cl be Mtit tgan Ninety-six years of editorialfreedom IailQ Vol. XCVI - No. 90 Copyright 1986, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Thursday, February 6, 1986 Eight Pages Reagan's budget demands deep cuts From AP and UPI WASHINGTON - President Reagan yesterday followed the glowing optimism of his State of the Union speech with the harsh reality of his 1987 budget - a $994 billion outline calling for drastic cuts in middle class programs, a continued military buildup and no new taxes. The president asked Congress to have faith that his recommendations will do the job, but many legislators said his plan was economically questionable and politically im- possible. "I don't think there are 25 votes in the United States Senate for the budget," said Sen. Bill Bradley, D- N.J. And Rep. Les Aspin, D-Wisc., chairman of the House Armed Ser- vices Committee, called the budget "DBA - dead before arrival." EVEN AN influential Republican, Sen. Pete Domenici of New Mexico chairman of the Senate Budget Com- mittee, said the deficit goal mandated by the new law could not be met with Reagan's proposed spending cuts alone. "The solution, in my judgment, will be a revenue component (tax in- crease) to glue it together... The time for playing games is past," Domenici told a hearing on the new budget. Reagan proposed no new taxes in fiscal 1987, though he did call for in- creased "user fees" on federally guaranteed loans, meat and poultry inspections, national parks and inland waterways. On Capitol Hill, there were war- nings that Reagan's budget will not remain intact for long, and rumblings about using specified taxes - especially an oil import fee - to stave off some of the harsh budget cuts while at the same time reducing the deficit. REAGAN proposed cutting federal spending on school aid from $18 billion to $15.4 billion next year, including an end to all financial assistance for 1 million college students and a halt to interest-free loans for those still eligible to borrow. PIR GIM begins drive or refusabi By EVE BECKER The Public Interest Research Group in Michigan yesterday collected 3,200 signatures during the first day of a petition drive that is part of an effort to change the group's funding. The student-run group, which works mostly on state and' campus environmental issues, hopes to set up a system that would automatically assess students a fee unless they request not to be billed. If students are billed, but are un- satisfied with PIRGIM they will be able to get a refund said Andy Buchsbaum, PIRGIM's program director. PIRGIM received funding for 11 of the past 13 years through a voluntary check-off donation system on the Student Verification Form (SVF). BECAUSE THE group's funding contract with the University expired last February, PIRGIM is now seeking a majority of student support for the new fee system. With 72 petitioners circulating in the Union and the fish- bowl yesterday, PIRGIM gathered 3,200 of the 20,000 e ee system signatures needed to implement a new system. Petitioners said they were pleased with the first day's results because they had only expected to gather 2,000 signatures. "It surpassed our expectations," Buchsbaum said. "We are really happy. Student support for PIRGIM was just really strong." THE GROUP was able to surpass its goal for signatures despite rain yesterday and because of the in- creased publicity from PIRGIM's recent programs, Buchsbaum said. This semester the group has sponsored programs on toxic waste, world hunger, and women's safety. "I think they're doing a lot of good for the University and the community," said RC freshman Rebecca Morris. "I don't see what the problem is as long as it's explained to people that you have the option not to pay the fee." Buchsbaum said the group made sure students under- stood the provisions of the petition before they signed it. See PIRGIM, Page 2 'U' students revive debate team Daily Photo by ANDI SCHREIBER Laurita Thomas, manager of human resources at the University Hospitals, shows a tour group a kryptonite light in an operating room in the new hospital facility yesterday. She said the light is one of the brightestmost precise operating lights available. U 'U'hospital- prepare,, By STEPHEN GREGORY and KATIE HUTCHISON upcoming Administrators for University The mmove Hospitals yesterday outlined plans for ongoing proceSS. moving an estimated 500 patients " from the old University Hospital to - Asst the new hospital behind it. The move, originally scheduled for new Jan. 4, was postponed until Feb. 14 because of fire code violations and a lack of certification insuring that the hospital's medical gas systems fun- correctly connected to their respec- ction properly. tive systems. DENNISKirkwood, an assistant Mable Craig, coordinator of the hospital director cites one of the fire patient move, said it is scheduled to code violations as the hospital's begin at 8:00 a.m. and is estimated to failure to locate smoke detectors in end at 5:00 p.m. on Feb. 14. positions dictated by the state fire She predicts the move "will be pret- code. ty continuous," . estimating a total He also explains that the Michigan time of 12 minutes to relocate each Department of Public Health requires patient. Two hundred employees have that certification that medical gases volunteered to aid in the move, Craig like oxygen and nitrous oxide are said. s for, move eis the last step of an istant Director of the University Hospital, Dennis Kirkwood - By GEORGE KOKKINES A small group of students have pooled their energy to revive the University's debate team, which has been inactive for six years. When LSA sophomore Jim Speta decided that a school as large as the University shouldn't be without a debate team, he set out to start one. "A major University with such a good library needed a good debate team," said Speta, who is the vice president for finance at the University Ac- tivities Center. DEBATE TEAM members say debate supplements what they learn in class. "I get to learn about issues that I normally wouldn't know about," said Denise Loshbough, an LSA freshman and debate team member. With the help of Steve Mancuso, a University graduate student who debated at the University of Kentucky and coached at Dartmouth Univer- sity, Speta began the search