Faculty  Club  house  rules  set; 

dues  structure under study 

The 

House rules have been approved and a 
dues structure is being developed for the 
University's new  Faculty Club  building. 
The  building,  on  Forest  Road, 
is 
expected to be partially open by June  1. 
covering 
membership 
privileges, 
charging  privileges  and  use  of  all 
facilities,  will  soon  be  printed  and 
distn'buted  to  the  club's  some  1,000 
members,  according  to President Walter 
Hodgson, professor of music. 

house 
and 

rules, 
guest 

Hodgson said the club's directors plan 
to  establish  and  announce  soon  a 
monthly  dues  charge  for  the  club's 
members. 

*  *  * 
MOST  MEMBERS  of  the  Faculty 
Club  want the new facility  to provide a 

good  dining  room  where  they  can  take 
visitors  and  guests  and  meet  with 
colleagues,  according  to  results  of  a 
survey  conducted  by  Frank  Senger, 
professor  and  chainnan  of journalism. 
The  survey  generated  responses  from 

262 members, Senger reported. 

Although 

About 70 per cent of the respondents 
emphasized  the  need  for  a good  dining 
facility.  And about  the same percentage 
said  the club should continue to have its 
weekly Tuesday luncheon series. 
such 

as  an 
investment  club,  a 
travel  club,  a 
quarterback club  and a bridge club were 
favored  by  many 
a 
number  of persons  indicated  that  they 
preferred  to  keep  the  club's  activities 
unstructured. 

respondents, 

activities 

Said  one  member:  "For me,  the less 
organized,  the better. Let each member 
do  his  own  thing  as  he  pleases."  And 
the 
regarding 
respondent  added:  "Deliver  me  from 
such nonsense." 

organized 

activities, 

Senger  said  the  survey  revealed  four 
groups:  Those  who  prefer  exclusive 
faculty - staff use of the club; those who 
want  it  to  be  a  family  facility;  those 
who  want it to be closely related to golf 

activities;  and  those  who  prefer  that it 
have no relationship with golf. 

Loyal J.  H. Milligall,  ut:W  manager of 
the  club,  reported  that  he  has  been 
meeting  with  an  interior  decorator  and 
to  plan  the  building's 
an  architect 
furnishings. 

Milligan  said he  is  also  attempting to 
recruit  key  staff members,  including  a 
room 
chef,  bartender  and  dining 
manager. 

MSUFaculty News 

Vol. I. No. 17 

Michigan State University , 

Feb. 17,1970 

Students  as journalists 

The State News:  Toward professionalism 

On any given day the Michigan State 
News  reaches  from  72 to 96 per cent of 
all  students,  faculty  and staff members 
at MSU,  according  to surveys  taken  by 
faculty  in  the  University's  advertising 
department. 

At least  80 per  cent  of the students 
in  the  surveys  read  no  other  daily 
newspaper consistently. 

No  other  student. newspaper  in  the 
and  few,  if  any,  in  the 

Big  Ten  -
country - can match this readership. 

The State News  is,  General Manager 
Louis  Bennan  says,  the  biggest  college 
newspaper  in  the  country  in  terms  of 
general  budget,  number  of  pages, 
amount of news  carried and advertising. 
Its circulation  stands at 40,000; the 
paper  is  distributed  to  all  on-campus 
to 
buildings,  married  housing  and 
.  multiple  dwellings  off  campus  (where 
10  or  more  students  reside),  including 
religious,  Greek 
apartment 
buildings. 

and 

than 

those  directly 

Yet  it  seems  fair  to  assume  that 
relatively  few  people  on  this  campus, 
involved, 
other 
know  much  about how the  State  News 
arrives into their hands. 
*  *  * 
MECHANICALLY, 

the  procedure 
. campus  news  goes 

for 
local  or 
something like this:  ' 
- Story  idea  -

from  an  editor, 
probably  the  campus editor, or  phoned 
in  by  someone  who  becomes  a  news 
initiated  by  a  student 
source,  or 

reporter,  poSSibly  from  a  reporter's 
beat,  which  he  checks  routinely  every 
day. 

- Interview or research. 
- Copy is  written  and 'submitted to 
the  campus  editor.  Daily  deadline  time 
is usually 2 - 5 p.m. 

- Campus  editor  reads  and  edits 
copy,  watching  for  style  and  factual 
accuracy and thoroughness. 

-

If no  revision  by  the  reporter  is 
necessary,  the  copy  goes  to  the  lay-out. 
editor for  placement  in  the  paper, or to 
the  managing editor if it is  to go  on the 
front page. 

- Copy  desk  again edits the copy in 
terms  of syntax,  grammar  and spelling, 
and  writes a headline for it. 

- Copy  is  set  at  Willstaff,  Inc. ,  in 
East  Lansing,  and made up according to 
the 
lay-out  editor's  dummy  sheets. 
Copy  usually  arrives  by  7  p.m.,  the 
camera-ready  pages  are  completed  by 
about 10 p.m. 

. 

- Camera-ready  pages  are  trucked 
to  Greenville,  where  plates  are  made, 
the  40,000  copies  are  printed 
and 
overnight  at  the  plant of The Greenville 
Daily  News,  with  whom  the State News 
has a printing contract. 

- At  about  5:30  a.m.  the  40,000 
copies  arrive  at  the  Student  Services 
Building  and  is  picked  up  by  the  15 
students  who  distribute  them  by about 
7:30 a.m. 

*  *  * 

THE  EDITORIAL staff of the State 

News includes: 

The editor-in-chief (Jim Crate), with 

overall responsibility for the paper; 

for 

- Managing  editor  (Norm  Saari), 
responsible 
general  newsroom 
operations,  such  as  lay-out,  copy  desk 
and  payroll,  and  who  handles  the  wire 
services and the front page. 

- Campus  editor  (George  Bullard), 
who  works  with  beat  and  general 
assignment  reporters  and is  responsible 
for,  as  Crate  puts  it,  "bringing  in  the ' 
news." 

SN aMory board, page 3 

- Editorial editor (Ken Krell), who, 
Crate  says, "spends a  great  deal  of time 
thinking  about  editorial  direction  for 
the  State  News;"  he  works  with  a  staff 
of three editori~ writers. 

Feature  editor  (Debbie  Fitch), 
in depth or 
for 
is  responsible 
special 
fashion,  ski  and 

-
who 
investigative 
tabloids,  such  as 
Farmer's Week specials. 

reporting 

and 

' These 

five  editors  comprise 

the 

editorial board. 

Jeff  Elliott,  sports  editor,  works 
with  his  own  staff  of  writers  on  the 
State News sports pages. 

