The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, July 12, 1983 - Page 3 Theater to move to Music School By JACKIE YOUNG A top University official yesterday recommended that the Department of Theater and Drama cut its graduate degree program and move from LSA to the School of Music. Charging that the department was a "relatively low priority" within LSA, University Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Billy Frye said the transfer should go into effect August 1. THE UNIVERSITY Regents will vote at their mon- thly meeting Thursday on Frye's proposal which would eliminate doctorate degrees in theater until the department "demonstrates adequate strength" to support the graduate program. "Theater has not flourished as well as we might have wished," since the program began in 1915, said Frye in his recommendation. "The department has been expected to do too much with too little." "With a full time faculty of 13, it is evident that the Frye says halt grad. programs department cannot cover both the professional and technical aspects, and also do justice to the cultural and scholarly aspects of theater," he said. THEATER department faculty and administrators said the review was initiated by LSA, and not initiated by the department. The review was recom- mended in January and a seven-member committee was appointed in March to study the proposed move. Theater Department chairman Walter Eysselinck and Professional Theater Program associate direc- tor Lindsey Nelson said they would not comment on the move until the Regents voted. Jack Bender, associate chairman of the depar- tment, said he regrets leaving LSA after so many years in the college, but he said LSA's professional objectives for the program were not compatible with the theater department's. ALTHOUGH THE department would be a part of the Music school, under the proposal, theater classes won't be held on North Campus, said Paul Boylan, music school dean. Theater students would continue to have classes in the Frieze Building, he said. But under the proposal, both the chairman of the department and the head of the Professional Theatre Program would report to Boylan instead of the Dean of LSA. Boylan said he supports the move and added that it would bring "a strong viable theater department" to the University. THE RATIONALE for the move according to LSA Engin. humanities faces fall Regents vote By JIM SPARKS transferred to LSA." Humanities Prof. John Mathes, who The end may be near for the College teaches technical writing, is one of the of Engineering's humanities depar- professors who expects to stay in the tment, after yesterday's announcement college, but he doubts that the Univer- that the Regents will decide in Septem- sity will be able to absorb all 16 ber whether to save or cut the unit. professors. In a report sent to the Regents HE ALSO said he does not believe the yesterday, Frye saidhe would make a quality of education will be as good for recommendation in September engineering students in LSA as the meeting, and if they decide to eliminate humanities education they receive now. humanities he would begin a plan Mathes and other think sending the "phasing out the department." 4,000 engineering students to take LAST NIGHT Frye said he had not literature classes in LSA is to condemn yet reached a decision on the depar- them to larger classes and more tment, but hoped to provoke debate and teaching assistants. "I would be again- hold a public hearing. st having some graduate student The vote will culminate a process teaching me," said Engineering Senior which began in October, when a budget Chris Morgan, who is taking a fiction panel began looking for ways to save and technical writing class. money by letting LSA take over the task "It would bother me that these of teaching literature to the 4,000 professors would lose out . . . I think engineering students. they are doing a good job," he said. Last March, the panel recommended ALTHOUGH saving money was one a gradual shift by hiring new LSA of the original reasons for shifting professors to teach engineering studen- engineering students in the first place, ts as engineering humanities professors department chairman Dwight Steven- retired. The panel also recommended son said he did not think a significant that courses in Technical Com- amount of money would be saved. munication, Technology and Society, Engineering students would probably and Great Books 101 and 102 stay in the see more teaching assistants, which college. costs the University less money, but the UNDER THIS plan, Frye said in a College of engineering would also have report to the Regents, the 16 tenured to pay the salaries of new LSA faculty members in the unit would be professors hired to teach the able to keep jobs in the University. engineering students. There are two faculty members in the "My analysis did not convince me department without tenure. there was any clear short-term or long- Although some professors have in- term savings," he said. dicated a desire to leave the college if The final report of the budget com- the department is cut, Frye said "it mittee stressed that the department is not clear there will be any professors See ENGIN., Page 4 Daily Photo by ELIZABETH SCOTT Down and out Marquita Stephanopulos cools off on the steps of her dress shop in Detroit's Greektown. People overreact to threat of AIDS, offiejals say By JACKIE YOUNG Health officials nationwide are attributing a dramatically low number of blood donors this summer to widespread misconceptions about Acquired Immune Deficiency Syn- drome(AIDS), a mysterious illness primarily contracted by homosexual men. In San Francisco, a homosexual bathhouse closed yester- day out of fear of the illness spreading. Also in San Francisco many morticians, who come into contact with blood in their work, have refused to embalm homosexuals. AIDS, HOWEVER, cannot be contracted through donating blood or sharing eating utensils as many people believe, said Eve Mokotoff, an epidemeologist from the Lambda Health Care Project in Ann Arbor. . "There are a lot of scare stories out there and most of them are not valid," said Mokotoff, whose clinic is run by mostly gay health care professionals. The disease was first spotted in the gay community in June 1981 when people started coming down the symptoms such as lung infections, Mokotoff said. SOME OF THE victims' immune systems were so badly damaged it seemed they had undergone chemotherapy, she said. According to Mokotoff about 75 percent of gay men con- ' tract AIDS and many victims are hemophiliacs, Haitians or habitually inject drugs into their veins. Many children of AID victims also catch the illness. There is no medication or known cure for AIDS, said Pat Waters, a Lambda Health Project professional. There haven't been any AIDS cases reported at the Univer- sity Health Services yet, said Caesar Briefer, director of the University Health Services. But two "pre-AIDS" cases have been reported at the University Hospital, he said. The two cases, however, were people from out of town and were not members of the University community, Briefer said.