The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, October 21, 1986 - Page 3 Guidelines won't hurt research, official says By ROB EARLE The University will lose little funding if it bans classified research according to one of three University experts who discussed the proposed guidelines for classified research at yesterday's Research Policies Committe meeting. James Lesch, head of the Division of Research and Development Administration (DRDA), told the committee that the University will lose little funding from government and industry sources if a ban on most classified research is adopted, as recommended in recently proposed classified research guidelines. The proposed guidelines would eliminate all classified or proprietary research which has restrictions on publication. LESCH EXPLAINED that currently little money is tied-up in classified research. The University has about $400,000 in classified research, which is less than one- half of one percent of the University's total research budget. The University may lose some proprietary research funds, however, Lesch said. Proprietary research is done for companies and industry rather than for the government. "We will lose a few industry- supported contracts because some companies want their information to remain confidential," he said. LESCH SERVED on the ad hoc committee which proposed the new guidelines for classified research at the University last summer. Lesch defended specific terms of the recommended policy at yesterday's committee meeting. He said provisions in the current guidelines forbidding classified S research which have applications harmful to human life are not necessary in the newly proposed guidelines, because the proposal virtually eliminates classified research. Lesch defended the elimination of the committees which review classifed project proposals for compliance with the guidelines. "THE MOMENT it becomes clear (a project) will become classified, it will be over," Lesch said. "That obviates the review process." History Prof. David Hollinger, also member of last year's ad hoc committee, told committee members that the proposed guidelines,don't make a statement about the humane values of the University and that there is no need for such a statement under the proposed guidelines. "If these recommendations are adopted by the University of Michigan, there will be no entity to which a kill-maim restriction might apply," Hollinger said. "SURELY, WE are not going to take seriously the argument that we need to have some classified research around so that we can apply our principles to it and be assured of an opportunity to demonstrate our moral superiority to it," Hollinger said. Associate Prof. of Intern4 : Medicine Dr. David Bassett told the:; Research Policies Committee that he is circulating a statement, by 'which faculty members pledge not to do research harmful to human life. Bassett said 30 or 40 faculty members have signed the pledge so far. . "There is a question which should be considered by every investigator and academician: 'Is there any research which I, as an investigator, should not do because of its clear likelihood of being harmful to human beings," Bassett said. Bassett's pledge reads: "I will not engage in research, nor suggest that others engage in research, the clearly forseeable and probable result of which is to destroy or permanently incapacitate human beings. I express the hope that my colleagues will also endorse this statement." 'Star Wars' protest Associated Press Police in Washington arrest two anti-Star Wars demonstrators yesterday. The protest group tried to block a building which is part of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as well as housing SDI offices. Many misuse car safety seats By STEVE BLONDER with wire reports Approximately one-quarter of all children under four years old ridmtg n cars on Michigan roads arent in a dhild-restraint seat as required by law, according to a University study. , The study conducted by the University's Transportation Research Institute also found that two- thirds of the children who are in the seats are incorrectly restrained. Associate Research Scientist at the Transportation Research Institute, Alexander Wagenaar, said common misuses of child safety seats are strapping the seat to the car but not strapping the child in, or strapping the child into the seat but not strapping the seat to the car. PUBLIC SUPPORT for the mandatory child restraint law is high. Nine out of ten persons surveyed said the law should be strictly enforced. But 75 percent o respondents said enforcement is lax. "Very 'low levels of enforcement indicate that enforcement has not been mainly responsible for the siccess achieved to date, and that there has now emerged a social norm that drivers are expected to restrain young c ildren when traveling in an automobile," the study sgid. The traffic injury study focused on the 33 months after passage of the state law in 1982 requiring the