A Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, April 3, 1984 Cornell president: Life is more than grades { IF~. 1 :j By PETE WILLIAMS "Honors and what else?" was the question posed to about 3,400 of the University's top students and their parents at the annual Honors Con- vocation at Hill Auditorium Sunday. Cornell University President Frank Rhodes, the featured speaker, told students who were honored for high grade point averages and class rankings that unless they could answer such "challenging questions" yester- day's "honors would become hollow and life would become empty. " ALTHOUGH high grades are "in- dispensable for getting into law school and medical school," Rhodes said a solid education would be more valuable than honors. "A Cum Laude on paper does not necessarily mean a Cum Laude in life," be said. Rhodes, who served in Ann Arbor as the University's Vice President for Academic Affairs before becoming president of Cornell, said that utilitarian goals of education - "a way to create Star Wars technology that can beat the Russians, to build computers that are faster than those from Japan..." may need to be revised. "THE GREATER gift of education is understanding," Rhodes said, which demands the use of knowledge "for wise and noble purposes." Students honored by the University yesterday carried a minimum of 28 credit hours during 1983 and earned the equivalent of 3.5 average. Freshmen in the top 5 percent of their class received the William Branstrol award.' Students who maintained a straight-A average for at least two consecutive terms received James B. Angell awar- ds. University President Harold Shapiro also recognized four University alumni including former Michigan Governor Murray Van Wagoner with the Regents' Outstanding Acheivement Awards. Daily Photo by DAVID FRANKEL Cornell University President Frank Rhodes addresses the 61st annual Honors Convocation at Hill Auditorium Sunday. State legislatur LANSING (UPI) - Lawmakers in the House and Senate yesterday saw the possibility of compromise between their different versions of tax reduction proposals - but the viewpoints still appeared far apart. A quick agreement seems unlikely. Major differences include how much to roll back the tax and when - and whether to tie the final cut to a specific date or to link it to state economic conditions. UNDER THE House rollback plan, passed early Sunday with the backing of Gov. James Blanchard, the incometax rate will drop from 6.1 percent to 5.35 percent Oct. 1 - three months earlier than now scheduled. The stiffer Senate bill cuts the tax to 5.35 percent July 1 and to 4.6 percent, its original rate, July 1, 1985. may compromise on tax bill Under the House proposal, and existing law, the tax rate will not return to 4.6 percent until Michigan unemployment subsides to 9 percent. THE HOUSE proposal is likely to be rejected-by the Senate, sending the issue to a House-Senate conference committee. "We've got until October to worry about it," said House Speaker Gary Owen (D-Ypsilanti) moments after the House vote. House Republicans, under the leadership of Rep. J. Michael Busch (R-Saginaw), overwhelmingly supported the Blanchard plan after losing several attempts to bring it closer to the Senate bill. Busch said he hoped a bigger cut can be achieved through a conference committee. SENATE finance Committee Chairman Norman Shinkle (R-Lambertville) said the goal of, Senate negotiators will be "to get the rollback as big and as soon as possible." However, he noted that if the discussions drag on until fall and the House refuses to budge, it may be "this or nothing." He said there is probably room for compromise within the Senate, noting many senators supported a plan dropping the rate to 4.6 percent Jan. 1, 1986. House Taxation Committee Chairman Lynn Jondahl (D-East Lansing) views the time factor differently. With no elections until 1986, "the Senate has the luxury of being nonchalant," he said. But the House is up for election this year. "It really is desirable from the House members' perspectives to get the whole thing put to rest," Jondahl said. IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press international reports Baker says Reagan not violating war powers act in El Salvador WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Howerd Baker (R-Tenn) said yesterday he does not think President Reagan is violating the War Powers Act in Central America and expects no serious effort in Congress to apply the act's provisions to that region. "I see no indication of that at all," Baker told reporters as the Senate moved into a.scheduled -50 hours of debate on Reagan's request for $61.7 million in emergency military aid to El Salvador and $21 million to assist rebels in leftist-ruled Nicaragua. House Speaker Thomas O'Neill (D-Mass.) asked the House Foreign Affairs Committee last week to "establish whether or not the War Powers Act is being complied withivEl Salvador." Baker, however, said, "I think there is no reason to look into that and I don't anticipate any serious effort to invoke the provisions of the War Powers Act in El Salvador." The act, passed in 1973 as the undeclared war in Vietnam was winding down, requires the president to notify Congress whenever troops equipped for combat are sent into another country. If the troops get into combat, or face the imminent, likelihood of combat, the president is required to withdraw them in 60 to 90 days unless he gets authority from Congress for them to stay. Candidates campaign in N.Y. NEW YORK - Walter Mondale, Gary Hart and the Rev. Jesse Jackson toured New York yesterday in a frantic, final day of campa~igning for the state Democratic presidential primary - the biggest prize so far in the "red- hot" race for the party's nomination. Mondale, the leader in the polls, visited several upstate cities, where he appealed for support on the basis of a "lifetime of public service. . I'm not a guess-what candidate who just shows up on the scene today and asks for your votes," he said in an obvious, though unnamed reference to Hart. Hart, also campaigning upstate, counterattacked on "special interests" and campaign contributions. "We cannot elect a president to reform the