VOLUME 17 NUMBER 3 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA FEBRUARY 12,1971

Insurance Costs Fought DownThe cost of University property &

liability insurance reached its peak in1969-70 at more than $1.2 million,compared with a stable cost picture in the$24 hundred thousand range over theprevious six years. This is the insurancewhich the University maintains to protectits assets and income and assure that itsactivities are not interrupted by a seriousloss.

According to Rodney F. Pyfer,insurance manager of the University, thecost increase can be attributed to theseries of fires at the University andincreased litigation against the University.In fact, losses over the past 6 yearsexceeded premiums paid for insurance.Also involved have been inflation, newprograms requiring expanded protection,the issue of student unrest and thegeneral contraction of insurance markets.

The University's approach to thisproblem is twofold. From a financialpoint of view, the insurance premium in1970 was reduced to $700,000 because a$100,000 deductible now applies to alllosses. Thus, all of the smaller lossesincurred by the University will not becovered by insurance but will be handledinternally.

Pyfer explained that it is lessexpensive to pay directly for smallerlosses than to carry insurance whichwould cover them because insurancefirms simply take known or predictableloss levels to be a certainty and add theiroverhead, taxes and profit. An exampleof this is the campus theft problemwhich, though unpredictable in terms ofindividual departments, can be predictedWII.I1 Lull U1V UL VLlWI1I. LUL tut:University as a whole. To insure $50,000of known loss would result in a premiumof approximately twice that amount.

Pyfer went on to emphasize thatattempts to reduce insurance premiumssuch as juggling deductibles, self-insuringor studying ways for universities to insureone another, though important in terms

of handling the cost of losses, deals withonly half of the problem because it isdealing with the effects of loss ratherthan the cause of loss.

If insurance costs go up, whetherlosses are handled internally or throughan insurance company, this simplymirrors problem areas that need atten-tion. Looking at any activity, lossproblems can often be forecasted. Wemust take a deeper look at loss occur-rences and ask "why". "It's like thephysician treating a foot injury andwondering why the patient was wearingsandals while using his power mower,"Pyfer said.

Every decision the University makesfrom the planning table down to day-to-day activity carries with it an element ofrisk. Adding up all of these thingsproduces the composite risk complexitywhich is what our insurance must protect.Loss costs will be influenced a great dealby the extent to which safety con-sciousness permeates the thinking andactivity of all segments of the universityfamily.

It is not suggested that all losses canbe prevented. In some cases the cost ofprevention itself will be prohibitive andeven the best efforts will not eliminate allloss. But most loss problems can be"engineered" at least to the extent thatthe risks associated with an activity andthe loss potential can be weighed againstanticipated benefits from insurance sothat a more meaningful decision can bereached which is based on the true costfactors. Oftentimes relatively simple ad-justments can be made. "The key is toinstitutionalize loss prevention into ourthinking. The University has two full-timepeople on the payroll to help us do justthat," Pyfer said.

In the past, people paid insurancepremiums and worried little about thelosses until after they occurred. But thathasn't worked out so well because it hasforced insurance costs up near prohibitive

Trustees Act on Corporate Responsibility,Establish Standing Committee

A standing committee has beenestablished by the Trustees to assist theTrustees and the University admin-istration in determining the role of theinstitution in issues involving corporateresponsibility.

Bernard G. Segal, Esquire, a LifeTrustee and immediate past president ofthe American Bar Association, will serveas chairman. He is chairman and seniorpartner of the Philadelphia law firm ofSchnader, Harrison, Segal& Lewis.

Mr. Segal has served, and presentlyserves, as the chairman or a member of anumber of government commissions andcommittees appointed by the last threePresidents of the United States, includinghis chairmanship under Presidents Ken-nedy and Johnson of the Committee onCivil Rights Under Law, and his currentmembership on the Department of State'sAdvisory Panel on International Law, andon the National Advisory Committee tothe Office of Economic Opportunity.

In announcing the establishment ofthe Committee on Corporate Responsi-bility, William L. Day, chairman of theTrustees, said:

"Increasingly in recent years theTrustees and the administration havebeen called on to make decisions con-cerning the exercise of corporate re-sponsibility both by the University andby corporate enterprise with which theUniversity has relationships. The need for

levels and has dried up markets. Thismeans that the emphasis must shift to theprevention of losses. "If the current levelof University Insurance cost and thedirect impact of deductibles encouragesstronger safety efforts to protect what wehave, because there isn't any insurancecompany around that will automaticallypick up the tab, then the present ad-versity will have bred a great new successstory," Pyfer said.

thoughtful guidance in this importantarea prompts the appointment of astanding committee which will period-ically assess our policies and practices inthis regard. The establishment of thenewstanding committee will also provide anofficial channel for the expression ofviews of interested students, faculty,alumni, and Trustees on particular issueswhich fall within the committee'scharge."

Establishment of the new committeewas approved by the Trustees at theirStated Meeting on January 15, 1971.

Meyerson FormsCouncil of Deans

A Council of Academic Deans hasbeen established by President MartinMeyerson to encourage communicationamong the deans and to facilitateacademic and financial planning.

