No. 34 May 12, 1987

Tuesday May 12. /987 Published by the University ofPennsylvania Volume 33. Number 34

Dr. Senate Past Chair Estey Geraldine Segal Chair: Mary F. Berry Dr. Marten Estey, professor of management and industrial relations at the Wharton School, The history department'sGeraldine R. Segal has been elected to fill the Past Chair vacancy Professorship in American Social Thought will created Dr. by Roger Soloway's impending be filled by Dr. Mary Frances Berryof the U.S. move to the of Texas at Galveston. University Commission on Civil Rights, the former chan- Dr. who has served onthe Senate Execu- Estey, cellor of the University of Colorodo who was tive Committee and on its committee to study U.S. Assistant Secretary for Education in the the Faculty Grievance Procedures, was elected Carter administration. SEC. Noted for his work on unanimously by Dr. Berry, now professor of history and law arbitration, Dr. Estey is active in campus and at Howard University, is ascholar of constitu- national AAUP affairs, currently serving on tional history and civil rights law who also the executive committee ofthe AAUP National served as Provost ofthe Division of Behavioral Council. An article by Dr. Estey in the May- and Social Sciences at the University of Mary- June 1986 issueof AAUP's Academe compares land earlier in her career. A graduate of How- faculty grievance procedures in major U.S. ard with her Ph.D. in history from the Univer- universities. sity of Michigan. Dr. Berry was also on the faculty there and at Central Michigan and at Eastern Michigan. Her books include Black Resistance/ White Law (1971), Military Neces- silt and Civil Rights Policy (1977), Stabiliity Mary Frances Berry Security and Continuity (1978), Long Memory: The Black Experience in America (1982), and Dr. Berry holds over a dozen honorary Why ERA Failed (1986). degrees, the NAACP's Roy Wilkins Award, and the Rosa Parks Award of the SCLC, other honors. She has been a member F/S Dependent Tuition for 1987-88 among The Direct Grant is the tuition of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights since Scholarship 1980. In 1983 after she and two other Demo- benefit program available to faculty and staff whosedependent children are attending under- crats were fired by President Reagan, her rein- graduate colleges or universities other than statement by a federal district court was re- Marten Ester Laurence H. Beck Penn. The maximum benefit for academic garded as affirming the Commission's inde- year 1987-88 will be $4390 ($2195 per semes- pendence from presidential control. ter). This amount 40 of Penn's The Chair was in 1978 President's Counselor Dr. Beck represents Segal given by long- 1987-88 undergraduate tuition rate. The benefit time Trustee and Alumnus Bernard G. Segal. President has for those who choose "the old will Hackney announced the plan" Esq., in honor of his wife, a lifelong activist (as of Dr. Laurence H. Beck of remain $900 per year. appointment the is he) in human rights and in programs on Medical School as Counselor for Health Pol- If you have any questions about tuition benefits, or would like to call Ext. 1359 educational opportunity for minorities. It was icy. In thiscapacity he willbe available to advise apply, or stop by Room 510 Franklin Building. held initially by Dr. Anthony F. C. Wallace, the President on the range of public health who is now a Professor of Anthro- -B. J. McCartney Benefits Specialist University matters that affect members of the University pology. community as well as the community as a whole. Dr. Beck is the Sylvan H. Eisman Pro- fessor of Medicine and Director of Geriatric Medicine. SSW Award for Excellence in Teaching - Dr. Peter Vaughan, associate dean of the School of Social Work, -INSIDE has been named the winner of the School's Excellence in Teaching Award. " Renaming Old Med: Speaking Out: Parking Fees, 1987-88; Faculty Club Elections, p. 2 He was chosen by the students ofthe School for demonstrating the " ForComment: Dual Degree Programs, pp. 3-4 following: knowledge and scholarliness in the courses taught; " For Comment: Review of'1990' Report, pp. 5-9 appropriate conceptual organizationa of courses; avilability to stu- " ForComment: Student Union Report, pp.9-10 dents; to for and as " openness suggestions, respect students'experience Research Foundation Awards, Council April and commitment to student 29 11 persons; learning. Synopsis, p. Dr. will be with a certificate at the School's " Update, p. 12 Vaughan presented commencement ceremonies May 18. Pullout: CRC's Penn Printout

Faculty Club: Dr. Shils The Faculty Club has elected Dr. Edward Shils of the Wharton School to succeed Vice Speaking Out Dean P. Marshak(Law)as of Margo president Three Cheers the Board of Governors. This will be Dr. Shils' friends and have often been able to have a Three cheers for the Deans who, in their fourth term, the other three served consecu- joint laugh at many of the otherwise very wrote "A Tribute to Tom thoughtfulness, serious aspects of universities. That laughter tively in 1966-69. Ehrlich" in the 28 Almanac. April was never deprecating, but showed that Tom The elected Dr. Leonard Rico There membership are very few people one meets in a does not always have to take himself or the of management as vice president and Chaplain liletime who have the marvelous combina- academic world seriously. As president of a Stanley Johnson (also a former president. 1984- tion of intelligence, good common sense, and university, that will be one of his real Robert humor and work that both Tom 86) as treasurer; and reelected MacDo- capacity strengths. and Ellen have us. nald of Wharton as secretary. brought We should all hope he will remain a Penn- It doesn't seem like six Returning as governors are Vice Dean Mar- certainly years ago sylvanian even if he has to become a that Sheldon Hackney asked me to have shak: former vice president Dr. Malcolm Laws Hoosier ! dinner with "an interesting prospective can- -Paul F Miller. Jr., Trustee of English; Ernest J. Browne. Wharton (re- didate for the provostship." We became good and Former Chairman of the Trustees tired); and Dr. Hilton Root of History. New governors are Dr. Frank P. Brooks of physio- Speaking KING OUT welcomes the contributions of readers. Almanac's normal J'uesdat' logy Med. and Dr. David Y. Cooper of surge- deadline 16r unsolicited material is extended to THURSDA Y noon fr short, time/i letters - ry Med. To be confirmed by the Board as on (Inis'ersitv issues. Advance notice 0/intent to submit is a/stat's appreciated. Ed. chairs of key committees are Jacqueline Mat- thews of the House Committee. Dr. Matthew Increase: a Million Stephens of the Finance Committee. Shirley Parking Funding $7 Garage Annual rates for of an effort to serve more Penn he Winters of the Program Committee and Dr. parking University-owned people, lots will increase about one dollar a week added. In line with recommendations made at Janice Ballace of the Membership Committee. by I, 1987, to Steve Council on 29, fees now are With three former presidents serving, and starting September according April parking associate vice for business retained for and many others returning to office." said Dr. Shils. Murray, president parking transportation improve- services. Under the new rate structure, the ments. These will finance a new $7 million, "we have depth of experience and continuity as help cost for will be on the northeast we look toward the future. The new acting average permit parking approx- seven-story parking garage $35 a month for Penn's 4,000 corner of 34th and Chestnut, with for 817 manager. Tom Walters, has expressed a wil- imately permit space holders. cars on a site that now holds 240. lingness to work closely with the Board and to fees on lots about Construction 25, and those who meet with the Faculty Club staff, whom we all Monthly private average begins May $88. Mr. said. The rate increase is now there will be accommodated at value highly." Murray part park Penn's 32nd and Walnut Street garage until the new garage opens in summer 1988. But, said Murray, even with the capacity, Penn's parking problem will not be solved: there are still 1300 people on the waiting list for University parking. "Over the past two years, we have lost 350 parking spots due to the con- struction of new buildings. People who were displaced were given parking spaces that came up as a result of attrition, while the waiting list remained stagnant." Part of a long-range plan involves construc- tion of a new garage on the PGH site near the John Morgan Francis C'. Wood Civic Center and another proposed for the corner of 40th and Walnut. The University is Renaming Old Med currently negotiating with the City of Philadel- The School of Medicine's venerable head- phia to build a 600- to 800-car garage on the quarters on Hamilton Walk gets a new name PG H site-although not all of those spots during Alumni Weekend: It will be rededicated could be reserved for Penn permit holders, as the John Morgan Building in honor of the since the PGH site is owned by a consortium of nation's first professor of medicine, who foun- health-related institutions. ded Penn's School. And, Mr. Murray added, if the PGH park- The marbled classic structure built in 1911 is ing facility is built, it will present another as famous for art as for medicine: It houses problem-what to do about the 600 Penn Thomas Eakins' painting, The Agnew Clinic, cer and Dr. Carl T. Brighton on The Treatment permit-holders who currently park on the PGH and the medical portrait gallery which starts of Nonunion Fractures with Electricitc). surface lot. "We are looking for a site to handle with John Morgan (above) and has added dis- At 11:15 am. the Distinguished Graduate existing parking in the interim. If that means tinguished alumni and faculty through the Award Lecture will begiven in Dunlop Audito- that we will have to shuttle drivers to Penn years. It also houses the Dean's Office and the rium by Dr. Louis Sokoloff, chiefofthe Labor- from a remote parking lot, then we will have to Francis Wood Room honoring the longtime atory of Cerebral Metabolism at NIMH, on make those arrangements," said Mr. Murray. chair of the department of medicine (above Metabolic Mapping ofLocal Functional Achy- The Office of Transportation and Parking is right), who will be present for the reded- iii in the Nervous System. compiling a master transportation and parking ication-and to receive the University's Distin- Dr. Michael Brown, the Nobelist who re- plan to address the overall parking issue at guished Alumnus Award. ceived the Distinguished Alumnus Award two Penn. Special emphasis will be placed on the Events open to the University community years ago and gave last year's Penn Com- medical area, which will attract additional traf- start Friday morning, May IS, with the 9 a.m. mencement Address, will deliver the University fic once the PGH site is developed. Members of dedication of a Class of 1962 Lecture Hall Lecture at 3:45 p.m. in the Annenberg Center. the University Council Committee on Facilities where there will be a symposium (Dr. Peter His topic is New Developments: Prevention will be represented on the task force that will Nowellon Chromosomes, Oncogenes and Can- and Cure of Major Illnesses. make recommendations for the master plan.

