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Tuesday October 22, 1985 Published by the University ofPennsylvania Volume 32. Number 9

Nobel in Medicine: Michael Brown, C'62,M'66 Brown and Goldstein ... Goldstein and The Tribune estimated 30 to 50 million Ameri- Brown. The paired names have been candi- can adults as potential heart attack victims dates on the biomedical grapevine for years, who will benefit from Brown and Goldstein's and on many branches: A biochemist would breakthrough research. stop at mid-citation and tell the class: At Penn, longtime followers of the Brown "They're going to get the for and Goldstein research go farther in describing this," an internist predict "It's only a matter the influence ofthe two: In their citation to Dr. of time," an impatient psychiatrist assert, Brown during this June's Alumni Weekend, "They should have had two by now." the School described a series of break- This is the year the Nobel Institute agreed, throughs, adding, "At each step in [their re- and sent the message last Monday from Stock- search] program Drs. Brown and Goldstein holm that Dr. Michael S. Brown, 44, and Dr. have broken new ground in fundamental biol- Joseph L. Goldstein, 45, will share the 1985 ogy and medicine, and their studies have led to Prize in medicine for work that has "revolu- significant advances in our understanding of tionized our knowledge" of me- the function and recycling of the mem- tabolism and of diseases related to it, athero- brane The picture is of complementary sclerosis and heart attack. genius in collaborators who start with the con- In a Chicago Tribune account the work is viction that where there's a code to break described as having "isolated the cell surface there's a key to find. receptor that recognizes and admits cholesterol Brown and Goldstein are with the Univer- to the cell. Some receptors are specialized to sity of Texas Medical Center at the Southwest- admit but the lack of low-density lipoproteins; ern Medical School in Dallas, where Dr. At Alumni Weekend 1985. the lets in too much, to youngest recipient [such receptors] leading Brown is the Paul J. Thomas Professor of of the Medical School's Distinguished Graduate clogging of the arteries." For about one in 500 Medicine and Genetics and Director of the Award, Dr. Michael S. Brown, with Dean Americans, the defect is genetic; but it may Center for Genetic Disease. He is believed to Stemmler. also be acquired through diet and lifestyle. be the first Penn baccalaureate alumnus to win a Nobel Prize, and the second medical alum- are without Goldstein; they also have a book, nus to do so: Dr. , who shared with Stanbury and Wyngaarden, The Meta- IN BRIEF the 1972 Prize in medicine, has the Penn M.D. bolic Basis of Inherited Disease, plus 18 book (and that year Dr. Christian Anfinsen, who chapters.) Speaking of Prizes: Nominations open October 28 for the Lindback Awards for 1985-86. Details earned his master's degree here, won a Prize "I knew Mike Brown as a student, and it's in not to his and criteria are on the inside back page. chemistry). hindsight say strong intellectual and Michael Brown received his B.A. from were Lost Is Found: Dean Russell Palmer ofthe Whar- the personal qualities recognized early on," in 1962 and his M.D. in said Dean Edward Stemmler. "He ton School thanked the FBI Monday for its role in College (see page 2) really stood recovering Rodin's Jean D 'Aire, the bronze stolen 1966 from the School of Medicine, where he out, and I'm sorry I wasn't able to persuade from the School last year. "We would like to won the Frederick L. Packard Prize in Internal him to come back to Penn. And yet," he adds, commend the FBI for the outstandingjob it did in Medicine and was elected to Alpha Omega Al- "it might not have been the same for medi- finding the statue," said Dean Palmer. "In particu- pha in his junior year. Midway through medi- cine. Those two intellects seem to have been lar we want to thank agent Robert Basin and cal school, in June 1964, he married the for- uniquely prepared to work together. And it's members of our force." Palmer campus security mer Alice Lapin and the couple now have two magnificent work." also expressed reliefthat the statue was unharmed. Elizabeth Jane and Sara Ellen. Drs. Brown and Goldstein have "I know I for the School as well as the donor daughters, been shar- speak his 1966-68 and awards for over ten ofthe statue, Jeffrey Loria, in saying we are look- During internship ing prestigious years, ing forward to having it back with us at Wharton." at Mass General in Boston, Brown starting with the 1974 Heinrich Wieland prize Details ofits recovery are sketchy but local radio of Penn met Goldstein of Texas, who was just for work in lipid . They hold the reported that it was traced after an attempt to sell a year ahead ofhim. They stayed in touch after ACS's Pfizer, the Albion 0. Bernstein, the it in Florida. joining separate NIH Institutes (Dr. Brown's Passano, the National Academy's Lounsbery, - was Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, fol- the Lita Annenberg Hazen, Roche Institute's -INSIDE lowed by a stint as guest worker at the Heart V.D. Mattia, Columbia's Louisa Gross Institute). In 1970-71 when he set out to Horwitz, the 3M Award of the Federation of " Senate Chair: Salaries, Budgets, p. 2 " Nobel Laureate as Undergraduate, p. 2 choose an academic home, Dr. Brown nar- American Societies for Experimental , " Speaking Out: Sexual Harassment, rowed the choices to San Francisco vs. the and others of the Gairdner Foundation, New SEC/BSL, Core Space, Apartheid, pp. 3-4 Texas unit at Dallas-and Dr. Goldstein's York Academy of Sciences, American Heart " Addendum on S. African holdings, p. 4 alma mater won. A later from Seattle Dr. Association, and Association of American " of Committee, 1984-85, year Report Steering p.5 Goldstein made the same move, and the Medical In 1982 Dr. Brown ac- " NIH Report on Head Lab (full text), p. 6 Colleges. two " Lindback Nominations: How-To, p. 7 uniquely productive collaboration began in cepted honorary degrees-one from the Center Supplement: Year-End Reports of earnest. (Of the 216 papers in a relatively re- University of Chicago and the other from Council and Independent Committees cent c.v. of Dr. Brown's, only ten, all early, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

