The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, February 5, 1986 -Page 3 'U' Profs to study graduate aid THE IT .. appears in Weekend magazine every Friday. Campus Cinema West Side Story - (Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, 1961) 8 p.m., Hill St. Multi-Oscar winning movie (best film, direction, supporting actor and actress) loosely adapted from "Romeo and Juliet." Set in the Manhattan West Side slums, Jet boy Richard Beymer and Shark girl Natalie Wood fall in love while the Jets and Sharks prepare for battle. Face to Face - (Ingmar Bergman, 1976) CG, 9:30 p.m., Angell Aud. B. A woman psychiatrist suffers from a sever nervous breakdown. Starring Liv Ullman. Five Easy Pieces - (Bob Rafelson, 1970) MTF, 8p.m., Mich. Jack Nicholson stars as a middle- class dropout who quits his job as a musician to drift from job to job on oil-rigs and construction sites. Win- ner of the New York Critics award for best movie. 16th Annual Ann Arbor 8 mm Film Festival - Eyemediae Showcase, 8 p.m, Angell Hall Auditorium A (662-2410). Tonight's showing is "Letters to Dad," a 15-minute meditation on authority. r Performances Corey Hart - Office of Major Events, 7:30 p.m., Hill Auditorium (763-8587). Pop rocker Corey Hart rocks with "Sunglasses at Night" and "Never Surrender." Murray Louis Dance Company and Dave Brubeck Jazz Quartet - University Musical Society, 8 p.m., Power Center (764-2538). The two ensembles combine talents in a con- cert of pure-bred American art for- ms. Bars and Clubs The Ark (761-1451) - Open Mike Night. Bird of Paradise (662-8310) - Ron Brooks trio, jazz. The Blind Pig (996-8555) - Ja- Fara, reggae. The Earle (994-0211) - Larry Manderville, solo piano. Mr. Flood's Party (995-2132) - Trees, folk to jazz. Mountain Jack's (665-1133) - Billy Alberts, easy listening. Rick's American Cafe (996-2747) -66 Spy, rock 'n' roll. U-Club (763-2236) - Laugh Track. Speakers Michael Collison - "Com puterized Signal Processing,' Chemistry, 4 p.m., room 1200 Chemistry Bldg. Ruth Bucsh - "The Regio- and Stereoselectivity of Radical Ring Closures," Chemistry, 4 p.m., room 1200, Chemistry Bldg. Ronald Butler - "Predictive Likelihood Inference with Ap plications," Statistics, 4 p.m., room 451, Mason Hall. European Travel Series - "Sur viving and Thriving in Europe,' brown-bag, noon, International Cen ter Recreation Room. Zbigniew Kielminski .- "The Polish Electoral System," Russia & East European Studies, noon Commons Room, Lane Hall. Kevin Furlong - "Chemical In- teractions Between Rocks and Aqueous Solutions," Geology, noon, room 4011, C.C. Little. Marion 19farzolf - "Current Issues in Media Ethics," Com- munication, noon, room 2035, Frieze Bldg. Students International Meditation Society -8 p.m., 528W. Liberty. David Dawson - "Fluctuation Analysis of K+ Channels: When the Signal is the Noise," Physiology, 4 p.m., room 7745, Med. Sci. II Bldg. Patricia Keating - "Phonetic Naturalness and Stop Consonant Voicing," Linguistics, 4 p.m., West Conference Room, Rackham. By TIM DALY Two University officials have for- med a faculty committee to evaluate the efficiency of the graduate finan- cial aid system and to suggest possible improvements. The Committee to Review Graduate Financial Aid, which was formed by Vice President for Academic Affairs Billy Frye and Rackham Graduate School Dean John D'Arms, willstudy the distribution of financial aid to graduate students. The committee may also recommend changes in the amount and allocation of the aid. D'ARMS SAID that the committee will have an especially important role in shaping the direction of graduate aid because of the Gramm-Rudman law. "The Gramm-Rudman-Hollings act will decrease still more the federal government's role in providing aid to all college students. There will be an increasing burden on Universities and individual students." "The committee formed because there are general concerns about financing graduate students," said economics Prof. John Cross, chair- man of the committee. "WE WANT to make sure that our aid program is competitive with aid programs from other schools," Cross said. Frye and D'Arms selected the nine faculty members on the committee, which includes professors from LSA, the School of Music, the School of Public Health, the Engineering School, and the School of Business Administration. Robert Holbrook, associate vice- president for academic affairs, said that the committee would conduct a general review of the financial aid system for graduate students. The committee will attempt to determine how much aid is needed and which departments need aid the most, Holbrook added. IN THE PAST, decisions about graduate aid have been made on the basis of