Task force  to  study women's  status 

MRS  BERNIE  SMITH 
OFFICE  OF  SEC  OF  FAC 
EAST  WING  LIBRARY 

003  010 

An ombudswoman. 
A  full  -
Health Center. 

time  gynecologist  in  Olin 

More  women  in  the  admissions  and 
fmancial 
the 
aids  offices,  and 
Counseling  Center  and  Placement 
Bureau  .  .  .  a  few  of  the  suggestions 
made  at  a recent meeting called by  the 
female  members  of  the  Committee 
Against Discrimination (CAD). 

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Purpose  of 

the  meeting  was 

to 
establish a task force  to study the status 
of women on campus. About 30 women 
and  four  men  ~ attended.  They 
-
discussed  areas  in  which  they  thought 
iiscriminati,QIl  of  women  occurs, 
including  academic  and  vocational 
counseling, 
recruitment,  hiring, 
job. 
residency 
salaries  and  promotions, 
requirements  and  problems  within 
certain  divisions  of the  University (such 
as  the  case  ~f no full - time gynecologist 
at Olin). 

While  the  suggestions  called for  more 
female  representation in various units of 
the  University, a member  of the Schooi 
of  Nursing  faculty  talked  about  that 

Wage report, 
bargaining on 
AAUP slate 

Faculty  salaries  and  collective 
bargaining  headline  the  agenda  for  the 
first  open  meeting  of the MSU  chapter 
the  American  Association  of 
of 
University  Professors,  Thursday  (Nov. 
19)  at  7:30  p.m. in the  Gold Room of 
the Union. 

A  brief  review  of  current  faculty 
salaries  will  be  presented  by  Einar 
Hardin,  professor of labor and industrial 
relations.  Hardin will also  discuss  salary 
changes from previous years. 

Four  faculty  members  from  Michigan 
schools  which  now  have  collective 
bargaining  agreements  will  speak  at  the 
meeting. 

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Profs.  Jim McKay  and Joe  DeMent of 
Oakland  University  will  discuss  the 
situation  at  their  school,  where  the 
AAUP  was  recently  recognized  as  the 
bargaining  agent 
faculty.  Also 
speaking  will  be  Tom  Brite  and  Bob 
Clason  of Central  Michigan  University, 
where  a  local  unit  of  the  Michigan 
Association  for  Higher'  Education  (an 
the  Michigan  Education 
arm  of 
in 
Association) 
bargaining. 

represents 

faculty 

AAUP  secretary  W.  Fred  Graham 
associate  professor  in  Justin  Morrill 
College,  said  the  open  meeting  is  an 
effort 
the 
possibilitiesaD4 ,perils  of  collective 
bargaining at MSU. 

to  bt:~  dialogue  on 

school's  experience  as  an  all  - female 
faculty  and  administration.  She  said 
that  having  women  in  administrative 
is  no  guarantee  against 
positions 
discrimination,  because  of 
the 
the  nursing  school, 
experience 
where,  she  contended,  there  is  "poor 
support from  the  University" in  money 
or commitment. 

in 

She  said  examples  included  promised 
faculty and student enrollment increases 
(to  come  with 
the  Life  sciences 
Buildings)  which  have  never  been 
fulfilled,  plus  problems  in  acquiring 
needed equipment,  even  lightbulbs.  She 
also  cited a problem in wirming seats on 
college  or  University  committees, since 
the  nursing  school 
is  one  of  17 
(natural 
departments 
science)  that is  predominately  male.' 
*  *  * 
the meeting included: 

OTHER suggestions  by  the  women  at 

in  a  college 

- A  breakdown  on  jobs  and  salaries 
offered  through  the  Placement  Bureau 

(Continued on page 2) 

- Drawing by Bob Brent 

MSU Faculty News ' 

Vol. 2,No.8 

Michigan State University 

Nov. 17 ,1970 

Council set for  another try 
'-a:rlne  participation issue' 

The  motion  before  the  Academic 
Council  when  it  reconvenes  today  at 
3:15  p.m.  in  the  Con  Con  Room of the 
International  Center  concerns 
decreasing  the percentage  vote  required 
for  Council actions to be referred to the 
Academic Senate. 

Currently,  an  action  by  the  Council 
receiving  a simple  majority vote (51  per 
cent)  is  forwarded  to  the  Senate.  A 
motion  from  Thomas  H.  Greer, 
professor  of humanities,  would  change 
that 51  per cent to 40 per cent. 

The  Council  will  meet  today  in  its 
fourth  November  session 
to  resume 
consideration  of  the  special  Panel 
Report  on  Student  Participation  in 
Academic Governance. 

