Ninety-four Years of Editorial Freedom . E LitvI!3U 1 Iai1Q Forgetful Cloudy today, with a 30 percent chance of rain in the afternoon. High around 55. 0 Vol. XCIV-No. 37 Copyright 1983, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Wednesday, October 19, 1983 Fifteen Cents Eight Pages S hf CongressS x opoie ,;: ton financialdN £ 1 y ' f ' N ,eit° rx7aid budgetj:rt+ Soothing serenity Michael Barrows, an LSA junior, sits on a limb in the arboretum overlooking the Huron River. Daily Photo by JEFF SCHRIER By KAREN TENSA A joint House-Senate committee last night approved financial aid budgets for the 1984-85 academic year calling for a $400 million increase in Pell Grant appropriations and smaller cuts' to student loan programs. University. Washington lobbyist Thomas Butts said he expects both houses to vote on the compromise by the end of the week. The budget essentially averages the differing loan budgets proposed by the House and Senate last week, and strays substantially from President Reagan's recommendations. UNDER THE COMPROMISE, the Pell Grant budget would be set at the Senate limit of $2.8 billion, with a maximum per-student allocation of $1,900. The Guaranteed Student Loan Program is slated to receive $2.256 billion under the committee's plan with National Direct Student Loan recipien- ts garnering $161.1 million. Reagan earlier in the year requested eliminating National Direct Student Loans, and recommended Pell Grant and GSL budgets which were $100 million and $200 million lower, respec- tively, than the compromise budget. BUTTS SAID he expects the legislative compromise to pass both houses this week. "There are no major points of contention," he said. If the House and Senate approve the budget, it will be sent to the President for approval. Despite the differences between Reagan's suggestions and the proposed budget, legislative observers say Reagan will likely approve funding levels. The National Direct Student Loan levels are lower than the University requires to maintain the current level of support, according to Harvey Butlits Dept. dissuades native speakers By JENNIFER STANLEY The department of Far Eastern Languages and Lit- eratures is formalizing its policy of discouraging foreign-born students from majoring in their native languages - a move which is angering some Japanese-born students and prompting cries of racial discrimination from one. Prof. Luis Gomez, the department's chairman, is asking for faculty reaction to formally establishing such a policy, which he says has been accepted in- formally for years. The proposal states: "Students with native proficiency in either Chinese or Japanese aren't encouraged to concentrate in their respective languages. It is our belief that these students, who by background have already completed the basic language requirement, should concentrate in spine other area." SEVERAL students, who asked that their names be withheld, believe the policy is unfair to them. Other foreign language departments have no such policies. "In my junior year I declared Japanese as my major, talked with an advisor, and found out what (courses) I needed," said one Japanese-born student. I went in this year and there was a different advisor. He discouraged me from following the program.. . I was ready to quit school." The student said she was being discriminated against for racial reasons. Two other students had similar experiences, and one has since dropped the concentration. BUT GOMEZ responded to charges of discrimination as being "gross distortions." He said the students were not advised properly the first time, "or they were uninformed." Gomez said the policy is necessary in the Far Eastern languages department because the "language requirement is much greater and the cultural gap is much larger." Native Japanese have an unfair advantage over other students, he said. "The key issue is how much language they know, and we determine this by examination or by the observations of the instruc- See NATIVE, Page 7 LSA questions ,prerequisites in computer dept. ...forecasts budget approval Grotrian, the University's director of financial aid. Earlier in the week Grotrian predic- ted that 300 to 400 University students would lose the NDSLs under the House budget figure of $143.6 million. The Senate compromise increased that number $17.5 million, far shy of the $35- million Grotrian said was needed to maintain current levels of student sup- port. The House and Senate had already agreed ,on amounts for other aid programs last week. Work study is budgeted for $550 million, $40 million less than the '83-'84 appropriations. Supplemental grants and state grants received small increases from this year. Man stabbed near art museum By MATT TUCKER A 25 year-old Ann Arbor man was stabbed late Monday night near the rear entrance of the University Museum of Art. Ann Arbor Police have issued a warrant for the arrest of a 27-year-old Ypsilanti man in connection with the stabbing. The victim is listed in fair condition at University Hospital. Police refused to identify either the victim or the suspect. POLICE SAID the two men started a fight near the Union when the suspect accused the victim of stealing money from him. The victim was walking away from the argument when the suspect allegedly caught up to him just outside the Museum and stabbed him in the back, police reported. The victim then staggered to the other side of South University and fell to the ground in front of the Law Quad. See MAN, Page 3 By NEIL CHASE A Computer and Communication Sciences Department requirement that potential concentrators earn at least a B-minus in prerequisite courses is un- der review by the LSA Executive Committee because it violates a college policy which allows any student with a C average to be considered for a major. CCS Prof. Bernard Galler said the policy, which went into effect Jan. 25, 1982, requires possible computer scien- ce majors to earn a B-minus in certain math, natural science, and computer classes before they can be considered for the concentration. GALLER SAID the stiff requisites were instituted because those students who received poorer grades in the pre- concentration classes would not be able to compete in the upper level courses. Also, he said, the CCS prerequisites for the major were made more difficult in 1982 by creating a special track of in- troductory courses for potential con- centrators and requiring the B-minus grades in two natural science, three calculus, and three CCS classes. The LSA Curriculum Committee and Executive Committee allowed CCS to apply the stricter measures in fall, 1981, but a recent restatement of policy has brought the requirements under question once again. LSA EXECUTIVE Committee mem- ber Prof. Daniel Longone said the college adopted its policy of admitting students with C averages into majors because "one doesn't want to restrict concentrations . . . simply to screen in better students." Longone said the Executive Commit- tee wants data measuring the potential success of students who do not earn a B- See LSA, Page 7 Sorry, Charlie With the waves of Lake Erie crashing on the rocks below, a lone fisherman braves the elements as he tries his luck off the breakwall west of downtown Cleveland. F ODAY Dumb clucks UTyr rnrrrrc said it wanted to make sure the applicants had type of animal - ducks, geese, snakes, rabbits. People have to have their snakes on a leash." Hamilton said he would ask Hanson to write a letter warning chicken owners of that ordinance and another that prohibits keeping the chickens within 200 feet of dwellings. Bzz, bzz, bzz SO YOU wanted to call the University yesterday but weren't on campus? Well, if it was between about 1:30 Ooops R EMEMBER THE 83-year-old Ann Arbor man who police said ran his pick-up truck into a tree after smoking a little marijuana? Well, it turns out the man wasn't quite 83 years old, as was reported in this column last week. Actually the guy was only 23, Ann Arbor police tell us now. The police spokesman said yesterday he didn't The group said it wanted to make sure the applicants had submitted all the necessary forms, but the applicants names had been withheld by the acting dean of the school. * 1972 - A small fire burned out a stall in an Angel Hall men's restroom. Fire investigators said the blaze was in- tentionally set. " 1973 - UAC brought B.B. King to campus for a Homecoming concert. * 1976 - Sophomore Jay Barrymore sacrificed his Bursley Hall room to the Eugene McCarthy presidential campaign, . -n-- u ie nnm he itvc nmnnin hndmartPerC II i I