The Michigan Daily-Sunday, July 15, 1984 - Page 3 San. Fran. prepares for Dems By NEIL CHASE Special to the Daily SAN FRANCISCO - The city's newly-refurbished cable cars were the most popular attraction at the corner of Powell and Market Streets Friday night, but nearby, a handful of city residents and people here for the Democratic National Convention ,gathered around a four man sidewalk band appropriately named Streets. "I haven't seen the city this keyed up since we won the superbowl," said band member Roy Polk. Well-dressed delegates and reporters stood out from the regular Friday night crowd at the bottom of Powell Street, just two blocks away from the Moscone Center, home of the convention and the party's headquarters, the San Francisco Hilton. The variety of people on Powell Friday night seemed to be a good sample of San Francisco's diverse population. Gays and punk rockers, street vendors and street people, and a variety of people speaking at least four different languages listened to musicians and watched the tourists. Several people - including a teenage boy with a spiked hair style - asked passers-by to give them change so they could ride a bus or buy food. Nearby a rat grabbed something off the street and ran into a sewer. The city's century-old cable cars which began running last month after two years of renovation, rattled by ringing their bells. Locals and tourists waited in long lines for a $1 ride up and down the cities famous hills. Cable car operator Patrick Fonteot said he had already figured out the difference between regular tourists and the conventioneers. "Tourists are sincere about wanting to see sights like the cable cars," he said. "The convention people are here for a different reason and just want to play at night. Its a looser crowd." One of the few tourists who was not part of the convention admitted to being an Ohio State fan and said he "had no interest in the week's main event. We pay more attention when Bo Schembechler does something," he said. The convention, which officially opens tomorrow, is expected to bring over 30,000 people tothe Bay Area this week - 15,000 delegates, alternates, and guests and another 15 thousand members of the news media. Every downtown business is taking advantage of the See SAN FRAN., Page 7 REBECCA KNIGHT/Daily. Kissing cousins Two camels share a tender moment at the Detroit Zoo last week. Doonesbur to return this fall 'U' officias approve art school transition plan By ANDREW ERIKSEN The University's School of Art's budget reduction and program changes, completed in response to its 18 percent budget cut, were presented to the University regents at their meeting Friday. The art school received the 18 percent cut as a result of the five-year-plan - a reallocation of $20 million within the University's general fund to high priority areas. A review committee called for the cut a year ago at the end of a review of the art programs. THE GUIDELINES for achieving the cut include reducing the number of faculty by using more teaching assistan- ts who will teach larger classes. The plan, presented to the regents, says that the number of faculty members in art education will be cut back two-thirds, photography by one-third, and painting by almost half. The plan requires that concentrations in film/video and advertising design/art direction be discontinued and other drawing and design courses be reduced. All courses designed as two and four credit courses within the school will be revised to three credits. The plan also calls for the school to increase the instruction for non-art majors. The school is planning to teach art classes on central campus - possibly in West Engineering and offer a joint degree in Bachelor of Arts in Art with LSA. The school plans to ex- pand the spring and summer half term workshops offered and commission a study on the school's fund-raising ability. IN OTHER business, the regents' decided after some discussion to sell the Kalmbach Management Center to Gary Crawford of Dearborn, Michigan. Crawford plans to use the center as privately owned student housing. Neighbors of the center protested its sale during public comments to the regents. The regents also awarded a $5 million construction contract for the School of See 'U', Page 5 KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI) - The Pulizer-Prize winning Doonesbury comic strip, which last ran in January 1983, will return Sept. 30 with charac- ters who have grown into "cocaine and herpes," Universal Press Syndicate announced yesterday. The adventures of college student. Mike Doonesbury and his pals from Walden Pond ended when their creator: Garry Trudeau said he wanted to take a break so he could take a fresh look at the characters. "MY CHARACTERS are understan- dably confused and out of sorts," he said at the time. "It's time to give them $20 haircuts, graduate them and move them into the larger world of grown-up concerns." Since Trudeau's leave of absence, Universal Press Syndicate said it has been "inundated with questions" about the return of the satirical comic strip. "Garry felt his characters needed some time to make the journey from 'draft beer and mixers to cocaine and herpes,"' said John P. McMeel, president of the Fairway, Kan.-based Universal Press, in announcing the revival of Doonesbury. "On Sept. 30, when the Doonesbury saga resumes, readers will see just how well they have fared." TRUDEAU WAS 22 and just out of Yale School of Architecture when "Doonesbury" made its debut in 28 newspapers Oct. 26, 1970. As of Jan. 2, 1983, the last time the comic strip appeared, 726 newspapers in the United States and abroad (with readership of 60 million) were running "Doonesbury." The antics of Trudeau's characters sometimes generated such controversy that editors refused to run certain sequences, moved them to editorial pages or tried to bury the strip in the classified section. DURING HIS sabbitical, Trudeau worked on his Broadway musicial of the same name. "Doonesbury," which opened at New York's Biltmore Theater Nov. 21, 1983, and ran for 125 performances, was not considered a financial success but generally received good reviews. His animated film "A Doonesbury Special" for NBC-TV, was nominated for an Oscar and received the Special Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival. In 1975, he became the first comic strip ar- tist to win a Pulitzer Prize for cartoons. Trudeau currently is writing a. screenplay about the White House press corps for Orion pictures and another about the New Right for Columbia Pic- tures. He and wife Jane Pauley, anchor- woman on the NBC Today show, have two children - twins Richard and Rachel, born Dec. 30, 1983.