Osteopathy, benefits M§lLJ Faculty News crowd Council slate . :::::::::;::::::::::::;::::::::::::::::::::: ::::::: ::::::: ::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::: ::::::::~::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::;::::::::::::~:~:~::::::::. VoL 1, No. 10 Michigan State University . Dec. 2,1969 :::::::::::::::::::::::::=:::::::::::::::::.:::.:.:.:::.:.:.:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::~:~:~:~:~:~:;:::::::::;:;:~:::::;:::::::::::::::::: :::::;:::::::::::!:::::::::::::::::::=:::=:::=:::=:: At its meeting today (3: 15 p.m., Con Con Room of International Programs), the Academic Council is scheduled to consider: . -Temporary suspension of section 1.3.1 of the Faculty Bylaws. This relates to the presentation of Distinguished Faculty ~wards at the annual February convocatIon. It has been proposed that these awards be given in the spring at a program that includes conferring the the Teacher-Scholar Awards and Distinguished Teaching Awards for Graduate Assistants. -Report of the ad hoc Committee on the College of Osteopathy. The faculty committee, announced last week and chaired by Richard U. Byerrum, dean of natural science, is helping formalize MSU's stance on a proposed osteopathy school. --Recommended procedures improved evaluation of instruction. for See related story, page 4 -Recommended changes in faculty benefits. -A report on policies and procedures from -Take steps on campus disturbances. * * * IN THE AREA of faculty benefits, the University Faculty Affairs Committee will recommend that MSU: to raise benefits of already retired faculty "whose joint security and income sodal short of University pension maximum social security benefits, up to at least the level of maximum social security benefits for a married couple." -Investigate the "actuarial soundness" of the old retirement system with the idea of either increasing the maximum compensation and/or allowing Jhe benefits to increase more rapidly. falls -Explore the possibility of allowing faculty members on the old retirement system, but who have not yet retired, to "fIx their benefits at' the current level and the TIAA/CREF plan immediately. " join -Provide all faculty with "professional insurance as a paid fringe liability benefit." * * * IN ITS STATEMENT to the Council, the Faculty Mfairs Committee says that an endorsement of these proposals "will enhance the probability that they can favorable consideration receive for. implementation by July 1, 1970." The statement also notes that while the proposals were favorably received by both the president and the provost earlier this year, "the level of funding from the legislature was such as to preclude them from being implemented for the current year." In its report on campus disturbances, the University Student Affairs Committee will recommend that a University Committee on Public Safety be established. include both Voting membership on the committee would faculty and students. The director of the School of Police Administration and Public Safety and the director of the Department of Public Safety would be ex officio members. The Student Affairs Committee will also propose recommendation of a "policy statement on the resolution of conflict in the University community." The statement is printed elsewhere on this page. Tickets needed Because attendance at Saturday's commencement is expected to exceed the Auditorium capacity, guests will be admitted by ticket only. Those without tickets can view the ceremony via CCTV in Fairchild Theatre. Faculty and candidates should assemble in the Auditorium basement lobby at 2: 30 p.m. Speaker will be Kingman Brewster, President of Yale. Faculty Seminars: Bridging a gap. Weekly seminars making strides to promote increased scholarly exchange among faculty By EDWARD ZABRUSKY Editor, News Bureau The communications and social gaps the disciplines are being between narrowed at Michigan State through a series of unique faculty seminars. Each week during the term, two small faculty with diverse gIOUpS of backgrounds meet for two or three hours in a topical discussion led by some of the most distinguished names on the faculty roster. Stanley C. Ratner, professor of psychology who helped originate the seminars, is current chairman of the program. He explained, "On a large campus - and even on small ones - people appear and disappear on their own schedules, and frequently it may take years to find someone whose interest links with your own, or who could support your own, or provide good