Tuition Exchange Ended School The has withdrawn from Annenberg Sponsors University the Tuition Exchange program whereby children of faculty here could attend Conference on Content Analysis other universities tuition-free and in ex- Content analysis has advanced a long step from the days when it was used to change, children of faculty at those uni- analyze enemy broadcasts during the war for useful clues as to their strategy. Today versities could attend Pennsylvania. it is used extensively in such diverse fields as psychology and mathematics, English According to Douglas R. Dickson, and music. And as a result, there has been an enormous explosion of different methods Student Financial Aid Director, the de- and uses of content analysis. cision to withdraw was reached after the Hoping to bridge the gaps between the new theories and technologies, the University encountered difficulty in Annenberg School of Communications is sponsoring a national conference on the maintaining a balance of children at- subject , 17 and 18. tending school here equal to those going elsewhere. "Because of the larger num- According to George Gerbner, dean of of communications, ber of children eligible, Pennsylvania has the School, participants will come from University. long been sending more children to other the arts and humanities, the biological Most of the work of the Conference schools than have been attending here," and social sciences, linguistics, mathe- will be handled in concurrent sessions he explained. "As a result, for the last matics and other information and com- with at least one session being video- four years we were unable to export any puter-oriented sciences. They will review for later over closed cir- taped playback children while we attempted to bring our the recent progress made in the field and cuit television. Tuition Exchange Program back into a to research explore applications occurring The Conference is being supported by balance." problems. "It is Dr. Gerbner hoped," International Business Machines and the Mr. Dickson pointed out, too, that an explained, "that the Conference will American Council of Learned Societies. increasing number of colleges have been point to the next steps in the scientific No fee is but registration required par- withdrawing from the program in recent study of content." message ticipants are asked to give notice of years, limiting the number of schools fac- Subject areas covered during the attendance. The final schedule of events ulty children could attend. Conference's and other information are available six sessions include: Tuition benefits are now being pro- from the office of the School. -Theories and Definitions, chaired by Annenberg vided by direct grants without the limita- Klaus Krippendorff, of (continued on page 4) tions of the Exchange Program. communications, the Annenberg School. -Inferences from Content Analysis, chaired by Philip Stone, , Depart- Law School ment of Social Relations, Harvard Uni- Quietly Changing versity. Unconcern -Recording and Notation in Content Profession's for Poor chaired William as- Analysis, by Paisley, A training program for young lawyers the time and desire to involve themselves sistant of communication, Insti- professor is very quietly helping to change the pro- in important problems in the field-prob- tute for Communication Research, Stan- fession's unconcern for the poor while it lems of test litigation, law reform and ford University. attempts to correct the historic legal community education," he explained. -Norms and Standardized Catego- inequity paid to them. Until recently law schools have not ries, chaired by Ole Holsti, professor of The University's Law School has just been very concerned with the problems political science, University of British begun the first Legal Services Fellowship of the poor. To help alleviate the prob- Columbia. Program in the country. According to lem of a similar disinterest on the part of -Computer Techniques in Content Howard Lesnick, professor of law and the legal profession generally, the Office Analysis and Computational Linguistics, curriculum planner for the program, of Economic Opportunity in 1964 estab- chaired by Philip Stone. there is an overwhelming need for Jaw- lished a program for extending legal aid -Education in Content Analysis, yers who will work on legal problems of services to the poor: there are now 160 chaired by F. Earle Barcus, associate the poor. "We need lawyers who have (continued on page 6)

