OPINION
The Michigan Daily
Vol. XCV, No. 43-S
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Out-of-state,
out-of-mind
T HREE TIMES. Count it. One, two, three times.
That's how much more out-of-state students at the
University will be paying in tuition than in-state students if
President Harold Shapiro and Gov. James Blanchard have
their way.
Tuesday, Shapiro, buckling under pressure from state
leaders, said that he is recommending to the regents that
the University freeze in-state tuition. To compensate for
the loss in revenue, Shapiro said out-of-state tuition would
have to be raised 8 to 10 percent. In other words, for the
price of one year's tuition for an out-of-state student, an in-
state student can pay for three years of college.
Granted, the University is a public institution. It should
try to make itself accessible to Michigan students.
But enough is enough. Not only would the move hurt the
pocketbook of out-of-state students, the regents - if they
adopt Shapiro's recommendation - would hurt the in-
stitutional quality of the University as well.
Billy Frye, the University's vice president for academic
affairs, has said the University needs a 7 percent across-
the-board tuition increase to just begin paying for the
backlog the University has accumulated because of a lack
of money in the late '70s and early '80s. In fact, the Univer-
sity was prepared to raise in-state tuition by 6 percent and
out-of-state tuition by 8 percent to reconcile the backlog -
especially in building repairs and out-dated equipment.
But when the state applied pressure, as it did last year,
to freeze in-state tuition, the University's administration
folded - as it did last year.
The University was forced to run a $1.4 million deficit to
be able to keep the state happy. This year, it apparently
will have to cut back by at least $1 million it had planned to
use to start chipping away at the backlog of needs that
have built up.
The implications of continuing to increase out-of-state
tuition every year are clear. Students from New York,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois will still come, but it will
only be the richest of the out-of-state students. In-state
s.tudents will be deprived of a cultural and social diversity
that makes up much of their education. -
It will also hurt out-of-state students already at the
University. Students who entered three years ago
paid a tuition of $2,874 per term. With tuition pushing
$3,700, if the increases are approved, that's close to a 30
percent increase in out-of-state tuition over the past three
years. What will the administraion tell the student who
was on the borderline of being able to afford the University
three years ago? Is it worth the investment?
Thursday, August 1, 1985
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By A. M. Babu under conditions of prolonged martial law.
Finally, the government simply does not have the
LONDON - South Africa's declaration of a State of requisite physical resources to sustain such extensive use
Emergency can do nothing to control the black townships, of military force. South Africa must station a large part of
now the focal point for black insurrection. Instead it is a its army on the borders of Mozambique, Botswana, Zim-
sure indication that while rule has never been under babwe and Angola - and an ever larger force in Mamibia
greater stress than now,. where SWAPO guerrillas are now on the offensive.
Behind the State of Emergency is a plan to first encircle THE SITUATION will deteriorate further once the
the black townships, then install a military administration black labor unions join the township uprisings, as they
and finally arrest all grassroots leaders. almost certainly will, by declaring a general strike in the
IT 1S, of course, possible to encircle the factores and mines. In that event, the tables will be tur-
townships withtanks and machineeguns, and ned and it will be the white regime which will be in a state
even to cut off electricity and water. But of seige.
the young people - who are effectively leading their own One frightening prospect is that, although the uprisings
struggle - have already made provision for such even- are well organized and coordinated at the local level,
tualities, preparing for alternative supplies of essentials. there is no central, national direction. This could mean
Prolonged boycotts of white goods in some regions testify that spontaneous moves, if they continue, will get out of
to the high level of their organization. hand and lead to a horrible free-for-all racial con-
According to one recently-released black leader inter- flagration.
viewed here, the young people in the insurrectionary It is this harrowing possibility that has prompted the
townships have created a vast underground network of EEC foreign ministers to demand the immediate disman-
communications. Travel routes have been set up to work tling of apartheid, especially its key elements - such as
at night. Coded messages are relayed in many ways - the pass laws, forced removals, and detention without
through the playing of special songs and tapes, for instan- trial. They have also demanded common citizenship for
ce. all South Africans, an immediate end to the state of
The woman burned to death arean informer before the emergency and unconditional release from prison of
television cameras apparently identified one such song to African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela and his
the authorities. When police came into the township at colleagues.
night and sang the song, five youths appeared, believing it It is likely that South Africa's leaders will release Man-
was a signal to gather. All five were shot down. dela as soon as they can find a pretext which lets them
NOR CAN the township people become confused by a avoid the appearance of yielding to the pressure of
lack of leaders. As recent events have shown, as soon as popular violence.
one group of leaders is arrested, a new leadership takes In the last few months Mandela has emerged not only as
over to maintain the momentum. This classic a leader of the ANC but as a national leader. He may now
revolutionary tactic - absent in the major unrisings in be the key figure who will determine whether the situation
Sharpeville in 1959 and in Soweto in 1976 - has baffled is resolved in a relatively peaceful fashion or through
even the most seasoned white leaders. bloody revolution.
In addition, South Africa cannot afford to keep the town-
ships in a state of seige for long. It cuts off the black labor Babu is a former economic development minister
on which the whole system depends. Moreover, it in Tanzania. He wrote thisforPacific News Service.
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