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Vol. XCII, Na. 47-S
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BY SUGGESTING that the University's
Institute for the Study of Mental Retardation
and Related Disorders (ISMRRD) be closed,
the review subcommittee has left the door open
for the administration to cut a useful and
needed facility.
ISMRRD's director, Dr. Herbert Grossman,
put it best when he said, "They (the review
committee) looked at what they saw and said
'this is bad, let's get rid of it' without any
thought toward the implications. Frankly, I
find that offensive."
Frankly, so does the Daily. The subcommit-
tee had two choices in its review of ISMRRD:
close it or keep it. They decided to close
ISMRRD because its quality had declined.
What about fixing it? Could structural changes
have been made within existing budgetary con-
straints to make the institute strong again? We
may never know, because the review commit-
tee didn't look in that direction.
We do know that ISMRRD is the only mental
retardation research facility in the state. Its
services are duplicated by other organizations
in the community, but its research and the in-
dividual services that require research are not.
We also know that since the committee's
decision, ISMRRD has been awarded federal
grants totalling more than $300,000. The lack of
such funds was a major reason for the decision
to cut ISMRRD.
ISMRRD plays a vital role in the study of
retardation and related disorders. If the
present facility is not good enough, the Univer-
sity should move to change it, not ignore its
responsibilities completely.
OYOU MEAN THAT'S NOT PART OF THE TOUR?
fiti~f-
It's official, tuition
to rise by 15 percent
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WHAT ONE hand taketh, the
other hand giveth away.
The Regents approved a plan this
weekto take a bigger bite out of
students pockets with a 15 per-
cent tuition incease, but also
decidedtogive the first $5 million
saved from the University's
reallocation plan to a faculty
salary program.
According to Vice President for
Academic Affairs Billy Frye, the
tuition increase was necessitated
The announcement that the
center would be spared came on
the heels of the disclosure that
another budget review commit-
tee suggested the closure of the
University's Institute for the
Study of Mental Retardation and
Related Disorders (ISMRRD).
Frye and the Executive Officers
are expected to follow that com-
mittee's advice as well, but the
results, of course, are likely to
be different.
Same old story
IF YOU ARE a woman and a'
University faculty member or
administrator, you are an ex-
tremely rare bird, according to
an affirmative actionreport just
released by the University.
University progress in hiring
both women and minorities to
faculty and high administrative
positions is "so weak as to
represent serious concern," said
Affirmative Action Director
Virginia Nordby to the Regents
Thursday.
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by an "expected" decline in state
aid to the University. Ap-
propriations are expected to
remain the same while inflation
continues to grow at the rate of 7
to8 percent.
Meanwhile, faculty salaries
will get a boost in the coming
year with the extra $5 million in-
crease. Pay increases are needed
to "prevent further erosion in the
financial position of our faculty"
and "sustain their confidence in
the future of the University,"
Frye said.
Frye told Regents that if, they
did not approve the measure, of
faculty members may not
receive pay increases unless the
state provides additional
assistance. That, of course, is
just wishful thinking.
Axe takes day off
THE UNIVERSITY Adminis-
tration's budget axe took a
day off Monday when Vice
President for Academic Affairs
Billy Frye announced that the
Center for the Continuing
Education of Women (CCEW)
would not undergo a major
budgetary review under the
University's five year plan.
According to Frye, CCEW will
now be categorized with those
units not under review, and will
be subjected only to an annual
evaluation where budget cuts of
up to 15 percent will be con-
sidered. "It's a very strong
report in terms of the
quality of the center," he
said.
Unlike other schools and units
under review, CCEW ws
reviewed only with regard to the
performances and utility of the
program.
Kunstler: Lockard was denied
due process.
Is the fair fair?
THIS YEAR'S art fair became
the focus of a bitter con-
troversy as local black-artist Jon
Lockard, represented by famed
New York civil rights attorney
William Kunstler, sought to be
reinstated as an exhibitor.
After 22 years of exhibiting his
work in the fair, Lockard's work
was deemed unacceptable by a
secret selection committee
representing the Ann Arbor
Street Art Fair Inc.
Mark Gombiner, an associate
of Kunstler, argued that the
committee violated Lockard's
right of due process and charged
the organization with racial
discrimination.
Although Federal Judge
Charles Joiner denied the rein-
statement request, he said that
he felt the group is "somewhat
less than completely fair" in not
disclosing the identity of commit-
tee members or the criteria used
to evaluate an artist's work.
For Kunstler, the issue was ac-
countability. Because the groups
used public funds in the form of
city services, they should release
the information to the public, he
maintained. The art fair
organizations finally did release
the criteria - but only after a
City Council resolution forced
them to do so.
The Week in Review was
compiled by George Adams,
Lou Fintor, and Kent Redding
and is featured every Satur-
day.
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Nordby: Affirmative action
progress slow.
Although women now account
for nearly half of the University's
11,000 employees, the number of
women in the faculty has actually
decreased by two since 1978-79 to
66, or 5.8 percent of the total. The
number of minority full
professors actually rose by 8, and
now also accounts for 5.8 percent
of the total faculty positions.
Nordby insists that the Univer-
sity has a good system for hiring
more women and minorities to
top positions. But the main
feature of the report was not so
much that the University had
progressed, but only that it had
no slid backward.
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