Concern  over  faculty  prerogatives 
continued  to  prevail  at  the  Nov.  10 
meeting,  as  amendments  to  the 
document  were  approved  to  remove 
faculty  affairs  from  the  purview  of the 
student  affairs  committee ( whose name 
was  amended  from  its  original  title  of 
Faculty..Student Affairs Committee). 

Faculty affairs  are  part of the current 
committee's  charge,  but  with  the 
student  participation recommendations, 
the  new  committee  would  have  a 
majority  of  student  members  (11 
students to seven faculty). 

Paul  M.  Hurrell,  professor  in  Justin 
Morrill  College,  offered  a  motion  to 
deny  faculty  members  on  this 
committee voting privileges. The motion 
would  have  provided  a  parallel  to 
previous Council action:  If students are 
not  to  vote  on  faculty  affairs,  faculty 
would  not  vote  on  student affairs.  The 
motion was defeated. 

A  May  12  Council  action  which 
revised  Article  Seven  of the  Academic 
Freedom  Report  (pertaining  to 
that 
amendment  procedures  for 
document)  was  rescinded  on  a  motion 
by  Charles  Killingsworth,  University 
professor  of  labor  and  industrial 

relations.  The  May  12  action  had 
provided  the  committee  on  student 
affairs with veto power on amendments. 
In  other  action  on  the  student 

participation report, the Council: 

-

Increased  the  graduate  student 
representation  on  the  business  affairs 
committee from one to two. 

- Changed  the  selection  proce<iures 
for  faculty  members  of  the  student 
affairs  and  public  safety  committees 
from  appointment  by  the  president 
from  among  a  list  of candidates  to  be 
compiled  by  the  Committee  on 
Committees  to  actual  selection  by  the 
Committee on Committees. 

- Amended  the  bylaws  to clarify the 
relationship  between  the  Council  and 
the Senate. 
The fall  term  Senate  meeting has  been 
postponed indefinitely. 

Telephone rates increased, 
but discounts  are offered 

The  new  telephone  rates for Michigan 
that went  into  effect  Oct.  20 mean that 
the  University's  phone  bill  will  go  up, 
but  there  are  several  ways  that campus 
callers can help keep the toll down. 

Main  feature  of the new rate system is 
a  discount  offered  to  callers  who  dial 
their  own  intrastate  long  distance .calls. 
Charges  for  long  distance  calls  made  to 
points outside the state are not affected. 
Under  the  new  rates,  the  three  -
minute  period  for 
intrastate  lorig 
distance  calls  has been  dropped,  and all 
such  calls  are  being  charged  by  the 
minute.  This  means  that  one  - or 

two-minute  calls  under  the  new  system 
can  cost less  than  calls  of three minutes 
or more under the old rates. 

The  new  long  distance  rates  wit~ 
Michigan  range  from  5  cents  a  minute 
for  calls  below  20  miles  to  35  cents  a 
minute for  calls over 200 miles. 

Persons  dialing  their  own  calls  receive 
a  20  per  cent  discount  on  weekdays 
from  7  a.m.  to 5  p.m.  and  on Sundays 
from  5  p.m.  to  11  p.m. A 40 per cent 
discount is  given  at  all  other  times,  and 
on  Christmas,  New  Year's, 

(Continued on page 3) 

Varner selected to speak 

Durward  B.  Varner, 

at fall term commencement 
former  MSU 
administrator  and  Oakland -University 
chancellor,  will  return  to  the  campus 
term 
Dec. '  5 
commencement address. 

As  Oakland's  fIrst  chancellor,  Varner 
guided  the  school  from  its  inception 
with  570  students  to  an  enrollment  of 
nearly 7,000. 

of off - campus programs at MSU. 

to  deliver 

the 

fall 

The  ceremony  begins  at  3  p.m.  in the 

Auditorium. 
Varner 

is  now  chancellor  at  the 
University  of Nebraska,  a post he  took 
last  Feb.  1  after  10  years  as  Oakland 
chancellor.  Before  that  he  had  been 
director  of  the  Cooperative  Extension 
Service and later vice president in charge 

Established  as  an  affIliate  of MSU, 
Oakland became  an  autonomous school 
earlier this year. 

Varner holds  a bachelor's degree from 
Texas  A&M  and  the  master's  degree 
from  the  University  of Chicago.  He will 
receive  an  honorary  doctor  of  laws 
degree at the fall commencement. 

