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… Ten Cents lipag=s Carter seeks boost for student aid programs qty. it _ ry By JUDY RAKOWSKY Second in a three-part series The Carter Administration has attempted to counter the flood of tuition tax…

… credit bills in Congress with a proposal to beef up existing federal financial aid programs. The Administration says its plan, unlike the tax credit proposals, will get aid funds to the students who really…

… need them. But Congressional critics say the Carter financial aid proposal would create a ballooning Washington bureaucracy to administer the funds. CARTER'S PROPOSAL, called the Middle Income Student…

… Assistance Act, would make federal financial aid available to 60 per cent of college students, according to administration spokespersons. It would boost federal financial aid spending by $3.1 billion a year…

…- ds, amounted to a serious challenge to Begin's refusal to relinquish the oc- cupied West Bank of the Jordan River in the interest of a peace agreement with the Arabs. The estimate of the crowd in City…

… Jewish land from biblical times. The demonstrators waved banners demanding a halt to the building of Jewish settlements in occupied Arab land and calling for more generous territorial concessions. Many of…

… when 300 war veterans signed a petition to Begin urging him to be flexible toward the Arabs. Begin responded that the veterans were a minority compared with the Israelis who elected him last May, and…

… Production/Full Moon Production Rigorous academic standards boost SATs WASHINTON (AP) - Rigorous academic standards and an avoidance of fads seem to be the secret of success for high schools whose students…

… are bucking a trend toward lower scholastic aptitude test scores. That's the conclusion of the National Association of Secondary School Prin- cipals, which studied 34 high schools whose students have…

…' that they considered important to the success of their college-bound students," said the study which was released here late last week. THE REPORT said the school of- ficials involved relied on tough…

… strongly supported the emphasis on rigorous academic work, the principals' study said. SOME SCHOOLS that successfully maintained high score did so only with a special effort to encourage student enrollment…

… contrast, the report said, schools with severely declining test scores showed a sharp drop n enrollment in geometry and advanced math classes, and they "moved determinedly" toward mixing students of all…

… decline up until 1970 was due to a jump in the num- ber of minor.ity and other disadvan- taged students taking the SATs. But since 1970, it said, the decline was "vir- tually across the board, affecting…

… Iranian 'students, who have participated in a hunger strike since Tuesday night, say they're fit and will continue their fast until demands of Iranian political prisoners are met. The students, members of…

… want to see social change and social enrichment." Juergens said through SABRE, the government could hold a "profit-making venture and direct the money to preparing projects to "enrich the student body…

…." SPAK HAS ALSO spent the past term on LSA-SG and said she is running for social change. "Too mahy students come to the University with set goals. The students must become aware of other options," she…

… says. Spak is in- terested in working with the ad- ministration and wants to see affir- mative action goals enforced with more student voice in government. Stechuk has served LSA-SG for a year and has…

… student government used for that purpose. Stechuk also served on the committee to change the distribution requirements and worked on a new set of grievance procedures. "We developed college- wide procedures…

… that students can use. It will take some of the burden off students who have justifiable grievan- ces," he said. - ALL THE candidates agree that the University is not doing the job on minority…

… the president's linkage of jet sales to Israel with jet sales to Arab countries. He supports Begin's position that the agreement reached with between Israel and the United States happened independently…

… of any arms agreements between the U.S. and Arab countries. "At the same time there are some things that Mr. Begin has done that has me wondering how serious he is about peace in the Middle East," said…

…- cording to the influential newspaper Al Ahram. Entire committees of the ruling Arab Socialist Party have resigned to join the New Wafd. The leftist Unionist Progressive Nationalist Party has begun to…

… a Cairo University professor. Whatever its consequences for internal Egyptian politics, the New Wafd predictably identifies Palestine as "the paramount Arab issue." "The immediate task to be…

… - had Eighty-Eight Years of Editorial Freedom 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Vol. LXXXVIII, No. 153 News Phone: 764-0552 Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan LETTERS TO THE…

… DAILY Museum staff irks visitors Bursley's little massacre T HE EXPULSION of six Bursley student leaders from dorm housing because they approved the purchase of marijuana for a recent party is a…

… kneejerk reaction by Univer- sity administrators, yet at the same time, an understandable one. The students, all members of the -Bursley Board of Governors, voted to buy $200 worth of pot for a March 31…

… regulations. No one can deny that housing officials had suf- ficient premise on which to terminate the students' leases. House rules are stated explicitly in lease applications, and the University's option to…

… student representative group. The Board of Governor's purchase was unwise in light of current laws, but it simply wasn't an action meriting such harsh penalties. But perhaps there is something to understand…

…Page 4-Friday, April 7, 1978-The Michigan Daily Eighty-Eight Years of Editorial Freedom 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Vol. LXXXVIII, No. 149 News Phone: 764-0552 Edited and managed by students…

… vocabularies of businesses, cities, and most notably, students. Often, default is the only way out for college and vocational students who have received low-interest loans from the federal government for their…

… education, and discover upon graduating that they have neither the funds -nor the employment - to keep abreast of the payments. The - Guaranteed Student Loan program makes it possible for thousands of…

… students to continue their education when they would otherwise have to quit. Last year alone, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) supplied over $1 billion in loans to students. And it was…

… hit with more than $151 million worth of student defaults. In the past ten years, a total of $750. million worth of student loans have been defaulted. The government can only do so much to retrieve that…

… "Saudi army has never played a significant role in an Arab-Israeli war". It fails to realize that during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the Saudis sent a mechanized infantry brigade to the Golan Heights, which…

