Sirit tau Ninety-six years of editorial freedom Ann Arbor, Michigan - Friday, December 6, 1985 ItEIUlI Vol. XCVI - No. 65 Copyright 1985, The Michigan Daily Twelve Pages House passes aid bill WASHINGTON (AP) - Spurning a Republican cost-cutting drive, the House spending next year in adult and continuing year, including financial help for a new generation of older, "non-traditional" students such as mothers returning to school. A five-year extension of a wide variety of federal aid programs for students, colleges, and universities through fiscal 1991 was passed and sent to the Senate on a 350-67 roll-call vote Wednesday night. ACTION BY the Senate on its own ver- sion of the spending authorization is expec- ted early next year. The House bill contained a plan to in- crease the maximum Pell Grant award, the primary source of financial aid for 2.8 million low-income students, from the current $2,100 a year to $2,300 for the 1987-88 school year. Maximum grants would rise gradually to $3,100 by the 1991- 92 school year. This feature rebuffed President Reagan's proposal, outlined in his fiscal 1986 budget plan, to slash federal aid to college students by 25 percent and to eliminate Pell Grants for more than 800,000 needy students. WHILE THE House increased the level of the Pell Grants, it also voted to tighten rules for obtaining federally subsidized student loans in an effort to discourage needless borrowing and avoid producing "a class of indentured students in bondage to their educational debts." Partly by requiring proof of need from every student borrower - not just those from families with incomes of more than $30,000 - and by tightening procedures for collecting defaulted loans, the House shaved the spending ceiling for college aid from $11.9 billion this year to $10.6 billion in fiscal 1987, the first year covered by the new bill. In another major departure, the House voted to make most students attending school less than half-time eligible for most student aid programs, while also making it easier for non-traditional students to at- tend schools and colleges. THE BILL authorizes $30 million in spending next ear in adult and continuing education programs for these students, who comprise an estimated 40 percent of See HOUSE, Page 3 'U' community backs research guidelines By JERRY MARKON Members of the University com- munity warned the committee reviewing classified research guidelines last night that weakenng or eliminating the rules would subject the University to unprecedented military research and would cloak the campus in secrecy. Committee members did not take specific stands on secret research, although they said they desire an unambiguous University policy that does not permit exceptions. Several committee memberp, however, argued that performing defense research does not detract from a professor's objectivity or loyalty to the University. THE COMMENTS were expressed at a public meeting of the ad-hoc committee that was appointed in Oc- tober by University President Harold Shapiro to review the University's current guidelines governing classified research, which were adop- ted in 1972. The committees nomination came at the request of the Board of Regents, who ordered the review after former University Vice President for Research Alfred Sussman rejected a research proposal last summer on the grounds that it violated the Univer- sity's guidelines. Political Science Prof. Raymond Tanter, who submitted the proposal for alternative approaches to arms control that Sussman said would require secret documents and could not be published openly, defended his project again last night before the nearly 75 students, faculty, and com- munity members. TANTER SAID the Classifed Review Panel - which initially rejec- ted his proposal before Sussman's final disapproval - "erred ink judgement" because it "restricted a faculty member's right to pursue a certain kind of research to protect the freedom of open publication. "It's ironic that an arms control project could not be studied at the University of Michigan. It just hap- pens that classified government documents were the primary source of evidence - but not the only sour- ce." Physics Prof. Joachim Janecke, the classified review panel member who rejected Tanter's project, instead argued that the outspoken professor's project was subject to approval by the federal government, which could restrict its publication without Tan- ter's approval. "THE FREE and open exchange of See COMMUNITY, Page 5 Daily Photo by SCOTT LITUCHY Great white north Daniel Moore, an LSA junior, sits in front of the Union yesterday as the snow falls. "I like the snow," Moore said, "it's the cold that bothers me." Panel discusses need MSU sends cards to leaders or A2 city By MATT BENSON Growth in downtown Ann Arbor is inevitable, a panel of local officials and business leaders agreed last night, but just how that development should take place remains unclear. The discussion at the Ann Arbor Public Library brought together key people from several groups concerned with downtown development, in- clutling the Chamber of Commerce, the Downtown Development Authority, and the city and University planning departments. CHAMBER OF Commerce planni ng President Rodney Benson said that while downtown Ann Arbor cannot af- ford to slow new construction and development, it has not experienced the decay that other medium-sized cities have faced. Benson said the city must work to rectify its parking and traffic flow problems in order to accommodate the new development. Downtown Development Authority Chairman Alan Mandel also stressed the need for public improvements, especially projects that make the downtown area more inviting to See