~ ~(,(- nw-,-~ MSU VERT!CAt: FllF MSU News-Bulletin Vol. 3, No. 23 Michigan State University April 6, 1972 .,."'- ".. ... ".,.." E I 't:' -.' ,-. "i"''''' 'iI ,," ~' ? .- APR 121972 ,tFt.6[1'·:CE DEPA,-" HIGAN STATE UI\JiVEr-(:)1 i LIBRARY EPC fails to endorse urban college plan Although its original report on the proposal for a college of url1an development has been released, the University Educational Policies Conunittee will continue to explore approaches that would strengthen MSU's ,academic efforts in urban development. A summary of the EPC report is on page 4 of today's paper. A five - member EPC subconunittee met last Friday and again Tuesday to begin compiling suggestions that the EPC can recomrn.end to the administration. The subcommittee is headed by Charles Schuller, professor of e d u cation and dire ctor of the Instructional Media Center, and includes Michael Borus, associate professor of labor and industrial relations; William Kelley, professor of physics; and two students, Bradley Niles and Sam Starks. EPC Chairman Lester Manderscheid, professor of agricultural economics, said that the subconunittee will report regularly to the EPC, with the aim of having suggestions ready for President ~arton befote the latter reports to the Board of Trustees in May. IN ITS 14 - page report issued last week, the EPC said that while it supported increased University attention to "urban - human problem solution by strengthening and broadening its academic programs in that' area," it could not recommend approyal of the proposal for a College of Urban Development and Social Change (News - Bulletin, March 9). The report listed both pros and cons of a degree - granting college in urban development and concluded that "arguments and counter - arguments leave ambiguous the need for college status." consideration of viable alternative approaches ... " He added: "This effort may include a revised version of the original college proposal. The EPC, I am sure, will also suggest additional options evolving from its own study. EPC also is asking the Academic Council to submit any suggestions that individual members may have. ''This activity, to me, typifies the essence of the academic but practical approach to a major issue. We are not asking for a consensus or a compromise . , (but) for workable ideas and . 'approaches with the objective of integrating the best of these into a program which can genuinely help meet the urban - human needs of our society." (Continued on page 4) Faculty art on display Following a meeting last week with the EPC, Wharton said he had asked the committee "to put new emphasis on its "Fig Tree:' one of three watercolors by Owen Brainard is among works now included in the faculty exhibit that runs through April 23 at Kresge Art Center. Brainard, profess~ of art, did the work while on sabbatical leave last year in Spain. His works are usually abstmcts done in acrylics. C ,News analysis . ) Two faculty grievance procedures possible A special meeting of the Academic Council has been called for next week, April 11, to consider the proposed interim grievance procedures. Following is a chronology of the development of the procedures,and some of the questions it raises. * * * The University is on its way to having two separate grievance procedures. The Elected Faculty Council last month approved the long awaited procedures offered by the Ad Hoc Co1llDlittee to Study Faculty rughts, Responsibilities and Grievance Procedures. But in so doing, the EFC also amended the document to separa te all appeals on matters of extension of reappoiiitment, dismissal, termination or nonreappointrnent of faculty in the tenure stream. All such appeals would be channeled through the University Conunittee on Faculty Tenure (FTC). But this is not how the whole issue began nearly a year ago. In May 1971 the Academic Council and Senate approved a change in tenure regulations to proVide for giving reasons for nonreappointed, nontenured faculty members. At that time - at both the Council and Senate meetings - former president Walter Adams, distinguished University professor of economics, stressed the need for an appeal procedure to accompany the new reasons policy. At the May Council meeting, Thomas Greer, professor of humanities, moved "to refer to the tenure committee the issue of review procedures in cases of nonreappointment of nontenured faculty." His motion also charged the FTC "to examine the possibility of providing for review of questions of substance as well as procedure, and to report back to the Council with a recommendation as early as practicable." The motion was approved by the Council. But the committee never did report back with a recommendation. Instead, with the provost's office, the FTC developed an adaptation of procedures (approved in 1967 for the dismissal of tenured faculty) reportedly for use in the "interim" until the ad hoc committee's grievance procedures were established. On May 19, 1971, Academic Senate approved the reasons policy; Adams again cited the need for appeal procedures. E. Fred Carlisle, associate professor of English and chairman of the ad hoc committee, reported that his conunittee would proceed with drawing up grievance procedures to be "interim" until the remainder of its (Continued on page 2) Page 2, MSU News - Bulletin, April 6, 1972 Faculty grievance procedures • • • (Concluded from page 1) charge (development of a rights and responsibilities document) was completed. The two - problems of reappointm~nt and the ad hoc committee's proposed grievance procedures - were, then, linked. In its original charge to the ad hoc committee the steering committee stated that " we would hope that the scope of this committee would include the blending of already existing grievance procedures into a single coheren t set of procedures." Meanwhile, the Board of Trustees last spring became involved in problems of reappointment by extending the contracts of persons not reappointed who did not receive reasons for the nonreappointment. Their action was put in terms of providing "due process" for these nontenured facul ty. Later, members of the Board expressed concern abou t appeal procedures for these persons. At the Oct. 15, 1971, Board meeting, Trustee Patricia Carrigan asked if the ad hoc committee's grievance procedure would be completed by the time tenure recommendations would be submitted to the trustees for action. According to the Board minutes, "Provost Cantlon responded that he was quite sure the lengthy document would not be ready by that time, but stated that we do have an interim grievance procedure since the trustees had approved the interim use of the procedure for the dismissal of tenured faculty." The interim procedure to which the provost referred (adaptation of the 1967 procedures for dismissal of tenured faculty) was never formally acted upon by the Board. It was agreed upon by the FTC, the provost and the University attorney, and the trustees were informed of this in a letter from Wharton. In February of this year, a set of previous1y unrelated tenure regulations and procedures (all of which had been presumably approved by the Council, Senate and trustees previously) were presen ted to the Board for reaffmnation. ' After considerable ~sc~ssion, the trustees deferred action on the reaffmnation until their, March meeting (News - Bulletin, March 2, 1972). In March, the trustees did reafflDl1 the set of procedures, with some amendments (News:-Bulletin, March 30~ \; that the FTC "is the judicial and investigatory a.gency for all tenure actions." But other subsections do not refer to the committee's specific judicial powers.ltis stated that the committee shall act on cases of deviation from tenure rules and shall suggest to the provost poliCies and procedures for dismissal of tenured faculty. The FI'C shall also hear all cases f or exception to tenu.re rules and recommend appropriate action to the provost. And decisions of the FI'C on matters involving m terpretation of tenure rules and in cases involving deviation from tenure rules ace bindfug on the administration, according to Section 5.4.4.5. The FTC has traditionally heacd tenure - related appeals only on procedural matters. A change to cover substantive appeals is suggested for study in the May 1971 Greer motion, but not authorized. But Greer says that it 'is within the FTC"s authority to interpret tbe bylaws to cover substantive as well as procedural matters. 10 February the provost wrote in a memorandum to the trustees that the adapta tion oCthe 1967 procedures for dismissaJ of tenured faculty, though not ideal, adequately provided substantive and procedural due process for questions of reappointment and tenure. He said the administration believed that the procedures "should be followed until such time as an improved set of provisions is submitted and approved by the Academic Council, the Academic Senate and the Board of Trustees." But the action of the Elected Faculty Council has removed issues of reappointment, etc., from those awaited "improved set of provisions." It is, of course, within the authority of the EFC - and the Academic Council- to recommend establishment of two separate procedures. But these questions are left: Should there be two separate grievance procedures? Can - or shouJd- questions of nonreappointment, termination, dismissal or extension of reappointment for faculty in the tenure stream be handled under the ad hoc committee's grievance procedure? (The latter is to accompany a set of faculty rights and responsibilities which deal with conditions of employment, including matters of tenure.) Why has there been a change of intent, from the original charge to the ad hoc committee to establish one comprehensive grievance procedure, to the now pendin& dual system? ,,~ 'L~'" ' The re~ffirmed set of procedures were explained to be "interim'~until the ad hoc committee' s procequres were approved through University channels. The Board further approved i~:CiJ resolutions, one to forego any acti0j on. extensions of appointments until the ad hoc committee's procedures were reaay, and another requesting that thc(?P hoc committee's procedures be ,preseIlte.RGto the Board in June. And at the March ,1) meeting of the Elected Faculty Council,'f!I?:tters concerning reaPPointment, etc., were exc1uded from the ad hoc committee's proposed grievance procedures. This was done upon the suggestion of Wilbur Brookover, professor of sociology and chairman of the FTC. He suggested the action on the basis of last May's Council and Senate actions. Bu t those bodies took 110 action in May on grievance or appeal procedures, except to ask the committee to look into the question. 'ft,. .