Tuesday, October 21, 1980 Published by the University of Pennsylvania Volume 27, Number 9

'With gratitude and affection' for the Senate's resolutions last Tuesday (one, by a vote of 167-127 asked for his nomination for the presidency), told faculty and deans Monday that he declined to have his name placed in nomina- tion. He steps down as provost Friday, and Acting Provost Benjamin Shen takes office (confirmed last Thursday at the Executive Board meeting). For Dr. Gregorian 's full statement, and Senate Chair Paul Bender's letter to him on the two resolutions Senate acted on last week, see page 5.

Stated Meeting: The open portion of the Trustees' fall meeting where the nomination of Dr. as president will be acted on, starts at 2p.m. Friday, October 24, in Weightman Gym. See page 4 for revised rules for the Sunshine meeting.

INSIDE Celebrating the Nobel Prize Paul Miller on the Selection, P. 6 The Royal Swedish Academy ofSciences gives no warning. Itjust sends the news outfrom Paul Miller 0. & A. at Senate. pp. 8, 9 Stockholm, and suddenly in Wynnewood a Professor who thought he Other Senate 0. & A, pp. 10, 11 knew what he would do that is, instead, honor at academia Out, pp. 12-14 exactly day guest of Speaking Nobel Prize celebration. For one Counsel's Advice on 'Sunshine,' p. 14 remarkable randomized come-as-you-are-party, the Calendar moved to back page this week highlight ofthe day the Prize came to Lawrence R. Klein of the University ofPennsylvania Faculty ofArts and Sciences, seepage 2.

Notesfrom a Press Conference

Celebrating the Nobel Prize with Larry Klein

Some Penn people have been tuning in the earlv news daily, even' been done on the backs of many people-research assistants, year about this time, knowing (we/I, projecting, anyway) that Larry research associates, and research colleagues over the years-and I Klein's name must come up soon-it was so long overdue. But the am glad particularly that this recognition has come during the years mode/forecaster wasn't lookingahead: He hadstayed up late at Pennsylvania. I have been here now for 22 years and 1 came here a thesisandwhen Kravis calledat the crack dawn much attracted the of academic freedom that reading Irving" of very by large degree last Wednesday, he was "sleepy. Then began a steadyflow ofcalls, was granted to me. I feel in many respects very grateful for that over and thepress was at the door. By the time he reached campus, still the years, and am glad to be associated with the awarding of this intent on teaching his 10:30 class, Dr. K/em 's office at McNeil was Prize in connection with the work that was done here. It was filling with reporters, photographers, wel/wishers, balloons. A obviously started somewhere else, because it went on for a long press conference set, and champagne on ice, he stillhad to be period of time. But it is fitting, because so much of the work was convincedthat it is all right to cut class thedayyou win the Nobel done at Pennsylvania, that they share in this day. Thank you. prize. "Oh, but I must see them;! have something to tell them." Applause Trailing reporters like clouds ofglory-and absorbed in teaching (Question on his work) one ofthem what amounts to a short course in economics as he We econometricians, at least the ones who work in model went-he made his to the classroom. the way Curiously enough building, have a view of the world in which the economic system has class seemedto know that had come and something up:professor certain regularity, and this regularity can be described by the students beamed a! each otheras he almost explained, shyly-and, equation systems governing the laws of motion of society as not to outline next week's work with them, he forgetting plan approximations. We use what we call the living laboratory," or real deliveredthe class into Albert Ando's care and to the himselfagain life experience of the economy, to get statistical, empirical press. background; we fit these theories of the functioning of the economy : Congratulations to Larry Klein, his to the living laboratory data, and use it for trying to guide economic department, our entire University. When the Nobel Prize in decision-making whether that be policies in the hands of public Economics was established not too many years ago, many of us at authorities or decision-making in productive enterprises or the University were convinced that this day would come and it was international bodies. The most visible things we do are periodic therefore no surprise to a great many of us. It is hard to imagine forecasts of tendencies in theeconomy, but in my own mind the most anyone more worthy of the Nobel Prize in Economics than Larry significant thing we have done is to give some empirical content to Klein. In his work in model building, he created both an economic reasoning, to give a better understanding of how the extraordinarily important analytic field and extraordinarily economy works, and to be able to give policy makers quantitative important applied field for public policy and for private action. But guidance for their decisions. it is that very fitting Larry be the tenth person associated with the (Question on his relationship to President Carter.) University in various ways over its history to receive the Nobel Prize. Yes, 1 meet, not on a regular basis but from time to time, with the It is fitting because, as our Provost Vartan Gregorian said this President's advisors and sometimes the President himself. I'm a if there is who can be called Mr. morning, anyone properly friend of the administration. I am a friendly critic. University, it is Larry Klein. (Question on Carter performance.) Larry Klein-as a teacher, as a researcher, as an applier of that Fair. The principal idea we tried to put across to the President, scholarship, as a citizen of our institution-has been ready to help starting in 1976, was that he should keep a very steady economic that institution and its members in every way possible. Just a policy particularly because his predecessors had very erratic concluding human sentence about Larry: there are those who, when swings in policy. I would say that economic policy has not been steady. they become eminent, seek the company only of others who are Some of that is a consequence of uncontrollable things, but some is eminent. But I have never known any instance in which any person of their own making. The other problem, which is a problem of the who is attached in any way to the work of Larry Klein, however Presidency, is that it is short-lived, and politicians often choose humble that person might be, didn't have access to Larry Klein. And economic guidance and policy with an eye to immediate response it is with the greatest sense of joy-and it is a joyful day-that our Provost and I to present to you, Professor Larry Klein, Nobel laureate. Applause Dr. Klein: About the only speech that I carry around ready is the 3533 Locust Walk/CO state of the and I don't think want to hear that. But of Philadelphia, Pa. 19104 economy, you (215) 243-5274 course this is a day that is not like usual days, and 1 feel that I have had normal my routine upset a bit starting at 7 o'clock this morning. The University of Pennsylvania's journal of record and opinion is published My feeling is that if one has worked on a subject hard enough, and Tuesdays during the academic year and as needed during summer and holi- breaks. Guidelines for readers and contributors worked on it for a long, longtime, then naturally one is pleased to see day are available on request. it gain some degree of recognition and acceptance. I want to say that EDITOR Karen C. Gaines most of the work that I have done over the years, contrary to what ASSISTANT EDITOR C. Anne Vitullo certain social thinkers believe, has been in teams. Many social EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Marguerite F. Miller DESIGN SERVICES Brenda Reed, Marguerite F. Miller thinkers picture the ivory tower, the iconoclast spinning out his own WORK-STUDY ASSISTANTS Sue Meadows, Lauren Green. Barbara West ideas by himself,just as a thought process. But my own work on the materials for which the Prize was awarded was always done in ALMANAC ADVISORY BOARD Robert Lewis Shayon, chair; Herbert Callen, Fred Karush. Paul Bender, Charles Dwyer and Phoebe Leboy for the Faculty significant research teams, and I think that it is a very effective way Senate... Morris Arnold for the Administration... Valerie Pena for the Librar- to carry on. This work for which recognition is being given has all ians Assembly... Shirley Hill for the Administrative Assembly... Una L. Deutsch for the A-3 Assembly.

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and also an eye to the next election. If a presidential term were six philosophy. Just from an anecdotal point ofview: when I first started years, or if there were more of an automatic renewal process, at least studying economics, as an undergraduate and graduate student, the for one other term, then 1 feel that politicians could do more kinds of methods that have been cited for the world today, the ones I far-sighted things. As I perceive the economic policy now in the worked on, were in the economic underground. That is to say, there present administration it is getting more and more far-sighted. It were very few formal classes given in these subjects. There were took about three years to reach that point, but now it has reached strong points of opposition. It was in many respects fun in those days that point, and I think it is progessing rather well in that direction... to fight the establishment. The people who did it were, more or less, who had a (Questions on differences among presidential candidates.) people nonconservative political philosophy, because we I think there are enormous differences in political and economic were trying to change thinking and methodology. Now that it has philosophy among the candidates, but if you say that the economic been accepted, it is an establishment activity and people from all system is a living, dynamic thing, as we view it, there is a certain parties are coalescing. I think the subject is getting more amount of movement and force, momentum, that is in existence at professional, people are understanding each other much better from the present time which means that is going to be very hard to have a whatever walk of life. 1 have been very pleased by the acceptance of radically different course in the economy in the next 12 to 18 the kinds of techniques that we have introduced to both the People's months .... Republic of and the Soviet Union, in developing countries, in If the kind of program that President Carter proposed in his last the industrial western countries-which means that it is highly series of measures, late August or early September, were transportable and is system-free. I think that is the direction strengthened in a direction that is compatible with what people call economics is moving in at the present time. the reindustrialization of America and modernization in making (Question on how he will spend his Nobel Prize--$212,000, tax America more competitive, we have a possibility ofa fairly good and free.) better scenario than otherwise expected for the 1980s. I haven't thought about that very much today. But it will probably sit in (Question on what he sees as neededfor the econom) the money market fund for awhile. Various measures to raise productivity, to increase capital Applause formation, to shift America to being a higher saving, higher Paul Taubman: Larry, on behalf of all your friends and col- investment, less spending economy; that is, the shares of saving and leagues in the department let me say it is well deserved, and investment in total production ought to go up a couple of notches congratulations. Before I invite everyone to partake of the cham- and the share of consumer spending ought to come down and the pagne that is outside, I'd like to call on the Provost. policies to do that through various fiscal and voluntary measures are the ones that I would recommend: tax credits, depreciation Vartan Gregorian: President Meyerson has already elegantly allowances, reconsideration of support for research and praised Larry Klein. I would just like to add a personal note. Larry development and scientific research. Klein is one of those people who does not live off ideas but for ideas; I feel very strongly that from 1968 forward, the academic research who does not live offintegrity but for integrity; who does not live off community has been undercut, and that we went through a values but for values; who does not live off humility but for humility. disastrous decade of university deficits, with a low volume of He is the most wonderful being we know in this University, and it is a research activity. We paid the price in terms of lower rates of great tribute, this last accolate, which I think came late for one productivity [for ], and poor productive mechanism in purpose only: to test whether he is as patient as he is. terms of modernization. We can turn that around, and I think there is evidence of that now-more support for R&D, more support for As the champagne flows (atfirst not to the guest ofhonor, who he basic scientific research. In addition, I think there are many things is still answering a serious question in the aisle, until the Provost that can be done to deal with structural imbalances in employment sends him a bottle over the heads of the crowd, who don't mind), opportunities-worker training programs, efforts not only to raise the K/ems find each other and both are surrounded now: Sonia. the overall level of capital formation, but to make a stylized wife and coordinator of the Business Week quarterly reports he distribution among the industries, picking out the sectors that we does with Jerry Adams, fields questions too. And what next? Larry think have the most promise. Klein has an afternoon class, and this one he does not miss. (Question on the impact of his work on public policy.) Afterward the telephone interviewers catch him, and it is true he is I think it means that economic methodology and techniques are a little late getting to his next stop. Wharton Econometric more professional, more objective and less influenced by Forecasting Associates. It has not been a usual day.

