10 - The Michigan Daily Summer Weekly -Wednesday,August 5, 1992 Seminar emphasizes educating students on manufacturing need . by Adam Hundley Daily Staff Reporter More than athousand industry ex- ecutives are meeting this week at the University's Management Briefing Seminarstodiscuss the future ofmanu- facturing and the University's role in automotive and industrial sectors. At the Traverse City conference, speakers are addressing strengths and weaknesses in all industries, but they are focusing on manufacturing and qual- ity assurance in the automotive indus- try. "When you talk manufacturing in Michigan, you have to talk automo- biles," said Downs Herold, research program manager of the University's Engineering Industrial Development Division. DuringMonday'sseminars,"World Class Manufacturing" and "Quality Assurance," speakers emphasized the need to educate students about the im- portance of manufacturing and recruit top students from the University. "IfMichigan isnotaleaderinmanu- facturing, we're really in trouble," Herold said. "When we're not attract- ing the best and brightest from the Uni- versity into the auto industry, it's in- dicative that changes have to be made." Donald Petersen, former chair and CEO of Ford Motor Co., and Richard Dauch, formerexecutive vicepresident for world-wide manufacturing at Chrysler, attributed the problem to the dirty, "assembly-line" image of manu- facturing and the comparatively attrac- tive images of design engineering and other positions. Petersen and Dauch claimed that manufacturing involves team-oriented problem solving and all the challenges andbenefitsofotherindustrypositions. At the quality assurance seminar, MIT Prof. James Womack and other speakersemphasized theneed for"lean production" and continuous improve- ment techniques to strengthen the auto- motive industry. Womack praised corporations like Chrysler for put- tingtogetherproductivedesignteams and responding to the recession, but he said work still needs to be done. Chrysler Chair Lee Iacocca, President and CEO of Mazda Corp. Yoshihiro Wada, and other top ex- ecutives will lead today's through Friday's automotive briefing semi- nar, "Working together." "Speakers will focus on the fu- ture of the global industry and the establishment of better working re- lationships between all who are part of the automotive industry," said David Cole, chair of the seminar and director of the University's Office for the Study of Automotive Trans- portation. The seminars are sponsored by the University'slIndustrialDevelop- ment Division of the College of En- gineering and the Office for the Study of Automotive Transportation. Fox to speak at D.C. student assembly by Purvi Shah Daily News Editor geographical region than their home be forced to deal with the repercus- Michigan Student Assembly Presi- base of Washington D.C. sions of an exorbitant deficit. dentEdeFoxwilltraveltoWashington, "They'relookingtogetawiderange SeveralotherMSAmembersare D.C. today in order to deliver a two- of support from students across alsoattending the United States Stu- minute speech for a group demanding America,"Fox said."I'llbetherespeak- dent Association Conference in politicians be accountable to younger ing on behalf of 18 to 21-year-olds in Washington, D.C. However, the Americans. the Midwest." University contingent will not be The activist group, LEAD ... or Student goveraments from such allowed to vote since it has not ful- Leave, was begun by two members of schools as Penn State, the University of filled the minimum distribution of the twentysomething generation-Rob Virginia, University of Wisconsin, and delegates. Nelson and Jon Cowan as a non-parti- Vanderbilt have already voiced their A certain number of women and san, non-profit effort to corral 18 to 30- support for the organization. Fox plans people of color must be part of each year-olds to believe "our generation to broach the possibility of MSA sup- delegation. can have real power in politics." port at a later meeting. "At the last minute one of the Former Presidential candidate and LEAD ... orLeave demands thatall women that we were going to send former Sen. Paul Tsongas (D-Md.) and candidates for federally elected office was unable to go because her thesis Sen.Warren Rudman(R-N.H.)-who "takeapledge promisingto seekreelec- is due Friday," Fox said. are alsosponsorsof the organization- tion only if the FY 1996 federal deficit Fox added she might register for will be the featured speakers. is 50% lower than that of FY 1992." the conference while in the city so Fox said she was selected to speak The group is asking that future thattheUniversity delegatesnotonly at the news conference because the Americanleadersmakethispledgesince be able to participate, but would also group wanteda woman froma different it is the younger generation which will have a vote. 6 P layit Sam "~~"""" "'~~"' The original piano for the film "Casablanca" is on display in the Fox Theatre lobby in Detroit to commemorate the film's 50th anniversary. In 1988 this piano was sold to a California doctor for $154,000 - the second-highest sum ever paid for a piece of movie memorabilia to date. Turner Entertainment Co. has restored the master print to its black and white splendor. "Casablanca" comes to the Michigan Theater Friday. * ,ftover feeswe e erbaresecessar "clot, "r' rtA r an'e,'°'"'.u a aat rCa l ' ,~e "O r~ourh henorch S919°eurlui' one" °mn ' VAGINITIS STUDIES Studies of Candida (yeast) infections of the vagina are being conducted by Barbara D. Reed, MD, MSPH and colleagues at the U-M Briarwood Health Center and the U-M Family Practice Center at Chelsea. These studies are designed to test reasons that yeast infection recur in some women, and to test new treatments for infections. 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