The Michigan Daily- Thursday, May 5, 1983- Page 3
WHILE WE WERE AWAY
Seniors celebrate graduation
Iacocca
'tells
students to
'get mad%
By CHERYL BAACKE
Amidst confetti, balloons, and pop-
ping champagne corks, Chrysler
Chairman Lee Iacocca told graduating
students last Saturday to "get mad
about the current state of affairs."
"I want you to get so mad that you
kick America off dead center," Iacocca
said before a crowd of nearly 14,000 at
Crisler Arena. More than 6,000 Univer-
sity students earned degrees this spring
and Iacocca received an honorary
degree in law.
GRADUATES SHOULD use their
education, spirit, and common sense to
cure the nations economic problems,
Iacocca said.
"We need bold, persistent ex-
perimentation that is guided by com-
mon sense. We've had enough com-
puters and mathematical models in
Washington."
"We've had enough theorists who have
knowledge of everything and many who
have understanding of nothing." Iacoc-
ca said. University President Harold Sh
IACOCCA, WHO pulled Chrysler out of commencement ceremony in Cr
its recent financial troubles, said
determination is the key to solving
problems.
"America's real crisis is not a tragedy when you're a bright-
economic but a test of our spirit," he college graduate with a brand-
said. "It's bad enough to be glum about diploma in your hand," Iacocca sail
the future when you're my age, but it's He also praised the students on t
Ed school meeting
draws critical crowd
UPI photo by Poul Engstrom
apiro presents Chrysler Lee Iacocca with an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at the 1983
risler Arena last month.
eyed
new
d.
heir
accomplishments at the University and
said they should be especially proud of
enduring the poor economic conditions
while they were in school.
By GEORGEA KOVANIS
Supporters of the School of Education
critisized the proposed deep cuts to the
school and the review process a
University committee used to make
those cuts at a public hearing last mon-
th.
Students, professors and alumni from
the School of Education asked Univer-
sity administrators to overturn a top-
level committee's recommendations to
cut 40 percent of the school's budget,
nearly eliminate its undergraduate
programs, and reduce its faculty by
almost one-third.
THE SCHOOL is one of three being
reviewed for cuts under the Univer-
sity's plan to cut $20 million from its
budget. The $20 million would be put in-
to high priority areas such as faculty
salaries, graduate student aid and pur-
chasing new equipment. A 40% cut in
the education school would save nearly
$2 million.
Joan Stark, the school's dean, told
about 250 people at the hearing that the
school would be severely damaged by
the faculty reductions and both spring
and summer classes would have to be
cancelled if the plan were adopted.
(This year's spring and summer
classes would not be affected.)
"Education is a substantive area of
study," she said, and deserves a far
more important position at the Univer-
sity.
A final decision on the proposed cuts
will be made before the end of the
summer by Billy Frye, provost and vice
president for academic affairs.
LOREN BARRITT, an education
professor, and Vicki Shapiro, a
graduate student in the school, said that
the special panel which conducted the
review did not consult the school's
representatives or students enough
while the cuts were being decided.
The panel met with the school's
student and faculty executive commit-
tee only once during the review, and
made no effort to talk with students
besides at the public hearings, Barritt
said.
Shapiro said the panel did not make
an effort to solicit student opinion, even
at the public hearings.
Biochemist Gertrude Elion and
Czecholsovakian writer Milan Kundera
were also awarded honorary degrees
for work intheir fields.
Blanchard
proposes
boost in
''aid
By CHERYL BAACKE
The University would receive a 9 per-
cent increase in state aid next year if
Gov. James Blanchard can pass his
proposed 1984 budget through the state
legislature this summer.
Although the increase would be the
largest in several years, University of-
ficials cautioned that it would not be as
large as it looks.
WHEN THE $5.8 million cut the
University received last month is
figured in, the aid increase only amoun-
ts to a 6.5 percent increase.
Blanchard was forced to cut $285
million from the state budget to gain
approval for a tax hike passed this
spring.
But even the 6.5 percent figure en-
See BLANCHARD, Page 12
Stark
... fears proposed cuts
Two of the school's hearings were
held the day of a football game and
during exam study days she said.
"Where is the evidence of an effort to
obtain pertinent information?" Shapiro
asked.
Jonathon McIntire, a graduate
student in the school said he was
disillusioned with the review process.
"I wanted to believe this review could
help the School of Education in the long
run," he said.