,#/5 tl ~./j~ Would you .believe the 'mr;Lrching faculty'? Some faculty members have asked Kenneth G. Bloomquist about the possibility of forming an MSU Faculty Band ... so the University's director of . bands wants to find out many persons would be interested in joining a group. "I imagine we have a number of faculty who participated in their high school or possibly college bands," Bloomquist said. 1" · f l(i'~, ~I!C£IVii:O FEB25972 ., A(I MENr TE'UN!\lEr(SJTY MgHA. ~y \ He has proposed that - the faculty band would meet once or twice a month in the music department's band room to perform "music of mutual interest for our own enjoyment." if interest warrants - Bloomquist asks that any persons who do play a band instrument and who would be interested in participating contact him by mail, providing the following information: Name, department, instrument played (and owned - "We could provide per'cussion and tubas, but little else,"said Bloomquist), and the evenings best suited for meeting. The information can be sent to MSU Faculty Band (in care of Bloomquist), Room 116, Music Building. MSU News -Bulletin . Vol. 3, No. 19 Michlgan State University Feb. 24, 1972 New leave plan proposed; set to go to trustees Friday And inside .Around the campus, page 3 .Smashing atoms, page 4 .Enrollment quotas, page 5 .Waste disposal, page 6 A broad new set of employe leave llo\icie~ coveting llet~onal, llmfessional, and sickness and disability leaves will be recommended to the Board of Trustees thls Friday, according to Jack Breslin, executive vice president and secretary to the Board. For the first time, under the proposed new policy, women employes would be able to use accumulated paid sick leave when they cannot work due to pregnancy. Breslin said another new feature of the plan would extend sick leave benefits on a pmportionate basis to part - time employes who work half - time or more on a continuous basis. "We believe the new policies, particularly sickness and disability, put MSU out in front of much of industry as well as other educational institutions," he said. The proposed policies are the result of extensive work -by the University's [mance, personnel, staff benefits and Equal Opportunity Programs effic-es. The personal and professional leave policies to be presented to the Board provide for leave without pay and are not significantly different than past practices, Breslin said. Personal leave without pay may be granted to classified and Board - appointed employes for a maximum of six months for such purposes as illness in the family, child care, an extended trip, etc. Part - time employes working at least half - time or more also will be eligible. Professional leave without pay may be granted at the discretion of the University to Board - appointed employes for periods of up to two years to "engage in professional activities of mutual benefit to the University and the individual," Breslin. * * * THE MOST far - reaching changes occur in the new policy for sickness and disability leave which will now cover pregnancy conditions, and part - time employes working half - time or more. Previously, women employes were not entitled to use their accumulated paid sick leave when they we-re unable to work because of pregnancy, although their University health and hospitalization insurance provided maternity benefits. Under the new proposed policy, sick leave may be used for "illness or incapacity associated with pregnancy when a physician indicates that the employe is unable to perform all the duties of her position." Full - time classified employes may accrue sick leave credit at the rate of one - half day for each two weeks of service, with a maximum accumulation of 120 work days. A Board - appointed employe has up to six months sick leave credit in any 12-month period. Women s athletics: Undoing an image as 'illegitimate' child of men s sports MSU is moving quickly to make women's intercollegiate athletics more than just the illegitimate daughter of the meri's program, a position it has held for the past 25 years. The movement to develop a separate athletic program for women has been growing nationally for the past five years, but it has caught on here only in the last two months. The major result of the separation will be an expanded budget for the women. Up to now, the women have been running their intercollegiate program on $3,000 a year, while the men's annual budget is slightly over $~ million. And the women's money comes directly from the men's athletic fund. "Hopefully, the budget for women next year will reflect an added emphasis in our program," says Jean Anderson, assistant professor of physical education and women's basketball coach. "We don't want an equal program with the men. We are only asking for a portion." Anderson estimates thqt it will take somewhere between SIO,OOO and $15,000 to set up a women's program of good qu:::lity. Women's atlJletic ,teams here compete in seven varsity sports: Basketball, field hockey, swimming, gymnastics. tennis, and softball. Next year, golf is expected to become a varsity sport. Some 150 women compete in these sports. * * * THE MOVEMENT to level is being fo rm a the legitimate women's program on nat ional the led by newly - formed Association for Inte rcollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW), similar to the men's NCAA. There are also regional and state branches of the AIAW. At MSU, the catalyst was a mee ting in early J:Jnuary between Jack Breslin. executive vice p resident. and re pre sen t a ti ve s from the women's athletic program. Since tllen the women luve met with Breslin. Burt Smith. (Continued on page 2) - Phoro by Dick k't'si,,), Thinking spring? Page 2, MSU News-Bulletin, Feb. 24, 1972 Stltdy details the fiscal crisis in Detroit Detroit's chronic fiscal condition will be even worse by 1980 unless state legislators and Congress give some immediate aid, predicts an MSU professor of economics in a newly-published study, "Detroit: Agenda for Fiscal Survival." "If you think things are bad now, just wait until 1980," warns Milton Taylor, a member of the staff of the Institute for Community Development and Services. Taylor, an authority on taxation, authored the study jointly with Richard Willits, a graduate student. The major problem Taylor sees in Detroit is black poverty, which, he says, government officials fail to identify or treat. "Unless poverty is r~in(jved, the City of Detroit probably,~' will ' c6rtfmue . t() into a worsening ' fIscal' crisis slide regardless of what else is done," the authors state. Taylor says it is difficult to conduct research on Detroit finances and maintain up - to - date figures because the city's deficit "keeps widening ail the time." He calls for immediate help from federal and state resources, because, as he sees it, "Detroit is completely incapable of solving its own problems." "The city is a victim of federal, state and suburban inertia," he says. "Every city tax base is being exploited. Detroit is already levying the highest city income tax in the state of Michigan (2.0 percent); is the only city with a utility excise tax, and has reached the legal property tax limit." The major thrust to remove black poverty must come from the federal government, by instituting an "adequate" income support program such as negative income tax, Taylor says. Story on reference library lost sight of a basic purpose To the Editor: Although our ideas about