SENATE -COUNCILS From the Chair Synopsis of Minutes: October 9 The report of the Committee on Harass- More on Salaries and Budgets ment (Almanac . September 24) was discussed, following presentation by the co-chairs. Pro- I note, with that in their column in the Almanac of October 15, the President and Provost hope, fessors deCani and Sagi. Some criticism was state the following concerning the two major points that I tried to stress in my own column in the raised concerning the wording of the questions Almanac of October 8, "We have every intention that the University will continue to provide real in the questionnaire, definitions of harass- growth in faculty salaries in Fiscal Year 1987" and "The column last week by the Faculty Senate ment, and the groupings of harassing behav- ior. Other to Chair emphasized the need to watch carefully non-academic expenses generally and administrative members spoke support the valid- of the results and to the extent salaries particularly. We agree fully with that point," and "We agree with the Faculty Senate Chair ity emphasize and the seriousness of sexual harassment on that this matter bears continual review and we will work with him and his colleagues to that end." the campus. Professor Helen Davies summar- These statements are indeed hopeful and I trust they will be followed in earnest. ized the conversion of the survey results into With to the few included in the column, I am to note some regard specific examples sorry absolute numbers (Almanac, October I) car- and even For instance, column wrote, the inaccuracy, irrelevancy. my "Interestingly enough straight ried out by Professor Robert Davies and her- teaching salary budget for the faculty is so little that it can easily be equated in FY 1986 with simply self and read into the minutes a statement of the research overhead ($39 million), the special student fees ($17 million) and other miscellaneous concern by the Women's Studies Advisory general revenues ($6.8 million)." It does not say that "it might be covered" directly by those funds, Board and other faculty members. Implica- tions of the for and although, in all sincerity, the overhead of research projects compensates the University for so many report University policy will be taken at kinds of general expenses, and the student fees could, ostensibly, be directed toward the faculty implementing procedures up the November 13 salaries, leaving the huge tuition income for all other types ofgeneral expenses of the University and meeting. Discussion of the ways to bring the varying for student activities. I confess that I do not understand the logic of why many previous non-standing views of the University faculty, students, and faculty in A-2 positions have been shifted to the A- I category. Are we having another faculty in staff to the Trustees on issues relating to South disguise? And the clinical practice of the Medical School is not even included in the statistics that I Africa followed. Reference was made to a installation is, a not an cited. Further, the current computer system obviously, capital expense, study of the issue in the fall of 1981 by an ad operating budget expense. Finally, the Faculty Senate budget increased this year by only $1,100, or hoc Council committee chaired by Professor 7% of its current expenses budget, and even this minute increase was almost covered by a reduction Houston Baker and the endorsement by the in the salary budget of the Senate. The office also received a one-year ad hoc appropriation of $ 1,800 Council of the committee's recommendation for divestment. was voiced for the in order to publish the Senate Bylaws this year (if they are ready for publication), a $4,000 fund for Support Council in November to act on a resolution to faculty relations for special purposes and $6,000 for computer equipment. These items can hardly divest. A resolution from GAPSA to consti- qualify as regular Faculty Senate budget items. tute discussion groups to take up specific top- It seems that the Administration that some review is needed of the of agrees major pattern ics relating to the issue (Almanac. October 15) resource allocation at Penn. I hope we will soon focus on this important objective and we will avoid was introduced but was tabled to the next being detracted by minute items as the ones discussed above. meeting. -Robert G. Lorndale, Secretary of the Council

College Fair Representatives from over 400 col- The Nobel Prizewinner as Undergraduate leges, universities, and technical schools will come was born in New Melvin" Goldstein's to Philadelphia CivicCenter on October 29 and 30 "Magnificent probation for the 1985 York on April 13, 1941, and entered Penn as a and how the staff for the Philadelphia National College Fair, remaining regrouped one of the in the freshman from Cheltenham School in largest country. More than 15,000 High bloody-but-unbowed comeback. school students 1958. He was the Proctor and Gamble Schol- high and their parents are expected The editor-in-chief of the comeback was to meet with admissions counselors from institu- holder for his four arship undergraduate years, Michael S. Brown, sometime sportswriter tions as near as Penn and as far as Chami- Junior Distinction in 1961, the David away winning (1958-61) and 1961-62 features editor under nade University of Honolulu, Hawaii and Hebrew L. Drabkin Prize in Biochemistry in 1962, and Goldstein. For a hectic week, until the new University of Israel. The Fair will run from 9 election to both Phi Beta Kappa and its pre- Board took over as scheduled, he led a daily a.m.-I p.m. both days and 5-9 p.m. onTuesday; it med counterpart, Alpha Epsilon Delta. He was stripped of its funding by an 18-1 vote of the is open to the public free of charge. a Tau Epsilon Phi who edited the Founder's Men's Student Government (and thus was the Day Magazine, helped out at WXPN, worked D.P. started bumpily on the road to financial part-time during the term, and worked sum- independence that culminated in last year's mers. But, the Nobel laureate recalls 20-odd 100th anniversary announcement on phased in- years later, "I really devoted about 80% ofmy corporation). 3601 Locust Walk. Pa. 19104-6224 undergraduate career to that Philadelphia, newspaper." In Dallas last Dr. Brown called (215) 898-5274 or 5275. That newspaper? Mike Brown was on the Friday, D.P. staff of all time. The those weeks in 1962 "the second most excit- one whose issue The University of 's journal of record and opinion is ing time of my life, next to this last week." the was confiscated. The one that was suspended published Tuesdays during academic year and as needed the Dean of Men. The one that during summer and holiday breaks. Guidelines for readers and by came back a A look at his comeback issue of March 2, contributors are available on request. week later (after a nationwide furore over free- 1962, shows a note of thanks to Drs. Elizabeth EDITORKaren dom ofthe press) with the cheerfully impudent Flower, Morton Keller, Glenn Morrow and C. Gaines ASSISTANT EDITOR Marguerite F. Miller As we were we were so Hiz with sister student EDITORIAL ASSISTANT saying before rudely Henry (along newspa- Mary Corbett interrupted. . . and went on with Part II ofthe pers and a University Committee on Civil Lib- STUDENT ASSISTANTS Catherine E. Clark. Mary A. Downes, Leah C. Gardiner, Michael S. Markowitz, John J. very editorial ("Abolish Student Govern- erties) for supporting freedom of the press. For Neumann, Leonard S. Perlman ment") that had prompted the Dean to suspend their "efforts to bring about a rational settle- ALMANAC ADVISORY BOARD Chair. Arnold Thackray; Linda the two weeks before a of boards ment," it cites four Brodkey, Lucienne Frappier-Mazur, Henry Hiz. Alfred Rieber, paper change faculty negotiators: Drs. Roger D. Soloway. Anthony R. Tomazinis. Michael Zuckerman, was due. The one that D.P. staffs still cele- Edward Janosik, William Loucks, Malcolm for the Faculty Senate; ... William G. Owen for the Administra- tion: Carol Carr for the Librarians John brate annually by publishing a joke issue-on Preston-and the acting interim editor's future ... Assembly:.. Hayden for the Administrative Assembly; ... Joseph Kane for the A-3 any day but April 1-with a ritual retelling of fellow Nobelist, Lawrence Klein. Assembly.