George  Bullard works with a staff of 
about  30,  including  general  assignment 
and  beat  reporters.  Major  beats  are : 

Administration,  student  government, 
State  ' Legislature,  off  campus/East 
Lansing,  faculty  committees,  science 
(medical school) and major colleges. 

Other  beats  are:  Library,  museum, 

union, residence halls and religion. 

Beats  are  assigned often by seniooty, 
'better 
those  considered 
are 
are 

or 
reporters 
assigned  what 
considered more important beats. 

to  be 

*  *  * 
THE  STATE  NEWS  staff is  one  of 
student 
the 
newspapers,  Crate  says, and the paper is 
)ne  of few which pays its entire staff. 

highest  paid 

among 

A  core  staff of 68  students is  paid, 
ranging  from  $90  a  week  for 
the 
editor-in-chief 
to  $10  a  week  for 
interns.  Norm  Saari,  managing  editor, 
points  out that at least 25  people on the 
payroll  receive  more  than  the  editor  of 
the  Michigan  Daily,  the  University  of 
Michigan student newspaper. 

on 

The  remainder  of  the  staff  is  a 
peripheral  group,  including  journalism 
publishing 
students  working 
requirements  or  persons  who  hope  to 
gain  staff  positions.  This  is  a  varied 
group with a high turnover rate. 
.  The  intern  program  involves  10  to 
15  students  picked  by  the  editorial 
board 
These 
students,  Crate  explains, are  assigned on 
a  rotating  basis  to  the  major  desks  -
for  one  or 
editorial,  sports,  feature  -
two  weeks  each.  After  a  term they may 
specialize;  most  go 
to  the  campus 
editor. 

applications. 

from 

in 

Berman  serves  as  a  general  overseer 
of  the  newspaper's  operations,  or,  as 
defined 
the  Academic  Freedom 
. Report,  he  is  responsible  for  financial 
affairs  of  the  paper  and  serves  as  a 
professional 
the 
consultant 
editor-in-chief. 

for 

"Technically,"  he  says,  "I would be 
a  publisher  if  this  were  a  commercial 
daily,  if I  had  authority  over  the  news 
department,"  but  he  says  he  does  not 
have 
that  authority  because  of  the 
freedom report. 

Campus  Editor Bullard says Berman 

(Continued on page  2) 

NUC  meets  tonight 
The  second in  a series of discussions 
the  New  University 
sponsored  by 
Conference will  be  held  at  7: 30 tonight 
in Room 32 Union. 
Gunter  Pfaff, 

film  production 
supervisor  in  the  Instructional  Media 
Center, will  discuss  "The Man's Media 
is it responsive to people?" 

The  New  University  Conference is a 
group  of  radical  graduate  students, 
faculty  and staff.  Its  meetings are  open 
to the public. 

The  SN  news  room,  from  left:  George  Bullard,  Debbie  Fitch, Tom  Spaniolo, Marty Oaus and Jeff Elliott. 

The  State  News • 

•  • 

MSU Faculty News, Feb. 17, 1970 

(Continued from page 1) 
does  not  interfere  with  the  editors  and 
staff,  does  not  try  to  force  his views on 
them,  and  since  he  does  not  see  the 
paper  until  it  is  printed,  does  not 
exercise  any  censorship.  Both Crate and 
Bullard  said  they  would  seek  advice 
from  Berman  if there  were  concern  over 
libel. 

*  *  * 

is 

A  STUDENT  newspaper 

a 
peculiar  institution.  On  the  one  hand, 
the  students  involved  try  to  put  out  a 
professional  paper  -
in  terms  of style, 
coverage  and  content.  But  Of)  the  other 
hand,  they  are  students,  with  whatever 
pressu res  and  problems 
that  status 
might  involve ,  and  th eir  work  or.  the 
Slate  News  is  by  and  large  a  leamtt:g 

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Current  editor-in-chief  Jim  Crate 
says  he  expects  his  staff  "to work  and 
act  lLke  newspaper  people.  I  expect 
professional  writing  ability,  objectivity 
and integrity." 
Crate 

of  his 
outlined  much 
philosophy  for  the  State  News  in  the 
1969  Welcome  Week  edition,  in  which 
he said: 

"Of immediate  importance  to  me  is 
the  overriding  need 
to  completely 
remove  the  newspaper  from  the  realm 
of student activities ... 

largest 

"The  State  News  is  not a laboratory 
toy  or extra-credit activity with which h 
to tinker  on the environment. Neither is 
it  an 
interesting  hobby,  demanding 
little,  giving much. The damned thing is, 
and  has  been  for  quite  some  time,  the 
fifth 
daily 
in 
is  ?ig 
Michigan.  The  State  News 
business;  it  thus  strikes  me  as  bemg 
patently' absurd  to  perpetuate  the. f~rc~ 
that  it  is  a  part-time  'student actiVIty. 
"  ... professional excellence  is  not 
attained  through  the  disjointed  efforts 
of  contributors,  but 
the 
concerted skills of craftsmen." 

newspaper 

through 

*  *  * 

toward 

CRATE'S  PLAN  to  take  the  State 
News  out  of  a  "student  activity" 
category 
"professional 
excellence," involved, as he stated in  the 
Welcome  Week  story,  reorganizing  the 
staff  and  paying 
regular 
contributions and regular hours kept 

them  for 

Most  of the  senior  members  of the 
staff  tend  to agree  that while  the State 

LOUIS BERMAN 

News  may  approach  professionalism,  it 
does not necessarily reach it. 

Debbie  Fitch,  who  has  worked  for 
the  State  News  for  four years, says:  "In 
order  to  professionalize  a  paper,  one 
must be a profeSSional." 

be 

nature 

lacks 
that 

the 
Frank  Senger,  chairman  of 
school  of journalism, agrees:  "A student 
newspaper  can't  be  profeSSional because 
the  maturity  and 
the 
staff 
judgment 
only  with 
comes 
professional experience." 
Also  contributing 

to  a  lack  of 
is 
says, 
the 
professionalism, 
transitory 
student 
a 
newspaper.  (Be.rman  says  that  there  is 
an  approximate  60  per  cent  attrition 
rate  at  the  end  of each  academic  year.) 
Linda  Gortm2ker,  who  has  also 
worked  for  the  paper  about  four  years 
and,  until  Ulree  vveeks  ago,the executive 
rc~on. e; ~ht;r:;,  ,~ys:  "1  tl1ink  too  many 
facc:lt)  60  no,  rea lize  that  the  Stare 
J\CViS  is  "  sLudenL  paper  -
it  tries  to  be 
:IS  p!.-cfc~si Gn8~ as  p()~)sibjc, hut kids  are 

of 

S:-lt  said  she  ciocsn:'i  think  the SLttc 
News  CJuid  be  considcceG  pro[ession~: 
~ C:0 {";:.lL!S(;  ;  !hin k  lOO  often  the  quality 
'J:  'york 
i~  .'()\  considered  ,he  mOSl 

