Page 4 - The Michigan Daily - Sunday, July 29, 1984
MSUeezesdin-state
undergraduate tuition
IN BRIEF
Compiled from Associated Press and
United Press International reports
By PETE WILLIAMS
with wire reports
In response to a recommendation
from Gov. James Blanchard and the
State Legislature, the Michigan State
University Board of Trustees voted
Friday to freeze tuition rates for in-
state undergraduate students.
According to MSU administrator
Roger Wilkinson, the trustees acted
because of "strong encouragement"
from the state. In Ann Arbor, the
University made a similar move earlier
this month, freezing all in-state tuition
and raising tuition for non-residents by
seven percent.
ACCORDING TO Wilkinson, out-of-
state students will pay an average of 9
percent more in September. He said
program cuts will include ap-
proximately 1.5 percent for academic
units and 2.5 percent for non-academic
units.
"There was a strong message given
that the state was committing ... more
money to higher education," MSU
trustees' Chairperson Barbara Sawyer
said. "And in turn, they would expect us
to take some of the burden off of in-state
students."
Blanchard, who has campaigned
hard for tuition freezes in state schools,
hailed MSU's decision yesterday.
"BY ACCEPTING our challenge for
a tuition freeze, the Michigan State
University Board of Trustees put the
students of our state ahead of every
other concern of the institution," Blan-
chard said.
Trustee Blanche Martin cast the lone
dissenting vote.
"I hope (out-of-state students and
graduate students) understand," he
said. "It's unfortunate that we had to
treat them differently."
TRUSTEE PETER Fletcher also
criticized the decision, saying that
MSU's funding problems cannot be
solved by a temporary increase in fun-
ding from the state.
"This is a temporary solution, and we
have permanent funding needs," Flet-
cher said. "This issue will come up
again next year and it can't be solved
by the same mechanism."
That mechanism is called "forward
funding" - aid payments advanced
from the end of the state's fiscal year to
its earlier months. This forward fun-
ding is done because the final three
months of state's fiscal year occur after
MSU's fiscal year has ended.
Michigan's public college tuition
rates have been among the nation's
highest. Educators mostly blame
lagging aid from a fiscally strapped
state government.
An average Michigan resident
freshman at MSU will pay $1,884 this
year in tuition and fees. In-state tuition
in Ann Arbor for freshman will remain
at $2,428 for the year.
Dunn and Lousma debate
DETROIT - Republican senate'
candidates Jim Dunn and Jack
Lousma in their first face-to-face
debate exhibited sharp differences
on issues that included tax cuts,
social security, foreign policy, the
nuclear freeze and abortion, The
Detroit News reported yesterday.
Each candidate was asked to react
to charges leveled at him by his op-
ponent during the often openly bitter
campaign, the News reported in ad-
vance copy for editions today.
Lousma said Dunn had made
"some scurrilous, irresponsible
charges." However Lousma did not
refer to any of Dunn's specific
allegations concerning the former
astronaut's income, residency and
political positions.
Jackson shifts residency to
S.C., may run for Senate
CHICAGO - The Rev. Jesse
Jackson said yesterday he changed
his legal residence from Chicago
and will decide next week whether to
challenge Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-
S.C.) in November's election.
Following an Operation PUSH
meeting, Jackson said he has tran-
sferred his legal residency to,
Greenville, S.C. and would decide
next week whether to run against,
Thurmond. Jackson reportedly owns
three lots of land with his mother in
South Carolina, where he was
raised. She still resides in Green-
ville.
Police patrol Peruvian
capital during
independence day
LIMA, Peru - Police and army
troops carrying machine guns
patrolled Lima in armored cars on
Peru's Indendence Day yesterday
amid violence that left at least 20
people dead and at 33 others woun-
ded.
Nearly 6,000 people were arrested
throughout the country, where the
tightest security ever imposed
during President Fernando Belaun-
de Terry's civilian government was
in place for the holiday.