the purposes and functions of libraries are always changing, there is a fundamental raison d'etre for a university library: To aid learning. In the News - Bulletin article of Feb. lOon information - dispensing at the MSU Library, that purpose seems to be lost sight of. Is it the to provide emphemeral data for curiosity - seekers? Would not his training and talents be more usefully employed in helping students and faculty to locate sources for information? task of a librarian tight as With a budget as the university's and the library's at present, and with so many bibliographic and information - retrieval problems still unsolved because of limited personnel, surely the cost of answering trivial questions is too high for this University to indulge in such doubtful public relations. Questions about campus and entertainment schedules could easily be answered by a clerk at the University switchboard. The telephone - answering librarian can tell casual inquirers where to find information, but it is a waste of his time and training, and of the taxpayer's money, for him to go find the answers himself. And honoring trivial questions with such consideration is poor teaching technique. The 11 master's degrees behind the reference desk represent years of training and experience in research. Let's use them in a way from which the University can benefit most. '.Marymae E. Klein, M.L.S. " , ". PERRY LANIER, associate professor of elementary and special education, has been appointed by the Michigan Council of Teachers of Mathematics to the steering committee for writing program objectives for school mathematics. A scholarship in Chinese studies in honor of an MSU professor emeritus, SHAO CHANG LEE, has been MSU News -Bulletin Editor: Gene Rietfors 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-<:Jass postage paid at East Lansing, Mich. 48823. established at the University of Hawaii. Lee taught at Hawaii before joining the MSU faculty. MARGARET F. LORIMER, professor of in s titutional research, is a new member of the Board of Trustees of Missouri Valley College. . A. S. MOWERY, director of the Continuing Education Center in Benton Harbor, is the new vice-chairman of the section on Training - Education and Industry of the Adult Education Association of the U.S. Physicist GERALD A. SMITH is a member of the executive committee of the Users Group of the National Accelerator Laboratory at Batavia, Ill. The group helps coordinate activities of users at the laboratory. JOHN WINCHESTER, coordinator of American Indian Programs in the Center for Urban Mfairs, is the new second vice president of the National Indian Association. . . ~ "But Congress just doesn't want to eliminate poverty," he says. "There is tremendous insensitivity to the poor." Taylor also recommends that the state government change its shared tax formula. "The formula should have a factor that could weigh in favor of core cities, such as distributing taxes inversely to per capita income," he advises. The study devotes several pages to alternative tax-sharing proposals in Michigan cities with populations over 25,000. Taylor expresses doubt that any of these reforms will be enacted, because "suburban votes control the legislature and Congress. The votes are in the suburbs, not in the core cities." . The book is available from the Institute for Community Development, 27 Kellogg Center for Continuing Education. -LINDA GORTMAKER Women's athletics '. • • (Concluded from page 1) acting athletic director, and Gale Mikles, head of the physical education departmen"t. . "The men have really bent over backwards to provide for us now," Anderson said. "They have been very cooperative. " Smith said he hopes that the l1-ew women's ae!letic budget will be ready by the middle of spring term at the latest and will go into effect next fall. "We would like to sit down with each coach and arrive at a commensurate budget," Smith said. "We'd like to set it up on a comparative basis with what we have for the mm's sports program. All we ask is that they stay within their budget, the same thing we ask of the men." * * * BUT WHILE the women want their own program, they do not want it to parallel the men's program. "The idea is not just to be like the men," Anderson said. "We want to avoid high-powered athletics and the win-at-all-costs attitude. We don't want to become professional amateurs. Besides, recruiting and athletic scholarships are against the national rules for women." Mikles, the man who administers the women's program, agreed. He said he wants to see women's intercollegiate athletics run as an integral part of the teacher training program, and not become geared to professionalism. "Women will always be considered as teachers, not coaches," he said. "We don't want to develop Vince Lombardis. We are not training them to go into professional athletics. There is no reason to set up a program for the two or three percent who might go into pro sports. We have to orient our program toward the 95 percent who will go into teaching." * * * THE NEW WOMEN'S budget should eliminate financial problems that have occurred in the past, like that of the YQllf;yball team three weeks ago. < After placing second in the Midwest tournament, the MSU team was invited to the national tournament in Florida, the follOwing w~ek; . After two hectic days of trying to get. the $1,500 from University funds, Coach. Carol Davis raised the money from outside sources. In the past, only $300 has been alotted annually for championship travel. With national tournaments now organized by tl1e ALA W in all eight varsity sports, more money will be needed. Smith, Mikles and the women's coaches all agree that MSU should schedule instate than teams rather attempt to play a Big Ten schedule. Competition in the state, they say, is good, and the costs of traveling to some of distant Big Ten schools 'Would be prohibitive. Signs in the changing attitude towards women's athletics are already apparent. The women's basketball team has new uniforms and full-length basketball court with glass backboards was set up last week just in time for the first women's state tournament to be played here on March 3 and 4. And an electric s~,oreboard has been purchased along the V'l~tp dozen stopwatches for swimmers. -MIKE MANLEY Noted artists have leaders in upcoming Pucci!1i opera 4. pair of seasoned professionals who have performed throughout the U.S. and in Europe will sing the leads in Puccini's "Turandot," which will be presented tonight at Fairchild Theater and Saturday at the Okemos High School Fine Arts Auditorium. Each curtain time is 8 pm. , Soprano Jeannine Crader will have the part of Turandot, Puccini's Princess of Ice, and tenor Jean Deis will sing the role of the prince who wins the hand of Turandot. and performing in Milan, Italy, and, since returning to the U.S. has appeared with most of the major opera companies. The principal lyric soprano part of the servant girl will be sung by Suzette Wankie of the University of Maryland tonight and by Giovanna Colonelli Burkh on Saturday'evenings. Mrs. Burkh is the wife of Dennis Burkh, who will conduct the MSU Symphony Orchestra. To help persons attend Saturday'S performance in Okemos, a free bus will run to and from the Fine Arts Auditorium. The departure schedule: From the Shaw Hall lot, 6:45 p.m.; University Village, 6:55 p.m.; Spartan Village laundry, 7:05; Case - Wilson stop, 7: 15; Student Union, 7:20 to 