The new faculty (No.2): Harvard, Berkeley meet in economics By BEVERLY TWITCHELL Associate Editor, Faculty News \"": ~:.; Lawrence Officer came to MSU with 10 years' teaching experience at Harvard University. Alan Shelly arrived after two years as an assistant instructor at the University of California at Berkeley. Officer's publication list covers nearly three pages in a resume; Shelly has yet to publish. Both are new members of the Department of Economics-Officer as a professor, LAWRENCE OFFICER: Seeking a "Fundamental change." Shelly as an instructor. While their backgrounds are dissimilar, their reasons for cOming here are not so ALAN SHELLY: The "real world situation." (Continued on page 2) Enrollment down slightly Fall term enrollment dropped slightly this year to 40,511 students, compared with 40,820 a year ago, according to Registrar Horace C. King. The total decrease - less than 1 resulted from a ' drop of percent - nearly 1,100 in first - term freshmen: 5,924 this year compared with 7,043 last decrease reflected attempts this year to keep fall. The freshman enrollment at near 40,000 as stipulated the University's 1970-71 budget in proposal to the legislature. increase of 1,630 full - Next year's budget request projects an time equivalent students over the current figure. Graduate enrollment increased by 4 percent, from 8,018 last student The fall to 8,335 this year, King reported. total includes 42 students The new the new College of enrolled in Osteopathic Medicine. enrollment of married by undergraduates 36 percent, and the number of married undergraduate men rose from 1,301 last year to 2,053 this fall - an increase of nearly further enrollment breakdown is shown in the accompanying chart. increased cent. A per 58 Vol. 2, No. 3 Oct. 13, 1970 COLL£G£ Agr. & Nat. Resources Arts & Letters Lyman Briggs Business Communication Arts Education Engineering Human Ecology Human Medicine James Madison Justin Morrill Natural Science Osteopathic Medicine Social Science Veterinary Medicine No Preference Unclassified SOURCE New-first-time -transfer Total Readmitted Returning SEX Hen Women MARITAl STATUS Harried Single TOT At CAMP US Fall., 1970 TOTAL 1970 1969 Change UNDERGRADUATE 1970 1969 Change GRADUATE 1970 1969 Change 2660 2687 -1.0% 1920 1987 4196 4375 -4.1 622 580 7.2 3622 3757 -3.6 2085 2130 -2.1 6597 6594 2210 2351 1528 1484 -3.4% 3441 3622 -5.0 622 580 7.2 2672 2849 -6.2 1747 1798 -2.8 4017 4034 -.4 1960 2070 -5.3 1344 1358 -1.0 254 217 17.1 572 554 3.2 850 840 1.2 3753 3896 -3.7 -6.0 3.0 407 328 24.1 572 554 3.2 850 840 1.2 4805 4941 -2.8 42 704 6247 5678 6.3 668 5.4 3284 3538 -7.2 115 -30.4 60 5294 5017 5.5 366 327 11.9 3284 3536 -7.2 115 -30.4 80 42 953 338 740 755 700 753 5.7% .3 950 338 908 332 2580 2560 250 184 153 4.6 1.8 .8 281 -11.0 126 46.0 111 37.8 1052 1045 .7 861 10.7 341 -.9 7526 8822 -14.7 1998 1963 1.8 9526 10785 -11.7 "1619 1694 -4.4 29366 28341 5924 7050 -16.0 1833 1813 1.1 7757 8863 -12.5 1067 P04 -3.4 2.3 3.6 23352 22835 1604 1772 -9.5 165 150 10.0 1769 1922 -8.0 552 590 -6.4 6014 5506 9.2 23425 23769 17086 17051 -1.4 17506 18010 -2.8 -.8 .2 14670 14792 5919 5759 2416 2259 8441 7153 18.0 32070 33667 -4.7 26600 30177 3576 2625 36.2 -5.2 4865 4528 3470 3490 2.8 6.9 7.4 -.6 40511 40820 -.8 32176 32802 -1.9 8335 8018 4.0 ADDITIONAL DATA Married Men Women University College Honors College (est.) Evening College (non-credi t) (est.) Sec. Tchg. Cert. Cando - Educ. -other colleges -total 5687 4711 20.7 2754 2442 12.8 14014 15399 -9.0 2179 1463 48.9 1200 1496 -19.6 37,,5 3713 1.7 4652 4723 -1.5 8427 8436 -.1 2053 1301 57.8 1523 1324 15.0 3634 3410 6.6 1231 1116 10.1 Commission hearings slated here next Thursday, Friday Persons who plan to speak or make presentations at either of the campus hearings of the Presidential Commissions on Admissions, (Oct. 22 and 23) are invited to reply to Ira Polley, director of the commission. Hearings for MSU faculty, staff and students will be from 10 a.m. to 12 noon and from 1: 30, to 4 p.m. both days in the Con Con Room of the International Center. Polley has asked to hear from persons who wish to speak, who wish to make written presentations or who will be on hand to raise questions. He said that persons replying will be asked to indicate the hours at which they will appear so that their appearances can be scheduled. Polley is located in Room 408, Hannah Administration BuPding, and his phone number is 353-5008. U -grad education report in works An educational policies committee report on the organization of undergraduate education is now in the hands of Provost John Cantlon. The report, submitted June 30,1970, includes 31 recommendations in five categories: - Academic organization, particularly of the provost's office. - Organization of general education. - Organization, upgrading and improvement of undergraduate instruction. - Admissions process. - Residential college status. All five categories reflect areas in which the provost's office has been working, Cantlon said. He posed a: series of questions to the EPC about a year ago; the five categories were assigned to subcommittees, and the 31 recommendations serve as an advisory report to him. * * * THE SORTS OF questions asked by the EPC, according to committee member William D. Collings, professor