M§lT Faculty New§ Vol. 1, No. 21 Mict.ngan State University March 31, 1970 Longest Council meeting for McKee Report action By GENE RIETFORS Editor, Faculty News The full impact of the McKee Report (of the New Committee on Student Participation in Academic Government) has not yet been felt, but it has already left its mark in the Academic Council: No other issue in the Council occupied time, and few have more discussion arolised as much emotion. For nearly a dozen hours in four separate sessions that ended March 12 Council members compiled this bo~ score on the McKee Report: -Twenty-two of the committee's original 32 recommendations were passed, most of them with little or no change in wording. -Three additional recommendations were adopted, including Numbers 33 and 34. Recommendation 33 guarantees that students shall vote on any body or they sit, and committee on which Number 34 extends the vote to all Council members. There are now nine standing committee chairmen and five administrators who sit on the Council without voting privileges. -Four recommendations (28-31) were tabled. They relate to restructuring the University Student Affairs Committee and ar~ likely to be resubmitted shortly, followmg further consideration by the Associated Students of MSU and the New committee prepares report The Ad Hoc Committee on Minority Student Participation ' in the Academic Council and Committees will present its report to President Clifton R. Wharton Jr. tomorrow, April 1, as scheduled in its ~harge, according to Hideya Kumata, charrman of the committee. The report will be considered by the Academic Council April 7. The ad hoc committee was appointed by President Wharton and the Faculty Steering Committee prepare substitute recommendations for those proposed by the McKee Committee for minority student representation on the Council and the standing committees. to Council members had reservations on the McKee Committee recommendations concerning: - The range of minority groups specified and adequacy of definition. (The McKee for for Black minority Nativ~ Mexican-Americans . and Americans, to be selected by "the appropriate minority groups.") report provided representation - Vagueness in procedures to be followed in selection of representatives. (The procedures were not spelled out in the McKee Report, but were to have been developed by "the approporiate minority groups" and reported to the Committee on Academic Governance.) - Possible illegality in the proposed assuring minority methods of representation. In his charge the committee to President Wharton stated that the ad deliberately hoc represent views of' constructed Blacks, Mexican-Americans and other committee was to University Student Affairs Committee. -Six controversial recommendations (18-23) were deferred. These center on minority student representation in the Council and on standing committees, a question now being considered by a special ad hoc committee headed by Hi deya Kumata, professor of communication. The group will report back to the Council's April 7 meeting. *** FOLLOWING THE meetings, Council members expressed varying degrees of support for the McKee Report. labor and Charles C. Killingsworth, University professor of industrial relations whose motion created the ad hoc committee on minority student the participation, pOinted out McKee Report as it now stands would place elected faculty in the minority on the Academic Council. that its distinctive voice "My concern, which is widely shared, is that the faculty not be deprived of bringing and competency to bear on problems needing solutions." He said that the Elected Faculty Council might be able to provide that distinctive faculty voice. Chitra Smith, dssistant professor in James Madison College, agreed that the Elected Faculty Council might now evolve into "a much more active and autonomous group. It has been largely ceremonial in the past." *** THE TWO other assistant professors in the Council, Daniel Cowan of human medicine and John Mullins of University College, differed in their reactions to the report. Cowan said that while he was "very students that graduate concerned" (Continued on Page 4) Anti-discrimination implementation expected soon to The six organizations which will name people the Committee Against Discrimination and the Anti-Discrimination Judicial Board have been contacted by President Clifton R. Wharton Jr., and some, he said, have already submitted names to him. The two bodies were established by the Board of Trustees Feb. 28, from a report by a multi-racial committee appointed by former President Walter Adams and chaired by Wilbur Brookover, professor of education and sociology and associate director of the Center for Urban Affairs. The nine-member