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Prepaid health:  'A funny  thing  happened' 

The  idea  of  prepaid  health  care  at 
Michigan  State  is  generating  far  more 
controversy  than  was  expected  when 
the  concept  was  first  introduced' here 
early this year. 

The  latest development  occurred only 
hours before  the  Board  of Trustees was 
to  hear  a  report  and  recommendation 
on prepaid health care at its meeting last 
Friday. 

As  Robert  Perrin,  vice  president  for 
University  relations,  put  it:  "A  funny 
thing  happened  to  this  item  on  its  way 
to the Board meeting." 

"This  item"  was  a  recommendation 
that MSU  proceed to Phase II  of a series 
of  phases  which could lead  to a prepaid 
plan  on  the  campus  sometime in  1973. 
(In  a prepaid p rogram , sub,scribers pay a 
set  fee  to a group  of doctors  and  other 
health  professionals  who  then.  provide 
agred-upon  health services.) 

The "funny thing"  was the  resignation 
last  Thursday  of  six  members  of  the 
10-member All  Unversity  Health Center 
Advisory  Board,  which  has  been 
studying  feasjbility  of the p repaid  plan. 
In their resignation letter  to President 
Wharton,  the  six  pointed  out that  they 
had  not  yet  issued  any  report  or 
recommendation  on 
issue , 
"although  a report  had  been  in  its  final 
stages."  Placing  tile  item (phase  il) on 
Friday's Board  meeLing, the group  said, 
suggested 
that  deliberations  of  the 
advisory  board  "will  have  been  fOT 
naugh t,  and  tilat  any  furt her 
deliberation  on  our  part  would  be 
futile." 

the 

The  advisory  board  "is  unanimously 
opposed  to moving  to the  second phase 
of  a  prepaid  program's  development  at 
this time ,"  the statement said. 

It  was  signed  by  Louie  Bender, 

graduate  student  and  chairman  of the 
advisory  board; Olaf Mickelsen"faculty 
representative;  Robert  L'Huillier, 
administrative  - professional 
representative;  Katherine  Murphy, 
clerical-technical  represenfative;  Harry 
Scoonover,  hourly  employes 
representative;  and  Jackie  Roberson, 
minority  undergraduate  representative. 
*  *  * 
PERRIN  TOLD  THE 'trustees that the 
mass  resignation  by  the  advisory  board 
the  result  of  "an  unfortuante 
was 
misunderstanding." 

"In  no  way  do  we  suggest  that  we 
implement  a health plan  in  any  form at 
this  time," he said. 

Perrin  reported  that  while  Phase  I  of 
the  prepaid  health  study  - a survey of 
students,  faculty  and  staff health needs 
and  attitudes  - was  not  conclusive,  the 
plan  warranted  a  more  detailed  study. 

Phase  II,  he  said,  would  include  a 
thorough  investigation  of  what  a 
prepaid  plan would mean for MSU, with 
emphasis  on  development  of alternative 
approaches,  cost  factors  and 
organizational  structure.  The  study 
would  take  about  a  year,  Perrin  said, 
and  should  provide  sufficient  data  to 
determine  whether MSU should proceed 

.  with a pilot prepaid plan. 

The  study  will  be  conducted  by  the 
new Office of Health Services Education 
and  Research,  a  division  of the  College 
of Human Medicine. 

*  *  * 
BENDER  SAID  MONDAY  that if an 
objective  study  of prepaid health care is 
the  goal,  then  an  arm  of  the  medical 
school "is the last place to send it." 

He  said  that  the  advisory  board  was 
prepared  to  recommend  that  it  start  all 

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Ld ;(ARY 
Nov. 24,1971 

Trustees  give  green light to . Ice  Arena~su  VERI/CAt  fWl 
all  events  and performing  arts  buildings 

The  Board of Trustees Friday  gave  its 
go-ahead  to  planning for three  major 
projects:  An  ICe  Arena,  an All-Events 
Building  and  a Performing Arts  Center. 
The  Ice  Arena-a  6,000-seat 
facility-is  to  be  built  on  funds 
accumulated  primarily  through  football 
ticket  sales.  Executive  Vice  President 
Jack Breslin  said that "with good luck", 

the  arena  was_ 

the  arena  could  be  completed  in  time 
for  the  1973  hockey  season.  The 
motion  approving 
supported by Trustees Patricia Carrigan, 
Blanche  Martin,  Frank  Hartman,  Don 
Stevens  and  Kenneth  Thompson; 
Trustees  Warren  Huff,  Frank Merriman 
and Clair White opposed. 

The  All-Events  Building,  subject  of a 

Board reiterates  denial 
of campus  highway plan 

The  wait  was  long-nearly  two  hours 
into  Friday ' s  Board  of  Trustees' 
meeting-but  the  result  was  expected 
Friday  as  the  Board  of Trustees  voted 
unanimously 
to  reaffirm  to  deny 
approval  of the  proposed  cross-country 
highway. 

Trustee  Don  Stevens  offered 

the 
motion to reafflImthe Board's action of 
last  June (which  rescinded  the  trustees' 
September,  1969,  approval  of  the 
highway  route).  But  Stevens'  motion 
also  said  the  Board  would  "direct  the 
central administration  of the  UniverSity 
to  cooperate  in  an  area-wide 
transportation  study  to  consider  the 
alternatives  to  t~le  proposed  route, 
including  alternate  modes  of 
transportation. " 

In  a  2*-page statement accompanying 
his  motion,  Stevens  said  he  had 
concluded  after  careful  study  that  the 
Board  should  continue  to  oppose  the 
cross-campus  highway,  "not for  lack  of 
need,  but  for  lack  of  adequate 
consideration of alternatives." 

He  also  said:  "Like  the  spiraling  arms 
race,  new  highways  create  rpqre  traffic 
demand,  which  creates  more  pemand 
for  more  highways.  This.  Board  has  a 
responsibility  to  slow  this  pz;ocess  in 
order to give  new alternatives ~ 'fhance." 
And  Stevens  added  that  "if  worse 
comes  to worst, we  can always build the 
proposed highway." 

