatt said. RALLYING about 100 of his followers in the mountains east of Beirut, Jumblatt said only U.S. naval bombardments last week kept them from defeating Gemayel's Christian-led army and overrunning the capital. The factions failed to agree on a site for talks. The negotiations had been set for yesterday, but official Beirut radio quoted a military source as saying they would take place today. No site was announced. The United States and Saudi Arabia arranged the Monday cease-fire that curbed the latest round of Lebanon's civil war, in which the army and Christian militias have battled Druse militias and Shiite Moslems in Beirut's southern slums and nearby mountains. BUT THE army accused the Druse and their allies yesterday of using the cease-fire to reinforce their positions facing government forces in the central mountains.- "Gimme a D Gimme an A Gimmean I ..L ..Y Give the MICHIGAN DAILY that old college try. CALL 764-0558 to order your subscription U.S. denies reports to retrieve Korean recorder Students, you are cordially invited to meet President and Mrs. Shapiro on the Patio TheMichiganUnion Thursday, eptember 29, 1983 Hosted by The Michigan Union Board ofR epresentatives UNION (Continued from Page 2). group, including an official of the Inter- national Civil Aviation Organization, to join the U.S. ships searching in the Sea of Japan for the flight recorder, or black box, of Korean Airlines flight 007. 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