\. MSU News -Bulletin IALJS Vol. 3, No. 35 Michigan State University ~ 2 (> ~ !l7? I'J_ July 27,1972 Averages 15 books annually Presses run at University Press MTGRIUI'.11 ~ I ,\I t UI'fiTC.~TTT L! m~~,i~i ES "If you can't understand a book, maybe it will be a good seller." That's what Lyle Blair says he has ,discovered in his 21 years as director of the MSU Press. He cites as an example the book "Tuning and Temperament." The book, fIrst published in 1951, is concerned with tunings in the music world and contains such phraseology as "Greek tunings of the tetrachords," "Pythagorean intonation," "meantone" and "temperament." "When we first published it we had an edition of 500 copies and thought this would last a lifetime. We couldn't fmd anybody who understood the book and we certainly couldn't. "However, since the first printing, we have reprinted it 500 by 500 copies at least six times and sold the reprint rights." The Press has been in business for mote than 23 years and, according to Blair, it has and continues to serve an important funCtion of disseminating scholarly books in the proper light. "~e 1"1b\\M\ bOO~ fuat commercial publishers couldn't afford to publish be c au se of the vast overhead. Commercial publishers are primarily interested with sales and books with popular appeal. Out books usually have a more limited specialized market," he says. Blair has found that overhead can be a problem, and he has cut his staff to four - Himself, Associate Editor Jean Busfield, and two offIce assistants. At one the Press had 16 staff members. time Aside from a $14,400 annual subsidy .from the University, the Press is self - supporting. "All university presses are undergoing fmancial problems," he says. "However, we have just completed a successful year without losing any money. We did this by using iron control over expenditures." Another way to keep the budget in tact, according to Blair, was relinquishing membership in the Association of American University Presses. "It costs $800 a year in dues and another $800 to participate in the associaton. I couldn't justify spending that kind ' of money." Blair, who setved 'ashead -'of ,the British Publisher Guild in London prior to coming to MSU, says that withdrawal from the association has not harmed the to $1,000 communication he has established with the directors of other university presses. "We have a constant interchange of information and have been working on ways to cut overhead." * * ... An example of the kind of books published by the Press is its latest offering, "Suffragists and Democrats: The Politics of Woman Suffrage in America," by David Morgan, of the University of Liverpool, England. In publishing a book, the Press handles all aspects from the selection of the manuscript (usually 150 are submitted annually) to selecting the type, designing the book jacket, contracting a printer and distribution through wholesalers and bookstore. The total process takes about nine months. "We send review copies of the books to journals and newspapers throughout the world," Blair says. "Some books start out slowly but gather momentum as the word of mouth spreads. Then there are our 'bread and butter' books that are slow but steady;" B lair cites "Broadcasting and Government" by Walter B. Emery as a "bread and butter textbook." It has Medical faculty participate in two kidney transplants undergone nine printings since first published in 1961. The Press splits all book profits on a 50 - 50 basis with the author. These include foreign, translation, reprint and paperback rights. Blair' explains that neither the author nor the Press makes large sums of money from the books. "It's hard to make money on scholariy works." & r p . - ,ay InCreaSe "' is retroactive Recommended salary increases for faculty and staff averaging 4 percent, to be presented to the Board of Trustees Friday for fonnal approval, would be retroactive to July 1,1972. Can an organ transplant surgeon fmd professional fulfillment at a new medical school without a hospital, much less an operating room, of its own? Dr. Edward Coppola, chairman of the Department of Surgery, is fmding that he and members of his faculty are meeting through important needs associations with community physicians and hospitals in Lansing and other Michigan cities. Kidney transplants on July 15 and again on July 20 at Lansing's Sparrow Hospital dramatized the town-gown interactions which characterize the entire College of Human Medicine and also the College of Osteopathic Medicine. Both kidney transplants were carried out by a team combining talents of community practitioners who are also adjunct medical faculty, and Sparrow Hospital staff with those of full-time MSU surgical and other faculty. In the first operation, a 35-year old Lansing teacher received a kidney from a 21-year old man who had died the previous evening at an Ann Arbor hospital. In the second operation, a 21-year old Lansing man received a kidney from his 25-year old sister. supplied the operating room, the dialysis equipment and the laboratory facilities as well as the basic medical and surgical skills. Sparrow Hospital MSU supplied the specialized surgical skills and tissue typing analyses and will in the continuing provide expertise postoperative management is needed to keep the patient in good health while preventing the rejection of the new organ by the body's normal defenses. that Coppola, one of the MSU participants in both operations, was founder and director of the transplantation program at Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital in Philadelphia, where he was an associate professor of surgery before coming to MSU last summer. In addition to being a transplant surgeon, Coppola is a general sugeron interested in many types of operation~ and the broader aspects of medicine and medical education. As chairman of a new department, he has recruited faculty who reflect these interests. see faculty He and his the university-community program as a way of providing opportunities for more persons who need kidney transplants to receive to do so while Iemaining in close proximity to the their friends and hometown. them and relatives in They envision extension of the program to Grand Rapids and possibly to other Michigan cities as well. Coppola -estimates that each year about 40 out of every million than 300 people - more from Michiganians - would benefIt transplants. At present only kidney about 10 out of every million people actually receive them. (Continued on page 4, col. 1) l The increase and retroactivity will be relfected in August paychecks distributed the last week of August.' Those affected are all employees not covered by collective bargaining contracts. ) Proposals on women made Editor's Note: A special four page insert containing the complete text of the administration's recommendations on the status of women at the University is included in today's edition of the News - Bulletin. Twenty - one recommendations imprOving the status of women at the University have been proposed by the administraion. The [ecommendaions, which range from establishing an Offire of Women's Mfairs to opening the University's marching band to women members, will be presented to the Board of Trustees during a special meeting at 7:30 p.m., tonight in the Kellogg Center. The University's proposals are, in part, a response to the 59 page report developed over three months by the presidentially appointed ad hoc Women's St~ering Committee. The steering committee's report was submitted June 1. The administraiton said that the women's report had beenreviewed by top men and women administrators and that its response sought to put into persepctive the University's efforts to "more than match the (Dilcrophy that women most be.full - fledged, equal participants in the events and activities which help shape their lives." The. administration report states, "the University is taking this opportunity to list a number of positive action steps which it is taking, or is prepared to take, in behalf of its commitment to equal opportunity. Many have been in the development stage for some time preceeding the formation of the steering committee. However, they are listed as they are responsive to the various recommendations in the women's report." Page 2, MSU News - Bulletin, July 27, 1972 Former policeman notes changes "Policemen today don't have the same face - to - face encounters." Day was an Irish - American cop . walking the beat in New York City's "Little Italy" and Brooklyn in the mayoralties of Jimmy Walker and Fiorella LaGuardia: When he worked in the NYPD Youth Bureau he helped the annual benefit baseball organize games in Yankee Stadium with Babe Ruth the star player. Day said increased complexity of cities not only promotes, motorization and increasing technology, it also makes it increasingly important that police departments recruit from among college and university graduates who can come to work with a high degree of knowledge and training. In the past, police departments drew largely from noncollege ranks for filling department personnel needs. Other changes recommended by Day, to more recruitment at in addition colleges and universities are: - Greater clarification of everyday application of the great array of legal structures and administrative poticies. - Greater freedom for individual officers to make judgment on when reprimands and courtesy warnings serve better purposes than a rigid system of tickets and arrests. - Departmental efforts to keep communities better informed of departmental goals and problems. - Greater and more ' apparent responsibility for police policy given to the community's chief executive, who should expect the police department to handle the carrying out of policy. Day is serving a one - year consultantship with the University's School of Criminal Justice prior to retiring in January 1973. He joined the school in 1956, after police duties in New York and Cincinnati and being on ' the faculty at the University of Louisville in Kentucky. Currently he is working on the 18th edition of "Introduction to Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice," a standard text he wrote with A.C. Germann, a former member of the MSU school, and Robert R.J. Gallati of New York. -FRAN MURRAY Frank Day: 1934 NY policeman Checking plans for placement of the Channel 23 transmitter are (from left) Kay Ingram, progriun manager; Robert Page, station manager;-LOuis smith, transmitter supervisor; and Linn Towsley, chief engineer. - Channel 23: Something old, something new Something old ... something new .. to - -be UHF .that's MSU's so oil. - channel 23, WKAR-TV. Robert D. Page, station manager, says the UHF station will take the air this fall, replacing MSU's current WMSB-TV, channel 10. But he points out that WKAR-TV isn't new. It existed for five years, until March of 1959, on UHF channel 60. "It didn't go over well back then because many people didn't have UHF their TV sets, and the adapters in station was