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DEATHS Confidentiality of Records Pursuant to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974. as amended, the Dr. Ronald Caridi, associate dean for University designates the following categories of personally identifiable material as "directory education in FAS and director of continuing information" which it may (but need not) disclose from the records of an individual, without his the College of General Studies, died consent, who is or has been in attendance at the University: suddenly over the weekend. Name He joined the University in 1977, after Address (Local and Home) Number having served on the professional staff of the Telephone and Place of Birth U.S. House of Representatives Education Date of and Labor Committee. Major Field Study Participation in Officially Recognized Activities and Sports Provost Vartan Gregorian said, "The (Including Social and Honorary Fraternities) entire University community is shocked by Weight and Height of Members of Athletic Teams Ron's death and I am sad- personally very Dates of Attendance and Degree and Awards Received dened by it. I was instrumental in recruiting Previous Educational Institution(s) Attended Ron to Pennsylvania to head the College of Individuals in attendance have the right, forthemselves, to refuse to permit the designation of any General Studies and hedidasuperb job. He or all of above categories as directory information. In order to do so, they must notify the as information received the acclaim and respect of all who University in writing of the category or categories to which designation directory worked with him." is refused by November 14, 1980. Written notification should be addressed to the Office of the Registrar, Attention FERPA, Frankin Building! 16,3451 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. Pennsylva- FAS Dean Robert Dyson described Dr. nia, 19104. Caridi as a "marvellous person with a very This has no bearing on the publication of the 1980-81 Student Director t in which creative mind and warm He designation personality. the information to appear has already been specified by individuals in attendance. made contributions to many significant pro- Failure to respond to this notice will not result in the routine disclosure of one or more of the in the arts and sciences his to grams through designated categories of personally identifiable information. The University will continue work as associate dean for continuing edu- exercise informed discretion in responding to requests for information contained in records cation, director of CGS, and director of the maintained by it which directly relate to students. summer school. His friends in the many - Vartan Gregorian. Provost administration, in the faculty and the stu- dent body have suffered an irreparable loss." Funeral services will be held Wednesday at Saint Bernadette's Church, 79th and 13th Streets in Brooklyn. Those who wish to attend should contact the CGS office for at details and directions. A memorial service Rules Concerning Attendance of the Public Meetings will be held for Dr. Caridi on Monday, of the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania November 2, at I p.m. in College Hall 200. In light of the special interest in the meeting of the Trustees on October 24. Paul Miller, Chairman of the Trustees, has indicated that theprovisions of Paragraph 4 of the Rules Dr. Miles Jan Lots, associate clinical pro- Concerning Attendance of the Public at Meetings of the Trustees ofthe University of fessor in physical medicine and rehabilita- Pennsylvania, below, will be suspended for this meeting. For purposes of this meeting only, we tion, died August 21. He was 66. will operate under the following provisions: Dr. Lota was born in Czechoslovakia and No member of the public shall bring into the meeting room any photography, moving was educated at where Marsaryk University picture, or sound recording equipment, except for hand-held tape recorders and hand- he received degrees in electrical engineering, held cameras without flash or other lighting equipment, nor any sign, placard, poster, internal medicine and physical medicine and banner, or other visual display. Members of both University and non-University press rehabilitation. who choose to use tape recorders or cameras as decribed above must do so in areas the of the At the age of 34, Dr. Lota fled to West designated by Secretary University. -Mary Ann Meyers. Germany and then emmigrated to the Uni- Secretary of the University ted States the following year. He served as a fellow at until 1951 when 1. to be The stated and thespecial meetings of the Trustees of he was appointed to the physicians and sur- Meetings Open regular meetings the University of Pennsylvania, its Executive Board, and its othercommittees or bodies are open geons medical faculty at Columbia Univer- to the public to the extent required by the Act of July 19. 1974, No. 175. The three regularly stated sity. meetings of the Trustees are normally in the fall, winter, and spring of each year. The Executive In 1959, he came to the of University Board typically meets at times when regularly stated meetings of the Trustees are not held and as an associate in Pennsylvania, physical often conducts business requiring an open meeting. From time to time other committees or medicine and rehabilitation; in 1964 he bodies also conduct business requiring open meetings. Announcements of these meetings will be became an assistant clinical professor and in published in accordance with the law. 1972 he became an associate clinical 2. Public Attendance to be Subject to Reasonable Numbers The number of the members of the to attend such of the Board of Trustees and the Executive professor. public permitted any open meeting Board shall be limited to such number as can be reasonably accommodated in the room or hall He is survived his wife, a so and two by where the meeting is held without interference with the conduct of the meeting. The determina- half brothers. tion of such number shall be made by the presiding officer of the meeting. 3. Public Attendance to be for Purpose of Observation Members of the public shall be Dr. Thomas V. Zachary, assistant clinical admitted to such meetings only for the purpose of observation. They shall not be permitted to professor of obstetrics and gynecology, died participate in any way except to the extent they may be specifically invited to do so by the an shall in fashion September 19 as a result ofa heart attack. He presiding officer. No member of the public attending open meeting any was 45. interrupt, interfere with, obstruct, disturb, or disrupt the conduct of such meeting. 4. Audio-visual Equipment and Displays No member of the public shall bring into the Dr. Zachary came to the University in meeting room of any open meeting any photography, moving picture, or sound recording 1963 as a resident at Graduate Hospital. In equipment, nor any sign, placard, poster, banner or other visual display. 1969 he became an assistant instructor; in 5. Enforcement The presiding officer may take any action deemed necessaryand appropriate 1970 he became an instructor and in 1974 he to enforce the above. became an assistant clinical professor. Dr. Zachary is survived by his wife.

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"With the deepest gratitude and affection..."

Upon my return from out-of-town on October 15. I was formally notified views of the mission of the University. by Professor Paul Bender. Chairman of the Faculty Senate, about the I speak now to say that I have always been proud of the University of outcome of the Special Senate meeting that had been held on October 14: the Pennsylvania and its faculty, as I am now. You have addressed yourself to majority of the faculty present had passed a resolution instructing the Senate issues and processes which are essential to the governance of a major leadershp to use its best efforts to place my name "into nomination before a academic institution. While I was the ostensible object of your discussions, meeting of the Trustees of the University to be voted on for President of the your concerns were about the University, its mission and its future. I do not University of Pennsylvania." An eloquent minority resolution was also set see you as divisive or as divided. I have not seen you as pro-Gregorian or forth which expressed appreciation for my services as the first dean of the anti-Gregorian, but for the University of Pennsylvania. As chief academic Faculty of Arts and Sciences and as Provost. Since one of the above officer of this institution. I, too, am for the University of Pennsylvania. May resolutions required action involving me, I had to respond. all go well for you and for all of us. On October 16, I met briefly with the Executive Board of the Trustees in -Vartan Gregorian order to inform them that on Monday. October 20 I would make a public Provost statement but that as a matter of priority I must first speak with you who as faculty members have taken action on my behalf. The Trustees understood my position. Accordingly, on October 17, I requested that the chairman of the Senate invite this special group: the six Benjamin Franklin Professors who SENATE' initiated the move to place my name in nomination, the Senate leadership, Dear Vartan: fellow deans, close in the Provost's Office, former my my colleagues As Chair of the Senate, I have the and honor Chairman of the Senate Professor Bob who the motion to Faculty responsibility Lucid made place to inform of the events: name in nomination and Professor Oliver Williams who moved to you following my replace I. On October 14, 1980, a of the Senate was held, that motion with a substitute resolution of thanks and It is to and special meeting gratitude. to a written about ISO Senate members, to this most I would like to make pursuant request signed by through appropriate forum-you--that my discuss a of concerns a from the recent nomination forthe formal statement both to the Senate and to the Trustees. range rising of the and as the Senate kind and statements were presidency University your resignation provost. During meeting, many generous 2. At the October 14, 1980. the Senate, a vote of 167for made about me. I am to I was honored the vote and meeting, by grateful you. by majority the motion to 127 (with II recorded abstentions) touched the vote as well. With the and affection against formally by minority deepest gratitude the resolution, which was moved Prof. Robert to the for the confidence in me at the Senate adopted following by faculty expressed Faculty Lucid and seconded Prof. Elizabeth Flower on behalf of herself I decline to have name in nomination on by meeting. respectfully my placed and Prof. Lawrence Klein. October 24. I have sent the formal note to the Consequently. following The Senate of the of Chairman of the Senate and the Executive Board of the Trustees: Faculty University Pennsylvania urges that Provost Vartan name be into nomination "I do not wish name to be in nomination for the Gregorian's put my placed Presidency before a of the trustees of the to be voted on of the of at the October 24 of the meeting University University Pennsylvania meeting for of the of Board of Trustees." president University Pennsylvania. The Faculty Senate instructs the Senate to use its If this statement too short, must read it as the end of the leadership appears you only best efforts, in accordance with to other statement I have made on this matter which was in the course of University procedures, public implement this resolution. my appearance before the University Council on September 17 where I spoke 3. Prior to the adoption of the foregoing resolution, a substitute of loyalty to our institution, the need for and the unity necessary cooperation motion was proposed. That motion would have read: and welcome that our President-designate will need from all of us. I repeat to The Faculty Senate regrets the loss of Vartan Gregorian you the same call today. from the administration of the University of Pennsylvania. As Last week during a press conference, in the midst of the tumult and joy of a provost and as the first dean of the Faculty of Arts and Nobel Prize so long overdue and so richly deserved, Professor Larry Klein Sciences he provided leadership with energy, commitment, said he was glad that it came to him at Penn- -"I have been here for 22 years sensitivity and personal warmth that is irreplaceable. and I was attracted here because of the large degree of academic freedom that The Faculty Senate appreciates the work of our colleagues was granted to me." Like Larry. 1 was attracted to Penn for that reason and so who represented the faculty in the presidential search process. were, I believe, many of you. We are pleased that the search committee appears to have I joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania because there was functioned collegially. We look forward to establishing with and there is a primacy of academic concerns here; there was and there is a the new president the sense of joint commitment to the values large degree of faculty autonomy; there was, there is and there must continue of the University to which Provost Gregorian has helped us to be a large degree of shared governance and faculty involvement in the aspire. setting of goals and their realization-because that is the hallmark of a great The motion to substitute was defeated by a vote of 134 for the university. Naturally, the faculty's authority and autonomy often present the motion to 154 against. I believe it fair to say that this vote did not academic administration with and frustrations. There do arise challenges adivision of on the first of the conflicts between nonacademic and academic between represent opionion paragraph proposed processes, substitute. So far as I could tell, all at the with nonacademic and academic the do not present meeting agreed goals. Sometimes academic processes the substance of that want to bend and dollars cannot be stretched, and sometimes we are not all paragraph. 4. On October 15, 1980. the Senate Executive Committee met and on the academic mission in detail. But one we do know and agreed every thing advised Prof. Wales, Prof. and me, as Past-chair. Chair-elect feel: and are essential and Leboy faculty self-governance, autonomy authority and Chair of the Senate,to take all to the deliberation appropriatesteps implement faculty necessary. Senate's action of October 14. Some of close friends me to before the Senate and my urged appear Faculty 5. On October 16, 1980, the three of us met with Paul Miller, if the vote was affirmative to their nomination: other close accept equally Chairman of the Trustees, to inform him of the Senate's action and to friends asked me to appear before the Senate to request the withdrawal of request him to take steps to bringabout your nomination as president Resolution 2. Still others urged me to tell my friends to vote for Resolution 4. of the University to the trustees. He agreed to take such steps. I could not and I did not interfere for I had already made my formal statement at the University Council meeting. Since no formal action had been Sincerely yours, taken, no formal response could be made. Both as dean and provost, I have striven to uphold the freedom of the faculty to deliberate and to act. Any attempt to control such a process would. October 17. 1980 I believe, diminish the strength of an institution and the freedom of the faculty to think and even act independently about their convictionsand their

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" SENATE October 14, 1980

On the Presidential Selection Process bt' Paul F. Miller, Jr.

