'SUNday' planners  hope  to  open  cha~nels 

Some  students determined to enhance 
communication among themselves, their 
fellow  students  and  townspeople  have 
organized  it  day  of  dialogue  for  this 
Sunday  (June  7)  in  East  Lansing's 
Valley  Court  Park,  (behind  People's 
Church). 
_ The  event,  called  "Sl)Nday,"  was 
conceived  by  students  in Justin Morrill 
Colleges.  Chief  organizers  are  Douglas 
Solomon and Belinda Novik. 

It has  the  support  of State Rep.  Jim 
Brown,  R  - Okemos,  Gov.  William 
Milliken,  East  Lansing  Mayor  Gordon 
Thomas  (professor  of communication), 
President  Clifton  R.  Wharton  Jr.,  the 
East  -Lansing  - Meridian  Chamber  of 
Commerce and ASMSU. 
Both students and local residents 4ave 
been  invited  to  bring  picnic  lunches. 
Some  entertainment is  also  planned for 
the day -long event. 

Solomon  said  that  "SUNday"  is  not 
designed  ~s  an  end,  but  "just  a 
beginning,  a 
start  at  developing 
communication  between  groups  on  a 
person - to - person basis." 

Wharton expressed hope that it would 
be  an  occasion  where  '<Voices  can  be 
lowered"  and "meaningful dialogue  can 
take place." 

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by lMC students in May. 

One  of the  organizers  of that  effort, 
Richard  Foster,  a  junior  in  lMC,  has 
canvassed  some  30  East  Lansing 
households  during  the past three weeks. 
He  is  among  some  25  to 50 students 
now  covering 
the  Lansing  area, 
holdovers from  some  150 students who 
were doing the  same  thing at the height 
of the strike activities last month. 

Foster  says  he encountered only three 

or  four  householders  who  were plainly 
hostile.  SOme  persons, while they didn't 
invite  student  visitors  inside,  talked 
"  throu~ the screen door"for nearly an 
hour about topics ranging from Vietnam 
to student activism. 

In  a 

reports, 
few  cases,  Foster 
students spent up  to two or three hours 
in  homes;  discuSsing  issues  with  whole 
families. 

Foster  recalls  that  on  one  Saturday 
morning  he  became  involved  in  three 
different family breakfasts. 

* * * 
mE  MOST  - DISCUSSED  topic  ' .... 
the  student  - townspeople  talks  is  , __ . 
war  in Indochina,  Foster says. Concerns 
about  a  strike on the campus were  also 
raised by most residents.'  . . 
, Foster  points out  that his own  aim is 
not  to  argue  or  to  change  minds,  but 
simply  to  talk.  "People  aren't  going to 
change  their minds in front of you, they 
aren't going  to submit  to  your point of 
view,"  he  says.  "But  they may  at least 
later 
bring  up  your 
conversations  with  their  families  and 
friends." 

ideas 

in 

He  says he  was' most  surprised by the 
climate  of acquiescence  he  encountered 
and "the intensity of the silence" of the 
silent  majority.  Foster  says  that  many 
persons  seem 
to  have  a  general 
acceptance  of  governmental  authority 
lack  much  skepticism  of  that 
and 
authority. 

The  greatest  evidence  of  any 
generation  gap  centered  on  "what's 
going  on on the campus," he says. Some 
residents express uncertainty, ' eVen fear, 
think  is  happening, 
of  what 
according to Foster. 

they 

"I  only-hope  we  have  made  some 
toward  creating  better 

progress 
understanding." 

- GENE RIETFORS 

Personal communication:  Can it move off the-campus? 

MSU Faculty News 

Vol. 1, No. 30 

M,ichigao State University 

June 2, 1970 

Student participation issue 
scheduled for  Senate vote 

steering  committee 

the 
(who  are 
Thomas  H.  Greer  and  Gordon  Guyer). 
-Review  of  department  chairmen 

by Provost John Cantlon. 

The  concept  of  increased  s.tudent 
participation  in  academic  government 
will  meet  the  last  in  its  long  series  of 
te~ts  Wednesday  (June  3)  when  the 
Academic  Senate considers amendments 
to  the  faculty  bylaws  passed  by  the 
Academic Council on May  15. 

The  bylaw  changes,  which  pave  the 
way  for  student  voting  membership  in 
the Council and on the Council standing 
committees,  will  be  considered  when 
th~ Senate  meets beginning at  3 p.m. in 
the Auditorium. 

Only  Senate  members  will  be 

admitted to the meeting. 

implementation 

If the  Senate  approves  the  bylaw 
of 
changes, 
recommendations 
the  McKee 
Report  on  student  participation  will 
begin  this  fall.  If the  Senate  rejects the 
changes,  the  whole  package  will  be 
referred back to the Council. 

from 

Other  items  on  the  Senate  agenda 

include: 

-Annual  report  of  the  Athletic  
Council  by  John  A.  Fuzak,  professor 
and  associate  dean  of  education  and 
MSU's representative to the Big Ten. 

-Nominations  of  members  to  the 

Athletic Council. 

-~eport on election of members to 

Payroll note 

leaving 

To  assist  graduate  assistants who  may 
be 
follOwing 
the  campus 
commencement  on  Sunday,  June  14, 
paychecks  nonnally  issued  on  June  15 
will  be  sent  to  departments on Friday, 
June  12.  The  payroll  office  says  it will 
not  be  able  to  acCommodate  requests 
for checks before that date. 