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Air Force Professor Faculty Appointments Listed Assistant to Goddard Dr. Harrison McMichael, assistant of Arts and Sci- Dr. George H. Janczewski, of pathology and director of ences: Dr. Bernard S. Finn, visiting professor of foreign languages at the the medical student research training professor of history and philosophy of U. S. Air Force Academy, has begun a program, has been named assistant dean science. one-year internship in academic admin- for the School of Medicine. School of Dental Medicine: Dr. istration as special assistant to Dr. David Dr. McMichael, a member of the Ronald L. Piddington, assistant professor R. Goddard, Provost. faculty since 1961, is a graduate of of histology and embryology. Dr. Janczewski is one of 43 men and Princeton University and the Univer- Law School: Mr. Ernest J. Brown, three women chosen by the American sity of Pennsylvania's medical school. In visiting professor of law; Mr. Maurice Council on Education to spend the cur- his new position he will continue his re- Cullity, visiting associate professor of rent academic year in similar administra- search into the body's immune defenses law; Mr. Henry S. Ruth, Jr., and Mr. tive positions at colleges and universities against tumors and the properties of David B. Filvaroff, associate throughout the nation. The program is white blood cells. of law. supported by the Ford Foundation. Dr. McMichael heads a long list of School of Medicine: Dr. David Dr. Janczewski holds the rank of recent faculty appointments, including: Berkowitz, associate professor of bio- major in the Air Force. He received College of Arts and Sciences: Dr. chemistry; Dr. Amal K. Ghosh, visiting his Ph.D. degree in history and Russian Robert H. Koch, associate professor of assistant professor of biophysics; Dr. studies and his M.A. degree in interna- astronomy; Dr. Lewis G. Tilney, assist- Lewis P. Rowland, professor of neurol- tional relations from Georgetown Uni- ant professor of biology; Dr. Barry S. ogy; Dr. Bayard T. Storey, assistant versity. Cooperman and Dr. Bryan Roberts, professor of physical biochemistry; Dr. A native of Poland, he participated in assistant professors of chemistry; Dr. Arnold Chait, assistant professor of radi- the Polish underground movement and Carlota S. Smith, assistant professor of ology; Dr. Arlan J. Gottlieb, assistant the Warsaw uprising of 1944 against English; Dr. Willard A. Fletcher, visit- professor of medicine; Dr. Arnost Klein- German occupation troops. After libera- ing associate professor, and Dr. Robert zeller, professor of physiology; Dr. Joe tion from German prison camps in Hartwell, associate professor of history; Mendels, assistant professor of psychiatry April, 1945, he served as a Polish liaison Dr. Fredrick B. Pike, and Dr. Muni M. Staum, assistant pro- officer with British forces and the United of history; Dr. John G. Fought, assistant fessor of radiological sciences. States Army Air Corps in Germany. professor of linguistics; Robert T. Pow- Since emigrating to the United States ers, assistant professor in both mathe- in 1947, Dr. Janczewski has received an matics and physics; Dr. James Haar, The News Bureau maintains Air Force commission, and served as associate professor of music. curriculum vitae on all Univer- assistant director and director of intelli- Dr. Bogdan Maglic, visiting profes- sity faculty members so that in- gence of the Tenth Air Force. He is a sor of physics; Dr. J. C. Picand, associate formation may be provided upon graduate of the Air Force Strategic In- professor of physics; and Dr. Eugene request. If you believe yours is telligence School, Parachute School, Beier, Dr. John A. Gardner, Jr., Dr. not completely up to date, please Squadron Officers School and Advanced Morton H. Rubin, Dr. Wilfried Scholz, send a vita to the News Bureau Survival School. Dr. Gino Serge, Dr. David H. Sharp at 3439 Walnut St. and Dr. Paul Soven, assistant professors of Dr. A. and physics; Jane Hardyck Art Exhibit on View Dr. James L. Zacks, assistant professors Moore School of Electrical Engi- of psychology; Dr. Russell Sebold, pro- neering: Dr. Robert G. Mulholland Modern Masters from the collection fessor of romance languages, and Dr. and Dr. Warren D. Seider, assistant pro- of Mr. and Mrs. H. Gates Lloyd are M. Roy Harris and Dr. Joy M. Potter, fessors of electrical engineering. being shown through in assistant professors of romance languages; R.O.T.C.: Lt. (j.g.) John G. Kochey, three galleries of the Institute of Con- Dr. Frank F. Seeley, professor, and Dr. USNR, and Lt. Bruce G. Birkholz, temporary Art. Biljana Sljivic-Simsic assistant profes- assistant professors of naval science. The collection was begun by Mrs. sor, slavic languages. School of Social Work: Dr. Theo- Lloyd in the late thirties and reflects the dore E. Chester, Pray Visiting Professor mainstream of American avant-garde art of Social Policy. from the early 1940s to the present. Alumni Giving School of Veterinary Medicine: Paintings on display include those of Hits New Record Dr. Edward P. Larkin, research assist- Piet Mondrian, Paul Klee, Georges ant professor of microbiology in medi- Braque, Joan Miro, Kenneth Noland, Alumni Annual Giving to the Univer- cine and Dr. Kenneth C. Boyce, assist- Sam Francis, Robert Motherwell, Wil- sity totaled $1,904,015 during 1966-67, ant professor of medicine. lem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Franz according to Paul J. Cupp, volunteer Wharton School of Finance and Kline and many others. general chairman of the campaign. Commerce: Dr. Charles J. Cooper, The galleries are open to the public The total was the largest received by assistant professor of political science; from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily and Satur- Pennsylvania in the 40-year history of and Dr. Arthur M. Ross, visiting pro- days, and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Alumni Annual Giving. fessor of industry. Sundays. The exhibit is free.

