Students and abortion See Weekend Magazine ~Ninety-five Years 411 i t tSpindled f PrlcluyEditorial Freedom he low teens.whahg epi o f t9Dir4 artly cloudy witha high Temp in Vol. XCV, No. 101 Copyright 1985, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan -- Friday, February 1, 1985 Fif teen Cents Ten Pages Panel pro dorm rate 19 loses 4.7% increase By VIBEKE LAROI The University should charge studen- ts 4.7 percent more to live in a dorm next year than it did this year, a University committee which advises the housing office said yesterday. The recommendation by the Single Student Housing Rate Study Committee will be passed along to Robert Hughes, director of housing, who will decide how much administrators will ask the University regents to raise housing fees for 1985-86. HUGHES SAID yesterday that he supported the recommendation which applies to traditional and non- traditional housing. The committee, which is made up of five students and three faculty mem- bers, began meeting in November to consider its recommendations. If the recommendation is adopted by the regents at their meeting next mon- th, the increase would be one percen- tage point less than last year's 5.7 in- crease. HOUSING officials should be able to hold down the late of increase because utility costs, which are a significant part of the housing budget, have leveled off somewhat after skyrocketing for years, said Larry Durst, business manager of the committee. Utility rates are now increasing by 10 to 15 percent each year rather than 18 to 30 percent as in recent years, Durst said. As part of a new telephone system being installed at the University, the housing division should save an estimated $40,000, next year, Durst said, and the residence halls are not planning any major changes in ser- vices. "(THE) expectations of students living in halls are being met," he said. The committee, however, recom- mended a $10 increase per student for the General Student Residence Reserve fund, an account used to purchase large equipment and pay for major renovations. The fund would receive $120 from each student, up from $110 last year. The recommended increase for this fund would not apply to residents of non-traditional student housing such as Baits, Oxford, or Fletcher Hall. DURST SAID that housing officials should make a special attempt to hold down the cost of non-traditional housing because the vacancy rates in these dorms have already been especially high. The committee hopes that by keeping rates as low as possible, converting double rooms to single, and offering short-term housing in Baits, the sagging occupancy rate can be boosted from 85 percent to 96 percent. The committee also expressed great concern over the lack of students in- volved in the University's food serivce. "We usually never have enough studen- ts to fill positions," said Kay Hawkins, food service associate. In the 20 years she has worked there have been few years without problems, she said. , The committee said the dorms should emphasize their wage rates in com- parison to fast food businesses. "I think the wages are very competitive," Hawkins said. The committee set forth various other suggestions to attract students to the University's cafeteria business such as direct mail recruiting and establishing a minimum number of hours of shifts. They also suggested giving students willing to work the required number of hours higher preference when choosing shifts. TRADITIONAL HALLS Proposed 1985-86 rates 1994-85 Single ...... .$3,319.94 Double . . . . . . . .. . . . 2,800.14 Triple Suite .....f.. .. ..i.. 2,800.14 Triplei. . . *... . . . . . . .. 2,467.92 Economy Double .. . . .. .". 2,368.48 Economy Triple ,........ .. 2,208.02 1985-86 $3t455.54 2,910.88 2,910.88 2,567.36 2,461.14 2,298.42 FOURTH FLOOR NEXT TARGET Union plans further renovations Associated Press Michigan's Richard Rellford hangs on the rim after missing a slam in last night's game against Northwestern. Michigan didn't miss many shots however, as they~tr'fnced the Wildcats 76-52 in Evanston. " " SurgicalBlue shooting makes 'Cats look sick By TIM MAKINEN Special to the Daily EVANSTON - Michigan's Roy Tar- pley and Antoine Joubert had slight fevers from a week long bout with the flu, but it was Northwestern Wildcats who took the heat last night at Welsh- Ryan. The Wildcats suffered a 76-52 scor- ching at the hands of the red-hot Wolverines. The victory, Michigan's sixth straight, avenged a 54-52 overtime loss last season at Northwestern, a loss which possibly knocked the Wolverines out of a NCAA Tournament berth. MICHIGAN PROPELLED to the top of the big Ten standings along with Iowa, which last night dropped the rapidly fading Indiana Hooosiers at Bloomington,72-59. The Wolverines are now 6-2 in the. See CATS, Page 10 By THOMAS HR, CH Michigan Union officials have spent the past few years attempting to make the Union "the center of University life," but Director Frank Cianciola said yesterday plans are now underway to do still more with the history-laden building. Cianciola announced yesterday at a press con- ference that the final phase of the $4.6 million project to renovate the Union has been completed. This last phase included the opening of the ground-floor shop- ping mall with its five local stores and Barnes and Noble, a New York-based bookstore. OFFICIALS are now looking at ways to renovate the fourth floor of the building which houses the of- fices of a number of campus organizations. Cianciola said that at this point he has no solid ideas for raising funds for the new project. "We are presently gathering proposals from many campus organizations about what we will do with the fourth floor," said Cianciola. "At this point we've got no definite plans about how the space will be used." Bob Moore, a finance manager of the Union, promised "intense planning over the next six mon- ths" to decide where funds will come for new projec- ts. Moore did say that if the Union made a profit from stores' rent or from the Michigan Union Grill (MUG) food services, that money would be invested in another major renovation project. FUNDS FOR the initial project came from a resolution passed in 1981 by the University's Board of Regents which allocated $7.53 of each student's tuition bill every term until the year 2003. Moore said Union officials wil not ask the