Last  FN of spring 

Today's  issue  is  the  fmal  spring 
edition 
Faculty  News. 
Publication  during  the  summer  - on a 
bi  - weekly  basis  - will  begin  June  30. 

' of 

the 

Honors College  experiment 
seeks  to  overturn-a  notion 

in 

In  an  "Assessment  of  the  Honors 
College 
to  the 
the  University" 
Academic  Council  more  than  three 
years  ago, 
former  Honors  College 
Director John Wilson said: 

"Membership  in  the  Honors  College 
ought  to  become  not  a  reward  for  the 
freshman  with  a good  grade average but 
an  invitation  to  all  qualified  students 
who, by the character of the experience 
they  are  prepared  to  fashion  over  four 
years'  time, wish  to earn honors in  the 
University. " 

He  referred  to  the  Honors  College 
"laissez - faire  concept of freedom from 
rather than  freedom  for  ... the  notion 
that  the  honors student is someone who 
does very  well  in  his fust  year  ~d thus 
earns  a  cluster  of  privileges  which  he 
mayor  may  not  use  from  that  point 
forward. 

"What  is  needed,"  Wilson  said  three 
.  is  a  complete 
. 

years  ago,  " 
overturning of this notion." 

. 

An  experimental  program for Honors 
College  freshmen,  planned  and  to  be 
directed  in  the  1970-71  academic  year 
by Mike  Bukowski,  assistant  director of 
the  Honors  College,  appears  to  be  a 
nudge  toward that overturning. 

*  *  * 
freshmen 

in 

HONORS 

the  past; 
Bukowski says,  have  really  been offered 
few  privileges  to  make  any  distinction 
between  being  "honors"  freshmen  or 
regularly  enrolled freshmen. They have 
received  the  Honors  College  Bulletin 

and 
some 
recently  were  assigned 
registration  priority.  They  receive  the 
designation  "honors freshmen,"  for  the 
entire  year,  regardless  of grade  - point 
'averages  and  are  eligIble  for  honors 
sections or honors courses. 

says, 

Actually, 

any 
Bukowski 
freshman  can register  for  and  is eHgible 
for  honors  courses  or  sections and any 
student  can  receive  the  Honors College 
Bulletin,  so 
the  only  distinct 
'advantages  for  honors  freshmen  . are 
registration  . priority  and 
title 
"honors freshmen." 

that 

the 

in 

to 

the  University, 

the  means  of  attracting 
viewed  as 
the 
students 
expectation  that  successful  completion 
of a year in  the  University as an honors 
freshman  would  lead  to  membership  in 
the Honors College  .  .  . "  the ''Proposal 
for  an  Honors  Freshman  Program" 
states.  The  proposal  has  been reviewed 
and  approved  by  the  Administrative 
Group  and  the  University  Educational 
Policies Committee. 

~tit'-

the . 'proposal  ppints  out, 
apprOximately  one  - half of the honor.s 

"The  title  of  honors  freshman  was 

(Continued on page 4) 

Fall  calendar  is  Council topic' 

Recommendations 

concerning 
possible  adjustment  of the  University's 
fall  academic  calendar  are  among items 
scheduled  for  discussion  at  today's 
meeting  of  the  Academic  Council, 
which' begins  at  3:15  p.m.  in  the  Con 
Con  Room of the  International Center. 
The  question  of  changing  the  fall 
calendar  was  raised  in  the  May  15 
Council  meeting.  Purpose  of  any 
changes  would  be  to  allow  interested 
students and faculty  to take part in this 
fall's political campaigns. 
was 

. by 
a  subcommittee  of the  University 
Educational  Policies  Committee.  Lester 
Manderscheid,  associate ' professor  of 

study 

done 

The 

the 

agricultural  economics,  headed 
subcommittee. 
Other 

items  on  today's  Council 
agenda  are  an  election  to  fill 
the 
Steering  Committee  vacancy  of Arthur 
Adams,  professor  of  history  who  has 
resigned,  and discussion  of membership 
in 
the  Michigan  AsSOCiation  of 
Collegiate Faculty. 

A possible inclusion on the agenda is 
a report  that  recommends creation of a 
new  University  Committee  on  Building, 
Lands  and  Planning.  Establishing  the 
committee  would  mean  amending  the 
faculty  bylaws,  a  process that must pass 
the  Council  before  going 
to  th~ 
. 
Academic Senate. 

MSU Faculty News, June 2,  1970 

Grants  include  long  list of faculty projects 

A  long  list  of  faculty  projects  and 
programs  is  included  in  the  gifts  and 
grants accepted during  the May meeting 
of the Board of Trustees. 

Much  of the total ($4,787,608) is for : 
Continued National Science Foundation 
Support  for  the  Cyclotron  Laboratory 
($750,000); a  nationwide U.S. Office of 
Education  program  coordinated  by the 
Instructional  Media  Center ($549,950); 
a  U.S.O.E. 
traineeship  -
fellowship 
program 
special  education 
in 
($269,400);  National  Defense 
Education  Act  and  NSF  graduate 
traineeships ($561,800 and  I $381,240); 
and  continued  National  Institutes  of 
Health support in human and veterinary 
three 
medicine  (about  $375,000  in 
grants). 

Also  receiving  funds,  $43,671  and 
$61,712  from  U.S.O.E.  and  NSF" 
is 
MSU's  inner  city  mathematics  program 
for . high  school  students,  directed  by 
Irvin  E.  Vance,  assistant  professor  of 
mathematics. 