~lT!pOnar. ~  thing.~' 

things  as 
L1;,~d2  rcfe(p~d  to  such 
··ego-tri ps"  an::  "face-savi ng'-
among 
st<lff  merr.be: Is,  and  the  "idenlity crisis" 
thal  staff  members  are  involved  with, 
due  to  Iheir  age,  plus,  she  says, "people 
arc  granted  beats  and jobs  on  seniority 
rather  th3n  talent;  editors  won't  fire 
anybody  in  order  not  to  hurt  feelings; 
and  they're  not  looking  out  for·  the 
good  of  the  paper  a  lot  of  times  -
they're more selfish than that." 

Trinka  Cline, 

former  executive 
editor  who  resigned  recently  after  four 
years in  State News writing and editorial 
positions,  spoke  of "superficial  ideas  of 
professionalism"  at  the  paper.  Ideas  of 
competing  for  jobs,  of  not  being  a 
"student  activity"  must  be  balanced, 
she  said,  because  "we  are  a  student 
newspaper." 

But  as  Norm  Saari says,  "we  aren't 
just  a  bunch  of rank  amateurs, either." 
*  *  * 

SOMEWHERE,  then,  between 
professionalism  and  "rank amateurism" 
lies  the  concept of a student newspaper. 
Jim  Spaniolo  defines  that  concept 

as: 

- Freedom  to  publish  according  to 
the  direction  set  forth  by  the  editorial 
board; 

- Responsibility  to  report  news  of 

the campus to all students; 

- Responsibility  to  serve  all  the 
people  in  the  University  community as 
best it can; 

- Emphasizing students (since it is a 

student paper); 

- Obligation  to  report, analyze  and 
give  opinion  where  called  for  on major 
issues,  as  the  editor  - in  - chief  sees 
them. 

"We  are  run,"  Norm  Saari  says,  "to 
educate  and  to  provide  information  to 
people  which  they  otherwise  would not 
get." 

"There  is  never  malicious  intent," 
he  says,  "though you might  say  we  are 
.  We  never  go  against 
. 
muckrakers. 
conscience and principle." 

Debbie  Fitch,  who  now  heads  the 
copy  desk  since 
the  feature  editor 
position  has  been  dropped,  sees  the 
State  News  as  "a little  island  in  a  great 
big  mass  of people, a completely diverse 
mass of people." 

"It  represents  two  psyches,"  she 
says.  "It's a quasi - professional paper in 
a  student environment.  The  State  News 
is  for  students,  about  the  University: 

"There  is a burning desire  that holds 
the  State  News 
together,"  she  says, 
"and that's  a thirst for what is going on, 
an  obsession  to understand what's going 

on  and  to  comment  intelligently  and 
accurately on what's going on. 

Jim Crate  says that "you get hooked 
on  other  people's  business,  and  you're 
uncomfortable  if you don't know what 
everyone else  is  doing on campus." 

And,  he  says,  "we  try  very,  very 

hard to be objective." 

*  *  * 

AS  A  STUDENT  institution,  the 
State  News 
is  affected  by  certain 
pressures  or  attitudes  that  might  not be 
found on a professional newspaper. 

Student  - reporters  have  classes  to 
attend,  the  paper's  turnover rate  is  high, 
there 
is  some  question  of  credibility 
when  a  student  reporter  in terviews  an 
administrator  or  professor,  and  every 
year  the  staff starts all  over again  with  a 
new  editor,  a  new  editorial  policy,  a 
revised staff. 

This,  Debbie  Fitch  says,  is  one  nf 
the  biggest  problerns  ,n  the  SLale  News. 
Trinka  Cline  and  Norm  Saari  point 
rccruill!lg_  On  a 

uut  ur'OL])cr  problem  -
carnpu.s 
should  be  50  ;Jeople  peliL;o;;lng  for  the 
cdilOr~hip,  not  just  the:  usual  two  or 
: !tree.  But  she  ;;ays  she  car;t  explain, 
:10,  does she  have  [he solution. 

this  size;  TrinKcl  S8.ys, 

there ' 

'·WheT1  people  come  in  for  the  first 
lime,  we're  not  sci  up  to  handle  them," 
she  says.  "We  don't  need or want them, 
tend  to  discourage  tilem.  The 
so  we 
plodding,  journalistic 
type  will  hang 
around,  but  I  wonder  how  many  other 
people we've  lost." 

Saari  thinks  recruiting  is  a  problem 
for  a  different  reason.  "Just  because 
you  can  write  a  good  theme  for  ATL 
does  not  mean  you  can  write  a  good 
news story," he  says. 

Academics  also  pinch  State  News 
staff members,  he  says.  Reporters may 
have  to  drop  off for  a while to catch up 
on  studying;  the  men  who  work  there 
cannot  take  light  loads  because  of  the 
draft.  And  the  average  work week  runs 
from  20  to  35  hours  for  the  core  staff 
and editors, though that often creeps up 
to 40 or more hours. 

Trinka  also  pointed  out  a  money 
pinch.  The  generally  tight  situation  on 
money  makes  salaries  more  important 
now  to  staff  members  than  when  she 
began  working  there,  she  said.  And 
squabbles  over  salaries  have 
recent 
caused  a  morale  problem,  according to 
Crate. 

Internal  problems  also  affect  the 
oper;ttion  of  the  State  News,  as  they 
may affect any organization, resulting in 
some  degree  of tension. These problems 
may  be,  according to  some  of the  staff 
members,  such  factors  as  adapting  to a 
staff  each  year, 
new  editor  and 
and 
questions 
experience 
of 
background,  manipulation 
of 
assignments 
internal 
communications.  The  staff  members 
said  they  thought  the  internal problems 
affect  the  product. in  terms  of  time 
detracted  from  concentration  on  work 
and lowering of morale. 

and 

*  *  * 

WITH  ALL 

the  pressures  and 
problems  - both  internal  and  external 
-
that  State  News  staff members  must 
deal  with,  why  do  they  work  there  the 
long  hours  every  day, for  three  or  four 
years?  Most .  of  them  will  cite 
the 
obvious:  G'ood  practical  experience  at 
the  State  News  will  help  them  as  they 
go  on  with  journalistic  careers.  But  for 
some, it becomes somethinj<more. 

