The Michigan Daily - Sunday, September 16, 1984-- Page 3 Program guides women into science By MARLENE ROTH Catherine Badgley entered college 16 years ago with a dream of transforming her love of nature into a solid career. today, and 14 years later, she is a successful paleontologist and assistant professor of geology at the University. Badgley broke into a male-dominated profession, but said she doesn't view being a woman as a hinderance to her career. "IN A SITUATION atmosphere, I see myself as a scientist first, then a woman," she said. Badgley will deliver that message at the, Woman and Science workshop being held today to encourage women at the University to pursue careers in science. Though some women still complain of feeling shadowed by the larger number of men in science classes and of extra at- tention some professors give their male classmates, most agree that gender is not an issue in their academic success. "YOU MENTION women in science, I don't view them as quote 'women chem. majors,' they're chem. majors," said one LSA student who asked not to be named. "Yeah, there aren't as many girls in Omy (physical) chemistry class, as there were in my 125 lecture freshman year, but it seems almost archaic when you start separating the sexes," he said. "Hey, I'm a guy and you're a girl, but in class; we're working for a similar goal and then we're students," he ad- ded. A biology major said if the attitude that gender doesn't mater "carries Aver into the job market, it will open up a lot of positions for women." How women fare in the science professions will be a topic of discussion at the workshop. In addition to Badgley, guest speakers include Prof. Janet Fairley, of the University's medical school, Susan Wilson, a graduate fellow in microbiology and immunology, and Janet Ku -a doctoral candidate in the bioengineering program. 'The workshop will be held from 3-5 .m. in the Vandenberg Room of the Michigan League. 13 unions picket GM plants as talks continue DETROIT (AP) - Negotiators for General Motors Corp. and the United Auto Workers union bargained on a national contract all day yesterday, as pickets marched outside 13 plants struck over local issues. There was no indication if progress had been made in national bargaining on the critical job-security issue. Talks were to resume this morning. PICKET lines were set up just after midnight Friday at 13 plants in local protests involving 62,000 employees of the giant carmtaker. Leaders of the striking locals said the walkouts were designed to keep pressue on GM while UAW President Owem Bieber and his bargainers try to reach a new contract. GM and the union bargained for most of the day, and at 7:25 p.m. EDT, called off talks for the night. A union statement said progress had been made "in some areas. Many differences remain, however." COMPANY officials said nothing officially. Bieber said the old contract covering all 350,000 GM workers would remain in effect indefinitely and no national strike deadline was set. "We are giving support to the national committee . . . to show that we do support their bargaining points," said Mike Feldman, a trustree of UAW Local 160 at the GM Technical Center outside Detroit, one of the 13 struck plants. MOST OF the pickets were stationed at plants making GM's most popular cars, such as the Chevrolet Corvette sports car line in Bowling Green, Ky. Only one of the struck plants had been scheduled for weekend work, and a GM spokesman said the actions would have little effect through the weekend. Workers in the remainder of the plants were told to report to work. GM's assembly plant at Lordstown, Ohio, which was not one of the 13, canceled itst shift yesterday because some workers stayed away. But production resumed with the second shift yesterday afternoon, officials said. THE GM WORKERS walked out at three assembly plants in and around Pontiac, Mich., and one each in Flint, Mich.; Warren, Mich.; Doraville, Ga. ; Arlington, Texas; Wilmington, Del.; Linden, N.J.; Bowling Green, Ky.; Shreveport, La.; Wentzville, Mo.; and Van Nuys, Calif. Ted Creason, financial secretary of Local 653 at the Pon- tiac plant where the small Fiero sports car is made, said the walkouts "may very well extend into local bargaining issues. But it's on the national contract." Some workers were unhappy with the selective strategy. "I FEEL everybody should go out," said Doug Goodman, a worker at GM'd Lordstown complex in northeastern Ohio, which employs about 11,000 workers. "I want back what we gave up in 1982," Goodman said, The union has demanded the first raise in three years on its $9.63-an-hour basic wage. Cost-of-living payments total $3.04 for an average wage of $12.67. The union gave up millions of dollars in contract concessions two years ago when the in- dustry was losing money, but this year GM is making record profits. The strike was the first major one in the industry since a walkout eight years ago against Ford. A 1970 strike against GM lasted 67 days. Strikers will receive $85 a week from the union's largest national strike fund in history - $570 million. Shake your bootie Associated Press A wellwisher delivers baby booties and balloons in London yesterday, hours after Princess Diana of Wales was admitted in the early stages of labor. Diana gave birth to a six-pound, 14-ounce bouncing baby prince. Israelis