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December - 1970 - January - 1971 Volume One Number Eight Mast er Plan Finanoos, politi~ seen as University maps future problems by Golding for education Wright State University President Brage Golding struck two main themes in his The Ohio Board of Regents un­ speech at the semi-annual general faculty meeting November 23. He spoke of the eiled their Master Plan for Higher twin problems of politics and finances which comprise the overall problem of Education recently. If accepted as the University's survival. proposed, Wright State University will "The events of the past few years play a large part in future Ohio and particularly of the past year in education. Faculty urges Ohio," he said, "have so sensitized The Plan, which will carry Ohio the non-academic community that I through the next five to 10 years, salary hikes fear we may be in dire trouble." IS only tentative at this point. Public He urged that a careful balance be hearings will subject it to many A resolution urging the adoption maintained between the right to dis­ changes before the final plan is pre­ of across-the-board salary increases sent and to fight for principles, and sented to the Governor and Legislature for the 1971-72 academic year was actions which will insure a receptive on January 15. passed at the November general audience with the public. Some seg­ Among its recommendations were faculty meeting. ments of the public, the President lhat funds be authorized to begin The resolution, which is a rec­ said, object to some of what they see detailed planning of the possible estab­ ommendation to the administration, emanating from the academic com­ itshment of medical colleges located 10 passed with a strong minority in munity. Akron and Dayton areas. The opposition. It called for 7-1/2 per­ "The non-university community ~an pecific~lly mentions a program cent increases for instructors, as­ quite naturally does not care to be ot mvolvmg construction of and sistant professors and associate pro­ asked for financial and other forms operation of a vast new university fessors, and 12 percent increases of support while at the same time told science center, but entailing heal~h for full professors. Merit raises that it does not hold the proper an imegration of biological science would be in addition to these social, economic, political and humani­ e~u~ation With existing hospitals and hn1c ..." amounts. tarian views," he noted. The increases would account for Dr. Golding told the faculty that f Thi s suggestion· describes the type 0 inflation and increased national pro­ the American Association of State medical program that Wright lat . ductivity, backers said. Robert Colleges and Universities recently put th e is hoping to establish within Silverman, who presented the pro­ e next few years. forth a reminder that "we had better posal, said the larger raise for full put our own house in order before ~ The Master Plan originally called or three t professors would "help close the the public does." The AASCU voted of high Ypes of public institutions existing gap and bring WSU to a to adopt a new statement adding u . . ~r education in Ohio: state nivers1 tie . favorable position in the AAUP "responsibility" to the doctrine of stat s, commumty colleges and e comm · rating scales for this rank." academic freedom and tenure. leges. This ~ruty and technical col- (Dr. Silverman elaborated on this He called on the faculty to prepare camp did not provide for branch uses. point following the meeting. He and adopt a Code of Professional said the proposed raise for pro­ Conduct and Discipline, noting that Continue on Page 16 Continue on Page 11 Continue on Page 16 O'Dell with William Baker, Dean of the University Center Veterans on campus Dell Carter and Jim Arnett, friends ticism at first on his part, but that cooperative bookstore; the funding of and second-shift employees at the O'Dell's own story finally influenced short term loans so that veterans can Dayton Tire and Rubber Company, him to try college. pay for books and fees; tuition breaks didn't want to remain factory workers William O'Dell entered the service for vets like those instituted in the for the rest of their lives. But until in the early 1950's with the equivalent state of Washington; and the priviletl they met William O'Dell, they didn't of a ninth grade education. He got out of bidding on university service PfO" know they had a choice. in 1956 with a better education and jects to supplement their income. O'Dell, WSU psychology major and continued to work at various jobs for Membership in the club is $6 but organizer of the school's Veterans' 11 years before deciding to take his O'Dell says men who don't have the Education Club, sought out Dell Carter GED's in 1967 and tackle college. money can join anyhow. after a local news story told how he He went full-time during his first So far he's loaned $800 of his o'Wll had been locked out of Patterson year at Wright State, but funds ran money to see vets get started at Cooperative High School due to lack short and he cut back to seven hours WSU, "and I've never Jost a dolW of applications to make the program for his second year. It was then that on a veteran." profitable. Carter had attended the he started investigating the student aid What services can the club offer school before but still lacked a high possibilities and discovered what was local