;/VlS tt- fUlMI'·~ The campus ducks: Who really takes care of them? See story, page 6. - Photo by Dick Wesley MSU News -Bulletin Vol. 3, No. 12 Michigan State University Jan. 6, 1972 Long agenda, but few action items await Council "members Information items on salary schedule, the Affirmative Action Plan and general education are included on tlje agenda (or Tuesday's· Academic CQuncil meeting at 3:15 p.m. in the Con Con Room of the Center for International Programs. Frederick Williams, professor of history and chairman of the University Faculty Affairs and Faculty Compensation Committee, will give a progress report on that committee's work on a salary schedule. The University Educational Policies Committee will present its proposals for modification of general education requirements (News-Bulletin Oct. 7, 1971). The proposals will be presented for action at .the, February Council meeting . . Vice President for University Relations Robert Perrin will report on implementation procedures for the Affrrmative Action Plan. This item is in to concern among some response And inside . .. · .. Repas responds, page 2 · .. Salary debate, pages 4, 5 · .. Tenure question, page 5 fac~lty, expressed at the Steering Committee meeting, over who would bear the economic ·brunt of the \>JIing of more women 'and more members of minority groups. The University Faculty Tenure Committee will present, for action, its recommendations concerning joint faculty appointments (see related story). This first Council meeting of 1972 will also see the seating of the first voting student members. About 30 students are expected to attend, and they will be seated alphabetically among the faculty members, to avoid seating blocks. Long·-awaited ruling supports both universities and the state The principle of autonomy for Michigan's state-supported colleges and universities gained significant support in the rece!)t ruling by Ingham County Circuit Court Judge Marvin J. Salmon a ruling based on a complaint fIled more than four years ago. Salmon's opinion, handed down on Dec. 6, resulted from a suit fIled by Michigan's "Big Three' (MSU, University of Michigan and Wayne State University) against the State of Michigan. The complaint had contended that certain provisions oflegislative acts since 1967 were unconstitutional. The Michigan State Board of Education was an intervening the Michigan defen dan t, an d Associatjon for Higher Education (an arm of the Michigan Education Association) had fIled a brief in support of the three universities. The Salmon opinion involved 11 sections of the 1971 higher education appropriations act. He ruled in favor of the universities in six sections and for the state in five - but if the opinion stands it would amount to a major affirmation of the universities' autonomy. Here is a summary of some major areas in the opinion : SUPERVISORY SECTIONS; ~, Salmon ruled that is is unconstitutional for th~ Legislature to prescribe minimum number of credit hours to be taught by faculty. Section 19 of this year's appropriations bill said that each full-time faculty member "paid wholly from item instruction" must teach an average of at least 10 credit hours or 300 student credit hours. line the Not included in the decision, however, was a Legislative proviso that state institutions submit an "annual academic staff performance alldit." He also found unconstitutional the requirement tilat, in effect, sought to limit nonresident enrollment at state schools to 20 percent of total enrollment. ' PURPOSE SECTIONS The higher education appropriations two sections that bill contained prohibited use of state funds to pay faculty or employes , or provide e d u cation of students convicted of certain offenses or who willfully damage university property. Another section would deny use of state funds to construct buildings or conduct operations not authorized in the appropriations act. Salmon, declared all sections unconstitutional, saying that "once the Legislature appropriated the funds, they became the property of the ( universities), subject to their exclusive control." REPORTING SECTIONS Salmon ruled unconstitutional a section of the appropriations bill that reduced a university's appropriation if it (Continued on page 2) MSU VERTICAL FI I .. RECEr~.,~W~ i' " L "d t ..... t:.-,.t V i\Ri ilJ\ENT REf£RENCE ~E_~N"'ERS\n Wfi!1ep,art~l1fs have been incr~asing, too - especially in animal husbandry where undergraduate enrollment jumped from 97 to 136. 1? f10 A revised state sales tax bill signed last week removed the sales tax exemption on all educational, materials sold by university-operated book stores. This means that effective Monday, textbooks and other educational materials sold by the MSU Bookstore will carry the standard 4 per cent sales tax. All off-campus stores had already been assessing the sales tax. Job outlook is bleak A survey taken by the Placement Bureau shows that employers themselves are predicting a bleak year for the 1972 college-educated job-seeker. Compiled by John D. Shingleton, director of placement and L. Patrick Scheetz, asssistant director of placement, the ,study queried 346 employers in buSiness, industry and government from across the nation. Total anticipated hiring from all the agencies was down 1.8% from last year for bachelor's degree candidates. Showing statistcally significant projected increases in hiring bachelor's candidates over last year were hospitals and health services ( up 20 percent), and hotels, motels, resorts, and camps (up 16.4 percent); Employers in agribusiness (down 77.J percent), ,construction and building material manufacturing (doWn 26.3 percent), aerospace and components (down 25.8 percent), and electronics and instruments (down 15.8 percent), projected significant decreases in hiring those with bachelor's degrees. Demand for master's degre~s; the survey noted, dropped 12.4 percent' from laSt year, with significant decreases of 33 percent or more in constru<;,tion arid building material manufacturmg;, agribusiness; banking, fmance' . 