MSU News -Bulletin Vol. 2, No. 27 Michigan State University May 13, 1971 Inside. · · · .. PBK ceremony, page 2 · .. Peace research, page 4 · .. Provosttesponds, page 5 " . Hidd'en Lake Gardens, page 6 A-Ps get report on proposals Officers were elected the Administrative - Professional Association at its spring meeting last wee~ in the MSU University Club. for Elected were: William Kenney, assistant director of financial aids, to his third term as loan president; Warren C. McAlvey, collection officer in the comptroller's office, as ·treasurer; and to the board of directors - Mrs. Josephine Wharton, the director of Equal assistant Opportunity Programs, Carl Olson, news director of radio broadcasting, and Thomas Smith, manager of Mason - Abbot Halls. The terms begin Sept. 1. to Kenney reported for the executive board that the major activitiy for the past year has been summarizing the questionnaire on benefits and improvements, setting priorities among benefits desired, doing research, and presenting AP benefit proposals to the UniverSity's executive vice president. Those proposals include: * Continuation of current programs. * Long - term disability insurance for A~s, fully paid by the University. (This has been endorsed by Executive Vice President Jack Breslin, Kenney said.) * Increase in the base figure for computation of longevity pay (also endorsed by Breslin). * A three - part proposal including: Elimination of the ceiling on sick leave accrual; payment by the University of 50 per cent of an A-P's unused sick leave on retirement; and eligiblity for A-Ps with five years' continuing service for extended sick leave in cases of total disability, not to exceed six months. (Kenney said Breslin Will recommend adoption with two provisions: That an age limitation be set on retirement and the University provide better that record - keeping on A-Ps.) * Recommendation for a staff - benefit study of the life insurance program. * Acceleration of the vacation (Continued on page 3) Former Pres. John A. Hannah • • • ... once introduced a book of Phil Frank's cartoons with the suggestion that ''if he has a message, it must be that we -Photo by Robert B. Brown should not take ourselves and the work we do too seriously." See a story on Frank, page 5. Elected Faculty Council, Senate slate jinal .. m!l.~#.r.Ul.fl~~~t . week The agenda is brief for the Elected Fac1l.lty Council meeting Tuesday (May 18) at 3: 15 in the Con Con Room of the Cente~ for International Programs. The Council will hear a report on the Association of Michigan Collegiate F acultie s from Walter Johnson, professor of administration and higher education, (see related story, page 3), and a report on the status of the special ad hoc committee on collective bargaining. That report will be given by Herbert Jackson, professor of religion and chairman of the ad hoc committee. Faculty who have other items to be presented to the Council can notify Gordon Guyer, professor of entomology. and chairman of the Faculty Steering Committee. This 'is the last Elected Faculty Council meeting of the year. -THE ACADEMIC Senate will meet Wednesday (May 19) in 109 Anthony Hall at 3 p.m. to consider the following items: * The document on graduate rights to responsibilities. According and faculty bylaws the Senate may either pass, reject or refer this back to the Academic Council but may not amend it from the floor. * Bylaw tlmendments pertaining to in academic student participation governance. Since this is the third time the . Senate has considered the student p~ticipation report, these bylaws may be amended from the floor. * Changes in tenure regulations to giving written reasons for if reasons are allow ' nonreappointment requested in writing. This may be appr9ved, rejected or referred back to the Academic Council. If either the graduate rights and responsibilities document or the tenure regulations are rejected by the Senate, they become "dead" ~ssues unless they are reintroduced ~into the Academic Council. The Senate will also hear the annual report of the ' Athletic Council and ·announcement of new members to that body. Minorityemployment increases by 71 percent in five··years latest survey Minority employment at MSU has increased nearly 71 per cent in the past ftve years, according to data compiled by the Office of Equal Opportunity Programs. The that minority employes number 1,119, or 10.2 per cent of the University's 10,984' full time and graduate assistant employes. Of total minority the employes, 712 are Black, 278 Oriental, 122 Spanish - surnamed and seven American Indian. shows - The IlgllIes are contained in