accessible to less than 15 percent of the homes in its radius." The idea of WKAR-TV, then, is old. So are the call letters - and so are the facilities, except for a new transmitter now being installed. * * * THE PRESIDENT STUDIOS ofWMSB will be used by the new station and the transmitting station of the former WKAR-TV in Okemos is being remodeled for use by the new station. The Okemos site has housing for the new transmitter and a 1 ,000 - foot transmitting tower . The new transmitter has the capability of 1 ;25 million watts of power, Page says. This will send out a signal covering an approximate 70 - mile radius of the tower. For an "old station", WKAR-TV will have a number of new offerings. Page says the new station will broadcast apprOXimately 80 hours a week. WSMB now broadcasts only 381h hours per week under its shared - time agreement with WILX-TV, Jackson's commercial station. WKAR-TV will carry color presentations from the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). "We plan to convert our equipment and carry local programs in color soon after we go on the air ," Page says. * * * ANOTHER NEW ASPECT of WKAR-TV is the programming, says Fay F. Ingram, program manager. "A wide variety of network programs, including "Masterpiece Theatre,' will be included in the scheduling," she reports. Some of WMSB current offerings will be dropped and others expanded on the new WKAR-TV. "We hope to have an expanded public affairs .program that will cover local and national issues, and offer a question and answer portion open by telepone to our viewers," she says. The program will replace the current "On Assignment" series seen on Sundays at 10 p.lp.. She adds that the new station will have remote control equipment for on - the - spot coverage of such events as concerts, sports activities, and political and governmental assemblies. * * * PAGE JOINED MSU's TV broadcasting staff in 1954 and Miss Ingram arrived in 1955. Both worked in the various production areas in department before obtaining their present poitions 31h years ago. through funds from Conversion from WMSB to WKAR-TV is possible the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. A $420,000 HEW grant, matched by $231,000 from the University, has enabled the purchase of (Continued on page 6, col. 3) Technology has been a mixed blessing for the relations between a policeman and his community, according to a university professor of criminal justice who walked a beat in New York in the 1930s. ' ''Gadgetry and mobilization of the police force," Frank D. Day said, "has changed the policeman from a flatfoot who knew everybody in the neighborho04 into a faceless person going by in a patrol car. "Advances of technology have been very helpful, particularly in disasters lesser crises, but when we got and motorized in the 1930s it was meant to supplement the foot patrol for quicker help in emergencies. There wasn't any thought then of motorizing the whole force. <~:_::::__ ~. 4<:QJ ~Y¢~Ie.D,~~~ ·f":") ~$i"L :j~~tft~&.dl' .. c"", .. ,'; :f'~';'!!if!' : ~< _.,. __ ~ :('t::~.:+ CARL GOLDSCHMIDT, professor of urban planning and landscape architecture, has been awar-ded a Fulbright grant. for the 1972 - 73 academic year. He will lecture in urban studies at Tel Aviv University in lsrael. ROBERT P. BOGER, director of the Institute for Family and Child Study, will ·spend next year at the University of Colorado as a fellow in the American Cou'ncil on Education's Academic Administration Internship Program. TED SMITH, director of food service, codirected the program for the recent annual meeting of the Nationai Association of College and University Food Services. KARATHOLUVU N. SUBRAMANIAN, assistant professor in engineering, is it visiting lecturer this summer at the Regional Engineering College in Trichy, India. H. TI TIEN, professor of biophysics, was elected to the council of the Biophysical Society. He also chaired a session at the fourth International Biophysics Congress in Moscow, U.S.S.R. OSCAR TOSI, professor of audiology and speech sCiences, is vice >president and director of the International Association of Voice Identification, Inc. WILLARD WARRINGTON, professor and director of evaluation services, is president - elect of the National Council on Measurement in Education. He assumes the presidency next year. LEOTA M. WESTFALL, specialist in the Highway Traffic Safety Center, has been appointed by President Nixon to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Committee of the Department of Transportation. JOHN N. WINBURN, associate dean of University College, and THERESA AZZA WI, doctoral candidate in linguistics, have been invited to present a paper at the Third International Congress of Applied Linguistics at Copenhagen, Denmark. Their work describes "College Composition: A Systems Course." MSU News - Bulletin Editor: Gene Rietfors Associate editor: Sandra Dalka Associate editor: Patricia Grauer Editorial offices: Rooms 323 and 324, Linton' Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48823. Phone: 355-2285. Published weekly during the academic year by the Department of Information Services. Second-claSs postage paid at East Lansing, Mich. 48823. ... ""'l1lI Page 3, MSU News - Bulletin. July 27, 1972 . Around the campus: A weekly review Cantlon reports on school year The University is once again considering alternatives to the four-quarter academic calendar. A lengthy consideration of this matter was last made in 1959. Widespread faculty support for a change to the semester system was demonstrated, but disadvantages were judged to be overriding at the time. Today, opportunities for greater institutional cooperation between MSU, the University of Michigan, and possibly other institutions, plus giving MSU students better summer employment opportunities, are some issues of expanded, concern. The impact of any change in the calendar on the quality and effectiveness of acedemic programs will be a primary focus as the dehberations proceed. In conducting the review, the adminstration will evaluate various alternatives to the present calendar in consultation with appropriate academic governing structures. However, any recommended changes of a substantial nature could not be made effective for 1973-74 since course revisions and many details of procedure would have go be worked out following an in-depth examination of various calendar alternatives. Office of the Provost July 21,1972 Minon·ty recommendations made Three members of the ad hoc committee which studied University policies relating to the Indochina war effort have released a minority report containing more than 30 recommendations. Mitchell Stengel, assistant professor of economics, Charles Massoglia and Lois Gertz, who served on the committee as representitives from the antiwar demonstrators, issued their recommendations July 13 to be considered by President Wharton along with the 23 recommendations the II-member committee presented him July 7. (News-Bulletin, July 13). The recommendations call for abolishing the ROTC programs on campus. If this is impossible, the three members recommend that the status and privileges of academic departments be withdrawn from ROTC and that they be reduced to the status of extracurricular activities. Other recommendations include: *MSU Board of Trustees should adopt an institutional stand against the war in Indochina. ' *M8U as an institution should sponsor a major symposium on the question of U.S. policy in Indochina as one of genocide and war crimes. *MSU: spould adopt a policy of disarmament for law officers. *The University should end one aspect of its complicity in war crimes by iriunediately selling all cunent stock and bond holdings in corporations which produce a significant volume of anti-personnel weaponry. *The University should 'end one aspect of its complicity in war crimes by immediately terminating all purchases of goods and services produced by corporations also engaged in the production of anti-personnel weaponry. *MSU should exclude armed forces recruiters from the Placement Bureau. * All corporations which produce anti-personnel weaponry should be excluded from the Placement Bureau. These recommendations are being considered with those presented by the ad hoc committee on July 7 by appropriate University committees. The group also recommends that, in their deliberations, the appropriate committees shall actively solicit the opinions and recommendations of the entire University community. Construction 'begun on waste device Construction has begun on the campus of a centrifugal force device to remove sulfur dioxide waste from coal buming power plants. ' Bruce W. Wilkinson, associate professor of chemical engineering and nuclear reactor supervisor, has received a $12,300 grant from the National Science Foundation for work in the two - year project. He is assisted by Stephen Auvil, a doctoral candidate in chemical.engineering. An attempt will be made to draw off all waste gases from a power plant boiler into a cylinder operating at sufficiently high speed to drive the sulfur dioxide to the chamber wall. The sulphur dioxide, the heaviest ofthe waste components, will ' then be removed to a storage chamber. Wilkinson said the cylinder, which is being made at a machine shop in the engineering building, will be 8 by 40 inches, and is based on a small chamber designed in the 1940s by the German scientist, Gernot Zippie, for separating uranium isotopes for nuclear power plants. Wilkinson said ,the double - walled cylinder is expected to rotate at 20,00 revolutions per minute behind protective block walls. He expects the device to be ready for testing this fall. At present about 50 percent of U.S. power plants are coal fued; a small fraction are nuclear power plants, and the remamder are operated by hydro power, gas or oil. . initial cost and high transportation costs. SWitching to gas is costly and. shortages are occurring iri natural gas. SWitching to oil is also expensive, and supplies are and limited, although removal of sulfur from the liquid oil is distant comparatively easy. The sulfur is visible as yellow plumes from power plants stacks. Ten to 15 differing processes have been proposed for removing the sulfur content from the · effluents of power plants, but to date none is well established, said Wilkinson. His experiment is designed to achieve the separation at the waste gas stage, removing it from the lighter wastes of oxygen, nitrogen, water vapor and carbon dioxide. The device, if successful, could become a functional part of a regular coal fued power plant. . Editors win awards Editors in the Department of Information Services have been presented ten awards by the American Association of Agriculture College Editors (AAACE). Mark T. Allen, experiment station editor, was presented an award for "25 years of outstanding contributions" to AAACE. He also shared two awards for the production of a technical research bulletin and a research periodical he co-edited with Mrs. Mary