tAS U \Jt~'nCl\l Hlt !1,(J - ~.~ MSU News - Bulletin Vol. 3, No. 16 Michigan State University Feb. 3, 1972 IfEC·· lP"I·~· 'f, · " p . -'~ i\:P -' ·r Oll ::· .• 'r~~, .. / ' '\~' .. . FEB4 · rli~ REFEKEt\,~E. .,' , .~ ';'q ' I J " ,'J~ i'v1ICHIGAN STAlE UN1Vb6il LIBRARY Admissions decline--a state trend MT. PLEASANT - Next fall' s freshman class could well be the smallest in years among Michigan's state colleges and universities. Applications for admission have declined throughout the state and many officials are beginning to suspect that the drop-off is part of a trend - perhaps a national trend - caused by a sagging economy and changing patterns in college attendance, according to a survey taken by the information services office at Central Michigan University. Of nine Michigan state colleges and universities checked, only two report an increase in applications for admission. At Ferris State College a 5 percent increase is being attributed to growing interest in the school's nationally recognized programs in vocational and technical education, while at MSU the increase is slightly more than one-tenth of one percent. Applications among first-time MSU freshmen through January are about 80 ahead of a year ago. In-state applications are up by 524, and oU.t-of-state applications have decreased by 442. . Others are experiencing a decline. At Western Michigan applications are running 29.7 percent behind the total at this time a year ago. Central Michigan reports a 29 percent decline ; Grand Valley State, 20 percent; Eastern Michigan, 10 percent. Northern Michigan is down 9 percent ; Wayne State, 5 percent, and even the University of Michigan is down 1 percent. * * * WHAT'S BEHIND it all? Many (Continued on Page 5) Procedures ready for Council A revised set of interim faculty grievance r"ocedures has been prepared by the ad hoc committee on faculty rights and responsibilities and grievance procedures, and is ready to go before the Elected Faculty Council (EFC). The Steering Committee of the Faculty has indicated that an EFC meeting could be called before the March Academic Council meeting. The EFC began discussing proposed grievance procedures last fall and in December sent the document back to committee to consider questions of ambiguity and legality. (NeWS-Bulletin, Dec. 2, 1971). The new version includes some re-ordering of sections and includes certain new provisions, based on EFC suggestions: *University Hearing Board (formerly is no longer called judicial board) ~', proposed as an appeals board for cases originating at the college of department levels. It is now proposed as a board to hear cases originating at the University level. Cases at the department level could be appealed at the college level. If not appealed, these cases would be forwarded to the president, so that no department-level grievance is heard by a University - level board. College level cases could be appealed to the University Appeals Board, as could cases originating at the University level. *Decisions of college hearing boards, University Hearing Boards (if a decision is not appealed) and University Appeals Boards are forwarded to the president, who may, for stated cause, return the decision to the appropriate hearing board once for reconsideration. The president must, within 60 days, concur with a decision and direct appropriate action for implementation, or overrule the decision, giving written reasons for doing so. *The position of Faculty Grievance Official (FGO) has been strengthened in the new proposal by requiring that he reccomend the grievant to "the appropriate channel," such as the department, college, Faculty Tenure Committee of Anti-Discrimination Judicial Board. And the FGa would be to "make every reasonable required effort" to resolve grievances informally. I And inside . .. \ · . . A guide to economic survival, Worlds first Nuclear physicist Walter Benenson checks the exposure of a photographic plate used to verify the existence of illusive silicon-25. Benenson and colleagues at the Cyclotron Laboratory are first in the world to determine the masses of four such particles. See story, page 6. · . . The voice of Spartan sports, page 2 · .. Campus dining, pages 4 - 5 · .. Tombstone art, page 6 - Photo by Dick Wesley page 2 .:;:;t;::!~:~3::::::::~'!:::!:::::~:~:::!:?':::;::!:::::::~:;::::::!:!:::::::~~:;!;:::::::::!:::::::~:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::'::::::::::::::~:::::::::::::::::::::::::;:::;:::;::::::('z::::::::::::::::::=:::::::::;3!:;:~::~::r::~~:!::s:::!:':::~:::::::::::::::::!1::::!