0 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, December 7, 1988 'U' standards continue to rise BY JESSICA STRICK The influx of applicants for the class of 1993 has allowed the University to be more selective, but at the same time is forcing the admissions office to "overbook." "The rules of the game have changed a little bit as some schools have become more selec- tive," said University Director of Admissions Donald Swain. The University accepts more students than it can accommodate, gambling that enough will decline to prevent overcrowding. Swain said he generally relies on statistics which show that two out of every three resident and one out of every three non-resident applicants who are accepted, will enter the University. "Overbooking" is just a part of the game of dealing with the numbers and statistics. While Michigan, as one of the top universi- ties nationwide, is able to take the cream of the crop from its 19,000 applicants, other schools, such as Michigan State and Eastern Michigan have had to grapple with their own applicants as well as those that will be deferred or rejected from the Michigan. Swain explained that the way in which stu- dents are admitted causes a "ripple effect." "As our requirements become more selective, some of the people we selected four years ago would not be accepted now, so those people ap- ply to a different group of schools," causing the standards for this second group of schools to shift upward, Swain said. In general, he said, students are being more careful by applying to more schools. While applications are up significantly at other state universities, Swain said that was not the case at Michigan. The University has received about the same number of applications as last year and the first-year class is expected to remain at 4,500. "In 1968 we probably admitted every applicant with a 'B' average and 1000 on the SATs but those people aren't even put on our waiting list now." Today's average first-year student ranks in the 92nd percentile of their high school class, has a GPA of 3.6, and an 1190 SAT or a 27 ACT score, reflecting the dramatic shift in qualifica- tions for admission that has taken place over the past 20 years. Student book group offers alternative BY MARION DAVIS The newly-founded Student Book Exchange-Textbooks for Less orga- nization will allow students to earn more money than they would re- seling their books to campus com- mercial bookstores. Founders of the program stressed their role as a concerned student or- ganization that wants to help stu- dents get the best deal when they are buying and re-selling books. The SBE, started by LSA junior David Krone, held its first mass meeting last night in the Michigan Union and will have a book drive HEALTH 8&FITNESS from January 4-12 in the Michigan League. "Ulrich's and Michigan Book and Supply are owned by the same com- pany, which reduces competition and makes it easy for bookstores to charge higher prices," said LSA ju- nior Steve Bleinstein, a co-founder of the group. "We want to provide used text- books for students at prices lower than those of the bookstores," he said. "We are doing this because we want textbooks to reflect market prices and not inflated prices." Ulrich's general manager Paul Rosser said that when students resell books that will be used in the fol- lowing semester at his store, they will receive up to 50 percent of the original price. Rosser said this book buy-back system allows everyone to benefit: students make a little money, the next term's students pay less for the re-sold books, and the store saves money on postage that would have been spent to order new books. Bleinstein, however, said that when students sell books through his organization, they can eliminate the "middleman" profits bookstores tack onto prices of resold books, thereby saving money. SBE won't actually buy books from students, but rather will pro- vide a marketplace where students can set their own prices and sell the texts. If a book is sold, the owner will receive 85 percent of the asking price, with 15 percent going to SBE. JUST A SHORT WALK FROM CENTRAL CAMPUS " Raquetball courts " Free Weights " Dance studios " Fitness Testing " Excercise bikes " Qualified instructors IENT MONTHLY MEMBERSHIPS- " Nautilus " Two Pools " Gymnasium CONVEN IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports Bush fills top positions WASHINGTON - President-elect George Bush, once more calling on friends and government veterans to fill key positions, yesterday selected Texas oilman Robert Mosbacher to be commerce secretary, said he would keep William Webster as CIA director, and named Washington lawyer Carla Hills as trade representative. Hills, 54, who was secretary of housing and urban development in 1975-77 under President Ford, is the first woman Bush has designated for a high-level position in his administration. Bush also named Thomas Pickering, a career diplomat who is currently U.S. ambassador to Israel, as U.N. ambassador. However, he decided that the post will no longer carry Cabinet-level status. The vice president said he was completing his economic team with the naming of Stanford economist Michael Boskin as chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. Ex-Jackson aide enters race to become Democratic chair WASHINGTON - Ronald Brown, Jesse Jackson's chief operative at last summer's Democratic Convention, entered the race for chair of the party yesterday saying he was seeking the office as "my own man. Brown,who also worked on the presidential campaigns of Sen. Edward Kennedy, Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis, said at a press conference he was an "independent, mainstream progressive Democrat." Brown said he considered himself the front-runner in the race to succeed Paul Kirk, the Democratic National Committee chair. Also running or expected to run for the party post were Michigan Democratic chair Richard Wiener and former Reps. Michael Barnes of Maryland, Jim Jones of Oklahoma and Jim Stanton of Ohio. Instead of philosophy, the ability to run the party machinery would be foremost, the outgoing president of the Association of State Democratic Chairs said. Shuttle mission is successful EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - Atlantis streaked out of orbit and glided to an afternoon landing yesterday after 4 days, 9 hours, and 5 minutes in orbit, as a small band of spectators cheered the five as- tronauts' safe return from a secret spy satellite mission. Yesterday's landing was closed to public viewing. Only a few hundred journalists, NASA employees and invited guests were witnesses. The flight was the 27th shuttle mission and the second since the 1986 Challenger explosion. Anonymous sources said Monday that the astronauts had successfully deployed the $500 million Lacrosse satellite during the weekend, and that it was operating well in an orbit that allows it to make radar pictures of 80 percent of the Soviet Union. The satellite is said to be designed to help American intelligence agencies monitor Soviet compliance with arms control treaties, and also to serve as the "radar eye" for the new B-2 bomber. Patients may have been killed for 'emotional release' WALKER, Mich. - A former nursing home supervisor charged with killing two patients told police her alleged accomplice killed six elderly patients at the home, all but one for the "emotional release" it provided her, according to court documents. Catherine Wood, 26, was charged Monday on two counts of open murder and held without a bond pending a Dec.16 preliminary hearing. Gwendolyn Graham, 25, was arrested on Sunday near her home in Tyler, Texas and arraigned on one count of open murder. Held on $1 million bond in the Smith County Jail, Graham was fighting extradition to Michigan. Walker Police Chief Walt Sprenger said yesterday that six more deaths were being investigated and that more charges against the two women were likely. Sprenger would not discuss possible motives in the case, but has ruled out mercy killings and financial profit. - EXTRAS 'Dangerous' dog ordinance deemed discriminatory All kinds of "dangerous" dogs may soon be banned from the city, or else severely restricted, if a proposed ordinance is approved by the Ann Arbor City Council. The measure, introduced by Councilmember Kathy Edgren (D-Fifth Ward) at Monday night's council meeting, would be Ann Arbor's "alternative to banning pit bulls." "Addressing this problem in a broader sense than just pit bulls seemed the logical way to go," Edgren said. Other councilmembers seemed less enthusiastic about singling out dangerous dogs. Liz Brater (D-Third Ward) commented that dangerous cats would not be affected by the ordinance. "There's a feeling that this ordinance does discriminate against dogs," Brater said. 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