The Michigan Daily-Sunday, December 5, 1982-Page 5 China OKs new constitution PEKING (AP)- China adopted a new constitution yesterday that puts top priority on stability and economic growth and pushes aside Maoist calls for constant turmoil. The document, which replaces a 1978 constitution that embodied the late Chairman Mao Tse-tung's ideas of shakeups to maintain political purity, won 3,037 yes votes in the National People's Congress. There were three abstentions, but no negative votes. AFTER LATE revisions to underscore some of China's major concerns-an independent foreign policy and strong family planning in this nation of 1 billion people-delegates dropped pink ballots in 30 bright red boxes around the hall. China's top leader, Deng Xiaoping, Communist Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang and Premier Zhao Ziyang lined up with other officials to vote at center stage. Ye Jianying, 85, chairman of the congress' stan- ding committee, was not present but put his ballot in a mobile ballot box sent around for aged and infirm delegates, the official Xinhua news agency reported. HE WILL continue to serve as equivalent to head of state until the election by the congress next year of a national president, a post restored by the new con- stitution. Chinese leaders also have acknowledged worries by foreign businessmen, whose investment, technology and management expertise now are sought. The new constitution specifies that China permits foreigners to invest there and will protect "their lawful rights and interests." Xinhua quoted one congress delegate, Zhu Erpei, Communist Party secretary of Shanghai's new Baoshan iron and steel works, as saying, "The Cultural Revolution taught our people how important a constitution is. I'm ready to defend the constitution with my life." It said Rong Yiren, general manager of the China International Trust and Investment Corp., added that the constitution reaffirms China's open-door economic policy and "I am confident that it will promote economic and technical cooperation bet- ween China and other countries." After 1 2years of work, China published a draft of the new constitution in April. Eleanor Roosevelt top first lady in poll' ol-4 NEW YORK (AP)- A poll of historians placed Eleanor Roosevelt at the top of the list of presidents' wives because she "defined what a first lady ought to be in the 20th century," the survey's co-author said yesterday. The variety of Mrs. Roosevelt's in- terests, "her omnipresence, her vitality and her inexhaustible energy, established a benchmark," Siena College professor Thomas Kelly said. NANCY REAGAN, meanwhile, placed 39th of 42 first ladies primarily because "she's following a traditionally 'help-mate' role," Kelly said. Mrs. Reagan also was hurt by "the adverse publicity about her taste. She was seen as not doing anything but living a frivolous and expensive life," he said. Kelly, along with Siena statistics professor Douglas Lonnstrom, presen- ted an analysis of the survey at a con- ference on the role of the first lady sponsored by Hunter College and the Eleanor Roosevelt Institute. The results initially were released Sept. 2. ACCORDING to the survey, the top 10 first ladies were: Mrs. Roosevelt, Abigail Adams, Lady Bird Johnson, Dolly Madison, Rosalynn Carter, Betty Ford, Edith Wilson, Jackie Kennedy, Martha Washington and Edith Roosevelt. Last place in the survey went to Mary Lincoln. Just above here were Florence Harding, Ida McKinley, Mrs. Reagan, Jane Pierce and Pat Nixon. Kelly said the survey suggests "very strongly that college history professors tend to respect relatively strong, 'non- traditional' women in the role of first lady." THAT POINT, he said, is bolstered by Betty Ford's appearance in sixth place. Mrs. Ford, who was active in many causes during her husband's White House tenure, was the only "recent" Republican first ladyto make the upper half of the list, he said. Lonnstrom said he and Kelly sent out 300 questionnaires in March to history department heads at universities and colleges picked at random by com- puter. He said 102 usable responses were returned. POETRY READING with Alexander Blain Corky Bunch & Polly Castor reading from their works Monday, December 6 8:00 pm GUILD HOUSE--802 Monroe Tomorrow.ees something special brewing at Uno's 44 LABATT'S PITCHER AFTER 9 PM A --- - PIZZA BY THE SLICE- $1 .00 I Statue movers AP Photo Using a harness around the neck, workers in Columbus, Oh. lower a bronze statue of Ohio Gov. James Rhodes to the ground yesterday before placing it on a granite pedestal. The statue will be publicly unveiled today. State bonds to fund 'U' hospital LANSING (UPI)- The State Building Authority has approved the largest single investment in state history to be used to finance the con- struction of the 586-bed Replacement *;Hospital Project at the University. The authority has approved the sale of $237.9 million in bonds-at 11.8 percent interest to pay for the project that will finance $140 million of the hospital's $191.5 million cost. An additional $33 million will be provided by the state's general coffers for the site preparation. "I AM extremely pleased we are able to move ahead with modernizing an important part of this medical 'com- munity at this time, as well as to provide badly needed construction jobs," Gov. William Milliken said Friday. Just under half the sale-$100 million-was insured and had the top AAA rating. The rest was sold under lesser A-minus ratings from one agency and BAA from another. A slight improvement in the market allowed underwriters to reprice the bonds and achieve