veterans? school diploma. available to veterans. He now carries "We can tell them where the moneJ is and how to get it " O'Dell sa Now he and Arnett have been 21 credit hours and is in his junior ' · for admitted to WSU with help from year. "There's special financing available O'Dell, the Campus Veterans' Club, O'Dell has hopes of going to Ohio handicapped G.1.'s which many peopll and a high school General Education State for his master's degree and don't even know about." tar Development (GED) diploma from doctorate and then plans to work in Club members are available to tunal Columbus. the field of experimental psychology. those who feel they need additiO O'Dell convinced Carter that with O'Dell's experience prompted him ~~. ~ some tutoring he could pass the GED to encourage others who don't think The club is currently negotia and test and enter college now on his GI they have a chance in college. Four with the University for funds Bill. He is on his way to a Business months ago he formed a veterans' intends to enlist the aid of local Administration degree. Arnett, who club on campus and since then has and American Legion groups. has always enjoyed painting, hopes received word from about 250 vet­ for a degree in Fine Arts, and both erans who want to help others receive look forward to teaching in their fields. the education they're getting. Carter says there was much skep­ The club plans to lobby for a 3 Statistics describe wsu students Wright State University completed fir t residence facility this year. 11 The geographic distribution of the 11, 175 member student body this quarter reflects the difference the dorm has made. Figures show that students now me from 60 Ohio counties, a 40 per ent boost. 21 states, over 100 percent more than last year, are re­ presented, and students come from 14 different countries. Last year students ame from 43 Ohio counties, 10 states ther than Ohio and eight foreign ountries. Eight Ohio counties still supply W with most of its students. Mont­ g mcry, Greene, Clark, Miami, Mercer, Darke. Shelby and Auglaize counties a ount for 95 percent of the student population, down from 96.5 last year. Indiana is home for 14 non-Ohio udents, while seven come from New York and five from Virginia. Eleven Master's program, proposal foreign students are from India and ven from the Republic of China. The male-female ratio on campus approved by Board of Regents ha remained fairly consistent through­ The Ohio Board of Regents has commercial aspects of radio and tele­ ~ut the university's history. This year approved Wright State's proposed vision. The Information Science cur­ .4 percent of WSU students are Master of Science program in library riculum will stress personal and social male · compared to 57 .9 percent last aspects of information communication year. and communication science and a pro­ posal to train Model Cities board rather than the technical. For the first time in Wright State members in four cities. The Board also approved a proposal history· full-time students on the main The new graduate program will to organize and conduct training in­ mpu have outnumbered part-time combine traditional library science stitutes for Model Cities Planning tudent . 52 percent of the 9 981 Council Board members in four cities. udents on th . ' with other disciplines concerned with full-ti e mam campus are the storage and transmission of in­ Faculty from state universities will me. However, when considering offer instruction in techniques of com­ I three WSU formation. Fields of specialization will ud campuses, part-time include Library and Learning Center munity organization, methods of area th ents account for 52 percent of Services, and Media Services, which planning, fiscal accountability and .....e total. The average credit hour ,...r student h . may be instituted next fall. other pertinent topics. fro as not nsen significantly Two other specialties, Educational The cities will be chosen from the rn last y h 19 . ear t ough. Students in following list: Toledo, Dayton, Martins 9 carr d and Instructional Broadcasting and hours w ~e an average load of 9 .08 Information Science, will be offered Ferry, Columbus, Arkon, Cincinnati, r . hile this year's students are when the University's new library Youngstown and Cleveland. rying an average of 9 .64. center is completed in the fall of 1972. A budget of $25,954 including The broadcasting specialization will $19,412 of federal funds, will provide be one of the few in the nation for personnel and other expenses. to emphasize educational rather than - 4 Expanding facilities new library and la

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Construction of Wright State Uni­ pletion in fall 1972. It is the first It will be expandable by the versity's new $5 million library and of three new buildings to be erected dition of extra floors. The new b information sciences center will begin with $14 million appropriated last ing will have facilities for Educati in April. The new structure will house year. Other buildings will be a creative and Instructional Broadcasting, the university library and would enable arts center and a physical education Information Science as major Wright State to offer two more major building and natatorium. in the proposed master's pro areas in their proposed Library and The ground floor will be an open Few programs now exist that pr Communication Science Master's de­ walk-through space. The second, or a comprehensive approach to br gree program. (See story, p. 3) main floor, is complete within the casting education, and this would The four story triangular building building, with the third and fourth vide educational broadcasting pe with adjacent television production floors having a balcony effect over­ nel from a background other studio building is scheduled for com­ looking the main floor and outside. commercial broadcasting. 5 expanding University: set for WSU