·'My  first  years  on the State News, I 
thought,  'This  is  what  I  have  to  do,'" 
Trinka  Cline 
says.  "It  was  great 
experience.  Then·I  got interested in  the 
newspaper  as  a  whole,  not  so  much  as 
my  career,  but  for  the  State  News 
itself." 

"There 

there," 
Debbie  Fitch  says,  "and  a  feeling  of 

is  a  camaraderie 

JIM CRATE 

is  my 

'this 
starting.'" 

life,  this 

is  where 

it's 

Debbie  sees  tlle  Slate  News  as  "a 

tolal  expericnce_" 

"Om  involvcmen l  iil 

the  academic 
communily  runs  the  gClmuL,"  she  says. 
"We  arc  nectiJlg  [leopIe-.  lTl'dk;ng  iriends 
\xould  ~~:J\lC  no  acscss 
~() 
othe[\vise.  1 r.  put~  us 
2:1  cllviabie 
poSjtiQ~l jn  lerT;tS or dC \ ~~;'_~t) !I~ell1. 

\VhOlfl 

\J./C 

i -: 

~! 

.cThcr~  is 

\'\'o~:d~r::-ui  rec1ing  of 
being  O~l  top  of  things .  .;:;1 " nOL  having to 
go  t!l!,.Jugh  yO~F edl...iC ':; ; iO;ial  career here 
in  a  piece  or gau,~e." 

"This  is  your  educ'l!iu n ,"  she  says. 
"You  learn  things  about  (he  University 
you  would  not  learn  in  class  - not just 
newspapcring, 
and 
but 
psychology, 
the  pressures  of  groups 
other  than  the  ones  you belong to. You 
become  completely  sensitized  to  the 
world  around you.  And once you get it, 
it's impossible  to lose. 

politics 

"When  you  first  come  here, you are 
here  Jor  class;  but later you go  to class 
when  and  if  you  are  through  with  file 
State  News,"  she  says.  "When  you're 
first  on  the  staff you feel  the pressures, 
but  then  they  become  a  part of life  and 
you  learn  to  live  with  them  like  you 
learn  to live  without an  arm." 

THE  STATE  News  has 

been 
publishing  since  March  19,  1909.  It 
became  a  daily  newspaper in  the  fall  of 
1942,  and  staff members  like  to  point 
out  that  now  it  is  the  second  largest 
morning  daily (behind  the  Detroit  Free 
Press) in Michigan. 

It  became  fmancially  independent 
of  the  University  in  the  early  1960s 
when  the  trustees  decided  to no longer 
subsidize  it.  (Approximately  $46,000 
had been  allocated  to the paper prior to 
that time.) 

fee 

Students  voted  in  1928,  and  at 
various  times  since  then,  Berman  said, 
the  paper.  The 
for 
to  pay  a 
rationale,  he  said,  is  that it is  then their 
own newspaper.  The  fee  also guarantees 
the  broad  circulation,  which  attracts 
advertisers. 

still 

Without  the  fee,  Berman  says,  the 
paper  would 
be 
probably 
distributed  on  the  same  wide  basis, 
because  it is needed for  communication. 
But  financially,  the  paper  would  be 
forced  to  give  more room to advertisers, 
leaving a smaller "news hole" (space). 

in 

the 

classified 

The  State News includes much more 
than  an  editorial  staff.  Sixteen  people 
advertising 
are 
department,  20  in  display  advertising, 
15  to  25  are  photographers, 15  students 
are  in  circulation,  and  there  are  eight 
full  - time  staff  personnel,  all  paid  by 
State News revenues. 

State  News  alumni  are  spread  over 
the  country.  Some  of the recent alumni 
include  Jim  Sterba,  campus  editor  in 
1965, now with  the  Washington Bureau 
of  the  New York  Times;  Sue  Jacoby, a 
top  reporter  and  editorial- writer  in 
1964, now at the Moscow Bureau of the 
Washington  Post;  Ben  Burns,  the editor 
- in  - chief  in  1963  now  the  senior 
assistant  city  editor  of  the  Miami 
- BEVERLY TWITCHELL 
Herald. 

Advisory  board picks  editors, 
acts  as  mediator  in  disputes 

Article  Six  of 

the  Academic 
Freedom  Report  is  devoted  to  student 
publications  and  primarily  to the  State 
News. 

It  isn't  very  popular  with  some 
people  connected  with  the  State  News. 
Basically  the  section  est ablishes  an 
advisory  board  of four  faculty  and four 
students,  and  gives  broad  guidelines 
regarding 
the  responsibilities  of  the 
board,  including  selection  and  removal 
or  suspension  of  the  editor - in  - chief. 
The  section's intent , stated in article 
6.1.1.  is  to  "make  it  clear  that  the  St ate 
News is a swdent newspaper whose  tone 
an d  contcn t  are  de termined  by 
the 
sluG.el:,t  cdttorial staff." 

LOLLis  Bcrm2:'  questions  having  the 
tile  n~? ort  (ll  all;  A.S:V'iSU 
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O~  nOLhing 
o;Jc "2:~i:Jll  o~ a dajly nc\vspaper. 

;itI~e 

Arcd  tiley  crj,;cjze th e section  fo r its 

eves-ru t vagueness. 

Berman  said  that  because  of  the 
Academic  Free dom  Rep ort ,  the  State 
a  hea dless 
News 
horsemen ." 

"operates 

like 

The  State  News  has  become  a " free 
universi ty ,"  Berman  said.  " The  staff 
asks  no questions; they train each  other. 
They  accept  no  direction  from  anyone 
that 1 know of." 

Berman  said  his  biggest  criticism  of 
the  section  is  that  while  the  advisory 
board has  the  power  to name an editor, 
it  can  do  little  or  nothing  about  him 
once he assumes his position. 

"1  can't  change  anything  he  wants 
to  do," Berman said, because " I have no 
control  over  him  (the  editor - in  chief) 
at all." 

Berman  also  expressed  concern  that 
no  criteria  are  listed for the selection of 
the  editor,  nor  are  causes  listed  for 
removal or suspension. 
*  *  * 

WILLIAM  WALLNER,  associate 
professor  of entomology  and  chairman 
of  the  Advisory  Board  for  the  State 
News  and  Wolverine,  said  the  board 
hoped 
to  draw  up  some  general 
guidelines  to  be  used  for  the  editor  -
selection  procedure,  but  he  said  he 
didn't  think these  should be outlined in 
the freedom report. 