2 ALMANAC May /2, 1987

FOR COMMENT

The following draft recommendations concerning the possible development of new under- graduate dual-degree programs have been prepared by the Faculty Council on Undergraduate Education. The Council is eager to receive comments and reactions from all segments of the Universitt' community, including students andfaculty from both liberal arts andprofessional schools. Comments should he directed to the Council's Coordinator a! the address below or to the Office ofthe Provost. -Stephen P Steinberg, Coordinator. Faculty Council on Undergraduate Education. 210 Logan Hall/6304

Draft Recommendations for the Development of New Dual-Degree Programs

source. I. Introduction gram. preferably from a central University " A defined focus for each which concurrent in clearly topical dual-degree program Dual-degree programs in which students earn degrees articulates the intersection of two or more academic and professional two schools of the University can be an effective and attractive mecha- disciplines. nism for enhancing the interaction of liberal arts and the professional " Provision for an administrative and advising focus foreach programina disciplines in undergraduate education at the University of Pennsylvania. program-specific office setting. By permitting students to integrate academic work from both the liberal " Close liaison with the Admissions Office in the recruitment ofpotential students. arts and a professional discipline or from several disparate professional both broaden a student's intellectual " Strong advising resources for students in each program. disciplines, dual-degree programs " courses which students with an to horizons-without sacrificing depth-and permit enhanced undergrad- Specialized provide opportunity develop and articulate the integrative dimension of each dual-degree uate preparation for a career, profession or post-baccalaureate study. also to be attractivetothe best program. Such programs appear particularly very " Support from individual schools and central administration for the of Penn's potential students, who are both well-qualified and successful institutionalization of such programs. across a wide range of activities. These students will perform well in meet these criteria almost any activity they undertake, and because of their breadth and It is our belief that the following recommendations for and financial in this competence, theyareoften unsure as to the particulardirection they wish and provide a framework program development to pursue during their undergraduate years. As a result, they often seek area. an unusually stimulating and challenging undergraduate academic experience. Ill. New Topically Focused Dual-Degree Programs These programs will help Penn matriculate increasing numbers ofthe We believe that five topical areas warrant intensive development both very best students it actually admits. They offer such students concrete for dual-degree programs and as interdisciplinary subjects which will be opportunities to explore a wider range of disciplines during their under- of major importance in the years ahead. Each of these areas is one in graduate years, as well as provide stronger mechanisms to enhance the which the University has either traditional or developing strength. Each integration across schools and disciplines of liberal arts and professional cuts across existing academic disciplines. Each can be approached in expertise. Especially when focused on emerging interdisciplinary topics, such a way as to draw upon both liberal and professional disciplines. such as the interrelations between management and technology or the Each has merit both as a subject ofacademic study and in relation to the nascent discipline of cognitive science, a dual-degree program can pro- non-academic career interests ofour students. Finally, in most cases these vide an ideal vehicle to more fully realize the spirit of the Faculty areas can be conceived as the focus of several dual-degree options, i.e., Council's policy statement oflast spring. Thus,dual-degree programs, by they link the liberal arts with more than one professional school orjoin fostering the integration of liberal arts and professional learning, can various combinations of undergraduate professional curricula. (They become both the concrete embodiment of Penn's One University philo- might also serve as a focus for the development of new cross-school, sophy and the realization of its "comparative advantage". interdisciplinary "clusters" within existing single-degree programs.) The following then are offered as prime examples-subject to addition, deletion or refocusing-for future dual-degree development: II. Criteria 1) Cognitive Science: Though a formal dual-degree program already Council's of and The discussions existing potential dual-degree pro- exists in Computer and Cognitive Science, this area is included here other cross-school initiatives have defined aclearset ofcriteria grams and because the existing program lacks the commitment and resources successful and In the follow- for their design implementation. particular, needed for its success. There is little question that the University brings to must be in successful effort to enhance our ing elements present any this area a world-class reputation and resources which cut across many of in this area: offerings our academic programs. At the same time, Cognitive Science presents an area, " A strong faculty "champion" foreach such dual-degree preferably for students to move into the forefront of technological with suffi- opportunity a faculty member holding appointments in both schools and while to that liberal and cient release time to take a role in and development bringing activity many purely strong program development academic resources. administration, as well as student recruitment and advising. " Continuing financial support for the administration of each such pro- (continued on page 4)

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2) International Area Studies: As our world has shrunk, the increasingly IV. Administrative and Advising Support regional nature of international life becomes ever more apparent. Both as Because of the importance of providing adequate administrative and subjects of academic study and as specialties to enhance professional advising support in order to realize the integrative dimension of such activity in business, engineering, health, and many other fields, area dual-degree opportunities, the Council makes the following suggestions specific knowledge and an understanding of its implications for profes- as to mechanisms whereby such support might be provided: sional activities is becoming increasingly crucial. Despite extensive I)The faculty director ofeach program should have an appointment in resources in these areas, the University has failed to make these resources more than one school to facilitate the integration ofeach school's activi- available in a coherent structure which permits their integration with the ties in the content of the program and avoid the establishment of an professional needs of non-liberal arts undergraduates. independent and separate curriculum. Naturally, the secondary appoint- 3) Aging: Over the next half century, our country will face a profound ment ofa director (in a School other than the one in which she orhe has a demographic crisis as the baby boom generation ages and survives well primary appointment) may follow rather than precede the organization beyond earlier standards of longevity. The support, care, and enrichment of a dual-degree program. It may also be appropriate to utilize a Trustee of life for this huge aging population will be the major social issue in the Professorship to help support a dual-degree program area. years ahead. The University is already uniquely well-placed-with 2) Fifth-yearstudent funding should be provided to enable students to resources of the Center on Aging and the interdisciplinary Master of Arts undertake the expanded curriculum that may be necessary to fulfill in Social Gerontology-to address these concerns and link them to a dual-degree requirements, especially if the SAS bachelor's degree pro- wide variety of liberal and professional degree programs. The impact of gram is enlarged to 36 course units. In short, we should allow students aging on our economy, on health care, on the utility of a highly technol- who pay for four years of education, to receive a fifth year free in the ogized society, and an understanding of the social, humanistic, biologi- context of a dual-degree program. Alternatively, free summer session cal, psychological, economic, historic, literary, and ethical issues raised enrollment might be provided to such students. If these options are by the phenomenon of aging will be essential to those of our students who deemed infeasible, we should make an extra effort in this context to will have to cope with the impact of this phenomenon in both their assure students ofthe adequacy of our need-based financial aid packages personal and professional lives. (This area might be addressed under a to support an extended and,/or enhanced undergraduate program. broader title, such as "The Human Experience" or "Life Cycle Studies" to 3) Because of the commonality of administrative problems expe- enhance its attractiveness to undergraduates.) rienced in all cross-school activities, it may be sensible to consider the 4) The New Economy: The last decade has witnessed the beginning of a creation of a central University office to provide administrative support long-term transformation in the structure, activity, and impact of finan- for such programs, to house the part-time faculty directors and to cial and economic markets, institutions, and deregulation. In the years provide a locus for advising services. Such an office could serve as an ahead this transformation will be of interest, as is already evident, to advocate for such students with the Registrar, Bursar, Financial Aid, and many who in previous generations would have had little concern with individual schools, and avoid the "capturing" of dual-degree students by economics or financial news and practices. This transformation will one school or another. It would provide a point of liaison with Publica- effect not only businessmen, but every professional, policy planner, tions and Admissions offices to enhance our recruitment activities, and government official, and citizen. The development of an information- be able to focus on such ongoing issues as the integrative character ofthe oriented, high-technology, service economy will alter not only the programs and the need to avoid "pushing out" liberal arts courses in requirements of professionals in these fields, but also the professional programs that have a dual professional orientation. Such an administra- activities of engineers, doctors, nurses, lawyers and generalists of every tive entity could also serve to support various other interdisciplinary and stripe. The linkage of finance, economics, and economic history for those inter-school initiatives, such as cross-school "clusters" and graduate/ un- who will pursue professional life outside of a business or financial context dergraduate combinations. will be extraordinarily attractive during the years ahead. Any administrative structure for dual-degree programs must be care- structured so as to create and a for each 5) Public and Urban Policy: The University has historically had very fully preserve strong identity and the ofeach school strong resources in the areas of public, environmental, and urban policy. program strengthen support participating through its active Thus various combinations of centralized Though these concerns have receded over the past 15 years from their participation. sup- and with school-based direction should also be early blossoming during the 60's and early 70's, it is clear that our society port funding program considered to the and motivation needed to is about to pay a price for this neglect. As we confront the long-term preserve strong identity make such successful. impact of deregulation, reductions in federal expenditures, aging of the programs 4) Start for this initiative must come from nuclear power industry, the deterioration of our urban infrastructures, up funding supplemental sources in order to a of school resources for and the weakening of environmental regulation, we can anticipate that prevent depletion existing and administration. Financial should these concerns may once again move to the fore. The cross-school advising program support initially be on a centralized basis. However, linkage of resources from the Wharton School. Arts and Sciences, provided University continuing be allocated each school based on the Engineering, and Nursing, supplemented by the Graduate School of Fine support might by percentage involvement oftheir students after an initial of 3 Arts, the Law School, Medicine, and specialized institutes provides a start-up period perhaps to 5 years. vehicle for the reintegration of now dispersed and relatively inaccessible The should be with funds to finance curriculum resources and the articulation of their linkages to a wide variety of career 5) program provided new courses should be the and academic disciplines. development, though processed through existing school curriculum committees. Each of these five areas has been broadly conceived so as to provide a focus for a possible multiplicity of dual-degree options. For example, the V.Implementation cognitive science dual-degree program may involve a major in philo- It is clear that the resources necessary to effectively implement an sophy, linguistics, or psychology in the SAS portion of the dual-degree. expanded dual-degree program strategy would require a significant Similarly, in international area studies, a student may wish to specialize in commitment of finances on the part of the University and/or priority the Pacific Basin, the Middle East, Africa, or Latin America and to link consideration in any forthcoming development campaign. It isespecially this interest with a career in engineering, international business, journal- desirable and practicable to attract new funds for this purpose, since ism, or health care. A dual-degree program in aging might link the liberal dual-degree programs should be a powerful fund raising vehicle. arts with Wharton for a student interested in a career in health care It is evident from the requirements laid out above that a minimum administration or with nursing for students more interested in direct care commitment on the order of $1,000,000 over a five-year initial period activities. Because each of these areas lends itself not only to a dual- would be necessary to bringthis initiative toa point where it might have a school approach, but to a multi-school and multi-disciplinary approach, significant impact both on the perceptions of potential students and we feel that it is most cost effective to consider each as a framework in become the hallmark of Penn's "comparative advantage". It is our belief which a wider variety of cross-school patterns of academic activity might that such an allocation ofresources would provide a stimulus to interdis- conceived, developed and carried out. In this way, asingle administra- ciplinary and school activities which have long been the rhetorical focus .rc and advising support mechanism may be used to foster a wider of a great deal of University publicity. The opportunity to bring these spectrum of inter-school combinations. opportunities to concrete realization should, not be missed.

