Proposal for Two-Year Experiment in Honor System is Presented An experimental Honor System, to remain in effect for two years, will be instituted in the undergraduate schools of the University in September, 1964, if it wins the final ap- Administration Statement proval of the various school faculties this month. Texts of the proposal were circulated to members of the On University Professorships the Committee of Deans, of faculty by Undergraduate The statement on the and criteria for which Dean Willis Winn of the Wharton School is chair- following purposes Professorships has been adopted by the Univer- man, on April 21. The proposal itself was drawn up, after University sity administration, according to Provost David R. Goddard: extensive discussion, by the Undergraduate Affairs Com- mittee of the University Council. "A limited group of the distinguished members of the shall be the as "The reliable determination of is to faculty designated by Trustees University only feasibility try Professors. A Professor shall be an eminent an Honor System experimentally for a reasonable period University on a basis," the committee said in its scholar who has demonstrated a breadth of intellectual voluntary submitting vision which several of the arts, sci- proposal. "Our aim is to substitute experience for spec- encompasses aspects ences or professional fields. His published works and pro- ulation in determining the feasibility of establishing a fessional activities must have attained wide recognition permanent Honor System at Pennsylvania. The committee from well-known scholarly sources. suggests that the University, by taking an empirical ap- proach, will have ample opportunity for evaluation without "Candidates for a University Professorship may be nom- commitment beyond the experimental period. inated by any member of a faculty and should be submitted in to the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and "We recommend that the writing Experimental Undergraduate Sciences before October 15 of each The Dean and Honor contained herein be instituted in year. System September, those Professors the title shall 1964, and be retained until 1966. We also recom- University currently holding May. consider these candidates and review other members of the mend that a small committee of the Uni- student-faculty faculties who in their merit Council be with the effectiveness may opinion consideration, versity charged studying care to insure that no is of the this and with on taking particular department system throughout period advising omitted from Their which arise in the administration of the scrutiny. recommendations will be problems system. transmitted to the Provost's Staff In the last semester of its the committee should Conference, which shall operation consider the recommendations and nominate to the Presi- also make a thorough report on the system with recom- dent and Trustees those individuals it finds qualified for mendations as to its retention, modification, or rejection. appointment as University Professors. "The Committee realizes that there will be difficulties in "A Professor will hold an Honor but it is convinced that there University usually appointment instituting System, in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and be are values to be attained by its success. With the under- may so budgeted. It is anticipated that a Professor standing that the committee is proposing a University temporary sys- may have an office in the Graduate Center, and that his tem, we recommend that the undergraduate schools of the quarters will include such facilities and special assistance University for the two-year period beginning in September, as may be indicated by his distinguished position in the 1964, adopt the following Experimental Undergraduate Honor System: University. "The privileges and obligations of University Professors I. Adoption are to serve the University community and its educational "In any individual class and in any course in which programs broadly. They are to be without formal specific multiple sections combine for testing purposes, the instruc- obligations; each in his individual judgment shall deter- tor (or the course head) who supervises all examinations, mine the most effective expression of his talents in instruc- (Continued on page two) tion, research, and service."

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HONOR SYSTEM The accused has a right to face his accuser. (Continued one) from page "If a student is found of a violation, the Honor quizzes, and other bases for grades has the authority, but guilty is not bound, to install the Honor if, Board may issue a warning to the student or recommend Experimental System to the committee of student's school prior to the time the first quiz, examination or written appropriate the such is at least 75 cent of the students in disciplinary action as an F in the examination, an F in the assignment given, per course, or the class (or a larger percentage if he so stipulates) ex- suspension expulsion." press approval of this Honor System through secret ballot. The committee, in a lengthy explanatory passage, said II. it was "well aware that it presents to the faculty and stu- Scope dent an that will be "The scope of the Honor shall body experimental system recognized Experimental System by all as a compromise. Some may call it no honor