Anne 

Most  members  of 

the  advisory 
board,  when  asked  what. they  look  for 
in  a  potential  editor,  replied  with 
general  criteria  because  of  variance  in 
qualifications of in dividuals. 
associate 
C.  Garrison , 
'professor  of  business  law  and  office 
administration  and  member  of  the 
advisory  board,  said  she  looked  "at 
experience  and broadness of vision" for 
administrative 
creative 
abilities,  because,  she  said, an  editor  of 
the  State  News  is  concerned with  more 

as  well 

as 

M§1LJ Faculty New§ 

Editor:· Gene Rietfors 
Associate Editor:  Beverly Twitdtell 
Editorial  Office:  296-G  Hannah 
Administration  Building,  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. 

than  mechanics  - he  must be "an artist 
in human affairs." 

Howard Miller, director of extension 
for 
information 
management 
Cooperative  Extension  Service 
and 
member  of  the  advisory  board,  said he 
looked  for  some  experience  in  the  field 
evidence  of 
journalism, 
of 
administrative 
management 
capability,  which  implies some maturity 
and  evidence  of judgment,  potential in 
relationships  with  people,  and  "a good 
grasp  of  the  total  operations  of  the 
University." 

some 
or 

Marcia  Day,  a  senior  majoTLTJg  in 
English  who  is  servjng  her ,second year 
the  board,  said  criteria  vary  from 
on 
year  to  year.  Lls[  year,  she  said,  "we 
were  looking  ror  ability  and leadership 
to  bTlng  the  st;Jf!·  ~ogethcr. Thls year we 
may  be  iooki.ng  ~or  someone  \vith  a 
litti,~  more 
experie! lce 
In 
~\:c  editor  this  year 
jO"'.lTnaJisnl 

r-rior 

thal"t 

BOARD  [',EMBERS  response  tc  th.c 
r. h~ j r  lack  of journaljs~lc 
criticism  0:' 
backgroui1d  iA' :: ~  [ !Ul t  they  though~L S01ne 
b<!ckground  might  be  helpful  bLlt  is  ;!Ol 
essential.  Wilh  Gco;·gc  Hough,  JSSOci8te 
professor  of  journalism,  now  on  the 
board,  Wallner  said  11e 
thought  the 
board had a good balance. 

"We're not going  to affect journalistic 
policy  as  an  advisory  board,"  Wallner 
said.  "We  hope  to be  able  to judge in  an 
unbiased  manner  the  best  candidate  for 
editor." 

an 

interest 

And  as  Mrs.  Garrison  said:  "We  all 
have 
the  State 
in 
Both  Miss  Day  and  Wallner 
News." 
said  they  saw  the  advisory  board's  role 
as  a mediator,  to  consider inner  - office 
grievances,  as  well  as  selection  of  the 
editor.  Mrs.  Garrison  said  the  board 
serves  as  a sounding board for the editor 

"so he  can  know what the public thinks 
of  what  he's  doing,"  and  she  said  the 
board  serves  as  a  "buffer"  for  the 
editor, "so if someone  gets sore, he gets 
sore at us  and not at" the editor." 

Miller  said  he  sees  the  board  as  an 
interpreter  of  sections  of the  freedom 
report  applying  to  student publications, 
particularly  in  matters  of  jurisdiction 
and policy. 

board 

which 
the 

Jim  Spaniolo,  fonner  editor  of  the 
State  News,  was  one  member  of  an 
made 
editorial 
for 
recommen dations 
freedom 
of  which  were 
report, 
incorporated in  the  report. The concern 
he  said,  was  "to  guarantee  autonomy 
(for  the  editor),  so  ,here  would  be  110 
fear  of  ceDsorship  from  any  non  -
student source." 

some 

that 

The  one  change.  he  would  make  in 
the  document,  he  said.  would  be  to 
provide 
if  an  editorial  board 
nominee  for editor - i;l - chieC is  rejected 
ay 
tllc  advisory  beard.  ::he  editorial 
joard  should  be  aLlowed  to  nominate 
that  no  other 
ar:other  persoll ,  so 
can dldale 
without 
consultation with  the  editoriai  board. 

picked 

is 

The 

editorial  board  may  now 
11 ominate  someone  for  the  editorship. 
the 
but 
advisory  board  usually  selects  from 
among other  candidates. 

the  person 

rejected, 

if 

is 

in 

accordancc  with 

Berman  is  proposing  an  amendment 
to  the  freedom  report  which  would 
make  the  advisory  board responsible  "to 
insure  that  the  new  editor  - in  - chief 
function 
his 
promises  to  the  advisory  board  upon 
which  his  selection  is  based.  Failure  to 
so  function,  in  the  opinion  of a  two  -
thirds  majority  of  the  advisory  board, 
(would)  be  sufficient  cause  for  the 
suspension  and  removal  of an editor - in 
- chief." 

- BEVERLY TWITCHELL 

SN  advertising department 
is  rated one of nation's best 

The 

State  News 

advertising 
department,  Louis  Berman, State  News 
general  manager,  says,  is  undoubtedly 
the finest in  the country. 

The  20  student  salesmen  sell  more 
than  twice  as  much  advertising  as  any 
other  college  newspaper;  they  compete 
equally with  professionals; and last year 
they  were  responsible  for  bringing  in 
over half a  million  dollars  in  advertising 
revenue,  he  says,  although  State  News 
advertising  rates  are  the  highest  of any 
college  paper. 

And,  as  Frank  Senger,  chairman  of 
journalism,says: 

the 
of 
"Advertisers are  not philanthropists." 

school 

"We  don't  go  out 

for" 
donations,"  advertising  manager  Bill 
Castanier says. "We sell a product." 

looking 

While  they  are  independent  of the 
University  advertiSing  department,  the 
State  News  advertising staff does recruit 
there.  And  Castanier  thinks  more  is 
learned on the job than in class. 

"I would  trade  my sheepskin gained 
for  four  years  of college  for  my  State 
News  experience,"  he  says.  "We  deal 
daily with real problems with merchants 
and thus gain expertise." 

Salesmen  handle  up  to 30 accounts 
each.  They  contact 
the  advertiser, 
decide  on  a  sales  promotion,  handle 
for 
copywriting 
photography  or art - work, insertion of 
the  ad,  and  any  other  business  details. 

arrangements 

and 

are 

about 

salesmen 

anned  with 
The 
readership 
and 
infonnation 
spending  habits  of 
their  audience, 
conducted  often  by  the  University's 
advertising  department  and  funded  by 
the State News. 
Information 

State  News 
like: 
readership  of  about  50,000  people; 
$119  million annually spent by students 
in  the  Lansing  area for retail goods; $46 
million  spent  each  year  by  students  in 
East Lansing. 

are 

The  20  salesmen  -

or  account 
executives  -
trained  to  become 
complete marketing men, Castanier said, 
and work  on  an  incentive  basis,  ranging 
from  5  to  10  percent  (commissions). 
There  is  competition,  he  says,  minus 
any back - stabbing. 