3r).d. insurance; electrical machinery ' ,:iQd . equipment; food and bevenlge , processing; governmenfal administration; hotels, motels, resorts and camps; and metals and fuet~ products. The only increases for master's degrees are in accounting; aerospace and components; chemicals, drugs, and' allied products; and 'reserach and, consulting services. Demand for doctorate degree candidates dropped 26.8 percent from last year, with increases noted only for chemicals, drugs, and allied products and glass, paper and packaging (from one to four candidates hired). The usual doctoral haven of research and consulting Services dropped 75 percent from last year for these employers. COfnputers fnated T he state of ,Michl~an, reached. a milestone in :higher education recently when a computer at the Universtiy of Michigan ordered a computer at Wayne State University to perform a computational task. A computer at MSU could just as easily have ordered either the WSU Of UM computers to perform the historic task, for the transmission realized a five-year effort to connect the computer facilities of the state's three largest universities. The three-way computer hookup is called MERIT (Michigan Educational Research Information Triad) computer network. Milton E. Muelder, MSU vice president for research development, said · the MERIT system "constitutues an' asset of inestimable value for the , researcher and teacher, and it enhances and expands greatly computer resources· which are not present at the respective . campuses." M uelder adde d that "it furtbe!' provides a capability of expansion , to serve other educational institutions in Michigan as well." U-M Prof. Bertram Herzog, the director of MERIT, said that facilities to , be both consumers and producers of computer resources, MERIT is flexible enough to add other colleges and universities to the system solely as consumers. This would give them access to the network's resources without expensive duplication of equipment. MERIT was formally created in the fall of 1966 by the Michig.an 1 n t eru·n i ve r si ty· Comntittee 0:11" Information Systems (MICIS). Backe( ... < by matching fun ds from the state and the Natio na l :Science Foundation, MERIT began to move the construction phase in July 1969. to "While there are a few similar , computer networks in the countryI' " Herzog said, ~'Michigan's is the first'td be built around , different production computers which supply the daily computing needs of the universities. Page 4, MSU News-Bulletin, Jan. 6,1972 Salary list triggers' a variety of facul Faculty members may hold wide ranging views about the propriety of ; publishing salaries in a newspaper, but they seem to be in relative agreement on one point: The list printed in The State Journal (Dec. 2, 1971) only'begins to . reveal how salaries are determined at MSU. One member of the economics faculty summed it up: "It is just a list of prices without any description of the goods." An associate professor in biochemistry said that he would "like to see some education go along with this list ... I'm afraid of negative public reaction." And a chemistry faculty member noted that if such reaction comes, "our real hope ... is to put on a good educational campaign to convince people that we're worth what we're paid." Interviews with more than 20 faculty picked at random from among nine colleges reveal a variety of reactions to publication of the list. And it appears that - with some exceptions - faculty in colleges with higher salary medians tend to , disapprove of having salaries in the paper, and those in colleges lower on the pay . scale are more likely to approve. A DEPARTMENT CHAIRMAN in the College of Engineering called the listing "an invasion of personal privacy. If people came here with this understanding (that sala ries would be made public), it would be one thing," he said. "But when they don't expect it, it can be quite a shock." The State Journal: A One newspaper saw it as "an area of secrecy" long in need of public disclosure. Another viewed it as a list of data "that didn't mean anything by itself." And those, basically, are ,the reasons why one paper (The State Journal) decided to print MSU's faculty salary list (Dec. 2, 1971) and why another (The State News) chose not to. Pat McCarthy, city editor of The State Journal, said his paper's . decision to run the list was based on . two factors: "It was a good news story," and it involved "an area of secrecy" 1n which the Journal felt disclosure "was long overaue." Kenneth Gunderman, Journal managing editor, added that published the list was in keeping with the paper's "long-standing policy of " printing public salaries," although the faculty list provided "more detail than normal." "If the list hadn't been distributed earlier (by the Committee for a Rational Pay Policy), we would not have printed the whole thing," Gunderman said. Reader response to the Journal was surprisingly sparse, Gunderman noted. He said that within five days after it was printed, "fewer than a dozen calls" had been received at the paper. McCarthy said the Journal was not likely to publish any other salary lists from MSU. He added that administrative-professional staff salaries have not been made available to the paper. Gunderman said that by prIDting faculty salaries the paper was "trying to force a point" and provide "a wedge" to the availability of MSU salary information in the future. He said the the Journal did not have access to faculty salaries in the past (except for those that accompany personnel items on agendas at Board of Trustees meetings), but