Ninety-four Years of Editorial Freedom j:j; b IC +t 43UU ai1tl Devious Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and a high in the mid 60s. Vol. XCIV - No. 27 Copyright 1983, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Friday, October 7, 1983 Fifteen Cents Ten Pages Five-year plan? i What five-year By BARBARA MISLE The University is shrinking and no one knows about it. Fighting to keep the University afloat, ad- ministrators are cutting schools, programs, and faculty to make the University "smaller, but better" under a five-year budget reduction and replacement plan. BUT MOST students - who will be affected in one way or another by the cuts - have no idea that any such plan exists. The so-called "five-year plan," which is taking money away from the budgets of certain University departments to boost other programs, is virtually foreign to the average student walking across the Diag. "A five-year plan? I haven't heard about it," said LSA junior Pete Naake. "I KNEW something about cuts to some schools, but not the five-year plan," said Elaine Tracey, an LSA senior. "I'm not aware of what's going on because I'm busy studying," said LSA sophomore John Swirczek, who also didn't know about the budget cuts. "Smaller but better?" said Swirczek. "I don't un- derstand. I don't see how you can cut and get better. It just doesn't make sense to me." Two students said they were part of the five-year plan, explaining that they were going to be fifth-year seniors. Even some students in schools which have been cut are not informed. Engineering senior Jon Kolb said he hadn't heard that the humanities department in the College of Engineering was being cut. Eventually plan? engineering students will be taking English courses through LSA. Of 25 students stopped on the Diag in the last two days, more than half had never heard about any budget cuts, a few others had a vague knowledge that something was going on, and nine others said they had heard about some of the cuts from newspapers or protests, but they didn't understand how the schools being cut were picked or how they were reviewed. ALTHOUGH the local media have covered the budget cuts extensively, several student and faculty groups have sponsored forums to discuss the issues, and various public protests take place repeatedly, many students said it was the University's respon- sibility to keep them informed directly - through the mail or otherwise -- about financial decisions. Kolb, the engineering student, who said he rarely reads the newspapers because he doesn't have time, See STUDENTS, Page 5 Stanford prof. fills top 'U' medical position By SHARON SILBAR A seven-month national search con- cluded yesterday as University officials named a Stanford University car- diologist to be the first vice provost for medical affairs - a position which some officials think never should have been created. Donald Harrison, chief of cardiology and professor of medicine at Stanford will take over the position at the end of the school year, pending approval by the regents at their monthly meeting in two weeks. THE VICE provost will be respon- sible for coordinating the business of both the medical school and the hospital, which together accounts for about 35 percent of the University's en- tire operating budget. The regents approved creation of the post *at their meeting last February, although three of eight members of the board opposed the idea. At that time, Regent Paul Brown (D- Petoskey) said he felt the creation of the new admihistrative post would be a waste of money. "We have a dean of the medical school and a director of the hospital. I don't see why they can't do the work of the vice provost," he said. YESTERDAY, Brown still main- tained his opposition to the post, but recognizing its existence, he said Harrison "seems like he'll do a very good job." Billy Frye, vice president for academic affairs and provost, who will be Harrison's immediate superior, said the new administrator will save University budgets "many times over his salary." University officials speculated in February that the new administrator could command as much as $100,000 per year - more than the University president makes - but Frye yesterday refused to release the actual figure. Harrison, who was president of the American Heart Assocation in 1982, will be responsible for overseeing the com- pletion of the $285 million Replacement Hospital Project and the budgets, of the medical school and all the University hospitals, which total about $300 million annually. See NEW, Page 5 Blanchard urges state rebuilding Daily Photo by JEFF SCHRIER Hugh Kaufman, the EPA's chief researcher at Love Canal, N.Y., speaks at the Union yesterday. E PA official criticizes Reagan9 ad-ministrationwt LANSING (UPI) - Gov. James Blanchard urged cooperative efforts to "rebuild a competitive Michigan" yesterday in an adress containing generalized proposals for easing business regulations and aiding targeted industries. Friends and foes alike described the 27-minute speech to a joint session of the Legislature as basically an economic pep talk. "IT's LIKE a coach at halftime saying, 'Let's go get 'em,' but letting 'em go back on the playing field without telling 'em the strategy," said Rep. Gary Randall, an Elwell Republican. Randall, who chairs the House Republican caucus, however, generally praised Blanchard's emphasis on cooperation between the parties. In addition to outlining economic programs, the governor took time out to defend his record, specifically its most controversial element - the 38 percent income tax increase, which prompted recall campaigns against 15 lawmakers and the governor himself. "THE FACT is that for all the criticism, our temporary tax package is working and is on schedule" to be phased out, Blanchard said. Blanchard said there are "more jobs in Michigan" and "more stability in Michigan's budget." Blan chard ... stresses cooperation By JACKIE YOUNG The Environmental Protection Agen- cy researcher who blew the whistle on EPA mismanagement of superfund cleanup projects yesterday criticized the Reagan administration's choices in leadership of the EPA