MSUFaculty News, Nov. 17,1970 

Women's  status  examined  •  •  • 

(Concluded from page 1) 

together with a  breakdown  on the same 
jobs and salaries after they are  accepted; 
- A  questionnaire  sent  to  unit heads 
.regardin" 
the  hirirtg  of  women 
employes, similar  to the one sent earlier 
this year to department heads regarding ' 
1he hiring of minority employes; 

- The  College  of  Human  Ecology's 
budget  fot:  female  graduate  students 
compared 
for  graduate 
departments in other colleges. 

to  budgets 

:- Comparison  of  ratios  between  a 
department's graduate students (male to 
female) and its graduate assistants (male 
to female); 

- An  irtvestigation  into  the  advisirtg 
female  students  receive, the way they're 

admInIstrators  "when 
they  have 
aspirations",  and  the  feedback  they get 
from  admirtistrators  and  the  Office  of 
Financial  Aids  when  they want to enter 
fields  usually  considered  male 
-
oriented,  such  as  human  medicirte  or 
physics. 

A  question  was  raised concernirtg  the 
willingness  of  irtdividual  women  to 
follow 
through  cases  of  alleged 
discrimirtation  by  testirtg  them  before 
the  Anti 
- .  Discrirnirtation'  Judicial 
Board. 

"I thirtk  irt  general  women operate on 
a  defeatist  attitude," said Mary Virgirtia 
Moore,  chainnan  of  business  law  and 
office  admirtistration,  because they may 
not  want  their  "case  histories  bared." 
Other  women  suggested  that  they may 
not  want 
their 
husbands,"  or  their own  possibilities  of 

"jeopardize 

to 

treated  by  male  professors  and • 
Two units 'are  implementi~g 
antidiscrimination policies 

future 

getting 
recommendations,  or 
they  don't  want  to  be  considered too 
aggressive. 

THE  TASK  FORCE  will  study  areas 
discussed  at  the  meetirtg  to  document 
PQssible  areas  of discrimirtation; It is  to 
submit  a  report 
the  Committee 
to 
.Against  Discrimirtation,  which will  then 
:President  Wharton  With 

report  to 
recommendations for the University. 

-

the 

Some  women  at 

'meetirtg, 
however, 
thought  that  more  than  a 
short - range study is needed. They said 
long 
range  permanent  bodies  or 
positions  for  women  on  campus  are 
needed,  and  they  suggested  an irtcrease 
irt  female  positions  irt  the various  units 
of the University. 

MSU  Trustee  Warren  Huff,  who  has 
expressed  irtterest  in  women's  rights, 
attended the meeting, but said later that 
he thought little would come of it. 

He  noted the low profeSSOrial ranks of 
the  female  members  of the  Committee 
Agairtst  Discrimination  and  the  Anti 
Discrimination  Judicial  Board.  He  also 
pointed  out that little  new information 
or complaints were aired at the meeting, 
but  he  did  express  interest  irt 
the 
complaint  concerning  the  lack  of  a 
fulltime gynecologist at Olin. 

Procedures  to  be  followed by the task 
force  - and how the  task force  will  be 
comprised 
have  not  yet  been 
determirted.  The  woman  subcommittee 
of the Committee AgainstDiscrimination 

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will  be  meetirtg  sometime irt  the future, 
according to Mrs. Rita Zemach, assistant 
professor  of  electrical  engirteerirtg  and 
systems  science,  and  chairman  of  the 
CAD. 

*  *  * 
CATALYST  FOR  the  study  was  a 
July  8  memorandum  to  CAD  from 
Robert  Perrin,  vice  president 
for 
University relations.  _ 

"Presid,ent  Wharton  has  asked  the 
Committee  Agairtst  Discrirnirtation,  ill 
conjunction  with  the  Office  of  Equal 
Opportunity  Programs,  to  give  special 
a ttention 
illsurirtg  equality  of 
treatment  to  women  at  all  levels  of 
activity at MSU," Perrin. wtrote;, 

to 

Suggested  ·areas 
discrimirtation include: . 

~£.vJ  possible 

- Recruitment of women faculty . 
- Tenure status of women faculty. 
- Salary  levels  of  men  and  women 

performing the same work. 

- Promotion policies, criteria and rate 
of  advancement  for  women  compared 
to men. 

- Measures  to irtcrease  the number of 
women  irt  faculty  and  administrative 
posts. 

- ReCruiting  practices  of  employers 

visitirtg the Placement Bureau. 

- Job  specifications  and  salary  scales 
for  men  and  women  in  administrative  -
professional  positions  performing  the 
same work.  _  BEVERL Y lWITCHELL 

Committee,  Board members 

Members of the Committee Against Discrimination: 
Faculty - Rita Zemach (chairman), assistant professor of electrical engineering 
and systems scien<;:e;  Leslie  B.  Rout, associate professor of history; Harold Hart, 
professor of chemistry. 

