Ninety-five Years of Editorial Freedom Alit i~IU4lQ Breakfast Mostly sunny with a high in the low to mid-50s. Vol. XCV, No. 146 Copyright 1985, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Thursday, April 4, 1985 Fifteen Cents Eight Pages Ed. cuts Will hurt poor, group says WASHINGTON (AP) - President Reagan's proposed and to limit to $4,000 the total aid that even the poorest budget for the 1986 fiscal year would reduce federal aid fora students could draw, including guaranteed loans, Pell Grants quarter million students from poor families by an average of and wArk-TtO dearnings. $1,60 picea rou rereentngpubiccolege sid eserdy. IN ADDITION he would allow any student to borrow up to $1,160 apiece, a group representing publc colleges said yesterday. $4,000 under a less generously subsidized loan program that Allen Ostar, president of the American Association of State charges interest while the borrower is still in school and Colleges and Universities, said his group s analysis of the requires immediate repayment impact shows "that the Reagan administration's claim that Education Secretary William J. Bennett has said the cuts the cuts would affect only middle-income students i...is - aimed at saving $2 billion in fiscal 1986 - were targeted to THE GROUP based its claim on a survey of financial preserve aid for the neediest students. records on 15,616 students at 371 public and private in- Meanwhile, negotiators for the White House and Senate secordsionn19,-14. student ad71pubicrsadprvtheihn-s Republican leaders struggled without success yesterday to stitutions in 1983-84. Student aid officers at the schools complete agreement on a multibillion-dollar package of provided information on the recipients' family income and spending cuts to reduce federal deficits, with major differen- the type of federal aid they received. ces remaining over Social Security, defense and education. According to the analysis: Sen. John Chafee (R-R.I.), said several days of intense " 500,000 students with family incomes below $25,000 would private negotiations had produced agreement on "nearly lose some aid, including 237,000 with incomes below $6,000. all" of a deficit-reduction package designed to trim at least " Among those losing some aid would be 105,000 minority $55 billion in spending next year. Budget Director David students with family income below $25,000, including 61,000 Stockman said there was "not a lot" left unresolved. with incomes below $6,000. But White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan said the ad- o Some 23,600 women raising children on incomes of less ministration remains opposed to cost saving changes in than $25,000 would lose some of their financial aid. Social Security that Senate GOP leaders have under con- For students with family incomes below $6,000, the federal sideration. 'aid would drop by an average of $1,160, according to the One possible compromise on defense would slice Reagan's study. call for a 6 percent after-inflation growth for the 1986 fiscal Reagan has asked Congress to deny Guaranteed Student year to 3 percent, but officials insisted there was not formal Loans to students from families with incomes above $32,500, agreement on such a plan. bubbl Daily Photo by KATE O'LEARY Opera superstar Beverly Sills speaks last night in Rackham Auditorium. She says that the arts are thriving in America, despite the lack'of government respect they deserve. Sills was nicknamed "Bubbles" for her chatty personality as a child performer on the Major Bowes Amateur Hour radio show. . . . . . . . . . . ..; .. . . . . ... .....a:.:,:.:...... ...... :,.c...n. :...4 taw.. .ti. . . . . . .Svy:;rx LSA-SG protests Dean Steiner's rehiring By SEAN JACKSON The LSA Student government last night unaminously passed a resolution asking the University's regents to postpone its reappoin- tment of LSA Dean Peter Steiner until he The text of LSA Dean Peter Steiner's letter ex- plaining his views on student representation in the college's executive committee appears on comes up with a statement explaining why he won't appoint a student member to the college's executive committee. The resolution asks ,that Steiner "publicly state his views on student representation on the committee which decides all of the college's LSA Executive Committee to the regents, the LSA faculty and the LSA student body." THE MICHIGAN Student Assembly passed a similar resolution at its meeting Tuesday night Steiner yesterday released a letter he said was sent to last year's LSA-SG president, Eric Berman. The dean said he would not respond further on the matter. Neither LSA-SG members nor MSA mem- bers said they had seen the Steiner letter. STUDENT government leaders said they question the arguments presented in the letter to Berman which is dated July 20, 1984. Steiner's letter states several reasons for banning students from membership on the tenure'and budgetary matters. According to Steiner's letter, the executive committee is not a representative faculty and student body. Placing a student on the commit- tee would end that 50-year-old practice. "IF WE ONCE agreed that there ought to be 'representation' at or on the executive commit- tee, it would be difficult logically to resist representatives" of the faculty.. Students also do not have enough time or ex- perience to serve on the committee, the statement said. Students are more valuable on LSA depar- tment executive committees, the Steiner letter said. The LSA Executive Committee considers recommendations from the lower departmen- tal committees. MIKE BROWN, LSA-SG vice president, said the letter alone would not suffice as the desired public statement. "I would like him to hear the refutation of our argument and prepare another statement," Brown said. Brown said that all of Steiner's positions are open to argument. "I think we can refute all of these issues," he said, adding that the time constraint argument should not have any bearing in keeping studen- ts off the committee. "FACULTY can make the time, why can't See LSA; Page 2, ......n ... ... :. .. ::+1 . - ... , v i:", t . r. . v. ... : . ..... .V...n.n.r ........ .. ,.:. .:: ......v: . . ,,O.. .. ? . . .... ... 