In requesting this meeting, you asked me for a statement "con- the president must be a person with whom the Trustees can commun- cerning the appropriate delegation of responsibility between the icate and work effectively. If there is a breakdown in this relationship faculty and the Board of Trustees in such matters as presidential between the board and the president, the institution has major selection." I am not sure what the phrase "in such matters as" problems, not the least ofwhich is a deterioration of board members' implies, but I am happy to give you my views on the proper roles of enthusiasm for fund-raising. But also there becomes a real possibil- trustees, faculty and students in the presidential selection process. ity that the Trustees may feel pushed into more direct involvement in Then I will review therelatively short history ofthat process at Penn. the working affairs of the University. It is simply essential that the Finally, I will speak to the question of how it worked most recently, Trustees have confidence in the University's chief executive. giving you in my own words a full description of the procedures Given the board's statutory responsibilities and the necessity of a followed in the search for a successor to Martin Meyerson. close and harmonious relationship with the president, can the Trus- Professor Irving Kravis in last week's Almanac was correct in tees delegate the selection of a president to some other body com- saying that "we have at Pennsylvania a delicate balance of power posed of faculty, or of faculty and students and alumni, or of between trustees and faculty that permits each to serve the Univer- representatives of other groups? 1 believe and 1 am certain that my sity in close to an ideal way." Perhaps the only change I would make fellow trustees agree the answer is "no." Having said that. 1 must ask in that statement is to substitute the word responsibility for the word whether the Trustees have an obligation to involve students and power. Dr. Kravis went on to say that today's Trustees are men and faculty directly in the search process and also to seek the views of women who "appreciate the mission of the University, guard and these constituencies concerning the qualities we should seek in a expand its financial resources, and yet they defer to the faculty on president and the names of persons who, in their opinion, possess academic matters." these qualities. The answer here is "yes." But that consultation and The statutes of the University make it clear that the Trustees are that involvement must stop short ofdelegating the actual selection of the ultimate authority in the institution. The concept of trusteeship a president. is, of course, one of responsibility-the ultimate responsibility-for The greatest strength of the Trustees does not derive from any the institution's performance in the broadest sense. The reality is that special wisdom they possess but from the fact that they are the only the Trustees delegate to the President their authority in academic group within the University that is both generally informed on matters. They also delegate to the President the operation and Universityaffairs, yet generally devoid of self-interest. Representing management of otheraffairs ofthe University and are very conscious no constituency, they serve voluntarily, motivated by a desire to see of the desirability of confining themselves to policy issues. Even Pennsylvania become an even better educational institution then t here, however, the Trustees rarely originate policy. It is the President now is. who recommends the broad objectives of the University-academic The selection of a president is the board's most important and objectives, societal objectives, and financial objectives, and the allo- most fundamental responsibility. Its members need and seek help in cation of resources to achieve those objectives, presumably after this process, but the final decision must reside with them. It is not subjecting both goals and procedures to collegial review and consul- and should not be a popular selection process. There is nosurer way tation. The Trustees believe it is their responsibility to test these to politicize a campus than to let it become one. In fact, the final recommendations for reasonableness and consistency, and against decision has resided with the Trustees since the inception of the the needs and expectations of society and the University's specific presidential office. constituencies. They must also organize themselves to monitor the As an intention of the Trustees, the office dates to 1921. But it was effectiveness of the University's pursuit of objectives. Thomas Sovereign Gates, elected in October 1931, who was the first It is sometimes a tough call as to whether or not Trustees should president in the modern sense of the term. He was succeeded in 1944 become involved in a problem or issue. Not infrequently, an individ- by George McCIeIIand, who was followed first by in ual, group, orfaction on the campus or in the alumni body wants and 1948 and then by in 1953. In every case the full asks for trustee involvement when it suits their purpose. While there board was presented with but a single nomination and this was also is a strong presumption against involvement, Trustees do not want true in 1970 when the Trustees chose Martin Meyerson. As a member to appear callously indifferent. In some ofthese instances, therefore, of the Committee which advised the Executive Board on his nomina- trustees have listened and questioned to gain information to pass on tion, 1 have personal knowledge of that search. to the president, but they try assiduously to avoid any usurpation of In April 1969. concurrently with the public announcement of Dr. the responsibilities they have delegated to the president. Occasion- Harnwell's intention to retire, the late William 1. Day, chairman of ally, the president may request trustee involvement on a particular the Trustees, announced the establishment of a Committee on Crite- problem soas to takeadvantage ofsome special skills, knowledge, or ria and Procedures for the Selection of a New President. This background of a trustee or group of trustees. But mindful of the committee became the Search Committee to Advise the Trustees on delicate balance between advice and involvement, in June I the Selection of a University President, and, in addition to Mr. Day, appointed an ad hoc committee ofTrustees to study that balance and who served as chairman, it included six other trustees, five faculty attempt to clarify the Trustee's posture given the presumption that members, and five students. they should keep hands off whenever possible. That committee By September, the committee had received and screened approxi- should report sometime this winter. mately 200 nominations. The field was then narrowed to eight It seems clear to me, however, that the Trustees can carry out their candidates, of whom seven were interviewed by committee responsibilities only if there is in place a president who is an effective members. On December 19, 1969, a preferential list offive persons, leader, educator, administrator, and manager. He or she must be a including an individual who had declared himself unavailable, was person who, in turn, delegates responsibilities to able people. And submitted to the Executive Board. Members of the Board rank-

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ordered these candidates, including among their top three the same meeting of the Executive Board. first three choices of the search committee, though not in the same As far as I know, there was never any obfuscation or vagueness order. The Board also added a sixth name to the list, and designated concerning this prospective procedure. But, now that a nomination three candidates as secondary possibilities. But as it turned out, the has been made about which there is some displeasure, the procedures first choice of both the search committee and the members of the are being questioned. I hope that the unhappiness ofsome about the board-Martin Meyerson-expressed his willingness to serve, was outcome of this search will not be translated into unhappiness with nominated at a meeting of the Executive Board called for such the process. purpose, and was subsequently elected as Penn's twentieth chief A brief review of how the processworked in this search, disclosing executive. nothing new but emphasizing points already made by Paul Bender in Let me jump ahead now to 1978, when I became chairman of the his letter to you, will convince you. I think that it was not the Trustees. Immediately upon taking office, I was asked to become a procedures which dictated the result in this case. The procedures member of the Task Force on Governance which had been convened were sound and were followed. The Consultative Committee was a following the events of that spring. Professor Walter Wales was good one, and I think it worked well, for the search was at once chairman ofthat Task Force and one ofits charges was to review the serious and substantive. recommendations of a 1969 Task Force which had been convened to The Committee's first task was to revise and distribute a letter review among other things, the recently completed search. We were which had been prepared by the Executive Board. The letter con- asked to assess the extent to which the recommendationsmade eight cerned the search and stated the qualities and qualifications that we years ago had been implemented, to examine the reasons behind any were seeking for our new president. Some 1.400 of these letters, lack of implementation, and, ifnecessary, to revise the recommenda- signed by me, were sent out to selected individuals, and more than tions presented. 15,000 were distributed in non-personalized form. The recipients One of the recommendations of the 1969 Task Force was for the included all full-time and part-time employees of the University, as Trustees to codify the procedure for selection of a new president to well as donors and friends, alumni, faculty, administrators, presi- allow for nomination of a slate of candidates by a committee made dents, deans and faculty of other institutions, and a variety of public up of six trustees, eight faculty members, and two students. Univer- figures, including the heads of minority organizations. Without sity Council also dealt with this matter and made a similar recom- exception, the comments we had concerning that letter were compli- mendation. Although I was not involved in the decisions, the mentary to the effect that it contained more substance than letters of Trustees deferred action on codification. It is my understanding that this kind normally do. It produced, moreover. 464 return letters aside from reservations about the numbers proposed, the reason recommending some 300 candidates. given was that times and circumstances change dramatically and At the beginning of the Committee's efforts, there was serious that the codification of a selection procedure along the lines that discussion about the need for the utmost of confidentiality during seem most appropriate to campus constituencies at one point in time the search process. Warnings against breaches of confidence in a may not appear as appropriate some years later. For the Trustees to presidential search were given to us by many people who have been bind themselves to very specific requirements was considered a involved in similar endeavors. There is no way to interest people in a diminution of trustee responsibility in this, their single most impor- candidacy for a presidency ofa university if confidentiality concern- tant statutory responsibility. ing their candidacy is not assured. These people, after all, are in high In 1978. with that background in mind, I did not favor a codifica- places in their own institutions. But there is another reason for tion which would be specific in terms of members or proportions confidentiality-no university can ever he assured that its top candi- from various constituencies, but did support the recommendation dates will accept the presidency if it is offered. No search committee that finally was contained in the 1972 Task Force report which was as or group of trustees wants to put a university in the position of being follows: 'When it becomes necessary to select a new president, the spurned publicly. Keeping these factors in mind, the Consultative Executive Board of the Trustees shall constitute a joint trustee- Committee continually stressed confidentiality and pledged to each faculty-student committee to nominate a slate of candidates to the other that the names of candidates, information garnered on them, Trustees. The faculty members shall be appointed by the Advisory and the opinions and positions of individual committee members Committee of the Senate. The student members shall be appointed would be held in confidence. In fact, confidentiality was maintained by analogous procedures evolved by the respective student groups." until the last minute, and we received numerous compliments from As the time drew near for the establishment of a search process. I candidates on the way this particular issue was handled. consulted openly with the trustees, students, and faculty and finally The initial efforts of the Committee were concerned with prelimi- made a recommendation which was accepted by all. Widely public- nary screening of the 300 nominees who were recommended in ized in the Almanacand campus press, and adopted by the Executive response to our nomination. Biographies were researched, nominat- Board, it called for the establishment of a Consultative Committeee ing letters were considered, and any information the Committee for the Selection of a President which would include the chairman of members had themselves about the nominees was expressed in a the trustees as the convener, six other trustees, four faculty, and two series of meetings. As a result, the list was reduced to manageable students-one undergraduate and one graduate. proportions-about 50 candidates. The Committee then began to In conversations 1 had with the Chairman of the Senate at that assemble information about these candidates by calling faculty time, I said that I realized that the Senate should have freedom to members, administrators, trustees, and alumni of other institutions appoint whomever they desired to the Committee, but I also hoped with whom they were connected. Using information gathered in this that they would give consideration to including a dean, a member of way, the candidate list was reduced to something under 20 names. the Medical faculty, and ajunior tenured faculty member, and would The procedure of soliciting formal opinions about inside candi- also give attention to the representation of women and minorities. I dates from a representative list of faculty members, which was emphasized to Dr. Wales that this was merely a suggestion, and, described in Paul Bender's Almanac letter, was adopted on my when the candidates chosen by the Senate were presented to me. I suggestion following the recommendation we had from the chair- accepted them immediately. man ofthe Yale search committee with whom I had spent a half day The students conducted their own nomination process. At one reviewing procedures and problems that committee had encoun- point they asked me whether I would like to choose from a slate of tered in its search. The faculty on the Consultative Committee possible people or have single names presented. I told them that was compiled and divided the list. Student leaders were interviewed by up to them, not me, and ifthey wished to present a slate rather than the student members of the Committee, and I consulted with several specific individuals, I would be glad to choose from that slate. As far administrators. Simultaneously, of course, we were receiving unsol- as I know, there were no substantive disagreements on the way the icited letters about inside nominees. And all of this information was Consultative Committee was established nor on its purpose, which given to the Consultative Committee and later to Executive Board. was to recommend a slate of candidates to the Executive Board with Late in May the outside candidates who remained under active the understanding that nomination would occur at a duly convened consideration were contacted by me to tell them of our interest and

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asked whether they would be willing to be interviewed. As is normal 13. The Consultative Committee, on the suggestion of a faculty in any search, several persons told us that they did not want to be member, requested that the Executive Board not make a nomination considered as candidates. But most were willing to be interviewed, from the group below the top three recommendations without first and they were visited by Committee members. At this point the engaging in a further consultation with the Committee. The Execu- understanding was that if, after a preliminary interview, we still tive Board was glad to operate in accordance with that request. wanted to keep them under consideration, members ofthe Commit- At a discussion session with Executive Board members, each tee who did not participate in the first interview would be given an member of the Consultative Committee was invited to present his or opportunity to meet the candidates in a second interview. Faculty, her personal views on candidates, whether or not they coincided students and trustee members were all involved in each of these with the Committee's collective evaluation. Additionally, I pres- interviews and impressions of the candidates were then independ- ented the view of the University's deans which 1 had received in the ently submitted in writing to the Committee. The remaining internal course of personal interviews with 12 of the 14 deans held at their candidates were also interviewed by the Consultative Committee in request. Considerable discussion then took place in the presence of the course of a full day during the third week of August. the members of the Consultative Committee who attended, and Early in September, after all the remaining internal and external after the Consultative Committee members left, the members of the candidates had been interviewed by as many Committee members as Executive Board proceeded to interview each of the affirmatively possible, the Consultative Committee met to evaluate these extra- recommended candidates. It also proceeded to discuss thoroughly, ordinarily able people. As has been indicated, less than ten candi- although it did not interview, each of the candidates who were not dates were under consideration at that point. Duringan eleven-hour affirmatively recommended. meeting attended by myself, four other trustees, four faculty On September 14, after two days of intensive and informal discus- members, and two students, each person present presented his or her sion and deliberation first between the Executive Board and the evaluation of each candidate and compared them to other candi- Consultative Committee and then among members of the board, at dates. The discussion was a very full one which involved not only the a duly convened formal meeting of the Executive Board. I nomi- candidates, but how well they met the criteria we had established nated the available candidate highest on the Consultative Commit- and how they related to each person's concept of the University, its tee's preferential list. No second was made or required. There were character, and its mission. There is no question in my mind that we no other nominations. There was no vote because the Statutes do had full and representative opinion of the campus constituencies on not provide for a vote. If any other members of the Executive Board the internal candidates. And I was particularly pleased that the had wished to nominate another person, he or she would have had a solicitation of formal opinions from the representative list of faculty right to do so even if all the other members of the Executive Board members had given us a wide range of faculty opinion about the had disagreed. I would like to reiterate that in this process the internal candidates. Executive Board not only confined itself to the affirmatively recom- Finally, as described in Paul Bender's letter, the Committee mended candidates, but also followed the preferential order of the members at the meeting-(as 1 mentioned and as I would like to rcommendations of the Consultative Committee. emphasize, the only missing members were two trustees)-voted in I am convinced that we knew the opinions ofcampus constituen- three different ways: first, to establish the collective order of prefer- cies. You must remember that the Consultative Committee ence among the candidates by rank-indicating their top five members were involved in intensive thought and discussion for choices using a weighted system; second, to decide, bya vote ofeight seven months concerning the matching of the University's needs or more members, whether each should be affirmatively recom- with the candidates' qualifications. The action taken was not capri- mended to the Executive Board; and, third, to determine how many cious on the part of either the Consultative Committee or the Committee members deemed any candidate unacceptable. Paul members of the Executive Board. Bender has already made the observation, but 1 would like to The nominee, Sheldon Hackney, is a superbly qualified person emphasize again that in these votes each constituency on the Com- with considerable experience, first-rate academic qualifications, and mittee was divided in its evaluation of both the inside and outside a marvelous senseofwhat universities are all about. The nomination candidates. But each method of voting produced the same top will be acted upon after full deliberation by the Trustees on October candidates in the same order. 24, as provided for under the Statutes. Dr. Hackney's qualifications As has been indicated elsewhere, moreover, less than half of the and the needs of the U niversity should be fully discussed at that time candidates still under consideration were affirmatively recom- before the Trustees reach what must be a board consensus on the mended. These votes, as well as all the information and research next president of the University. done on the candidates who had been interviewed by the whole Thank you for the opportunity to talk to you. 1 hope it has helped. Committee, were presented to the Executive Board on September I will be happy to entertain questions.

