Ninety-five Years of Editorial Freedom :1-. Lit 43UU hiitij Porky Partly sunny with highs in the upper teens. Vol. XCV. No. 102 Copyright 1985, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Saturday, February 2, 1985 Fifteen Cents Eight Pages n gin. building may lack equipment By JERRY MARKON A highly-sophisticated laboratory in the engineering building under con- struction on North Campus may not be properly equipped if a special research fund proposed by Governor Blanchard fails to pass the state legislature. The building, which is scheduled to house the electrical engineering and computer science departments starting in 1986, will also contain an experimen- tal facility called the Solid State Elec- tronics Laboratory. WHEN THE fully equipped laboratory-which will conduct ex- periments in micro-electronics and robotics-will be "the most sophisticated facility between both coasts, equalled only by similar facilities at Stanford and MIT," accor- ding to Engineering Dean James Duderstadt. Despite the lab's high priority, Keith Molin, the director of capital outlay at the University's Office of Government Relations, said that the money to equip it "was never a part of our request for state funds." Duderstadt attributes this quirk to the state's "failure to provide a mechanism for appropriating money for highly-sophisticated equipment." OFFICIALLY, 1.2 million of the 29.7 million required to complete the entire building has been allocated for equip- ment, according to Philip Jaeger, the governor's director of capital outlay. Duderstadt, however, said this amount would only provide for "things like furniture and blackboards, and the kind of limited equipment you find in a high school chemistry lab." Originally, the engineering college was going to rely on private donations from industry to come up with the 8 million dollars necessary to provide a fully-equipped laboratory. See NEW, Page 3 New rape law upheld In state court eases '86 bud et: Reagan would cut ed., boot miliry From staff and wire reports WASHINGTON-President Reagan will propose a $974 billion budget for the 1986 fiscal year that calls for nearly $40 billion in new spending cuts from domestic programs while recommen- ding an increase of $30 billion for the Pentagon, administration officials said yesterday. Administration sources said Reagan would recommend a fiscal 1986 Education Department budget of $15.5 billion, down from the $17.9 billion Congress approved for fiscal 1985. WITHIN these cuts, education lob- byists expect several slashes in federal financial aid, including the restriction of Guaranteed Student Loans to studen- ts whose families earn more than $30,000. Lobbyists also expect the president to put a cap on the total amount of aid a student can receive in federal grants, not including state grants, to $4,000 a year. Lynn Borset, assistant director of financial aid at thewUniversity, said that the $4,000 limit would "most adversly effect non-resident students who do not get state aid." She said that from one- quarter to a third of the students who get federal aid at the University would be affected by this limit. Borset said that the GSL limit would "very negatively impair about three- quarters of the students receiving the loans on campus."h CURRENTLY, students whose familiesearnsless than $30,000 a year can borrow as much as $2,500 a year, but students whose families make more can still qualify if they can prove that they have need. For example, a family would qualify if it has to send several children through college. Bill Kroegger, director of public in- formation for the American Council on -Reagan ... wants domestic spending cuts Education, said the council estimates that the GSL cap would deny eligibility to 30-40,000 students. The plan forecast a deficit of about $180 billion, added officials, who spoke only on condition they not be identified. But that assumes the president's budget is accepted in its entirety by Congress, where opposition already is forming to many of the proposals. THE BUDGET-the first of Reagan's second term-contains no call for a tax increase, and the president is expected to sent Congress a plan later this year to simplify the income tax code. White House spokesman Larry Speakes said the overall plan is in keeping with the president's wishes to freeze overall government spending. See REAGAN, Page 2 Daily Photo by STU WEIDENBACH Spellbound LSA freshmen Dave Sunderlike and Ray Telang gaze at the awe inspiring west end of the Law Library yesterday. LANSING (UPI) - The Michigan Supreme Court upheld in two test cases yesterday the application of Michigan's pioneering law which shields sexual assault victims from interrogation about their private lives. The high court said evidence of a vic- tim's prior sexual conduct with others cannot be used as proof that she consen- ted to rape with a rape defendant. IT SAID, however, that such evidence could be used in some very limited situations. The high court reinstated Charles Hackett's Grand Traverse County con- viction in a prison sexual assault and affirmed James Paquette's conviction in a Tuscola County assault. Both men had sought to use evidence of their victims' alleged prior sexual activities. ALTHOUGH the rape shield had been upheld previously, the cases were con- sidered an important and more specific test of its constitutionality. By enacting a general