4 Rage 2 - The Michigan Daily- Wednesday, December 7, 1983 'U'moves to fill minority post By SHARON SILBAR A committee has been formed to select a new administrator who will be in charge of boosting and maintaining miinority enrollment, a top University official confirmed yesterday. Billy Frye, vice president for academic affairs and provost, said that four University deans have breen- been named to decide among the candidates for the newly created associate vice president's position. ALTHOUGH the selection committee leas not met yet, Frye said a nominee could be chosen ."by the end of the semester." It would then be up to the university regents to approve the dommittee's recommendation. The four deans named to the commit- t'ee are Harold Johnson, dean of the School of Social Work; Rhetaugh lbumas, dean of the nursing school; James Duderstadt, dean of the College of Engineering; and LSA Dean Peter Steiner. Frye said input also has been sought from Virginia Nordby, the University's Industrial director of affirmative action and1 Eunice Royster, head of the Oppor- tunity Program and the Coalition for the Use of Learning Skills (CULS), both of which deal primarily with minority+ students. FRYE SAID there are about 15 can-] didates for the high-level position created at the October regents meeting to handle the University's long- recognized problem of recruiting and retaining minority students. In the early 1970s, the University ad- ministration pledged to boost black enrollment to 10 percent. The closest it ever came to that goal was in 1977, when it peaked at 6.9 percent, or 2030 students. 1982 figures showed black enrollment to be 5.2 percent, (1,603 students). This year it dropped to 4.9 percent. "Everyone is aware that this is a long-standing problem, and that we don't expect miracles," said Robin Jacoby, an assistant to Frye. ACCORDING TO Johnson, the most crucial aspect of the new position is getting "minority perspective into the park plann THE COMPANY also announced itI will fund an endowed chair at USF un- der the Florida Legislature's Eminent; Scholars program. The chair will be1 known as the Patrician and Richard Wood Chair, and will be held by an out- standing scholar or research scientist to be recruited by USF. Wood, chairman of the company, said1 top level of deliberations at the Univer- sity." The success of the individual chosen for the position depends on the resour- ces and support the person receives, Johnson said. But he added, "I have high expectations for all senior of- ficials." Dumas and Duderstadt could not be reached for comment. Steiner said he would not comment on the position until the committee meets. DESPITE overall enthusiasm about the creation of the position, some ob- servers have expressed concern. Royster, who called creation of the new position a "much needed addition to the administration," said it will be a difficult position to assume because "everyone is anticipating that he or she won't be successful." Douglas Middlebrooks, chairman of a group of dorm minority council presidents, said he fears the University now has a scapegoat for its problems with minority enrollment.. "I HOPE they're not making up a department where they can place blame," said Middlebrooks, an LSA sophomore. Coordination of resources, getting people together, and "unifying a goal" will be the hardest things for the new associate vice president to accomplish, he added. Despite the responsibility of handling minority students affairs, Frye said the new administrator also will deal with issues concerning minority faculty, and policy issues including tenure and long- range academic planning. Frye said "special efforts to identify minority candidates as part of an af- firmative action responsibility," are being made, "but we're doubling effor- ts to give special consideration to (the nature of the position)." The committee is looking for someone with "strong academic credentials, credibility as a member of the faculty, (the person must be) tenured faculty, will have to have a good sense of academic values, and some skill or concern - though not necessarily ex- perience - for administrative mat- ters," Frye said. TAMPA, Fla. (UPI) - The Univer- sity of South Florida and a Michigan developer announced plans yesterday for a high-technology industrial park on a 2,500-acre tract just north of USF. Wood & Co. of Ann Arbor, developed a similar technology park in conjunction with the University of Michigan. It is located on North Campus. e dfor Florida college the cost of planning alone will cost $2 Tampa, and in addition to having million and said developers and tenants technical and corporate office are expected to spend $500 million over facilities, it will provide laboratory the next 15 years at the park. space and financial and commercial Construction is expected to begin areas designed to meet the needs of within the next two years. tenants. THE MASTER plan for the industrial "Our project and the Tampa area are park is being prepared and coordinated an excellent match," said Wood by Milo Smith & Associates Inc. of President Rex Jensen.' When youre ina tight spot, good friends will help you out. IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports Spacelab gets extra day in orbit SPACE CENTER, Houston - NASA gave the Spacelab astronauts an ex- tra day in orbit yesterday for a voyage that experts say already is rewriting science textbooks by