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University Offers Five New Films Five new 16mm color and sound mo- urbi et orbi tion pictures have been added to the The National Science Foundation re- Greater students in the University's list of public relations films. participation by released its second on the administration of and universities are available free of charge to cently report colleges They in a resolution al- schools, churches, service clubs and other amounts of total Federal obligations to was urged adopted and universities 1963-66. most unanimously at the August meeting responsible organizations. The new films colleges during include: It found that: of the Congress of the National Student " A shift has occurred aca- Association. Student control was de- -Two Centuries of Medical Educa- among demic science activities supported the manded over chartering student organi- tion, a pictorial account of the bicenten- by toward increased emphasis zations, financing student activities, es- nial of the 1765 founding of the School government on science education; dormitory hours, social and of Medicine at the University of Penn- tablishing " for nonscience activities in- rules, and over disci- sylvania; Support housing authority creased more than for academic actions from the viola- -Town and Country, a presentation rapidly plinary resulting science activities, to tion of student control of the highlights of the broad scientific amounting nearly regulations. Joint one-half of the increase of Federal funds with admission and was recom- and educational program of the Univer- faculty to universities and mended in such matters as admission sity's School of Veterinary Medicine; colleges; " universities the course and -Signs of Success, a film depicting the Among receiving policies, requirements, hiring most Federal funds, the of of members, accomplishments and plans of Pennsyl- University dismissing faculty college MIT as No. the services and vania's current Development Program Michigan replaced 1; grading systems. other top ten universities included Stan- against a background of the University's ford, Columbia, of Illinois, history and postwar growth; University -New Horizons in Medicine, which Harvard, UCLA, Berkeley, University of and State Dill, Ledwell Head focuses on many of Pennsylvania's out- Chicago University. ranked 11. standing persons in the University's Med- Pennsylvania Community Relations, ical Affairs Division as they engage in research, teaching, and care of hospital Federal agencies have agreed to stop Residence Facilities and clinic the practice of routinely imposing con- patients; Leonard C. Dill, Jr., was recently ditions on the release of information de- -One Medicine at Pennsylvania, appointed Assistant to the President for which the theme of "one veloped under Federal grants and con- emphasizes Community Relations, succeeding Col. A. medicine"-the of all tracts at colleges and universities. Re- interrelationship Sidney Williams who resigned last June. strictive action will be taken in medical disciplines and related sciences. only Mr. Dill will also serve as executive films still available those cases in which the agency feels that Other University secretary of the University's Committee are: the restriction is needed and intends to Campus Camera, Campus Express, on Campus-Community Relations. enforce it. In such instances, the restric- and The First Century. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Dill tion demand will be made clear before a A brochure describing each of the had been director of Peace Corps Projects films in detail is available from contract is signed. greater at the University, which have trained Motion Picture Services, 3439 Walnut American volunteers for service in the Street, or call Ext. 7048. 40 of the 1964 Nearly percent gradu- Punjab, Madras, and Gujarat states of ates of predominantly Negro colleges and . universities planned careers in health Service Provides A graduate of the University and a services and research, a proportion former editor-in-chief of the Daily one other Insurance Advice equalled by only profession- Pennsylvanian, Mr. Dill returned to the to a issued More than 700 persons have received teaching. According report by University as secretary of the General the National Institutes of Health, more counseling or insurance advice since the Alumni Society, editor and publisher of than one-third of the men and Insurance Counseling Service for faculty graduates the Pennsylvania Gazette, and in 1960, one-fourth of the women inter- and staff was inaugurated by the Insur- reported director of Alumni Relations. est in medicine; more than ance Company of North America and 60 percent of In another administrative appointment, the men and of the women in cooperating brokers last March. Accord- 50 percent Edwin M. Ledwell, Jr., was named careers research scientists. ing to William Doolittle, Manager of as director of residence, in charge of man- the Counseling Service, over three- aging and coordinating the University's fourths of those counseled found they ance programming, advice, evaluation of residence hall facilities for undergraduate could save money by placing insurance present programs and quotations. Cov- and graduate students. through the Counseling Office. erage may be purchased through payroll Mr. Ledwell comes to the University Property-casualty insurance coverages, deductions. from Scott Paper Co., where he was a including automobile, homeowners, boat The Counseling Office is located at regional sales service manager. He is a owners, personal and professional liabil- 3725 Chestnut Street (with free parking lieutenant commander in the U. S. ity, can be obtained by employees on an available at 3711 Chestnut). The Serv- Naval Reserve and received a B.S. de- individual basis. Counseling is available ice may be reached by telephone at either gree in 1953 from the University of without obligation and includes insur- EV 2-2800 or University extension 5850. North Carolina.

