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The Michigan Daily - Monday, April 21, 1996 - 5
'U alum gives
Staebler lecture
Lecturer warns
of overpopulation
By Jeffrey Kosseff
Daily Staff Reporter
University alumnae Beverly
Godwin, a key member of President
Clinton's Reinventing Government
initiative, noticed one major change
on campus during her visit Friday.
"There are many more coffee bars
now than when I was a student here;"
Godwin said.
Godwin spoke about the govern-
ment initiative called the National
Performance Review and highlighted
many of the efforts the group has
devised to improve the way govern-
ment works.
One proposal included cutting
many regulations deemed unnecce-
sary.
"We've come a long way," said
Godwin, who graduated in 1982.
"We've eliminated 16,000 pages of
obsolete regulations. Our mission is
about making government work better
and costless."
Since the National Performance
Review began in 1994, the federal
workforce has been reduced from 2.2
million to 1.9 million people. But
Godwin said the group does not only
want to minimize government.
"Our goal should not be to destroy
government, but to improve it,"
Godwin said.
Public Policy Dean Edward
Gramlich noted that it can be diffi-
cult to work for the government
because there is often a great deal of
criticism. ,
"Government is a very thankless
task" Gramlich said.
Godwin said that her experience at
the University was invaluable in her
career in government.
"The School of Public Policy
teaches a way of thinking you will
use throughout your career" Godwin
said.
Gramlich said Godwin made a
mark for herself as an exceptional stu-
dent.
"She distingushed herself as a stu-
dent here;' Gramlich said.
One of the four key steps the team
found to reinvent government is to put
customers first.
Godwin recalled a program orga-
nized by the regional manager of
the New York Veterans' Affairs
office. Instead of simply taking
benefits requests by applications
and phone calls, he had his workers
visit the veterans in the hospital,
she said.
"These were faceless, nameless
beaurocrats used to dealing with
paperwork everyday," Godwin said.
"Now, they met their customers."
Godwin -said the government must
concentrate on the end result rather
than the process.
"Focusing on results is extremely
powerful," Godwin said. "A focus on
results frees managers and employees
to allow them to focus on outcomes. It
increases trust.'
One federal agency that Godwin
said has begun to focus on results is
the Environmental Protection Agency,
which has eliminated about 15 million
hours of paperwork annually for busi-
nesses and citizens.
By Peter Meyers
Daily Staff Reporter
Someday, the world may be home to
more than 11 billion people.
John Bongaarts, an expert on world
population problems, spoke about his
speculations for population growth and
the problems inherent with this century's
phenomenal growth of humankind dur-
ing a lecture sponsored by John Snow
Incorporated
John Snow
Incorporated, We ard
named for the
father of epidemi- t p k
ology -the study
of epidemics - unpreced
has been involved
in public health expanso
problems world- -(
wide. Bongaarts is
an expert in over- World por
population and
has briefed government officials such as
Vice President Al Gore and former
Secretary of State Warren Christopher.
"We are now at the peak of this
unprecedented expansion of humans"
Bongaarts said.
Due to falling infant mortality rates and
mortality rates in general, the world popula-
tion has expanded astronomically over the
past few decades, Bongaarts said. In 1950,
the world held 2.5 billion people. Since then,
the population has doubled to more than 5
billion and by the end of the next century, it
will have doubled again to a total population
of 11 billion, Bongaarts said.
Population growth will continue to
be fastest in Southeast Asia and Africa
"despite the AIDS epidemic,"
lot
Bongaarts said. He said the disease is
expected to double death rates in cer-
tain regions of Southeast Asia and
Africa over the next few years.
Overpopulation, despite these grim
predictions, is actually a problem that
activists have helped affect. With the
help of international groups like JS!
and aid from national governments,
family planning clinics have been set
up throughout the
less-developed
now at world regions.
"We now run the
7f this largest family plan-
ning program in
anred Kenya," s JS
if President Joel
now= Lamstein said.
hn Bongaarts Were itnotforthis
action, Bongaarts
ilation expert said that world pop-
ulation would even-
tually reachbeyond the expectedllbillion
to 14 billion people. Still, Bongaarts said
he regretted that the United States has
been withdrawing from international
efforts to address the problesms of
exploding population in recent years.
Yuzuro Takeshita, a retired
University professor of health educa-
tion and health behavior, agreed that the
United States is currently less involved
than it has been in the past. "That'
because China's involved, and China
has an abortion component," he said.
Lamstein said that American with-
drawal from the issue was part ofa gow-
ing "inward look by Americans." He said
the United States now devotes less than 1
percent of its budget to foreign aid.
JOHNKRAFT/ay
Beverly Godwin, University alumna and member of the Clinton administration,
delivered the Staebler address Friday in the Alumni Center.
"The EPA has drastically changed
the way it does business," Godwin
said. "The EPA is focusing more on
results."
Godwin predicted that if Vice
President Al Gore, one of the propo-
nents of the National Performance
Review, runs for President, the group
will be negatively portrayed by oppo-
nents.
"There will be more attacks on the
National Performance Review,"
Godwin said. "The press focuses on
the disasters."
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heard from normally."
Other graduating seniors said they
were curious to hear what the new pres-
ident would have to say.
"I've heard him before, so I'm not at
all disappointed," said LSA senior Jill
Greenlee. 'He's an excellent speaker-
I'm just happy to be graduating."
LSA senior Sean Parini said he is
oking forward to hearing Bollinger
speak.
"It'll be nice for the senior class to go
out and hear the new president;' Parini
said. "No one else has really heard
him."
The regents also approved a list of
honorary degree recipients at their
Friday morning meeting.
This year's honorary degree recipi-
ents include: Mary Frances Berry, chair
of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission;
Robert Fiske Jr., a trial lawyer and for-
mer independent counsel to the
Whitewater investigation; Sergei
Godunov, a Russian mathematician;
and Eugene Roberts, managing editor
' of The New York Times.
STUDENT
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public university helped inspire him.
"Going to a public university has
been very important for me because of
the diversity of the student body and
the diversity of the school," he said.
"Going to a public university has real-
ly pressed upon me the importance of
a public education."
Keating said he is already getting
nervous about speaking before such a
large crowd, but said having
University President Lee Bollinger
there as the keynote speaker, eases his
nerves.
"Since the speaker is Bollinger, it
makes me comfortable because I've
met him once or twice and he makes
me feel comfortable," Keating said. "If
Fiona Rose can talk in front of the
White House and C-SPAN, there's no
reason why I can't speak in front of a
crowd in Michigan Stadium.
"I'm really quite happy Bollinger
is speaking," he added. "I think he'll
give a good speech, and I've already
been impressed by what he has had
said."
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