Work has begun on the $1 million by next fall , providing dining room for level will be remodeled into a con­ expansion of the Wright State Uni­ 700, a bookstore three times its pre­ cession area. ver ity Center. The building, in oper­ sent size, three additional meeting­ When the University's fust res­ uon since the spring of 1969, is the dining rooms on the main floor and idence hall opened this quarter about three more meeting rooms on the 245 students with meal contracts had 51 1e of the University's main dining room. the bookstore, student govern­ lower level. There will be additional to be accommodated with facilities ment offices, lounges and recreation space for student activities like pub­ separate from the regular "pay-as-you­ area . It is adjacent to the recently lications and student government. go" diners. Those facilities cut into opened dormitory, whose occupants The space now occupied by the the available dining space. With the have put an added strain on the bookstore will be made into a rath­ expansion in operation, there will be Center' resources. skeller adjacent to an existing lounge more room for each category of diner, The expansion should be complete area. The reception desk on the main and additional serving lines. 6 The birth of a

The New Liberty Hall on National ent hall for their dances and social The weekly dances ended in 1 road becomes the New Liberty Hall events. when several of the band m Theatre for Wright State University's "We didn't play very well, but left for World War II. dramatic productions this year. when the song was over we all quit The Hall continued to be Although the building has been together," Frank recalls, "and we de­ and managed by another of the used for neighborhood Christmas per­ cided there had to be some meeting brothers until the mid 1960's. formances through the years since place around here besides the old he died the Association members it was built in 1920 this is the first schoolhouse." up management of the Hall. time it has ever been used for theatre­ Oddly enough, one of the first now managed and rented by ff in-the-round type productions--and the uses for the hall was as a schoolhouse Whitehouse and Joe Humphri look is a new one for the little hall. during the fust half of 1920, since though the Association members The Hall is owned by the New the local school had burned down own it in name and have priori Liberty Welfare Association, an or­ earlier that year. their meeting days. ganization incorporated in 1919 by a The New Liberty Hall was also For the purpose of Wright Speech and Theatre productions group of neighbors and amateur musi­ used for meetings of the Association electrical service cians who were formerly known in members, dances every week, ice cream was installed to Greene County as the New Germany socials and lawn fetes. in the necessary current for lighting. A 25 foot square P Band. Frank recalls the Saturday evening area was marked off on the fl Two brothers, Frank and Max Zink dance as one of the highlights of the the hall and seats for the au of Zink road, belonged to the band week. rose to a height of 64 inches 0 when it incorporated in 1919. Accord­ "We played every Saturday for 20 sides of the stage. The com ing to Frank, they had some money years," he says. "Even during the theatre holds ten rows of chaiJS saved from their performances so they depression, people flocked to our Sat­ decided to pool it and build a perman- urday night event." seats 104 persons. 7

The New Liberty Hall becomes the New Liberty Hall Theatre as students add risers, staging, wiring adjustments and scenery. The stage is set for "The Glass Menagerie," the first WSU performance in the building. 8 Abrams sees WSU as

In his five months at Wright State overgrown with weeds; now it is cleared University, Lawrence Abrams has de­ out and surrounded by an old­ signed a comprehensive plan for beauti­ fashioned rail fence. A plaque will tell "This is a state university­ fying the wooded 618-acre campus. who was buried there and something why can't we provide theie The Staff Assistant for Development about their lives. facilities? If a young boy envisions a Wright State where Dayton Through providing lakes, food and brings his animal out to brush arbors, Abrams hopes to attract area residents come to enjoy the Wright State and receives beauty and educational value of na­ a wide variety of wildlife for study a ribbon in a show, ture, where wildlife and vegetation and for observation by area residents. he's going to want to thrive, and where recreational facilities WSU Biologist Marvin Seiger and two attract both students and members biology students have counted 24 attend Wright State of the community at large. varieties of birds on campus so far, some day." His plans include trails for walking and expect to discover more. and trails for riding, separating sections He has found five areas on campus of unmanaged and managed woods so suitable