and associate chairman of physiology, include: - Can living - learning complexes be tied in more completely with academic programs? - Is our ,present. organization of undergraduate education satisfactory? - What responsibility does the University assume upon admission of a student? - suspended when the Presidential Commission on Admissions began its work; some members of that subcommittee are now members of the admissions conlrnission. The category on the organization of general education, Cantlon said, is an attempt to look at "what constitutes general education - at one point of time it was the four courses in University College." There are now at least three proposals concerned with this question, he said: One from the EPC, a counter - proposal from Richard Sullivan, dean of arts and letters, and one from the University College itself. * * * SOME OF THE recommendations in the EPC report will be dealt with administratively, Cantlon said, particularly the section on academic organization. Most of the recommendations will be handled through the standing committees of the Academic Council and through the Council. But the report is not at this time "necessarily a fmal report," Cantlon said, and may be returned to the EPC for it is further consideration before introduced to the faculty as a whole. Collings said the deans have not yet seen the report, either. ',IISSSSSSSS'SSS"IIS'SS" DGEI issues - What obligation does the University have to a student in good standing who wants to be admitted to a degree program of his preference? These questions, Collings said, are "just examples of the questions asked, and are by no means the most important." The subcommittee on admissions was The University administration's position on the issue regarding the Detroit Geographical Expedition and I:n~titute is printed on page 4 of today's issue. ssss sssssssssss".,.,"" MSU Faculty News, Oct. 13, 1970 McKee Report to new panel The question that dominated deliberations throughout last year in the Academic Council was the most hastily dispatched item at the Council's opening 1970 - 71 session last week. -S tudent participation in academic government (the McKee Report) was referred to a special panel that "shall emphasize mediation in its proceedings, and shall make every effort to achieve reconciliation and creative compromise" of the various points of view concerning the McKee Report. The panel - John F. A. Taylor (chairman), professor of philosophy; Beatrice Paolucci, professor of family ecology; Willard Warrington, professor and director of evaluation services - was urged to "make every reasonable effort" to report back to the Council at its Nov. 3 meeting. The Council has to approve any bylaw changes relating to student participation before those changes can go to the Academic Senate for its Nov. 17 meeting. * * * MOST OF THE two - hour Council session centered on a resolution dealing with student political activities preceding the November elections and on the statement on faculty responsibility. For those wishing to take part in the November political activities, the Council approved a substitute motion by JackM. Bain, dean of communication arts. It provides that "when feasible," faculty may postpone tests and exams that might otherwise be scheduled during Oct. 26 - Nov. 6. The statement on faculty responsibility contains two resolutions, both of which were amended. One resolution says that MSU will not pay wages and salaries to any person who "without proper cause, Officer, Shelly • • • (Concluded from,page 1) dissimilar: MSU is sort of middle ground for both of them. Officer comments on the people-especially those in his department and in the area, the taxi drivers, and the people in the supermarkets. It's nice to see trees and have breathable air, he says, and crime seems negligible. He characterizes Harvard today as an elitist institution and says he had wanted a "fundamental change." Shelly speaks of MSU as a "real world situation," as the kind of place where people are going to work out solutions for society's problems. He came because the University is large and because he wanted to stay in the United States. The largeness includes a democratic composition, he says, in contrast to a small, utopian upper class school. He refers to a decaying environment around Berkeley and in California, where "social problems are exacerbated." Life seems to be more cohesive here, he says. ' Shelly says he wanted a U.S. university because there is a real tendency for young intellectuals to escape social crises to go to Latin American institutes or to Canada or Europe. The temptation was there for him, too, he says, and coming here was a conscious decision not to yield to that temptation. * * * Shelly refers frequently to The Movement and defines himself as a political radical. He says his appointment here is an indication of things to come-that more people who join faculty ranks in the future will be, as he puts it, "shaggy." He also thinks more radical faculty will be hired, "not just because it's morally right, but because it's inevitable, to a certain extent." As an activist he says, he will probably find things at the University he would like changed ("unless it's an absolutely incredible unive~sity") and he'll try to change them. Tenure? The educational system in this country is "top heavy," he says, "but those are the rules of the game." Shelly received both his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of California. * * * Both Shelly and Officer praise their departII)-ent colleagues. "They are generally much more open and much less proper and much more human than most economics faculties I've run into," Shelly says. That was "a deciding factor" in his coming to MSU. "I think the department is much better than it thinks it is," Officer said, referring to "top-notch people" in his area of international economics. He also sees more emphasis on teaching than at Harvard, without the conflict between teaching and research. And he cited the informal atmosphere at MSU. 