.. THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 25,196-1 THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 25, 1983 AYE-NOT NATIONS: Mahalanobis Cites Development Plan By ALAN Z. SHULMAN Underdeveloped countries must k a long way ahead when plan- g their economies," Prasanta C. halanobis, director of the In- n Statistical Institute and an risor to Prime Minister Jawa- :lal Nehru, said yesterday. rhey must achieve a balance' ong various economic factors: or, electricity, distribution fa- ties, machinery and natural re- trces while "looking 15-20 years........ Mahalanobis said "It is not the Immediate demand that is im- portant, it is where you want to g." Sophisticated economic theory is the major obstacle to this goal. Steel Production He mentioned India's effort to raise her steel production from one million to two million tons as asi example in which a "sophis- ticated projection of India's steel producing capacity would have kept steel production under one million tons for 500 years." "Nehru was the only important leader thirty years ago who tried to put an economic program into the platform of the Congress Party," he said. The planning commission established in 1937 was "set up as a fad of Nehru's." No Great Need Even as late as 1951, most poli- tical leaders did not think the need was great enough to increase steel capacity. By 1953, opinion began to change when India re- alized she must have steel to raise her standard of living. Mahalanobis emphasized the length of time needed by under- developed countries to expand their capacity to produce. "Consumer goods, given unlimit- ed foreign currency will take at least one year to produce," he said. Steel mills, from their con- struction to full-time production, might take fifteen years. "But if it takes ten years, you have to think ahead twenty," he added. Even in U.S. "Even in the United States, you can't do it quickly," Mahalanobis said. He cited projections showing that the United States would need ten years to match the rate of engineers graduating each year in the USSR. Commenting on the effect that Chinese attacks were having on India's development, Mahalanobis noted that national produce has increased because of the close- ness that this capacity has to the defense effort. "To increase capa- city is economic development, even ARGAN IZATON NOTICES Cercle Francas, Baratin, Sept. 26, 3-5 p.m., 3050 Frieze Bldg. a * * }German Club, Coffee Hour-German Conversation, Music, Singing. Refresh- ments, "Herzlich wilkommen," 3-5 p.m., 4072 FB; Film: Carl Zuckmayers classic conedy, "The Captain from Koepenick,' (English subtitles), 8:30 p.m., UGLI, Multipurpose Rm.; Sept. 25. La Sociedad Hispanica, Primera Re- union Canciones espanolas e lispano- americanas miercoles, Sept. 25, 8 p.m., 3050 FB. * * a Sigma Alpha Eta (Nat'l. Soc. for Speech Correction Majors), Get-Ac- quaiuted Tea, Sept. 25, 4 p.m., Univ. Speech Clinic, l111 Catherine. Everyone welcome. * * * Univ. Lutheran Chapel, Midweek De- ,voti, conducted by. Vicar John Koe- nig, Sept. 25, 10 p.m., 1511 Washtenaw. * * * Univ. of M. Rifle Club, Meeting, Sept. 25, 7-10 p.m., ROTC Rifle Range (S. Forest across from Tennis courts); New shooters welcome. * * * Ukranian Students' Club, Meeting, Sept. 26, Union, Rm. 3K. PRASANTA C. MAHALANOBIS4 . ..planned economies that part which is wasted," he said. Comparing French, Soviet and Indian planning he noted that "Indian planning is somewhat nearer to Soviet planning." French Planning In France, planning began after science was established and its social revolution had long since been over. In contrast, India, like the USSR, has had to "push her- self up from a low level of living. However, her many religious and linguistic subdivisions prevent In- dia from "freeing all her human resources in the most effective way.") Stressing the importance of scientific research for economic advancement, Mahalanobis com- mented that, in India, "those who make decisions are not entirely aware of its importance. Without establishing the base of science, no economic development is possible." Group Picks'U' As Focal Point In School Study (Continued from Page 1) The program's first phase is the collection of detailed social, edu- cational, psychological and physi- cal data on a sample of approxi- mately 700 children, representing various socio-economic and age groups. Clinical Appraisal From systematic analysis of this information in the summer of 1964 and a clinical appraisal of the nature and extent of pupil learning and adjustment problems, the center in the second phase would design a series of demon- stration programs inpupil person- nel services for field testing. Also for 1964, the proposal calls for a series of work conferences intend- ed to provide information to in- terested persons and institutions in the Midwest. For the third phase, beginning in the summer or fall of 1965, the center would institute its pre- viously designed demonstration programs at some schools. Finally, the center would con- duct a research examination on an interdisciplinary basis of the ultimate effects of service pro- grams upon the health, behavior and welfare of children in class- rooms and community. At least two regional conferences will be held as a means of accomplishing these goals. 