for lakes; these would provide One proposed lake would be a the viewer can see the comparison. water for wildlife, serve as a biological sandy-bottomed one for swi One or two of the trails might pass study for students and faculty, and located behind Achilles Hill. One the small ancient cemetery that was provide recreation and fishing areas. maximum of about 15 feet deep. Abrams envisions numerous fl beds in the developed sections campus. About 20 area garden have already volunteered to · one bed each, and fraternities sororities on campus have also to sponsor flower beds. His l include a large red, white and American flag, a state flag, a wel to Wright State University in bery, and other decorative beds. different. A 135-foot observation tower provide a place for community university members to view the e campus and to observe wildlife a distance. The tower, as Abrams it would have about five decks ' observation and study. He forsees a time when a barn riding circles will offer a place 4-H Clubs, and public and P agencies to have livestock an~ b shows on campus. The univer51tY sently has open land for Ii pasture, used by the WSU Riding. for about 20 horses. A small b provides shelter for a couple h Materials for many of these jects would come from the itself. Wood for a barn would from the recent thinning of the woods bordering Zink Road. The 9 r community education, • 1on fences and the like. Short pieces can be ground and sprayed on other wood to make a beautiful hardwood finish. Branches can be used for brush arbors. Pine needles decay and go back into the soil. I don't want to see valuable logs chopped up into firewood." His plans call for about 30 student helpers, and about 50 have already signed up to be considered for jobs in his program. This would be an additional educational experience for them, he believes, and would make them feel more involved with the development of Wright State. "In 20 years, these students will come back and point with pride to the flower bed they helped put in. They would want their children to come to Wright State because they helped beautify it." Stu­ dent helpers would be paid for their work, and it would thus serve as a type of financial aid. As Abrams unfolds his proposals, several recurrent themes pop up. One is his concern for involving the out­ side community in the building and enjoyment of Wright State facilities. "They pay taxes. They send their children here. This is why it exists--for the community. We ought to take our program to the people." He wants to establish better working relationships with all communities, and special efforts will be made to build relations with the black communities in and around Dayton. "Others don't know what we're doing here," he says, add­ ing that he hopes this will change. Abrams is also involved with recruiting faculty and staff, and fund raising. As Abrams talks, displays maps and Abrams in newly cleared cemetery. diagrams, points out flags that mark ntng · I yie

STIC: preparing• students for inner• city• teaching Participants met in small groups throughout fall quarter.

"Teachers and student teachers have Carolyn Barkan shares his views. ing program which provides an a chance to get together before the She was in the first STIC group, in portunity for education majors regular school term starts. They see 1968, and is still teaching at Edison work with and develop rapport each other as human beings, not boss where she student taught. "I couldn't their cooperating teachers before overlooking the person working for have made it without this workshop," school starts. They take tours of the him." she feels. "What I learned till then area the school serves to see housing, This is how Longfellow Principal was imaginary. We were assigned to a businesses and families. They ha Gregory Caras describes a special stu­ social worker for a day. I talked to been exposed to Model Cities, Project dent teaching program that has been mothers for the first time, and be­ Emerge, day care centers and other going on at Wright State University came familiar with the children's home important elements of the studen for three years. life. In the school building, you can population's lives. Eight student teachers, their co­ have your own isolated world, but Small sensitivity groups are used operating teachers, 13 first year teach­ through STIC I was really prepared." to try to get at some of the emotional ers and their five "buddy" teachers Mrs. Barkan gives, as an example hang-ups that might handicap the are taking part in the Student Teach­ of her preparation, a description of teaching experience. Each studen ing in Inner City program this year. a visit to a job training program where teacher is paired with his cooperatilll They are the second STIC group to she talked to high school dropouts. teacher for these activities. work at Longfellow. They described their feelings of alien­ This year, new inner city teac Principal Caras hopes they won't ation from schools, how they felt and their buddy teachers have beell be the last. "I'd be tickled pink if teachers were unconcerned with their able to enter the program in hopel we could have more students in it. problems. "This is why I'm delighted that it will help them adjust to their The smaller group activities are better to hear that the workshop is still new teaching environment. for learning. We don't have as many going on--it's so necessary." Included in this