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Content Analysis Discussed at Conference Departments Move (continued from page 1) NORMS, STANDARDIZED CATEGORIES As Buildings Open THEORIES Participants include Calvin Hall, di- For Business A paper entitled, "Linguistic Founda- rector, Institute of Dream Research, and tions for a Theory of Content Analysis," lecturer, University of California in As more new buildings are completed will be considered. Other discussions Santa Cruz, speaking on content analysis on campus, department offices are being will center around the use of content of dreams; Sally Y. Sedelow, associate switched around. A tentative list of analysis in international relations, a professor of English and Information offices which will have moved by the end critique of content analysis, and three Service, and Walter A. Sedelow, Jr., of February follows. models of in the messages. Participating dean of the School of Library Science, Wharton faculty members who are session will be David Hays, project Sociology and Information Science- now housed on the fourth floor of Logan leader for research, Rand Cor- linguistic both from the University of North Car- Hall will move in January to the 7th poration; John Mueller, assistant pro- olina-discussing categories and proce- floor of Dietrich Hall and to 3810 fessor of political science, University of dures for content analysis in humanities; Walnut. Rochester; Anatol Rapoport, professor Edwin Shneidman, chief of the Center Slavics and the romance are of mathematical and senior re- languages biology for Studies of Suicide Prevention, the in the process of moved from Ben- search mathematician, the of being University National Institutes of Health, talking nett and Potter to the 2nd and 3rd floors and Klaus Michigan; Krippendorff. on psycho-logic; and Philip Stone, dis- of Logan. INFERENCES the cussing improved quality of content Naval Sciences, now housed on the 3rd Panelists and their topics include analysis categories. floor of Logan Hall, will move to the James Deese, professor of psychology, Hollenback Center in February. The Johns Hopkins University, "Con- COMPUTER TECHNIQUES Data processing will move in Novem- tent Analysis: Paraphrase or Coding"; Donald Goldhammer, social psychol- ber from the 2nd floor of Logan to the Julius Laffal, director of research, Psy- ogist at the University of Chicago, will Franklin Building. chology Service, West Haven Veterans read his paper, "Toward a more Gen- The will also in Administration Hospital, "Contextual eral Inquirer: Convergence of Structure Registrar move No- vember from 2nd floor Similarities as a Basis for Inference" and Context of Meaning." Other speak- Logan to the Franklin J. Zvi Namenwirth, assistant professor ers and their topics include Ole Holsti, Building. of sociology, , "Some "Computer Techniques in Content An- Public relations, including the News Long and Short Term Trends in One alysis: The Measurement of Qualities Bureau, Radio-Television Office, and American Political Value: A Com- and Performance"; Howard P. Iker, Motion Picture Services, will move in puter Analysis of Concern with Wealth professor of psychia- November from 3439 Walnut to the in 62 Party Platforms"; Daniel Ogilvie, try, and Norman I. Harway, professor Franklin Building. assistant professor and research associate, of psychology and head of the division The Development Department will Department of Social Relations, Har- of psychology, both from the University move in November from 201 S. 34th to vard, "Psychodynamics of Fantasized of Rochester Medical Center, "A Com- the Franklin Building. and Flight"; Joseph Raben, associate puter Systems Approach Towards the Placement Service will move from 2nd professor of English, Queens College, Recognition and Analysis of Content"; floor Logan to 27 S. 36th St. in De- "Inferences from Content Analysis in Kenneth Janda, associate professor of cember. Poetry." science, Northwestern Univer- political The Psychology offices located in the RECORDING AND NOTATION "A sity, Microfilm-and-Computer Sys- ground floor of Logan will move to This session will feature Barry Brook, tem for Analyzing Comparative Politics 3815 Walnut. Psychology offices located professor of music, Queens College, "Re- Literature"; George Psathas, associate in College Hall (excepting Mr. Luce cent in the Use of the professor of Developments sociology, Washington and the machine shop) will move in Plaine and Easie Code for Music"; Paul Interac- University, "Analyzing Dyadic January to the same location. Part of Ekman, associate of tion"; Gerard Salton, of com- professor psychology, professor the psychology department located in the of California, "VID-R and puter science, Cornell "Auto- University University, Hare Building will also move there that SCAN: Hardware and Analytic Proce- matic Content Analysis in Information month. dures for the Analysis of Move- Retrieval"; and John Starkweather, pro- Body The office of the Vice Provost for ment and Facial Expression from Film fessor of medical psychology, University Student Affairs moved into 110 College or Video Tape Records"; John Plum- of California, "Computer Aids to Con- Hall in September. mer, curator of Medieval and Renais- tent Recognition." Science will sance Manuscripts, Pierpont Morgan Management move in EDUCATION from 3812 Walnut Library, New York, "Iconographic Cri- January to Wayne Hall. teria in Content Analysis"; and Eugene A specially commissioned survey of Webb, professor of psychology, Advertis- colleges and universities will be read by The Office of Naval Research will ing and Marketing, Northwestern Uni- F. Earle Barcus, showing the extent to move in January from 3532 Walnut versity, and Karlene H. Roberts, Grad- which content analysis is taught, the Street to 3025 Walnut Street. uate School of Business, Stanford Uni- subject emphasis of courses, and the The Faculty Housing office will move versity, "Unconventional Uses of Con- methodological orientations of the in- from 3632 Walnut to 3625 Walnut in tent Analysis in Social Science." structors. January.