2 A LMA NAC October 22, 1985

Speaking Out

offended. And it is important for us to start authority over you not the people you meet Corrections from the Chair thinking about ways of establishing a behav- on the street who say something to you). That kind of Following is Dr. Anthony Toinazinis' own ioral pattern, interaction among ourselves meticulousness, I submit, is transcription of his remarks a: Council on which takes the sting out and makes civil missing. In other words, we October 9. His first passage below replaces behavior possible, and a pleasant one. What need accuracy of the numbers, and also we his first comments on page 6 of Almanac, is harassment? Well I have a daughter who is do not need 80 and 90% in order to do October 15. In the second section he presents here. So. she goes to a class or to an office something about it. Smaller percentages, like a discussion that Almanac alluded to but did and hears a sequence of dirty jokes. You 10%. are enough to convince us that some- not in on that give full page. The third consists laugh with the first one; the second one is thing needs to be done, to do something a lost in of paragraph inadvertently retyping terrible, in bad taste; at the third, one would about it on the campus. the October 15 I transcript; regret the say "Oh for God's sake stop it!" Now what omission-K.C.G. I'm going to do? Is that harassment or it is 3. wing Dr. Fine. 6. wlunm not? Is it what? Is the unwanted part of it? (1611o page 3). I. Dr. Stern. 6, column Dr. Tomazinis: Michelle, talk following p. 1). Well it is the insensitivity that makes people you about that I don't mention. There was no Dr. Toniazinis I have a feeling that this do this. If you don't believe my daughter. I things report has been very helpful for the simple have heard terrible, tastelessjokes myself, trivialization. I am talking about the exag- reason that it has revealed that there is are and I consider it an abuse to me, too. And I geration of the case. I'm not telling you that large number of female members of this bet every one of us has. I think the essence is it's not important. The feeling is important. community who feel offended daily for one that we must invest sensitivity to establish and the feeling is there. It is clear. But with reason or another. I accept the point that norms of behavior which reduce the offense. Table 6 you had made your point right there. many times the offense is not intended at all. Now, the second thing I would say, is that But the is there, and said so. In we must make the efforts; and that this is to feeling they How Many "Rapists" on Campus? Table 6 there is a tremendous preponderance be done by ourselves. Let's not establish a Almanac of October IS. 1985. quotes from of people who say "Yes there is harassment." police state in this university, which says that the tape of the meeting of Council on I don't think they are the only ones. I have anyone who says a dirty joke a day, by the October 9 that Professor Anthony Tomazi- been harassed many times myself by time he or she tells the third joke, out you go nis, chair of the Faculty Senate, said "How- unwanted jokes and discussions, and com- from this university. Or by the time you ask ever we cut it, they were so worried, it seems ments which really displeased and infuriated the third girl for a date and she says no, out to me. to make a point that they exaggerated me. Oh, yes, that's harassment, that's abuse you go. (Laughter.) So we must make sure the point ... I read the letter by Professor of my freedom, I I have been in that the corrective actions start from where thought. and Professor Davies which concludes that if meetings which were absolutely gory, offen- the offense starts, the individual, which you extend this number there are 77 rapes a sive, with people with terrible mannerisms means in each one of us. year on this campus. And who is appre- who were even producing body odors; who hended? No one. So we have got, what were absolutely offensive and abusing my 2. Dr. Stern. 6. column 500? A thousand? loose civil We are in essence, the (following page 2). rapists running rights. sensing, around here. And there are 249 other need of a new civil norm or civic norm, a Dr. Tomazinls: It's not my perception. Mark. The of the affects assaults? If you multiply every year, we have new norm of behavior on our campus. I quality questionnaire... a couple of thousand real criminals among have to disagree in terms of numbers with the result, the perception of the person. If the are us. I cannot accept that. That's too many. my esteemed colleagues, Dr. deCani, and questions not random, but are directed to one we And that's why I take issue with the numbers Professor Sagi. In my class I would throw goal know -we have a hundred of in the survey." this questionnaire out. I had to go to the years statistical research and we know-- that if Now Dr. Soloway (Almanac page 5. questionnaire to find out whether it was a you ask a question in one way the answer will come the October IS. 1985) said he found the "report cooked up questionnaire. In marketing, way you expect. They will what (of the Committee to Survey Harassment, some of you have taken marketing courses, guess you want and they answer that We know this, Almanac Supplement September 24. 1985) if I go and I say: would you like to ride a way. we have failure alter failure in the field of very difficult to follow" and assumed that dirty, offensive, terrible subway to down- marketing of those who didn't this many people also did. It appears that Dr. town? 99C/0 say: NO. Would you like to ride respect fundamental rule. The built-in is Tomazinis is included in this group. The the subway downtown? 50% would say yes. expectation there .... If instead of 80 or of the women number 77 in our letter (Almanac. October If I say: would you like to ride a beautiful 90% feeling offended, that had been I, 1985) was calculated on the assumption of quiet, aromatic, with coffee service subway they harassed, we had only in book it would have been .no nonresponse bias" for the 12.417 women to downtown. 90% would say yes. If I were 10%. my because of students, fac!ulty and staffat the University to start producing plans and say (if I had the extremely important they are IOc/c women who are harassed. That's too at the time of the survey. It is not the first survey only) No subways it would not feeling number of "rapes" per rear, but rather the be right. This is what has been done here. many. The 80% is superfluous, it is not needed. But the of the is not calculated number of cases of aneinpied rape However we cut it, they were so worried, it quality survey or sexual assault "for five years or the total seems to me, to make the point that they what it should be. Now. I hate to bring this time at Penn, whichever was least." the I was sur- point up. Table 2 is based on question 6 of Similarly exaggerated point. terribly the number 249 does not refer to "other prised when I read the letter by Professor the questionnaire, which asks simply about assaults," but to "women to and Professor Davies which concludes that if people of authority. However, there is exposed unwanted for sexual favors. extend these numbers there are 77 another question, which is question 8, which pressure you rapes for the same as stated in our letter a on this And who is asks about people of authority over you. period, year campus. appre- also the last of section hended? No one. So we have what? 500, a Now that's an extremely important differ- (see paragraph V, VIII, of the It follows that the thousand, loose around here? ence, because people of authority start from page report). rapists running numbers "500?, a thousand? loose And then 249 other assaults. If the doorman to the president of the Univer- rapists you multiply "and "a of thousand real crimi- the number we have a of sity. So if I hear ajoke by a doorman who couple every year, couple nals us" are all based on thousand real criminals us! I cannot has some authority in his own area but has among misappre- among hensions. In case on his incorrect that. I think that's too The nothing to do with me. I react differently. I any accept many. this number "a of thou- numbers are too and that's I would call him out to keep quiet, in other words. assumptions couple big why sand real criminals" would be 77 249, take issue with the numbers of the But not to report at the same time the differ- plus survey. i.e. 326 cases of "assault" for each of over 6 But the survey did reveal the essence of it. ence between people of authority and people This is another and Which is that we have a of of authority over you, which really does state years. exaggeration large group assumes that each case was female members of this and what the responsibility is (the University is perpetrated by community, "criminals." responsible for harassment with separate some males of the community, who are by people (continued next page)

