4 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Monday, October 3, 1988 Growth Continued from Page 1 budget assigns $844,220 to the office in the coming year, more than four times its initial allocation in 1987. * The budget itself has doubled to $490 million since 1980, and the University has hired more financial administrators just to keep tabs on it. Other factors include a new University phone system, a stronger General Counsel's Office, and improved communication and public relations. Also, said Regent Veronica Smith (R-Grosse Ile), "A new position is created every time you plan a new policy." The student discriminatory acts policy is one and We Vad~q CWt681U4 example, she said. But some of the growth has been to accommodate students. The technology boom has made computers more accessible, and records can be kept more efficiently. Many of the increases in minority recruitment efforts, in part, have been responses to student demands. AND THOUGH Greer's outlook - that administrative growth can only hurt students - is common among student leaders, some say it may have positive effects as well. Senior Barbara Eisenberger, president of the LSA Student Government, said more officials means more people working in specific areas. "I've found it helpful to go to deans and assistant deans who handle one problem," she said. Others say administration can be helpful under certain circumstances. Senior Cathy Kilborn, president of the student Engineering Council, said bureaucracy "makes things get done faster when someone can say,'I put my foot down.' I don't think there's any resentment toward that." Some faculty budget watchers have refused to comment on the issue because they say the statistics, compiled from Affirmative Action Office reports, can be misleading. The definitions of "faculty" and "administration" are changing, they say. "The implication is that the University is growing at the expense of the faculty," said Dentistry Prof. Richard Courtney, a member of the Committee on the Economic Status of the Faculty. "I'm not sure I buy that right now." THE FACULTY numbers include full and part-time professors, assistant and associate professors, clinical teachers, lecturers, and instructors. The administration includes top executive officers, as well as positions like the director of housing food services. The figuresdonot include faculty or administrators at the hospital, Flint, or Dearborn campuses. Other faculty members say the management increase isn't noticeable in their departments. "I can't say the University is more administratively efficient than it has been in the past," said CESF member Sam Meisels, an education professor. "Perhaps it is, but it doesn't communicate that to the average faculty member." University officials have studied this issue for years, without much success. In 1978, Shapiro, then-Vice President for Academic Affairs, created a committee to compare growth in faculty and administration. The committee's 46-page report drew no clear conclusions except that the study was difficult to perform. The issue will probably emerge again. CESF chair Lawrence Root, a social work professor, brought the issue up to CESF at its last meeting, and said it will come up again during this week's meeting. THE TRENDS are hard to analyze. But despite some ambiguity in the statistics, the 22 percent increase in administration reflects more than misleading statistics, or increases in computers and telephones. It shows that the University is concentrating its people into areas beyond the classroom - areas most students and teachers don't usually think about. Some say the changing trends can only help the University, because they provide strength in many departments, and help the University respond to societal and governmental needs. Others say the University has to go back to the basics, and concentrate more on teaching and learning. The trends, they say, are discouraging. 1 I Code Continued from Page 1 professor of genetics. "We have to rethink the whole policy." Smouse said that although he ap- proved of the concept of having a. policy on discrimination and ha- rassment for faculty members, "this is not the document we want." "In our very honest urge to do something about discriminatory ha- rassment on campus, we have gone overboard," he said. Revisions of the interim policy will be discussed at the October as- sembly meeting. The full policy will go into effect after "sufficient time to give attention to the con- cerns raised," said Swain. The University's current proce- dures to enforce discriminatory ha- rassment cases vary. Cornerstone I_ IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports e* Estonians demand reform TALLIN, U.S.S.R. - Members of an Estonian nationalist group accused the Kremlin yesterday of sapping their republic's resources and demanded that Moscow give them greater control over their land and- economy. Thousands of supporters cheered the speakers at the first congress of the fledgling People's Front. "We have been reduced to the level of slaves in a manor," farmer Enno Peets told more than 3,000 delegates. Some speakers objected to what they called the Kremlin's "colonialist" policy, which they said syphons off Estonia's agricultural output and. manufactured goods. The People's Front, formed in April, says it does not challenge the authority of the Communist Party and is not interested in breaking away from the Soviet Union. But some members say privately that their ultimate goal is independence. Church challenges closing DETROIT - St. Ignatius Catholic Church celebrated 40 years of existence in a poor neighborhood Sunday as church leaders pledged to fight an archdiocese proposal that would close it and 42 other inner-city churches. The church was named Wednesday as one of 43 to be closed, dealing another blow to a decaying city losing people, business, and institutions. St. Ignatius would merge with a church 10 blocks away. The shakeup affects about 10,000 Roman Catholics. All the churches are in Detroit except for one in the suburb of River Rouge. The Rev. Anthony Helinski, pastor of St. Ignatius, concluded Mass by. saying he has responded to the archdiocese's proposal with a letter of appeal. "We are disappointed with the report," Helinski said, quoting the letter. "We find it inconsistent with previous archdiocise directives." Shuttle comes home today EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE - The Discovery is to return home today from a four-day, one-hour flight, landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California at 12:33 p.m. EDT. The shuttle will swoop across California's coast at 4.37 times the. speed of sound, slow to subsonic speeds and drop at a steep angle before landing. As result of the Challenger disaster which killed six astronauts and one school teacher, changes have been made to eliminate mechanical and heat- caused brake damage, improve steering to provide better control in crosswinds or if tires blow out and prevent bending of main landing gear axles caused by brake overheating. Thus far, no problems have been reported by the astronauts during pre-landing testing of flight control systems. Unexplained accidents plague Navy, Air Force jets WASHINGTON - The Navy and Air Force, each puzzled by an unexpected increase in accidents this summer involving high-performance jets, have failed to find a common thread to explain the mishaps, officials say. From a historical standpoint, the current accident rates for Navy and Air Force fighter and attack jets are not out of line, officials say. Indeed, the Navy is actually enjoying one of its all-time safest years for aviation. Both services have launched careful monitoring campaigns because of accident spurts involving the Navy's F-14's and the Air Force's F-16's. Officials say several of this year's F-16 accidents involved pilots who lost consciousness as a result of fast aerial maneuvers or who became disoriented and lost track of where they were. The Navy hasn't detected any equipment problems, either, but has made no change in pilot training. EXTRAS Baring-all bull blows in wind, back to closet EASTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Many Eastford residents consider themselves country folks, so town officials decided they could cope with the bull that came out of the closet. A cast-iron bull on a weather vane was hidden in a closet for more than 15 years because one official thought it looked too much like an anatomically correct bull. City official James Whitehouse found the weather vane last spring and had it mounted on the town office building. "This is country, not the middle of the city," he said. But others thought the bull too explicit. "Up close, it's very apparent it's a bull," said Edwin Cooper, a local writer. 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