• 1 • ':J Greer points out, however, that the FTC is unlike other standing committees, which are advisory to the Council and various administrators. The FTC, Greer says, is also an action body. The Bylaws for Academic Governanc~ (Section 5.4.4) do state ,:",Letters ;y ":::~'-->~ ~'~~" .. :':~::>;-- ~~ .">,,,,>,.~-, .. ' . . :~'~:j;;:' Huff seeks clarification Dear Sir: Your lead article in the issue of March 30, 1972, contains the following statement, attributed to President Wharton: "And he (pres. Wharton) noted that only one trustee (Warren Huff) has publicly opposed a degree-granting college; other trustees have reserved judgment until a proposal is put before them,- " I request that you publish this letter speCifically labelling as untrue this statement. I took no position either opposing or supporting the idea of a degree-gran ting college either publicly or privately. My sole purpose in joining with three of my colleagues on the Board in the letter to the president of March 25 was to put a stop to the steamroller effort of the administration to force through the specific plan outlined in the Center for Urban Affairs dated Dec. 7, 1971. In our letter we proposed that all interested departments and persons in the University be made a party to the University's response to the urban problem. We did not in that letter nor since suggest a specific plan or Structure for the University's response. The appropriate faculty committees supported our view by votes of 20 - 4 in the Educational Policies Committee and by 68 - 20 in the Academic Council. Intensive efforts~then made to get a majority of the Board to pass a resolu tion which would endorse "in principle" the CUD college. After these efforts failed, a watered-down resolution was introduced which was compatible with the votes of the EPC and the Academic Council's action and our letter to the president of March 25. This resolution was passed unanimously. Let's keep the record straight. Sincerely, Warren M. Huff, trustee Note: The identification of Warren Huff as the trustee opposing the college was supplied by the editor (wtio wrote the story in question), not by President Wharton: We inferred Huff's opposition to the college when, at last month's Board meeting, he commented at length about urban affairs in general, but said specifically: "I still don't have any evidence that we need a degree-granting college (in urban affairs) ••. " 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 Infonnation Seivices. Second-class postage paid at East Lansing, Mich. 48823. Can one standing committee - within the advisO'rtacildemic governance Stnidti:re .; legally and adequately provide full due process '011 Ii matter as sensitive aidi~lssi!t ·: - or nonreappointment? ::. , ' .) , ,,,~, And is there a conflict of interest when a coIruiIittee proposes policy (sucWa'S the - reasons policy) and then also serves as the hearmg'body-for appeals arising froin ~lur~ . policy? " , ~ '. If the Board of Trustees has been waiting for the ad hoc committee's grievance procedures before acting 00 matters of reappointment and the faculty governing bodies divorce matters of reappointment from those procedures,are the faculty and trustees heading for yet another philosophical and power confrontation? , ' . . , - BEVERLY TWITCHELL History in sound Edison's talking machine (ACtual recordings that detai,J. this and other events are available in th~ National Voice Library on the fourth floor of the MSU Library. An appointment can be made by calling 355 - 5122.) By G. ROBERT VINCENT Curator, National Voice Library Those of us who worked at the Edison plant in New Jersey during the 1920s formed an organization known as the "Edison Pioneers." The birth of Thomas A. Edison's favorite invention - the phonograph - makes for an interesting story. Early in 1876, Edison built a laboratory at Menlo Park, N.J., the fIrst industrial research laboratory in America. On Aug. 12, 1877, a hand-drawn sketch was handed to John Kreusi, Edison's mechanic, with the instructions: "Make this." "What's it for, boss?" asked Kreusi. To his surprise, Edison replied: "This machine is going to talk." The sketch showed a horizontal metal cylinder about four inches long and four inches in diameter, supported by a shaft with two bearings. In the cylinder wascJlt a deep, -wide thread which matched in pitch the thread on the right-hand shaft. Tin foil could be pressed into those spiral grooves. On both side$ :bf the' cylinder were instruments: One for recording sound, the other for reproducing it. The two instruments consisted of a diaphragm of mica with a short needle mounted in the middle. Edison estimated that the device could be made for $18. For the fust demonstration, the only available tin foil was salvaged from a package of chewing tobacco. Edison recited a nursery rhyme into the recorder. Then the cylinder was rotated, the reproducer was centered the groove, the cylinder was in cranked - and the machine talked. . Thus was born the speaking phonograph, and, as far as we know, the fust reproduction of any sound. It was a sensation. Famous voices could be preserved, and the foundation was laid for what ' is today a multibiltion-dollar recording industry - all from an $18 machine. Tin foil was not preservable, so about 10 years later, Edison and his "Insomnia Squad" perfected the wax cylinder record. Edison himself tells about his fust successful experiment in sound reproduction: "These ire the fust words I spoke into the original