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New Poultry Lab Opens; Grants A'vailable to Members Hwang Named Director Faculty The opening of new poultry diag- Approximately 50 lectureships are still , Washington, D.C. 20500. nostic laboratories and appointment of available for 1968-69 at universities in Dr. Jen Hwang as director and associate Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Qualified university personnel active professor of poultry pathology, was an- and Latin America according to the Sep- in the field of information processing nounced in October by Dr. Mark W. tember Bulletin on the U.S. Government may apply for a travel grant to the Con- Allam, dean of the School of Veterinary educational exchange program. Also gress of the International Federation of Medicine. listed are foreign Fulbright scholars in Information Processing to be held in The laboratory is housed in a wing of the United States who are available for Edinburgh, , Aug. 5-10, 1968. the pathology building at the veterinary occasional lectures and 25 senior Ful- Selection of the grantees will be made school's rural campus, New Bolton Cen- bright scholars from the Republic of by a panel appointed by the Committee ter, near Kennett Square, Pa. It provides , India, , , Nepal, Korea on Travel Grants, Division of Mathe- diagnostic services for poultry producers and who may be invited to give matical Sciences. Applications must be in southeastern Pennsylvania, and is sup- occasional lectures on non-Western cul- filed before Nov. 15 and are available ported in large part by a grant from the tures. from the Division of Mathematical Sci- Pennsylvania Department of Agricul- The Bulletin can be consulted at the ences, National Research Council, 2101 ture. office of James B. Yarnall, 226 South Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washing- ton, Dr. Hwang, the new laboratory direc- 38th Street, Faculty Fulbright Adviser. D.C. 20418. tor, is a native of mainland China and Mr. Yarnall also has information on ad- was educated there at the Army Veteri- vanced research fellowships available for Grants covering travel and research in the nary College. 1968-69 under the exchange programs and Czechoslovakia, After leaving the mainland, he ac- sponsored by NATO and SEATO. Poland, Rumania and during cepted a teaching post at the National the 1968-69 academic year are now avail- Taiwan University, Taiwan, where he able to American scientists. The grants Applications are now being accepted rose to the rank of associate professor. cover visits of from one month to one for the 1968 White House Fellows pro- In 1956, he went to Auburn University, year, and are open to those with a doc- gram giving outstanding men and women Alabama, and earned an M.S. in poultry toral degree or its equivalent in physical, one year of firsthand experience with the pathology. Three years later he received biological or behavioral sciences, mathe- workings of the Federal government and a Ph.D. in animal pathology from the matics or engineering sciences. Applica- to increase their sense of participation in University of Connecticut and joined the tion must be filed by Nov. 20, 1967. For national affairs. The program is open Duck Research Laboratory of Cornell details, contact Office of the Foreign to college graduates from all fields, ex- University's veterinary school. Secretary, USSR/EE, National Acad- cept Federal Civil service employees, ages Dr. Hwang is a specialist in duck dis- of Sciences, D.C. 23 to 35. Those selected will serve in emy Washington, eases and has published extensively in 20418. Washington for a year beginning Sept. his field. About five years ago, he de- 1, 1968. In addition to serving as special veloped a vaccine to protect adult ducks The National Science Foundation is assistants to high-level government against duck virus hepatitis. inviting grant proposals seeking support officers, fellows participate in an educa- for a limited number of cooperative tion program that includes discussions educational computing experiments. Editorial with scholars, leaders from private life Training Through selected experimental projects, and top government officials. Applica- Planned for Scientists the foundation plans to explore the costs tions for the fourth annual program will and educational value of enabling edu- An editorial training program for be accepted until 6, 1968. Forms Jan. cational institutions to share scientists is now being considered by The and information be obtained from computers may on a basis. con- Rockefeller University. According to Thomas W. Carr, director of Commis- geographical Inquiries cerning cooperative should be Dr. F. Peter Woodford, affiliate of the sion on White House Fellows, The projects University and executive editor of the addressed to Special Projects Section, Office of Activities, Na- Journal of Lipid Research, it is hoped into account the cost of living in the Computing tional Science Foundation, that such a course will produce men New York City area. Washington, D.C. 20550. with training and experience to meet the Any qualified scientists who would be increasing shortage of qualified scientific interested in entering this program executive editors. should write to Dr. Woodford at The The program is tentatively planned to Rockefeller University, New York last six to nine months and would in- 10021. Applicants need to have a Book Show on Display clude actual editorial and managerial Master's or higher degree in science, The third annual Production Quality experience with one or more of the preferably with further research experi- Book Show of the Association of Ameri- journals published by The Rockefeller ence (including publication). Since de- can University Presses will be held the University Press. Trainees would re- velopment of the program will depend 13th-23rd of this month on the sixth ceive a stipend, the amount being nego- on the amount of response to the project, floor of the Van Pelt Library. Twenty- tiated on the basis of each applicant's correspondence is encouraged even if the five books selected for their excellence experience and salary needs, and taking writer's intentions are only exploratory. will be on display.