Meyerson said he expects the Councilto deal with such matters as tenure andappointment procedures, the function ofadvisory boards, procurement and pro-vision of academic planning data, andanalysis of the University's mixof under-graduate, graduate, and professionalinstructional programs. The Council'sfirst meeting, held January 27, wasdevoted to discussion of the Task Forceon Governance's recommendations onorganization of the faculties.-

The Council will meet monthly withthe President or, in his absence, theProvost presiding. Members of the groupare Dr. Mark W. Allam, Dr. R. JeanBrownlee, Dr. Lester W. Burket, Dr. CarlC. Chambers, Dr. Alfred Gellhorn, Dr.George Gerbner, Dr. Neal Gross, Dr. JohnN. Hobstetter, Dr. Dorothy A. Mereness,Dr. Daniel J. O'Kane, G. Holmes Perkins,Dr. Sidney D. Rodenberg, Dr. William E.Stephens, Dr. Luther L. Terry, Dr. WillisJ. Winn, and Bernard Wolfman. WilliamG. Owen serves as secretary.

Report Urges Higher Education Re-analysisThe American Academy of Arts and

Sciences, which comprises over 2,500elected Fellows, mostly scholars andprofessionals, has released "A FirstReport" of its Assembly on UniversityGoals and Governance which calls forre-examination and revitalization ofAmerican higher education's institutionsand policies.

The Assembly on University Goalsand Governance was established inSeptember 1969 with support from theFord and Rockefeller Foundations andthe Edgar Stern Fund. Since then, TheAssembly, through its policy councils,seminars, special studies and conferences,has involved hundreds of professors,administrators, students and publicofficials in its deliberations and otherwork. The First Report was derived fromthe varied activities of The Assembly; ithas largely been written by MartinMeyerson, The Assembly's Chairman, andProfessor Stephen R. Graubard, of BrownUniversity, The Assembly's Director ofStudies, and Editor of the Academy'sjournal, Daedalus.

The Report notes that "Anacademicsystem that was forged in the latterdecades of the nineteenth century, cameto maturity in the 1920'sand 1930's, andwas remarkably uncritical of itself in the1950's and early 1960's when it grew tounprecedented dimensions, is now re-quired to rethink its fundamental orient-ations."

The Report presents 85 theses orpolicy propositions for educationalreform. They are intended to stimulatefurther consideration of the issues raisedand will serve, along with forthcomingspecial reports of The Assembly, as thebases of forums to be held with the aimof stimulating educational reforms. Ninemajor themes interlace the theses:

***That learning is the centralmission of colleges and universities;research and public service are appro-priate to colleges and universities whenthey contribute to learning.

***That institutional self-study andstudy of the educational process has beenscanted and is much needed.

***That higher education shouldcease to be regarded as the unavoidableprescription for young persons andshould become regarded as an activity tobe undertaken voluntarily by men andwomen of all ages.

***That curricular innovation, notthe mere reduction of course require-ments or the easing of grading, will adaptthe learning experience to current needs.

***That diversity in patterns ofhigher education and in competing valuesystems in higher education should beencouraged to maximize student, faculty,and societal choice.

***That educational quality will bepreserved only if private institutionscontinue to compete with public; muchwill be lost in the public system if theprivate system is weakened further byfinancial difficulties.

***That it is time to upgrade the artof teaching, to develop collective andself-enforcing codes of responsibility forfaculty members and to create an envi-ronment in which learning is as importantfor teachers as for students.

***That the authority and res-ponsibility of university presidents berestored and the flow of communicationswithin universities be improved.

***That, in this period of financialstringency, universities should do morethan petition the federal government forfunds-that they should undertake newprocedures and new institutional forms

that will make inter-university cooper-ation and self-help more of a reality.

Amongthe proposed 85 theses of thereport are:

***Appointment to permanenttenure is often regarded as the mostimportant stage in an academic career.Colleges and universities are derelict whenthey make the most seaching inquiry todetermine whether an individual merits apermanent post and do nothing toencourage creativity once the person isinstalled in that post

Today, colleges and uni-versities are urged to devote majorresources to public service ... Highereducational institutions, in fact, haveneither the resources nor the politicalcapacity to engage in such activitiesexcept on a modest scale. What they cando and should do .. is to contributeknowledge that may be relevant to theseproblems.

... Universities are too littleinvolved in a subtle andcomplex analysisof education at any level .... It is un-reasonable for the university to prideitself on its expertise in numerous otherareas and be ready to accept its continuedignorance on many aspects of its ownprime concern-education.

Good governance dependson a reasonable allocation of responsi-bilities .... It is impossible that allshould decide everything or be consultedon every issue. No parliamentary orbureaucratic procedures can be developedthat will guarantee such participation andconsultation in most institutions(Education) is most likely to be achieved....where there is a division of respons-ibility, a sharing of information, and areadiness to subject authority to therequirements of a well-defined system of

accountability.***The college or university pres-

idency is uniquely important in Americanhigher education. The office needs to bestrengthened so that it can more effect-ively fulfill its principal responsibilities.

***Women's colleges, despite theirfinancial and other problems, ought notlightly to abandon their identity -Schemes for coeducation at women'sandmen's colleges are rapidly gaining favor;many of these proposals may beill-conceived. The concern on the part ofsome institutions to be in fashion risksthe loss of a purpose that may not beeasily recovered.

The aim of all the theses, accordingto The Assembly "is to provoke dis-cussion and testing" and not to end it."If they serve to stimulate trustees, fac-ulties, presidents, students, staff, alumnigroups and those public officials andcitizens concerned with higher educationto look at colleges and universities morecritically, and if these deliberations helpto bring about Improvements, they willhave served their purpose."