J 0  s eph  Meites,  professor  of 
physiology,  continues  his  research  in 
tumor  control through  a  $43,303  grant 
from  NIH,  and  Henry  W.  Overbeck, 
associate  professor  of  physiology,  will 
continue 
in  hypertension 
through a $35,175 NIH graI}t. 

research 

Other research grants for faculty include : C. 
H. Hansen agricultural engineering, $500 from 
Natural Gas Processors Association to support 
research  on  flame  application  to  blueberries; 
C.  H.  Suelter,  biochemistry,  $25,385  from 
National  Institutes  of  Health  (NIH)  for  a 
career  development  award;  F.  M.  Rottman, 
biochemistry,  $50,000 from  National Sci~nce 
Foundation  for  distribution  of  2'  - 0  -
methyInucleotides in RNA and their effect on 
structure  and  biological  function;  N.  E. 
Tolbert, biochemistry,  $21,700 from NSF for 
equipment,  preparative  zonal ultracentrifuge; 
W.  A.  Wood,  biochemistry,  $45,000  from 
NSF  for  allosteric activation of L - threonine 
dehydrase  by  5' - SMP;  W.  F.  Meggitt,  crop 
and  soil  sciences,  $500  from  Atlas Chemical 
Industries,  Inc.,  to  study  effects  of  oil  -
emulsion  mixtures  on 
foliage 
penetration of herbicides; B.  D.  Knezek, J. F. 
Davis  and  B.  G.  Ellis,  crop  and  soil  sciences, 
$3,600 from  Dow Chemical Co. to determine 
effect of manganese  chelates  on  plant growth 

increasing 

COGS  petitioning 
ends  Wednesday 

Petitioning to the Council  of Graduate 
to  designate 
Students  for  eJecppns 
graduate  -studen: " 
to 
Uni versitj'  and  Academic  Council 
standing  committees  ends  tomorrow, 
June 3. 

representatives 

At  least  17  positions  are  open on  13 
committees, 
including  the  Graduate 
Council_  Pending  Academic  Senate 
approval  of  the  McKee  Report  on 
in  academic 
student  participation 
governance,  positions  will  be  available 
on  the  Academic  Council,  and  the 
University  Curriculum,  Educational 
Policies,  Faculty  Tenure,  Honors 
Progr.am, 
International  Projects, 
Library,  Faculty  - Student  Affairs  and 
Business Mfairs Committees. 

Also:  All-University  committees  on 
public  safety,  traffic,  health  and  the 
bookstore. 

Petitions  may  be  obtained  at  Room 
3A  Marshall  Hall,  at  the  distribution 
center  in  Owen  Hall,  in  the  ASMSU 
lobby (Students Services Building) or by 
calling Peter  Flynn at 3534397 or Ann 
Markusen at355-3434. 

Book  drive 
A  drive  to stock the browsing room in 
the  Union  is  now  underway  by  the 
Union  Board.  Persons  who  can 
contribute  books  are  asked  to  bring 
them  to  the  UN  Lounge  in  the  Union. 
The drive continues through June 13. 

from 

$5,500 

Farmers 

and  composition;  J.  F.  Davis,  crop  and  soil 
sciences, 
& 
Manufacturing  Beet  Sugar  Association  to 
continue  sugar  beet  research;  W.  F.  Meggitt, 
crop  and  soil  sciences,  $500  from  Fisons 
Corporation  to  evaluate  chemicals  for  week 
control  in  sugar  beets  and dry  beans; and  E. 
C.  Rossman,  crop  and  soil  sciences,  $7,000 
from  Michigan  Foundation  Seed  Association 
to  develop 
improved  com  bybrids  and 
continue  studies  of  com  breeding  and  com 
genetics. 

ammonium  salts  and urea 'for  milk  synthesis, 
and 
to  determine  effect  of  fonnic  acid 
addition  to  urea - treated com silage and high 
moisture  com.  Other  grants  are:  A.  M. 
Pearson,  food  science,  $18,058  from  U.S. 
Public  Health  Service  to  study  changes  in 
muscle  proteins  caused  by microbial growth; 
S.  K.  Ries,  horticulture,  $10,000  from 
Battelle  Development  Corp. 
to  support 
research  on  chemical  regulation  of  protein 
'content in  plants; A.  R. Putnam, horticulture, 
to 
$500 
determine  weed  control  perfonnance  and 
crop  safety  with  Bay  94337;  John  Carew, 
horticulture,  $1,000 
from  Cities  Service 
Foundation  for  fertilizer  research  programs 
in  progress;  and  A.  R.  Putnam, 
now 
horticulture,  $750 from  Eli  Lilly  and  Co.  for 
herbicide 
in  progress, 
research  programs 
relating to horticultural crops. 

