The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, March 30, 1983-Page 3 China opening to west, profs say By SHELLY EBBERT Communist China's relationship with the western world will continue to change as the Chinese government seeks a more open attitude toward western influence, according to two professors from the University's Center for Chinese Studies. Political science professors Michel Oksenberg and Leonard Woodcock discussed their observations of China yesterday with a crowd of about 70 people gathered at Lane Hall. OKSENBERG, a member of the Natural Security Council during the Carter administration, said that the People's Republic of China today is charactericized by three themes: a new self-confidence, an increasing com- mitment to independent foreign policy, and more emphasis on an "open door" policy to the west. , He said Chinese officials are begin- ning to feel that they have solved the problems brought on by a large national budget deficit, inflation, and energy shortages in the years 1979-1981, leaving them with a new sense of self- confidence. "They have begun to sense that they are past the worst," Oksenberg said. THE CHINESE have also become more independent in their foreign policy, he said. "One no longer hears the call for increased cooperation bet- ween China, Japan, Western Europe, and the United States to resist the Soviet Union," he said. Oksenberg said that while there has been no change in the underlying relationship of distrust between China and the Soviet Union, since his visits there several years ago, the Sino-Soviet situation has become "more stable, less rancorous, and less volatile" than in the past. But Oksenberg said that at the same time, relations between the Chinese and the west are also improving, as China relaxes its formerly stringent policy against western influence. THE CHINESE have increased their emphasis on an "open door" policy with the west, and are "not striking a policy equidistant between the United states and the Soviet Union," Oksenberg said. Woodcock, U.S. ambassador to China during the Carter administration, also emphasized the new openess in China's dealings with the West. The Chinese government is now encouraging western business firms to come into the country by holding trade exhibitions and conventions. But Woodcock said that few American firms had participated in these exhibitions, because the United States has always had a policy of 'promoting free enterprise in the free world and protectionist policy in the third world." "The most we have ever aspired to be is on friendly relations with the Chinese," Woodcock said. Daily Photo by JON SNOW University Profs. Leonard Woodcock (left) and Michel Oksenberg speak yesterday at a lunchtime forum in Lane Hall. HAPPENINGS Highlight Weather Report brings their unique brand of jazz to Hill Auditorium tonight at 8 p.m. The event is sponsored by Eclipse Jazz. Films Cinema Guild -8%, 7 & 9:30., Lorch. Cinema Two - Three Days of the Condor, 7 & 9:10 p.m., MLB 3. Anthropology - Holy Ghost People, 7 p.m., MLB 2. Women Law Students Assoc; Labor Studies Ctr; Michigan Media - Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle, 12:15 p.m., 116 Hutchins Hall. Nuclear Film Series - If You Love This Planet and Acid Rain: Requiem and Recovery, 8 p.m., East Lounge, Bursley. 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Stanczak said that Virginia Nordby, director of the University's Office of Af- firmative Action, told her that after the executive officers read the article, "(University President Harold) Shapiro put a clamp on funding." Shapiro was unavailable for comment. The quarterly newsletter, which has been published for almost 14 years, receives all of its $1,100 annual budget from the affirmative action office. AT THE DEC. 10 meeting, Stanczak, who is a secretary in the music school, said Nordby told her to draw up formal guidelines for publishing the bulletin. "I worked up sort of a report for Nordby, a step-by-step procedure for nitpicky things like who'd take the bulletin to the printer," Stanczak said. According to the guidelines, "The editor will select topics for bulletin issues and will indicate general con- tent/subject matter to the Office of Af- firmative Action at least three weeks prior to expected publication." Stanczak, -- who submitted the guidelines to Nordby on Feb. 11, said she learned last Thursday that Nordby and Shapiro had approved the guidelines, and that the bulletin would receive funds to publish two more issues. She will meet with Nordby and other University officials on April 6 to decide the future of the bulletin. NORDBY WOULD NOT comment on the bulletin or its funding. Stanczak said she felt the article represented both sides of the issues fairly and expressed the opinions of staff members and University ad- ministrators. "It sounds ominous," she said of the bulletin's future. "If they're mad at me, punish me. Don't take away the newsletter that goes to 5,000 people because of something I wrote and signed." Although she stands by her story, Stanczak said she has recommended that each bulletin issue include a statement that the opinions expressed in the articles do not necessarily represent the views of the ad- ministration. TODAY IS MEMBERSHIP DEADLINE Send your application NOW! TO REPRESENT YOU - MSAS yNEEDS MORE THAN YOUR MONEY Financial Aid Course Evaluation Student Legal Services Security Task Force Redirection VOTE MSA ELECTIONS' April 5th 6th POLL SITES State tax increase means snaller budget cuts for 'U' Apr. 5 9:00 am - 3:30 pm Fishbowl Business School Law School CRISP Major North Campus Buildings 9:30 am- 5:00 pm Engineering Arch 9:45 am - 7:00 pm Union Lobby Dinner Hours: All Hill and Central Campus Dorms 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm UGLI Taubman Library (Continued from Page 1) deferred on Jan. 10, although some of that money has been doled out to har- dship cases. Another $67.7 million in college aid was deferred earlier this month. State officials have estimated that Police notes. Suspect apprehended Ann Arbor Police arrested a 23-year- old man in connection with a December armed robbery. On December 7, a 22- year-old Ann Arbor woman was grab- bed from behind by a male suspect who had a gun tucked in his pants. The suspect stole the woman's engagement ring, a diamond ring, and her purse before fleeing on foot. Police traced the jewelry to the suspect. -Halle Czechowski A -OK "ENERGY SAVINGS IN RENTAL HOUSING" VOTE YES APRIL 4 Paid for by Sport Guides 415S Detroit Street April 6 9:00 am - 3:30 pm Fishbowl Business School Law School CRISP Natural Resources Major North Campus Buildings 9:30 am - 5:00 pm Engineering Arch Geddes Bus Stop 10:00 am - 7:00 pm Union Lobby Dinner Hours: All Hill and Central Campus Dorms 7:30 pm - 11:00 pm UGLI Taubman Library about 1,000 state jobs will be lost through the cuts, but most of those already have been left vacant by at- trition. Blanchard's executive order also is expected to include at least $60 million - and possibly up to $66 million - in' cuts for the state's largest agency, the Department of Social Services. Department Director Sister Agnes Mary Mansour said she anticipates much of that cut will be in the form of deferred payments to hospitals. Read and Use Daily Class ifieds ; a Martina Arroyo, Ruby Dee, Ada Louise Huxtable, Bess Myerson, Jack Newfield, Sylvia Porter and Pearl Primus all spent their junior year* at Hunter College. 1983-84 A IM H IGH We're assembling the team now to carry the Air Force into the frontier of space with leading edge technology and the officer leaders to keep us on course. Consider your future as on officer on our team! With our undergraduate conversion program you could become an engineer or weather officer or you may wish to experience the thrill of flying as a pilot or navigator in today's finest aircraft-the wings of America. Whatever your specialty, you'll find a good income and excellent advanced education op- portunities as an officer. How about you? 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