Tyszkiewicz, departmental publications editor. The periodical was written by Joseph J. Marks, extension and research editor. Roger Brown, TV-Radio editor, won awards for a radio feature, a radio spot arinouncement and a video taped television feature. Extension Publications Editors. Donald E. Gregg and Kenneth M. Fettig won awards in the popular extension pamphlet and bulletin categories. Marks and Don. A. Christensen, extension agriculture editors, won awards for their press services to weekly newspapers and farm magazines. MSU also received a special citation for individual publications at the recent meeting of the American College Public Re.Iations Association in Minneapolis. The award was presented for the publication "FiiIailcial Report 1970-71" which was produced by the University Editor's Office. George Ko~istra is University Editor. Photographers honor MSU The Professional Photographers of America, Inc., the world's largest association of professional photographers. honored MSU with its National Community Service Award. President Wharton received the award on July 24 at the group's International Exposition of Professional Photographers held in Detroit, The award was given to the University "for its outstanding use of photography in communicating every phase of campus life." Resef:lrch on campus commended A recent editorial in Science, one of the nation's most prestigious magazines of science research, praised work on the MSU campus. .. Dr. William Bevan, author of the editorial, said the work by the' United States Department of Agriculture's Regional Poultry Research Laboratory on the MSU campus, is the fust clear demonstration that a herpes virus produces a cancer. The work also shows, he said, that the particular cancer- Marek's disease of poultry-spreads by contact. "Marek's disease," said Bevan, "is a highly contagious disease affecting the peripheral nerves and the visceral organs of domestic chickens. It results in a loss to the poultry industry of more than $200 million annually in the United States alone. Womens athletics viewed Women's athletics is coming into its own but with it there is some grief in the Big Ten universities. .. This is the word from Gale E. Mikles, professor of health, physical education and recreation. . Mikles explains that the :problem. is not with the women. "In recent years," he says, "there has been an increased desire on the part of women to compete and finally we have broken down the stereotype that women shouldn't compete. This competition is what we need academically to interest women in training to i be ,coaches." The problem is economics. Athletics pays for itself in most Big Ten universities, Mikles explains, an~ now that it has to support an expanding wome.n's program, there · are problems. At MSU the budget for travel and equipment for women's athletics has increased a thousand percent. This may mean, Mikles speculates, that nonrevenue producing men's sports may be reduced to an intramural level. He emphasizes that women's athletics still is not being~treated in a big way, however. Nuclear plants will supplement but cannot replace coal --pQwered plants, "I don't look for a Big Ten conference for women for a long time," he says, Wilkinson said. "maybe never." Most American coal has significant (three percent) sulfur. Some research h.as been undertaken to get rid of the sulfur in the solid coal but difficulties are apparent. Coal with less sulfur content is available only in the west and at higher "Women's competition is still at a beginning leveL What will probably.happen is that there will be competition within the state. However, this does not ~e out national and regional competition for the women." . Page 4, MSU News - Bulletin, July 27, 1972 Workshops offered on ''love and caring" "We discovered the need for such workshops through work with community organizations in training workers in service areas," she said. . One - hour of credit was offered to participants in the workshop through education, nursing, psychology and social work. \ -SANDRA DALKA Workshops on love and caring! What was I getting myself into? With much apprehension I enrolled in one of t he weekend "Lorkshops offered by the Continuing Education Service and the College of Social Science. The brochure said the workshop was "designed for mature individuals and couples who are interested in developing their ability and capacity to give and receive love and caring, both emotionally and physically." I wasn't disappointed. It was everything I had expected and more. Under the leadership of Dozier W. Thornton, associate professor of psychology and director of clinical training, Department of Psychology; Gary Frost, assistant professor, assistant dean and director of student relafi"ons, Madison College; and June Jacobson, counseling intern, Counseling Center, the weekend proved a "love and caring" experience. The 15 - hour workshop was launched with a get - acquainted session for the 18 participants ranging in age from under 20 to over 60. It was soon discovered that the generation gap was nonexistent in this workshop situation. According to Ethelbert Thomas, assistant dean, continuing education, College of Social Science, the workshops were developed in response to faculty interested in investigating the problems of establishing and maintaining personal relationships. "The workshops were to help answer such questions as how to start a relationship, how to maintain it, how to end relationships and what to expect in personal relationships," he said. I attended the workshop held in Lansing, July 7 - 9. Workshops were also held ,in Saginaw (July 14 - 16) and Bloomfield Hills (July 21 - 23). The workshops were based on the staff facilitating cognitive and experimental learning through lecturettes, small group meetings and films. It was pointed out to participants that there was no one answer on how to start and maintain intimate relationships. Various methods were discussed. Mrs. Jacobson stressed that "the staff members weren't experts, but were also struggling in their ' own lives with some of the areas discussed during the workshop." ''We shared with the participants and the participants ~ared with us," she said. Included in the weekend were discussions on what constitutes an "intimate relationship." Factors introduced such as trust, conflict, awareness, caring and touching were further investigated through discussions and exercises during the weekend. In one session the participants were asked to extend their right hands and reach out, with their eyes closed, and get to know as many people as possible through their right hands. This experience enabled the group to become aware of feelings expressed without sight and sound. It was amazing how aware you can become of another person through the communication of touch. "Many people don't know how to start a relationship and the workshops were designed to assist professionals and laymen in developing caring relationships," said Mrs. Jacobson. The presence of conflict in a relationship was investigated by the staff and participants. After discussion on the how - to's of constructive conflict, small group sessions were organized. Participants were instructed to tell each member of their group what they liked and what they disliked about them. According to most of the participants, the dislikes were harder to express. The topic of sexua~ intimacy was handled through various fIlms and discussiQns with conclusions reached that liking, caring and touching were important ingredients in this type of relationship. The workshop was complemented by lighting and music effects to coordinate with the topics under discussion and exercises in trust and touch that made the participants further extend themselves. According to Mrs. Jacobson, these are the first workshops of their kind offered by the University. Kidney transplants . • • (Concluded from page 1) is "The reason lack of facilities, trained surgical and follow-up care teams, and donated kidneys," says the MSU surgeon. "By involving community hospitals, doctors and other health professionals in transplantation programs, we hope to increase the capacity of the state to meet this health care need. "We have discussed the possibility of a regional cooperative program with health care leaders of several Michigan communities and hope to involve other places with us as well as Lansing." Coppola is working actively with the Michigan Department of Public Health and the Kidney Foundation of Michigan to ' improve the supply of kidneys. During the past several ' months he has the Transplantation helped organize Society of Michigan and has been elected as its president. "We hope to make doctors as well as the public more aware of the need for donor organs and thereby to increase the supply," Coppola notes. The society, which consists of about 50 physicians and other scientists involved in the transplant programs, the collection of donor expedites throughout kidneys Michigan and distributes them immediately to 'centers where patients with matching kidneys are awaiting transplant surgery. from hospitals The need for the organization was dramatically illustrated on July 13, when in the space of 24 hours, the following matches were carried out: -From a young man who , died at Ann Arbor, one kidney went to the MSU-Sparrow team and the other to the Veteran's Administration Hospital in Ann Arbor. -From a patient who died at Detroit General Hospital, one kidney went to a patient in the same hospital and another to a patient at Henry Ford Hospital. -From a patient who died at Henry two kidneys were sent to Ford, Chicago where they were transplanted after it was determined that they would not match the tissue of Michiganians currently awaiting transplants. -CHARLES DOWNS MSU and police agree EAST LANSING - MSU and officials of the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) announced jointly today that a tentative agreement has been,reached on a two - year contract fro campus police. Officers in the MSU Department of Public Safety . are representaed by Capitol City Lodge No. 141 , Fraternal Order of Police, MSU DivisioI].. A ratification meeting of the two - year contract by FOP members was scheduled 'Wednesday. Upon ratification of the contract, the MSU Board of Trustees will be requested to approve the agreement at its monthly meeting Friday. Under the tentative agreement, public safety officers will receive a pay increase of 4 percent for 1972-73 followed by an increase of 6 percent for 1973-74. The includes a new vacation agreement schedule which reduces from 15 to 10 years the time required for maximum vacation days and adds an additional day after five years of employment. Agreement was also reached on facilities for police functions. The officers will receive long - term disability coverage paid by the University, effective Jan. 1, 1973. They also will be eligible for the TIAA - CREF retirement program upon employment in the department and will also receive an additional personal leave day annually. The tentative agreement followed many hours of negotiations which began on Feb. 2, 1972. The University's contract with the FOP expires June 30. The new two - year agreement will take effect July 1, 1972. Page I-B ,Michigan State University, July 27,1972 Women at Michigan State University: Positive Action for Equal Opportunity On June 1, 1972, President Clifton R. Wharton, Jr., received a 50 - page report from the ad hoc Women's Steering Committee covering a wide range of issues and concerns regarding the status of women. The report was the product of three months' effort by member group of volunteers the appointed by the President. In addition, three members of the committee submitted a minority report .. 