from  Chemagro  Corporation 

and 

A.  R.  Putnam,  horticulture,  $750  fro,,} 
Monsanto  Company  to  evaluate  alachlor  as 
herbicide for vegetable  and ornamental crops; 
A.  L.  Kenworthy,  horticulture,  $1,500 from 
Uniroyal,  Inc.,  for research  on effect of Alar 
on  cherries,  apricots  and  peaches;  Michael 
Chubb, - park 
resources, 
recreatiop 
$19,973 
from  Waterways  Commission, 
Michigan  Department of Natural Resources to 
study  spatial  and  social  aspects  of  carrying 
capacity  of water  for  boating;  Bans  Nathan, 
music,. $9,61"7  from  National Endowment-foT 
the  Humanities for William Billings: Complete 
edition  and  biography;  Mordechai  Kreinin, 
economics,  $27,300  from  NSF  for  in-depth 
study  of  European 
integiation;  D.  K. 
Anderson,  engineering  research,  $7,700 from 
Michigan  Heart  Association  to  study  effects 
of  acute  hypomagnesemia  on  gracilis  muscle 
th.e  dog;  Jes  Asmussen,  engineering 
of 
research,  S15,OOO  iJ:om  NSF  to  study  high 
power  microwave  plasma  interactions;  and 
Michael  Bailie, Human Development, $10,000 
from  Michigan  Heart  Association  for  control 
of renin secretion in the intact animal. 

to 

for 

study 

to  continue 

Also  awarded  research  grants  were:  J.  B. 
Beard,  crop  and  Soil  sciences,  $5,200  from 
Michigan  Turfgrass  Foundation  for  research 
on 
turfgrass;  Paul  Rieke,  crop  and  soil 
sciences,  $ 2,000  from  Michigan  Turfgrass 
Foundation 
soil 
management  problems  pertaining  to  turf; W. 
F.  Meggitt,  crop  and  soil  sciences,  $1 ,000 
from  Monsanto  Co. 
to  study  effect  of 
Research  grants  were  also  approved  for: 
environmental  factors  on  phytotoxicity  of 
from 
John  Carew,  horticulture,  $1,000 
propachlor,  alachlor  and  CP52223;  W.  F. 
Michigan  Agricultural  Cooperative  Marketing 
Meggitt,  crop  and  soil  sciences,  $1,000 from 
Association 
to 
Shell  Chemical  Co.  to  continue  study  on 
asparagus;  D.  H.  Dewey,  horticulture,  $1,000 
residue of SD15418 in soil; J . T. Huber, dairy, 
from  Michigan  Apple  Committee  for  a 
$2,000  and  $3,000  respectively,  from  Pro 
program to improve internal quality of apples; 
Rico  Industries  to  determine relative  value of 
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honored this year in the 5,000 - member 
DAVID  D.  ANDERSON,  professor of 
society. 
American  Thought  and  Language,  is 
author  of  "The  Literary  Works  of 
Abraham  Lincoln,'"  Scheduled  for  June 
publication  by  the  Charles  E.  Merrill 
Publishing Company. 

MICHAEL  HARRISON,  professor  of 
physics,  has  been  selected  a  fellow  in 
the  American  Council  on  Education's 
1970-71  Academic  Administration 
Internship  Program.  He  will  work  with 
top administrators at UCLA. 

Faculty honors, 
projects 

(More  Gifts and Grants next issue) 

research  pertaining 

ROBERT  N.  SINGER,  associate 
professor  of  physical  education,  is  an 
associate  editor  of  the  newly  formed 
Journal  of  Motor  Behavior,  which 
reports  on  original  research  on  motor 
learning and skilled performance. 

ROBERT  E.  LUCAS,  professor  of 
crop and social science, has been elected 
a  fellow  in  the  American  Society  of 
Agronomy,  one  of  36  scientists  so 

CHARLES  E.  CUTTS,  professor  of 
civil  and  sanitary  engineering,  was 
elected  chainnan r  of 
the  National 
Committee on Engineering Education of 
the American Society of Civil Engineers. 
DANIEL  H.  KRUGER,  professor  of 
labor  and  industrial  relations,  has been 
appointed by Gov. ,Milliken as chairman 
of the Michigan Manpower Commission. 

CHARLES WRIGLEY, professor and 
director  of  the  Computer  Institute  for 
Social  Science  Research,  has  been 
elected  a  trustee  of  the  Psychometric 
Society. 

MILTON  BARON,  professor  of urban 
planning  and  landscape  architecture, 
and  director  of  campus  parks  and 
the 
planning,  has  been  elected 
American  Society  of  Landscape 
Architects'  Council of Fellows. It is the 
highest  honor  bestowed  by  the  society 
and was  announced at  the group's  70th 
annual meeting. 

to 

WILBUR  B.  BROOKOVER, professor 
of  sociology  and  of  education,  and 
associate  director  of  the  Center  for 
Urban  Affairs,  has  been  named  a 
Distinguished  Alumnus  of  Manchester 
College,  N.  Manchester,  Ind.  Brookover 
is a 1933 gradua~~tott4e 9q!)ege.  ~

".'

, 

CARL  K: ' EftJffl'R,  assodiite 
professor  of  agricultUral  economics,  is 
the  author  of a  monograph,  "Research 
on  Agricultural  Development  in  Fiye 
English  - Speaking  Countries  in  West 
Africa,"  published  by  the  Agricultural 
Development Council, Inc. 

HUGH  FOX,  assistant  professor  of 
American  Thought  and  Language,  has' 
published  four  books  during  the  past 
year,  including  two  of poetry, a  critical 
study  of  avant-garde  poetry  ind  a 
poetry anthology_ 

- months' 

J.  S.  FRAME,  professor  of 
mathematics,  has  been  appointed  to  a 
three 
in 
mathematics with  the Ford Foundation 
Office  in  Bangkok,  Thailand.  He  will 
help launch a new mathematics graduate 
program for Thailand. 

consultantship 

Programs  cited 

Michigan  State's extension programs 
have  been  cited by the Adult Education 
Association  of Michigan for -outstanding 
adult  teaching  and  creativity  in  adult 
programming. 

