Activists to present petition against mobile missiles BY CHERYL WISTROM Members of the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy/ National Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign (SANE/FREEZE) will present a pe- tition with 25,000 signatures of Michigan residents who oppose they installation of the MX missile rail garrison to Senator Carl Levin's Detroit office on Tuesday. Authorization for the mobile missile installation, which would be based at Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Oscoda but be moved around* the state on railroad tracks in an ef- fort to avoid detection is in the Defense Authorization Bill, which has passed committees in both the state House and Senate and may be voted on as early as next week. An amendment to the defense bill banning the mobile MX missiles1 has been introduced in the House by U.S. Representative Dennis M. Hertel of Michigan. SANE/FREEZE is hoping that Levin will introduce a similar amendment in the Senate, said Linda West, the group's director. Both Levin and Senator Donald Reigle are opposed to the rail garri- son, said Thomas Morse, Canvass Manager of SANE/FREEZE. The petition is being presented to Levin because he is on the Armed Services Committee. SANE/FREEZE opposes the mobile missiles because they believe that as well as being expensive and a further build-up of weapons that will impede progress in arms control talks, the garrisons are especially vulnerable to accidents and will en- danger the health and safety of citi- zens who live anywhere near where they are transported, said West. The Michigan site is one of ten nominated in the bill. About 50 missiles that are now in silos in the west will probably be moved, said West. The program is expected to cost $13-15 billion dollars over the next 15 years. West believes that "Carl Pursell might be a swing vote" on the rail garrison issue. Pursell, the U.S. Rep. who cov- ers the district including Ann Arbor, "is still studying that proposal," said Gary Cates, an assistant in his Detroit office. Read the Daily! The Michigan Daily-Friday, July 21,1989-Page 3 Picketers urge pizza boycott BY ANN EVELETH were unable to speak with As employees and visitors drove Monaghan, but were assured that he out of Domino Pizza World would receive the demands. Headquarters Tuesday, they were met The demands of the coalition are by about 60 picketers organized as that Monaghan, "stop socially irre- the Coalition to Boycott Domino's sponsible and environmentally un- Pizza. sound development; stop funding the Tuesday's protest marked "the of- anti-choice movemeni; make public ficial launching of the national the political agendas of Word of God Domino's Pizza boycott" said and Legatus and the financial support Phyllis Engelbert, member of the they receive from Monaghan, Coalition. Domino's Pizza, Domino's Farms The Coalition includes members Corp. and TSM Properties, Inc.; of the National Organization for Domino's out of Central America; Women, Latin American Solidarity save Tiger Stadium; stop anti-union Committee, Homeless Action practices; stop unfair and discrimina- Committee, Ann Arbor Tenants tory employee practices." Union, Industrial Workers of the The coalition claims that World, Women's Action for Nuclear Domino's Farm Corporation's plans Disarmament, Women's to build an exclusive community of International League for Peace and $1 million homes, a golf course and Freedom, Ann Arbor Committee to country club on the northeast edge of Defend Abortion Rights. Ann Arbor have caused concern to "We are asking consumers to area residents about pesticide run-off vote with their dollars and to exer- into one of the cleanest streams in cise the right they still have - the the area, which runs through the right to buy other pizza," said Jan Botanical Gardens. Bendour, president of the Washtenaw Domino's Public Relations NOW chapter. Director, Ron Hanks claimed that all Coalition members delivered the zoning regulations are being fo! - groups' demands to Monaghan. They see Domino's Page 10 Picketers at Domino's world heaquarters say that buyers "are getting ingredients they didn't bargain for." w o o o v v - --- -v - Regents to BY TARANEH SHAFII The cost of higher education will skyrocket once again. Today the University's Board of Regents is expected to approve another increase in tuition for University students. "We are proposing a 9.6 percent increase for Michigan residents and a 10 percent increase for non-residents," said Charles Vest, provost and vice-president for academic affairs. This means that residents will be paying an extra $138 each term and non-residents will be adding $496 to their tuition each term. These figures increase as students- begin their third year at the University. United Coalition Against Racism member and second year medical student Kim Smith voiced concern that "anytime you raise tuition you make it more difficult for Black students and other students of color who are more likely to be economically disadvantaged to come to the University." But Regent Deane Baker (R-Ann Arbor) pointed out that the proposed budget also in- creases financial aid by about 10 percent. Smith said that while the University claims that it raises financial aid as it increases tu- ition, there has been a shift in federal funding which has forced students to take out more loans than grants. The decision to raise tuition comes with the pending appropriation of state funds to higher education institutions. A budget has to be de- cided by the regents today in order to ensure ac- tion by September. While no specific figures will be released by the state until early next week, a 4.5-5 per- cent increase in state appropriated funds is pro- approve tuition today jected. This figure is a percent higher than originally expected. "While we are optimistic, " said Richard Kennedy, vice-president for governmental rela- tions, "there is always an element of indefi- niteness for specific numbers for specific insti- tutions." President James Duderstadt added that while it is the case that state revenues have increased it is also expected that inflation will increase by over 6 percent. In past years state appropriations have ex- ceeded the revenue of student tuition and fees but with this year's proposed University bud- get the trend will be reversed. Tuition rates for the Business Administration and the Law School are ex- pected to increase by 12 percent for both resi- dents and non-residents. Vest attributed the higher increase percent- age in these schools because the "income po- tential of those students upon graduation is higher." Regent Thomas Roach (D-Saline) stated that "economic choices should not indicate what a student studies." "Not everyone of our law students walks into a $60,000 a year job and not every medi- cal student earns $150,000 after finishing their residency," he said. As compared with other Big Ten schools the University is at the high end for tuition and the low end for state funding, said Vest. Last July the regents authorized a 12 per- cent undergraduate tuition increase and an in- crease of up to almost 19 percent at some graduate levels. Today the regents are also expected to make a decision about the 1989-90 budget for the Michigan Student Assembly. The MSA proposed a 49 cent increase in charge per student each term to compensate for an accrued debt of $60,000 over the past four years. "We looked at this prudently and thought this was a reasonable budget," said Vice- President for Student Services Henry Johnson. MSA President Aaron Williams said MSA has tried four times to get the budget passed. "Every time we get near the budget, the re- gents get side-tracked with something else," he said. Concern was raised by Regent Neal Neilson (R-Brighton) and Regent Roach over the source of the capital needed to repay the debt. "We're taxing the students for past mis- management of fees by MSA," said Nielson. To prevent such deficits in the future Johnson submitted a list of recommendations to improve financial control of MSA. If approved the policies will include annual external audits, monthly budgets and financial statements submitted to Johnson. Furthermore, all previously held accounts outside of the University will be terminated. MSA has asked for a loan from the University and if it is approved this morning the assembly will be paying almost $2,000 each month for the next three years with a 9 percent interest rate. Williams said that the deficit happened two MSA administrations ago. Information for this story was also gath- ered by Diane Cook. ! < ' . x f.t