4 ALMANAC Mar 12, /987

FOR COMMENT

Report on the 'Year 1990' Paper

A Report Presented by the Student Affairs committee to University Council April 29. /987

The Steering Committee of the University Council charged the Uni- II. Cultural Life Council Committee on Student Affairs after referred to in versity (here Performing Arts on Campus: The /990 paper requested allocation of this as the SAC) with the of and report responsibility investigating additional funds to the Student Activities Council to subsidizeorganiza- to the (UA) Year 1990 Outlook on responding Undergraduate Assembly tions sponsoring performances to increase more performing arts on The SAC met a total of nine times the Student Lq/e paper. throughout campus because of the miscellaneous nature of the cultural offerings. academic 1986-87. In order to meet the most year charge comprehen- Problems involved in the various, sometimes overlapping films and each committee member assumed for a sively, responsibility specific productions at Penn were detailed. The committee's investigation dis- section of the The administrator for /990 paper. carrying responsibility closed that these problems are exacerbated by lack in continuity of the functions described was contacted for information on update membership in the relevant Penn Union Council (PUC) committees. It is whether or not action on the recommendations had been taken, was in erratic with considerable turnover, thus making continuity of planning the or was considered untenable. Each member planning stage, reported difficult. Furthermore, concert committee sponsored events are very his her to the full committee for further deliberation and advice findings much dependent on availability of talent at a given time and prices and if recontacted the administrator for additional informa- necessary, charged by bookingagents. Popular, first run films seem to have a ready tion. This the full committee's recommendations based report represents audience, while the more serious, artistic and historical showings on on the above mentioned of and deliberation. process investigation, input campus are offered less often and are not well attended resulting in less The co-chairs would like to the valued of the acknowledge cooperation financial resources available. Costs for production such as those spon- members of the SAC in the of this We would also composition report. sored by the Performing Arts Committee run from $6,000 to $25,000 and like to the assistance of various members of the acknowledge University's ticket sales must provide more than fifty percent of the cost for a given staff. The committee members contributed administrative following performance. Necessary cost consciousness limits the number and per- information on the sections of this in consultation with following report haps quality of the performance. the administrative staff: corresponding There may be more offerings available than meets the eye. SAC Committee Member Section Title Stall .i4enther recommends that a coordinator for PUC committees and for the be Furthermore, it is that Eric Greenberg Social Activities & Fran Walker department offerings appointed. requested Promoting ('lass Unity some resource be made available for a central listing of cultural events so John Anderson Cultural Life Renc Singleton as to avoid duplication or competing events. A calendar in the Dour & Alicia Pitarque Pennsylvanian could be experimented with for one semester and if Barbara Cassel Maye Morrison Off-Campus Living successful, continued. The committee also recommends that considera- Catherine Schifter Residential Living Carol Kontos Linda Nelson Greek Life Bruce Arnold tion be given to the establishment of a standing committee in University Jonathan Beckham Student Health Service MarJeanne Collins Council which deals with cultural life. Such acommittee would not only & University & Leonard D. Miller Counseling direction and consultation, but would emphasize the University's Service provide support of good cultural life as augmenting a University education. Erie Van Merkensteijn Public Safety John logan MarJeanne Collins Dining Service William Canney Puhlicitr: The /990 paper recommends that the University publicize C. Nelson l)orn Career and Patricia Rose Planning offcampus events. SAC supports the recommendation for this publicity. Placement Service Listing off-campus events such as two-dollar tickets to the Philadelphia This report responds to each of the sections in order as they appear in orchestra, or student rush discounts at the Walnut Street Theatre, can be the /990 paper. listed alongside notices of campus events. Undergraduate and graduate students aliketend not to read thecalendar of events in I. Social Activities and Promoting Class Unity campus provided the Almanac and, or Penn Paper due to inconvenient accessibility. This In the Year 1990 Outlook on Student Lifi' paper, the UA proposed a committeewould, therefore, urge that the Daily Pennsilvanian publish a number of different and interesting ideas for embellishing Penn's social comprehensive, weekly or semi-weekly calendar of events covering the atmosphere and promoting class unity. This committee endorses the arts, both on- and off-campus. spirit demonstrated in these sections, and agrees with the premise that the Ethnic! Cultural Diversily: The 1990 paper suggested a broadening of social atmosphere at Penn could use some fine tuning. awareness of cultural diversity. The committee strongly supports UA Rather than comment on the individual nature of these suggestions, it construction of acentrally located bulletin board where, along with other seemed more prudent for the committee to address the issue as a whole. campus events. Greenfield Intercultural Center is willing to publicize The committee endorses the U A paper's conclusion which states the need their of Intercultural Center (ICC) events would for"an Office of Student Life-based committee to continue to emphasize programs. Advertising also reinforce goals of greater informal faculty-student interaction, par- the importance of non-academic life at Penn and to work on different ticularly rewarding when faculty, students, and guests represent different issues with this philosophy in mind." The committee envisioned this cultures. proposed committee as the best mechanism to think of new ideas and The /990 an Oktoberfest on Locust plan events for the student body at large. Oktoherfrst: paper proposed Furthermore, the class boards proposed in the Class Unity section Walk. The German Department already sponsors an Oktoberfest. would go a long way towards improving the social life for Penn under- Furthermore, the committee has been advised that a large scale version graduates. The committee advises that the Office of Student Life-based might well run into problems with both Commonwealth laws and Uni- committee and the Class Boards be created as soon as possible. versity regulations prohibiting the serving of beer and liquor to under- The committee further endorses the recommendation that a perma- aged students. nent bulletin board be erected in the center of campus to better publicize Intellectual Life: The /990 paper recommended that intellectual University events. endeavors outside of the classroom be improved. The committee points