Robert  O.  Nolan,  driver  training 
specialist  with 
the  Highway  Traffic 
Safety  Center,  was  honored  as  an 
teacher"  for  his 
"outstanding  adult 
work in safe  driving practices. 
Other awards  were for  "creativity in 
adult  education"  and  for an  "extension 
sports  fishing  recreation  project."  Also 
the 
cited  were 
"Compendium  of Televised  Education" 
and the  "Inmate Art Program." 

"Project  Enabe1," 

Council  again  0 Ks  ROTe 

For  the  third  time  in  a  year,  the 
Academic Council has faced the issue of 
military  education  (ROTC)  on 
the 
campus,  and 
result  was  a 
reaffIrmation of its first two actions. 

the 

But at its meeting last week (May 26), 
the  Council  voted  ~o  accept 
three 
amendments  to  those  earlier  actions. 
That  vote  fonowed 
rejection  of  a 
motion  to remove  academic credit from 
ROTC courses. 

The  amendments  that  were  passed 

read: 

"1. Academic Credit for courses in the 
Departments  of  Military  Science  and 
Aerospace  Studies  shall  be  based  on 
academic  content in the same manner as 
for  any  other  course  in  the  University. 
Criteria  and  procedures  for  determing 
academic  credit shall  be  the  same as for 
all  other  University  courses.  The 
Military  Education Advisory Committee 
will  request  a review by the Educational 
Policies  Committee  of poliCies  covering 
the  military  education  program  and by 
the  Curriculum  Committee  of military 
education  courses  and  curricula  before 
the end of fall  term, 1970. 
"2.  The  Council 

the 
University  to support vigorously  efforts 
to :  a)  Obtain  full  federal  support  for 
military  education  facilities,  and'  b)  to 
revise  the  military  education  ~ontracts 
and  legislation  to  indicate  a  continuing 
cooperative  effort  in  the  development 
of improved curricula. 

requests 

"3.  The  Military  Education  Advisory 
Committee  will  submit  reports  at  the 
request of the Academic Council." 

The  amendm~!Js,  accepted  by  an 

overwhelming  majority,  were 
introduced by L.W. Von Tersch, dean of 
engineering,  and  slight  revisions  were 
moved by Bishop  N. Pipes k, professor 
of  humanities,  and  by  Charles  C. 
Killingsworth,  University  professor  of 
labor and industrial relations. 

*  *  * 
NEARLY HALF  of Tuesday's session 
centered on debate of an amendment to 
the  resolution  introduced  by  Harold 
Hart,  professor  of chemistry_  It read: 
"Academic credit shall be removed from 
all 
aerospace  and  military  science 
courses  taught  by  the  aerospace  and 
military science departments." 

Cosponsors  of  the  motion  include.d 
Jack Bain,  dean  of communication arts ; 
Thomas Greer,  professor  of humanities; 
Hart ;  Killingsworth,  Hideya  Kumata, 
professor  of  communication;  Albert 
Rabin,  professor  of  psychology;  and 
Clarence Winder,  dean of social science. 
While  only  about  150  spectators 
watched  from  the  Auditorium  balcony, 
debate  on  the  Hart  motion  lasted  for 
almost  an  hour before  it was  defeated 
by a margin of better than 2-1. 

MSllJ Faculty l~e~ 

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The  year  that  was  •  •  • 

MSU Faculty News, June  2, 1970 

Trying  to  recapture  the  highlights  of an  entire  academic 
year  is,  at  best,  a random  process.  But here,  pictorially,  are 
some  of Michigan  State's  1969 - 70  events  that stand out: A 
September strike that nearly delayed the opening of classes; a 
student-called  strike  in  the  spring  that  attempted  to  halt 
"business as  usual;" a heightened  campus - wide  concern for 
- the  air and all of our environment; a new  president (Clifton 
R.  Wharton  Jr.);  an  acting  president  who  returned  to  his 
professor's  duties;  the  spring  visit  by  MSU's  first  Nobel 
Prizewinner  (Alfred  D.  Hershey). 
-Photos  by  William 
Mitcham,  Dick Wesley,  Bob Calverly. 

•  I 

MSU Faculty News, June 2,1970 

Honors  College.  •  • 

(Continued from page  1) 
freshman  designates  do  not  enter  the 
Honors  College  after  their  freshmaJi 
year. 
,  "In  the  four  years  tabulated  (I965  -
69), an  average  of less  than  30 per cent 
of the  total  membership in  the  Honors 
College  was  drawn  from the  freshman 
program.  Almost  three  times  as  many 
honors  students  were  drawn 
from 
sources  outside  the  freshman  group  as 
within it. 

''Obviously,'' the proposal states, "the 
honors  freshman  designates  have  not 
and  are  not now serving as  the  'core  of 
pot~ntiaI Honors College members.' 

"J.'hese  observations  raise  questions 
_ ,~bout the approyriateness or  validity of 
selection  procedures 
identifying 
honors  freshmen  designates  and  also 
about  the attractiveness of the freshman 
program  as  an  incentive  to  accept  full 
membership." 

,  "  - ' 

for 

*  *  * 
THE  EXPERIMENTAL  program  for 
freshmen  next  year  will, 

honors 
basically, open the Honors College. 