phonograph - a little piece of practical poetry: 'Mary had a little lamb; its fleece was white as snow. And everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go' ... '" (Next: Babe Ruth delivers an after, dinner speech.) ... Page 3, MSU News - Bulletin, April 6, 1972 Around the campus: A weekly review Veep search progressing • Presiden Wharton has submitted a list of candidates to the evaluation committee for the Vice President for Student Mfairs. The list, submitted last week, is to be rated by the committee and returned to the president as soon as possible. A spokesman from the president's office sa i d Wharton hoped to make a recommendation to the Board of Trustees for a new vice president before the end of this term. Council OKs bylaw change The Academic Council Tuesday voted to enfranchise instructors and approved a policy on j oint appointments of nontenured faculty in the tenure system. The c'(mncil amended bylaws to permit instructors to vote in both internal and externai matters. The Academic Senate, which :meets May 17, must also approve the bylaw amendments before they become operative. The change would also make instructors eligible for election to the Council and its standing committees. The joint appointment policy, proposed by the University Committee on Faculty Tenure (FTC), is merely use of a "Multiple Appointment Memorandum" already available. 'But after more than an hour's discussion, the Council voted to delete part of the FTC's .proposal thatl would also call upon the secondary department to abide by a tenure decision of a primary department when jointly appointed, nontenured faculty come up to fmal probationary appointments. Council members raised several questions about the multiple appointment memo, all of which were referred to the tenure committee. Also approved ~re expansion of the Military Education Advisory Committee, a bylaw change on filling student vacancies on standing committees, and a report of the University Curriculum Committee. Gordon Guyer, chairman of entomology and of the steering committee, reported on the Council's tape policy, which is to keep the original tape recordings of Council sessions for one year, with copies of the tapes in the Voice Library for one year. Anyone in the academic community - but particularly those involved in Council discussions - wishing tape transcripts may petition the steering committee. Repas asks Board, to act Bob Repas, professor of labor and industrial relations, has written to all members of the Academic Council reiterating three request~ he madeto the Steering Committee of the Faculty last week. Repas, who was censUred by the Council last November for his role in Health Careers Day The University's health education facilities - together with some of the animal tenants - will be on dispaly to the public Saturday (April 8) from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. during the annual Health Careers Day. Chief student planners of the event are, from left, Robert Trepp, osteopathic medicine; Howard Brody, human medicine; and Dave Black, veterinary medicine. The event includes the 10th Vetavisit at the small animal clinic. disclosing faculty salary information, is asking that the Council forward that action to the Board of Trustees for approval, and that the Council also censure Russell Allen, professor of labor and industrial relations. Allen is the only other publicly known member of the Committee for a Rational Pay Policy, which released salary lists to the public last fall. Repas contends that to be consistent, Allen should also be censured by the Council. Repas says the censure should be trustees, because forwarded to the according to the Michigan Constitution and the bylaws of the Board of Trustees , the Academic Council has decision-making authority only in matters of curriculum. And because the censure motion referred to penalty, Repas contends that the censure motion was an act of punislunent and "falls properly into the classification of those items requiring approval or disapproval by the Board of Trustees." Hawley named college dean . , Womens group names leaders The steering committee to establish a permanent advisory structure on the status of women at MSU Iret Tuesday morning with President Wharton to discuss the group's charge. Last week the group elected a five - member executive group: Mary Kay Scullion, graduate student, as coordinator; Carol Naille, senior clerk in fII.1ancial aids, corresponding secretary; Linda J:Ia.I1:l!lto_n, recording secretary; M arylee Davis, graduate student, In charge of the agenda; and Roberta Smith, editorial assistant in engineering, in charge of press relations. The steering committee will hold open meetings each Tuesday morning at 7:30 in the International Center, in rooms off the cafeteria. A meeting with the larger group of women who proposed the establishment of the steering committee will be held next Tuesday (April 11 ), at 9 a.m. in 104B Wells Hall. The steering committee also hopes to meet with its counterparts at the University of Michigan and Wayne State University, though dates have not yet _been set. William B. Hawley, acting dean of education, is now dean of education - until July 1, when his successor's (Keith Goldhammer) becomes effective. Hawley's special appointment came at the February meeting of the Board of Trustees. He came out of retirement to serve as