The Michigan Daily - Friday, October 24, 1986 -Page 3 Levin blasts *U.S. tax reform Fall Specials: convertible desk bed & student bed rolls A GREAT LAKES FUTON " comfortable for knees and elbows " firm, all cotton support " no squeaky springs - portable " folds into a couch - covers available 205 N. Main St. " Ann Arbor. 663-2202 By MANALI DESAI U.S. Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich) blasted the tax reform bill yesterday, saying that it is senseless legislation. Speaking before an audience of about 100 students at Lorch Hall, Levin said, "It makes no sense to me to raise taxes on folks here by closing tax loopholes, raising corporate taxes, and using it for anything other than the largest deficit we have had in history." LEVIN SAID he opposes the tax bill for several reasons. He accused the government of collecting revenue from people who pay the minimum taxes and then "using the revenue for uneven tax cuts instead of deficit cuts." He also said the new bill raises taxes for one out of five people while cutting funds. for food aid programs and education. "We cannot justify, in my good conscience, tax cuts in this kind of deficit environment," Levin said. Levin also feels that raising corporate taxes is "going to make us less competitive in the world where we already have a huge trade deficit." Levin, who was elected in1978 and re-elected in 1984, is known for his aggressive stand on opposing the tax reform law and the Strategic Defense Initiative. DURING HIS 90-minute talk sponsored by the Michigan Economic Society, Levin supported the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act and limited drug testing laws, but advocated trading SDI for an arms control agreement with the Soviet Union. In defense of the Gramm- Rudman-Hollings Act, Levin said voting for anything less "than across-the-board cuts is doing nothing." The Senator said Congress and President Ronald Reagan were deadlocked on the issues of protecting domestic programs and the defense build-up and voting for Gramm-Rudman "was the best way to get out of it." Levin advocated spending more money on domestic programs, closing tax loopholes, and imposing duty on imported products to reduce the $2.3 trillion deficit. In a talk given earlier yesterday to Political Science 417, The Legislative Process, Levin said that the Iceland summit meeting between Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev brought disarmament talks to a new level, where the possibility of eliminating nuclear arms is becoming a reality. He said that although he is pleased with the progress, he would compromise SDI to eliminate nuclear weapons. /e$44 - apparel " jewelry - accessories - - - 325 e. liberty - ann arbor, michigan - 995.4222 1st Anniversary Celebration! f DAILY Photo by JAE KIM U.S. Senator Carl Levin speaks at a meeting of the Michigan Economic Society yesterday. Professors debate freedom of research V. '- I By MARTIN FRANK The proposed guidelines for classified research should make all research results publishable and available for public inspection, proponents of tighter guidelines said yesterday at the second of three forums on the University's research policies. Dissenters said, however, that such a limitation would impinge upon academic freedom for researchers who would like access to- classified material. Those researchers could not do the research because the sponsor does not want it published, they said. UNDER THE proposed guidelines, researchers cannot engage in research that would allow the sponsor to classify material. Students, faculty, and the public participated the debate, called "The Responsibility and Openness of Research," held last night at Rackham amphitheater. Thomas Juster, director of the Institute for Social Research, maintained that openness, which would require publishing research results, would not hinder academic freedom because sponsors who want projects done at the University would not require results to be classified. The Univerity does not want sponsors that cannot adjust their policies to meet the Univerity's standards, he said. OPENNESS also ensures that researchers would not engage in projects that can kill or maim humans, said Juster. This clause is in the current guidelines, but has been omitted from the proposed guidelines.' Philosophy Prof. Carl Cohen disagreed with this view. Researchers are denied their opportunity to do research because either the sponsor requires them to classify some material or their results cannot be published within one year's time, as required by the proposed guidelines, Cohen said. An example of the such a scenario is political science Prof. Raymond Tanter's project, which would have studied alternative methods to arms control. It was rejected because he needed access to classified information and the results could not be published within one year after the funding period has expired. UNFAIR JOB ADVANTAGE: A KINKO'S RESUME. Stand apart from the crowd with a sharp-looking profes- sional resume from Kinko's. kink's Open 24 Hours 540 E. LIBERTY 761-4839 i~'U~IENJOY THI' CELEBRATION SPECIAL CHICKEN $8.95 LUNCH OR DINNE BEEF 8.95 BEGINNING SEPTEMBER 26t SHRIMP 9.95 THRU OCTOBER 1S L. R A RESTAURANT & BAR 326 South Main Street . Ann A bo M ichign 48104 * 663 ssss e MARC dep't boasts flexibility r (C or school. Continued from Page 1) MARC courses are cross-listed with other departments. The program encourages students to take courses in the various LSA departments and University schools such as music, art, and law. The only requirement is that students take courses relating to the medieval period or the Renaissance. "I love it," says MARC major Leslie Bodden. She added, however, that one drawback of the program is the small selection of relevant courses. BODDEN, an LSA junior, said the program's plusses include a trip to the Newberry Library for Renaissance Studies in Chicago, a with another concentration, according to Mermier. "I am the one who encouraged them. One major gives them a solid background, and a MARC background gives them the ability to focus on an avocation simply for their interest." The MARC department received a grant in 1975, a year after it began, from the National Endowment for the Humanities. One hundred fifty students enrolled in the program that year and many lived in a 'MARC house' in the Law Quad. BUT TIMES have changed for MARC. When the grant expired, the program's enrollment declined. Last year five students were declared the new core courses will "give a coherence to the other courses" that concentrators take. Concentrators would be required to take four core courses, two on medieval times and two on the Renaissance. "The core courses will vary constantly from year to year," Mermier said. "I want to keep the flexibility, while still giving an identity to the program." Last week the LSA curriculum committee approved the new requirements. Mermier said the proposal's final hurdle is to get Steiner's approval. "Is the dean willing to honor his committment? I think he is a man of his word," Mermier said. If the new requirements do take effect, Mermier will be required to find two senior professors to teach the core courses each semester. MARC is exclusively an undergraduate program. According to Mermier, the University is probably the only college in the nation that has an undergraduate program on medieval and Renaissance times without offering a graduate program. "It is bad because there is no continuity in what we are doing," Mermier said. The University has always been reluctant in considering a grad program, Mermier said, adding that failing to provide a graduate program "is a grave mistake." n 'I hope no med. school looks at me and says, "Don't let her in, she's a MARC major."...I don't think it will mark against me, but if it does, I'd much rather be a MARC major than a doctor.' -Leslie Bodden, LSA junior - - - $2 .A A "l Shows Befo -e 1214 S. 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But MARC has a unique problem because it must rely on other departments for cross- listed courses. "Fewer and fewer courses on the medieval and Renaissance periods exist in other departments," Mermier said. Last year Mermier and Fraser asked LSA Dean Peter Steiner for more funding. "We were a program without significance," Mermier said. "We were other people's classes. "I said to the dean- I need vou to BLOOM COUNTY OH NO-. a' Sponsored by Counseling Services 76-GUIDE An anonymous, confidential. peer counseling phone-line.