The Michigan Daily Vol. XCII, No. 16-S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Wednesday, May 26, 1982 Ten Cents Si*teen Pages Officials visit 'U to update Title IX data By BILL SPINDLE A team of federal investigators is on campus this week to update its October 1980 study of the University athletic department's compliance with Title IX regulations, the University's affir- mative action director said yesterday. The investigators, from the Depar- tment of Education's regional Office of Civil Rights, are in the process of con- cluding their report on whether or not the athletic department discriminates against women. THE TEAM is updating the infor- mation it gathered in a full-scale in- vestigation of the athletic department 20 months ago to assure that its data is still accurate before releasing its fin- dings later this summer, said one Office of Civil Rights official. The results of the study, originally expected in early 1981, have been delayed by the federal government as it tried to coordinate its investigations of several universities in different regions of the country, said Mary Francis O'Shea, the director of the post- secondary education division of the civil rights office. The investigators here this week will be looking at new policies the athletic department has adopted and new facilities that have been added since the comprehensive investigation in 1980, said Virginia Nordby, the University's affirmative action director, who has been working with the investigators. ALTHOUGH THE team is here to look at some specific changes in the athletic department, it is also conduc- ting an "across the board" updating of its original data in all areas, Nordby said. "There have been a lot of changes, I'm happy to say. In every one of those areas there have been improvements for the good in women's athletics," Nordby said. Among the additions Nordby noted were a new softball diamond and changes in the Track and Tennis building locker rooms. BEFORE releasing their report, See FEDERAL, Page11 Who me? A questioning face glances up from the day's activities. British fleet attacked in massive air assault From APand UPI A British ship supporting the invasion force on the Falkland Islands was badly damaged in a "mass air attack" by Argentine warplanes yesterday and "is in difficulty," the British Defense Ministry announced in London. It claimed that Britain's carrier- based Harrier jets shot down three of the attacking Argentine Skyhawks during furious dogfights over the war fleet. ARGENTINA'S official Telam news agency said anti-aircraft fire downed two of six Harriers that attacked Stanley, the Falklands capital, but the British said none of their aircraft were shot down. British Defense Secretary John Nott, reporting the latest hit on a British warship, did not name the vessel and said no information Was available on casualties. He said the ship was in the fleet supporting the British beachhead at San Carlos Bay, 50 miles west of Stanley. A British Defense Ministry spokesman said, "rescue operations are in progress." He said the stricken craft was not one of the task force's two aircraft carriers, the Hermes and In- vincible. THE FIERCE sea and air battle coincided with the first British reports of ground combat on the Falklands as its forces pushed south from a 60- square-mile beachhead towards a major Argentine garrison at Port Dar- win and Goose Green. Secretary of State Alexander Haig told President Reagan and others at the White House that the British were ap- proaching the point of bringing the South Atlantic fighting "to an early conclusion." An informed U.S. official, who in- sisted on anonymity, said in Washington that Haig also cautioned the British against attempting a decisive military victory on grounds that such an outcome might not be in the best interests of either Britain or the United States. THE OFFICIAL said Haig and other senior State Department officials believe that a humiliating defeat for Argentina could result in a disastrous setback in U.S. relations with Latin America for the foreseeable future. "Argentina would look for a scapegoat for defeat, and that scapegoat would probably be us," said the official. Argentina said yesterday it would consider an Irish resolution for the Security Council to declare a 72-hour truce in the Falkland Islands war, but Britain said it would veto any cease-fire measure. ARGENTINE Foreign Minister Nicanor Costa Mendez told the 15- nation peace-making body: "My coun- try is prepared to consider the proposal which the Republic of Ireland has seen fit to present." But in London, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said, "There can be no cease-fire without full withdrawal of all Argentine troops." Asked by a lawmaker how Britain Thatcher ...may use UN veto would react if the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution calling for a halt in the fighting, she said: "If necessary we shall have to use the veto." "Our objective is to retake the Falklands. They are British sovereign territory and we wish to restore British administration," she said, hardening the stance her government took during talks on at least seven peace plans following the Argentine invasion.