Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, April 10, 1985 MSU axes consol The Michigan State University ad- ministration has axed a proposal to,- merge its three liberal arts colleges in- to one "super-college" because of faculty opposition. The merger, proposed by Provost Clarence Winder and President Cecil Mackey during the fall of 1983, was designed to strengthen communication between the colleges and improve the quality of the university's liberal arts education. The plan would have combined the colleges of Arts and Letters, Natural Science, and Social Science, into one College of Arts, all functioning under one dean. Colleges Winder recently dropped the plan af- ter reviewing recommendations made by a faculty evaluation panel. The 18- member committee concluded that a single dean would be unable to meet the needs of the combined departments. "The consolidation would not have become operational because too many faculty and administrators opposed it," said Frederick Williams, chairperson of the history department. Despite the strong opposition, there are some who still feel that the merger would be a step in the right direction. "It seems to me this is one organization that most of the univer- sities in the Big Ten follow," said Sam Baskett, English department chair- man. "We're out of step," said George Mansour, chairman of the department of romance and classical languages. -The State News Univ. of Illinois official decides gay rights policy For the second time in one year, the University of Illinois chancellor will decide if discrimination against homosexuals should be prohibited in registered student organizations. The Conference on Conduct Gover- nance has already approved such an amendment to the "Code on Campus Affairs and Regulations Applying to All Students." The measure now requires Cancellor Thomas Everhart's final ap- proval. Currently at UI, a student organization cannot discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, religion, age, handicap or status as a disabled or Vietnam veteran. The amendment would add sexual orien- tation to the list. Last March, then-chancellor John Cribbet vetoed a similar proposal because it lacked enough evidence to support the policy, said Georgia Green, an associate linguistics professor who chaired the committee that submitted the ill-fated proposal. "We hope to do a better job this time by making the presentation more effec- tive," Green said. --The Daily Illini Massachusetts colleges must halt alcohol sales All Massachusetts state colleges and universities are being forced to halt campus alcohol sales because they cannot find an insurance company to carry their alcohol liability policies. Many experts claim the trend could spread nationwide, making college bars and campus liquor sales obsolete. "No other state is in as severe a position as Massachusetts, yet," said Mark Rosenberg of the Insurance In- formation Institute. "But it's a growing problem around the country and it could easily become as severe in other areas." The problem began at Southeastern Massachusetts University(SMU), when administrators were told that idation proposal their insurance broker could not locate saw the same landlord or agent. a company willing to renew their Neighborhoods whose racial makeup alcohol liability insurance. A few days has shown a significant shift from white later, colleges throughout the state to black in the last ten years were those were told their alcohol policies would be presented to almost 80 percent of the cancelled April 1, 1985. black teams. The study showed these "The underwriters are simply no locations to be in a small area on the longer renewing any bar or club south side of town. liability policies," said Francis Gordon, "We find a pattern of discrimination director of auxilary services at SMU. in every place we've studied," said "They're getting out of alcohol liability Williams. -The Daily Northwestern coverage except for establishments with an 80/20 food-alcohol mix, and Bill would raise tuition there's no way a campus bar can serve for ident Texans that much food."non-resd-T -College Press Service Non-resident students in Texas colleges could be in for quite a shock Housmng discrimination when they receive future tuition bills. exposed in Evanston An amendment recently passed by the Texas House of Representatives will The old problem of housing force the out-of-state students attending discrimination has surfaced at North- a Texas college to pay, by fall 1986, western University, according to a either 100 percent of the cost of their recent study. The Leadership Council education or $180 per semester for Metropolitan Open Committees, hour-whichever is more. which studied the rental patterns from Rep. Mike Milsap (D-Fort Worth) April to August 1984, found that the sponsored the bill. He said his amen- problem was more serious than expec- dment was incorrectly transcribed af- ted. ter it had been passed in the House, and Cale Williams, executive director of that it would be re-written in conferen- the Leadership Council, said, "there is ce committee. a higher level of discrimination in "I would not support charging higher Evanston than we would have expected than 100 percent of the cost of given the past level of integration effor- education," Milsap said. ts." Mac Adams, College Coordinating The council made anonymous audits Board assistant commissioner, said the using teams of black and white testers. state's cost of education is now ap- They posed as both potential tennants proximately $120 per semester hour. and homeowners, visiting 20 apartmen- Non-resident students currently pay $40 t buildings and 10 real-estate firms. per semester hour. "When a black team and a white Milsap's original proposal would in- team went to a real estate office, they crease tuition to $120 per semester hour gave almost identical financial in 1985-86 and to $180 the following year. backgrounds," Williams said. "Any After that, tuition would be indexed at difference in treatment could not be on 100 percent of the cost of education. the basis of income." -The Daily Texan Blacks and whites were given dif- ferent information about security