Administrative - Professional - Donald R. McMillan, Hubbard Hall manager 
Clerical - Technical - Ruthann Hamlin, office assistant in chemistry 
AFSCME Union Local 1585 - Jose Chavez 
Undergraduates - John D. Jones and Claire Guthrie 
Graduate student - Chris Falvey 
Executive  secretary  - Joseph H.  McMillan,  director  of Equal  Opportunity 

Programs 

Members of the Anti  - Discrimirtation Judicial Board: 
Faculty  - Carolyn  Stieber,  assistant  professor  of political  science;  Clifford 
Pollard,  (chairman)  associate  professor  of botany and  plant pathology; Herbert 
Garfmkel, dean of James Madison College. 

Administrative - Professional - Thomas A.  Dutch, Brody Complex manager 
Clerical- Technical - Donald Cross, physical plant 
AFSCME Union Local 1585 - Arnold Rodriguez 
Undergraduates - William H. Powers; Carol Gregory; Kenneth Town 
Gradute Student - Annamarie Hayes 
Ex officio  - Mary  Sharp, (secretary) assistant director of Equal Opportunity 

Programk 

office  of Joseph  H.  McMillan,  director 
of Equal  Opportunity  Programs.  These 
cases  are  irtvestigated,  and  some  are 
referred  to  the  judicial  board;  others 
may  be  settled  at  this  level  or.  the 
all~gations may be dropped. 

Complaints  have  covered  the  whole 
range  of  the  University  community, 
McMillan  said.  Students  have  had  the 
most complaints, but none  of these  has 
been  by  minority  students,  he  said. 
Most  complaints  concern  civil liberties, 
such  as  problems  concerning  the length 
of hair, particularly from athletes. Some 
complairtts  have  come  from  female 
students, McMillan said. 

Two  cases  have  been  presented  to the 
judicial  board,  and  both  have  been 
settled.  One  involved  a  charge  of  sex 
discrimination  in  reference  to  salary. 

The  second  was  a  charge  from  Pauline 
Hess,  former  cheerleader  coach,  against 
three  people  for  racism,  discrimination 
and harassment. 

The judicial board was unable  to find 
to  substantiate  the  charges 

evidence 
against anyone irtvolved. 

Most  of the  complaints broug!:J.t  to his 

office are groundless, McMillan said. 

"Discrimination  is  very  difficult  to 
prove,"  he  said.  "You  have  to  have 
cpnclusive  evidence,  and  that's  hard  to 
come by." 

The  Committee  Against 
Discrimination  and  the  Anti  -
Discrimination  Judicial  Board  were 
established  Feb.  28,  1970,  following  a 
study  headed  by  Wilbur  B.  Brookover, 
professor  of sociology and of education, 
and associate  director  of the  Center  for 
Uman Affairs. 

Both  bodies  were  created  to 
implement  University  policies  against 
discrimination  on  the  basis  of  race, 
creed, ethnic origin or sex. 

··The  University  must  strive  actively 
to  build  a  community  in  which 
opportunity  is  equalized,  and  use  its 
facilities  and  human  resources 
to 
develop  the  skills  and  opportunities  of 
the members of all  groups  so  they may 
play responsible  and productive  roles irt 
SOCiety,"  stated  the  document 
establishing the two groups. 

The  Committee  Against 
Discrimination  is  empowered  to 
"conduct  or  direct  its  staff to conduct 
periodic  reviews  of the  operation of the 
to 
several  units  of  the  University, 
identify policies  or  practices which may 
reflect  discrimination  after  appropriate 
notification of the  President." 

TJ,.e  committee  held  its first meeting 
irt  May  and  began  to  establish  the 
procedures  to  use  in  its  investigations. 
One  irtvestigation  of  a  University  unit 
has  taken  place  thus  far,  with a  report 
yet  to  be  madel Another  subcommittee 
is  beginning  a  study  into  a  second 
University  divi;sion,  and  a  third  has 
begun  a  study  irtto  the status of women 
at the University. 
' 
*  *  * 
WHILE  THE  Committee  Against 
Discrimination  looks  irtto broader areas, 
the  Anti - Discrimination Judicial Board 
will  hear  individual  cases.  Some  25  to 
30  complairtts  have  been brought to the 

Commericement dress 
Faculty  who  wish  to" rent  academic 
apparel  for  fall  term  commencement 
exercises - on Dec. 5  - have  been asked 
to  irtquire  at  the  Union  Desk  or  to  call 
355-3498. Deadlirte  for  orderirtg faculty 
attire irt Tuesday, Dec.  1. 

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MSU Facuity News, Nov. 17, 1970 

Innovations shape the residence  halls 

that 

Innovations 

incorporate  both 
physical  and  social  change  have  been in 
operation  since  the  beginning  of  fall 
in  several  of  the  University's 
term 
residence halls. 

The  changes  have  occurred  in  seven 
halls,  according to  Douglas S. Zatechka, 
a  residence  halls  area  director  in  the 
dean of students office. 

