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'U' may expand computer labs
(ContinuedfromPagei) million of the increased computing literacy is a "short-range problem
The centers would be modeled after costs would have to be covered by the because the number of people with the
the centers currently available to the University's general fund. A five per- knowledge before coming to the
business and entny aigstudents. cent tuition increase this fall would University is increasing."
"I've heard engineering st dengs still result in a $1 million deficit next "What I'm really excited about," he
nothing abut good thigs year, but no increases in computing said, "are the excellent computer
about the centers," said Regent costs are taken into account. programs in the elementary schools.
Thomas Roach (D-Saline). Students But Van Houweling said using Young children are already very com
can do everything on them - from money from the general fund is a ortable with these machines. As they
writing letters home to doing papers," more cost effective way of providing grow up,they're viewing computers
he said. students with computers than the path not as a luxury' but as part of their
He said that there is an increasing other universities follow. No other notrysay luxurymbut "
need for computers outside of public universities are planing pjects everyday environment."
businessrand engineeringbecause on the same level as the Universits Another key reason for the plan, he
other areas are finding new ways to a n st n sy said, is to preserve the University's
use them. For example, history and private institutions usually image as a leader in the field. "More
students can now base theories using require students to buy their own and more people are basing their
computers rather than reading other computers. These cost about $3,000 to decisions on what schools they're
theories in books, he said. $4,000, with some as expensive as going to attend according to their
To pay for much of the proposals - $10,000, he said, view of the University's information
if they are approved by the regent's at technology," he said.
next month's meeting - Van Van Houweling said it would be un- In other action, the regents ap-
Houweling proposed a $50 student fee fair to impose these costs on indigent proved 7-1 the appointment of Linda
winter term, going up to $100 per term students. Wilson, as the University's vice
starting next spring and summer. Regent Deane Baker (R-Ann Ar- president for research, replacing
Students in the engineering and bor) expressed concern that the Alfred Sussman. Baker was the sole
budessscnheoengsnernpay $150 d University would have a great supply dissenter, saying that he opposed
business schools wouldnh a y $ow of computers without enough students hiring Wilson's husband as a faculty
term starting in the fall. They now adequately trained to use them, but member in the University's sociology
pay $100 a term for their computing Van Houweling said LSA is looking in- department.
privileges. to offering an introductory computer Regent Nellie Varner (D-Detroit)
Students may be paying slightly, class this fall for about 400 students said that "dual hirings" are a "fact of
more, however, because about $2 per semester. life" because of the increasing role of
He added, however, that computer women in business.
Court bars lawsuit against
M.D.s reporting abuse
'83 Models LANSING, Mich. (UPI) - The changed their minds and decided he
*Fo 495 Michigan Court of Appeals yesterday was being abused. The boy was
From * DI barred a lawsuit against doctors who removed from his mother's home.
'82 Models filed an erroneous report of child While in foster care, the boy frac-
From. 4495.abuse, citing a plan designed to tured another bone by dropping a toy
protect such "good faith" actions. on his toe. A doctor confirmed the
'81 Models The ruling came in a Wayne County original diagnosis of britle bone
'86 MAZDA From 3995 case involving a boy, Shawn Awker- disease and the boy was returned to
Fr-2000 0 man, who suffered numerous bone his mother.
R-2000 , fractures. In suing the doctors who reported
TRUCK '8 MODELS and The boy's doctors originally abuse, Linda Awkerman said the law
OLDER FROM $995 diagnosed him as suffering from a which shields such physicians does
brittle bone disease, but ultimately not cover acts of malpractice.
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IN BRIEF
From United Press International

Fire ruins lobb of
Nicaraguan Em y
WASHINGTON - Arsonists
striking in pre-dawn darkness
yesterday set four fires that
destroyed the lobby of the
Nicaraguan Embassy. Diplomats
blamed the attack on Reagan ad-
ministration "rhetoric."
FBI and police sources said
glass panels on the front doors of
the aging brick building were
smashed and burning strips of
cloth apparently were tossed in-
side, setting off the fires. Saralie
Porta, the embassy's assistant
press officer said, "There was
probably a Molotov cocktail."
Porta added, "The FBI, the
police department, and the fire
department are working on the in-
vestigation to find out what
produced the fire. There was
significant damage to the lobby
area and two bathrooms."
Exprts believe body
is Josef Mengele's
SAO PAULO, Brazil - Inter-
national forensic experts using a
microcomputer to compare the
skull of a 1979 drowning victim to
photographs of Nazi war criminal
Josef Mengele are 99 percent sure
it is the same man, police said
yesterday.
In Hamburg, West Germany, the
Bild newspaper said West German
forensic experts informed the
government remains exhumed
June 6 near Sao Paulo definitely
are Mengele's. There was no im-
mediate official confirmation of
the report.
In Sao Paulo, federal police chief
Romeu Tuma said an international
team of 17 forensic experts from
Brazil, the United States and West
Germany should reach its final
conclusions on the skeleton "within
24 to 48 hours."
Church limits role
of women members
GRAND RAPIDS - Women may
still be ordained deacons but they
cannot teach or preach in church,

delegates to the Christian Refor-
med Church Synod have voted.
North American delegates to the
policy-making session for the
300,000-member denomination
based in Grand Rapids heard pleas
from more than 40 churches to
overturn their 1984 decision to open
church office to women.
Though the 1978 Synod first per-
mitted women to hold the office,
chief responsibilities of which are
to collect money and work with the
needy, the move was rescinded the
following year.
Shuttle observatory
looks for black hole
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -
Discovery's crew launched a
bargain-basement observatory
yesterday to search the center of
the Milky Way galaxy for X-rays
from super hot star dust being
sucked up by a black hole.
The astronauts confirmed that
the $3.5-million instrument plat-
form, called Spartan, worked "just
like advertised" after it performed
a slow-motion pirouette to test its
control system 230 miles above the
Pacific.
6 die in Nepal blasts
KATMANDU, Nepal - Terrorism
spread to the Himalayan kingdom
of Nepal yesterday. At least six
terrorist bombs shook the moun-
tain nation killing six people and
injuring 22.
Five bombs exploded in the
capital of Katmandu, including
two at the gates of the Royal
Palance, one at the National
Assembly, another at the Central
Secretariat and a fifth in the lobby
of a tourist hotel.
Authorities said a seventh per-
son identified as a "terrorist" was
killed in the Himalayan town of
Pokhara Wednesday when ex-
plosives he was carrying were
detonated by accident.
Home Minister Joh Mehar
Shrestha said there had been some
arrests in the bombings and
"suspicious elements are being
seached for." He gave no further
details.

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