Page 2-Thursday, July 8, 1982-The Michigan Daily 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 (Continued from Page 1) "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. The Michigan Daily 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. Vol. XCII, No. 35-S Thursday, July 8, 1982 The Michigan Daily is edited and managed by students at The Univer- sity of Michigan. 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