The Michigan Daily - Saturday, July 16, 1983 - Page 3 U.S. Senate tables draft- aid law repeal By JACKIE YOUNG The law is also self-incriminating, Amendments to a defense spending Alsop said in his decision, because bill calling for a repeal of a disputed students who don't sign the forms are law linking student aid to draft automatically denied federal funds. registration were "crushed" by the "SENATOR Durenberger remains U.S. Senate Thursday, said officials in confident that the Supreme Court will Washington. find the (law) unconstitutional," said Sen. David Durenberger (R- the spokesman. "It is unfortunate that Minnesota) introduced the amendment the Supreme Court has put the entire which the Senate voted 71 to 23 to table, nation through all the problems said Steve Ockenden, a spokesman in associated with the law." Durenberger's office. Meanwhile, the University's financial A SECOND amendment, proposed by aid office has been working overtime to Sen. Robert Stafford (R-Vermont), inform students of the change. asking for a one-year delay of the law Although the Department of Education was also shot down. granted schools a month delay to notify Under the law which was ordered into students, after Aug. 1, non- effect July 1, by the U.S. Supreme. registrants will be denied federal funds. Court, all college-aged men applying Nationwide four percent or 106,000 for federal financial aid are required to men have not registered with the Selec- sign a form verifying that they tive Service, and Ockenden estimated registeredwith the Selective Service that about 45,000 non-registrants Durenberger backs Minnesota Federal receive financial aid. Judge Donald Alsop's decision made in Universities have objected to the ad- June that the law is unconstitutional ditional paperwork required to check if which for months barred universities a student is registered. nationwide from enforcing. it. The It will cost about $3 to $5 million to en- Supreme Court overturned Alsop's force the law said Sen. Rudy Boschwitz ruling, however, leaving universities (R-Minn.). The costs include computer nationwide scrambling to notify students time, postage, forms and staff time. of the change. Officials, including University Alsop said the law discriminates President Harold Shapiro have also against college-aged men who need criticized the law because it unfairly federal aid to pay education costs and makes financial offices responsible for denies students the right of due process. policing federal laws. Art vs. Nature This oak tree behind Tappan Hall, one of the oldest trees on campus, will be cut down to make way for a new Art History library. Department Chairman Joel Isaacson said the facility is needed to protect billions of dollars worth of slides and art history books. Dem. candidates ass By JACKIE YOUNG Special to the Daily DETROIT - Democratic presidentia prescribed their cures for the nation's second day of a three-day meeting of the D National Committee, held in Detroit's R Center. 387 delegates gathered Thursday to ma tion rules, plan campaign strategies, hear for the Democratic presidential nomin outline their platforms in the same c President Ronald Reagan was nominat presidency in 1980. TAKING THE floor Thursday, for President Walter Mondale came out strong "reaganomics." Citing Reagan's heavy trade deficits that are the highest in Un history, and record high unemployment emphasized that the president's policie America's disadvantaged hard. "If all of America's unemployed under t administration were to form a line," Mon FBI investigates eivil rights violation in Chin death 'If all of America's unem- ployed under the Reagan i hopefuls administration were to ills at the form a line it would )emocratic reach enaissance from the White House to ke conven- Palm Springs.' candidates -Walter Mondale iation and WM ity where "it would reach from the White House to Palm ed for the Springs." He also pledged to revive the Equal Rights Amen- mer Vice dment, saying that under his administration "there gly against would be an excellent chance of its ratification," and tax cuts, further vowed to make job training and hiring for ited States minorities and women key objectives. , Mondale ALTHOUGH few young people attended the con- s have hit vention, Mondale urged that steps be taken to remedy their lack of participation in government and the he Reagan voting process. The government should limit the ndale said. power of special interest groups to back candidates By HALLE CZECHOWSKI no The U.S. Department of Justice announced this week it has an ordered the FBI to begin a full-scale investigation to deter- Ch mine if a Chinese-American man's civil rights were violated when he was slain, an The FBI will expand its investigation into the death of Vin- en( cent Chin, who was beaten to death with a baseball bat in cis June, 1982, outside of a Highland Park bar. no RONALD EBENS andshis stepson, Michael Nitz, were se originally charged with second degree murder after they I killed Chin in what some witnesses called a racially ter motivated fight. De The charges, however, were later reduced to manslaughter we after plea bargaining. Ebens pleaded guilty and Nitz pleaded ai Reagan financially, he said, making it possible for more young people with limited funds to run for office. Mondale also attacked Reagan's foreign policy, and called for a nuclear freeze and a halt to sending U.S. military men into Central and South America before looking at underlying social problems in these countries. Possible presidential candidate Rev. Jesse Jackson also made an appearance at the Democratic National Committee's black caucus Thursday night, although not to declare his candidacy for the nomination as some had predicted. FOLLOWING Jackson's appearance, the Caucus approved a resolution declaring that it would be "more than appropriate" for a black person to seek the presidential nomination. Although he declined to say whether or not he would consider running, Jackson said he supported the idea of a black candidate. "(The party) can no longer take (blacks). for granted," he said. "The sleeping giant has gone all the way, to now being the major core of politics." See DEMS, Page 4 Dcontest. IN MARCH they were sentenced to three years probation d fined $3,780 each by Wayne County Circuit Court Judge arles Kaufman. The lenient sentence enraged Detroit area Asian-Americans d others, leading to months of legal battles to have the sent- ces changed. Many said they felt Kaufman based his de- ion on misleading or insufficient evidence, since there was trial and no prosecuting attorney appeared at the otencing hearing. The FBI finished a preliminary investigation in June to de- rmine ifa further investigation was necessary. If the Justice epartment rules in the investigation that Chin's civil rights re violated, Ebens and Nitz could face federal charges and SetFBI, Page 4