Ninety-four Years Of Editorial Freedom :1 LIEr43U i~IIl A turkey A rainy day is in store, with strong winds and a high around 60. XCIV-No. 67 Copyright 1983, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Wednesday, November 23, 1983 Fifteen Cents Eight Pages 'U' merit awards may lure minorities By GEORGEA KOVANIS Some call it buying students, others call it recruitment, but either way, it appears the University is preparing to pay a higher price to lure top-notch minority students to campus and bolster sagging black enrollment figures. University officials say they are losing the battle for the nation's best minority students to peer institutions that offer scholarships based on high school performance, rather than on financial need only. But that situation could change soon if a merit-based scholarship program aimed specifically at minority students is implemented. UNIVERSITY officials are looking at possible merit scholarship programs, but no final decisions have been made yet. The ad- ministration doesn't "want to make any decisions until it knows how much money it's committing," said Gil Oswald, the financial aid office's scholarship director. Some of those decisions could be made by next month, said Robert Holmes, associate vice president for academic affairs. Currently, the University sponsors only a small number of merit-based scholarships specifically targeted at minority un- dergraduate students: " The National Achievement Scholarships are awarded to black students who are identified as National Merit Scholarship semifinalists. These awards range from $250-$2000 per year and are renewable over four years; " The Minority Achievement Awards are awarded by the University to "academically promising" students and range from $750- $1000. They are not renewable; * The Martin Luther King awards are given to students through the Alumni Association. These one-time awards range from $500-$1000. " From these three programs, the University offered a total of 185 scholarships to freshper- sons this year. But figures on the number of awards accepted were not available. Officials argue that the amounts of these awards are not sufficient to keep pace with Ivy League and other universities. An increase in merit-based scholarships will cause an increase in black enrollment, said Ned Gramlich, an economics professor and the chairman of the University's task force on financial aid. "I wouldn't suggest it if I didn't think it will work," he said. "It may not get black (enrollment) up to 10 percent, but it'll get it up some." In 1970, the University set a goal of 10 percent black enrollment, but actual black enrollment now stands at 4.9 percent. "I think it's one direction to go in and a needed direction," said Opportunity Program Director Eunice Royster. But she added that this is only one step toward increasing the number of minority students on campus. "any one thing is not going to be the answer," she said. "Some free rides aren't worth taking." OTHERS HAVE strong reservations about supporting a plan to increase the merit-based scholarships for minority students. See 'U', Page 3 w. German vote OKs U.S. missile deploy'ment Moment of silence University Vice President for Student Services Henry Johnson and Peace Corps Director Loret Ruppe lay a wreath on the front steps of the Michigan Union yesterday to commemorate the 20-year anniversary of John F. Ken- nedy's assassination. The wreath is placed on the plaque marking the spot Daily Photo by DOUG McMAHON where Kennedy first announced the creation of the Peace Corps program. Ruppe also announced yesterday in Lansing that she would not run for the U.S. Senate despite the urgings of many Republican leaders. From AP and UPI BONN, West Germany - Parliamant gave firm approval yesterday to NATO's plan to deploy new U.S. nuclear missiles in West Germany, voting 286-226 for the resolution after two days of angry debate and street demonstrations. Foreign Ministry spokesman Juergen Moellemann said after the balloting that the first of the U.S. Pershing II missiles were expected to be placed in West Germany "In the next few days." BEFORE THE VOTE, anti- American demonstrators prosted by bursting into a U.S. consulate, blocking traffic and attempting to barge into communist Berlin. Witnesses said the demonstrators barged over to East Berlin and were pushed back across the borders by East German border guards. Thirty mem- bers of the group, who refused to disperse, were arrested by club- wielding police, witnesses said. About 600 people blockaded the U.S. Consulate in the Baltic port of Bremen and 18 protesters, who burst into the building, locked themselves in a room and refused to leave, police said. "AMERICANS, WE don't want your bloody arms in our country," said a placard waved by one of the protesters outside the Bonn parliament building. Police arrested 166 protesters, bringing the total to 348 during the two- day debate. Legislators cast their ballots on the resolution after former Chancellor Willy Brandt, in an emotional appeal for its rejection, said deployment of the new missiles in Western Europe would wreck a "historic chance" for East- West disarmament. "OUR MAIN American allies have the fixed idea that the deployment of Pershing Its is more important than th e dismantling of SS-20s," Brandt said. "The alliance and the federal gover- nment are passing up a historic chance to oblige the Soviet Union for the first time in history to dismantle many nuclear weapons." The government circulated a resolution defending the deployment as necessary because U.S. and Soviet negotiators in Geneva have failed to See W. GERMANY, Page 3 wGerman opposes armsrace By NANCY GOTTESMAN Europeans more urgently oppose the world arms buildup because first-strike nuclear