criticism." MAPS:A new progress scale Both students and faculty can now use to help plot an "MAPS" undergraduate's academic course through Michigan State. MAPS is an acronym for Minimum Academic Progress Scale, introduced this fall in an attempt to provide more fairness and clarity in the criteria for satisfactory academic performance. The new scale is the product of more than a year's work by a seven-man faculty committee. By the time the group had put the finishing touches on MAPS, it had tested and rejected several other plans. John Zimmer, assistant dean of natural science and a member of- the committee that developed MAPS, said the new scale is fully operative "for all new undergraduates and for all others except those disadvantaged by it." The latter provision, he added, is in accord with University policy to make retroactive "only regulation changes when they benefit the student." (Continued on page 2) The colloquium is the conventional mechanism for a faculty discussion. "But that is a one-shot thing," Ratner ~ explains. "The seminar is noted in the "Blue Sheet" or equivalent. Some large groups Is faculty-student contact diminishing? See page 2. of people get together. The speaker addresses himself to a topic. The group listens, and then walks out." • * * * HIS FIELD is comparative methods and it was out of his discussions with another faculty member, Bernard J. Paris in comparative literature, that the seminars were formed. The two found several things they wanted to know about each other's work and reasoned that other faculty would also be interested, not only in. their fields but in other topics as well. With blessings and encouragement from the Provost's Office, the deans and the various departmental chairmen. faculty seminars became reality duriIig winter term, 1969. William E. Cooper discussed ecology and Paris led a discussion of the works of Dostoevski. The spring topics included symbolic logic, with Prof. Gerald J. Massey in philosophy, and Prof. Ratner was the leader of a group concerned with comparative metl).ods . One of this fall's seminars has been led by John H. Useem, professor of sociology. He believes that the seminars present a special challenge for leader as well as for participants. "Weare a very spread-out institution," Useem points out. "We (Continued on page 4) Statement on resolving conflict (The following "policy statement on the resolution of conflict in the University community" is contained in a report on campus disturbances to be presented at today's Academic Council meeting.) * * * The University Student Mfairs Committee submits to the Academic Council the following motion for its consideration: Move that the Academic Council endorse a general policy statement on the resolution of conflict in the University community, as follows: A. The University community - faculty, students and administration -- the recognizes and accepts responsibility for internal conflict resolution within Michigan State University. B. The University community in the recognizes resolving conflict, following priorities: I. The preservation of life and the prevention of physical injury and pain. 2. The provision of justice, including due process and the amelioration of grievances, for: the the staff and students, faculty, administration, and the taxpayers and citizens. 3. The achievement of educational excellence, which in the long run is the University's responsibility to the larger society, the world community and future generations. that C. The University community these further recognizes priorities may at times produce conflict; seeming justice for one may impinge upon justice for another. In the resolution of these conflicts, the University community subscribes to the highest traditions of an educational institution, seeking to apply knowledge and reason to man's problems. D. Finally, the University community recognizes that protest and dissent may be a part of growth and change in any social institution. However: (1) violence and acts of destruction cannot be condoned; (2) agreements cannot be made under duress; and (3) amnesty cannot be guaranteed. MSU Faculty News, Dec. 2, 1969 Communication on the campus: How much is enough? Little facul~y-student contact, according to study on campus By GAIL MORRIS Assistant Editor, News Bureau The community of scholars is dead. And "depersonalization" is more than just a handy shibboleth in the student radicals' propaganda arsenal. These, at least, are conclusions which could be drawn from a recent study of communication patterns