Committee Against Discrimination is to be composed of: -Three faculty members named by the Committee on Committees (including at least one female and one non-white ); -Two undergraduate students named by the Associated Students of MSU (one female and one non-white); -One graduate student named by the Council of Graduate Students; (Continued on Page 4) (Continued on Page 4) ~~~ Adams: " ... you and me in the classroom, that's the most important - Photo by Dick Wesley Going to osu Arthur Adams:Revolutionist By BEVERLY TWITCHELL Associate Editor, Faculty News faculty member here, Arthur Adams, professor of history, is a busy man these days. Busy resigning from the several positions he has held as a including membership on the Steering Committee of the Faculty, directorship of the Humanities Research Center and chairmanship of the Russian an d East European Studies Program. There's also a contract to fmish the book on Stalin .... And the seminar which will be the last class he'll teach at MSU .... "Wouldn't it be funny, since this is the last course I'll ever teach at this UniverSity, if I actually figured out-how to do it well?" he asked. as This from the 1959 recipient of MSU's Outstanding Professor Award (now known the Distinguished Faculty Award), and chairman of the Committee on Undergraduate Education which itself in intense research and discussion on ways to improve the quality of undergraduate education .... involved *** THERE HAVE been relatively few key study committees on whlch Arthur served. Besides Adams has not membership in the Academic Council and on the steering committee, he served on the 1969 search and selection committee which brought Clifton R. Wharton Jr. here as preSident; the 1969 ad hoc committee on procedures for selecting the chief academic officers of the University; the 1968 Committee of Sixteen, which planned the expansion of MSU's role in racial and urban affairs and led to the founding of the Center for Urban Affairs; as chairman of the 1967 Committee on Undergraduate Education; as executive secretary of the 1959 Committee on the Future of the University; as a member of the 1958-59 Committee the Study of In ternational Programs, which established the In terna tional Programs Center; as a member of the 1957 Committee for the Reform of Graduate Studv at MSU; and as chairman ' InterdisCiplinary 195 1-54, of Seminar on International Affairs. for the . All related to "the causes I believe in," he says. "Don't you have to do these things? Don't you?" he asks. Some don't. "That's what I don't understand. "We're obligated to be involved; it isn't enough to teach." But it's more than involvement in the politics of this particular community. Arthur Adams isn't involved in politics, he says, "I'm involved in academia." But with all that involvement (" ... it isn't enough to teach"), he is a teacher and scholar foremost. "I'll give you research, publication, but you and me in the classroom, that's often forgotten, and that's the most important thing." '" I;' * NINETEEN years after coming here to teach Russian history, Adams is leaving to become dean (July 1) of 'the College of Humanities at Ohio State University. His includes a professorship in history. job "I don't think I've ever had any great desire to be an administrator," he said (lightly?). Instead he mentioned such factors as a change in venue, the ,opportunity for a more influential role, the challenge. WHILE SERVING as chairman for the Committee on Undergraduate Education, Adams once said he was probably named chairman because he was a student of revolution. "Revolution, as I conceive modernfzation," he says. is it ' "I'll start another revolution there" he said of Ohio State's new black citi~s program, which will also be under his supervision. His interest in black studies dates back ... possibly as commander of an all-black batallion during World War II, he says. to his service After Army service in 194246, during which he rose to major, Adams taught history at Cornell University until 1951, when he came to MSU. He was for nine the Central years a consultant Intelligence Agency-something he says he sees no need to defend, since it was "honorable." In fact, he taught agents the same course he was teaching at MSU at the time, and he says, "I learned mOre from them than they did from for (Continued on Page 2) MSU Faculty News, March 31, 1970 Officials defend budget request Senate Bettinghaus, The MSU budget request began moving along its legislative path early this month with most of the top University's administrators appearing before Appropriations COIllmittee hearing to explain various University programs and to defend the budget request. a President Clifton R. Wharton Jr. made followed by