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out that intellectual concerns are addressed every day both in the class- Townhouse Program: The /990 paper recommends a townhouse room and informally in the course of everyday life at Penn. Residents program as an alternative for off campus residents. This program is and faculty of the College Houses are particularly involved with ongoing considered viable to foster group relations and interaction between attempts to integrate cultural, social, and intellectual life at Penn. The students, and students and faculty. The OOCL supports the concept but committee supports the notion that a central advertising mechanism (as considerable further investigation is necessary. It suggests that the current referred to in other sections of this report) could also serve purposes of block housing program where individuals and orgroups can choose to advertising department sponsored events thereby achieving a broader live together may serve as an interim group living program. SAC sup- exposure than only to those who see advertising in their respective ports ongoing investigation into townhouse possibilities with periodic classroom buildings. A coordinator for PUC committee offerings and progress reports. departmental offerings could be considered. V. Residential Living Ill. Student Union (Please see Conclusion to this report.) The Year /990 Outlook on Student Li/i' paper suggests that a training program be set up for Freshman Advisors in the "Freshman dorms." IV. Off-Campus Living Whereas a week long orientation is given to all Resident Advisors, no The /990 paper reminds is that there are over seven thousand students formal training is given to Freshman Advisors. The UA papersuggests a at Penn who live off campus. Because of factors of distance, safety, one-day training session. The committee supports the recommendation inconvenience, possible feelings of isolation, etc. the UA generally has that training for Freshman Advisors is a necessity since they can have a asked for inwhich will afford a greater sense of "on campus" very real effect on members of freshman halls. Furthermore, they should for these students. be well trained more than one day's training might be necessary. In/ormation Session: The Office of Off-Campus Living (OOCL) sup- The UA paper calls for four basic changes in the High Rise Dorms. ports the suggestion for an informational program to advise students They call for a blocking system, which is going into effect on a trial basis about tenant and housing issues which would be widely publicized. They this year. Second, they call for an "open door policy". This is impossible are hampered by lack of funding required. due to Philadelphia Fire Codes. The UA's third suggestion is for rooms OTCampus Safrn: The 1990 paper suggests that University students to open up into the central lounges. The committee agreed that such a living off campus are virtually on their own in terms of safety. The paper structural change would not really be beneficial for all students. The recommends that off campus students initiate Crime Watch Programs, lounges might become private lounges for the students living in adjacent that the University install emergency telephones off campus, and that the rooms. The UA's fourth recommendation called for development ofthe OOCL develop a comprehensive mailing list of students living off cam- Rathskeller, which Residential Living claims is being done. pus in order to disseminate safety literature to these residents. The UA paper identifies problems in the structure of the Resident The OOCL works closely with Campus Police and Philadelphia Advisor system and makes suggestions for better monitoring. The com- Police to increase the off campus resident's awareness of safety and mittee's investigations concurred with much of the UA's assessment. security issues. It supports the concept of Crime Watch Programs to Some Resident Advisors do not take theirjob seriously and are able to supplement law enforcement efforts. The OOCL currently hasa mailing use the system to theirown advantage. As a result, students in their halls list 44.175 undergraduate and 7.270 graduate off-campus residents who are suffering. Students often have no idea where to go for help if their receive safety and other tenant-related literature. The committee has Resident Advisor does not help them. The structure of Residential Living been informed by OOCL that installing off campus telephones is not is generally foreign to them. feasible, primarily because installation and maintenance costs would be However, failings of the Resident Advisor system should not be prohibitive. An initial installation cost per telephone is $2,000. An addi- shouldered by individual Resident Advisors. Resident Advisors are full- tional concern regarding these telephones relates to jurisdictional issues time University students, whose compensation is minimal. The low involving several police districts. Thus, there arises a question of areas of compensation is a very real reason that some Resident Advisors do the responsibility. minimum level ofacceptable work. Furthermore. Resident Advisors are SAC suggests that additional, better and more regular feedback caught in a complex Residential Living system, where many Resident communication is necessary with the Philadelphia police. We recognize Advisors are not clear on where to go if they are having problems with that this coordination does present some problems since off-campus their immediate superiors. The Committee on Student Life recom- residences include several police districts orjurisdictions. The committee mended better compensation for Resident Advisors. further encourages frequent. updated mailings. While the latter recom- The Committee on Student Affairs recommends that the entire system mendation does entail additional costs, it is one area totally within be well defined so that all members, including students and Resident control of the University based OOCL and should not be underutilized. Advisors, know the hierarchy. SAC recommends that all members of Mailboxes, Lockers and Siud Space: Students living off campus do Residential Living should be open to feedback, and a system should be not have intramural mailboxes, hence psychologically increasing the created where people feel comfortable getting the help they need. An sense of alienation and pragmatically preventing full participation in incentive system and greater external recognition of Resident Advisors campus events and offerings. Some individual schools do provide mail- could be implemented so as to make the Resident Advisor position more boxes. The OOCL supports the 1990 paper's recommendation for attractive to responsible and caring students. Once this is achieved, more intramural mailboxes and recommends that the Student Center under rigorous training and monitoring of activities becomes feasible. discussion would best facilitate these mailboxes. Yet, the committee The UA paper also identified that Residential Living was unaware o observes that this recommendation does not meet the immediate needs. the problems encountered by upperclassmen i women transferring tothis Neither does the position that some individual schools provide mail- University and their special needs. This committee agrees that the Uni- boxes for their students, since these mailboxes function primarily as a versity as a whole needs to investigate and better understand the issues of tool for intra, not inter, school communication. Best sites for temporary transfer to the University. mailboxes present problems because of the number of mailboxes neces- The roommate selection idea espoused in the UA paper seems unnec- sary, the person space necessary to facilitate use of the mailboxes, and a essary, since most such programs are ineffective. Also, the University has central campus location. Lockers might be tested in a variety of locations a very low rate of roommate changes during the school year. to determine their utilization. In conclusion, while discussing these matters, the committee found Since the University cannot adequately house all of its students, the that Residential Living seems in need of update concerning student needs University does carry a major responsibility for accessibility to campus and interests and should demonstrate openly a greater concern for the facilities for students living off campus. The need for study space closer to comfort of each student. While the committee acknowledges that it is off campus living sites for students concerned about safety in walking indeed difficult to meet each student's desires precisely, student content- from distant places requested in the /990 paper could be temporarily ment with living arrangements on campus does go a long way towards served if the library buildings had an effective escort and busing service. defining thequality oflife at Penn. It is imperative that Residential Living (See Section on Safety for further elaboration). The committee supports do all it can to clearly translate their intent to.do as much as they can to efforts currently underway for a Student Center which may answer these satisfy sincere student needs. Perhaps some of the prevailing discontent needs among others. lies as much in the communication as in the actuality. connusdp

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VI. Greek Life students are being educated on health issues through health fairs. Resi- The /990 paper describes four major areas of Greek Life on Penn's dential Advisor Training, Daili' Pennsylvanian articles, and Peer Coun- campus: selors for sexuality and contraception issues. Furthermore, considerable Helping the (Jniversiiv: More Greek organizations sponsorship of health education literature is available in the Health Service Office and is cultural and,, or academic events and their participation in campus-wide distributed at small group sessions on campus. events is recommended in the 1990 paper. A Greek escort service is also The /990 paper recommended strengthening counseling services recommended. The committee has learned of a problem of fragmenta- offered at the University by adding a peer counseling program. The tion within the Greek system itself. It appears that internal strengthening Counseling Service reports that several years ago a peer counseling within the entire Greek system is necessary prior to coordinating pro- program did exist, but it was not as successful as desired since not enough grams with non-Greek organizations. The Office of Fraternity and Sor- students volunteered as counselors. There is a recommendation from ority Affairs (OFSA) did sponsor a Greek system fall retreat and they Counseling Service that qualified work study students could be permit- encourage cosponsoring of events within the Greek system. ted to act as Peer Counselors. SAC does not support this recommenda- Helping the Community: The /990 paper recommended involvement tion. Instead SAC proposes an experimental peer counseling small pilot of the Greek system in community service agencies such as Big Brother program initially focused on inter-student issues such as alcohol and drug Sister and or HUP, CHOP, Ronald McDonald House, sponsoring of use, sexual relationships rather than on academic, family or general blood and clothing drives, etc. Actually, the individual fraternities and adjustment matters. The 1990 paper also stressed the need for additional sororities do help the community in the way the 1990 paper suggests. In physical space for the psychological counseling service, deeming current fact, awards are received for such service. Once again, involvement by the quarters unacceptable. SAC has been advised that the University does entire Greek system is affected by fragmentation. recognize Counseling Service need for additional space and has given it Improving the Greek System: Since all sororities are currently off top priority. campus. relocation of a sorority to Locust Walk, pending a vacancy, is The /990 paper recommended that the current system for distributing recommended by the /990 paper. SAC supports the recommendation of HUP student billing cards be reevaluated, suggesting that they be issued the /990 paper for relocation of a sorority to Locust Walk, pending a at the CUPID center during the first week of school. The committee has vacancy. In this way, University support of the sorority system would be been informed that this request presently cannot be operationalized. A visible. A temporary option for sorority housing on Locust Walk could hospital billing card must be obtained from the Hospital Business Office be Block Housing option. in order for students to utilize hospital services such as laboratory and The "exclusivity" which in past years has been attributed to the Greek X-ray. The Student Health Service cannot provide these cards because system has been substantially reduced. Currently, they pragmatically the hospital assigns numbers in advance. They cannot have 18.000 provide living and eating arrangements for freshmen and sophomores numbers outstanding with only a fraction of these actually activated. who do not choose to live in dorms. SAC also recommends that the However, a card only needs to be obtained once. Students are encour- University make some contribution to fraternity/ sorority expenses in aged to obtain a billing card as early as possible and to carry it with them order that adequate living spaces can be created. In essence, if the for Student Health appointments in case a hospital service is used. University supports diversity of interests and associations on this cam- Highest Qualitr Service: The /990 paper requested more precise pus, some monetary assistance would reinforce a notion of one university information on professionals and on available services, as well as more with room for a variety of preferences and persuasions. adequate feedback. The committee is advised that informational bro- The /990 paper furthermore recommended self policing of alcohol chures on services and how to use them are provided at the Health consumption and encouragement of nonalcoholic beverages by the Service Women's Health Care Services. This information is also circu- Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs. There are apparent legal lated to all incoming students. problems for this office with liability exposure. Dry rush is strongly Currently, there are no specific evaluation forms for students to fill out supported by OFSA. The recommendation from OFSA was for a full following counseling sessions. While students do find a way to respond. time alcohol and drug abuse coordinator to be hired. While the latter their responses are unsolicited and follow do standard form. The reason could certainly be helpful, at present the SAC supports the /990 position cited for lack of evaluation forms is that reliability and validity for that self policing be encouraged. The committee recommends that plan- responses would be questionable. SAC recommends development and ning toward a program of norm reorientation might be experimentally distribution of a reliable and valid feedback form which, in addition to inaugurated by OFSA alone or in conjunction with counselling service, useful critique, would also provide the forum for students to proffer health service. appreciation for services. Improving Inter Fraternity!Sororitr tile: SAC supports the /990 The /990 paper's request for a suggestion box in the Student Health paper's recommendation for better coordination within the Greek sys- Office has been implemented. tem. At present, there appears to be no mechanism in operation toward Sensitiviir AmongStaff The /990 paper is critical oflack ofsensitivity achievement ofthis goal. It may be that with the presence on campus of to student's feelings upon their initial contact with Student Health and sororities, the closer physical proximity would encourage closer interac- Counseling. The report specifically referred to insensitive and rather tion and collaboration. With the current widespread nature of sorority direct questionnaires which students are requested to answer and which living, generally in inadequate quarters, and the distance from fraterni- they feel are inappropriate and intrusive. The rationale for the question- ties, close collaboration presents practicaldifficulties. This condition also naire isas an aid to the professional for focusing help. The questionnaire speaks to the overall need for a Student Center where not only Greek meets several needs: it requires a small investment of professional time groups but others such as Black and Oriental groups would find spaceon and has also been considered by Counseling Service to be less personally the Penn campus for meetings and events. Alternative social groups add intrusive than is a personal interview. Studentsdo have the option ofnot depth and interest to the campus milieu and contribute to the "one filling a questionnaire out. They receive services even ifthey do not. The university" concept. /990paper made a suggestion for "counselor assistants"to be hired to do the initial screening. VII. Student Health Service & UniversityCounseling Service The SACsupportsthe request for sensitivity and personal attention. It Basic goals for the Student Health Service, as outlined in the 1990 recommends that there be some mechanism whereby the choice ofeither paper, are availability to all students in need ofcare, the highest quality personal initial interview or questionnaire be offered and prominently service, sensitivity among staff, and education for student self-improve- displayed. In relation to assistant counselors doing screening, it is the ment. The report also recommends that Student Health alter its HUP initial interviewing which usually requires the most experienced profes- billingcard system by giving cards to incoming students during CUPID sional for both proper diagnosis and sensitive handling. The committee registration. strongly feels that while peer counseling, or assistant counseling, should A vailabilityfor All Students in Need of Care: The /990 paper recom- be further explored, these alternatives can be operationalized only with mended improvements in availability of care to students in need by very strong guidelines. Perhaps a training program for multi-levels of providinginformation not only on services available for student use, but expertise geared to filling miscellaneous slots, which nonprofessionals how to best use these services. The committee has been advised that may capably fill, might be pragmatic. A joint committee of Student

