Ninety-five Years of Editorial Freedom C, be LIE 43UU i~Iai1Q Under age Sunny with a high of 20. Vol. XCV, No. 86 Copyright 1985, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Tuesday, January 15, 1985 Fifteen Cents Ten Pages Blanchard to ask for student aid increases By KERY MURAKAMI Gov. James Blanchard will call for significant increases in financial aid when he presents his Executive Budget Recommen- dations to the state legislature next week, ob- servers say. Although the Governor will not release his budget until next Wednesday, budget analysts said privately that many of the suggestions made by the Governor's Commission on Higher Education last month would be incorporated in his recommendation. THE GOVERNOR is expected to call for the creation of a state work-study program to augment the federal program; increased fun- ding and eligibility for state competitive scholarships; and an effort to make students more aware of what financial aid is available to them. Blanchard is also expected to call for the creation of a fund designed to promote the ad- vanced research projects being conducted at state universities. Richard Kennedy, the University of Michigan's vice president for government relations and secretary, said he expected the governor to call for such increases but did not know how much money would be involved. "WE HAVE no idea how extensive the in- creases will be," he said. "It can have anywhere from a significant effect. to a minimal effect." Lee Peterson, a member of the governor's commission and a supervisor in the state Department of Education's student financial assistance office, also said he expects the governor to recommend the three financial aid programs suggested by the commission. Bob Naftaly, director of the state's Depar- tment of Management and Budget, refused to confirm the expected list of recommendations, saying it is the governor's prerogative to an- nounce the programs. Naftaly did say that "many of the recommendations made by the commission" would be in Blanchard's budget proposal. IF ALL of the commission's recommen- dations were to be implemented, the University budget would have to grow $114 million in fiscal year 1985. Kennedy said that he doubts the budget can accommodate all of the increases. But regardless of the figures, Kennedy said he is encouraged by the reports because the suggested increases in financial aid and research funding would be beneficial to the University. Lynn Borset, the University's assistant director of financial aid, said the proposed in- crease in work-study funds would help because "the federal money we're getting is not enough to meet the demand. We have more students now who want jobs than we can fill." THE COMMISSION also recommended in- creasing the number of Michigan State Com- petitive Scholarships by lowering the minimum test score standards for possible recipients and increasing the maximum award from $940 to $1,5000. "A lot of the money students were getting See BLANCHARD, Page 5 i. Israel plans to of pull out L ebanon JERUSALEM (AP) - The Israeli Cabinet approved a plan yesterday for a three-stage withdrawal of Israeli troops from Lebanon and said the first phase would begin in five weeks. "The decision is a courageous one," said Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin. "There was a will to find a solution to the problem of Lebanon." THE VOTE, 16-6 in favor of the Rabin plan, was taken after an 11-hour debate that stretched over two days. The Cabinet said in a statement that the first stage of the withdrawal would be to the Litani River on the Mediterranean coast and inland to Nabatiyeh. This represents a pullback of 12 to 20 miles for Israel's occupation force. It said the second stage would be to Hasbaya, which would pull back Israeli troops from their front line with the Syrian army in eastern Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. THE THIRD stage would complete the withdrawal to the international border, according to the statement. "This is a great day for the country," said Communications Minister Amnon Rubinstein as he emerged from the meeting. The plan was supported by Prime Minister Shimon Peres of the Labor coalition. FOREIGN REPORTS estimate the number of Israeli troops currently in south Lebanon at 20,000. All six ministers who voted against the plan were from the right-wing Likud bloc and included' Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, leader of the Likud. The June 6, 1982, invasion of Lebanon was launched while the Likud led the government. The avowed aim was to drive Palestinian guerrillas from Lebanon. OTHER CABINET members op- posing the plan were Moshe Arens, minister without portfolio; Justice Minister Moshe Nissim; Transport Minister Haim Corfu; Labor and Welfare Minister Moshe Katsav, and Tourism Minister Avraham Sharir. Ariel Sharon, former defense minister and now industry and com- merce minister, did not vote because he is in the United States, but he had made it known that he opposed the with- drawal plan. The other three Likud ministers voted in favor of the plan. A FEW "stylistic changes" were made in the wording of the Cainet resolution, said -Rubinstein, 'vho declined to elaborate. The Cabinet statement said Israel would hand over vacated areas to U.N. peacekeeping troops and the Lebanese army. Rabin said Israel was delaying its pullback to give the United Nations and the Lebanese time to prepare. A few hours before the Cabinet meeting began, two Israeli soldiers See ISRAEL, Page 2 Daily Photo by CAROL L. FRANCAVILLA We shall overcome Local activists gather on Sunday to join the Third Annual Martin Luther King Unity March, which commemorated the slain civil rights leader. See story, Page 3. PSN begins weekly By JODY BECKER Members of the Progressive Student Network yesterday staged three vigils around campus to protest the recent decision by Alfred Sussman, the University's vice president for research, to renew an engineering professor's controversial classified research project. Last month Sussman decided to renew Navy- sponsored research conducted by Prof. Theodore Birdsall, although a faculty and student advisory panel voted 6-6 to reject the renewal. A tie vote is con- sidered a rejection under the panel's rules. SOME OF THE panel members