'Tm past the stage where conventional academic things are so important to me," he said.-"I'm more concerned with just grooving with people, and I thought this was a good place to groove." Officer has found that life in East Lansing "is worlds apart from life in Cambridge. Here," he wrote to a colleague, "there is no crime, no pollution, and friendly people. But there are virtually no restaurants, little entertainment, no bookstores." Shelly says that among his undesirable reactions to MSU is "the feeling of being not on on an army base," a reflection on the self-contained total environment, University regulations. * * * is teaching Reactions to the students here have varied between the two men. two undergraduate, courses, has Shelly, who them "enjoyable." He says the students "are not obsequious, which is really nice, and they are not particularly timid, which is even better." They are demanding, he says, asking for explanations of what he means or offering contrasting points of view. found But Officer says he has been disappointed in students who "just sit there" in class. His opinion of the students here in general, however, is that they are "quite aware, interesting, not satiated-that is, open." Officer received a bachelor of arts degree from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, and master's and doctoral degrees from Harvard. He was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in 1960 and received the H.B. Earhart Fellowship, Ford Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship and Ford Foundation International Studies Grants. chooses to withhold any of the services for which he or she is employed." The other resolution asks the yet - to - be - constituted committee on faculty compensation and academic budget to defme faculty responsibility and load, to to develop procedures and abrogation equitable ajudication, and to present its recommendations to the Council. responsibility relating of IN ANOTHER item, Frederick Williams, professor of history, introduced a resolution asking either the educational policies committee or the faculty affairs committee to make an "extensive, in - depth study" of the problem of rights and responsibilities of faculty. He suggested that such a study be patterned after that which resulted in the Academic Freedom Report of 1967, a document designed primarily for students. He agreed to have the question referred to the steering committee before any Council actiori is taken . Handbook planned for grad students A handbook for graduate students is being written for distribution later this year. Ann Markusen, graduate student in economics and former vice president of the Council of Graduate Students, conceived the idea for the handbook and is writing it in cooperation with the Office of Advanced Graduate Studies. Miss Markusen said she found graduate students at the all - University level to be isolated as a group, "in a no - man's land between professors and students - professional fledglings because they are no longer just going to school; it's a job." The handbook, then, is designed to : - to graduate education and the living atmosphere, such as housing, entertainment and services; '- Be a guide on how to pursue a graduate education; what the graduate student should know about his department. For example, Miss Markusen says, "there is a subterranean network of rules and procedures; you've got to go in on' your own and sleuth out the whole department .... " Serve as a guide - Inform graduate students of "the little things to which they have access. Graduate assistants may not know, for instance, that they do not get paid until Oct. 15 and that they have access to the MSU Credit Union. Miss Markusen said the handbook also includes "editorial comment," but that comment is based on what she believes is consens4s feeling of graduate students. For example, in the section on housing: "In favor of Owen (Hall) . . . are its social climate and lack of homemaking responsibility, while its disadvantal!,es lie in the inability to prepare y .)