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Health and Student Counseling might cooperate in initial pilot planning. who would be available to serve in this capacity. Presently, in the evening, Residential Life might also benefit from such a program since Resident a large percent ofcampus Safety Aides are utilized as building monitors. Advisors often are charged with handling situations which are more Understandably, the SAC shares student concerns over Public Safety complex than they appear on the surface. and makes the following statements and recommendations. I) The com- Educationfor Student Self Improvement: The suggestion was made in mittee endorses the 1990 paper and its recommendation that identifica- the 1990 paper that students themselves could profit by greater interest in tion checks and security marshals be controlled centrally through the their own well being and the paper recommended inauguration of alter- Office of Public Safety. While OPS's position that safety is "everyone's native health and exercise programs to augment the intramural athletic problem" is true, it is essential that responsibility reside in one office. We programs. In response to this request, the Student Health Service has further recommend that this responsibility not be centered in the Office recently reestablished its student advisory board. Official representation of Residential Life but that a central office be responsible. If resources are is made through the nominations process from the UA. GAPSA, the not available for acentral office, decentralization with no central author- peer counseling program at Student Health and the student body at ity can be more effective than the situation of diffused authority which large. currently seems to exist. 2) SAC endorses the full use of the "Penn Card A billing system for students who need prescription drugs was sug- System" as the best alternative available for proper check of identifica- gested by the 1990 paper since students often do not possess the cash to tion. We encourage efforts being put forward to implement the technol- purchase drugs in emergency situations. Student Health does provide ogy necessary to put front doors on the system. Checking by marshals medications as starters both in day and night service. If a student needs a should continue. 3) SAC endorses current implementation of the 1990 prescription at night and has no money, initial doses can be obtained paper's recommendation that all visitors be physically signed in by the from the pharmacy and charged to Student Health. person they are visiting. 4) The committee endorses the /990 paper's of VIII. Public recommendation continuing both a walking and vehicle escort service Safety that these services continue under the control of the Office of This section of the /990 dealt with the issues: residence and single paper following Public The committee recommends that sche- marshals, the "Penn Card", Safety. strongly regularly security. security entry procedure, persons bus service be and run all without identification, residence lobbies, duled expanded properly serving University university monitoring campus which late hours. FOr ifthe is until security, and escort service. from the Office of Public buildings keep example. library open Responses Safety 2:00 am., there should be and bus will be summarized and then followed recommendations ofthe SAC, regular conveniently spaced pick up by In the case of individual schools whose build- if recommendations are in order. times prominenth posted. are on a 24-hour basis, those schools should to Residence Security: There has been continued improvement in this ings open arrange area. Where feasible, some of the measures over subcontract bus service duringthose remaining hours. In summary. SAC security implemented recommends that for all dimensions of be the Thanksgiving break are being expanded to include the entire school responsibility public safety housed within a and identifiable office with authority to year. The committee has been informed that as of April. 1987. David specific clearly Stormer. director ofpublic safety at Penn State, and two members ofhis delegate responsibility. team, have been retained as consultants to examine residential security IX. Dining Services issues. The committee this effort and encour- acknowledges beginning Dining Services has been very receptive to the ideas put forth in the continuation in other areas. ages public safety Year /990 Outlook on Student Lifr paper. They have initiated the snack Securiti' Marshals: The 1990 recommendation that all paper's security bar idea. Bagels by the Bridge. and adinner deli line. The more sweeping marshals be under the of Residential rather than supervision Living, changes. such as structural redevelopment, are out of their short range to be attached to the current, decentralized continuing supervision opera- financial capabilities. The committee assumes that the University con- tion, was with the Office of Public Safety (OPS) on the basis disagreed by tinues to give these ideas more thought. Two unresolved suggestions that each residential is and attention. The campus unique requires special made in the UA paper are the live meal program not available in request for improved training for Security Marshals was supported. Freshman residences, and the cost of dinners for Furthermore, since the Office of Public has high guests. September. 1986. Safety of a weekend dining facility has certainly been an unmet a Lieutenant to each residential to work with the Availability assigned campus need which is under study with a timetable for resolution of May. 1987. director of each on issues. respective campus safety Reaction to Weekend Dining Plan released on 125 87 commencing in Entry Procedure:The recommendation that all students pass through September. 1988 has been mixed. The director of Dining Services a turnstile that would be controlled a Marshal was not by Security underscored the fact that it is not a mandatory plan and that it is aimed at on the basis that it would not be feasible implemented during peak Freshman. SAC supports this new weekend dining plan. A weekend A of this nature started off and periods. pilot project during peak periods meal plan would facilitate good nutrition for students in dorms with no if successful is considered feasible. expanded kitchens and also those students where money is a problem or handling The Penn Card" The recommendation that the Penn Card has is a The SAC also saw a lot of in weekend for utilization not in the residences but the money problem. potential potential only throughout dining for adding to the overall level of student life at Penn. Weekend University was agreed with in spirit. Implementation needs further con- meals can be students since there are no class sideration and student recommendations will be in mind. enjoyed leisurely by kept schedules to meet. Administrators should in mind that dining is Persons Without University IDs: keep The recommendations of the /990 more than an for students. It also functions as were OPS with a further addition that a eating experience college paper supported by person(s) an informal social setting open to all. This socio-emotional with no affiliation to the University should not be access to a important permitted dimension should be recognized as an important dimension, alongside residential without a resident of that building particular building cosign- the nutritional advantage. Other suggestions that the committee endorses for them. ing are the possibility ofa deli line more often than once in the 21-day dinner Residence Lobbies: The of closed circuit televi- Monitoring concept cycle. Also, the committee would like tosee Bagels by the Bridge become at OPS was sion (CCTV) monitoring supported, although logistical more of a permanent structure (i.e. less weather sensitive). problems which need attention may interfere. It appears that dual responsibilities between departments may be at issue here. X. Career Planning and Placement Service Campus Securiti: The /990 recommendation for a Penn Watch Pro- The Career Planning and Placement Office was very responsive to the gram at night. staffed by university employees and students, was sup- Year /990 Outlook on Student Li/c paper. Many ofthe problems related ported for operation at night. Office of Public Safety suggests that to CPPS are a result ofspace problems. The imminent moveof CPPS to training be mandatory and is available to assist in this training. the McNeil Building should alleviate many of these problems. Therefore, Escort Service: The /990 papers recommended that Penn's Bus, driv- the committee suggests that CPPS keep the UA's suggestions in mind ing, and walking escorts be merged and that one phone number be used when rebuilding in McNeil, and that their services be reevaluated after which would give the caller the option ofchoosingthe service they prefer. the first full year in the new offices. The paper further requested an investigation into why these services are One recommendation that is not related to space and that this commit- not widely used. OPS responded that in order to have a meaningful tee endorses, is a CPPS effort to seek help from the Alumni Association walking escort service, there has to be an increase in student volunteers in extending summer job assistance beyond the Boston-Washington