it has been able to learn the salaries of other state-supported employes, such as those in the civil service. McCarthy said he could not recall any specific cases of the Journal asking for and being denied acess to MSU salaries, but he added: "We are just well aware of the (MSU) policy of secrecy." (News-Bulletin, Oct. 21, 1971). McCarthy acknowledged limitations in failing to print a list with a breakdown of 10- and 12-months's appointments. But he said that two subsequent stories in the paper were designed to point up any salary inequities. ( story in the Dec. 5 Journal noted a $21,000 descrepency between, high and low salary among professors, although the low salary turned out to be for a professor on half-time status.) "If they (faculty salaries) can't be defended," McCarthy said, they'll be corrected." STATE NEWS EDITOR John Juel said his paper gave "a great deal of thought" to publishing the list, but One of the economics faculty said the publication "was an extremely arrogant act ... At best, it causes trouble and mischief." But another economist was less concerned: "This might create ill will ... but I don't put much social value on this kind of ill will." A professor in horticulture was troubled llbout the effects of having salaries made public. "The results are much worse than I had thought," he said, "especially on those whose salaries are lower ... This is very hard on morale;" , "I can see signs of deleterious effects on personal relationships," noted a professor of biochemistry. SOME WELCOMED salary disclosure, even in the neWspaper; a few contended that such action was overdue. "This is just one more step in opening up people in their relationships with each other," said an associate professor of chemistry. "It will create some short-term trauma, but it will be beneficial in the long run." A member of the art department said he was glad that "the list is fmally out," even though some of the discrepencies "are very discouraging to many of us who have been here many years." A NUMBER OF FACULTY expressed surprise at some of thefr colleagUes, salaries, and a few said they were dismayed at apparent inequities. ' he added: "It came down to whether we could find any advantage to printing the list. "We just didn't see any value in taking up space with information that didn't mean anything by itself," Juel said. He said that the absence of a 10- and 12-month breakdown, plus the inability to make any comparisons among salaries, eventually convinced the paper's editors not to print the list. "We are very strong on the, idea that the public should have access to this kind of information," he said. The State News earlier had made copies of the list available to the MSU Library and to the library in James Madison College. Both Juel and The State Journal editors said they had only minor concer!). over invasion of privacy, list had already been since than 2,000 circulated to more faculty members. the -GENE RIETFORS Cens~re, salary debates don't make Acadefllic Censure and salary informafion aren't on next week's Academic Council the most agenda, but they were discussed items at last Monday's Steering Committee meeting. A proposal from the arts and letters advisory council for more specific compilation of data relating to published salaries was deemed inappropriate for presentation to the Academic Council. The advisory council had voted in December to ask that the University Faculty Affairs and Faculty Compensation Committee (F AFCC) or an ad hoc committee be asked by the Academic Council to compile such data as length of appointment, work load, longevity, sex, full or part-time employment; to compile rationale for all apparent discrepancies in salaries; to recommend rectification for and inequities in salary. Frederick Williams, professor of history and F AFCC chairman, said he the spirit of the advisory approved council proposal, but he the Steering Committee that the specifics would be "impossible" to meet. told Williams said that guidelines are needed to allow for class actions. Individual grievances, he said, could best be handled at the department and college levels. Herbert Jackson, professor of religion and chairman of the arts and letters advisory council, said the concern was for quick action. Others at the meeting said that if there weren't quick action, "collective bargaining could be coming. " The proposal was ruled inappropriate to forward to the Academic Council because the items are included in the charge to the FAFCC. Arts and letters could, however, raise the issue from the Council floor. Williams reported that the committee will hold open hearings as soon as to obtain faculty views on poss:ible matters regarding. salaries. * * * NO ONE WANTED to reopen the matter of censure (prof. Bob Repas of labor and industrial relations and Trustee Clair White were censured at the last Academic Council meeting for their actions in releasing faculty salary the matter was information), but discussed. ',(I ~w 1>11 . n Mark Rilling, associite professor of psychology and bruncil member, expressed procedural concern about the censure. He .meeting and was hastyJ ab out PifO censure and academic infringed b¥ Steering'1C Greer, pf{)fl thought t "procedurall understandin resolutions a warning, or d Williams, motion on a explained th that way b asked that t the meeting; could have ty reSpOfl'SeS One associate professor in biochemistry said he was surprised at some of the high salaries among full professors, and he added: "I didn't realize how low some of the salaries are in arts and letters, and University College." A professor in horticulture said the list was a revelation to some of the younger faculty, since it revealed some high ranges among senior faculty. But it member of the mathematics department said that "some of the