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There is good reason to believe that many and hatred is itself a racist position. The/u//owing commendation and resolution were unanimous/v a: the October /6. of the attempted rapes, sexual assaults and -Morris Hamburg. Professor Statistics passed of statement the unwanted pressures for sexual favors are the and Operations Research 1985 GA PSA meeting. The of Penn Coalition actions of a much smaller number of repeti- Anti-Apartheid (Almanac, October /5,) was also endorsed h GA PSA. tive harassers (e.g. in Almanac February 19, 1985. the Ombudsman's Office reports 21 GAPSA Commendation complaints against 14 persons). Free Speech The members of the Graduate and Profes- If, in fact, his are the reason figures why Regarding the recent public lecture by sional Student Assembly would like to Dr. Tomazinis took "issue with the numbers Jamil Muhammad, the Senate Executive commend Professors John deCani. Phil in the he should now recon- survey", perhaps Committee says, in effect, "We believe in Sagi. Michelle Fine, and Mark Stern, Dr. sider his The situation is bad position. freedom of speech, but. Barry Cooperman, and Ms. Judy Gerstl for without these, inadvertent, enough surely Those are scary words. One never has to their hard work and dedication to the com- that led him to the exaggerations reject worry about the right of free speech so much pletion of a thorough and accurate survey of numbers in both the and in our letter. report as when someone invokes it only to then the presence of sexual harassment on the We stand by our original calculations and narrow it. Penn campus. The Survey on Sexual conclusions the extent of concerning Why, when you get right down to it, did Harassment Report currently under discus- harassment and note that the itself survey our colleagues on the committee feel that sion in many areas of the Penn community includes not even one case of rape reported they had to issue a formal statement of their would not have been possible without the the a situation that we know by respondents, views on Muhammad's speech? He had the guidance, involvement, supervision and con- under-estimates the rate for the as a campus right to give it and the rest of us, one hopes, cern for these faculty members, administra- whole. have occurred and Rapes many raped have the to form our own opinions tors, and staff, and we believe they deserve women refuse to discuss or report the event of it. many thanks for a job well done. until years later, if ever. -James C'. Davis. Professor of History -Helen C. Davies. Professorof Microbiology GAPSA Resolution -Robert E. Davies. Benjamin Frank/in The members of the Graduate and Profes- Professor Molecular Biology of sional Student Assembly request that the and University Professor Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania Use of Heartland? Campus immediately agree to divest the University The University's plans to build an execu- within one of stocks now held with Dr. Tomazinis thanked the Pro- year any Response: tive conference center for the Wharton that are business fessors Davies for their clarification and said companies actively doing School at Thirty-eighth Street and Locust within the country of South Africa. We that he intends to discuss the survey further in court Walk are now being challenged make this request based on: next week. II, (Daily Pennsylvanian. October 1985, p. I) our repugnance of the South African sys- I). and we should seize this opportunity to tem of apartheid. reevaluate the project. The question is 2) our belief that U.S. companies in South Insinuation whether the last buildable lot of the Universi- Africa do not have a good track record of In the October 8, 1985 Almanac. Profes- ty's "main street" should be given over to a improving living and working conditions for hotel, recreation res- black, colored, and indian South Africans, sor Houston A. Baker, Jr. and a group of self-contained facility, education center for our belief that the of South colleagues criticized the Faculty Senate taurant, and continuing 3) government While I am to believe Africa will continue to enforce its policies of Executive Committee's (SEC) passage of a businessmen. willing apartheid until it feels a significant economic resolution deploring the recent speech made that the executives might appreciate living to the of our handsome blow from the withdraw[ of U.S. funds and by Jamil Muhammad on this campus. Evi- close center campus companies. reasonable differ on (and while the attachments they would thus dently, people might 4) that the University community has a whether it was advisable for SEC to the develop might help the Wharton School's pass moral responsibility to support the develop- as is attested to the close fund-raising efforts), it seems that there is lit- resolution by very ment and growth of humane systems of vote taken SEC. As a member of tle programmatic reason for them to be (13:12) by government in which racism is not the basis for located there. The executive center could SEC who voted with the majority, I am sad- go allocating resources, employment opportunities, elsewhere at the and dened by the following statement made by (perhaps lovely sadly housing, education, and other necessities for Professor Baker and others: underused Divinity School site), or, as the decent human life. lawsuit it not be needed at all. "We can only conclude that this SEC resolu- suggests, may We also request that in addition to di- tion regarding this particular speaker reflects In either case, a research university in a land- vestment, the University acknowledge its a degree of morally abject selectivity that is starved urban environment should certainly moral responsibility to support the develop- consistent with a history of institutional dedicate its heartland to functions which are ment of humane systems of government and racism." more essential to its work and which more establish a Task Force of knowledgeable I am hurt and offended by my colleagues' appropriately symbolize its central mission. university members to develop a set of mea- of a insinuation that SEC'S condemnation -David B. Brown/ce, Associate Profrssor sures that the University and its members that contained statements of speech bigotry of History of Art can take to counter apartheid.

Addendum Statement to "The Evolution of Penn's Selective Divestment Policy" (Almanac. September IZ /985) As requested by theTrustee'sCommittee on University Responsibility, the Almanac on September 17, 1985. Office of Investments periodically reviews the University's equity investments The relevant statistics are shown in the table below. to identify companiesconducting business in South Africa and their rating of The this has been a of South African SouthAfrican adherenceto the Sullivan Principles. basis for screening Sutilvan Shares Market %of Total Assets se % Revenues as % equity investments against the list of companies and their relevant Sullivan Rating' Held Cost Value Investments of Total Azuets of Total Revenues Principle ratings contained in "The Report on the Signatory Companies to 324,000 13,945,177 18,954,000 2.34 N/A 1.00 the Sullivan distributed each fall Arthur D. Little, Inc. This Principles" by 'The Sullivan Principles apply to companiesdomiciled in the united States. Royal Dutch Petro- report deals essentially with companies domiciled in the United States. But leum Company conforms to the EEC (European Economic Community) guidelines which are the Trustees'policy of selectivedivestment covers allcompanies notjust those similar to the Sullivan Principles. domiciled in the United States. Therefore, the University's ownership of the common stock of Royal Dutch Petroleum Company, a company incorpo- The University also holds shares of one other company domiciled outside rated in the Netherlands, which conducts business in South Africa, should the United States that does business in South Africa. The market value of this have been included in the table of Equity Investmentsthat was published in investment is substantially less than $20,000.