~: ·),,'Il food and its limited personal space." to be covered in The section on married housing refers to its "monolithic physical nature," but points out that "it is still an awfully good deal financially. " The areas the handbook are: housing (married, Owen and off - campus); the department; recreation, sports and outdoors; entertainment and culture; and sources of information, including information on where to get financial aid. If there are other suggestions for areas which might be covered in the handbook, or suggestions concerning the above areas, Miss Markusen may be reached at 355-0300. Erratum A typographical error in the Oct. 6 Faculty News significantly altered the step raise amount allowed for administra tive - professional staff classified A - P - 3. The raise amount approved this year for those persons is $490 (not the $790 that appeared last week). Sorry about that, A -P - 3's! Dining room open at Faculty Club MSU's Faculty Club is now open for lunch and dinner. Members can be served lunch from 11 :30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. each Tuesday through Saturday and dinner from 6 to 8: 30 p.m. every Monday through Saturday. Sunday dinner is from 12 t03 p.m. The dining room is closed Mondays until 6 p.m. Football buffets will be served from 6 to 8:30 p.m. on the Saturdays of home games. Reservations are requested for these events (35 3 - 5111). M§llJ Faculty N®w§ 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 the Department of academic year by Information Services. Second - class postage paid at East Lansing, Mich. 48823. COGS creates finance group MSU Faculty News, Oct. 13,1970 A finance committee has been established by the Council of Graduate Students to advise COGS on "guidelines for permissable expenditures." . of The secretary three the committee, which will be COGS composed representatives and - treasurer as an ex officio nonvoting chairman, will also report periodically on income and sources, outlay and recipients; and will be responsible for maintaining COGS' status as a non - profit organization. Creation of the committee became necessary when graduate students voted at fall term registration to impose a tax of 50 cents per term on themselves. The tax will provide COGS with its first operating funds. * * * ANOTHER COMMITTEE was established at last week's COGS meeting to recruit and help organize graduate departments which not now affiliated with the council - about 30 departments. Forty - six departments are currently represented in COGS. are Most of the next COGS meeting (Oct. 22) will deal with the proposed document on graduate student rights and responsibilities. That document was to have been discussed by the Graduate Council yesterday. It must be approved by both groups before presentation to the Academic Council for approval. The document (Faculty News, April 14, 1970) was the first presented to the Graduate Council in April. It is designed to complemen( the Academic Freedom Report, which does not cover graduate students. Included in the proposal are policies concerning academic rights and responsibilities of university - employed graduate students (including graduate assistants) and judicial procedures. mill Tuesday, Oct. 13 - 1 p.m •.• "The Nixon Doctrine: The Asian Viewpoint" Sunthorn Hongladarom, Thai ambassador (AM). 8:30 p.m ••.• Boston Symphony, An a11- Beethoven concert in memory of Sir John Barbirolli and George Szell. (FM). Frida?" Oct. 16 - 1 p.m . •.• "Pornography Ob~ru~ and the Law" with Hugh Hefner' Moms Lipton and Daniel X. Freedman (AM). Monday, October 19 - 8 p.m •• • Opera, " LaBoheme" (FM). IDIDI. Tuesday, October 13 - 7 p.m • • • . "Presidential Forum" with President Wharton and members of the admissions commission. " Friday. October 16 - 7 p.m .••• "Assignment 10" student voter registration in East Lansing. Sunday, Oct. 18 - U:30 p.m •••• "The Advocates'" retums, with the question "Should ~Ueges reschedule classes so that students get time off to wolk in political campaigns?:: 1:30 p.m. . . • "Civilization," first of the BBC's 13-wedc series hosted by art historian Kenneth CIa.tk. 4,: 30 p.m ••. "Realities" premiers with a look at the:issue of sex. education in schools. 1 0 p.m • . . • NET Opera is "Abduction from Seraglio" by Mozart. Beethoven celebration nears By FRED BRUFLODT Assistant Editor, News Bureau. The bicentennial of the birth of Ludwig Van Beethoven will be celebrated at Michigan State with the Nov. 2-6 festival featuring the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and three of the world's foremost young soloists. Donald A. Pash, one of the men instrumental in making the festival a reality, hopes that the event presages a major push for such events at MSU. Pash, associate professor and Chest campaign in full swing The University's annual United Community Chest campaign - which continues through Nov. 3 - has a quota of$188,414. . The amount is an increase of $10,668 over the amount raised last year. A quota of $2,170,879 has been set for the greater Lansing chest drive. Members committee of MSU's United are Community Chest Thomas Dutch, manager of the Brody complex; Russell Hill, professor of resource development; Louis Ross, chief steward for Local 1585 of AFSCME' Kermit Smith, assistant to the provost; Kenneth Schram, assistant comptroller; and Armand L. Hunter, director of continuing education. Hunter is the group's chairman. Seminar series resumes Monday Warren Moss, president of the Apparel Research Foundation, will speak next Monday (Oct. 19) during the Consumer Seminar Series sponsored by the College of Human Ecology. Moss, also vice president and research director for Phillips - Van Heusen in New York City, will speak at 3:30 p.m. in 