Question & Answer Period

Mr. Miller's statement above is based on a writ- who discussed the search process. Robert Rutman: This is purely a question for ten text which follows closely the tape-recording Not published verbatim are the speeches intro- information. If we follow the last comments care- on file in the Senate Office. The material that ducing Resolution 2 (moved &v Robert Lucid and fully, we come to the conclusion that a decision is follows is from a tape transcription (with the seconded by Elizabeth Flower on behalf of Law- yet to be reached. Under the circumstances, what exception of Professor Ajzenberg-Selove 's re- rence Klein) and moving the substitution of Reso- is theseriousness and weight of the statement that marks, which were provided by her on discovery lution 4 (moved by Oliver Williams with several Dr. Hackney has resigned from Tulane Univer- that material was lost in changing cassettes). Edit- secondsfrom thefloor); nor the 16 speechesfor or sity? ing was limited to removal offa/se starts, appar- against the motions. Paul Miller Obviously when one is in a process ently unintentional repetition, etc. IfspeakersJind Elsewhere in this issue are: Paul Miller's des- like this, you have to have some indication of the errors in transcription orjudgment. please advise cription, on page /4. of the advice received from availability of the candidate. Certainly at the so that they may be corrected. counsel during the search process: a report by point [of] the release of Dr. Hackney's name- The following account of the proceedings is Paul Bender on the outcome of voting, in a letter that was a forced release, first of all, we had no limited to comment on the reports of Mr. Miller to Vartan Gregorian which appears on page 5: and intention of doing [that] at that particularpoint in and the members of the Consultative Committee several letters in Speaking Out, pages 12-14.-Ed. time, but the press has a way of getting news that I don't quite understand-that as far as I'm con- cerned was a decision he had to make, whether he

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risk was going to that or not. I think probably although certainly not all term trustees become than the educational merits of the decisions made. given the experience he has had-I don't want to life trustees. Life trustees are lOor 12 in number as For me, and perhaps for other FAS faculty, it is speak for him-but given his experience at other I recall. Then there are alumni trustees who are difficult to judge why in your terms Hackney was universities, other search processes, he saw this elected by alumni in regions, with balloting, and better than Gregorian given the importance of the one to a coming finally successful conclusion on alumni trustees at large. Then we have young presidency to the faculty. My question is, to what his part. alumni trustees ... there are three of them now. extent was the real aim of the University consi- The Unidentified Professor newspaper report That has been a process of election, and is in the dered in the choice, aside from things like societal indicated that the consultative committee had process of' being changed. One of the things the goals and so forth, and what in your view was the to the submitted Executive Committee three students wanted was more currency of their views real evidence for differentiating one candidate names of individuals and the press picked this up on the board, and while we have stood rather from another'! as the affirmative recommendations. Could you steadfast on not having constituency representa- Miller: I'm not sure I'm going to answer the last tell us if indeed those three names were accurate, tives on the board we have recognized that there is part of your question the wayyouanticipate me to and if those were indeed the names selected by the a young viewpoint which ought to be listened to. answer it. When we weighed one candidate executive committee? They are Currently being elected by undergradu- against another I think every member of thecon- Miller No. I will not tell you that. I think that is a ate and graduate students who are about to leave sultative committee thought differently about breach in the confidentiality of the consultative the institution and become alumni: they will not what was more important or less important. We committee's Other members of deliberations... assume office until they actually are alumni. certainly had very substantive discussions about the consultative committee are here, and the mission of this and the they Paul Bender: Perhaps as a follow up to that you University faculty like to on that. But I feel that members of that committee were might say something could describe briefly how people are chosen for quite eloquent would be a breach of the promise we made to the the executive board. about that. In all our cases as far as I personally candidates. Miller That's the easy one: The members of the am concerned, every candidate was measured Dorothy Sheahan: Since the Executive Board of executive board are the chairmen of the commit- against that mission. I don't know what you're Trustees makes the nomination for the but I believe that was the presidency tees, plus the president, the vice chairman of the suggesting, paramount and since the full board makes the decision, is consideration. Now at the same time I'll make an why board and the head of the general alumni society. there an to a better to this and I think it's an objection faculty representa- Bender And how do people become chairmen of apology group, apology tion on the committee on consultation? committees? that's partly due you because of what the presscan Miller I'm not sure that it's do to things you say ... I was widely as entirely accurate to MIller. By being drafted. It depends on what kind quoted say that there is an objection. There was an of committee it is, of course ... the finance calling this university a $500 million business. In at the time that fact I did use the term "$500 million"; I did not, as objection codification was asked committee for example is a very time-consuming for, in 1970 or I recall, use the term "business," I used the term thereabouts. I've certainly not thing to be chair of, you have to push people into the trustees on whether there that means different to polled is an volunteering for those chairs. "enterprise;" something me: it not mean to I don't objection or not... There may or may not be, I Bender But that choice is made by you as may something you. look this as a really can't speak very accurately on that .... Chairman of the Trustees? upon university business. I think there are There was a feeling that the total size of the Miller Yes. enough people in this room that know me and know my long relationship with this uni- committee was rather unwieldy. Second, the Rutman: It would seem that the moot question ... I wasn't a tenured member but I poorest attenders at these meetings are the that lies behind all of this is howadequate, fair and versity faculty was a member here, father was a trustees. And at that particular time, in that accurate was the executive committee assessment faculty my member and I have been associated with particular search there were often meetings of the of facultyand student opinion on this most critical faculty this for a time. first and search committee that chose Martin Meyerson matter. I wonder if the chairman could comment university very long My interest is the educational mission of where there would be one or two trustees and ten on how these were assessed, how faculty and paramount this and I think that's so of the other faculty and students combined. There was some student sentiment was established, and how the university, trustees as well. There is hangover of feeling from that search that the fairness of it was assessed? nevertheless another dimension, as a matter of fact several dimensions trustees ended up not being adequately Miller I'm not sure I can comment as adequately to the in the of the represented, not because they didn't have the as you would like me to. As I said, the opinions presidency everyday workings The dimension, the appointments to the committee but because were solicited-and we got many unsolicited from university. fundraising bridge between the and relations with they're out of towners very often, they're faculty and students and from others as well- public university, the media, relations with traveling, they're involved in other endeavors, and from presidents of other institutions, and deans government, many like this also had to be considered. I think very often attendance is just not possible on as and faculty ... All of those letters, and every sub- things it's fair to theeducational regular a basis. So we decided to involve seven stantive comment received from a faculty say, though mission was number one, these other trustees including myself, and six faculty and member, was recorded, circulated, to every things were also students (four and two). At most sessions of the member of the consultative committee and we considerations. committee, that was not the number represented. ended up with a book this thick filed by candidates (After Mr. Miller leaves the meeting, Professor [At] the final selection process there were only with all of the letters, all the comments received Phoebe Lebor takes the chair while Professor four other trustees beside myself: [Attendance from whatever source, on the candidate. That Render makes a statement, as requested in the call was] five trustees, two students and four faculty book was given to the executive board. In addi- to meeting, and takes questions from :hef7oor.) members, which shows just what I was saying: tion, the executive board heard from the faculty that the trustees felt they needed more manpower executive board and student members of thecon- Statement by Paul Bender because couldn't sultativecommittee And I accu- they attend regularly. directly. reported, As Paul Miller mentioned, I have published a Sloviter This be a I think, the comments that came from deans Henry may peripheral rately report on the search process, identical to the parts question, but I wonder if it would be worthwhile to the executive board. I don't think there's any of Mr. Miller's statement lam familar with... (on) describe how trustees are chosen, and what the but that the were known to the question opinions events of his report where I was present, his report relationship between faculty and the selection of executive board at the time of their discussion. seems to be entirely accurate. There were events trustees is. Unidentified Professor... You have spoken of where I was not present ... nor were any other Miller There area number of classes of trustees. objectives, procedures, goals and policies laid members of the consultative committee present at The large majority are what we call term trustees; down by the board of trustees and by thecommit- the deliberations of the executive board, so I have are elected for they five yearsand are eligiblefora tee, and of their need for confidence in the choice no knowledge of his reporting... second five-year appointment. They must drop off of president to carry out such policies. This is I just want to emphasize a couple of things. Mr. the board before they are considered for reelection apparently your argument for the electoral power Miller mentioned that a search committee was set after that. are elected They by the board of trus- in the board of trustees. It is strange however to up that contained six trustees, four faculty tees on recommendation of a nominating commit- me, that in all of the discussion defending the members and two students. The University Coun- tee: until a of action ... couple years ago we had a of the committee... practically nothing has cil had just a couple of months before-in standing nominating committee but at this point been said about thechief mission of the university, October-recommended a consultative commit- the Trustees Executive Board serves as a nominat- namely the acquisition and dissemination of tee composed of eight faculty, six trustees and four committee for the ing Trustees. Life trustees.., are knowledge, and nothing about the importance of students so there was a discontinuity between the for the duration of the vs vrs appointed their longevityup to president a the faculty who are in fact recommendations of the University Council and age 70. They are also appointed by the board in a the chieftrustees of this mission of the university if the trustees. That Council recommendation had nominations process, and are most often chosen not the official board of trustees. Confidentiality been made before in 1970 and was also contained from the term trustees. They [life trustees] will is constantly bandied about as the chief rationale in the 1968 Task Force on Governance. have served usually by that time ten years-- for the way things were handled but the rather If you have any questions about the search