year's problems with students confronting Another participant in the first was a week-long experimental teac the student teachers--we have them, STIC program was Don Graef who program at Longfellow. Principal Caral but not as many and not as long has since been teaching in Northmont located about 50 children who would in duration." School District. He felt the experience come in for two-hour sessions each STIC is a voluntary program for was very beneficial to him now even day; groups of eight to ten were te. elementary and secondary education though he is not assigned to an inner taught by student and coopera majors who want to gain teaching city school. "The more you under­ teacher or new and buddy teachef experience in inner city schools before stand about your students, the better The session were interes graduation. Principal Caras is not the you'll be in handling any related enough to the children for them only participant who has favorable situation." bring in friends and relatives, and b reactions to the unusual student teach­ These teachers are describing a sum­ the end of the week the group ing program. mer workshop and fall student teach­ Continue bottom next column 11 coJDing• Director of Culture Center up named ''Outstanding Young Woman'' The ew York Woodwind Quintet The Director of Wright State Uni­ will appear at Wright State Thursday, versity's Black Cultural Resources Cen­ January 21 at 8 p.m. in Oelman ter has been selected for inclusion in uditorium. The quintet has won Outstanding Young Women ofAmeri­ world-wide recognition as an out­ ca. tanding chamber music group. Honor­ Mrs. Yvonne R. Chappelle, who d three times with invitations from came to Wright State this fall to the State Department to represent develop and implement the Center, American chamber music on tours was nominated by American Universi­ abroad under the Cultural Presenta· ty. She received her M.A. degree from t on Program, the group will be giving 1 that institution in 1960 after receiving a public concert at WSU. a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship there year. Her scholastic achievements in· Alex Haley , award-winning author in 1959. elude membership in Phi Beta Kappa, of the "as-told-to" story, The Auto­ She received her B.A. in Govern­ Phi Gamma Mu and Phi Sigma Alpha. biography of Malcolm X, will appear ment from Allegheny College that Mrs. Chappelle was coordinator of at Wright State on Wednesday, Feb· Student Life Programs at Wilberforce ruary 3, at 3 p.m. in Oelman Audi­ Faculty· Continued from Page 1 University before joining the staff torium. Haley's new book, Before of Wright State. fessors would place them in the This Anger, is the unique , true story She lives with her husband, William, upper half of institutions which of his search for his ancestry and and two-year-old daughter in Yellow the AAUP classifies as Category I. heritage. It is the result of five years Springs. ofresearch and travel in Africa, Europe Although WSU is classified as a Category II institution because it and America. His writings on the social WSU Music cr1 i of our day have appeared in has no doctoral program, Dr. Silver­ several popular magazines . man feels that Wright State's re­ Department cruiting should be done from the The African Heritage Dance and Category I institutions. Accredited u ic Ensemble, a six-person dance (According to our Institutional The national accrediting body for ompany from Newark, New Jersey, Research Office, preliminary inves­ music schools and departments of will appear Tuesday, February 9 at tigation indicates that Wright music has selected the Wright State p.m. in Oelman Auditorium. Bril­ State's faculty salaries rank close University Department of Music for liant young choreographer and pro· to the top of the new AAUP associate membership. ducer Tom McCray and group will scale for Category II schools.) WSU's Department of Music has present musical arts of Africa, pre· Arguments against the motion prepared itself over a period of two sented with narration to make the questioned the availability of funds, years for acceptance into the 380· program more meaningful to the the advisability of automatic salary member National Association of modern American audience. increases and defended the admin­ Schools of Music. Membership is based istration's prerogative of setting on music curriculum, quality of staff :own to 80. Sessions were video salaries. and students, quality of present and ped to provide feedback to teachers A companion motion calling for potential facilities and performance .ghb . ei orhood walks and a panel disclosure on campus of all faculty in the music field. 0 f parents• we re a1 so part of the second salaries also passed. Salary infor­ Accreditation raises the status of weekheld agend a. B'!·Weekly sessions were mation is available in Columbus. the Department nationally "in terms and ;~oughout fall quarter to discuss A motion to include two of having students accepted in ac­ faced~ ow up on problems which are students plus alternates to the Cur­ credited graduate schools and attract· . 111 the day-to-day classroom ex­ riculum Committee of the Aca­ ing top music students to Wright penence. demic Council was likewise passed. State," according to Department Although th heav· e program makes The committee membership will Chairman Dr. William Fenton. •er dema d dent t 11 s on teacher and stu­ now include at least one repre­ The membership was presented to teachi eacher 1·lffie than regular student sentative from each academic divi­ Wright State and 15 other schools rnost ng would , participants for the sion and two students elected by and departments of music at the 'tiell part agree that the sacrifice is the Student Representative Assem­ recent annual meeting of the NASM Worth the results. bly. in New Orleans. 12 Former Dayton lawyer still creating dialogue-- in class now