102-B Wells Hall. His topic is "The Communication Link Between the Apparel Industry and Consumer Satisfaction." Theme for the fall series is "Building Communication Bridges Between the Consumer and Industry." Also scheduled this fall (all at the same hour and location) are: Dorothy Lyle from the National Institute of Drycleaning in Silver Spring, Md. (Oct. 26) and Sam Blaskey, director of consumer education for the White House (Nov. 2) program associate at WSMB-TV, and Wilson Paul, director of the Lecture - three years Concert Series, conceiving and planning the festival. spent The major attractions are the three young soloists: Daniel Barenboim, 27- year - old Israeli pianist and conductor who mastered all 32 Beethoven sonatas at 14; Jacqueline du Pre, English cellist who, at 24, has been compared by some critics to Pablo Casals; and Pinchas - year - old Israeli Zukerman, 22 violinist and protege of Isaac Stern. Friday (Nov. 4 and 6). Miss du Pre will be featured as cello soloist at both performances. Miss du Pre and Barenboim will perform four works by Beethoven for cello and piano at 8: 15 p.m. Monday (Nov. 2), and Barenboim will present a solo recital of four Beethoven piano sonatas at 8: 15 p.m. Tuesday (Nov. 3). recital, featuring works by Beethoven, Handel, Bach and Faure, will be at 8:15 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5. Zukerman's violin "I think the young artists are important, particularly on a university the says Pash. He campus, University has an obligation to present young performers as well as older, more experienced ones. feels * * * PASH AND PAUL point out that MSU's is probably the only one of its kind in the country, Chicago Symphony with the noted soloists. celebration Beethoven offering the Open rehearsals will allow faculty, students and the public to see and hear the orchestra prepare for the concerts, another unusual aspect of the festival. Under the baton of Daniel Barenboim the orchestra will present public concerts at 8: 15 p.m. Wednesday and Urban meet set Directors of urban affairs throughout the country will meet on the campus for the first time at a three - day conference, Oct. 21-23. and Xavier Del Buono John Winchester, both of MSU, will speak on "Mexican American/American Related Indian/Black Interest" at the Oct. 22 afternoon session. Programs: - Carl Holman of the National Urban Cqalition and Vincent Harding, with the Institute of the Black World, will also be featured speakers. 'Internationalization' grows Courses with an international content offered at Michigan State have increased dram;;ttically in the past two decades, according to a recent study by Mrs. Rose Hayden of the Latin American Studies Center and romance languages department. Although the number of courses offered by MSU has increased by more than 50 per cent since 1950, the growth of international courses has program additions. Even when the number of remained University programs constant, grew by a small percentage. international exceeded courses regular The Such number of .departments providing international courses has more than doubled in the past two decades. departmental expansion, reports Mrs. Hayden, is due the "internationa1ization" of the facuIty. More than a third of the faculty members on sabbatical leaves spend time in foreign countries. partially to Since 1955, the number of . is programs undergraduates taking international courses has doubled. The effect of international also revealed at the Ph.D. level, where the number of doctorates with an international specialty is up 420 per cent over the total in 1956. During the same period, the Ph.D. total granted by the whole University has risen 48 per cent. the Factors contributing the to development of the international dime'nsion include the revision of the social science and humanities courses in College; establishment of the area centers; creation of a multidisciplinary major in the College of Social Science; and the "internationalization" of the faculty. University Mrs. Hayden believes the future of international studies depends upon a including of variety questionable fmancial support at a "time when federal, foundation and general support for international studies is diminishing." factors, continued ~--------------------------------~=~~--==~~~------------------------------------------------------------------------------~~ MSU Faa.ity News, Oct. 13, 1970 MSU position on DGEI • Issues (Editor's Note: Following is a memorandum, dated Oct. 9 , 1970, from Provost John Cantlon to members of MSU's Administrative Group (deans and central administrative officers). It culminated a pair of meetings between that group and representatives of the Detroit Geographical Expedition and Institute. As always, the 'Faculty News welcomes letters or responses to this or any other matter.) To: Members of the Administrative Group From: Provost John E. Cantlon DGEI's present and planned enrollment of students exceeds known financial resources available. For example, the $20,000 which the University is prepared to provide for this academic year would support a maximum of 375 students over three terms, or fewer depending upon faculty travel and subsistence costs which are deducted. It is our understanding that this many students may