~~::::::::::::;::::::!:!:!::~:!:!:!:::~=:!:!::::~:;::!:~=*:::::::~:~:;::!!::;::;:'::::::::::::;::::::::::::::::;::~::::::~:! How MSU almost became part of U-M Can you visualize MSU and the University of Micltigan as a single institu tion located.in Ann Arbor with a student body of perhaps 75 ,000 students? Nearly nine decades ago th.is might have become a reality. A plot to shift MSU (then Michigan AgriculturaJ College) t o the Ann Arbor campus was hatched in 1863. A battle raged in the Michiga n legislature on tltisquestion for six or seven years thereafter. This crucial educational crisis is described by two historians, W. J. Beal in his "History of the Michigan Agricultural College" and Madison Kuhn in "Michigan State: the First Hundred Years." The intrigue began in 1863, the year following passage of the Morrill Act that created the land-grant college and university system. Included in the act were provisions for grants of land that could be sold, with the money used for endowment of a college "to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts." * * * MICHIGAN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE had been founded by the Legislature a few years earlier in 1855 and is now considered a pioneer of the land-grant system. Up to the time of the land-grant bill, U-M officials had paid lit tle heed to the struggling Little college with a half-hundred student s Located in the malaria - ridden swamps and wilderness of south central Michigan. Although U-M administrat ors previously had tried halfheartedly to establish. agricultural education cour ses on the Ann Arbor campus, they were spurred into new action with the passage of the Morrill Act. The quarter million acres of Michigan land that was up for grabs preCipitated the ope~ing rounds of the legislative battle in Lansing. Early in 1864 a majority report from a joint legislative committee proposed to convert the agricultural college buildings and farms into an annex of the state reform school and assign the Morrill land to the U-M. Main Legislative support ostensibly was to save the annual $10,000 appropriation to the agriculture college and to permit students to live in a region of "undulating beauty, watered by the winding Huron . . . a country rich, beautiful, ornamented with substantial dwellings of intelligent agriculturists." . The proposal was supported by many editorials and letters in the newspapers of the state, some from the friends of the university. The editor of the Ann Arbor Argus wrote: "We have long regarded the institution (at East Lansing) as the fifth wheel of a wagon, an entirely unnecessary addition to the educational 'institutions of the state." * * * BUT .MANY OTHERS came to the defense of the college with a minority legislative report and a stream of letters and editorials. They contended that the U-M had no room to spare and that new buildings would be needed at Ann Arbor, as well as a farm with its equipment. Many other arguments were raised to keep the agricultural and mechanical teaching in East Lansing, but the most telling was the question raised concerning the use of the income from the Morrill grant. It was obvious that the federal government intended that this endowment be applied to educate farmers and mechanics. Doubts were expressed as to just how the U-M Regents would use the income. There were implications that it might go toward the education of students oflaw, medicine, and the liberal arts. (CQntinued on Page 2) Page 2, MSU News-Bulletin, Feb. 3, 1972 lim Adams: The VOlce of Spartan sports • Just several days before he was to graduate from East Lansing High School, Jim Adams happened to notice in a State News want ad that WKAR radio was auditioning student announcers for summer term. Adams made a voice tape and began working at the station while still in high school. And with the exception of brief side trips to Kalamazoo and Waterloo, Iowa, he has worked at WKAR since 1948, broadcasting MSU football, basketball, and baseball in addition to daily sportscasts. Once a week he moves in front of the television cameras of wMSB to co - host "Spartan Sportlight" with associate sports director Terry Braverman. "I guess I've wanted to do sports broadcasting for as long as I can remember," Adams said. "Even in grade school during the soccer games at recess, I'd be playing and doing the play - by play." The fust big break of Adams' career came in the fall of 1948 when WKAR went on FM and began to broadcast basketball games. Bob Shackleton, who is now the director of alumni relations at MSU, was the sports director and asked Adams to do the "color." In the summer of 1963, Shackleton moved up to program duector at WKAR and offered Adams the job of sports duector, a job he's held ever since. In 24 years of broadcasting, Adams has no trouble recalling his greatest moment : The 1957 NCAA regional championship at Lexington, Ky. MSU won its Frjday night game (while Adams was back in Lansing broadcasting a high school game) to move into the finals against Kentucky. Saturd·ay moining Adams was handling ill€: public address chores at a swimming meet when he got an urgent phone call from Lexington. Shackleton had come down with a severe case of laryngitis and -Adams had to catch the first plane south to fill in for him. He arrived an hour before the game, not even enough time to be nervous about his first bigtime broadcast. That night, MSU scored its biggest basketball Victory' ~ver, beating Kentucky 'SO" ! 