'f7 for the The formation of the steering committee grew from a number of. discussions by Dr. Wharton and other University officials with several women who felt that there was not sufficient opportunity special concerns of their sex to b e.articulated within the University community. Therefore, the primary charge to thE\! steering committee was to recommend a structure within which the concerns of women could be more formally and systematically communicated an advisory manner. The report, however, goes considerably beyond its discussion of numerous substantive issues as perceived by the authors. this charge in in to study Since the submission of the report by the Women's Steering Committee on June 1, many officials and administrators have had an opportunity its contents and recommendations. It was reviewed by them with two particular objectives in mind: 1) how the concerns and recommendations in the report meshed with the many thrusts already being undertaken by the University to assure equality of opportunity for women, and 2) which new recommendations in the report would be helpful to leading additional constructive affirmative action. in As a result of that review, this response has been prepared. It seeks to put into perspective the administration's efforts to more than match today's philosophy that women must be full - fledged, equal participants in the events and activities which help shape their lives. Insofar as MSU is concerned. this means that women must have the opportunity 'to and share responsibilities the University community - as studl!nts, faculty and staff. ·opportunhles in all aspects of the - full" The basic strength of the Women's Steering Committee report is that it helps identify areas of principal concern as articulated by the members of this committee. This response will seek to take advantage of this expression and a number of helpful recommendstions to describe how concerns can be met through the strengthening of existing programs and the initiation of new approaches. By the same tOken, the response will be critical of parts of the report, wh ich lack substance or which are unrealistic. To a large extent, the steering committee report is a compilation of grievances than a unified committee report. The report fails to set priorities, and it contains a numer of contradictions. some It also misunderstanding of how the University is administered or a knowledge of the programs and services already available. evidences rather Nevertheless, the depth of feeling exhibited by the women authors in their report is very apparent. It is therefore important that the administration be as responsive as possible since the concerns are real and the basic objectives are shared by all. to report. These are: For the sake of clarity, the University's reply is organized into seven elements which the Women's Steering correspond Com m i ttee an organizational structure to be responsive to women's concerns, 2) personnel matters, 3) academic and improvement, 4) minority affairs, 5) athletics, 6) television programming and 7) the University's "community responsibilities." student 1) A number of recommendations their interspersed throughout the appendices of the report will be consolidated' for this purpose. However, only the recommendations which appear to be of the greatest significance will be covered in this response. ' The University administration is taking this opportunity to list a number of positive action steps which it is taking, or is prepared to take, in behalf of its commitment to equal opportunity. These appear as numbered and underscored items throughout the response. Many have been in the development state for some time preceding the formation of the steering committee. However, they 'are listed here since they are responsive to various recommendations contained in the women's report. Many of these steps will help strengthen in behalf of the University's progarms minorities as well as women. Heretofore, much of the responsibility ,has fallen on the Office of Equal Opportunity Programs. EOP's primary activities, however, have been in the area of anti - discrimination and affirmative action to assure equality of opportunity. It has done an effective job in carrying out these assignments and has well served interests of both women and the minorities. During the past two fiscal years, EOP (and the Anti - Discrimination Judicial Board) handled 80 complaints, of which 35 alleged discrimination because of sex. It is to EOP's credit that it has been able to satisfactorily resolve the majority of these complaints before they need to be sent through the entire formal machinery of the ADJB. it as N everthless, EOP is presently structured is unable to meet needs which are not of a discriminatory nature. It is under - staffed and it is not equipped to handle diverse issues such as health matters, academic concerns, job training programs and similar perceived needs which may. well be shared by both women and minorities. While one office administratively cannot have authority to act in all of these areas, we believe that it would well be a central clearing house for advice, referrals and follow - up. Therefore, 1. It is proposed to restntcture EOP into a new Department of Human Relations, headed by an assistant vice president and director, and including an Office of Women's Affairs and an Office of Minority Affairs, each headed by an associate director. The new department would report to the Vice President for University Relations. This officer is a member of the Executive and Administrative Groups and would have responsibility for insuring full and proper consideration of the department's finding and recommendations. The new Department of Human Relations would continue to be responsible for anti - discrimination 'and affirmative action activities, but it wouid have increased staff to be responsive to other and authority concerns. A primary function of the Office of Women's Affairs would be to articulate the needs of women and to serve as liaison with other University units which have line responsibility, e.g., the Provost's office on academic matters, and the offices ~b1e for personnel, athletics, research, health care, etc. The establishment of an Office of Women's Affairs under the proposed reorganization also follows the intent of the minority report of three Steering Committee members. This is the most administratively sound manner in which to proceed. in An area of deficiency reflected the report has been the lack of formal training programs through which those women and minorites in lower level jobs in the University would be able to upgrade themselves to take advantage of promotional opportunities. This should be corrected, as well as extended to all employees; 2. The University is establishing a position of Coordinator for Training Programs to plan, organize and direct training activities for women and minorities. Initially located in EOP but with lioi.eration must be demonstrated . and documented. responsibility The University is aware of its annually increasing financially assisting students, and ,it is continually seeking to improve its methods and procedures so that all eligible students, male or female, will have an equal opportunity. in recently assumed Placement Bureau The MSU Placement Bureau has been an increasingly effective channel for productive job opportunities for university graduates. It has additional responsibility of a Student Employment Office through which student jobs on campus will be coordinated. An important aspect of the new office will be the guaranteeing- of jobs to work - study students, male and female. an The Placement Bureau is mindful of its to assist women special graduates in finding appropriate employment, responsibilities Page 3-B, Michigan State University, July 27,1972 and of seeking employers who will provide positions based on ability. In January 1972, the Placement Bureau hired a woman assistant director to concentrate in this area. She has made extensive contacts with employers, attended placement conferences and personally visited firms to enunciate MSU's commitment to equal opportunity. The Bureau requires all employers who send recruiters to the campus to abide by University principles. Those who are found to be in violation of equal employment opportunity legislation as it pertains to our students and graduates are den ied access to the Placement Bureau. . Internally, the Bureau staff continually makes presentations to campus units on employment trends and opportunities Jor women, with the objective of encouraging the entrance of more women into the various academic programs, and the counseling available to women. improving Although in helping the Placement Bureau is not equipped to work directly with female high school students and counselors on academic and employment opportunities available to women through MSU, it does cooperate with to staff the Admission communicate and has information this developed a kit of materials designed for high school counselors. This is a particularly_ important area if young women are to be able to take the necessary courses in high school which will equip them to enter university curricula where women have long been underrepresented. , Housing Options "More diverse options in housing" are called for in the report. Here again, the many options that are presently available apparently were overlooked by the authors. During the past term, for example, there were these options on campus: - 15,608 spaces for board and room in double rooms. - 1,203 single rooms. -519 spaces in apartments for unmarried students. -1,077 spaces of the above are available without meals. - 2,284 apartments for married students. - 184 apartments for faculty. Included in' many of these options are houses with limited and unlimited visitation, quiet houses and various styles of "co - ed" housing. It would seem, therefore,that most possibilities for variety in on - campus housing are being satisfied. While various options for the purchase of meals will be explored, it should be kept in mind that the more flexibility there is in the offering of meals, the more expensive it becomes - to the student. The University wishes to accommodate student desires, but its greatest