Thesday, February 1, 1983 Published by the University of Pennsylvania Volume 29. Number 19

IN BRIEF The Toureador, nicknamed the Indian Fights, i a Goya Draft ... Open Expression: On the February 9 etchingfrom theset of33 on agenda ofUniversity Council are discussions of entitled La Tauromaquia exhibit in the new Arthur Open Expression guidelines and implementa- Ross Gallery. Theset of tion (Almanac 25, and of the January P. 2) was in Mad- to federal etchings printed University's response proposed regu- ridin 1816. Seepage 3. lations which would cut off federal aid to stu- dents who fail to register for the draft. Dr. Thomas Langfitt, vice president for health affairs, and Dr. Barry Cooperman, vice pro- vost for research, give a report on industry- University relations. Nuclear War For the upecoming conference, "Toward Preventing Nuclear War," two key sessions have been scheduled: An address by United Nations Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar on March 24 at Irvine Auditorium Computer Requirement in Religious Studies (time TBA), and a debate March 30 between research. And it will help us do old things more Senators George McGovern and John Warner Computer literacy has been made a require- ment for in studies at efficiently." on the viability of a nuclear arms freeze (time graduate degrees relgious For students, he said, the addition of Penn, a vote of the administrative commit- compu- and place TBA). by ter skills, will make them "more in tee ofthe Graduate in Studies. competitive Oral The Board to the Vice Group Religious a market them with skills History Advisory with those who enter in tightjob by providing Provost for University Life has a Starting September other candidates won't have." begun project 1984, candidates for the master's and doctorate necessarily to collect on tape the history of women at the over the must demonstrate computer literacy to win the University past six decades. Starting DeBeauvoir In 1984 with interviews with alumnae of the 'twenties, degree. Although humanities scholars in many An open meeting will be held Thursday, February the Oral is interested in three fields now use computers, religous studies is History Project in 3, for faculty, students, and staff who may wish to kinds of contributions from the University believed to be the first humanities program contribute to the 1984 conference on the the U.S. to maketheir a University's community: interviewees! narrators; loansand! conquest requirement. life, work and influence of Simone deBeauvoir. "It will be treated as a skills requirement or donations of supporting materials (books, The conference, to be held April 11-13 next year, similar to the papers, photos, diaries, etc.); and interviewers existing language requirements," marks three anniversaries: Mme. deBeauvoir's 75th said Dr. Robert Kraft, chairman of the the 35th since of The and transcribers. "It is imperative that this pro- birthday, year publication "Just as students are to know Second Sex, and the tenth of the Women's material be gathered in the near future gram. required year very Studies at Penn. while memories of the last 50 are still thelanguages used in scholarly discussion, par- Program years scholars and activists from the U.S and vivid."said Co-chairR. Jean Brownlee, ticularly German and French, they must now Leading Project abroad will be among the Mme. Deanofthe know how to use the computer as a tool of participants-with College for Womenuntil its merger deBeauvoir live-by-satellite to the conference, the into the School ofArts and Sciences. Co-chair scholarly purposes." first of its kind to which she has consented to To for the next fall, the open Christie Hastings of649-1261 orStaff Assistant prepare change by herwork and encourage hercolleagues andfriends to studies will a cam- Liz Greco of Ext. 6404 offer additional infor- religious program begin join. Chairing the project is Dr. Deirdre Bair of mation. paign to expand its comptuer facilities to English, with a steering committee of Dr. Lance accommodate more users, seeking funds from Donaldson-Evans of Romance Languages; Dr. Betsy United Final: The record total Way for the 1982 outside organizations and foundations. Erkkila of English; Dr. Michele Fine of Women's United Donor on the Way Option Campaign It will also start instruction for department Studies;CarolTracy of the Women's Center, Provost campus is $113,405. On page 2, the President faculty members who may not yet be well Thomas Ehrlich and Mary Perot Nichols of Com- munications. The conference coordinator is and Provost thank 69 offices and departments versed in computer usage. Dr. Kraft, who was Nancy in which 50 percent or more the members an initiator of for Moses. computer usage projects The starts at 4:30 in. in Room B-I of the contributed. the International meeting p. sponsored by Organization Graduate School of Fine Arts. Express Mall Box: The U.S. Post Office has for Septuagint and Cognate Studies (formed to installed a drop box for express mail infrontof link international scholarly research onancient INSIDE the Girard Bank Building at the corner of36th Jewish texts), predicts that the use of compu- " and Walnut Streets, on the Walnut Street side. ters will expand scholarly challenges for mem- From Senate Chair. A Fable, p.2 The envelopes and labels necessary for USPS bers of the department. "They will reconsider " 01 Record: FAS Dean's Swch, p.2 " overnight express can be obtained free of doing projects theyhad wanted to do, but time A Gallery at Fumees, p.3. " chargefrom the University Mail Service, P-24l would not permit. I foresee the department's Preliminary Report on R..nrollm.nt and Attrition, 4-5 FBA/16, Ext. 8665. taking on new, exciting projects in humanities pp.