acting dean while that (college sought a permanent replacement for former dean John Ivey, who retired last year. According to Mrs. Smith, Wharton told the group that he is most concerned with the establishment of a permanent structure which would neither circumvent nor undermine existing structures. He also said that the group may wish to make recommendations for modifications in the existing anti - discrimination policy and procedUIes and in the Office of Equal Opportunity Programs. <,On1other campuses · MEN'S LIB? With collective tongue - in - cheek, a group of men at the University of New Mexico has proposed that the university set up a program for men's studies in a separate academic unit. The Co)lllllittee for Men's Liberation also asked for a vice president for men's stu dies, faculty and other facilities to alter "the cultural image of the male role." It asked for a reaction to its proposal on April 1. NO MORE STANFORD INDIAN. Stanford University has decided to stop calling its athletic teams "the Indians." A petition by American Indian students at Stanford 'contended: "There is little chance that those who regard the term 'Indian' asa team name will ever realize the importance of socioeconomic problems, the traditional life styles and the religious practices which are central to an understanding of today's Indian people." A PRESIDENTIAL RAISE. Malcolm Moos, president of the University of Minnesota, has been given a 3 percent raise, bringing his annual salary to $50,985. Minnesota's lieutenant governor called the increase '''unbelievable'' in a time of retrenchment, and he said it amounts to almost $115,000 when mansion, limousine, chauffeur, expense account and pension benefits are included. But a regen t said that while the home, car apd allowances might "seem like great amenities to some," they are "actually tools (i)f the office" that impose more of a burden than a special privilege on Moos and his family. EARLY RETIREMENT. Also at the University of Minnesota, the Board of Regents has approved - on a two - year trial basis - an early retirement plan; It will allow faculty members to retire at 62 with the same benefits they would have received at age 65 retirement. Participants will be approved individually by the regents. A DOCTORATE FOR CMU. A program for the doctor of psychology degree potentially the fust doctorate at Central Michigan University - has passed the CMU Academic Senate and will go to the Board of Trustees for a vote later this spring. The Psy D. proposal passed the seriate after it had spent nearly three sessions debating it. Most opposition centered around fears that fmancial support for the doctorate would come at the expense of existing programs. Also, CMU President William B. Boyd said the administration did not plan to release a full list of faculty and administrative salaries. Although he said he didn't mind the recent distribution of salaries of 25 administrators, he added that publication of all salaries and names would "cause individual distress, and I'm not sure that the public good would be served." , Page 4, MSU News - Bulletin, April 6, 1972 Summary of EPC's urban college report In its report on a Center for Urban Affairs - developed proposal for a College of Urban Development and Social Change, the educational policies committee declined to recommend college status for such a program. (The EPC summary conclusions were printed in the March 9 News - Bulletin.) Following are excerpts from other sections of the report: MISSION " ... Among the urban - human problems the proposal cites as examples are the plight of racial minorities, the existence of poverty and educational deprivations, and those conditions which cause and relate to the general deterioration of urban life ... "The committee recognized that many problems within urban areas deserve attention, and that race and racism are important concerns, primarily in their urban setting. But it questioned the indicated central focus outlined in the proposal; the problems of urban centers are broad, requiring more than a concentration on racial issues to solve. "While the problems are so extensive and resources so limited that some priorities must be established, the committee recommends that the program of any proposed unit encompass the study of a \\ide range of urban - human problems as they impact on the many segments of the urban community, and that the success of the proposed college be evaluated on that basis. TITLE "(The committee) cautions whether such a charge should go beyond the analysis of the process and identification of alternatives, toward an advocacy or an initiation of change. There remains a question whether it is legitimate for a university program to engage in social action ... the proposed title left open the question as to whether the proposed college would be devoted to the study of urban development as a social process or would be actively engaged in strategies and tactics for social change. The committee suggests that educational programs concentrate on the former. "Furthermore, there are presently many units in the University which are engaged in the study of the process of social change. To use social change in the title of only one University unit would appear to be misleading. Because of these considerations, the committee recommends that the phrase "soCial ' change" be excluded from the proposed title of any