responsibility to the student is quality and cost - effectiveness. Health Care Recommendations in the report concerning health care range from a relatively modest request for gynecological and birth control services to University - provided "health care facilities for all students, employees, faculty and their families." The University has undertaken a comprehensive study of a pre - paid health those directly care plan under which all connected with the University, and their dependents, would be eligible for services at cost. However, the feasibiiity of such a plan as a substitute for Olin Health Center services for students, and health for employees, is yet to be determined. insurance Therefore, it will be some time before a pre - paid health care plan could be instituted for everyone, and then only if justified by the demand and the cost factors. Meanwhile, however, 15. The Health Care Authority has approved the development of operational plans for a cost analysis for a pilot health care project their families. for married students and There were several specific recommendations which are being met. - Two gynecologists, from the medical 'school faculty are available at Olin Health Center for consultation. - Birth control information and 'devices are - available at the Health Center. .Problem pregnancy is available through the Comprehensive Social Services component of the Health Center. counseling to handle A recommendation that a review board be complaints and established recommendations regarding health concerns of women students will be referred to the Health Care Authority for its consideration. • * • IV. MINORITY AFFAIRS The concerns of minorities, particularly minority women, are expressed in various chapters of the steering committee report. There also is a specific chapter on this subject which covers a wide range of issues and includes a subsection on recommendations for Chicanos. In attempting to be responsive to minority needs, MSU has taken a number of pioneering steps, including the adoption of the Anti . Discrimination Policies and Procedures, and establishment of the Office of Equal Opportunity Programs. The EOP, which also the Committee does the staff work for Against Discrimination and the Anti Discrimination Judicial Board, has aggressively pursued the right of equality of opportunity of minorities'as well as ' women. It is responsible-for the development and monitoring of affirmative action plans for women and minorities, which include hiring goals. Unfortunately the effectiveness of EOP's efforts are not always understood or appreciated, as is reflected in the comments on EOP on page 32 of the report. It is apparent that the authors of this section were not acquainted with the prescribed roles of EOP, the CAD and the ADJB, nor of their composition, functions and rules. Some idea of the EOP's efforts is given by the fact that 80 individual complaints were received during the past two years and handled through procedures ranging from informal mediation to use of the full anti - discrimination hearing process. As noted, 35 of the complaints alleged sex discrimination, while 26 complaints were based on race. The Committee Against Discrimination also has conducted several reviews of alleged patterns of discrimination, including studies of the Library, Placement Bureau, Athletic Department and Cooperative Extension Service. it inequities in meeting the University While EOP does initiate various actions to aid its equal opportunity responsibilities - most notably the recent review of women faculty salaries to identify is not always - understood that EOP most often can act only on the basis of complaints received. Thus, there are those who seem to have a visceral feeling there may be widespread discrimination in the University that no one is doing anything about. EOP and the University are accused of failing to be responsive to these vague, unidentified suppositions, when in fact it is moving aggressively in many constructive ways. that It is noted in the report that there is a need for minority staff representation in the office of the vice president for student affairs. A new vice president recently was appointed and the structure of this office is being reviewed. 16. In restructuring the vice president for student affairs office, it is anticipated that at least one woman, preferably from a minority, will be named to a key administrative position. In another area, concern was expressed regarding the lack of black women on the full - time professional residence advisory staff. This is a deficiency, and the Residence Hall Programs Office will step up its efforts to recruit minority women for these positions. It also would welcome referrals of qualified minority women. in is contained A recommendation the report for 10 Chicano aides and a full - time the past Chicano coordinator. During academic year, there were four Chicano aides and a part - time student coordinator. At the present, time, the ratio of Chicano aides to Chicano students is higher than it is for black student aides to black students, or Resident Assistants residence· hall students. Admissions is seeking to increase the number of Chicano students, but until there are more Chicano students in the residence halls, it would be difficult to justify a full - time staff member to coordinate this program or an increase in the number of aides. to all * * * in In summary, the administration believes it has made important strides in behalf of students and staff from minority groups. We recognize, however, that there continues to be deficiencies, -particularly the area of minority women in major staff and faculty positions. As an indication of progress, we· will note the recent appointment of min·ority the position of Training women Coordinator in EOP and as an assistant director of Personnel. The affirmative action hiring goals for women faculty make special provision for securing minority women, and this effort will be vigorously pursued. V.ATHLETICS to MSU recognizes the increasing interest of women in athletics, both on an intramural and the intercollegiate basis. Through Department of I ntramural Athletics, many opportunities are made available on an equal basis to men and women. While the increasing overall use by all students frequently taxes the available facilities, every effort is made to assure equal ity of treatment. in intercollegiate athletics time· admittedly have had a difficult competing for the resources which derive from, and traditionally have favored, men's athletics. Because of the demonstrated interest by women for greater opportunity and participation in this area, however, the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics is preparing an expansion of: its women's programs. Women 17. A director of Women's Athletics will be appointed to supervise and coordinate women's intercollegillte athletic activities. She will be a part 0[, and meet regularly with, the administrative staff of the department and report to the Director of Intercollegiate Athletics. The person selected for this position will have half her salary paid by the department and the remaining half through the academic budget where she will also have teaching responsibilities. Initially, intercollegiate the women's program will concentrate on the following sports: basketball, field hockey, gymnastics, softball, swimming, tennis and volley ball. 18. A budget funds will be provided from within Athletic for Department women's teams to participate in scheduled events at home and on the road and in national tournaments; and will cover initilll uniform costs, game expenses, officillls, meals, travel, lodging and entry fees. The cost of medical expenses, including the pre - season examination and any injuries incurred during practice or in competition, will be covered through the Intercollegiate Athletic Program. Participation in athletics !Mil nat affect eligibility for financial aid. 19. Women who coach the teams will be pennitted released time for the portion of the day spent ;'1 coad/iflg, lIIitll by the A tMetic Department. the cost paid It is believed these steps will be an excellent start in preparing for the type of athletic competition -which MSU women would enjoy and benefit from. This program should make it possible for any woman who wants to participate to do so, regardless of her curriculum choice. Additional the intramural athletic program will be made as resources and requirements permit. strengthen steps to A to 20. A recommendation from the intramural office is being considered for a new position in the Women's Intramural Porgrams. recommendation was made the Intramural Department, although it is not contained in the report, that all intramural sports leagues on campus be open to members of both sexes. The intramural department doubts that th is approach is appropriate or desirable, and that many men and women would prefer to play in leagues with members of their own sex. However, the department is actively studying the possibility of creating additional "free leagues" in which any mix of male or female students might participate. VI. TELEVISION PROGRAMMING One cnapter OT the steering committee report contains a detailed proposal for a series of programs dealing with women's interests to be broadcast over the University television station. Without commenting at this time on the list of specific subjects which such a series might cover, the Continuing Education Service believes that the general idea has merit. 21. WMSB will actively explore the possibilities of producing and broadcasting a series of programs of particular interest to women. The opportunity to do so will be enhanced by the fact that WMSB will be come a full - time UHF station in the fall (as WKAR • TV, Channel 23), thus providing additional flexibility for new programming. As with all programming, several consideration must be kept in mind. One obvious concern is the matter of adequate personnel and resources to produce the series. While there are several highly capable women presently on the station's staff, they are totally involved in program efforts to which the station is already committed. Whether additional personnel can be secured with the Page 4-b, MIchigan State University, July 27, 1972 students may live and learn, and to be an exemplary and progressive employer. However, it was never intended to serve as in loco !