older faculty were taken aback ... since years of service don't count for a great deal." One professor of American Thought and Language said he wasn't surprised by the listing: "It was interesting to have my suspicions confIrmed ... I guess I read it because it depresses me." A woman in the College of Education said she was appalled by the discrepancies ,among departments. "I feel teaching is teaching, regardless of the area of competency - there ought to be some consistency in salaries throughout the University. Who says chemistry IS more important over a long period of time than music?" But several facuIty said they accepted salary differences among disciplines. A member of the chemistry faculty was explicit: "The University has to be competitive. You can't get a doctor for what you can pay a Spanish teacher. We can't live that far outside the world." PUBLICATION OF SALARY information may help create a renewed push toward collective bargaining among faculty, according to several persons. One professor who opposes bargaining said that "this (the list) may be the thing that leads to unionization." An associate professor in University College said: "I- hope so." An; associate professor in education said there may be some favorable results from the salary disclosure. "The fact that women are completely discriminated against was obvious," he said. , - He said that he was not concerned with the high salaries ("More power to you if you ~n get it."), but he added that there should be "an equalizing pressure" for those in the low ranges. A biochemist who admitted to "mixed feelings" about the list's publication said, "There ought to be a basic salary for a university professor." A FEW FACULTY said the The State Journal's action wouldn't have much effect on salaries here. One member of the journalism department predicted "a flurry of excitement, as usual, then it will die down." But he said he hoped that "those who are involved in decision-making would be mor~ conscjous thattl:!~, pub1icisloo:(cing on." , 'pIolessor dismissea: the episode as "a tempest in a teapot." He 'said that the salary disclosure is not likely to have much overall effect, although the furor over the list indicates that some people "might not" have enough to do." psychology\ A "If there are salary inequities," he said, "it points up the fact that the criteria - teaching, publications and public service - need to be changed. How many people have ever got raises for their public service?" , SOME HAVE CONTENDED that senior faculty did not receive proportionately higher increases, as recommended by the faculty compensation committee. But Herman King, assistant provost, said that the recommendation was followed, since those in the professorial ranks generally received higher dollar increases than lower-ranking colleagues. The recomendation concerned dollar raises, not percentage raises; he said . . And King said that the Board of Trustees this month is likely to consider a proposal that MSU release faculty salary information as suggested by the faculty compensation committee, but with a few refinements. It is proposed that joint appointments be reflected on a full-time equivalent basis, that the data be converted to a 10-month rate, and that any changes since July 1 be included. But the proposed list would not include names. Council agenda was not at the Council aid he thought the action ~ concern, however, was edures and criteria for asked for assurance that reedom would not be msure action. nmittee member Thomas sor of humanities, also ~ censure move was very bad," and said that is needed so that such : not made without prior e process. who made the censure loint of personal privilege, t he secured the floor in ause his committee had ~ move be made early in o wait for "new business" lean t that many of the Council members might have left by that time, he said. Williams reiterated the grounds for his motion and pOinted out that censure procedures are not usually written in to due process, just as they are not for matters of commendation. Greer said that the substantive grounds used for the censure were arguable, and that while "Roberts Rules of Order" does not cover censure procedures, the action was a matter of prin ciple and should have at least appeared on the agenda. Lack of time was no excuse, he said, because "what's the rush?" Williams also pOinted out that a move to reconsider the action later in the meeting was defeated. And, he said, "we ,l1ave a lot of work to do and we need to nurse grudges but to work l).ot i" , . _-~ together (on saJary fchedules )," ... Page S, MSU News-Bulletin, Jan. 6,1972 Tenure group to report on joint appointfnents Who grants tenure to a faculty member on joint appointment with two or more departments? What happens if one department says yes and the other says no? The questions have been real ones for those members of the faculty who have no single "home" department. They have also led to requests for deviations ftom . tenure regulations to allow department chairmen and deans more time to evaluate the faculty member. If the deviation is not approved by the faculty tenure committee, the faculty member may not be reappointed. The problem of joint appointments has been studied by the University Faculty Tenure Committee (FTC) for more than a year, and the FTC hopes to recommend to the Academic Council next week new procedures for handling such cases. Under the recommended procedures: * Appointments split 50-50 between departments would not be allowed. A majority department-one which pays 60 per cent or more of the faculty member's salary-would be clearly specified and would hold prime responsibility for reappointment actions. * The majority department would specify performance, promotion and ret en t ion c rite ria, in c1 u ding specifications