No. 6 October 4, 1983
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Tuesdat, Oei'oher 4, /983 PublishedhI' the Uni'ersiiv ofPennsrlvania Volume 30, Number 6 "SENATE" From the Chair On the Committee to Review Administrative Actions Pertaining to the ATO Incident At its meeting of September 14. 1983. the Senate Executive Committee adopted a resolution to examine in detail the actions of the administration following the ATO incident and to report back to the Senate Executive Committee. Consequently. I have today appointed the members of the Committee to Review Administrative Actions Pertaining to the ATO Incident. The members are: Regina Austin (associate professor law) Jean Crockett (professor finance) Michael B. Katz (professor education, history, urban studies). (hair Robert E. A. Palmer (professor classical studies) The Review Committee is charged: I. To review in detail the sequence of administrative actions from the first report of the matter received by officers of the University to the present time. Return of the Rink 2. To examine the use of the University Judicial procedures including the following questions: The Class of 1923 Ice Rink, leased out for a. How was the decision made to settle without a hearing? several to and used years Spectacor among b. What was the nature of the information available to members of the administration as ice for the other things practice Philadelphia and to relevant committees? is back under University management Flyers, c. Who were the parties who negotiated the settlement? and October 29 with a campus-oriented reopens d. What were the sanctions applied to individuals, and how are they being activities program. administered? "Come skate with us" is the theme of the new e. Were the sanctions appropriate? Business Services Depart- managers-Penn's 3. To report what supports, financial, psychological, and emotional have been provided to the return of the ment-in flyers announcing the victim. rink. 4. To report its judgments and to propose appropriate actions that the Faculty Senate With a fall schedule of activities in place for might take in light of its findings. skaters, the Ice Rink will open on Saturday In view of the Committee's sensitive and unusual task, it is being asked to establish its own evening. October 29, at 7:30 p.m. with the show procedures and methods of investigation. It will provide the Faculty Senate with dependable "Stars on Ice '83" featuring nationally ranked information about the ways the University did-and might in the future-respond to figure skaters, pair skaters Debra Fahy and behavior that seemed to flout the idea of a civilized community. We have been assured of the Craig Maunizi, and other show skaters, includ- adminstration's cooperation and we expect a report early in November. ing eastern competitions skater Joe Radomile, now a freshman at Penn. The advance price for tickets is $3, $3.50 at the door. (The 3130 Wal- nut Street entrance will be open for most skat- ing events.) On the following Sunday. October 30. public will be available to the commun- skating again abilities, with patch and freestyle skating for Penn-in-Washington: David Morse ity, from 1-3 p.m. The year's weekend schedule the serious skater. lessons are figure Group To the new post of federal relations director, is as follows: 8:15-10:15 Friday, p.m.; Saturday. followed by about an hour of practice time, Senior Vice President Helen O'Bannon has 1-3 and 8-10 1-3 p.m. p.m.; Sunday. p.m. and the price of approximately $30 includes named David J. Morse, who has been aide to Admission is $2.50. less with a season pass; skate rental and a skate discount. sharpening two U.S. Senators during his seven years in skate rentals $ I. For men's can be league hockey, sign ups Washington. Mr. Morse helped draft the Group and family discounts are also availa- made as a team or on an individual basis. Higher Education Act Amendments of 1980 as ble to all students, University employees, and Broomball. a new on sneakers game played (continued on page 2) identification. their families-with University rather than skates, is another league sport $1251 hour for large groups is the going rate, offered at about half the cost of the former. For - and the rink is equipped to accommodate details check with Rusty Rahbanyat Ext. 1823. INSIDE for that price. dormitory parties " Staff Honors, 2-3 include both lessons and Illustration: The Ice Bird, by R. Tait McKenzie, is one Changes, pp. Skating programs " United of the Penn treasures on display at the Arthur Ross Gal- Way/Donor Option Progress, p.4 league competitions. Lessons are given Wed- lery. Furness Building, this fall. Other sculptures of the Insert: Environmental Medicine's afternoons and and Sunday famous Penn are at the Jones in nesday Saturday physician Gallery New Realms" Gimbel "Exploring (late) mornings. They are geared to a range of Gym. STAFF