}Brentis for the 50,600 persons of all ages directly connected with the campus and their thousands of dependents. The issue underlying this conflict is far deeper than the superficially related issue of broadening and making more relevant the teaching, • service research and public functions of the University in those areas related to the concerns of women. What is involved here is a delineation of the priorities of the University as to its proper, primary role and function as these relate to any secondary or tertiary roles which fall primarily upon other public agencies or each individual citize,n as personal responsibilities. VII. IN SUMMATION The foregoing response contains 21 substantive action items and proposals Which the MSU administration supports in order to strengthen and improve the status of women in the university corrlmunity. Not everyone will agree with what is stated in these pages. Some will say that it is not enough; others will is "over • that the University reacting" to a vocal few. feel However, it is hoped than an objective reading of these steps, and the accompanying discussion, will convince fair· minded persons that MSU is sincere in its dedication to the practice of equal opportunity, that it listens and that it is willing to move aggressively forward. This objective approach is vital to a rational understanding and discussion of the issues. Too often, the rhetoric and emotions obscure the progressive strides which are being made. The many forward steps taken in the past 2% years at MSU frequently are not viewed in perspective by those within the community. Yet, MSU's efforts in the area of equality for women and minorities are recognized as pioneering by many outside ollr campus. Recently, for example, an outside study listed MSU's affirmative action plan for resources available in tht> "resent situation of financial stringency is highly questionable at this time. is Another essential consideration the matter of content responsibility. The station management must maintain general control to assure that any such series will adhere to all implicit and explicit requirements fa the University's Federal license and University broadcast policy. In determing content and the style of production, care must be taken to provide the best vehicle to attract, maintain and have' an impact on the desired audience. Full consideration must be given to executing such programming in a way that will have a strong and positive effect on the women in this area and Which may have a potential for regional and national distribution. Whether or not such a series can be produced, the officials of the University's broadcasting operations will remain alert to the particular interests -of women, and their responsibHty to incorporate such interests into their other programming. VII. MSU'S RESPONSI BI LlTI ES" "COMMUNITY An interesting phenomenon' of the steering committee report is the theme which appears in many of its chapters that MSU has large· scale responsibilities as a sort of "welfare state" ,both on and off.; campus. The University is called upon to assume roles that would make it, in effect, a social agency touching the ,personal and private lives of thousands of individuals. The "Good Neighbor" Policy There is an implicit assumption underlying many of the recommendati01s regarding the University's responsiblity to the immediate non • university , community in the Greater Lansing area. women as one of the five best of the major universities reviewed. And MSU's Anti • Discrimination Policies and Procedures was a trail· blazing step which is being increasingly studied and copied by other institutions. Progress in reaching the hiring goals contained the affirmative action plans has been in consistently good. Finally, the new actions and proposals contained in this response are not viewed as a completion of the University's responsibilites. They are, in addition to the many others taken in the preceding months, part of the continuing dedication to dignity, justice and equality for all. in this In implementing the actions and proposals contained -document, overall administration priority would go the the proposed creation of the Department of Human Relations. Many of the other steps, immediately and however, can be taken simultaneously. Others which require additional. study or resources will be pushed forward as rapidly as possible. its The University; because of size, economic impact and programs, does have a special responsibility to be a good neighbor. However, there are frequent instances where the tone and recommendations of the report assume that the University somehow has a much wider responsibility beyond its direct instructional, research and educational service missions. ' Examples: the MSU community "might encompass 50,000 women who reside in the Lansing metropolitan area" (pg. 1\: the Women's Center would serve to illustrate the "commitment of the program to women in the total community" (pg. 4); the Program Development Office would "keep track of the mood and needs of the Greater Lansing community and develop programs to meet those skills' (pg. 6); the establishment of a "Community Advocacy Office" (pg. 33); the provision of "drivers training classes for Span ish· speaking people" (pg. 35). The theme of total community responsibility the proposal that the Women's Center be located off· campus. is best exemplified by Academic programs developed, promoted and executed by University departments and colleges wh ich relate to these areas of concern already exist. They should be supported, encouraged and expanded. But to identify the Greater Lansing community as a special charge of the University flies in the face of reality that MSU is a state institution whose primary missions ~re COri'ducted on its own campus. Also omitted in the discussion are the existing public agencies already charged with many of these responsibilities. The notion that MSU is to provide special non • academic, advocacy service for the Greater Lansing area is also contrary to legislative intent and reality. The University cannot and should not attempt to be all things to all people, or a social welfare agency for the entire Lansing area. The "Big Brother/Sister" Syndrome There is another implicit assumption in the report that the University is some form of welfare state for all its students, faculty, staff, and their dependents. Examples: "all people directly or indirectly connected with MSU must be guaranteed or provid~d decent and adequate housing, food, recreation,health care, child care, educational opportunItIes, and all other supportive services necessary to sustain qual ity I ivi ng" (pg. 32); "adequate day care centers must be provided for all students, employees and faculty at a minimal payment, or no cost ... " (pg. 51); "it is necessary for the University and its medical schools to estalliish health • care facilities for all students, employees. facul tv and (pg. 51). "recreation and physical fitness for women, spouses and children" (pg. 49). families" their There is serious question whether the University should ever attempt to fill such sweeping roles, even if the increasingly crucial limits on financial resources were no problem. MSU always will seek to provide the finest possible educational environment in which its ., Page 5, MSU News - Bulletin, July 27,1972 Takes fraction of tlme Computer center turns out 3-D maps Three dimensional maps are among the specialized products of the University's Computer Center. A map of the world, or any area of it, showing such data as elevations or rainfall or land uses can be obtainedin a variety of sizes and at a fraction of the time needed for production of such a map by hand. Computer maps decorate the office of Robert I. WittiCk who has a doctoral degree in geography and is an assistant professor of geography at MSU's Computer Institute for Social Science :Research. "; His maps of Michigan show population changes for the state by counties, and a contour map of Michigan shows percentages of population change from 1960 to 1970. Another map, produced by the computer as an azimuthal projection, shows the. world as a sphere with the United States curved over one area of it. Another map, when viewed in its two colors with the two~olor glasses used in the 1950s for 3D movies, shows the rainfall density' patterns of North America looking like mountains and valleys. Another is a wide, but shallow cylindrical map of the world as it looks from the equator. "Computer mapping removes the drudgery of drafting by hand," Wittick said. "Once we have programmed the computer, it gives us a map showing the data we want in a few minutes." The computer-mapping programs at MSU are designed as instructional and research tools. Besides the various basic mapping programs the computer software includes a 6,00O-card program of worldWide maps prepared at MSU, made available by a United States government agency. Statistical data can be put into the computer in such subject areas as traffic and transportation problems, regional forecasting, land use, natural resources, climate, migration, employment categories, population, or rainfall. Then the computer digests the information and produces maps on which the data appear in relation to space. Time lapse mapped records also could be produced if the center had the additional hardware of a cathode ray tube and a movie camera. Such time lapse ftlm is in production elsewhere in the country, Wittick sais. The computer maps come in two kinds of printouts-either the "line printer map" on regular computer printout paper, or the "pen and ink plotter maps" which include the block diagrams that show data like rainfall patterns in 3D form on regular drafting paper. Further, the computer maps can show the earth's surface as seen from any longitude, latitude or elevation. "The computer is as agile as an aerial balloonist," Wittick said. "It can work from various heights or angles or directions, or from the level of the land. Sub-surface data can be shown if the correct data the computer." first fed into is Wittick also is director of the Geography Program Exchange, an international scholars' unit for interchange of computer software including basic computer map-making programs and spatially related statistical data. Computer mapping is included in subjects studied in two MSU geography courses. Robert Wittick examines a 3 - D map with a contour map in the 'background. TIAA -CREF plan offers, increased pension benefits that person could receive at what retirement. . *Just before retirement, each participant may choose from among several survivor options of retirement income. *Unlike the old noncontributory plan, 'TIAA - CREF requires a monthly premium from the employe (for those who become eligible on Jan. 1, the contribution ratio is 3 percent employe, ,6 percent University). But also unlike the noncontributory plan, TIAA - CREF ,has no pension ceiling; the amour..t of a person's retirement income depends on such factors as length of participation in the plan, amount of premiums paid and age at time of retirement. The large majority of those soon to become eligible for the University's new retirement plan will share at least one thing in .common: Significantly increased pension benefits when they retire. that The TIAA - CREF program becomes available to !ill full - time employes beginning Jan. 1, 1973, is, according to one description of the plan, a contract between each employe and the annuity company. "In return for the premiums you and your employer pay during your working ' . years," . points out a TIAA - CREF publication; "'the company promises to . 