question effectiveness of new government s v v v ..,.,/ TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) - Prime Minister Shimon Peres faces an awesome task in trying to 'control Israel's plolitical and economic turmoil and lead a government with a built-in mechanism for indecision. Peres, the Labor Party leader who fought for seven years to become. prime minister, must share his decisions with former Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, his ideological rival and a deputy prime minister. Peres, who prides himself on being an ad- ministrator, is' trying to prevent his new gover- nment from slipping into paralysis by clearly outlining his priorities. FIRST, HE wants to correct an economy racing toward an annual inflation rate of 400 percent. Debts are so high that private banks are limiting credit, foreign currency reserves are plunging past the danger point and unemployment is rising. Second, he wants to get Israeli forces out of Lebanon "within months." Peres told the Haaretz newspaper that he has a "crystallized plan," of political and military action that would end the more than two-year occupation without threatening Israel's northern border. A Lebanon plullout would clear the way for his third priority, reopening peace efforts with the Arab states. Peres may find harmony in his bipartisan Cabinet on the first two issues, But 'he is almost certain to clash with Shamir's Likud block, which controls 12 of 25 Cabinet seats, if peace with the Arabs means giving up parts of the occupied West Bank. NEITHER Labor nor Likud won enough seats in Parliament in the July 23 election to control a majority and govern without the other. So they joined forces in a Cabinet constructed so that neither can make a move without the other's con- sent. The logical result, the critics say, is a tug of war between equally balanced forces. "I doubt if it can hold up over a long period of time," said Arveh Naor, a former Cabinet secretary "It will be hard for the government to function properly or decide anything." The Cabinet - one of the largest in Israel's history - has 25 ministers: 12 from the Labor alignment, 12 from the Likud bloc, and one held by the National Religious Party, which claims to be neutral. BUT THE tough decisions will be made in two inner Cabinets of 10 members each, five from each bloc. One will deal with foreign affairs and security, the other with the economy. Peres, acknowledging the potential for endless deadlock, says that nevertheless the two traditional rivals must close ranks to battle the country's current crises. "I want debate without hatred," he told Parliament on Friday before taking the oath of of- fice. But internal rivalries embroil each party, and threaten to stir up trouble between them. The greatest destabilizing element is Ariel Sharon, the former defense minister who quit his post in disgrace in 1983, but has come back as in- dustry and trade minister. Sharon has openly challenged Shamir's leaderhip of the Likud bloc in what some analysts see as a bid to eventually become prime minister. C on trovers Y ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP)-A accused of shoplifting two years ago. Kentucky, Kelly Lin Brumagen, 22, of and Miss Utah, Sharlene Wells, 20, of f won't blow over Miss. America Pageant woman once charged with shoplifting and another described as having "all the parts it takes" to be Miss America 1985 were among 10 finalists chosen yesterday for the crown relinquished by last year's victor in the worst scandal in the pageant's 63 years. Another controversy shook the pageant's glittery girl-next-door image during the week when contest officials had to decide on the eligibility of Melissa Bradley, Miss Ohio who was Bradley pleaded no contest in the case, and officials decided that she could continue in the pageant because the charges eventually were dropped. THE CHAIRMAN OF the Miss Texas Pageant, Don Magness, created a small furor early this month when he said Miss Hext had "all the parts it takes" to be Miss America and "there may not be a better body in the United States." The finalists were Miss Hawaii, Deb- bie Nakanelua, 26, of Honolulu; Miss Lexington; Miss Massachusetts,. Margaret Marie O'Brien, 26, of Weymouth; Miss Minnesota, Lauren Susan Green, 26, of Minneapolis; Miss Mississippi, Kathy Manning, 22, of Drew. Also Miss New York, Mary-Ann Farrell, 22, of New York City; Miss Ohio, Melissa Bradley, 23, of Man- sfield; Miss Tennessee, Shelley Suzan- ne Mangrum, 23, of Nashville; Miss Texas, Tamara Hext, 21, of Fort Worth; Salt Lake City. O'Brien, a vocalist, and Green and Farrell, both pianists, won preliminary talent competitions. Manning, Hext and Wells took honors in preliminary swimsuit events. The judges' choices in evening gown and interview categories are kept secret. The 10 finalists start the last round of talent, swimsuit and evening gown competition with clean slates. HAPPENINGS Highlight Sunday James Lee Stanley appears for a single performance at the Ark tonight. The show begins at 8 p.m. at 637 S. Main St. Films U-Club, Arthur, 7 p.m., U-Club. Cinema Guild-Siegfried, 7 p.m., Kriemhild's Revenge, 8:50 p.m., Lorch Hall Miscellaneous Bike Club-20-30 mile bike trip, 10 a.m., Diag. Center for Continuing Education of Women-Women in Science worksho-, 3 p.m., Vandenburg Room, League. Hillel Foundation-Israeli