system include quizzes, examinations, written problems, papers at all, a and term exercises and recitations, to but permissive system of non-proctoring; others papers, daily subject that it demeans the student him to write modifications authorized by the instructor. may say by asking out his 'honor' each time he submits a paper." But it added Ill. Honor Code its conviction that "an experimental period is necessary in "Every student has the personal responsibility to up- any attempt to determine the feasibility of an undergrad- hold honorable standards of conduct in academic work and uate honor system in an institution with six undergraduate an equally important responsibility to see that others up- units, each attracting a variety of students whose back- hold these standards. Any work represented by the stu- grounds, educational goals and professional aims may dent as his own will be regarded as conforming with these differ greatly." The system, it concluded, "frankly does standards of conduct. not intend to impose an ironclad unbeatable system of "For at least the duration of the Experimental Honor student proctoring to replace that responsibility now in- System, the student will write at the conclusion of any cumbent on the faculties." paper that is to be graded this affirmation followed by his signature: "'I have upheld the Honor Code.' Dr. C. T. Oliver to Become IV. Responsibility in Reporting Violations "Under the Honor Code a person who observes what Ambassador to Colombia appears to be a violation of the Code has a responsibility to Dr. Covey T. Oliver, Professor of Law, was nominated act. This action may be carried out in one or more of the in April by President Johnson to be United States Ambas- following manners: sador to Colombia. The selection was approved April 28 "1. He may give a verbal warning to the suspected by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. violator that his conduct has been observed and appears A member of the Law School faculty since 1956, and a questionable. former State Department official, Dr. Oliver will succeed "2. If an obvious violation is observed, the witnessing Fulton Freeman, who has been named Ambassador to student may either: . a) ask the violator to report himself to the Honor Board, or The new Ambassador was graduated from the Univer- b) report the violation directly to a member of the sity of in 1933, took his law degree there in 1936, Honor Board, or and went on to advanced degrees in the same field at Col- c) report the violation to the dean of his school. umbia University in 1953 and 1954. "An instructor has a responsibility to report to the Dr. Oliver presently lives in Lansdowne with his wife Honor Board any violation of the Honor Code which he and their five children. He said he expects to go to his new observes. post this summer, after extensive briefing in Washington, V. Honor Board where he has served previously in various State Depart- ment posts. A. Composition. The Honor Board shall be composed of 11 undergraduate students, two each from the College, College for Women, Engineering Schools, and Wharton School, and one each from the School of Nursing and the National Academy of Sciences School of Allied Medical Professions, to be appointed by the head(s) of the student government(s) subject to the Honors Three at Pennsylvania concurrence of the appropriate academic deans, the 11th Three members of the University family were honored member to be appointed under the same conditions by the by the National Academy of Sciences at its annual meeting head(s) of the student government(s) from among the in Washington April 28. undergraduate student body in such a manner that repre- Dr. Detlev W. Bronk, a Trustee of Pennsylvania and sentation among the undergraduate schools is rotated. Ap- currently Director of the Rockefeller Institute in New pointments shall be made effective with the beginning of York, was awarded the Academy's Public Welfare Medal, each academic year, which shall be the junior year of each given for contributions to science as a whole rather than new appointee, and shall continue for two consecutive in any specific field. academic years. Two members of the faculty were among the 35 scien- B. Adjudication. The basic function of the Honor tists elected to membership in the organization. They are Board is to determine whether an alleged violation of the Dr. Thomas Foxen Anderson, Professor of Biophysics and Honor System does in fact constitute a violation of the senior member of the Institute for Cancer Research, and Code. The Board sits as a fact-finding board, hearing testi- Dr. Louis Barkhouse Flexner, Professor of Anatomy and mony and assessing other evidence which is put before it. Director of the Institute of Neurological Sciences.