already be enrolled for the fall term alone, although no enrollment figures or course offerings have yet been given University approval. The objective, apparently, has been to present the University with a fait accompli in order to pressure us to provide more funds , which simply are not available. The students thus are victimized by this po~er play. Subject: Detroit Geographical Expedition and Institute Semantics and Other Myths This memorandum has been prepared in response to a number of questions regarding the Detroit Geographical Expedition and Institute which have been raised by members of your faculties. Please feel free to use this summary of the issues in discussing the University's position. MSU-DGEI Relationships DGEI originated wh~n a group of geographic faculty from several universities made community contacts in Detroit to provide instruction in topics of community interest_ In the 1969-70 academic year, Michigan State agreed, on an experimental basis, to join with DGEI in an effort to extend certain University resources to inner city youth in Detroit. As originally conceived, members of the MSU faculty would volunteer their services as instructors in a limited number of community geography and-research courses. Credits thus received by students for approved courses would De taken into consideration in admitting them to MSU. Over the last academic year, however, the number of courses offered and the stuaents enrolled by DGEI in Detroit escalated rapidly without any formal University approval. Nevertheless, the MSU Center for Urban Affairs, working through the Continuing Education Service, provided a total of $49,000 for this experimental program. The funds went essentially to cover tuition costs for the students and were derived from funds which normally would have paid the salaries of the volunteer instructors on an "overload" basis. The instructors, in effect, donated their class time free of charge, although they were reimbUl:sed from these funds for subsistence and travel costs. MSU has admitted as full- time students this fallIl of those who participated in last year'sDGEI courses and who received acceptable academic credits. No promises were made at any time to admit all or any speCific numfier of those recommended by DG EI. A number of other state institutions had been approached originally to join in supporting the DGEI experiment, and MSU through the State Department of Education, initiated a meeting of these universities last June to discuss such support. However, none of the other institutions felt it was in a position to provjde resources tnDGEl_ ft is ironic, therefore, that Michigan State University, which was the only ani~rsity willing to work with DGEI, should now be singled out for approbrium and pressure tactics. MSU's Position UnNersity officers and deans have met twice in special session with DGEI represelltatives in the past week to discuss relationships with the program. The Administrative Group recommended continuing the program as an experiment during the current academic year. In a statement, the Group added: "Conduct of the program during this period should be in accordance with the operational conditions spelled out in the provost's memorandum of Sept. 16, 1970. Decisions on expansion or future relationships should be reserved pending the recommendations of the Commission on Admissions and a thorough evaluation of the program's results by the University's Educational Policies Committee or Office of Institutional Research.'" . 1'Ile State's Vaews In a related development, President Wharton has received a letter from John Rorter, Acting Superintendent of Public Instruction. Porter's letter raised a number 0f cpaestions concerning how best the state educational system can meet the needs of disacl.rantaged students, the feasibility of MSU's long - term involvement, and the 1IOie which should be played by community colleges. Porter asked: "How can Michigan State University b~st marshal its resources to ldent'ify, counsel and prepare non-high school graduates for direct matriculation into msu .. when thousands of apparently "qualified" high school students are denied mcn access?" He added: "If you concur with my contention that the major function Qf the Detroit Geographical Expedition and Institute has been to study methods and ~chniques for aiding disadvantaged students, it may be advisable that the program flat be e~panded until the issues ... have been clarified." He suggested the convening of a meeting of the presidents of appropriate i.OIllRlunity colleges and officials of several four - year institutions to explore these matters. Adininisttative Problems Some supporters of the DGEI experiment characterize MSU's insistence on adhelence to administrative and academic regulations as bureaucratic red tape. fIow.ever, the university is legally responsible for dispensing its public funds only for demonstrably legitimate educational purposes, and it is accountable for their use. Secondly, the requirement that academic standards be upheld is for the protection of the students as well as the university. A student who is given questionable academic "credit" is not only being misled, he is being done a distinct disservice. DGEI has expanded courses and enrollments without