The Michigan Daily - Thursday, September 8, 1983 - Page 5-B Blacks fear budget priorities ignore them By JACKIE YOUNG Concern is growing among minority leaders that as money becomes increasingly scarce at the University, they will be unwittingly squeezed out by the budget cutting process. They fear that affirmative action goals will be forgotten in the University's fight for finan- cial survival, that schools and colleges will have enrollments slashed without considering the effects on minorities, and that minority professors will be layed off first because they lack seniority. DEEP CUTS IN the University's state sup- port have forced administrators to begin a five- year long budget cutting plan. Every school, unit, and department has had to cut back. Three schools have been slated for major cuts, ranging from 25 to 40 percent of their budgets. Until recently, the University community has viewed afirmative action, and declining state support as separate problems. But slowly, over the last year, minority leaders have watched the two come together. Much of the concern is centered on proposed cuts to the School of Education, the unit with the highest percentage of blacks and minorities at the University. But the concern has now broadened to encompass the whole budget cut- ting process. THIS SPRING the University's top budget committee, after an extensive program ',review, recommended that the education .school reduce its budget by 40 percent, cut total -enrollment from 875 to 500 students, and nearly eliminate undergraduate programs. A report, which the committee adopted, says the proposed cuts "could have a significant im- pact on the University's capacity to maintain its commitment to the enrollment of minority students." The report states that the losses of minority students would not be "trivial". The school could lose as many as 130 minority students if the cuts are adopted, the report said. THE REPORT ALSO expressed concern about how the cuts would affect minority faculty members. "Depending on how the proposed reductions are carried out... minority faculty could bear a 'An institution has to be sensitive to minority con- cerns...more sensitivity is needed throughout the review process. Unless the University makes the decision that the cuts won't affect minority enrollment and faculty, they will.' - Eunice Royster, chair- woman of the council for minority concerns. 'You don't make, to cut a school a decision based on how many woman and black students are in those schools. It is inappropriate to put academic con- siderations second to those of affirmative action. -Billy Frye, vice president for academic affairs and provost. disproportionate share of the reductions," the report said. Although many of the affected minority students are also enrolled in LSA and may not leave the University,minority leaders have seen the proposed cuts as a major threat to the University's diversity. Last June, a 21-member Council for Minority Concerns took action on their concerns. In a preliminary draft of a report to the Advisory Committee on Affirmative Action Programs, the council said the proposed cuts to the education school would "constitute a major setback to the University and minority com- munities." THE GROUP ESTIMATED that the Univer- sity's minority enrollment would drop by 93 students if the proposed cuts are carried out. Beyond the short-term enrollment concerns, some campus leaders feel the University is shirking its responsibility to minorities by eliminating programs minorities are attracted to. "Any curicular change that reduces the chances for minorities is not a good thing," says Joan Stark, the dean of the education school. "The University should want to do things to help women and minorities as well as other students succeed at the University." SHE SAYS the education school has had suc- cess recruiting minorities because many are attracted to education. In effect, the University is telling the school's many minorities that they can go somewhere else if they want to go the University, she says. Two other major schools targeted for budget cuts, the Schools of Art and Natural Resources, have the lowest percentage of minorities at the University. But some minority leaders say af- firmative action goals will be even less of a priority in those schools,,because of the small. number of minorities. WILLIAM LEWIS, A spokesperson for the art school, says it is hard to predict how minority enrollments would be affected by the proposed 25 percent budget cut for the school, but the school is "going to have some trouble." "I don't see how we can avoid it," he says. "It they are going to cut the school by 25 per- cent, then it would reduce the total enrollment from 580 students to approximately 300." "Many of the new faculty people are minorities who are going to be eliminated if the cuts go through. How can you avoid it?" he says. "SMALLER BUT BETTER" is the catch- word administrators are using to promote their budget cutting program. But Eunice Royster, the chairwoman of the Council for Minority Concerns, says the cuts may result in a "smaller but bitter" University for minorities. 'IAn institution has to be sensitive to minority concerns," says Royster, "for then it has a greater potential to be sensitive to other (majority) students... More sensitivity is needed throughout the review process." "Unless the University makes'the decision that the cuts won't affect minority enrollment and faculty, they will," she says. AS A BLACK PROFESSOR in the School of Education, Murrey Jackson has become especially aware of the dangers budget cutting presents to minority students. "If black students are in the programs which are cut, then they are going to be affected," he says. "If financial aid which the University receives is cut, then black students will be af- fected. If the amount of funds allocated to recruit black students is reduced, then they will be affected." Niara Sudarkasa, director of the Center for Afroamerican and African studies, says she wants to see more than just sensitivity towards blacks in the review process. She says the University needs to set up a committee to en- sure that minority concerns are addressed as budgets are cut. "The University should designate a special group of people to ensure that as the University gets smaller it continues to 'support its com- mitment to blacks and minorities," she says. See MINORITIES, Page 19 Colorful landmarks dot campus By HALLE CZECHOWSKI Mostsuniversities have thesame basic set up, libraries, classrooms courtyards, and hallowed buildings. Yet, each campus has landmarks that set the school apart from any other. The University is set farther apart than most. Burton Tower is one such landmark. It is difficult to miss the tower, as it lor- ds over campus. DEDICATED IN 1936, the tower houses the world's third largest carillon, and 67 bells altogether. It is the only carillon in the world to feature the entire bell range. All the bells were cast in Loughborough, England. Every fifteen minutes the bells chime, and on the hour the carilloneur plays one of his favorite musical selec- tions. Listening for the bells is one way to stay awake in particularly boring classes. The heighth and prominance of the tower seems to spawn several suicide rumors each year. At least one person on your dorm hall will swear to have seen the tower blocked off and the outline of a body obscured by onlokers. But none of the rumors has ever been documented. ON STATE STREET stands a blue sign that reads "The Kelsey Museum of Archaelogy." The stone lettering on the building the sign denotes, however, says "Newberry Hall." Built in 1890 by the Student's Christian Association, the building was named after Helen Newberry, who had donated the money for the project. The Building became University property in 1937 and was re-named Kelsey when the organization floundered. TODAY THE MUSEUM houses more than 100,000 ancient artifacts, and is used for special exhibits, and as classroom space for the art history department. A little farther down State Street on the corner of Catherine stands another locally famous building, the Purple House, also known as Minnie's Co-op. 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