… students at the University of Michigan LOOKING BACK THE WEEK IN REVIEW Don't delay on LL SPECULATION ended last week with regards to possible Uxiversity-Central Intelligence Agen- cy connections. For…

… long ago as the mid-1960's. Professors in various departments and in the Center for Chinese Studies kept running correspondence with Agency personnel, frequently offering to scrutinize their students as…

… record number of students cast ballots in the student government election, overwhelmingly approving a new, man- datory MSA funding increase. The Campus'Legal Aid Office will receive the bulk of the funds…

… - $1.74 per student per term. If the Regents approve the funding in- crease, the Legal Aid program will expand its legal staff three-fold. The office will now be albe to serve all students, rather than…

… next Assembly president. His SABRE Party captured near majority of the MSA seats. This should give him the clout to fulfill his promise to make MSA a more effective voice for students. In all, some 33…

… Tod Hanson, who has since made provisions for the six students to remain housed throughout the examination period. None of those evicted will be allowed to return to University housing next year. year…

…. Whether or not any of the students fight the action, at least one of them indicated the lease termination should not have been a surprise to them.'The housing leases which the six students had signed con…

… times. In French with subtitles. TUES: BALL OF FIRE (at 7) ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS (at 9) -r(Continued from Page 1) start feeling as if we've made it, because we haven't." Sharon Webb of the Black Student…

… Americans, Asian americans, Arab Americans, Gays, Handicapped People, etc., etc.-in all aspects of American life." Following the final speech, the crowd of demonstrators circled the block, again singing and…

… Page 1) amount to ask." "MSA and LSA student government wrote letters in support of Joel Samoff," said Pam Shubatowski, who has been working with the Un- dergraduate Political Science Association in its…

… support olf the Political Science professor's tenure ap- peal. Samoff has been denied tenure, although some students claim he was one of the most effective teachers in his department. "WHAT MSA has done so…

… Refo, and LSA sophomore. "I resent being told that I have to support MSA." I would hate to see Legal Aid go down the drain, but that's life," she added. Nursing student Karen Heinlen said the field of…

… over 100 candidates is too large for students to act as informed voters. "WHAT I'VE done before is just vote 'or people I know," she said. Although MSA officials say there has been an intense publicity…

… people expressed doubt 'that MSA could accomplish much for students. A few upperclasspersons made references to the Student Gover- nmerit Council which existed several years ago, which has frequently been…

… with students near the top of the priority list, but whether the crop of winners in this week's election can change MSA's near anonymous existence remains to be seen. DISCO Lessons at DAINCE SPACE 3141…

… had leukemia. But the PFLP, a radical group Had- dad helped found, said he died in an Arab country, which was not named. And the Arabic phrase for "acquired martyrdom" is seldom used to indicate death…

… mulfiple hijack in 1970, the massacre at Israel's Lod Airport in 1972, the abduction of Arab oil ministers in 1975 and the aircraft hijackings to Entebbe in 1976 and Mogadishu in 1977. The latter hijackings…

… rug out from them.'" The citizens' group must collect over 250,000 petition signatures to have the proposal placed on the November state- wide ballot. Student volunteers began the drive to obtain…

…'S 1962 LAWRENCE OF ARABIA This bold compelling biography of a British soldier of fortune who goes off to become a leader of Arab Tribesmen during World War I stars PETER O'TOOLE. Also featuring OMAR…

…, engineering, and business. One year appointments, beginning Sept. 1978. Japanese American Citizens League National Scholarship Program for 1978 offers 15 Freshman and 4 Graduate student scholarships ranging…

… on April 21-22 at the Holiday Inn-O'Hare Kennedy. Students are invited to attend at no cost. Additional information available at Career Plan- ning & Placement. SUMMER PLACEMENT 3200 S. A.B.-763…

… medical students in their second or third year of study. Details available. ,MA II AY. APRIL 4 XY MAN! SAY ANDERSON (1973) picturesque tale of an ambitious young s into a movie before your very eyes. rick…

… /IUSICAL %OCIETY presen t THE MICHIGAN DAILY Volume LXXXVIlI,.No. 145 Sunday, April 2, 1978 is edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan. News phone 764-0562. Second class postage is paid…

… group "Chicago." Helter Skelter leads to helter skelter. MILWAUKIE, Ore. - The North Clackamas School Board has agreed to a $4,500 settlement in the case of a 12- year-old student who claimed…

… psychological damage from a course that included the showing of the television movie "Helter Skelter." John Tujo, attorney for the unnamed student, said the girl's parents conten- ded the school district was…

…-year-old Sheik Mohammad S. A. al-Faissi's new house underscores a trend: the Arabs are coming. In the past year, millionaires from the Middle East - mainly from Iran - have purchased homes as well as…

… approaches-bringing-with it a period of heavy book selling by students- ULRICH'S would like to review with you their BUY-BACK POLICY. Used books fall into several categories, each of which-because of the law…

… Student Government (LSA-SG) meeting, last night by half of its members, quorum was not reached, thwarting a move to allow People's Action Coalition (PAC) candidates on the ballot for the up- coming election…

… he had Sunday, that the estimated 30,000 Israelis who demonstrated in Tel Aviv over the weekend, urging Begin to make more concessions to the Arabs, were "wise." WEIZMAN, SADAT continued, "may come…

… Social Change A CONFERENCE I I U I I I I I I I I 1. I r--------- WRITE YOUR AD HERE! Student Newspaper at The University of Michigan Ever ask yourself: How can I find the right job for my needs? Where…