and faculty-student contacts at MSU. According to the researcher, R. Lance Shotland, a doctoral candidate in l'sychology, "the academic community is highly segmented. Students are isolated from all other components of the university and are even isolated from one another. is "There little contact between the MSU students and faculty on campus," he reports. ''The low level of communications between the other segments of the academic community and the students only creates situations leading to misunderstandings." Shotland, whose study was conducted the Educational Development for Program (EDP), has been interested in student movements since his undergraduate days. "I wanted to find . out if the university is the way radicals see it." the conditions He wondered if universities are setting that nourish the up movement. "The answer I found was yes." * * * ROBERT H. DAVIS, director of the Learning Service and a professor of psychology, the University who takes exception to some of Shotland's conclusions. a member of is "The community of scholars still exists," contends Davis, "not at the university level, but at the department level. " Davis believes that there are other criteria, besides people knowing one another, for judging the "community" of a university. "Opportunities for intellectual stimulation have to exist," he says, and he believes that at MSU they do. Shotland's communications study was done during a five-week period in the fall quarter, 1968, using 330 subjects - 110 each of faculty , administrators and students. A technique he applied indicated it takes 5.4 intermediaries when a faculty Charting with MAPS. (continued from page I) The scale is printed in the Winter Term Schedule of Courses (page 153) and to all undergraduate students. * * * is being distributed INDICATES THE SCALE the maximum MSU points below a 2.00 cumulative average that are permitted for acceptable academic performance. It also specifies that a maximum of 225 credits may be attempted for a bachelor's degree , and that a maximum of 30 credits may be repeated .. Zimmer pointed out that while a student who meets the minimum MAPS requirements is eligible for continued enrollment in the University, he is not necessarily eligible to continue in the college or program of his choice. Criteria for the latter vary across the campus. The Education Policies Committee special recently clarified existing admission requirements of the various colleges and provided guidelines for establishment of relevant new ones. The committee that developed MAPS was formed in 1968 after MSU's present grading system was approved. • Zimmer said the 1968-69 year was needed to study the proposed scale, since MSU "had experience with a step scale for the freshmen and sophomore years only, and had no experience the new grading whatsoever with system" Other members of that committee included: James M. Elliott, professor of natural science and a director of resident instruction, University College; Erwin Bettinghaus, professor and assistant dean, communication arts; Willard Warrington, professor and director, Evaluation Services, and an assistant dean, University College; John N. Winburne, professor of American Thought and Language and an assistant dean, University College; and Joseph Saupe and Craig Johnson, both formerly of Institutional Research. APPME meet set An open meeting of the American Professors for Peace in the Middle East will be held Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. in Room 37 of the Union . member tries to contact a given student, and 4.3 intermediaries for a student sending a message to a faculty target - an average of 4.8. In an experiment by Stanley Milgram at CUNY, it took only five intermediaries to transmit a message from coast to coast. "It is re ally very hard to call (the University) a community," Shot land concludes. "Education implies some kind of dialogue, and you're not going to get it with the faculty-student ratio as it is." * * * BUT DAVIS believes that "we have to face the fact that our opportunities for personal communication across the University are gone. relations "Students want more personal contact, a breakdown of the mechanical and formal that occur in bureaucracies. And I think we should do everything we can on this campus to provide more students with lots of opportunities to know one :wother." for relationships," "For many kids, the dJrm system close ' provides opportunities personal says Davis. "Then there is the sense of intellectual community that comes with department