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Thesday. May IZ 1983 Published by the University of Pennsylvania Volume 29, Number 33 -IN BRIEF- A.T.O. Report On page 3, Professor Stephen Burbank as Judicial Administrator makes an "Extraordinary Report", as provided in the Charter of the Judicial System, concerning the resolution ofcharges brought against members ofAlpha Tau Omega. Dr. Bryan Marshall Dr. Jere Behrman Dr. Daniel Hoffman Dr. Robert Pollak Four Chairs for Pennsylvania Professors Four senior faculty members have moved up promising young researchers develop into in- to named professorships-three to FAS chairs dependent, funded and eventually senior re- established during the Program for the Eight- searchers. Dr. Marshall is professor ofanesthe- ies, and the fourth to a new chair at Medicine sia at the School of Medicine with a secondary Ellen Goodman Dr. Chaim Potok named for a famous nineteenth-century alum- appointment as a professor of comparative nus and professor, Dr. Horatio C. Wood. The anesthesia in the School of Veterinary Medi- Dr. Commencement Ellen Goodman and Wood chair was established by Department of cine. He is an internationally known expert in Potok are the ten Chaim among honorary Anesthesia funds to give a boost to research. pulmonary pathophysiology. degree recipients at Penn's 227th Commence- Its first incumbent is Dr. Bryan E. Marshall, The three FAS members named to chairs: ment Exercises,at 10a.m. Monday, May 23, in director ofthe McNeil Center for Research in Dr. Jet. Behrman as William P. Kenan, Jr., the Civic Center. Pulitzer Prize-winning col- Anesthesia at HUP, where he guides research Professor of Economics. Dr. Behrman is direc- umnist Ellen Goodman will the Com- give directions with a particular charge to help (continued onpage 2) mencement address. Dr. Potok, author and editor who earned a doctorate at Penn, will deliver the Baccalaureate address on living in The gowns traveled through the town for Morris the nuclear age, 3 p.m., Sunday, May 22, in Arboretum's 50th Anniversary Convocation in Chest- Irvine Auditorium. nut Hill Saturday, where President Sheldon Hack- The others are: ney conferred honorary degrees upon Dr. John H. receiving honorary degrees Burnett, Trustee Emeritus M. Chance!!; Prince- principal and vice chancellor ofthe Univer- Henry of and on Arboretum of sity Edinburgh, Advisory ton Professor Economics Dr. Ansley J. Board Chairman Dr. F. Otto Haas. Statues of the Coale; Xavier University of Louisiana Presi- late founders Lydia Morris and her brother, John- dent Dr. Norman Francis; Penn Professor whose estate became Penn's renowned botanical Emeritus Dr. Shelomo D. Goitein; Penn Nurs- showcase and research station-overlooked the ceremonies in the Azalea Meadow, which ing Overseer Dr. Jessie Scott; Professor Emeri- celebrated tus Dr. Isaac Starr; MIT Professor Dr. Jerome by bursting into bloom. In an address the Arboretum will publish, Dr. Burnett stressed such roles for the Wiesner; and the University of London's Dr. Arboretum as supplying rare specimens for research Esmond Wright. in molecular biology. INSIDE " Senate: Fifties to Eighties (Axlnn), p.2 " Honorary Degrees for Penn People, p.2 " Speaking Out Klndness Health Costs, p.3 " Of Record Extraordinary Report of theJudi- cial Administrator, p.3 " Minorities Among the Faculty, pp. 4-5 " Health and Dental Car. Costs, p.5 " ParldnW Nowand the Future (Murray, Hewryk and Vuchlk), pp. 6-7 " Of Record: Policy Information for Com- mercial Sponsors of Research; Consultative Committee Reports on Wharton Dean and Left to Right: University Secretary Dr. Man Ann Meyers; Arboretum Director Dr. William M. Klein; President Hackney; VPUL, pp. 8-9 Dr. Burnett: Dr. Haas; Chaplain Stanky E Johnson. "SENATE" Chalrsfrom page 1 From the Chair lot of the Center for Analysis of Developing Economics and a former department chair whose numerous books and articles include Academic Freedom: The Fifties and the Eighties Commodity Exports and Economic Devel- opment: The Commodity Problems and Policy The academic year 1982-83 marks thirty years since the formation ofthe Faculty Senate at the in Developing Countries; Short-Term Macro- University of Pennsylvania. The Senate began, in part, as a response to the political climate of economic Policy in Latin America; and "The 1952-a period when academic freedom was under attack all over the country. Impact of Minimum Wages on the Distribu- At many universities outside forces weredeciding whether ornot faculty tenureshould be broken. tion ofEarnings for Major Race-Sex Groups: Government agents-the FBI and others-were not unknown visitors to faculty offices on many A Dynamic Analysis." He is also a Fellow of campuses. Tenured and untenured alike felt their right to teach, to research, at risk. At Penn, one the Econometric Society. responsewas led by the distinguished philosopher, Professor Glenn R. Morrow: the formation ofan Dr. Daniel 0. Hoffman E. independent Faculty Senate. The intent was to have both a forum for discussion ofany mattersthe as Felix Schelling Professor of Literature. Dr. Hoffman faculty felt academically significant and a mechanism for participation in the