Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, July 30, 1985 'U' to face competition for students 4 By KERY MURAKAMI Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, lowered its admissions standards Special to the Daily Illinois, and New York will drop by 26 slightly in the early '70s. Because the BAY CITY, Mich. - The Univer- percent from 1987-1994. University is now tightening its stan-1 sity's pool of applicants in its main Walker said the University's pool of dards again, Walker said out-of-state; recruiting grounds will plummet applicants is drying up because the applications may drop off. beginning in 1987, and the University baby boom is ending. "Students He said that schools, which do not, will have to compete harder for un- coming in at 1987 would have been have many out-of-state students, such dergraduate students, Vice President born around 1970. That's about when as Michigan State and Wayne State for Academic Affairs Billy Frye said the baby boom ended. People just Universities, will be vulnerable yesterday. stopped having babies," he said. because when the pool of in-state ap- Meeting in the second day of their "Secondary schools have had to plicants dries up, they will not be as three-day retreat, the regents and the deal with this problem already, and it able to compensate with out-of-state administrators took time away from has resulted in many schools closing. students. their golf to discuss the future of un- Now we're going to have to deal with "I WON'T guess who's going to bear dergraduate admissions at the the problem," Walker said. the brunt of the loss of applicants, but University. WALKER SAID the University will somebody's going to get it," Walker POLITICAL SCIENCE Profs. Jack probably have an advantage over said. Walker and John Chamberlain other public schools in Michigan Walker added that other public presented a study they did through the because it attracts a large number of schools, such as Ohio State Univer- Institute of Policy Research which out-of-state students. sity, also draw upon out-of-state stated that the number of high school But Walker said that the number of students. "There's no way we're students graduating from the Univer- out-of-state applicants may have in- going to avoid having to compete for sity's prime recruiting grounds in creased because the University students," he said. Frye plan needs 7% tuition hike (contined frompage1) addition to money to do research, members of the state's universities le used to pay for part of the main- because research ends up costing the and colleges to "do everything tenance repairs that were put off. University money. This year, the possible to freeze tuition for Michigan "How many classrooms have you federal government cut back from students." State budgetdirector beninta hdlak ~ies'Fye paying for 60 percent of the costs to 50 Robert Naftaly has also threatened to been in that had leaky pipes?" Fryepyngr6 percent o h ot o5 recommend that Blanchard veto part asked. percent, a $7 million difference, Frye of the increases in higher educational His budget would also include about said. spending adopted by the state ABOUT A third of this end-of-the-sedn dpedb h tt $3.3 million to insure the University -f- legislature last month - if univer- had some money at the end of the year budgetwould be used to make up stie and colleges do not freeze fiscalyear.the University's $1.4 million budget tuiion FRYE SAID that in the past, the defi styrs p Answering a question by Regent Unierstyalwys adsom moey Again stressing that his plan will NalNielsen ta quest n oby Regnt University always had some money probably be cut before it goes to the Neal (R-Brighton) Sunday left over to pay for such "un- regents, Frye said that in order to pay night, Frye said that out-of-state budgeted" items as legal costs and for the increases, revenue from tuition would have to be increased by cost overruns. tuition would have to be increased by 10 percent in order to freeze in-state But since the University started 7 percent. tuition. cutting down on its budget, individual Such an increase could be made Frye also said that his budget would units - such as LSA - began either by increasing tuition for all also include a 5 percent faculty and now there is rarely money at the end students by 7 percent, or by slightly staff pay increase, plus $1 million for of the year. Frye also said that money increasing tuition for in-state students pay increases to compete with other from the University's investments while significantly increasing tuition universities and private industries for and extra money from the federal for out-of-state students. personnel in such competitive areas government, which was also used for FRYE SAID that tuition has not yet as business, law, engineering, and "unbudgeted costs," had run out. been determined, and it will depend economics. Indirect costs, Frye said, is money greatly on "what the Governor wan- The budget would also include an 8 given i lanchard percent increase in University finan- gvnby the federal government in Guy. Blnhr has asked board cial aid programs. Regent Thomas Roach (D-Saline) gone down by 10 percent in the past said he was skeptical of the survey three or four years. He