A LMANA C October 22. 1985

COUNCIL

1984-85 Annual Report Of The Steering Committee This is the sixth annual report of the Steering Committee of the locate appropriate universities abroad at which to work during scholarly University Council, prepared in accordance with a requirement in the leaves. It was recognized that Penn students wishingto study abroad are bylaws that: "The Steering Committee shall publish an annual report to at times thwarted by their own departments not accepting credit from of the University community. This report, to be published early in the foreign universities preferred and that the solution is the expansion academic year, shall include a review of the previous year's Council University-sponsored programs at foreign universities. President Hack- deliberations (highlighting both significant discussions and the formal ney led discussion of the planning paper. "Investing in Penn's Future." votes taken on matters of substance) and a survey of major issues to be He confirmed that, in redrafting the paper, more emphasis will be given taken up by Council during the coming year." to the importance of strong departments as the underpinnings for the that are stressed in the document. October Meeting interdisciplinary programs The Council commissioned an ad hoc committee to review the Charter March Meeting of the Student Judicial System that had been placed in effect as of the The sole agenda item, apart from the routine reports, was discussion of 1984-85 academic year. It discussed issue papers on alcohol use policy "Racial and Ethnic Diversity in a Humane Society." In the absence ofa and adraft policy prepared by the Alcohol Use Committee: a number of quorum, straw votes were taken on a series of resolutions upon which the suggestions for modifications were made. It adopted a resolution sup- discussion focused. The voting: a) endorsed continued, direct negotia- porting student participation in the national elections and urging faculty tions between students and the University Administration in relation to members to devote class time discussing the importance of voting and recent allegations of racial harassment on campus: b) endorsed the announcing the locations of area polling places. Initialconsideration was appointment of a committee to draft a policy on racial harassment: c) given to the second interim report of the Task Force on Conduct and endorsed the implementation of earlier plans to strengthen Black Pres- Misconduct. ence: d) asked for the suspension of Murray Dolfman. Wharton School November Meeting lecturer, with pay. The Council adopted a resolution calling for increased graduate! pro- April Meeting fessional student involvement in the academic planning process, with A report prepared by the Undergraduate Assembly on the operation specific attention to consultation when retrenchment or reorganization of the Code of Academic Integrity ("Honor Code") was discussed. The are to be considered. Discussion of the report of the Task Force on report set forth the findings that not enough students fear the consequen- Conduct and Misconduct was continued. In consideration of the ces of cheating or know that an Honor Code exists at Penn, not enough recommendation by the task force that a survey on harassment on faculty members and students abide by the code, and not all ofthe cases campus be conducted, the points were made that the crux of the issue was of cheating are reported. The report's recommendation for more tho- to reach solutions to the problem, that facts that could only be provided rough dissemination of the Code and potential punishments under the by a survey were a prerequisite to the framing of remedies,and that it was Code and for more frequent reminders to faculty members and students essential that the survey be conducted impartially and scientifically. A were generally endorsed. Suggestions were made that some faculty resolution asking the vice provost for research to conduct a survey of members hesitate to use the Code because of its technical nature, that sexual harassment and harassment because of race, religion, or affec- entering students should be required to sign a pledge that they will abide tional preference was adopted. by the Code, and that an attempt should be made to determine the reasons for All of the comments made in discussion of the December Meeting cheating. SCUE "White Paper" on undergraduate education were supportive. Vice President for Administration Gary J. Posner gave a report on safety and security on campus. He cited a decreasing crime rate, services May Meeting offered by Public Safety, physical measures being taken such as with A proposed amendment to the bylaws to broaden the charge to the lighting and emergency telephones, and the need to heighten awareness. International Programs Committee was adopted. A second proposed Much of the ensuing discussion focused on the adequacy of the Escort amendment to enlarge the Council membership to include the heads of Service, both as to time for response and availability in theearly morning the Interfraternity Council and United Minorities Council was with- hours. The Council discussed the recommendation by the Task Force on drawn. A progress report was presented by the Committee on Student Conduct and Misconduct that questions regarding discrimination and Affairs on its investigation of the status of faculty-student interaction harassment be included in the course evaluation forms. Little supportfor undertaken at the request of, the Council. The report indicated that the proposal was voiced. interaction is considerably better at the graduate! professional level than similar to the at January Meeting at the undergraduate level but is probably experience peer institutions for both levels. The committee will continue its work The Council was advised that the Steering Committee had postponed and will cooperate withthe seminars on faculty-student interaction being further discussion of the report of the Task Force on Conduct and conducted by the vice provost for university life. The report of the Ad Misconduct until the results of the survey on harassment are in and Hoc Committee to Evaluate the Fall Break was discussed. The report perhaps until the report of the Senate ad hoc Committee on Behavioral concluded that last year's experimental break was a success and recom- Standards has been completed. The Council adopted an amendment to mended that next fall's two-day break be evaluated and that a decision on the bylaws revising the charge to the Community Relations Committee whether to make the break permanent be made early in the 1985-86 year. to give the chaircognizance of pending real estate activities of concern to The committee was asked to conduct the evaluation and to make early the committee through regular consultation with the senior vice presi- recommendations accordingly. Vice Provost Bishop introduced a new dent. Followingdiscussion of the decision by the Trustees to limit to one draft policy on alcohol use noting that the Alcohol Concerns Committee year the service of student liaisons on Trustee committees, a resolution had been at work for three years and had produced a number of supporting the creation of a task force to study the student liaison role successive drafts reflecting suggestions made by the Council and other was adopted. Vice Provost Barry Cooperman described a dialogue held groups and individuals. The comments by Council members generally on January 15 regarding laboratory animal rights, and Dr. Moshe supported the draft. Shalev, director of the Division of Laboratory Medicine, outlined the 1985-86 Council Agenda procedures followed when investigators propose research involving animals. Issues which are seen by the Steering Committee as likely agenda items for this adademic year are the survey on harassment and policy on sexual February Meeting harassment, investments involving South Africa, Task Force on Conduct Dr. director of international described Joyce Randolph, programs, and Misconduct, fall break, student judicial system, faculty-student was in the Penn's international activities. In discussion, interest expressed interaction, and possibly liaisons on Trustee committee, racial and ethnic role of the International Office in membersto Programs assisting faculty diversity, and Honor Code.

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Following is the text released in Washington, D.C. Friday, October 4.