'ray YOll a 'lifetime income during your retirement.'-' . * * * TIAA (Teachers Insurance an~ Annuity Association) invests 'contributioris from hoth employe and employer in fixed - dollar bonds and 'mortgages. It provides an employe at retirement with a monthly fixed income as long as he or she lives. CREF (College Retirement Equities Fund) is similar to a mutual fund. Its premiums go toward variable income annuities. Participants in TIAA - CREF may their montly .payments - allocate including the University's contribution - in 25 percent increments between TIAA and CREF, and may designate full premium payment to either company. Here, in brief, are other features of TIAA-CREF: * An individual has immediate ownership (vesting) of both his and the University's pension contribution; however, the annuities do not provide for loans or cash surrender. . *TIAA - CREF participants who leave' the University take their retirement contributions with them - both theirs and the University's. (Under the soon ~ to - be - discontinued noncontributory plan, persons who left MSU forfeited retirement benefits from the University.) *In case of a participant's death, the full current value of his or her annuity the including contributions from - the to University - beneficiary. is payable *TIAA - CREF provides each participant with an annual statement shOWing premiums paid during the year, total accumulation and a projection of New vice president says he likes being "accessible to students" Eldon R. Nonnamaker, the new vice is a presiden t for student affairs, "ground level" person.. His office is located on the flISt (ground) floor of the Student Services Building. And he believes in being "accessible to students." "I like having a one - to - one relationship with students," Nonnamaker says. For this reason he supplements his administrative duties with advising . graduate students on their doctoral theses. He explains that advising students "is helpful not only in my academic role, but it keeps me aware 'of current research in the field." Nonnamaker joined the MSU faculty in 1957 as assistant director in the dean of students office. He has served as guest counselor in the Counseling Center, head dormitory adviser and assistant director of the men's division of student affairs. In 1963 he was named associate dean of students and was appointed dean in 1970. He is also a professor of education and holds degrees fmm Ohio Northern University, Bowling Green University and the Ph.D. from MSU. In his new position, Non'namaker is curren tly searcr..ing for a dean of students and. reviewing the dean of studen ts office for possible reorganization. "I wan teach are a under the jurisdiction of the dean of students to complement and supplement every other," he says. The areas include in tramurals, student counseling and housing. N onnamaker says he also plans a cost study of his operation so that "the resources will be utilized in the best possible way." As dean of students, Nonnamaker has just seen students complete the first year of enfranchisement in academic governance at the University. He says it has been worthwhile for students "although it is a new structure and the bugs are still being worked out." He says that students should have a voice "because formerly students at the university level were in the 'state of preparation.' Today the 'state of being' is of equal importance as the 'state of preparation' ." Nonnamaker says that students today are more politically aware and more open about their way of life than their counterparts of 10 years ago. "However, although the student is more an is very individual, he conforming as seen by the way he dresses and wears his hair ," he says. Another change in students noted by Nonnamaker is their greater participation in sports clubs. "Today students are more participants than spectators and in a greater variety of sports," he says. Eldon. Nonnamaker Page 6, MSU News - Bulletin, July 27, 1972 "Return to Responsibility" Authors investigate higher education For years, institutional automony and academic freedom have been woven into a veil behind which American higher education has hidden its visage and guarded its purity. It is time for that veil to be lifted a bit, say two MSU faculty members; it is time for the modern university to have its virtue tested. "Return to Responsibility" (Jossey - Bass, Inc., San Francisco) is a book that explores the present and future constraints on autonomy in higher education and is written by Paul L. Dressel, director of institutional reserach and assistant provost, and William H. Faricy of the institutional research staff. The sernior authors were assisted by Philip M. Marcus, professor of sociology, and F. Craig Johnson, professor of higher education at Florida State University. "Universities have lost the confidence of the public because they have ignored th~ir social responsibilities and have demonstrated their inability to govern themselves effectively or to operate efficiently," according to Dressel and his colleagues. They blame an unreasonable concern with institutional autonomy and academic freedom for most of this loss of public confidence in higher education and warn that if constraints are not applied internally, they will be brought about by external forces that may not always be enlightened to the best interests of higher education. -' "Autonomy of the university, Vis -~ a vis the society of which it is a part, is not and cannot be absolute," authors submit. "Decisions at any level must take into account the university's goals and' social responsibility. Autonomy without responsibility and accountability is subject to erosion and retraction." the . They point out that the appropriate autonomy of the university can be effectively destroyed by extending that autonomy without carefully considered limits to every college, department and individual faculty member within the university under the broad umbrella of academic freedom. Abuse of academic freedom by ev~n a few faculty members who use their positions to speak on sensitive social issues can cause a serious backlash because "when the professor fiddles beyond his expertise, the public burns." * * * FOR THE MOST part, "Return to Responsibility" is a concise and systematic analysis of such areas as university budgeting policies, patterns of organization, and management. But in places, the gloves come off and some academic noses get bloodied. "The modern university has become so involved in its own self - fulfilhnent that it has ignored its social obligations and distorted its purposes and priorities," the authors say as part of their argument that too much autonomy has bred irresponsibility. Tenure is no sacred cow to Dressel et. a1.: "Tenure can reinforce faculty irresponsibility because it permits the faculty to ignore criticism while pursuing whatever gives them the most satisfaction ... (It) makes the academic gown a magic cloak which can transform mice' into lions ... Academia has too often become a haven for the opinionated, the eccentric and the disruptive." * * * THE BOOK IS NOT all hooking and jabbing. "Return to Responsibility" is a constructive effort to illustrate some of the ways higher education can preserve a necessary degree of autonomy, protect essential forms of academic freedom , and meets its obligations of service to society. The authors see planning and program budgeting backed up by efficient management information systems as a more realistic method of obtaining public funds than the hand - to - mouth. methods traditionally used. They say that tough administrative decisions have to be made about the place of research in the university, and that, in view of the conflicting interests within the university, "political" patterns of academic governance may be necessary instead of the rigidly bureaucratic forms and utopian "collegial" patterns of the past. But ultimately, they contend, the "solution for the problems of higher education will probably come from coordination and control, first at the state and then gradually at regional and national levies." -MIKE MORRISON On other campuses paughter continues in father's line f The conferences explore important new developmen ts affecting the union member, such as :Occupttional Safety and Health Act, and address themselves to many key problem areas in union management and leadership. the Last year the Labor Program Service conducted 63 courses in 20 Michigan communities for 1,661 union members. The 38 conferences attracted - 1,991 participants. "Our mission is to bring the talents of the university to bear on the problems of the worker much like the Cooperative Extension Service helps the farmer," says Miss Brophy. She believes labor movement the provides an opportunity for many people their leadership potential who have not followed the standard four - years - of - college, white collar route to positions of influence. to exercise Credit is not given for the courses offered to union members because to do so would involve admission requirements. "There is some mixed feeling about this point," she says, "but the imposition of admissions criteria would probably eliminate a number of people who need and Wllnt the kind of courses we conduct." Miss Brophy has been directly involved in workers education programs since 1954 when she went to England on a Fulbright grant to study the programs that had been established in that country, Before joining the MSU Labor Program Service st!lff 14 years ago, she held editorial positions on two trade magazines, Paper Trade Journal and Baker's Weekly, and was managing editor of The IDE News published by the International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers, AFL - - CIO. -ItUKE MORRISON JOB PO STINGS AT U - M. A new system of posting promotional openings at . the University of Michigan has gone into effect. Po stings for current job vac~ncies at U - M are listed on three bulletin boards and are published in the employe newspaper, University Record. The program is to insure that U - M staff have the same chance as outside candidates in applying for campus openings. * * * NEW BENEFITS AT OHIO STATE. Employes at Ohio State University will have an improved group surgical and hospitaJ insurance program beginning Aug. 1. Charges for surgical coverage range from $1.40 a month for individuals to $4.02 per family. Surgical coverage increases from a $300 schedule to $450, and includes higher obstetrical benefits. Hospital care under Blue Cross is also extended. * * * AAUP SET AT WAYNE. The American Association of University Professors has been certified as exclusive bargaining agent for some 1,5000 faculty and academic staff at Wayne ·State University. AAUP defeated the WSU Federation of Teachers, 615 - 586, in a runoff election for bargaining rights. * * * WOMEN TO MARCH AT MINNESOTA. The marching band at the University of Minnesota will admit women to its ranks for the first time since World War 