of secondary assignments with another department. Those specifications would be coordinated with the secondary department. * Faculty members with joint appointments would be informed of their-'rights and privileges with each academic unit with which they are aff.t1iated and how these rights may differ from those of full-time members. * At the time of joint appointment, the non-tenured faculty member would be told the conditions under which the secondary appointment might be terminated during the probationary period. * At the end of the first probationary appointment, if the faculty member is recommended fqr reappointment by the majority department for an additional probationary period, new negotiations • may occur with the secondary or ,other departments. The secondary depart~ent may at this time reduce or terminate the percentage of its participation in the joint arrangement. If the majority department or another department is unwilling to assume the percentage released by the secondary departmel1t, the faculty member would no~ be retained. . * At the end of a probationary period when a tenure decision must be made, if the majority department recommends tenure for the faculty member, the minority (or secondary) departr.lent must abide by the decision. If the majority department decides against gr~nting tenure, the faculty member is available for majority consideration by other units, but would not be eligible for additional probationary periods. * All statements of duties, rights, responsibilities, privileges, criteria and procedures for retention would be made in Writing to the faculty member. to all The rules, if approved by the Academic Council and the ' board of Trustees, would apply joint appointments of nontenured faculty entered into on or after July I, 1972. Joint appointments effective before that date would be reviewed and, where applicable, the rules would be implemented "as seems fair, advisable and mutually agreeable, and to the extent that such implementation does not constitute to the faculty member disadvantage or hardship that would not otherwise arise," according to the FTC recommendations. The rules would be in full effect by July 1,1975. The provost's office would monitor compliance with the rules, and the FTC would still have the prerogative to hear and decide case appeals based on alleged violation of the rules. Joint appointments are common among the College of Human Medicine, and faculty in interdisciplinary areas. the residential colleges, -BEVERLY TWITCHELL AD search underway The search and selection process for a successor to Clarence (Biggie) Munn as athletic director is underway. John Fuzak, chairman of the athletic council, has been designated chairman of the committee by vote of the 12-man group. This is the second phase of the work which will end with the eventual appointment by President Wharton of a person to succeed the stroke-stricken Munn, athletic director for 18 years. The appointment is subject to confirmation by the Board of Trustees. The first phase was the work by a five-man subcommittee to set up procedures for the search and selection process and to start development of a set of criteria for a new director. "We now are accepting nominations of candidates," Fuzak said. "This is the first step, to build a list of possibilities for the position. Later on the sifting and winnowing will begin. Our charge is to come up with three likely candidates and present their names to Jack Breslin. "I think it appropriate to say here and now that the identities of candidates will be held in the strictest confidence is ' by necessary to protect their good names and their present positions." the committee. We their security this feel in To expedite initial screening, the Fuzak has named a six-man subcommittee to take the complete list of applicants and reduce it to a list of 12 to 20 names. Those names will then go to the whole committee for final consideration. The subcommittee, chaired by John Zimmer, includes Clayton Kowalk, Wilbur Brookover, Charles Scarborough, Louis Twardzik and Harold Buckner. Policy set A new policy concerning faculty pay for off-campus teaching went into effect Jan. 1. All assistant deans for continuing education have received copies of the policy. Any faculty member who wishes to have a personal copy may contact the Continuing Education Business Office at 355-0140. WOfnen's fneet Women are invited to attend an open organizational meeting for a women's advisory commission on the status of women at the University today at 3 p.m. in 401 Hannah Administration Building. The commission would be advisory to the Eoual Opportunity Office. Page 6, MSU News-Bulletin, Jan. 6, 1972 Cafnpus beautydoesnljust hap,pen We've heard the figures before: 7,000 species and varieties of trees, shrubs and vines; more than 15,000 trees and woody shrubs; 2,010 acres of developed or planned campus; 32 miles of roadways, 96 miles of walkways, 11 miles of bicycle paths, and 18,600 parking spaces. . .' And the Red Cedar ducks. University faculty, students and employes may admire the park-like campus, occasionally feed a duck, expect their parking spaces and sidewalks clear, and, of course, start each day with an empty wastebasket. But it~ easy to ignore - or at least not to realize - that those figures in the flIst paragraph represent trees and plants that require constant care, lawns which must be watered, mowed, and from which leaves must be removed, pavement which must be well-marked, clear of ice and snow and of fallen trees. , There's just more to getting on campus each day than meets the proverbil!l eye. Someone has to do all these things ... including removing tons of trash each day from the collective offices and buildings. And feeding the ducks in the winter. All this is the full-time concern of the 58 employes in grounds maintenance. These men include gardeners who spend one-fifth of their tim~ just picking up the litter the campus community leaves behind. Most of the rest of their time is u.