before a Michigan Union audience. Hugh Kaufman, assistant to the director of the EPA's Hazardous Site Control Division, said Reagan handed the agency over to its enemies when he appointed Anne Burford, James San- derson, and other officials to head the EPA. BURFORD, Kaufman said, was a state legislator in Colorado who killed the toxic waste law there. Her chief policy advisor, James Sanderson, was also a lawyer working for Chemical Waste Management, Inc., one of the nation's largest waste disposal com- panies. Also, he said, Burford's assistant Rita Lavelle worked as a public relations specialist for Aero Jet General - California's largest polluter. Kaufman said the administration got into trouble because of its many special interests which lead to "sweetheart deals" and overall disregard for the legislature's environmental health regulations. "Dow Chemical Company had taken Rita Lavelle to lunch more than any other company. That reflects, up until that time, how they handled pollution control," Kaufman said. "There are one million tons of toxic waste produced for every man, woman, and child in the U.S.," Kaufman said, adding that this is a conservative estimate because it is only taking into account documented amounts of waste created. ACCORDING TO Kaufman "there is big money being made in the field of toxic waste management." Kaufman said that in the 1,700 sites targeted for cleanup alone there is a $15 billion to $45 billion potential liability. In the over 2,000 government licensed land waste sites in the U.S. there is a $2 billion to $6 billion liability. Because of legislation, he said, after five years of minimal monitoring, a waste dump is closed with no major disasters: the liability is taken off the private business and put on the backs of the federal government. If problems occurs at the site 10 to 20 years later, Kaufman said taxpayers pick up the cost. Kaufman praised the new EPA chief William Ruckelshaus who replaced Burford but said Ruckelshaus faced "lots of restraints" in getting his legislation passed through the current pro-industry administration. THE BEST WAY to clean up a toxic dump, according to Kaufman, is to put an asphalt cap over it, move all inhabitants out, and just "leave it alone." "We should then put up a monument on the spot that says this is to the stupidity of American society which from 1940 to 1980 dumped chemicals in this area. "Hopefully by 2185 the land can be reused. Otherwise, the economic costs of cleaning up all the areas across the nation will be outrageous - it would bankrupt us." KAUFMAN SAID that when he testified before Congress revealing the "shennanigans" involving top EPA of- ficials he was put under domestic sur- veillance and officials tried to dig up dirt on him out of his past - but found nothing. Now, Kaufman said, "I am the most protected government official in the U.S." Kaufman was also the EPA's chief investigator of toxic waste at the nation's most publicized toxic site - Love Canal. He said the area is not the worst case of contamination in the U.S., or even in Niagara County, New York. Kaufman said the news media picked See EPA, Page 2 In a speech that drew applause almost exclusively from the Democratic side of the aisle, Blanchard noted that Michigan is pressed by com- petition from foreign countries. THE WAY TO "meet and beat the competition," he said, is to "do better," not gut government or lower workers' standard of living. See BLANCHARD, Page 5 'Lord of theFlies' author wins Prize From AP and UPI STOCKHOLM, Sweden - William Golding of Britain, author of "Lord of the Flies" and other novels depicting the savage side of human nature, won the 1983 Nobel Prize in literature yesterday. The Swedish Nobel Committee cited Golding's novels for their clarity, diversity, and "universality of myth" that "illuminate the human condition in the world today." Pointing out that it was the first Nobel literature award to a Briton since Winston Churchill won in 1953, Golding said "In a sense, one can say I'm in ex- traordinary company.. I have enough old-fashioned patriotism to be glad not just for myself but because the prize has been won after 30 years by an Englishman." Asked whether the prize would en- courage him, Golding laughed and said, "Well, at the age of 72 and having been writing since I was 7., I don't think one needs encouragement to carry on. One See GOLDING, Page 2 TO DAY Safety plug A NEW KIND of training tool is about to go into service to plug fire safety in Talledega, Ala.-a talking street fire hydrant. Assistant Fire Chief Ed Deck came up with the idea and now the city is ready to take the stomach. After 15 years of reigning over the kitchen at'the fraternity house, Mary Fell, who admits only to being "29 and a few years," beat out two other semifinalists young enough to be her granddaughters to become homecoming queen at Worchester Polytechnic Institute in Massachuset- ts. The brothers said it was the least they could do for "Ma," who has ladled out good advice along with her good cooking to thousands of students over the years. The frater- nity members got the idea of running Fell early last week. "en[in er e3-,cnm.nn nnntnp- a it v -nLia t was England's Oxford University. Hailed as Britain's cleverest child, Ruth became an undergraduate and started an honors degree course in mathematics at the university's St. Hugh's College. She and her father, a computer con- sultant, rode to class on a tandem bicycle. Ruth prepared her first computer program when she was 6 and aspires to become a math professor before she turns 20. She won a scholarship to St. Hugh's by topping 530 other candidates in a mathematics entrance exam usually taken by 18-year- Also on this date in history: *1953 - The senior class recommended the establish- ment of a vice president of student services position, to "create a closer link between the student body and the University administration." " 1962 - University officials announced plans to create "a new residential liberal arts college" that would "increase the likelihood that students living in close contact with one another would have common educational experiences." i