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procedure that you'd like to address to me or to accepted as applying not only to actions of the full Robert Austrian: I shall be very brief, and say any other member of the search committee. I board but also to actions of the executive board. only that my views are totally in agreement with those of Professor Kravis and Professor Selove. believe all the faculty members of the search com- There is an opinion of the attorney general which The committee worked and with mittee are here. says that. So far as I know our University trustees long, complete there was never on One or two additional things: I know there's a have always accepted that, and meetings of the openness: any attempt or lot of concern about those aspects of the search executive board are open to the public and the anyone's part [by] a member of any consti- to or views, and process that postdated the results of the consulta- provisions of the attorney general are complied tuency dampen suppress anyone's so as I tive committee: namely the process of the formal with. The sunshine requirement is that formal far can tell the process wasentirely as stated election of a president, and questions dealing with action---that's a statutory term-can only be by Mr. Miller. the Sunshine Law which have been bandied taken at a public meeting, and that means there about. First, regarding the formal election. The has to be public notice of the meeting and the Questions addressed to Professor Bender. University has not elected a president yet. What public has to be able to come. Action which is we have now is a nominee, as Mr. formal action which does not take at a right single place pub- June Axlnn: I'd like to get beyond the procedural Miller described, to the full board of trustees. lic is invalid. The then of the meeting question questions and ask Paul Bender whether he thinks Under the statutes of the the formal Sunshine Law's to the Penn University application presiden- there is a difference in the perception of the func- election of a can take at a tial nomination is with to the action. if president only place regard any, tion and the mission of the University that he saw meeting of the full board of trustees at which of the executive board which Mr. Miller des- between the faculty members of the committee two-thirds of all the trustees then in office come to cribed. The full meeting of October 24 is sche- and the trustees. the meeting and vote affirmatively for the nomi- duled to be a public meeting and the Sunshine Bender: As a That's to nation. That meeting... is now scheduled for Oct. Law will be complied with. However, the meeting group? really impossible answer if I have to assume that there is a 24. It seems to me that the statutes of the Univer- of the trustees that took place in September single of all members and a sity as they are written, contemplated a different called into session after the consultative commit- perception faculty single of all the trustees. I didn't search procedure ... different from this case and tee reported to the executive board, was not a perception perceive that. the last case, the selection of Martin Meyerson. If public meeting. There is no dispute about that at you read the statutes you find that nominations all: if it was not advertised it was intended to be a Axlnn: Considering what the make-up of a com- are to be made by the executive board (nomina- secret meeting. So the question about the Sun- mittee should be.does it really matter whether the tions plural throughout), are to be submitted to shine Law is whether formal action was taken at people on the selection committee are faculty the board of trustees which shall then choose from the meeting. Formal action is defined in the Sun- members or trustees? Is there a difference in what among the persons nominated. I'm sure when it shine Law as the taking of any vote, resolution, one is looking for in a president depending upon was written the procedure contemplated the exec- and a whole list of words like that, or the setting of which position one is holding? utive board as carrying out the functions of the official The is whether or not a policy. question Bender: In I think there is a search committee and the full board as essentially vote of kind was taken at the executive board general, yes. signifi- any cant difference, it's not a uniform differ- carrrying out the selection process. In the last two meeting, not whether the action of the executive although ence and it's not a hundred accurate. presidential searches we have really carried out a board amounted to the of official percent setting policy. members are less concerned different procedure. I think it was the contempla- There are not a lot of relevant in the Faculty probably precedents with in the sense of tion last time, as Mr. Miller described it, that the law with to the Sunshine Law. The closest managerial ability corporate regard a of and real choice would be made by theexecutive board, one I have been able to find, which still leaves the running corporate type organization, are more concerned with in and the executive board's action in sending only matter in some doubt, deals with the nomination probably leadership the academic goals. I thought here, and I think in one nomination forward seems to confirm that of a former Pennsylvania faculty member, Her- general, faculty members tend to be more con- the executive board doesn't function as the search bert Denenberg, to an agency of the Common- cerned with leadership qualities of faculty, and committee, but a committee composed of stu- wealth. The question there was: the governor academic goals, and trustees more concerned with dents, faculty and trustees functions as the search made a nomination, a committeeofthe legislature corporate managerial styles. That isn't by any committee. There is a dispute about whether the passed that nomination on to the full legislature: means always a hundred percent accurate: both statutes as presently written permit the executive they did that passing on at a closed rather than a groups care about both to some extent, but there board to send a single nomination to the trustees: public meeting. The court held that that did not is a weighting that's different in the minds of that is a dispute that I am not about to resolve but violate the Sunshine because of provisions in Law faculty as compared to trustees. Another seems to be a dispute on which one can reasonably the Sunshine that apply only to percep- Law legislative tion I had that is relevant is that it seemed tome in take either side. The statutes do, as I say, say that committees. The Sunshine applies more nar- Law talking to members of the executive board, at the nominations in the plural shall be sent, and that rowly to legislative committees than it does to us. meeting we had with them, that they were not as the trustees shall choose from among the persons The provisions about legislative committees did acquainted with the institution and feelings of the nominated. not include passing on a nomination, but the It is and I this as infor- institution about its goals, indeed what goes on at interesting, pass along Commonwealth court-which is the court of orig- the institution presently, as I would have liked mation I have recently gathered through the help inal jurisdiction in a lot of these cases, did say, that them to be. They don't know about the of one of you who happened to read the Faculty if the action had not been by a legislative commit- enough University of Pennsylvania. Handbook and happened to find in the Hand- tee. the action of passing on a nomination to the book a different procedure for selection ofa presi- legislature would have been formal action. Now in dent: There is a provision printed in the Faculty that case I believe a formal vote was taken in the Irving Kravls I agree with what Professor Bender but carries me a Handbook asastatute ofthe University... which committee to pass the nomination on. You heard says, my agreement only limited distance. I think says that the executive board can nominate one or Mr. Miller say that no formal vote was taken at itistruethatthefacultymembers were more concerned with academic lead- more persons-person or persons-and that the executive board meeting. I don't know what purely and academic academic orienta- nomination or nominations go forward and that happened because I wasn't there. That is the end ership qualities, tion, than the trustees were. But these differences the trustees can select the nominee or (from) of my report. I would like to ask whether any nominees-that is. it makes it explicit that there other members of the consultative committee wish were not sufficiently large so that when any single candidate was that is when the con- could be only one nominee. That was a revision to say something... approached, that had been proposed at about the time the sideration of any candidate came to the fore-- Handbook was assembled and printed, but the Fay -Ajzenberg-Selove: Paul Miller's account of whether one of the final candidates or along the proposed revision had never been sent to the Trus- the history of the work of the consultative com- route when we were trying to winnow down from tees for their action. mittee is complete, accurate and totally fair. The 50 to a smaller number--that difference in view A second question that has arisen has to do with consultative committee worked according to the was not sufficiently decisive so as to prevent a the Sunshine Law, and now I feel very comforta- rules. And the recommendations, whether right or situation in which ... some faculty members ble because I'm talking about a question of law. wrong, were arrived at totally fairly. I would like agreed with some trustees whereas on the other The Sunshine Law is a statute of the Common- to testify to the hard work and open minded atti- side there were other faculty members agreeing wealth of Pennsylvania: many other states have tudes of the committee members, most particu- with other trustees. So I think there isa difference. such statutes. It applies in terms to the University larly Paul Miller, the chairman of our board of I saw no evidence at all that it had any decisive role of Pennsylvania: there is no doubt about that. It Trustees. I agree with Irving Kravis's eloquent in what went on... My own impression of the generally applies to state agencies but it explicitly letter in the Almanac. We should now thank Var- members of the executive committee is that they says it applies to state-aided universities and col- tan Gregorian for his many services to the Univer- know a great deal about the University... Most of leges, and we fall within that category. It also sity and welcome Sheldon Hackney, who will them learn a great deal about the university clearly applies, although not in terms, but is soon be our new president. through their interest in particular schools,

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through theiracquaintance with particular faculty date whose qualifications were clear-cut. Now it's Dell Hymes: Perhaps I can supply a point of members. I think that on a general appraisal of clear from the chairman of the board that differ- information. The deans, of course, when they our trustees and their knowlege of the University I ent perception is produced, one in which that kind spoke with Mr. Miller did not know the names of would have to differ very strongly with the final of overall and perhaps very great support did not outside candidates, or formally the names of any remarks of Professor Bender. come through to consultative committee nor to of the candidates but it was the case at least with Jacob Nachmlas: Professor Bender, I'm con- the executive board. In fact, one gets the impres- many deans that their remarks to Mr. Miller were sion from Paul Miller's answer that the informa- directed not to the of individu- fused on one point: the meeting of the executive only qualifications tion those sources was far less als but also to the of whether the new committee we might consider for the moment a reaching perhaps question as to the and should be from inside or outside the black box, in the patois of my discipline or part of convincing particular qualifications president for a candiate. Are these differences in A of the deans my discipline. The output of that box is a single support University. great many spoke or was it a breakdown in communica- in favor of the choice from inside. name to the full trustees. The input to that box perception strongly being was several names -we don't know how but tions? many Bender: Thank you for reminding me. Mr. Miller there were several. The action of the black box Bender: There was no breakdown in communcia- did say at the meeting of the executive board at reduced the to the How would input output. your tions so faras I know. It's hard to know the overall which we were present that the deans had characterize that action? faculty's views of the inside candidates. Insofar as expressed a strong preference for an inside candi- I know it, or think I know it, that overall evalua- Bender I was not present, norwas anybody here date. as well as other things. tion was both to the consultative com- present, when that action took and I don't presented place and to the know how I can answer that. As Paul Miller des- mittee executive board. It was Paul Korshin: Several people in the last few min- presented to the consultative committee both by utes have used the word a word cribed it, and I think I'm doing this accurate y, he qualifications, the faculty members and the student members, of which comes as somewhat of a the made a nomination of the first person ... on the surprise given the consultative committee, and we also nature of Mr. preferential list who was willing to be considered spoke Miller's presentation. He said of with about 20 to 25 of about the as a candidate. And there was no second... It was you inside candi- Sheldon Hackney that he was "superbly quali- dates, and the of those interviews - which fied," that Dr. just a nomination and under statutes that's what reports Hackney had "a wonderfulsense of in some cases were detailed -were to what a was would happen, as I read them. There were no quite given university all about." We all know the consultative other nominations, and one nomination was sent committee and were included in what the qualifications of the leading internal can- the information to the executive board. I didate were, or are, but forward. That was his description. I really don't given it's very hard to assess the have no doubt that all members of the consulta- of know what happened since I was not there. All we qualifications the nominee. None of them have tive committee had a accurate view of the been mentioned can talk about is what happened while we fairly by anybody, except a commit- of what the members of the consultative committee were faculty perceptions inside candidates ment to big-time football, and to a development were... I have no doubt that the same view was at Tulane there, and Paul Miller accurately described what campaign which failed. Those of us delivered to, heard and. I believe, understood who've tried to find happened. Each of us was asked to state his or her by out some of those qualifica- the members of- the executive board. I don't tions have discovered that views about the candidates, not only people who by the record of faculty think there was a breakdown of communications. salaries at Tulane were affirmatively recommended by the commit- during Dr. Hackney's five years As Mr. Miller in his statement, the is the worst at tee, butalso all the somewhat less than ten people suggested only perhaps any private university in criterion for selection is not. I think he said, the the Further who had been interviewed by the committee, country. assessment would deal with of the candidate with the If which included both inside and outside candi- popularity faculty. the ranking of the graduate schools at Tulane, of that had been the criterion there which there are eleven, and dates. Each one of us said what he thought. Some only might very the forty-odd FAS- well have been a different result. The best of those people affirmatively recommended people who style departments. departments is the it has a rank were not affirmatively recommended by the com- : I wonder. Professor Bender, English department; of 45th in the country. It hasn't in the five of mittee, and other people affirmatively recom- whether you would answer that question as it improved years Dr. tenure, nor has of the mended people who were affirmatively recom- pertains to deans --the same question. Hackney's any graduate mended by the committee. There was a schools or any of the FAS style departments... sharp Bender: Here there have been a break- division of views. made a statement, as ... may Everybody down of communications to some extent. It had Phoebe I trust are toward I remember, and then there was some discussion. Leboy: you heading been my understanding from the beginning of the a question? People who had stated views were questioned process that the deans would be interviewed about those views, and there was with by Korshin: I am If that's so, what interchange Mr. Miller. because that seemed the most .... where those the executive board. That whole took approp- that Mr. Miller process riate channel for the deans to the consultative superb qualifications mentioned? two-and-a-half or three hours; then they ad- No one seems to have told us what they are and I'd committee. It appeared at the end of the process journed, they had lunch and we left. They recon- dearly like to know. that had not taken place, at least not extensively. vened at a formal meeting of the executive board My understanding is that the deans were asked to Bender: That's not an easy question to answer in the afternoon and a day and a half later some- deliver, to give their views about inside candidates because I must not say what otherpeople thing came out of the black box. I know that's not thought to Mr. Miller at the very end of the process. That in either the consultative committee nor to the as responsive as you'd like, but I just don't have began just before the consultative committee met extent that I know and I don't know very any other information. for that Il-hour meeting that Mr. Miller referred much -about what people said in the executive Gary Cohen: Were the qualificiations of the to, its final meeting before it met with the execu- board. Those thoughts are supposed to be confi- external condidates discussed .. with other tive board; and at the meeting Mr. Miller reported dential. I can tell you what I think his qualifica- members of the campus community, especially that deans had asked him to meet with them indi- tions seem to me to be, based on the information deans or faculty members? vidually. and he had already done that I think, that I saw. I don't think that's improper for me to with two or three he do. Bender Not in any formal sense, no. There was deans, and that was going to do that with all the other deans who wished to do I think he is a of academic an attempt to keep confidentiality in the process, person very high that the standards. The we had on his so I didn't feel free generally to take the name of an during following week. There was a reports performance week's time between that of the as at Princeton were external candidate to someone and say "Here's meeting consulta- provost generally excellent, tive committee and the of in some cases, the we had on somebody we are considering, what do you think meeting the executive reports the way he board. is that he did that, and had handled at Tulane the time about him?" On a couple of occasions when we My understanding things during he he said he met with 12 of the 14 deans. At the was were were looking for information about a particular part president generally excellent. This of the executive board session which] we were doesn't mean were a hundred I candidate and there was somebody on campus [at they percent. a who. I had reason to believe, had information present he reported to the executive board not myself got feeling of a very intelligent, extremely what each individual dean said, he did who dealt with crises and in about that person. I did ask. But there was no although open person problems read a letter from one dean; he a the I liked his general revealing of the names of external candi- [but] reported appropriate way. especially open- evaluation of what the deans had said to ness in with I don't know what dates and no general asking for views. general dealing problems. him. Now. I don't know what each dean said to others thought but I'm pretty sure nobody felt his Robert Rutman: Paul, I'd like to return to the him, but I had no reason to doubt the accurary of restoration of big-time football at Tulane was an same question I raised before, but from adifferent that report. The report, as I say, was delivered to especially important qualification. As an individual member, I perspective. faculty this joint sesssion of the consultative committee had a certain perception of the scene, and that The remainder the was and the executive board, which immediately pre- of meeting devoted to perception was that a vast majoity of our resolutions 2 and4 Paul Bender's in faculty, ceded the interviewing of the affirmatively recom- (see report his a large proportion of our deans, and a vast major- letter on mended candidates, which took place that page 5). of our student ... one candi- ity body supported afternoon and some the following morning...