'U' Origins The origins of the University grant go back to nearly two years when a group of representatives from several professions involved in work with children discussed provisions for services to school age children, Prof. Cutler explain- ed. The group soon became formal and named itself IRCOPPS. It met shortly with the National In- stitute of Mental Health, which had similar interests through its concern with students with mental health problems. As a result, IRCOPPS received a grant of more than one million dollars from NIMH for activities over a five-year period ending, in 1967. The activities mainly con- sist of setting up regional centers, such as presently exist at the Uni- versity of Texas, Maryland and California at Los Angeles. SGC Forum' To Feature{ Candidates, By LAURENCE KIRSHBAUM Student Government Council's, Election Committee is organizing a series of speaker meetings for SGC candidates, according to elections director Nina Dodge, '64 BAd. Featured among these speaker meetings will be an SGC foruma entitled "Candidates Speak Out", to be held Oct. 6 in the Union Ballroom. It will be sponsored by the Council ex-officio organiza- tions in conjunction with the elec- tions committee. This forumwill afford each candidate four minutes to speak, the first two minutes on a pre- arranged topic, Miss Dodge said. She explained that the forum will conclude with an open-end question and answer period. The SGC speaker program also includes the Young Democrats candidates meeting of Sept. 26, Miss Dodge added. She noted that Interfraternity Council is nterviewing candidates on Sept. 29. The International Students Association will question the candidates on the afternoon of Oct. 3, while Inter-Quadrangle Council will hold its speaker meet- ing that evening. Miss Dodge also announced that sign-up sheets for students inter- ested in being poll workers are currently .posted around campus. The speaker program is also in- cluding visits by the candidates to fraternity and sorority houses, dormitories, co-operatives and Graduate Student Council. There are currently 10 candi- dates running for eight seats, two of which are for half-year terms. Medical Center Appoints Lewis Miss Florence M. Lewis. an or- dained Presbyterian minister, has been appointed assistant chaplain for the Medical Center, She is possibly the first woman to hold a full-time chaplaincy in a gen- eral hospital in the United States. Miss Lewis was assistant direc- tor bf field education at McCor- mick Theological Seminary, Chi- cago, before coming here in April, 1962, to serve as resident chaplain. 'U' Researchers Imply Link Of Viruses to Deformities Center Wins Gold Award' Virus infections which reach an unborn child through his mother's bloodstream may be the cause of birth defects, Professors Thomas N. Evans of the Medical School and Gordon C. Brown of the public health school said yesterday. A study begun in 1959 under National Science Foundation sup- . Long Selects 'U' Professors As Advisors By MARY LOU BUTCHER Professors Roger C. Cramton and Frank E. Cooper of the Law School were selected by Sen. Ed- ward V. Long (D-Mo) Monday to serve as members of a board of consultants on the revision of the federal Administrative Pro- cedure Act. The 20-member board of con- sultants, including professors of administrative law from various universities throughout the coun- try, will advise a special Senate subcommittee, chaired by Long, on revising the law which prescribes the procedures to be followed by federal regulatory agencies. "Basically, the work of the sub- committee will be to improve the fairness and expedition of the administrative proceedings of the government agencies," Prof. Cram- ton said. These include licensing procedures, rate proceedings, gov- ernment claims and government contracts. For some time, many people have felt that there was a need to revise the act, which was en- acted in 1946, he pointed out. "Although the general standards of the regulatory agencies have always been very high, taking into account developments of the last 15-20 years there is room to make some improvement." Various bills have already been proposed to amend the act, Prof. Cramton noted. The board of con- sultants will study the drafts of these proposals and make recom- mendations to the subcommittee on the pending legislation from their findings. Prof. Cramton said that the initial phases of study and recom- mendations will probably be com- pleted by the end of the year. port to