The Panel of Academy Advisers toThe Assembly is chaired by ProfessorTalcott Parsons, President of TheAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences.The members are: Daniel Bell, DavidBlackwell, Noam Chomsky, Robert F.Drinan, John W. Gardner, Gerald Holton,Willard Hurst, Clark Kerr, PolykarpKusch, Edward H. Levi, Sir W. ArthurLewis, Sol Linowitz, Seymour MartinLipset, Margaret Mead, WalshMcDermott, John Monro, Robert S.Morison, Rosemary Park, James A.Perkins, Anatol Rapoport, Walter A.Rosenblith, Meyer Schapiro, Charles P.Sllchter, H. Guyford Stever, Chief JusticeEarl Warren, Robert C. Weaver, StevenWeinberg, andC. Vann Woodward.

Four Term, One Emeritus Trustees Elected

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-Robert P. Levy Walter F. 0'Malley Sarkes Tarzian Mrs. Marietta Tree Mrs. Jacqueline G. Wexler

The Trustees have announced theelection of four Term Trustees and anEmeritus Trustee.

The four elected Term Trustees, whowill serve for five-year periods, are:

Robert P. Levy, president of theDelaware River Terminal, Inc., andpresident of the Atlantic City RaceCourse;

Walter F. O'Malley, chairman of theLos Angeles Dodgers Baseball Club;

Mrs. Marietta Endicott PeabodyTree, who served from 1961 to 1965 withthe United States Mission to the UnitedNations and was the first Americanwoman ambassador to the UnitedNations; and

Mrs. Jacqueline Grennan Wexler,president of Hunter College of The CityUniversity of New York.

Mrs. Tree and Mrs. We,der will be theonly women among the Trustees.

The Emeritus Trustee Is SarkesTarzian, owner of radio and televisionstations in Indiana andamanufacturer ofelectronic equipment.

Senate ProceedsWith Analysis ofGovernance Report

At its January 26 meeting, theFaculty Senate completedthe first stage ofits examination of the Report of the TaskForcE on Governance, voting to amendtwo of the items relating to the Trustees(Section I).

In regard to the mandated election ofyoung alumni Trustees, the Senaterecommended instead that "... a con-tinuing effort be made to broaden themembership of the Trustees to achievediversity. There should be a special effortmade to include educators from otherinstitutions and recent graduates of theUniversity of Pennsylvania."

In regard to the placement ofstudents and faculty as non-voting liaisonmembers on all Trustee committees, theSenate recommended instead that"...the Trustees continue to invitestudents and members of the faculty toall committee meetings at which suchliaison maybe deemed beneficial."

Approximately 200 members of theSenate attended the January meeting.

Trustees Resolve To EncourageLarge Restricted Gift DonorsTo Provide Operating Funds

TheTrustees have resolved to encour-age prospective donors of large gifts forrestricted purposes to make a portionof their gifts available for general operat-ing purposes.

The resolution approved by theExecutive Board directs "...that pros-pective donors of gifts of $10,000 ormore to the University for restrictedpurposes be urged to consider designating10 percent of their gifts for the Uni-versity's unrestricted current use, ortoward the general operating budgets ofthe schools or major divisions of theUniversity for whose purposes theircontributions are being made; and thatwhen appropriate, this portion of a giftbe recorded and recognized as a con-tribution through Annual Giving."

John W. Eckman, chairman of theTrustees' development committee, notedthat overhead expenses resulting fromnew facilities and programs have con-

tributed to the University's financialproblems.

He said, "I think many donors don'trealize that when they make a large giftto Pennsylvania for a new building or anew program, they're actually costing theUniversity more operating money-forplant maintenance, more faculty andstaff, more library and computerservices."

The University's first experience withits "percentage for operations" approachhas been favorable. The Kardon Foun-dation, in making a $100,000 gift insupport of Vance Hall, agreed that$10,000 might be put to unrestricted use.

E. Craig Sweeten, vice president fordevelopment and public relations, said hebelieves most persons and organizationscapable of making large capital gifts arefinancially sophisticated and can beexpected to understand and approve theUniversity's new approach.

ASCAP RecognizesThree Composers

Three University professors of musichave been recognized as outstandingcomposers by the American Society ofComposers, Authors, and Publishers(ASCAP).

George Crumb, George Rochberg,and Richard Wernick again received theASCAP award, which is given annually"... to assist and encourage writers ofserious music."

George Crumbwon the 1968 PulitzerPrize for his piece, "Echo of Time andThe River." This year his "AncientVoices of Children" was premiered byArthur Weinberg at the Library of Con-gress's 14th Festival of Chamber Music.

George Rochberg's "ThirdSymphony", commissioned by theJulliard School of Music to celebrate itsmove to Lincoln Center, was premieredthis year.

The Penn Contemporary Playerspremiered Richard Wernick's "Moonsongsfrom the Japanese" this year and willperform his "Haiku of Basho" in April.Also in April, the University Choir willpremiere his "Beginnings-Three Chorusesfrom Genesis."

Meyerson Talks About WomenFollowing is the text of a statement

by President Martin Meyerson, deliveredat the Founders Day luncheon Saturday,January 16.

