Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, November 15, 1985 'U' wants state funding increase 44 By KERY MURAKAMI The Board of Regents yesterday told state officials that the University needs a bare minimum increase of $26 million in state funds than it received last year in order to keep up with rising costs and keep tuition down. In addition, the board said in its an- nual budget request to the state that the University needs an additional $9 million to regain ground lost during a period of insufficient state funding in the late 1970s and early 1980s. THE AMOUNT of money granted by the state has a direct impact on tuition, faculty salaries, and program improvements. Even during prosperous times, the state rarely meets the University's requests. And state officials have said next year will be a financially tight one for the state. The $26 million increase request would be a 7 percent increase over last year's $203 million in state fun- ding. ding. Including the additional requests, it would be a 10 percent in- crease over the amount requested lat year. BUT GOV. James Blanchard last week told , student leaders that because of slowing economic growth, the state would probably only be able to increase higher education spending by the inflation rate - five percent. If the state gives the University the total $35 million it wants, said Robert NV 'V Y 'v Cw v '-.. _V COOKIES NIGHT OWLS TAKE A STUDY BREAK! Buy 2 or more of Mrs. Peabody's cookies or brownies after 9:00 p.m. and get a FREE beverage! Holbrook, associate vice president for academic affairs, the University would not have to raise tuition. Last year, the state fell about $7 million short of the $25 million in- crease asked for by the University. But as a result, the University had to raise out-of-state tuition by 8 percent. THE UNIVERSITY last year had planned to raise in-state tuition by 6 percent. But folding to pressure from Blanchard, the University froze tuition for state residents and in- curred a $2.2 million budget deficit. Spokespeople for the state's office of Management and Budget have said the governor will probably not push for another in-state tuition freeze because of the tightness of the budget. Holbrook, summarizing the Univer- sity's 31-page budget request, told the regents that the "University of Michigan is a member of a very select group of public universities of ex- traordinary high quality, which is an important resource for the people in the state." HE NOTED that the University has maintained its quality, even after a time when state support for the University fell from 60 percent of the University's budget in 1975 to 47.5 percent in 1983. Money from the state now makes up a little over half the University's general operating budget. "It's clear that the University has been a bargain for the state, they should reward us for our effective ef- forts at cost containment," Holbrook said. Holbrook said the University's "status quo" budget request, includes a 7 percent pay increase for faculty, and about $500,000 for its minority recruitment program begun last year. THE ADDITIONAL request, he said, would help alleviate such "problem" areas as low faculty salaries, financial aid for graduate students, and to rebuilt the natural science departments. "During the economic hard times of Open till 11 p.m. daily S715 N. University 761-CHIP COUPON MUST BE PRESENTED WITH PURCHASE OFFER VALID THROUGH DECEMBER 1, 1985 '3., v V 'v '., What is our spirituality and how can it involve our politics? 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Con- sequently, our salary scale, which was once competitive with the best private universities, slipped to 92 per- cent of those peers, and is now only modestly ahead of the public peer university average; indeed, it is now exceeded by some, notably the University of California at Berkley," the report said. It asks for $2 million to increase faculty salaries. The report goes on, at the current time, the net cost of completing a doc- toral program at (the University) is nearly equal to that of the best private institutions, yet our fellowship sup- port falls far below theirs." "ALMOST FOUR years ago a University study identified a need for $4,500,000 in additional graduate school monies. Adjusted for inflation, that would now be close to $6 million," the request said. In addition, the request says that the natural science departments - astronomy, biology, chemistry, geology, math, physics, and statistics - are "comparitively speaking, among the weakest, and lease adequately supported, in the Univer- sity. None, except the cluster of units that comprise the biological sciences, is in the 'Top 10' of its cohorts." "With budgets approaching $20 million, our analysis indicates these units are underfunded by as much as 25 percent with peer or even less than peer institutions," the request says. Regents want 'U' Council's code draft (Continued from Page 1) student and co-chair of the council. The council yesterday continued to make progress in its deliberations but became tied up with the question of whether hazing, and other actions - taking place in fraternities or sororities should be included in a code. The debate yesterday was a miscr- cosm of the larger code issue. On one hand, some councilmembers, in- cluding Social Work Prof. Ann Har- tman, said the University must act to protect its members. BUT OTHERS, including Cohen questioned whether the University should have authority over the per- sonal lives of its members. Dan Sharphorn, assistant policy advisor to the University's vice- president for academic affairs, who is serving as a legal