the latest Equal Employment Opportunity report which the University is required to submit annually to the . fe~ral government. It shows continuation of the steady increase in minority employment over the past ftve years. In 1967, the minority percentage of total University employment was 6.6. It rose to 7.4 per cent in 1968, 8.2 per cent in 1969, 9.4 per cent in 1970 and now stands at 10.2 per cent. During this period, the number of minority empioyes in the "professional" categmy, which includes faculty and graduate assistants, rose from 302 to 538. Minority individuals included. in the "officials and managers" category climbed to 34. Another significant increase was in the office and clerical ,categmy where minority employment rose from 35 to 157. The total employment of minority f~males increased nearly 84 per cent during the ftve years (from 318 to 584). from 3 President Clifton R. Wharton JI. pointed out that the current 10.2 per cent nF0n~. ffJP~~yment is alre~dy close to the 10;6 pet cent goal which the University has projected for September. He said, however, ''while this is laudable progress, it is important that we do not relax our efforts. Among the areas where we must continue to concentrate even more vigorously is in full- time faculty positions." AAUP chapter to hear report on bargaining The MSU chapter of th~ American Association of UniVersity Professors will meet Monday (May 17) at 7:30 p.m. in Room 34 of the Union Building to elect new council members and t6 hear several reports. Nosow, chapter president and professor of labor and industrial relations, said the AAUP will also consider emy future in collective actions necessary bargaining. * Discussion of The agenda includes: resolutions adopted by the recent 57th annual meeting of the' AAUP in Philadelphia. * Election of ftve members on the _ Walter Adams, Distringuished University AAUP council. A slate will be presented professor of economics, will report on the national meeting. Nosow said there from the nominations committee. the implications of the AAUP's new policy chapter'~ efforts to organize the faculty for collective bargaining. Sigmund on termination of nontenured faculty. * A report of results of the AAUP would also be discussion of the Phi 'Beta 'Kappa will initiate more than 160 students Page i, MSU News - Bulletm, May 13, 1971 A DYING SCIENCE? The kind of science described as privately supported and elite' is' "about to die out," a noted, astronomer said at last weekend's dedi~tion of the University's new observatory. The dying science, Jesse L. Greenstem of California Institute of Technology said, is that in which "srllall numbers of persons use large amounts of expensive equipment." .. This situation is changing, he added, as more and more of the $300 million spent annually on astronomy comes from governrtlent grants. "Now we look to the large state universities" he said, where applications to technology are sought. Contrary to e~ly days when astronomers struggled to get money because their science had almost no immediate application, Greenstein said, today's astronomy offers the development of nuclear fusion as 3,n energy source and the potential discovery of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. * * * MEDICAL TEAMWORK Efforts by the deans of Michigan's four state medical schools to poordinate and c,ooperate have already resulted in changes of state licensure regulations to allow more flexibility in medical curriculum and admissions. And other topics are being considered for united action by the four deans, including: Sharing of new audiovisual and other instructional programs; coordinated continuing education of doctors; a plan to work with the Michigan State Medical Society to raise funds for medical students scholarships and loans; the relationship of medical schools to community hospitals and other helath institutions; exchange of students among the medical schools; coordinated long-range planning of enrollments, programs and facilities. , The four deans are Andrew D. Hunt, dean of MSU's College of Human Medicine; Myron S. Magen, dean of MSU's College of Osteopathic Medicine; T.N. Evans, a~ting dean of Wayne State University'S School of Medicine; and John A. Gronvall, dean of the University of Michigan Medical School. * * * POSITIVE 'DEVIANCY.' The person who hears a different drummer need not -be a nuisance to society, according to R. C. Trojanowicz, assistant professor of criminal justice. Speaking recently to Michigan's juvenile officers, he said th~t socially deviant behavior can have a positive effect on society when expressed m limited