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New Policy of Early Decision Dr. Welch New Associate Dean Is Announced on Admissions Of College of Arts and Sciences A new "early-decision" policy which will affect the chil- Dr. Claude Welch, Berg Professor and Chairman of the dren of members of the faculty and administrative staff has Department of Religious Thought, has been appointed been adopted by the University for applicants for admission Associate Dean of the College, effective July 1. to its undergraduate schools, and will go into effect in He succeeds Dr. Charles L. Babcock, who has served 1964-65. as Acting Dean during Dean Otto Springer's leave of ab- Dean of Admissions William G. Owen said in announ- sence this term. Dr. Babcock will resume his duties as As- D. cing the policy that it "is designed to relieve at least some sociate Professor of Classical Studies. Dr. Donald of the anxieties associated with admission to college in the Fitts, who has acted as Vice Dean, will return to the Chem- face of greatly increased numbers of college-age youth." istry Department, where he has been promoted to Asso- said, action will be taken in the fall ciate Professor effective July 1. Under this plan, he An ordained Methodist minister, Dr. Welch was of the senior year on the applications of students who have gradu- that time. a ated in 1942 from Upper Iowa University, took his Bache- made their choice of a college by By filing lor of from Yale School in 1945, single application at Pennsylvania before October 15, the Divinity degree Divinity his and his Ph.D. there in 1950. He taught at Yale and at candidate will be judged on the basis of three-year Princeton before to in 1960. school record and the results of the College Board tests coming Pennsylvania taken in his junior year; he will receive notification shortly after December 1, and the approved candidates will be asked to make a non-refundable deposit to hold their Berlin University Officials places in the class. Early-decision candidates who are children eligible for Are Entertained on Campus faculty and staff scholarships will receive the same special Three high-ranking officials of the Free University of consideration as in the past, Dean Owen stated, noting Berlin, with which Pennsylvania has maintained close re- further that "for many years such children have not had lationships since 1958, were guests of this University to compete against other candidates. No matter how many April 20 and 21. other applicants there are, the child of a faculty member Members of the German delegation were the Rector, Dr. has been judged, like the alumni child, from an academic Herbert Luers; the Dean of the Science Faculty, Dr. Karl standpoint solely on the one question: Can he be expected Peter Grotemeyer, and the Manager of the Rector's Office, to perform satisfactorily without undue difficulty? If so, Dr. Horst W. Hartwich. They were accompanied by the he has been admitted." chairman of Berlin's Student Council, Werner Gebauer, The Dean added that, conversely, the child even of fac- and by Ralph Brown, representative of the U. S. Mission ulty parents, if his record indicated he could not perform to Berlin. satisfactorily, was not admitted. A satisfactory character They were introduced to President Harnwell by Dr. record is of course obligatory in all cases. Maximilian Ehrenstein, Professor of Biochemistry in the "The results of this policy," said Dean Owen, speaking School of Medicine, who has been a frequent guest lecturer of the children of both faculty and alumni, "have been that at the Free University. between 75 and 80 per cent of all such applicants have Vice Provosts Roy F. Nichols and Otto Springer acted been approved for admission; of those approved, approx- as hosts to the delegation at a dinner given in their honor imately two-thirds have chosen to matriculate at the Uni- at the Faculty Club. versity, and they generally comprised about 15 per cent The delegation members were also guests at a luncheon of the entering class. These figures compare favorably with given at the Women's Residence Hall by Gene Gisburne, most of the other Ivy League colleges." Vice President for Student Affairs, and John C. Hetherston, He went on to say that early-decision candidates who Vice President for Coordinated Planning. Other guests are accepted here will be required to withhold applications included Dr. Constance P. Dent, Dean of Women, and to any other college. Those who are not accepted will have Dean of Men Robert F. Longley. available if they wish it, special guidance and counseling from the Admissions office about other possible choices for college. In a few cases the early decision may be with- held until the applicant's fall semester grades and Decem- Trustees Approve Change ber College Board results are available; in this event a In Name of decision will still be made several months before the regular Dental School notification date. A formal change in the name of the School of Dentistry "Of course the children of faculty members need not was approved by the Trustees of the University at their avail themselves of this early-decision plan," the Dean meeting on Tuesday, . pointed out, "but those who do not will have to face con- Effective July 1, the school will be known as the School sideration along with more than 6500 applicants expected of Dental Medicine. The Trustees acted on the recom- for the 1600 places in the freshman class which will enter mendation of the school's faculty and the University in September, 1965. Council. "It is thus hoped," Dean Owen concluded, "that the In other actions, the Trustees approved the appointment early-decision plan will eliminate pressure and suspense of Dr. Morris S. Viteles as Dean of the Graduate School of for those qualified applicants who have selected Pennsyl- Education. Dr. Viteles has been Acting Dean since the vania as their first choice among colleges." retirement as Dean of Dr. William E. Arnold last summer.