7:30. The buses will return at about 11: 15 p.m . Miss Crader attained prominence with her performance in "Don Rodrigo" with the New York State Theatre at Lincoln Center. She has performed with the the San Francisco Opera, Metropolitan Opera Studio and the New York City Opera. Deis, now both a teacher and performer, spent some time studying . Page 3, MSU News-Bulletin, Feb. 24, 1972 Arou~d the campus: A weekly review Bargaining petition filed A faculty election on collective bargaining before the end of the current that's the goal of the academic year - last HSU Faculty Associates, which week filed a petition asking the Michigan Employment Relations ComilliSsion (MERC) to conduct an election on the campus. An election date will be scheduled when MERC determines, through a yet - to - be - scheduled hearing, that the Faculty Associates has authorization cards from at least 30 percent of the faculty unit it seeks to represent. William Owen of the Michigan Education Association, parent organization of the Faculty Associates, said that the petition defmes the bargaining unit as all teaching faculty - through instructors ' and profe ssors lecturers - and fractional '- ,time teaching faculty employed for' six contact hours or more for two or more successive terms. It 'also includes such academic staff 'members as academic advisors, counselors and li~rarians. The proposed unit excludes extension service personnel, research assistan ts and associates; practicing physicians and/or clinical professors; academic staff in human medicine, osteopathic medicine and veterinary medicine; department chairmen; deans; supervisors; and administrative - professional staff. A f"maI def"mition of the unit must have consent of all the parties now , involved: The Faculty Associates, MERC and the University. Following the filing, President Wharton said that "at the proper time, we will review the sufficiency of the claime d authorization cards, the proposed bargaining unit and other factors involved in determining an administration response." Should an election be held, the MSU chapter of the American Association of University Professors is also likely to be on the ballot. AAUP President, Sigmund Nosow, professor oflabor and industrial that his group hai;" relations, said '20 authorization cards from about percent of the faculty unit it seeks to represent. (Only 10 percent is needed for other groups wishing to get on the ballot.) Bargaining elections are scheduled in March at Wayne State and Eastern Mich!gan Universities. Choosing new Board members Chairmen and members of the IDemocratic and Republican trustees selection committees for the University have been announced by the Alunmi Association Executive Board. Patrick J. Wilson, 37, a Traverse City attorney and a 1957 MSU graduate, is chairman of the Democratic selection committee. Heading the Republican committee is David D.Diehl, 53, a Dansville farm operator and twice a trustee candidate himself. Diehl graduated from MSU in 1939. The committees will search out and in terview candidates and make recomrendations to the Republican and Democratic parties which will select nominees at conventions later this year. their respective state The first alumni trustee selection committees were established two years ago prior to the 19}0 election. Candidates recommended by both 'committees were approved at their respective party conventions. The terms of two trustees - Frank Hartman, D-Flint, and Clair A White, D-Bay City - expire Dec. 31. The facuIty member of the Democratic COIIlIrittee is Winthrop Rowe, business law and office administration. The Republican committee includes Winston Oberg, professor of management. Agenda set for heanng More than 25 women have thus far requested an opportunity to speak at Friday's open hearing on the status of women, according to Robert Perrin, vice president for university relations. The hearing, to be held by the Board of Trustees, will be at 2:30 p.m. in the Union Ballroom. Perrin said that those who have signed up will speak for various women's organizations on campus or themselves as individuals. He said they appear to :represent women's concerns in a number of areas, including academic advising, women faculty, minority mIren and graduate and undergraduate students. Persons affiliated with MSU who wish to speak at the open board hearing may contact Perrin's office at 474 Administration Bldg., or by telephone, 355-6572. Commencement speaker set Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., executive director of the National Urban League,will deliver term commencement address at 3 p.m., March 12, in the Auditorium. the winter Honorary degrees will be awarded at the ceremonies to Jordan and also to Jorge Luis Borges, Latin America's living author; Francis E. foremost Ferguson, president of Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company of Milwaukee alld an MSU alumnus; and William W. Keeler, chairman and chief executive officer of Phillips Petroleum Company. Jordan has long been in the forefront of civil rights activities as executive director of the United Negro College Fund, Georgia field director for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and as an attorney - consultant with the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity. . Borges is director of the Argentina National Library in Buenos Aires. A poet early in his writing career, Borges graduated to critical writing and essays. During the 1940s he developed a prose form known as the "story - essay" that , has eained him international literary recognition. Ferguson was graduated from MSU in 1947 with a bachelor of science de.gree in agricultural economics, returned as an extension specialist ill 1951, and moved to Milwaukee to join Northwestern Mutual later that year. Waging war on cancer Increased federal funds for conducting basic research, training scientists and establishing interdisciplinarY centers for the study of cancer were forecast last week by the 1972 Huddleson lecturer. Robert A. Good, head of pathology at the University of Minnesota, and recently named to a three - man cancer panel to advise President Nixon on implementation of the National Cancer Act, made the prediction following his presentation in the Erickson Hall Kiva. His lecture was in honor of the memory of the distinguished MSU microbiologist I. Forest Huddleson. Much of Good's formal presentation was devoted to evidence that cancer is often related to deficiencies in the immunological mechanisms within the body. His research led Good to carry out the frrst successful bone marrow transplant to correct inborn immune errors. "Conquest of cancer will come from young people and we need to cultivate them for their fresh new approaches," Good said. ''Their continuing need is for intellectual stimulation, constructive criticism and support." Many dIfferent solutions for cancer are probably in the making, but the frrst ones are at least "five to 10 years away," he said. He cited knowledge covering more than 100 viruses known to cause cancer, chemotherapy techniques, and the immunological mechanisms. . Currently $100 million in federal money is spent on cancer, with plans for additional amounts to be added yearly until an annual $1 billion is reached. Of vital importance in the cancer fight is a strong base of the best of the scientific and medical communities, along with support from government and NIH, Good said. He