Ninety-five Years of Editorial Freedom E LfiE 43 ttt Lovey-dovey Snow expected with a low in the mid-20s. rh - -- -- Plol. XCV, No. 112 Copyright 1985, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Thursday, February 14, 1985 Fifteen Cents Ten Pages Sudarkasa vies for Fla. A&M presidency By KERY MURAKAMI Niara Sudarkasa, a University associate vice president for academic affairs, is one of 10 finalists for the presidency at Florida A & M Univer- sity, according to a spokesman there. Sudarkasa is scheduled to be inter- viewed at Florida A & M next week, said Tom R6ckman, the director of public information there. SUDARKASA HAS said that she in- tends to work to bring the University of Michigan's black enrollment up to the goal of 10 percent set by the University in 1970. She has held her position in the vice president's office since it wasI established last February, and minority enrollment has increased by 232 students since that time. The possibility of Sudarkasa taking the Florida post prompted Roderick Linzie, the Michigan Student "Assem- bly's researcher on minority affairs, to suggest that MSA and "the University See SUDARKASA, Page 3 Cimagers set for Iowa ( } l ,1 . -1 .., li'./f ,. , +,I'+'. ew e:{t( yi c howdown By JOE EWING if there's any one game this year that you can cakl "key" for the Michigan basketball 'program, it's the one that's going to be played tonight against Iowa ir i Iowa City. The Wolverines (9-2 in Big Ten, 18-3 o vetall) ;and the Hawkeyes (8-2, 19-4) v re currently running one and two in t;he conference, separated by a mere 1half gaine. Thus, the outcome of the contest, will determine the Big Ten leader. But that's not all it will deter- mine. THE GAME should also help to establish a tempo for each team for the rest of the Big Ten season. For the Wolverines, who play five of their final seven league games on the road, a vic- tory would be a sweet start to the haul away from Crisler Arena. "There's no question that the toughest part of our schedule is coming up," said Michigan head coach Bill Frieder. "We still have to go into a couple of places, at least two or three places besides Iowa, of teams that may be in the NCAA tournament, like Michigan State, Indiana and Ohio State." A win away from home against 11th- ranked Iowa would also help to further justify Michigan's number-three ranking in this week's Associated Press and USA Today college basketball polls. FOR THE Hawkeyes, who have already survived the tough part of their road schedule, knocking off the Wolverines might be all that it would take to capture the Big Ten title. After See TROUBLE, Page 10 Doily Photo by KATE O'LEARY Playing cupid Heather Maynard serves up heart-shaped cookies and cakes at the Quality Bakery on Main street yesterday. Across town, flower shops and candy stores were busy with thoughful people buying gifts for their sweeties. Students think twice about med. school, says dean RENTAL AGENCY By CARRIE LEVINE Third of a series "Medicine used to be the ticket to the good life. Now, with government inter- vention, malpractice insurance, and the time involved to become a physician, students are looking to ,other professions." That's the assessment of James Taren, associate dean for academic programs at the University's School of Medicine. After comparing education costs and lengthy training programs to a doctor's net income, he said, -more ' and more students are having second thoughts about medical school. THE LEN'G'TH of training in medicine was both shorter and cheaper in the past, Taren said. Tuition now ranges from $5,000 to $18,000 a year. And the average med student owes about $25,000 in loans by the time he or she graduates, according to Jack Tinker, a pre-professional counselor at the Of- fice of Career Planning and Placement. In addition, after four years of school, medical students must complete bet- ween three and seven years of residen- cy, an internship at a hospital, before they can practice on their own. And more than likely, they will have to fight for residency positions. Taren said there are roughly 20,000 residency openings every year for 18,000 to 19,000 new graduates from American med schools. But there may be as many as 5,000 other med school graduates - Americans who study abroad or foreign students who want to take their residency here - who com- pete for the openings. ACCORDING to the American Medical Association, there were con- siderably more residency positions in internal medicine last summer than in any other field. The next most popular fields were surgery, family practice, and pediatrics. Specialities with the smallest number of residency positions were nuclear diagnostic radiology, nuclear medicine, allergy and immunology, and general preventive medicine. Despite the arduous training and steep education and insurance costs, certain fields of medicine remain at- tractive because of their high salaries. Generally, the longer the training is for a particular specialty, the better it pays. AFTER expenses such as malprac- tice insurance are paid, an anesthsiologist earnsan average of $144,000 per year, according to the AMA. Surgery and radiology are even more lucrative, paying an average of $145,000 and $148,000, respectively. Though less profitable, research in certain fields such as respiratory systems and radiology are currently strong job markets for young physicians, said James Davis of the AMA. The danger, however, is that resear- ch jobs geared toward discovering a cure to a particular disease can be lost quickly once the cure is found. As an example, Davis pointed to the surge of physicians now researching a cure to the fatal Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndome (AIDS). Many of these doc- tors, he said, will be forced to look for other research projects if a cure is found. MEDICAL school professors conduct the bulk of research, Tinker said. But state and federal government funding for research has declined under the Reagan administration, he added. In the future, physicians probably will work less in a hospital as profit- making health care facilities and am- bulatory care clinics grow in popularity, Davis said. Medical tests and other services traditonally offered only by hospitals will soon be available at these clinics on a "fee-for-service" basis. FOR INSTANCE, patients currently can have x-rays or blood tests takenat a private doctor's office. In the future, Davis said, they will also be able to un- dergo surgery and receive radiology treatments as out-patients. And more and more private prac- tioners are likely to work as part of a health maintenance organization, he said. 