campaign finance laws of this nation who goes into office beholden to those special interest groups who have financed his campaign on that basis," he said. Jackson, hoping for a strong turnout among black and Hispanic voters in New York City, campaigned in Harlem and Brooklyn. The 252 delegates are the biggest single-state catch so far in the election calendar. Only the California primary on June 5 will award more. Rebels mine Lake Nicaragua Nicaraguan rebels said yesterday they mined a 30-mile stretch of Lake Nicaragua, the country's largest inland waterway, expanding a campaign to halt water traffic in which 12 ships have struck mines in three ocean ports. Voice of Sandino, the - clandestine radio station of the Democratic Nationalist Alliance, or ARDE, which opposes the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua, said the 90-mile-long Lake Nicaragua was mined "from the mouth of the river Sapoa to the town of Colon," about 30 miles. "Lake Nicaragua has been mined and is a war zone that is dangerous for civilian shipping," Voice of Sandino said. It warned civilians "not to travel these waters so that an unnecessary loss of human life can be avoided." Most shipping on Lake Nicaragua carries domestically consumed food and merchandise, while ferried from the towns of Sapoa and Cardenas and several lake islands carry people to and from Grenada, the major city on the lake's northern shore. Las Vegas strike stops shows LAS VEGAS, Nev. - About 17,200 employees of three dozen gambling resorts walked off the job yesterday, setting up picket lines along the Las Vegas strip and forcing cancellation of shows by name entertainers. Gambling was not affected, but a lengthy walkout could severely disrupt an economy highly dependent on tourism, state authorities said. At least two pickets were arrested, but no violence was reported. Owners of casinos stocked hotel warehouses with supplies, hired nonunion employees and moved executives onto the premises in an effort to circumvent union picket lines. They manned restaurants, mixed drinks and changed linen. Las Vegas dealers, by history non-union, remained at the tables. Scouts discover fourth skeleton SEATTLE - Explorer Scouts combing a wooded area where three skeletons were found over the weekend discovered a fourth skeleton yesterday and all were being examined as possible victims of the Green River killer, officials said. If the latest discoveries are officially identified as Green River victims, that would bring the death toll in the serial murders to 20. An additional 12 missing women fit the profile of Green River victims, most of whom have been young prostitutes. No one has been charged in the slayings. Explorer Scounts, called in after a mushroom hunter found a skull, discovered three skeletons Sunday in a wooded, litter-strewn area near Star Lake, in an unincorporated part of King County about 17 miles south of downtown Seattle. ' t RO' THE UNION DRAWING Frid, Apr il 6 Ithe terrace (I The Michigan Union SYa GRAN PRiZI Round Trip Ticket from ICELANDAIR departing from Detroit IIu M First Class, 30 Day Eurail Pass from THE INTERNA TIONAL CENTER* FIRST PRIZE Miyata,10 Speed, Sport Bicycle from GREAT LAKES CYCLING CENTER SECOND PRIZE S150 )of Michigan srpomwear and accesries ENTER at an %Michigan Union location Eurail Passes also on sale at The International Ctr. LSA profs adopt guidelines (Continued from Page 1) voted down 32-10 at the LSA faculty's were esta February 7 meeting. do is crea BUT MEMBERS of the Joint-Student between t Faculty Policy Committee who backed an adve the proposal said they were disappoin- resolution ted that the tougher standards were not The rev passed. by a larg "The teeth have been taken out of it," than fiver said LSA senior Dane Myers, who ser- Althouj ved on the panel. "The faculty don't revised gi seem to mind hearing what they should standard do, but they do mind being told exactly proposed to do this or that - and that's why it mittee. I passed this time." panel sho Although Nelson added that he was the specif pleased that some type of guidelines guidelines Students battle derstand t (Continued from Page 1) we're just here is when the machines break down, the varic But like anything else, you learn to roll departme with the punches," says Karunas. "IT'S L The record time for computers being orderinga out of order was 24 hours, according to out of me Karunas. A computer hold up can throw do?" Kar off the entire CRISP schedule, he says, wanting tc because students have to return the kids some following day for appointments. "It's ac Some students get pretty testy when want, wh their schedules don't work out, adds being abl Karunas. Comput "ONCE I had to call security to have spend hou a fellow removed. He just sat in (my of- in studen fice) and said he wouldn't leave until he Words for got what he wanted." the stude The student left only when security Lewis, a officials said he would be charged with belligerer trespassing. back and "It's a frustrating process," Karunas "The st explains. "People want everything to another o be solved here and now. They don't un- term, but blished. "What we wanted to ate a cooperative atmosphere eachers and students, and not rsarial one. We feel the is a step in this direction." vised guidelines were passed e majority yesterday with less members voting against it. gh Cohen supported the uidelines he argued that such is should not have been by the student-faculty com- nstead he suggested that a uld have been appointed with ic charge of drafting teaching s. CRISP that we don't make the rules, tenforcing the rules made by ous schools, colleges, and snts." IKE going to a restaurant and a hamburger when they're all eat - what can the waitress mrunas quips. "It's hard not o hall off and hit some of these times. question of wanting what you en you want it, and not always e to get it." er operators, however, who rs before the screen punching ts' ID numbers have kinder students. "Ninety percent of nts are great," says Carol CRISP operator. "The only nt one I encountered came apologized." udents are marvelous," adds operator. "I get one dog per that's the exception." 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