quantities. He described "social deviancy" as actions contrary to established norms. He said that persons whose thoughts and actions do not always follow the established path can contribute to society by reducing red tape, acting as safety valves, clarifying rules, uniting the group and serving as warning signals. * * * :FROM OTHER CAMPUSES. Faculty at Central Michigan University were scheduled to vote this week on a new thr~e-year agreement between the university and the CMU Faculty Association. A new contract negotiated last week calls for direct salary increases from 6.7 percent plus $66 for next year to 6.6 percent plus $200 for 1973-74. The new proposal includes two major changes from the one. rejected April 20 by CMU faculty: An option to reopen negotiations on economic matters for the third year of the pact, and an additional system to handle grievances regarding retention of"nontenured faculty, tenure and promotion ... J.J. 'Stockton former professor and chairman of microbiology and public health at MSU, has' been named dean of Purdue University's School of Veterinary Science and Medicine ... The new president of Purdue is Arthur Gene Hansen, president of Georgia Institute of Technology. He succeeds Frederick L. Hovde on July 1. More than 160 students ate schedUled to be initiated into Phi Beta Kappa in ceremonies tonight in the Big 10 Room of Kellogg Center. The total includes students from the College~ of Natural Science, Social Science and Arts and Letters, and Justin Morrill, James Madison and Lyman Briggs Colleges. Seventy-six of the new initiates are from Michigan, and more than a third are enrolled in the Honors College. Forty-six percent of them report plans to go to graduate school, 12 percent will enter teaching, 10 percent will go to law school and 7 percent plan to enroll in medical school. An honorary membership will go to Russell B. Nye, distinguished professor of English, who will deliver the Phi Beta Kappa Oration. Chamber series set The Lecture-Concert Series will add a dimension with a new Chamber Music Series for the 1971-72 season. The chamber series, to be held in fIve Tuesday Fairchild Theatre on evenings, will open Oct. 26 with a trio of young accomplished artists - violinist James Buswell, cellist Lynn Harrell, and pianist Seth Carlin. Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick will be heard Nov. 23. The Guarneri Quartet, noted for its recordings of the complete Beethoven quartets, will perform Feb. 8. Holland's young recorder virtuoso, Frans Bruggen, and the young Italian guitarist, Oscar Ghiglia, will present a duo recital Feb. 22. Soprano Benita, a master of the German song repertoire, will close the series April 18. Season tickets can be purchased now at the Union Ticket Office. There will be no reserved seats. Film depicts a community's housing effort A film dramatizing the potential of local leadership to handle community problems has been produced by the Instructional Media Center (IMC). The film is called "West Branch." Ali Issari, head of IMC's fIlm production unit, Slid it "tells the story of the difficult but successful attempt by a group of West Branch citizens to work toward a solution of the community's housing problem." The lack of housing caused many of the town's young people to move out of the ,area. The documentary ftIm focuses on ~ young auto mechanic who was ATL sets festival The Department of American Thought and Language's first Counter Culture Festival continues next week. A lecture on "The Underground Scene" by a noted underground publisher will be next Wednesday (May 19) at 8 p.m. in Room 38 of the Union. Richard Morris is secretary of the Committee of Small, Magazine Editors and Presses (COSMEP), editor of Camels Coming Press, and author of several volumes of poetry . about to leave for Detroit because he couldn't fmd suitable housing for his wife and child. MSU's interest in the project came from the School of Packaging. William Lloyd, professor of packaging, "We in West were especially factory Branch because of interested the Press series WKAR-AM has initiated coverage of addresses delivered during meetings of the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Each week, a prominent guest is invited to speak to the Press Club assembly. Today's broadcast, featuring Elliot Richardson, secretary of health, education and welfare, is at 1 p.m. assembled housing employed," he said. techniques Lloyd, who served as The film was made through a grant from the Upper Great Lakes, Regional Commission, a three - state alliance headed by the governors of Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. ' technical