NIH Decision on the Grant-Supported Experimental Head Injury Laboratory The National Institutes of Health has determined that the University of Manadatory Conditions Set Head has not been in com- Pennsylvania's Experimental Injury Laboratory Because of the Laboratory's failure to comply with the PHS policy, the with the Public Health Service's animal welfare As a result of pliance policy. NIH has set several conditions that must be met before it will consider any this decision, the must meet several conditions before NIH will University request for further funding of the project involving baboons or other non- consider to resume for the research any request funding Laboratory's project human primates: baboons and other non-human involving primates. I. The University of Pennsylvania shallfile a new animal welfareassurance and forthis were on 18 on the basis Federalgrant funds project suspended July obtain approval from the NIH forallof itsanimal research facilities and practices, of a preliminary report by NI H's Office for Protection from Research Risks in accordance with the more restrictive recent revisions of the PHS animal welfare (OPRR). HHS Secretary Margaret Hecklerdirected the NIH to suspend the policy. Priorto anyconsideration for theapproval of the assurancedocument, the funding, and NIH Director James B. Wyngaarden ordered an immediate NIH shall conduct a site visit to assess whether the University's programs and for the care and use of animals are consonant with the suspension of funds relating to non-human primate research. facilities laboratory of the PHS and the assurance. 4, announcement comes after Dr. Wyngaarden requirements policy University's Today's [October 1985] 2. The of shall evidence that the concurred with all recommendations made an NIH executive committee University Pennsylvania provide University, by its institutional animal care and usecommittee, hasremedied all headed Dr. William F. Raub, Director for Extramural Research through unaccep- by Deputy table practices involving research animals(as described in the OPRR report). As and Training. part of the process of evaluating the evidence submitted by the University. NIH the The committee based its findings and recommendations primarily on will conduct a full inspection of the Experimental Head Injury Laboratory. This OPRR report ofJuly 17 (Evaluation of Experimental Procedures Conducted inspection would include assessment of the adequacy of implementing the at the University of Pennsylvania Experimental Head Injury Laboratory research protocol and complying with the PHS policy. 1981-1984 in Light of the Public Health Service Animal Welfare Policy) and 3. The University of Pennsylvania shall provide the NIH with evidence from the U.S. of that its the to the of Pennsylvania responses to the OPRR report. Department Agriculture charges against University relating University the Animal Welfare Act have been resolved. In its recommendations to Dr. the committee fully making Wyngaarden, The site visit and assessment associated with the first of these conditions stressed the importance of head injury as anational health problem, the need must occur, whether or not the University decides to seek resumption of for head injury research, and the significance of contributions from the funding for the studies of experimental head injury involving nonhuman University of Pennsylvania Head Injury Clinical Research Center. However, primates. The first condition appliesto all PH S-fundedanimal experimenta- the committee noted several deficiencies in the way the studies were tion at the University and the assessment could lead to funding restrictions on performed. or suspension/termination of other awards if the OPRR finds additional Although the committee was fully convinced that the Laboratory's pro- instances of noncompliance. posed procedures involving animals, if implemented as described, would In the event that all of the foregoing conditions are satisfied fully and the have been appropriate and would have produced valuable scientific data, the National Instituteof Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke committee accepted unanimously the conclusion that the Laboratory's elects to resume funding of the University's research on experimental head research involving animals was conducted in a manner that "failed mate- injuries in nonhuman primates, the following special conditions shall obtain rially" to comply with PHS policy. for a period of five years: NIH'S National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders I. NINCDS scientific and technical merit site visits to the Laboratory shall and Stroke (NINCDS) has been both clinical and laboratory supporting include a veterinarian trained in laboratory animal science who shall, together research at the of Head Clinical projects University Pennsylvania's Injury with the othersite visitors, determineanddocument that procedures and practices Research Center under Grant No. P01 NS 08803. The non-human primate in the Laboratory meet thestandards set forth in the Guidefor the Care and Use of model has been being explored extensively at the Center's Experimental Laboratory Animals. Head Injury Laboratory to derive information applicable to human injuries. 2. All videotapes of research in the Laboratory shall be provided to NINCDS on a basis. NINCDS shall evaluate the for with the Using this model, specific trauma can be reproduced in a reliable way, quarterly tapes compliance standards of the Guide, and the results of that evaluation to OPRR. enabling investigators to differentiatethe effects of destructionof nerve report 3. The University of Pennsylvania shall be formally notified that a U.S. cells in localized areas from the effects due to diffuse brain damage. Department of Agriculture determination of violation of the Animal Welfare Act Areas of Non-Compliance shall result in the automatic suspension of the institution's PHS animal welfare assurance, or thereof, as determined OPRR. Based on all the evidence, including the University's responses, the com- portions by 4. OPRR shall conduct unannounced inspections of the Laboratory to assess mittee noted several areas where laboratory procedures were not in confor- compliance with the PHS policy. mance with the NI H Guidefor the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, an integral part of the PHS animal welfare policy: Original Complaint and NIH's Investigation *Management of anesthesia, analgesia and sedation for research The initial complaint against the research was lodged by an animal rights animals-The committee concluded that the weight of evidence points to at group, which had in its possession copies of approximately 60 hours of least a few instances of inadequate pharmacologic management of the anim- videotape documenting research in the Pennsylvania Experimental Head als. This conclusion is reinforced by the adjudged inadequacies with respect Injury Laboratory. The original tapes were stolen from the Laboratory in to the training and supervision of laboratory personnel. (The University has May 1984 when individuals claiming to represent the Animal Liberation challenged this area of the OPRR report.) Front broke into the Laboratory, damaged equipment and destroyed *Adequacy of techniques used to achieve a sterile environment-Survival records. surgery was conducted in a facility that is not equipped for aspetic surgery. NIH's investigation of these allegations had been impeded for almost a Procedures were carried out in the absense of aseptic techniques. year by the unwillingness of this animal rights group to give NIH uncondi- *Adequacv of the laboratory environment and occupational health tional possession of complete copies of the unaltered videotapes. Copies of program-Staff members failed to maintain high standards of cleanliness, to the tapes were finally turned over to the NI H in successive installments wear appropriate laboratory clothing and to refrain from eating, smokingor between May 14 and 23, 1985, by the Department of Agriculture, which had drinking during the conduct of laboratory experiments involving animals. received them from the animal rights group during April and early May. *Supervision andtraining oflahoraton' personnel-Experiments involv- In preparing its report, OPRR depended upon advisors, both Federal and ing animals were not performed under the immediate supervision of a outside experts, and reviewed four major sources of information: (I) the qualified biological or medical scientist. Assistants were either less than research protocal as described in the grant application and associated docu- adequately or improperly trained to perform important procedures involving ments; (2) approximately80 hoursof videotapes portraying experiments; (3) animals. the report of an OPRR site visit to the Experimental Head Injury Labora- *,4dequa(.v of veterinary participation in experiments-Adequate records tory; and (4) the report of an ad hoc advisory group. The OPRR concluded of health status and care of animals were not available. The staff veterinarian that the studies involving baboons at the Experimental Head Injury Labora- was not sufficiently involved in the choice of and/or use of anesthestics. tory were not conducted in compliance with the PHS animal welfare policy. analgesics and other pharmacologic agents. OPRR's report of July 17 led to the suspension of PHS grant funds.