Three 
involved: 

freshmen  groups  will  be 

h'onors 

Group' , ;one 

freshman 
designates'1F~1lB\{jn~Who have deCided 
not' :to ' p~itat~c,it1( the  experimental 
program,  who  have 
"opted  out," 
Bukowski  says.  This  group  will  be 
treated  with  the  same  proCedures as are 
now used for honors freshmen. 

Group two - honors freshmen:  These 
students  have  met  the  notmal  set  of 
criteria  (Scholastic  Aptitude  Test  score 
of  1300,  National  Merit  Scholarship 
Qualifying  Test  percentile  score  of 90 
and  high  school  grade  point  average  of 
3.5  -
as  has  group  one  - and  have 
opted  to  tale  part  in  the  experimental 
program.  This  group  w: I1  h'lve 
the 

Letter 
Faculty not  silent 

To the editor: 
The  article  "Most  units 

remain 
silent" in  the May  26 issue  of the MSU 
Faculty News implies that the faculty is 
not  concerned  with  the  social  and 
political events of recent weeks. 

The enclosed statement of Principles 
and Policies (see  below) has been signed 
by  over' 70  members  of  the  teaching 
faculty,  ,-m~ q <seilior  professors.  It 
refleCt!r:our ~~Uattd willirigness ,to 
take a position on these issues. 

Although  the  majority  of  us  are 
from the College  of Business, this is not 
a  college  position,  but 
rather  an 
individual  one.  We  seek  additional 
'support  from  faculty  and students from 
all areas. 

Alden C. Olson 
Associate professor, 
Accounting and financial administration 

We  members  of  the  Michigan  State 
University  community  are  gravely  concerned 
with  recent political and  social developments 
relating  to  the  Indochina War  and  university 
campus 
the 
following policies: 

events.  Thus  we  propose 

1.  Violence is  deplored  - whether by the 
legal  authorities  or  by  indivjduals.  Peaceful 
dissent  shall be encouraged and the individual 
rights of every man shall be respected. 

2.  Only  trained  police  forces  shall  be 
permitted  to  carry  arms on  college campuses. 
If the  National  Guard  is  called  in  they shall 
not carry Iltearms. 
, 
in 
Indochina shall be  ended  based  upon  a 
publicly announced timetable. 

3.  The  U.S.  armed 

involvement 

4. If any  step of this  timetable is not met 
on  the  date  specified,  we  call  upon  all 
Americans  to  exert  maximum  non  - violent 
pressure' Upon  'our  government  until  these 
goals are met. 

5.  We  believe  that  Michigan  State  can 
most  effectively  promote  these  policies  by 
continuing Its  basic  university  functions.  We 
strongly  support  discussion  and  action  on 
these issues by. facul:;y and studentS. 

to  develop  a 

opportunity 
flexible 
program  their  freshman  year,  waiving 
course  and  major  requirements,  as  full 
members of Honors College. 

set  of 

volunteers 

Gro-up  three  -

honors  freshmen  -
two 
include 
elect:  These  students 
subsets 
the 
for 
of 
;:xperimental  program who have  met an 
alternate 
'Honors  College 
admissions  criteria.  (1)  The  first  subset 
includes 110 students randomly selected 
from  all  2,400 non - cancelled freshmen 
for  Jiext year who met the one criterion 
of  an  SAT  score  between  1,100  and 
1,300.  (2)  The  second  subset  includes 
210 minority students, selected with the 
aid  of  the  Admissions  Office, who  met 
the  one  criterion  of a  3.5  high  school 
grade - point average. 

they  do  not  want 

As  of last week, 62 members of subset 
two  responded that they wanted to take 
part  i·,!  the  p rogram;  33 have  said  they 
'410: "longer  plan  to  attend  MSU;  seven 
, have "  said' 
to 
participate  in  the  program;  and  the 
remaining  108  have  not yet responded. 
*  *  * 
TO  AID  the  experimentill  program, 
the  Honors  College  is  "developing  a 
network  of  people," , BukoWski  said. 
lrichides  hiring  two  more  staff 
This 
members  to  the  Honors College,  one  to 
work  primarily  with minority  students, 
and  one to work with the  Center  for 
Urban Affaiis in conducting research for 
the program.

, 

' 

Tr~l;~rle~~(c.r(~~\ :  i?,cl~~e.:,l!-tHt1¥!~~lll 
surVeys  (~'to  prOVIde  (lata  to  convmce 
the  University  that  this  is  a  viable, 
program," 
successful 
workable, 
Bukowski  says)  and  to  collect  such 
statistical data  as  the  courses taken  and 
the  gradepoint  averages  received  by 
those  students  participating 
the 
program. 

in 

The  Honors  College  is  also  selecting 
about  25  faculty  members  (Bukowski 
says  these  will  preferably  be  younger 
to  serve  as  Honors  College 
faculty) 
advisers.  He  says  this  is  the  first  time 
that  Honors  College,  not  departments, 
have  selected advisers. 

Eight  to  10  people,  including  six 
undergraduates,  will  work  through  the 
S~er ' Orientat~on Program  to  advise 
th 
.,partiCipating  freshman,  with  the 
intent  of giving them as  much personal 
attention  as  possible.  Their  slogan, 
Bukowski  says,  is:  "It's not enough to 
care; we have to do." 

To  that  end.  the  six  undergraduates 
have  Written  letters  (which  will  be 
individually  typed  and  signed)  to  the 
partiCipating 
in 
enrolled 
freshmen 
colleges related to their own fields. 

