The 'commission goes to the people By GAIL MORRIS Assistant Editor, News Bureau What happens to a father's pride when his daughter is denied admission to one of the state's major public universities? Richard Golze - father, business executive and 1947 MSU alumnus - went to Detroit last week to tell the University's Commission on Admissions how he felt when his daughter was turned down this fall by MSU. "I had the feeling I was trying to 'black box,'''he said, penetrate a borrowing from electronic jargon to describe his attempts to communicate with the University about his daughter's situation. Her abilities, he said, included a 2.97 grade average and a qualifying score on National Merit Scholarship tests. • "There appears to be some evidence of gross discrimination," he charged. To support his cl~im, the concerned father recalled' a young black student who " .showed promise" but who was "relatively inarticulate, had difficulty MSU Faculty News reading and understanding basic arithmetic." That student, Golze said, received a full scholarship to MSU. Richard Golze was unique amoung the two dozen or more persons who addressed the commission during its first public hearing. He was the only one not representing a group or organization, the only one speaking strictly as a parent. MOST OF THE presentations at last week's hearing came from interest groups, and from concerned educators, counselors and community college officials. Vol. 2, No.1 Michigan State University Sept. 29, 1970 (Continued on page 4) N ew budget asks $9 million in raises The Board of Trustees at its Sept. 17 meeting approved a 1971-72 MSU budget request that would be an increase of more than $22 million over the current (1970-71) general fund budget. The request calls for a general fund totaling $116,652,435, compared ~ith­ this year's general fund budget of $94,458,435. Also requestea are 1971-72 budgets of $8,214,585 for the Agricultural Experiment Station (up $1.1 million over this ye2l') ana $10,536,70b for the Cooperative Extension Service (an increase of $1.6 million over this year). The major share of the general fund budget - $81,531,623 - would come from state appropriations. State support this year totaled $59,932,124. In detailing the budget request, the administration said it "listened to the needs of all persons responsible for their respective segments of the budget as well as advisory groups, such as the faculty affairs committee." Those needs include salary and wage increases amounting to $9,258,000 and additional fringe benefits of$I,074,000. Also included in the proposed budget is $4,218,000 in new salaries, wages and fringe benefits to increase and improve programs in instruction and departmental research. University officials point out in the proposal that much of the increase is because MSU "has not received sufficient funds to satisfy its needs in prior years. "For example, MSU's appropriations for 1970-71 were $11.2 million below the amount the University considered necessary to- improve its educational programs, meet salary and inflation needs, and fulfIll the essential ne.e.ds of its physical plant." ONE ITEM in the 1971-72 request is $503,000 for planning of a new law school. . Provost John E. Cantlon said that the University's proposal for the law school went to the State Board of Education in July. That proposal was developed last year by a-nine- member committee that included seven faculty. If the requested funds survive the legislative process, Cantlon said, theywill support initial development of a law library, the search for a dean and selection of a core oflaw faculty. THE BUDGET request now goes to the state's Bureau of the Budget for scrutiny by bureau analysis. Reports from the bureau will fonn the basis for the governor's budget rec'lmmendations, which are expected in January, 1971. The budget then begins irs tedious journey through both houses of the legislature. Fund drive aimed at faculty, staff All 8,000 faculty, administrators and staff of the University will be invited this week to participate in a campaign to raise money for Michigan State's Development Fund. "I believe it (the campaign) is unique among Michigan colleges and is at least unusual for the nation," said Emery G. Poster, assistant vice president for business affairs and head of a 100member committee spearheading the fund campaign. "This campaign should have a favorable effect on both the citizens of Michigan and the State Legislature," he added. Letters describing the campaign are scheduled to go this week to the homes of all MSU employes. Foster stressed that the campaign is voluntary, and he pointed out that a new Michigan tax provides a tax credit for contributions to state institutions of higher education, provided the contributions are for the general fund or general support of the school. Foster explained that if an employe contributes $100 to MSU, for example, he would receive a $50 tax credit on his (Continued on page 3) MAHE meets today The University's district of the Michigan Association for Higher Education (MAHE) will have its fIrst fall meeting at 1: 15 p.m. today in the Erickson Hall Kiva. The