Zatechka  said that the innovations are 
for 
designed  to  provide opportunities 
"new  and  unique  living  standards,  and 
for  educational  programming 
experiences 
for  both  students  and 
staff." 

' 

They  are;'.aiso,! to ' allow  students  to 
exercise  '.  willi! 
from  among 
choice 
various  living  - learning  environments" 
he  added. 

Residence  hall  innovations  this  term 

include: 

FEE HALLS 

Sixty  -

five  more  apartments  have 
been  constructed,  bringing  the  total  of 
apartments  to  111.  Each  includes  new 
furniture  and  decorations,  separate 
living  and bedroom areas, a kitchenette, 

dishes  and  silverware,  carpeting,  air 
conditiong,  linen  and  phone  service. 
They  are  offered  as  singles,  doubles  or 
four - man units. Residents can purchase 
meal  tickets  in  the  cafeteria or prepare 
their  own  meals.  Apartments  are 
available  in  both  men's  and  women's 
areas. 

The  staffs  of East  and West  Fee have 
combined  into  a  single  administrative 
structure.  No  resident  assistants  are 
assigned  to  the  apartment  areas.  One 
floor  of West  Fee, formerly an all- male 
residence, iS,available to women. 

AKERS HALLS 
Akers  offers  20  student  apartments, 
with  an  emphasis  sirnilarto  that  in  Fee: 
enhance  a  student's  opportunity  to 
develop  through  coeducational  living, 
making  value  judgments  and  decisions 
and  working  with,  others  in  solving 
problems. 

MCDONEL HALLS 
East  McDonel  operates  under  a 
program  whereby  selected  campus  and 
other  visitors  live  in  the  hall  as  "guests 
in  residence"  for  short  time  periods 

during  which  they speak and meet with 
McDonel students. 

Guests  so  far  have  been  State  Rep. 
Jack  Faxon  of  Detroit,  Robert  C. 
Underwood, manager  of residence halls; 
and Leonard Stuttman, recent candidate 
for the State Senate from Lansing. 

SHAW HALLS 
Both  East  and  West  Shaw  have 
introduced  programs  aimed 
toward 
coeducational  liVing.  Alternate  floors 
house  men  and  women,  with  students 
responsible  for  directing  the  new living 
pattern and for planning programs. 

HOLDEN HALLS 
A  focal point is the new Black Culture 
Room  in  East  Holden  that  includes  an 
800  - volume  library  on  black  culture, 
plus  tape  and record libraries. Programs, 
discussions  and  social  functions  are 
developed  by 
the  Holden  Hall 
Committee for Racial Understanding. 

MAYO HALL 
One  of the  two  small  coed  halls  this 
year, 
it  has  239  men  and  women 
upperclass  and  transfer  students  in  a 
new  coeducational  living  arrangement. 
First  floor  east  and  third  flbor  house 
women;  fIrst  floor  west  and  second 
floor  house  men.  First  floor east  and 
fust 
floor  west,  each  housing  14 
students,  have  no  resident  assistants  -
an experimental arrangement. 

WILLIAMS HALL 
Williams  was  remodeled  last  summer 
to  provide  more  luxurious  living  for 
upperclass  students.  It  is  a  coed  hall, 
and students are assigned on request. All 
rooms  have  carpeting,  drapes,  new 
refrigerators  and  color  - coordinated  . 
in 
lamps.  Meals  are  not  available 
Williams,  but students may take a board 
contract in another hall  on  Circle  Drive 
if they wish. 

A-P committee studying 

Telephone rates.  •  •  • 

classification procedures 

A  current  look  at  the  University's 
administrative  - professional 
classifiqation  system  may 
lead  to  a 
recommendation  that a full - scale study 
be  made  of  the  campus  classification 
procedures. 

A  14  - member  committee  of  the 
Administrative - Professional Association 
is  examining the classification system to 
determine if such a study is needed and to 
decide  how  the  A-P  Association  should 
be involved. 

Chairman of the committee is J. Henry 
Backus,  employment  speCialist  in  the 
personnel center. 

At the group's first meeting last month, 
Backus reported, it was noted that several 
aspects  of  the  University's  wage  and 
salary  administration  are  not  clearly 

understood  - such as job classifications, 
titles, specifications and descriptions,anil 
levels of responsibility. 

At a meeting last week, the committee 
met  with  Gerald  O'Connor  of  the 
,Personnel  Center.  Members  also 
discussed  the  advisability  of conducting 
a  study  of the  classification  system  at 
this time. 

Another  session  of the  committee  is 
planned  for  next  week,  at  which  time 
the  members  will  discuss 
their 
conclusions  and  possible 
recommendations. 

