The Michigan Daily/New Student Edition -Thursday, September 6,1990- Page 15 ,_. I CITY Continued from page 1 ding payment based on the percen- tage of time spent on University in- cidents and a weighted formula with costs based on land area, property value, percentage of crime on Uni- versity property, workload, and stu- dent and staff population. The options ranged between $537,471 and $3.2 million in costs for the University. Schleicher said the city could provide 27 officers for less cost than the University estimates its own 24 officer force would be. "I would much rather settle it that way," he said. City officials also disputed the claim that response time is slower for incidents on campus. "It must be admitted that the University of Michigan received a similar level of service as the rest of the Ann Arbor citizens when one examines average response time for calls of service by response code," said council member Ingrid Sheldon (R-Second Ward). According to figures provided by Borgsdorf, the average response time for calls on University property was less than those for calls on city property, except for incidents of the lowest priority level. The regents'-action establishing a parking violations bureau has pre- sented the city with further diffi- culties. Currently, payment for tickets is- sued on University property are collected by the city. However, this will soon become the responsibility of the University. The city will lose approximately $500,000 to $600,000 generated by parking tickets on University pro- perty. The University hopes to have the Parking Violations Bureau in place by January 1991, said Walter Harrison, executive director of University relations. "To have such a significant amount removed from our budget is to increase the difficulties which the city faces in the short term," said council member Ann Marie Coleman (D-First Ward). In response to the $1 million cut from the city's budget, council members unanimously passed a reso- lution at their July 2 meeting establishing a citizen committee to investigate "alternative fees" for the University. Proposals include placing taxes on student tuition and football tickets. Mayor Gerald Jernigan - a University employee - and council member Liz Brater (D-Third Ward) - whose husband works for the University - abstained for possible conflict of interest. The 11-member committee will report on its findings by December. The University, however, is not extremely concerned yet. "Most of the things they are suggesting are outside state law," said Harrison. . "The state would have to'pass some kind of enabling legislation - and that's not very likely," said Coleman. -- Daily Staff Writer Mike Sullivan contributed to this report. CAMPUS Continued from Page 1 nances and laws is handled in two ways," said Assistant Ann Arbor City Attorney Tom Blessing. He explained that the city code can be applied by an authorized agent, like the Ann Arbor Police, or another agent can apply for authorization, through the Ann Arbor Police. "I don't believe they (university police) would have the authority to issue a ticket under city code," Bless- ing said. A University police force, Bless- ing said, "would have to go through the Ann Arbor Police Department in order to continue under city code. If the University elects not to en- force city ordinances like the $25 marijuana fine or the Zone of Repro- ductive Freedom ordinance, it may effect one campus institution - Hash Bash. "It won't prevent us from having our rallies," Rich Birkett of the Na- tional Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) said, "but it could make it rougher on those who use the opportunity to do a little public smoking." Birket suspects the Regents ap- proved plans for a police force with the marijuana law in mind. Harrison denied the accusation. "Frankly, it (deputization) is not be- ing put in place to enforce marijuana statutes." JOSE JUAREZ/atly 'Pied Piper "University alumnus Mario Casanova filled the Diag atmosphere yesterday with some light musical notes. !' -- IENN STATE Gontinued from Page 1 nia statement, Penn State President Biyce Jordan said, "Penn State's in- clusion in the conference is consis- telt with the Council of Ten's,an- nounced mission of athletic reform, particularly issues of academic in- te ity. 4 enberry declined to elaborate on the council's vote, saying only that the. Nittnay Lions received at least seven of the council's 10 votes. Cojierence bylaws state that a two- thirds majority is necessary to ex- pand the Big Ten. { The presidents also voted to adopt a four year "moratorium" on any fur- their expansion or divisional play. V0 amoratorium was imposed unan- ously. Ikenberry said, but can be lifted by a 70 percent vote of coun- cil., . The Des Moines Register re- ported in its June 5 editions that Michigan, Michigan State and Indi- ana voted against the expansion. Michigan State and Indiana officials would not comment, but Executive Director for University relations Walter Harrison said, "Now that the decision has been made, we welcome Penn State into the conference." Delany, who will take over "expediting the process" of integra- tion, said competition with Penn State could begin as early as fall 1991. "They can notify us within 12 months of the date of a particular conference championship," to be in- cluded, Delany said. "My assump- tion would be that the first champi- onship '91, '92 could see Penn State as participants, both individual and team, if they notified us within a 12 month time frame," he said. But Delany added Penn State will probably not be integrated into the revenue sports of basketball and football until the mid-1990s. Foot- ball will probably remain with an eight game conference schedule, he said, although seven and nine game schedules are also possible, and competition could begin as early as 1995. Ohio State University Athletic Director Jim Jones said the confer- ence should have no problem chang- ing it's football schedule, which is set until the year 20004. In the long term, Jones said, "schools, rather than have contracts, have letters of agreement." Delaney said basketball competi- tion would begin in the mid-1990's and the double round robin format in which each team plays every team in the conference would be retained, although the format could be changed if the NCAA goes ahead with its plan to reduce schedules to 25 games. The decision to remain at 11 schools came as a surprise to many who believed the presidents would also announce their desire to expand the league by one more team to a to- tal of 12. That would have eased scheduling problems and allowed the conference to divide into two divi- sions to cut travel costs and the number of required regular season basketball games. The NCAA allows a 12 team conference to split into divisions for a 10-game double round robin sched- ule, but a 108or 11 team conference must play 18 of 20 games in order to retain its automatic bid in the NCAA basketball tournament. Until full integration occurs, De- lany said, the relationship between Penn Sate and the Big Ten will be "revenue neutral" - dollars earned by Penn State will be maintained as its property, and Big Ten revenues will be distributed among ten mem- bers. After integration, Penn State revenues will be added to the Big Ten pot, to be divided 11 ways. The announcement ended five anxious months for Penn State. a I T 1 4 b I. M' ' Y4 I, 4,. V (KELP OUTI( OF REACH OF ChILDREN) Don't write for the Michigan Daily. You don't really want to be a news reporter for The Michigan Daily, do you? You don't need the aggravation involved in interviewing University President James Duderstadt, Senator Carl Levin, or President George Bush. You don't need the embarrasment of having everyone in your residence hall cafeteria talking about your story on a proposed code of non-academic conduct. And who would ever want to write a breaking story when the new Cheers episode is showing? Now don't let anybody sucker you into writing for The Daily's Arts page either. Oh yeah, you'd get the chance to talk to entertainers such as Sidney Poiter or Robin Williams, but surely you'd rather talk to your Physics teaching assistant. And then there's the oportunity to get into concerts free of charge to review them, and to receive free record albums, but you'd probably rather do your reading for Poli-Sci. Perhaps you desire to take photos for The Daily. Don't even think about it. Who wants to be on the sidelines of a football game in Michigan Stadium or at the front of an angry protest anyway? 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After all, look what happened to activist Tom Hayden, Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago journalist Anne Marie Lipinski, author Arthur Miller, and Time Magizine editor Waler Shapiro. They all began to write at The Daily, and have yet to put down their pens. Wouldn't you hate to end up like them? So act now. Avoiding writing for The Daily at all costs. They say any student can just walk into the building, trudge upstairs, and begin to write, even if he or she has no experience, and they say only students manage and edit the paper, but don't get suckered by their claims. It might start with one innocent article. But then you might find yourself wanting to do another. And another. Next thing you know, you'll be doing layouts, and even editing other people's stories. And by the time you realize you're enjoying it, you'll be beyond help. The Michigan Daily. You've been warned! Mass Meeting September 18, 700 p.m.