disproving a 77-year-old Nobel Prize-winning theory on the inner ear. Mission Control announced that space shuttle Columbia will land at 7:58 a.m. Pacific time tomorrow, giving the six-man crew a full 10 days in orbit. Initially the mission had been due to end today. The decision came after forecasters predicted a storm front moving in from the ocean would pass through the Edwards landing today. Yesterday's experiments produced a number of surprises, including the reversal of a vestibular response theory which earned Austrian scientist Dr. Robert Barany the Nobel Prize in 1914. Guard charged with gold heist LONDON - Scotland Yard, suspecting an inside job, charged a guard yesterday with the $39.5 million gold heist from his firm's tightly secured warehouse in one of the biggest robberies of all time. The guard, Anthony John Black, 31, was ordered held without bail for three days in a magistrate's court appearance. Black was charged with "being concerned with others" in robbing the Brink's-Mat security company of three tons of gold and small quantities of diamonds, and travelers checks worth $39.5 million. Police sources, saying the robbery most likely was an inside job, said Black was one of the six guardsaon duty in the warehouse when the raid took place Nov. 26. He was arrested by Scotland Yard's serious crimes squad on the weekend. Insurance brokers have already paid out the major part of the insurance claim on the loss. It was the equivalent in insurance terms of the sinking of a supertanker, one insurance broker said. West Gmany pays reord $10.7 million for Gospels manuscript LONDON - A lavishly illustrated 12th century book of Gospels set a world record price for an art work yesterday when a West German government consortium paid 7.4 million pounds - $10.7 million - for the illuminated manuscript. Sotheby's auction house said that with its 10 percent commission added, the buyers will pay 8.14 million pounds - $11.8 million. "We got a real bargain," said Hans Kraus, 77-year-old head of the New York based H. P. Kraus book-dealing firm, which jointly bid for "The Gospels of Henry the Lion" with London's Bernard Quaritch Ltd. book- dealers, on behalf of the Bonn government. "We would have gone higher - up to 10 million pounds, or $14.4 million. It is quite simply the most beautiful book, or work of art, in the world," he said. The consortium was backed mainly by the West German state of Lower Saxony where the book of the four Gospels was produced by a monk named Herimann, near Brunswick in about 1170. Common Market summit fails ATHENS, Greece - Leaders of Western Europe's Common Market yesterday failed to resolve a financial crisis that threatens the 10-nation trading bloc. A three-day summit ended without a communique for the first time in the organization's 25-year history, and Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Ger- many called the failure "a bitter setback." The summit foundered largely on what to do about subsidies, or support prices, for agricultural products which are in growing surplus in the 10- nation area with a population of 270 million. The subsidies absorb two-thirds of the nearket's annual spending of $21 billion. Leaders of. the Common Market and analysts predicted grave financial problems for the organization and politicpil tensions among the 10 nations appeared likely. President Francois Mitterand of France said Europe.now "knows in all clarity that it is in crisis." Jackson demands party rule changes to aid black candidates ATLANTA - Civil rights activist Jesse Jackson yesterday threatened a fight on the floor of the 1984 Democratic National Convention against party rules he says discriminate against his presidential candidacy. Jackson's goals of more black and minority delegates picked up qualified support from one rival, Sen. Gary Hart of Colorado, and "sympathy" from another, Sen. John Glenn. But, in the process, the unity hoped for among six candidates on a two-day tour of the country to raise $1.9 million for the party disappeared. Earlier Jackson had promised to try to resolve his dispute later this month in negotiations with Democratic National Chairman Charles Manatt. But in Atlanta, with the other two candidates, Jackson would not let the matter drop. Jackson has demanded a change in party rules he said discriminate against him and favor front-runners Mondale and Glenn. He said the rule denying any delegates to a candidate who gets less than 20 percent of the vote in a congressional district hurt him because only 86 districts in the coun- try have more than 20 percent registered black voters. "The point is that we must maker the fundamental room" for blacks, women and Hispanics, Jackson said. "Mine is a strategy for winning. It is a strategy for rewarding those who are the most loyal to the party." ble Mirbitgan Johiflu Wednesday, December 7, 1983 Vol. XCI V-No. 75 (ISSN 0745-967X) I1 14 IA N. - ~,o..., When you pulled in two hours ago, you didn't have this problem. And with a party just starting, the last thing you wanted to do was wait around another two hours. Neither did the rest of the guys. So when they (ffered to give you a lift, that's exactly what they did, proving not only that they were in good shape, but that they were good friends.t Gell C laf 1 t, mTT E( The Michigan Daily is edited and managed by students at The University of Michigan. 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