President  Wharton  had  earlier  made 
available  to trustees  a  IS-page summary 
of major arguments both supporting and 
opposing  the  highway,  and  a  list  of 
options faCing the Board. 

Wharton  declined  to  suggest  any 
action  for  the  trustees.  But he  said that 
MSU  "cannot  dismiss,  out  of  hand, 
to  the 
development  which  will  be 
greater advantage of the community just 
because  we  may  experience  some 
internal difficulties or dislocations." 

He  added  that  "our  overriding 
responsibility  must  be  to  provide  the 
tangible  setting,~he  environment  and 
the  quality  of  educational  services 
which  will  continue  and  enhance  the 
educational excellence" that is expected 
of MSU. 

The ' Board's  action  culminated  an 
issue  that was  publicly aired  last month 
in  Kellogg  Center  (News-Bulletin,  Oct. 
21).  Within  the  past  week,  the  East 
Lansing  City  Council  rescinded  its 
earlier  stand  and  voted'  3-2  to  oppose 
the  higb,,,,ay  ,plan ;  the  Lansing  City 
Council  passed  a  resolution  strongly 
endorsing  the  -plan ;  station  WJIM-TV 
editorially  o p po sed  the  cwrently 
proposed  route  in ,favor  of one  farther 
south;  and  ,The  State  Journal  in 
editorials  suppwt~d the  highway's  plan 
and  ciiticizedtrustees  for  rejecting  the 
route.' 

-

campus  controversy  early  in  1970,  is  a 
longer-range  project  and  was  approved 
by 
the  Trustees  contingent  o~  an 
accep'tabJe  funding  pJan.  Breslin  l1ad 
proposed  a  $l'S-per·student  fee  for  20 
to  25  years  to  cover  costs  of  the 
building,  but  some  trustees  objected. 
The  motion  to  approve  the  All-Events 
Building  was  opposed  by  Carrigan  and 
Stevens,  who both said  they  would  not 
vote  for  something  until  a  finanCing 
plan was definite. 

Richard  Sullivan,  dean  of  arts  and 
letters,  told  the  trustees  in  a Thursday 
night  session  that 
the  proposed 
Performing  Arts  Center  would  cost  an 
estimated  $12  million  to  $15  million. 
president  Wharton  said  it  would  be 
funded 
through  public  support,  and 
through private gifts and grants. 

Sullivan  pointed  out  that  there  is "no 
lack  of talent  or programs here, but the 
weak  link is in the  area of facilities." He 
recommended 
that  a  new  facility 
contain  a  2,SOO-seat  auditorium,  a 
recital  hall  seating  800  to  '900,  and  a 
theatre for 700 to 800 persons. 

The  Board  unanimously  gave 

the 
go-ahead  for  a  Performing  Arts Center. 
FACULTY SALARIES 
Discussion  on  release  of  faculty 
salaries  was  deferred  until  January. 
Provost  John  Cantlon  announced  that 
the  recommendat16ti  of  the  Faculty 
Affairs  an d 
facti.\ty  Compensat ion 
Committee  (News-Bulletin,  Nov.  18) 
came  too late  for  the administration  to 
discuss  it  and  l're;pare  a  position  or 
recommendation for the Trustees. 

Th e 

STUDENT! WORKERS 
tru ste'es  also  approved  a 
resolution by Whife wInch expressed the 
Board's "supp<n;t  of l~wful self-help  and 
other legitiJ'rla te actions taken by (MSU) 
students  tolnlJ?rove wages  and  working 
conditions  in  the  East  Lansing  area." 
The  resolution referred to higher tuition 
rates ,  cu tbacks  on  stpdent  loans, 
unemployment  rates,  and  the increased 
labor  supply  in 
the  area  which  has 
"d e pr e$s~ d  wa,ges  and  working 

condi tions."  White's  resolution  was 
related  to  the  dispute  at  a  local 
restaurant  between  student  employes 
anathe restaurant management. 

The  trustees  also  approved  a  raise  in 
the  pay  scale  for  student  employes  of 
the University. 

AGE OF  MAJORITY 
Because  of  the  change  in  the  age  of 
majority  from  21  to  18,  and  because 
nearly  half  of  MSU's  students  are 
trustees 
between  18  and  20, 
accepted a report developed by the dean 
of  'students  office  dealing  with 
implications of the change. 

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The  re port  outline s  rights  and 
responsibilities,  and  records  and  policy 
changes.  For  example,  t he  University 
alcohol  policy  will  be  changed  to  allow 
18-year-old  studen ts  and 0Jder t o use or 
possess  alcohol  on  campus.  Age 
designations  will  be  removed  from 
student  motor  vehicle regulat ions; only 
parents  of  students  under  18  will  be 
notified  on  matters  of  discipline  and 
academic  action.  I 

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AC  meeting 
lS  Tuesday 

Four items face  the Academic Council 
when  it  meets  Tuesday  (  Nov.  30)  at 
3:1S  p.m.  in  the  Con  Con  Room  ofthe 
Center for International Programs. 

the  action 

Depending  on 

taken 
ye s'ter day  by  the  Elected  Faculty 
Council ,  the Academ ic Council will  hear 
;:ither  a  status  report  on  the  proposed 
facul ty  grievance  procedure,  or 
the 
proced u re  will  be  presented  for 
discussion but not action. 

Other  Council  items  are :  A summary 
of  procedures  for  selecting  student 
represen.tatives  to 
the  Council  and 
committees;  an  explanation  from  'the 
chainnan  of  the  building,  lands  and 
planning  committee  00  a  proposed 
campus  dog  ordinance,  and  a  report 
from 

the  curriculum  committee. 

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Affirrnativeilm~n plan lists  1974: goals 

Women  will  occupy  14.6  percent  of 
the  faculty  positions  in  MSU's  tenure 
system  by  the  end of 1973-74 academic 
yea~  if  hiring  goals  presented  to  the 
B.oard  of Trustees  Friday  (Nov.  19)  are 
fully met. 

This  recommendation  is  included  in 
the  University's Affirmative Action Plan 
for Women,  1971-74. 

The  report  calls  for  102  new  women 
faculty  members  by  1974,  a  figure 
including  the  replacement  of 34 women 
expected  to  retire  or  resign.  Women 
now  make  up  11.4  percent,  or  250,  of 
those in  the tenure system. 

