The Michigan Daily - Friday, September 9, 1983 -Page 19 'U' program fails to attract minorities By JACKIE YOUNG A University program designed to recruit black students failed this year to increase the number of black fresh- person applicants. Fewer black students applied to the University this year than in 1982, said Lance Erickson, associate director of admissions. OUT OF ABOUT 4,300 freshpersons who had paid their enrollment deposits as of the registration deadline, only 155 identified themselves as black on their applications, he said. The figure was 169 last year.. The program, "Each one, reach one," is one of several University at- tempts designed to boost the number of black students since 1970, when officials pledged to raise black enrollment to 10 percent. But despite these efforts, the percen- tage has dropped from a high of 6.9 in 1977 to 5.2 today. Under the six-year-old recruitment program, currently enrolled minority students submit to the University's admissions office the names of high school seniors and transfer students AP Photo they consider to be potential applicants. nesday. ABOUT 1,400 minority students currently attending the University were contacted this year, but only 53 n responded, comparedto 300 last year. These students recommended 186 potential minority applicants. bove them About 12 percent of the recruits were bove thk admitted to the University and almost 7 percent returned their enrollment deposits, said Dave Robinson, assistant director of admissions. Final enrollment figures will not be available until October 1, Erickson said. Eighty percent of the "Each one, reach one," recruits were admitted to the University last year and 10 percent actually enrolled. ALTHOUGH THE program was not as successful this year, Robinson said involving currently enrolled students in the recruitment process is valuable. Minority students' names are recor- ded on a computer so they can be cone tacted throughout the year to help with student tours or writing letters to poten- tial applicants, Robinson said. One reason the University is attrac- ting fewer minority students is because top schools nationwide are competing for black students, he said. CUTBACKS IN financial aid over the past several years also have hampered the recruitment effort, making the University unable to fully subsidize the cost of }minority students' educations, he added. Increasing financial aid would make the University more competitive with other schools and could end the con- sistent decline in black enrollment, said Robinson. This month, admissions officials will ask minority alumni and other in- terested alumni to write letters to potential applicants, he said. This story was reprinted from the summer edition of the Daily. A policeman shows the hull of a hot-air balloon made from raincoats used by a Czech family to flee across the heavily-guarded border into Austria Wedn .Cz ech famil escapes, x MISTELBACH, Austria (AP) - A well-known the official quoted Hutyra as saying. Ezechoslovak cyclist and his family sailed across the Authorities would not release the names of the borders of their communist homeland in a hot-air other family members. The Hutyras "built their :balloon patched together with raincoats and asked balloon at home and started in the dead of the night Jor political asylum in Austria, police said yesterday. just on the other side of the border" where they aban- Police said Robert Hutyra, 38, brought his bicycle doned their car, the police official said. He asked not with him in the perilous escape. to be identified. Hutyra, his 36-year-old wife and their two children, "THE BALLOON WAS made of raincoats sewn a boy and a girl; ended their precarious, 50-minute together and was kept aloft with lit propane" from a escape shortly before midnight Wednesday. They canister fastened underneath, he said quoting touched down in the northeastern border village of descriptions from Drasenhofen police. Drasenhofen, a police official said. Mistelbach is The duty policeman at Drasenhofen said the about 18 miles from Drasenhofen. family stood on a platform surrounded by a steel "THEY GOT OUT and walked into town, where railing. He said the skin of the balloon was "sewn police were notified," the official said in a telephone together from patches of blue and grey nylon-like ,interview. He said the family then asked for political material." asylum. According to the officials in Mistlebach, Hutyra told The night flight had been planned for two years, police that "czech border guards saw the propane in balloc flame about two and a half kilometers a nnAfiar fnrc ht nrratl nnldi' and tired tiares but apparently coua nt maze the thing out." THE OFFICIAL SAID Hutyra, well known in Czechoslovakia as a former member of its national cycling team but now a construction engineer, brought his racing bicycle with him. Police in Drasenhofen showed local reporters parts of the balloon. Pictures taken by photographers