MSU Faculty News, Feb. 17,1970 

Tuesday, Feb. 17 
7  p.m.  KUKLA,  FRAN AND OLUE. First of 
five  specials. 

Wednesday, Feb. 18 
p.m.  BLACK  MAN 

12:30 
AMERICAS.  Leslie  Rout, 
Washington and DuBois. 
1 p.m.  LET'S TAKE PICTURES. 
7  p.m.  YOUNG  MUSICAL  ARTISTS.  Pianist 
Allen Kindt. 

IN  mE 
Jr.  discusses 

Thursday, Feb. 19 

7 p.m.  LA REVISTA. 

Friday, Feb. 20 
12:30  p.m.  INSIGHT.  An  American  Negro  is 
forced  to  protect  his  rights  and  insure  his 
dignity. 
1 p.m. LES  FLEURS. 
7 p.m. ASSIGNMENT 10. 

Saturday, Feb. 21 
11  a.m.  INNOVATIONS.  New  methods  for 
coronary  carc. 

Sunday, Feb.  21 

11  a.m. 
INTERNATIONAL  MAGAZINE. 
Report  on  a  4,000 - mile  highway  being buil t 
in  South  America;  interview  with  C1U[chill's 
grandson . 
E  nO':l:l  AS SIG?-ilviENT  10. 
:~.  p.s .  ;-:ST  FESTIVAL.  :\'a,j.o;;ai.  ['·ille'  of 
Canada pc:-forms  ~' CindereU2.. " 
2:30  p.T'.  SO ULI  The fLrst  in a £cr:(";s  ,')[ black 
vari.:t'l  - ta1k sho\vs. 
3:30  p . !',l.  r i-iE  FORSYTE  SP_Gi\. 
L:30 
'-TET 
tra..lni..'1g  w jtn  white 
workers. 
18  p.m.  THE  ADVOCATES.  i','-r,er,  co.:! a G.!. 
say  ~~no"? 
:1 
p.m.  NET  PLAYH0~SE.  "The 
Cha.T1gCtjllg, ~ '  a  Jacobean  drama.  (75  min utes) 
Nlonday, Feb. 23 
7  p .m .  SPARTAN  SPORTLITE .  Pilms  of 
MSU  -
Indiana  basket ball  game;  interview 
with  Detroit Tiger Nonn Cash. 

JOUR".'-,;":". 
fore!;;e~~ 

S~nsitivity 
:~:.:1  bLack 

'J .:" . 

Tuesday, Feb . 17 
6:30  a.m.  (FM)  MORNING  SHOW.  (Monday 
through Friday) 
8  a.m. (AM-FM) MORNING NEWS  REPORT. 
(Monday through Friday) 
9  a.m.  (AM-FM)  DICK  ESTELL  READS. 
"Fire  From  Heaven"  by  Renault  (Monday 
through Friday). 
10 a.m. (FM) ON CAMPUS. (Monday through 
Friday) 
11  a.m.  (AM)  TRANSATLANTIC PROFILE. 
(Monday 
11 :30 
through Friday) 
1  p.m.  (PM)  MUSIC · THEATRE.  "Maggie 
Flynn" 
5  p.m.  (AM-FM)  NEWS 60. (Monday through 
Friday) 
8:30 p.m. (FM) BOSTON SYMPHONY. 

(AM-FM)  NEWS. 

a.m. 

. 

Wednesday, Feb. 18 

11  a.m. (AM)  BOOK BEAT. 
1  p.m.  (FM)  MUSIC  THEATRE.  "Baker 
Street" 
8  p.m.  (FM)  mE ART OF GLENN GOULD 
Thursday, Feb. 19 

(AM)  THE  ART  OF  GLENN 

10  a.m. 
GOULD. 
11 a.m. (AM) EUROPEAN REVIEW. 
1 p.m. (FM) MUSIC mEATRE. "New Girl in 
Town" 
7  p.m. 
ORCHESTRA. 
9 p.m. (FM) JAZZ HORIZONS. 

(FM)  CINCINNATI  SYMPHONY 

\ 

Friday, Feb. 20 
10: 30 a.m.  (AM)  THE GOON SHOW. English 
comedy. 
11 a.m. (AM)  A FEDERAL CASE. 
1 p.m. (FM) MUSIC THEATRE. "Hair" 
2 p.m. (FM) ALBUM JAZZ. 
4:45  p.m.  (AM-FM)  EDUCATION  IN  mE 
NEWS. 
8  p.rn.  (FM)  WORLD OF  OPERA.  "Otello." 
Saturday, Feb. 21 
9  a.m.  (AM-PM)  DICK  ESTELL  READS. 
"The  Establishment  Is  Alive  and  Well  in 
Washington" by Art Buchwald. 
9:30 a.m. (AM) THE WORD AND MUSIC. 
10:30 
ESPANOL. 
11 :45  a.m.  (FM)  RECENT  ACQllSITIONS. 
1:30  p.m.  (AM)  mE. DRUM.  Black  people 
produce their own program. 
2 p.m. (AM) ALBUM JAZZ. 
7  p.m.  (FM)  LISTENERS'  CHOICE.  Oassics 
by calling 355-6540. 

(AM)  VARIEDADES  EN 

a.m. 

Sunday, Feb. 22 
(AM-FM) 

2 
p.m. 
ORCHESTRA. 
4 p.m. (AM-FM) FROM mE MIDWAY. 
7 g.m. (FM) COLLOQUY. 

. 

CLEVELAND 

Monday, Feb. 23 

10:30 a.m. (AM) ASIA SOCIETY. 
11  a.m. (AM) COLLOQUY. 
1  p.m.  (FM)  MUSIC  THEATRE.  "Bye  Bye 
Birdie" 
8  p.m. 
ITALIANA. "Rodelinda" 

(FM)  OPERA  FROM  RADIO 

BILL CASTANIER 

MSU Faculty News, Feb. 17, 1970 

Garskoj case  reviewed 

AA UP to hear tenure proceedings report 

The  MSU  chapter  of  the  American 
Association  of University Professors will 
meet  Thursday,  Feb.  19,  at  8  p.m.  in 
Rooms 38-39 Union. 