The  report  further  urges that "at least 
10  percent  of the  faculty  women  hired 
through  1973-74  be  representatives  of 
minority groups." 

At  Friday's  Board  meeting,  a 
representative  of black  women  at MSU 
read  a  statement  that urged  trustees  to 
.. specifically  designate 
the  necessary 
percentage  of  new  female  positions  to 
black  women  to effectively  increase the 
overall  percentage  of black women  to  a 
minimum  of, 12  percent  at  all.Jevels  of I 
employment." 

The  statement  noted, . that' while 
minority  women make up 1·2 percent of 
the total female  population of Michigan, 
"it  is  distressing  to  note  that 'm:,inority 
women  constitute  less thail, .5 ''p~e~.ent of 
the  women  employed  in, .the,_ categories 
of faculty,  administrative - professional 
and clerical - technical." 
'"  *  * 
GOALS  iN  THE  affirinative~ action 
plan  are  based  on  the  assumption  of 
static  employment,  predicted  openings 
crea ted  through  retirements  and 
resignations,  and  Un,iversity  needs,  the . 
report  states.  Availability  of  qualified 
female  applican ts  as  shown  by "Earned 
Degrees  Conferred,  1968-69"  publisiled 
by  the  U.S.  Department  of  Health, 

Education  and  Welfare  was  also  taken 
into consideration. 

The  plan  a ,Ls'd f,ollOecommends 
investigating  all  cases-of apparent  pay 
inequities  in  the  faculty;  A~P, C-T  and 
labor payrolls. 

President  Wharton ',earlier  directed  a 
study  to  insure  the  equitable  treatment 
of  nonstudent,  part-time  employees  in 
both  academic  and  - nonacademic 
positions  since 
these  elnplbyees  are 
predominately women. 

The  document 

whe re  MSU  hai:' aiready - moved 
correct past discriminatory policies. 

list ~d  several  areas 
to 

*  *  * 
IMPLEMENT 

TO 

the 
affirmative  action  plan  s'.!ggests  eight 
points: 

its  goals, 

1.  Hiring  goals  for women  facul ty will 
be  closely  monitored.  Although  these 
goals  span  three  years,  the  Office  of 
Equal  Opportunity Progr-ams  will  assess 
progress  through  a  system  of periodic 
reports  on  app.licant  llow'  and  actual 
hiring.  Monit6~i~g will, ir)clude emphasis 
ort the hiring of minority women. 

2.  Possible  salary  'inequities  for 
women  performing esseiitially  the  same 
work.  as  men  will  'con'tinue 
to  be 
explored, ,ba~e~  ap, )9th  apparent 
disparities  and '  individual, -complaints 
received.  Corfec'tiollSwilI be made when 
justified by tlieJ~cts. ~ :'  " 

3.  Employing' ~riits . will :be-encouraged 
to  review  theii ,prom.otlQn  systems  to 
better  assure ·that qualified 'women will 
have  equa1'  O'ppoii~njty '  to  higher 
positions.  '  .'  -

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4.  Collegl!s  at\dacaa.emic departmer.ts 
will  be  urged ':to iniiiate :procedures  to 
interested  -Women,  both 
ei-,courage 
graduate  and , undergraduate,  to  enter 
diSCiplines  where  wpnien  traditionally 
have  been  in  short supply,  as  identified 
by "Earned Degrees Conferred."-

Grant will  support task force 
study of lifelong education 

MSU  has  received  an  $80,000  grant 
the  Kellogg  Foundation  to 
from 
underwrite  a  Task  Force  on  Lifelong 
Education,  leading  to  a  redefinition  9f 
adult and continuing education. 

In  announcing  the  task  force  to  the 
Board  of  Trustees,  President  Wharton 
pointed  out  that it is  directly related to 
the  recently  released  Report  on 
Admissions  and  Student  Body 
Composition. 

level  study  be  made 

The  commission  recommended  that 
"a  high 
to 
determine  how  the  University  might 
strengthen  its  contributions  to  lifelong 
education.  Such a study should examine 
issues  of organization,  curriculum, areas 
of  specialization,  geographic  service 
areas,  and  issues  of  interinstitutional 
coordination.: ' 

The  new  task force  will  begin its work 
in January  and  complete  its final  report 
by April  1 , 1973. 

Wharton  said 

that  traditional 
,continuing  and  adult  education 
programs  have  served  a 
limited 
collection  of  primarily  mobile, 
middle-class, professional groups. 

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Wharton 

He  said that ifMSU "is to maintain its 
great  heritage  of service  to  the  citizens 
of  M ic higan,  we  must  expand 
educational  opportunities  to 
the  full 
range  of  individuals,  particularly  those 
groups  who  for  one  reason  or  another 
have  been  'educationally  neglected.'  " 
listed  as  "educationally 
such  as 
the  distressed  -
neglected" 
criminals ,  physically  handicapped, 
unemployed  or  unemployable, veterans, 
and  widowed  and  divorced,  the  elderly, 
both 
the 
disadvantaged  -
low  income  inner-city 
and  rural  population,  as well  as migrant 
black,  Chicano 
workers;  minorities  -
and  Indian;  the  obsolete  -
including 
labor,  management,  small  businessmen 
and  professionals ;  and  women  -
housewives,  mothers  and  professionals. 
He  said  that  the  knowledge  explosion 
results  in  new demands  for the updating 
o f  all 
types  of  professionals  from 
engineers to doctors. 

retired  and  semiretired; 

Similarly, 

the  accelerating  rate  of 
t e chnologicai  and  social  change, 
lie 
noted,  has  escalated  social  stress  and 
provided  man  with,  jncreased  leisure 
time  La  pursue  something  other  than 
food  and shelter. 

The  task  force  will  include  some  15 
members  -
three  deans,  three  faculty, 
three  students,  two  alumni;  an  assistant 
provost  and  the  dir~Ct6is <i( Libraries, 
Continuing  Education, ,and ,Cgoperative 
Extension. 

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Wharton . will  be  ch~ihnan 'of tl,1e  task 
force,  and  William  WifJtie;'1l'O~ special 
ilie '  )pfisident,  (~ilJ  be 
assistant  to 
director  of  the '1wei6tfk' ~U'c atlO'Ii I  ~sk 
foree .  . 

