A Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Saturday, March 23, 1985 Inquiring Photographer by A lisa Block IN BRIEF How do you think the large size of the University affects your education?" -m - ,?. Craig Thomas, 1st year Dental School: "With a large school you get more exposure to a lot more different people. You also get the arts and culture with the people. I think it's beneficial-you get the best education from the best professors. You also get better facilities such as libraries." Fred Shaw, 4th year Medical school: "Large classes tend to increase competition, yet the size provides opportunities to meet people of various backgrounds and experiences. There is no doubt that a larger college population provides each student with the opportunity to meet others of sharply contrasting backgrounds and views. That type of interaction has the greatest potential for in- creasing personal growth." Wendy Adelman, LSA sophomore: "It bothers me in my pre-Med classes that the University is so big becuase it is easy to be cheated out of personal help. Most professors are not suited to teach in- troductory courses effectively for undergraduates. Also it's very easy for a student to get lost in the confusion and not know where to look for help. On the other hand, the diver- sity is good. Socially, I like the size- academically I don't " Mitchell Folbe, LSA junior: "I like it because you're always meeting new and exciting people. Diversity is the key." Adam Cole, LSA junior: "As a freshman or sophomore, you have to have some self- discipline. If not, the size will cause you to be left out. It can scare you at first, but once you get used to it, it's not so bad. Socially, I think it's great! With so many people, it allows for extreme diversity. It provides for a lot of activities and happenings in many places on campus." Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports Delegates set talks schedules GENEVA, Switzerland-U.S. and Soviet delegations to the arms control talks have agreed on schedules for negotiations that begin next week, the U.S. delegation said yesterday. The delegation said the first negotiating group on space weapons will meet Tuesday at the Soviet mission. The group on long-range strategic weapons will meet on Wednesdays and the team on medium-range missiles will meet on Thursdays. Finland's prime minister said yesterday Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev will reply in a "good-mannered way" to President Reagan's invitation to hold a summit meeting. Finnish Prime Minister Raleva Sorsa said Gorbachev did not tell him if he would agree to meet Reagan. "He is going to answer Reagan's letter in a good-mannered way," said Sorsa, who was in Moscow as chairman of the Socialist International Disar- mament Consultative Committee. Reagan told a news conference in Washington Thursday that chances were "good" for an early summit. Jihad claims 3 kidnappings BEIRUT, Lebanon-Three French Embassy workers were kidnapped yesterday and the Islamic Jihad terror group announced it carried out the abductions to retaliate for a French-Saudi Arabian arms deal opposed by Iran. In south Lebanon, Israeli forces raided a Shiite Moslem village, killing at least one person one day after storming at least eight other such towns and killing at least 23 people, including two members of a CBS News camera crew. Israeli Prime Miflister Shimon Peres in Jerusalem rejected condemnation of the killing of the newsmen, saying the journalists were standing among hostile guerrillas. CBS called for further investigation. French Vice Consul Marcel Fontaine was abducted by two bearded gun- men as he walked towork in Beirut yesterday, witnesses told police. Two other French Embassy workers were abducted in a separate incident. Hand grenades blow out walls of So. African building JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Two hand grenades were tossed into a government building in Soweto yesterday, a day after police gunfire killed 18 blacks in a crowd marching toward a white town. Disturbances were repor-. ted in several other black townships. The exploding hand grenades blew out interior walls of the one-story building in Soweto, but no one was injured because the attack occurred at about 4 a.m., authorities said. The violence Thursday at Uitenhage, in which 29 other blacks were woun- ded, was the bloodiest in a year of unrest in which nearly 250 blacks have been killed. The white-minority government appointed a commission to in- vestigte. The looting occurred 25 years to the day after police fired into a crowd of blacks at Sharpeville, killing 69 people and bringing the struggle for black rights in South Africa to the world's attention. 4 I I Hwa Jo, Engineering senior: "Being in Engineering, the classes are very large. It's hard to get personal interac- tion with professors. In LSA, however, you get more of an advantage becuase of the, diversity." Robert Currie, LSA junior: "I think that the large population of students helps to finance the professors' salaries, and thus it is important that the school is large so that we can get bet- ter professors. I've been to smaller universities and you just don't get the same impact from the faculty. You can learn a lot more by doing things the way you want to do them." Charlie Schulman, RC sophomore: "I don't like the large lecture classes in LSA. I feel herded around in those classes. I like RC because it's smaller than the whole univ-. ersity. Also you get better professors in RC and have bet- ter relationships with them. I couldn't imagine putting up with all the crowds in LSA." Gina Elizabeth Punch, LSA sophomore: "The large size of the University makes for diversity in students and faculty. I like the fact that there is a wide variety of classes offered at a large school. Part of your education is meeting and integrating with different people and you can do that because there are so many different background here. Long lines at CRISP are frustrating, but I think it's worth it to be on a large cam- pus. It's the same at any university of this size." Mike Barron, LSA sophomore: "A large school is better for academics. It allows for a larger variety of courses and people. Also, there's a bet- ter social life. It's a more real- life setting than in a small liberal arts college." U. Council searches for solutions to safety problems (Continued from Page 1) regents will?" she asked. The council decided to send a memo next week telling the regents and the administration that the council will definitely not come up with