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This year, there seems to be an increase in the number of early bird housing hunters, with students fearing that houses and larger apartments will be gobbled up if they procrastinate. "THIS IS the first year this has happened in a long time - it looks like everyone will. be rented out early," said Krysti Whedon, property manager of Real Invest. She added that she hasn't seen a housing rush this early since 1979 or 1980. Jo Rumsey of the University's housing information office said the rush began around the third week of January. This month, she said, it has been "exceedinghiy busy." And the scramble won't, wind down until about the first or second week of April, she added., Large houses often sell by word of mouth, according to Rurnsey, and there. are reportedly few left. Doug Milkey, manarger of Campus Rentals, said he believes that students are hoping to make up for past mistakes. Last year, students waited, until the last minute and didn't get what they wanted, so they're starting earlier this year, he said. ELAINE BOTT of Baker Man:agement said students seem to be takirig the initiative this year by asking for a cer- tain location and price. A low vacancy rate of 1.'63 percent coupled with the strong - economy makes this year's housing scene a "seller's market," Rumsey said. Many students are paying a higher rent than they would have paid three or four years ago. Once the demand is evident and landlords sense that students can pay, they'll increase the rent, Rumsey said. A bedroom in a house for next year currently sells for $200- $250 a month, not including utilities, up from $192 a month this year. Two bedroom apartments with utilities will cost about $600 a month, up from $546 this year. REALTOR DAVID Copi said the higher vacancy rates in past years prevented him from raising the rent, but this year he has tacked on a 5 percent increase - just above the rate of inflation. Dick Vail, manager of Ravalp Management, said he too has noted that students are willing to pay more this year. Rents are going up 10 to 15 percent, whereas they went up only 4 to 5 percent in previous years, he said. Milkey of Campus Rentals said he has raised rents by 7 to 8 percent this year, compared to about 6.5 percent in the past. SEVERAL landlords said that the rent increases are not primarily due to utility increases which have remained stable. Utilities, a major chunk of some landlord's expenses, are rising at a normal pace, according to Vail. Landlord Copi See STUDENTS, Page 5 By JERRY MARKON The latest in a recent series of small trash can fires on campus broke out in a men's bathroom at the Union yester- day morning and was quickly put out by a Union employee. The fire - which was discovered around 6:45 a.m., - star- ted in a trash can in the Union's Computer Center, which is open 24 hours a day. It was extinguished within minutes with water from the bathroom sink. COMPUTER CENTER employees said there was a smell in the hallway next to the bathroom when they reported for work at 8 a.m., and the fire's odor still lingered as late as noon. According to John Brockett, the Union's associate director, "there was really no damage other than having to clean up the area." The only noticeable evidence of the fire, he added, was a plastic garbage bag that melted onto the metal trash can. The fire followed in the wake of similar fires during the past two weeks. On Feb. 4, four simultaneous small fires broke out in South Quad and another trash can fire was ex- tinguished in West Quad a week later. CAMPUS AND city officials are investigating the Union fire and attempting to determine whether it was connected to previous incidents. "They're set fires. That's obvious to everybody," said University Fire Marshall Robert Patrick. "There's always the possibility that all of these fires could be related." All six fires have been in three adjacent central campus buildings: "One of these fires is too many," Patrick continued. "Regardless of whether it was a prank, the potential for See FIRE, Page 2 TODAY, What a dog HEN CRITICS SAY this actor was a dog, it's no exaggeration. Fourteen of man's best friends ET phone dentist T, A YOUNG walrus at the Point Defiance Zoo in Tacoma, Wash. was suffering a "tuskache." Enter the dentist, with the tools of his trade-a screwdriver, a hammer and a large pair of forceps. The 2-year-old 640-pounder was back in fine form early this week following the removal of both his tusks. said acting zoo director Tom Otten. The walrus ET's records, Ot ten said. ET came to the zoo as an infant in August 1982 after his rescue from an oil-rig platform near PrudhoeBay, Alaska. Runaway A damaged machine was found stopped at a barn belonging to Jimmy Dietz, who lost another barn to the wayward trac- tor. The driverless vehicle weaved 12 to 15 miles in covering the five miles from Edgar Robinson's farm to Deitz's barn, said Robinson's.wife, Mattie Ruth. The trac- tor crossed a road several times, circled a high-tension tower, drove over a couple of plows and squashed an aban- doned car. ,} I I