there and later seen in Vienna showed what appeared to be raincoats forming the balloon, a wooden platform surrounded by a thin railing tubular steel and a large propane canister of the type used for stoves. In a similar escape nearly four years ago, two East German couples and their four children rode their homemade balloon across the border to northern Bavaria in West Germany. *TI~e Returp of tIe T MEm i MAUQ CII H 0 L Reagan unveils plan to repeal sexist laws N WASHINGTON (AP) - President eagan, accused of foot-dragging on ,his alternative to the Equal Rights mendment, decided yesterday to ask Congress to change nearly four dozen xually.discriminatory federal laws, Zut to leave intact some others that live women preferential treatment. The president took the action at a Vneeting of his Cabinet Council on Legal Policy, which considered a 50-page memorandum that Reagan had solicited from the Justice Department and the Office of Management and Budget on sex discrimination in federal laws. THE MEETING was prompted by criticism from Barbara Honegger, the Justice Department aide who called the 21/2-year-old project to identify discriminatory laws a "sham" and later resigned. After the meeting, William Bradford Reynolds, assistant attorney general for civil rights, acknowledged he had deleted several law changes recom- mended in a draft report before he submitted the memorandum to Reagan. ONE OF THOSE involved a law that allows schools to be given arms for in- struction if the schools have able- bodied male students to learn to use them. Reynolds.agreed- that-most of -the changes in the 47 laws that Reagan seeks to have Congress rewrite would be only cosmetic. G A N o' Aqi Ground Floor UNION - __ More engin. (Continued from Page 9) laid he is pleased with the changes. "We were spread out a lot before," he Said. "Although we have less room for iraduate students (in the new pcation), it is cleaner and nicer." Pollock said the move will allow tudents and faculty to work more klosely together. But he said faculty iembers have expressed concern that pe move may isolate them from the est of the University. "THE FACULTY is curious as to how t will all work out," he said. Part of that isolation includes an in- sreased strain on the University bus System, the main artery between the classes move to N. Campus new engineering facilities and Central Campus. Vest said the college has reviewed how the changes will affect students commuting between the cam- puses and has concluded existing ser- vices are "adequate, particularly if students avoid taking the last possible bus before each class." He said the University has made several recommendations to the city to help prevent traffic problems, in- cluding timing traffic lights more ef- ficiently and creating a special "bus lane." VEST SAID parking should not become a problem until the college completes the final stage of its move, a $30 million structure presently called the Engineering Building I. Planners hope to break ground on the project, which will house the -Depar- tment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, this spring. Construction is expected to take more than three years. If the college's humanities depar- tment, which is up for review, has not been eliminated entirely by the time construction is complete, Vest said it would also be moved into the new building. DETROIT AREA 3RD PHOTO FLEA MARKET & TRADE SHOW Live Model Photo Session New-Used Photo Equipment Buy-Sell-Trde -FREE APPRAISALS 4Diag gets ne (Continued from Page 1) THE FACT that he considers himself i performer does not mean Burke doesn't believe in what he says just as much as Caulk does, Burke said later in dn interview. He continued, "Sure, I believe in Ievolution. The only thing worth living for is change." Without his act to coun- rpoint Caulk, the preacher's speeches Would merely be a boring, one-sided sermon, Burke said. Burke's captive audience was barely disturbed at 1:05 p.m. when the progressive Student Network blared a iren, signalling the start of their first +ie-in of the year. Only about 30 studen- 4 fell to the ground in an anti-nuclear rotest, which lasted less than five iinutes. THE PURPOSE of the unplanned die- , according to group spokesman Tom Sarx, was to increase student awareness of the dangers of nuclear afar. "At any time, there can be a R . I ... ^ 1 1 w performer nuclear war with no warning," Marx said. Michigan Student Assembly President Mary Rowland, present at the protest, voiced her support for the group, and said, "it shows the military research issue isn't dead." Daily Opinion Page Editor Bill Spindle filed a report for this story. Discount With I ThiAd I -------- Sat., Sept. 10, 10am-5 pm Sun., Sept. 11, 10 am-4 pm DEARBORN CIVIC CENTER . (corner of Greenfield) 15801 MI Ave., Dearborn F 313/884-2242 " 'r " 1 FINIAL INV LNTOI Y CLEAk ANCE Further Deductions UP TO 30% OfF 10 DAYS ONLY Starts Wednesday Sept. 7 thrn Satiirdiiv Sint 17