individual department requests. "This committee came about because there is an awareness that graduate aid has not been looked at as a whole," Holbrook said. Although the committee will at- tempt to determine if more aid is needed, it will not decide where the aid should come from. "That decision will have to be left to other decision- making bodies, such as the University itself," Holbrook said. The graduate school provides' graduate students a total of $6 million in aid yearly, D'Arms said. The figure includes general funds from the University that are ad- ministered by the graduate school. "There is also graduate aid available from the different colleges within the University and there is federal support," D'Arms said. Ralph Williams, associate professor of English language and literature, and a member of the committee, said the committee will be accessible to members of the University community. "We're inter sted in receiving information from,, students, administrators, and faculty." The committee will prepare a final report which is to be submitted to Frye's office by the end of this year. Alfred Storey - Skills," CRLT-TA, 3:30 Madison. "Speaking p.m., 109 E. Meetings Botany Faculty - noon, room 1139, Natural Science Bldg. Coalition Against Rape - 7:30 p.m. City Fire House. Baha'i Club - 5:30 p.m., Union. Adult Children of Alcoholic Paren- ts - Student Counseling Center, 10:30 a.m. Dissertation Support Group -8:30 a.m., room 3100, Union. Ensian Yearbook - 7 p.m., Student Publications Bldg. Science Fiction Club - Stilyagi Air Corps, 8:15 p.m., League. Michigan Gay Union - 9 p.m., 802 Monroe. Furthermore Conflict Management - SODC program, 6:30 p.m. Surviving and Thriving in Europe - International Center, noon Inter- national Center Recreation Room. Applying for Medical School - Career Planning & Placement program, 4:10 p.m. The Job Search Lecture - Career Planning & Placement program, 4:10 p.m., lecture room 1, MLB. On-Campus Recruiting Discussion - Career Planning & Placement program, 12:10p.m. TRW -Society of Women Engineers pre-interview meeting, 1 p.m., Center Room, North Campus Commons. Beans and rice dinner - Guild House, 6 p.m., 802 Monroe. Mexican Folkloric Dance - Chicano Graduate Student Assoc./ SALSA, 8 p.m., Stockwell Hall. . Women's Rugby Practice - 4 p.m., Sports Coliseum. Personal Line seminar - Telecommunications, noon, Aud. 1, School of Public Health. Cross-country ski lessons - (beginning and intermediate) , Recreational Sports, 7:30 p.m., Mit- chell Field. Time Management for Professional Staff - HRD workshop, 8:30 a.m. Personal Financial Planning - HRD workshop, 5 p.m. Holy Communion - Wesley Foun- dation, 9:30 p.m., 602 E. Huron. Tae Kwon Do Club - Practice, 6 p.m., room 2275, CCRB. Buffet - University Club, 11:30 a.m. Impact Jazz Dance Workshop - e University Activities Center, 7 p.m., nMichigan Union Ballroom. Speech kicks By SUZY ROSTLER Speaking to an audience of mainly Mexican- Americans, a University of Chicago professor warned students that Chicano history may be lost if someone does not research and record the Mexican's assimilation into America. "Records of Chicano history are few," said Professor Louise Keer in a speech that kicked off this week's events in honor of Chicano History Week. THE STATE declared this week Chicano History Week to commemorate the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo on February 2, 1848, that ended the Mexican-American War. Although Mexican emigres keep their history alive orally, little has actually been recorded because many Mexicans were illiterate when they emigrated to the United States, said Raul Villa, a member of the Chicano Graduate Student Association. "The history is there and is very im- portant," he said. Theresa Frausto, Chairwoman of the Socially o Chicano Active Latino Student Association (SALSA) said many students, including Chicanos, are ignorant of Mexican history. THE PURPOSE of Chicano Week is to educate both Chicanos and non-Chicanos by making them aware of "the contributions that Mexican- Americans have made to the state of Michigan - economically, culturally, and socially - and to af- firm the people's pride," said Ernesto Quesada, a member of SALSA, the group sponsoring the University events. Quesada said he wants to make people aware of Chicano history rather than tradition because, he said, Mexican tradition conjures up a negative stereotype. Yale University Prof. Zaragosa Vargas, the second speaker at the Monday night event, said stereotypes of the Mexican-Americans as a "Half- breed" has made Chicanos a scapegoat for the History Week country's economic troubles. 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