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Sh ies such as the regents must an-
e a rc nounce all meetings when more than
a quorum is present. The FOIA re-
Continued from Page 1 quires that public bodies release pub-
and less than 12 candidates remain. lic documents upon request.
Brown, who has not discussed candi- Judge Ross Campbell of the
dates in the past, said he would nei- Washtenaw County Circuit Court
ther confirm nor deny a possible offer yesterday heard arguments from at-
to Gregorian. torneys representing the News and
However, a law suit to open the the regents. He did not say when he
search - which the regents are con- would announce a decision.
ducting in private - may end specu- Brown said the pending law suit
lation about the next president. The would not affect the search process.
Ann Arbor News last Friday filed a "We are neither speeding up or slow-
law suit against the regents, alleging ing it down because of the lawsuit,"
the regents have violated Michigan's he said.
Open Meetings Act and the Freedom Ed Hood, the attorney representing
of Information Act. The Detroit Free the News, said at the hearing that the
Press joined the suit yesterday. regents have violated the public
The OMA states that public bod- meetings act by meeting unan-
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candidates. Hood argued that a sub-
committee of four regents, formed to
review applications of candidates and
decide the final candidates, had vio-
lated the act by having telephone
conversations with the remaining
four regents in closed session.
Roderick Daane, the attorney rep-
resenting the regents, denied that the
nominating committee violated the
OMA. "That's not so," he said last
night. "Their facts are wrong."
Daane said opening the interview
process would scare away applicants
and would "eliminate the best quali-
fied people from the race." He said
four candidates are under considera-
tion for high-level posts at other
universities and that one finalist
withdrew his application upon hear-
ing his name may have been re-
vealed.
Hood argued that closed interviews
do not ensure each candidate will re-
ceive fair and equal treatment. But
Daane disagreed: "If any of the candi-
dates had asked for a public inter-
view, they would have gotten one.
Didn't happen."
Hood said the regents had also vi-
olated the FOIA. The News requested
the regents' travel records under the
act, but received the records with the
destinations deleted. But Daane said
the law justified the exemption of
such information because disclosure
of the destinations would "lead to
unwarranted speculation.
"Clearly, it is the privacy of the
candidate that concerns the regents,"
Daane said. "Travel destinations are
fairly dull stuff."
DeZazzo said the regents narrowed
the initial list of more than 200 can-
didates down to five about three
weeks ago. Since that time, he said,
the regents have conducted "rigorous"
interviews with all the finalists in
Ann Arbor. The suit has not acceler-
ated the selection process, he added.
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passed a $96.1 million budget
Monday night in a bipartisan
compromise that differed little
from City Administrator Godfrey
Collins' original proposal.
The major budget change was
the allocation of $267,000 for a
Substance Abuse program, which
would combine prevention, treat-
ment, and enforcement to fight
Ann Arbor's crack and cocaine
problems. -
The program will create 15 new
city positions, including two new
police officers for neighborhoods
hit hardest by drug problems.
In order to create the funds for
the hiring of new positions and the
Substance Abuse program, the
council asked Collins to cut .5
percent from the total funding for
city departments.
Most councilmembers were
satisfied with the new budget.
"It was an even-handed com-
promise; everybody got a little and
everybody gave a little," said
Councilmember Ann Marie Cole-
man (D- First Ward).
Councilmember Tom Richard-
son (R-Fifth Ward) was not
wholly pleased with the budget
compromise. He said he would
have liked more money allocated
for the police department and road
maintenance.
Councilmember Jeff Epton (D-
Third Ward) said the city does not
need more police officers, since
that department is "no more
understaffed than any other func-
tion in the city." He stressed that
more money should have been al-
located for human services.
- Alyssa Lustigman
Tuition increase
Though the University may
have to raise tuition as much as 10
percent because of a decrease in
state funding, University officials
say there will be no drastic
changes within departments.
Vice President for Government
Relations Richard Kennedy said,
"There will be subtle changes as
each (department) decides their pri-
orities and what they have to stop
doing."
Associate Vice President for
Academic Affairs Robert Holbrook
said, "This year, because of the
tight budget, we are starting out
without extra requests (from de-
partments). We are focusing on the
best salary program (for University
faculty and staff)."
The University budget will be
finalized this summer after the
state Senate, the House and the
governor agree on a specific ap-
propriation - about 241 million,
according to the Senate's Higher
Education Appropriations bill. The
House Appropriation Higher Edu-
cation Sub-committee will con-
tinue negotiating the bill next
Wednesday.
James Duderstadt explained
some of the reasons for rising tu-
ition in a presentation to the Uni-
versity's Board of Regents last
Friday.
For the first time in University
history, tuition revenues may
equal state funds by 1990, accord-
ing to Duderstadt's report.
Duderstadt outlined the differ-
ence in tuition costs of other top
Universities, such as Harvard,
Dartmouth, and Berkeley. The re-
port said tuition increases are nec-
essary to maintain the University's
quality and reputation as a presti-
gious institution.
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