*  *  * 
BUKOWSKI  refers  to  an  "enterprise 
concept," 
that  the  entire 
idea 
University  is  involved with the program. 
Without  faculty  support,  he  says,  the 
program cannot succeed. 

the 

"Our  primary  objective," he  says,  "is 
to  establish  a  model  the  rest  of  the 
University  can  use ,  if  it  cares  to,  to 
prove  to  the University community that 
it is  possible  to bring together people of 
all  kinds  of backgrounds,  to  grow  and 
go,  to  reverse  the  process  of 'product 
education' 
program 
to 
planning:" _  ',: : ; 

individual 

_ 

i 

, 

One  of the  most exciting elements of 
the  program,  he  says,  is  the inclusion of 
so-called 
students, 
"disadvantaged" 
because  "disadvantaged  does  not  mean 
untalented. " 

He  also  rejects  the  idea of bringinl!;  in 
black  students just  to  "wave the  flag," 
just  as  he  rejects  the  idea of bringing in 
merit scholars for the same reason. 

"We  have  simply  a  group  of people 
next  year,"  he  says.  " It  matters  not 
what  color,  creed  or  where  they  come 
same 
from. 
opportunities.'" 

i  -
The  entire  progriun  is  based  on  the 

nu~y'kl  ' ,have 

the 

concept  of  individualized  education, 
through the  planning by the adviser and 
student,  with  all  University  courses 
open  to  the  student.  Likewise,  the 
success  of  the  program  will  be  an 
individual thing, Bukowski says, because 
"each  individual  has  his  own  criteria; 
each }las his own standard of excellence. 
Each  one must be what he can become 
.  .  .  Everyone  can  become  excellent in 
some definition of that word." 

The  program, he  says, will run parallel 
to,  and  thus  be  a  test  case  for,  the 
presidential  commission  on  admissions; 
and 
it  serves  what  Bukowski  calls 
"President  Wharton's  dreams"  of  a 
pluralistic university. 

in 

the 

Participants 

experimental 
freshman  program  will  actually  have 
privileges  not granted to upperclassmen 
members  of Honors  College.  They  will 
be  able  to  take  courses  in  any  of the 
three  residential  colleges,  if they  and 
their advisers  feel ~t doing so would be 
a valuable  part of their  curriculum. The 
three  deans  of  the  residential  colleges 
have  expressed  full  support · for  the 
program, Bukowski says. 

Upperclassmen  in  the  Honors College 
will  be  involved  as'  much  as  possible, 
that 
Bukowski  says.  And  he  said 
"ramifications  and  implications  for  the 
freshman  program  will  3ffect 
the 
experiences of upperclassmen. " 

up 

The  Honors College has been trying to 
for 
the 
tighten 
upperclassmen,  he  says,  through  the 
idea  that  membership  should provide  a 
"more  challenging  education,  not  an 
escape from requirements." 

program 

One  of  the  major  problems  at  this 
point  in  the  experiment is  the  need for 
$8,000 to  fund  the program. This year 
$5,000 was  received  from  the  office  of 
the  Vice  President  for  Special Projects, 
and  $15,000  was  promised  for  next 
year,  Bukowski said. Vice President for 
Research  Development  Milton  Muelder 
has  suggested  that the  $8,000 might  be 
Danforth 
obtained 
Foundation, according to Bukowski. 

from 

the 

- BEVERLY TWITCHELL 

Commencement 
set  for  June  14 

The  former  Presidential assistant for 
consumer  affairs,  Mrs.  Esther Peterson 
te~ 
will 
at 
commencement  exercises  Sunday, June 
14. 

speak 

spring 

Mrs.  Peterson,  also  former  assistant 
secretary  of  labor,  is  now  Washington 
representative 
Amalgamated 
for 
Clothing Workers of America. 

She  will  address  bachelor's  degrees 
recipients  during  the  ceremony  that 
begins  at  4  p .rn.  in  Spartan  Stadium. 
Advanced  degrees  will  be  awarded  at 
10:30 a.m. in the Auditorium. 

Faculty  members  who  wish  to  rent 
academic  apparel  may  do  so  at  the 
Union  desk  or  by  calling  355-3498. 
Deadline  for  reservations  is  Monday, 
June 8. 

Cancer lecture 

A  leading  international  specialist  in 
cancer  research,  Sir Alexander Haddow, 
will  lecture  Wednesday  (June  3)  at  3 
p.m.  ii1  102-B  Wells  Hall.  The  British 
scientist,  knighted 
in  1966  and 
recognized for  thre~ break  - throughs in 
cancer  research,  will  discuss  special 
aspects  of man's scientific attack against 
the disease. 

He 

is  currently  professor  of 
the 
experimental  pathology  at 
the  Chester 
University  of  London, 
Beatty  Research 
the 
Institute of Cancer Research. His lecture 
is  ~p()nsored by the Coneges  of Human 
'M~cine and Namal Science. 

Institute  and 

WHIUI 

Tuesday, June 2 
8  a.m.  (AM-FM)  MORNING REPORT. News, 
sports,  weather,  features  (Monday  - Friday). 
9  a.rn.  (AM-FM)  DICK  ESTELL  READS. 
(Monday - Friday). 
5  p.m.  (AM-FM)  NEWS  60.  (Monday  -
Friday). 
8:30  p.m.  (FM)  THE  BOSTON SYMPHONY. 
Wednesday, June 3 
11  a.m.  (AM)  BOOK  BEAT.  With  Susan 
Gregory, author of "Hey, White Girl." 
1  p.rn.  (AM)  LECTURE  - DISCUSSION. 
Pulitzer Prizewinnlll Howard James. 
8  p.rn. 
"Richard III." 