remarks, introductory presentations by: and King -Provost John Cantlon and assistant provosts Herman King John Dietrich, speaking on "institutional efficiency and increases in the rate of productivity." explained student-faculty ratios and Dietrich outlined curricular review procedures. Research Development and Advanced Graduate Studies Milton E. Muelder, Robert C. Ball, director of the Institute of Water Research, and Howard A. Tanner, director of natural resources, speaking on quality proposed water management project. President -Vice the for -Robert L. Green, director of the Center for Urban Affairs, and Joseph H. Equal director McMillan, Opportunity Programs, explaining the University's special programs in urban problems. of -Lawrence L. Boger, dean of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, George S. McIntyre, dir~ctor of Cooperative Extension Service, and Jacob Hoefer, associate director of the Station, Agricultural speaking on the University's special projects in agriculture and services to the state. Experiment Bettin ghaus: Senate concerns reflect state Erwin Bettinghaus., professor of communication and assistant dean of the only communication arts-and faculty member at MSU's hearing before the Senate Appropriations Committee said that he thought the committee members were not unreasonable in the concerns they raised and that these concerns reflected real problems within the state. Bettinghaus said he saw a need for all just of higher education--not administrators, but faculty as well, and not just MSU, but all higher education in Michigan-to educate the public on the goals of higher education. Faculty members, Bettinghaus said, should "get out of the ivory tower," and give speeches, to the public or to Parent-Teacher Associations, on the goals of educators. Perhaps these should . be part of their faculty responsibilities, he top said, because now only administrators make speeches, and faculty speeches are usually aimed at scholarly colleagues. acting -Roger Wilkinson, vice president for business and finance, Lowell Levi, budget officer . in the provost and business offices, and Erwin of communication and chairman of the faculty affairs committee, serving as resource questions people concerning the budget request. professor for * * * THE HEARING, called by the Senate Appropriations Committee, was similar to hearings in which all state-supported schools participate their budget requests. to defend Much of the MSU hearing revolved around the senators' questioning the University's efficiency and productivity. , "Why do you need new positions (faculty)?" one senator asked. "You don't have more students." Earlier, another senator had averaged some figures presented by Herman King, and concluded that 1,040 of the MSU faculty weren't doing anything. "We were trying to make the point," Executive Vice President Jack Breslin said later, "that there are many areas in which the faculty load has increased to the point where they can no longer be increased. We have got to have additional faculty." He said the University is trying to catch up qualitatively to the accelerated enrollments of the last few years. The University spokesmen pOinted out at the hearing that 35,239 Michigan students enrolled at MSU last fall - an increase of 538 over the previous year while total enrollment rose only 314. In the 1960s, Michigan student enrollment at MSU increased 122 per cent. program; *** "INESCAPABLE NEEDS" presented by the University officials include : The medical program, fourth year residential college teaching cluster program; library improvement; program for the disadvantaged; water quality school; improvement; operations and science (including utilities and maintenance (data services insurance); · internal program; summer student Writing course set for spring A special writing course for doctoral candidates will be offered spring term by the School for Advanced Graduate Studies. The course, which carries no credit and requires no fee, will be taught by Herman R. Struck, professor of English in Justin Morrill College. Although it is primarily a conference course, there will be six group sessions, 7 to 9 p.m., on April 9, 16, 23 and 30, and May I and 8. Application further forms information are available from Struck at 353 - 0758 or from Mrs. Haggard at 355 -1790. and A rthur Adams . .. (Continued from Page 1) me-esoteric information on the Soviet Union and Soviet affairs. "I'm a scholar, and it's my business to know what;s going on in the Soviet Union." From August 1961 to August 1963, Adams was on leave from MSU, serving one year as Special Assistant on Soviet Affairs and head of the Department of Research on Soviet Affairs for Radio Free Europe in Munich, Germany, and the second