68 after befuiti'ehind' b}r11 at halftiriie. ' "It's really funny," Adams noted, "but even years after the game, people 'hey, I came up to me and said, remember you broadcasting that Kentucky game'." BUT THERE HAVE ALSO been some times he'd just as soon forget. Like the time in Iowa when he drove 300 miles to do a high school game and had a policeman come up to him in the second half to inform him that something was wrong with the transmitter and he hadn't been on the air the entite ftrst half. ' . Or th-e - ti~e " i~ I~~a ' when he broadcast ~ football game from the sidelines in a driving rainstorm that flooded the field and destroyed his commercial scripts. It wasn't until the second quarter that a woman in the stands brought him an umbrella. "That was the worst game of my life," he said. Like most sportscasters, Adams has wondered from time to time whether he would take a job in professional sports if the opportunity presented itself. He doubts that he would. "With college athletics there's no chance of getting tired or bored like in the pros," he explained. "Here, I work with a different group of people every few months. In the fall , when football is over, I move to basketball with new coaches and players. Then on to baseball just about the time I get tired of being indoors. By the time I'm sick and tired of traveling, summer comes and it's back to office work. "I know too many people who hate to wake up in the morning and go to work," he added. ''To me that would be horrible. I feel fortunate that I'in doing . what I've always wanted to do." For ,a cO'U9Le of.w~ef.~ eachsu~~« Adams' puts athletICS asrde 'and goes to work on his pet project, a television' documentary about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. It's something he's been working on for the past five summers. ' Adams hopes to find enough time this summer to complete the filming. Then comes the difficult job of putting all the material - film, still photographs, and text - together for television. When it is completed, Adams hopes to get other educational stations, besides WMSB, interested in it. But he'll be worki~g under pressure this summer to complete it. F OI ' a'S. everyone 1'n East Lansing knows, football waits for no man. ' -MIKE MANLEY On economic survival A short and readable chart to economic survival in some of consumerism's most treacherous mine fields has been written by a social science professor and his wife. "Supershopper: A Guide to Spending and Saving" is written specifically for the teen-ager who is about to face the potential booby' traps ,that ·go along with economic independence. David Klein and his wife, Marymae, a free lal1ce writer and editor, tell the fledgling consumer several hundred ways not to be separated frolll his shekels. And veterans of the ma'rketplace can find some often embarrassing revelations about where last month's pay check went. The Kleins begin by pricking the myth that affluent people buy carelessly and impulsively while the poor, economically and educationally, are adept at stretching a penny. "Dozens of research studies during the past 10 years or so all point to the same two conclusions," the authors say their introduction. "First, people in with little education and low incomes tend to buy impulsively, pay higher prices, buy inferior merchandise, prefer the more expensive (but not necessarily better) cars, refrigerators, television sets, etc., and get less value for their money generally. "Secondly, it's the well-educated, well-to-do' buyers who think and plan caieftilly 'abotit what ,they want to buy, learn as much as they can about the qualities of competing brands, and resist the pressures of advertisers and sales clerks alike." The authors cover some familiar ground in warning against seductive and often miSleading advertising, and in pointing out the pros and cons of shopping by mail, selecting merchandise . for economy versus quality, and buying by brand name only. In showing the teen-ager how to save money at the post 'office, however, some useful techniques 'generally known only to junk mail purveyors are described. A section on cutting travel expenses and another on saving money on college applications are also for the book's young especially lucrative -MIKE MORRISON audience. MSU News-Bulletin Editor: Gene RietfoIS Associate editor : Beverly Twitchell Associate editor: Patricia Grauer Editorial offices: Rooms 323 and 324, Linton Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48823. Phone: 355-2285. Published weekly during the academic year by the Department of Information Services. Second-class postage paid at East Lanmg, Mich. 48823. Campaign '72 Items for listing in "Campaim '72" should be of interest to and involve faculty and staff, and should be activities on th e campus. An organizational meeting for faculty and staff interested in working on the McGovern presidential campaign will be held Wednesdiy,Feb. 9, at 8 pm in Room 31 of the Union. Representatives from the legislature -and area campaign efforts are expected. .. MSU-U-M. • • (Concluded from Page 1) The State Agricultural Society, mainly responsible for the establislunent of the Michigan Agricultural College in the fust place, marshalled its forces to convince the legislators that the East Lansing institution should receive the federal lands. Although the State Legislature assigned the Congressional lands to the college in 1863, the fight raged for the next six years. Bills were introduced in the biennial sessions of 1865, 1867, and ·1869 to transfer the college to Ann Arbor. In each case the bills received :SUbstantial support. Although the bills failed, the pressure was enough to prevent the college from receiving