The Michigan Daily-Friday, June 19, 1987- Page 7
Cicadas buzz after 17 yr. burrow
By ELIZABETH ATKINS with muscles to make him sing," the extra protein," Casello said.
What's black with orange, he said. The males use their But the crunchy bugs don't get
stripes, has bulging red eyes, melodies to attract female cicada. munched by people or seagulls
buzzes like a jet engine, considered Shirley Jackson, a fifth-grade before they've had enough time -
a delicacy by many, and hatches by teacher from Dexter, said, "It's kind about two weeks - to lay eggs for
the hundreds of thousands every 17 of disappointing to pick up the the year 2004.
years? females because they don't say After the cicadas mate by
Cicadas, a locust-like insect, are anything." Her fourth- and seventh- connecting abdomens, Casello said,
found all over the country but the grade daughters marvelled at the "The females jab their needle-like
state's only known hatching site is creatures as they picked them off eggs into finger-sized tree stems
in Washtenaw County. each other's clothes. about 100 times." He said the stem
dies, and the larvae inch their way
William Casello, a horticulture However, Casello said neither down into the root of the tree as
agent with the county's male nor female cicadas have long deep as four feet for protection
Cooperative Extension Service - to buzz around the trees. Next week against deadly winter frost where
an agricultural agency, led about over 200 seagulls will swoop down they burrow for 17 years.
150 excited cicada watchers on last on the forest for a grand feast, he Casello said he has been
Saturday into a heavily wooded area said. studying this batch of cicadas, with
near Domino's Farms to "ooh" and But seagulls aren't the only ones the help of University researchers,
"aah" as they dodged the buzzing who like to munch on the bugs. since April before they hatched. He
critters. Many humans consider cicadas a also studied the last batch of cicadas
Bravely holding a cicada between delicacy - deep fried, in tacos, in 1970.
his fingers, Casello peeled back the sauteed in butter, mixed with sugar Casello said the bugs are
creature's crisp outer layers to and cinnamon, raw, marinated in sometimes called 17-year-locusts,
expose the male's white, ribbed wine, in tempura, and even dipped but cicadas are not locusts. They
organ which makes him sing. in chocolate. suck juice out of tree leaves, but
"Only the males sing. They all fly "The years when the cicadas otherwise the only damage the
to one tree and synchronize. (A hatched, the American Indians insects cause is the female's egg-
male's) whole abdomen is filled would have two babies because of laying technique.
Doily Photo by JOHN MUNSON
Three-year-old Elizabeth Smith examines, but does not touch, a cicada
resting on her father's hand Saturday near Domino's Farms. The inch-
long cicadas hatch every 17 years, and the only hatching site in Michigan
is in Washtenaw County.
Enrollment conflict splits many on role of University
By MARTHA SEVETSON
The University may soon have to make a
priority decision between its responsibilities
to tax-paying in-state students and a financial
incentive to admit a growing number of out-
of-state students.
For several years, the University appears
to have given out-of-state students preference
in admissions because of the excess revenue
their higher tuition brings to the general
budget. Currently out-of-state students com-
prise 36.5 percent of the student body and
pay $5,200 more than each in-state student.
But an amendment tacked onto the state
Senate's higher education appropriations bill
is trying to change that admissions policy.
Directed at the University, the proposed
law would force state colleges and univer-
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privileges think they will lose their
rights.
There is a strong desire,
however, for personal and system
exploration among the adminis-
trators, Jackson added.
In the future, Jackson hopes to
meet with staff and student groups.
Housing directors plan to address
' the racial issue with incoming
students at summer orientation, Baily
according to Sally Johnson of the Cons
University Affirmative Action lunc
office. racis
sities to give priority to "qualified Michigan
students" over out-of-state applicants.
"The education of Michigan students is
the highest priority - they're the people
paying the taxes," said State Rep. Morris
Hood (D-Detroit), who said he would
support the bill when it comes before the
House in the next couple of weeks.
University Regent Paul Brown (D-
Petoskey) said that the benefits of admitting
out-of-state students outweigh the problem
of limited space for in-staters.
"It's not as if all in-state students stay
here forever and all out-of-state students run
off home," Brown said.
State Senator Lana Pollack (D-Ann
Arbor), who adamantly opposed the amend-
ment, said that admitting all "qualified" in-
state students is not the answer. "I hear that
complaint every year," Pollack said. "Some-
body's always disappointed'that their child
can't get into Michigan."
The University will be working with the
House/Senate conference committee on the
bill this summer to attempt to reach a
compromise.
If the University cuts out-of-state enroll-
ment, it will be even more dependent upon
the state allocation to balance the budget.
Because state funding sources are already
limited, a higher allocation may not be
possible.
According to Social Work Prof. William
Birdsall, a member of the Budget Priorities
Committee, the dramatic decrease in funding
from out-of-state students would lead to
heavily increased tuition across-the-board.
"Clearly out-of-state tuition is spent on
very important things," Birdsall said. "We
have to lower the quality of teaching, or we
have to get more money from somewhere."
Brown agreed, "The deficit would have to
be made up somehow. The legislature is not
going to make it up."
Pollack thinks the University should cut
out-of-state enrollment to one-third, but that
the legislature should not set a limit. "The
regents argue that they have the authority to
make that decision, and I agree," she said.
"The University needs to decide what they
think is a reasonable level and hopefully
convince the legislature that the policy was
made with the best interests of the entire
state in mind."
Two 'U' professors win
national research grant
By MELISSA RAMSDELL
Two University researchers
together received roughly $500,000
for the non-restrictive MacArthur
Fellowship awarded Tuesday by the
John and Catherine MacArthur
Foundation.
Political Science Prof. Robert
Axelrod and Anthropology Prof.
Richard Wrangham were among the
32 people in the nation selected to
receive the $2.4 billion grant,
which was first given in 1981. The
award grew out of the foundation's
interest in "supporting very creative
individuals in our society," Ted
Hearne, a MacArthur Foundation
spokesperson said.
"It's an organization that is-
looking to make a significant differ -
ence in those areas it has selected as
priorities," he added.
Both researchers were pleased
with the flexibility of the award be -
cause it does not require a final re -
port or specify how the funds
should be used.
Recipients, selected by 100 an-
onymous nominators from various
fields across the country, are re -
viewed by a separate selection com-
mittee and finally approved by the
foundation's board of directors.
Wrangham was awarded
$245,000 over the next five years
and said he plans to use the money
to study animals in Africa as well
as compare primates and dolphins
in Australia.
Hearne said the MacArthur
Foundation formed after the death of
John MacArthur in 1978 and sup -
ported work in such areas as mental
health, international peace, environ -
mental concerns, aging, and Chica -
go cultural and community organ-
izations.
Johnson and Edithe Seashore, advisors from the New Perspectives
ulting firm-an organization which meets with the press at a
ieon to discuss a possible solution for the University's problems with
sm.,