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corridor. If Penn wants to make gains in its national image, it must make A most important recommendation that this committee makes isthat the a conscious effort to try, when feasible, to place people all over the University carry forth planning, finance, and construction of a new country, not just in the Northeast. Therefore, the committee feels that Student Union. CPPS should make a concerted effort to expand its summerjob data The SAC would like to recommend to thegraduate student organiza- base through alumni. tions that they develop a paper along the lines of the UA's 1990 paper which would highlight graduate student concerns and corresponding Xl. Conclusion recommendations. Graduate life, too, is an important dimension of the One common theme that reoccurred throughout this committee's six one University model and should receive appropriate consideration. month deliberations was the need at Penn for a centrally located Student Co -Chairs Union Building. Many ofthe requests and problems outlined in the 1990 Vivian Seltzer Michael papercould be alleviated by a well functioning Student Union. Problems Gold as varied as publicity, student social needs, safety, central communica- Committee Members tion. etc. could be adequately satisfied if a new Student Union Building John R. Anderson Eric Lang were to be built at Penn. Jonathan Beckham Linda P. Nelson The /990paper calls for a new Student Union as does the UA's March Barbara Cassel Alicia Pitarque 3rd report on a "New Student Union". Conclusive evidence is presented MarJeanne Collins Eli Pringle in these documents that the need exists, and thiscommittee recommends C. Nelson Dorny Alexander V. Riasanovsky that the University makethis a top priority. Such a student center should Wayne Glasker Catherine C. Schifter providethe facilities whichwill solve a very real deficiency in student life. Eric Greenberg Eric C. Van Merkensteijn

Comments on the report above, and the one below, should be sent to the Office of the Secretary, 121 College Hall/6382.

FOR COMMENT

Report and Resolutions on a Student Union From a Report of the Facilities Committee to (Jniversiit' Council, April 29, /987

Objectives and Method Houston Hall/Irvine Complex In response to the charge by the University Council to study the Gross floor area: 77.863 square feet feasibility ofconstruction of a student union, the Council Committee on Net (usable) Area: 59,159 square feet Facilities has appointed aTask Force for conducting this study, and has No. of Meeting Rooms: 10 also considered and discussed the issue at a number of its meetings. The No. of Ballrooms: I discussions have included a presentation by Mr. Paul Levy on a plan for No. of Auditoria: 2 commercial development in the campus area, and by Professor Al Levy No. of Multi-Purpose Rooms: I on the beginnings ofa master plan for the University (Almanac April 21). No. of Lounge/Art Gallery: I An announcement and invitation for comments was also published in No. of Student Organization Offices: 24 Almanac (April 14). No. of VPUL Offices: 3 As a consequence of this work, we have completed a detailed list of No. of Retail Shops/Services: 20 facilities and functional needs for the Union, as well as for suggestions Comparisons with campus unions at other peer universities and col- All ofthis information must be as a financing. regarded only very general leges were also made (see box, p. 10). for more detailed evaluation that should be a guideline performed by Analysis of all of the quantitative data resulted in the following key professional firm in collaboration with the Departments of Facilities conclusions: Plant, the Office of the Vice Provost for Planning, Physical University A Penn Union will require about 200,000 square feet of space (gross), Life (VPUL), the and student representative undergraduate graduate at a yen roughly estimated total cost of 36 to 40 million dollars. These the Senate, and the staff. groups, Faculty data should be regarded only as the starting point for a more detailed Summary of Conclusions professional study, which may also produce better economy. The Houston Hall/ Irvine has a of 77,863 The very first campus union building erected in our country was at the complex gross space only square feet, and is thus not nearly adequate. University of Pennsylvania: and the dedication address in 1896 stressed The present Union facilities at Houston Hall/ Irvine amount to 3.95 the importance of a "place where all may meet on a common ground." square feet per student. Thiscompares with an average of8.95 feet Students and faculty need a common meeting ground. Whenever a square per student amongst II other comparable schools. The proposed Penn survey of needs for a union is conducted in America, students on almost Union will bring the space to 10.15 square feet per student. everycampus stateas their main request: "acentral place to get together." If students (and faculty) are to meet informally, share common interests, and develop friendships, they need a convenient, pleasant placetogather Recommendations on or near campus. In its meeting of April 15, 1987, the Council Committee on Facilities Very early in the deliberations we have decided in favor of a facility resolved unanimously to make the following additional statements and which would serve the entire campus community, instead of separate recommendations to Council: facilities for undergraduates, graduates, faculty, and staff. This approach I. We believe that graduate and undergraduate students lack adequate was considered to have fortunately both enormous social advantages, in meeting, performing arts, and organizational space on campus. helping bring the campus community together in an unprecedented way, 2. We recommend that a new facility be constructed in a centralized and economic advantages, in that many facilities could be shared by location for broad campus community use (the sites considered were different groups. Several names were used for this proposed facility, 36th and Walnut, and 38th and Locust where the Book Store islocated). including the Campus Center, and the Penn Union. 3. We recommend the facility have a multi-purpose use/design. A firststep in the study was to determine the capacity and utility ofthe 4. We recommend that the Book Store, selected VPUL offices, faculty Houston Hall! Irvine complex. Its capacity is summarized below. facilities, food service and light retail operations, all be housed in the

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facility, along with meeting rooms and auditoria. Appendix: Student Union Comparison 5. We recommend that a detailed facility use survey be conducted by Name of School Population Square Feet Ft.2/student Character/ the VPUL., and Facilities Planning and Physical Plant Departments, to Student Body assess student, faculty, and stafforganizations' activity and service needs. Penn 11,000 grad. 77,863 3.95 Residential Depending on the outcome ofthe survey, the future uses ofHouston Hall 8,700 under. and Irvine Auditorium should also be determined. Boston 5,810 grad. 150,000 10.56 Residential For successful and eventual of the Union 8,400 under. & Commuter 6. development operation Brown 1,230 grad. 55,000 8.20 Primarily facility, we recommend that representative groups of students, faculty, 5,480 under. Residential administration, and staff participate in the planning process, and that Columbia 5,200 under. Infor. N/APrimarily they carefully develop plans for its governance and administration. Residential Cornell 5,300 grad. 78,000 12.51 Residential 7. This proposal for a Union facility to serve the entire University 12,600 under. 83,000 community should be sent to the University Development Office for a 63,000 test of its financial feasibility, and we recommend that a very high priority Dartmouth 930 grad. 10,000 2.19 Residential be assigned to the project in the development campaign. 3,630 under. to all of these Georgetown 6,160 grad. 206,000 17.18 Residential At its meeting of April 29, 1987. Council voted accept 5,830 under. resolutions. Harvard 9,470 grad. None 0 Residential 6,530 under. MIT 4,900 grad. 273.000 29.04 Commuter Student Union Task Force and the ('ouneil Committee on Facilities 4,500 under. Now;i Lior. Chair. Harry Hance Alice Nag/c Penn State 5,550 grad. 154,138 4.31 Residential Committee on Facilities Thomas Hauber Robert Pa/mci 30,230 under. Infor. N/AResidential Michael Some, Chair.Titus Hewryk Joyce Presley Princeton 1,630 grad. 4,540 under. Task Force Brian James Robinson Jegasothy U.C. Berkely 8,730 grad. Infor. N/AResidential Rene Singleton.Edwin Ledwell John Smo/en 21,270 under. & Commuter Stron Ann Merkensteijn van Eric Force TaskViceChair, g Univ. of Michigan 12,500 grad. 125,000 3.63 Residential John AndersonErvin Miller Jan tan der Spiegel 21,970 under. & Commuter George FormanMatthew Mitchell Vukan Vuchic Univ. of VA 5,580 grad. 180,000 10.84 Primarily Jon GentschEdward Morlok Michael Zdanowski 11,020 under. Residential Yale 4,900 grad. None 0 Residential 5,100 under. Opening 88-89

