The Michigan Daily-Saturday, May 22, 1982-Page 3
Regents approve
study of Econ.
move to Lorch
Daily Photo by DEBORAH LEWIS
SIDNEY LENS, editor of the Progressive magazine, discusses the recent
growth of the nuclear freeze movement. Lens.is attending this weekend's
disarmament conference at Rackham.
Nuclear freeze drive
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By SCOTT STUCKAL
The current nuclear freeze
movement will become as broad and
comprehensive as the anti-military
movement of the Vietnam war era,
predicts Sidney, Lens, senior editor of
the Progressive magazine.
Lens, who is on campus to participate
in this weekend's Nuclear Disar-
mament conference at Rackham
Auditorium, said freeze supporters in-
clude "a coagulation of both people in-
terested in controlling the arms race
and people being hurt by social
(program) cuts."
LENS ALSO said the military resear-
ch currently being conducted on cam-
pus is "an abomination and a disgrace
to the University."
Student involvement, however, in ef-
forts to stop the nuclear arms race has
not reached its peak, he said. "When
young people are involved, the
movement will grow like prairie fire."
Lens advocates total disarmament of
U.S. and Soviet nuclear weapons, which
he said would require "some form of
world government."
"You have to have disarmament or
the world's going to blow up," he said.
Lens described the Progressive as a
magazine attempting to expose
hypocrisy and secrecy in government.
In 1979, the magazine went to court
when the government prevented its
publication of detailed plans of how to
build a hydrogen bomb. A Wisconsin
judge ruled against the Progressive,
but the decision later was nullified
when another publication ran a similar
article while the case was on appeal.
"We were trying to show the
ridiculousness of secrecy," Lens said of
the case.
Lens will speak today at Rackham on
new directions for the arms movement.
University Physics Prof. Daniel
Axelrod also will lecture on building an
arms freeze coalition.
By BILL SPINDLE
The University Regents approved a
study yesterday that will examine the
cost of using Lorch Hall as a new home
for the economics department.
University Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer James Brinkerhoff
said during the Regents monthly
meeting that Lorch Hall "appears" to
offer the best facilities for the
economics department's relocation.
The department's original home, the
Economics building, was destroyed by
fire last December.
LORCH HALL. however, will require
"extensive" renovations before it will
be ready to house the department,
Brinkerhoff said. The cost of the
renovation project, estimates at $2
million, will be covered by the Univer-
sity's insurance settlement, he added.
Brinkerhoff said the smaller units
occupying Lorch would be relocated to
other campus buildings. University of-
ficials already have proposed moving
the University's gerontology unit from
Lorch to Old St. Joseph's Hospital,
currently the temporary home of the
economics department.
During Thursday's meeting, held at
the University's Dearborn campus,
Regents received a progress report on
the Medical School's medical service
plan, implemented in 1974.
THE PLAN, called one of the most
significant events of the last decade (in
the Medical School)" by Dean John
Gronvall, features a new method of
distributing income from patient ser-
vices. Under the plan, patient fees are
divided between physicians and the
University.
The Regents reacted positively to the
report, although some expressed con-
cern over the plan's ability to control
patient costs.
"It really is the policy of this board to
control (costs)," said Regent Deane
Baker (R-Ann Arbor).
The Regents also heard protests con-
cerning the elimination of synchronized
swimming from the varsity sport
program.
Regent Paul Brown (D-Petoskey)
said yesterday that the matter "should
be looked at again."
State cuts
undermining
'U' says
Shapiro
By BILL SPINDLE
The state's higher education system
may crumble if cutbacks in state aid
continue, University President Harold
Shapiro said yesterday in a statement
to the Regents.
The statement came in the wake of a
$1.3 million state aid cut to the Univer-
sity, announced Thursday by Gov.
William Milliken. It was the third such
cut leveled at the University in the
state's last fiscal year.
"WE CANNOT allow this
deterioration to continue or we shall see
higher education crumble," Shapiro
told the Regents.
Shapiro blamed the reductions on
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Kennedy assassin Sirhan denied parole
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP)-
Californai's parole board yesterday
canceled the scheduled 1984 parole date
of Sirhan Sirhan, the convicted assassin
of Robert Kennedy.
The board of Prison Terms, denying
that it was yielding to public outcry,
said evidence presented at extraor-
dinary hearings showed Sirhan has
made continuing threats of violence
and murder, and probably was
scheduled for parole by mistake in the
first place.
THE PROSECUTOR who fought to
keep Sirhan in prison said the nation
"could breathe a sigh of relief that
Sirhan will remain in prison."
Sirhan's attorney, who broke the
news to the convict by a telephone call
to Soledad Prison, said the 38-year-old
Jordanian immigrant was "despon-
dent," but that he had expected the
decision.
"Let's face it," said attorney Luke
McKissack, "he's a despised person."
GEORGE MEHDI, president of the
American-Arab Relations Committee
who has supported Sirhan's parole, said
in New York he was "shocked and ex-,
ceptionally disappointed ... Sirhan now
is a completely different person than
the Sirhan of 1968."
Under the glare of television lights in
the state Capitol, board chairman Ray
Brown read a statement announcing:
"The Sept. 1, 1984, parole date of Sirhan
Sirhan is hereby rescinded for good
cause."
Brown said the board would hold
another hearing in six months to con-
sider setting a new date for Sirhan's
release.
THE BOARD had been under strong
public pressure to rescind the parole
date, which was set by an earlier board
in 1975. But board members specifically
denied that public opposition was the
chief influence on their decision, which
had been requested by Los Angeles
County District Attorney John Van de
Kamp.
"These are factual issues," Brown
said. "Public outcry was not an issue."
He added, "The factual issues in this
case did not involve an election." He
apparently was referring to allegations
that Van de Kamp, who is running for
state attorney general, had used the
Sirhan case in his campaign.
BROWN SAID the three-member
panel believed that the board that
originally decided in 1975 to release
Sirhan was unaware of violent threats
he has made while in prison.
Brown cited Sirhan's written threats
to kill an author who wrote a book about
him, a prison guard and a prison of-
ficial who received a complaint from
Sirhan that dentists were refusing to
treat him for tooth problems.
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