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SPEAKING OUT

German 5 Vigorous Protest insiders. The members of the Committee have behaved with restraint in their history II I wish herewith to register a vigorous great honoring vows of The of history and sociology of science 4 protest against the procedures and methods confidentiality. proponents Provost are toward a linguistics 3 followed at the special meeting of the Faculty Gregorian pushing discussion of detailed infor- mathematics 2 Senate on Oct. 14. Why, for example, was the public personal mation that could destructive to all music 7 meeting held in a room that could not prove concerned. oriental studies II possibly hold all of the members of the Second, the academic communities of the philosophy 4 Senate? How many members were turned were well in physics IS away because they could not fit into the University already represented the search Indeed, both Paul Miller political science 9 room? Why was the meeting held at the time process. and Paul Bender confirm that, in the final psychology II when many professors were teaching? It student regional science 5 seems obvious to me that the meeting actually preferential balloting, faculty and religious studies 2 should have been held on Saturday night in members present and voting outnumbered Romance languages 13 Franklin Field. the Trustee representatives. They both testify Slavic languages 3 Of course, far be it from me to suggest that that the nomination of Sheldon Hackney by was consistent with that sociology II was made to the meeting, the Executive Board any attempt pack South Asia regional studies I but one can't be too suspicious these days. I voice. about 20 of the We do not know how many people attended noticed too that many people left before the Third, only percent faculty Of those in the meeting or voted without having signed vote was taken. Why were no guards placed attended the Senate meeting. a bare voted to cards. The number of chairs in the room and at the doors to prevent members from leaving attendance, only majority motion that would have the number of standees suggest that the total until they had voted? Why was voting taken reject the substitute a confrontation. Moreover, attendance was approximately 450. by a show of hands rather than by secret averted support resolution came overwhelm- written ballot? Why was there not a mail for the adopted from one of the ballot for the entire faculty? Why was voting ingly segment faculty- members of the humanities of delayed so long that no other resolutions departments End Confusion FAS, whose at the was could be brought to a vote? Why were not all participation meeting The special Faculty Senate meeting on to theirnumbers in the absent members recorded as abstaining for disproportionate Ocotber 14 made the following clear: the vote? Etc. etc. etc. faculty as a whole. I. On October 24, 1980 the Trustees can Vartan is a leader who has Most of all, what makes me believe that the Gregorian gifted either accept or reject the nomination made served well. I however, procedures followed at the meetingwere Pennsylvania agree, by their Executive Board. Formal action has with Rieff in that the defectiveand basically illegitimate is that the Philip believing not yettaken place. Thus, no violation of the Provost's the month voting result was not in accord with the positions during past Sunshine law has been committed. have harmed our True concern for wishes of the most sensitive, sensible, and University. 2. The presidential search was conducted the needs of the institution should have aware portion of faculty, namely, myself and fairly, properly, in full accordance with the dictated that he continue as Provost all those whoagree with me. (in case that last through- previously established guidelines. out the transition and that he disavow the sentence is not completely clear, let me put it 3. The faculty is sharply divided about the movement to overturn the work of the another way: I didn't get what 1 wanted. And issues raised. Consultative Committee. everyone knows that when you don't get what 4. Provost Gregorian should withdraw Now we can that the zealots you want, there must be something wrong only urge from the competition for the presidency in forthe nomination of Vartan somewhere.) pushing order to putan end to the confusion reigning the Therefore I wish to urge my colleagues to Gregorian reconsider; that Trustees on our campus. a foolish and vote - sign a petition calling fora special meeting of ignore unrepresentative by Morton Benson the Senate; and that and students the Faculty Senate to reconsider the action of faculty Professor of Slavic Languages alike welcome Sheldon to the previous meeting and to discuss the Hackney Pennsyl- as our next President. formulation of proper procedures that will vania results, i.e. results that I produce satisfactory -Jack Nagel Black Box like. lam certain that many colleagues will Associate Professor of Political At the meeting of Faculty Senate on agree that only those procedures that produce Science, Public Policy, and October, 14. 1980, I asked Trustee Chairper- results that myfriendsand I approve of are Public Management son Paul Miller what he thought of Dr. legitimate. All other procedures are ipsofacto Hackney's resignation from Tulane if no wrong. The Senate Office responds: decision had yet been reached on his Let me end by saying that 1 believe that I In his letter, Professor Nagel states that appointment because the decision was to be am in accordance with the membersof the humanities of acting purely spirit departments made at the trustees on October 24, which seemsto be abroad on the FAS in the October 14 Senate meeting presently participated 1980. The was, in view, in numbers to response my campus. meeting "disproportionate somewhat evasive, but amounted to Miller's -Paul M. Lloyd their numbers in the faculty as a whole." The suggesting that Hackney resigned in order to Professorof Romance Languages facts are that 350 Senate members signed establish his credibility for the Penn job. lam cards indicating attendance; 181 of these enclosing a copy of an open letter from cards were signed by members from FAS. President Hackney of Tulane to the Tulane FAS departments are represented on these Harm to University student body, dated September 17, 1980, cards in the following numbers: If, after Tuesday's vote in the Faculty announcing his planned departure. This letter American civilization 4 Senate, the Trustees stand by the recommen- suggests a rather unambiguous offer from 9 dations of the Executive Board and the anthropology Penn to Hackney, one unencumbered by art 3 Consultative Committee, it may seem to history uncertainty or indecision of any kind, if this 2 many that they areacting undemocratically astronomy is so, the board of trustees not only would I and in defiance of the will of the faculty. I biology have had no choices, their role would have II believe that such a perception is unjustified. chemistry been pro forma and perfunctory. classical studies First, the Faculty Senate acted with 3 As noted by Professor Nachmias at the economics 10 incomplete information. The laborious search meeting, theactions of the Executive Board 16 by the Consultative Committee not only English took place inside a black box; the answer to a in honors I enabled them to compare outside candidates English general number of questions about the nature of the folklore I with inside nominees, but also must have decision process, the actual offer to Hackney, 3 generated much new information about geology the accuracy of trustee estimates of faculty

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and student sentiment and the apparent be president of the University. Within the the Search Committee obviously knows differences in the criteria and standards set by limits of confidentiality, we know that the considerably more about him than we do, my the academic community as compared to the Consultative Committee as least gave very own experience on such committees has been trustees, lie concealed in this black box. Can sober and serious consideration to other that the evaluation of outside candidates, in this difficult situation really be reconciled if candidates besides Hackney. If the Senate spite of a great deal of hard work, is subject to all these issues remain obscure? vote is to be interpreted as a rejection of the an uncomfortably wide margin of uncer- -Robert J. Rutman work of theConsultative Committee, we tainty. There area great many relevant things Professor ofBiochemistry should remember that this implies a rejection that can be learned only over months and of the of close interaction. FAclosure: roles of a number of respected faculty years September 17, 1980 leaders whoare devoted to the interests of Much was made at the Senate Meeting of An Open Letter To The Students their colleagues. In fact, a full evaluation of the point that when committees have of the relative merits of the candidates which the gathered extensive information and spent a You are alreadyawarethat lam leaving Tulane to Senate would have to undertake in order to great deal of time and effort in analyzing it, of assume the Presidency of the University Pennsyl- make a reasonable judgment on this issue they are in a far better position to make vania. and have read or heardthat lam you probably might require the public discussion ofa judgments than the faculty at large; and their with "mixed emotions.-That is more than the leaving number of matters which cannot be so findings therefore should not be questioned standard rhetoric for such occasions; I will miss discussed without animosities and so long as the procedures agreed upon have many things aboutTulane. andyou, thestudents,are creating in a which been followed. The is well taken with near the top of the list. tarnishing reputations way would point I have said on many occasions that Tulane is a be extremely divisive within the University respect to committees dealingwith complex more interestingand exciting place thesedays than it and the academic community. This is exactly policy questions and also with respect to the was a fewyears ago. What I have meant, in large part. the reason why confidential consultative evaluation of outside candidates by Search is that are more interested in and excited about you committees are intended to replace public Committees. However, it does not hold up the are This of health things you doing. feeling good debate. with respect to the evaluation of inside not to fellow students.but to iscontagious, only your On the other hand, to allow the behavior of candidates for academic administrative posts. faculty, administration and alumni as well. As a the trustees to go unremarked and uncen- The cumulative information of the faculty, as result, there is a more solid feeling of community at sured is a mistake. But to assume that the a whole, about the insider is far than Tulane now than at any time in my five years here. greater You deserve much of the credit for that, and I thank principal indefensible action of the trustees that of the small number of individuals who you. was a failure to nominate Gregorain as may be appointed to the committee. Broad Finally, but most personally. I want to thank you president may be a tactical error. If we shift faculty opinion should in this case receive for I realize that my decision to leave your friendship. attention to this assumption, some trustees correspondingly greater weight. And one Tulane was and, frankly. I could not unexpected may find themselves on defensible ground, highly relevant datum, the attitudes of the how you would react. The and anticipate support when in fact their total behavior is faculty, certainly is known best to themselves. which many of youhave to procedu- encouragement expressed indefensible. I that the It can be made more known me have therefore been especially gratifying. Your rally sincerely hope generally trustees will find some to the such a device as a Senate reaction has also proved to me that you realize that way remedy through Meeting. is harm which has been done to no person indispensable, and that, too, pleases me. incomparable -Jean A. Crockett The ofexcitement the their own feelings andcommunity.theimpe- University largely through Chairman and Professor. Finance tus toward improvement, arethereto stay. I sincerely actions. believe that Tulane is on the threshold of one of its -Britton Harris, Dean eras, and one of is that I greatest my deepeest regrets School of Public and Urban Policy will not be able to share those times with you. Mature Sincerely. Disagreement Sheldon Hackney Not Under Rug Many of the speakers at the October 14 President meeting of the Faculty Senate, while express- A primary function of the Senate is to ing the highest personal regard for Provost providea mechanism by which the faculty Gregorian, warned the faculty that attempt- Total Behavior may express to the Trustees their views and ing to place his name in nomination for the The actions of the chairman of the board of feelings about any matter deemed to be of presidency would bring the faculty into a trustees and of its Executive Board, preceded substantial importance to the University. harmful position of conflict with the trustees. by theactions of the Consultative Committee That function was served by the special cited former Senate Chairman on the Selection of a President and followed meeting of October 14. They Irving Kravis' warnings against upsetting the deli- by the vote of the Faculty Senate on October The message then was that a large number cate balance of power between faculty and 14. have placed the University in a very of faculty members are deeply concerned over trustees and reminded their assembled col- difficultposition from which every reasona- the impact on the University of the loss of leagues that to choose a ble meansshould be used to extricate us. Vartan Gregorian from the administra- authority president top is, the statutes of our Some trustees have underestimated tion-some indeed feel this to be a devastat- by University, vested in grossly the Trustees. the contribution of Vartan Gregorian to the ing loss. The expression of this concern Paul Miller obviously agreed. In his health and development of the University, unfortunately places both the Trustees and address to the Senate he quoted, with and the great respect and affection with which the presidential nominee in an embarrassing approval, Professor Kravis' warnings, and in he is viewed by his colleagues in the faculty position, but I do not think it should have the Daily Pennsylvanian of October 15, he is and student body throughout the been swept under the rug for sake. University. politeness' "if motiva- Their conduct of the search and nomination It is a fact of life with which all of us will have reported assaying, [the faculty's] tion is to rip the University apart, they're procedure accorded small respect to Gregoti- to deal. doing a pretty an's dignity and devotion to the A second message may have been that there good job." University. However, I believe that Professor Kravis The overwhelming majority of those who is a strongly felt need for better communica- and Mr. Miller are both mistaken voted against the final resolution, endorse tion. Many of us shared a feeling of seriously about the impact fo the resolution which was this view, and take an uncompromising and bewilderment over the failure to nominate passed at the Senate unforgiving attitude toward the conduct of Vartan. What could have been the reason for meeting. Far from to the the trustees. throwing away the trust and creative energy attempting usurp authority of the trustees to choose the of the The question which was not addressed in that hascharacterized Vartan's relationship president University, the faculty are simply that the meetingof the Faculty Senate or in much with his faculty and for stopping short the asking an additional nomination be submitted to of the current discussion is the nature of an momentum he has created toward the that board so that its members can make their appropriate remedy to these difficulties which solution of serious problems that have been choice. As a matter of fact, it could be the University has imposed on itself. too long in abeyance? Are these things, so argued that is not the faculty but Paul Miller who has The Senate has not yet attempted, and in important to us, not valued by the Trustees? attempted to usurp the board's my view should not attempt, to adjudicate the Why give them up to choose a nominee who authority, since by presenting them with only one question of whether Vartan Gregorian should is an unknown quantity to most of us? While nomination, he has effectively prevented

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them from kind of making any meaningful objections. Brown Bags & Training choice. Now Mr. Miller wishes to carry to the full This week as a courtesy to the University Thus far Mr. Miller has prevailed. He Board of Trustees that same single nomina- community, the Personnel Newsletter yielded devised the of the Consultative tion. And he can choose whether or not to composition its (for which it which had four the four-page space pays, Committee, only faculty accept Faculty Senate resolution so that documents Trustees and two students on it, the which asks that the full Board monthly) major by members despite (which Chairman Paul Miller and others could of the Council. includes recommendation University members not appointed by him) The Newsletter will be next He chose the trustees, who with him formed be in addition to name of appear. published given, the week. Meanwhile, with thanks to the Newslet- the majority of the Committee. And as Sheldon Hackney --but not instead of - ter for this gesture, Almanac notes theseevents chairman he was doubtless influential in its it. the name of Vartan Gregorian. which it intended to bring to the attention of operations. Mr. Miller also prevailed in the It would be sad if, after what seems to have the faculty and staff this week: second step of the process when the been so one-sided a procedure, the attempt of October 22: Training Session in Resume Consultative Committee to the the Faculty to its considered reported express opinion call Chris Davies. Ext. 6017. Executive Board of the Trustees, which he on a matter of such were construed as Development: gravity October 27: E. Baltiell's Brown also chaired. before that Executive harmful, divisive, or The Digby Bag Coming illegitimate. Faculty Lecture on Puritan Boston and Board, all save two of whose members is mature to and Quaker voting enough disagree honestly I in the are, as Mr. Miller admitted at the Senate without rancor. Doubtless the Trustees are Philadelphia. p.m. Benjamin Franklin Room. Houston Hall. meeting, also appointed by the chairman of equally so. Training session in Telecommunica- the Board, Mr. Miller presented them with - tions; call Chris Davies, Ext. 6017. only one nomination, that of Sheldon Elizabeth Flower October 29:1 raining session in lntervie- Hackney. Not surprisingly, there were no Professor of Philosophi ing Skills; call Chris Davies. Ext. 6017.