a final document by the end of the term. The memo will also touch on what the coun- cil has worked on so far, according to Chairman Lee Winkelman, an LSA senior. THE COUNCIL'S fear may have been unfounded, because the administration has taken a hands-off attitude toward the council - at least for now. Virginia Nordby, the president's liason to the council, said she hasn't even read the minutes of the council's meetings. Nordby testified at one of the council's first hearings, but has not been back since. President Shapiro has also stated repeatedly that he doesn't want to rush the development of the code. THE COUNCIL'S meetings so far have focused on figuring out exactly what the safety -uproblems are. Representatives from the safety depar- tment, the Michigan Student Assem- bly's Women's lissues Committee, the Ombudsman's Office, and other groups talked about the problems and possible solutions. That phase lasted about two months. Now comes.the hard part: formulating concrete solutions to the problems. William Sturgis, an administrative representative on the council, said he is skeptical about the possibility of reaching a consensus on safety problems. "I THINK we have serious philosophical differences," Sturgis said. "Sometime, we're going to have to face our differences and work them out." The basic philosophical differences are clear: One side wants a com- prehensive code, while the other side wants a non-legalistic approach to the problems. Most members' views lie somewhere in between those two extremes, and Winkelman is counting on the ability of the council to strike a compromise. WINKELMAN'S approach is to tackle problems one at a time and develop unique solutions to each of them. In the case of sexual assault, for example, Winkelman wants to look at pre-emptive solutions like better lighting and education programs as possible substitutes for a legalistic solution. Sturgis, however, suggested that put- ting off work on the legalistic solutions could take too long. "You're just stringing it along," he said. But Eric Schnaufer, a first-year law student on the council, said that looking at non-legalistic solutions to safety problems - such as mediation and education is essential to coming up with a fair document. "IT DOESN'T make any sense to have rules, prohibitions, and sanctions that are disassociated from positive programs," he said. Eklund pointed out that the council's express purpose is to "formulate and propose uniform regulations governing the conduct (individually or in the aggregate) of students, teaching staff POLICE NOTES Video equipment taken $4,000 worth of video equipment-in- cluding a recorder, camera, lenses, and a monitor-was taken from a closet in the new business administration library Thursday. According to Leo Heatley of campus security, employees deduced the equipment was taken within the past week and there was no eviden- ce of forced entry into the closet or the building. ... and administrators," according to a regental bylaw. Archie Andrews, housing program director and an administrative representative on the council, agreed: "I feel very strongly that we need a code." ANDREWS SAID that the criminal justice system often works too slowly to. protect potential victims. If a student commits a serious crime, Andrews said, he should be kicked off campus as soon as possible. "To wait for the wheels of justice to grind away, we expose other students to that problem," he said. He added, however; that students should be affor- ded adequate due process. The faculty members are most likely to emphasize a double approach, although nearly all council members seem willing to compromise. Winkelman, a vocal opponent of past versions of the code, said he wants to reach a consensus with the rest of the council. "I'm willing to talk about their interests," he said. "I think what we'll see is a certain amount of give and take." BUT Winkelman emphasized that he would nQt agree to a comprehensive code. "The ultimate thing we come up with will benefit students," he said. "I think we're going to end up with something. I don't think it's going to be a code." One area of dispute could be whether a non-academic code of conduct should address the issue of violent crime. Students have said that problems such as rape, assault, and arson should be left to the criminal courts, but others have suggested that the University needs a way to get alleged criminals off campus while they are awaiting trial. Medical Prof. Rucknagel sided with the students. "I don't view the problem as violent crime, because there's a system set up to deal with that," he said. He added, however, that the University should outline what it con- siders inappropriate behavior. American lifespan hits 74.7 WASHINGTON-The nation's annual health report card shows Americans are living longer than ever, but the infant death rate-particularly among blacks-must be brought down, Health Secretary Margaret Heckler said yesterday. The report, "Health United States 1984," shows lifespan is at a record, with an American born in 1983 expected to live 74.7 years. Death rates from heart disease, the leading cause of death, dropped 26 percent and those deaths resulting from stroke, another major killer, drop-, ped 48 percent between 1970 and 1983. The nation's infant mortality rate is at its lowest ever, with 10.6 babies. dying during the first year of life per 1,000 births in 1984. The black rate is nearly double the white rate, however, and the pace of progress has slowed in recent years. The infant mortality rate reached 10.9 deaths for every 1,000 live births in 1983, a .3 percent decline. But the lowest rate for black infant mortality in any state is still 31 percent higher than the highest rate for whites, the report said. Ohio governor approves limited operations for savings & loans COLUMBUS, Ohio - All of Ohio's state-chartered savings and loan associations got the go-ahead yesterday to re-open for limited withdrawals pending their attempts to get federal insurance to cover full-service operations. At the same time, the office of Gov. Richard Celeste announced that seven Ohio institutions that have applied for federal insurance are free to open with each deposit up to $100,000, fully insured by the Federal Savings and Loar, Insurance Corp. Robert McAlister - named by the governor earlier yesterday as the state's new S&L superintendent - introduced himself as "a re-opening czar" and said he plans to get all of the S&Ls back in business within 120 days. 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