The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, June 8, 1982-Page 3
DEVELOP 'ACTION PLAN' FOR FIGHTING AlD CUTS
Students to battle budget
By BILL SPINDLE
Special to the Daily
YPSILANTI- Lobbying, voter
registration, and other methods will be
employed this fall in an effort to fight
financial aids cuts, said student
representatives from 15 state colleges
who met this weekend at Eastern
Michigan University.
Students attended a "statewide
strategic planning workshop," spon-
sored by EMU's student government, to
discuss how to effectively lobby against
cuts in federal support to student finAn-
} cial aid programs.
THE WORKSHOP was designed "to
tell people how to lobby, how to
mobilize support of students and voters
back home," said Dave Taylor, EMU
student government vice president.
"The main purpose is to develop an ac-
tion plan for students to use when they
get back to campus to fight for financial
aid."
Congressmen Carl Pursell (R-
' Plymouth) and William Ford (D-
Taylor) addressed the students, along
with several representatives from
educational organizations.
The students hope to protest aid cuts
more effectively by establishing a
communications network between the
state's colleges, according to Taylor.
AN ORGANIZED effort by students
is necessary, said Richard Miller,
executive director of the President's
Council of State/ Colleges and Univer-
sities.
"We have a tendency to think that all
we have to do is say 'We're higher
education, here we are, you (state and
federal government) should support
us,' " Miller said. "That's just not they
way decisions and allocations are
made. We have to accept the fact that
we are an interest group competing
with other interest groups."
In an afternoon "brainstorming"
session, students attempted to come up
with as many ideas to fight aid cuts as
possible. Those ideas then were conver-
CARLA DEARING (gesturing) makes a suggestion on how to increase student voter registration at Saturday's finan-
cial aid workshop on the campus of Eastern Michigan University.
ted to plans that can be initiated as soon Registering students to vote in an ef- Participants suggested letter writing'
as students return to campus. fort to elect public officials sympathetic campaigns to influence political
"RATHER THAN coming up with a to higher education also was cited as a leaders.
lot of great ideas and then setting up high priority. "We're going to draft a letter to
another meeting to discuss them, we "We did a lot of work on voter students and encourage them to do the
left with something to do," said Jerry registration that is really going to be same and write lawmakers in
Curtis, EMU's student government big (in the fall)," said University of Washington to protest aid cuts," said
president. Michigan representative Carla Mark Halsted, an EMU representative.
Students agreed that the major Dearing, an LSA sophomore. THE GROUP emphasized that other
stumbling blocks to organizing a strong JULIE Krzeminiski, a representative schools needto be involved for the drive
protest were student apathy, a shortage from Central Michigan University, to be successful.
of funds, lack of understanding among said, "We are going to register a lot of Dearing said that the 15 schools at-
students on the urgency of the problem, students to vote and, hopefully, a lot of
and red tape. students will show up on election day." See STUDENTS, Page5
Playgirl hopefuls turn out seeking overexposure
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consisting of Playgirl Talent Coor-
dinator Linda Horwitz, her assistant,
Taylor Barnes, and Playgirl Photo
Editor Alison Morley will make the
final selection.
Today, the women will be scouting
the city and the University campus for
possible shooting sites. All shooting will
be done tomorrow and Thursday.
IN A REQUIRED interview, the
hopefuls were asked why they want to
appear in the magazine, how they feel
about posing nude, and how sincere
they are. Each applicant also had a
barechested photo taken prior to the in-
terview.
According to Taylor, the interview
and the picture count equally. It is also
important, she said, for the males to be
sensitive and willing to cooperate with
the photographer.
"They have to be pretty intelligent to
see what we're trying to do," she ex-
plained. "We're very blase and real
friendly," Taylor said of the actual
shooting. "We try to make them feel as
comfortable as possible."
"IT'S VERY respectful," Taylor
said. "We're not trying to exploit
anybody."
The women, who interviewed last
week at Ohio State University, will
leave Friday for the University of
Wisconsin. "We picked schools we
thought were indicative of the Big
Ten," Horwitz said, adding they were
particularly looking for schools in
college towns.
Twice as many men auditioned at
OSU, Morley said, attributing the
larger turnout to the fact that OSU was
still in regular session.
"EVERYONE WE picked was real
flattered," Morley said of the OSU
models. "They were surprisingly easy
to deal with for a first shoot."
Morley said the males who showed up
yesterday were comparable to those
who interviewed for the Ivy League
spread Playgirl did a few years ago.
"These guys really didn't seem clear
about it and wanted to be convinced
about it," she said. "I didn't want to
convince them. It's a very personal ex-
perience."
THE GROUP was also quite varied,
she said. "They were either real
reticent or they were real gung-ho, I-
want-it-bad."
Morley said the nude shots are done
in the presence of only the three women
and usually take no more than five
minutes.
"They guys at OSU who we shot said
they were glad we did it so quickly
because they had lost a lot of sleep,"
she said.
ALTHOUGH some were more ap-
prehensive than others, most of yester-
day's hopefuls expressed no objections
to posing nude.
"I figure I run around town with little
running shorts on, so it would be the
same to run around town without shor-
ts," said Mark Gibney, a - political
science graduate student.
Kris Smith, a business marketing
senior who came from Michigan State
University for the interview, had
similar sentiments. "It seemed like
something to see and try," he said.
"You just sit on the beach with a little
bathing suit on and it doesn't seem like
toomuch of a difference."
SMITH ALSO had an added incen-
tive. He said his mother told him she'd
buy the isue if he made it in.
Jeff Plagenhoef of MSU came to Ann
Arbor at the suggestion of his
girlfriend. "I'm kind of apprehensive
about it," he said of posing nude, "but I
still have time to change my mind."
"If I didn't think I would do it, I
wouldn'thave driven so farwhen I have
a final at 7:45 in the morning,"
Plagenhoef added.
For other centerfold hopefuls like
Andy Huffman, a graduate engineering
student, it came down to plain and sim-
ple economics.
"To be honest," Huffman confessed,
"my roommate game me $15, and if I
make it into the top eight, he'll give me
another $15."