Ninety-four Years of Editorial Freedom .:J-. Air Wan 1 Iai1Q Arcane Cloudy with a chance of rain today and a high near 50. Vol. XCIV-No. 38 Copyright 1983, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Thursday, October 20, 1983 Fifteen Cents Twelve Pages _ V 0h Kingli clears WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate, on a vote of 78-22, yesterday sent President Reagon a bill establishing a n national holiday in memory of Dr. Margin Luther King Jr. That supreme r honor has been accordedonly one other American, George Washington. Reagan has promised to sign the bill, p which designates the third Monday in January, starting in 1986, as a legal holiday in King's name. Final congressional action, sought for years, came more than 15 years after the civil "It rights leader was assassinated. A-. Holiday bill Senate It is only right that we set aside a day of iational commemoration for the important 'ole that black Americans have played in 4merica's life rogress.' . . . work . . and social - Howard Baker Senate Majority Leader It is only right that we set aside a KING'S widow, Coretta, and his son. Martin III, watched from the Senate gallery as the climactic roll was taken. The family was accompanied by singer Stevie Wonder; Benjamin Hooks, president of the National Association AP Photo for the Advancement of Colored son, Martin Luther People; and Joseph Lowry, head of the a national holiday. Southern Christian Leadership Con- ference that King founded. day of national commemoration of the important role that black Americans have played in America's life and work and social progress," said Senate Majority leader Howard Baker Jr., (R- Tenn.) However, with election year coming up, cynics suggest Congress and President Reagan had the black vote in mind in finally embracing the idea. But that, too, is a tribute to King. He and his followers made blacks a power to be heedeed. Before the final vote, Jesse Helms. (R-N.C.), persisted in peppering the Senate with proposed alternatives to a King holiday. On Tuesday, Helms lost a major attempt to recommit the bill for further study of Helms' allegations that King was influenced by communists. "If we are going into this business of picking out heroes, then I think my No. See SENATE, Page 5 Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, Corretta King, widow of Martin Luther King Jr., and her King III share a moment of celebration in anticipation of the Senate vote to honor King with Hopwo<( By JIM SPARKS When Playwright Avery Hopwood died, he several hundred thousand dollars to the Un rsity to'be awarded annually to student writ Since then, the Hopwood. Awards h become a household name and the Hopw Room a familiar haunt for visiting writers.I as the name and the awards have increased has the institution which hands them out. ! LAST YEAR only 60 percent of the mo from Hopwood's endowment went to writing awards, with the rest going to pay judges, speakers, and other administra costs. Not all of those costs are as dull as post money, pays for awards-and dinner and xeroxing, however. The Committee on left Hopwood Awards spent $919 last spring for hive- their lamb chop and veal dinner with novelist ers. Maxine Hong Kingston, the speaker at the ave April awards ceremony. 'ood Nearly $3,500 went toward posters, the bi- But annual newsletter, the Hopwood bulletin and I, so mailing costs. BY FAR THE greatest expense outside of the ney awards is the fee paid to professors and well- the known writers to judge the students' for manuscripts, and to speakers at the awards tive ceremonies. Hopwood's will doesn't specify such expen- age ditures, but fanfare has accompanied the awards ever since tea and cookies were first served in the Hopwood Room. "IT'S ALWAYS been that way," said Robert Haugh, a retired English professor who was the committee's chairman in the late '60s and early '70s. "It gives, I would say, status and prestige ... often it opens doors for the winners," he said. "Arthur Miller is very fond of (the Hopwood program) and he comes back and sits and talks to students and this is wonderful for morale. National visibility is important." Visibility is also pricey. Speakers earn $2,000 at the April and $1,000 at the January awards for freshmen and sophomores. LAST APRIL it cost the committee $3,449 to pay for Kingston's fee and her air fare from Hawaii. The committee's $54,500 1983 budget came from the interest on Hopwood's endowment, and although $33,350 in prize money was awar- ded in 1983 - the largest amount to date - the percentage of the total yearly interest falls far below the 75 percent paid out 10 years ago. Andrea Beauchamp, the program's coor- dinator, attributes much of the difference to skyrocketing administrative costs, largely tied to the University insistence on in-house buying. ONE COST SHE doesn't intend to incur again is dinner at Inglis House, a University-owned home to entertain visiting guests. She said the $919 dinner last April with the committee members, past chairmen, and Kingston represented an $11 per person increase over the year before. "They went up a lot and we're not going back," she said. Other costs that have eaten away at the award percentage stem from prices charged by University Publications. She said in 1981-82, the committee paid $1.80 an hour to have its awards posters designed, a figure that shot up to $18 an hour for this year's awards. Beauchamp See OFFICE, Page 5 Nigerians at struggle to get aid from home By SUE BARTO Nigerian students enrolled at the Un- iversity face an uncertain future - possibly including prohibition from J registration, eviction from their residences, and deportation - because of difficulties