any state money for new bUildings. During these years, however, the agricultural college gained more friends and a new fear obsessed many legislators. Their concern was that the next step after a move of the college to Ann Arbor would be removal of the state capitol from Lansing to the Detroit area. , The last seiious attempt to combine the two institutions was in 1869. As a consequence, Michigan now has two, rather than one, of the nation's largest and most outstanding universities, as well as several other colleges and universities of national reputa lion . If the battle to move Michigan Agricultural College to Ann Arbor had succeeded: * The University of Michigan today would probably be the largest one-campus university in the world. * One of the greatest intercollegiate athletic rivalries with sellout attendance of 78,000 to 10 1,000 fans at annual football games wouldn't exist. * U of M students would have been deprived of the joy of poking fun at "Silo -W. LOWELL TREASTER Tech" and ''Moo-U.'' Recital to be held Friday Elsa Ludewig Verdehr, clarinetist and David Renner, pianist, both members of the music faculty will be heard in concert at 8:15 p.m. Friday, in the Music Auditorium. The program will include "Sonata Concertante in B Flat Major" by Franz Dazni, "Three Minatures" by Krzystof Penderecki, and "Five Dance Preludes" by Witold Lutoslawski. Penderecki and Lutoslawski are noted contemporary Polish composers. Mrs. Verdehr will also perform Carl Maria Von Weber's "Quintet, Opus 34 for Clarinet and Strings" with the Beaumont String Quartet. Mrs. Verdher, who is a member of MSU's Richards Woodwind Quintet, holds the doctor of musical arts degree and a performer's certificate from the Eastman School of Music . ... Page 3, MSU News-Bulletin, Feb. 3,1972 Around the campus: A weekly review Women plan organization About 40 women met last week in the Union to discuss further the organization of an advisory commission on women at MSU. They decided to establish a steering/planning committee which would exist for three months to: * Define issues concerning the status of women at MSU. * Assume the role of women's advocate. * Develop a proposal for future action. meetings. * Hold monthly publicized open The steering committee would be established during a two - week period the Office of Equal (publicized by Opportunity Programs) when any woman interested in serving on ' the committee could submit her name and other relevant information (such as position within the University, marital status,etc.) to EOP staff member, Olga Dominguez, by reb. 15. The list would be submitted to President Wharton, who would be asked to select a representative group of 'at least 12 women to serve on the committee. Wharton would also be asked to suggest to the women's supervisors that they be allowed release time to serve. Upon selection of the steering committee, a mass meeting of interested women would be called by , Dolores Bender, director of off campus housing and elected "convener'. of the group. The organizational plan follows three weeks of meetings of interested women and women's group representatives. The women originally vetoed the idea of establishing an advisory committee to EOP, but have decided to work with EOP at least in the steering committee 0 stage, at EOP's invitation. Deadline set The Center for Urban Mfairs is accepting applications until Feb. 20 for teaching and research assistantships, and urban internships for the 1972 - 73 academic year. Information is available 0 at 145 Owen Hall. A C discusses general ed. The decision to modify - or not to modify - the University'S general education program won't be a hasty one. The Academic Council spent about an hour and a half debating the topic Tuesday, and members were really just warming to the issue when adjournment was imposed at nearly 6 p.m. De Ii berations of the general education proposals will be con tinned later this month in the Council, and some changes in these proposals are possible as soon as this week when the educational policies committee meets to discuss initial Council reaction to the document. Nearly a dozen faculty and students spoke to the issue Tuesday, and their comments ranged from general endorsement of the !Jlnernl ed modifications to outright opposition. One student member was prepared to move to strike the provision for a degree program in general studies. Several faculty members contended that no case had been made to show that the present general education program needing changing, and a few cal1ed for a definition of general education. Others expressed concern the job of general that to open education to all colleges and units might lead to duplication and competition. No action was taken on the proposal Tuesday, and the next Council session (t 0 con tinue discussion on general eduction) has not yet been set. In other items the Council: *Voted to instruct ' the faculty steering committee to devise a policy for making available tapes of Council meetings. It was informany noted that the Voice Library would be a logical location for taped Council proceedmgs. Another motion granted release of the transcnption of the Nov. 3u, meeting to Bob Repas, professor of labor and inaustriaI relations. Repas has aske