year as director of research for Communist areas and member of the Policy Board for Radio Free Europe. In 196{H)7 he was a consultant to the Council on Student Travel in New York, and he has been a consultant to the National Endowment the Humanities in Washington, D.C., since 1967. for "I get bored in an ivory tower," he says .... ADAMS also scholarship .... " *** says, "I like my He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Nebraska in 1942 in history, English and modern languages, and his doctorate at Cornell in 1951. He did post-doctoral study in 1954-55 at Harvard as a Ford Faculty Fellow, studying sociology and social psychology related to the Soviet Union. processing, health service and registrar's printing cost). and Breslin, Wilkinson and Cantlon also made a case for raising faculty salaries from tenth in the Big Ten to third. Statistics for 1969-70 show MSU tenth in the Big Ten for professors' salaries (at $17,509), tenth for associate professors ($13,328) for assistant fifth professors ($1l,366). The figures are averages and include fringe benefits. Senate of Appropriations Committee pointed out that former President John A. Hannah satisfaction with a had expressed fifth-place salary ranking in the Big Ten. Breslin replied: "We think we're better than that." Members the When committee members asked about the possibility of raising student fees, Wilkinson answered that fees were as high as the University feels they can go. In-state tuition here is the highest in the state. Breslin said that tuition at MSU has been raised more consistently than tuition at any other institution in qroup sponsors Soviet films A festival of three movies by Soviet Film Director Sergei Eisenstein and one early Soviet newsreel will be held this weekend in 106B Wells Hall; sponsored by the MSU Soviet and East European Studies Group. Admission is free and open to the public. Friday (April 3) at 8 p.m., "Ten Days that Shook the World" and "Kino Pravda," both silent ftlms, will be shown. "Ten Days" was made as part of the 10th anniversary celebrations of the 1917 October Revolution and is treated by Eisenstein more as a political cartoon than as history, according to a review in the Museum of Modern Art Catalogue. "Kino Pravda" is a 1922 Soviet newsreel. Saturday (April 4) at 2 p.m., "Alexander Nevsky" will be shown. At 8 p.m. Saturday, "Ivan the Terrible," with ,English subtitles, will be presented. is described _ by film critic "Ivan" "exhausting an Pauline Keel extravaganza of evil tyranny," and concerns "the conflict in Ivan . . . between the good man and dedicated to the welfare of his people and the power - mad despot," filmed in 1945. as the state, and that the University is opposed to raising fees again. At a special hearing for the College of Human Medicirie last week, Dean Andrew D. Hunt JI. and members of his staff presented projected needs for budgets and positions through 1975 and a report on present status and expansion planning. The budget request for the medical school is slightly less than $1.1 million, to provide for expansion from 32 (in 1970) to 64 entering students in 1971, and for additional faculty . The college is also recruiting chairmen and faculty for departments of surgery, and obstetrics and gynecology. When asked by the appropriations committee how the proposed College of Osteopathy fits in, Breslin answered that a budget proposal would be submitted by April 6. Four candidates have been suggested for dean of the college and Breslin said the Board of Trustees would act on that in April. Sen. Charles O. Zollar, R-Benton Harbor, chairman of the appropriations committee, said that to appropriate just what the governor recommended in his budget proposal (which included about $10 million less for MSU than the University requested), the state would need $127 million in new money, which, Zollar said, would be "very, very difficult" to find, i.e. in taxes, especially in an election year. And if it is not found, he said, budget adjustments would have to be made - implying the in possibility appropriations from the MSU request. FinqI day for passage of the Senate appropriations bill is April 17, which means the bill must be reported out of committee by April 13. further of a cut The legislature has set an April 15 deadline for the UniverSity to report to the Senate Appropriations Committee its decision on whether or not tuition will be raised. - BEVERLY TWITCHELL Psychiat[~ , prof to'spe'l:k John J. Schwab, professor of psychiatry and medicine the University of Florida, will speak on in Anxious and "Social Distance Depressed Medical Patients" Wednesday, April 15, at I p.m. in the Olin Health Center Classroom. at Letters They like the FN To the editor: I am reacting