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Nominations: Lindbacks/Health Lindback Awards for Distinguished Teaching The Deans ofthe health schools will wel- come nominations for the 1985-86 awards 1985-86 from faculty members and students. Nomi- nations and supporting materials, including The Lindback Awards are presented annu- these awards from schools or departments, a current curriculum vitae, comments from ally to eight members of the Pennsylvania individual students, and student groups, faculty faculty and students concerning the nomi- faculty in recognition of their distinguished members, or alumni. nee's teaching ability and any quantitative contributions to teaching. They are open to Nominations should be submitted to the data on the nominee's teaching activities teachers of undergraduates and graduate stu- Committee on Distinguished Teaching, 112 should be sent to the school's Lindback dents in both the professional schools and the College Hall/CO. .io the attention of Con- committee. Each school committee is com- arts and sciences. stance C. Goodman. They should be in the prised offaculty and students who will nom- Four awards each year go to faculty in the form ofa letter, citing those qualities that make inate up to four individuals for awards. The non-health areas (i.e., F.A.S., Wharton, Engi- the nominee an outstanding teacher. It is par- dossiers of the school candidates are due in neering, Law, Education, Social Work, Fine ticularly important toinclude the nominee's full the Office of the Vice President for Health Arts and Annenberg School of Communica- name, department and rank; how you know Affairs on March 3, 1986. The Vice Presi- tions). The Committee onDistinguished Teach- the nominee; and your name, address and dent for Health Affairs then appoints an ad ing, appointed by the Vice Provost for Univer- phone number. Additional supporting evi- hoc committee drawn from the school sity Life on behalf of the Provost, is charged dence, in the form ofstatistical surveys, curric- committees to choose the recipients from with presenting the Provost's Staff Conference ulavitae, list ofcoursestaught, etc., will also be among the candidates. with eight final candidates from which these helpful to the Committee in its selection pro- -Office of the Vice President four non-health area winners are chosen. The cess. Nominations open Monday. October 28, For Health Affairs Committee now welcomes nominations for and will close on Friday, December 6.

Criteria and Guidelines for the Lindback Awards In the Non-Health Areas 1985-86

I. The Lindback Awards are given in recog- solely at letters of recommendation from stu- standing faculty The teaching activities for nition of distinguished teaching. "Distin- dents. It is not enough to consider "objective" which the Awards are granted must be compo- guished" teaching is teaching that is intellectu- evaluations of particular classes in tabulated nents ofthe degree programs of the University ally demanding, unusually coherent, and per- form; a faculty members's influence extends of Pennsylvania. individual manent in its effect. The distinguished teacher beyond the classroom and beyond 7. The awards should recognize excellence in to look at a has the capability ofchanging the way in which classes. Nor is it enough only either undergraduate or graduate! professional students view the subject they are studying.The candidates's most recent semester or at opin- teaching or both. distinguished teacher provides the basis for ions expressed immediately after a course is 8. The recipient ofa Lindback Award should students to look withcritical and informed per- over, the influence of the best teachers lasts be a teacher-scholar. While a long bibliography ception at thefundamentals ofa discipline, and while that of others may be great at first but is not necessarily the mark of a fine mind, nor he!she relates this discipline to other disciplines lessen over time. It is not enough merely to the lack of one a sign of mediocrity, it is legiti- and to the world view of the student. The dis- gauge student adulation, for its basis is superfi- mate to look for an active relationship between tinguished teacher is accessible to students and cial; but neither should such feelings be dis- a candidate's teaching and the current state of open to new ideas, but also expresses his/her counted as unworthy of investigation. Rather, scholarship in his/her field. own views with articulate conviction and is all of these factors and more, should enter into 9. The process ofselecting the four Lindback willing to lead students, with a combination of the identification and assessment of distin- Awards in the non-health areas (i.e. FAS, clarity and challenge, to an informed under- guished teaching. Wharton, Engineering, Law, Social Work, Fine standing of an academic field. The distin- 4. The Lindback Awards have a symbolic Arts, Education, and Annenberg) is initiated guished teacher is fair, free from prejudice, and importance that transcends the recognition of yearly when the Committee on Distinguished to single-minded in the pursuit of truth. individual merit. They should be used Teaching is appointed by the Vice Provost for 2. Distinguished teaching means different advance effective teaching by serving as remin- University Life on behalf of the Provost. The things in different fields. While the distin- ders to as wide a spectrum of the University committee is drawn from the non-health of guished teacher should be versatile, as much at community as possible of the expectations schools. It is composed offive Lindback Award home in large groups as in small, and in begin- the Univerity for the quality of its mission. recipients, three graduate and professional stu- ningclasses as in advanced, he orshe may have 5. Distinguished teaching occurs in all parts dents, and two undergraduates. The Chairper- members skills of special importance to his/her area of ofthe University, and therefore faculty son is one of the faculty members and is specialization. SkilIfull direction ofdissertation from all schools are eligible for consideration. appointed by the Vice Provost. The Committee an students, effective supervision ofstudent resear- An excellent teacher who does not receive solicits nominations from the University com- chers, ability to organize alargecourse ofmany award in a given year may be re-nominated in munity and reviews the documents submitted, award then. sections, skill in leading seminars, special talent some future year and receive the producing a list of not more than eight nomi- with large classes, ability to handle discussions 6. The Lindback Awards may be awarded to nees, in ranked order when the Committee has or to structure lectures-these are all relevant faculty members who have many years of ser- agreed-upon preferences. attributes, although it is unlikely that anyone vice remaining, or they may recognize many 10. The Provost then reviews the list, receives will excel in all of them. years of service already expended. No faculty advice from the several Deans concerning dis- the Lindback Awardin a 3. Distinguished teaching is recognized and maybe consideredfor tribution of the Awards among schools, and recorded in many ways; evaluation must also year in which the member is considered for makes final designations from it. take several forms. It is not enought to look tenure. Allnominees shouldbe members ofthe