meeting will be devoted to a discussion of "Should the MSU Faculty Negotiate?" and a presentation of "The Central Michigan University Story" by a CMU representative and an offIcial of the Michigan Education Association. Frederick Ignatovich: It's not like Iowa City. - Photo by Dick Wesley Vi~ws Of MSU: Tempo and bigness (Editor's Note: There are nearly 200 new, full - t~me faculty on the campus this fall. The Faculty News hopes to visit with some of them during the year and present them to you. Here is the fIrSt in a series.) Books on the office shelf: "Multivariate Analysis"; "Public School Administration"; "Test Scores and What They Mean"; "Suicide"; "Power Golf'; and . . . "MSU Users Guide, Computer Lab" .. . what every new faculty member should have ... They help line the Erickson Hall office of Frederick Ignatovich, assistant professor of administration and higher education. Ignatovich, 29, arrived at MSU in June with four impressions: - Bigness - a favorable impression, he said, because MSU "attracts people who are trying to fmd answers to problems, because it has the facilities." - Flat land; he had expected hills , and he had expected cooler weather. - The tempo - different from Iowa City (where he had just spent two years obtaining a doctorate), and more akin to New York City (where he had spent the rest of his life), with "people on the move, quicker, jumping from place to place." - Relatively clean; he said he would stereotype it "a nice place to bring up kids." Nearly four months later, after teaching during summer term, he adds three impressions: - Michigan's good parks system. - Relationships with his department colleagues. He'd been told before he came that his colleagues would be "a nice bunch of guys," he said, and that's correct. - Pleased with the academic ability of his students this summer. * * * Until two years ago, Ignatovich had lived in New York City. He went to New York schools - Brooklyn Technical High School, then Hunter College for bachelor's and master's degrees - and then taught junior high school there for six years. An impulse two years ago made him apply for a doctoral fellowship at the University of Iowa. But it wasn't all impulse, he said, it was a matter of "stretchirig horizons and viewpoints." (Continued on page 2) MSU FacultY.. Ne~, Sep.t. 29, 1970 Ombudsman _office: N ow it's ombudsmen By BEVERLY TWITCHELL Associate Editor, Faculty News It's "ombudsmen" now. Ted Brooks, formerly assistant dean of the School for Advanced Graduate Studies, has joined Ombudsman James Rust as associate ombudsman. Brooks will retain a half - time appointment, however, as assistant professor of social work, and will continue to teach at least one class every term. Rust, a professor of English, usually teaches one-cIass a year. With Brooks' background the graduate office, he will probably handle the graduate student cases which come to the Ombudsman's office, Rust said. in Brooks has an advantage as a new ombudsman that Rust didn't have when he became the Un iversity's first ombudsman three years ago - to prepare himself for the job, Brooks has been going through Rust's files of previous cases, thus, he said, getting an idea of the range of problems and of procedures. Last week Don E. Ensley, a graduate student in geography, was added to the ombudsman staff. Ensley will be assistant to the ombudsman, working with minority students. Ensley is temporarily located in Room 32 of the Union, with the Counseling and Tutoring Program ( a new program for minority students) which he considers a good location because the program is expected to provide a gathering point for minority students. Ensley has worked with minority students through the Office of Equal Opportunity at North Carolina Central University, where he received his bachelor's degree. His work there, he said, involved making students "employable" and helping them find jobs. He has been at MSU since March 1970. Ensley p refers to call himself an "ombudsman counselor." He said he thinks having a black ombudsman will make black and minority students more comfortable about seeking aid through the ombudsman's office. Rust agrees that the addition of a black ombudsman is important because "I know a number of black students haven't come to me because I'm a white man." In September, 1967, shortly after his appointment, Rust said that he hadn't "the vaguest idea of what to expect from the position," but that he hoped to assist students much as he had been as assistant dean of the College of Arts and Letters. He speculated at the time that much of what he would be concerned with would be in the academic area, but said he would hear any student problem. Three years later he says his views on the position haven't changed very much, except that he places more emphasis on _change.He cites as examples his part in establishing the Code of Teaching Responsibility and a change in the tuition system. He recommended both on the basis of complaints he had handled - not only in number, he points out, but in seriousness. In a July 16, 1970 "Report to the President for the School Year 1969-70," Rust said that the year had been