Recommendations  from  the 
committee  will·be  reported  to  the  A-P 
Association  for  action.  Backus  said  his 
committee  has  no  deadline  for 
completing its task. 

(Concluded from page I) 

Independence,  Labor  and  Thanksgiving 
Days. 

Under  the  new  rates,  for  example,  it 
costs  24  cents  a  minute 
to  phone 
Traverse  City  if the call is  direct - dialed 
between  7  a.m.  and  5  p.m.  on  a 
weekday.  The  same  call costs 30 cents a 
minute  if it  is  station - to - station  but 
involves  operator  assistance.  A  daytime 

IDBISI 

Tuesday,  Nov.  17  - 7  p.m . . .  President 
issues  on 

Wharton  explores  campus 
"Presidential Forum." 

Wednesday,  Nov.  18  - 7  p.m . . •  Paul 
Zukofsky  and  Gilbert  Kalish  perform  the 
Sonata  in  A  Minor,  Op.  23  on  "Beethoven: 
Sonatas for Violin and Piano." 

Friday,  Nov.  20  - 7p.m ... The local  area 
housing  crisis  is  examined  on  "Assignment 
10." 

Sunday,  Nov.  22  - 12  noon  .. . First in an 
eight - part series  ("Nader  Report") featuring 
investigations  of  Ralph  Nader.  3 p.m . . . The 
story  of  the  man  who  led  freed  slaves  from 
the  South  to  the  West  is  featured  on  "Black 
Frontier."  10  p.m . .. "Swan  Lake" features 
prima  ballerina  Lois  Smith  and  the National 
Ballet of Canada.  11  p.m ... "NET Playhouse 
Presents  the  Stratford  National  Theater  of 
Canada: Three Musketeers:· 

mlBj 

Tuesday,  Nov.  17  -

8:30  p.m.  (FM) : 
Beethoven's  Symphony  No.4, Concerto  No. 
4,Op.  58 
is  performed  by  the  Boston 
Symphony. 

Wednesday,  Nov.  18  - 8  p.m.  (FM):  "The 
Second  Mrs.  Tangueray"  is  performed  on 
"BBC World Theatre." 

Thursday ,  Nov.  19  - 11:30  a.m.  (AM): 
Interviews with "Four Angry Congressmen" is 
the topic for "A Federal Case." 

Friday, Nov.  20  - 7  p.m.  (FM):  The  opera 

is "Die Walkure." 

Sunday,  Nov.  22  - 10  p.m.  (FM):  The 
Boston String q uartet  plays chamber music by 
Schoenberg  an d  Schubert  on  "New  England 
Conservatory Concerts," a new series. 

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person - to - person call to Traverse City 
costs  80  cents  for  the  first  minute  and 
30  cents  for  each  minute  thereafter, 
plus a service charge of 50 cents. 

*  *  * 
NEW  RATES  31so  affect  use  of the 
lines  to 
"foreign  exchange"  (FX) 
Detroit.  Although  the  University  pays a 
basic monthly rate for lines that link the 
campus  to Detroit,  there  is  also  a  small 
charge  for each call made on those lines. 
Discounts under  the  new rates apply  to 
call1;  dialed  via  the  access  ( 171)  to 
suburbs in the Detroit calling are~. 

There  is  no  per  - call  charge  for  calls 
to  the  Ann  Arbor,  Grand  Rapids  and 
Pontiac calling areas. 

A  new  single  installation  charge  of 
$8.80  replaces  the  varied  charges  for 
installation,  connections,  changes  or 
moves under the old system. 

This  means  that  campus  customers 
considering  any  phone  or  service 
alterations will save money by -haVing  all 
those  alterations  done  with  a  single 
service call. 

*  *  * 
MONTHLY  RATES  for  residence hall 

telephones rose from $4.65 to $4.80. 

There  are  some  9,400  phones  in  the 
dormitories  and  2,400 more  in  married 
housing  units.  Campus  offices  have 
about  7,300  phones,  including 
extension.  The  whole  campus has more 
than 19,000 telephones. 

Beethoven concert 
salutes Kennedy 

A  concert  commemorating 

the 
Beethoven  bi'centennia)  and 
memorializing the late President John F. 
Kennedy  will  be  p resented  Sunday 
(Nov.  22)  by  the  MSU  Symphony 
Orchestra.  It  will  be  at  4  p.m.  in  the 
Lansi n g  Sexton  High  Scho ol 
Auditorium. 

The  State  Singers  and  the  Albion 
join  conductor 
Choral  SOCiety  will 
Dennis  Burkh  and the  MSU Symphony. 
includes  Beethoven's 
"Symphony  No.9"  and  the  "Cantata 
on the Death of Franz Joseph II." 