in obtaining financial aid payments from sources at home. The more than 30 Nigerian students at the University are only one part of a growing national problem that has barred close to 5,000 Nigerians from registering at U.S. schools because they can not pay tuition and housing costs. THE PROBLEM is not new, accor- National Association for Foreign Student Affairs, but the situation has worsened in the past few years. Rose said a currency squeeze caused by a drop in the price of oil - Nigeria's chief export -has cut the flow of American dollars into that country, leaving both government and private sponsors unable to support Nigerian students abroad. Recently the Nigerian government pledged $10 million to U.S. institutions to cover the debts of the students, but no payments have been made yet. ROSE ALSO said Nigeria's civilian Co ' 'aO Engin., LSA ask computer dep..t.merger By NEIL CHASE A study thisyear of a computer scien- An "agreement in principle" has been ce program run by both departments was "the most recent trigger" in the reached between the College of decision to combine the programs, he Engineering and LSA on the proposed si merger of two schools' computer departments, officials said yesterday THE MERGER would reduce The executive committees of both repitition between the units, according colleges have approved a tentative plan to t combining LSA Computer and Com- Associate Engineering Dean Charles munication Sciences department with Vest speculated that the consolidated the engineering computer program, program would offer degrees to both which is designed to "bring the two LSA and engineering students, while groups together as an effective unit," the department's administrative fun- according to LSA Associate Dean ctions would lie entirely within one of Henry Pollack. the two'colleges. THE PLAN, which at this point con- tains no concrete outline of curriculum The two schools are now waiting for requirements or administrative details, the University's executive officers to came after a proposal earlier this year approve the plan. "The recommen- that the two schools explore the dation was that if the executive officers possibilities of merging their computer also approve it in principle, the programs. negotiations will get down to the brass Joint projects between the depar- tacks," Pollack said. "It's in the tments and criticism from outside executive officers' hands." organizations, such as the National Pollack and Vest said they hoped the Science Foundation, led to the planning process could be completed realization that "the program at within a few months. Michigan suffered a little by separation "LSA is ready.to negotiate," Pollack between the two colleges," Pollack said. "There's no use dragging it out said. over a long period." ding to Julie Rose, advisor for the Nee ', age Fewer U students, to get federal loans By KAREN TENSA The proposed federal financial aid budget for 1984-85 will have grim reper- cussions for University students receiving National Direct Student Loans, a University official said yesterday. A $17.5 million decrease in national funds for the NDSL program means the University will lose approximately $200,000 compared to last year, accor- ding to Harvey Grotrian, the Univer- sity's director of financial aid. BECAUSE OF the lower ap- propriation, which was approved by a joint House and Senate committee last Tuesday, 190 fewer University students See FEDERAL, Page 2 Daily Photo by TOO WOOLF Only skin deep Though it may seem a rash way to clean out the Virgin Mary's pores, Kevin Thiellesel and Max Akins of Akins Construction get the job done at St. Mary's Student Chapel yesterday. TODAY- Writing for dollars HAVE YOU ever asked yourself, "Why am I here? What is an education?" LSA Student Government wants liberal arts students to think more seriously about their education and why it is such an im- portant part of life. To spur creative thinking along those I Suspended sentence A SPRINGFIELD, ILL. city manager who suspended a policewoman for posing nude in Playboy magazine, an incident immortalized in a television movie Monday night, resigned Tuesday after being questioned by police for picking up a prostitute. Tom Bay, 51, wasn't arrested Friday night in Dayton, about 20 miles from Springfield, but Dayton police said Bay told them he had offered the woman $50 for her services. A police spokesman said he didn't know why Bay was not taken into custody. Bay becamea cnntroversial figure in Snringfield when he sus- lawyer said Bay's resignation was premature. "I think he was emotionally premature in the action he took," the lawyer said. "Nobody had legally established he solicited (the prostitute) or she solicited him." D First class flight W HILE THE REST of its breed chose a more conven- tional form of travel, one Monarch butterfly was treated to a first class ride via the U.S. Postal system to help it in its migration south. Bob Huggins, chief naturalist at Big Bend National Park in southwest Texas said his rln-rmnn rnnn t r..i-rln n-no' mn-odnn e nt seats behind her were sold for $1 each. Also on this date in history: * 1932 - Ten minutes after the Michigan Socialist Club opened a bookstand to sell radical literature, Ann Arbor police shut the stand down because of alleged violation of a "city ordinance." Club officials said Police chief Thomas O'Brien had given them permission to operate the stand but O'Brien denied ever sanctioning the sale. " 1942 - Seven University students relinquished all other extra-curicular posts to accept positions on the war-time Manpower Mobilization Corps Executive Board, which helped to intensify the University's contribution to the war ;i i I1