University programs. . IMPLICATIONS FOR OTHER UNITS " . . . Because everyone now agrees that a shared, cooperative endeavor is necessary to the success of a proposed unit and to the success of the University's efforts in solving urban problems, the committee believes that formal arrangements for cooperation \bould be established before any new unit is created." (EPC . suggests such examples as joint appointments of faculty in a college and their department - as in residential colleges;joint assignmen ts of departments of a college and other appropriate colleges - as in the medical schools; and a liaison committee established by the provost's office to "~rdinate and promote joint activi tie s.") " . . . formal structures can either impede or facilitate cooperative efforts. Therefore, the committee recommends that formal procedures to facilitate communication, cooperation and coordination be mutually agreed to by the provost and interested parties before any new unit becomes a reality ... "While the proposal makes it clear that the general education courses will be open to all University students, the same is not stated for the core program courses ... The committee recommends that these courses be generally available to nonmajors . . . Whereas the proposal states further that interest has been expressed by several units in joint programs for their students using the courses of the proposed college, there has been no firm commitment as to what these programs might be. The specific nature of the proposed minor in race and urban problems should be clarified at an early date through the regular curricular process. OTHER POSSmLE PROBLEM AREAS " ... If the proposed college desired to pattern its community service structure in the model of cooperative extension activities, the committee would suggest that careful consideration be given to identifying a unit within the proposed college to operate service based activities, to coordinate them with other University public service activities and to be accountable for the perfonnance of these activities. "A rationale of the proposed college is to provide students with an educational experience or degree focused on urban - human problems and their solution. The proposal is not specific, however, in indicating how the graduates of the proposed college will be able to aid in meeting .the needs of the urban centers. The proposal suggests career openings in all areas of urban expertise. Other testimony presented to the committee indicated a need for specialists and questioned whether the graduates, particularly on the undergraduate level, would possess Slibstantive skills necessary to effect the problem solutions in the areas where the demands are evident. "The committee recommends, therefore, that 'areas of concentration' within the college include an emphasis which assures each student a specialty upon graduation ... " ... (and) the committee recommends that no students be entered into the program or recruited specifically for it until the curriculum has been approved by the Academic Council. FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS " ... It has been indicated within the proposal and by the provost's office that existing funding and proposed enrollment patterns should place the proposed college in a fmancially viable position over the next three or four years. It is though the understanding is accompanied by skepticism therefore understood - within the committee - that it would not be necessary to remove funds directly from other University programs. DEAN SELECTION PROCESS "The committee reaffinns (the Bylaws for Academic Governance stipulation that selection of deans is the responSIbility of the president) and recommendSithat there be an appropriate search and selection committee named after the mission and dimensions of any proposed college are clarified. EVALUATION "The committee recommends that specific criteria for evaluation and dates for review and evaluation be established for the proposed college ... "If 'the proposed college is created, the dean should outline in detail proposed accomplishments of the college for the following year and four - year period. This 'plan of action ' should be reviewed by the provost's office and approved or modified. In subsequent years, annual plans should also be made. At the end of each year the accomplishments should be reviewed against the proposed plan of action. If at the end of the four - year period, the college has not adequately met the plans, we suggest that the college be discontinued and another model introduced . .. . " • Urban college plan • • .. (Concluded from page 1) Robert L. Green, director of the Center for Urban Affairs, expressed pleasure that the EPC "shared our concern that increased attention must be given to urban-human problems by MSU. Further, we found the suggestions and recorr.mendations offered by the committee to be attractive." Green added that he felt the EPC, once ''will it has examined many models, come to the same conclusion as the CUA: namely, that a degree-granting, interdisciplinary, problem-centered program represents the best possible urban-oriented academic model." He also said it was unfortunate that the EPC was unable to consider the CUA's original, complete proposal. "The shortened proposal which was forwardeCl to EPC lacked much of the detail that the committee felt was essential. The