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luating the Options. Patricia M. Danzon, asso- ON STAGE ciate professor of health care systems and insu- rance, Wharton: 4:30-6:30 p.m., Colonial Penn OCTOBER ON CAMPUS 30 Mask and Wig's Fall Show: Eat Wit and Die. Center Auditorium (LDI Research and Policy Update 8 p.m. and October 31-November 2. 7 and 9:30 Seminar Series). p.m. Tickets $4 and $4.50: Houston Hall Audito- Christian-Muslin, Relations in Egypt. William rium. Call 662-0122 for ticket information. Soliman Kilada, vice president, Egyptian State CONFERENCES Council, Cairo: 4:30-6 p.m., 4th floor lounge, Wil- liams Hall (M EC and Religious Studies). 25 Zenger Svnzposium: an all day program SPECIAL EVENTS exploring contemporary issues in libel law and 25 Regulation of Protein Kinases and Cellular of the the 250th Proliferation by Transforming Products. freedom press, commemorating Dedication the Furness Building as a of the noted trial. 9 a.m., 23 of Dr. Raymond Erikson, department of cellular and anniversary Zenger National Landmark, a bronze will be General plaque Harvard 11:30 Annenberg School of Communications. unveiled and a certificate will be to developmental biology, University, Admission: interest senior presented a.m., 196 Med Labs Building (Microbiology $125: public lawyers, GSFA Dean Lee Copeland James W. Cole- citizens, and recent $50; students free. by Graduate Group). graduates. man.Jr., director, National Park Service. Call the Bar Association. 686-1776 (Law School, regional Pieter Breughel, James of art Mid-Atlantic 2 p.m., portico of Furness Snyder, professor School of Communications. Phila- Region, history. Bryn Mawr College; 8p.m., Room B-21. Annenberg Building. delphia Bar Association). Stiteler Hall (Dutch Studies Program). Careful, He Might Hear You: Dr. MarIa 28 Folk Literature and the Mass Media in Issacs of the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic 28 Today's Brazil. Candice Slater, and Por- will lead a question and answer session alter a free Spanish FILMS of . screening of the award-winning Australian film tuguese department, University Berkeley: 4 p.m., Room 237. Houston Hall (The One Da, in the Life Ivan Denisovich, aboutthe effects of a wrenching custody battle on 25 of Tinker Lecture Series in Latin America). based on Alexander story of life in a little boy. 7:30 p.m., Studio Theatre. Annenberg Solzhenitsyn's Science and Industrial Renewal in France. a Siberian labor This film demonstrates the Center (The President's Forum on the American camp. 1850-1914; Professor Robert of failure of Russian communism, as shown by the Family). Fox. University Lancaster and School of Historical Studies, Insti- excesses of Stalinism. 8 p.m.. Room B-I. Meyer- 31 Ordinary People in Non-Ordinary Families: tute for Advanced Study; 4- 6p.m.. 107 Smith Hall son Hall. admission: $2 (GSAC Film Series). Varieties Family of Life; 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Bodek (Department of History and Sociology of 29 Master Musicians of Jahouka (Morocco), Lounge. Houston Hall (The President's Forum Science). artist and craftsmen in the Middle East. 5-6 p.m.. on the American Family). Reexamining Privacy Concepts in an Informa- 4th floor lounge. Williams Hall (MEC/Folklore tion Socieit'; Professor Spiro Simitis of Johann Film Series). Wolfgang Goethe Universitat, Frankfurt, West TALKS Germany: 4 p.m., place t.b.a., call Law School. Ext. 7483 (Thomas Jefferson Lecture Series). 23 Social Conditions and Their Relation to FITNESS/LEARNING The and Evolution Dr. Architecture: Denise Scott Brown, partner at Ven- 29 Biology of Language: Philip Lieberman, Brown University: 4:30 p.m., Career Planning and Placement turi. Rauch and Scott Brown: 6:30 p.m.. Alumni Hall, Towne Student Lecture Room 109. Annenberg School of Communica- Research; Building (GSFA 28 Careers in Consulting! Dick Series). tions(Department of Psychology). Corbet. senior research associate. Research for Preschool Children in Logo-Environments; Dr. Israeli and Better Schools: Raylene Decatur, exhibit coordi- 24 Contemporary Theater. Ideology Sheila Viadya, Drexel University, noon-1 p.m.. Politics; nator. Lynch Museum Services: Louise Root, Dr. Freddie Rokem, department of thea- Room C-34, Graduate School of Education (Liter- manager. Real Estate Advisory Services. Laven- ter studies, Hebrew University: noon. 4th floor acy Research Center. GSE). senior direc- Williams Hall EC, Liter- thol & Horwath: Jim Cohen. study lounge, (M Comparative Interaction ofAsc'c)rhic Acids and Proteins: Dr. Frank- Oriential Studies). tor, national analyst: 4:30-6 p.m.. Benjamin ature. G. Kovachich. V.A. Hospital. Philadelphia. 12:30 Hall. Call Ext. 7530 to Art and The Uneas,' Liaison; lin Room. 235 Houston Technology: Dr. p.m.. Library, Richards Building (Res- register. Cynthia Goodman, research associate, John Paul piratory Physiology Group and Department of Trust/ Solomon R. Museum: Resource Center Getty Guggenheim Anesthesiology). Computer 5:30 Science Center p.m., University City (Art-in- Beta Transforming Growth Factors: Regulator IBM Technical Overview, a series of Science 23 day long V). Growth and Phenotype. Anita Roberts, bio- 9-3:45 286 McNeil Theoretical Studies on Bioheat of presentations. p.m.. Building. Transfer, James chemist, NC!. NIH; noon, Room 404 Anatomy- W. Baish, of mechanical Macintosh Hands-on Da department engineering Chemistry Building (Department of Biochemistry 24 Apple featuring and mechanics: II am.. Alumni Hall, demonstrations, and a hands-on applied and Biophysics). presentations, Towne Building (Department of Bioengineering). area. 10 a.m.-4 286 McNeil Building. Inside Palestinian Camps in Lebanon, Dr. Bill p.m., Health Insurance the Uninsured Poor: Eva- for Beman, department of anthropology. Brown Uni- Fair, the 25 Hewlett-Packard Peripherals tryout noon. 4th floor Williams Hall a.m.-3 versity: lounge, products shown at the Computer Fair. 10 (Middle East Center). 286 McNeil p.m.. Building. that Go Things Bump: 30 Spectroscopic Probes of Muscle Protein The weekend before Dynamics. Dr. David Thomas, department of Halloween the Univer- biochemistry, University of Minnesota; noon. 4th MEETINGS sity Museum marksthe floor. Physiology Library, Richards Building upcoming holiday with Librarians of the (Department of Physiology). 23 Assembly, first meeting its Gallery Tours feat- academic 3 p.m., First Floor Conference Mummies, year, uring at 31 Human Aspects of Urban Form. Amos Room. Van Pelt Library. 1:15p.m. Saturday and Rapoport. Distinguished Professor of Architec- at Sunday beginning ture and Anthropology, University of Wisconsin- the main entrance. The Milwaukee; 6:30 p.m.. Alumni Hall, Towne Build- funcontinueson Halloweeneveat the MUSIC acultyClub's ing (GSFA Student Lecture Series). Hourglass, with a party "that's guaranteed to stir the 24 Steel Pulse and Fishbone, concert at Irvine bats out of the rafters", 5-8 p.m. complete with jazz and hors d'oeuvres (trick or treat). Auditorium. 8 p.m. Tickets: $11.50, $12.50, call complimentary Deadlines Prizes will be given forcostumes. Dinner and barare Ext. 4444(Penn Union Council and WXPN). The deadline for the calendar available. PUC presents iVosfrratu, the Vampire at 9 weekly update 26 Cheng recital with China's most distinguished p.m., in Irvine, also on October30. Then, on October entries is Monday, a week before the Tuesday of Cheng player Wang Chang-Yuan. 8p.m., Folk life 31. the Curtis Organ Restoration Society shows the publication. The deadline for the December pull- Centerof International House. Admission: $6-$7; classic Phantom of the Opera accompanied by the out calendar is Monday, November 4. Send to Call 387-5125. Ext. 219 (Folklife Center Concert Curtis Organ, at 8 and 10 p.m. in Irvine. Almanac. 3601 Locust Walk/6224 (second floor Series). ofthe Christian Association Building).

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