Regents to increase in-state students By ANDREW MILLS At its December meeting, the University's Board of Regents approved a proposal to increase the in-state enrollment on the Ann Arbor campus to 70 percent over four years. Currently, in-state students comprise 68.7 percent of the campus student population. For the entire University, including the Dearborn and Flint campuses, the in-state proportion is 72.6 percent. To achieve the 70 percent goal, the University will enroll 100 fewer non-resident first-year students in each of the next two years. At the same time, the University enroll 50 more resident first-year students. University Vice President for Academic Affairs James Duderstadt said this will bring the resident enrollment to 70 percent by 1991. 'Our tax dollars built this school... We want our children to be educated here and stay here.' -State Senator Joseph Conroy (D-Flint) This move by the regents comes in response to protestsby some state legislators that the University was failing to show a preference for in- state students. State Sen. Joseph Conroy (D- Flint), a member of a panel of government officials and regents that addressed the enrollment question, appeared before the regents in October. "Our tax dollars built this school," he said. "We want our children to be educated here and stay here." M ini -van and train collide; 'five die .The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, January 6, 1988-Page 3 Fate of Old Main Hospital to be decided By LISA POLLAK Next week the Administrative Wing of Old Main Hospital will receive its final prognosis - a long- awaited decision from the Uni- versity's Board of Regents on whether to demolish the wing with the rest of the hospital this summer. A report from University Chief Financial Officer James Brinkerhoff is expected to recommend the wing's destruction. Brinkerhoff said yes- terday that "although the board had asked for the wing's retention" at their December meeting, the cost to restore the wing for University use would be an "uneconomical" $3.2 million. The board has considered reusing the wing - the small, main hospital entrance facing Observatory Road - as a University office building after Old Main i s demolished. The destruction of the 62-year- old Old Main Hospital was approved last January, almost a year after the new replacement University Hospital opened. Regent Thomas Roach (D-Saline) said the board felt the wing's empty office space could eventually be useful 'to the University. Th~e structure "also would continue to provide a focal point at the head of Observatory. Visually it would provide a landmark," Roach said. But additional data - including the cost of necessary repairs to the wing's elevators, utilities, and stairs - may convince the regents to approve the wing's demolishnient, Brinkerhoff said. } Though some administrators-have noted the hospital's historical significance, Roach said the desire to retain the front wing did not have "sentimental" motivations.e "A lot of people have' a sentimental attitude about it;" ; he said. "But I don't really think the place has any great historical significance. It served the 'U' well for 60 years - it just got too old and too tired." At their December meeting, the regents awarded the contract for the implosion of the 750,000-square- foot complex to the O'Rourke Construction Company of Ohio. The demolition will cost $8.1 million, Brinkerhoff said. Despite the question of '.the Administrative Wing's fite, Brinkerhoff expects Old Main Hospital "to literally fall in on itself" sometime late this summer when the building is imploded - a process of using explosives, to remove the building's verticle supports. Jack Weidenbach, director, of University Business Operations, said the site will be landscaped and prepared as a future building site for either a hospital or medical school building. Daily Photo by ELLEN LEVY Brrrr ! Juniors Paul Klain and Dave Morsfield attempt to start their car yesterday in the bitter cold near Geddes and Observatory Avenues. It was cold enough that both found it hard to work without gloves for more than a minute or two. GM-beginspubicity campaign Pg( g gl l NEW YORK (AP) - General Motors Corp., determined to end a two-year streak of negative public- ity, began 1988 with a slick media offensive featuring its top executives and its newest production and con- cept vehicles and technology. Acknowledging that GM may have made a communications error when it launched a $40 billion re- building program early in the decade at the expense of short-term profits and sales, GM chair Roger Smith pounded home the message yesterday that the world's largest automaker is no longer a sleeping giant. Smith and GM President Robert Stempel, seated at a podium in front of a wall lined with 240 television screens in the Waldorf Astoria hotel ballroom, opened the largest auto technology show in GM's 79-year history by digging in and facing a roomful of sometimes hostile re- porters. "We couldn't have mounted a show like this two years ago. We couldn't have done it last year. But now we've reached the point where we're ready to make a progress re- port... Now we have proof positive of our determination to continue to lead the industry into the 21st cen- tury," Smith said. Stempel called the three-day invitation-only show, expected to draw more than 14,000 visitors from the media, Wall Street, government and GM itself, a "show-and-tell" that's "letting our products show what's been accomplished and letting our people tell the story." General managers of two GM divisions accepted awards yesterday for their products. U.S. votes against Israeli deportations r v z KENTWOOD, Mich. (AP) -" A crossing near the downtown Kent- lice said. The railroad crossing has mini-van and a train collided yester- wood, located on the southeast bor- warning lights and bells but no day afternoon in southwestern der of Grand Rapids. crossing gate. Michigan, killing five people in the Kentwood Police Chief Terry Police said a sixth person in the van and critically injuring a 19-year- Tobias