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The Quiet Revolution. Legal Aid for the Poor (continued from page 1) were sent to legal service units all over Robert Mundheim, professor, served the two Indian reser- on the Board of Trustees of Community of them all over the country. Already country, including vations. will return at the end of Legal Services, Inc., and is chairman of a they are burdened with heavy case loads. They for a seminar and committee which is with In the District of Columbia alone, case January regrouping faculty charged at the end of the the responsibility of how the loads for the legal services unit rose from again fellowship year seeing for a final seminar. school's interest and commitment to the 1,000 to 7,000 in its second year. problems of the poor can be more Mr. Lesnick points out that these SCHOOL WELL-QUALIFIED legal and Two services are desperately in need of trained The Law School is unusually well- fully expressed developed. other members are a personnel. It is hoped that the proposed qualified to undertake the teaching re- faculty preparing Police Guidance Manual for the educa- fellowship program will meet some of sponsibility of such a program. Just last tion of the police in legal problems affect- their problems of recruitment. By seek- year the faculty adopted a resolution ex- ing community relations. ing out recruits in mid-year on a nation- pressing interest in expanding its atten- Lesnick himself is developing a course wide basis, and providing them with tion to the operation of law affecting the dealing with substandard economic con- specialized training, the program should poor. Numerous projects have been ditions-unemployment insurance, racial be able to produce a corps of superior undertaken in recent years. discrimination in as- graduates and young lawyers available Jan Krasnowiecki, professor of law, employment, public sistance-and supervises a seminar for service units throughout the country has developed an entirely new course on pro- gram where students work with for one year. "And maybe they'll be in- middle and low-income housing and is actively attorneys for community legal services, in terested in staying on longer," he said. working with Community Legal Services consultation with officials of the Depart- on model legislation designed to safe- YOUNG MEN RECRUITED ment of Public Welfare and the tenants' rights in leaseholds. In faculty from guard of the School of Recruits are drawn outstanding addition, Krasnowiecki has worked with Social Work. graduating seniors, lawyers completing TWO BENEFITS OBVIOUS the Public Health Service examining their judicial clerkship and lawyers with Although the program's effects cannot methods of community organization one or several years practice. "We look be known for a while yet, two benefits needed to carry out prevention and re- to the because they are usually are obvious. First, 50 bright, capable, young programs in the neighbor- more militant, more activist-oriented," highly motivated young have hood's physical environment. lawyers explained Mr. Lesnick. "These are the been specifically trained for the Another professor, Anthony Amster- practice kind of men need for law reform and of a specialty until un- you dam, supervises an extensive program in- recently largely test Over half of this known to the profession. Second, litigations." year's volving graduate and undergraduate stu- legal Fellows had from law the development of a curriculum in the just graduated dents which provides legal representation school; and one half of them had had field can aid other schools to indigent criminal defendents. He also considering prior experience with the poor. such work. supervises the work of a great many stu- Mr. Lesnick pointed out that most Lesnick is optimistic about the pro- dents on behalf of several organizations established "are insulated from influence: with the lawyers devoted to equal civil and gram's "Experience rights, rights of community problems involving the poor" civil liberties. preparation the seminar will lead to a and explained that their traditional ap- broader infusion of poverty law into sev- proach of handling each case as it comes eral fields of the law school curriculum into the office, coupled with the pressure University Receives and will encourage a trend-strongly of large case loads and small staffs, mili- Grant for Training begun at this school-of developing en- tates against the development of more tirely new courses responsive to the par- far-reaching and imaginative responses Regional Planners ticular needs of the poor." to the vast problems of the poor. The A $200,000 grant for training regional In his opinion the post-fellowship con- Law School hopes to alter this through planners in improving the scientific man- ference will yield still another valuable the fellowship program. agement of man's environment was benefit. There he hopes that out of their Fifty men and women from all over the recently, granted to the Department of pooled experiences, the Fellows will de- country are currently participating in the Landscape Architecture and Regional velop proposals for model legislation. He program. They began their year of work Planning by the Ford Foundation. also hopes they will examine the structure in August, attending a five-week seminar According to Ian L. McHarg, chair- of the legal services program itself, and run by the Law School. They covered man of the department, the grant "is develop suggestions for revising its meth- such subjects as public housing, welfare, designed to help develop a new breed of ods of operation and organization. family law, the ghetto community and planner who will recognize the relevance "If everything goes well," he said, its resources, social services, debt collec- of ecological insights and will be trained "this project should stimulate not only tion practices, and availability of appel- to demand ecological advice." The curriculum development in the profes- late review. The courses were conducted foundation's funds will help Pennsyl- sion but also law-graduate interest in by faculty of the Law School here and vania develop a new graduate curricu- neighborhood law office practices, hope- elsewhere, social workers, and a half- lum in regional planning consisting of a fully establishing it as a prestigious and dozen community people involved with two-year course in which one-thir.d to attractive field. Most importantly, it particular problem areas. one-half of the work is in ecology or should stimulate constructive proposals After the seminar ended, the Fellows ecology and geology. for law reform."

