The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, May 25, 1982-Page 3 LIBRARY SWITCHOVER PROMPTS RE-EVALUATION By4 Picture University reality by chairman a feasibilit But Ch,, yesterday start issui been mz ministrato made unt: study som THE Ei sity's ides prompted University a new typ will use "t ts. The modificati identificat sity was anyway, decided t adding ph time. The lib 'U' considers picture ID CHARLES THOMSON tifies borrowers by the holes punched in the plastic cards; a bar code system identification cards for would identify students and faculty students could become a through a system of vertical stripes, November, according to the similar to the Universal Product Code of the committee conducting system employed in supermarkets. ty study of the issue. The library is planning to start thtame deisononwetherito operating the new computer system in L, PSH T thai a deciuei o w ethe yt January 1983, and will begin issuing UNVERSO ing picture IDs has not yet adhesive bar code strips to faculty ade by University ad- members after July 1. it yrs. The decision will not be BECAUSE OF the technical dif- il his committee finishes its ficulties involved in putting bar code etimebeforeSeptember. stickers on student IDs, such XAMINATION of the Univer- modifications to the student IDs now in ntification card system was circulation would come "much closer to by the recent decision of the time we start the new system," said library officials to switch to James Cruse, director of circulation for e of computer system which the Graduate Library., bar codes" to identify studen- Price, who is the director of ad- e change will require a ministrative systems and financial on of some sort to all student analysis for the University, said the ion cards. Since the Univer- main quesiton about the new cards is k> going to change the cards the price. "Obviously, it's more expen- said Price, administrators sive to have an ID card with a picture, UNIVERSITY IDENTIFICATION cards o examine the possibility of than without," he said. tify borrowers in the library's new compu otos to the cards at the same James Thomson, a member of Plice's will no longer serve a purpose. A Universi hew the ID card should be changed and w rary's current system iden- See COMMITTEE, Page0 ea photograph. card HIGAN soon will carry a bar code to iden- ter; the holes punched in each card ity committee currently is studying hether the new version should have Nuclear disarmament supporters meet at 'U' By SCOTT STUCKAL The nuclear freeze movement is popular and suc- cessful because it makes the issue of disarmament easily understood by simply saying that the way to stop the nuclear arms race is by stopping arms, ac- cording to Jane Phifer, co-chairperson of the Washtenaw County Nuclear Freeze Committee. "People are getting up and saying, 'enough is enough,' our lives are at stake," Phifer said this weekend at a nuclear disarmament conference at Rackham Auditorium. The conference brought together most of the groups in southeastern Michigan opposed to the nuclear arms race. SINCE DECEMBER, Michigan disarmament groups have circulated a petition urging that a proposal be placed on the November ballot that, if passed, would require the state legislature to pressure Congress to end the nuclear arms race. Phifer said, "We are going to arrive in Lansing Wednesday with well over 300,000 signatures" when the petition is presented to Michigan officials. Reagan administration comments on the possibility of winning a limited nuclear war helped convince people of the petition's value, she said. The Washtenaw Freeze Committee and other peace organizations are preparing for a demonstration June 12 in New York when the United Nations holds its second special session on nuclear disarmament. The demonstration, which half a million people are expected to attend, is designed "not to mobilize governments, but to mobilize people," Phifer said. RELIGIOUS groups against the arms race had a strong presence at the conference. Judith Erb, national coordinator of the Episcopal Church's Arms Race Task Force said nuclear disarmament "is not a question of politics, it is a question of spirituality." According to Erb, nuclear arms are part of the issue. "What we are talking about is the nature of evil," Erb said. "If we stop nuclear arms, chemical warfare may follow." University Physics Prof. Daniel Axelrod, one of the conference organizers, stressed the need for the disarmament coalition to be broad-based and nonsec- tarian. He said that the movement will become broader by recognizing the interconnections between other social issues such as the plight of American blacks. "Blacks were cannon fodder in Vietnam," said Axelrod, commenting on why blacks in the 1960s aligned themselves with the peace movement. "Today they are still paying for (the military) with their jobs," he said. to colleges reach new high NEW YORK (UPI)- Cash gifts to American colleges and universities hit a record $4.23 billion in 1980-81, rising above $4 billion for the first time, the Council for Financial Aid to Education said yesterday. Harvard University got the most, $90.9 million, with Stanford University second at $79 million and Yale Univer- sity third with $58.3 million. The gifts to all colleges and univer- sities came from foundations, in- dividuals, and corporations. The total ran 11.3 percent ahead of the previous year's donations. However, the hike was outpaced by the 11.8 percent rise in the Consumer Price Index for the year RAH LEWIS covered by the council's survey. Council President John Haire said the 11.3 percent increases ran ahead of the 9.8 percent growth in the Higher of the Education Price Index. Haire said, however, that the schools had a real dollar increase in the money gifts. 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