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5.  Problem  areas  identified  in 

the 
second  report  on  the  status'  of faculty 
women  at Msu, 'oompiled by the Office 
of  InstitutionijiJ;  Risearch,  will  be 
followed  up  and  necessary  corrective 
action  taken. 

6.  Efforts  will  be  made  to  assure 
equitable 
treat!herit  for  women 
employed  in  part-time  or  "temporary" 
in  both  academic  and 
positions 
nonacademic areas. 

7.  The  Committee  Against 
Discrimination  and 
the 
Anti-Discrimina tion  Judicial  Board  will 
continue 
to  handle  complaints  of 
discrimination.  A  Women's  Advisory 
Committee  will  be  established  to  assist 
the  Office  of  Equal  Opportunity 
Programs  to better  assess  and  deal  with 
the concerns of women. 

8.  Concentrated  attention  will  be 
in 

the  status  of  women 

given 

nonacademic  administrative  and  clerical 
positiqns  to  insure  proper  promotional 
cippohtiliities,  access 
to  greater 
adrriliHsHative  responsibility  and 
equality  of  pay.  Hiring  goals  for 
nonacademic women also  will  be set. 

*  *  * 
THE  AFFIRMATIVE  ACTION 
proposal  underwent  extensive 
quesioning  by Trustees Pat Carrigan and 
Warren Huff. 

Carrigan  said  that  the  goals  "don't 
move  us  as  far along as  we'd like  to be," 
the  word 
and  she  suggested 
"minimum"  be 
to  precede 
inserted 
"hiring goals" in  the plan. 

that 

Huff contended that the index used in 
the  plan  (HEW's  "Earned  Degrees 
Conferred,  1968-69")  was 
inappropriate,  since  it  was  the product 
of  national  pattern  of  discrimination 
against women in graduate schools. 

Two  proposals  affect 
foreign  grad stu(J.ents 

Foreign  graduate  students  were · the 
subjects  of two  proposals  passed  by the 
Graduate  Council  in  its  monthly 
meeting last week. 

The  council  unanimously· adopted  a 
policy  o{  "permitting  and  facilitating" 
students  from  developing  countries  to 
undertake  their  Ph.D.  dissertation 
research  in  their  home  cOl,lntries, 
, 
whenever feasible. 
"The  length  of  time  requ.ired  'to 
complete  all  requirements for  the Ph.D. 
is  usually  so  long  as  to keep candidates 
out  of  their  countries  long  enough  for 
these  students  to  lose  contact  with 
current  trends  and  problems  in  their 
home  countries,"  noted  Richard 
Niehoff,  assistant  dean  of international 
studies and programs. 

','  . 

Niehoff  added  that  this  policy  will  in 
no  way  diminish  the  responsibility  of 
the  chairman  or members  of a  scholar's 
committee,  but  will  enhance 
the 
capacity  of the foreign graduate student 
to  do scholarly work more effectively in 
his home  country. 

The  words  "permitting  and 
facilitating"  were inserted at  the request 
of  Lawrence  H.  Officer,  professor  of 
economics,  so  it  would  not  seem  that 

MSU  wa~ .putting  pressure  on 
the 
foreign  .students  to  write  on  their own 
coun tries..  : ~ . 

IN  ANPl'IJER  ACTION,  the  council 
adopte"d" a;,  proposal  that  detailed 
financial. litatements  be  required  of all 
foreign..  ·$tudents.  The  fina.ocial 
stateme~t's - pre  prepared  and  available 
throug.~ :t!\~ College  Scholarship  Office. 
Some,  swnsored  graduate  students, 
according,  to  Ellis  S.  Hammond, 
assistanfdrrector  for  foreign  admissions 
in  admissio.ns  and  scholarships, become 
a  fmancial  burden  to  MSU  when  their 
studies extend beyond the origillal plan. 
Others,  he  noted,  are  simply  unrealistic 
about  the  costs  of higher  education  in 
the U.S. 

Hammond  emphasized  that  the 
statement  would  be  a  "thorough review 
of the financial situation, not a criterion 
for admission." 

The  council  also  -~xpressed  concern 
about the number of graduate admission 
applications  which  are  delayed  at  the 
departmental  level  and  remain 
unprocessed  at  the  beginning  of  each 
term.  As  of  Oct.  15,  701  applications 
for  fall  term  remained  pending  at  the 
departmental level. 
-MIKE MANLEY 

Board summary .. • 

(Concluded from page I) 

NEW AWARD 
A  Distinguished  Citizen  Award  has 
been  established by the Boa rd. It will  be 
separate  from  tlie  faculty  and 11onorary 
awards  presented  by  the  University. 
Nominations  for  the award will  be made 
by  the  trustees,  who  will  also  develop 
the  criteria,  which  will  pr imarily  be 
public  service,  President  Wharton  said. 
The  award will  be given primarily (bu t 
not  necessarily  exclu si vely) 
to 
distinguished  Michigan  citizens.  Abou t 
three  or  four  will  be  given  each  year, 
with  no  particular  time  of presentation 
deSignated. 

STATE NEWS REFUNDS 

The  State  News  will  be  allowed  to 
continue  its  refund  policy  rather  than 
be  required 
to  hold  a  stl,ldent 
referendum  on  whetl)er  students  want 
to  continue  to  pay  $1  a 'term  for  the 
paper. 

The  referendum  was  required  in  an 
earlier  mo tion by action by the trustees, 
but  Friday  they  vote'd  to  allow  the 
paper  staff to  continue  the  policy of a 
two-week  period per term at which time 
a , .stud~T)t !Day'  Ole  f<;>r  aJefu.n~ if h~ ., 

chooses  not  to  read  or  use  the  services 
of  the  St ate  News.  Huff  opposed  the 
moHon,  say ing  later  that he  considered 
it "subterfuge." 

OTHER ITEMS 
* Accepted  $2,094,312  in  gifts  and 
gFants  for  49  units  of  the  University, 
jnclud ing$1.9 million  for education and 
$994,000 for research. 