Summary: Student Union Preliminary Space Requirements the Need TypeEstimating of Space Number Unit Area Total Area In arriving at its estimates of square foot- Meeting Room (75 capacity) 10 450 4,500 age for the proposed student union, the Meeting Room (30 capacity) 15 250 3,750 Committee on Facilities prepared a longer Auditorium (1,000 capacity) 1 20,000 20,000 2 5,000 10,000 appendix (available on request) with com- Scene and Costume Shop ments on each need. Rehearsal Space 3 1,630 4,890 proposed space Retail Services floor) 1 12,000 12,000 The facilities (1 appendix compares present Ride Board (included in retail services) (or lack of them) with the proposed ones, Bookstore 1 12,000 12,000 generally distinguishing between problems Information Desk 1 1,700 1,700 of overuse (meeting rooms), lack of fit Games Area 1 5,000 5,000 (Irvine too Houston Hall Auditorium Computer Rooms 10 350 3,500 large. Public Lockers 1 1,000 1,000 too for many events), and inadequacy large Mailboxes (included in Information Desk) including program conflict (the Bowl Room Music Practice Rooms 10 75 750 both art gallery and TV room). It comments Audio-Visual Equipment Storage 1 500 500 also on the need for facilities that do not Ticket Office (included in Information Desk) exist now (commuters' lounge with mail- Graphics Center 1 500 500 ticket service, coffeehouse Child Care Center 1 2,000 2,000 boxes, centralized 4 1,000 4,000 casual where students can Lounges and other places Cafe/Coffeehouse seat 1 2,000 2,000 other and with (200 capacity) interact with each faculty: Dining Area (1,000 seat capacity) 1 10,000 10,000 rooms for piano practice, music listening, Food Court (1,000 seat capacity) 1 10,000 10,000 and TV: and a short-term child care service Formal Restaurant (100 seat capacity) 1 1,000 1,000 area seats) 1 2,000 2,000 while parents visit the union, not to be con- Coffee House with performance (100 Service Office 1 200 200 fused with the Penn Children's Center's full- Catering Television Lounge (75 seat capacity) 1 750 750 time care). Study Lounge (250 seat capacity) 2 2,500 5,000 In some cases it recommends moving Music Listening Room (100 seat capacity) 1 1,000 1,000 present services for synergies- both increas- Reception Lounge (100 person capacity) 1 1,500 1,500 1 750 ing the central convenience of the services Art Gallery 750 and traffic for other services in Ball Room (500 person capacity) 1 5,000 5,000 enhancing Student seat 1 2,000 2,000 the these are the Book Graduate Lounge (200 capacity) building. Among GAPSA Office Space 5 100 500 student services now in Hous- Store. many Commuter Lounge (100 student capacity) 1 1,200 1,200 ton Hall (Student Activities, e.g.) and some Commuter Student Mail (included in commuter lounge) no scattered (Chaplain's Office. PENN- Overnight Lodging 10 150 1,500 2 100 200 CAR University Counseling, etc.). Some Faculty Staff Assistance Office Human Resources Office 2 100 200 facilities would be satellites of present pro- Administrative Offices 40 100 4,000 grams elsewhere, such as CUPID. Faculty- Student 10 525 5,250 Information and Organizations Staff Assistance. Desk, Student Organizations 1 2,500 2,500 others. Total Estimated Net Square Feet 142,640 Total Estimated Gross Square Feet 200,000

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1987 Spring Cycle Research Foundation Award Recipients

The Vie Provost for Research. Dr. Barry Anthony Garito, Physics- Ultrqfast Third Ake W. Sjoberg and Erie Leichty and Barry Cooperman, has announced the award of Order Processes in Organic Molecules. Po/r- L. Eichler, Oriental Studies- The Pennsylvan- the following grants from the University's ,ners and Thin Films. ian Sumerian Dictionary. internal Research Foundation, which Peter J. Hand and Jacqueline Metzler, Amos B. Smith. Ill. Chemistry-LocalArea seeding, matching and bridging Animal Biology-Correlates of Sensory Dis- NMR Network. use and Recovery Function: Stambolian, Jundsforfacultspro-researchvides. Applications of Autoradiogra- Dwight Opthalmology-Map- are reviewed in two cycles-one/all, one phic Deoxvglucose Studies of Functional Plas- ping of X-linked Human Eye Diseases. spring-using guidelines published most flc,tv in the Rat Vibrissal-Cortical Barrel Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt. History of steni. recent/v in Almanac January 2Z page 6. St Art-Imperial Planning in Premodern China Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Pathology and Labor- Publication Costs. atory Medicine-Regulation of the T-cell Recep- Ann L. Strong, City and Regional Plan- tor Genes. ning! Fine Arts- The Environmental State of Zalman S. Agus, Medicine- Regulation of Laura L. Hayman, Nursing, and Paul M. the Philadelphia Region: Research Prerequi- Cygosolic ration A activity in Giant Kidney and Coates, Pediatrics- Biobehavioral Cardiovas- site to Preparationofa Proposal to the William Heart Cells. cular Risk Factors-A Twin-Famih' Stuck Penn Foundation. Beth Allen, Economics- Microeconomic Barbara J. Holder, Nursing-Family Qvnam- Elliot Sussman and Mark Smith, Medicine- Abuse Properties of Aggregate Excess Demand in ics. Coping, and Adolescent Drug Care of AIDS in Philadelphia Teaching. Diverse Black Fam- General Equilibrium theory Among Three Ethnical/v Michael R. Topp, Chemistry-High-Reso- Charles E. Benson, Pathobiology/ Veterinary ilies. lution Spectroscopy of Metalloporphvrins. Pols'- Public and Medicine-Printerfor a Scintillation Counter. Daniel E. lngberman, Policy enes and Novel Organometallic Compounds. L. Peter Bing, Classical Studies-Publication Management, and Hilton Root, History-A Ronald Vroon, Slavic Languages and Lit- Preparation Costs for the Well Read Muse Transaction-Cost Approach to Historical Pol- erature-A Joint Soviet-American Russian Present and Past in Callimachus and the Helle- itical Economy. Literary Data Base and Concordance Project. nistic Poets. Monograph in the Series Hvpom- Anjani Jain, Decision Sciences-Probalistic nemata (Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht. Got- Analysis of Network Design Problems. tingen). Roland Kallen, Biochemistry and Biophysics- Dam Borges, History-Social Mobility in Regulation of Growth: Studies of Recombi- Nineteenth Century Brazil. nant Protein Tvrosine Kinases. COUNCIL Malcolm Campbell, History of Art-The Malek Kamoun, Pathology and Laboratory of Minutes: 29 Eve of Piranesi. Rome in the Eighteenth ('en- Medicine-Biology of the CD2/ E- Receptor Synopsis April tun Seminar. Catalogue and Exhibition. Complex. Following initial discussion of parking and transportation at the -9 meet- Mortimer M. Civan, Physiology-Role of Ruth Mazo Karras, History-Prostitution problems April ing. a series of recommendations from the Protein Kinase C in Regulating Sodium Trans- in Late Medieval England. Facilities Committee (Almanac April 28)were port. Aron Katsenelinboigen. Social Systems Sci- accepted. Elections of faculty members and A. Cohen, Neurology-Neu Gene ences-Svstems Development Under Condi- Jeffrey students to the 1987-88 Steering Committee in the Nervous tions of Indeterminism-Seed Monevfor New Expression Developing System. were conducted (Almanac May 5). Research. Kathleen Reavis Conner, Management- The report by the Special Committee to Technical Competitive Strategy and Technology Stan- Paul J. Korshin. English- Sup- Review the Guidelines on Open Expression dardization. port fbr the Age of Johnson: A Scholar/v, covering the Jurisdiction section of the guide- lines Ronald S. Craig, Biochemistry! Dental Med- Annual. (Almanac April 28) was presented. In discussion, some reservations were icine-Development of Protein and Nucleic Douglas A. Lauffenburger. Chemical Engi- expressed regarding the adequacy of mecha- Acid Probes to Cementum Specific Proteins. neering-Quantitative Studies of the Effects of existing nisms for adjudication to deal with Anil B. Deolalikar, Economics-Income and Chemotaxis on Macrophage/ Target Encoun- open expression cases if the adjudication function is Land Mobility in Rural India. ter Rates. Holding removed from the Committeeon Open Expres- Richard S. Dunn. Shakunthala Narasimhulu, Harrison Depart- History-The Papers of sion. The chair of the Committee on Open ment of the William Penn. Surgical Research-lsoforms of Expression asked that action on the report be William B. English, Economics-Aggregate Adrenal Cvtochrome P-450c-21. deferred until that committee has been able to Risk Aversion and the Behavior of U.S. Aggre- Neal Nathanson, Microbiology, and Steven consider the report fully. The report was with a to the need gate Consumption. Douglas, Pediatrics-Human /mmunode- accepted provision restudy for section ll.B.9 of the which RichardJ. Estes, Social Work- The Rusting ficiency Virus Infection of Human Macro- guidelines gives the Committee on Open Expression the role of a Toward ofMove China'sThe : Bowl Rice iron phages. investigating and reportingon incidents which National System Social Security Burt A. Ovrut, Physics-Superszrings. of may involve violations of the guidelines. Tulman, E. Ward Plummer, and Jacqueline Fawcett and Lorraine Physics, Hai-Lung Recommendations from the Facilities Com- Dai, Science Nursing-An Exploratory Study of Functional Chemistry-A Laser-Surface mittee for a new campus union to meet the Sur- Ability After Childbirth. Facility for Nonlinear Optical Studies of many needs that cannot be met by Houston Stuart Fleming, Museum Applied Science face Structure, Spectroscopy. and Dynamics. Hall and to "serve as a unifying force in the life Center forArchaeology-New Kingdom Egyp- Rafael Rob, Economics-A Competitive of the University" were accepted. The Student Affairs Committee, been tian Faience Manufacture: Cross-Cultural Inter- Model of Corporate Control. having charged by the Council to review and comment on the action with the Glass /ndustrv of Palestine. Harvey Rubin, Medicine, and Joel Flaks, on "Year 1990 Francine R. Frankel, Political Science- Biochemistry and Biophysics-Regulation of Undergraduate Assembly paper Outlook on Student Life," presented a report Status. Class and Dominance: Patterns of DNA Synthesis in P. Fakiparum. making 36 recommendationsfor implementa- Politico-Economic in Modern India. Peggy R. Sanday, Anthropology- Who are Change tion of thepoints raised in thepaper; the report Roy E. Furman. Neurology-/on Permea- the Badu.y? was received. tion in the cGMP-activated Heinz The in Vivo Metab- Photoreceptor Schleyer, Surgery- -Robert G. Lorndale. Secretary Channel. olism of Naturally Occurring Furocoumarins.