governance of the English and director ofthe Writ- University. The Senate was to play a watchdog role for academic freedom. Almost immediately it is a Poet-in-Residence His most recent book, established aSenate Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility and was instrumental in ing Program. Brotherly the development of analogous elected committees in the faculties ofall the schools. Love, was nominated for an American Book From thebroad chargederiveda large number ofissues forthe faculty to work on: the structure Award and National Critics Circle Award in ofthe faculty, its economic status, the scope and limits ofthe administration, issues of educational 1982, and received the citation for poetry ofthe planning and research policy. A complicated, but useful, committee format to work on these Athenaeum of Philadelphia in 1983. Dr. Hoff- problems has evolved over the years. The Statutes of the University gave the Faculty Senate an man was named Honorary Poet of the Phila- official role in University affairsin 1953. Over the course ofthe last thirty years, thefaculty has made delphia Tricentennial, and in 1973-74 served as that role one of responsible and at times even strong leadership. the Consultant in Poetry of the Library of There may be some disturbingparallels betweenthe 1950s and 1980s. In 1953 the political climate Congress. Among his other books are Poe Poe put constraints on what some faculty members felt free to teach and research. Theproblem in 1983 is Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe: Form and Fable in more subtle, because it is not a question of personal politics, but of fiscal politics. Universities are American Fiction: and the Harvard Guide to feeling the impact of budget uncertainties and restraints plus government cutbacks. One of the Contemporary Writing, of which he is editor as solutions sought istheexpansion ofthe number ofnon-tenure accruing faculty whose research may well as co-author. Dr. Robed A. Pollak be so financed that it is not free to follow purely academic goals. Financial pressure thus pushes as Charles and William faculties to become increasingly pragmatic, to alter traditional academic structures in favor of Day Professor of Economics and Social Sci- increased market responsiveness thereby reducing the University's economic risks. An even more ences. Dr. Pollack is director ofthe Center for and a Fellow of the complicated set of limits and constraints on academic research might develop from a second Household Behavior solution: broad corporate financing. In both paths there are dangers to academic freedom and to Econometric Society. He is also the editor of intellectual inquiry-the purposes ofthe University. the International Economics Review and author of numerous publications including "Demographic Variables in Demand Analysis" and "The Treatment of 'Quality' in the Cost of Living Index." Commencement Honors Elsewhere for Penn Faculty this last. Several membersofthe Universizyfaculty have been zappedforhonorary degrees-some year, some Fellow of the Royal College Dr. AaronT.Back, N. Dr. Claim Fagin, Dr. Thomas W. L.ngfltt, vice president for of dean of the School of professor psychiatry, Health Affairs at Penn and director of the division of was distinguished by Nursing, received an neurosurgery in the School of Medicine, has been Brown University with honorary Doctor of made an Fellow of the of an honorary Doctor of Science degree from honorary Royal College in where he MedicalScience degree Lycoming College,this Surgeons Edinburgh recently addressed last year for his monthforlifelong con- the membership at induction ceremonies. (There are achievements as teacher cern with enhancingthe 23 living Honorary Fellows: Dr. Jonathan E. and psychiatric stateof health care Rhoads, emeritus professor of surgery at Penn, also researcher, and and espe- through practice numbers among them.) Other awards Dr. Langfitt forhis education. cially pioneering has received over the past year include an honorary work in the under- Dr. Philip Mschanlck, degree in science from Salem and the Grass and treatment College standing professor of psychiatry, of as a med- Award from the Society of Neurological Surgeons depression will receive an honor- for ical disorder. outstanding service in science. ary doctorate at Dr. Elias Burstein, Semmelweis University Mary Amanda Wood of Medicine, Sweden, Professor of Physics, for developing coopera- 3601 Locust Walk/C8 received an honorary tion between the uni- Philadelphia. Pa. 19104 Doctor of Science versities while, (215) 898-5274 or 5275. degree from Chalmers strengthening communi- University, Sweden. He cation that transcends is largely responsible issues of political The University of Pennsylvania's journal of record and opinion for the development of origin. is published Tuesdays during the academic year and as needed summer and breaks. Guidelines for readers and solid state science dur- Dr. Eliot Stellar, during holiday pro- contributors are available on request. ing his career at Penn. fessor of physiological Dr. Joel Conewoe, psychology in anatomy, EDITORKaren C.

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