*  Approv(~d  nine  appointments,  two 
leaves,  24 
academic  promotions,  26 
transfers _and  changes  in  assignment,  16 
resignations  and  terminations  and  10 
retiremen [S. 

Three  acting  department  chairmen 
were named:  James L. Fairley, associate 
chairman  of  biochemistry 
to  acting 
chairman;  Gale  Mikles,  professor,  to 
acting  chairman  of  health,  physical 
education  and  recreation;  and  Robert 
W.  Summitt,  associate  professor  of 
metal1urgy~ ; rpechanics  and  materials 
to  acting  chairman  of  that 
science 
department. 

Carroll  H.  Wamhoff  was  appointed 
acting  director  of  the  newly  named 
Agriculture  and  Natural  Resources 
Education  Institute.  It  replaces 
the 
Institute  for  Extension  Personnel 
Develop~~nL ,:  "  . ::;..  " .. 

Ad GrfJUp  studying grUi~lince proposals 

tijt¥-3!'"M:SU News-Bulletin, Nov. 24, 1971 

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The  Elected  Faculty, ,Co~W1il  was 
scheduled  to  resume  its  discu~~ion  of 
the  proposed  faculty  grievance 
procedures  yesterday  (Tuesday) 
afternoon  - and the group that includes 
MSU's  central  administrators and  deans 
is  preparing  its  position  on  the 
procedures. 

The  Administrative  Group,  which 
meets  regularly  with President Wharton, 
will  receive  six  recommendations, 
including  a  suggestion  that  a  faculty 
ombudsman  be  appointed.  A 
subcommittee  of  the  group,  chaired  bv 
Lawrence  L.  Boger,  dean  of agriculture 
and natural resources, recommended: 

*  That  grievance  be  defined,  even  if 
only  by  the  "types  or  examples  of 
generic  issues"  that  would  be  covered 
by the procedures. 

*  That section  3.3.3  of the grievance 
proposal  is  confusing  and implies  that a 
democratic  decision  is  the best decision. 
(The  section,  since  deleted  by 
the 
Elected  Faculty  Council,  'stated  that 
judicial  boards  would  not  have  heard 
appeals  concerning substantive decisions 
made  according  to' d"emocratic 
procedures).  Such  .administrative 
decisions  as  whether  a  faculty  member 
meets 
the  criteria  for  'g .• tenured 
appointment  should  not  be  reviewed 
through  a  grievance  pro'o~duie~  the 
subcommi ttee  said,  but  through· the 
present  administrative  structure.' 

*  That  formal  hearings' should  be 
closed  unless  the  person  appeallllg  it 
decision  requests  an  open  hea'cirig~ the 
grievance  proposal  now  states'that 
hearings  shall  be  closed  unl~s~' both 
parties  consent to  an  open hearing. The 
subcommittee  reconunendation  is based 
on  the  idea  that  a  person  should  have 
the  right  to  an  open  tearing  if he  so 
desires. 

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*  Becaus~j  ~ub~ittee  members 
though t 
tone  was 
thj:.  drn;ul1,1ent's 
adversial  and  b\lca.use  they said a formal 
courtroom  atmosphere  is  inappropriate 
and  unmanageable, they  recommended 
that  the  procedures  minimize 
the 
development  of quasi-leg!!l deliberations 
and adversarial relationships. 

* The grievance proposal provides that 
a  representative  of  the  American 
Arbitration  Association  select  a  third 
member  to an appeals board if the other. 
two  members  cannot  agree  on  a  third 
member.  The  subcommittee  suggested 
that  if  the  grievance  has  not  received 
satisfactory  conciliation  to  that  point, 
he  seek  legal  recourse  in. the  formal 
judicial  system  available  to  him  as  a 
citizen,  rather than creating a quasi-legal 
process at MSU. 

to 

*  The  subcommittee  suggested  that 
the  proposed  grievance  procedures  are 
toocomplicatedfor  an  interim  procedure, 
and  therefore  recommended  that  the 
provost,  in  consultation  with 
the 
preSident, appoint a faculty ombudsman 
as  an  alternative 
the  grievance 
procedures  as  proposed.  The  faculty 
ombudsman would h~,ve support staff to 
functic)fi  formally  and  informally  on 
grievances  during  the  interim  (until  a 
full  document  on  faculty  rights  and 
responsibilities  is  completed  by  the Ad 
Hoc  ,Committee  on  Faculty  Rights, 
Responsibilities  and  Grievance 
Procedures) .. 

Thes'e  recommendations  will  be 
presented  to  the  Administrative  Group 
Boger  said,  and  if  they  are  accepted, 
they  could be  held  as  an  administrative 
position  for  presentation  to  the  Board 
of  Trustees  when 
the  proposed 
grievance  procedures  reach  the  Board. 
When  the  Elected  Faculty  Council 

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concludes  its.  debate"fjm  the  procedures, 
the grievanoe ptoposal will, if approved, 
be  forwarded , to the'Academic  Council. 
Although  the  deans  are  members  of the 
the 
Academic  Council; . Boger  said 

subcommittee  recommendations  w6ti1d 
probably  not  be  presented 
to  'the 
Council,  unless  any  of the deans, would 
chose  to raise  any of the points. 

-BEVERLY TWITCHELL 

' ;  