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UpdatMAY ON CAMPUSe 12 Mechanisms for Maintaining Membrane Do- mains in Polarized Ep iihe/ia! (c/Is: lnteraciic,ns CONFERENCE Between Membrane Proteins and Ciio.skeleic,n: W. James Nelson. Institute for Cancer Research. Fox 16 Arabia Felix: A Con ference cm Yemen in its Chase Cancer Center; noon, Room 404. Anatomy- South Arabian Context: 9 a.m.-5 p.m.. University Chemistry Building (Department of Biochemistry Museum. Admission: $20, Museum Members and and Biophysics). Middle East Center affiliates. $10. students and high Mechanisms ofInsulin Receptor- Mediated Enclo- school teachers free. Registration and information: cI'ic?.sis !)i/fer Among Cell Tipes and Front Other Ext. 6335(University Museum. Middle East Center). Liganc/s: A Possible Relationship to Insulin Action: Robert Smith, department of pathology and labora- medicine; 12:30 4th EXHIBIT tory p.m.. physiology library. floor. Richards Building (Department of Physiology). 15 Gerald Pogach: Recent Work: paintings on can- Cancer Immunotherapy with LA !' Cells and 1L-2: Michael T. National Cancer 2 vas, wood and paper: Monday-Friday.9 am-S p.m.. Lotze. Institute. p.m.. University City Science Center. Through June 30. Auditorium. Wistar Institute (Wistar Institute). Opening reception: Mat' /5.4-6 p.m.. University City Erpres.sion of Gangliosides During I)ifierentia- Science Center. turn: Robert K. Yu. professor of neurology. Yale University School of Medicine: 4 p.m.. Auditorium. Wistar Institute (Wistar Institute). MEETINGS 18 Ethnicity and Medicine: Alvin F. Poussaint, asso- ciate of associate dean for stu- 18 Support Group /or Adult Children o/ Alcoholics: professor psychiatry, dent affairs. Harvard Medical School: I Dun- noon- I p.m.. Christian Association. Even' Mondat: p.m.. East Auditorium. Medical Education An American premiere of One Thousand lop Building (President's Forum, Office of Minority Affairs. Cranes hi' Co/in Thomas will he performed hi' SPECIAL EVENTS Department of Psychiatry). the ITP compant (Improvisational Theatre Pro- 19 Cell Activity Deht'clrocli- ject), the i'outh theatre of the Mark Taper 16 Ninth Annual Alumni Run: for Penn affiliates 01 Division-Promoting of coniferyl Gluc'o.s'ides ho Cell Wall Forum of the Los Angeles Music' Center. at the all ages. 5K race winds through the Penn campus: Components Control Plant Cell !)ivision?: Andrew Binns. third annual Philadelphia International Theatre rain or shine. 11:30 a.m.. Superhlpck. Registration: depart- ment of noon. Room 404. Chem- Festival /or Children. The play interweaves two $7. includes free tee-shirt for those registering b' Mac biology: Anatomy istr Building (Department of Biochemistry and different stories as a young Japanese girl. Mi/to /4. Information: Ext. 7811 (Alumni Relations). (above lefi, with Rosie Lee Hooks) becomes an Biophysics). Mechanisms of Lvcut'to.srs: Julio Fernandei. international peace si-mhol hi folding over one ON STAGE department of physiology: 12:30 p.m.. Phvsiolog thousand paper cranes and a hoi' California Library. 4th floor. Richards Building (Respirators becomes concerned with the nuclear issue. The 21 Seminars on (hildren and the Arts; learn from Physiology Group). show is one often world-cla.s'.s productions artists participating in the Philadelphia International 20 Opiate Receptor.'. in the Gut: Ann assis- which will he presented Mat 20-24 at the Theatre Festival for Children what other countries do Ouyang, tant professor, medicine, gastrointestinal section: ,4nnenherg Center. for their children through the arts: 4 p.m.. Interna- tional House: admission: free. Reservations: Ext. 2:30 p.m.. (ii Research Conference. Hope Audito- rium. 2nd floor. CHOP (Gastrointestinal Section of Still No CrimeStats 3214. Through Mat 22(Annenberg Center. Interna- tional House). the Department of Medicine). The Department of Public Safety's technical difficulties continue, delaying the aggregation and Deadlines of crime statistics found here. Call for Commencement Singers reporting normally The last deadline for is A will be on Students, and staff are invited to update Tuesdat: Mat' /9 for comprehensive report published faculty sing events the week of 26. Send to with the Commencement Chorus and the occuring May receipt. along Alnianac. 3601 Locust Walk 6224 (second floor of Meanwhile: Crowds are in view for the U.S. First Band at Commencement Exer- campus Army the Christian Association). this weekend, as Saturday's Alumni Day and cises on May 18 at Franklin Field. Participation is Sunday's Baccalaureate ceremony lead into Com- easy: come to two practices, one on May 16 at 3 Corrections: In the correction on awards, mencement Monday. Allow time for heavy traffic. p.m.. Room 516, Annenberg Center, and May 18 tçnure 6 of the May 5 issue, the totals should have take time to help alumni and parents find their at 8:15 a.m.. Donaldson Room. 2nd floor of page been in the of in numbersof way around and take extra care with belongings Weightman Hall's South End. Alto, tenor or bass adjusted light changes medical In the overall the if you are moving out of a dorm. L.ock vehicles are all welcome. Come one, come all! For further faculty. standing faculty totals are: 1.525 men and 302 women fora total of between trips, and don't leave luggage sitting for information, call me at Ext. 7569. 1.827 (171,',i women). Among tenured faculty there "just a minute while you make another trip. Bruce Director. Glee Club Montgomert; are 923 men and 114 women for a total of 1.037 (I women). In the page one story on Council's The theme of this new Summer Science year's Steering Committee election, the correct spelling Summer Programs for Gifted Kids to fill the between the Academni; designed gap of one member's name is Dr. Madeleine Jouille. The College of General Studies offers a variety Discovery and Pre-College programs, is "space. of educational programs for gifted youngsters Gilled students entering the tenth and eleventh from grade school through high school. A new grades will work with Penn faculty and staff to one the Summer Science Academy has been deselop math, science, writingandcomputer skills added to the selections most often chosen by facul- while examining space and the implications of 3601 Locust Walk. Philadelphia, Pa. 19104-6224 ty staff parents. space exploration. The program, which runs from (215)898-5274 or 5275. The Discovent' Program (formerlycalled Enrich- July 6-3 I. meets four days a week from 9:30 a.m. The of of record, and ment for Gifted and Academically Talented Youth) to 4:30 p.m. and includes demonstrations, lab University Pennsylvania's journal opinion news is published Tuesdays during the academic year and as pros ides children entering grades five through ten sessions, field trips, guest lectures, competitions, needed during summerandholidaybreaks. Guidelines forread- with academic and creative workshops in science, and assignments. The deadline for applications ersand contributors are availableon request. math, the humanities, and the has been moved back to June I. For more infor- computers, per- EDITOR KarenC Gaines arts, as well as the of 18th mation, call Ext. 1684. forming experience ASSISTANTEDITOR Marguerite F. Miller century farm life at the Colonial Plantation in The Pre-College Program offers students com- EDITORIALASSISTANT Mary Corbett STUDENT Ridley Creek State Park. Open to students in the pleting theirjunior year in high school a variety of ASSISTANTS Catherine E Clark, Mary A Downes. Amy E. Gardner. Michelle V. Michael S 202 of their classes, the series of credit courses taught during the University's sum- Holloway. top morning, Markowitz, Leonard S. Perlman. Daniel B. Siegel afternoon, or all-day sessions runs from June 22 mer sessions. June 29-August 7. Participants may ALMANAC ADVISORY BOARD Chair, Lucienne Frappier- through August 14. There is no application dead- also take non-credit workshops focusing on skills Mazur. F Gerard Adams, Dan Ben-Amos. Linda Brodkey, Jean line but the coordinator advises that will need as students. The Crockett. Michele Richman. Roger0. Soloway. Michael Zuck- program's they college application erman, for the William forthe is June I. For additional information. Faculty Senate. Epstein Adminis- many classes are filling quickly. For information deadline tration. Carol Carr forthe Librarians Assembly; John Hayden for about registration and fees, call Ext. 6763. call Ext. 5716. the A-i Assembly. Joseph Kane forthe A-3 Assembly.

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