English Instructor Robert Nevin tures come easily." at Sinclair Community College in believes a teacher must not only in­ Mr. Nevin received an A.B. in 1930 ton. He came to Wright State 81 struct, but should also be available from Williams College. His major was part-time evening instructor in I to counsel his students. In his position English, but he was a product of a This is his first year as a full. at Wright State University, Mr. Nevin family with a long legal history. His instructor at WSU. tries to divide his time between in­ father was a former Federal judge and Does he find teaching deman · struction and counseling. his grandfather a U. S. Congressman. "Yes, but in a different way ti Although he's fairly new at teach­ So after graduation he studied law at the legal profession. I don't have ing, he's had considerable experience the University of Cincinnati. He went decide between life and death in the latter field. He is retired after into practice first in a partnership, more. The decisions one makes in more than 30 years as a Dayton then later joined an association of courtroom and in one's legal o lawyer. lawyers in Dayton. are the kind that lead to an ul How does a member of the legal This is the third institution in As a teacher, I still consider counse profession feel about university teach­ which Mr. Nevin has taught since of prime importance, but I counsel ing? "I love it. Teaching and law go he received his master's degree from a different capacity." hand-in-hand. Law teaches one to deal the University of Dayton in 1965. He Mr. Nevin has been able to b with humans of all ages. And since taught one year at Miami Valley his legal profession into the classr I'm used to creating a dialogue, lee­ in Washington Township and a year in specialty courses. One of the first courses he ta at Wright State was "Law and Search for rare flies erature." In the course, students arnined books such as Bleak Hi takes biologist to An American Tragedy, and Bernd Shaw's St. Joan for the authors' inter­ tions of the species Drosophila pseudo­ pretation of law. Mexico obscura will be collected along coastal "In Bleak House, Dickens repte­ and central Mexico and in Guatemala; sents law as a beast wrapped in fog, Drosophia may be just little in­ a planned trip to British Columbia he comments. "I tried to show m sects to some people, but to WSU's next summer will provide other popu­ students that law can have a posi~ Marvin Seiger they may provide in­ lation samples of this species from side, too." formation about evolution of behavior. different locations for comparison of Mr. Nevin also enjoys modem po­ This is why he and three biology behavioral characteristics at the ex­ etry. Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens students at Wright State have gone on tremes of their range of distribution. and T. S. Eliot are among his favorite a month long research trip through The researchers will travel by car modern poets. Mexico and Guatemala in search of to Texas, where they will meet bi­ About Wright State, he says, "Thi several species of "fruit flies." ologists cooperating with Dr. Seiger's university has tremendous potentiaL Dr. Seiger, Associate Professor of geese banding studies, and continue on It could become one of the great Biological Sciences, will be accom­ into Mexico. They plan to visit the institutions in Ohio someday." panied by senior biology student Larry whooping crane colony at Port Aran­ To explain what he means b1 Lawson, biology graduate student sas, Texas, and stay with several "great" institution, Mr. Nevin quot Robert Rockwell and 1968 biology indian tribes during their trip. five of his favorite lines from Jolla Newman the nineteenth century Bni graduate Ben Guild on the trip. ' This group has been studying vari­ ish philosopher and theologian. ation in behavior in various Drosophila "A great university is... 'an assellt' species in the laboratory at Wright GRANT AWARDED blage of learned men, zealous for State. They hope to collect samples The Dayton office of Touche, Ross their own sciences, and rivals of eacb of a rare species of Drosophila, only & Co., Certified Public Accountants, other, brought by familiar intercou caught once until now, from the State has presented a $1500 grant to the and for the sake of intellectual pea · and re- of Morelos, about 100 miles northwest Wright State University Foundation, to adjust together the c1 aims . of of Mexico City. This species is closely Inc., to be used to promote excellence lations of their respective subjects related to the ones from California in accounting at Wright State. investigation."' and Texas currently being studied by The grant was presented at a recent "This is the ideal I hope to Seiger and assistants. luncheon by Mr. Irl Wallace, partner­ Wright State become." Specimens from different popula­ in-charge of the firm's local office. - 13

The African Heritage Dance and Music Ensem.ble will appear at WSU on February 9. See Com.ing Up, page 11.