,  i 

Boa.rd "O/(s  tenure for  56 

o 

, 

associa:~~, .,assistant professors 

Tenure  for  56  associate  and  assistant 
professors  was  approved  by  the  Board 
of  Trustees  at  its  meeting  last  Friday. 
Provost  John  Cantlon  said  that women 
constituted  14  percent  of the  total.  All 
the  actions  are  effective  Sept.  1,  1972. 
Associate  professors  who  acquire  tenure 
with  reappointment 'include:  H.  Grant  Vest, 
horticulture;  J.  James  Victoria,  art;  Shigeo 
Imamura,  English.  and  English  Language 
Center;  Robert  A.  'Harris,  Music;  Harold  E. 
Lane,  hotel,  restaurant  and: 
institutional 
managemen t;  Rex  E.  Ray,  secondary 
education  and  curriculum;  David  J.  Kallen, 
human  development;,  Thomas  .B.  Scullion, 
human  development;  and'  health  services 
education  and  rese,arch;  Gerry  ~. Mendelson, 
medical education ,research  and' development; 
Ching-chung  Chou,.  Physiology aJld  medicine. 
Other  associate  ;pr(}~ssors. acquiring  tenure 
are:  ROJ!ald  C.  Simonsh •  'PllYchiatry  and 
anthropology;  Cyril  M:  Worby,  psychiatry; 
Stephen  C.  Bromley; '~6ology aiid  biological 
science  program;' Harold' '0;  Newson, 
entomology; ByroI)·Drachman and· Dennis  R. 
Dunninger,  mathematic.s;  Kao-w€li  W.  Chen 
and  Jerry  A.  Nolen  Jr.,  physics;  Samuel  M. 
Getty,  large  animal  surgery  and  medicine; 
Donald  C.  Sawyer; Sm'dli  anim:il  surgery and 
medicine;  and  1. Eudora PettigreW;educatioD 
and Center for Urban Aff;tirs.·  ,  ' 

Assistant professors ,who receive tenure with 
.reappointment'inc)ude:  David  1.  Cqle, 
agricultural  economiCs;' Donald  J.  Reid,  crop 
and  soil  sciences;  James  1.  Adley  and  Irvirig 
Z.  Taran,  art;  Kurt  W.  Schild,  German  and 
Russian; Dennis Burkh  and  A.  David  Renner, 
music;  Albert  C.  Cafagna,  philosophy  and 
Justin  Morrill; Donald  F.  Koch  and  James E. 

Roper,  philosophy;  Boyd  1.  Miller, 
journalism;  Dixie  1.  Durr,  health,  physical 
education and  recreation. 

Other  assistant  professors  acquiring  tenure 
are:  John  M.  Phillips,  teacher  education; 
Bernhard  Weinberg,  computer  science; 
Stephen  Stephenson ,  botany  and  plant 
pathology;  Thomas  J.  Pinnavaia,  cllemistry; 
Hugh  F .  Bennett.  geology, Wei-eign Kuan and 
J.  Cleo  Kurtz,  mathematics;  Barbara  Given, 
nursing;  Frances  E.  Donelson  and  Ellen  A~ , 
Strommen,  psychology;  Hans  E.  Lee, ' 
sociology  and  computer  science;  William 
Chamberlain  and  Patricia  D'Itri,  American 
Thought and Language. 

Tenure was also  approved for these assistant 
professors:  Floyd  D.  Barrows,  Conrad  1. 
Donadowski, 'Richard R.  Laurence,  Walter  R. 
Martin .and<  Franklin  D.  Platt, all  humanities; 
Robert A.  McD;mie~ Dorothy H.  Numoto and 
Charles  Sc.u:oOrO';lgb.  natural  science; George 
E. Eyster; small 'animal  surgery and medicine; 
and Carbl. 'Hardin.g, intramural sports. 

"  . 

AAUP to  meet 

... 

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" 

.. 

The  MSU.  chapter  of  the  American 
Association of University Professors will 
have  an  open meeting Wednesday  (Dec. 
1)  at  7:30  p.m.  in  Room  35,  Union 
Building.  Speaking  will  be 
representatives  of  the  two  legislative 
appropriations  committees  -
Sen. 
Gilbert  Bursley  and  Rep.  Richard  A. 
Young. 

• 

Prepaid health plan . .. 

(Concluded from page 1) 

over  in  its  task  and  look  first  at  the 
"present  health  care  situation"  among 
faculty, staff and students. 

"After  seeing  the  strengths  and 
weak.. ... lesses  of all  the programs of all the 
people  at  the  University,"  Bender  said, 
"we  could  then  start 
looking  at 
alternatives." 

He  charged  that  the  advisroy board in 
its  deliberations  since  last  March  had 
been  "admonished  to  direct 
its 
attention  to  only  the  issue  at  hand  -
prepayment,"  even  though  it  asked  to 
to  prepaid  health 
study  alternatives 
care. 

Bender  said  he  had  received  a  letter 
from  Wharton,  urging  that  the  advisory 
board members  not  resign  and  assuring 
that  the  University  is  "not  about  to 
embark  on  a  major  change  in  health 
car e . "  Bender  added 
the  six 
members  might  have  a  meeting  with 
Wharton to discuss the issue. 

that 

!N  HIS  REPORT  to  the  trustees  on 
Friday,  Perrin  acknowledged  that  the 
advisory  board  had  difficulty 
in 
reaching  specific  recommendations 
because  of  some  reservations  and 
apprehensions  expressed  by 
its 
members. 

' 

With  all  of  the  concerns  involved,  he 
said,  "it  is  understandable  that  the 
advisory  committee  would  have 
difficulty in grappling with the iSS\:le  and 
arriving  at  a  clear-cut  recommendation. 
"Lacking  such, however, it would be a 
fair  conclusion  that  the  advisory board 
is  not  against  further  consideration  of 
the  prepaid he~Jth care plan proposal. It 
would  view  Phase  II,  I  believe,  as  a 
period for further intensive investigation 
rather  than  as  a  foregone  conclusion 

that  a  prepaid  plan  will  be 
implemented." 

*  *  * 
BENDER  CHARGED  that  a  prepaid 
plan  would  not  be  feasible  at  MSU 
unless  participation  was  mandatory  for 
students. 
And  he  cited  a portion  of 
the  report  oflast spring's prepaid health 
care  plan  survey  by  the  Urbw  Survey 
Research  Unit.  In  its  conclusion,  tIle 
the  survey  findings 
report  states, 
is  no  great 
ir.dicated  "that 
amoun t  of  dissatisfaction  with 
the 
present  system  of health  care  that  will 
make  respondents  susceptible  to  any 
new alternative health care program." 

there 

That  report  also  revealed  that  60 
percent  of  faculty  and  staff,  and  40 
percent  of the  students  surveyed  would 
be  willing  to  join  a prepaid health  care 
plan, 

*  *  * 
COMPI:.ETION  OF  EACH  phase 
constitutes  a  "go  or  no  go"  decision, 
pointed  out  Donald  Weston,  an 
associate  dean  in  human  medicine.  He 
said  that  there  is  not  now  any  prepaid 
plan  in  the  works  for  MSU,  and  he 
added:  "We  don't  even  know  if  one 
would be feasible." 
Until  Phase  II 

is  completed  and 
evaluated, Weston said,  there  will  be no 
consideration of going to Phase III. (The 
latter  phase  would 
include  getting 
subscribers  for  a pilot project in  prepaid 
health care.) 

