The Michigan Daily - Thursday, June 9, 1983- Page.7
Harvard plans to lampoon CBS
The editors of the Harvard Lampoon
will fly to New York Saturday to con-
tinue negotiations with CBS on the
possibility of the college humor
magazine producing a parody of "60
Minutes" for prime time television.
While network officials have said
they are interested in the
idea, said Lampoon Editor-in-
Chief Conan O'Brien said a contract
with CBS is "a real long shot." In the
television industry, "an interest"
doesn't mean the network will commit
COLLEGES
to a formal agreement, O'Brien said.
The Lampoon is well known for its
parodies of national magazines. Last
year satires of People and Newsweek
magazines were published in the Lam-
poon and sold on college campuses
nationwide.
If negotiations with CBS fall through,
the Lampoon editor said the staff will
find other projects.
"If (the contract) doesn't work out
we've got an arts and crafts project to
keep us busy through the summer,"
O'Brien said. "We're going to string
lima beans and make necklaces."
- The Harvard Lampoon
Illinois students camp out
Nearly 100 students at the University
of Illinois in Chicago slept in tents on
campus last semester to protest tuition
hikes and a $235 million state cut to
higher education.
The students erected the tents near
the center of campus and moved in for
three days to protest the third tuition
increase at the University since 1981.
The Illinois state legislature will vote
this month on a budget proposal which
calls for less severe cuts to education.
- The Chronicle of Higher Education
Trinity keeps Greek system
Trustees at Trinity College in Con-
necticut voted last month not to abolish
existing single-sex fraternities and
sororities on campus, but ruled that all
new student organizations must be co-
educational.
Faculty members previously voted
that the trustees ban fraternities and
sororities from campus.
Following the trustees' vote the
faculty members issued a statement
which said that they "deplored the
trustees willingness to condone the
continuation of discriminatory
organizations at the college."
Faculty opponents of the single-sex
Greek system said the issue will be
taken up again in September.
- The Chronicle of Higher Education
Wisconsin church
shelters refugees
An Episcopal Church on the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin campus this week
granted immunity to four illegal aliens
from El Salvador. The St. Francis
House, which has a long history or
protecting and sheltering students,
voted last month to aid the four political
activists who came to the University
through an underground network.
The Salvadorans, a former law
student and a married couple and their
four-year-old daughter, immigrated to
the university to escape the right-wing
dictatorship in El Salvador.
Church officials wrote Attorney
General William French Smith in
Washington to alert the government of
their plans to shelter the refugees.
Nearly 50 Wisconsin churches in the
Madison area also sent letters to
Washington supporting the move.
Neither the Justice Department nor the
Immigration office have taken any ac-
tion on the case.
- The Daily Cardinal
Brown cleans up
Brown University recently launched
an anti-litter campaign which has
raised more than $20,000 for financial
aid.
The "Keep Brown Beautiful"
program, coordinated by Junior
Lawrence Siff, was recognized by the
national anti-litter organization "Keep
America Beautiful." The university, in
Providence, Rhode Island is the first
school to earn such distinction from the
national group.
More than 900 students participated
in the university program which
donated $4 to a financial aid fund for
every hour of work picking up litter on
campus.
A private donor recently agreed to
match the university's contribution
boosting the work wage to $8 an hour.
- The Chronicle of Higher Education
Lafayette pays interest on
student loans
Officials at Lafayette College in
Easton, Penn. have adopted a program
which will pay interest on federal
student loans to subsidize education
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But head of the budget committee,
Mary Ann Swain, said the board mem-
bers are aware of the University's
commitment to increase black student
enrollment.
THERE WAS one minority faculty
member on the sub-committee set up to
review the Education School, Swain
said.
"The BPC and the committee
reviewing the School of Education are
sympathetic and supportive of
minorities," Swain said. "Black and
minority enrollment may or may not be
exacerbated by the review process."
The cuts recommended by the budget
committee have not been approved by
the University Provost Billy Frye who
will make the final decision on the fate
of the school.
SWAIN SAID she sees "no reason
why a cut in the budget will alter the
University's commitment to minority
issues and concerns" for both faculty
and students.
"We have discussed issues relating to
affirmative action in relation to budget
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costs for students.
The all-male Presbyterian university
is the first school in the nation to adopt
such a program, officials said.
College officials estimate that the
school will lend about $1.7 million in
federal funds to families for the 1983-84
school year and pay about $155,000 for
interest on the loans.
The program would also allow paren-
ts to make lump-sum payments on
loans at the end of each semester or
defer payment until after graduation.
- The Chronicle of Higher Education
Stanford probes
book ban
Officials at Stanford University are
investigating reports that the reading
list used in a class taught by a visiting
professor was censored by a student
leader.
Former Rep. Peter McCloskey (R-
Calif) charges that several books from
the reading list of his political science
course were deleted because they were
critical of the American Jewish Lobby.
But Chairman of the student-run
board for guest professors Seth Linfield
said the books were omitted because
they were unrigorous and
unacademic."
The Chairman of the Political Science
Department said the investigation will
determine whether McCloskey's
academic freedom was violated.
- The Daily Californian
Compiled by Halle Czechowski
Colleges will appear every Thursday
hool cuts
cuts," Swain said, adding that minority
concerns were taken very seriously and
even mentioned in the sub-committee's
report on the Education School.
The number of minority faculty
members would also be cut under the
budget proposals.
THE PROPOSED cuts to the
Education School would reduce the
number of minority faculty members
from nine to five, Royster said. This
would cut the number of minority
faculty members at the University to
an "appalling" level, said Dave Robin-
son, associate director of admissions
and minority council member.
Dean of the Education School Joan
Stark said that, "in a sense the Univer-
sity is telling minorities that they
should go somewhere else if they want
to go to this school."
But Stark said there are no factors
directed specifically at reducing
Sminority enrollment in the review
process.
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Minorities threatene
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A 40 percent cut in the Education School
would save nearly $2 million.
But the University has not considered
the dangerous effect the five-year plan
will have on minority students and
faculty, said Eunice Royster, director
of the University's Opportunity
Program.
Although the University has made a
commitment since 1970 to increase
black student enrollment to 10 percent,
the affirmative action statistics show
the school's efforts have failed, Royster
said.
"I HEAR one thing, but I see
something very different," she said. "I
have not heard a lack of concern from
the President or the vice president's of-
fice...but when I see the results of the
review committee and the Opportunity
Program I see a different message."
The review process used in the five-
year plan has no specific mechanisms
to insure that the University's stated
commitment to increase minority
enrollment is carried out, Royster said.
"It is possible to have cuts (to the
Education School) and for them not to
be harmful to black and other minority
students and staff, Royster said. "But
(the committee's) concern is will it
really happen that way?"
AND ROYSTER contends that any
concerns the University officials have
about the review process effecting
minority students and faculty are only
secondary.
The Budget Priorities Committee
(BPC), the University panel which
recommends cuts to schools under
review, did not consider affirmative ac-
tion goals or make an effort to talk with
members of the black and minority
community, Royster said.
City Council funds
shelter for homeless
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But Council member Richard Deem Several Councilmembers said they
(R-Second Ward), head of the are afraid that if the city pays for an
emergency housing committee, emergency shelter program, non-
proposed giving the church only $3,000. resident homeless people will flock to
A Democratic amendment to give the the area.
church an extra $2,000 was vetoed by a "I can just bet my boots that the
vote split along party lines. bigger the pot, the more people we will
Deem's committee could decide get," said Gerald Jernigan (R-Fourth
tonight to give the shelter the additional Ward). "City money belongs with city
money. residents."