Fag 4'- The Mchiganj Daily thursday, May 26, 1983 Shrimp, not burgers, dorm fare for guests By JAYNE HENDEL This summer while University studen- ts in West Quad Dormitory are stomaching burgers and fries, guests in the "Mosher-Jordan hotel" are dining on fresh shrimp, crabmeat, and bran- died cheesecake. The 10-by-10 cell-blocks in University residence halls that students call home during the school year have been tran- sformed into plush hotel suites com- plete with maid service. MORE THAN 13,000 visitors, in- cluding middle-aged business executives and 12-year-old tuba players, will enjoy the luxury of the revamped dormitories this summer. The deluxe accomodations are part of a 10-year University tradition of renting dorm rooms to groups sponsoring con- ferences, workshops and athletic cam- ps during summer months. The income from the hotel-dormitory business helps to offset housing costs for students during the school year, said Nancy D'Angelo, conference coor- dinator in the University's housing of- fice. The most expensive rooms, at Baits and Cambridge house, cost $55.00 for a room and three meals. GUESTS PAY an average $25 per night for a single room in an unchanged University dormitory, which is $15 more than students enrolled in summer school are charged for a room in West Quad. "The more money that comes in during the summer, the more students prosper from the conference business," D'Angelo said. D'Angelo said it is exciting to see the "over-40's" crowd who participate in the 62 conferences on campus enjoy being in college again. "The first day the business men come in three-piece suits and attache cases, but by the third day they go to their seminars wearing cut-off shorts," she said. THERE ARE also 20 athletic and band camps which take over South Quad for one-week stints throughout the summer including the vooular cheerleading camps which begin in July. Betsy Barbour Residence Hall spon- sors an annual international conference for gifted children which also stsrts in July. The dormitory will take precautions for this group of pint-sized visitors, by disconnecting the elevators in the building, D'Angelo said. "A few years ago, children attending the gifted conference got bored and re- wired the elevator in East Quad, where they were staying at the time, so precautions are made for that," she said. While most hotels police guests from "borrowing" items from their room such as towels or soap, D'Angelo said she encourages visitors to take souvenirs. "I'd like them to take a glass or soap (with the University's emblem on it.) It's good P.R.," she said. University loses financial aid battle out-of-state IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports U.S. aide killed in El Salvador SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP)-An American military adviser was shot four times in the head and killed in San Salvador yesterday, President Alvaro Magana's top aide said. Navy Cmdr. Albert A. Shaufelberger was shot near the Central American University on the western side of San Salvador, Francisco Jose Guerrero, Magana's top aide, said. A U.S. Embassy official, who asked not to be identified, confirmed the slaying, but refused to give any details. The Navy officer was rushed to a hospital but apparently died on route, Guerrero said. Shaufelberger was slain about 6 p.m., but Guerrero said he had no infor- mation on who the killer or killers were. Shaufelberger was serving as an adviser to the Salvadoran navy. He was one of 55 military advisers the United States is providing the Salvadoran armed forces, who are fighting leftist guerrillas. Committee passes school aid bill LANSING-The House Appropriations Committee yesterday ap- proved a $200 million increase in aid to local school districts next year, a figure nearly the same as GovJames Blanchard's recommendation. "I think it shows the governor is very sincere in his statement that education has a high priority in his administration," said Rep. James O'Neill, the Saginaw Democrat who chaired the school aid subcommittee. The bill contains a formula assuring school districts will receive at least $2,098 per student in combined local revenue and state aid, if they levy 30 mills-about the statewide average. That represents a spending hike of about $150 per student over last year. Senate approves MX missle WASHINGTON-The Republican-led Senate gave new life to the MX missile yesterday by voting 59-39 to approve President Reagan's plan to store 100 of the weapons in existing underground silos in Nebraska and Wyoming. In an important congressional victory for Reagan, the Senate endorsed a report by a presidential commission on the MX and freed $625 million for developmentand flight-testing of the missile. Eleven Democrats joined 48-Republicans in support of a resolution iden- tical to one approved 239-186 Tuesday in the House. Congress had withheld the funding last December when it rejected Reagan's now-abandoned "dense pack" basing plan and ordered him to develop a new one. But a procedural snag means the House