In 1970 the United States Depart-ment of Health, Education and Welfareasked the colleges and universities ofthe country to establish what are calledaffirmative action programs to promoteequal employment opportunities forwomen. This action has helped bringto a head the rightful concerns of many,and not only women, about the absenceof real equality for them. The situation atthe University is no different from otherinstitutions of higher education. Thereare only 10 full professors in the Uni-versity who are women, most of them inthe medical area. In the College and the

College for Women, which has 1600undergraduate women, there is not onefully-affiliated woman holding a full pro-fessorship. Moreover, it may be, as isclaimed, that women do not receivesalaries equivalent to those of men,despite comparable tasks and achieve-ments.

There are even stronger questionsabout the inequalities in salary andpromotion for women in non-academicemployment here. It is also true thatthere are departments that apparentlyfavor male students on the assumptionthat women students at the graduate leveland in the professional schools are not soapt to persevere in their careers, in spiteof evidence to the contrary.

With these problems before us I amasking:

1) That the Equal OpportunityOffice serve in a staff capacity to auniversity-wide grievance mechanism onwhich women are heavily represented butwhich also must help assure equality forall groups in the University. This ma-chinery should be devised with the adviceof the University Council, the UniversitySenate, the Administrative Assembly andother groups on our campus.

2. That the offices of the Presidentand Provost and Vice-President establishguidelines to enable every budget unitwithin the University to examine all of itsmembers, academic and non-academic, tomake sure the principle of equal pay forequal work is being followed.

3) That for any opening which existsthe best possible women candidates andcandidates from other neglected groupsbe sought out.

4) That in the case of graduate andprofessional students, the academic deanssee to it that equivalent admissions andfinancial aid standards are applied to menand women.

I am also revising the University'sstatement on nepotism, which seems tohave been used to discriminate againstwomen.

I have asked a group of concernedwomen faculty and staff members of theUniversity to serve for now as a TaskForce for me in these matters. They mayor may not choose to continue in thatrole. Meanwhile, however, I am verygrateful to them for their help.

Memorial Book FundThe University has established an

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fundto accommodate persons wishing tocommemorate deceased classmates with alasting vehicle in lieu of flowers.

Once a year, interest from the fundwill be used to purchase books for theUniversity's library system. Specially.designed bookplates will dedicate eachvolume and the person's name will also beinscribed in a Memorial Book kept in thelibrary. Persons wishing to sponsor platesshould contact the Alumni MemorialPrograms Office in room 636 of theFranklin Building.

Robinson Named Equal Opportunity CoordinatorPresident Martin Meyerson has

named James H. Robinson to the newlycreated position of Equal OpportunityCoordinator at the University.

Mr. Robinson, 41, has been assistantdirector of the Office of External Affairsfor the past year, working primarily withcommunity organizations in programsthat draw on campus resources.

A Pennsylvania State University grad-uate in sociology and psychology, he hadbeen director of community services forthe United Fund before joining the Uni-versity.

In his new post, Mr. Robinson will beresponsible for preparing and maintaininga University-wide Affirmative Action Planto ensure equality for women and formembers of minority groups. He will alsoassist various departments in preparingaffirmative action plans of their own, andwill monitor the implementation andexecution of the departmental plans aswell as the University-wide plan.

Mr. Robinson will advise Universityadministrators on recruitment; in-serviceand on-the-job training; job classificationand upgrading of minority employees andwomen; allegations of discriminatorypractices; purchasing and contractingpolicies involving minority groups and

women; and liaison with external organ-izations concerned with employmentpractices relating to minorities andwomen.

As E.O. Coordinator, he will serve asan ex-officio member of the President's

Committee on Equal Opportunity, set upin 1969.70 to advise on employmentpractice.

Under the chairmanship of Uni-versity Chaplain Stanley E. Johnson, theE.O. Committee is currently writingrecommendations on the formation of aUniversity-wide grievance mechanism.

Its members represent all levels ofemployment at the University as well asstudents and faculty. They are:

Students: undergraduate Robert A.Bianchi and graduate student Axel D.Steuer.

Faculty: Dr. Edward Cahill, HumanResources; Dr. Helen C. Davies, Micro-biology; Dr. Howard E. Mitchell, HumanResources (on leave); and Dr. LeonardRico, Industry (replacing Dr. George W.Taylor, retiring Harnwell Professor ofIndustry).

A-3 Employees: Mrs. Barbara Green,Obstetrics & Gynecology, and Mrs.Marjorie T.McIntosh, Animal Biology.

A-4 Employees: Robert G. Leadum,Buildings and Grounds, and JamesRiggins, Law School Dining Service.

The chairman, the EO. Coordinatorand liaison members Veronika vonNostitz and Donald Stewart of the Pres-ident's Office are A-i employees.

Lyle, Hayden BecomePennsylvania GazetteEditor, Associate Ed.

Anthony A. Lyle has been namededitor, and John Hayden, associate editorof The Pennsylvania Gazette. Announce-ment of their appointments was made byMichel T. Huber, director of AlumniRelations and publisher of the ThePennsylvania Gazette.

Lyle, a 1961 graduate of the Uni-versity's College of Arts and Sciences,succeeds Robert M. Rhodes, the editorsince 1960, who has been named editorof the Brown Alumni Monthly at BrownUniversity, in Providence, R.I. Mr. Lylehas been a member of the staff of theUniversity's Development Office since1963, with the exception of the 1966-67academic year when he taught English atEpiscopal Academy in Philadelphia.