The  program 

Conrad  Donakowski,  assistant 
professor  in  James  Madison  College, 
points  out in  the concert program notes 
that  «both men  (preSident Kennedy and 
Frarfz  Joseph  II)  seem  to  epitOmize  the 
hopes,  failures  and joys of their times." 

MSUFacuItyNews,Nov; 17,1970 

East Lansing:  'Music  capital for  a  week' 

(Editor's  Note:  Chicago  Daily  News  reviewer  Bernard  Jacobson  was  among 
those attending the recent Beethoven  Festival at MSU.  Following is his review in 
the Nov. 9 issue of the Daily News). 

Sometimes  it's  London.  Sometimes  it's  Vienna.  Sometimes  it's  Paris,  or New 
York or Chicago.  But last week the capital of the musical world was East Lansing, 
where  the  touring  Chicago  Symphony  joined  forces  with  conductor  - pianist 
J?aniel Barenboim, his cellist wifeJacquelinedu Pre and violinist Pinchas Zukerman 
in as  glorious a  commemoration  of the" Beethoven bicentenary as you could hope 
to come uopon. 

The  fonnal  concerts  in  this Michigan  State  University  presentation were  only 
part of the  story,  but  the  two I  was  able  to attend must  take  pride  of place, for 
they offered the kIDd of music - making we  dream about yet rarely hear. 

*'  *  * 
ON  TUESDAY,  Barenboim  gave  a  recital  of  four  Beethoven  sonatas.  His 
uncompomising  musicality was  evident  at  once in  the  daring yet utterly logical 
tempo  he  set for  the  opening movement  of Opus  10 No.1 in C minor: this was a 
true  "Molto  allegro  e  con  brio," fiendishly  difficult to bring off in  perfonnance, 
but on this occasion managed with flawless tonal control and rhythmic poise. 

The  D  minor  Sonata,  Op.  31  No.2, and  the  G  major, Op.  79 (more  properly 
entitled  "Sonatina"),  provided  countless  other  proofs  of the  28  - year  - old 
pianist's extraordinary taste  and imagination. 

Appropriately, however, the late A major Sonata, Op. 101, was the crown of the 
evening,  most  particularly  in  the  almost  impalpable  delicacy  of the  brief slow 
movement - music  that on  Tuesday  seemed to be  not so  much heard as directly 
apprehended by the spirit. 

For  such  rarefied  Parnassian air,  the  3,800 - seat  University  Auditorium  was 

hardly  the  most  congenial  setting.  Still,  an  audience  of  1,500  more  than 
compensated  for  any  thinness  around  the  edges  by  a  quiet  attentiveness  and 
enthusiasm  seldom  encountered in  the more esthetic confmes  of Orchestra Hall. 
Two encores  -
the Adante from Opus 14 No.2, and the fmale from Opus 2 No.3 
- rewarded the standing ovation at the end. 
*  *  * 
NEXT DAY Barenboim the pianist gave  place to Barenboim the conductor. This 
was  the  frrst  time  he  has  led  the  Chicago  Symphony,  and  it  ought  to  be  the 
beginning of a long and fruitful collaboration. As Barenboim said afterwards  with 
an  unbelievable  shake  of the  head, "They respond so quickly to anything y~u ask 
of them - so what are you going to rehearse?" 
I-?s  easy  music~ authority,  profound knowledge  of his  scores and impeccably 
lUCId baton technique drew a no less enthusiastic reaction from the orchestra men. 
I  don't intend, for  the  moment, to go  into interpretative  details about the two 
works  on  the  program  - Dvorak's  Cello  Concerto  and  Beethoven's  "Eroica" 
Sy~p~ony - because  those  who were  not there will have a chance to.remedy the 
OIlllSSlon. 

This  week  Jacqueline  du  Pre  (who  played  on  Wednesday,  witli.  much  more 
assurance  and  serenity  than  on  her  Orchestra  Hall  appearance last  season) is  to 
record the Dvorak concerto with Barenboim and the Symphony. 

The  East Lansing perfonnance, given before an enthralled near - capacity house, 
was the most beautifully played "Eioica" I have ever heard. I  shall say more about 
~e interpretation  after  (last)  Saturday's  repeat  (in  Chicago).  Meanwhile,  let  it 
srrnply  be  stated that anyone who voluntarily misses this popular concert deserves 
never to hear music again. 

(Reprinted with  pennission from  the Chicago Daily News) 

Two  geology  firsts  recorded here 

By PIDLLIP E. MILLER 
Science Editor,  News  Bureau 

" . . .  We  may,  without presumption, 
inquire into what actually took place at 
.the  Creation:  And, by examining stones 
them, 
and  rocks,  as  we  now  fmd 
endeavor  to  trace  what  changes  they 
have  uildergone  in the course  of ages." 
"- Granville I"eon,  1828 

Today's  geologist  is  as  a  baby 

beginning to comprehend its cradle. 