distinguished mainly by more cases: 963 students with 1,019 problems. The previous year he had handled 747 students with 822 problems. Rust also reported that the problems were more difficult, requirmg more investigation and meetings with more people. "I don't flatter myself that the faculty is going to regard me as a saviour, but the that in cases involving fact remains students and faculty during this past year, 34 percent of the charges against faculty were found totally invalid. In an additional 16 percent there was only very slight validity, really only some degree of misunderstanding between the student and the faculty member ," Rust reported. The two most frequent complaints Rust heard last year centered on instruction (21 percent of the all complaints heard) and fees and tuition (20.6 percent) Other problems, and their percentages of the total complaints, involved: Registration and admission (12.7 per cent), housing (8.7), of a personal nature (8.3), academic requirements (7), University facilities and services (6.6), academic status (4 .2), student employment (4), auto use and police (2.5) and academic advice (2.5). Another 1.5 per cent of complaints were categorized as "miscellaneous academic." Colleges with the highest percentages among students seeing the ombudsman last year were: University College (24 per cent), social science (20.4 per ,cent), arts and letter (11.2 per cent), education (8.4 per cent) and natural science (7.1 per cent). Colleges with less than 1 per cent representation were: Lyman Briggs, human medicine and veterinary medicine. About two - thirds of the students who saw the ombudsman last year were male. Seniors comprised 29 per cent of those visiting the ombudsman last year. Juniors New faculty • • • (Continued from page 1) Ignatovich said he was school - oriented before going to Iowa; he found teaching rewarding and fulfilling. "I saw myself as a teacher. I wasn't looking for a pattern of mobility of my present position, as so many do with Jtigher degrees.' He said he had never thought about becoming a college professor. And accepting the MSU position was a matter of " idiosyncratic self - fulfillment " not prestige . He cited a variety of motives for coming here: The personal challenge; sufficient money and conditions; exposure to people he wouldn't meet in a public school system; an opportunity to exchange views and ideas, not only with colleagues, but with students. * * * There are different ways to judge community spirit. Ignatovich measures it by the number of confrontations he has with store clerks. In Iowa, none in two years; in East Lansing, it took just two weeks and " we knew we were back in a bigger town ... " He said he misses the communities within New York City, what he called the respect there for ethnic goups, toleration for variations, folk ways or customs. And he misses the food representative of those communities_ Sunday breakfast in New York found him and his family (Wife and two children) going to a neighborhood bakery for hard rolls - Jewish or German or Italian or whatever. Sunday in the Midwest, . the family fOWld the bakeries closed ... But, Ignatovich said, the family does like what he calls Michigan's rural atmosphere, which is not so much geography as a way of life - "open, free, courteous, clean." . - BEVERLY TWITCHELL represented 22.5 per cent of the total, sophomores 18.8 per cent, graduate students 14.3 per cent and freshmen 9.1 per cent. Others seeing the ombudsman included 11 persons who were not students at the time; persons in special programs, alumni and one parent. In store fAI M SAlARY REDUCTION fOR I TIM 1 I A A I A 1 GIO~S 'AY TlAA Cl Ef IfDOaI> GlOSS TOTAl llEOUCTIONS N ET 'A.Y _CURRENT 0 CUMULATIVE _ ITEMIZED DEDUCTIONS either a $3 or a $6.50 deduction monthly, depending on the coverage schedule they have selected. This deduction ceases on July 1 following the employe's 65th birthday. M. Amount here represents deductions for the Aetna Long - Term Disability program and / or the Mutual of those Omaha accident insurance protection, for employes who have requested this coverage. N. This is a "catch - all" box and may include deductions for such things as rent for employes living in University housing. O. Amounts in the row marked "current" represent deductions for one month; those marked "cumUlative" represent total deductions from Jan. 1 to the time of the paycheck. The Staff Benefits office suggests that employes save their Dec. 31 paycheck stubs to determine income tax .• Dues, meals, hospitalization, state and city taxes and Community Chest are legal deductions'in fIling the long form for federal income tax. The Staff Benefits office also suggests that the paycheck stub be checked each month, not necessarily for computation, but to ensure that all proper deductions (savings bonds, for example) are indicated on the stub. Any questions concerning insurance deductions may be directed to the Staff Benefits office (3-4434): questions concernirig the "federal program" may be directed to the Cooperative Extension Service (3~873 or 5-3776); all other questions may be directed to the University Payroll office (5-5010). If mOl11 I I' Wednesday, Sept. 30: MUSIC FROM MSU (7 p.m.) - Violinist Walter Verdehr and Pianist David Renner perform Sonata in E Flat Major, Op. 18, by Strauss. Friday, Oct. 2: ASSIGNMENT 10 (7 p.m.) - A look at the Michigan National Guard, and a report on the UAW strike against General Motors. (Premiere) Sunday, Oct. 4: NET JOURNAL (4:30 p.m.) - The odyssey of a man searching for a co-survivor of a German concentration camp. THE UNICORN, THE GORGON AND THE MANTICORE (10 p.m.) - the Washington Ballet performs ballet by Gian Carol Menotti. 