• WSU faculty members assist 10 experimental police projects

\\' .A team of socia. I scientists. . from Leonard Cargan, Dept. of Sociology, programs will be designed, tried and right State University has been Kanti Kotecha, Dept. of Political evaluated over a period of five years. ~warded a $25 ,872 grant to evaluate Science, Jack Stone, Dept. of Eco­ Objectives are to reduce the overall our new C . . I bem . . nmma Justice programs nomics and James Walker, Dept. of city crime rate, to provide the com­ to gpm~tituted this year by the Day- Political Science. munity with more police services and non ohce De par t ment, 1t . was an­ In addition to the faculty members to improve the community respon­ uncedTh Monday . chosen, Economics graduate students siveness towards police. to e programs under study the and upper classmen from the social The grant came from Community pie of a ' lllclud T recent Newsweek article, sciences will participate in the evalu­ Research, Inc., in Dayton. The Uni­ Sel\'i e earn po li cmg, · Community ation of these programs. versity added an additional $8,198 and Alce Officers ' Con flict Management Dayton has been selected by the for the research, bringing the total R coho!. . and D rug R e h abihtation.. . . Department of Justice as a Pilot City funds to just over $34,000. B ec1p1ents of the grant are John to institute innovative programs in law The current study is funded until . Cordrey' Dept. of Economics, enforcement and criminal justice. The Sept. 30, 1971. 14 Flight effects study taking students, researcher to Germany Anyone who has flown through several time zones knows that the change in local time can disturb the normal functioning of the body. They probably do not think of this as a disturbance in the circadian rhy­ thm as a result of transmeridian flight. Dr. Karl E. Klein does though, and he's been in Dayton since September organizing an experiment to determine exactly how physiological functions and job performance are affected, and how long subjects take to adjust to local time changes. He's been working in aerospace medicine for 13 years in Germany, and on the effect of transmeridian flight for two of those . Through an Air Force contract, Dr. Klein has joined the Wright State University staff for one year to continue ex­ periments he did last year with Ger­ man students traveling to the US and back. With air traffic continually increas­ ing, there has been a growing concern with the effects of local time changing. It is known from animal experiments that there is a bodily effect when the light-darkness cycle is artificially shift­ ed. This is true in humans too, as Dr. Klein's two experiments last year indicated. As a result of one of these ex­ periments, German pilots were found to show a change in performance in a supersonic flight simulator when local time changed eight hours. The changes Klein packs equipment for flight. were more marked at certain hours of the day. Another finding was that cerned with this point: is it easier ters. The psychology and engineeritll different bodily functions adapt to to adapt to a flight away from home students who were hired spent man new local time at different rates. In or toward home? hours being trained to do simple per­ general, performance adapted first, The current study with eight Wright formance tests. then metabolism, then body temper­ State students is the reverse of a At the beginning of December : ature and finally the hormonal system. study last year with German students moved into a local motel for contro He also found that the ease of flown to Chicago. Hopefully, the two collection of data. Every three ~~~ adaptation was greater with westward studies will show whether the im­ day and night, they went to a s~ travel than eastward travel. This find­ portant factor in ease of adaptation room for recording ~f temperatureeac:b ing needed additional research how­ is homeward-away or eastward-west­ urine collection. This completed, ()()JD ever, since other experimenters have ward, or both. subject advanced to another r found the opposite to be true. Could Bulletin board readers at Wright where he pushed a button in respanl' it be the direction of travel in re­ State might have seen notices asking to a light signal and crossed dodl lation to home that is the important for subjects to participate in an ex­ sets of four dots on a page of r~tw 0 factor? Wright State's study is con- periment during fall and winter quar- dot sets. He added random lists 15

bers in a third room, then digit nuh~ elf in front of an electrical seated 1ms . . Varied speakers' .th five holes of vanous sizes deViCe WI . and a co llection of balls of vanous The holes sequentially flick open list available an: ~losed at a rate of 80 per ~inute d the subject puts balls m the an onding holes as fast as possible. from WSU rrepThe observer may f.m d t hi s nerve- ·ng but subject Bob Luken wrac k1 • doesn't. "I make a gam~, out of .it. This year's list of public service That' my favorite test. A semor speakers from WSU contains the names psychology major, ~ob. is enjoying of over 70 qualified administrators, his experience even if it does mean educators and staff personnel who are getting up three times each night. willing to address groups or organi­ I don't mind that--they told us that zations on nearly any topic imaginable. 