On the Development Office staff, hewrote and edited material for publi-cations including The Wharton Report andThe Wharton MBA; the GSE News, apublication for alumni of the GraduateSchool of Education; the School of SocialWork Newsletter, an alumni publication;and the English department Newsletter,during the period 1963-66. Since 1967,he has served as development officer forthe Performing Arts, with particularresponsibilities concerning the raising offunds and publicity work on the Uni-versity's new Annenberg Center for Com-munication Arts and Sciences.

Mr. Hayden, who was graduatedfrom Oberlin College in 1955, has beeneditor, since 1968, of Medical Affairs, aquarterly magazine published for alumniof the University's School of Medicine,School of Dental Medicine, and School ofVeterinary Medicine. He will continue aseditor of Medical Affairs, which willappear beginning this fall as a quarterlyinsert in The Pennsylvania Gazette.

Mr. Hayden had worked as an editorwith McGraw-Hill Publishers in 1955 andthen from 1955 to 1960 as ManagingEditor of The Story of Our Time, anencyclopedia yearbook published byGrolier, Inc. From 1960 to 1968, he wasa free-lance writer.

Women To TalkAbout Women

A regional conference on 'Women inthe Academic Community" will be heldat the University Saturday, February 27.The conference will be sponsored by theUniversity and Bryn Mawr and DouglassColleges.

Women faculty, students, and staffmembers, alumnae, and faculty wivesfrom institutions in five states areexpected to attend.

Registration will begin at theChristian Association at 8:45 am.

100th Birthday forProfessor Emeritus

An emeritus member of the Uni-versity faculty, Dr. Walton B. McDaniel,professor emeritus of Latin language andliterature, will be 100 years old on March4.

Now residing in Miami, Fla., heretired from the faculty in 1937, after 36years' service here. He had been named aninstructor in 1901, an assistant professorin 1903, and a professor of Latin in 1909.Dr. McDaniel received his degrees fromHarvard University: the A.B. in 1893; theA.M. in 1894; and the Ph.D. in 1899. Hehas been a Fellow of the AmericanAssociation for the Advancement ofScience since 1930 and was President ofthe American Philological Association in1921.

Urban Problems Colloquium LaunchedBy Civil and Urban Engineering Division

Big cities and the physical problemsthey generate are being analyzed byprominent experts from government,education and industry during a 15-weekColloquium on Urbanism sponsored bythe Graduate Division of Civil and UrbanEngineering. The colloquium beganFebruary 10.

The series, part of a continuingreorientation of the Division's goals,includes such guest lecturers as Sen-ators Claiborne Pell of Rhode Islandand Henry Jackson of Washington;Whitney M. Young of the National UrbanLeague; and Alan M. Boyd, former U.S.Secretary of Transportation. There is alecture every Wednesday evening at 6:30p.m. The series is offered tuition-free toall University graduate and undergraduatestudents, but class size is limited andadmission to the lectures is restricted tothose with course registration cards.

According to Dr. Sidney Shore and

Dr. Iraj Zandi, the professors of civiland urban engineering who designed thecourse, it will try to define the basicelements of urban problems and considersome of the alternative solutions. It willemphasize the complex ties and over-lapping demands of transportation needs,water supply, waste disposal, powerproduction and physical growth in theurban setting. How the various in-stitutions help create and implementurban policies will also be explored.

In addition to the previously men-tioned speakers; educators, architects andcity planners from Philadelphia and othermajor urban centers will deal with abroad range of subjects concerning urbanmanagement and growth.

University participants include E.Farnsworth Bisbee, associate professor ofCivil and Urban Engineering; Vukan R.Vuchic, associate professor of civil andurban engineering; Manfred Altman,

professor of mechanical engineering; JohnE. Edinger, professor of civil and urbanengineering; G. Holmes Perkins, dean ofthe Graduate School of Fine Arts; andDrs. Shore and Zandi.

Also scheduled to appear areToronto architect and city planner, HansBlumenfeld; Vinton W. Bacon, professorof civil engineering at the University ofWisconsin; and San Francisco architectGeorge T. Rockrise.

The final session, a panel discussion,will be moderated by President MartinMeyerson, and will include panelistsEdmund N. Bacon, noted Philadelphiacity planner; Robert N. Mitchell, pro-fessor of city planning at the University;William L. Rafsky, executive vice-president of the Old Philadelphia Cor-poration; and Paul N. Ylvisaker, professorof political science at Princeton Uni-versity.

Tuition Increased, Services CutThe University of Pennsylvania has

announced a $200 increase in tuition andgeneral fee for all full-time students for1971-72. The increase will bring thetuition and fee total to $2750 at theUniversity.

The tuition increase was announcedfollowing the regularly scheduled meetingof the Trustees on campus Thursday andFriday, January 14 and 15.

In the part-time divisions of theUniversity, the Evening School ofAccounts and Finance and the College ofGeneral Studies, tuition has been in.creased by $9 to $105 per course unitand the fee by $2 to $5 per course unit.Also, the application fee in these divisionshas been increased from $5 to $10.

Also, the Trustees, resolved thatdormitory rentals be increased for1971.72 as deemed appropriate by thePresident upon the recommendation ofthe University Budget Committee.

In an effort to bring expendituresmore in line with the University's income,the Trustees approved cuts in admin-istrative services and athletics of slightlyover $900,000.

