The Michigan Daily - Friday, March 28, 1986- Page 3 MSU moves up application deadline By LAURA COUGHLIN Due to a 43 percent increase in ap- plications, Michigan State University may stop accepting applications for next fall's freshman class about four months early. MSU director of admissions Bill Turner expects to receive as many as 18,000 ap- plications for 6,700 spaces in the freshman class. TURNER said the admissions office may stop accepting applications in April. Although the admissions office receives most of the applications by then, Turner said it usually accepts late applications through late August. Turner predicts that MSU will have to turn away many "fundamentally qualified" applicants because of the increase. The University of Michigan has also seen an increase in applicants, although it is not as drastic as the increase at MSU. Accor- ding to University Directory of Admissions Cliff Sjogren, applications to the University have increased by 40 percent over the last three years. THIS YEAR applications are up 7 to 10 percent from last year. Sjorgren expects to receive about 17,000 applications for 4,400 spaces in the freshman class. Ap- proximately 8,000 of the applicants will be accepted to the University, Sjorgren said. Of the 9,000 who will be denied admission to the University, about 75 percent are fully qualified to do work here, Sjogren said. The admissions office refers those students to the University's Dearborn and Flint cam- puses. Proportionally, the University will refuse admission to just as many students as MSU. TURNER noted that MSU's increases have come largely from in-state students, while the University of Michigan's in- creases came from both in-state and out-of- state students. Sjorgren credits tuition freezes and an improved state economy for the applicant increase at both universities. "We've frozen tuition. This has made Michigan schools much more attractive to the Michigan resident," he said. Both Sjorgren and Turner agree that with increased numbers of applicants, the academic standards at the two colleges will rise. AS a Michigan land grant university we consciously see a role of serving quite a broad spectrum," Turner said. "But in the end I have no' doubt that the increase will lead to a freshman class that reflects rising academic standards." According to Sjorgren, "The number of applicants drives the threshold either up or down, although this year we think there is a corresponding increase in academic quality of the applicant group." Figures from the University of Michigan's admissions office predict that the typical Michigan high school senior admitted to the University will have a 3.4 grade point average and a 25 on the American College Test (ACT). The typical out-of-state student will have a 3.6 grade point average and 25 on the ACT. MSU's typical freshman will come to college with a 3.3 grade point average and a 23 on the ACT. Both Turner and Sjogren agreed that because the two universities are so dif- ferent, comparing their increases it poin- tless. "When you have two major research universities, the fact that both are flourishing is a compliment to the state," Turner said. Honduran army displays Nicaraguan bodies; Ortega condemns aid CAPIRE, Honduras (AP) - The Honduran army displayed the bodies of five Nicaraguan soldiers and dozens of Soviet-style weapons yesterday at this dusty camp about six miles north of the Nicaraguan border.' About 70 reporters, photographers and cameramen were taken to the camp in two Chinook helicopters, flown by Americans, in an attempt by *Lappe defends' Sandinistas (Continued from Page 1) rebels, on the other hand, have an ex- tensive unpunished pattern of human rights abuses, she said. "There has been some press cen- sorship, but there remains a lively amount of debate. The opposition press, however, doesn't choose to support freedom of the press," Lappe said. SPEAKING OF the often discredited Nicaraguan elections, Lappe said U.S. election coverage was inaccurate. "There was an article in the New Yorker Book Review that said the op- position was forced to stay in the elec- tion by the Sandinistas for cosmetic reasons, but I read a letter from the opposition leader himself who said he had trouble keeping people in his par- ty because the U.S. government was bribing them to fall out of the elec- tions," she said. Lappe applauded the Sandinistas for their land reform policy, where landlowners have an obligation to put their land into production. Because idle land can be confiscated, she said, 60 percent of peasants have received more land and 15 times more land is cultivated than during the Somoza regime. In her closing remarks, Lappe congratulated the Ann Arbor com- munity for getting the Central American peace initiative, also kn- Sknown as proposal A, on the April 7 ballot. the Hondurans to prove their conten- tion that up to 1,500 Nicaraguan soldiers invaded their country last weekend. Nicaragua has denied its troops en- tered Honduras, but has said its soldiers are engaged in a battle with rebels near the border. It has said the reports of fighting in Honduras were made to bolster President Reagan's request for congressional approval of $100 million in aid to the rebels, called Contras. LT. COL. Danilo Carbajal Molina said fighting was continuing about six to 10 miles northeast of his camp, but was confined mostly to sporadic en- counters. But Carbajal also said that Nicaragua was reinforcing its men in- side Honduras with MI-8 helicopters. The five dead Sandinista soldiers were laid out in a gulley near the helicopter landing pad. They were shirtless and shoeless and covered with flies. THEY WERE killed within the last 48 hours," said Maj. Miguel Perez, as he walked down the line of bodies, pausing to kick thefeet of each. "They were killed by Honduran troops on our soil not far from here." Honduran military intelligence sources said the rebels killed 200 Nicaraguan soldiers and wounded 150 others as the soldiers tried to return to Nicaragua. Earlier, a Nicaraguan military of- ficial said the army plays a defensive, not offensive role and by policy does not cross borders to pursue rebels. BUT Nicaraguan sources familiar with military developments said that in the past fighting between the army and the Contras had spread across the ill-defined, mountainous border into Honduras. The sources said such incursions go no deeper than several miles. Most of the border area is sparsely populated and lacks clear markings to indicate where one country ends and the other begins. In Washington, the State Depar- tment said yesterday Honduran for- ces were conducting "mop up" operations against the remnants of Nicaraguan forces who crossed the border, and fighting was "tapering off." State Department spokesman Charles Redman said it was not clear how many Sandinista troops remained on Honduran territory following the "deepest, largest most serious penetration of Honduran territory ever."~ For the fourth consecutive day, the Nicaraguan Defense Ministry issued a statement denying that its t ops were battling Contra units inside Honduras. ** * *U* * S Japan Automotive Industry Conference The Japanese Competition: Phase H WHAT WILL BE THE IMPACT OF INCREASED JAPANESE MANUFACTURING HERE IN THE U.S.? FONDERSA . 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