affiliation. " Shotland the desirability of students having most of their contacts with students only, which he says is the case at MSU. issue with takes * * * "IF EACH CLASS of undergraduates en ters with a segment of its population holding certain attitudes," he explains, "and these people communicate only with each other, conditions are ripe for these the mutual reinforcemen t of beliefs." Typical of an entering freshman attitude that a is an expectation university will be more intellectually stimulating than high school, and that there will be greater ~udent-faculty dialogue,.he says. "If they don't find what they are looking for, this could be bad. Solutions? Neither Shotland nor Davis views decreased use of ccrv as a means.to increase student-faculty communications. '~TV classes," says Davis, "free faculty to teach more advanced courses on a more personal basis. If you abandoned TV, you might need as many as 50 or 60 teach a basic to undergraduate course. Then you would have to increase the size of hundreds of other classes." instructors Tuesday, Dec. 2 7 SPIN BACK THE YEARS. W.C. Handy. Thursday, Dec. 4 7 LA REVIST A. First in a series broadcast in Spanish. Friday, Dec. 5 7 ASSIGNMENT 10. Reports on Lansing's Rat Patrol and-the New Community, a group of young men and women living together. Sunday, Dec. 7 1:30 NET FESTIY AL. The British Rvyal Ballet Company performs "Coppelia." 2:30 THE PRESIDENT'S MEN 1969. 4:30 AGNEW AND THE NEWS. 11 NET PLAYHOUSE. The Yale Repertory Theatre Company Monday, Dec. 8 7 SPARTAN SPORTLITE. Tuesday, Dec. 9 7 SPIN BACK THE YEARS. Mahatma Gandhi. Friday, Dec. 12 7 ASSIGNMENT 10. Tentatively scheduled: Reports on Hanukkah and the Christmas Clearing Bureau. Sunday, Dec. 1) 1:30 NET FESTIVAL. Leos Janacek's opera, "From the House of the Dead." Sunday, Dec. l3 10 THE ADVOCATES. -11 NET PLAYHOUSE. "The Tin Whistle." Tuesday, Dec. 16 7 SPIN BACK THE YEARS. FDR. Churchill, Hitler, Shaw, JDK, Stevenson, King. Friday, Dec. 19 7 ASSIGNMENT 10. "What's This World Coming To?" First of Sunday, Dec. 21 4 : 30 NET JOURNAL. Rehabilitating mentally ill adults. 10 THE ADVOCATES. 11 NET PLAYHOUSE. "The Duel." Tuesday, Dec. 23 7 SPIN BACK TIlE YEARS. Wolfe, Gilbert, Irving Berlin, Kate Smith, Eddie Cantor. Thursday, Dec. 25 12 :30 CIRCLE OF LIGHTS . Pete Seeger's holiday songfest pays homage in music to the ideals that lead men out of darkness. 1 THE COMING OF A STRANGER. A parable about the meaning of Christmas. 7 THE _ OTHER WISEMAN. Henry Van Dyke's fictional account about the wiseman who did not see the BabY Jesus. Friday, Jan. 2 - 7 ASSIGNMENT 10. "WhaCs Tliis World Coming To?" Second of two-part special. two parts (Monday (AM-FM) NEWS. (AM-PM) MORNIN G REPORT. Tuesday, Dec. 2 6:30 a.m. (FM) MORNING SHOW. (Monday through Friday.) 8 a.m. (Monday through Friday.) 9 a.m. (AM-PM) DICK ESTELL READS. "Only One Year," SvetIana Alliluyev3. (Monday through Friday.) 10 a.m. (FM) ON CAMPUS. (Monday through Frida v.) 11:30 a.m. through Friday.) - - I p.m. (FM) MUSIC THEATRE. "Little Mary Sunshine." 5 p.m. (AM-FM) NEWS 60. (Monday through Friday.) 8:30 p.m. (FM) BOSTON SYMPHONY . Wednesday, Dec. 3 11 a.m. (AM) BOOK BEAT. 1 p.m. (FM) MUSIC THEATRE. "Canterbury Tales." 8 p.m. (FM) FM THEATRE. "In White America." Thursday, Dec. 4 10 a.m. GOULD. 1 p.m. (FM) MUSIC THEATRE. "Golden Rainbow." 7 p.m. (FM) CINCINNATI SYMPHONY. 9 p.m. (FM) JAZZ HORIZONS. Friday, Dec. 5 1 p.m. (FM) MUSIC THEATRE. "Wonderful Town." 2 p.m. (PM) ALBUM' JAZZ. 4:45 p.m. (AM-FM) EDUCATION IN THE (FM) THE ART OF GLENN - NEWS. (FM) VARIEDADES EN Saturday, Dec. 6 9 a.m. (AM-FM) DICK ESTELL READS. "Instant Replay." 9 :30 a.m. (FM) THE WORD AND MUSIC. 10 : 30 a.m . ESPANOL. 11:45 a.m. (FM) RECENT ACQUISITIONS. 1:05 p.m. (FM) ALBUM JAZZ. 7 p.m. (FM) LISTENERS' CHOICE. Classics by calling 355-{)540. SWlday, Dec. 7 2 p.m. ORCHESTRA. 7 p.m. (FM) COLLOQUY. Monday, Dec. 8 8 p.m. ITA LIANA. "La Rondinc." 10:30 p.m. (rM) MUSIC OF TODAY. (rM) OPERA FROM RADIO (AM-FM) CLEVELAND MSU Faculty News, Dec. 2, 1969 "In the fall and winter of 1857-1858, students chopped down the trees east and south of College Hall and beyond the river . .. They felled trees in long windrows, cutting out the better oak lengths to be split into firewood for the two furnaces in College Hall. So inadequate were those furnaces, however, that on the coldest days (Prof T. C.) Abbot dismissed the boys from his freezing classroom that they might seek the warmth of the pot-bellied stoves in their dormitory rooms. In 1859 the furnaces were abandoned, and stoves were placed in the classrooms and the chemistry laboratory. " -Madison Kuhn, "Michigan State, The First Hundred Years," MSU Press, 1955 . . -{ i l t .. ( Photos by Bill Mitcham, Bob Smith and Dick Wesley, MSU Photo Lab '- , ! t . . , ~ >. -,; '" _·'l .. _eo :;:::::::::::=:::::::::::::::::::::::::=:::::=:::=:::::::::::~:::~:~:~:~:::~:~:~:~:~:~:~:::::::::::::::::~:~:::7:~:~:::::::::::::::::::~:~:~:~:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Osteopathy, benefits M§1IJ Faculty New§ C~i?!!g~'Y~?m,:?