exclusionary rule, the Legislature recognized that in See NEW, Page 2 Pre-miere Comp ufair takes Off at Union By JENNIFER MATUJA Laser printers, briefcase-size com- puters, and high-quality graphics took over the old-fashioned Michigan Union yesterday as computer firms gathered to display their wares. Over 1,500 people visited the first day of Compufair, a two-day show arranged by the Inter-Fraternity Council. Twenty-five local and national companies specializing in a variety of computer products were on hand to greet the students and local business people. "THE FAIR was designed to provide a service for the University See COMPUFAIR, Page 3 Guiehosts debate for mayoral candidates By ARONA PEARLSTEIN Bunyan Bryant and Ed Pierce, two candidates vying for the Democratic nomination for mayor, squared off yesterday at Guild House on the issues of community involvement, housing, and city government efficiency. "We should try to do anything in our power to lower housing costs," Pierce told the crowd of about thirty yester- day afternoon. "There's no place where the poor can live here. We should not become a community of one economic class." PIERCE, A local doctor and former state senator, said a city income tax would generate revenue which could be used to provide more low-income housing for area residents. Bryant agreed with the concept of affordable housing but questioned whether city voters would approve an income tax increase. "A city income tax will be more compatible in keeping up with inflation and with changes in salaries," said the Univer- sity natural resources professor. "I think there are some ad- vantages to that. But I don't think you can convince the people of the city to support it." RESPONDING to a question on what the candidates would do to get more people, particularly students, involved in local politics, Bryant said that he would encourage students to become involved in city government. "The city government has been very derelict in inviting See DEMOCRATIC, Page 3 MSU group opposes porn ban From staff and wire reports The director of an independent movie group at Michigan State University is vowing defiance of an adminstrator's request that no more pornographic fare be shown, and says he may seek a legal challenge. Darwin Greyerbiehl, director of Beyolyer Cinema, plans to take his case to the Lansing chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU's Lan- sing chairman, Philie Dean, said the organization's board will meet Thur- sday to decide whether to pursue the matter. FIRST, however, it must be deter- mined whether MSU has prevented the group from showing its films. "Our goal would be to establish the student's First Amendment rights were violated by the university," said Dean. A similar 1983 controversy at Grand Valley State College was settled in favor of the students, he said. Greyerbiehl said he planned to bring the X-rated film, "Cherry Trucker," to MSU's Wells Hall. MOSES TURNER, MSU vice president of student affairs, canceled the room Greyerbiehl had planned to use to show the film. Turner last week asked for a halt to the films, saying they are inconsistent with the university's values. "We are going to be there no matter what happens," Greyerbiehl said. "If we have to sit on our equipment, that's where we'll be." James Studer, MSU assistant vice president for student affairs and ser- vices, said school officials do not believe they acted illegally. GREYERBIEHL "said he was not going to show films after this past weekend, and subsequently we can- celed his room. After that he apparen- tly changed his mind," Studer said. However, Greyerbiehl denied agreeing to stop the films. An advertisement for the film in yesterday's student newspaper, the State News, said, "But heck, it's only see GROUP, Page 2 Daily Photo by STU WEIDENBACH Former student Lee Kallenbach discusses computer equipment with a com- pany representative yesterday at the Compufair in the Union. TODAY. New! Improved! (Well, new...) round Hog Day is the time when old Daily editors are set out to pasture and the new editors take their place. New editors are: editor in chief Neil Chase, a political science and history major; managing editors Georgea Kovanis, an English M"n and Paula Dohring. Business staff is changing regimes as well. At the top of the pack is business manager Liz Car- son, a sociology major; finance manager Nancy Bulsen, an economics and French major; display manager Kellie Worley, Spanish and East European Studies major; sales manager Dawn Willacker, a marketing and com- munication major; marketing manager Lisa Sdhatz, a communication major; personnel manager Mary Wagner, a political science major; and classified manager Janice Klein, an economics major. Only the ground hog knows groundhogs from their burrows around the beginning of February. Now Phil has friends across the nation: Woody the Woodchuck of Detroit, Sun Praire Jimmy, Wiarton Willy, and Punkydoodle Pete. Thomas Stockdale, Ohio State University professor of wildlife management, says the groundhogs are awakened about then from their hibernation by a biological clock in order to eliminate body wastes and satisfy reproductive urges. Besides putting Punxsutawney-with 7,800 residents-on the map and money into local businesses, Groundhog Day "gives everybody a shot in the arm, gets them excited," club secretary William Null said. On the inside... i i i