Colleges is a Wednesdav feature deposits, credit checks, and application of the Daily. It was compiled by fees, although 95 percent of the teams Staff Writer David Bard. IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press international reports State proposes farm loans LANSING-The state of Michigan is proposing to pump $70 million into local banks so troubled farmers can finance spring planting, the Blanchard administration said yesterday. The loan program is part of a four-point plan designed "to help farmers over the hump" until the farm economy turns around, said Gov. James Blanchard. Under the loan program, the state would deposit money in local banks, which will then in turn loan the money to farmers. The state will get between 8 percent and 8.5 percent interest on its money, enabling the banks to loan the funds at less than market rates, said Treasurer Robert Bowman. "The decision will still rest with the bank," he said. "They are in the business of making creditdecisions and I'm not." The program requires approval of the Legislature, which does not return from its Easter break until April 16. To be effective the money must be available within the next two weeks, said Elton Smith, president of the Michigan Farm Bureau. Milk poisoning spreads to Mich. SPRINGFIELD, Ill.-Officials yesterday investigated a second brand of milk in the largest outbreak of salmonella poisoning in U.S. history, linked to two deaths and suspected of causing illnesses in 2,200 people in five states. An autopsy was scheduled in the death of an Alsip woman who died Mon- day after suffering salmonella poisoning symptoms. Officials said a Crystal Lake man, who was diagnosed as having salmonella, also died Monday in an Elgin hospital. The investigation into the deaths came as Jewel Companies Iic. announ- ced it had indefinitely closed its Hillfarm Dairy in Melrose Park and removed all milk from its Jewel and Eisner food stores after a second brand of milk processed at the dairy was suspected of salmonella contamination. A state Health Department official said 16-cases of Salmonella have been identified in Michigan which may be linked to the outbreak. Japan announces trade plan TOKYO-Japan unveiled- measures yesterday to open its lucrative markets to foreign goods and Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone warned of "a terrible depression" unless the nation reduces its huge trade surplus with the United States. Although the market-opening measures had been highly touted by the Japanese media, one U.S. official dismissed it as a "big yawn" and said it was a step backward in making Japan's key telecommunications market more accessible to American firms. A Japanese official conceded the market-opening package, the seventh announced by Japan in four years, was "not really a new trade package" but a summary of concessions made in recent trade talks with the United States. Nakasone urged the Japanese, in a nationally televised speech and news conference after the program was announced, to "please buy foreign products." He said Japan must move rapidly toward freer trade because. "terrible depression and unemployment" would result if such trading partners as the United States took protectionist measures. Japan has few natural resources and its economy is built on industrial exports. Cambidge sanctuary' approved CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-A lead supporter of a new measure making Har- vard University a self-proclaimed "sanctuary" for Central American refugees said yesterday the action is a protest against Reagan ad- ministration policies. But an official of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Boston warned that the "sanctuary" status, passed by the city council Monday night, would not hamper the agency's efforts to find and deport illegal aliens. "It is an attempt to establish a climate of opinion," said Cambridge City Councilor Francis Duehay of the measure. "Statements and symbolic ac- tions are a way of creating a positive climate that eventually can lead to real change.; Duehay said the Reagan administration has been liberal in its granting of political asylum to refugees from communist countries, but rarely gives the same right to Central American immigrants. Under the measure, all services in the city of 100,000, located across the Charles River from Boston, would be available to the refugees. Fires blaze across upper N.C. SCRANTON, N.C.-Firefighters jockeyed pumps to' flood fires and helicopters dropped water yesterday on blazes in three eastern North Carolina counties that have consumed 95,000 acres of brush and burned up to 8 feet deep in peat bogs. "It's not an open and running fire," said Obie Willingham, records officer for the North Carolina Forest Service at the Hyde County command post. "We've got it pretty well hemmed in, but it's still a very dangerous fire." At the Pungo Lake National Wildlife Refuge, fire "raced through there faster than any man can run," said refuge manager Larry Ditto. Sustained northwest winds at 20 mph were reported in eastern North Carolina with gusts between 28 mph and 32 mph, and Willingham said the wind and humidity as low as 25 percent made the fourth day of the fire "one of the mostsevere fire days all year The state Insurance Department estimated damages to private property in Washington County at $665,000 Monday, but estimates were not complete for two other counties. In western North Carolina, forest fires destroyed $4 million of property last week and consumed more than 7,000 acres. Officials urge more corporate day care WASHINGTON (AP) - Day care is a profitable in- vestment as well as a pressing public need, gover- nment and business officials said yesterday in urging corporations to increase the quality and availability of child care. "Child care used to be a special and limited need. Today, it is a social and economic necessity," Gov. Thomas Kean of New Jersey said in opening a con- ference on the issue. "But to this date, our response has been grossly inadequate." "THE BUSINESS sector has a tremendous oppor- tunity. Child care makes good business sense," he said, noting that such programs have been shown to reduce