concerns they raised were clearly addressed in our original document." AUFS course Louis Dupree of the American Universities Field Staff will present a course, "Afghanistan and Pakistan: A Study in Nationalism, Tribalism and Regionalism" beginning Monday (April 10). The two-credit course will meet from 3 to 5 pm. daily (Monday-Friday) through April 21. Lifelong education task force begins job The Lifelong Education Task Force, established last term partly as an outgrowth of admissions commission recommendations, has held four regular meetings to discuss its charge and to begin discussions of particular areas. Personnel from the Continuing Education service and the Cooperative Extension Service have met with the commission to discuss their programs. The task force will also look at smaller programs to "get the feel" of the problem, according to William Wilkie, special presidential assistant and director of the task force. )\'hen the group has '~soine grasp of the problem and issues, they will try to develop a working definition - a structure and parameters - within the next month or so," Wilkie said. They will probably bre~ down into smaller study groups - as the admissions commission did - and will meet in plenary sessions about once a month, Wilkie said. The plenary sessions would be open to the public. President Wharton issued a four - part charge to the task force: 1. To develop a definition of lifelong education for MSU which reflects a set of philosophical and specific program . objectives. 2. To identify the nature of the program (formal, infonnal, mixed, etc.), a strategy for implementation and the institutional arrangements necessary to reach spe.cific lifelong education clientele. 3. On the basis of a program model, structure design an organizational specifically for M.SUwhich insures: * A lifelong educational component that is soundly and fully integrated into the structure of the University; * A means for refocusing and marshalling present institutional lifelong reso u rces to facilitate education; * Development of a faculty - staff reward system which puts lifelong education in perspective with regard to' the other primary functions of the University ; 4. Recognizing that MSU ' cannot alone meet the needs of lifelong education in the State of Michigan and cannot be all things to all people, the task force will exarnine other external relationships, particularly: * The University's role and rela tionship in a statewide lifelong education system, including but not limited to external degree programs; * The share of the total burden in lifelong education which the University should undertake based particularly upon our unique resources and comparative advantages; * The programmatic opportunities for cooperative efforts with the growing private educational industry . , Law school here still in the works Page S, MSU News - Bulletin, April 6, 1972 Despite recent reports of caution on the part of some Michigan legislators concerning MSU's proposal for a law college, the University is still hopeful that it will receive appropriations this year to plan the state's third publicly supported law school. MSU is now asking for $100,000 to open a school in September, 1973. Supporters of MSU' s proposal point out that the University has had a plan for a law college since 1965 and in 1966 came very close to receiving legislative approval. In the latter year, however, the University was making a commitment to establish a medical school. t In recent months Grand Valley Sta te College, Western Michigan University and Saginaw Valley State College have made proposals to the legislature for law schools. The appropriations committees of the House and Senate are now considering all four proposals for state-supported law schools. IN 1971 AND 1972, the University's request for planning money for a new law school was not included in the governor's recommendations for appropriations to MSU. There are indications that this was because the State Board of Education had not acted on the MSU law suit ruling - law school proposal. But, with the "tri-university" whereby MSU, Wayne State University and the University of Michigan were freed from haVing to seek approval the State Board for new from academic programs - there is support for the school by Gov. Milliken. The !,fichigan Legislature's interest in establishing a law school here was highlighted during the past year by the creation of a special joint legislative committee on legal education to study the need for another state-supported law school and the deSirability of locating such a school at MSU. The joint committee consisted of: Sens. William Ballenger, Robert W. Davis and David A. Plawecki; and Reps. Jackie Vaughn III and Edward Suski. Ballenger and Vaughn were co-chairmen of the committee. On March 14, after fIve months of study the joint committee issued its report that concluded there is indeed a need for a third state-supported law school and that such a school should be located at MSU. The committee recommended that the legislature appropriate $796,114 in fIscal year 1972-73 to open the MSU College of Law by this September. " Another Nobel Laureate schedules visit to campus THE COMMITTEE based its recommendations on these factors: the demand for 1. Michigan equals or exceeds the nation in legal education, and this demand has grown faster than the ability of the state's two public law schools to handle larger enrollments. 