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East by the Voice of America. The Hospital of the University of Among other things... Pennsylvania recently received an hon- orable mention for its annual report in APPOINTMENTS: Dr. William A. Marshall, professor the 1967 Malcolm T. MacEachern com- Dr. Frank Bradshaw Wood, Reese of English, has just had published his petitions of Hospital Management Mag- azine. Mrs. former Flower professor of astronomy, was book The World of the Victorian Novel Lynne Lamberg, elected president of the Commission on by A. S. Barnes and Company. director of public relations, was the Photometric Double Stars at the 13th An article entitled "The Value Di- author. Dr. M. Case, General Assembly of the International lemma in Public Education" written by Lynn professor of will receive an Astronomical Union held at Prague, Dr. Richard A. Gibboney, visiting history, honorary degree in the humanities and Czechoslovakia. While at the General professor of education, appeared in the sciences from the of in this Assembly he chaired the organizing com- October issue of International Journal of University Besancon month. mittee for a joint discussion on close Religious Education. binaries and stellar evolution. Dr. T. H. Woods, professor of has received a Research Dr. A. H. Scouten, professor of HONORS: physics, special Award from the National English, was recently appointed to the "Animal Secrets," a natural history Fellowship Institutes of Health and is in National Council of the A.A.U.P. for television program hosted by Dr. Loren working the of Dr. R. H. Prichard at 1967-69. He has been chairman of its C. Eiseley for NBC, was awarded the laboratory the of Leicester, Leicester, Committee E on Chapter Organization 1966 Thomas Alva Edison Foundation University Another member of the de- for many years. Award for "the best science television England. Dr. A. Brooks Harris, Dr. Benjamin S. P. Shen, associate program for youth." Another citation- partment, asso- ciate professor, was awarded an Alfred professor of astronomy and astrophysics, for its contribution to public education P. Sloan Foundation was elected secretary of the ad hoc com- in science-was accorded the program by Postdoctoral Fel- Dr. Norman Berk, mittee on cosmic ray nuclear cross-sections the National Association for Industry- lowship. a former student fellow, is at the 10th International Conference on Education Cooperation, a section of the graduate recipient of a NATO Postdoctoral Cosmic Rays of the International Union National Science Teachers Association. Fellowship and is in Orsay, France. of Pure and Applied Physics held at Dr. Eiseley, professor of anthropology Calgary, Canada. The Flower and Cook and history of science, is also the recipi- Observatory will be used as the clearing- ent of the honorary degree of Doctor TRAVELERS & SPEAKERS: house for the coordination of cosmic ray of Science, awarded him by the Univer- Two members of the Department of nuclear cross-section measurements. sity of British Columbia at their Spring English participated in a Nobel Sym- Dr. Shen also presented a paper at the Congregation. posium in Stockholm during September Conference entitled, "Some Accelerator Professor Reinout P. Kroon, after being invited to participate by the Experiments of Cosmic Ray Interest." chairman of the graduate division in Swedish Academy. Dr. Robert E. mechanical engineering, has been named Spiller submitted a paper on "The AUTHORS: an Honorary Fellow in the American Magic Mirror of American Fiction" and Dr. Edward B. Shils, associate pro- Society of Mechanical Engineers. The Professor Herbert Howarth, on "A fessor of industry, recently had three award will be given him in Pittsburgh Farewell to Eulogy." articles published in a two volume print, this month at the Society's Annual Dr. Richard L. Solomon, professor Federal Legislation to End Strikes: A Banquet. Professor Kroon has served as of psychology and one of last year's win- Documentary History, released by the chairman of the A.S.M.E. executive ners of the Science Contribution Award United States Senate Committee on committees on Applied Mechanics and of $1,000 given by the American Psycho- Labor and Public Welfare. Included in Aviation. He has also been chairman of logical Association, was invited back to the legislative review of labor emergen- the Society's Basic Engineering Depart- address its 75th annual meeting in Wash- cies and recommendations for their solu- ment and a member of the A.S.M.E. ington, D.C. tion were his articles on the rail, mari- Technical Board. Dr. Robert H. Koch, associate pro- time and airline industries. Professor Elias Burstein of the fessor of astronomy, and Dr. Eva Dr. Gaylord P. Harnwell, president physics department has been asked by Novotny, assistant professor of astron- and professor of physics, and Dr. George the Aeronautical Group for Advanced omy, attended the 13th General Assembly J. F. Legge, former assistant professor Research and Development to serve as of the International Astronomical Union of physics here and now senior lecturer at adviser on high magnetic fields to the held in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Dr. the