'Young ctors' star in ee end ( C I be LIE It3 U ~E~ai1v Non-Profit Org. U.S. POSTAGE PAID Ann Arbor, MI PERMIT NO. 13 Ninety-six years of editorial freedom Vol. XCVI - No. 101 Copyright 1986, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan - Friday, February 21, 1986 Ten Pages N *1 Reagan honors Grenada 'invasion ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada (AP) - Under a dazzling Carribbean sun, President Reagan yesterday retraced the steps of American invasion forces that ousted a radical Marxist gover- nment from this tiny island 27 months' ago and vowed the United States also "must help those struggling for freedom in Nicaragua." 3 In a speech to a cheering, flag- waving crowd, Reagan likened events in Nicaragua to those that prompted him to order the invasion of Grenada and declared he won't be satisfied, "until all the people of the Americas have joined us in the warm sunshine of liberty and justice." IN HIS SPEECH, Reagan said: "Today in Nicaragua we see a chain of events similar to what happened here. We hear the same excuses made for the communists, while the people of Nicaragua see their freedom slowly but surely eaten away." Reagan told Grenadians "I will never be sorry . that I made the ' decision to help you" and said thex United States "must help those struggling for freedom in Nicaragua." While making no overt threats against Nicaragua, Reagan's statements - particularly coming on the site of the last open use of U.S. military forces - could hardly be construed as comforting to the leftist : government 1,500 miles to the west. Doily Photo by DAN HA REAGAN portrayed Cuba as an in- Burned ternational menace and said President Fidel Castro's "tyranny Michigan State's Scott Skiles drives past the leaping Antoine Joubert in still weighs heavy on the shoulders of last night's shocking 74-59 Spartan victory at a soldout Crisler Arena. See REAGAN, Page 5 Skiles pumped in 20 points to aid the Spartan's cause. See Pagel0 'Congressman presents conservative outlook 'U,' to consider re-allocations By KERY MURAKAMI University President Harold Shapiro, forecasting tight budgets over the next five years, said yester- day the University will have to start looking for new sources of revenue- including internal reallocations-to keep up with other top universities. Shapiro, speaking to the Board of Regents, stopped short of saying the University will have to embark on another "five year plan" of reallocations, as it did in 1981, but he proposed shifting funds within the University as one way of meeting the University's needs. THE UNIVERSITY, in the midstof an economic crisis, in 1984 shifted $25 million within its budget towards high priority areas such as higher faculty salaries. Other areas, such as the schools of education, art, and natural resources suffered large cuts. But Billy Frye, the University's vice president of academic affairs, who engineered the reallocations, said a rethinking of priorities does not necessarily mean more budget cuts. He said, for example, the Univer- sity could give some departments greater proportions of state allocation increases than other depar- tments. FRYE ALSO SAID yesterday that Gov, Blanchard's recommendations for state budget allocations to the University fell about $13 million short of the University's needs. Last month Blanchard recommen- See FRYE, Page 2 Regents pass 4.9% housing rate increase By EVE BECKER The University's Board of Regents yesterday approved a 4.9 percent average rate increase for residence halls and a 4.8 percent increase for family housing for next year. The approved increases are less than the proposed ones of 5.25 and 5.4 percent respectively that came from a study committee composed of students and staff. The regents based their decision on more recent infor- mation on the cost of utilities than was available to the committee. THE INCREASES, which follow last year's 4.7 percent increase for residence halls, will cover in- flationary costs, capital improvement programs, and allocate more funds to increase the number of food service employees, said Robert Hughes, the director of housing. The rate hike will be effective im- mediately. See REGENTS, Page 3 SCORES IMPROVING Family size influences SATs BIB n By ADAM CORT Following a slump in the 1970s, Scholastic Aptitude Test scores are rising nationwide because students are coming from smaller families, and having less contact with im- mature peers, according to a University study. The Study also predicts that SAT scores will continue to rise until the year 2,000, at which point they are expected to level off and decline. Past researchers have hypothesized a myriad of reasons for fluctuations in SAT averages, citing drugs, parental attention and television as influencing factors. However, Robert Zajonc, director of the Research Center for Group Dynamics countered, saying the size of the students' families is the biggest influence on their per- formance. Children who grew up with fewer siblings experience superior intellectual development because their environ- ment breeds more adult qualities, said Zajonc, the author of the study. "The only child, for example, is surrounded mainly by adults, whereas the third child of seven is surrounded by intellectually immature individuals, is exposed to a less extensive pool of words, and witnesses primarily how tod- dleers confront the world," he said. Older children have an advantage in being botn before their siblings because they are initially part of a smaller family and have more intense exposure to their parents, Zanjonc said. See SAT, Page 3 By PHILIP LEVY Philip Crane, a conservative Republican Congressman from Illinois, last night condemned President Reagan's tax reform package along with current federal budget deficits, but he came out in favor of other conservative proposals such as the Strategic Defense Initiative. Speaking to an audience of around 85 law students at Hutchins Hall, Crane, also criticized the Gramm- Ruddman deficit reduction plan, and described a tax plan of his own with calls for a 10 percent personal income tax rate. CRANE WAS brought to the University by the Federalist Society, a conservative group of law students. Although organizers expected hostile reaction from liberal law students, the audience response and the questions that followed his speech proved to be fairly tame. Crane began his'speech by saying, "I never intended to be in politics, and I wouldn't recommend it ot any of you." He said he was turned on to politics by Barry Goldwater's presidential campaign in 1964, being impressed with Goldwater's straight- forward manner. In general, though, he criticized politics because "too many politicians try to pander their audience." Moving on to current issues, Crane called Gramm-Rudman ."an ad- mission that (elected officials) haven't got the guts to stand up and do what needs to be done." He said that increased revenue could be obtained with a fairer tax system which would reduce the size of the "underground economy", which consists of business transactions unreported to the gover- See CRANE, Page 5 Crane .., speaks at law school Protestors' charges dropped By STEVEN HERZ and WENDY SHARP An Ann Arbor district court yester- day dismissed charges against ten demonstrators, mostly students, who were accused of obstructing a, police officer during last October's protests of CIA recruitment on campus. The defendants were arrested for blocking a police van carrying several protestors already under arrest for their involvement in the disturbance at the Student Activities Building. Prosecuting Attorney Ron Plunkett said the defendants agreed to either pay $40 in court fees, volunteer at a local homeless shelter, or perform 20 hours of community service. If they fail to comply with one of these op- tions, they can be convicted for con- tempt of court. PLUNKETT said he decided to drop the charges because he doubted whether the defendants would have been convicted. "I think both the University and the city dealt with the persons properly but juries are funny. They're very hesitant to convict people when no one is hurt or no property is damaged," See COURT, Page 5. Daily Photo by ANDI SCHREIBER Sunny day LSA freshmen Mike Lowenstein and Michelle Missaghieh read on the Diag while enjoying Wednesday's warm weather. TODAY- 'Spring' break OICHIGAN STUDENTS leave campus en mov tndafv fr th eha eaehe nf f t It's a dog's life THE FUR Rendezvous sled dog race scheduled for this weekend in Anchorage, Alaska, has been canceled due to lack of snow, Race Marshal Dick Tozier said Wednesday. This is the first time in 40 he said. "I don't know if we can find any money, but we'd like to get a little" - at least $4,000, he said. Fun with computers A TATTLE-TALE computer, programmed to telephone the homes of students who skip school. INSIDE CONTINUED BLACKOUT: Opinion keeps apar. theid in the news. See Page 4. i i I