The Michigan Daily - Saturday, May 7, 1983 - Page 3
Bill may stall aid link to draft
By JACKIE YOUNG
A bill which would delay enforcement
of a controversial law linking student
aid to draft registration will be voted on
by the U.S. House Armed Services
Committee this month.
The bill, sponsored by Rep. Paul
Simon (D-Ill), would delay the law from
July 1 to Feb. 1, 1984. The law requires
all male students to prove they
registered with the Selective Service
before receiving federal financial aid.
SINCE THE law was passed last Sep-
tember, many college administrators
have said the requirement puts an un-
fair burden on financial aid offices, and
singles out men who need federal funds
to attend college.
Although many universities have
been asking students to voluntarily
comply with the law for several mon-
ths, officials at the University of
Michigan said they will not ask students
to prove they registered until it is cer-
tain the law will go into effect.
It is likely Simon's bill will pass and
be sent to the house floor before the end
of June, said Thomas Butts, assistant
vice president for academic affairs in
Washington.
BUT THE delay might be un-
necessary pending the outcome of a
lawsuit in Minnesota which charges
that the law is unconstitutional.
Minnesota federal Judge Dona Alsop
temporarily blocked the law in March
and said it was "likely to be uncon-
stitutional." A final decision is expec-
ted in June, said a spokesmen for the
Minnesota Public Interest Research
Group which filed the suit last Novem-
ber.
It is unclear if Alsop's decision affec-
ts students nationwide or just those in
Minnesota. The Justice Department in
Washington will not say who the ruling
affects, but they advised the Education
Department in April to send a letter to
universities urging them not to deny
federal funds to any non-registered
student.
THE FINANCIAL aid office at the
university of Michigan received the let-
ter last week, said director Harvey
Grotrian.
The University has not yet asked
any students to prove they registered
with the Selective Service, so the letter
had little effect on his office, Grotrian
said.
The letter is a positive sign that the
law will be delayed, Grotrian said, ad-
ding that Alsop's decision will apply to
students nationwide. It is unlikely the
law will be enforced July 1, because of
both the bill and the Minnesota suit, he
said.
Grotrian said the requirement would
be a burden on his office because of the
additional paperwork to check for draft
registration.
If Alsop rules the law is uncon-
stitutional, it is likely the Justice
Department will appeal to the Supreme
Court. John Spano, spokesman at the
Justice Department said the gover-
nment "will do everything necessary to
secure an ultimate ruling upholding the
constituitionality of the law."
Workers
simulate
nuclear
debris
clean-up
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP)-Civilian
and military workers in protective
clothing and masks prowled the rugged
desert of America's nuclear testing
grounds yesterday, pretending to sear-
ch out radioactive debris from a
nuclear weapons accident.
The exercise at the Nevada Test Site,
the third of its kind, was designed to
provide realistic training for those
charged with sealing off and cleaning
the site of a nuclear weapons accident.
"THEIR PERFORMANCE has been
superb," Adm. Joseph Frick said of the
participants. "Everybody is playing
this game to the hilt." Frick, comman-
der of the Norfolk, V., Navy base, took
over the exercises Thursday.
The locale for the 10-day event, dub-
bed NUWAX 83, is a desolate expanse
of desert HI miles northwest of Las
Vegas, where scientists once tested
rocket engines.
A NUWAX exercise involving the Air
Force was held at the Test Site in 1979
and one involving the Army in 1981.
FEDERAL OFFICIALS gathered at
a cluster of buildings dubbed Port
Gaston, Va., which was once the
Nuclear Rocket Development Station.
They evacuated '815 people from the
mythical town Thursday when a
mythical Navy helicopter supposedly
carrying three nuclear weapons
crashed near a city park, spreading
radioactive debris.
Yesterday, the players searched for
radioactive debris and began what will
be a six-day mop up operation.
NUWAX 83 was kicked off just
minutes after a real underground
nuclear test was set off 15 miles away.
Department of Energy officials say the
two events were not related.
DOE spokesman Jack Roeder said an
accident spewing plutonium from a
nuclear weapon could contaminate a
city for years.
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uaily Photo by ELIZABI
The Michigan Theater on East Liberty, built in 1928, is making more money than expected this year.
Michigan Theatre soars into
profits for first time in years
By MIKE WILKINSON
The Michigan Theater made a profit
for the first tiie since a community
group took over its management in
1979, theater officials say.
The theater was almost forced to
close last year due to its financial
troubles.
Lonnie Loy, president of the
Michigan Community Theater Foun-
dation Board, said the theater posted
financial gains for the first quarter of
1983 and has erased all past debts.
"WE WILL be able to keep ahead of
the game," Loy said, citing city tax
support and successful fund raising ac-
tivities as factors for the theater's
financial upswing.
Revenues surpassed the expected
figure by $1,645, with the theater ear-
ning almost $88,000 in the first quarter
of 1983, Managing Director Russel
Collins said.
The theater's expenditures - in-
cluding utilities, wages, and film ren-
tals - were almost $13,000 less than an-
ticipated. The theater spent $57,411 for
the quarter.
THE THEATER foundation, a non-
profit organization, received its biggest
support after city voters approved two
separate millage proposals totalling
$700,000 in April 1982. The money has
been used to pay off the theater's mor-
tgage and to repair safety code
violations.
Collins said the tax dollars were
essential for the theater to run efficien-
tly, which is one of the theater's
primary goals.
"The theater must prove (to the city)
that it can be run efficiently and move'
forward," he said.
FUTURE PROGRESS will depend on
how much support the theater can find
through its fundraising activities,
Collins said. Events like last January's
Millionaire's Party - which netted
$22,000 - have greatly aided the
theater.
"(The Millionaire's Party) was the
catalyst to put us into the black," Loy
said.
The theater foundation is planning a
membership drive for this fall. The
foundation presently has 200 members,
but Collins said they hope to raise that
figure to 600.
Members make tax deductable
donations to the theater in return for
special privileges, including a newslet-
ter and the chance for good seats at up-
coming programs.
The 1,800-seat theater, opened in 1928,
is the largest theater in Ann Arbor for
full stage productions. Groups using the
theater include the Classic Film
Theater, The Sunday Funnies, the Ann
Arbor Civic Theater, and the Ann Arbor
Chamber Orchestra.