regents to increase this assessment to raise money for future projects. He added that he could not say how well the Union is doing financially this fiscal year which ends on June 30. "OUR GOAL has always been to run the building on a non-profit basis," said Moore. "This year we an- ticipate to break even, but we won't know until the end of the fiscal year." Cianciola unveiled the ground floor shopping mall yesterday saying that "the facility is not just a building for the tenants but instead it is now a place for the entire University community." According to Cianciola the six new tenants of the ground floor were chosen on the basis of their available service to students with an emphasis on Ann Arbor businesses. The only non-local business currently renting space in the basement is the national firm, Barnes and Noble. All of the basement stores are scheduled to have their doors open today. Local merchants include Pronto Printing and Typing Service, Sun Photo, Great Places Travel Con- sultants, a branch of the National Bank of Detroit, and Study Break - a center which includes video games and cassette movie rentals. ... Meese clean, ethics chief says Budget includes work study in aid ceiling. From AP and UPI WASHINGTON - The government's chief ethics officer said yesterday that Attorney General-designate Edwin Meese did not break ethics rules, and an assistant who had initially concluded there were violations said, "I probably misconstrued the facts." David Martin said two staff members determined Meese had an "appearance" problem involving a $60,000 loan at favorable rates arranged by accountant John McKean, who was later appointed to the U.S. Postal Board of Governors. BUT MARTIN declared Meese violated no code of ethics. "I'm certain he didn't" Martin told the Senate Judiciary Committee on the third day of hearing on Meese's confir- m n as head of the Justice Department. The appointee of President Reagan said, "I had no pressure from anyone regarding this matter," including presidential counselor Meese, his attorneys and White House counsel Fred Fielding. Martin's conclusion of no violation came after he showed his assistants' preliminary report to Fielding and permitted Meese's lawyers to file a formal response. BUT ARCHIBALD Cox, the president of the lobbying group Common Cause and another witness at the hearing, called Martin's conclusions "incredible," "unbelievable" and "frightening." On the third day of the hearings, the first without Meese present, senators pried open the normally secret deliberations of the ethics office, which polices the conduct of 110,000 federal employees. The ethics office mainly was concerned with the federal jobs obtained by two men who helped Meese financially - John McKean, chairman of the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors, and Thomas Barrack, a former Interior Depar- tment official who used some of his own money to get Meese's California home sold. Martin said he did not overrule his staff, as some senators had been concerned that he had done. He insisted they all come to their final conclusions after numerous give-and-take discussions. "That's the furthest thing from the truth and I'm really outraged by it," he said, referring to the allegation he was pressured to change his mind. WASHINGTON (AP)-Education Secretary-designate William Bennett has informed a Senate committee that college students' earnings in gover- nment-subsidized campus jobs would count against the $4,000-per-student aid ceiling proposed by Reagan ad- ministration budget-cutters. Nearly 750,000 students averaged more than $750 in earnings in 1984 through the College Work-Study program. NOW, under the budget-cutting plan President Reagan will send to Congress Monday, those earnings would be coun- ted with students' federal grants and loans against the $4,000 lid. The Associated Press, citing an ad- ministration source, reported last Saturday that Reagan's budget will seek to bar students with family income over $32,500 from the Guaranteed Student Loan program and clamp the $4,000 ceiling on the total aid in one year for even the neediest students. It will deny Pell Grants to those families ear- ning more than $25,000. Bennett, now chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, was questioned at his con- firmation hearing Monday about the cuts by several irate senators. He defended the principle of trying to tailor the cuts so they hit middile-income students harder than the poor. Meese ... cleared of charges TODAY Short suit predicament," Brand said. "I just hope it makes a dif- ference more than just in Tewksbury. I hope it makes all women realize they don't have to be subjected to this. "The funny thing is that I never was involved in anything, let alone women's lib," she added. "But I knew it was just wrong." The waitresses and the motel reached an out-of- court settlement Jan. 15 that was negotiated and approved by the Boston office of the federal Equal Employment Op- portunity Commission. Motel executives said they have no problems with the out-of-court settlement. "It's perfectly OK with us," said Thomas Nantell, regional director of Associated Motor Lodges Ltd., owner of the Holiday Inn in bookstores in the city's Greenwich Village have sold about 300 copies of "Psychological Operations in Guerilla War- fare." The book caused an uproar last year when Congress learned it had been distributed among anti-Sandinista for- ces in that leftist Central American nation. The 44-page manual instructs guerrillas to "kidnap all officials of the Sandinista government," to benefit from the "implicit terror" that comes with carrying weapons, and on how to put the killing of an informer in the best light. Just why New Yorkers want to know these things is not clear. "It's sort of like selling a copy of the para military magazine Soldier of Fortune," said John Webber, a clerk at the Kiosk where the slip-up occured. James Mailhiot of Rutland filed a $100,000 suit in Vermont Superior Court this week against Green Mountain Businesses Inc., which operates a local Dunkin Donuts shop. Mailhiot said he was thrown on the floor of the restroom when he attempted to sit on the seat, which he said was not completely attached to the toilet bowl. He said in the suit he suffered great pain, incurred medical costs and lost wages. t1 i I I I