The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, August 6, 1980-Page 3
Local SceneED
LA CK OF A THLETIC DEPAR TMENT FUNDS CITED
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By KEVIN TOTTIS
When Michigan plays Ohio State in Columbus this
November, there's a good chance the Michigan Mar-
ching Band will not be there to cheer the team on.
In fact, there's a good chance the band will not be
playing at any away games this year.
"WE'RE HAVING SOME problems with the
budget for the marching band," Music School
Associate Dean Paul Lehman said last week. "As of
right now there is no money for away games."
Much of the problem facing the band - whose fun-
ction according to Lehman, is "playing at football
games and other athletic events"- stems from the
reported $15,000 the athletic department budgets for
it, which, as Lehman pointed out, is not sufficient to
cover the band's expenses and transportation costs.
Glenn Richter, who resigned after one year as
marching band conductor to become Director of
Bands at the University of-Texas, cited the lack of
athletic department financial support for the Mar-
ching Band as one of his major reasons for leaving.
d may not travel
ATHLETIC DIRECTOR Don Canham was out of increases" in funds. He pointed to transportation as
town and could not be reached for comment on the one of the most difficult costs to handle.
band's dilemma. He left a directive forbidding other If the band did go to Ohio State, most likely it would
members of the Athletic Department from discussing perform at a local high school. Several high schools
the issue, according to Don Lund, associate athletic have volunteered, he said. The band members would
director, then be housed and fed in the homes of the high school
However, a newsletter sent to prospective band members. The biggest cost, however - transpor-
members by Marching Band Conductor Eric Becher tation - would not be taken care of with that perfor-
outlined the football season schedule for the coming mance, Reynolds said.
year - for the Notre Dame and Ohio State games the While in the past, auto companies and other cor-
schedule read "no performance anticipated." porations often contributed to the band, the current
Yet, Director of Bands H. Robert Reynolds said economic situation prohibits it, Reynolds added.
yesterday there is still a chance the band could go. "The auto companies don't have money to send
"We're working on it," he said. "It's going to be more marching bands around when their own people are
painful for the band not to go to Ohio State" than out of work," Reynolds said.
other away games. In the past "if the athletic depar- THE BAND SHOULD not have to struggle to raise
tment wanted us to go to other away games, they sent funds every year, Reynolds said, adding he regards
us," Reynolds explained. "Ohio State has always this period as an exception.
been part of the package." "I don't think it's the band's responsibility to make
REYNOLDS SAID part of the problem comes from money for all its own expenses," Reynolds said.
the fact that "costs have been escalating faster than See 'M', Page 5
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Veterans
attending
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of financial
aid options
By JOYCE FRIEDEN
Many University students face the
problem of obtaining financial aid,
making yearly, monthly, and
sometimes even weekly treks to the
Financial Aid Office to make ends meet
during the school year.
But there is one group of University
students which goes through other
channels to obtain financial help - the
approximately 800 veterans who have
served in the Army, Air Force,
Marines, and other armed forces since
World War II.
UNIVERSITY Registrar Larry Katz
said the University veteran population
is very "stable" academically. "The
veterans we have enrolled are very
career-oriented," said Katz. The
majority of them are here full-time,
and looking at their overall drop-add
record, it is evident that they are set in-
to their individual programs."
Veteran's Representative Angie
Wild, herself a veteran of the Vietnam
War, explained the benefits of the GI
Hill, which benefits 600 University
students according to records for win-
ter term. Wild said veterans must have
served at least 181 days of active duty
and must have been out of the service
only ten years or less (barring special
circumstances) to be eligible for the
program, and must be going to school
full-time
The student veterans receive mon-
thly payments of anywhere from $241 to
$351, although the payments could be
higher, depending on the number of
dependents they have. Veterans with
service-related disabilities receive ad-
ditional compensation, Wild said.
See VETS, Page 6
THE BASE OF a newly-erected windmill towers over the Turnup Green garden site on North Maple Rd. The windmill,
purchased with a grant from the Ann Arbor Area Foundation, brings water to the only waterless Project Grow plot.
Project Grow cultivates
talent oflocal gardeners
By ELAINE RIDEOUT "Well over one-third of our members never had a garden
Ann Arborites who participate in the nation's largest before," Project Grow Director Ken Nichols stated. "It's a
non-profit gardening program do so for varied reasons - ex- fun, educational experience - but it can also be a lot of
perience, social gains or necessity - but according to one work."
group spokesperson, every gardener makes money. NICHOLS EXPLAINED that waiting lists at the 11 gar-
Jeff Fricke, who tends two 25' x 30' plots in the Ann Ar- den sites have been long this year partially because -of the
bor-Ypsilanti Project Grow program, said the average gar- recent recession. "During a recession, people are more
dener can produce an average of $200 in produce. serious, the gardens fill faster, and, asa rule, they are tended
"I EXPECT TO can 200 quarts of tomatoes by summer's better," he said.
end," he said. "I'll have about 100 pounds of onion plus. Project Grow participants, according to Nichols, come
watermelon and canteloupes - and it all has cost me less. from a large cross-section of people. "Mostly you'll find
than two dollars." families and their kids, but we also serve organizations, in-
The local gardening project, which recently received cluding mental health groups from University Hospital, the
renewed backing by City Council, provides over 650 garden
plots to nearly 2,200 people. See PROJECT, Page5