Folk Dance, 7:30p.m., 1429 Hill. Museum of Art-Photography display, all day, Museum of Art. Monday Highlight Tours of the Hatcher Graduate Library will be given today at 11 a.m., 1 p.m., and 3 p.m. Meet in the N. Lobby. Films Center for Near East & N. African Studies-The Land, 7 p.m., Lorch Hall. Speakers Chemistry-Prof. George McLendon, "Long Distance Electron Transfer In Electron Transfer In Inorganic and Bioorganic Systems: The Tunnel at the End of the Light," 4 p.m., room 1200, Chemistry Building. Center for Near East & N. African Studies-Trevor LeGassick, "A discussion of Abd al-Rahman Sharkawi's 1954 novel, Egyptian Earth," noon, Lane Hall Commons Room. Computer Center-Lecture, Forrest Hartman, "Beginners Guide to MTS 9," 3:30 p.m., room 177, Business Administration Building, Lecture, 7:30 - p.m., "Intorduction to MTS & Statistical Computing," room 3231 Angell Hall. Meetings Asian American Association-6:30 p.m., Trotter House. SLC-7:30 p.m., room 3000, Union. University Activities Center-7:0 p.m., Pendleton Room, Union. Student Alumni Council-7 p.m., Alumni Center. Society for Creative Anachronism-8 p.m., Union. Michigan Botanical Club-7:45 p.m., Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Aud- itorium. Washtenaw Association for Retarded Children-7:30 p.m., High Point Cafetorium,1735S. Wagner Road. Sndpnt frCrl.. maPin-7.31 n -- m- K1a R mUnn Schoolchildren accurately predict elections NEW YORK (UPI) - President Reagan and Walter Mondale ought to keep their eyes on a "Weekly Reader" presidential "election" that starts late this month and runs on and off through most of October. They just might get a prediction of the outcome of their November race. Here's why: * Over a period of 28 years, before seven presidential elections, the Weekly Reader periodicals put out in Middletown, Conn., have polled about one million of the nation's grade- schoolers about their pick for president. " In every poll, results have been predictive of the presidential election winner in November. " For' most years, the results were close to the actual national outcome. In 1972, for example, students in every state but Massachusetts voted for Richard Nixon, exactly paralleling the adult vote. * In one case, the 1968 election, the national election winner had to be ex- trapolated from the poll data. In that year the poll was run during the spring primary campaign. Robert Kennedy received the most student votes, but was later assassinated. Nixon, who won the election, had originally received the second-highest number of votes. "We' will be conducting the poll this year in second grade through secondary," says Terry Borton editor of the "Reader" publications perused by an estimated 9 million school children. "We have dropped kindergar- ten and first grade because of a feeling that such young kids do not understand the election well enough to participate meaningfully. "Even with these grades missing, we expect about one-and-a-half million kids to participate this year." Here are comparisons of student presidential election outcomes with ac- tual national ones: " 1980 - Students: Reagan 45 percent; Jimmy Carter, 41 percent, John Ander- son, 14 percent. National results: Reagan, 51 percent, Carter, 41 percent; Anderson, 7 percent. " 1976 - Students: Carter 61 percent; Gerald Ford, 39 percent. National results: Carter, 50 percent; Ford, 48 percent. " 1972 - Students; Nixon 70 percent; George McGovern, 28 percent. National results: Nixon, 61 percent; McGovern, 38 percent. Borton said the student participation of 1.5 million out of a Weekly Reader publications readership of 9 million may look small, but "we consider it pretty high. This means extra work for a teacher and actually becomes a class project. Reagan s Soviet relations shift in election year WASHINGTON (AP) - Presidents often adjust their foreign policies during election years because of political imperatives, but few have un- dertaken the sweeping changes that President Reagan has in this campaign season. The polls indicate Reagan's strategy has been highly successful but, for a president who took office intent on pur- suing a "consistent" foreign policy, his behavior lately suggests this objective deserves a decidedly lower priority than the political requirements of the day. In his shift toward the center, Reagan has alienated some conservatives; at least one, renowned fund-raiser Richard Viguerie, has accused him of appeasement policies reminiscent of those of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in the late 1930s. WHEN REAGAN meets with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko on Sept. 28, the veteran diplomat may be wondering whether he will encounter the Reagan who two years ago looked to relegating the Soviets to the "ash heap of history" or the one who last week said he "means no harm" to the Soviets after all. Publicly, the administration has minimized the significance of the Gromyko meeting on the election cam- paign. But Reagan's eagerness to capitalize on it was reflected in his decision to announce the meeting him- self last Tuesday. All this year, in fact, Reagan has steadily disavowed hallowed foreign policy precepts of his earlier White House period, a deliberate "rock-the- boat" strategy aimed at keeping the Democrats off balance. 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