director for the film, said that a lack of housing makes a community untenable for industry. The Upper Great Lakes Regionai Colll1Iiission, he added, is interested in helping depressed areas become more viable communities. The film was premiered before the people of West Branch last week, and a print was presented to Mrs. Vera Niles, mayor o~West Branch and an alumna of MSU. Another dialogue day on tap The students planning SUNday II have expressed hope that attendance at this year's event will exceed the estimated 400 students and townspeople who participated in last spring's SUNday. SUNday II will be from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. this Sunday (May 16) in East Lansing's Valley Court Park, adjacent to -the bus depot and People's Church. Students Belinda Novik and Doug ,/ Solomon, the event's chief planners, pointed out that SUNday is de.signed as a day of picnic lunches and informal dialogue among studen ts and area residents. Faculty and staff are invited to participate. Last year's event was the outgrowth of student efforts to initiate campus - the community dialogues outbreaks of violence at Kent State and Jackson State. following Wewly elected officers of the MSU chapter are: President - James D. Rust, ombudsman and professor of English; vice president - John F. A. Taylor, professor of philosophy; secretary - C. L. Schloemer, professor of natural science; and treaSurer - George R. Price, professor of English. The executive committee includes the officers, and Karl F. Thompson, professor and chairman of humanities, and Milton E. Muelder, vice president for research development and dean of the graduate school. More than 225 pers9ns are expected for the initiation and preceding banquet. They include students initiated during fall term, faculty PBK members and members of the Lansing-East Lansing Association ofPBK. The MSU chapter was chartered in 1968. The society recognizes academic achievement in the liberal arts and sciences. FRIDAY, MAY 14 1 p.m. (AM) - Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark discusses "Crime in American Society." SATURDAY,MAY 15 1:30 p.m. (AM) - "Ui:ban Confrontation" features tennis stu Arthur Ashe on "The Dilemma of the Black Athlete." 7 p.m. (FM) - "Listener's Choice" bas classics by request at 355-6540. SUNDAY, MAY 16 2 p.m. (AM-FM) - The Cleveland Orchestra features Romeo and Juliet Fantasy - Overture by Tchaikovsky; Viotin Concerto in A by Glazounov; Symphony No. 2 by SCIa1llin. S p.m. (FM) - Busoni's Dr. Faustus: Sarabunde and Cortege; Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto and Mahler's Symphony No. 1 are performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic. WEDNESDAY, MAY 19 1 p.m. (AM) - Representatives of the U.S. State Department and college students discuss foreign affairs on "Students and Diplomats." THURSDAY, MAY 20 1 p.m. (AM) - Walter Palmer of Children's Television Workshop speaks on "The Development of Sesame Street." ' WMSB FRIDAY, MAY 14 7 p.m. - Miriam Duckwall and Michael Oberfield star in "Joseph and Josephine," an original drama written and produced for WMSB. SUNDAY, MAY 15 1 p.m. - Elizabeth Drew interviews Golda Men, Israel's prime minister, in a segment filmed in Tel Aviv. 4 p.rn. - ''The Riddle of Heredity" is a look at the past and future of genetics. 4:30 p.rn. - Spokesmen for the Nixon Administration and newsmen discuss the "credibility gap" of the war in Vietnam in a one - hour special. "Homefront '71: The President, the Press and the Public." 10 p.m. - Problems of the Chicano in Lansing are featured on "Assignment 10." 11 p.m. - The playhouse biographical subject is Ludwig Van Beethoven. 7 p.m. - MONDAY,MAY 17 "Spartan Sportlite" reviews the Greeit - White spring football game and bas an interview with the Detroit TigeIS' AI Kaline. MSU News -Bulleti Il Edltor: Gene RietfoIS Associate editor: Beverly Twitchell Associate editor: Sue Smith Editorial offices: Rooms 323 and 324, Linton Hall, Michigan Stat9 Univeaity, East Lansing 48823, Phone 355-2285. Published weekly d~ the academic year by the Department of Infdrfuation Services. Second - class postage paid at East Lansing, Mich. 48823 Page 3, MSU .News -,BuRetin, May 13, 1971 State faculty group aims at cooperation If the Elected Facul ty Council decides next week to affiliate with the Association of Michigan Collegiate Faculties, it will be the 12tll of 13 eligible four-year colleges in Michigan to do so. (AMCF) The Association of Michigan Collegiate Faculties is an organization of faculty representatives from Michigan institutions which award the