said when the because people have been talking pool goes down more drastically, it about the drop for years, while ap- will have a greater effect on the plications have actually gone up. University. Also, he noted the recent increase in Walker suggested that the Univer- non-traditional full-time students - sity could attract more students if it those younger than 18or older than 22. narrowed the gap in prices for these BUT WALKER said that while the students to help those who thought number of applicants has gone up, the that the University was better but too number of students available has costly to come to the University. MSA asks lawmaker~s and U' official to freze tuition By KATIE WILCOX The Michigan Student Assembly last night sent a mailgram to state legislators and University ad- ministrators requesting a tuition freeze for both in-state and out-of- state students. The tuition decison will come before the Board of Regents this Thursday. THE LETTER, signed by MSA president Paul Josephson, cited two reasons for the need for a freeze: that the University should be made accessible to students of limited financial means, and that students should not subsidize research as much as they curren- tly do. "Students were being taught as much in 1960 as this year, so one can assume they are paying more for the same amount of education," MSA representative. Eric Schnaufer said. Student contribution to the University's general fund has doubled in the last 25 years. In the 1959-60 academic year, student fees made up 21 percent of the general fund, while tuiton fees made up 42 percent of the fund in the 1984-85 school year. "THE BURDEN is being shifted to students as opposed to the state, alumni, or industry," Schnaufer said. The state is currently .putting pressure on the regents to freeze in-state tuiton while raising out-of-. state tuition. MSA feels its action will give the state more leverage as a showing of what the students want. "The letter is so the governor can say, 'Look, students want tuition to be frozen,' " Schnaufer said. MSA's letter was sent to Gover- nor James Blanchard, the regents, President Shapiro, Vice President for Academic Affairs Billy Frye, and state representatives Perry Bullard and Lana Pollack. According to Schnaufer, as students' families have become wealthier there has been less politicalization of tuition and the cost of education. The students who at one time wouldchave protested such increases can no longerafford to come here, Schnaufer said. The letter states, "Additional in- creases. in student fees will only exacerabate the economic stratification of the University." "A tuition freeze will be a small step towards making the Univer- sity of Michigan more accessible to students of limited means," the letter says. Botha remains adamant about poliey despite opposition (Continued from Page 1) emergency and declaring "America ted in the emergency declaration. upholds apartheid." 'Retaliation can be expected for every move against South Police refused to give details of the THE emergency declaration prom- new arrests. pted the U.N. Security Council Thur- Africa. Police used dogs yesterday to sday to call for voluntary sanctions -P.W. Botha disperse about 300 black and Asian against South Africa to protest the medical students who tried to enter government's policy of apartheid, or the U.S. Consulate in Durhan about racial segregation, and the state of ts in South Africa. It has been the only Johannesburg, Botha gave his "Retaliation can be expected for 350h ie s f.os m ohanneurgna The emergency. nation to impose sanctions because of toughest rejection yet of Western every move against South Africa," he 350 miles from Johannesr blg France, which requested the coun- the emergency. criticism, warning that sanctions said. students carried placards blaming cil meeting, recalled its ambassador Speaking at a outh rall in Pot- would spark retaliation by South and barred future French investmen- chefstroom, about 75 miles west of Africa. "Naturally, there are also other important forms of economic, technical, financial, medical and 1agricultural cooperation which may fall victim should the Security Council ti~nan ite nant n e 1Rtho ny, "The Science of Evolutionary Trees in DNA Films Sequence Data," noon, 1139 Natural Science Michigan Theater Foundation - In the Good Building Center - Forrest Hartman, "Intro Highlight Old Summertime, 7:30 p.m.; Ziegfield Follies, to Sigfiles and Initfiles," 3:30 p.m., 164 Business 9:30 p.m., Michigan Theater. Administration. Don't miss the original "Robin Hood" play Center for Japanese Studies - Japan, 3 p.m., tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the main public library, room 2011 MLB. Miscellaneous Everyone between the ages of six and 96 are Speakers welcome to come and see the program, spon- C sored by the Recreation Department. Division of Biological Sciences - David Pen- p.m.; "Health Views," 6:30 p.m., 88.3 FM. continue on is present course, Bsoma said. In Washington, the Reagan ad- ministration expessed disappoin- tment that Botha refused to meet with Tutu. "We are disappointed that Bishop Tutu's request for a meeting has not been favorably acted upon," State Department spokesman Charles Redman said of Tutu.