which Brown and Evans contribute work has placed four viruses "under suspicion" of caus- ing fetal damage, while many more are being investigated. If final results show a definite correlation between these viruses and birth defects such as in the case of German measles, the next step would be to develop vaccines to immunize pregnant women against the organisms. Research originally consisted of screening 23,898 birth records at University Hospital from 1939 to 1959. It was determined that de- fective male babies outnumber their female counterparts by 40- 60 per cent. Another fact which turned up was that 17 out of 20 mothers who gave birth to mongoloid chil- dren had Type A blood, a type which occurs only 10 per cent of the time in the general population. PROF. GORDON C. BROWN ... birth defects During the second phase, blood samples of pregnant women were taken periodically and the volun- teers were asked to keep day-by- day maternal diaries in which they record any and all periods of illness. Viruses of types Coxcackie A-9, B-2, B-4 and ECHO-9 were two- and-a-half to six times more fre- quent during pregnancy in women who gave birth to defective babies than in those who had normal births. For Studies For establishing a program tailored to the needs of emotion- ally disturbed teenagers, the ado- lescent service of the Neuropsy- chiatric Institute received yester- day the Gold Award, the highest achievement citation given by the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Willard J. Hendrickson, chief of the adolescent service since its inception in 1952, credit- ed success to the acknowledge- ment that therapeutic techniques traditionally used with adults sim- ply are not appropriate to the needs of teenagers. "Adolescents are expending so much energy in growing up that they cannot af- ford to expend psychic energy on any elective treatment of symp- toms and conflicts." The University program is the only one of its kind in at least two respects: it is administratively in- dependent, and not, like most other adolescent services, a subdi- vision either of the children's or of the adult service; and it pro- vides inpatient treatment for both boys and girls which is extensive and long-term. At present 19 boys and girls be- tween the ages of 14 and 17 are being treated as inpatients in a semi-open unit which, the associa- tion said, emphasizes pleasant surroundings and de-emphasizes security. The average period of hospital- ization has been extended from four months, in the early years of the service, to more than a year. Dr. Hendrickson said that of 400 inpatients treated to date about 80 per cent have been discharged to nonpsychiatric group living such as- in boarding schood, col- lege and military service. About 15 per cent are referred on for further psychiatric hos- pitalization. No more than five per cent are discharged to their homes, Dr. Hendrickson said. HICHIGRAS: Committee To Fill Posts For Carnival Petitioning is now open for the Michigras Central Committee and a mass meeting will be held in Roomrn3R of the Union at 7:30 p.m. today. Petitioning is open to sopho- mores, juniors and seniors. Some of the committees which must be filled are: publicity, amusements, booth3 and parades. The carnival event, held bien- nially, is co-sponsored by the Women's Athletic Association and the Union. It begins with a parade down State Street Friday after- noon. Housing units divide into teams which compete for prizes in float-building and booths. Yoist Fieldhouse is the setting for a carnival midway Friday and Saturday nights. The climax of the weekend, and a year's work, is late Saturday evening when the prize floats and booths are announced. Michigras started as a county fair n i1902. The project was then sponsored by the M' Club and the WAA. A parade was added to the project three years after its founding, and the event came to resemble its present form. The name Michigras was first applied in 1937. Then, as now, all profits from the event go to charity. Michigras has been a notable financial success in past years. University President and Mrs. Harlan Hatcher will hold a stu- dent tea in their home today from 4-6 p.m. Indian Economist . .. Prof. Prasanta C. Mahalanobis,. secretary of the Indian Statisticall Institute, will speak on 'The Use of Fractile Graphical Analysis for the Interpretation of Socio- Economic and Biometric Data in India" at 4 p.m. today in Rm. 2233, Angell Hall. Public Speaking,. Prof. Keith Brooks of Ohio State University's speech department will discus how to be effective in conversation, discussion, public speaking and oral reading at 6:30 a.m. tomorrow on channel 4 on the University Television Center's "Speak Up" series. Hirt Tickets .. . Block ticket sales for the Uni- versity Marching Band's annual Varsity' Night, this year featuring Across Campus trumpeter Al Hirt, begin today at the Hill Aud. ticket