The Michigan Daijy-Wednesday, January 26, 1983-Page 7 Study says robots will replace many workers DETROIT (AP) - Robots will the Upjohn report says that "Well eliminate between 13,000 and 24,000 jobs over half of the jobs created will in Michigan and will create only 5,000 to require two or more years of college 18,000 new ones, a study by the W. E. training." The single greatest need will Upjohn Institute for Employment be for "robotics technicians" to -test, Research concludes. program, install, troubleshoot and the results, released this week, show maintain industrial robots. U.s. industry uses 6,800 robots and Robot sales nationwide rose from less about 2,000 workers are producing new than $150 million in 1978 to $195 million ones. last year, according to statistics corn- "Outside the auto industry, robots piled by Laura Conigliaro, a vice will have only ,a minor impact in president and robotics specialist for Michigan," the report said. Prudential-Bache Securities Inc-. of Robots will eliminate between 10,000 New York City. Sales will rise to about and 18,000 jobs in auto manufacturing, $210 million nationwide this year, she according to the study. said. MSA okays seminar funds (Continued from Page 3) purpose of the conference," he said. The issue- of the conference is not "war versus peace" but only the search for peace, he said. ASSEMBLY member Ben Davis said he feels the "speakers on the list are motivated toward peace. He said he thought there was no distinct Arab per- spective on the Mideast situation. "What do people mean as an Arab point of view," he said. "I think (the conference coor- dinators) did a good jol representing different points of view," Davis said, adding the assembly should have n-in- terest in perpetuating the Arab stereotype. Assembly members also argued that in the past, MSA has endorsed con- ferences which did not necessarily provide a broad range of opinions. k ., FLORIDA ESCAPE WINTER BREAK-Feb. 18-27 A $300,000 robot, designed to test the safety of motorcycle tires under rapidly changing driving conditions, takes a trial run at the University's Transpor- tation Research Institute on North Campus. Hiroyuki Yoshino (right), the director of research and development for Honda Motor Corp., which paid for the project, and University researcher Yoshinoki Watanabe introduced the $i110 ONLY $110 qr . . Round Trip Transportation Connections to all major Florida cities w = IRW RPC votes down defense panel By JIM SPARKS The Research Policies Committee has occupied one of the hottest seats on campus this year as it struggles to come up with guidelines for regulating defense research. Last April, the faculty senate voted to extend the University's guidelines governing classified research to in- elude non-classified research as well. The senate asked the research commit- tee to come up with a mechanism for enforcing the extended guidelines. AT THEIR JAN. 12 meeting, the committee voted down a proposal to form a University-wide panel to over- see non-classified research. Critics of the decision charge that the Students protest research demand public forum (Continued from Page 1) GAMOTA, A former research direc- tor for the Pentagon, called to cancel on Friday, according to the Rev. Don Postema of the Campus Chapel. "To be really fair, Gamota thought that what I had originally asked him for and what seemed to be happening were different," Postema said. "IT WASN'T being billed as a political debate. We told him we wanted his information from a historical point of view," Postema said. Gamota said last night he had accep- ted the invitation to the forum on. the condition that he would not be the representative of the University ad- ministration and the it would not turn into a debate on defense research. He said he had planned to speak more generally on the relationship between the government and universities. When posters were put up advertising the forum as a discussion on military research at Michigan, "the debate was being forced," Gamota said. Thursday's forum will go on at the Guild House at 7:30 p.m., but without Gamota. Yesterday's" meeting brought out sharp differences of opinion on the openess of the decisions governing defense research, and the morality of certain projects. ALAN PRICE, University vice- president for research, said informal meetings with Roger Kerson, the MSA investigator into University defense research, Marx, and others indicate that information on defense research projects is available. But graduate student Vicki Shapiro countered: "There are a lot of mem- bers of the student body who have not had a chance to speak to you in- dividually, and find out what's going on." Marx, one of the student members of the Research Policies Committee, said the idea of informal meetings with in- terested people is not practical, and does not provide information to the majority of people who are not infor- med. "All the people in the University community can't sit down and study this stuff. . . it's not like anyone can come in and say Charles (Overberger), I'd like an informal talk on military research. MARX SAID HE will make a formal proposal for a public forum on Feb. 2, the next meeting of the committee. However, he expressed concerns that if the committee does sponsor a program, the administrators who make decisions might say, "this is a faculty body and we don't want to get involved." Marx said yesterday's action reflects a more aggressive strategy on the part of the Progressive Students Network, which organized the meeting. "We are tired and frustrated with the administration snowballing us like they did today.. . we are going to take a lit- tle more direct approach." vote not to form the panel, which would have had only advisory power, in- dicates the committee has no desire to regulate non-classified research projects. "It calls into question the legitimacy of the committee. It seems the majority is interested in removing any restric- tions on military research," said Roger Kerson, who has been investigating University'defense research for the Michigan Student Assembly. MEDICAL SCHOOL Prof. Daniel Ringler said the majority of the com- mittee's members do not think that cer- tain projects in question violate the University guidelines prohibiting research which could destroy human life. By March, the committee must make a recommendation to the faculty senate on the new guidelines and a method of enforcing them. Ringler said the next step toward doing that will be to find R eporters c larifly charges (Continued from Page 1) said the open meetings act does not ap- ply to committee meetings. According to Herald news editor Kevin Miller, reporters first began to believe that committee groups were 'making decisions behind closed doors" when press released outlining decisions made moments before were circulated at public meetings. Smythe said it is common for public boards to have press releases already prepared to report decisions which are to be made during the meetings. some middle ground between those who oppose an overseeing panel and those who favor the idea. But Ringler said chances for such a compromise look "pretty bleak right now." One alternative to a University-wide panel would be to let individual schools and colleges set up their own regulating committees, Ringler-said. KERSON SAID this approach would hamper the objectivity of the panel. "Each (school) has the need and in- terest of maximizing their research dollars. Why put them in that conflic- ting position?" Kerson said. After the last vote, biological chemistry Prof. Donalt Hultquist said it seems unlikely the committee will be able to find a suitable compromise to form an overseeing panel. He said some committee members who favor the panel may push for approval of the idea when the issue comes before the faculty senate in March. Complete Tour Includes; Roundtrip transportation via deluxe Michigan Trailways Motor Coach, SEVEN Nights accommodations in beautiful Vero Beach. 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