11111 Sunday, Oct. 4: CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA (2 p~m., AM-FM) - Blossom Festival Concert, with Conductor Morton Gould. FROM THE MIDWAY (4 p.m., AM-FM) "A Record of Contempt: The Chicago Conspiracy," with Author Harry Kalvem. Monday, Oct. 5: OPERA (8 p.m., FM) - Alban Berg's "Wozzeck." United Fund appeal issued OCT. 1 is the kickoff day for the annual -University Community Chest Campaign. During the month, you will be asked to contribute funds to support the work of more than 50 different agencies for the full year. The MSU community has always shown great concern for the needs and aspirations of others. As members of is our this community, it the responsibility to provide M§llJ Faculty NeW§> Editor: Gene Rietfors Associate Editor: Beverly Twitchell Editorial Offices: Rooms 323 and 324, Linton Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48823. Phone: 355-2285. Published weekly during the September - June academic year by the Department of Information Services. Second - class postage paid at East Lansing, Mich. 48823. atmostphere and resources for the education of our youth. However. much that we do for our fellow citizens extends beyond the borders of our campus in continuing education, extension services, urban affairs and other areas,. In keeping with this broader outlook of service to humanity, the faculty and staff have a further opportunity to help through the annual Community Chest drive. Last year, nearly 127,000 persons in the Greater Lansing area were helped directly by the Community Chest agencies, and many more indirectly. Because the need is always present and the cost of providing services is on the increase, the amount we are asked to contribute also increases. This year, we have been asked to raise $188,414 of the total of $2,170,879. This is a modes increase of about $10,668 over last year's quota. The people of MSU have always been generous in meeting this community responsibility. I know that you will again this year. Clifton R Wharton Jr. President Summer enrollment is record Summer term enrollment reached a record total of 17,329, according to figures from the registrar's office. The total was up nearly 12 percent over 1.a stye a r' s 1 5 ,48 1. Sum mer undergraduate enrollment was 9,437 (compared with 7,956 a year ago) and graduate enrollment was 7,792 (7,525 last year). MSU paying more benefits Another increase in the University's contribution toward health insurance premiums will become effective this week for full- time faculty and staff. Beginning with the Sept. 30 paychecks, and effective for coverage beginning Oct. 1, the University will contribute $25 a month toward all hospitalization programs. The contribution had been $19 a month. This means, for example, that those with full family coverage under the American Plan with TIAA Major Medical will pay $7.80 a month. The subscriber cost had been $13.80. Those with two - person coverage under American Plan with major medical will pay only $3.55 monthly. Single subscribers under all plans will continue to have their full premiums paid by the University. Fund drive • • • (Continued from page I) state income tax, plus $28 in federal tax deduction, meaning that the donation would cost a net of $22. FUNDS COLLECTED in the campaign w ill be channeled through the Deveropment Fund to support Distinguished Faculty Awards, Alumni Distinguished Scholarships, Ralph Young Scholarship Fund, Kresge Art Center, the MSU Museum, library acquisition, Abrams Planetarium and campus beautification. Contributors may specify where their support goes, but'undesignated gifts are being encouraged. Persons may contribute in a single donation or by monthly payroll deductions. Other members of the committee are Richard Chapin, director of libraries; Robert Emerson, manager -of Kellogg Center; John A. Fuzak, associate dean of education; Robert L. Green, assistant provost and director of the Center for Urban Affairs; Rolla (Shorty) Noonon, senior engineer, Engineering Services; Dorothy Ross, associate professor, counseling center; B. T. Sandefur, professor of geology; John Shingleton, director of the Placement Bureau; and Virgil Townsend, manger of the checkroom, Student Union. President Wharton: A brief primer (In his nine months as MSU president, Clifton R. Wharton Jr. has delivered more than a dozen speeches - on the campus, acrosS the state and around the country. What follow are capsules of a few of the themes he has developed in major addresses.) On the university and its role . .. " ... The greater advantage of the university (as an agent (or change) is the ability to marshal jts resources to assist in the formulation of policies, programs and approaches to new problems;to aid in the evaluation and in the improvement .0: on going actMties through research and stud~; to an~clpate emerging areas of need so as to stand ready WIth the skills and manpower wruch will be required; and to experiment with new approaches in a fashion which often cannot be done by other agents of change." - MSU Faculty Club, Jan. 20,1970 " ... It would be improper to blame today's problems on our universities. The campus is, in many ways, simply a field of battle on which is fought a struggle against SOCiety'S ills - ills which usually are not of the university's doing or under its control. When the university is an intellectual battlefield - ideas are brought forward, debated, refmed and where disseminated - then it is performing a valuable and traditional function. Unfortunately, the campus is too often becoming ~ literal sense, where emotionalism, battlefield in the confrontation and violence are substituted for rational debate." - Commencement address, University of Michigan, May 2,1970 " . . . Today on the typical campus, five or six groups are attempting to exercise increasing control over the allocation of resources ... the labor union ... the professional and clerical group ... the traditional administrative group ... the student group ... the faculty ... and ... there is an evolving sixth group made up of graduate assistants and teaching assistants ... The challenge which we all face is how to accommodate these changes in power foci while still meeting the total interests of the institution." - MSU chapter, American Association' of' University Professors, April 23 , 1970 * * * On universal higher education . . , " ... It should be made plain that universal access does not mean that everyone, no matter his innate ability, will have a right to enter. .. any .. particular university. It means only that there should be a public -commitment that somewhere in the state's institutions of higher education there is a place for everyone who has desire and basic ability Commencement, University of Michigan, May 2 to do college work." - " ... The critical fact to retain is that the truly great university, like the great teacher, is able to serve this plurality and to provide an education both to those who are brilliant and those who are not. . . Intellectual ability is only one of the socially valued characteristics of man, and sole reliance upon it may do a disservice both to the individual and to the nation." - University of Michigan, May 2 " ... Attacking the concept of universal higher education in terms of a 'natural aristocracy' is an argument of unbecoming arrogance. Carried to its logical extreme, the same argument could be used to advocate that only those 5-or 6-year-olds who pass a critical level on intelligence in their early years should receive primary and secondary education." - University of Michigan, May 2, 1970 On today's students . .. * * * " ... I believe the majority of our youth today at universities are making a greater commitment of their resources toward the solution of the problems of the wider society than their elders make or have ever made. (We are not aware of it) because it involves the use of their greatest resource - the use of their time, which is.so difficult to measure or appraise. And too, we ignore it because it is positive and unspectacular, and for those reasons does not attract the headlines." - Boy Scout Leaders Recognition Dinner, Detroit,Feb. 7,1970 " . . . When a young person enters the 'city of youth' (the campus), he has in effect been removed from the broader societal pressures and constraints which induce confOrmity to standards of acceptable behavior. Adherence to behavioral codes and the avoidance of unacceptable behavior in our modern society is due far more to social pressure than to moral and ethical codes." - Michigan Municipal League, Detroit Sept. 9 , 1970 ' On U.S. policy in Southeast Asia . .. * * * " ... We have been slow to realize that the Inilitary solution is no longer viable for small - scale wars and internal subversion ... We have let our foreign policy toward less - developed countries become little more than a single - minded policy of force. Military solutions have become the only solution. Military policy has virtually become our sole foreign policy." - Commencement, The Johns Hopkins University, May 27,1970 " . . . A new commitment for Southeast Asia requires new the small farmer, new Asian approaches building upon prespectives relying upon Asian leadership, and new attitudes and priorities in our present foreign policy, to give primacy to agrarian developmental objectives ... Essentially, I am asking for a new commitment ot universal human aspirations and their satisfaction according to Asian standards for the largest segment of Asian peoples - the peasantry." - Johns Hopkins University, May 27, 1970 Admissions • • • (Continued from page 1) The ideas they repeatedly stressed included: A concern for more equal treatment of community college transfer students; the need