SPEAKING OUTwekomes the contributions ofreaders. A lnanac 's normal Tuesda;' deadline for unsolicited material is extended to Thursday noon for short, tirnel; letters on University issues. Advance notice of intent to submit is alwa vs appreciated. -Ed.

Counsel's Advice to the Trustees on the 'Sunshine Act'

In light of the many recent assertions concerning the applicability Third, we were advised by counsel that the presidential search of the Pennsylvania Sunshine Act to the presidential search process, process could be conducted in absolute confidentiality, as agreed I am writing this letter to set forth the advice which counsel gave to upon in advance by all participants, notwithstanding the Sunshine the Executive Board while the search process was continuing and Act. We had emphasized how important it was to the U niversity that before it was clear who would be nominated. There were several the investigations, interviews, discussions, and deliberations of the bases on which their advice was founded. members of the Consultative Committee and of the Executive Board First, we had received several earlier opinions on the applicability remain confidential. Counsel advised us that under case law, discus- of the Sunshine Act, advising that the "agency" to which the Act sion and deliberation leading to recommendations for final action, applied was not the University itself, but rather the Trustees. Not but short of final action itself, need not occur at an "open meeting". covered are meetings of boards of overseers, the provost's staff As a nomination is a form of recommendation, and by definition conference, and most other bodies, including meetings of the Con- does not constitute a final decision or election of the candidate, all of sultative Committee. We were told that the Act would apply to the the processes of the Consultative Committee and of the Executive Executive Board when-but only when-it took formal action on Board leading to a nomination could be insulated from public behalf of the University in substitution for the board under §2 of scrutiny. Included, they said, could be the informal session of the Article IV of the University's statutes delegating the full authority of two committees which were called for September 13, as well as the the Trustees to the Executive Board. Noting that §4 of Article 11 of interviews and deliberations of the Executive Board which were to the University's statutes vested in the Executive Board (and not the take place afterward and the special meeting called for September Trustees) the function of initially receiving nominations, counsel 14. Thereafter, in keeping with the requirements of the University distinguished the unique role of the Executive Board in so acting statutes, disclosure of the identity of the nominee was, of course, from its more general role in exercising the fully delegated authority necessary in the notice of the October 24 meeting of the Trustees, of the Trustees, and advised us that a meeting of the Executive and that meeting has been duly advertised and will be held as an Board held exclusively for the purpose of receiving nominations open meeting in full compliance with the Sunshine Act. pursuant to §4 of Article II need not be an "open meeting." We were Fourth, counsel expressed the belief that the the Sunshine Act told that if the special meeting on September 14 were held for that would be construed by a Court in the context of the Common- purpose alone, the provisions of the Sunshine Act would not apply. wealth's oft-expressed policy of protecting personnel information Second, counsel advised us that simply receiving one or more respecting character and professional qualifications. Provisions in nominations to fill a projected vacancy in the office of president as the Act and other statutes reveal the legislative intent to protect this contemplated in §4 of Article II of our statutes would not constitute sort of information from unnecessary exposure, and judicial deci- 'formal action" as defined under the Sunshine Act. "Formalaction" sions have reflected a similar concern. This general policy, particu- is defined under the Act as the taking of a vote on various matters larly in light of the interest of an institution of higher learning in (not including nominations) or the setting of an official policy. maintaining confidentiality throughout its various search processes, Neither occurred at the Executive Board meeting on September 14, was felt by our counsel to support their conclusions that the Sun- 1980. The Executive Board did not bind the University to a particu- shine Act would not be interpreted to extend to the September 14 lar course-not vote was taken, and no University policy was special meeting of the Executive Board. adopted. In counsel's view, the "formal action" of electing a presi- I hope this account is helpful to members of the University dent requires, as a matter of law, the affirmative vote of two-thirds community who have expressed concern about whether the Execu- of the Trustees in office. Since there are many meetings of the tive Board's decision to hold a closed meeting on September 14 was Trustees at which attendance is substantially less than all of the well-reasoned and responsible. trustees in office, this requirement of the affirmative vote of two- thirds of the trustees in office is far from a pro forma ratification of a -Paul F. Miller, Jr. previous choice. Chairman of the Trustees

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Building: Manager Psychology Technician 1(80707) assists in experi- Johnson Pavilion: first floor, next to directory: Radio Station Music Director and Coordi- Program ments with human subjects: assists with data analysis, Law School: Room 28. basement; nator (80605) closed. performing required statistical procedures and utilizing Labs: first floor, outside Room 02: Radio Station Production and News Directo, Leidy electronic data processing equipment: recruits, tests. Hall first floor, near Room 117: B0604) closed. interviews Logan and otherwise interacts with addicted patients LRSM: first floor, efesator; Radio Station and Information Director opposite Publicity who are study subjects (degree in social science: back- Richards first floor, near 80606) closed. Building: mailroom: ground in addiction research: abilityto operate electronic Social Work/Caster first floor: Research Administrator (3465) $17,725-525.000. Building: data processing equipment) $10.700-513,125. Rfttenhouse Lab: east staircase, second floor: Research Coordinator (B0684) $14.200-519.625. Radio Station Technical Director (130603) closed. Research Towne Building: mezzanine lobby: Specialist 1(4 positions) 512.375-517.525. Receptionist (03126) 56.725-$8,175. Scl'.,,iol: first floor, next to Research 11)80537) $14.200-519,625. Veterinary directory. Specialist Receptionist, Medical/Dental (3 positions) (3233) For further Staff Dentist information, call personnel services. Ext. (3473) $31.150-$43.925. (3450) (3447) $7.700-59.425. 7284. I he is an Staff Writer 11 (3408) closed. University equal opportunity employer. Research Bibliographer I (3497) handles day-to-day Where include formal education or train- Systems (3483) meets with users of all levels qualifications Analyst management of the center: screenscorrespondence. com- in the field be substituted. and determines their needs: studies, ing, significant experience may prepares feasibility poses replies, types confidential material: helps with The two in show minimum general systems designs, detail systems designs and pro- figures salary listings starting budgets, processes working papers. supervises secretary. and maximum Some to communicate effec' salary starting salary (midpoint). gramming specifications (ability organizes seminar (organizational and supervisory abil- listed have internal candidates. Ii tisely. both verbally and in writing: knowledge of positions may strong ity. initiative, mature judgment, related experience, would like to know more about a to on-line, real-time you particular position. large-scale computers, ability design knowledge of University procedures, ability to type with ask at the time of the $17.725-S25,000. please interview with a personnel systems) speed and accuracy) $8.775-$l0.850. counselor or hiring department representative. Openings Research Laboratory Technician ii (2 positions) listed without salaries arethose in which salary is yet to be (80624) (130695) $9.600-S11.700. determined. Research Laboratory Technician III (/1 positions) Support Staff S10.700413.125. Secretary I $7.200-58.750. Abstractor 1(3485) maintains prospect records, updates Secretary 11(1/ positions) $7, 700-$9.425. Administrative/Professional Staff prospect files from checks reference newspaper clippings: Secretary iii (/7 positions) $8.250-$l0.l50. books for Accountant (3358) $I 1.400415.8W. information on prospective donors: files cor- IV Secretary (3469) screens and logs all incoming corre- Administrator and Financial Officer acts as respondence and primary cards; types cards and forms (3491) spondence to subject area, receives visitors. responds to in the of (high school graduate; two to three years' clerical primary operational manager implementation expe- general telephone inquiries, schedules meetings, confer- decisions by the Board and the Executive Com- rience, excellent clerical aptitude) $7.700-59,425. Hospital ences, responsible for vice provost's calendar (good tele- mittee; serves as an member on both commit- Accounting Clerk (80709) performs clerical work in the advisory phone manner, excellent typing skills. knowledge of tees: and monitors $8 million preparation of accounting statements, bills accounts, develops approximately general office equipment, familiarity with the University into to discounts, main- divided center, hospital and clinical studies budgets: posts expenditures ledgers, computes and procedures) $9.400-511.675. accountable for operations of office and tains records on various charges (high school graduate, personnel pur- Secretary, Computer Facility (3489) prepares and area (MBA: live to seven related one year's accounting experience; good clerical and chasing years' expe- enters, at a terminal, the miscellaneous charges forcom- rience in an academic environment bookkeeping aptitude: ability to type accurately; ability including budgetary puter system accounting: prepares and distributes and matters and at least two of food to operate office equipment) 57,700-59.425. personnel years monthly computer useage summaries for department service, and office services Administrative Assistant I (3487) coordinates and physical plant experience) chairman: prepares monthly billing of invoices for non- S20.475428,875. records data; screens students; counsels, advises and university users and journal vouchers for university Archivist, Museum makes referrals to appropriate areas communica- (3453) $16.325-522,000. (good users; updates and maintains MSCF hardware and soft- Assistant tion skills; of some Area Director for Operations and Mainte- knowledge University community: ware documentation and manuals on-line with the text nance (80386) $ll,400-$15,800. typing; ability to interact with administrators and stu- editor (experience using computer terminals and text Assistant Director (03055) $23,600-544,250. dents) $8.775410,850. editing systems, high school graduate, four ,ears' expe- Asst. Director, Merchandise $14,200-$19 Administrative Assistant I (2 positions) (B0698) (3461) ,625. rience as a secretary) $9.400-511.675. Asst. (80618) $8.775-S 10.850. Director, Telecommunications (3257) $14,200- Secretary, Med./Tech. (7 positions) $8,775-S 10.850. $19.625. Administrative Assistant 11(2 positions) (3452) (3451) Senior Admissions Assistant (03107) closed. Assistant General Counsel (3332) $20.475-$28,875. $9,400-S111.675. Student Medical Record Assistant (3471) supervises Assistant Admissions Assistant (3467) $8.775-S10.850. Secretary (3427). and assigns work of support staff: supervises central Ant. to Director, Annual $11,400- Clerk 11 (3095) 57,200-58.750. Giving (03163) record system: develops and maintains diagnostic and 515,800. Clerk 111 $7.700'S9,425. procedure index; prepares and presents patients'records: Assistant to Executive Director, Student Financial Clerk IV (2 positions) 58.250-510, ISO. prepares reports as required (high school graduate:den- and Administrative Services Coordinating Assistant i (80672) $9.400-Sl1,675. (3454) $16,325-$22.600. tal experience) $8.775-510.850. Assoc. Coordinating Assistant II (2 $10,700- Development Officer I(3273)$14,200-$l9,625. positions) Supervisor, Herdsman (80308) 515,292-519.606. S13,450. Assoc. Development Officer 11(3039)S17.725-$25,000. Supervisor, Herdsman (3422) S 10.025-512.850. Assoc. Director for Administration (3394) $16,325- Coordinator of Student Permanent Records (3466) $22,600. $9,400-S 11,675. Coordinator of Visitor Services $8.775-510,850. Business Administrator (B064I) $11.400-$ 15.800. Part-Time Business Administrator11 (3492) controls and adminis- Data Entry Operator (3441) $8.250-510,150. Positions ters 50 handles Data Entry Operator (3486) enters and verifies approximately budgets: personnel mat- Administrative/Professional and numeric information in ters related to A-2 and A-I employees; implements word prescribed formats Five part-time positions processing center (degree or in an academic (highalphaschool graduate, minimum-beticof two years'experience administrative/professional experience on IBM 129 or trainee IBM 3741 data are listed on campus bulletin boards. environment: experience in budgetary and personnel entry station, six matters: mature month 58.250-510. 150. judgment, initiative. organization: position) Staff supervisory ability to handle deadlines) $12.375-517,425. Duplicating Machine Operator 1(3 positions) (130654) Support Business Manager (80681) $16,325-522,600. (80662) (80663) 56.325-S7,625. 15 part-time support staff positions are listed on Chief Medical Librarian (3337) 527.125-538,225. Electrician 1(2794) Union wages. campus bulletin boards. Electron Coordinator, Off-Campus Living (3479). Microscope Technician ii $10.700-$13,125. Corp. Placement Counselor (3364) 514.200-519,625. Electronic Technician I (B0399) 59,600-511,700. Electronic Ii Data Communications Adm. (2959) 516.325-522,600. Technician (3254) $10,700-S 13.125. Director (03206) 523,600-533,250. Foreman, Farm Unit (80518) $6.900'S8.825. HUP Seeks ii Administrator Director, Faculty Club (80695) $20.475'$28.875. Histology Technician (B0697) $10.700-513.125. Information Tech. Director, Student Data 13320) $20,475'$28.875. Systems (B0696) S10,025-$12.525. The Administrator, Hospital of the University of Jr. Research Junior Accountant (3482) reconciles Specialist (4 positions) SI 1.400-515.800. University's gen- Pennsylvania responsible for daily operational activi- eral bank account: controls and issues checks Judicial Inquiry Officer (3453) $16.325-522.600. (two years' ties 01 HUE' and for obtaining results in keeping with Librarian for college education with extensive course work in account- 1113443) responsible monographic Middle hospital policies and objectives (requires master's degree Eastern or $8.775410,H50. language materials including bibliographic des- ing bookkeeping experience) or equivalent in healthcareadministration and minimum classification, Limited Service Clerk (3470) $7.700-$9.425. cription, subjects, series and other access of five years' experience with primary authority for TOO Mail Carrier (3438) Union points using cataloging standards and classifications wages. beds or secondary authority for 500 beds). Salary highly schemes(M LS: MCST Operator (3418) 58.250-SIO.150. cataloging experience:good command of negotiable. Apply by resume to: Executive Director. I Arabic and MISC (3481) $l0,025-$12,400. Persian languages: knowledge of Turkish Operator Administration. HUE'. Philadelphia, PA 19104.