~d to keep the campus beautiful and healthy: La~ mowing, plant watering, seeding, leaf disposal, working with trees. And about 6 percent of their time is spent removing snow. And, ef course, someone has to: Keep those 27 holes of golf course playable, prepare and maintain the stadium and other athletic facilities for the thousands who use them. Keep domestic ducks from interbreeding with our campus mallards. Keep the lethal beetle away from our some 2,000 elm trees. Keep the trash bins empty. * * * THE SOMEONE IS the grounds crew - divided into areas of gardening, tree maintenance, trash, and snow removal. There is also · a crew to add ' finishing touches to newly developed areas on campus. When a new building goes up, the site crew handles seeding, planting, tree and shrub transplants, road, or land grading - anytliing the contractors do not do. The trash crew makes daily - sometimes twice-a-day - stops at most campus buildings, filling huge trucks With 15,000 pounds of trash per load - and several leads are taken daily to a landfill in Lansing. The grounds maintenance job is one of tremendous proportions, and there are MSU scientists report at AAAS lneetings still more examples: 14,000 cubic yards of compressed leaves are gathered each year, dumped on a compost pile and later used with new plantings. There is a good deal of cooperation and coordination with other campus units, with entomologists and soil scientists, for examples. There is a spray committee which discusses ecological concerns related to the need to spray the grounds in the fight against bugs and disease. . * * * THE OPERATION HAS had to grow with the campus. Less than 30 years ago only 600 acres of campus required care; that area has more than tripled. Old ledgers show that less than 40 years ago only nine full-time employes maintained the grounds. They were supplemented by student help. Today the work force is nearly doubled with student employes added. And only 12 years ago, the entire department was housed in a small shed (30 feet by 70 feet) near the Computer Center with a makeshift canvas garage for the equipment. It's been said that former president John Hannah took such an interest in the appearance of the campus that even individual trees did not escape his notice. Department Superintendent Burt Ferris remembers that when the stadium was being expanded, Hannah would be there at 6:30 a.m. to view the proceedings. * * * THE CREW ITSELF takes pride in the work it does. "We feel, and we're prejudiced, that we've got probably the best cared-for campus there is," says Charles Kell, administrative assistant for grounds maintenance. "We're told that it's true. And it takes a lot of planning, cooperation and work by everyone concerned." . Herb Meyer is a senior gardener in charge of the area which includes the president's home - ajob he's had for 22 years. "It's very interesting," he says, "there are nice plant materials to work with, a nice garden, and I like the people." He says he puts in a "little extra effort" when the Whartons are entertaining, and that Mrs. Wharton comes out the next morning to personally thank him, "and that," he says, "makes it really nice." . So wherever one may look, there are examples of the grounds crew's concerns - from flowers to street signs, from highway markings to neat lawns, from healthy trees to healthy ducks. And the crew may even be called upon to use its equipment to help a limp camel stand up - as they once were by the veterinary clinic. Concerns of grounds maintenance are as diverse as the University it serves. -BEVERLY TWITCHELL Fifteen MSU mathematicians and scientists met in Philadelphia over the holidays for the annual national meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to present and discuss research findings. Topics under investigation ranged from ecological to psychological. "Perhaps Philadelphia was a very symbolic setting for us," said MSU zoologist William E. Cooper, who chaired the AAAS Division of Ecology Seminar series to explore Pakistani war The political power plays and the religious-cultural differences behind the Indo-Pakistani war will be examined in a series of eight seminars on "South Asia an d U.S. Foreign Policy." Open to the public free of charge , the series of seminars is being offered by the Asian Studies Center as a public service. South Asian specialists from MSU and o Uler universities will conduct the seminars which will be held from 7:30 to 9 :30 p.m. TllUrsda ys in Room 106 CenteJ: for lntel,"nationa.L Programs. The first sessjon will be Thursday (Jan. 6). The seminar will be offered on a non-credit basis. However, seniors and graduate students are encouraged to , make arrangements for independent ' study credits with faculty members participating in the seminar. time meetings on natural ecosystem studies. "It is to engaged in rational evaluations of alternatives to current life styles," he said. "At the rate the environment is deteriorating now," said engineer Robert H. Boling, "without our really knowing why and how, we have reached a critical point where we must answer some of the major questions. We really don't know how to reverse a lot of the environmental degradation because the environmental systems aren't understood. "We are trying to make a translation of information of biological phenomena of a three dimensional world into a mathematical framework," Boling said. "Our approach is a play-off between the two - biological and mathematical. "Already, questions have arisen for which no answers were available," he added. "That is how we, got into studies of how streams can