Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, December 4, 1986 LSA-SG welcomes new council By ANDY MILLS Newly elected LSA Student Government President John Pantowich and the rest of the 17- member Executive Council took office last night as former president- Michelle Tear bade farewell to the council she led for the past two years. The representatives spent much of the final meeting of the outgoing executive council discussing the recent election, which ushered Pantowich and Vice President Michael Nelson into office. Only 1,200 to 1,300 students voted in the election. Co-election director Paul Josephson said one reason less than 10 percent of all eligible voters cast ballots in the election was that many students were working on the Dean Baker for Congress campaign. Instead of getting involved in the LSA elections, he said, many students worked for Baker. He suggested that LSA elections be scheduled for before Congressional elections. OUTGOING Vice President Michael Rolnick blamed poor weather conditions and minimal campaiging for the lack of student participation. "Campaigning this time was poor - fair at best," he said. Rolnick also criticized The Daily's stance on the LSA elections. "There was not no endorsement, but a negative endorsement by The Michigan Daily," he said. "The Daily said to vote 'referendum,' which I thought was stupid." A Daily editorial on Nov.17 called LSA Student Government elections "resume-padding contests determined by which clique of candidates has the most friends." It urged students not to vote for president or vice president, but to vote instead for an overhaul of the system. The outgoing council praised the work of Josephson and his co- election director, Marci Higer. who. spent $550 less than their $3,000 allocation. BEFORE adjourning, Tear told the council that in her two-year tenure, "We completed everything that I planned to do. That makes me very happy." In a short, informal meeting, Pantowich urged the new council to disregard any party affiliations they might have. "We're on council together now. We don't have a SAID party anymore, we don't have an Effective party," he said. As the new council members introduced themselves, they expressed a desire to increase student awareness of the council. Freshman member Debbie Schlussel said the executive council needs to "make LSA a stronger voice on campus." Gov signs emergency farm loan law LANSING (AP) - Michigan farmers who lost much of this year's crop to flood or drought can apply for zero-interest emergency loans under a $200 million plan signed into law yesterday by Gov. James Blanchard. Blanchard proposed the deferred- payment, interest-free loans in the wake of record flooding that swamped Michigan's midsection in September. Farmers counting on bumper harvests to help pay off past debts were forced to watch their crops rot in flooded fields. Meanwhile, farmers in the Upper Peninsula were hurt by a lengthy drought. The state has estimated weather- related agricultural losses at $300 million. The new Michigan law will let farmers apply for up to $200,000 each in 10-year loans, with no payments due until the fourth year. The first loans could be approved after this month, said Blanchard, who termed the program "an unprecedented farm-relief measure." For a farmer to get a loan, the' Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service would have to determine whether a farm suffered a weather-related loss of 25 percent of its total 1986 harvest or 50 percent loss of any one crop. And those eligible for federal disaster aid must first apply for that assistance. Financial institutions will decide which farmers get the money. They will also decide the size of each loan. The cost to taxpayers is the amount of interest lost over 10 years. Blanchard estimates that pricetag at $50 million. Other estimates have been as high as $96 million. Farm Bureau President Elton Smith said as many as 5,000 of Michigan's 16,000 weather-stricken farms could qualify for the loans. Survey says A2 (Continued from Page 1) The Univers by the hospitals that did not respond," slightly higher c she said. overhead is mor The Center for Japanese Studies presents A Brown-Bag Lecture by Professor Griff Foulk Visiting Lecturer of Buddhist ALC UM on ZEN & JAPANESE WORD PROC 12 noon, December 4 COMMONS ROOM LANE HAL hospitals most sity may have subsidize research and teachin ,osts because its costs, Eckles said. re and it has to IN ADDITION, she sai many patients at the Universi Hospital come to the Universil because they need the hospital sophisticated, expensive equipmen "Heart and liver transplantes ca exceed $80,000," she said. "Academic health centers a never going to the cheapest in ti ESSORS nation," said Turck. Right now th University is developing techniqu that will help patients get out t L the hospital in two days insteadc two months. The University Hospital ha expensive ag only a 5.5 percent increase for in- patient hospital charges last year, d, the lowest in the nation, said ty Turck. ty According to the Equicor survey, s Michigan hospital costs jumped It. 12.5 percent last year, ranking the an state third highest in the nation, while the length of the average stay re decreased from 6.9 days to 6.6 days. he Eckles disputed the validity of he that finding, saying that the survey es was given to 72 hospitals in the of state, but only 32 responded. of The Associated Press contributed d to this story. IN BRIEF COMPILED FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS $1 trillion budget not enough WASHINGTON - President Reagan's Cabinet was presented yesterday with the first $1 trillion spending outline in history, a fiscal 1988 budget proposal that the president's chief economist said will be "accompanied with a lot of pain." The pain will come in the form of more than $50 billion in spending cuts and other savings designed to meet the $108 billion- deficit target set by the Gramm-Rudman budget balancing law, said Beryl Sprinkel, chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers. "There is no way to cut back or even restrain spending that doesn't create problems in the various departments." Sprinkel told a conferenced sponsored by the conservative American Enterprise Institute. More detailed information on individual cuts recommended by the president's Office of Management and Budget was being sent to each federal agency according to OMB spokesman Edwin Dale. Poindexter refuses to testify WASHINGTON - President Reagan's former national security adviser, Vice Adm. John Poindexter, refused yesterday to give Congress details of the secret sale of weapons to Iran or the diversion of profits to Nicraguan rebels. Poindexter became the second recently-departed administration official to invoke the Fifth Amendment in declining to answer questions from the Senate Intelligence Committee. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., vice chairman of the committee, vowed that lawmakers would piece together the facts "with or without them," and other committee members said that unspecified Cabinet secretaries will be called to the panel's heavily guarded room to testify. Committee members said they were considering possibly seeking grants of immunity from prosecution for Poindexter and Lt. Col. Oliver North, to secure testimony from both men. Sheriff halts plans to question blacks in white neighborhood GRETNA, La. - Under rebuke, a sheriff yesterday canceled his order that deputies routinely stop and question blacks found in white neighborhoods. Jefferson Parish Sheriff Harry Lee opened a news conference by apologizing to black people and anyone else he may have offended. In announcing plans Tuesday for a holiday crackdown on burglaries, he had remarked that blacks in mostly white neighborhoods are likely "up to no good.", Lee said deputies in his suburban New Orleans parish would; continue to stop anyone they might reasonably suspect of having: committed a crime. Martha Kegel, executive director of the Louisiana branch of the American Civil Liberties Union, said, "For a public official in 1986 to tell black people that, because of their race, ... there are certain neighborhoods that they cannot enter without being questioned is tantamount to advocating apartheid." Crash ends nuclear war test SAN DJMAS, Calif. - A long-awaited experimental brush fire to study whether smoke and dust from an atomic war would trigger a "nuclear winter" was scrubbed yesterday after a helicopter crashed while igniting a test burn. The pilot escaped serious injury, but the accident left in doubt when the $750,000 experiment would be performed. "It's very dissappointing," said Joel Levine, atmospheric chemist for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. "No other experiment will answer the questions we were planning to address. I think everyone's disappointed." The chopper was dumping thickened gasoline to. start a 5-acre preliminary burn when the cable suspending the torch from the bottom of the aircraft apparently snagged on telephone line. The nuclear winter theory proposes that in the event of a nuclear' attack, smoke from burning cities and forests would block enough' sunlight to cause disruptive climate changes, mass starvation and possible extinction of numerous species. Law pleases ski slope operators Ski slope operators around Michigan are applauding a state Court of Appeals ruling that upheld the Ski Area Safety Act, which exempts them from most liability suits for accidents on the slopes. "It's exciting, but it can be a hazardous sport," said James Dilworth, general manager of Nub's Nob ski resort in Harbor Springs. "It's like driving a car. "If you hit something with a car, you're probably going to get hurt," Dilworth said this week. "If you hit something skiing, you're probably going to get hurt." The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission says about 43,000 people are hurt each year in ski accidents. The state's ski, law, which the Legislature adopted in 1981, says skiers themselves, not ski slope operators, are liable for most accidents that may happen to them. Similar laws are in effect in Colorado, Idaho, Massachusetts, Montana, New Mexico and Vermont. Vol. XCVI --No.64 ThefMichigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967 X) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms. Subscription rates: September through April-$18 in Ann Arbor; $35 outside the city. One term-$10 in town; $20 outside the city. The Michigan Daily is a member of The Associated Press and subscribes to Pacific News Service and the Los Angeles Times Syndicate. Sports Editor...........................BARB McQUADE Editor in Chief..........................ERIC MATTSON Associate Sports Editors........DAVE ARETHA Managing Editor...................RACHEL GOTTLIEB MARKBOROWSKY City Editor.............................CHRISTY RIEDEL CK News Editor....................JERRY MARKON AMAMARThN Nean EchE $. 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"It is evident that surveyed employers are approaching this year's recruitment with caution, since they are anticipating a slight decrease from last year's job market for new college graduates," the study concluded. Slightly more than 100 employers said they do not expect to hire any new graduates during the year. Employers with 10,000 or more workers will be largely responsible for the decrease in new jobs, since they are expecting to hire 9.3 percent fewer graduates, roughly 31,100 hires this year compared with almost 34,000 last year, the survey said. "That's quite a cut," said university Placement Director John Shingleton, the author of the study. "They're downsizing, that's the buzzword today in industry." Corrections Evelyn Chipps, secretary to LSA Dean Peter Steiner, told the Daily that yesterday was the dead - line for faculty nominations for candidates to replace William Williams as LSA's associate dean for research. 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