emphasized the importance of continumg basic research that may not be directly related to cancer. And he stressed the value of interdisciplinarY centers and institutes that focus the efforts of many disciplines on the cancer problem, and indicated that such centers will be viewed with favor. There will be more contract research projects but they will not be' out of line with present proportions of grant and contract research, Good added. He voiced hope that infusion of increased federal funds would not "turn off' existing or new private grants for research. Good praised development by the U.S. ~egiqn;U , Ppultry Laboratories at MSU of the fllst vaccine to work effectively against a naturally occuring animal cancel'", Marek's disease, a malignant disorder of the lymph system similar to Hodgkin's disease in humans. The project and similar studies are conducted by Ben Burmester, H. Graham Purchase and other members of the staff. -NANCY HOUSTON AD search progresses The job of rmding a new athletic director is into a new phase: Letters have gone to all nominees, asking them to indicate whether they are interested in the job. Those expressing interest will be asked to complete a detailed application form. John A. Fuzak, chairman of the search and selection committee, emphasized that nominations for the directorship are still being accepted by the committee. Nominations can be directed to Fuzak. -:9n other campuses U-M IS 'HALF-WAY.' The University of Michigan reports it is half-way to its goal to achieve 10 percent black student enrollment by 1973-74. The target figure for this year was 1,700 black students, and u-M has 1,708 blacks emolled (5.2 percent of the Ann Arbor campus total). The 10 percent goal was set in 1970 by the Board of Regents. U-M reports a total of 2,579 minority students as of fall, 1971. (MSU this fall enrolled 3,024 minority students, including 2,509 blacks.) * * * A UNIQUE GUIDE. A list of "UniverSity Guidelines for Potentially Controversial Events" has been released at Cornell University. Under the guidelines, a management group would meet with speakers and moderators of the "potentially controversial events" possibility of disruption. A "floor manager" would have authority at such events to decide what action should be taken in cases of disruption. to discuss Cornell regulations and * * * ELECTION AT WAYNE. The Michigan Employment Relations Commission (MERC) has ordered an election to determine whether collective bargaining will begin for faculty and academic staff at Wayne State University. Barring any app~als, an election will be held within 30 days after Feb. 14. Voters will be able to select from among three prospective bargaining groups, representing the America!} Association of University Professors, tt,e Michigan (and National) Education Association, and the American Federation of Teachers. There will also be a spot on the ballot to vote against collective bargaining altogether. * * * ENVIRONMENTAL SCHOOL. Indiana University will soon have a School of Public and Environmental Affairs with a "problem-solving, public service and interdisciplinary character." It will regroup existing activities and rely on anticipated federal funding. It is planned to serve the whole state, with divisions on each of the eight IV campuses. * * * MONEY FOR NORTHWESTERN. Northwestern University has exceeded its $180 niIlionfund-raising goal in its "First Plan for the Seventies." Chance~or J. Roscoe Miller announced that Northwestern has raised $181.5 million in a five-year development program that ended last Dec. 31. Alumni and friends provided more than half ($91.1 million) of the total. Page 4, MSU News-Bulletin, Feb. 24, 1972 Piercing atoms with invisible beams Physicists at the Cyclotron Laboratory have been granted $775,000 for research on the structures of nuclei - the hearts of atoms. The National Science Foundation grant for 1972 is a continuation of previous NSF grants which now total $7 million. The Board of Trustees is expected to accept the grant Friday. It was nearly a decade ago that trustees met with University officials, including President Hannah, in support of the then newly constructed cyclotron. Today, the is regarded as the most advanced experimental machine of its king in the world. cyclotron OPERATING AT a level of 56 MeV (million electron volts) at maximum power, the cyclotron pulses forth positively - charged particles as small as a proton. Ordinarily, the nuclear physicists fire the positively charged particles, which range from protons to helium nuclei and larger, at some kind of ordinary matter which serves as a target for the tiny particles. When they hit the target they excite some of the atoms of the target, often by "hitting or grazing them. An excited target may do several different things. It depends upon characteristics of the bullet particle: *Is it a proton? A h.elium nucleus? * Is the cyclotron runningl!t 4 MeV or 40 MeV? * How massive is the particle? And, of course, the target makes a difference: * Is the target carbon? Silicon? Lead? * How thick is the target? If it's too thick, it will stop all the particles. Precision of the particle beam is vital. First of all, it has to be focused accurately enough and be bent correctly so it will hit the target. If it wobbles it is almost useless to the physicists who are now engaged in study of very intricate details of nuclei. Accuracy pays off, and it is accuracy and dependability plus an automated computer hook - up that have made the MSU cyclotron facility the most advanced of its kind in the world. Precision of the beam alone is thought by other U.S. physicists to be remarkable. It exceeded all expectations by narrowing down from a drawing board 50 mm typical of previous cyclotrons, to an actual .7mm-diameter beam. Magnetic field intensity - born from the center of the cyclotron - has been a wonder of design Princeton University ;las recently assembled a cyclotron similar to MSU's and they have exactly copied its magnetic field. "PHYSICISTS FROM MANY parts of the world come here to investigate nuclear structure," said Harold P. Hilbert, project engineer of the cyclotron. This summer, a Soviet physicist will conduct research at the facility. Success of the laboratory does riot end or begin witi1 the crashing of nuclei into targets. "We build most of the equipment ourselves," said Hilbert. "This saves costs." . Hilbert explained that since so much of the equipment is made in the cyclotron machine shop, it has a built - in flexibility and accuracy of concern. "We make things work," he added. The main trick is to see that everything is stable so scientists dm be sure that the right particles with the correct energy will hit at the proper place and time. Once the target is struck, then protons, neutrons, atomic nuclei and fragments of nuclei usually fly off the target. A PROTON FIRED from the cyclotron may draw one neutron from the is used by target. This proton and neutron nucleus, called heavy hydrogen, Even before the cyclotron fired its first beam, there was considerable interest in the laboratory's progress. In 1963 on a tour of the still-uncompleted facility, MSU trustees and then-Pres. John A. Hannah discussed its plans with Henry Blosser (center, shirt sleeves). Computer art? Not exactly, but thanks to the cyclotron's own computer, the Sigma 7, a magnetic field can be plotted artistically on a printout. Gerald M. Crawley and others in NSF - supported investigations of nuclear structure. Aaron Galonsky investigates neutrons which fly from the target, and he determines their velocity for clues on how neutrons reside in nuclei. William H. Kelly, also a cyclotron physicist, works with MSU chemists on methods of determing the identity of elements in unknownT.sub~taJ1ces. Such investigations make it possible to "fingerprint'. the elements s9 that they can be identified by bombarding them with, say, protons. Thel10mbardment would cause the elements to give off cnaracterist ic radiations. Crime laboratories of the future may well depend on such analyses, and pollutants could be traced and measured in food and water. Edwin Kashy pointed out that the Cyclotron Laboratory is ready to make radioactive substances such as fluorine - 18 for local hospitals to help detect cancer. He explained that plenty of the tracer can be made from ordinary water. The NSF grant, under the direction of Henry Blosser, supports the research already mentioned, plus the work of Sam M. Austin, Walter Benenson, Morton M. Gordon, Charles Gruhn, Jerry Nolen and Bryan Wildenthal. The projects range from detection of elements of pollution, to work with plant physiologists on how plants groW. But the strongest common bond to these scientists is their dedication to basic research which will lead to an understanding of the structure of the nuclei of ordinary atoms - atoms of the suns, stars, and planets. The MSU physicists now foresee few of the ultimate applications of their work, for their work is mostly pure research. But among the future applications possible are cyclotrons for medical patients and cyclotrons for environmental qUality. And. they forsee application of their work in producing electric power from the putting together of atoms -.:.: fusion - the'taming of the fierceness of the stars. -PHILLIP E. MILLER Page S, MSU News-Bulletin, Feb. 24, 1972 Quotas to help control future enrollment is While student self - ' selection currently governing enrollments in the College of Education, steps are being taken to insure future enrollment control. After six months of study, a special provost's c ommi ttee has released departmental quotas for secondary education enrollment. Tne committee's action follows a general study of the College of Education in which the provost's office established that elementary edcuation majors be limited to 1,100 and that student enrollments in secondary education (dual enrollees) be limited to 1,600. Dorothy Arata, chainnan of the special committee, said .that the limitations are designed to: Prevent a swelling of teacher trainees beyond the University's capabilities in future years, and insure that departments will look at a variety of criteria for admitting students. Arata also pOinted out that with only a few exceptions the newly established quotas will not mean major .cutbacks, since they are set well above current enrollments in each discipline. THE DEPARTMENTS IN which the quotas will mean significant cutbacks include social science and art. In social science the current enrollment is 279 and the quota is set at 116. In art, 119 students are enrolled and the quota has been set at 76. These quotas are expected to be met through attrition. In other disciplines where the market is demanding more graduates, Arata continued, the quota is very high in order to encourage enrollments. In business education, for example, 32 students are now enrolled and the quota is 102. In general science, there are four students and tile quota is 27, and mathematics has a quota of 186, while enrollment is only 111. "One of the primary advantages in setting these limitations," Arata, said, "is that we will be looking more carefully at admittance requirements, and more consideration will be given to the marginal student." The University, cannot guarantee admi ttance to the major of every student's choice. He must demonstrate competence in his first two years. The marginal student is one who has proved himself capable of University work but is at the lower end of the spectrum. "I WOULD LIKE to see departments begin sorting out and using a variety of measures which are capable of predicting the capacity of marginal students said. in that particular area," Arata It is important, she said, to start exploring the motivation and interests of marginal students as predictors of success. In, other words if the marginal student wants to teach it would be a plus in his or her favor if he had some tutoring or past experience either working with kids in summer camp. Arata explained that the qualified student will never be completely locked out, because when a quota is filled, the department can petition for extra positions from a pool of all unfilled quotas. She noted that the committee will also review the quotas several times a year to insure that the original estimates are reasonable. '-'" . ~BARBARA MC INTOSH 'Tea'ching awards: The long sorting job begins Next week (March 3) nominat'ibd~', ',mterview those students or faculty who will be in for the Teacher - Scholar ana .. nominated the candidates. They will Excellence in Teaching Awards, and a "pick out their favorites and argue for committee of eigh-r (i~r~9ns will face the them in commit tee session. They will job of sifting through stacks of material meet in continuous session until they take the more than 100 nominations stating thepraJSes 0'[ many y?qng throughout the Uriiversity. teachers that are expected to receive and break them down to the 12 who will be honored with the awards and stipends. The biggest problem is that what the committee is looking for is intangible, elusive. Yet the Committee on How will they choose the winners - those deemed outstanding in teaching contribution to the University? Council OKs part of proposal their The committee of eight (News - Bulletin, Feb. 10) will read through lists' of teaching schedules, degrees earned, student evaluation results, syllabi, endorsement letters. ' Before the six -- Wintlers in each competItion are named, a variety of questions will be considered: Has the candidate made any creative suggestions for improving the range or depth of the course? How has the candida te contributed to the development of technique:s designed to evaluate students? Has the candidate developed promising new approaches to the course? . How well organized is he or she? What indications are there of Itis/her excellence in academic advising? SOME CANDIDATES will "surface" above the rest, experienced com.rn:it tee members say. Some cuts are obviou"s, remammg they say. But for the nominees, it is a involved, conscientious mental struggle, fitting vitae to relatively unstructured criteria. For about a month, the committee of eight will review the material, visit interview candidates, or classes, long, General education requirements must no longer be met solely within the University College. The Academic Council Tuesday approved that portion of the proposed general education modifications, as prepared by the educational policies committee (EPC). The Council also approved in principle a definition of general education prepared by a faculty committee in University College. Tha t definition, presented by Thomas Greer, professor of humanities, described general education as the essen tial complement to specialized education; a concept requiring a broad gauged and coordinated curriculum, comprehensive, and interdisciplinary. Seven