for funds. .Speta and team coach Mancuso ob- tained enough funding through the Of- fice of Academic Affairs to operate independently from any academic department at the University. UAC helps coordinate the team's activities and serves as a central office for the team's eight to ten members. BACK IN 1892, University debate teams began a strong and competitive tradition, said associate com- munications Prof. William Colburn, who coached the debate team before it died out in 1979. "We took a backseat to no one when we debated," he remembered. "We were competitive, winning, and hard-working." Despite strong student interest, the team disbanded in 1979 because it lacked funds and a faculty coach. "The budget for the debate team was in the communications depar- tment," Colburn explained. "Since most debaters weren't com- munications majors, the department couldn't justify funding them, especially when the communication concentrators needed the money.'' WHEN THE team lost funding from the communications department, it could no longer afford to pay a faculty adviser - and team members were forced to pay for trips to tournaments out of their own pockets. The revived debate team is off to a smooth start. Since September, the team has competed in major tour- naments at the University of Ken- tucky, the University of Virginia, Wake Forest University, and the University of Louisville. According to Speta, the team has done well, win- ning over 50 percent of their matches. This year, college teams debate whether more rigorous standards should be established for all public elementary and secondary schools in math, natural science, and language arts. A debate round consists of an af- firmative and a negative team. The affirmative team advocates more rigorous standards while the negative team opposes the standards. Generally, during the eight preliminary rounds, each team will be affirmative four times and negative four times. IN- EACH of the eight preliminary rounds, where a debater gives one 10- minute speech and one five-minute rebuttal to present as many argumen- ts and as much supporting evidence as possible. A few hundred arguments presented in one speech is not unusual. At the end of the eight roun- ds, the teams with the best records debate in elimination rounds. The University teams have. come close to making the elimination roun- ds in a few tournaments. At the University of Louisville, the teams of Speta, LSA junior Mike Green, LSA sophomore Eric Laumann, and Losh- See STUDENTS, Page 3 "THERE WILL only be 70 people actually moving the patients," she said, adding that the remaining 130 will carry out such tasks as guiding relatives along the route, making sure that the "move path" is free of ob- struction, and overseeing various "command posts" along the route. In addition to the volunteers, Craig said physicians, nurses, and respiratory therapists will man three See NEW, page 2 I Court proceedings By AMY MINDELL attempting to hinder and op Court proceedings will begin today police officer. for 12 demonstrators, mostly Univer- PROTESTERS gathered sity students, who were arrested the Unviersity's Office of while protesting the CIA's recruit- Planning and Placement last ment on campus last October. They 22 and 23. Office Director I are the second group to be tried in Orr May read protesters the connection with the two-day protest at act, giving them a choice of the Student Activities Building. the building or being arrested. Eleven of the 12 demonstrators are{ Dean Baker, Rackham charged with violating the state Government president, was a trespass statute. Dave Buchen, an after choosing to stay in the bu Ann Arbor resident, is charged with But Baker said he does not begin today for CIA recruitment protesters ppose a outside Career October Deborah trespass leaving Student: arrested iuilding. feel he broke a law. "We're students and we can be in the Student Activity Building," he said yesterday. May "read the act, but she has no authority over the hall," he added. Dmitri Iglitzim, a third-year law student who was also arrested Oc- tober 22, maintains that the protesters were not breaking a law. "We weren't disorderly or destructive ... I had a right to be (in the SAB) as a student, a citizens, and a taxpayer," he said. PROSECUTING attorney Bob Cooper said the demonstrators were warned and refused to leave, but declined to comment further on the case. Defendants could face a 30-day jail sentence and a possible fine if convic- ted, said Nancy Francis, a defense at- torney who will represent Phyliss Flora, Dave Mikelthun, and Buchen, the three non-students to be tried. University students facing charges today include Baker, Iglitzim, Hugh McGuinness, a biology teaching assistant, LSA seniors Carey Garlick and Tamara Smith, LSA juniors John Hartigan and Claudia Green, graduate student Steve Latta, and LSA senior Chris Faber, who will be tried in absentia because he is in Nicaragua. The attorney for the students, Molly Reno, could not be reached for com- ment. Several demonstrators said they are confident they will be acquitted. PROCEEDINGS will begin today at 9 a.m. with jury selection in the 15th district court in City Hall. Judge George Alexander will be presiding. The first group of protesters to be tried were acquitted of disorderly conduct January 23. Peter Rosset, a biology teaching assistnat, and one of the four acquitted, said he will attend the trial tomorow. "I'm going to show support, it feld good to see so many people at my trial," Rosset said. TODAY Michigan Stadium before the ceremony. The happy seniors will instead be escorted to their seats in- dividually to "prevent the confusion of last- year," Crampton said. Otherwise, the ceremony - which will be held at Crisler Arena in case of rain-will follow the usual format. Graduates will wear the traditional and roll video parties at college campuses across the country - so Chevrolet can sell more autos to college studen- ts. "We're reaching out with the video parties to one of Chevrolet's special target markets - college studen- ts," said Robert Burger, Chevrolet general manager, in explaining how the company will "get into the act" INSIDE- ELIGIBILITY: Opinion speaks out on NCA's new academic standards for athletes. See Page 4. AW m+;mliaffa I