prior University approval. This has produced confused and deceptive situations in which University course approval has not been sought until after they have been completed, and instructors have not received prior certification by their department. In numerous instances student performances have not been adequately graded or recorded. The rhetoric being used by DGEI in an effort to raise the emotional content of the debate is considerably misleading, not to say distorted. While the experiment is an interesting approach to inner - city problems, it is only one, and a very recent, part of MSU's extensive minority youth. At this point, there is not an objective evaluation in hand of even DGEI's first year's,operation. DGEI also speaks of autonomy and "community control." There is no evidence of what this "community" consists of, or ofDGEI's own legal status. Another phrase used by DGEI is "tuition free," calling on the university to establish a tuition - free zone for inner - city Detroit youth recruited by DGEI. Michigan State University has no legal authority to provide tuition free enrollment to anyone. As noted the funds. provided by MSU to cover tuition costs have been derived from extra compensation which the instructors involved normally would llave received for '~over1oad" teaching efforts. The University did, however, reduce the regular off - campus credit - hour tuition on a limited basis in keeping with the experimenta l nature of the program. Summary Michigan State regrets very much that those leading DGEI have seen fit to use a valid experimental concept as a springboard to the creation of a vastly expanded operational program which has not been evaluated, approved by MSU or the State Department of Education or for which the finan~ial resources do not now exist. The University's involvement with DGEI has been conducted in good faith; indeed, because of its sincere desire to help, it has gone much farther to be understanding and cooperative than any other institution of higher education in the state. We will continue, as in the past, to work with those who have innovative and feasible approaches to the serious problems of education. IfDGEI wishes to conduct itself within this framework, MSU is prepared to continue the experiment during this academic year, while joining in a coordinated exploration to find long - term solutions and support for this type of effort. Demonstrators outnum bered, national survey shows Students taking part in volunteer activities aimed at improving conditions in the community around them far outnumbered students participating in campus demonstrations, according to reports from universities , across the country. A recent survey of the 101 university members of the National Assocation of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC) revealed that student commitment to social service projects will be at an all-time high on campuses this fall. John H. Cauley Jr., director ofvoluteer programs at MSU, said that interest in volunteer activities has remamed high among students here. The Univenity is a pioneer in systemizing and encouraging student volunteerism. Cauley said his office maintains a list of about 3,000 student applications for volunteer work. In addition, he said, a number of other projects (The Raft, Listening Ear and others) are not coordinated throught his office. He agreed with the conclusion that voluteer projects attract more students than do demonstrations. CLEARING HOUSE, Inc., begun at the University of Colorado five years ago, is another well-established coordinated undertaking. It has grown from 150 to 1,000 students. The University of California at Santa Barbara also has impressive community service credentials, with 3,000 students donating approximately 160,000 hours in community service in 1969-70. Rutgers University has appOinted a community development specialist to coordinate student volunteers this fall. North Carolina A & T State University has set up a similar position. At the University of Washington, a special career counselor has been added to provide more career possibilities for students and graduates seeking alternatives to employment in government or big business. *** AT THE UNIVERSITY of Tennessee, the Board of Trustees was recently reorganized to include an Urban Affairs and Service Committee to handle, among other things, student service to urban areas. to testify The variety of new courses centered on community problem solving that will be introduced on NASULGC campuses this fall further the student enthusiasm. The Universtiy of Texas at Austin has adOOd a course, "Community Involvement," and the University of Alabama's Experimental College is sponsoring a non-credit program on community action. Cornell University has a budding Human Activities Program to give credit for work in the community. Operation Outreach, a new student work-study and volunteer service program, was started at the University of Florida last winter. Approximately 25 students were placed in jobs in low income areas. Student volunteers from the university's project SAMSON (Student Action Management for Socio-Economic Opportunity Network) also work on Outreach projects, designed to "take education out of ivory tower the community." vacuums and into