will have to vote on the MX resolution again today. The version passed the Senate, though textually identical to the one passed by the House, carries a different bill number. Under the rules of Congress, the two houses must pass identical measures - including numbers. Sens. Edward Kennedy, (D-Mass.), John Glenn (D-Ohio), Carl Levin (D- Mich.), and other Democrats argued unsuccessfully that the intercontinen- tal missile would be destabilizing to the superpower nuclear balance and be vulnerable if placed in existing minuteman missile silos. Reagan fires 3 Civil Rights Commission members WASHINGTON - President Reagan, in a move that drew immediate fire from major civil rights groups, fired three members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and replaced them yesterday with three conservatives, in- cluding a man who once called for the panel's abolition. Reagan, who failed in the face of Senate opposition last year to significan- tly alter the composition of the commission, said he will nominate New York lawyer Morris Abram, Washington law professor Robert Destro and California political scientist John Bunzel to the advisory panel. All three nominees are officially Democrats, but their views closely parallel Reagan's on such controversial matters as affirmative action and busing. They would replace Blandina Cardenas Ramirez, Mary Frances Berry and Rabbi Murray Saltzman, all of whom have criticized Reagan's policies. House passes youth job bills LANSING-The House yesterday approved the first two measures setting up Gov. James Blanchard's Michigan Youth Corps after first voting to protect a politically sensitive fund to purchase state lands. The youth corps program is designed to directly provide 25,000 jobs this year. Another 35,000 youth jobs will be created through the federal CETA program. The key measure funding the program was approved on a 72-32 vote after lawmakers voted to use money from the Kammer Recreational Land Trust Fund only as a last resort to fund the program. Still awaiting action was the main piece of legislation in the package. Under the funding bill as approved by the lower chamber, up to $16 million will go to the summer jobs program from unspent state money. If less than that is available, money expected to remain as a state surplus will be used. 4 .1 4 I 4 (Continued from Page3) released last week. A drop in black students from 6.9 to 5.2 percent puts the Univeristy significantly behind other institutions of comparable size. SEVERAL University ad- ministrators said the drop in black student enrollment is linked to insuf- ficient financial aid programs. Most black students who attend the University are from low income families, Grotrian said. While the University was nationally recognized in the late 1960s and '70s for minority student recruitment, today other in- stitutions have much stronger programs. University President Harold Shapiro said what is needed now is "newer and better ideas," which can make the University a front-runner in man- taining a diverse and high quality student body. BUT DECREASED funding from the federal government coupled with high tuition - an estimated $10,000 a year for out-of-state students, which is the highest of any public school in the nation - threatens the University's ability to attract a diverse group of students. A committee was formed in April to review undergraduate financial aid programs to determine if more alter- native funds for out-of-state students are needed. The Task Force on Undergraduate Student Aid headed by Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Billy Frye is similar to committees that have existed for several years at other large institutions. HIGHER EDUCATION Prof. Jim Miller, who is also a member of the task force, said the group has met three times this spring to decide how to evaluate the University's financial aid programs. The task force will meet again in the fall to determine if a permanent com- mittee will be formed next year, Miller said. "The task force isn't beginning (to review financial aid programs) with any preconceived ideas," Miller said. "But it is a general review brought about by the awareness that most large universities have a permanent un- dergraduate financial aid advisory committee." THE UNIVERSITY has not felt a need for such a committee until enrollment problems in recent years have pointed to the financial aid office, Zimmerman, the associate director said. In addition, the University will offer 170 minority scholarships both in-state and out-of-state minority students this fall, said Gilbert Oswald, the Univer- sity's scholarship coordinator. ,The scholarships will help draw more minority students to the University, he said. A Minority Achievement Award created this year will offer $750 to Michigan residents and up to $1,500 for. non-residents. The University also in- creased funds for The National Achievement Program for Outstan- dingg Negro students which would award $250 to $2,000 to black freshmen depending on the student's financial need.