to an article in the March II State News, which seemed to indicate a question about the reception of the Faculty News. really found it. I have Speaking for myself, yet reflecting what I believe others feel, this little is very effective, newsletter certainly much more so than anything it that preceded well-written and con taining articles answering a number of questions that come to my mind. It may become a forum for "hand- wringing," but most of us don't have time or inclination for public debate. We do appreciate, however, informational articles and general news of faculty interest. Please keep up the good work. Philipp Gerhardt , professor and chairman, Department of Microbiology and Public Health To the editor: Somewhere I read - State News, I that you would like to know suppose - how the faculty are responding to the MSU Faculty News. I like it .... the I just fmished reading this week's (March 10) edition and was quite excited report of innovative about teaching-learning methods in COM 100 and SOC 448. I'd like to see more reports on what the this classroom are campus. innovations in taking place on Carol Dressel; Instructor, School of Nursing M§lU Faculty Ntew§ Editor: Gt'T1tl RietfoTS Assodate Editor: Beverly Twitchell Editorial Offic~: 296-G Hannah Administration Building. Michigan State University, East Lansing 48823. Phone 355-228:>. Published weekly during the academic year by the Department of {nformation Services. Second-cla~s postage pa~ll at East L:msin/!:. Mich. 48823. Benefit, improvements approved 'for APs MSU Faculty News, March 31, 1970 The Board of Trustees at its March meeting approved three benefit improvements for the administrative - personnel staff, effective July 1: - the Immediate participation in TIAA-CREF Retirement Program with University contribution. Executive Vice President Jack Breslin said this would cost the University about $30,000 annually. - Reimbursement of tuition charged to an administrative by MSU professional staff member who has successfully completed a course for a maximum of five credit hours per term which relates to his work or professional development. To be eligible, the AP member must have been employed by MSU one full year and must have permission of his dean, department or administrative head. Breslin said this would cost the University from $~,OOO to $4,000 annually. - A new pay schedule to include a general ificrease for all APs each July 1, providing University funds are available, plus consideration for an individual merit increase on the anniversary date of employment. Breslin said this would cost about $200,000 annually. The 534 administrative - professionals at MSU are divided into 10 levels "in accordance with the responsibilities of the position, duties and qualifications," according to Gerald O'Connor, assistant director of personne1. Salaries range from a mmlmum for AP-I, the lowest level, of $7,975 to a minimum for AP-X, the highest level, of $18,170, with no maximum for AP-X. (All other levels have a maximum salary, ranging from $2,155 to $5,595 more than the minimum for that level.) The newly - adopted plan, O'Connor said, was designed to allow the AP member to progress to the maximum salary within his level's range in about six years. No AP may receive more than the maximum salary in his classification. His position may, however, be reclassified. the Reclassification of an AP position requires an interview or 'a questionnaire from 'personnel department, approved by the department head, dean of the college (if it is an academic position), personnel director, Breslin and then the trustees. Decisions for reclassification are based upon duties being performed, O'Connor said. The position in question may be ,compared with similar positions at other institutions, such as other universities or civil service. The administrative - professional staff, the smallest group of workers at MSU, range from administrative secretaries to accountants to the assistants to the president. The ' line is drawn, O;Connor said, at the University vice president level. AP positions usually require a degree, he said. Designation of these employees as "administrative professional" was approved by the trustees July 1, 1961, to provide for "uniform personnel policies and salary ranges," O'Connor said. They had previously been known as "board appointments." A resolution endorsing and ~nctioning independence for Oakland University was approved by the Board of Trustees at its March meeting. Full autonomy depends on legislation currently on the Michigan House floor. The trustees instructed the officers of MSU to return to the board with proposals on legal and financial aspects of the separation' prior to fonnal execution or action. Oaklan4c, which