or cannot handle pollution. " Boling said that MSU research has now shown that streams can process "a lot more organic matter than was previously thought." All organic pollution need not be eliminated from streams' to keep them clean enough to support trout and other clean-water life , Kenneth W. Cummins, fresh-water ecologist from the Kellogg Biological Station, told scientists at the AAAS meeting. His statement was based on research in progress at the station near Hickory Comers. Other MSU researchers at the meeting were engineer Donald J. Montgomery, mathematician William M. Fitzgerald; natural scientist John N. Moore; psychologists Ralph Levine and Andrew M. Barclay; science educators T. Wayne Taylor and Julian R. Brandou; and zoologists Martin Balaban, Lynwood Clemens, Samoa J. R. Wallach, John A. King and Peter C. Fraleigh. -PHILLIP E. MILLER Cleaninr s'ire.Euns:-' Researeh technician JOM E(:~ Wuycheck displays water animals captured '!fiOtn an experimental stream;, at. MSU's Kellogg Biological Station. A report on how 'streams clean themselves· was given by Kenneth W. Cummilll at the recent AAAS meetings. - Photo by Dick Wesley ;BULLETtNS--· lIIiiiiIIitt~\ .IIIIIli\_---~~~-~~":"":" .:J Page 7, MSU News-Bulletin, Jan. 6, 1972 OPENING EXHIBIT There will be an opening the Kresge Art Center Gallery, 2-5 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 9, for the exhibition of graduate drawings and the work of Midwest photographers. in BORLAUG FILM the ' Peace Corps, will be shown at 4 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 6, in 206 Horticulture. ' A representative from the Peace Corps office in Detroit will be available for questions and commentary. "Norman Borlaug Revolutionary," a 27-minute film ,produced by COMPUTER LAB SERVICE The Computer Laboratory "Key- punehing Service , 504 Computer Center, is now able to give excellent turnaround on keypunching and verifying jobs. Also available is the continuous form copying service, which takes 14 x 11 continuous form computer output, reduces 'to 8 Yl X 11 sheets, and collates into as many sets as needed. For information call 5- 5005. l'/'COMERS·FACULTY FOLK Newcomer wives will entertain the Faculty Folk with "An Afternoon of · Music" under the direction of Robert Harris at 1 p.m., Friday, Jan. 14, at ; the Union. A nursery is available, but reservations must be made by calling Mrs. C.R. Halverson, 337-0184 or Mrs. J.S. Bolen, 351-0423. CONFERENCES '~" Jan. 10-11 MIRA Invitational Winter Conference All conferences will be held in Kellogg Center unless otherwise noted. Jan. 10-13 Jan. 10-14 Jan 13-14 Kellogg Farmers Juvenile Officers Course Drafting Contract Language Students and faculty members are welcome to attend these continuing education programs. Those who are interested should make arrangements in advance with the Office of University Conferences, 5-4590. EXHIBITIONS Kresge Art Center North Gallery , January 8-30: Midwest Photographers: Vernon Cheek, Purdue U. ; Phil Davis, U . of Michigan ; Arnold Gassan, Les Sattinger, Ohio U. ; lohn Schulze, U. of Iowa; Art Sinsabaugh, U. of TIlinois; Doug Stewart, Northern Illinois U .; Henry H. Smith, lndiana U.; Charles Swedlund. Southern illinois U. SEMINARS FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1972 Structural aspects of gene action. Aimee H. Bakken, Division of Biology, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 11 :30 a.m., 140 Natural Sciences (Zoology). .,' ,- Main Gallery: Works from the permanent collection. Entrance Galle~y: January 8-30: Graduate Drawings Center for International Programs Main lobby exhibits: Research in Yucatan, Summer Russian Language Program, and Peace Corps Intern Program in the Philippines. Some remarks on the estimation of distribution mixtures. P.D.M. Mac donald, Dept. of Applied Mathematics, McMaster University, Hamilton. Ontario. 4:10 p.m., 40SA Wells (Statistics and Probability). MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1972 Perspectives and problems in research on the repair of DNA. lames Trosko. 4:10p.m., 101 Biochemistry (AEC Plant Research Lab). The effect of zinc deficiency on some aspects of animal behavior. Donald Oberlease, Wayne State, 4: 10 p.m., 131 Anthony (Institute of Nutrition)' WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1972 Effect of dieldrin on liver mitochondria and nucleic acid and protein metabolism in brain and liver. W.G. Bergen, 3 p.m., 103 Anthony (Animal Husbandry). Infective heredity in bacteria. N.D. Zinder, Rockefeller University, New y or1\. 4: 10 p.m., 335 Giltner (Microbiology & Public Health). Life in the frozen state. Armand Karow, Dept. of Pharmacology, Medical College of Georgia, 4 p.m., 136 Chemistry (Biophysics). The effect of stress on pregnancy in the rat. Jean Euker, 4 p.m., 146 Giltner ~Physiology). THURSDAY, IANUARY 13, 1972 Local government education and agricultural economics. Al House, 3:30 p.m., 16 Agriculture Hall (Agricultural Economics). SOMMIS-master plan for computers, programs and systems, State of Michigan. John Quinn, Management Science, State of Michigan, 7:30 p.m., 102.B Wells (Computer Science). Primary productivity and mineral accumulation in naturally occurring in wastewater populations of submerged macrophytes growing lagoons. Dennis Tierney, 1 :30 p.m., 221 Natural Resources (Fisheries & Wildlife). TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1972 What's new in scandium chemistry? Gordon Melson, 4 p.m., 136 Chemistry (C1:J.emistry). Functional significance of brain catecholamines in the actions of aman tadine and the amphetamines. John E. Thornburg, 4 'p.m., B-449 Life Science 1 (Pharmacology). Identification of endogenous auxins in sour cherry (Prunus cerasus L. cv. Montmorency) fruit and their role in fruit development. MWTay E. Hopping, 4 p.m., 206 Horticulture (Horticulture). Tensions in ranked systems. Patrick Doreian, Department 01 ~ocl010gy, University of Essex, 7:30 p.m., 466 Berkey (Sociology). The ,probleffi5 of underdevelopment: a look at Peru. Joanne Fino, 12:30 ~.C'1.., 102 Human Ecology (Nutrition). FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1972 Veterinary medicine in Austr~lia:tWd New Zealand. Dr. 9'<;:"' ~j~ ~arke­ Davis and Company, 4:19; ~. 