thrusts in general education noted in the definition are: The natural and social sciences; technology; cultural heritage; historical perspectives on contemporary American civilization"; alternative value systems in religions and philosophies; literature and the arts; current problems like war, poverty, pollution, etc. A student in general education should, the definition states, improve his understanding and appreciation of, and his ability to respond articulately to (that is to write) all or most of the above. Under discussion at the time of the section which adjournment was retained a 45 - credit general education requirement in the areas of arts and humanities; bi()logical, physical or mathematical sciences; social and behaviorial sciences, and writing or oral communication courses. Waivers w.ould still be allowed; colleges could still substitute in the area closest to a student's major. And the University Curriculum Committee (UCC) would develop criteria for alternate courses. Several amendments were proposed and defeated, and most of them were concerns raised by students; Why 45 credits? Why make writing courses the fourth general area? The Council will reconvene to continue discussion at 3:15 p.m. Tuesday. Feb. 29 in the Con Con Room of the International Center. Undergraduate Education argued that it is not impossible to identify students and colleagues generally know who are the best and worst teachers in a department, the committee said. it - And this is why the coordinators of the award procedures (in the provost's office) are concerned about the breadth of involvement. The selecting panel has grown from one student member in the first year of the awards to four (or one - half of the panel) this year. They are operating on the assumptions that: The University's interest in undergraduate teaching must be made more public, with monetary a wards; to provide a form of encouragement to young teachers; to the University's need and symbolize them; to allow desire students to express their recognition of an exciting teacher. to encourage is I t also leads into a discussion of philosophy of education. Is good teaching entertaining? Or that irrelevant? Is the Pavlov or sponge or regurgitation model good teaching or not? If good teaching is an internal teacher as phenomenon, with the catalyst, how is this measured? How apathetic or cynical will the University cornrnunity be on the matter? There won't be total agreement on any criteria, the coordinators note, so look for a "total image" they will coming' forth from the nominating fonns. And the committee of eight will take it from there. -BEVERLY TWITCHELL A controversial author works on another book A narrow, ' pale office on the Michigan State campus seems an unlikely habitat for a journalist famed throughout the Indian subcontinent. Yet India's first woman journalist enjoys both East Lansing and Michigan's rugged winters, although her schedule affords her little leisure time. "I work seven days a week," said Kusum Nair, a slight woman with short, dark hair and quick luminous eyes. Newspapers, books and magazines threaten to take third book nears over her office as her own completion. Mrs. Nair's fust book, "Blossoms in the Dust," produced a blazing controversy in India when it was published in 1961. Today, the book is used as a textbook in colleges and universities throughout America. MRS. NAIR BEGAN her journalistic career in 1942 as a proof reader on the Bombay Chronicle. She was the only woman on the staff, which made her decidely unpopular with her colleagues. "For a month, they would just talk to each other and never say a word t o me," she said, smiling. " I sat it out and finally they said, 'Okay. we give in' !" Although offered the job of women's page editor on both Bombay papers, Mrs. Nair left the Chronicle to write for several European papers and later for the Chicago Tribune. At the same tinle, she managed India's first press syndicate and worked on her first book. "In 'Blossoms in the Dust' 1 tried to show the gap between what the man at the bottom said and what the govern men t said about India's economic development program. The secretary of the planning commission read part of it and told me it would convey the wrong impression, and that I would have to revise It before it could be published" I refused to change a word, and an English firm published it." The book was an immediate best - seller, and was heatedly discussed throughout India. The next five years were devoted to "The Lonely Furrow," a comparison of farming in the United States, Japan and India. Her latest book, a "comparative study of India and Japan since 1850 in terms of overall development and response to the West," will be published in March. COMPARING THE OBSTACLES Indian and American women face as they challenge the idea of rigid masculine and feminine "roles," Mrs. Nair believes Indian SOCiety much the more enlightened. "Of course, India has a woman prime minister today, when the issue of women's liberation is just beginning to be taken seriously in the West. "I remember a party my daughter had eight years ago, when I was at Harvard. Some students were discussing women's liberation, and my daughter asked t hem when Americans would elect a woman preSident. The students were speechless! "When they could talk again, they said they wouldn't want a woman president for this reason and that reason, and my daughter said, 'But you are so backward!" - Reprinted with pennission, The Battle Creek Enquirer and News -- Page 6, MSU News-Bulletin, Feb. 24, 1972 Disposing of the campus 'byproducts' I OnebyproductofMSU's bigness is becoming a source of major attention: The ever - growing amount of paper, cardboard, empty packages, liquids, animals and animal waste that has to be burned, hauled, buried or flushed daily. This University is one of the first to centralize the job of waste control - an eight member Waste Con trol Authority was created more than a year ago - and now the campus has its first full - time director of waste controL He is Mark E. Rosenhafi, a microbiologist who until last month was a management information specialist in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources. Rosenhaft is coordinating the job of identifying priorities and gathering fIgures that will help assess the University's present and future waste control needs. And while the campus has most of the waste control problems that plague any community of some 50,000 residents, it has an advantage enjoyed by few cities of comparable size: A pool of faculty scientists and speCialists whose research interests can be used .in the job of trying to make waste disposal more efficient, safer and less expensive. EFFORTS ARE UNDERWAY, for example, to find alternatives to the current procydure of picking up campus trash and hauling it to a sanitary landflli. Hauling is becoming a bigger job , Rosenhaft notes, because of more solid waste and because several outdated MSU incinerators have been or soon will be shut down. The volume of waste paper itself is a massive disposal task, he says. One vendor alone provides an estimated 55 tons of paper a month to the campus. And there are other waste control problems unique to the University, such as, chemical and radioactive wastes from laboratories and animals and animal wastes from the Center for Laboratory Animal Research and the veterinary clinic. Rosenhaft expresses hope that faculty research