Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, May 27, 1988 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- tLilIchief The Student's Restaurant We specialize in serving traditional American breakfasts We also serve the following: " Hamburgers * Cold Sandwiches " Fallafel " Mexican Dishes " Hoagies " Humus " Fried chicken " Babaghnooj Open 7 days a week, 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. 808 S. State St. 662-2028 between Hill & Packard for pick-up nounced in full session to discuss 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. See ChoicePge10 Welcome Students! - DISTINCTIVE COLLEGIATE HAIRSTYUNGfor Men & Women - 6 HAIRSTYUSTS DASCOLA STYLISTS 'p~J~~s Mpe illage 65-532 s 71-2733 FULL PRIVILEGE ADULT NAUTILUS CLUB MEMBERSHIPS JUST $25.00 PER MONTH ANN ARBOR'"Y' 350 S. FIFTH AVE. 663-0536 IN BRIEF Compiled from Staff Reports I City Budget- The Ann Arbor City Council 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. 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