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 d by ed. sc 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 mammm mm ESTWIIMm * M-5 om-lOpm PIZZA * SUBS * SEAFOOD * CHICKEN Imm mm mm mm mm m mm 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. mm mm mm mm mm u mm 1.00 OFF ON ALL SEAFOOD Including: Shrimp Frogs Legs Scallops Fish & Chips Mess of Smelt Lake Perch Combo Platter ALL DINNERS INCLUDE: French Fries, Cole Slaw, Bread & Butter Expires June 3, 1983 I ONE COUPON PER CUSTOMER 3 mm mm m mm mmmm m m Minorities threatene (Continued from Page 1) 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 (Continued from Page 3) 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."