University of Melbourne, are joint Greek Government. Mr. Burstein Koch served as secretary for scientific authors of the book Physics, Matter, served as one of three directors of the sessions of the Commission on Photo- Energy and the Universe, published as International Advanced Summer Physics metric Double Stars. part of the Reinhold Physics Textbook Institute in Crete during the summer, Dr. Otto Springer, dean of the Col- Series, 1967. and gave four lectures there. lege, gave two lectures in the field of Dr. Leon J. Saul, professor of psy- A paper on "Islam and World His- Germanic languages and literature at chiatry, is the author of a new book, tory" given by Dr. S. D. Goitein, pro- the University of Nebraska as part of Fidelity and Infidelity, published last fessor of Arabic, at the International the Nebraska Career Scholar program month by J. B. Lippincott. It is a study Congress of Orientalists at Ann Arbor, initiated by the Ford Foundation. of the psychodynamics of marriage. was recently broadcast to the Middle (continued on next page)

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Social Science Research Council. The United States. other three scholars, whose course here in Dr. Henry J. Abraham, professor Among things... Chinese legal thought is almost unique of political science, conducted ten lectures in the country, presented commentaries on American government and politics at Dr. Walter Selove, professor of on papers and chaired meetings there. the American Studies Seminar in Mora, physics, gave several seminars on the Professor Elias Burstein of the Dalarna, Sweden for Danish, Finnish, "Experimental Evidence on Pi-Pi Inter- Physics Department was director of the Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish actions" during the summer, speaking at NATO "Advanced Study Institute on teachers. the National Nuclear Energy Laboratory Tunneling Phenomena in Solids" held in Dr. Herbert B. Callen, professor in , the European Organization for Denmark during the summer. Other fac- of physics, spoke on the theory of mag- Nuclear Research in Geneva and the ulty members attending included Dr. netism at a seminar for science writers International Center for Theoretical Douglas Scalapino, associate professor held in Boston in September. The sem- Physics in Trieste. In addition, Dr. in physics, who presented a paper on the inar was sponsored jointly by the Amer- Selove conducted a seminar on "Fermion theoretical aspects of Josephson Tunnel- ican Institute of Physics and the Na- Exchange and Regge Effects" at the ing, and Dr. Donald N. Langenberg, tional Association of Science Writers, University of Rome. professor, who read his paper on experi- and was supported by the National Dr. William E. Stephens, chairman mental findings in connection with AC Science Foundation. of the physics department, and Dr. Josephson Tunneling. Morton Lustig of the Fels Institute Abraham Klein, professor of physics, In addition to the NATO Institute, of Local and State Government recently presented papers at the International Professor Burstein was also a member testified at the hearings of the Presi- Conference on Nuclear Structure in of the organizing committee and chair- dent's Commission on Urban Problems Tokyo in September. man of the program committee for the in Philadelphia. Mr. Lustig's presenta- Dr. Klein, along with Dr. Richard Conference on Localized Excitations tion covered discrimination by suburban Kadison, professor of mathematics, and held at Irvine, California in September. governments against the low-income and Dr. Robert Powers, professor of Dr. Wayne L. Worrell, associate Negro minorities of the city, as well as physics, was also among 350 participants professor of metallurgical engineering, suggestions for coping with discrimina- from 30 countries attending the Interna- presented a paper entitled "Develop- tory policies. tional Theoretical Physics Conference on ment of High-Temperature Solid-Sulfide Particles and Fields at the University of Electrolyte" at the International Sympo- The ilimanac is published Rochester. The Conference centered on sium on High-Temperature Materials monthly during the academic year major problems involved in studying the in Monterey, Cal., in September. by the University for the infor- substructure of particles within the Dr. Claude Welch, associate dean of mation of its faculty and staff. atomic nucleus. the College, attended a conference in Suggested news items should Dr. Derk Bodde and Dr. W. A. Rochester, N.Y. on the use of graduate be sent to: Rickett of the of Oriental students in college teaching. department MRS. LINDA Koorcs, Editor Studies and Mr. Clarence Morris, Dr. Vincent Whitney, director of News Bureau of law, in a con- the Population Studies Center, partici- professor participated 3439 Walnut St. ference "Chinese Communist Law: pated in a conference in New York City Tools for Research" held in Bermuda on the desirability of a federal program University of Pennsylvania under the auspices of the American of children's allowances to ease the Printing Office Council of Learned Societies and the problem of childhood poverty in the

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