0 rage 2- The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, January 25, 1989 Ann Arbor blood supplies down BY STACEY GRAY The demand placed upon blood supplies by the number of people who wait until after the holi- days to have their elective surgery done is prompting blood shortages throughout the area. "We have been experiencing a shortage for the past two weeks," said Carleen Parks, an administrative assistant at the American Red Cross Washtenaw County Chapter Blood Donor Center. Since many people who have a choice post- pone surgery until after the holidays, this causes an increase in both the number of operations performed this time of year and the needed supply of blood. Parks said there are two times of the year when there is a large decrease in the blood supply - between late August and early September, and now. "At the beginning of last week, we made a media appeal for blood," said Parks, "The Ann Arbor community responds very well to ap- peals." Fortunately, however, the Red Cross shortage is not currently affecting the University hospi- tal's blood supply. "Right now we're doing pretty well," said Dr. Harold Oberman, director of the Blood Bank at the University Hospital. This may be due in part to the hospital's blood bank at the Medical Center, said Toni Shears, hospital spokesperson, "People can give autologous donations," when people give their own blood prior to their elective surgery to in- sure availability when they need it. Oberman predicts a blood shortage at the Uni- versity Hospital in the next two weeks. "During the first part of February there is often a trough of blood donation." "There is an imbalance between supply and demand," Oberman said, "There needs to be a better way to recruit donors regularly - to get people in the habit of giving blood." Until the early '70s most blood was donated not for altruistic purposes but as part of insur- ance incentives in which agencies offered rewards, monetary or otherwise, for giving blood, said Oberman. Oberman said he agrees with the altruistic ap- proach. The type of person who donated blood for money often fell into the "undesirable, high risk" groups. Although limiting blood donors to those who give for altruistic purposes restricts the total amount of available blood, if everyone who could give blood would do so just once a year, said Oberman, there would be more than enough. Jewish group favors teaching values NEW YORK (AP) - A leading American Jewish civil rights organization is endorsing the movement to teach values in public schools, claiming "moral relativism" represents a greater danger than the possibility of church-state abuses. The American Jewish Committee, overcoming fears that Tuition Continued from Page 1 head offices, a two-day intensive program on political and governmental issues which would involve several thousand students, and the organization of student community service programs. a"It was a signal that students are being taken a lot more seriously in the electorate," said LSA junior Su- san Overdorf, MSA vice president, after the meeting. To help the student representa- tives better understand the position of the state government, State Bud- get Director Shelby Solomon started yesterday's meeting with a presenta- tin of the state's budget. 'Federal aid to the state of Michi- gan and local governments in the 1980's has significantly reduced compared to the 1970's, Solomon said. However, he said total spending from all state sources on higher edu- cation has increased by 72 percent since 1983. values education could be a "smokescreen for teaching religious precepts," has approved a report encouraging schools to define, teach and "put into action" values that are the foundation of a democracy. "I think what happened over the last 20 years ... was a certain kind of moral relativism did enter in. There was confusion about right and wrong," said Irving Levine, the committee's director of national affairs. The report, to be released next month, is considered significant because of the past reluctance of many groups representing minority religions to enter into the issue. "I think it's a natural evolution of our attitude and the ability to distinguish between matters of religious faith and shared values," said Arnold Gardner, vice president of the American Jewish Committee. The Jewish committee's report said that in many cases, religious and civic values are identical. IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and staff reports Japanese Cabinet member resigns over stock scandal TOKYO - Japan's Economic Planning Agency chief resigned. yesterday, becoming the third Cabinet minister in less than two months to fall victim to a major stock-trading scandal. Ken Harada stepped down after news reports said he had received regular political donations from Recruit Co., the company at the center of the stock scandal. Harada's resignation was a serious blow to Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita, who had reshuffled his Cabinet on Dec. 27 with a pledge to restore public trust in political ethics. The Japan Socialist Party, the largest opposition group, quickly called for Takeshita and the rest of the Cabinet to resign. Opposition criticism of the administration also was expected to delay parliamentary debate in coming weeks over the 1989 budget. Skill test results released LANSING, Mich. - Results of the latest statewide skills tests of Michigan students show science scores up, reading scores down, and math: results about the same, according to reports released yesterday. All of the fourth, seventh, and tenth graders in the state- about 320,000 students- took the Michigan Educational Assessment Program' tests last fall. The $420,000 annual test is designed to find out how many students have