Official is liailson between [U' and capital By MARK GINDIN Daily staff writer Most major universities with a vested int( the activities of the federal government ha time offices in Washington. The Univer Michigan has Thomas Butts. As a former director of the Office of Financ Butts carried much expertise in the area of aid to Washington, where Congress and the Pr are re-examining and adjusting almost ever: aid program. But his job does not stop ther also working with key officials and testifying Congress in the areas of research contracts sciences, and other University related interest BUTTS RECENTLY returned to the Univer ter serving as U.S. deputy assistant secre education for student financial assistance, a responsible for grant, loan, and work-study pr for higher education students. University President Harold Shapiro forme formal group to discuss budgetary matte federal government involvement, and it wast to send a person to Washington. Thomas Bu deemed the logical choice and left for the earlier this summer. He now spends most of t there, often returning to Ann Arbor to b weekly committee meetings. The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, August 12, 1981-Page 5 There are ways to cut the fat from a patient, as the Reagan administration is trying to do, while keeping erest in the patient alive, or one can'cut in such a way that the ve full- patient doesn't live, Butts said. Butts said he was sity of helping to guide the federal knife to keep the "patient"-in this case higher education-alive. ial Aid, BUTTS SAID THE Reagan administration has student made special changes in the federal guaranteed stud- esident ent loan program, making the loans available to y federal fewer students, because in the past several years the e. He is GSL program has had steadily escalating costs. before If the goal of the government is to help those in health need, Butts said, and if government plans to cutback s services, the needy must be cared for while programs rsity af- are being cut back. The financial needs test for GSL tary of applicants with family income above $30,000 arose Lnd was from that dilemma, he said. -ograms Another Reagan proposal was to eliminate the government subsidies of .student loan interest rate, d an in- Butts said, but objections arose about the burden that 'rs and the change would have imposed on the student. A five decided percent origination fee, deducted automatically by Itts was the lender from the loan amount, was the com- capital promise agreed upon, in this way the cost to the his time government will be reduced without a substantial rief the burden to the student. The fee will take effect 10 days See OFFICIAL, Page 9 Selective Service names to be posted WASHINGTON (AP)-Selective Ser- vice announced yesterday that the names of young men who have registered for the draft will be posted in their communities in the next few days. Selective Service Deputy Director Brayton Harris said that the posting is required by law. THE LISTS of registrants born in 1962 and the first three months of 1963, who have registered as of June 1, have been sent to state selective service directors, Harris _$aid. He said the lists will be posted in county court houses, city halls, or other public places, with the decision up to the state director. The lists of registrants born in 1960 and 1961 are not yet complete and will be posted later, he said. Harris noted that interested people can contact state selective service directors to determine the location of these lists, which are divided by local draft boads, generally one to a county. Flash flood Daly rnoto by PAUL ENGSTROM A man looks on as pedestrians stroll through an unexpected torrent at Fourth and Liberty Streets after the Federal Building's sprinkler system overflowed onto the sidewalk and into the street. Four killed, 27 injured in commuter train crash BEVERLY, Mass. (AP)-A com- spokeswoman for the Boston & Maine muter train filled with homeward- Railroad. bound sunbathers collided head-on "COMMUTER TRAINS always get yesterday with a freight train, killing priority." she said. "This one freight four people and injuring at least 27. train was on the tracks at the wrong - "We have four dead and possibly time. The reason why is under in- three more trapped in the wreckage," vestigation." said State Police Sgt. Gerald Tully. One passenger car was lifted 60 feet "We don't know if they are dead or atop the locomotive. The car, its front alive." end ripped open, took the full brunt of HEAVY CRANES were brought in to the crash. The commuter train was separate the twisted wreckage as being pushed by a locomotive. rescuers searched for other victims in Four injured were admitted at the wooded seacoast district about 17 Beverly Hospital for treatment of miles northeastof Boston. "multiple injuries" and 18 others were The four-car commuter train, headed being treated for minor injuries, said a FEA TU south from Gloucester to Boston with 70 hospital spokeswoman who would not passengers, emitted a long warning identify herself. whistle and then collided with "I was in the middle of a lovely CO ( a locomotive towing four cars north- reverie," said passenger Linda Wood- ward from Salem, witnesses said. ford, 36, of Boston. "But when they The trains were sharing the same stood on the whistle and then let go and track because of construction work, ac- locked on the brakes,, ktiy.we were cording to Gloria Stone, a going to hit something."