Page 4 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, June 21, 1985 '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. 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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. Vol. XCV - No. 24-S The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967 X) is published Tuesday through Sunday during the fall and winter terms and Tuesday through Saturday during the spring and summer terms by students at The University of Michigan. 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