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 v v -MIL -' (continued from Page 1) 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."