hMCopyrigh ©1987 4~i The Michigan Daily W EEKLY SNinety-sen years of editorialfreedomy 8 Vol. XCVI -- No. 1 S Ann Arbor, Michigan - Friday, May 8, 1987 House votes to raise ' By EDWARD KLEINE Special to the Daily LANSING - The state House of Representatives passed a bill yesterday that would grant the University a $15 million increase over last year's state funding if both the Senate and Gov. James Blan - chard approve it. The University could get $240 million from the state, the largest share of the $1.1 billion the bill earmarks for higher education. According to state official Kathy Wilbur, the University always gets the most monev because it is funds University official Roberta Palmer said the University is pleased with the increase, but said it will not cover the University's expenses for next year. She said when the University submitted its budget request, it asked for a $45 million increase. To meet costs Palmer said there is "little doubt" the University will raise tuition to supplement state appropriations. But Rep. Morris Hood, one of the bill's sponsors, said Blanchard will probably veto the bill if the Senate passes it. Shapiro adds to U i By MARTHA SEVETSON minority affairs, and the upcoming University President Harold retirement of Vice President and Shapiro, who will become the Chief Financial Officer James President of Princeton University in Brinkerhoff. January, heads a list of admin - Vice President for Governmental istrative vacancies that the Univer - Relations Richard Kennedy does not sity needs to fill. feel the number of vacancies will Currently, there is one empty increase the pressure to fill the seat on the Board of Regents, an president's position. "Vacancies unfilled position of vice provost for occur here all the time," he said. "°h nvriA n nn n m~ Uacancies Affairs and Provost James Duder - considered the state's leading public According to Hood, the House stadt said that his office would face University. See GOVERNOR, Page 2 greater responsibilities to run the University in the transition period. t i "We'll face far more of a challenge Hart aband to maintain continuity," he said.d n a p i i Duderstadt denied reports that he DENVER (AP) - Gary Hart, his These sources, who asked not to is interested in replacing Shapiro. front-running campaign crippled by be identified by name, said Hart Despite the importance of the questions about his personal life, is campaign manager Bill Dixon and numerous vacancies, Susan Lip - withdrawing from the race for the other aides were telephoning support - surormvacaieSa Lp-, 1988 Democratic presidential nomi - ers of the former senator with the said that a search for Shapiro's nation, party sources said yesterday. news of the decision to withdraw. successor would take precedence The former Colorado senator set Hart has been the prohibitive over efforts to fill the other the announcement this morning at front-runner in the early maneuvering his home in Troublesome Gulch near for the party's presidential nomi - See REGENTS, Page 2 Denver. See HART, Page 13 q |Officials Faculty nilitlateS search for president By MARTHA SEVETSON This week the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs invited faculty members to join a committee to seek University President Harold Shapiro's suc - cessor. The Faculty Committee on the Presidency will serve in conjunction with the Michigan Student Assembly appointed stud - ent committee, along with an alum - R ni panel. MSA and the alumni have not begun to form their commitees. The committees will compile a list of qualifications and nominate candidates for the presidential spot. "The role of the faculty is not to select the person, but to be wise about excluding people they don't want the (Board of Regents) to accept," said SACUA member Charles Lehmann, an education professor. The regents, acting as the Presidential Selection Committee, will interview candidates based on the lists of criteria submitted by the other committees. According to Regent Thomas Roach (D-Saline), the regents will make the final decision after the interviewing process - other committees may also participate in the queries. "The process is essentially the same as in 1966 and 1978," Roach said. the university ias an enormous capability to manage in all their arenas - even if a single office may be empty." Vice President of Academic Doily Photo by JOHN MUNSON Pach Ratanaproeksa, an engineering junior, reads the Campus Cinema Guide yesterday on the steps of Angell Hall. Ratanaproeksa says with classes every day and homework every night, she has more work and less free time than fall or winter terms. studetsdflock to spring courses By SUSAN HARTMUS this year. According Robert Wallin, waitlisted. The school year has ended and director of LSA Checkpoint, To accommodate this increase in many University students have left staying for spring term has become spring enrollment, CRISP officials Ann Arbor for summer jobs, more popular. have been forced to open additional internships, and vacations. But "We haven't been keeping track sections and to increase class size. more than 10,000 students have (of enrollment numbers) in the past The English department, which chosen to brave the CRISP lines because it hasn't been a problem. regularly limits its core sequence once again and confront yet another Now it looks like the Spring is classes to 35-40 students, has term of exams, essays, libraries, getting more crowded," he said. increased some class sizes to meet and late-night studying. Many classes in economics, the increased student demand. Last year 10,087 students philosophy, political science, Wallin added, however, that enrolled for spring term, and psychology, communications, and actual enrollment usually drops CRISP officials expect an increase English are already closed or See RELAXED, Page 10 to name Minority Provost By VICKI BAUER Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost James Duder - stadt plans to announce the appointment of the first University vice provost for minority affairs within the next few days. University President Harold Shapiro elevated the associate vice president for minority affairs to the executive provost level last March as part of the University's six point plan to demonstrate its commit - ment to minorities. The vice provost will work with executive officers, deans, and administrators on issues such as minority recruitment and retention, as well as establish initiatives for ethnic diversity on campus. In addition, the vice provost will decide how to allocate the $1 million Affirmitive Action Initi- ative fund announced last March. "The new vice provost will not only have to implement policy, but also work to unite minority in - terests on campus," said Virginia Nordby, Affirmative Action direc - tor. The only administration position responsible for minorities has been See PROVOST, Page 11