The Michigan Daily - Sunday, May 13, 1984- Page 3 SECOND FRONT PAGE EhEr: Senate committee adopts a spending plan for 'U' - By GEORGEA KOVANIS Budget bills on the floor of the state legislature call for an increase in state aid to the University, but ad- ministrators say the boost will not be enough to avert a tuition hike. Last week the Senate Appropriations Committee approved a $182.1 million allocation to the University, up from the $163 million appropriated last year. The House version calls for $1.8 million less, and once the bills are passed in both houses a conference committee will meet to iron out the differences. When the budget process began last fall, the University asked for a $40 million increase in state aid. That request has since been trimmed to $26 million, and it appears that the final hike will be just under $20 million. Six of the state's 13 colleges - Wayne State, Eastern Michigan, Ferris State, Central Michigan, and Western Michigan Universities and Lake Superior State College - have announ- ced that they will not raise tuition next year. Tuition freezes at other schools will "certainly be a factor we consider when we look at tuition," said University Kennedy ... predicts tuition hike Vice President for State Relations Richard Kennedy. "I'm not saying we're going to follow suit." Kennedy predicted that students will face a tuition hike in September but that it will be less than last year's 9.5 percent increase. State aid comprises only half of the University's general fund, and most of the remainder of the fund comes from tuition. Associated Press Hot air Nancy Dupree smiles at her handful of balloons outside the Louisiana World Exhibition yesterday at the opening of the 1984 World's Fair in New Orleans. Student * volunteers hit the streets to register voters By THOMAS HRACH Hundreds of college students will be knocking on doors this summer in a nationwide effort to increase the number of registered voters. Organized by the Public Interest Research Group in Michigan and similar groups in other states, the program is designed to get students involved in politics while building up the voter lists. "THE EFFORT harkens back to a time when students were active in civil rights projects," said Michael Farady, a staff member at the National Student Campaign for Voter Registration in Boston. "The goal .. .is to once again involve students in the electoral process." Voter registration has been a major issue in this year's presidential elections. Rev. Jesse Jackson has been credited with drawing thousands of new voters to the polls, and organizers say the student program is designed to continue to register those who have not voted in previous elections. The Boston office is collecting the names of students in- terested in working on the registration drive, and the names will be given to local organizations which sponsor such projects. IN THE Ann Arbor area, volunteers will be assigned to groups like the League of Women Voters, the NAACP, Plan- ned Parenthood, and HumanSERVE. "Our strategy is to offer registration to the disenfranchised members of the community, like women, minorities and the poor," said Roseanne Handler, Michigan coordinator for HumanSERVE. Signing up for the program and being placed in one of the organizations means that the students will be committed to becoming deputy registrars in their communities. Organizers hope these students will help provide a strong campus registration project in the fall before November's general elections. 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Since field work began Monday, the survey has focused on the Calhoun Hill area, where Lt. James Calhoun, who was Lt. Col. George Custer's brother-in- law, and Capt. James Keogh fought to the finish with their troops on June 25, 1876. The hill is about a half-mile east of the Last Stand area where Custer him- self is believed to have died. THE ARTIFACTS don't appear significant in themselves, Court said, but the numbers of shell casings and their concentration may say a lot about how the battle was fought. Casings from Springfield rifles in- dicate where a cavalry skirmish line may have tried to hold out against overpowering numbers of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, Court said. A flattened slug found near one of the original burial sites may have been a bullet that killed or wounded a trooper. "We know it hit something," Court said. SOME LIVE rounds, possibly left by a fleeing soldier, were also uncovered in the area. Groups of Henry cartridges found in one area indicated an Indian position. "They found so many Henry cartridges the archaeologists started calling it Henryville," Court said. It is pretty easy to tell who fired what on Custer Battlefield, Court said, because the soldiers used only Springfields. The Indians used anything they could get their hands on, including some Henry. Even a musket ball was found on the field, Court said. Custer's last battle remains one of the great mysteries of the American Indian wars because none of the troopers who were under his command survived. One question the survey hopes to answer is the fate of Company F. The bodies of its members were never found. Accounts from survivors of other companies led by Maj. Marcus Reno and Capt. Frederick Benteen indicated that the soldiers from Company E were fighting in a coulee near Deep Ravine.