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Maxine Berman who chairs the House Elections Committee. THE SOUTHFIELD Democrat said she believes her panel can begin work on the bills by the end of this month. The proposals unveiled at a news conference would provide for mail-in Wvoter registration, a limited system of election day registration, moving up the voter registration deadline and purging voter lists of names of people who have not voted in seven years. Another key element of the package is a proposal to establish uniform statewide standards for the appoin- tment of deputy registrars. Under that plan, anyone who was deputized anywhere in the state could go to any other part of Michigan and register voters. REP. PERRY Bullard, (D-Ann Ar-, bor) said there are currently 1.7 million people in the state who meet the legal qualifications to vote, but who are not- registered. A secretary of state's office See DEMOCRATS, Page 2 Josephson Michaels Diana ... pledges to fight code .. . calls for escort service ... urges suicide prevention election campaign 'U' reflects changes i med tech profession By KATIE WILCOX The University's decision to in- vestigate discontinuing its medical technology program was sparked by a national trend - a tightening job market - according to campus. ad- ministrators and representatives from other universities. "The job market is being devastated. Not only medical technology but also residential training programs, pathology training programs for doc- tors, are all taking tremendous hits," said Prof. Kenneth McClatchey, assistant chairman of the University's pathology department.. BUT DESPITE administrator's war- nings that the job market is tight, students and faculty members associated with the program are pleading to keep it going. "All of our students have always got- ten jobs. There will always be a need for medical technologists," said Sandra Gluck,. director. of the University's program. McClatchey predicted that the medical field's job opportunities will shrink. "These are difficult times," he said. BROAD CHANGES in health care funding are to blame for the problem, McClatchy said. "It's definitely a national issue of how medical education will be funded," said immunology instructor Gay Lilley. The-new method of limiting reimbur- sement to hospitals for certain diagnostic tests, Diagnosis Related See NATIONAL, Page 3 shifts into- igh . _ ____ ___. _ _ r~nhlnm f ritI nnI ~rit VOICE candidate wins LSA-SG endorsement By AMY MINDELL The LSA Student Government yesterday voted to endorse junior Paul osephson for Michigan Student Assembly president. LSA-SG member Lesley Mitchell, who presented the candidates views to the group, said Josephson was the clear choice for the endorsement. She noted that none of the other candidates men- tioned increasing minority recruitment and retention as a major goal for the upcoming year. JOSEPHSON'S party, VOICE (Voicing Our Interests and Concerns in Education), did not receive LSA SG's endorsement, though. Michelle Tear, the group's president, said LSA- SG did not endorse a party because they had not interviewed any of the can- didates for assembly representative. LSA-SG questioned the presidential candidates yesterday at Campus Meet the Press. "MOVE candidate, Alex Diana may See LSA-SG, Page 3 By AMY MINDELL The three candidates for Michigan Student Assembly President moved their campaigns into high gear yesterday by appearing at two cam- pu's forums. Though one candidate, Alex Diana of MOVE (Make Our Votes Effective) failed to attend the Peace Studies forum, all three were on hand for Campus Meet the Press at the Union. DIANA, PAUL Josephson of VOICE (Voicing Our Interests and Concerns in Education), and Kevin Michaels of MUM (Moderates of the University of Michigan) presented their top cam- paign priorities. MSA elections are slated for next week. Michaels said MUM would first and foremost, concentrate on fighting the probmem of rape on campus, tnen it would reprioritize the structure of MSA and "give it back to the studen- ts." If elected, Michaels said he and his party would continue to fight the proposed Code for Non-Academic Conduct. MOVE candidate Diana also said his party would try to work with the University administration to develop a code that preserved students' rights. An LSA sophomore, Diana called for advances in campus safety and in- creased suicide awareness and prevention programs. Josephson, an LSA junior, the VOICE candidate, said his priorities also include fighting the code, but he gear wants to keep pressuring the ad- ministration to increase minority recruitment and retention. THE VOICE party would push for improvement of the University security policies, especially those dealing with rape, Josephson said. The issue on which the parties varied the most, is the allocation of MSA money to student groups. Michaels, an Engineering senior, said that he supports academic freedom, "but feels the issue of educating the students on world af- fairs is not the role of student gover- nment." Michaels added that if students feel the need to be educated they can read Time magazine, or even go to class. JOSEPHSON said that he feels the See MSA, Page 3 TODAY- Side trip A LL MICHAEL Lewis had bargained for was a one- hour connecting flight to Oakland, California, but less than 10 minutes after takeoff he realized he was on a 12-hour flight instead-tq Auckland, New Zealand. The Sacramento college student had settled back in his seat thinking he was on the last, 400-mile leg of a trip checking." Lewis began his odyssey Sunday on a World Airways jet from Frankfurt, West Germany, with a stop in London. He said he got off the plane in Los Angeles to tran- sfer for the trip to Oakland on another World Airways flight, although he said it was difficult to decipher the name of the airline on the ticket. Lewis said he heard a flight an- nounced on Air New Zealand or what he thought was Oakland, and two Air New Zealand agents directed him to a departure lounge. Lewis didn't have to pay for the adven- mons, the woman who has been telling people the time over the telephone for 22 years, was replaced by Brian Cobby, Britain's first male time teller. Simmons, known for her clipped formality and her precise Queen's English pronun- ciation, was somewhat of a cult figure. She attracted a steady stream of fan mail and even a few marriage proposals. "Cobby's casual and relaxed voice reflects the change in speech patterns over the last two decades," a British Telecon spokesman said, "and marks a distinct Cops and robbers A N ARMED ROBBER got away with a bag of loot from a downtown Wampa, Idaho loan company office just a few steps away from police headquarters. Police Chief Marshall Brisbin said the target.of Tuesday's holdup was an odd choice because the police station is right across the street from the Wampa Finance Co. office. But that didn't stop the robber. He escaped on foot with a bag of cash he ow II I i II