has been a MSU affIliate since 1957, has sought independence since last fall and received support from tJieState Board of Education. A statement from recently-appointed Oakland Chancellor Donald D. O'Dowd reads: "At this point in our history, the thrust of our development, the nature of our program and the magnitude 01" our operation clearly require the assistance and guidance of a full time board ... " . / In other action the trustees: Approved current policies on sponsored research, with particular interest in the policy which prohibits classified research; and, on a motion from Trustee Kenneth Thompson, decided to mark the l00th anniversary of the entrance of women to this campus by encouraging the Alumni Association to consider only women for the Distinguished Alumni Awards presented at June commencement. - Photos by William Mitcham March gifts, grants total $1.7 million The more than $1.7 million in gifts and grants accepted at the March 20 meeting of the Board of Trustees in c1 u des scholarships, research and educational programs in 44 departments on the campus. 'support for Milton E. Muelder, vice president for research developmen t, reported to the Board that 77 per cent of the grand total was from the federal government. Federal agencies provided 92 per cent of the for either research or educational purposes, he said. support earmarked More than $36,000 of the March total Among ($1, 722;284) is for scholarships. faculty research projects receiving support are: A study of young people's responses to TV violence by Bradley S . Greenberg, associate professor of communication ($96,000 from National Institute of Mental Health); an attempt to develop methods for recognizing symptoms of water eutrophication by Robert C. Ball, director of tne Institute of Water Research the ($73,604 Department of Interior); research on plant photorespiration by N. E. Tolbert, professor of biochemistry ($78,000 from the National Science Foundation); to develop computerized and a plan plant identification by John H. Beaman, from professor of botany and plant pathology ($84,000 from NSF). *** On from Agway, adsorption Grants were awarded to the following: D.R. Heldman, agricultural engineering, $22,989 from U.S. Army , for research on energy of moisture rehydrating freeze-dried meat; P.D. Kindel, biochemistry, $30,668 from National Institutes of Health (NIH), to study biosynthesis of D-aplose and plant polysaccharides; J.W. Thomas, dairy, Inc. $24,300 and Agri-Technical, Inc., test effectiveness of stimulac to increase milk production of cows after mid-lactation; R.S. Emery, dairy, $2,000 Diamond Shamrock Chemical Co., determine relative resistance to ruminal destruction of DL-methionine and obtain evidence of DL-methionine passage to abomasum; R.M. Cook, dairy, $5,000 from Shell Chemical Co., study metabolism of pesticides in ruminants; T.l. Hedrick, food science, $1,301 from Envitron Corp., aseptic packaging of dairy products in plastic coated containers; A.A. DeHertogy, from Associate Bulb Growers of Holland, research on mechanization in rooting rooms for flower bulbs; D.H. Dewey, horticulture, $1,000 from Michigan Apple Committee, improve internal quality of apples for fresh market and processing; and W.H. Carlson, horticulture, $500 from Sierra Chemical Co., support bedding plant research. horticulture, $2,775 to Others awarded gr·ants were: D.P. White and Gerhardt Schneider, forestry, $4,800 from American growth Co" characteristics of containerized forest planting stock; W.B. Lloyd, packaging, $5,000 from study Can ALCO Universal, Inc., study of transportation problems of factory ·assembled housing units; C.Y. Yang, advertising, $200, from Crain Communication, Inc., research in advertising media; D.K. Berlo, communication, $20,000 of Civil Defense, from U.S. Office communication processes in civil defense programs; Rexford Garrow, anatomy, $44,038 from NIH, study structure and function of skeletal muscle ; C.W, ',Velsch, anatomy, $25,000 from National Science Foundation (NSF), relationship of specific areas nervous to tumorigenesis; Johnson, biophysics, $28,545, from NIH, development of afferent neural centers; G.J. · Grega, physiology, $14,069 from NIH, nutritional blood flow ' during hemorrhagic shock; and W.J. Hooker, botany and plant pathology, $10,027 from NIH, research for a DNA plant virus. central 1.1. system of The following were also awarded grants; R.G. Wetzel, botany and plant pathology, Kellogg Biological Station, $21,300 from Office of Water Resources Research, U.S. Department of Interior, to explore basic _processt!.s_~!l~_l;lathways of nitrogen utilization and uptake in ' aquatic habitaiS;""f.Lnye, ' chemistry, $35,000 from Atomic Energy Commission, electrochemistry an