The Michigan Daily - Thursday, August 4, 1983 - Page 3
DON'T CUT SUMMER RECESS, JUDGE SAYS
High court justice wants vacation
ATLANTA (AP) - Supreme Court Justice John federal appeals courts. The Supreme Court now poor job of picking appeals and was so swamped by
Paul Stevens said yesterday that depriving the nine resolves much conflicts. paperwork that Congress should create a new court
members of the nation's highest court of their three- "ONLY FUNDAMENTAL changes ... will avoid a to tell the justices what cases to hear. The idea gained
month summer recess "might break the backbone of breakdown of the system - or some of the justices," wide attention but few supporters.
the institution." Burger said in February. STEVENS SAID THE high court's mounting
Ina panel discussion on overworked courts at the Similar proposals for a new court to help the workload "is a symptom of what's happening
American Bar Association's convention, Stevens said Supreme Court have been floated for the past 10 throughout the court system . . in courts throughout
shortening the court's summer recess to help cope years, but a version of Burger's latest proposal has the country."
Be said it was unrealistic to expect the Supreme
with its mounting workload could be disastrous. some strong support in Congress. Court to resolve all conflicts among federal appeals
"IT WOULD BE a tremendous mistake to deprive Stevens said yesterday he generally opposes the .
us of our much-needed summer vacation," Stevens new court proposal, and suggested several alter- courts in non-constitutional cases. "More and more,
said when the suggestion was raised. "If we didn't natives. we must rely on the appeals courts as courts of last
have that, it might break the backbone of the in- "WE DO A MEDIOCRE job of controlling the resort," Stevens said.
stitution." caseload, but out decisions on the merits remain at a J. Clifford Wallace, a federal appeals judge from
The court begins its term on the first Monday in Oc- very high quality," he said. San Diego, questioned the wisdom of creating a new
tober, as required by federal law. In recent years, It was a Stevens speech to the American Judicature court, even a temporary one. But the idea was defen-
those terms have extended into early July. Society in San Francisco last summer that began a ded by another of the panelists, Federal Judicial Cen-
In a speech to the ABA last February, Chief Justice months-long public dialogue among the court's ter Director Leo Levin.
Warren Burger called on Congrest to create, as a members about their ability to cope with a growing About 5,000 appeals are filed with the Supreme
five-year-experiment, a new federal appeals court workload. Court each year. Some 150 of that number are selec-
that would resolve conflicting decisions by existing Stevens said then that the court was doing such a ted for full review and decisions.
' Students escape life
with summer reading
By MARC COHEN
Students may put away textbooks
during the summer, but that doesn't
mean they stop reading.
Science fiction, mystery, and
romance novels are top sellers
among students, who may not have
time to finish a required reading list
during the year but make up for it
during the summer.
"I TAKE MORE time to read (in
the summer)," said English major
Susan Morbach, who added Judith
Krantz's novels Princess Daisy and
Scruples to a summer reading list
that includes works on William
Blake and Jonathan Swift.
"Typically, I would pick up any
sort of current trash," says student
Steve Hanson, whose tastes mirror,
most student reading habits - the
Ann Arbor market has followed the
national trends this summer, accor-
ding to Border's Books employee
David Kelly.k
In science fiction, Robert Heinlin's
Friday is near the top of the list of
local favorites, and copies of Ken
Follett's mystery The Man from St.
Petersburg are also going fast, ac-
cording to several local bookstores.
STUDENTS ARE also helping to
make bestsellers out of books that
normally sell to a more limited
market. "It seems this year we are
selling a lot of business-oriented
books," said Mike Hirsch, assistant
manager of the Community
News Center on South University.
In Search of Excellence: Lessons
from America's Best Run Com-
panies, by Thomas Peters and
Robert Waterman has been one such
book that has been a strong seller
throughout the summer, Hirsch
says.
Although the more traditional
romance, science fiction, and
mysteries are making money in Ann
Arbor, Students aren't turning away
from more intellectual or less well
known authors.
STUDENTS BUY books on a wide
range of topics, says Kelly of Bor-
der's Books, adding that women's
literature "is really strong" right
now. Alice Walker's The Color Pur-
ple, a Pulitzer Prize and American
Book Award winner about a black
woman's life, is selling well," and
will continue to sell well," Kelly
predicts.
Ulrich's Books employee Joii
.Crumrind said George Orwell's "old
reliable" 1984 is selling well, in ad-
dition to One Hundred Years of
Solitude by Columbian author
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who recen-
tly won a Nobel Prize for literature.
Students who don't have the
money to buy new books are
checking out the Ann Arbor Public
Library, where staff members say
See READING, Page 4
A student browses through summer reading material outside of Border's
Bookstore on State Street, yesterday.
House votes down tougher aid rules
By JACKIE YOUNG
The U.S. House of Representatives yesterday
blocked an Education Department proposal that
would have made it tougher for students to declare
financial independence.
The House bill defeated an Education Department
proposal that would have tightened regulations for
students who pay their own education costs. Under
the bill, current financial aid regulations will stay the
same through 1985-86.
UNLESS President Reagan vetoes the House bill,
-the current standards for determing whether a
student should be classified as self-supporting will
stay the same, said Thomas Butts, the University's
assistant to the vice president for academic affairs in
Washington.
It is "unlikely" however, that Reagan wil veto the
bill Butts said.
In May, the Education Department proposed the
stiffer rules to ensure that students didn't abuse
federal aid progams by declaring financial indepen-
dence.
THE PROPOSED rules would have added 23 ques-
tions to student aid forms by 1984-85 and nine more in
1985-86.
Currently, for students to qualify as financially in-
dependent they cannot live at home for more than six
weeks or receive more than $750 from their parents
for at least one year before applying to college.
The Education Department's proposed rules,
would have required students to live on their own up to
three years to be classified as independent.
University officials were critical of the stiffer rules
because they said it wasn't clear students were
abusing the system.
The Education Department proposed the rules
because there was an increase in the number of
students declaring independent status.
But the increase was because the average student
today is older and more likely to be financially in-
dependent,, according to Harvey Grotrian, the
University's financial aid director.