Page 2 -The Michigan Daily-Friday, November 6, 1987 Rackham has funding worriesIN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press reports (Connuedfrom Page 1) faculty- is not improving. "Once here, (graduate students) won't want to stay without funds. They will apply for the same pool of funds and funding is not increasing," D'Arms said about fellowships. The Rackham administration plans to take steps to determine enrollment due to the availability of funds, if later figures confirm the preliminary registrar count. The first step would involve obtaining departmental information on how to keep classes at a level matched by available faculty and funds. In the past, Rackham made funds available based on enrollment size in each department. D'Arms said the school now wants to stress high student quality when dispersing funds. "If the pattern remains consistent with what I expect it will show, we may do some serious cutting back (in enrollment)," D'Arms said. Despite the overall increase in applicants, lack of financial support may be behind the decrease in this year's class in the economics department. A rule barring graduate students from teaching more than ten terms restricts funding in a depart- ment where teaching assistantships /are the major source of financial aid for economics students, said Mary Braun, administrative assistant to the economics department. "We'd love to give them other funds if we had other funds," Braun said. Lack of funding has other effects - some departments increased enrollment despite getting fewer applicants so that they could fill teaching positions. The biology department, bucking a decrease in applicants, enrolled more students this year. "We need to fill our teaching positions. We depend heavily on teaching assistants for laboratory classes. We don't take in enough Ph.D. students. In the past few years we have been giving teaching assistantships to masters students and those outside the department," said Howard Crum, last year's chair of doctoral admissions for biology. Crum, explaining the decrease in applicants, said, "All biologists feel the University is not competitive. We have a lot to offer, but other schools give more financial aid." M. House approves stopgap spending bill WAHINGTON (AP) - The House approved a stopgap bill yesterday to finance the government through mid- December, postponing an expected showdown on aid to Nicaragua's Contra rebels until the Reagan administration makes a new $30 million aid request in about two weeks. House speaker Jim Wright (D - Texas), said the short-term spending measure's provision of $3.2 million in continued non-lethal aid to the Contras was acceptable to Nicaragua's government and would not upset the Central American peace process planned to start taking effect yesterday. House Republican Leader Robert Michael of Illinois said, "there's going to be plenty of time for fireworks and hassling" when a longer- term catchall spending measure reaches the floor during the week of Nov. 16. That money legislation would carry the federal government through the fiscal year that will end Sept. 30, 1988. Collegiate Condoms, Inc. presents Men's & Women's Contemporary Clothing FINAL 2 DAYS 20%=50% off Storewide ujSALE All denim mini skirts 40% off W - on East Liberty between 4th & 5th - 662-9660 REAR ENDS Protect - a Catch The Wolverine Spirit on the rise With Your Maize & Blue designer condoms Wear Your Colors With Pride ! -Wolverine M r al ow 3 4 weeks for denlivery South African leader freed PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa - Govan Mbeki, a 77-year old leader of the outlawed African National Congress, was freed yesterday after 23 years in prison, saying he still embraces the ideas for which he was jailed. The government also released six other men - four black and two white - who were jailed for politically-related crimes, and banned Mbeki from being quoted by South African media after yesterday. Mbeki's release heightened speculation that other prominent black prisoners such as Nelson Mandela may soon be released. Mandela and Mbeki were among eight senior ANC members jailed for life following 1964 convictions on charges of sabotage. Many black South Africans regard the men, particularly Mandela, as their political leaders. The government has not said why it freed Mbeki, although political observers have speculated that the government either did not want Mbeki, who has been reported to be in ill health, to die in jail or they wanted to impress government critics at home and abroad. Stocks rise despite low dollar NEW YORK - Falling interest rates rallied stocks and boosted the Dow Jones average by 40 points yesterday but fear that the Reagan administration has abandoned the dollar hurtled the weakened currency to record lows. The Wall Street rally came despite a stock slump abroad and Washington's inaction on trimming the budget deficit. "The tension has eased, you've got a lot more people trying to be level- headed," said Richard Wholey, an analyst at the Chicago investment firm of Wayne Hummer and Co. "We're not allowing declines in the dollar and foreign stock markets to dictate which direction we're going to head." Ortega plans to annou ce new moves towards peace plan MANAGUA, Nicaragua - The author of the Central American peace plan said yesterday that only a negotiated truce in Nicaragua will make it work, while the Sandinistas called a rally to hear President Daniel Ortega declare whether one is possible. Ortega returned from a quick trip to the Soviet Union in search of more aid, and planned to announce new moves towards implementation of the peace plan at the rally last night. He gave no hint in advance of what he would say., Yesterday was originally the deadline for implementing cease-fires, amnesties, and moves toward democracy required by the peace agreement. Federal budget talks continue WASHINGTON - Participants in the budget deficit- reduction negotiations traded Republican and Democratic proposals yesterday and said they were plowing ahead, but House Speaker Jim Wright said Democrats couldn't count on success in the talks between the Reagan Administration'and Congress. Sen. Pete Domenici of New Mexico, senior Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, put foward a proposal for compromise and said the talks seemed to be moving along in a full day of meetings. "I'm not confident, but I'm hopeful," said White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker, who said any pessimism at this stage was unjustifiable. Domenici's plan, according to sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity, was designed to reduce the deficit by about $30 billion in fiscal 1988, the current budget year which opened October 1, and about $45 billion in fiscal 1989. It included about $11 billion in tax increases, MAC IN THE MORNING MAC IN THE EVENING MAC AROUND THE CLOCK MACINTOSH CENTER " FULL-SERVICE LASERSETTING " RESUME SPECIALS 540 EAST LIBERTY STREET ANN ARBOR Corner of Liberty and Maynard 761-4539 Lj It k I A I I A You are cordially invited to attend a readingfrom her work, by Michigan Alumna andUHopwood .ward 'Winner Marge iercy £4 EXTRAS This week in music videos... Ahh, Michigan Stadium. It's the site of great traditions, fierce rivalries, strong heroes, and... Nationally televised music videos? Well, there's a first time for everything. This Sunday, at 2:00 p.m., the stadium will become a soundstage and the spectators will be the stars - all to kick off National Alcohol Awareness Week with a "Reach Out and Touch" music video. "University students are welcome," said organizer Keith Bruhnsen, a University faculty and staff assistant coordinator. But will it be more fun than football? Just ask Bo; he'll be there too, Bruhnsen said. "Everyone will be filmed as they hold hands singing 'Reach Out and Touch Somebody's Hand,"' boasts the press release. "The video will air on WDIV in Detroit and nationally as well. Sing along with Curtis Gadson, star of Saturday Night Music Machine! It'll be a happening!" All that, and it's free besides. Aw, who needs football - let's just sell the place to MTV. -Lisa Pollak If you see news happen, call 76-DAILY. eJh Iicigan auiIg Vol. XCVIII - No. 42 The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967 X) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms. 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