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.