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Saturday, July 17, 1982

The Michigan Daily


ISMRRD: First unit to fall?

UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATORS!
confirmed Monday that a special
subcommittee of the Budget Priorities
Committee (BPC) recommended the
elimination of the Institute for the;
Study of Mental Retardation ands
Related Disorders (ISMRRD ). The.
committee suggested, however, that;
ISMRRD's Child Development Clinic
be maintained under another unit of the
University.

sense the reasons didn't seen to be
compelling" to keep the institute. The
1981-82 budget for ISMRRD was about
$290,000.
Reaction to the proposed closure, by
both University and non-University of-
ficials, revealed the elimination would
mean the loss of the state's only mental
retardation research facility. Most
sources said, however, that the com-
munity services provided by ISMRRD
are duplicated elsewhere, often at
lower cost.
The University's executive officers
will now review the BPC recommen-
dation, but the final decision will be
made by the Regents, probably in Sep-
tember.
GEO, 'U' agree
NEGOTIATORS representing the
Graduate Employees
Organization reached a tentative con-
tract agreement with University of-
ficials Tuesday. If the pact is ratified -
as is expected - by the more than 1,500
teaching and student assistants who
belong to the union, it will mark the fir-

If the Regents agree with the BPC,
ISMRRD will become the first victim of
the administration's five-year, $20
million reallocation plan.
The BPC subcommittee report "does
comment on some of the values of
ISMRRD," said Vice President for
Academic Affairs Billy Frye. But hel
added, "These objectives are not'
being adequately achieved and in that;

the strikes that have chars
relationship with the Un
recent years.
st labor agreement betwee
and the University since 1976
Although details of the con
not yet been released, source
the three-year pact will incl
increases, improved tuition
limits on class size, teachin
training programs, and a
promise to review and revi
affirmative action programs


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Red-baiting
N PRESIDENT Reagan's often simplistic
view of the world, many problems originate
in Moscow or thereabouts.
Now, with a little prodding from his ultra-
conservative buddies, the president is resurrec-
ting a legislative clause straight out of the 50's
red scare. Peace Corps volunteers now must be
taught about the "tactics and menace of com-
munism."
With all due respect to the president
(however much that may be) and his current
foreign policy, communism is not the root of all
evil. The European peace movement was not
bought and paid for by the Soviet Union as the
president has asserted, but regular citizens
afraid of being vaporized. Nor, as the president
has also indicated, are the -Russians the sole
cause of the current arms race.
Let's give credit where credit is due and not
make Peace Corps blindly rabid anti-com-
munists, too. Give the volunteers counsel about
the dangers of contracting malaria, not
paranoia about the commie supposedly lurking
behind every corner.

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The salary increase is expected to be
between 12 and 18 percent over the life
of the contract, and a revision of
tuition policies means that graduate
students will not be required to pay in-
come tax on tuition grant discounts.
GEO steering committee member
Paul Harris said a mandatory training
program was requested by the union
"to improve the quality" of education
at the University. And if he is right, the
contract is good news for all students.
Feds find fault
ct may end
iterizedits HE LONG arm of government is
ry upon the University, saying that
results of a federal investigation show
n the GEO several violations of federal anti-sex
;. discrimination guidelines in the
ntract have University's athletic department.
es said that Investigators from the Chicago bran-
lude salary ch of the Office of Civil Rights have
n benefits, pointed to four areas in which they feel
g assistant the University is not in compliance with
University the Title IX regulations. Those areas
se existing are disproportionate allocations of
money .toward men's and women's
scholarships, travel budgets and
recruiting, and less opportunity for
women than men to receive coaching in
their sports.
The University insists that the
athletic department should not be sub-
ject to Title IX because it receives no
federal funding, but the athletic depar-
tment has said it will comply with the
government's requests. "we are going
to comply," Athletic Director Don
I Canham said, "but only because we
want to."
But even if the University wants to,
compliance with the federal standards,
according to assistant business
ti manager for the athletic department
Bob DeCarolis, will amount to "a big
expense"
Air Force robots
THE UNIVERSITY'S Center for
Robotics and Integrated Manufac-
turing (CRIM) will receive a
significant portion, but not the grand
prize, of its bid to garner $7.2 million
from the Air Force for research. What
CRIM will receive is the largest resear-
ch contract-nearly $3.4 million-of its
short 10-month history, according to its
acting director.
s< The grant, which will be finalized in
August, may further stir up student
protests that made defense-related
research at the University a major
issue on campus last year.
In spite of possible student opposition
and a lower award than he had hoped,
CRIM's acting director Daniel Atkins
was happy with the grant. The award
"definitely demonstrates our (CRIM's)
e of credibility in the robotics field," he
said.
logo The military aspects of the contract
ily 'S are unclear as University researchers
will be involved only in basic research
whose application is not yet clear.

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