I Page 2 --The Michigan Daily - Thursday, February 19, 1987 Shapiro returns for Regents meeting IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press reports By REBECCA BLUMENSTEIN Although University President Harold Shapiro is officially on sabbatical until March, he will be presiding over today's monthly Board of Regents meeting. . Shapiro didn't make the special trip to Ann Arbor in January because he was in London. Because he is spending the last part of his two-month leave in New York, he is back to help the regents handle a packed agenda. While Vice President for Aca - demic Affairs and Provost James Duderstadt has served as interim president during Shapiro's absence, he did not preside over last month's meeting because he is not a board member. The amount of material to be discussed today is indicative that Shapiro is back. On the agenda is a proposal to increase University residence hall and family housing rates. Average increases of 6.3 percent for residence halls and 5.4 percent for family housing apartments have been officially recommended to the regents. Both the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs and the Michigan Student Assem - bly are scheduled to present their annual reports to the regents. During the public comments section of the meeting, students from the recently-formed United Coalition Against Racism are expected to crowd the Regents Room to express concern over racism at the University. Regents (Conntinued from PaaI I comparable housing would be a sible. The Medical Campus Master PI by the Board of Regents in 1980, tire complex as an expansion hospital. Anthropology graduate student ley, a spokesman for Terrace resid( trayed that the University would1 to consider fate of lmost impos- housing without replacing it at such a critical ' time. lan, approved He said that if the units are destroyed, 50 0 cites the en - people will be without homes and may be o zone for the forced to "leave town" to find comparable hous - s ing. Gerald Hunt- Huntley, who has lived in Ann Arbor since ents, feels be- 1968, said it saddens him to see the city's ex- a be destroying pensive housing force the poor out of the com- a 'U' Terrace munity. "It isn't a U Terrace matter at this point," he said. He said the resident who would be forced out of their residences would find other housing n Ann Arbor, thus exacerbating the housing shortage. Huntley said that in 1980 when the plan was approved, the current housing shortage was not anticipated. Program to give credit for six-week African trip (Continued from Page 1) villagers and see first-hand how Africans live. "You grow closer to the people by being with the people," she said. Students will spend the first four weeks traveling and the remainder of the trip in Benin, the group's home base. While in Africa students will meet with government officials as well as people from academia. There are also special events in Africa when the group will be there, including an arts festival in Dakar and a festival on the African origins of American blacks in Gambia.. CAAS is now accepting applications for the six-credit program. The costs are $1,625 for travel and $2,500 for all other expenses. CAAS hopes at least 15 students will partake in the program, but there is no fixed upper limit. The program is open to all students. A knowledge of French is helpful but not required. Applications are available at the Center for Afro-American and African Studies at room 200 of the West Engineering Building and are due April 10. Senate committee votes to halt U. S. aid to Contras WASHINGTON - The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 11-9 yesterday to halt U.S. aid to Nicaragua's anti-government guerillas in the first major test of sentiment in the new Congress toward the Contras. However, even supporters of the measure passed by the Democratic- controlled committee conceded it will be vetoed by President Reagan if it eventually passes the Senate and the House. "I think we have the votes and I doubt that we can override the veto," said Sen. Claiborne Pell (D-R.I), chairman of the panel and an opponent of Contra aid. No action by the full Senate is likely for several weeks, he said. The vote came after more than three hours of debate in which both sides repeated their arguments favoring or opposing the program. Druse attack Beirut hotel BEIRUT, Lebanon - Druse gunmen hurling grenades stormed the Commodore Hotel and drove out Shiite militiamen yesterday in one of the fiercest fights of a four-day battle for control of Moslem West Beirut. Both sides ignored threats by Syria to send in troops with shoot-to- kill orders unless Shiite and leftist gunmen stop their struggle for domination of the city's Moslem sector. Syria supports all the factions involved. Pools of blood splattered the lobby of the seven-story Commodore, once the headquarters of foreign correspondents. Rockets punched huge holes in its walls before the assault, and many air conditioners were blown away. Wildlife dies in refuge RENO, Nev. - Federal workers in boats and on shore yesterday picked up some of the 1,500 birds that died along with 3 million fish at -a wildlife refuge where the water has become a "chemical sink," according to one scientist. The U. S. Fish and Wildlife workers planned to burn the birds late in the day to prevent them from contaminating other wildlife, said Ken Merritt, assistant manager at the Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge 60 miles east of Reno. He said nothing is being done with the fish. The fish probably were victims of the increasing salinity of their evaporating lake and of natural and manmade poisons, said Dick Navarre, a fish biologist with the Fish and Wildlife Service in Reno. Study reveals no evidence for use of lie detectors CHICAGO - A two-year study by the Depatment of Defense so far has found no evidence that lie detectors would be useful in screening. employees in sensitive positions, says a congressional report due to be released shortly. The Department of Defense, which was authorized to screen 7,000 people during the last two years as part of the Counterintelligence= Scope Polygraph Te st Program, has screened 3,993 people and has not collected the information needed to know whether the tests were accurate, said Denise Dougherty of the congressional Office of Technology Assessment, which prepared the report. I Staff retirement threatens speech program (Continued from Page 1) this program, their