11. _ Demand for an integrated band came from the Commission on the Status of Women Students at Minnesota. * * * A NEW SENATE AT OHIO STATE. A new 132 - member University senate - made up of faculty, students and administrators - has been establiShed at Ohio State University. The group has 68 faculty, 40 students and 24 administrators. Its powers include establishment of educational and academic policies, subject to trustee authqrity. * * * CMU SETS PARKING FEES. Faculty and s,taff will pay a $ 10 annual parking fee beginning in the fall. Students in university housing will pay a $5 fee to p ark in slots deSignated for their housing units, and for $10 studnts m ay park I II any student lot. * * * WOMEN'S ATHLETIC PROGRAM. Finding ways and means to develop a multi - sport intercollegiate athletic program for women students will be considered by an ad h.oc committee appointed recently at University of Wisconsin - Madison.Athletic Director Elroy Hirsch, who heads the four - merr.ber committee, said, "We realize there is an urgent need for a meaningful program for women, but fmances will dictate what we can do." Something ·new • • • (Concluded from page 2) the new transmitter, and the remodeling and updating of present facilities. Page says that the decision was made to return to UHF programming because of the wide - spread interest in UHF, the excellent programming available from the Public Broadcasting System and the need for a full - time station. "There is a large potential audience since UHF adapters became mandatory on all television sets," he says. -SANDRA DALKA Jacqueline Brophy In a sense, she was born into it. "My father was not one to leave his work at the office," she says. Her father was John Brophy, an early leader in the United Mine Workers, one time o!,ponent of John L. Lewis, and later appointed by Lewis as the first director of the CIO when it was formed in 1935. Jacqueline Brophy, miner's daughter, is one of six full- time staff members of the School of Lallor and Industrial Relations Labor Program Service. She will assume the duties of acting head of the service unit in the fall when Russell W. Allen takes a year's leave to work at the AFL - CIO Labor Studies Center in Washington, D.C. Miss Brophy and - her colleagues coordinate courses and conferences throughout the state designed to' make union members more effective within their organizations. The courses range from parliamentary procedure and persuasive public speaking to the economics of income, employment and collective bargaining. Page 7, MSU News - Bulletin, July 27, 1972 .BULLETINS·- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - NEWS-BULLETIN The MSU News-Bulletin will be issued biweekly during the summer months. The FALL ENROLLMENT All Registration Section Request Forms should be returned to the Office of the next issue will appear on Thursday, August 10. Notices for the bulletin are due by noon, Tuesday, August 8, to Patricia Grauer, 109 Agriculture Hall, 3-8819. WOMEN'S REPORT Copies of the Report to the President from the Women's Steering Committee are available to interested persons from Roberta Smith, 102 Engineering, 5-5103. REVISED CLASS LISTS Revised class lists, including all the names of students enrolled in each course and section as of Aug. 4, will be delivered to departmental offices on Monday, Aug. 7. The lists should be checked immediately and questions directed to the Office of the Registrar, 3-0731 or 5-9596. Final grade cards corres ponding to the students listed on these class lists will be distributed. To in sure proper distribution of grade cards, all discripancies must be cleared prior to Aug. 15. HALF-TERM GRADES Final grade cards for the half-term are due in the Office of the Registrar, 150 Hl:tnnah Administration Bldg., 5-9596, 36 hours after final examinations are given. For the convenience of academic departments the Office of the Reg istrar will make pickups from departmental offices each morning after 9 a.m. and each afternoon after 2 p.m., beginning Thursday, July 27. The final pickup will be made Monday, July 31, at" 8 a.m. Otherwise, grades should be delivered to 150 Hannah Administration Bldg. no later than 11 a.m., Monday, July 31. It is important that these deadlines be met by all departments. Registrar, 150 Hannah Administration Bldg., no later than Tuesday, Au gust 15. JAPAN SERIES The Asian Studies Center is sponsoring a weekly film series on Japan, with film showings each Wednesday evening at 7:30 throughout Summer term in Wilson Hall Auditorium. The films are furnished by the Consulate General of Japan in Chicago ~nd are being shown to summer school participants as part of a preview and selection process in preparation for Japan Week next fall. Admission is free. UNION BLDG. HOURS The Union Building will be open every day during the summer from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Billiards and bowling will be open from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. Cafeteria hours are 11:15 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. and 5 to 7 p.m., Monday through Friday, and noon to 2 p.m. Sunday. The grill is open from 7: 15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Saturday, and 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Sunday. GUESTS AT 1M POOLS Effective Thursday, July 27, thru Fri- day, Sept. 15, members of families with university affiliation and guests 13 years and older, may swim upon pre sentation of an university ID card or an intramural spouse ID ~rd. Swim fee for those presenting the ID card will be .50. Guests of swimmers with the above 10 cards will pay $1.00. This extension of privileges to student and faculty families is possible because of the great reduction of MSU stu dents during the second five weeks summer session. CONFERENCES------------------------~~-- Enterprise & Special Assessment Accounting Conf. for County Officials Michigan Labor Press Assn. Aug. 7-11 . July 27 July 3 I-Aug. 1 July 31-Aug. 4 July 31-Aug. 4 Aug. 6-16 Aug. 7-11 S6cialWork Institutes-Youth & Day Care Accountability in Guidance & Pupil Personnel Work Management Science in Higher Education Eastern Orthodox Catechetical Assn. Conf. Basic Claims Adjudicators Basic Life & Health Insurance Inst. Aug. 12 All conferences will be held in Kellogg Center unless otherwise noted. Students and faculty members are welcome to attend these continuing educa tion programs. Those who are interested should make arrangements in advance with the Office of University Conferences, 5-4590. Summer cooling in the Red Cedar ' .. --;:<: g_g"lC"l F-:::e!....:'; _'!C', - - Photo by Dick Wesley MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY . Calendar of Events . FRIDAY , JULY 28, 1972 THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1972 10 a.m. Board of Trustees meeting. 6:15 p.m. Story Dance Theatre (see July 28). Cumberland Park. 4:30 p.m. Story Dance Theatre for Children-A combination of sing ing~ dancing, and acting, the Story Dance Theatre provides a children's variety show made up of American folklore. Such numbers as "Casey Jones," "Turkey in the Straw," "Paul Bunyan," and "Casey at the Bat" are typical. The forty-five minute shows, to be performed throughout the Lansing area~ are free to the public. For more information, call 372-5000. Bancroft Park. 9 p.m. Public ice skating until 10:30 p.m. Ice Arena. FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1972 4:30p.m. Story Dance Theatre (see ~uly 28). Averill Park. 8 p.m. "The Last Question " -This science fiction spectacular in the sky theatre explores the theory of entropy, which maintains that the life-giving energy of the stars is being drained. Written by noted' author Isaac Asimov, "The Last Question" will be shown' for three weekends in August. Admission at door. Abrams Planetarium. 9 p.m. Public ice skating until 10:30 p.m. Ice Arena. SA1.'URDAY, JULY 29, 1972 10:30 a;m. Story Dance Theatre (see July 28). Kiwanis Park, Holt. SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1972 11:30 a.m. Story Dance Theatre (see July 28). Kiwanis Park, Holt. 3:30 p.m. Public ice skating until 5 p.m. Ice Arena. ' 3:30 p.rn. ~ublic ice skating until 5 p.m. Ice Arena. 9 p~m. Public ice skating until 10:30 p.m. Ice Arena. 8 p.m. 9 p.m. "The Last Question" (see August 4). Abrams Planetarium. Public ice skating until' 10:30 p.m. Ice Arena. SUNDA Y, JULY 30, 1972 2:30 p.m. Story Dance Theatre (see July 28). Potter Park. 3:30 p.m. Public ice skating until 5 p.m. Ice Arena. 4p.m. Story Dance Theatre (see July 28). Spartan Village. 5 p.m. Story Dance Theatre (see July 28). Spartan Village. MONDAY, JULY 31, 1972 6:15 p.m. Story Daqce Theatre (see July 28). Endmore Park. SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 1972 3:30 p.m. Public ice skating until 5 p.m. Ice Arena. 4 p.m. 4 p.m. 5 p.m. "The Last Question" (see Au~st 4). Abrams Plan~tarium. Story Dance Theatre (see July 28). High School football field, Mason. Story Dance Theatre (see July 28)~ High School football field, Mason. TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1972 8 p.m. Folkdancing-Instruction is followed by dancing at 9 p.m. 327 M.A.C. ' TUESDAY, AUGUST I, 1972 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1972 6:15 p.m. Story Dance Theatre (see July 28). St. Joseph Park. 7:30 p.m. Films on Japan (see August 2). Wilson Hall AuditOrium. 8 p.m. Folkdancing-Instruction is followed by dancing at 9 p.m. 327 M.A.C. FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1972 8 p.m. "The Last Question" (see August 4). Abrams Planetarium. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1972 9 p.m. Public iCe skating until 10:30 p.m. Ice Arena. 6:15 p.m. Story Dance Theatre (see July 28). Reo Park. 7:30 p.m. Films on Japan --':The Asian Studies Center is sponsoring a weekly film series on Japan, with showings each Wednesday evening th..-oughout the term. The films are fur:nished by the Consulate General of Japan in Chicago, and are being shown as part of a preview and selection process in preparation for Japan Week next fall. Wilson Hall Auditorium. SATURDAY, AUGUST 12~ 1972 3:30 p.m., Public ice skating until 5 p.m. Ice Arena. 8 p.m. "The Last Question" (see August 4). Abrams Planetarium. 9 p.m. Public ice skating until 10:30 p.m. Ice Arena. SEMINARS TUESDAY, AUGUST I, 1972 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1972 History of iodized salt. Olaf Mickelson, 12:30 p.m., 102 Human Ecology Calcium ion exchange in the several compartments of ,heart muscle. Maurice (Food Science and Human Nutrition). B. Visscher, 4 p.m., 216 Giltner Hall (Physiology). ---------------------.--------------------------~----- ------------ Information on 'MsU events may be s'ubmitted for possible inclusion in the bulletins to Patricia Grauer, Dept. of Information Services, 109 Agriculture Hall, (517) 353-8819. Deadline for submitting information is noon Tuesday preceding the Thursd,ay pu.blication. The calendar of l{vents will cove'r a 9-day period, FrIday through Saturday.