who opposed the ~renewal said Birdsall's oceanographic project could improve the Navy's ability to locate and track enemy nuclear submarines. Thus, they said the project violates the University's guidelines on classified research which prohibits work ". . . the direct application of which, or any specific purpose of which is to destroy human life or to incapacitate human beings." The vigils, which will be held on a weekly basis, are intended to raise public awareness about the poten- tially dangerous impact of Birdsall's project and other classified research conducted at the Univer- sity, according to PSN member David Miklethun. "THEY THINK (Sussman) can make this decision and no one's going to say anything about it," said Nancy Aronoffwho participated in a vigil outside Sussman's office. While protesters hung banners proclaiming "Against Nuclear" in Japanese and relaxed in the hall outside Sussman's office, other members of PSN confronted Birdsall at a vigil outside his lab on North Campus. Another two-hour vigil was held in the Fishbowl. "If we get one person to stop because of their con- science, that would be a major victory," said PSN member David Mikelthun. SUSSMAN invited the PSN members into a con- ference room near his administration building office. See SUSSMAN, Page 5 Students end campaign to stock suicide pills Contractor, 'U' hospi By CHARLES SEWELL Heating and plumbing crews went back to work yesterday at the Univer- sity's Replacement Hospital Project af- ter an agreement was reached Sunday between the contractor and the hospital. The agreement ended a seven-day walk-out by the Flint contractor, In- dustrial Mechanical Contractors, Inc., (IMC) over payment for extra work it had done at the hospital. THE CONTRACTOR is in the process of collecting evidence to sup- port its claim for additional payment and will file payment requests in a mat- ter of days, according to hospital spokesperson Linda Ayers. The original contract IMC made with the University totalled slightly more than $10 million, Ayers said. But she declined to describe the additional work performed by IMC or say how much it would cost. James Brinkerhoff, the University's chief financial officer, said IMC's tal settle pay dispute claims for additional payment are Robert Mainprize. legitimate. 'There's been no argument Not all the workers were back on the about that from the beginning," he site yesterday. The tools IMC had been said. using were returned to Flint when the IT IS NOT UNUSUAL for a contrac- walk-out began last week, and as yet tor to find extra work which needs to be have not all been brought back to the done after the original bid is made, site. One worker, who asked that his Ayers added. name not be used, said the entire crew Since the workers have returned to should be back on the site in a few days the site, the University has dropped when the rest of the tools are returned. legal actions to hold the contractor in The agreement between the con- default of contract, according to a joint tractor and the University includes a statement issued by RHP director special work plan to make up for the Joseph Diederich and IMC President See AGREEMENT, Page 2 By STACEY SHONK The students who last fall petitioned to have the University's Health Ser- vice stockpile suicide pills for use in the event of nuclear war say they have given up their campaign. Students Against Nuclear Suicide (SANS) disbanded last week after members decided to pursue other an- ti-nuclear activities which they believe might have a greater impact on the local community, according to Karen Mysliwiec, an LSA senior and spokesperson for the group. "WE LOOKED at where SANS was going and we decided this was not the best way to get our point across anymore. We all have outside in- terests, so we decided to do what we've been encouraging students to do all along - to get involved in issues that concern them," Mysliwiec said. The group tried unsuccessfully to have a proposal asking the University to stockpile the pills placed on the Michigan Student Assembly's general election ballot in April. MSA rejected the proposal because it was poorly worded and equated nuclear war with suicide. Similar efforts have suc- ceeded at Brown University and several other schools. The group then began collecting student signatures to place the proposal on the ballot by petition. Members had collected 700 of the 1,000 signatures needed when they gave up the effort, Mysliwiec said. "WE SET OUT to raise people's See SUICIDE, Page 3 __ sr ODAY Hobology 101 Some of Portland, Oregon's down-and-outers got to meet somenof the city's up-and-comers when five homeless men faced about 60 students at Reed College for a two-hour class dubbed "Hobology questions. There were similarities between the homeless men and the students. The street people wore flannel shirts and blue jeans. So did the students. Some street veterans had scraggly beards and scruffy boots. So did many of the students. Sex addicts anonymous S ex addiction has emerged as a destructive disorder similar to alcoholism, a researcher said Friday, and a growing number of Sex Addicts Anonymous groups have r _ :.... .4 .-1 -.1 , fL d... 1 ... m An.. .Arl...4 tion for four years, said there is clearly psychological ad- diction in such cases, but it is not yet known if there are physiological components. He noted there are physiological changes during sexual arousal, and said it is possible there could be an addiction to the adrenalin that increases during sex. Sour joke A ttorneys for a "singing cowboy" from Iowa say he was only joking when he used a charter airplane's Dubhlic-address svstem to tell passengers that the plane was Rochester, Larry White, described as his attorney as ;fun- loving "singing cowboy" from Waukon, Iowa, thought the other passengers should recognize a woman from Har- mony, Minn., who had won $62,000 gambling. Stewardesses showed White, who had admittedly been drinking, to the front of the plane and turned the PA system over to him. The suit contends White cracked a few jokes, including a good news-bad news story: "The bad news is the landing gear won't go down and we're going to crash land. The good news is the pilot's experienced at it," the suit quotes White as telling the passengers. ; I 1 1 i I I