A slight increase, to not more than1900 total, in the freshman class wassuggested as possible if academiccredentials of applicants permit. TheTrustees have encouraged the acceptanceof additional transfer students toacademic areas not presently over-burdened.

Graduate Towers FinishedCompletion of the University's

$15-million Graduate Towers was markedby a ceremony on Monday, January 18,on the plaza bounded by the four newhigh-rise apartment buildings along Chest-nut and Sansom Streets between 36thand 37th Streets.

A bronze plaque was unveiledbearing the University's coat of arms andthe names of W. Stuart Helm, executivedirector of the Commonwealth ofPennsylvania's Higher EducationFacilities Authority; Governor RaymondP. Shafer (president of H.E.F.A.); thePhiladelphia Redevelopment Authority;the U.S. Department of Housing andUrban Development; and thearchitectural, engineering and contractingfirms who helped build the four towers inless than three years.

Helm said that the University notonly had the honor and distinction ofbeing number one in the Commonwealthto build under the new act, but that thejob was completed on time, and withinthe amount of money available. Theproject, an experiment in concurrency ofdesign as well as in new forms of fi-nancing, came in within three years at aconstruction of $7,000 per finished unit.Project cost per unit averages $9,250according to Arthur R. Freedman,director of planning and design.

The Graduate Towers, most ambi-tious single construction project dedi-cated to date at the University, is part ofa $62-million housing program being builtas the first H.E.F.A. project in Penn-sylvania. The overall program includes a"Super-block" of high- and low-risebuildings for undergraduate studentsstill under construction.

Collaborating architects for theGraduate Towers were Richard and DionNeutra and Associates, with Bellante

Thompson AppointedSchelling Professor

Dr. Craig R. Thompson has beenappointed Felix E. Schelling Professor ofEnglish Literature.

Dr. Thompson came to the Uni-versity of Pennsylvania in 1968 fromHaverford College where he was librarianand professor of English and history. Arecipient of numerous scholarships andspecial appointments, he has held threeGuggenheim Fellowships and has servedas both a consultant and a fellow of theFolger Library.

Clauss Miller and Nolan. Daniel J. KeatingCo. was the general contractor, andMeridian Engineering, Inc., was projectmanager of the University.

The Graduate Student Associationhelped specify space use, design andfurnishings for the towers, and accordingto Freedman, many of their suggestionswere later adapted for use in the nearbyundergraduate residences.

The four Graduate Towers rangefrom 16 to 22 stories high, and togetherhouse more than 1,500 single students,and student wives and husbands. On theground floor along Chestnut Street aresuch shops as a Wawa market, theCard'n'Gift Shop, the University CityCleaners, and a rathskeller called "TheWoods."

Graduate ResidenceNamed for Nicholses

The tallest building in the Universityof Pennsylvania's new four-buildinggraduate student housing complex at36th and Chestnut Streets has beennamed in honor of Dr. Roy F. Nichols,historian and former dean of the Uni-versity's Graduate School of Arts andSciences, and Dr. Jeannette P. Nichols,former chairman of the graduate group ineconomic history.

In a Trustees' resolution naming the22-story residence building, it wasauthorized that a plaque be affixed to thebuilding to read: "NICHOLS HOUSE,For Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols,Distinguished Historians, FaithfulCounselors, Devoted Companions, thisbuilding is named with affection andadmiration in token of the students theytaught, the scholars who learned fromthem, and the University they served.January, 1971."

25th Birthday of theElectronic Computer

It was 25 years ago this month(February 15, 1946) that the ENIAC (forelectronic numerical integrator and cal-culator) was officially turned over to theU.S. Government.

In November 1941, just a few weeksbefore the Japanese attack on PearlHarbor, John Brainerd, then a newly-appointed professor in the MooreSchool, came back from a MassachusettsInstitute of Technology conference witha list of research and developmentprojects aimed at helping MiT's RadiationLaboratory iron out problems related tothe then very-new military radar. (Workwhich would later prove to be directlyrelated to ENLAC work.) By late 1942,three other Moore School projects con-ducted in cooperation with the BallisticsResearch Laboratory of AberdeenProving Grounds (to compute rocket andmissile trajectories) were bogging downunder the sheer volume of mathematicalcomputations. The joint manual com-puting efforts of nearly 300 persons,most of them college women in the civilservice, at both the Moore School anddown at Aberdeen simply couldn'tproduce results fast enough and underwartime conditions replacements weregetting scarcer.

Under these circumstances, dis-cussions and memoranda in the MooreSchool urging the design of a high-speedelectronic digital computer led Dr.

Donald Farrar JoinsCenter for Study ofFinancial Institutions

Dr. Donald E. Farrar, who has justcompleted serving as Director of the U.S.Securities and Exchange Commission'sInstitutional Investors Study, has beenappointed a Senior Fellow of the Centerfor the Study of Financial Institutions inthe University of Pennsylvania LawSchool.

Announcement of Dr. Farrar'sappointment, which was effective Feb-ruary 1, was made by Robert H. Mund-heim, who is Fred Carr Professor orLaw and Director of the Center. Dr.Farrar will continue as a consultant to theSEC.