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-ON CAMPUS October 21-31 GSAC Film Series October 22-25 Second Annual Post-Graduate Course Exhibits in Obstetrics and Gynecology. sponsored by the School October 23 The Wages of Fear of Medicine Education For more Opening October 25 A Century, of Black Presence at A Halloween Continuing Program. Van Pelt October 30 special: Vamps'r. and La information call Nancy Wink at Ext. 8006. the Universi,r of Pennsylvania. 1879-1980. Jetee. This exhibit, the Black at October22 Ruth Purtillo. Anal ysis Ethical Consid- Library. honoring Centenary All films at 8:30 in Dietrich W-5L Grad students. of the Continues 1981. p.m. erations Among Physical Therapists. NEB 208 at 4p.m. University. through $.5&. all others $1. Through October 30 Windows, etc.... at the Philoma- October 23 Agehananda Bharati of Syracuse Univer- Charisma or Person: The Role thean Art Gallery. 4th Floor of College Hall. sity on of Office of o/ Leaders in Indian Sects, the South Asia Through November 7 Sherri Vitas Season. Drawings sponsored by and oil-on-canvas at the Houston Hall gallery. Meetings Regional Studies department at II a.m. in the University paintings Museum's classroom 2. November 9 Drawings: The Pluralist Decode Through October24 Stated of the full board of irustees. The at the Institute of Art. The show includes meeting October 24 Professor Fred C. Robinson. Yale, on Contemporary 2 in to observers. New Criticisms and the Old work the same artists featured in the U.S. exhibit for p.m. Weighiman Gym. Open Philology. Van Pelt Library. by October 28 monthly of the 4 the Venice Biennale. Regular meeting Faculty first floor conference room at p.m. Tea Club. Fran Abramson. of the Philadelphia Art October 24-25 Women in the Professions: The Asian- Through December An exhibit on Presidential Elec- Museum, speaks on Three Centuries of American Art. American Cases, conference sponsored by the Asian- tions, 1789-1980. at the rotunda of the Law School Information: Winifred Berg. 546-5475. American Association and the women's studies depart- building. information, call women's studies 15,1961 African sculpture from the ment. For more at Ext. Through February 8740. University Museum collection. More than 20 masks and statues from Sub-Saharan Africa selected for their Music October 27 Roland Milavsky. NBC vice president of news and social a Ten-Year Study beauty and significance. At the University Museum. research. Report of of October 23, 30 PUC Entertainment at II Television. Children and 31, 1961 The Egyptian Mwnmr: sponsors Aggression, Annenberg School Through August am., a series of live in the Houston 124 at 4 Secrets and Science. Possibly the largest exhibition on weekly performances p.m. mummification ever mounted in the U.S., this show Hall Gallery. Dr. Margo Horn of the University of Pennsylvania on October 30-31, Novmber 1-2,6-9,12-16 Penn Work in The Commonwealth Funds examines Egyptian ideas about life after death and the players Progress: Programs Kurt Weill's The at the Children: Issues in the Studt' a Twentieth Centurr health and disease patterns of these ancient people as presents Threepenni' Opera for of Center's Harold Prince Theatre. Call the Institution. revealed and studies of mummi- Annenberg Smith Hall 107 at 4 p.m. through x-ray autopsy Center Box Office at Ext. 6791 for ticket fied remains. At the University Museum. Annenberg Professor E. Digby Balt,ell of the University's sociol- information. ogy department on his 1979 book Puritan Boston and lOa.m.-7:30 m.. Wednes- ICA Gallery Hours Tuesday p. Quaker Philadelphia. I p.m. in the Benjamin Franklin day-Friday. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.. Saturday and Sunday, noon- Room of Houston Hall. 5 p.m. Closed Monday. Events The roundtable on science, law and public policy pres- University Museum Hours Tuesday-Saturday lOam.- Special ents Ellis R. Mottur. former assistant director of the 5 p.m.. Sunday I-S p.m. Closed Monday and holidays. October 25 Homecoming 1980: walking tours of the Congressional Office ofTechnology Assessment on Tech- Houston Hal Gallery Hours Monday-Friday, noon-6 half-hour from the of nology Innovation and Public Policy. Houston Hall's 4 campus depart every steps College p.m., Saturday and Sunday noon- p.m. Hall. 9:30-11:30 am . ... the classes of 1971.1981 are Bishop White Room at 4 p.m. Art Hours Phllomathean Gallery Monday-Friday, invited to a Young Alumni Party at 11:30 am. at the October 28 Nachman Avigad, professor emeritus and noon-5 p.m. umbrella area of Blanche Levy Park... the Homecoming former chairman of the department of archaeology at the Picnic begins at 11:30a.m. on the plaza of the Fine Arts Hebrew University in Jerusalem, on Recovers' of an Building. .. Penn meets Yale on Franklin Field at 1:30 Upper Ciii' of Jerusalem. In the University Museum's Films p.m. ... The Alumni Council on Admissions hosts a Rainey Auditorium at 5:30p.m. Admission is $5 for both post-football game reception at the Faculty Club for members and non-members of the museum: students are Exploratory Cinema alumni (and their families) who are parents of current admitted free. A wine and cheese reception follows. October 22 Learning to Dance in Bali by Margaret undergraduates. Anatomr ofa Play, from playwright Leslie Mead and Gregory Bateson: The Wedding of Palo by Friends of Soccer luncheon with guest Charles R. Lee's perspective, a Leon Lecture.4 p.m., 124 Annenberg Knud Rasmussen and F. Dalsheim. Scott, associate director of athletics and former soccer School. Wine and cheese afterward: Faculty Club. October 29 Luis Bunuel's Las Hurdas coach. Penn meets Yale in soccer at 10a.m. followed by a (Land Without October 29 Professor John B. Jackson, History of the Bread): ions Ivena and Henri Storck; cash bar and buffet luncheon at Hutchinson Gym. For Roirnage by Song Landscape, as part of The Aesthetic Obligation, the Basil and John Grierson. information call Gerald R. Beaver at Ext. 4773. of Ceylon by Wright GSFA Student Lecture Series at 7:30 p.m. in room B-I at All November 1 Draw It Your War, a screenings at the Annenberg Center's Studio Thea- Saturday workshop the Graduate School of Fine Arts Building. tre on Wednesdays at 7 and 9:30 p.m. Admission: $2 for for children at the I.C.A. Structured for children ages 5 October 31-November 1 The School of 2. the the of Veterinary students with ID. and $3 for others. through workshop explores possibilities Medicine sponsors a continuing education program on drawing. II am-noon at the ICA Galleries. Practical Husbandry, Medicine and Surgery of Captive International Cinema, Series 8 Reptiles, featuring Dr. Fredric L. Fry, research associate University Museum Tours October 22. Hasanlu, An October 22 Neighborhood action: three films. 7:30 at the Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco and clinical Iron Age Massacre: October 26. African Roots- p.m. professor of veterinary medicine at the University of American Jazz: October 29. the annual Halloween tour: October 23 Weekend. 7:30 and 9:30 California at Davis. Information: Ext. 4234. p.m. Ghosts. Goblins and Things That Go in the Night. October 24 Weekend. 4 Sun Ra: A Noise. Bump p.m.; Joyful All tours begin at I p.m. at the Main Entrance of the 7:30 p.m. Museum and last approximately 45 minutes. October 29 Humor is cheaper by the dozen with this showing of one dozen funny movies. 7:30 and 9:30p.m. Regular Discussions October 30 How Yukong Moved the Mountains. Pro- schedules) Psychology Colloquia One guest speaker each week gram 2: The Fishing Village. 7:30 p.m.; The Amulet of Sports (home presents his or her research on some area of psychology Ogum. 9:30 p.m. or related discipline. Tuesdays at 4:30 p.m.. Stiteler B-21. October 31 How Moved the Mountains, 4 Ticket information: Franklin Field ticket office, Ext. Yukong 6151. Medicine-Pathology rounds Tuesdays at noon. Or- p.m.; The Amulet of Ogum. 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. thopaedic Conference Room. I White. HUP. All films at International House, 3701 Chestnut Street. Field October 24: vs. Yale. October 28: Psychiatry Colloquium Series First Tuesday of the Tickets are $2. and $1 for the Friday matinee. Hockey 7p.m.; vs. 7 All at Franklin Field. month. Octoberthrough May. lI:30a.m.-I p.m.at Medi- Temple. p.m. games cal Alumni Hall, HUP. Museum Freshman Football October 29: vs. Glassboro State, 4 University p.m.; October II: vs. Cornell. 3 p.m.; October 24: vs. Children's Film Program Millersville. 1:30 p.m. All games at Franklin Field. Football October 31: vs. All October 25 Anasi the Spider; The Magic Three: Arrow Lightweight Navy. 7p.m. Theatre to the Sun: The Loon's Necklace games at Franklin Field. Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine, November 1 Adventures Tom Sawyer Varsity Football October 25: vs. Yale. 1:30 p.m.; sponsored by of vs. the Drama Guild. October 21-26. 28-31. November 8 Son November 8: vs. Villanova, 1:30p.m.; November iS: Philadelphia of Paleface 1:30 All at Franklin Field. November 1-2 at the Center's Zellerbach All films in this free series are screened Saturdays at Harvard. p.m. games Annenberg Soccer October 25: vs. Yale, l( IS a.m.; November 7: vs. Theatre. Ticket Information: Ext. 6791. 10:30 a.m. in Harrison Auditorium of the University Villanova. 8:15p.m.; November II: vs. Temple. 7:30 p.m. The Mask and Wig Club's 93rd annual production. Museum. Hire and November 14: vs. Harvard, 8:lSp.m.Allgames atFrank- Higher, opens October 23 at the Mask and Wig clubhouse. 310 South Street. Museum lin Field. Quince Plays Thursdays. University Fridays and Saturdays through December 6. Ticket Sunday Film Series information: WA3-4229. October 26 Duke Ellington, a film biography encom- Talks the of American passing history jazz. October 21 A-3 Gerald To list an event November 2 Newsfront Assembly Workshop featuring Robinson on University Personnel Policy, in the Ben- November 9 Wedding Camels Information for the weekly Almanac calendar Franklin Room. Houston Hall at noon and Films in this free series are screened Sundays at ˆ30 jamin again should reach our at 3533 Locust Walk one at I p.m. offices p.m. in Harrison Auditorium of the University Museum. week before desired date ofpublication. 16 October 21, 1980 Almanac