absenteeism and turnover, increase productivity, raise morale, improve company reputations, and attract and retain skilled labor. Speaker after speaker at the conference, sponsored by the National governors Association, noted that there are nearly 8.5 million preschool-age children with working mothers, with another 1.5 million ex- pected by 1980.. "This may well prove to be the premier issue of the '80s for both the family and human resource managers. This is no longer a woman's issue or a class issue, if indeed it ever was," said Leonard Silverman, vice president for human resources at Hoffman-LaRoche Inc., which operates what Kean called "the Cadillac of day care programs." SILVERMAN said many corporations respond to the day care issue by saying it's not their problem and it costs too much. "Corporate-sponsored child care is no favor. It's an investment," he said. "And nearly everything a firm does is tax deductible or eligible for a tax incentive." Silverman said 100 companies had day care programs in 1979, compared with 1,500 today. The grandfather of them all originated 15 years ago at Stride Rite Corp. in Massachusetts. Arnold Hiatt, president and chairman of the board of Stride Rite, said the investment of about $150,000 annually to care for some 100 children has more than paid off in a happier, more productive, more com- petent workforce. Hiatt said his company helped other firms set up 50 centers. "Fifty sounds impressive but it's a very limited response to a very limitless need," he said, lamenting "the slowness of the corporate community to recognize a critical need" comparable to the minimum wage and child labor laws. Israeli jets destroy PLO headquarters SHEMLAN, Lebanon (AP) - Israeli jets attacked this Chouf Mountain town at dawn yesterday and destroyed a building the Israeli military called a PLO headquarters. Eight Palestinian and Druse fighters were reported killed in the raid, Israel's fifth air attack of this year on positions it said were guerrilla outposts. Israeli military sources in Tel Aviv said the target, eight miles southeast of Beirut was. a headquarters for the Popular Struggle Front, a Marxist faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization. IN SOUTHERN Lebanon, witnesses said tank-led Israeli armored columns conducted a search-and-arrest raid in the port of Tyre. The witnesses said the Israelis seized at least 25 men and hauled them away in a truck. Following the Israeli air raid, a Druse militia commander in Shemlan, who declined to give his name, said half of those killed were Palestinian guerrillas and the rest were from Druse leader Walid Jumblatt's Progressive Socialist Party militia. They were killed by a single bomb that destroyed a two-story, white stone building on Shemlan's eastern outskir- ts. IT WAS Israel's closest air strike to Beirut since the 1982 invasion of Lebanon. At that time, PLO chairman Yasser Arafat's enclave in the Moslem sector of Beirut was repeatedly at- tacked by Israeli jets. Palestinian guerrillas opposed to Arafat and backed by Syria have filtered back into the Druse-controlled central Lebanese mountains after the Israeli army's 1983 evacuation of the region. Reporters on Tuesday saw about 25 guerrillas gathered near ruins of the bombed post. In Israel, Prime Minister Shimon Peres told Israel radio that the raid was a preventive strike. "They acted to prevent a terrorist unit from acting in the future," he said. The raid in Tyre, 50 miles south of Beirut, began when four tanks led a column of 40 armored personnel carriers and 12 jeeps moved into the old section of the city, witnesses said. Ceremony honors, students (Continued from Page 1) LSA senior Steven Smith, chairman of- the Millions Against Multiple Sclerosis, received an award. His group received a recognition and an achievement award for raising over $10,000 for the fight against MS. "This is a real honor - our whole gr- oup worked really hard - the success of the group can't be pinpointed to one person," Smith said. "I hope that we've been able to create an awareness on the campus. That was the point of the program," he said. "MOST OF the people here do more than one thing," said Annette Fernholz, Editor in Chief of the Ensian and another recipient. Indeed, many of the recipients of the achievement awards were involved in over five extra-curricular activities. Byron Roberts, an LSA senior, received an achievement award for acting as a research associate on issues pertaining to minority student receuit- ment, retention, and graduation, among other activities. "Too often these days students get too wrapped up in books. You develop yourself best when you're helping others. It's hard to say how successful my input has been - all you can do is hope you touch one person," he said. Several students were awarded for their resistance to the code. In fun, University vice president Henry Johnson donned a "no-code" pin given to him by Scott Page. Vol. XVC- No.151 The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967 X) is published Tuesday through Sunday during the Fall and Winter terms and Tuesday through Saturday during the Spring and Summer terms by students at the University of Michigan. Sub- scription rates: through April - $4.00 in Ann Arbor; $7.00 outside the city. Second class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan. Postmaster: Send address changes to The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109. The Michigan Daily is a member of The Associated Press and subscribes to United Press International, Pacific News Service, Los Angeles Times Syndi- cate, and Cllege Press Service. 0 6 Defendants plead not guilty (Continued from Page 1) 'Two weeks ago, RISE staged a protest at the billboard and Monday night held a candlelight vigil in support of the two women. Carol McCabe, a resident of Ann Ar- bor and a member of RISE, said that the group will be showing "a con- tinuation of strong support" through May 23. "The community is quite in- volved in this issue and it is not going to go away," she said. RISE has collected over 1,000 signatures on petitions demanding the removal of the billboard. 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