The Michigan Daily-Thursday, October 29, 1987- Page 3 Poll: 'U' grad. schools are in national top ten By KENNETH DINTZER The Michigan football team may be out of the top ten, but the University's graduate schools are ranked with the best. In a poll naming the best profes- sional schools in the country, published in the Nov. 2 issue of U.S. News and World Report, the publication placed the University's law school third, the engineering program sixth and business school seventh. The University's medical school was unranked in this poll. While most University officials are pleased with the University's standings they are ambivalent about competition between universities and the ability to correctly rank institutions. Law School Dean Lee Bollingei said, "I'm skeptical of the ranking idea... it introduces into education an inaccurate idea of what these places are all about... we try to stand for something, to compete against other schools in the popular perception that it may have a homogenizing effect on the schools." Still, he said, the poll is one way to make sure that other people value the things the school does. Associate Law School Dean Edward Cooper questioned the validity of the survey. U.S. News and World Report sent questionnaires to deans from schools throughout the country asking them to list the top 10 graduate schools in their subject, and the more frequently a school appeared on a list, the higher it was ranked. Cooper said, "The poll doesn't tell you much of anything. There are seven schools that should have been on everybody's list. The fact that they didn't each get 100 percent makes the poll suspect." While admitting he is ethnocentric, Cooper said, "We think we're as good as anybody, maybe better." At the College of Engineering the poll was well received. Engineering Dean Charles Vest said, "I'm actually delighted with it. It places us with the top schools in the nation... we've made great strides over the past six-seven years. This gives me confidence that in five years we'll be right at the top." Vest said that the poll will help the school attract top faculty and more research sponsors. Also, he added, "between Michigan and Illinois, it shows that the best engineering schools are not just on the coasts." Joseph White, assistant Dean of the School of Business, said that these polls such help a good school get better. "The improvement process for an institution is you do something well and you get recognized which enables you to do it better... it's a continuous process and we're on the right track," he said. White said, "I think the important thing is that you're in the right company." Local opposition mounts to state depu (Continued from Page l) "If the University is really concerned about protecting students r from crime, they need to work more closely with the Ann Arbor Police Department and put a bigger chunk of the University's budget into Ann Arbor," Bullard said. State Sen. Lana Pollack (D-Ann Arbor) also opposes the bill because she does not see how it would improve campus safety. "I do not know what impact there would be relative to police WTH s i What's happening in Ann A; tization proposal protection on campus. I haven't seen be done with regular police officers," any data from MSU, which has its he said. own police force, that their campus While Pollack emphasized that is more or less safe. I would support she does not see this as an issue the bill if I thought that personal involving individual rights, a city safety would be increased," she said. councilmember disagrees. Michael Phillips, chair of MSA's "I think it's a bunch of bullshit. student rights committee, expressed You don't need two separate police concern with the proposed forces. Proliferation of police forces legislation. is one way to trample on civil and "The things the University says personal rights," said Jeff Epton (D- the bill is good for, we don't agree Third Ward). with. I can't see what campus Heatley said he did not think security with guns can do that can't deputized officers should have any effect on students' right to demonstrate. "If I was a student, I don't know what difference it would make if I was arrested by a public safety --S Tofficer from the University, or by rbor today someone brought in from off- campus," Heatley said. charge rcism (Continued from Page 1) calling semi-finalists, said she left a message for Tilles with a young woman who answered Tilles' phone. Tilles, however, said she lives alone and can account for all of her actions on the day in question. After missing the forum at Rick's, Tilles asked to place her name as a write-in candidate, which the committee chairs disallowed. Hester and Clore demanded that UAC present a clear criteria for evaluation of candidates in next year's forum. United Coalition Against Racism member Pam Nadison said, "It is good to see a member of the University community feeling com- fortable in stepping forward and pointing out a racist practice, but perhaps UAC should reexamine the whole practice in light of the recent awareness surrounding sexual ha- rassment." A family tradition for over37years nay LOP CHRYSLER PLYMOUTH "ANN ARBOR'S LOCAL CHRYSLER PLYMOUTH DEALER" LEASE FOR LESS THAN ..TCOSTS TO BUY Rent-a-Car CHRYSLER 'ALL SIZES & MODELS CUSTOMIZED LEASES 662-3175 INDIVIDUAL & FLEET MAJOR CREDIT CARDS DAILY - WEEKLY -"MONTHLY RENTALS QUALITY USED CARS LOW RATES... CALL & COMPARE 2060 W. STADIUM BLVD. ANN ARBOR SEE YOU TODAY! 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