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.