CITY, Page 5 Mayer ... leads discussion By JOSEPH PIGOTT When Michigan State University junior Bonnie Peterson was watching the Geneva summit on television two weeks ago, she thotight it would be nice to send the two superpower leaders some encouragement. So she got together with some of her friends, and now they're planning to send huge holiday cards to President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev thanking them for their efforts to slow the arms race. "I wanted to let the two leaders know that I supported their efforts toward world peace. I was going to send a Hallmark card or something, but after talking about it with other people on the hall, it had blown up into this huge project," Peterson said. A DORMITORY government coun- cil, the Holmes Hall Association, is organizing the project, which will send the superpower leaders eight-by- four-foot holiday cards filled with students' signatures. In the last three days, the organizers have gathered more than 8,000 signatures, and plan to get 18,000 by Dec. 13, when the cards will be sent. "The student response to this has been great," said Peterson, secretary of the Holmes Hall Association. "I have people I don't even know call me on the phone and say, 'Keep up the good work."' DKE alumnus saves frat. shant By LISA PICK What are big brothers for? To bail out little brothers in trouble, of cour- se. And that's exactly what Gerald Ford's "big brother," Grand Rapids banker Edward Frey, did - donating $50,000 to the endangered Delta Kap- pa Epsilon shant located at 6111/2 E. William St. The more than 100-year-old shant, the first fraternity building on the Ann Arbor campus, was to be conver- ted into a compact disc shop because 'Our goal is to show the world leaders that there are some 18,000 Michigan State students who are concerned about the world situation and gaining world peace. -Bonnie Peterson, MSU junior PRESIDENT Reagan's card shows an oil painting of a dove carrying an olive branch on the outside and the students plan to write the word "peace" in 15 to 20 languages on the inside, according to Paul Landin, associate director of Holmes Hall. A winter scene will be painted on the cover of Gorbachev's card, and greetings "in the spirit of peaceful cooperation" will adorn the inside, said Russian Prof. David Prestel, who translated the students' message. The cards will be shipped via United Parcel Service to the White House and the Soviet Embassy in Washington, which has promised to forward the card to Moscow. THE MATERIALS alone have cost more than $800, but the expense will be picked up by Michigan State's residence halls. Twenty-six of the 27 dorms have agreed to contribute $20 each, and Holmes Hall will pay for the remainder. The organizers plan to hold a special "V.I.P. signing session on Sunday, when MSU President John DeBiaggio and Vice President for Student Services Moses Turner will join local politicians in endorsing the cards. Congressman Bob Carr (D- Mich.), a representative from Sen. Carl Levin's office, and state Congressman H. Lynn and John Doll will also be on hand at the signing. "Our goal is to show the world leaders that there are some 18,000 Michigan State students who are con- cerned about the world situation and gaining world peace," Peterson said. Peterson stressed that the project is not political. "This nuclear race thing has gone way too far. We're looking at it like a big board game. We don't want either side to win, but we want to see a tie," said Peterson. When asked if she thinks the cards will do anything to ease superpower tensions, Peterson said: "I feel as though I've done something about it even if it is in the smallest way. It's casual." the fraternity could not afford to pay utility bills and owed thousands of dollars in back taxes. But when Frey sent a letter last Oc- tober saying he would contribute $50,000 to be matched by the Deke Alumni Association, negotiations with The Stereo Center at 605 E. William over the disc shop were put on hold. Thanksgiving eve the Dekes announ- ced that they would retain the shant for use solely by fraternity members. So far, the Deke Alumni Association has raised $113,000 of its $130,000 goal, said Deke President Paul Caruso, an LSA junior. A lease was never signed with The Stereo Center, Caruso said, and all negotiations on the compact disc shop have been cancelled. "They (Dekes) wanted us to com- mit right away," said Les Harvey, one of the Stereo Center's owners, but he said the store was hesitant to sign a lease until the Ann Arbor Historical District Commission and the city had approved all building alterations. Although the Historical District See DKE, Page 3 TODAY Rerun YET ANOTHER television program will attempt to tell viewers what University of Michigan students are thinking these days. T)trit ('hannal 92 u n ies Maoaz ifl economic issues, but on other issues they're just as liberal, if not more so, than students of the '70s," he adds. Old news footage and parts of a film Beaver made ten years ago about a student activist will be in- termingled with footage shot recently at a campus sorority, a College Republicans party, and with Dean Baker, president of Rackham Student Government. "Just for Money," and he's heard on the record, too. Hardcastle, who wrote and produced "19," a con- troversial synthesizer record about the Vietnam War that became an unlikely cande-club hit, has kept his focus on violence for his follow-up single. "Just For Money" has as its subjects the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and the Great Train Robbery, and Olivier INSIDE SUPER POWERS: Opinion page looks "beyond the summit." See Page 4. HALLELUJAH: Arts m review UanaI'. i i I pruvoww *UU3vvl a