Tuesday, March 29, 1988 Published by the University ofPennsylvania Volume 34, Number 27 Williams Chair for Dr. Sebold... Bers Chair for Dr. Root The School ofArts and Sciences' has named fore becoming dean ofthe Graduate School of economic history, he is the author of Peasants Dr. Russell P. Sebold to the Edwin B. and Arts and Sciences and then Provost. Williams and King in Burgundy: Agrarian Foundations Lenore R. Williams Professorship inRomance Hall is also named for them. ofFrench Absolutism (University ofCalifornia languages, and Dr. HiltonL. Root to the Janice Bers Chair Dr. Hilton Root of the history Press 1987) and of two papers that won prizes and Julian Bers Assistant Professorship in the department has been named to SAS's Bers last year-the French Historial Association's social sciences. Chair, set up by a Penn trustee and his wife for "best essay in French history" and from the Dr. Sebold, who came to Penn as a full during the Campaign for the Eighties to recog- American Historical Association for"bestessay professor of Spanish literature in 1968 after nize outstanding assistant professors in the in European history." He teaches economic and teaching at Duke, Wisconsin and Maryland, social sciences. social history, French history and comparative also chaired the Romance languages depar- Dr. Root, who took his Ph.D. at Michigan, political economy in SAS, and is co-convener tment here from 1968-78, maintaining its posi- joined Penn three years ago after teaching at of the Mellon-sponsored PARSS seminar on tion as number one in U.S. graduate rankings CalTech. A scholar of French and European "Historical Data and Theories of Rational by A.C.E. and other bodies. Throughout his Choice." career at Penn he has also been general editor of the Hispanic Review, the oldest University- INSIDE affiliated Hispanic journal in this country. A frequent choice for distinguished lectureships On Safety Consultants' Reports, p. 2 hereand abroad-and ofan On Faculty Retirement Age, p. 2 recipient honorary Harassment 2 doctorate from the Universidad de Alicante in On Policies/Training, p. Council: Synopsis of March 16 Minutes, p. 2 1984-he has some 50 articles and 14 published Data on Foreign Student Enrollment, pp. 3-4 books, and presently has another book inpress For Comment: Two Reports on Penn (Bequer en sus narraciones fantasticas) and Children's Center, pp. 5-8 four in preparation. PennNet: Clarification of Costs, pp. 9-10 The Williams Chair was revealed as a gift of Of Record: Campus Vending Policy, p. 10 of Lenore Williams in Inside Penn: Guides for Faculty/Staff, p. 11 the couple on the death Death of Dr. Grossman; for in the estate she had built Update, 1984, provided CrimeStats, p. 12 with her late husband, the renowned lexico- grapher who chaired Romance languages be- Pullout: April at Penn Remembering Ormandy "Penn has never had a collection like this before," says Rare Books' Christine Ruggere of the new Ormandy Archive: 1500 marked scores and 954 taped performances where scholars can trace his thinking from concep- tion to performance; recordings, videotapes, rehearsal tapes, letters, photographs... When Gretel Ormandy chose Penn as the repository of her husband's collection, and WXPN joined in with 21 years of broadcast tapes, the obvious next question was how to make accessible a mixed-media archive cov- ering over 50 years of a towering musical career. The response of the music world is a benefit concert, coming Tuesday, April 5, at the Port of History Museum. Proceeds will go to building an exhibition space and listen- ing room at Van Pelt. Pianist Eugene Istomin and the Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet are contributing their services (see program, right), and among the many volun- teers involved are Violinist Isaac Stern and the Hon. Leonore Annenberg. Attendance is limited to 530; contributions (partly deductible), are $25 for Subscribers, $100 for Sponsors, $150 for Patrons and $250 for Benefactors. For invitations: Jeanette Flamm, Ext. 8-3090. record, and its crime prevention and Consultants' 'Community-Policing' Concept applaud Safety Report: victim support program under Ruth Wells- but recommend expanding such efforts. Threeoutside consultants named last year to ment and training of officers within the unit. review the effectiveness of the campus Depart- Consultants Cooney and Shanahan outline ment of Public Safety have delivered their COUNCIL in detail the "community-policing" concept. to the Administration, and copies have March 16, 1988 report Typicallya community-policingprogram has a Synopsis: been in Pelt) In discussion following the reports of the placed Rosengarten Library (Van local citizens' board that is advisory to the officers, comments were made regarding dis- for examination by the