baccalaureate degree. Current members are the University of Michigan, Western Michigan, Central Micnigan, Northern Michigan, Eastern Michigan Michigan Technological, Wayne State and Oakland Universities, and FerriS State , Saginaw Valley and Lake Superior , . State Colleges. Only , MSU and Grand Valley State College are not now members. The purposes. of the AMCF, as stated in its constitution are: To Ifacilitate the I exchange of information; to foster academic cooperation among the faculties; to study educational and administrative practices or problems of member institutions; to prom ote public awareness of the importance, needs and problems of higher education in Michigan, and to serve as a spokesman for the faculties. The association is an ou tgrowth of the Interfaculty Association (which included Eastern, Western, Central and Northern Michigan State Colleges, which were governed by a common board). With the adoption of thenew the Michigan constitution and ,transference of to ' these colleges university status, Interfaculty Associat,ion was dropped, according to Walter Johnson, professor of administration and higher education. The group has now been revived and expanded to include all of Micnigan' s four-year, state-supported,degree-granting institutions. the Each member institution may elect from its faculty senate, council or similar body two representatives ' to represent the faculty at the AMCF's three annual meetings. Three members of the MSU Faculty Steering Committee have attended AMCF meetings as observers during the last year (Hideya Kum~ta prqfess.or of c,!mmunication, Thomas Greer, professor oTlliiniinifties, and Johnson). Both Johnson and Greer have said they thought membership in the AMCF would be ''useful.'" Greer, who attended the spring meeting last month in East Lansing, said the Association, "seemed to be a pretty we ll-organi zed and sophisticated group," which could be "an effective voice.' THREE RESOLUTIONS were passed at that sprmg meeting. One asked the State Legislature faculty members pay increases equal to that proposed (8. 1 percent) for the state's civil service employes. to graI!t A T he second resolution endorsed a "thoroughgoing reform of the state's t ax structure," and supported Gov. Milliken's proposed income tax increase ''until a more equitable and productive tax structure" is devised. t h i rd called "greater coordinat ion and cooperation among the institutions in improving both the quality of education for our 200,000 students and the training and experience of our 8 000 faculty members through a , substantial annual systematic and faculty exchange program." for All three resolutions were approved unanimously. According to the AMCF constitution, public pronouncements of t he Association must a t wo-t hirds affirmative vote which represents at least two-thirds of the member institutions. receive The winter meeting, which Johnson attended, was prin\arlly orgaruzat1onal. The campus faculty organiiiitTons were discussed, Johnson said, and "we have the most complicated." in the Michigan mstitutions are All inv olved increasing student participation in University governance, Johnson sa:id, and all but Central faculty Michigan have developed compensation and budget advisory committees. (CMU has a collective bargaining unit.) Next year's meetings (Oct. 14, 1971, and Feb. 17 and April 20, 1972) have been tentatively scheduled to be held at the Holiday Inn in East Lansing. A-P meeting • • • (Conclud~d from page 1) schedule after five years. (This is being discussed with Breslin.) * Recommendation for a retirement longevity benefit by which an A-P would receive, upon retirement, one week's _ salary per year of service. (Kenney said there was little hope for that recommendation's being approved this year.) (Breslin said later that he concurred with each of the A-P proposals, but he pointed out that the limiting factor in them would be MSU's considering financial status in fiscal 1971-72.) The members later voted to have the investigate why executive board University employes on labor the (hourly) payroll receive $5.15 more per month in University contribution toward hospitalization insurance than do employes on the salary (monthly) payroll. . Most labor payroll employes subscribe to Blue Cross hospitalization, according to AI Chapman, assistant director of staff benefits, who suggested investigation. And most salaried the employes are not eligible for Blue Cross. Nevertheless, he said, all labor employes receive the additional $5.15, regardless of the type of insurance they are taking, and no salaried employes receive the $5.15, type of insurance they are taking. regardless of the The labor union contract provides for an additional $6 University contribution beginning July 1. The A-Ps will also question whether this will apply to all University employes, and if not, why not. * * * IN OTHER BUSINESS, reports the A-P Association heard its from standing committees. Fred Henderson, chief engineer for closed circuit· television, reported for the membership committee that of 614 A-Ps on campus for membership, 368 I haye eligible joined, which is an increase of 59 members (4 per cent) since the October meeting of the AssOCiation. in that I. Henry Backus, employment the Personnel Center, specialist reported the classification committee is continuing its study of the structure of the University, its "lines of command," and procedures used to classify A-Ps at their 10 levels. s. HOWARD BARTLEY: A commendation from the President. --Photo by Robert Brown • Bartley helps ralSe a field of research Last summer President Nixon sent a telegram that said: "The research, writings and teachings of S. Howard Bartley, psychologist and pioneer in the field of visual science have .a'dded immensely to the un(\,erstanding ofvisua1 perception." The occasion was the American Optometric Association's annual awards luncheon in flonolulu where Bartley received that organization's highest honor, the Apollo Award. - The director of MSU's Laboratory for the Study of Vision and Related Sensory Pr,ocesses was indeed a pioneer in his field. He began his work just when technological advances made sensory research feasible, and has since spent almost 45 years investigating the intricacies of the neurophysiology of the- visual pathway, visual perception and fatigue. He has contributed more than 200 articles and chapters to scholarly journals, authored seven books, and became a world-recognized leader in his field. "Before the 1920s' research of this nature WaS limited by a lack of equipment," he recalls. "Then the Braun tube and the vacuum tube were developed. " The former , a rudimentary oscilloscope and forerunner of the modem television tube, allowed nervous impulses to be depicted, and the vacuum tube amplified those impulses for analysis. * * * BARTLEY GRADUATED from Greenville College in 1923, taught briefly at Miltonvale Wesleyan College, then joined the faculty of the. University of Kansas as an assistant instructor of psychology. ' Final concert The MSU Symphony Orchestra will present its Imal concert of the school year this Monday (May 17) at 8: 15 p.m. in the Okemos Fine Arts Center. The orchestra, under conductor Dennis Burkh, will feature pianist Ralph Votapelc. After earning the A.M. , and Ph.D. degrees at Kansas, he went to the Washington University Medical School as a researcher in opthalmology and neurophysiology. "The tremendous cost of research- is perhaps the biggest change I've seen over the years," he says. "I once requested $250 for a project 1 was working on, and with that 1 bought a movie camera, infrared fIlm and a number of other supplies. When it was all over, I had enough material on visual fatigue to publish three articles and still had $10 left." Bartley left Washington University for Dartmouth Medical School's Eye Institute in 1942. At Dartmouth his studies in visual fatigue led him into investigations of general human fatigue. It became a secondary specialty with him and a topic of two of his books. * * * DAR TMOUTH'S FACILITY was disestablished after the war, and Bartley found himself at Michigan State where the Department of . Psychology had just been formed. "It was the thing I ever roughest went through," he says of the thousands of man-hours that went into helping build a curriculum from the ground up. MSU was conscious of the talent it had during those expansion years. Bartley was recognized as an "outstanding professor" by the 1951 Wolverine. The distinction was more formalized nine years later when MSU gave him a Distinguished Faculty Award. Word went out prematurely two years ago that Bartley was about to retire, and colleagues from throughout the country converged on the Deacon's Bench for a bash in his honor. Some who couldn't make it sent letters. One wrote: "(He) has dedicated his life to vision research and many avenues related to it. Beyond this, however, he has never lost sight of the main benefit of all research; this is that mankind Will someday live a better life because he went this way." Bartley retires in June. . -MICHAEL MORRISON Applying behavioral research to By MICHAEL MORRISON ' ~bitant Editor, News Bureau : ~ l ;' (1~ ~:J ;)f ::'tJ.C L'j,:JJ·t {:-.