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Democrats 'disgusted'
with GOP TV ad
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats
reacted with disgust-and some badly
disguised glee - yesterday to a
Republican television commercial which
attempts to credit President Reagan
for a Social Security benefit increase
made in accordance with longstanding
law.
"Big lie," scoffed Democratic
Chairman Charles Manatt in response
to the TV ads that began running
Tuesday.
"The Republican Party is betting a
multimillion-dollar ad campaign that
they can lie to the American people and
get away with it," added House
Speaker Thomas O'Neill (D-Mass.).
"I DON'T KNOW what everybody's
complaining about," said Republican
Party Chairman Richard Richards.
"We've just created a nice little com-
mercial."
That "nice little commercial" has
become, overnight, the political cause
of the summer and possibly the keynote
of the fall elections. It features a gran-
dfatherly actor dressed likea postman,
who boasts that "I'm probably one of
the most popular people in town... I'm
delivering Social Security checks with
the 7.4-percent cost-of-living raise that
President Reagan promised.
New Geography Program
may replace old department
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"Better little than nothing," said
former geography Chairman John
Nystuen. "(But) it's no substitute for
the department."
"IT'S VERY painful and very sad (to
see the department die)," said former
geography Prof. John Kolars, now with
the Department of Near Eastern
Studies, "but I think we can go on. I
wouldn't say we're done yet."
"I think it will be a good program,"
Kolars said, "but it will be considerably
less than what we had before."
But, while most professors like the
idea, at least one expressed dismay at
the administration's willingness to
close the department and then create a
new program in the same field.
"IF THE department was so lousy, if
the individual (instructors) were so bad
that they had to destroy the depar-
tment, why the hell have a program?"
asked former geography Prof. Samuel
Outcalt, now a professor of geology.
"The administration is inconsistent,"
he said. "My long-term view is that I
don't think you'll see a geography
program (at the University) in five
years time."
Outcalt said he doubted the Univer-
sity would be able to attract many
geography students to a school that has
already downsized its geography
department to a program.
HE ALSO criticized the program for
having only one non-tenured instructor.
He said that the program's teaching
would lack vitality when made up
almost entirely of older, tenured
professors.
Vice President Frye, however,
defended the idea of the program. "I
place great value on our junior
colleagues and I understand his (Out-
calt's) point," Frye said yesterday.
"But to argue that any program
(taught) by tenured professors is a
dead program'" is unfair.
"It looks to me that given the circum-
stances that we have discontinued the
department, that Dr. Kish's committee
(the special faculty group) has done a
fine job" of creating an alternate way
of studying geography at the Univer-
sity, Frye said. He said the program
would probably be able to offer "as
good a concentration as was offered"
by the original department.
NYSTUEN criticized the proposed
the proposed program for having no
course offerings for graduate students.
"The graduate program was the best
part of the geography department. And
that's gone now," Nystuen said.
Frye said the administration has no
plans to resurrect a graduate-level
Today
The weather
Hot and heavy once again, today's weather will continue to resemble a
microwave oven. Highs will be in the stifling 80s, with humidity offering lit-
tle relief to Ann Arbor. Q
Bagging a title
ALTHOUGH STORIES ABOUT vagrants impersonating royalty have of-
ten been portrayed on the stage and screen, a blue-blooded bag lady was
discovered this week in Miami Beach. Yvonne Mary Henderson, who has
remained penniless and homeless for years, turned out to be the daughter of
a British nobleman. The 6-year-old Henderson had claimed her father was a
titled diplomat, even while scrounging the streets for food, but authorities
did not believe her. Now an investigation has revealed that Henderson ac-
tually is the daughter of Sir Herbert Phillips, a former high official in the
British Foreign Service. Henderson was accustomed to a life of luxury and
apparently is heir to money in banks around the world, but until recently she
suffered a nearly complete loss of memory. "I only know that my name is
Yvonne Mary Henderson," she said, "My background is impeccable."
Police in Miami Beach said that Henderson was hardly the traditional bag
lady. Her clothes, they said, are always clean, and her accent and manners
properly British. ih
Happenings
Films
CFT-The Amityville Horror, 3 & 7 p.m., Night of the Living Dead, 5:15 &
9:15 p.m., Michigan Theater.
Cinema Guild - The Sevei Samurai, 8 p.m., Lorch.
Miscellaneous
Ann Arbor Advocates for Safe Alternatives in Childbirth - P. Lamont
Okey, "A Physician Discusses Birthing Options," 7 p.m., First United
Methodist Church.
Alpha Phi Omega - Student blood drive, 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Union
ballroom.
Huron Valley Quilting Society - summer meeting, 7:30 p:m., St. Andrew's
Church, 306 N. Division.
Campus Crusade for Christ - meeting, 7 p.m., 2003 Angell.
Intervarsity Christian Fellowship - meeting, 7 p.m., Union.
Scottish Country Dancers - beginning class 7 p.m., intermediate class 8
p.m., Union.
Ann Arbor Support Group for FLOC - meeting 7 p.m., 308 E. William.
Vision/Hearing - Adrienne Graves, "Organization of Visual Pathways in
Normal and Visually Deprived Cats," 12:15 p.m., 2055 MHRI.
To submit items for the Happenings Column, send them in care of
Happenings, The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI. 48109.
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rYvvsuen
... 'Better little than nothing'
program in geography. "That (losing
the graduate program) is one of the
things we understood would happen
when we closed the department," Frye
said. "That's one of the things we chose
to give up. That's too bad, but I don't
want to reopen the debate (on that
issue)."
Geography Prof. Kish pointed out
that all graduate students already
enrolled in the department before it
closed will be allowed to complete their
degree requirements.
Kish also said the University will
resume actively recruiting un-
dergraduate students in geography in
the fall. The department had stopped
recruiting both graduate and un-
dergraduate students when it was
reviewed for elimination more than a
year ago.
THE BUDGET for the program has
not been formally discussed yet, accor-
ding to administrators. But Frye said
the budget likely would be significantly
smaller than that of the original depar-
tment.
According to the recommendation
drafted by the special faculty commit-
tee, which was submitted to Frye June
10, the program's staff would be made
up of the eight tenured professors who
stayed after the department was closed
(one left for another university), one
non-tenured instructor-two fewer than
in the original department-and one
half-time secretary, which is two-and-
one-half fewer than in the department.
The five-member faculty committee
was made up of geography Prof. Kish,
John Dann, director of the Clements
Library, anthropology Prof. Richard
Ford, Stephen Preston, associate dean
of the School of Natural Resources, and
engineering Prof. George Zissis.
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Thursday, July 8, 1982
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