Dr. Farrar comes to the University ofPennsylvania after two years' service asDirector of the recently-completedInstitutional Investors Study. He hadbeen named Director at the inception ofthe Study in January, 1969. During thefall semester of 1968, he was an associateprofessor of finance at Columbia Uni-versity, and prior to that he had been anassociate professor of finance at theMassachusetts Institute of Technologysince 1962. He received the bachelor's,master's and Ph.D. degrees in economicsfrom Harvard University.

Louis Kahn ReceivesPhiladelphia Award

Dr. Louis I. Kahn, Paul Phillipe CretProfessor of Architecture, has beennamed 50th recipient of the PhiladelphiaAward. The award is conferred each yearupon a person living in the Philadelphiaarea who during the preceding yearserved to advance the best and largestinterests of the community of whichPhiladelphia is the center. The award wasestablished in 1921 by the editor of theLadies Home Journal, the late Edward W.Bok, and comprises a gold medal and$15,000.

Brainerd to propose that the BRL atAberdeen finance its research? anddevelopment. In addition, Dr. John W.Mauchly, an assistant professor of elect-rical engineering long interested in com-putation was working on a signal corpsproject, while J. Presper Eckert, an ins-tructor, and others were alreadyattempting to develop new high-speedcounters for the Rad Lab project.

The result-after two-and-a-half yearsof research, development and manu-facture-was a 30-ton monster occupyingmore than 1,500 square feet of floorspace in the Moore School. It didn'treally get operational until December1945, several months after the war ended,and by modern standards it was actuallyslow. But it was the first big step, since itestablished nearly all the concepts onwhich today's high-speed electronic com-puters are based.

Dr. Donald S. Murray, assistantto the president for federalrelations, has been named chairmanof the Grants Administration Ad-visory Committee of the Depart-ment of Health, Education, andWelfare.

ACE Report Shows Upward TrendThe University of Pennsylvania

emerged stronger in the recently pub-lished 1969 survey on the quality ofgraduate education conducted by theAmerican Council on Education than itdid in a similar 1964 Council study. Theevaluations were based on the quality offaculty and the effectiveness of graduateprograms.

In 10 fields of study, Pennsylvaniaranked among the first 10 institutionsnationally. These fields are anthropology,Spanish, pharmacology, linguistics,psychology, classical studies, economics,physiology, German, and the history ofart.

Of the 34 fields in which Penn-sylvania was rated, 23 departments,including the ten listed above, wereplaced in the "highly rated" classifica-tions. The 13 additional fields in-cluded in these rankings are English,French, history, sociology, biochemistry,developmental biology, microbiology,molecular biology, zoology, mathematics,

physics, chemical engineering, and elec-trical engineering.

Anthropology, psychology, andpharmacology are listed as the Uni-versity's most attractive fields of graduatestudy.A comparison with the 1964 ACEreport with the recent study shows thatmore of Pennsylvania's fields of studyhave risen in the rankings than havefallen. The most improvement in positionwas achieved by chemical engineering,which is given a "highly rated" ranking inthe 1969 report-a jump of 1.8 points.

Further examination of the 36 tablesreveals that the comparative standing ofPennsylvania is 14th in the country onthe basis of the number of mentionsamong the top 10 institutions in thefields included in the study. If thenumber of mentions among the top 20 isconsidered, Pennsylvania ranks 12th.

The report itself attempts to playdown institutional comparisons. Unlikethe earlier 1964 study, the new report didnot include specific scores for institutions

so that it is not possible to make com-parisons among institutions as awhole.

ACE officials and universities gen-erally were quick to point out that theACE study does not purport to be acomprehensive evaluation of graduate andprofessional education, let alone a ratingof an entire institution. In Pennsylvania'scase it should be pointed out, the studydid not embrace the University's Schoolsof Medicine, Dental Medicine, VeterinaryMedicine, Law, Social Work, Education,Fine Arts, Communications, and theGraduate Division of the Wharton Schoolof Finance and Commerce.

Neither did it take into considerationa number of innovative graduate pro-grams of an interdisciplinary nature forwhich Pennsylvania is widely knownsuchas Biophysics, American Civilization,Folklore and Folklife, South AsiaRegional Studies, Regional Science,Operations Research, Archeology, andOriental Studies.

Export PromotionProgram Launched

The Wharton School and the Uni-versity are cooperating with the U.S.Department of Commerce and the Penn-sylvania and New Jersey business com-munities inaprogram to boost export salesby small American companies whilegiving students of business administrationtraining in international commerce.

The project will be known as the"MBA Export Expansion Program"because the graduate students involvedare working toward masters' degrees inbusiness administration (MBA), special-izing in international business. TheWharton MBA students will be undersupervision of Dr. Franklin R. Root,Associate Professor of InternationalBusiness and will receive academic creditfor the project.

Under the full program, more than200 graduate students from 21 uni-versities across the United States willresearch world trade leads for U.S.exporters interested in new foreignmarkets and for businessmen seekingtheir first overseas sales. The program willbe administered jointly by the part-icipating universities and the CommerceDepartment's Bureau of InternationalCommerce (BIC).Viewpoint

Athletics in Academe-Time for a New LookFred A. Shabel, director of inter-

collegiate athletics and recreation, and hisstaff have begun a budgeting exercisewhich is expected to lead to substantiallyreduced expenditures but, hopefully, nocut in the number of sports participants.

Shabel's problems, financial andphilosophic, reflect a common Universityproblem: Educational objectives havenot been sufficiently well established toprovide an adequate framework forfinancial planning.