use of child safety seats or seatbelts for motor-vehicle passengers under the age of four. ALTHOUGH THE number of severely injured children declined 17 percent, the rate of severe injuries per million population showed no significant change during the 33 months. "Results of this study clearly indicate that Michigan's mandatory child restraint law was effective in substantially reducing the number of children injured in motor-vehicle crashes," Wagenaar said. "The beneficial effects of the law were not short-lived, and continue essentially unchanged after two and a half years. "Nevertheless, the beneficial consequences of the chilk restraint law are not as large as desired," he said. THE STUDY showed that 92 percent of childrer younger than age one were in a safety seat and that use of safety seats was lower among families with low incomes, unmarried parents, non-white parents and parents older than 40. The study recommended that the seat designs be changed to reduce the chance of improper use, that the law be enforced more, and that parents be better educated in car seat use. The study involved observation of child-restraint use at fast food restaurants in 14 southeastern Michigar cities and interviews with 661 people in vehicles. The study was sponsored by the Michigan Office o. Highway Safety Planning and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. NON-STOP COPY SHOP Kinko's is open 24 hours. Come in anytime for fast service, outstanding quality, and low, low prices. Open 24 Hours 540 E. LIBERTY Across From The Michigan Theater 761-4539 i 1 3 n v f Y SHORT OR LONG Hairstyles for Men and Women DASCOLA STYLISTS Liberty off State ..668-9329 Maple Village .... 761-2733 U I e i i k 'U' scientist: fl LI1 iT view of a i Campus Cinema Variety (Bette Gordon, 1984), Eye, 8:00 p.m., 214 N. 4th. Kathy Acker wrote this screenplay about a porno theater ticket girl and her obsessive fantasies. Bring on the Night (M. Apted, 1985), MTF, 7:45 p.m., Mich. Bring on the narcissm, as Sting and his jazzy sidekicks prepare for their "Dream Of The Blue Turtles" tour. Performances Jasmine and Steve Larson - Ann Arbor Federation of Musicians and Couzens Hall, 7:30 p.m., Couzens Hall. Pianist Steve Larson will perform light jazz and the jazz trio Jasmine will play a special concert. Speakers Samu Sunim- "The Way of Budda, the Way of Life," 8:30 p.m., 24-26 Tyler, East Quad. Carla J. Stoffle- "The Impact of Library Automation," Women in a Technological Society, 3 p.m., Rackham Assembly Hall. Heather McHugh- "Reading From Her Works," 4p.m., Rackham East Conference. Tamas R- Boles- "Burial Representations of the Earth and the Birth of Empire," The Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecture Committee, 4 p.m., Rackham Amphitheater. Ernst Katz- "Rudolf Steiner: Past Stages of Consciousness," The Rudolf Steiner Institute of the Great Lakes Area, 8 p.m., 1923 Geddes. Karen Edwards- "Brothers and Sisters in Black Families: Focusing on Early Childhood," Center for Continuing Education of Women, noon, CEW, 2nd floor, Comerica Bank Bldg., corner of N. University and S. Thayer. Furthermore Computing Course - "Working With Magnetic Tapes," 7 p.m.,1013 NUBS, (747-2424). Tuesday Night Tribute- "The Moody Blues," 10 p.m., WJJX radio(650 AM). Fourth Annual Balloon Ascension Raffle- Sigma Delta Tau and the Michigan Committee for Prevention of Child Abuse, 9 a.m., Diag. Career Planning and Placement- "Resume Writ- ing," 4:10 p.m., 35 Angell Hall; "Designing a Resume: Word- processing and Printing," 4:10 p.m., 3200 SAB, (764-7460). earlyeman outdated By ELIZABETH ATKINS with wire reports Primates that roamed the Earth 1.5 million to 3.5 million years ago resembled humans less than previously believed, according to B. Holly Smith, an assistant research scientist at the University's Mu- seum of Anthropology. She said her conclusion is based on a study of tooth development in 15 individual primates. Using fossils from museum collections, Smith said she studied tooth devel- opment of primates that died young. She conducted the study in Africa last year. SMITH FOUND that the tooth patterns and maturation rates of the tooth fossils more closely resemble apes than humans. How- ever, she said these early primates of Africa, which are called hom- inids, were not apes and were bipetal or upright walkers. Hom- inids are the closest relatives to humans as they are today. Smith compared ape tooth development to human tooth devel - opment. She said ape teeth are sharp, interlocking, and canine while human teeth are smaller and pointed. Also, she said ape molars "form and erupt very late, almost at a point of physical maturity." In contrast, human molars penetrate the gums at age nine or ten. .The BAIN & COMPANY, INC. Management Consultants cordially invites The University of Michigan Class of 1987 to a presentation on Associate Consultant Creer Opportunities Corporate Strategy Consulting Send announcements of up- cnming events to "The List." I