application will be returned to them with a letter stating that this department has been placed under moratorium." Students in the division are trained to treat disorders such as hearing impairment and stuttering. Levine said she was also upset about the way she learned of the moratorium. "I found out via a student who knew an undergraduate who had her application returned with this letter. My heart dropped, because I had not heard a peep from anybody that there was even the potential for this to take place. None of us knew it. It hit me like a piece of lead. "(Department chair Kenneth Watkin) realized that rumors were going around and felt that it was his responsibility to let us know the scoop," she said...1-.,._ School of Education Dean Carl Berger said the students may have misinterpreted the development. "A moratorium means you have stopped admissions for a period of time. It doesn't mean you've made a final decision. They are obviously worried that the department could close, so perhaps they took the executive committee has examined every single program in the School of Education as early retirements come up. Instead of just placing people differently, we question if we should reallocate our resources." Edith Szabo, the last student admitted to the program before the A moratorium means you have stopped admissions for a period of time. It doesn't make a final decision. program, which Levine estimated has 25 students, supplies three communication disorder clinics. "The sad thing is that if our department is closed down, there are no clinicians. There aren't going to be any students to provide therapy," Levine said. "There will be no need to have these clinics around, because there's not going to be any manpower. Where are the people in Ann Arbor - and the University faculty and student body - who need our services going to go?" Berger said it is too early to make predictions about the fate of the program. "The notion of a moratorium on enrollments is not unusual. We've set enrollments since 1984. We may reopen it with an increase or a decrease, or we may decide to shift our resources elsewhere, but that is a very long process and we haven't made that decision yet." Berger would not speculate on when the decision will be made. - Carl Berger, dean, School of Education more negative possibilities," he said. Berger said the catalyst for the moratorium occurred when a faculty member retired early, upsetting the balance of teachers to students in .the small department. "Our moratorium was imposed, said, "They told us the School of Education had a budget cut over the past five years of 40 percent. I guess they were looking to cut us." Levine said she is worried that if the moratorium leads to the department's elimination, not just students will be affected. The Public Notice Michigan Student Assembly 1987-88 Election March 17th and 18th Positions Available: Name of Position: Number of Positions: MSA President 1 President-Vice President MSA Vice President Slate MSA LSA Representative 9 MSA Rackham Rep. 4 MSA Engine Rep. 2 MSA Business Rep. 2 MSA Medical Rep. 1 MSA Art Rep. 1 MSA Architecture Rep. 1 MSA Law Rep. 1 MSA Natural Resources Rep. 1 MSA Nursing Rep. 1 MSA Pharmacy Rep. 1 Board for Student Publications 1 Graduate (2 year term) Board for Student Publications 1 Undergrad (2 year term) Appications Available: Friday, February 6th Applications Due: Friday, February 20th 5:00 p.m. Michigan Student Assembly 3909 Michigan 763-3241 PIRGIM's future unsure (Continued from Page 1) PIRGIM through a refundable MSA fee. Both questions will remain on the March ballot. The funding system which gains the greatest student support will be presented to the Board of Regents for approval. "The real problem we have is that this will confuse students," said PIRGIM member Wendy Seiden. "The same people basically supported 'Save PIRGIM' and 'Kill PIRGIM'." She said the group will try to explain to students the options they are voting on before the election. KRAUS SAID that students are unaware of the problems with a positive checkoff system. "It's to- tally misleading for them to look at that question and answer it not knowing the consequences," he said. "There are only four PIRGs left in the country that remain on this positive checkoff system, out of hundreds of PIRGs. They all die." MSA President Kurt Muenchow agreed that the ineffectiveness of the positive checkoff system has been statistically proven. "It doesn't work after two or three years," he said. "However, it seems to be the most straightforward and fair me- chanism possible." Muenchow said a positive checkoff system would not force PIRGIM off campus. "I think PIRGIM will do what they should have done in the first place - force the regents to vote on the (funding)," he said. PIRGIM has sought MSA's support since November, when the regents indicated that they would not support a refusable fee for PIRGIM funding. The student-run environmental group collected 16,874 student signatures last year to confirm student interest, but the regents did not feel the petition drive obligated them to support the group. EXTRAS Party reputation, Playboy invite embarrass school MACON, Ga. - Officials at Mercer University, already blushing over the "party school" accolade bestowed on the Baptist institution by Playboy magazine, are hoping students won't take up Playboy's latest offer. Playboy announced last month that Mercer, which doesn't allow drinking on campus, made the ninth-highest spot on its list of top party colleges. Last week, the magazine said it would seek models for its annual back to school issue in October from the top 10. "I think we have a fine population of bright young women, and I would not anticipate what their response would be," Emily Myers, vice president for university relations and development, said. "We would hope they would choose not to be interested." She said school administrators were "totally surprised and shocked at the listing, as I think most of the students were." The selection, based in part on other students' votes, "might have been a sort of prank" by students at other schools in Georgia, she said. California State University at Chico was number one on the list. If you see news happen, call 76-DAILY. 01 be 3ic .t XCV -Na. Vol. XCVIl -No. 100 14 4 14 GO FROM COLLEGE TO THE ARMY WITHOUT MISSING A BEAT The Michigan 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. 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