weapons are set to be deployed in their own small countries, a West German peace leader said yesterday. Irene Echert, chairwoman of the West German branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, said in a speech at the Ann Arbor Public Library that Americans do not understand European's fear of, military conflict because U.S. citizens are further removed from the threat of war. ECHERT IS touring the U.S. this year in hopes of educating Americans about the immediacy of the need for a halt in nuclear arms production. At her Ann Arbor stop, Echert focused on the need for a nuclear freeze and criticized the deployment of U.S. Pershing II and Cruise missiles in West Germany and Western Europe. She said Germans feel the threat of military conflict more than Americans because the missiles will be deployed in the Germans' own back yard. "I REALLY do feel that the European people, who have suffered two major wars in their own territory, feel much stronger that we are really heading toward nuclear war," she said. Echert said the installation of missiles in Germany amounts to provocation from the United States, and said nuclear parity already exists between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. "We are talking about further escalation, and we have to stop it before it is too late," she said. IN AN INTERVIEW before her ap- pearance at the Ann Arbor Public Library and just hours before the West German Parliament approved stationing U.S. nuclear weapons in that country, Echert said the government of German premier Helmut Kohl has bent too easily to pressure from the Reagan administration. "Kohl is the puppet of the Reagan Administration, there can be no doubt about that," she said. After hearing of the German Parliament's decision, Echert called Kohl "a demagogue," and said he deceived the German people by cam- paigning under the slogan "Let's create peace with fewer weapons." SHE SAID the German people are rallying behind the nuclear freeze moiement and are effectively displaying their opposition to deployment of weapons in western Europe. See SPEAKER, Page 2 JFK remembered in" Washington tribute From AP and UPI WASHINGTON - In the church where John F. Kennedy once worshipped,his family and aging heirs of the New Frontier gathered yester- day on the 20th anniversary of his death, paying tribute in solemn prayer and back-slapping Irish camaraderie to the man who "made America young again, and the world seem new again." With President Reagan sitting on the front row in Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church, Sen. Edward Ken- nedy (D-Mass.), and Archbishop James Hickey of Washington took the occasion of a nationally televised memorial Mass to appeal for renewed efforts to achieve racial justice and end the nuclear arms race. "HE REAWAKENED Americans to the reality that the strength of our nation lies not only in the firepower of our arms but in the powerful appeal of our most decent values," said Ken- nedy, citing the 1963 nuclear test ban treaty as "the beginning of an end to the Cold War." The archbishop said believers "must seek to prevent the massive, even total destruction of human life and culture that a nuclear war could bring." And, although he has removed him- self from contention for the presiden- cy in 1984, the surviving brother ser- ved notice that the Kennedy brand of politics remains unbowed. See MASS, Page 3 Daily Photo by UUUG McMAHUN' Irene Echert says the Western Hemisphere must stop the madness of the nu- clear arms race. Echert, chairperson of the branch of the Women's Interna- tional League for Peace and Freedom in West Berlin, Germany, addressed a crowd of about 40 at the Ann Arbor Public Library last night. TODAY Vacation shutdowns DAILY STAFFERS will be munching turkey with everybody else this weekend, so the paper won't be published again until Tuesday, Nov. 29. Mean- while, the graduate and undergraduate libraries will be day, then informed him that his account was overdrawn. Peterson, of Ilion, N.Y., walked up to Herkimer County Trust's machine on North Main Street. "I asked for $10 and it started coming out with .$20 after $20 after $20 in $100 lots," Peterson said. The machine went haywire. "I couldn't stop it. It gave me $1,120." After the machine spat out bills for 10 minutes, despite Peterson's efforts to halt the flow, it chugged out a receipt informing him he could not have any more money because his account was overdrawn. Peterson said he went to a nearby hotel, had someone count the money, and notified the police, who told the bank. O letter to Blanchard, Stephen Jahn of Burnsville, Minn., said he bought the pop for $2.99 plus the $1.20 deposit while he visited the state in early October to view the fall colors. "I feel ripped off," Jahn said in the letter, which accompanied a shoe box containing the crushed cans. "A tax of $1.20 for 12 cans of soft drink did not leave me with very good feelings about Michigan," Jahn's letter said. Blanchard's letter to Jahn, which contained a check for $1.20 from the governor's personal account, said he would be happy to return the cans for Jahn on his next trip to any Michigan store.tr that day, was cancelled because of the assassination of President Kennedy the day before. Athletic department of- ficials had announced after the shooting that the game would be played as scheduled. * 1969 - University President Robben Fleming told the University Senate that there's a place for input from students in University decision making, but not among the final decision makers. * 1974 - More than 50 members of the Graduate Em- ployees Organization rallied on the steps of the Rackham building before a collective bargaining session to protest the University's stance on the union's economic demands. E i I I I