346 Gi1~ner (Pathoh;lay~~11 ' Genetic control of. meiosis in Drosophila melanogaster. Brian K. Davis, 11 :30 a.m., 140 Natural Science (Zoology). ~,·,d..=-· For general information about MSU, can 353·8700. MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY Calendar of Events · . Friday, January 7, 1972 Monday, January 10, 1972 7:30 p.m. Hockey-MSU vs. North Dakota. Ice Arena. 8:15 p.m. Recital-Four students present an evening of piano and dance, featuring individual choreography and works by Liszt . Weber, and Bartok. Music Auditorium. 8 p.m . 8 p.m. 8:15 p.m. "U.F.O."-A new program probes the possibility of life existing on other planets, and portrays stories of mysterious flying saucer encounters. Tickets at door. Abrams Planetarium. "Harvey"-The Winter Repertory Festival Company will present a student production of Mary Chase's comedy that features a 6-foot rabbit. Arena Theatre. Recital-Charles Sander, associate professor of pathology, will perform works for viglin by Tartini Kreisler, Prokofieff, Bloch, and Saint-Saens. Music Auditorium. 10 p .m. "U.F.O ." (see above). Abrams. Saturday, January 8, 1972 1:30 p.m. 2 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 8 p.m. 8 p.m. 8 p.m. 10 p.m. Gymnastics-MSU vs. North Carolina. Jenison. Swimming-MSU vs. Iowa State. 1M Pool. "U.F.O." (see Jan. 7). Abrams. Hockey-MSU vs. North Dakota. Ice Arena. "U.F.O." (see Jan. 7). Abrams. "Harvey" (see Jan. 7). Arena Theatre. World Travel Series-Lewis Cotlow leads an expedition through the "Congo." Auditorium . "U.F.O." (see Jan. 7). Abrams .. Sunday, January 9, 1972 4 p.m. 8 p.m. "U.F.O." (see Jan. 7). Abrams. "Harvey" (see Jan. 7). Arena Theatre. Tuesday, January 11, 1972 3:15 p.m. 8 p.m. Academic Council. Con Con Room, International Center. Basketball-MSU vs. Wisconsin. Jenison. Thursday, January 13, 1972 8 p.m. Sky Scanning-Observers will discuss the coming lunar eclipse. No admission charge. Abrams. Friday, January 14, 1972 7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m .. 8 p.m. 8 p .m . 10 p .m. Hockey-MSU vs. Notre Dame. Ice Arena. Wrestl,ing-MSU vs. Southern Illinois. 1M Sports Arena. "Phedre"-Racine's classic !.ragedy will be performed by the,Winter Repertory Festival Company. Arena. Theatre. "U.F.O." (see Jan. 7) . Abrams. "U.F.O." (see Jan. 7). Abrams. Saturday, January 15, 1972 2:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 8 p.m. 8 p.m. 8 p.m. 10 p.m. "U.F.O." (see Jan. 7). Abrams. Hockey-MSU vs. Notre Dame. Ice Arena. World Travel Se);ies~"The Bahamas from Top to Bot tom" will be discussed by Harry Pederson. Auditorium. "U.F.O." (see Jan. 7). Abrams. "Phedre" (see Jan. 14). Arena Theatre. "U.F.O." (see Jan. 7). Abrams. BULLETINS-----~-~------~ AUFS LECTURER Thomas Sanders , member of the American Universities Field Staff on Latin American Studies will be available for preliminary scheduling of courses and seminars Jan 31-Feb. 4. He has written numerous articles on Chile, Brazil, and Colombia as well as authoring "Protestant Concepts of Church and State." Lecture topics include Chilean politics; agrarian reform in Chile, Brazilian politics, family planning in Latin America, radical Catholicism in Latin America, internal migration, etc. For in formation, contact Charles Gliozzo, 3-5242, Dept. of Humanities. COURSE IDEAS? Faculty and staff members interested in teaching a non-credit course pro gram for Spring 1972 evening Colliege shOUld submit course ideas to Charles A. McKee, 19 Kellogg Center, 5-4562. 'tROPICAL STUDIES GROUP T'he Tropical Studies Group will meet at noon Wednesday, Jan. 12, in Parlor B of the Crossroads Cafeteria for lunch. A lecture by William B. Drew, "Preliminary Reconnaissance on Defoliation Problems in Vietnam," will follow in 204 International Center. RETIREES CLUB The Retirees Club will meet at 1 p.m., the Union 10, Monday, Club Room. Robert Coleman will offer a lecture and slides on Spain. Those who wish may meet for lunch at noon in the Union Grill. Jan. in FIELDST AFF Persons rhe American Universities Fieldstaff Reports on Asia, Africa, or Latin America may contact Charles Gliozzo, 3- 5242, Dept. of Humanities. interested receiving in FACULTY FOLK ART Faculty Folk Art Group will meet at 1 p.m., Monday, Jan. 10, in Quon set 75 with Mrs. David Bing. Instructions in painting will be given. For information call 351-9175 or 349-9293. NAVAL RESERVE Naval Reserve Research Company in East Lansing has openings 9-16 for reserve officers of all ranks who have training in scientific research, all . branches of engineering, applied technology, biology, statistics, education, management, medicine, administration, or legal work. Members may earn retirement points through drill attendance, two weeks training duty with pay, and correspondence courses. For information, call William Meggitt, 5-0207 OF Charles Cress, 3-8854. TICKET SALE Counter sales for winter term events the Lecture-Concert series open in Tuesday, Jan. 11, at the Union Ticket Office. For information call, 5-6686 or 5-3361 . •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Inf ormation on MSU e vents may' be submitted, for possible inclusion in the bulletins to Patricia Grauer. Dept. of Info rma tion Ser vices, 109 Agn'culture Hall, (517) 353-8/JJ9. Deadline fo r submitting information is noon T uesday preceding the Thursday publication. The calendar of events will cover an a·day pe riod, Friday through Saturday.