~ender  had  maintained  that  rather 
than  following  ,a  "go  or  no  go" 
procedure  after  each  phase, 
tIle 
University was simply "slowing down to 
35 miles an  hour" before proceeding. 

-GENE RIETFORS 

,  : 

Holiday party set 

Planning  for  the  annual  Christmas  party  -

cosponsored  by  Faculty  Folk,_ 
Newcomers  Club  a..,d the University  Oub  -
is  nearly  complete. The affair begins 
with a social  hour at 6:30 p.m.  Dec.  4  at  the University  Club.  Following will  be 
dinner, dancing and bridge. Planners from left are:  Mrs. Gary Manson, president of 
Newcomers;  Axel  Andersen,  University  Oub  chainnan;  Mrs.  Rolland  Hinkle, 
Faculty Folk chainnan; Willis W.  Armistead, president of the University Oub; and 
Mrs. Armistead, president of Faculty Folk.  Tickets  are available  only  throug..h 
-Photo by Dick Wesley 
accounts of  University Club members. 

Book  sale  is  Dec.  1-3 

The  MSU'  Library  will  sell 
thousands of its duplicate  books  Dec. 
1-3  from  19 .a~m." t<? ,:4 p.m"  covering 
such  ar~~s  <I;~. d¥.AtorY 'l  literature, 
e d u cat ip.9:'J<.~5>ScjlpJog!y , 
foreign 
languages and tiction. 
Proceeds  of  the . sale ,  which  will  be 

held  on  the  third  floor  of  the 
Undergraduate  Library,  will'  be  used to 
purchase  new  books  and  research 
materials.  Books  sold  the  first  day  will 
be  $1,  the  second day  50 cents,  and 25 
cents  the  third  day.  Buyers  are 
requested to pay in cash:  ' 

MICHIGAN 
STATE 
UNIVERSITY 

j ' 

Fl:~y, November  26,  1971 

' ! ! I!  (~J9 ;~!'~ l: ~ \~ 
,y u  I{i "!ll'  '-, 

7:30  p.m. 
Saturday;  November  27,  1971 

Hockey-MSU  vs.  Michigan.  Ice  Arena. 

j J I' 

8  p:m. 
Monday,  November  29,  1971 

Basketball-MSU  vs.  Australian  Nationals'.'  J~~ii~~ 

8:15  p.m. 

&~15 p.m. 

Lecture-Concert  Series  ("A")-Pianist  Alexis  Weissenberg 
will  present an all-Chopin program. He is  t4~lJ~1?Ae{ 91  the 
Leventritt Competition and has appeared as  ~9lpist with  the 
major orchestras. Tickets are  available  at  the  Union  Ticket 
Office.  Auditorium. 
Faculty  Recital-Douglas  Campbell  will  perform  on  the 
French horn.  Open to the public  at no charge.  Music  Aud. 

Tuesday,  November  30,  1971 

noon 

University Club  Luncheon-Guest speaker  will  be  Howard 
Tanner,  director of the  natural  resources  dept. ,  on  "Great 
Lakes  Salmon  Fishing." 

Calendar of Events 

3:15  p.m. 
8:15  p.m. 

8:15  p.m. 

-'A11iHleinic Co,,\mcil meetiIrg;-Con Coli Rm. , International Ctr. 
longest 
Broadway  Theatre . Series-One  of  Broadway's 
running plays, "Butterflies are Free," will star Jan Sterling in 
t4e ~ole of Mrs. Baker, a  Scarsdale  matron and mother of a 
young blind  man  struggling  to  gain  his  independence  from 
an  overly  solicitous  mother.  Tickets  are  available  at  the 
Union  Ticket ,Office.  Auditorium. 

Concert-The University Chorale,  in its first  concert of the 
season ,  will  present  a  unaccompanied  Mass  by  Persichetti 
and  Zimmerman's "Two Motets." Open to the public  at  no 
charge.  Music  Aud. 

,'. 

Saturday,  December  4,  1971 

10  a.m. 

Advanced  Degree  Commencement.  Auditorium. 

3  p.m. 

Baccalaureate Commencement.  Tickets  for  guests  will  not 
be  needed.  Auditorium. 

BULLETINS----~~~~- ~---------------------
POTTERY  SALE 
Next  week's  News-Bulletin  will  be 
the  final  one  for  fall  term,  and  will 
cover the period Dec. 3  to Jan. 8. Information about events falling  within 
that period must be submitted by noon Tuesday, Dec. 3, to Sue Smith,  109 
Agriculture  Hall,  phone  3-8819. 
GIFT  CHEESE  SALE 

sale from 10 a.m. to 5 p .m., Dec. 3 and 4, in the Union concourse. 
COMM.  ARTS  MEETING 

A  meeting  of  the  faculty  of  the  College 
of  Communication  Arts  will  be  held 

MSU  student  potters  and  the  Potters 
Guild  will  hold  their  annual  Christmas 

FINAL  BULLETIN 

at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 2, in Union Parlors A and B. 
GRADING  PROCEDURES 

Grade  cards  will  be  delivered  to  de-
partmental  offices  for  basic  courses 
on Nov. 29,  all others on Dec.  2.  They should be  checked immediately to 
see that there is a card for every student. All grades are due in the Office of 
the  Registrar  36  hours  after  the  final  examination  is  given. 