The  agenda includes: 
report 
-A 

the 

proposed 
on 
All-Events  Building  by  J.  Wilson  Myers, 
assistant  professor  of  humanities  and 
secretary  of  the  MSU  chapter  of  the 
AAUP. 

new  Committee 

-A  report  by  James  B.  McKee, 
professor  of sociology  and chainnan  of 
on  Student 
the 
Participation  in  Academic  Government. 
-A  report  of  findings,  conclusions 
and  recommendations  on  the  Garskof 
case  and faculty tenure. 

A  special  AAUP committee studied 
the  case  of  Bertram  Garskof,  fonner 

a 

of 

1968, 

assistant  professor  of psychology  here. 
It  involved  an  offer  to  Garskof  in 
October, 
two-year 
probationary  appointment  outside  the 
tenure  system,  although  he  had joined 
the  faculty  within  the  tenure  system. 
Nonnal  procedure  would  have  been  to 
offer  probationary  appointment  within 
the tenure system. 

The  University  Faculty  Tenure 
Committee  said  at  that  time  that  such 
an  appointment  would  be ' "a  flagrant 
violation  of  the  basic  principles  behind 
the  tenure  system,"  and the  committee 
advised 
the 
regular 
probationary 
appointment under the tenure system or 
that  his  appointment  be  terminated  at 
the  end  of the  1968-69 academic  year. 

that  Garskof  be  given 

second 

13 new  co,!-rses  are approved 

Thirteen  new courses in five  colleges 
were  ~pproved at  the 
last  meeting of 
the Academic Council. The new courses, 
recommended 
curriculum 
committee, included: 
ARTS AND LETTERS 

the 

by 

American  Literature  and  Culture 
(ENG  986)  - A  course  drawing  upon' 
popular  and  fine  arts,  the  history  of 
ideas,  history  of  social  movements. 
Effective fall,  L970. 
BUSINESS 

Medical  Economics  (EC  410)  -

and 

supply 

economic 
the  markets  for  health 

Demand, 
efficiency  in 
services. Effective fall,  1970. 
JAMES MADISON COLLEGE 

Human  Relations  and  Personal 
Growth  (MC  330)  - Emphasis  on 
training  and  group  behavior.  Effective 
spring, 1970. 

Independent  Study  (MC  495)  -

Effective  spring ,1970. 
*  *  * 

NATURAL SCIENCE 
Astronomical 
Contemporary 
Concepts  (AST  378)  -
Interstellar 
matter  and star  fonnation.  Supernovae, 
white  dwarfs,  neutron  stars,  pulsars, 
quasars,  radio  astronomy,  and  other 
topics. Effective winter, 1971. 

Astronomy  for  Teachers  (AST  381) 
in  descriptive 
Selected 
in 
importance 

astronomy  of  special 
teaching. Effective summer,  1970. 

topics 

Geology Central Appalachians (GLG 

307)  - General  geology  of the Central 
Appalachians, including field excursions 
during  spring vacation. Effective winter, 
1970. 

Field 

Excursion 

Central 
Appalachians  (GLG  308) - Training in 
se dimen tologica1, 
stra tigraphic, 
paleontologic  and  structural  princip)es 
as  applied  to  field  methods.  Effective 
spring,  1970. 

Calculus  Concepts  in  Physics  (PHY 
310)  - Transition  course  to  prepare 
students 
non-calculus 
introductory  physics  for  upperdivision 
courses. Effective summer,  1970. 

who 

had 

Comparative  Physiology  II  (ZOL 
402)  - Comparison  of sensory, motor, 
other 
endocrine, 
integrative 
mechanisms 
aninials.  Effective 
winter, 1971. 
SOCIAL SCIENCE 

and 
in 

Evidence  (PLA  475)  - Concepts, 
policies  and  procedures  relating  to  the 
admission  of' evidence  before  judicial 
tribunals. Effective winter,  1971. 

Theft  Control  in  Business,  Industry 

481) 

(PLA 

Institutions 

and 
Causation,  prevention  and  control  of 
robbery,  burglary,  shoplifting, pilferage, 
embezzlement  and  employe  dishonesty 
in  private 
institutions. 
and  public 
Effective spring,  1970. 

-

Human  Leaming  and  Behavior (SW 
815) 
Analysis  of  operant  and 
respondent  theories  of human  learning. 
Effective spring,  1970. 

Resolution salutes  Col.  Rodney 

A 

tribute 

resolution 

to  Col. 
in 
Dorsey  R.  Rodney,  who  died  Feb.  7, 
was  adopted 
last  week  by  MSU's 
Administrative Group. 

The  resolution  cited  Col.  Rodney 
for  counseling  students  and  facuIty 
"sagely  and  generously 
in  matters 
involvirig  military  service  - and  in  so 
many  other  decisions  relating  to  the 
welfare of the institution." 

Col. Rodney,  who  was  89,  twice 
served  as  Army  ROTC  commandant at 
Michigan  State,  as  the  first  dean  of the 
School  of Business  and  Public  Service, 
as  chainnan  of  the  Committee  on 
Military  Affairs  and  as  coordinator  of 
draft deferments. 

The  last  two  posts,  held  following 
his  retirement  from  the  deanship  in 
1950, were voluntary ones. Col. Rodney 
was,  according to one colleague, "a kind 
of  selective  service  ombudsman"  for 
students  with  questions  or  problems 
regarding their draft status. 

Another  former  colleague,  William 
H.  Combs, dean emeritus  of University 
services,  characterized  Col.  Rodney  as 
"quiet,  a  stickler  for  getting  things 

who 

done," 
administrative  role 
turmoil" at the end of World War II. 

a 
key 
in  a  "period  of 

assumed 

'In  all,  Col.  Rodney  compiled more 
than  30  years  (until last  year) at MSU, 
most  of  them  during  what  would  have 
been a period retirement. 

He  was  graduated  from  West  Point 
in  1903,  and  his  stay  there  coincided 
with  that  of  the  late  Gen.  Douglas 
MacArthur.  Col.  Rodney  and  Gen. 
MacArthur  were  reunited in  1961  when 
the  latter  delivered  a  commencement 
address here. 

. 

Col. Rodney was buried last Thursday 

in Arlington Cemetery. 

Obesity is  the  topic 
Albert  J.  Stunkard,  professor  and 
chairman of psychiptry at the University 
of  Pennsylvania,  will  present 
two 
seminars next Wednesday (Feb. 25). 

At  1 p.m.  in  the  Olin  Health Center 
classroom he will  discuss  "Patient Self -
Help:  The Obese  and  Others," and  at 4 
p.m.  in  109 Anthony Hall, he will speak' 
On Obesity and the Social Sciences." 