said blowing snow may have an, the driver, was thrown from the old woman, authorities said, obiscrdtheowaring lightsayavte vehicle after it was hit by the train. o woanaut rites si .obscured the warning lights at the Mistic Filley, 19, of Wyoming, Kentwood police weren't releas- intersection, but said it was uncer- was in critical condition with multi- ng the names of the dead pending tain what role, if any, the wintry ple injuries at Metropolitan Hospital ositive identification, police dis- conditions played in the accident. inuries RtpMetopoin spital atcher Joseph Merriman said. The van was traveling eastbound in Grand Rapids, nursing supervisor Maureen Meyers said. Doctors were The accident occurred shortly after on 36th street and was struck by a preparing Filley for emergency 4 p.m. at a Chessie System railroad northbound, 33-car freight train, po- surgery, Meyers said. Sunday. (Continued from Page1) The resolution also says the de- portations would violate the 1949 Geneva Conventions on the treat- ment of civilians in occupied ter- ritories. That document says: "Individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied ter- ritory... are prohibited regardless of their motive." Israeli soldiers fired on hundreds of Arab rioters yesterday who could not be dispersed with rubber bullets, tear gas or water cannons, killing one and wounding eight, the army reported. An army spokesperson in Tel Aviv said an unusually violent crowd in the Khan Younis refugee camp pelted soldiers with rocks and bottles at midday. He said the|Is- raelies used tear gas, rubber bulets and fierce jets from water cannons before resorting to live ammunition. "There were hundreds of demon- strators, and they were especially4vi- olent, that's why so many got hut," he said, speaking on condition: of anonymity. -: :5: :: ss: :s : :: :s ':;:; ;sue:ss :s:::: :::::' ::::::::.::.:.:.:::::.::::::..:*:::2:**::::.:.::: : ....:.::::::::::::::.::::::::::::.::.:.....::.::.::..:.:.:.::......:.$:::: City approves stricter housing code Now Leasing for Fall '88 All apartments convenient to campus Evening and Saturday Hours By MELISSA RAMSDELL The Ann Arbor City Council voted unanimously in favor of a tighter city housing code at its Dec. 21 meeting. The revised code, effective next month, is simpler in language and more clearly defines the requirements for property owners than the old one. Councilmember Kathy Edgren (D- Fifth Ward) said the new code will require the city's Housing Inspection Bureau to investigate every tenant complaint. In the past, Edgren said, the inspection bureau has delayed action on tenant complaints and referred tenants back to their rentors. The new code will make the inspection bureau decision process more accessible to the public. As a result, the bureau will continue to be more accountable for its actions, Edgren said. The old housing code called for an inspection of all Ann Arbor residences every two years. "In reality, we were inspecting every three years," Edgren said. The new code extends the Day shelter opens today inspection cycle to two and a half years in order to ensure that the job is performed more thoroughly. Jack Donaldson, director of the city's Building Department, said the council chose to eliminate the inspection of single family residences occupied by the owners and concentrate instead on rentals because there was not enough staff to carry out the inspections. "We have never inspected owner-occupied housing. It was never a priority of any of the councils," he said. The new policy also sets up stricter rules for maintenance. The maximum amount of time a landowner would be given to make a non-hazardous repair was reduced from one year to six months. In most cases landowners are given 30 days to do the work. The previous housing code had not been revised since it was passed in 1969. In the spring of 1985, the city UNIVERSITY LUTHERAN CHAPEL Epiphany Service, Jan. 6,9:00 p.m. observing the "Visit of the 3 Kings" 1511 Washtenaw, 663-5560 council appointed a committee of both tenant and owner advocates to overhaul the existing policy. Donaldson, who was a technical advisor to the committee, said he is satisfied with the new code. "Once we get it into effect and start applying it, we will see if there were any oversights that need to be amended," he said. KINKO'S HAS KODAK DISKS single-sided 5.25"-99o double-sided 5.25"-$1.19 single-sided 3.5"-$1.79 double-sided 3.5"-$2.29 KINKO'S OPEN 24 HOURS 540 East Liberty 761-4539 1220 South University 747-9070 Forest Terrace, Ann Arbor The Lion, Ann Arbor The Abbey, Ann Arbor Carriage House, Ann Arbor Arbor Forest, Ann Arbor Park Plaza, Ann Arbor Albert Terrace, Ann Arbor And others... 1i (313) 761-1523 543 Church Street Ann Arbor, MI 48104 (Continued from Page 1) and must pay rent. ' Shelter staff and volunteers will assist the women with educational needs, training, and job placement, Zick said. Susan McGee, director of Safe House shelter for battered women, called the creation of the home "a step in the right direction." "This [home] is very desperately needed," she said, adding that the lack of shelter space, as well as the affordable housing crunch, often forces women to leave the county or continue living in dangerous situations. Safe House, which offers victims of domestic violence a place to stay while they attempt to relocate, took in 279 women and their families last year, McGee said. The shelter has had to extend its 30-day limit for residents who could not find other housing. -ADMISSION FREE- TO THE THIRtD FLOOR... Students say lofts dangerous in the LW f rn the. - nI I where. thei Ro W1 (Conunuedfrom Page 1) Dedrich did not say whether or not she personally approved of lofts, but she did give some hints on how to avoid loft accidents. She suggested keeping phones and alarm clocks up In tI eUL Uo s0I1 w LI ed1 e CC Hy could easily be reached. She also recommended sturdy ladders, thick carpet on the floor, and that sharp objects such as desks and chairs should be removed from the area. 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