CREA TIVE  WRITERS 

Faculty  Folk  Creative  Writers  will 
meet  at  1:15  p.m.,  Wednesday.  Dec.  1, 

at the home of Mrs.  Howard Bartley, 348  Cowley,  East  Lansing. 
OPENING  ART  EXHIBIT 

There will  be  an  opening  in  the  Kresge 
gallery,  2-5  p.m.,  Sunday,  Nov.  28, 

for  exhibitions of Melvin Leiserowitz and Karl Wolter. 
ICE  ARENA  HOURS 

The  Thanksgiving  week  open  skating 
schedule  at  the  Ice  Arena is :  8:30  p.m. 
- 10 p.m. Wednesday; 3:30-5 p.m. Friday;  10-11 :30 a.m., 3:30-5  p.m., 8:30-
10  p.m.  Saturday;  and 3:30 - 5 p.m.  Sunday.  The Arena will  be  closed all 
day Thanksgiving. 
UNION  BLDG.  HOURS 

The Union Bldg.  will  be  closed  Thanks-
giving  Day  and  the  following  Friday 
and Saturday. The cafeteria will op!!n  at noon Sunday,  Nov.  28.  The grill 
will close at 5 !?m. Wednesday, Nov. 24, and reopen at 9 a.m. Sunday. 

The  Dairy  Science  Club  is  sponsoring 
their  annual  sale  of  gift  cheese  selec 
tions.  Orders may be shipped anywhere in  the United States by calling 3-
5989  through Dec.  8,  or may  be  picked  up  at  reduced  prices  at  121  An 
thony  Hall  between  9  a.m.  and  5  p.m. 
FRUIT  BASKET  SALE 

The  Horticulture  Club  will  sell  holiday 
.  fruit  baskets during the  week of Dec.  6. 
Orders may be placed in  Room  210,  HorticuIture,  or  by  phoning  5-5191. 

RESERVE  LISTS 

Faculty  members  should  submit  their 
winter  term  reading  lists  t'O  the  appro 

priate assigned reading desk as soon as possible. 
COMMENCEMENT 

Fall  term  commencement  will  be  held 
Dec.  4  in  the  University  Auditorium. 
Advanced degrees will be awarded at 10 a.m., baccalaureate degrees at 3 
p.m. Members of the faculty should assemble and don academic costume 
in the west basement of the Auditorium 30  minutes before  the ceremony. 
Academic  apparel  may  be  rented  at  the  Cap  and  Gown  office,  Union 
Bldg., Nov. 29-Dec. 3, between 8:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. 

BOOK  SALE 

Several  th.ousand  duplicate  books 
will  be  sold  on  the  third  floor  of  the 

undergraduate library on Dec. 1,2, and 3 from  10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 

SEMINARS--~--'-------------------------------
MONDA Y,  NOVEMBER  29,  1971 
An  international  study  of  production  functions:  estimation  and  im 
plications.  Kyewood  Lee,  3  p.m.,  3  Marshall  Hall  (Econometrics  & 
Economic  Development). 

The artificial breeding industry during the coming decade.  James  Nichols, 
General  Manager  of  Select  Sires,  Columbus,  Ohio,  12:30  p.m.,  126 
Anthony  Hall  (Dairy  Science). 

Food science  forum.  Georg  Borgstrom, 8  a.m.,  136  Food  Science  (Food 

Science  &Human  Nutrition). 

Organic anion transport in the maturing dog choroid plexus.  Douglas  W. 

Bierer,  4  p.m.,  146  Giltner  Hall  (Physiology). 

Michigan's poultry industry. Dale Reichard, Rainbow Trails Hatchery,  St. 

Louis, Mich. 3 p.m., 131  Anthony Hall (Poultry Science). 

TUESDAY,  NOVEMBER  30,1971 

Nuclear  charge  distribution  in  fission.  A.C.  Wahl,  Washington  U. ,  St. 

Louis,  Mo. ,  4  p.m.,  136  Chemistry  (Chemistry). 

A  layman's  guide  to  the  purchasing  and  enjoyment  of  imported  wines. 
Kelly Wheeler, 4: 10 p .m.,  110 Anthony Hall  (Food  Sci~nce & Human 
Nutrition). 

Un  the  zeros  of  complex  polynomials.  Shlomo  Libeskind,  4  p.m.,  304A 

Wells  Hall  (Mathematics  Education). 

Initiation of cellular immunity against salmonella infection.  L.  Joe  Berry, 
. Dept. of Microbiology, U. of Texas, Austin, 4:10 p.m.,  146  Giltner Hall 
(Microbiology  &  Public  Health). 

Estimating the mean of a random binomial parameter. J.  Van Ryzin, U.  of 
Wisconsin.  Madison,  :4:10  p.m.,  405A  Wens  Hall  (Statistics  & 
Probability). 

WEDNESDAY,  DECEMBER  1,  1971 
Spore  germination of blastocladiella.  E.C.  Cantino,  4:10  p.m.,  168  Plant 

- \  

.... 

Selenium  in  swine  nutrition.  D.E.  Ullrey,  4:10  p.m.,  131  Anthony  Hall 

(Inst.  of  Nutrition); 

THURSDAY,  DECEMBER  2,  1971 

The impact of marketing reforms on employment in Latin  America.  KeUy 
Harrison,  3:30  p.m.,  16  Agriculture  Hall  (Agricultural  Economics). 

Selective  esterification 

Biochemistry,  U. 
(Biochemistry) . 

of  glycerolipids.  William  Lands,  Dept.  of 
of  M~chigan,  4  p.m., 
101  Biochemistry 

Environmental quality and international trade.  Ralph  d'Arge, 'director  of 
Environmental  Economics  Program,  U.  of  California  at  Riverside, 
noon,  7  UPLA  Bldg.  (Environmental  Systems  Program). 

Microbe  hunters,  J.M.  Tiedje  4  p.m.,  109  S.  Kedzie  (Great  Agronomist 

Series). 

Contemporary Indian civilization:  does it exist?  Surjit Dulai, 3  p.m.,  1966 

Room,  Hubbard  Hall  (Humanities). 

Weighted and nonweighted irreduCible linear representations of simple Lie 
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Antidromic inhibition: a new mechanism to account for taste interactions. 

Rudy Bernard, 4 p.m., B-449, Life Science I (Pharmacology). 

Gap  and shape  excitations in  transition  and  deformed  nuclei.  N.  Hintz, 

Minnesota,  8  p.m.,  Cyclotron  Seminar Rm.  (Physics) . 

FRIDAY,  DECEMBER  3.  1971 

Membrane  formation  in  pancreatic  development.  Robert  A.  Ronzio,  3 

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