The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, May 20, 1981-Page 3 ' Chinese trip 'successful' Shapiro details new exchange agreement By JOHN ADAM The University faculty group, headed University President Harold Shapiro, by the president and his wife, toured after returning from a two-week tour of three major Chinese cities - Beijing mainland China, said at a press con- (Peking), Shanghai, and the inland city ference yesterday the trip was Xian. "positive and encouraging." Shapiro commented . on the dense An exchange program was ten- crowds of people on the city streets and tatively agreed upon between the likened it to the flow of a continuous University and China's Ministry of Times Square crowd on New Year's Education whereby faculty and Eve. "When you get to Tokyo (after graduate students will be able to work leaving China) you think things have and study in China as early as the fall of quieted down," the University 1982, said Shapiro. president said. "THE EXCHANGE IS on the basis of SHAPIRO SAID HE regretted not reciprocity," Shapiro said, which will having more opportunities to sightsee. enable about nine Chinese students to But, he explained, the delegation's study and conduct research at the vigorous daily routine had the faculty University while the equivalent number members and administrators up by of Michigan scholars will go to the nine 5:30 in the morning and so exhausted Chinese institutions that the University them that they were in bed to 8:30 or 9 faculty group visited, at night, leaving little time for sight- Shapiro said the program would be seeing. He said he was .especially beneficial for both University and disappointed that he was unable to see Chinese scholars, saying he was en- the Great Wall of China. couraged by the research possibilities Some of his more pleasurable available in China. moments came during the morning The primary areas of interest for walks where he and his colleagues University researchers will be the (about half of whom spoke Chinese) humanities and social sciences with would stroll about the streets talking some. additional interests in geology with people and reading the many and paleontology, said the president. public bulletins. The Chinese scholars will be primarily Apparently the Chinese were im- concerned with research in the physical pressed with the foreign delegation and medical sciences, and engineering, from the University. News of their Shapiro said. discussions appeared in the BUT, HE NOTED THAT the newspapers and on the evening TV laboratory .facilities in China are not news. well equipped enough to warrant the SHAPIRO SAID HE WAS impressed sending of physical scientists and with the size of the challenge facing the engineers from the University. Chinese people and noted their deep Daily roto by JRCKIt BLL UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT Harold Shapiro, just back from China, outlines the tentative agreement on a student/faculty exchange program. Shapiro said the trip was a success, and lamented only the fact that he had too little time to sightsee. Shapiro spoke yesterday at a local press conference. commitment to modernization. "There are wide disparities in China," he said. Manchuria is relatively highly mechanized, yet in Q other places men and women still till the soil with plows and water buffalo, he said. Shapiro said it is critical to the world that China solve its problems such as population control. He said the Chinese are now campaigning for one child per family. "There are two ways of viewing China," he said. "Either as an enor- mous potential or an enormous bur- den." He said he preferred to view it as the former. Shapiro said the absolute numbers of people participating in the exchange program set up these past weeks will be small, but that the general format of the deal is greatly important. West Quad building director dismissed By MARK GINDIN Leon West, the building director of West Quad dormitory for the past 13 years, was relieved of his duties Friday, marking the culmination of a long series of disputes between West and the administration, according to Larry Moneta, University Central Campus Area Housing Director. "My philosophy (about how to run a dorm) and their (the housing office's) philosophy came into conflict," West said yesterday. He said he did some things differently than the Housing Of- fice would have liked. UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS would not elaborate on the reasons for West's dismissal as building director. Housing Office officials said West would be transferred to another job until his con- tract expires next year. They said West's new job had not yet been deter- mined. "I like to think I did a good job" while building director, West said. Obviously, he said, noteyeerybody agrees because. he no longer has a job. "I am very sad to be leaving," said West, adding, "These have been the best 13 years of my life." The job at West Quad "made a significant dif- ference in my life," he said, adding that he would not prefer any other job on campus. LARRY MONETA WILL become in- terim building director until the University finds a replacement, accor- ding to Monets. West's removal on Friday was a "total- shock to everybody," said Dorothy Hiser, West's secretary. "We all had a rotten weekend" because of the announcement, she said. "I will be leaving West Quad a better place than I found it," said West. The maintenance department of West Quad is "the best on campus" and there are thousands .of dollars in improved lan- dscaping, West said. THERE ARE TWO WAYS to move up into the administration from the job of building director, West said. Either you must have the desire to move up or the See WEST, Page 7 Walking the line MEMBERS OF THE Employees Against Arbitrary Action walk a picket line established in front of the Wordprocessors shop on State Street. The picketers are protesting what they say are unfair labor practices. They claim the Wordprocessors owners have tried to block shop unionization and have violated a ruling by the National Labor Relations Board. Yesterday's pickets were the most recent development in a two-year, ongoing dispute between the store's management and some employees.