The Michigan Daily - Tuesday. July 10. 1984 - paqe 3 Business students fac $10 om uefe By THOMAS HRACH Business students will enter the computer age this fall with a new computer network for the business school, and the new system will be paid for by charging business students an additional $100 per term. "You just can't turn around without having to use a computer in the business world," said Gilbert Whitaker, dean of the School of Business Ad- ministration. "After graduation our students will have a leg up to the power of computers." THE SYSTEM will involve equipment supplied by the Burroughs Corporation, and will link students, faculty and staff in the most ambitious computer familiarity project of any business school in the coun- try, Whitaker said. The new system, he said, is necessary for the University to stay competitive with 'You just can't turn around without having to use a computer in the business world.' - Gilbert Whitaker business school dean the more prestigious business schools. The system will link a number of new microcomputers and also provide users access to the University's central com- puters. The project will be similar to the Computer Aided Engineering Network developed by the engineering college in conjunction with Apple computers, for which students have a $100 surcharge added to their tuition bills each term. Burroughs hopes to have the system in place this fall and fully operational by mid-October, according to Leonard Bertagnolli, a program director for the company. He said the new system will be well worth the $100 per term fee because it will reduce "the growing fears of using a computer in the business world." Burroughs will send seven representatives to the campus for the first year of the system's operation to help work out logistical problems and train faculty and students. In addition, the business school will hire staff to train users, maintain the equipment; and work with faculty in designing software. Lebanese protesters blockade Beirut airport BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Beirut's airport opened yesterday for the first time in five months, but protestiig families of civil war hostages blocked access roads to the airport and the crossings between the capital's Moslem and Christian sectors. However, a committee representing the families of kidnap victims announ- ced yesterday night it was calling off the road-blocking and sit-ins to give the new national coalition government a chance tomake a final decision on the hostages in the next Cabinet session Wednesday. THE COMMITTEE said future steps by relatives of the hostages would be "peaceful and comprehensive" until ed Press the release of all prisoners held by the various militia bands whose fighting apital tore Lebanon apart in the past decade. ionary The committee's announcement came only hours after a delegation representing the relatives of hostages met with President Amin Gemayel at the presidential palace in suburban Baabda. Sie Abdul Amir Najdeh, a member of the delegation, quoted Gemayel as saying that "some of the hostages were killed it housing immediately after being kidnapped, and others were either liquidated later potential or are still alive." uyer who SHORTLY AFTER the announ- with the cement, Lebanese army bulldozers ing would started removing earth mounds and y officials barricades of junk from roads to reopen uilding to them to traffic by this morning, state ike it into and privately owned radio stations said. s for the Four days of protests by the hostage Kalmbach families stalled the six-day-old plan to will be a reunite Beirut, stabilize the cease-fire y living." and introduce reforms aimed at power- cility into sharing between Christian and ajors. Moslems to end a nine-year civil war. at Oxford The protesters - most of them on of the women with pictures of missing per- ion. After sons pinned to their clothes - are 96 people, demanding the release of people taken he Oxford captive by various militias during the ted. civil war. tad a high The closure of the mid-city crossings, g director the barricading of major roads and a this. If we strike enforced in mostly Moslem west ans more Beirut in support of the demonstrators crippled the city's businesses. Priests protest Associa Monsignor Miguel Obando y Bravo, arch bishop of Managua, leads a peace march south of the Nicaraguan c yesterday in support of Father Luis Amado Pena, accused by the Sandinista government of counter-revoluti activites. Managemen tseminars seek new hog By DOV COHEN The School of Business Administration will lose its present center for management seminars and begin construction on a dormitory for its new one if two proposals are approved this week by the University's regents. The executive management seminars, run by the school's Division of Management Education for businessmen from around the country, are presently held at the University's Kalmback Center on Washtenaw Avenue. IN ADDITION to providing more room for the seminars by moving them to the new business school addition, the move will benefit students by letting them mingle with the professional businessmen who attend the seminars, according to business Dean Gilbert Whitaker. "These are people who hire college graduates," Whitaker said, calling the seminars "an important addition to the resources of the school which will help bring people who can contribute to the state of Michigan." As the final step in a $15 million improvement plan for the business school, the 30 dormitory rooms in the Kalmbach Center will be replaced with an executive dormitory adjacent to the new business school addition. Classrooms for the management seminars in the new building are expected to be ready for use by September, when the program will move out of the Kalmbach Center. UNTIL THE dormitory is completed late next year, seminar participants will stay jn more than 50 rooms in the University's Oxford Housing, one of the few studen facilities which is not filled by students. The University has been seeking bids from buyers for the Kalmbach Center hoping to find a b would maintain the building's association University. After several fraternities said the build be too expensive for them to purchase, University examined other bids and now propose to sell the b Gary Crawford, a Dearborn man who plans to ma student housing. Although he would not discuss specific plan building, Crawford said he hopes to turn the , Center into privately-owned student housing which "cross between apartment living and dormitor) Crawford said he is considering making the fa( specialty housing, possibly for computer science me The temporary housing of seminar participants may become permanent, according to Ann Walt business school's Division of Management Educat completion of the new dormitory, which will house! Walton said the program may continue to use tl facilities so that up to 150 people can be accommoda "One of the reasons we did this is because we h vacancy rate (at Oxford)," said associate housing David Foulke. "Oxford residents will benefit fromt can fill it with (seminar participants) it me revenues that benefit Oxford," he said.