talents can help develop solutions to MSU's waste control problems and, in the process, provide applications Qff the campus. Ttl this end, he says, 'the Waste Control Authority is ready to provide what help it can for scientists seekingpublicor,pri¥ate funds to do research related to waste control. WHILE HIS initial task is to look at MSU's present waste control concerns, Rosenhaft emphasizes that "we're really interested in long - t erm solutions, not just in finding immediate answers that won't be feasiblein a few years." The Waste Control Authority is concerned, for instance, with the amount of automobile and bus exhaust emission on the campus. But more studies are needed to learn how much actual pollution comes from vehicles, and to see if other transportation systems might work here. -Photo by Bill Mitcham Mark Rosenhaft: Seeking alternatives to control waste. "It's one thing to say that cars and buses are bad," Rosenhaft says, "but it's another to fInd suitable alternatives." ROSENHAFT PLANS to make ~~e control a priority consideration in planning new facilities, such as the power plant addition,Life Sciences II and the Ice Arena. The new Ice Arena, he says, could be used as a model to test for alternate methods of trash disposal that might eventually have applicati6n for other campus bUildings. For the present, Rosenhaft says he wants to identify the University's waste disposal needs and the researchers who are doing research related to those needs. His office is located in 497 Administration Building (phone 355 - 1826). Turning 'credit we'eks' into 'benefit years' For eligible MSU employes who might some day find themselves jobless, the new legislation that has extended ,unemployment compensation coverage to the campus means an added assist between jobs. For the University it means the operation of a new office and a campaign to help inform people of the complexities of unemployment compensation. The Unemployment Compensation Division, less than two m6nths old, is managed by L. Michael Smith, a former assistant director in financial aids. One of Smith's first tasks is to "educate the University community" on some of the likely effects of state and federal employment security legislation. And part of that education involves introducing some new terms into the campus vernacular.: "Benefit year," "credit week" and "family class" to name a few. Eventually, Smith says, his office plans to develop an "experience rating" that will provide campus administrators wi th such information as turnover reasons, rates and suggestions to help keep down unemployment compensation costs. Since the University has never had ex pe rience with unemployment compensation, there can 'only be estimates of what the coverage will cost annually. Until a figure is determined, a central fund will be used to pay unemployment claims for all general the next 18 University accounts for months. * * * BRIEFLY, HERE is how the coverage operates: * Eligibility. Every person who performs services for MSU - faculty, staff, hourly payroll - is covered by the Michigan Employment Security Act. The only specifIed exceptions are students, including graduate assistants; certain agricultural laborers; and some high school students. There is no distinction between part-time and full-time employment; the only criterion is that an employe must have earned more than $25 a week for the week to be considered in figuring benefits. This is a "credit week," and an unemployed person must have at least 14 of them during a 52-week "base period" to be eligible for unemploymen t compensation. In addition, a person must be registered for work with the Employment Service of the Michigan Employment Security Commission, and be available for and seeking full-time work. But the work must be "suitable," so a college professor is not required to accept a job as a truck driver, nor is a secretary expected to seek work as an auto worker. Someone otherwise eligible to receive benefits may be disqualified if he or she: Quits a job without good cause, attributable to the employer; refuses to report for a work interview or to accept an offer of suitable work; or is discharged for misconduct, intoxication or other reasons. (A person who quit without cause or who was fired may become eligible for benefits after a six - or 12-week disqualifIcation period.) * Benefits. These range from $16 to $92 a week, depending on average weekly wage and number of dependents. The duration of the claim (up to 39 weeks) depends upon reasons for termination and the number of "credit weeks" accumulated. * * * THE NEW LEGISLATION will have an effect on all MSU personnel practices, Smith says, but he emphasizes that there won't be any attempts to dictate what those practices should be. "Our job is to provide data for each department to use when determining their own procedures," he adds. "Unemployment compensation is simply another factor to be considered when prospective employes are interviewed." And he says that the new Unemployment Compensation Division is not designed solely to hold down costs; its aim is also to give employes information regarding their rights under the legislation and to direct them to the proper office of the Michigan Employment Securities Commission. Although the legislation only became effective Jan. 1, claims have already begun to come to the division. . More information is available from the new division in 308 Administration Building (phone 355-9631). Votapek concer~ Friday Pianist Ralph Votapek will present a concert Friday at 8:15 p.m. in the Music Auditorium. Votapek, who holds degrees from Northwestern University and the Manhattan School of Music, joined the music faculty in 1968 as an assistant professor an artist in residence. His tours have taken him throughout North, Central and South America and Europe. He has also performed with major symphonies, including the New York Philharmonic, the National Symphony in Washington, D.C., and the London Philharmonic. Votapek made his New York debut in 1959 after winning the Naumberg Getting a head cold? A former clinical director of the National Institute of Allergy and I nfectious Diseases will discuss two influenza widespread winter maladies - and the common cold - at a lecture Monday Feb. 28 at 10:30 a.m., 137 East Fee Hall. Reservation information is available at 355-9611. The speaker will be Vernon Knight, chairman of the department of micorbiology at the Baylor University School of Medicine. ~. Award, and in 1962 he won fIrst prize at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Votapek met his wife, Albertine, when they were both studying with Rosina Lhevinne at the Julliard School of Music. Mrs. Votapek, who holds a master's degree from Julliard, has appeared in duo concerts with : her husband. include Friday's concert will the "Sonata in F Major'. by Haydn, the "Sonata in G minor" of Robert Schumann and Alexander Scriabin's "Fifth Sonata." Votapek will also play three Debussy Images from Book I, and selections from "Mirrors" by Ravel and the "Iberia Suite" of Issac Albeniz. V otapek will perform this concert later on a U.S. tour and. eventually on his South American tour this summer. Campaign '72 Items for listing in "Campaign '72" should be of interest to and involve faculty and staff, and should be activities on the campus. U. S. Sen. Philip Hart and Sander Levin will discuss their endorsements of Democratic Presidential hopeful Edmund Muskie at a meeting Saturday (Feb. 26) at 10:30 a.m. in the Wonders Hall Kiva. It is sponsored by the Youth Coalition for Muskie. Page 7, MSU News-B~etin, Feb. 24,1972 BULLETINS----------------~----~~~== BOARD MATERIAL DUE Material for the March 17 meeting of the Board of Trustees is ' due in the office of the Executive Vice President by Friday, February 25. BWC LUNCHEON The MSU Business Women's luncheon will be held at 11 :45 a.m., Wednesday, March 1, in the ' Union Ballroom. Leland W. Carr will present "Some Observations by the University Attorney." For reservations, contact Phyllis Stasik, 3·9430. SEMINARS ON AGING Barrett Lyons, professor emeritus in social work, will present "Legislation on Aging: Present and Future" at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Feb". 