01 Page 2-The Michigan Daily- Thursday, September 24, 1992 Study shows U. S. spends only average amount on education I WASHINGTON (AP) - Affluent America spends only an average portion of its money on edu- cation, compared with other indus- trialized nations. Japan spends the smallest percentage but gets the most results for its yen, a study of the world's 24 wealthiest industrial- ized democracies showed yesterday. Denmark and Finland lead in spending public funds for education, followed by Norway, Canada, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, said the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), an intergov- ernmental agency in Paris that moni- tors the world's economies. The OECD report is the first to compare education systems among industrialized nations, and represents the most wide-ranging and reliable set of international education indica- tors ever published. "We have never before had com- parable database" because of the differences both in education sys- tems and in methods of data collec- tion, said Albert Tuijnmann of the OECD Secretariat. Tuijnmann, who helped prepare the report, said in an interview that the countries began work about five years ago to standardize definitions. They agreed to use 1988 data, taking the national income and dividing it by the entire population, and then adjusting it for what the money re- ally buys. This measure.is known as the gross domestic product. According to the report, the United States is the wealthiest in- dustrialized nation, followed by Canada, Switzerland, Norway and Luxembourg, Sweden, Japan and Germany. Turkey is the poorest among the 24 countries studied. The Bush administration touts the notion that the United States spends a great deal of its wealth on educa- tion. It ranks behind 12 other indus- trialized nations in its public spend- ing on education, and behind eight other nations in overall spending, public and private, according to the report's charts of education spending that include only 20 of the OECD's 24 countries. The charts include no figures for Greece, Iceland, New Zealand and Turkey. In public funding of education, the United States spent 5.0 percent of its income while the leaders in this category, Denmark and Finland, each spent 6.8 percent. Japan was last among the industrialized coun- tries at 3.8 percent. Education Secretary Lamar Alexander said the report "reminds us that money alone is not the an- swer." While the high school graduation rate is almost 100 percent in Denmark and Finland, it is also that high in Germany, where public fund- ing of education amounted to 4.3 percent of its GDP and overall fund- ing equaled 6.2 percent of the GDP. And Japan, at the bottom of both spending lists, had about 90 percent completion of high school, while the United States had a rate of 73.7 percent. *I - EVAN PETRIE/Dally, Weld and wild David Ogg, a Macomb Underground employee, welds a fitting for a gas main on Washtenaw Avenue near the Central Campus Recreation Building. Undergraduate Law Club Mass Meeting Sept. 24 @ 6:30 150 Hutchins Hall (in the Law School) The UGLC is an organization dedicated to making undergraduates aware of the possibilities and exciting career options in the field of law. FORUM Continued from page 1 "The issue of voting or scrutiny every year might prove to be trou- blesome over time," she said. Additionally, students expressed concern over the university's history of dealing with campus protesters, saying they were afraid the state- ment would be used to punish protesters exercising their right to free speech. "The administration has done ev- erything in their power to silence unpopular dissent," said Rackham Student Government President Mark Buchan, who said he favored lan- guage voicing support for civil dis- obedience and political dissent. Rackham student Colin Leach said the administration's efforts to solicit student input have been inadequate. "Can we say every student was asked when only the smallest minor- ity were? It's completely unaccept- able to wait for people to conc to you to make comments," Leach .K. "It's time you realize that people don't trust you. They feel disem- powered because students don't want to deal with you," he added. Hartford defended the student in- put process as a comprehensive. "I think this has been an incredi- bly clear process. I don't know what more could have been done. I guess I'm stymied by your comment," Hartford said. "I think every student group was asked to contribute. Every individual student was asked to con- tribute to make this representative of their interests." Administrators and students agreed to an additional forum to dis- cuss the next draft of the statement as well as a possible student referen- dum on the issue. SURVEY Continued from page 1 and sophomores were overrepre- sented in the survey sample. According to the findings, these stu- dents are easier to locate than ju- niors, seniors and graduate students. According to the results, "this overrepresentation skews the overall percentage of students who support the proposed policy" because "underclassmen favor the proposed policy at a much higher rate." "The survey shows more than anything else that students remain misinformed und underinformed about how the proposed code will af- fect the rights they currently enjoy," said David Schwartz, president of the campus chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. 01 V Cask Conditioned ~ Fullers ESB V Bass Ale V Whitbread Ale V Young's Bitter V Foster's ~ Double Diamond ~ Guinness Stout Real Ale V Heineken V Paulaner Weiss V Hacker Pschorr Dark V Labatt's V Leinenkugel Limited V Bud Light V Hacker Pschorr Octorfest V Woodpecker Cider VEST.iALWT AND PUB IIaI~IF ,r fl E~c,rIri)I tUS S. Quad Hutchins Hall *I S State Union I 0 Tappan 16 Good Reasons Draft Why Ashley's Has the best Beer Selection. O When it comes to draft beer- Come to Ashley's "Home of the English Ales" 338 S. State 996-9191 MCC Continued from page 1 mandatory MSA fee, which would then be channeled to MCC. The regents approved an altered version of the proposal at their July 1988 meeting. However, instead of allocating the money to MSA to dis- tribute, it became a mandatory seg- regated fee - under direct control of the regents. Arellano said she believes the re- gents chose this action because of the organization's platform, which, as of July 1991 favored a tuition cap. "The proposal would have the Re- gents cap tuition at the rate of infla- tion," she said. Kennedy also declined to com- ment on the issue because it is in the courts, but in a May 1992 memo to the regents, Kennedy also cited MCC's acts against administration interests as a reason for de-funding the organization. "In a recent discussion of this is- sue by the University's officers, it was pointed out that there are risks associated with supporting such an organization (MCC) with a manda- ests of students on certain issues," reads Kennedy's memo. "The most obvious of these, of course, are tuition levels," it said, in reference to MCC's campaign to constitutionally limit tuition in- creases by Michigan universities. Although Arellano said she feels that a majority of the students want to keep the tuition at as low a level as possible, "we started backing off in September, 1991." "The issue was becoming a parti- san fight and it didn't look like it was going anywhere," Arellano added. She added that it looked like MCC would lose support from the U-M if it pursued the issue. Brown said, in reference to the 1988 decision, "It was a mistake to do it in the first place." Without the funding from student tuition, as of October, MSA will" cease to be a member of MCC. "Based on the comments made at the June 1992 regents meeting,, MCC was defunded based on the basis of the content of our speech," Arellano said. tory student fee because of the like- lihood of conflict between the inter- ests of the University and the inter- The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan.Subscriptions for falVwinter terms, starting in September via U.S. mail are $155. Fall term only is $85. Winter term (January through April) is $90. On-campus subscriptions for falVwinter are $35. Subscriptions must be prepaid. The Michigan Daily is a member of the Associated Press and the Associated Collegiate Press. ADDRESS: The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1327. 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