Shabel says he can write an athleticarea budget to suit any given set ofathletic program objectives. But at thistime there seems little University agree-ment on athletic program objectives.

Shabel puts it this way: "Answer thefollowing questions and I'll tell you thedollar value of the program you'vewritten ...

"Do you want to participate in inter-collegiate athletics?

"Do you want to participate in IvyGroup intercollegiate athletics?

"If so, in how many sports?"Do you want to compete only in

sports which produce gate receipts?'What percent of the games you play

do youwant to win?"If these questions are asked within

the context of an accepted understandingof the role of athletics in the educationalprocess they are subject to rationaldebate by emotionally disinterestedpersons. The answers to the questionslead to dollar figures and the process ofgetting from answer to dollar cost issubject to logical analysis. The cost ofequipment is known, the cost of coachesfalls within known boundaries, the costof travel to other institutions is deter-minable.

Six years ago the University appearedto have established the place of athleticsin education, perhaps not to everyone'ssatisfaction, but sufficiently well that a

major program in athletics and recreationcould be drafted and implemented. InJanuary "of 1965 The Athletic andPhysical Education Survey Committeereaffirmed the University's commitmentto the Ivy Group and its basic principles.

The Committee noted that theUniversity's commitment ".. - carrieswith it the unavoidable necessity todevote the energy, capital resources,determination, and cooperative effort toachieve the ultimate objective of theUniversity." It was noted that the"ultimate objective" of the Universityincluded offering to the student a soundathletic and physical education programas an integral part of academic life.

In June of 1965 a Faculty ReviewCommittee affirmed the Survey Com-mittee's findings, stating, "After a longand compehenaive examination of thevalues and problems associated with theathletic program of the University, theFaculty Review Committee reaffirms itssupport for a vigorous and soundly-conceived program of intercollegiate, in-formal, and intramural sports. It believesthat the various forms of athletic activitycan make significant contributions to thewelfare of the total Universitycommunity. It sees positive values in aproperly controlled program of inter-collegiate athletics and has indicated thenature of the controls which it deemsnecessary. It believes that those respons-ible for administration of the total ath-letic program should now move withinthe framework of the suggested controlsin aggressive and imaginative fashion tostrengthen all phases of the athleticfunction."

The Faculty Review Committeeincluded Dan M. McGill, chairman,Robert D. Dripps, Jefferson Fordham,David R. Goddard, Gaylord P. Harnwell,Michael H. Jameson, John R. Preer,Curtis R. Reitz, George Rochberg, Otto

Springer, William E. Stephens, Robert Y.Turner, Francis C. Wood, and EdwardRogge, secretary.

It would seem that the charge of theCommittee has been met. The OctoberGazette reported that in 1969-70 Uni-versity varsity teamswon 61.4 percent oftheir contests with Ivy opponents, endingHarvard's 14-year monopoly of topposition in all-sports rankings.

Less widely recognized was the factthat 822, or about one out of nine,undergraduates participated in inter-collegiate freshman and varsity com-petition in that year. An additional 400students competed for team positions.

Still less widely recognized is therelationship within the last five years ofintercollegiate athletics to facilities torecreation. It would be naive to ignorethe fact that tbere are alumni Who like tosee their alma mater's teams winand whowill provide athletic facilities in order tohelp make it happen. It is also a fact thatathletic facilities built and improved atPennsylvania during the past five yearshave benefited and will benefit thousandsof students who lack the interest or thesuperior ability required to make a varsityteam. The ice rink, as noted in the lastedition of Almanac, is serving about3,000 people per week.The artificial turfand lights at Franklin Field are enabling1,500 students to play on 111 intramuralfootball teams. The Gimbel gym isattracting 7,000 a week. Faculty and staffare occasionally miffed to find they can'tplay a pick-up basketball game at lunchhour because students have filled thecourts, and the squash courts are used tocapacity.

Nor is there lack of spectatorinterest. Most apparent this year are thestudent basketball fans who queue up insubfreezing weather in a line reachingback to the University Museum in orderto buy out every available seat for agame

the first day tickets go on sale. About9,000 students picked up football ticketbooks this fall andan average home gameattracted 7,000 students. Less obvious arethe 300 or more students who attend afencing match, the 1,800 who attended arecent hockey match, and the over--capacity crowds at squash matches.

It would seem the University hassucceeded in offering students anattractive athletic and physical educationprogram, and that the University mighttake pride in this achievement.

Shabel says that while athleticprogram popularity may be recognizedthere is no longer an accepted under-standing of the role of athletics withinthe educational process. In his view, someof the questions which have refused tostay answered are...

To what extsnt should the Universityprovide out-of-the-classroom activities forits seven or eight thousand residentstudents?

Should such activities be bothspectator and participant oriented?

Do student athletes have a value in"broadening" the undergraduate body?

Is the physical development ofstudents a legitimate University concern?

Does, and should, intercollegiateathletics play a role in unifying theUniversity community?

Does, and should, intercollegiateathletics play an effective role in bringingthe institution to the attention of pro-spective students and the general publicacross the nation?

The University athletic/recreationprogram, having come this far, now needseither a redefined or a reaffirmed positionwithin the University's educationalprogram. The University can no longerafford, philosophically or financially, towrite budgets in any area in the absenceof established educational objectives.

By Robert F. Coryell

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