An estimated 40,000 police and
army troops were on alert nation-
wide for weekend ceremonies
marking the 163rd anniversary of
Peru's independence from Spain.
Salvadoran army reports
30 rebel casualties
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador -
A Salvadoran army offical said
yesterday troops killed or wounded
30 rebels in a two-day battle to clear
a guerrilla camp in the heart of a
U.S.-designed pacification program.
Salvadoran soldiers fought with
leftist rebels in eastern San Vicente
province, where the government
began a Vietnam-style pacification
program in June 1983 designed to
drive the guerrillas out of the area
and draw peasants back to aban-
doned villages and farmers.
Bomb explosions kill
seven in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A
booby-trapped car exploded yester-
day outside the headquarters of an
Afghan rebel group based in the city
of Bleshawar near the Afghan bor-
der, killing five people and wounding
12, officials said.
Two hours later, an explosion in
the refugee-populated border town
of Saddah, 75 miles southwest of
Pewshar, killed six people and
wounded 29, according to the of-
ficials. They said the reason for the
attack had not been determined.
Nuclear talks between
China and Japan may
have stalled
PEKING - China and Japan have
held their third round of talks aimed
at an agreement on peaceful use of
nuclear energy, but Japanese sour-
ces said yesterday a final accord is
impossible this year.
The talks have stalled over
China's rejection of Japanese
demands for safeguards and inspec-
tions, to ensure that China does not
use Japan's nuclear technology for
manufacture of atomic bombs, the
sources said.
The sources, who spoke on con-
dition they not be identified, also
said the July 26-28 session in Peking
adjourned. No date was set for the
next round, but both sides agreed to
hold it before January. They said a
signing is possible in 1985.
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Performer masters art
of attracting
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blowing gag and a few more with a
crack about nude juggling. He then
cued the audience to "make a lot of
noise so people will think something in-
teresting is going on."
Such is the life of a street performer.
"I KIND of thought it'd be nice to be
funny for a living," Houghton said,
reflecting on his career. "I was always
the class clown," he admitted. "All the
things I got in trouble for as a kid are
paying off now."
Houghton said his traditional mid-
western upbringing made it hard to
pursue his dream. "Growing up in
Oklahoma, it was a disgrace to have ar-
tistic aspirations," he said. He toiled
through high school and college before
dropping out of Denver University.
"(College) didn't have what I needed,"
he said.
After working for a while as a cook,
he travelled around the country for a
few years watching and studying per-
a crowd
formers and supporting himself by
working odd jobs.
Now, after two-and-a-half years as a
professional, Houghton relies on his
street performances for his sole source
of income. Although he won't disclose
his annual earnings, he admits he
makes more now than he did asa cook.
Houghton spends his winters working
in Key West and spends his summers
touring the country and performing at
different fairs. And although some
festivals do pay him to come, the Ann
Arbor fair does not.
"It's O.K. though," he says, "because
the people here are so generous."
But even generous crowds can't stop
him from getting in a rut sometimes.
"If I'm not changing something or
leaving myself space to improvise it's
too much like a job. (At times like this)
I have to think about having a good time
and relaxing," he explained.
"I guess when you do a show you're
selling yourself."
25th annual street art fair
draws to a successful close
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"I think it's good for people to see tered and lucky to get in."
we're not a bunch of screaming Faith Barnhart, who works with
women," she added, brass jewelry, didn't sell very much
Ellie Hudovernik, who is in her first because of her relatively poor location
year at the art fair, said her decorative facing the sidewalk on East William.
wall tiles sold very well. "People aren't But "considering the flow, we've done
used to seeing hand-made tiles," she very well," she said.
said. "They're a collector's-type item."
Barnhart said she first became in-
Hudovernik seemed impressed with terested in metal working because "I
the fair. "It's the best art fair in the enjoy craftspeople number one and I
Midwest," she said. "I was real flat- enjoy the finished craft number two."
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