4 OPINION Wear blue jeans tomorrow! 4 ARTS 5 SPORTS 7 Michigan spikers hope to tame Broncos Big Chief wants to play Cobo, warming up for Paula Abdul Ninety-nine years of editorial freedom Vol. C, No. 24' Ann Arbor, Michigan - Tuesday, October 10,1989 The Mic*2hign' Bo gives Grbac nod over Taylor By Adam Benson Daily Football Writer Now smarting from the desig- nation of being the quarterback in "the worst 24 point victory ever," Elvis Grbac needs a good game to win back the confidence of Wol- verine fans. He will get his chance. Look for Grbac standing behind center Steve Everitt when Michigan's offense takes the field against Michigan State. "Right now, we will undoubtably start Grbac," declared Michigan coach Bo Schembechler at yester- day's luncheon for the media. Grbac looked mediocre in the Wolverines' 24-0 win over Wiscon- sin. The red-shirt frosh did complete 16 of 23 passes for 167 yards and drive the team downfield for a touchdown in the first drive of the second half. That, however, doesn't excuse Grbac from his ugly first See GRBAC, page 8 Surve3 senor the ba by Ian Hoffman ' Daily Staff Writer In 1492, Columbus sailed the' ocean blue. In 1989, most U.S. college se- niors remembered that historical' event, but not all knew the exact' date. In an 87-question, nationwide survey of 696 college seniors re- leased Sunday by the the Gallup1 Organization for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), "significant gaps were found{ in the senior's knowledge of a vari- ety of subjects," according to the study's accompanying analysis. In an informal Daily telephone poll quizzing 10 University seniors on four of the survey questions, the results were no more encouraging. < Only 70 percent of the students answered correctly that the first 10 U.S. Constitution amendments are called the Bill of Rights, and 50 per- cent knew the legend of Prometheus, who stole fire from the gods. Only says lack sics one student was aware that the Emancipation Proclamation "freed" only slaves in the Confederate states. However, on Columbus Day, nine out of the 10 students correctly responded that Christopher Columbus sailed for the New World before the year 1500. Complementing the release of the Gallup survey was 50 IIours, a re- port written by NEH chair Lynne Cheney outlining a detailed core cur- riculum to help prevent college stu- dents from graduating without know- ing "basic landmarks of history and thought." The backbone of the suggested curriculum is 18 hours of Western, American, and non-Western civiliza- tions and their origins. Also included are 12 hours of foreign language, six hours of math, eight hours of natural sciences in a lab setting and six hours of modern social sciences. In an interview yesterday, Marguerite Sullivan, assistant direc- See SURVEY, page 2 Grbac SchembechlerD 'U' plans for speech policy input by Kristine LaLonde Daily Administration Reporter Now that the University's original anti-discrimination policy has been struck down in a federal court, University officials are taking steps to develop new, permanent rules. University General Counsel Elsa Cole said the administration plans to set up three committees - representing stu- dents, staff, and faculty - to advise offi- cials in formulating the new guidelines. Cole said the committees will review the current interim policy, gather infor- mation on the racial atmosphere on cam- pus, and submit suggestions for a per- manent policy. "Part of (the committees') purpose is to gather information about what's hap- pening on campus because there are still Survey:'U' needn't cut out-of-state admissions by Noelle Vance Daily Government Reporter The University should not be forced to reduce the number of out- of-state students it admits, said 41 percent of respondents in a recent statewide survey. The one-question survey of 800 Michigan residents was conducted between Sept. 8 and 18 by the Marketing Resource Group, Inc. of Lansing. Sixteen percent of those surveyed said the University "definitely should" be required to reduce the number of out-of-state students it admitted. But the majority of respondents declared that the University "definitely should not" or "probably should not" reduce their enrollment. William Ballenger, who commis- sioned the survey for use in his sub- scription newsletter Inside Michigan Politics, said, "I don't believe any- Three co mmittees to consult on permanent policy people who doubt that we have a serious (racial) problem at all," Cole said. Shirley Clarkson, assistant to the president, said the University is solicit- ing student groups for representatives to the student committee. The administra- tion has not yet announced which student groups will be selected, she said. However, Michigan Student Assembly Student Rights Chair Nick Mavrick said the University should not create special committees to handle stu- dent input, and ought to use established bodies - like MSA or the University Council - for such issues. "They don't even intend to use the mechanisms that are already -et up and are making mechanisms of their own," Mavrick said. "They haven't consulted us and they won't." MSA's Student Rights Committee is currently planning a forum on the issue, as well as a grassroots educational pro- gram that will include dorm talks and in- formation tables outside of cafeterias. The administration has not decided on a plan for considering the committee's input, Clarkson said, but she added that many people would be involved in the consideration process. A deadline for developing the perma- nent policy has not been set, Clarkson said. The original policy, struck down as unconstitutional in federal court on Aug. 25, was scheduled for review at the University's Board of Regents meeting in December. With the original policy nullified, it will instead be the interim policy up for review at the December meeting. The re- gents may decide to keep the interim pol- icy in place until the permanent policy is proposed. University administrators decided not to appeal the Aug. 25 decision striking down the original policy. The deadline for appeal was yesterday. Cole said the University did not ap- peal in order to "devote our time and en- ergies to developing a new policy." -1 Magazine ranks 17th among nation's best by Kerry Birmingham The University placed 17th in U.S. News & World Report's third annual overall ranking of national col- leges - eight places higher than last year's finish. The study, released yesterday in the Oct. 16 issue of U.S. News, evaluated top universities based on admis- sions selectivity, faculty quality, financial resources, student retention, and reputation for academic excel- lence. However, Director of University Relations Walt Harrison downplayed the ranking's significance. "While it's very important to remain in the top group of schools, one specific poll doesn't matter a whole lot," he said. "We are consistently rated in the top group." The University ranked eighth in the magazine's first edition of "America's Best Colleges" two years ago. In this year's study, Yale University finished first for the second straight time, with Princeton University sec- ond and Harvard College and Radcliffe College third. Rounding out the top 10 were the California Institute of Technology, Duke University, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dartmouth Associated Press University of California-San Francisco virologist J. Michael Bishop toasts to his Nobel Prize in medicine yesterday morning. Cell growth researchers win Nobel Prize SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Harold Varmus says his first reaction was disbelief when he was awakened by a radio interviewer yesterday morning and told he had shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in medicine. "I didn't know if it was a false alarm or they got my name confused, not having talked to anyone directly," said Varmus. "As we say in science, I needed confirma- tion of the information." He and J. Bishop, a colleague at the University of California School of Medicine in San Francisco, won the Nobel for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes. Their 1976 work on oncogenes, which control the growth of cells, helped explain how malignant tumors develop, the Nobel citation said.