advisor to the coun- cil, argued the Greek system may be perceived to be a part of the Univer- sity, and cited a case where another university was sued for an accident that happened in a fraternity. The council decided to table the issue and invite representatives of the Greek system to speak on the matter. Councilmembers also questioned if co-ops should also be included. '& t1 tl0 IN BRIEF COMPILED FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS AND UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL REPORTS 'Defector' details CIA plot at Soviet news conference MOSCOW - Vitaly Yurchenko, denying he defected and scorning questions about his connection to the KGB, made his first public ap- pearance in the Soviet Union yesterday and insisted he was kidnapped and drugged by the CIA. Flanked by Soviet officials, Yurchenko appeared at a news conference in a Foreing Ministry auditorium packed with Western reporters and Soviet journalists. Yurchenko left the United States on Nov. 6 in a surprise ending to what the State Department said was a defection three months earlier by one of the KGB's senior spies. The Soviets frequently broke into laughter as Yurchenko derided the CIA, its director William Casey and some of the Western correspondents who asked questions. He said he was abducted Aug. 1 on the steps of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome and taken to Washington, where he was first kept in a hospital and then in a CIA "safe house" in the suburb of Fredericksburg, Va. Yurchenko said CIA agents gave him drugs and tried to convince him he was a traitor to his homeland. But Yurchenko would not say directly whether he worked for the KGB secret police and intelligence agency. U.S. officials say Yurchenko ran the KGB's Washington office from 1975-80 while working at the embassy there. Botha proposes panel reform JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - President P.W. Botha, in what the government calls its continuing reform of apartheid, yesterday asked a parliamentary advisory panel to search for ways to accept black mem- bers. The council, which currently has 41 whites, 13 people of mixed race and six Asians, is supposed to settle the differences among the three segregated chambers of Parliament - one for whites, another for Asians, and a "colored," or mixed-race chamber. "Reform means new adaptations," Botha told the 60-member President's Council in Cape Town. "New circumstances call for a new approach." Police, meanwhile, said violence flared anew in seven black areas yesterday, killing one black and injuring two whites. And the government reported that unemployment among whites, Asians and people of mixed- race ancestry rose more than 130 percent in the past year. Although the government says it is reforming apartheid, critics argue that changes in the system have been insufficient to meet black demands and end 15 months of riots. Reagan signs bill raising debt WASHINGTON - The government narrowly averted default as President Reagan signed interim legislation last night raising federal borrowing authority - the national debt limit - to $1.9 trillion. The bill was passed earlier yesterday afternoon by the House and was sent to the President to sign. The measure postpones a credit crunch through Dec. 6 by raising the government's $1.824 trillion line of credit by $80 billion. The Senate passed the measure on a voice vote Wednesday night. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., said the action would "relieve the president of any burden while he was at the summit" next week with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Without action, the government would have been in default. The president had ordered federal agencies to stop issuing new checks star- ting Friday if Congress had not increased the debt limit. Volcano inies Colhmbian town BOGOTA, Columbia - A volcano that had been rumbling to life for months erupted early yesterday, melting its snowcap and sending down torrents of water and mud that buried four sleeping towns with a total population of 70,000. Early estimates of the dead ranged up to 20,000. The Langunilla River became a rushing wall of mud that destroyed at least 85 percent of Armero, a coffee-farming Andes Mountain town of 50,000 people 30 miles from the Nevado del Riz volcano and 105 miles northwest of Bogata. "Armero doesn't exist anymore," Red Cross rescue worker Fernando Duque said in an interview from the scene of Todelar radio. A civil defense spokesman, Maj. Hugo Ardila, told a midday news con- ference in Bogota that about 10,000 people had been found alive in Armero up to that time. Israeli government crisis ends TEL AVIV, Israel - Ariel Sharon gave Prime Minister Shimon Peres an apology of sorts late yesterday for criticizing his policies, thus ending a crisis that nearly brought down the coalition government, other Cabinet ministers reported. The prime minister said Wednesday he intended to fire the outspoken Sharon, who is trade and industry minister, Sharon accused him of con- ducting secret peace negotiations with Jordan and Palestinians, and following policies that would "cost a great deal of blood." "The affair is over since Sharon addressed all the points raised by the prime minister," Education Minister Yitzhak Navon of Peres' Labor Party said on Israel television. "As far as we're concerned there is regret or an admission that he either had not meant it or retracted the position he took." Navon added, however, that if Sharon attacked Peres in the future, "there'll be a dismissal notice, and that's that." 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