2. Enrollments in the law schools at Wayne State and U-M are larger than that considered educationally sound by the legal profession. 3. Opportunity for legal education is declining at the two public and the two private law schools in Michigan. 4. This declining opportunity hits hardest at the economically and educationally disadvantaged. 5. A new state-supported law school must meet rising national accrediting standards and must offer the same quality legal education of the existing schools. 6. A new state-supported law school must be encouraged to take new directions in legal education rather than follow traditional models. 7. MSU, with its land-grant philosophy, strong interdisciplinary approaches to education and close proximity to the seat of state government, has had a strong proposal for a law school since 1965. THE JOINT COMMITTEE pointed out that building a new institution of legal education is a major undertaking and that MSU would not view such a task lightly. The report said that while MSU might be criticized for moving too slowly in establishing a law school, the the committee appreciates that University has not chosen to participate in a "prestige race" at the expense of the quality and reputation of existing Ie gal education in Michigan. In line with this observation is the fact that the deans of the law schools at both Wayne State and U-M have given full support to the MSU proposal. The law school proposal becomes part of MSU's budget request now before the appropriations committees of the legislature and will probably be discussed during hearings later this month. President Wharton publicly stated when the joint committee made its recommendations that the University will carefully study the committee's report and continue internal discussions on how best to establish a quality law education program at MSU. -MIKEBORN And in this corner - Linus Pauling. Fighter for peace, battler of chemical bonds, and two - time Nobel Prize Laureate, Pauling may be best known now as an advocate for vitamm C against the common cold. He'll be on the campus in mid - April. Pauling came into medical research with a background of knowledge and experience largely in physical chemistry, physics and mathematics, wHh gIeat emphasis on the structure of molecules and the relation between molecular structure and the physical and chemical properties of substances. In 1934 he began his studies of hemoglobin and other proteins. He became interested in immun ology - the natural mechanisms of protection of the body against disease vectors - and then went into investigations of sickle - cell anemia and other molecular diseases. He won the 1954 Nobel Prize in chemistry and the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize. Since 1954 he has studied the molecular basis of mental disease. This April 19 (4 p.m., 108B Wells Hall) he will- share his ideas accumulated over the years on the preservation of good health and the prevention and treatment of disease with naturally occuring substances. On April 20 (8 p.m. , AuditOrium) Pauling will give his opinions on vitamin C and he will answer critics of his ideas of prevention of the common cold. "THEY ASKED ME to quote the most rigorous sort of evidence, based on extensive double - blind studies, to support my statement that vitamin C has value against the common cold," says Pauling, "whereas they are willing to discuss possible side effects in a small number of people on the basis of the flimsiest of evidence. ''The amount of vitamin C that I recommend is different for different persons," he says. "I still do not know how effective vitamin C might be for a large population . . . but I think that it might be very effective, especially if it were used by almost everyone, and the incidence of colds dropped to such an extent that people' would rarely be exposed to cold viruses." Speaking at dedication ceremonies for the University of Chicago's new Ben May Laboratory for Cancer Research recently, Pauling also discussed vitamin C's possible value as an anticancer agent via its nutritional effects: "It is known that vitamin C is required for the synthesis of collagen by the body. It is required for wound healing. It is required for preserving the strength of hlood vessels. "Preserving fr.e integrity of the tissues by proper nutrition could prevent cancer cells from penetrating through the tissues, or at least contribute somewhat to the prevention of the development of cancer and the spread of cancer. SO far as I am aware, this approach to the cancer problem has been almost entirely neglected. . "I believe that there are great po~sibilities for the future. If proper nutrition were to decrease the number of cases by 10 percent, this would be a most important contribution, saving 15,000 or 20,000 lives in the United States per year. Nutrition, the vitamins used in their proper amounts - these are matters that the scientists and medical men have neglected, too long. In the attack on cancer I hope that the .role of nutritional factors will be thoroughly investigated." On Friday, April 21 (4 p.m;, 108B, Wells) Pauling will discuss sickle - cell anemia in a talk titled "Abnormal Hemoglobin and its Relation to Disease." , His visit is sponsored by the MSU Section of the Ametican Chemical Society (A.C.S.) and the Renaud Foundation. 'Salmon Run' . ... by Oilton Mc