~i!. p!~u~nt~ Thmillguftd ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::::::: :::: ::: :::::::::::: ::::: ::::::::::::::::::::::::~::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::;::::::::::::~:::~::::::::. Vol. 1, No. 10 Michigan State University. Dec. 2,1969 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::;:.:~:.:.:.:~:~:.:.:;:::;:::::;:::::;:::::;:::::;:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:::;:::;:::~:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::~:::::::::::::::::::::: Con Room of International Programs), the Academic Council is scheduled to consider: -Temporary suspension of section 1.3.1 of the Faculty Bylaws. This relates Faculty Awards at the annual February convocation. It has been proposed that these awards be given in the spring at a program that includes conferring the the Teacher-Scholar Awards and Distinguished Teaching Awards for Graduate Assistants. -Report of the ad hoc Committee on the College of Osteopathy. The faculty committee, announced last week and chaired by Richard U. Byerrum, dean of natural science, is helping formalize MSU's stance on a proposed osteopathy school. --Recommended procedures improved evaluation of instruction. for See related story, page 4 -Recommended changes in faculty benefits. -A report on policies and procedures from -Take steps on campus disturbances. * * * IN THE AREA of faculty benefits, the University Faculty Affairs Committee will recommend that MSU: to raise benefits of already retired faculty "whose joint security and income sodal short of University pension maximum social security benefits, up to at least the level of maximum social security benefits for a married couple." -Investigate the "actuarial soundness" of the old retirement system with the idea of either increasing the maximum .the compensation and/or allowing benefits to increase more rapidly. falls -Explore the possibility of allowing faculty members on the old retiIement system, but WilO have not yet retired, to "IlX their benefits at· the current level and the TIAA/CREF plan immediately. " join -Provide all faculty with "professional insurance as a paid fringe liability benefit." * * * IN ITS STATEMENT to the Council, the Faculty Affairs Committee says that an endorsement of these proposals "will enhance the probability that they can for favorable consideration receive implementation by July 1, 1970." The statement also notes that while the proposals were favorably received by both the president and the provost earlier this year, "the level of funding from the legislature was such as to preclude them from being implemented for the current year." In its report on campus disturbances, the University Student Affairs Committee will recommend that a University Committee on Public Safety be established. include both Voting membership on the committee would faculty and students. The director of the School of Police Administration and Public Safety and the director of the Department of Public Safety would be ex officio members. The Student Affairs Committee will recommendation of a also propose "policy statement on the resolution of conflict in the University community." The statement is printed elsewhere on this page. Tickets needed Because attendance at Saturday's commencement is expected to exceed the Auditorium capacity, guests will be admitted by ticket only. Those without tickets can view the ceremony via CCTV in Fairchild Theatre. Faculty and candidates should assemble in the Auditorium basement lobby at 2: 30 p.m. Speaker will be Kingman Brewster, President of Yale. Faculty Seminars: Bridging a gap. Weekly seminars making strides to promote increased scholarly exchange among faculty By EDWARD ZABRUSKY Editor, News Bureau The communications and social gaps between the disciplines are being narrowed at Michigan State through a series of unique faculty seminars. Each week during the term, two smaH faculty with diverse grou-ps of backgrounds meet for two or three hOUIS in a topical discussion led by