29, in 30 Union. He is speaking as part of the "Aging in America" series sponsored by the Office of Voluntee~ Programs. COMM ARTS LECTURES Alfred E. Opubor, director of the African Studies Center, will speak on "Prospero and Caliban Revisited: Sociolinguistic Aspects of International Communication" as part of the College of Gomniunication Arts Lecture Series. The lecture' will be held at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, March 2, in 116 Natural Science. "WOMAN" Jean Medick will speak on "Woman" as part of the "Thought-Talk and Prayer" series being held at 8 p.m., Wednesday, March 1, at St. John Student Center. CREATIVE WRITERS The Faculty Folk Creative Writers will meet at 1:15 p.m. on Wednesday, March 1, at the home of Mrs. A.H. Leigh, 1016 Northlawn, East Lansing. Readers will be Diana Higgs, Elizabeth Ackerman, and Barbara Rice. DOG OBEDIENCE Dog obedience classes sponsored by the wives of veterinary students will be held on Thursdays at 7 p.m. in the Judging Pavilion March 30 through June 1. Enroll~ent is $17.50. For information, call (days) Mrs. Wilson, 393- 2388 or (evenings) ¥rs. Shebuski, 349·3757. HAWTHORNE LECTURE James Cox of Dartmouth College will give a lecture on Nathaniel Hawthorne entitled "The Scarlet Letter through the Old Manse to the Custom House" is at 8 p.m., Thursday, March 2 at Kresge Art Center. The lecture sponsored by the English department. CONFERENCES - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Feb. 25-26 Feb. 27- Feb. 28- Feb. 29 March 1 March 1·2 Mich. Natural Resources Council Basic Claims Adjud~c~tors I Park & Recreation Law Enforcement Project 80 and 5 Social Work Institute Youth & the Public Schools Project Engineers Conference Wage-Price Control, Phase 11 Gladiolus Growers Conf. March 3 March 3-4 All conferences will be held in Kellogg Center unless otherwise noted. 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. ~ . C.l ';': ," \ ,:) , ' EXHIBITIONS-,., ...... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Kresge Art <.::enter ,)! :" . ' , . • Main Gallerv: . Wor}t.s from the oermanent collectIon. Center for International Programs Main Lobby: The Organization for Tropic,al Studies; The Fulbright Entrance Gallery (thru Feb. 27): Prints by New York artists, Minna Exchange Program ' Citron and Jan Gelb. North Gallery (thru Feb. 27): Contemporary paintings and prints from Museum the collection of the Flint Institute of Arts. First floor: Tombstone rubbing~ by C~et Trout. • SEMINAR.S MONDA Y, FEBRUARY 28, 1972 Properties of cells in isoleucine deficient media. Robert Tobey, U. of ' Laboratory, 4:10 p.m., 101 California, Los Alamos National Biochemistry (AEC Plant Resea;ch Lab). New programs and developments in extension in Michigan. G.S. McIntyre, 12:30 p.m., 126 Anthony (Dairy Science). Influenza and the common cold. Vernon Knight, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, 10:30 a.m., 137 East Fee (Microbiology & Public Health). " ' The theory of strong interactions at high energies. E. Berger, Argonne National Laboratory, 4:10 p.m., 118 Physics-Astronomy (Physics). Primate prolactin-its production in AP organ culture. Richard R. Gala, Wayne State University, 4 p.;nl.,M 216 Giltner (Physiology). TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 197% t, In vitro auxin binding and localized adaptation in corn coleoptiles. Rainer , Hertel, U. of Freiburg, ,Germany, 4:10 p.m., 106 Plant Biology (AEC Plant Research Lab), The care and feeding of non-existent compounds. Evan H. Appelman, Argonne National Laboratories, 4 p.m., 136 Chemistry (Chemistry). Research program review. Dean Haynes and Fred Stehr, 7:30 p.m., 244 Natural Science (Entomology). Enzymatic development of volatile flavors in onion. PanfUo Belo, 4: 10 p.m., 110 Anthony (Food Science & Human Nutrition). Gastrointestinal tract: conventional vs. gern~-free animals. Vala Stultz, 12:30 p'.in., 102 Human Ecology (Food Science & Human Nutrition). Factors influencing chloroxuron (tenoran) selectivity alterations of phytotoxicity by herbicidal McReynolds, 4 p.m., 206 Horticulture (Horticulture). in onions interactions. WilHam Tame and wild arcs. lohn G. Hocking, 4 p.m., 304A Wells (Mathematics). Involvement of inorganic ions in cell walls and transport. R.A. MacLeod, MacDonald College, McGill U., Montreal, 4:10p.m., 146 Giltner (Microbiology & Public Health). . WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1972 What's new in agricultural research. Sylvan H. Wittwer, 4:10 p.m., 168 Plant Biology Lab (Botany & Plant' Pathology). DC nationalism and limitations on LDC development: inferences from Japan's trouble in the world. Koji Taira, U. of Illinois, 3:30 p.m., 3 Marshall (Economic Development). Evaluation of nutritive value of tropical forages. Henry Kayongo-Male, 4 p.m., 126 Anthony (Institute of Nutrition). Teaching and learning the art of veterinary medicine. Sam Getty, 8 a.m. , 149 Veterinary Clinic (Large Animal Surgery & Medicine). Chern classes of group representations. C. Thomas, Yale U., 4:10 p.m., 304A Wells (Mathbnatics). ' THURSDAY, MARCH 2,1972 Gaps in research on rural welfare. Luther ,Tweeten, Oklahoma State U., 3:30 p.m., 213 Agriculture (Agricultural Economics). Closing assembly of seminars on South Asia alld U.S, foreign policy. W.T. Ross, 7:30 p.m. , Con Con Room, InternatiQn&k~enter (Asian Studies Center). The effect of Ca concentration, epinephrine and mechanical factors on the time course of the heart beat. EmU Bozler, Ohio State U., 4 p.m., 449B Life Science 1 (Pharmacology). The effects of Dibrom on the respiratory activity of the stonefly, Hydroperla 'crosbyi, hellgrammite, Corydalus cornulus, and the golden shiner, Notemigonus crysoleucas. Alan W. Maki, 1 :30 p.m., 221 Natural Resources (Fisheries and Wildlife). FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1972 Aerial application techniques. Arthur "Archie" Gieser, 9:30 a.m., 244 N~tural Science (Entomology). Observations and experiences in medical education with special reference to Michigan State University and the University of Nairobi. loseph M. Mungai, U, of Nairobi, Kenya and W.H.O. Post Doctoral Fellow, Office of Medical Education Research and Development, MSU, 1 :30 a.m., 140 Fee (Medical Education Research & Development). The limiting age distribution for multi-phase, age-dependent branching processes. Wen-Ho Kuo, 4:10 p.m., 405A Wells (Statistics & Probability). Public information and lake eutrophication: a case study of Gull Lake in southwestern Michigan. George H. Lauff, Kellogg Biological Station, Gull Lake, 11:30 a.m., 140'Natural Science (Zoology). For genel'al inform'adon about MSU, caD 353-8700. :o=