office. Pro- ceeds from the concert to be held Oct. 4 at 8:30 p.m., will go to supplement the band's budget and make it possible for the band to make more out-of-town appear- ances. General ticket sales begin Monday. Hospitals* . . Prof. Lawrence A. Hill of the School of Business Administration announced yesterday that a study of the role of a voluntary state- wide agency in the planning of hospitals and related health fa- cilities in Michigan will be con- ducted by the Bureau of Hospital Administration of the University Graduate School of Business Ad- ministration. DIAL 26264] E E U IT "LAWRENCE" Is Certainly the Most Intelligent of the Epic-Spectaculars!" -David Zimmerman, Mich. Daily w COLLEGE ROUNDUP: WMU Opens Honors Program By Intercollegiate Press KALAMAZOO-Western Michi- gan University is establishing an honors college for outstanding stu- dents who are interested in un- usual opportunities and privileges, President James W. Miller an- nounced here recently. A major requirement of all stu- dents in the honors college will be the continuance of an intensive reading program, completing or an original paper, work of art or the like, and, as a senior, undergoing a rigorous oral examination. "The honors college is primarily an enterprise to closely associate students, subject and staff," Sam- uel I. Clark, director of honors, said. "The honors college student is expected to pursue a program of general education, a major area of intellectual interest, and a minor area of intellectual interest. "He will be urged to pursue basic intellectual skills such as com- munication, clear thinking, lan- guages and mathematics. We will also advise that he acquire esthe- tic skills, and insights in the vis- ual, musical and literary arts. "The ultimate objective of the honors college is the cultivation of young men and women who will excel in all dimensions of human excellence." Prof. Clark also points out that along with the added academic responsibilities, the honors college students will enjoy certain pre- rogatives such as specially arrang- ed programs of study; special courses of individual study, read- ing and research; exemption from certain course requirements, pre- requisites, and restrictions; prior- ity in enrollment and use of re- search equipment; exemption from adminstrative limitations on num- bers of hours of enrollment in a semester and in a subject; and greater consideration in housing and working. BOSTON-It will probably never replace the "coffee break," but at Boston University a unique "dis- cussion break" has captured the interest, of a group of students, faculty and staff personnel. The Informal Education Pro- gram, as the "break" is known of- ficially, is a plan designed pri- marily to create a broad intel- lectual environment and bring down some of the barriers to com- munication between students, fac- ulty and administrative personnel in, areas not usually considered academic. For six consecutive weeks, pro- fessors and students meet for 90 minutes in informal discussion groups on a first-name basis. Sub- jects of discussion are chosen by members spontaneously. E a c h group has 12 members, two of whom serve as co-leaders. Their role is to probe, summarize and held the group evaluate its pro- gress. An integral aspect of the over- all program is the participating leaders' workshops, conducted weekly for a period of six weeks and attended by group leaders. They are designed to explore some of the problems encountered by participating leaders during group experiences. * * * LAWRENCE, Kan.-A Western- Eastern Civilization program, sim- lar in structure to the University of Kansas' 17-year-old Western Civilization course, is being pre- pared by that university on a $177,000 grant from the Ford Foundation. Eventually, this new program may be offered as a substitute for the present Western Civilization study, according to Associate Dean Francis Heller of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The grant is designed to aid in develop- ing new international education courses. The experiment with a Western. Eastern Civilization program will continue for three years. The university will introduce two new internationally-oriented courses this fall, four in the spring of 1964 and four more the follow- ing fall. . One possibility for a new course would be an introduction to soci- ology with an Oriental slant. Such a course would aim at achieving a more "universal description of so- cial . structure," Prof. Norman Jacobs said. I ....- DIAL 8-6416 SHOWS AT 7-9 P.M. 1 ="' rn U- ~b- C,3 mr +U- 1 I- I- zm -I Interested in Student Activities ? The "Activities at Michigan" Booklet Is Being Distributed Now Student Offices-2nd Floor, Michigan Union ) , I was down in the dumps 11 . ; ;:, ; l } 'ti . till I became a y~.J ' f ' i. .v t, {j< POLL WORKER 1 I. Elm- mil Mil 1 IMIMI (I MillIllm. 1 I I I I I I _ _ - - II 1