minimum competency in essential areas. Donald Bemis, the state school superintendent, said in addition to showing how schools should strengthen themselves, the individual test results show parents, students, and teachers where each student needed more help. Killer Bundy gets chair STARKE, Fla. - Serial killer Ted Bundy was executed yesterday morning for a murder he committed almost 11 years ago. Bundy was a 42-year-old law school dropout. He insisted for years, that he was innocent, although he had been suspected of as many as 36 killings and disappearances. Late last week he began talking to investigators, giving emotional confessions to the gruesome slayings of 20 women in four states. Included were two women in Chi Omega sorority at Florida State University. Bundy also confessed to killing 12-year-old Kimberly Leach, the murder for which he was electrocuted. Leach was kidnapped from her junior high school on Feb. 9, 1978. Her'body was found three months later in an abandoned pigsty. Bundy was reported to be remorseful at the end for his bloody trail of kidnappings, sadistic sexual mutilations and slayings. His last words were to his lawyer and a minister: "Give my love to my family and friends." Bush vows budget changes WASHINGTON - President Bush pledged yesterday to submit detailed revisions to Ronald Reagan's budget next month and suggested, high-level negotiations between the White House and Congress to produce an early agreement. Amid the glow of bipartisan good will on the fourth day of his presidency, Bush met at the White House with Democratic and, Republican congressional leaders to seek cooperation on the budget and. foreign policy. "Generally there is a very hopeful sense that we are going to be able to find bipartisanship almost everywhere," said Rep. Jim Wright, D-Texas after two hours of talks with Bush. Republicans and Democrats alike said Bush gave no clue about his budget priorities, but said his proposals would include steps to deal with the nation's savings and loan crisis. Bush will address a joint session of Congress on Feb. 9 to reveal proposals for revising Reagan's $1.15 trillion budget for fiscal 1990. EXTRAS Dog has first auto accident NORWALK, Conn. - A car struck a building after a dog sitting in the front seat bumped the driver out of the vehicle, police said. The 8-month-old, mixed-breed shepard named Ebony was riding. shotgun with owner.Joseph Vellone on Sunday when he stopped at a red light and opened his door to spit. The dog pushed the Norwalk resident out, and the car rolled through the intersection toward a utility pole and a building, with Vellone giving chase. The car, which came to rest against the building, sustained only minor damage, police said. Vellone received a minor abrasion on his left leg. The building and Ebony were unharmed, said authorities. 0t .JESSICA GREENE/Dally outside the Governor's residence in Gov. Blanchard greets MSA President Lansing. Mike Phillips HEALTH & FITNESS 1" S as " Free Pregnancy Testingr- ... " Free Counseling " Gynecology " Birth Control * Abortion Health Care Clinic of Ann Arbor 2755 Carpenter Road * 971-1970 - A "" WY - A Beginner's Course is taught by Sensei Takashi Kushida, 8th degree black belt from Japan. Two new courses start in February: - Thursdays 6:30-7:30 pm (Feb. 2, 9, 16, 23) - Saturdays 10:30-11:30 am (Feb. 4, 11, 18, 25) Cost: $20 for four classes. Classes are held in the Genyokan Dojo in Ann Arbor, 749 Airport Blvd. (behind the State Road K-Mart). For information, call 662-4686. AIKIDO YOSHINKAI® ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA -: Your Summer Job A more than just employment... , CK-CAMMA As CAMP TANMAC ost, Teen Travel, Camp Kennedy, Agree 0utp el nympaired)' ____ _r, vilage for the eotionar i Re actor Continued from Page 1 These samples often contain small traces of gold, silver, copper or iron, Kerr said. A relatively new service of the laboratory is neutron radiography - a complement to the x-ray. By shooting neutrons at heavy systems like automative transmissions, re- searchers can see inside the systems while they are running and can detect flaws in the design. In the past, the problems of waste disposal and health risks from radia- tion have raised opposition to nu- clear power in the United States, but, Kerr remembers only once when the Phoenix project was subject to this opposition. "On the first anniversary of Three Mile Island, we got word that there would be a march from central cam- pus to the building. About 20 peo- ple made it. They released black bal- loons and said, 'If the Ford reactor were to have an accident, the radia- tion would spread like these balloons in the wind."' The actual number of people who marched in the demonstration spon- sored by the Arbor Alliance was over 70. The demonstrators marched three miles to commemorate the Three Mile Island accident and urge an end to the use of nuclear power. The Phoenix Project currently sponsors 12-15 grants a year for fac- ulty members, Kerr said. Including projects that are renewed or carried over, about 20-30 people use the laboratory each year. The project has funded research not always considered important by the government, Kerr said. One of these projects by former University Prof. Donald Glaser won the 1960 Nobel Prize in physics for the development of the space bubble. THE DAILY CLASSIFIEDS ARE A GREAT WAY TO GET FAST RESULTS CALL 764-0557 0 0 0 I MASS MEETING G[j £irbiiga E~4~Q The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. Subscription rates: for fall and winter (2 semesters) $25.00 in-town and $35 out-of-town, for fall only $15.00 in-town and $20.00 out-of-town. The Michigan Daily is a member of The Associated Press and the Student News Service. 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