some of the most distinguished names on the faculty roster. Stanley C. Ratner, professor of psychology who helped originate the seminars, is current chairman of the program. He explained, "On a large campus - and even on small ones - people appear and disappear on their own schedules, and frequently it may take years to find someone whose interest links with your own, or who could support your own, or provide good criticism." The colloquium is the conventional mechanism for a faculty discussion. "But that is a one-shot thing," Ratner ~ explains. "The seminar is noted in the "Blue Sheet" or equivalent. Some large groups -,--- Is faculty-student contact diminishing? See page 2. of people get together. The speaker addresses himself to a topic. The group listens, and then walks out." • * * * HIS FIELD is comparative methods and it was out of his discussions with another faculty member, Bernard J. Paris in comparative literature, that the seminars were formed. The two found several things they wanted to know about each other's work and reasoned that other faculty would also be interested, not only in . their fields but in other topics as well. With blessings and encouragement from the Provost's Office, the deans and the various departmental chairmen. faculty seminars became reality dur~g winterierm, 1969. wiltIlmi E. Cooper discussed ecology and Paris led a discussion of the works of Dostoevski. The spring topics included symbolic logic, with Prof. Gerald J. Massey in philosophy, and Prof. Ratner was the leader of a group concerned with comparative me11:tods. One of this fall's seminars has been led by John H. Useem, professor of sociology. He believes that the seminars present a special challenge for leader as well as for participants. "Weare a very spread-out institution," Useem points out. ''We (Continued on page 4) MAPS:A new progress scale Both students and faculty can now use to help plot an "MAPS" undergraduate's academic course through Michigan State. MAPS is an acronym for Minimum Acade~c Progress Scale, introduced this fall in an attempt to provide more fairness and clarity in the criteria for satisfactory academic performance. The new scale is the product of more than a year's work by a seven-man faculty committee. By the time the group had put the finishing touches on MAPS, it had tested and rejected several other plans. John Zimmer, assistant dean of natural science and a member of- the committee that developed MAPS, said the new scale is fully operative "for all new undergraduates and for all others except those disadvantaged by it." The latter provision, he added, is in accord with University policy to make regulation changes retroactive "only when they benefit the student." (Continued on page 2) Statement on resolving conflict (The following "policy statement on the resolution of conflict in the University community" is contained in a report on campus disturbances to be presented at tmlay's Academic Council meeting.) * * * The University Student Affairs Committee submits to the Academic Council the following motion for its consideration: Move that the Academic Council endorse a general policy statement on the resolution of conflict in the University community, as follows: A. The University community - faculty, students and administration the recognizes and accepts responsibility for internal conflict resolution within Michigan State University. B. The University community in the recognizes resolving conflict, following priorities: l. The preservation of life and the prevention of physical injury and pain. 2. The provision of justice, including due process and the amelioration of grievances, for: the the staff and students, faculty, administration, and the taxpayers and citizens. 3. The achievement of educational excellence, which in the long run is the University's responsibility to the larger society, the world community and future generations. that C. The University community these further recognizes priorities may at times produce conflict; seeming justice for one may impinge upon justice for another. In the resolution of these conflicts, the University community subscribes to the highest traditions of an educational institution, seeking to apply knowledge and reason to man's problems. D. Finally, the University community recognizes that protest and dissent may be a part of growth and change in any social institution. However: (1) violence and acts of destruction cannot be condoned; (2) agreements cannot be made under duress; and (3) amnesty cannot be guaranteed.