IN  AN  EXCHANGE  of  letters  in 
November  1968,  Garskof  was  offered 
the  two-y~ar  appOintment  outside  the 
tenure  system  by  the  chairman  of the 
psychology.  department.  Garskof  had 
until  May  10,  1969,  to  accept  or  reject 
the  offer,  but  on  Jan.  24,  1969,  the 
offer  was  withdrawn  by  Chainnan 
Lawrence  O'Kelly  on  instructions  from 
Clarence  L.  Winder,  dean  of the College 
of Social Science. 
In  April, 

tenure 
committee  recommended  that  Garskof 
be  given  a  one-year  extension  of  his 
appointment  because  he  had  not  been 
properly  notified  by  Dec.  15.  The 
extension  was  offered  by  O'Kelly  in 
May,  1969, but Garskof did not respond 
and  accepted  an  appointment  with 
another 
in 
September, 1969. 

university, 

effective 

1969, 

the 

On  the  b~sis of these facts, gathered 
by  the  AAUP  committee,  the  AAUP 
Council  concluded  that:  The  offer  to 
Garskof  for  probationary  appointment 
outside the tenure system was improper, 
as  deemed  by  the  tenure  committee, 
and  should  not  have  been  approved  by 
the  dean  and  provost;  and  once  the 
offer  had  been  made  to  Garskof,  it 
shQuld  not  have  been  withdrawn 
without 
established 
faculty  advisory  procedures  of  the 
psychology department. 

fpllowing 

the 

THE  AAUP COUNCIL is  proposing 
three  recommendations  for  action  by 
the  AAUP  membership, 
be 
submitted,  if  passed,  to  the  Academic 
Council  and 
the  Academic  Senate. 
These recommendations are: 

to 

-That the  University tenure rules be 
amended 
to  state  explicitly  that  a 
faculty  member may  not be  transferred 
during  or 
status 
to 
immediately 
appointment 
an 
under the tenure system. 

non-tenure 

after 

-That 

University 

Faculty 
on  matters 

the  Faculty  Bylaws  be 
amended  to  provide  that  decisions  of 
Tenure 
the 
Committee, 
involving 
interpretation  of  tenure  rules  and  in 
cases  involving  alleged  deviation  for 
tenure  rules,  shall  be  binding  on  the 
. administration  and  the  faculty  member 
concerned.  These  would  be  subject  to 
appeal  by  the  affected faculty  member 
or  the provost to the Academic Council. 
-That  the  tenure  committee  shall 
report  promptly 
the  Academic 
to 
Council 
the 
administration  acts  contrary  to  the 
committee's  decision  on  a  question 
involving  tenure.  TIlls  would  exclude 
cases 
formal  charges , for 
dismissal  of a faculty member for cause, 
which shall  be  considered in accordance 
with  established  procedures 
the 
bylaws, as amended. 

in  which 

involving 

case 

any 

in 

Briggs  College project urges 
students to  assist students 

Faculty and students in Lyman Briggs 
College  are  trying  to  help  enhance  the 
college's  intellectual  climate  through 'a 
program  that  capitalizes  on  students' 
tendencies  to  seek  out  their classmates 
when they need academic help. 

Called 

the  Peer  Group  Learning 
Project,  the  Briggs  College  effort  is 
designed  to  encourage  students  to help 
students. 

Such interaction takes place naturally 
in  dormitories  throughout  the  campus, 
but  only  haphazardly.  Often, a  student 
looking  for  help  may  not  -kppw  if  a 
fellow student is qualified  to offer it. 

The  project  in  Briggs  College lias -12 
peer  group  members  selected  for  their 
competence  in  particular  areas  and  for 
their  abilities  to  get  along  with others. 
"If a  student  meets  with  difficulties 
in a  particular course and does not want 
to  wait  until  his  next  class  to  get 
answers  to his  questions,  he  can go to a 
peer  group  member  and  get  immediate 
help,"  says Marilyn Wendland,  assistant 
professor  and  director  of  the  project. 
"Thus, his motivation is maintained." 

While  it is primarily the responsibility 
of a' student to  seek his  own help,  Miss 
Wendland points out, attempts are made 
to  identify  and  help  those  who  need 
assistance. 

A 

few  students  visit  peer  group 
members  regularly,  some  do  so  only 
once  or  twice  a  year,  and  others never 
seek help,  she  says.  "But  the  important 
thing is  that  the majority  of students in 
Briggs  College  know 
the  program 
exists." 

*  *  * 
PEER GROUP  members usually  help 
fellow  students  having  problems  in 
specific  courses,  Miss  Wendland  says. 
But 
they  aJso  help  with  general 
academic  problems,  and,  to  a  slight 
degree, with  personal  adjustments  that 
might  contribute  to academic problems. 
The  project  is  intended  to facilitate, 
not  substitute  for,  student  - professor 
communication, she says. 

approach faculty members because they 
feel  their problems are too elementary," 
Miss  Wendland explains. "This is usuaIly 
not the case,  though, and discussing the 
problem with another student probably 
helps them recognize this." 

The Peer Group  Learning Project was 
created last year by Frederic B. Dutton, 
dean  of  Lyman  Briggs,  and  Gerhard 
Linz, 
the 
Counseling  Center. 
then 
supported  by  a  grant  from  the Camille 
and  Henry  Dreyfus  Foundation,  and is 
now fmanced by the college. 

professor 

associate 

It  was 

in 

*  *  * 

ALTHOUGH  NO 

comprehensive 
evaluation  has  yet  been  made  of  the 
project,  response 
thus  far  has  been 
favorable,  according  to  Miss Wendland. 
"It  has been demonstrated  that both 
the  helper  and  the  learner benefit from 
the interaction," she says. 

"Students  in the peer group are eager 
to  do  more  than  they  are  now.  Their 
only  dissatisfaction is  that they are  not 
as helpful as they would like to be. 

Engineers  meet 

Four MSU  engineering professors will 
describe 
their  research  at  the  1970 
Michigan  Engineers'  Convocation  next 
Wednesday  (Feb.  25)  to commemorate 
National 
The 
convocation 
a  6:30  p.m. 
banquet in Kellogg Center. 

Engineers  Week. 

follows 

Dubes, 

computer 

Speakers and their  topics include:  R. 
science, 
C. 
"Computers, 
and  Your 
Patterns 
Health;"  Bruce  Wilkinson,  chemical 
engineering,  ''The  Nuclear  Detective;" 
Robert W.  Little, metallwgy, mechanics 
and  materials  science,  "Knees  and 
Nylon;"  and  John  B.  Kreer,  electrical 
and 
engineering 
science, 
"Improving 
the  Use  of  Your  City 
Streets." 

systems 

Ticket  information  is  available  by 

"Students  are  often  hesitant 

to 

calling 355-3526.