The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, March 20, 1984 - Page 5 Regent stresses faculty's role im mority programs By SHARON SILBAR 'WE MUST face the fact that the numbers (of minority Faculty senate members had the chance to ask two students on campus) is declining," said Power, who frequen- University regents questions at yesterday's biannual tly speaks out on affirmative action issues. meeting, but only a few of the 50 attending even raised their Black student enrollment dropped from 5.2 percent in 1982 hands. to 4.9 percent last year. Education school Prof. Charles Lehmann, however, took "We are losing ground despite our best efforts," she said. advantage of yesterday's visit by Regents Thomas Roach (D- "The rhetoric of 10 years ago must be replaced with tasks Saline) and Sarah Power (D-Ann Arbor) to get their and goals." evaluation of the University's five-year plan to cut and Roach said faculty members play a key role in helping redistribute $20 million. minority students feel more comfortable at the University. AT THEIR monthly meeting last week, regents approved "THERE IS the perception that the University is not a the education school's plan to carry out a controversial 40 warm place for minorities in the classroom in the social life, percent cut in its budget that was issued under the five-year and in the living situation," he said. plan. "The faculty bear an important role in that regard." "With response to the whole process," Roach said, "if Also at yesterday's meeting, faculty members voted to ap- there was a fault, it was the openness of the process. It was point alumni to four key University committees: The Budget agonizingly long, agonizingly open." Priorities Committee, the University Relations Committee, "But it was a completely open process and it continues to the State Relations Committee, and the Committee on the' be. I don't think you can judge this quickly," he said. "It Economic Status of the Faculty. may take four or five years." FACULTY members also voted to meet only once a year, "YOU HAVE to let it run a little," added Power, who along instead of biannually. with Roach has served on the Board of Regents for 10 years. Senate Assembly members elected four members to serve In 1980, the University began the plan to shift general fund on the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs. money to "high priority" areas. Several schools, such as Those elected will replace outgoing members Donald education, art, and natural resources, absorbed major cuts Brown, a professor of psychology; Andrew Nagy, a professor under the plan that reduced the number of faculty members of aerospace engineering; Herbert Hildebrandt, a professor and programs. of business and communication who served as SACUA Recruiting and retaining minority students is also a top chairman, and David Hollinger, a professor of history. University priority, accoring to both Power and Roach AP Photo Gatecrasher Officials examine a car that was stopped outside a White House gate last night. Uniformed Secret Service officers smashed the vehicle's window and arrested the driver because she was behaving suspiciously, a Secret Service spokesman said. Regents may strip students of vote against code (Continued from Page 1) disagree with them, but they have the right." Shapiro's draft letter to the regents also contains another point disputed by sttident opponents of the code. it SUPPORTS a recommendation by tih University Council to make the code apply only to students. The council, which drafted the code, proposed doing away with a bylaw requiring that its regulations apply "generally" to students, faculty, and staff. , 'Rules of conduct tailored to these gioups separately, promise to be much more useful," a February 1983 letter from the council to Shapiro said. The council's chairman, Communication Prof. William Colburn, explained that the 1973 University Rules which apply to faculty, staff, and / students have been largely ineffective. Faculty and staff have tougher guidelines contained in the regents' bylaws, but students do not yet have a similar code, Colburn said. "WE NEED the code to make (regulations for all three groups) equal," he said. "We don't have the third arm in place." In their 1983 letter to Shapiro the council recommended changing the bylaw requiring student and faculty approval. "We thought that if the (bylaw) was unreasonable and unworkable, then it should be :changed," Colburn said yesterday. He said they did not suggest the 'The bottom line is that the Regents will approve (the code) one way or the other.' - Henry Johnson Vice president for student services "If students want a code, they should write it themselves. We just don't want their code," said LSA Junior Mary Garrison, president of "No Code" a group formed recently to protest the guidelines. But the likelihood that students will be able to vote on the code, let alone write it, is not great. "The bottom line is that the regents will approve (the code) one way or the other," predicted Vice Presidentfor Student Services Henry Johnson. change in anticipation of MSA opposition to the code. Code opponents have asked Shapiro to put students in charge of making revisions of the code. Some of the changes student critics want include: eliminating the phrase about SACUA asks 'U' to publish code Wontnueadrom Page 1) "interfering with normal University activities;" ensuring that students hold, the post of hearing officer in a case, rather than an administrator or faculty member; increasing the number of students on the hearing board, and making sure that students are not tried by the University and a court at the same time. SHORT OR LONG Hairstyles for Men and Women DASCOLA STYLISTS Liberty off State . 668-9329 Maple Village ... 761 -2733 PF RnXo X05 .4 Subscribe to the Michigan Daily Phone 764-0558 guidelines before the committee can take any action on the code, faculty members said yesterday at their weekly meeting. "UNTIL (the document) is complete, it makes no sense to go ahead," said Prof. Herbert Hildebrandt, chairman of the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs (SACUA). Faculty members unanimously ap- proved a motion yesterday asking the University to publish the code in the Daily or the University Record "at the earliest possible date" to inform more people about the proposed guidelines. Siding with student groups that recently organized to protest the code, some professors said there are too many, unanswered questions about the guidelines such ashowrevisions would be made and the kinds of incidents to which it would apply. "SOME complaints (about the proposed code) seem entirely legitimate," said English Prof. Richard Bailey. "It lacks clarity about the changes and who makes them. "And the range of prohibited conduct is extraordinarily large," he added. Bailey said it is unclear how far the section of the code that bars disrupting any University activity would extend. "What would happen if someone played a stereo too loudly?" Bailey asked. Another professor facetiously added that under the proposed code the popular football game "Wave Cheer" would probably be considered illegal. ~co' 540 E. Liberty St 761-4539 e5 Z C Corner of Maynard 8&Liberty Students receive advice on careers (Continued from Page 1) at age 14 answering phones at a small radio station. After learning that a 12-year-old was already working at the station mopping floors, Feldman said he felt the heat and decided to go for the big time. BUT THE competition gets stiffer along the road, Feldman said. "It's tough getting from the position of making very little money to where you can live like human beings." Adams got her start working as a copy girl at Channel 2 for $2,50 an hour. Her duties as a glorified "gofer" in- cluded getting coffee for her bosses and ripping wire service copy off machines. "It was frustrating doing all those lit- tle jobs," she lamented. "But I had to work at making myself indispensable to the station." "GETTING YOUR feet wet," even if it is a little uncomfortable, in in- valuable, or at least as important as a college education, Adams said. Neither Adams nor Feldman received college degrees. Adams left college before graduating because of a job offer. "Nothing can go against on-hands experience. I gave up my college for that experience," Adams said. "Besides, everything I was learning in the classroom was wrong." FELDMAN ADDED that despite several years of school he "was lacking street knowledge." University graduate Jim Finklestein, who now works as an assistant copy chief at The Detroit Free Press, told the audience he didn't go to college to learn newswriting skills. "I went (to the University) because I was un- disciplined." The Free Press recently hired a new editor who didn't have a college k'' I k INDIVIDUAL THEATRES StM AY at i..br 76. T700 DAILY 1:00 P.M. SHOWS MON. THRU FRI. education "but he had 18 years of ex- perience," Finklestein said. 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