It  was  about  a  year  ago 

that  a 

geologist first  peered at  ocean granite -
a  rock  that  may  be  a  missing  piece  of 
the puzzle of continental drift. 

A  Columbia  University  team  dredged 
up the rock amidst submerged cliffs  of 
a ridge  south  of  Cuba and  north  of 
Venezuela. 

Prof. Thomas  A.  Vogel  and  graduate 
student  Bruce  Walker,  both  MSU 
geologists,  examined  the  rock  and 
brought back about 200 pounds of it. 

"Before  the  granite  discovery,"  said 
Vogel,  "geologists  thought  that  ocean 
floors  were  made  of basalt, but never of 
granite.  Granite  was 
thought  to  be 
continental rock only." 
*  *  * 
GAANITE  IS  formed  by interactions 
" of  the  earth's  crust,  whereas  basalt  is 
formed  from  rapidly  cooled  volcanic 
melts. 

Walker  said that "in many ways these 

frrst  granite  rocks  are  more  valuable 
than the fIrst  moon rocks  brought back 
by man." 

The  discovery  site 

is  active  with 

earthquakes. 

"A new continent could be  in its fIrst 

birth - throes," said Vogel. 

Analysis  of the  ocean  granite  is  now 

underway here. 

"I  don't  think  people  yet  realize  the 
possible  signiftcance  of  these  rocks," 
said Walker. 

*  *  * 
ON  THE  HEELS  of  this  study  on 
one  of  the  major  geological  puzzles 
came another frrst, again at MSU. 

For  150 years geologists'have  tried to 
explain  how  a  rock  that  was  common 
back  in  the  Paleozoic  Era  and  is  still 
around  today  came  into  creation.  The 
rock is  dolomite, which makes up about 
15  per  cent  of the  earth  accessible  to 
modern  technology  and  which  is  the 
storage rock for a good percentage of oil 
and gas. 

For five  decades,  geologists have tried 
to make the rock in the laboratory, with 
hopes  that  they  could  explain  its 
conditions  of  formation.  Such 
information  could  help  an  oil  driller 
estimate the next best ~lrilling sites. 

Perhaps  more  importantly  to  most 
geologists,  such  an  understanding  of 
dolomite  would  help  to  explain  an 
important  part  of  the  creation  of the 
earth. 

, "It was  one  of the  major  problems in 
the 
geology."  said  Robert  Ehrlich, 
major  professor  of  graduate  student 
Patricia Orr. 

While  cooking  for  girl  scouts  at 
summer  camp,  Miss  Orr  discovered  the 

rock  recipe.  She  brain  -
stormed 
geological  papers  on  dolomite  at  the 
summer  job  and  came  back  to  campus 
with the answer. 

' 

"It was  all  there  in the  literature just 
ready  for  somebody  to  put  together," 
said Miss Orr. 

Groups  invited to  develop 
campus-wide opinion polls 

Six  University groups have been asked 
to  join  in  creating a  formal  process for 
conducting campus - wide opinion polls. 
Letters  of invitation  to participate in 
an opinion poll committee have gone to 
Associated  Students of MSU (ASMSU), 
the  Council  of Graduate  Students,  the 
Academic  Council,  the Administrative  -
the  MSU 
Professional  Association, 
Employees  Association 
-
(clerical 
technical) and AFSCME Local  1585. 

The  committee, when fonned.,  will be 
charged  with  organizing  polling 
machinery,  selecting  and  formulating 
poll  topics,  arranging  for  the  counting 
of ballots  and disseminating  the  results. 
The  letters  were  sent  by  Robert 
Perrin,  vice  president  for  university 
relations.  The decision  to proceed grew 
out of recommendations made by an ad 
hoc  committee  which  met  during  the 

", 

., ., 
summer  to  discuss  the  feasibility  and 
desirability of opinion polls. 

Perrin said the  new group  would be  a 
permanent  committee  with 
responsibility  (or  all  phases  of  the " 
polling  operation.  ASMSU  and 
the 
Academic Council each would have two 
members,  and  the  other  organizations 
one  each.  The  committee would  solicit 
topics  for  poll  questions , from 
the 
campus community. 

"Although the  results of the balloting 
on  any  specific 
for 
infonnational  purposes  and  not  be 
binding,  it  is  vitally important that the 
process be trusted." 

issue  will  be 

He  emphasized that the polling would 
not  interfere  with  or  replace  internal 
elections  or  other  votes  conducted by 
constituent groups on campus. 

- Photographed by Dick Wesley