(FM)  -BBC  WORLD  THEATRE. 

Thursday, June 4 
1  p.rn.  (AM)  LECTURE - DISCUSSION. Rep. 
John  Dingle  on  "The  Role  of  Legislation  in 
Environmental Quality." 
9  p.rn. (FM) JAZZ HORIZONS. 

Friday, June 5 
1  p.m.  (AM) LECTURE - DISCUSSION. Alan 
Guttmacher  on  ''Who  Owns  Fertility:  The 
Church, the State or the Individual?" 
2  p.m(FM) ,ALBUM JAZZ. 

Saturday, June 6 
8:15  a.m.  (AM-FM) THE GOON SHOW. With 
Peter Sellers. 
9  a.rn.  (AM-FM)  RADIO READER. "My Way 
Was North." 
1 0  a.m.  (FM)  IT'S A NICE PLACE TO VISIT 
•.• Urban transportation problems. 
10:30  a.m. 
ESPANOL. 
11 :45  a.rn.  (FM)  RECENT  ACQUISITIONS. 
1  p.m.  (AM)  DEVELOPMENT  DECADE 
TWO. 
1:30 p.m. (FM) THE DRUM. 
2  p.m. (AM) ALBUM  JAZZ. 
2  p.m. (FM) OPERA. "Semiramide." 
7  p.m.  (FM) ' LISTENER'S CHOICE.  Classics 
by calling 355-6540. 

(AM)  VARIEDADES  EN 

Sunday, June 7 

(AM-FM)  CLEVELAND 

2  p.m. 
ORCHESTRA. 
4  p.rn.  (AM-FM)  FROM THE MIDWAY. 

Monday, June 8 

. 
8  p.m. (FM) OPERA. "La CenerentoJa." 
10:30  p.rn.  (FM)  MUSIC  OF TODAY. MUSIC 
of Salvatore Martirano. 

Tuesday, June 2 
';  ':  1  I,· 
7  p.m. WHY  YOU  SMOKE.  Remaining three 
parts will be seen Wednesday, through Friday, 
7  p.m. 

i 

Wednesday, lune "3 
12 noon THE FORSYTE SAGA. 

Thursday, June 4 
12:30  p.m.  THE  CONSERVATIVE 
VIEWPOINT. 

Friday, June 5 
12 : 30  p.m.  OUT  ON A  LIMB. Simon Michael 
Bessie, publisher of Atheneum Press. 
7:30  p.m.  DRUGS:  THE  CHILDREN  ARE 
CHOOSING. 

Saturday, June 6 

10 a.m. INNOVATIONS. 

Sunday, June 7 

11 a.m. YOUR DOLLAR'S WORTH. 
12 noon SOUL! National Black Theatere. 
1 p.rn. THE FORSYTE SAGA. 
2  p.m.  THE CONSERVATIVE  VIEWPOINT. 
Rep. Phillip Cran (R-m.). 
12:30  p.m.  YOUR  RIGHT  TO  SAY  IT. 
Housing problems. 
3  p.m.  NET  FESTIVAL.  Director  Arthur 
Penn. 
4:30 p.m. BLACK  JOURNAL. 
10  p.rn.  THE  ADVOCATES.  Do  we  need 
more  corporate  representation  foc  consumer 
and ec<1logical protection? 
11  p.m.  NET  PLAYHOUSE.  "The  Taking," 
experimental  "docuDrama"  centering  on  an 
aroused  community threatened by a  highway 
project. 

' 

Monday, June 8 
7  p.m.  THE  NEXT  STEP.  Michigan's  drug 
problem. 

Tuesday, June 9 
1  p.rn.  OUT  ON  A  LIMB.  Child  psychologist 
Bruno 8ettelheim. 
7  J.p.m.  SILENT  HERITAGE :  THE 
AftRICAN INDIAN. The lust in a series. 

Wednesday, June 10 
12 noon THE FORSTYE SAGA. 
7  p.m.  YOUNG  MUSICAL  ARTISTS.  Pianist 
Barbara Nissman. 

Thursday, June 11 
12  noon  INSIGHT.  John  Forsythe  in  the 
story of a crisis of conscience. 
7  p.m.  APPOINTMENT  WITH  NOBODY. 
President McKinley's assassination. 

, 

.  "F.ridaYI June 12 

7  p.m. ON BEING ,BLACK. First of a series of 
10  original  television  dramas  about  beillg." 
black in white America. 

Saturday, June 13 

10 a.m. INNOVATIONS. 
11 
AMERICAN INDIAN. 

a.m.  SILENT  HERITAGE:  THE 

Sunday, June 14 

12  noon THE FORSYTE SAGA. 
1  p.m.  NET  FESTIVAL.  Benjamin  Britteft'9,~' 
opera, "Peter Grimes." 
4:20  p.m.  MSU  COMMENCEMENT.  ' J1i%,>7' 
from Spartan Stadium. 
10  p.m.  THE  ADVOCATES.  Middle  East: 
Where do we go  from  here? 
11  p.m.  NET  PLAYHOUSE.  EI  Theatro 
Campesino,  a  performing  company composed 
of striking California farm labollers. 

_., "J J.,) 

Monday, June  15 

7  p.m. NET JAZZ.