University community. an on citizen awareness and police; emphasis position of the ZBT case that the activities The suggest that Penn adoptthe new experts participation in their own safety; more training should also have been found to be in violation "community-policing" concept of law enforce- of police officers to work with the community of the harassment policy, that the punishment ment, which on puts emphasis citizen-police before crime occurs; and increased openness of an 18-month suspension was a mere "slap to prevent crimeand reduce fear of not future cooperation among police to constructive criticism. on the wrist" that would discourage crime. Tested in several U.S. cities, and minorities, andthat community- To implement the new style of law enforce- harassment of women is now installed in a definition of conduct in this policing being Philadelphia. ment, the report recommends that President impermissible is needed to recurrences. A The report consists of two documents total- Sheldon set two new committees- regard prevent Hackney up statement was made that a in the ling nearly 60 pages: one written jointly by one of them a Task Force with mem- program campus Wharton School to trainblack, South African Philadelphia Police Captain Thomas Cooney bers on it and the otheran Council of Advisory managers was "clandestine" and may be "ra- and University of Washington Police Chief outside the to people University (but open cist," but the president responded that thepur- Michael G. Shanahan, and the other by Ira alumni and trustee membership). They also pose of the program is to enable these individ- Somerson, a loss management consultant who recommend a Police Ombudsman. uals to improve their career opportunities in for technical reasons separately. reported A new position, Chief of Operations, is South Africa and that it, like all the Uniwrsi- With modest differences the two to reports recommended, but with redeployments else- ty's programs and research,is open collegial make recommendations on increasing police- where so that a new hire is not needed. scrutiny. community interaction, on coordination of Acampus vending policy proposed by the now-scattered campus services (including a Citing many hours of interviews with cam- Facilities Committee to make explicit practi- ces which have envolved was The two-tier system linking contract security guards pus groups as well as safety personnel, the approved. policy generally restricts outdoor vending to to Public Safety); and fine points of deploy- reports do not find fault with Public Safety's fund-raising activities by registered student groups and University departments and to the On Faculty Retirement Age block of Locust Walk between 36th and 37th Streets. The chair of the Honorary Degrees is in to about Thefollowing published response inquiries Universitypolicy Committee reported on the work of the com- on attaining emeritus status. mittee in arriving at a slate of scholars and Present University policy states that all members ofthe standing facultyattain emeritus status on creative artists which it recommended to re- the June 30 following their seventieth birthday. However, federal legislation has established that an ceivehonorary degrees at Commencement this employer cannot require an employee to retire on this basis of age. One temporary exceptionto this May. He noted that only a modest number of nominations were made the and rule permits compulsory retirement at age 70 of tenured faculty; this exception will end on December by faculty for next 31, 1993. urgedfaculty membersto recommend distinguished whom they feel What after this date is unclear. The Age of Discrimination in Employment Amendments year persons happens should be honored. of 1986 mandated a majorstudy whose recommendations are expected to be influential in regard to -Robert G. Lorndale, Secretary future policy. However, this study has not yet begun. We should all be thinking about the best way to handle standing faculty retirement in the future; this question has the potential to change the In of the Uni- academy in major ways. Corrections: front-page coverage versity Council last week, Almanac gave incorrect -Richard C. Clelland, Deputy Provost dates for Commencement 1991: Baccalaureate will be Monday, May 20 and Commencement Elsewhere in the In Status Report to the Campus Community: Tuesday, May 21. wrap-up: (1) an overly brief summary of Professor Richard Wernick's report on honorary degrees, Almanac Harassment Policies indicated that the trustees all Elena andJoannMitchell, has been incorrectly accepted The Harassment Policy Training Group, ably led by DiLapi of the committee's choices, and referred to a since late summer to a to educate members working develop comprehensive program community "requirement"