'd have to get up before we were Interested in current events? Try hired." This data will be used for "The Arab-Israeli Dispute" by Mr. fmdmg the subjects' normal circadian Ronald Sirkin of the Political Science rhythm. (Circadian rhythm is a 24­ Department. Dr. Kenneth Dailey of hour cycle resembling a sine wave. the Department of History specializes eepiness at night and alertness during in topics concerning Russia and the the Geology Department, discuss the day is one example.) USSR, and Dr. A.K.M. Aminul Islam, "Geology as an Art Form." Dr. Gary Although Bob figures he'll be get­ a native of East Pakistan, speiks knowl­ Barlow, Art Education, talks on "Cre­ ting about $350 plus living allowance edgeably on "Cultures of Southeast ativity," "Art in Schools," and "Con­ b the time his two-month involve­ Asia" and "Present Political Move­ temporary Crafts." ment is over, the main reason he ments in India and Pakistan." Dr. The Division of Business Adminis­ JOtned was the chance to fly to Islam is an Associate Professor of tration offers a wide range of topics Germany. The eight students who take Sociology. from which to choose. Dr. Thomas part in this section of the experiment Want to know more about edu­ Evans, Assistant Professor of Accoun­ will be confined to a hotel 24 hours cation? Mrs. Yvonne Chappelle, Di­ tancy, speaks on "Internal Commu­ a day for 14 days, but they'll have rector of the Black Cultural Resources nications," Dr. Robert Dolphin, Chair­ a few days off to tour Bonn-Bad Center, can talk about "African Lan­ man of the Finance Department, can Gode berg. They will take the same guages Curricula" and "Black Edu­ discuss "Financial Institutions" and test • on the same three-hour schedule cation," or Dr. William Baker, dean "Business Finance" and Mr. Brian as those they took in Fairborn. Th~ of the newly created University Divi­ Durbrow, Assistant Professor of Man­ data can be compared to their pre­ sion, will address you concerning "The agement, speaks on "Human Rela­ Vlous results to measure changes in Counter Culture in Education." Mr. tions." performance and physiological func­ Harden Ballantine, Education Instruc­ Psychology, biology, geology ... all tion . tor, speaks on "Free Schools" and are covered by educators in the Divi­ ~ the fust week in January the "Summerhill," and Dr. Marlene Bire­ sion of Science and Engineering. bject will have adapted to their ley, Associate Professor of Education, Area clubs and organizations may new local time, six hours ahead of likes talking about "Exceptional Chil­ take advantage of the Speakers' Bureau ours, and will be ready to fly back to dren." by requesting a copy of the list ~Yton. They'll then be tested for If art's your bag, you won't want through the University Communica­ the days to measure readaptation to us. to miss Dr. James Noel, Chairman of tions Office. The experiment travels light as far eq . Klein has worked for the past 13 mercial flights to Europe are night u1pment goes: only two main Piece of eq · years, will also do some urine analysis. flights and those to the US are during Ho uipment are being taken. Wever the Since certain tests are being done only the day. Does the time of day of the fi ' same cannot be said in Germany for this experiment, it is flight have any effect on ease of or personnel. Four observers will accompany D Kl . also necessary to transport large num­ · adaptation? r_ r. em and subjects to bers of the samples across the ocean. Ask the researchers next fall--by ~rmany· 0 th ..... • er observers and equip­ .....nt are be· . When everyone and everything is then they will have completed an *Pace Me . mg provided by the Aero- transported back and forth and data is experiment with German students, IChun dtcal Lab of Deutsche For­ analyzed, the experimentation won't which hopefully will control for the llnd ::-und Versuchsanstalt fuer Luft­ end for Dr. Klein. Another variable time of day variable. lllan umfahrt. DFVLR is the Ger­ that might have affected results has Hopefully, future research will con­ resembling the US Federal ~t~gency been present in all previous studies. trol for this variable. ion Agency. This lab, where Dr. Almost without exception, com- 16

Master Plan . Continued from Page 1 :::0 Speech ·Continued from Page 1 ~ c.., the new Ohio Master Plan makes such Opposition to the abolition of :i a recommendation for all state uni­ branch campuses, largely presented :::0 m at public hearings by representatives ~ versities. The Plan also recommends c (1) ~ that "The General Assembly by law of technical institutes and branch VI ~ ~ (1) authorize the Ohio Board of Regents campus communities, caused this pro­ 0. m vision to be changed. It appears that 0 to approve such codes." )> "We shall probably find our own Wright State and other institutions -< c -1 code more palatable than one enacted with branches will now retain them. 0 2 for us by the Board of Regents or the Enrollment limitations, which cur­ -z - < legislature," Golding noted. rently are in effect for four Ohio 0 m The President tied the need for institutions~ would be extended to all I- ]J community support to the need for 12 if the proposal is approved. The 0 .j::>. rn more money for higher education. proposal for limitation at WSU would (Jl .j::>. --t He cautioned that the inclinations be 12,800 full time equivalent, double w of the legislature are unknown but what Wright State now has. < their "probable actions cannot be The Plan proposes that special at­ faced with much optimism ... we may tention be given to baccalaureate fields face an era of great deep austerity ... in performing arts, engineering, nurs­ unless present taxes are increased, or ing, social work, selective areas of new taxes enacted, the prospect for teacher education and law. It also increased funding is negligible." He encourages master's degrees in the said the University may have to delay various arts and sciences disciplines, salary notifications until next summer, recommending that the masters be until some indications are received of regarded as a usual and necessary the funding for the next biennium. degree in certain fields of study and "We shall also probably have to cur­ as an integral part of graduate study. tail...expansions in new faculty and The Plan further recommends that some new programs until a later date ... urban universities such as WSU con­ I think I can assure that present sider the development of doctoral salaries will not be decreased, but we degrees to fit the needs of their may be required to share a somewhat metropolitan areas. heavier work burden than we would like." Referring to a salary resolution passed by the faculty a few moments earlier, he said, "We will try to do everything possible to see that the level of support for Wright State is sufficient so that we can do what we feel should be done."

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