for increased enrollment of low - income minority students; the importance of looking at factors other than high school grades and SAT scores when considering admission applications. Here are some of the things ~troit area citizens told President Clifton R. Wharton; Ira Polley, commission director; Provost John Cantlon and 14 commission members during the Detroit hearing: - MSU should provide "as much pre - admissions counseling for transfers as high school seniors get," Carl Wagner, president of Macomb Junior College. He also urged adjusted academic regulations to help transfers during their transition, to include "extended probationary policies"-- more fmancial aid for transfers, and acceptance of the "0" as a passing grade with credit. -"WE BELIEVE that any student can learn with the proper instruction," said George H. Cole, vice president for special affairs at Wayne Community College. He said his school has an "open door" policy that eliminates "fail" and gives students a chance to "recycle" until they earn an A, BorC. - "It is essential that special admissions policies be adopted for minorities," said Jesse Goodwin, Detroit NAACP director. He recommen.ded that MSU; University of Michigan and Wayne State University establish more adult education centers in southeastern Michigan, and he urged recruiting minority students for the physical and biological sciences. - Sarah Foley of the Detroit Council of PTAs strongly urged an adaptation of successful agricultural extension concepts to the needs of city children. "What about the people of the cities?" she asked. "What about the people of the ghettos? These are the people who have been discraded by society ... You should have an urban extension center for us with no requirements for admission." - DAN REED, Michigan Farm Bureau superintendent, said he saw no indication from his organization that MSU "should embark on a policy oflowered admission standards." He urged financial aid to students on a loan basis. - Wayne Memorial High School Counselor Florence Oberlin said that "it is possible for a student from white suburbia to be truly disadvantage." She asked MSU to consider each applicant individually, rather than as a member of such groups as "black; Mexican - American or athlete." '- Charles Wells, assistant superintendent of the 290,000 - student Detroit Public Schools, suggested that MSU: Maintain a high_ ratio of undergraduates, and a good miX. of out of - state and resident students; accept responsibility for admitting more high - risk, low-income students; increase supportive services; create an "accepting atmosphere" for disadvantaged students. The next commission hearing is today Sept. 29 in scheduled for Marquette. Chef selected The new chef for MSU's Faculty Oub is Yves R. Schopfer, a native of Switzerland and recently with the Merchants and Manufacturers Oub at the Merchandise Mart in Chicago. He also served with the Oak Park, m., Country Oub. Before coming to this country last year, Schopfer was with the Hotel Bellevue Palace 'in Bern, the French Restaurant in St; Moritz, the De la Paix Restaurant in Bern - all in Switzerland; with the Hotel Bristol, Oslo, Norway; and with the ''Sagafjord," flagship of the Norwegian - Americl/ll Line. He was trained in Switzerland. The club's new assistant manager for dining room and priVate party service is Mrs. Irene Za1as. She had been assistant manager of the Oak Park, m., COlmtry Oub and manager: of .the Oak Park City Oub. COGS will • Impose tax Gradua te students casting ballots during last week's registration overwhelmingly voted to tax themselves to support the Council of Graduate Students. The proposal was passed 3,597 to 1,441. Beginning winter term, a tax of 50 cents will be charged to each graduate student, whether or not his department is affiliated with COGS. COGS now represents 44 of the departments which enroll graduate students, according to President Peter Flynn. Any department is eligible to join. The tax will provide the first operating funds for COGS. Discussion at the COGS meeting last week centered on the mechanics of handling the funds and suggestions for : use of the funds. Among suggestions were: Clerical help for the organization; fInancial aid for any graduate student needing funds to finish his degree; a newsletter with information on available funds, university regulations and dissertation problems and solutions; allocations to department representatives 'to facilitate communication to their con~tituencies, and a study into collective bargaining for graduate assistants. COGS has a new office in 310 Student Services Building and meets every two weeks.. The next meeting will be Oct. 8 at 3:15 p.m .. in 253 Student Services, at which time use of the tax money will be further discussed. NUC to meet The New University Conference will hold its first fall meeting Wednesday at 8 p.m. on the Union Sun Porch. Alan Hurwitz, an educational specialist in the Center for Urban Affairs, and Ronald Horvath, assistant professor of geography, will discuss "Racism and Repression: Analysis and Response." All interested faculty and graduate students are invited to attend.