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The Michigan Daily - Friday, June 20, 1986 - Page 11
'U' experts approve
of high court nominees
By PHILIP LEVY fice. Despite fears the Reagan is trying to shape a more
President Reagan's nominees to U.S. Supreme Court conservative court, Kauper thought Rehnquist's assum-
positions this week are conservative, experienced, and ption of the chief justice position would not greatly in-
capable, but their appointment would have little effect on fluence the court's ideological positions. The chief justice
the University, according to University experts. influences court decisions only through "whatever moral
President Reagan nominated current Supreme Court persuasion he can bring to bear," Kauper said. Rehnquist,
Justice William Rehnquist to succeed outgoing Chief if confirmed by the Senate, will also have the power to
Justice Warren Burger, who resigned on Tuesday. decide which justice writes majority opinions.
Reagan also nominated Antonin Scalia to fill the vacancy. While some justices have significantly changed their
left on the high court. Scalia is a U.S. Circuit Court of Ap- stances after being appointed, Kauper said of Scalia, "I
peals judge in the District of Columbia. doubt he'll change much." He said Scalia has a clear-cut
UNIVERSITY Law Prof. Thomas Kauper called philosophy which centers around a limited role for the
Rehnquist and Scalia "very smart, very conservative," courts in policy making and greater rights for states.
and characterized Scalia as "a legal scholar of con- Roderick Daane, general counsel of the University,
siderable repute." Kauper knows both men personally, concurred and said Scalia is respected by both liberals
having worked with each in the U.S. attorney general's of- See 'U', Page 14
Officials foresee tuition increase
(Continued from Page3) "A Michigan education is the best University to set a trend in improving
the past 20 years, state institutions value in higher education today." the quality of teacher education in-
lack funding and need to make up Although legislators hope to finish stead of contributing to poor teacher
their losses. the state budget by their July 4 recess, quality. The regents thanked Marx for
Duderstadt said $9 million of the this deadline may not be met. his report.
University's funding request would go Due to a conflict over the state
toward making a dent in 'the $50 social services budget, Kennedy said,
million needed to make improvemen- the entire process may be held up.
ts on campus. Legislators sent a bill to the governor
Duderstadt listed salary improvem- banning Medicaid abortions, which he
tn, graduate financial aid im- is expected to veto.
provement, library improvements, Also at yesterday's regents
academic equipment, and rebuilding meeting, a student presented the*
of the natural/physical science depar- board with a critique of the Univer-
tment as critical budget needs. sity's School of Education teacher
Duderstadt ended his budget report Certification Program.
on what he called an "upbeat" note. Tom Marx, a recent University
He said the University received the graduate, criticized the program bec-
most admission applications in the ause classes are too large, and too few
nation, citing a 7 percent increase. students are admitted to the program. Phone 764-0553
"THE NUMBER of applications Marx cited the importance of
continues to rise, in spite of the in- education in today's society and, in
creasing out-of-state tuition," he said. his 16 page report, implored the.

Daily Photo by CHRIS TWIGG
Ick Shun Lee fills out one of many forms he will encounter during his
University career at freshman orientation, which began this week.
Incoming freshmen f ace
overdose of information
(Continued from Page 3)
MSA member Vebo Prasad, an LSA LSA senior and former MSA mem-
senior, expressed disappointment ber Jen Faigel admits that orientation
over another change made by the is a good program, even though she
Orientation office. Starting this year, perceives some biases. Last summer,
the University reduced the 15-minute Faigel wrote a letter to the Daily
speech given by an MSA represen- blasting the orientation program for
tative to only three or four minutes. "distorting University life."
This policy was instituted to allow Participants also expressed
UAC a chance to speak. satisfaction with the program. En-
Prasad said he is only telling tering LSA freshman Janet Attarian
students about the structure of MSA, said, "Orientation is organized really
without having time to mention topics well. There's always a place to be at a
like student problems that MSA deals given time."
with. "Orientation is very interesting.
HE suggested as a good solution to I'm from Ann Arbor and I didn't know
allowing the two groups to speak half of these buildings until now, so it
during the hour long speech by orien- really helps a lot," added freshman Al
tation leaders on the first night. Delaiglesia.
Prasad feels MSA and UAC are, "Just
thrown in there to break up the
monotony of all the academics the
students go through on the second Correction
day."
Overall, though, even critics seem The state's deficit in 1982 was 1.75
pleased with the way orientation is billion. The Daily incorrectly repor-
run, ted last week that it was 750 million.

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