Changes (continued from page I) Doctor of Laws degree from&Bowdoin College HONORSFive well as develop legislation on the arts and ACLS: for Penn for contributions such as those he has made in humanities, on the education ofthe gifted and In the seven awards programs that the the University's Population Studies Center. talented, on financial assistance and on adult American Council of Learned Societies admin- and continuing education. isters nationwide, five members of the Penn "David Morse is widely regarded in higher faculty are among the 248 winners for 1983. Scholars in Print education circles," said Mrs. O'Bannon. His Their names and projects: The American Academy-Institute of Arts appointment also fleshes out the range of Dr. Ann B. Brow nlee. instructor in history of and Letters chose Dr. Leo Steinberg as one of governmental relations coveragethe University art: The Attic black-figure pottery from eight authors to receive this year's prize for has needed, she added, with Commonwealth Corinth. literature, awarding him $5000 and a citation Relations Director James E. Shada, Assistant Dr. David B. Brow nlee, assistant professor praising "the light-gathering powerofhis atten- Deck Uhlhorn, and Community Relations in history of art: The first High Victorians- tive eye and questioning mind, and the return- Director James H. Robinson now in a single George Gilbert Scott. George Edmund Street. ing radiance of his strong and eloquent pen." unit underthe senior vice president. George Frederick RodIcy and William White. Dr. Steinberg is Benjamin Franklin Professor On the Washington scene. Mr. Morse will be Dr. Bes'sev Erkkila. assistant professor of of the History of Art. Penn'schiefanalyst ofissues rising in Congress English: The political text and context of Walt The winner of last year's Florence Howe and among federal agencies that affect health Whitman's work. Essay Contest, sponsored by the Women's and higher education. He will be based in Phi- Dr. W. Randall Garr, lecturer in Semitic Caucus of the Modern Language Association: ladelphia, with his office now at 729 Franklin languages: A historical grammar of Biblical Dr. Ellen Pollak. assistant professor of English, Building! 16 and his telephone Ext. 1532. Hebrew. (continued past insert) Mr. Morse, who took his B.A. in history Dr. Thomas G. Ricketis, assistant professor magnacum laudeat Hamilton College in 1974. of philosophy: Judgment and objectivity in has an M.A. in international relations from Frege and the Traeiai'us. Johns Hopkins. 1977. He was a research assis- In last year's awards cycle of ACLS- tant at Hopkins, then an assistant research administered three winners from programs, A Few of "The Best" in Print scientist forthe New York State Department of Pennsylvania were Dr. Victor H. Mair, assis- Health before joining Senator Jacob Javits' tant professor of Oriental studies; Dr. Bruce The Pennsylvania Gazette, for the second time staff in Washington in 1977. Kukliek, professor of history; and Dr. Barbara in three years, won the nation's top prize in For the New York Republican, Mr. Morse Herrnstein Smith. University Professor of En- alumni publishing, the Robert Sibley Award for helped staff the Senate Committee on Labor glish and Communications. 'Magazine ofthe Year." CASE (the Council for and Human Resources, developing policy ini- Advancement and Support of Education) and tiatives and and Newsweek make the selection, and Gazette has preparing negotiating legisla- Honorary Degrees been named one of the ten" tion. Healso represented Senator Javits onthe consistently "top To the list of six published in Almanac May alumni magazines in addition to being "Magazine Advisory Committee totheWhite House Con- 17 should be added two more: of the Year" in 1983 and 1981. The four-color ference on and Information Services, Library Dr. Harishorne Mudd, emeritus journal, edited since 1971 by Anthony Lyle, and wrote for him on issues that came under Emily pro- fessor and founder of the Council of was citedfor top-notch writing, imaginative and the Subcommittee on Education, Arts and Marriage received the Doctor of bold graphics, and varied-and-balanced content, Humanities. Philadelphia, honorary with the three so the "reader is seduced Science from Haverford last meshing in 1981 to the office of the Sub- degree College into the articles." as one it. Moving for a whole new field of reading judge put committee's head. Senator Robert T. Stafford year, "opening up Two of the 1982-83 cover stories were named academic endeavor" with benefits to the lives Mr. Morse worked with federal best-of-the-year (Michael Levin's on Secretary (R-Vt.), closely of the nation and the and state interested in couples throughout of the Navy John Lehman, and Jane Biberman's organizations govern- world. Women's also honored Dr. Mudd on 'The Obsession of Charlie Kre- ment education and cultural policy.