a lower interest cost, William Friend, senior vice president of New York's Blyth Eastman Paine Webber Inc. and financial advisor to the authority said. He added the sale was made during a busy time for the market. DAILY 11:30-2 a.m. FROZEN AND CARRY- 1321 S. UNIVERSITY OUT AVAILABLE ANN ARBOR 769-1894 restaurant and bar BPC: Changing the course of the 'U' (Continued from Page 1) Business School Dean Gilbert Whitaker, who has been on the committee two years. "When you make a public statement you lose your ability to change your mind." ,Under the five-year-plan, the respon- sibilities of the committee have been changing. The issues it deals with have evolved from state aid strategies and general budget advice to issues cutting at the very heart of the University's future. THE TURNING point came about two years ago, when a desperately tight budget was loosened by the elimination of LSA's geography department, and a deep cut to the University Extension Services and Recreation Sports. The effect was to shock administrators to set up the long range goals of the five- year plan. Before these cuts, money wasn't such a limited resource. All the committee had to do was advise Frye on how much more money each unit should get every year. Now, it recommends how much less each should get. "This is not a neutral process,;" Moeller said. "They are looking to cut. Anybody that doesn't know that has been walking around with blinders." TEDDY ROOSEVELT "STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER" ANNA HELD "BILL BAILEY WON'T YOU PLEASE COME HOME" SCOTT JOPLIN "TA-RA-RA-BOOM-DE- AT" "A HOT TIME IN THE OLD TOWN TONIGHT" EMMA GOLDMAN GEORGE M. COHAN "NOBODY" "MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS" "IN MY MERRY OLDSMOBILE" "TOYLAND" "THE RAGTIME DANCE" "THE YANKEE DOODLE BOY" ELLIS ISLAND "HELLO, MA BABY" VAUDEVILLE "ELECTRICITY" "YOU'RE A GRAND OLD FLAG" "AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL" "SMILES" HENRY J. SAYERS "WABASH CANNONBALL" "SOLACE" "RAGTIME NIGHTINGALE" "JONAH MAN" A BIRD IN A GILDED CAGE" "SHORTNIN' BREAD" "PASTIME RAG" JOHN PHILIP SOUSA VICTOR HERBERT "WALTZ ME AROUND AGAIN WILLIE" "WAIT FOR THE WAGON" "WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED" "AMERICAN BEAUTY" "EL CAPITAN" "BERT WILLIAMS JOSEPH F. LAMB "KENTUCKY BABE" GEORGE WALKER "IF I WERE ON THE STAGE, KISS ME AGAIN" "WHAT IT TAKES TO MAKE ME LOVE YOU" "ELITE SYNCOPATIONS" "I'M GONNA LIVE ANYHOW, TIL I DIE" Japan educates for productivity, I BEST OF Dec. 10-11 8 pm BROADWAY Dec. 12 2 pm, 8 pm CENTER POWER (Continued from Page 1) school graduate has the equivalent of about four more years of schooling than the U.S. high school graduate because, df a longer school week and more weeks to the school year. " In both mathematics and science the mean scores of Japan's school children are higher than in any other country, and far higher than in the United States. Moreover, there is less variability to scores, which suggests that educational achievement in Japan is widespread. Source: International Study of Achievement in Mathematics, published by John Wiley & Sons. " Thirteen percent of U.S. high school students in a survey could not perform reading tasks designated "functional"; 28 percent could not answer questions testing "literal comprehension" of what they read; and nearly 10 percent couldn't write prose deemed marginally acceptable. "THE RESULTS," Freund reports, ~'were much w orse with, regard to anything beyond basic skills ... Fifty- three percent couldn't write a letter correcting a billing error." Source: National Assessment for Educational Progress, Denver. No comparison could be made at the college level, simply because American institutions are so far superior to Japan's. In fact, the stock exchange study states, Japanese colleges are a four-year vacation free of demands. To some extent, it might be said, a young Japanese demonstrates his men- business involvement in our schools," the report concludes. "If the first pur- pose of our schools is to create good citizens, the second is to create produc- tive people." More businesses, it suggests, might get involved in "adopt-a-school" programs, irk which company personnel could aid students through tutoring or provide them with equipment. Those students, remember, might become employees. SOME companies, of course, are already doing so. In Los Angeles, said Freund, 105 businesses are par- ticipating in adopt-a-school programs, and some high technology companies in various parts of the country have been known to donate electronic equipment. And many big-city companies with, a need for clerks run their own little schools to teach basic mathematics and English. Corporate support seems to be greater at the college level. Inter- national Business Machines Corp., for example, is now deciding which colleges will benefit from a $50 million program of cash and equipment grants. The purposes of the grants is to up- date engineering courses because, says John Opel, president, "Training people who can make the most of the new technologies requires close cooperation between universities and industry." PTP Ticket Office Michigan League 764-0450 1 is l A $200 CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR $40 Contincntai 'Dining~luG. HOUSING DIVISION FOR 1982-83 ACADEMIC YEAR POSITION OPENING: RESIDENT ADVISOR- Eaton House, Baits I(Male Corridor) Interested individuals who have an updated application on file may call the Housing Office (763-3161) and request that their application be forwarded to Baits. 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