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Professor Adolf Klarnann of the German Department Other spoke and 5 at the University of Nebraska on Among Things "German Expressionism" . . . Dr. I. Wesley Schneyer, Assistant Professor of Education, and Mrs. Margaret HONORS AND APPOINTMENTS: Louis!. Kahn, Pro- Willson, Assistant Director of the Reading Clinic in the fessor of Architecture in the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Graduate School of Education, were members of the ar- was awarded an honorary doctorate in Architecture at the rangements committee for the ninth annual convention of Polytechnic Institute of Milan, Italy, early in April . . . Phi the International Reading Association held April 29- Delta Kappa, international men's honorary society in edu- in . Other participants in the activities of the cation, has elected Guy Anselmo, Jr., Assistant Dean of convention, at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel and Conven- Men, to membership.. . Dr. Edward P. Hutchinson, Pro- tion Hall, included Dr. Helen Huus, Associate Professor of fessor of Sociology in the Wharton School, has been com- Education, and Dr. Ralph Preston, Acting Vice Dean of missioned by the State Department's Division of Security the Graduate School of Education. and Consular Affairs to prepare a report on the adminis- Dr. Allan H. Brown, Chairman and Professor of Biol- tration's immigration bill, No. S-1932 in the Senate and ogy, served as chairman of a section at the National Con- H.R. 7700 in the House of Representatives ... Members ference on Nutrition and Related Waste Problems, of the Space Evening School Alumni Society honored William held at the University of South Florida in Tampa on April R. Hockenberry, who is to retire June 30 as Director of 27-30 ... Dr. Albert I. Oliver, of the Graduate School of the Evening and Extension Schools, by presenting him Education, visited Puerto Rico recently to evaluate two with a silver centerpiece at ceremonies in the Warwick secondary schools on behalf of the Commission on Sec- Hotel on April 20. ondary Schools of the Middle States Association. This month he has been the Dr. Charles C. Price, Chairman of the of assigned by International Schools Department Services to survey a secondary school in Brussels, Chemistry, was recently appointed to the United States Belgium. National Commission for the United Nations Educational, Dr. Rufus Wixon, Professor of Accounting in the Wharton School, is to on the Scientific and Cultural Organization, as the representative speak "Relationship of Ac- of the American Chemical Professor Price has counting Principles to Budgeting" on at the 14 Society. annual national also accepted membership on the Committee for the Sur- conference of the Budget Executives Insti- of under the of the National tute, to be held at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel . . . Dr. vey Chemistry auspices Frederic G. Academy of Sciences. He will serve as chairman of the Hyde, of the Journalism faculty, will be the American delegation at a Conference on College Chemistry principal speaker at the annual dinner of the to be held next Nov. 16-20 in Hakone, Delaware Valley Industrial Editors Association, to be held . at the Poor Richard Club. TRAVELERS AND SPEAKERS: Dr. Andre von Dr. R. I. Reynik of the Department of Metallurgical En- Gronicka, Chairman of the German Department, has been gineering presented a paper on "Thermodynamic Driving invited by the Bonn government to be its guest on a tour Forces for Nonstationary Metallic Diffusion" at the Ameri- of Germany from June 15 to July 11. He is one of a group can Physical Society meeting April 27 in Washington, D. C. of six so invited. Dr. von Gronicka is conducting a seminar Dr. S. D. Goitein, Professor of Arabic, delivered the at the afternoon of on "Modern 1964 Rutgers Hebraic Studies Department lecture German Literature," and is giving a talk there the same on "Judaism and Islam." ... Drs. MacEdward Leach and evening on Thomas Mann . . . Dr. Marvin E. Wolfgang, Tristram P. Coffin, of the Folklore Department, delivered Professor of Sociology, spent April 2-15 in Rome on an papers late in April at Duke University, Durham, N. C., NIMH exploratory travel grant to enlist the cooperation during a two-day program sponsored by the American of the Italian Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Education Folklore Society and others in connection with the publica- in a five-year cross-cultural delinquency research project tion by the Duke University Press of the Frank C. Brown On April 10-11 Professor Elias Burstein of the Physics Collection of North Carolina Folklore. Department lectured on Semiconductor Electronics and Dr. Robert E. Spiller, Professor of English and Acting Quantum Electronics as part of the program for executive Dean of the Annenberg School, made the summary address technical development instituted by the Office of Continu- at a conference for visiting foreign scholars, held in Detroit ing Professional Studies at the Polytechnic Institute of April 23-25 under the joint auspices of the State Depart- Brooklyn. ment and the American Studies Association. On June 21, Dr. Spiller will be in Oslo, Norway, to give the summary Dr. Arthur P. Whitaker, Professor of History, gave ad- address at a meeting of the Nordic section of the American dresses on "Varieties of Nationalism in Latin America" at Studies Association. the Regional Council on Latin American Studies of the University of Denver on April 10, and at the World Affairs Conference of the University of Colorado on April 13. He THE ALMANAC is to speak on nationalism in Latin America at the History Published monthly during the academic year by the Department Colloquium of Princeton University on May University for the information of its 13 ... Dr. Dale T. Harroun, Professor of Civil Engineer- faculty and staff ing, took part in the third Plowshare Symposium on En- The Editors are assisted by an Advisory Com- gineering with Nuclear Explosives at the University of mittee representing the Faculty, Administration, and at Davis, Calif., April 21-24 . . . Dr. G. F. Personnel of the University. di Associate Professor of on Roccaferrera, Industry, spoke Editor Frederic G. Hyde "Computer Education in Schools of Business" at the Cen- Address Room G-8, School ter for Education of the of Annenberg Continuing University Chicago University of Pennsylvania Printing Office on April 10.