To the University Community -SENATE Our heartfelt thanks to everyone who contributed From the Chair to this year's United Way! Donor Campaign.$113,405 is thelargest amount ever raised through ourcampus solicitations. We take this opportunity to give special thanks to An Afternoon at Fable) thefollowing offices and departments having 50% or Steering (A more of their memberscontributing to thecampaign. There was a President who as Central ofOne Universe in Afro American Studies Legal Studies Supreme Authority regulated heavenly Annual each ministered to GivingLippincottLibrary harmony its thirteen principalities (diminished later in his wisdom to twelve), Alumni RelationsL.R.S.M. further by an archangel dean. But the Supreme President tired of divine intervention, which AnvilClub Management & intensive effort, so he the best face on the deans to while Archives Technology Program required put abandoning Autonomy, Certified Science clamored for more at the Employee Military providing for their needs with a manna called subventions. But each Benefits Specialist Museum Library expense of the others, so the Supreme President decreed that Each Tub must be On Its Own Cardiology Section Office, Res. Maintenance Bottom, the whole the Invisible Hand of Adam Smith, rather than his own, Career Planning & Planned Giving Heavenly guided by Placement President'sOffice into an Preserve which he had largely withdrawn. At this, One Universe degenerated Ecological Chaplain's OfficeProvost's Office with a dozen predators feeding on a common prey called students, regulated not by the Divine Civil & Urban Engineering Purchasing Hand, or even the Invisible One, but the claws of Volterra's Lecons sur la :héorie mat Community Leadership Radiation Safety by hématique Wharton Recreation the President had decreed that for each student Community delaluttepour la vie. For as a final gesture Supreme Education Program Registrar captured there would be a bounty called tuition which a dean's principality would need to survive. Dentistry LibraryResearchAdministration ResearchMedicine the students cried unto the President was it not for usthat this heaven was Dermatology Then Supreme saying, Development Systems& Secretary's Office created and all its paths of wisdom? Our deans have fenced us in lest we stray and through the Research Social Work Library enrich another; we no marvel at the fullrichness ofOne Universe which now lies Dining CommonsStoufferDining bounty may longer Director of Student Financial Aid in But the deans said, the restrictions are made because true wisdom comes of one Development pieces. knowing Engineering Support Telephone Service piece well, and besides, we allow some excursions. The students replied, your mouths are where Service University Comp Canter Act-Terminals your money is. And thestudents asked that the Supreme President reassemble in divine harmony Entrepreneurial deans Executive Education U.M.I.S. the pieces ofOne Universe, or failing that, he hold a yearly divine Yom Kippur reckoning for Facilities Development Treasurer toanswer for howthey had treated theirstudents, even as the students were called to account many FacultyClubDevelopment and Alumni AdministrationRelations timeseach year. But the Supreme President said, sinceall my creatures truly believe in what benefits his own So the Fine Arts LibraryHuman Resources them, how shall we reckon, for every dean will have acted honestly after beliefs. General Honors Program (Personnel) students answered, you have created a body which can pass all judgments called the Council, Graduate Faculty OperationalServices of course don't listen to it. Let it So One Universe was on the Health CareWharton Communications although you always judge. put Administration liked best. Program heavenly Council's agenda to decide which model ofadministration it Hill Hall DiningWharton Computer Center Human Resources Center Wharton Duplicating Institute of Contemporary Wharton Evening School Art Wharton Executive MBA InsuranceWharton Magazine International Programs Wharton Undergraduate International Services Word Processing Center LawSchool Dining -Sheldon Hackney: President Thomas Ehrlich. Provost OF RECORD

Final Report of theConsultative Committeeon the Search for a Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences The Consultative Committee on the Search for a Dean ofthe Faculty Philosophical Society. Stress was placed on Pennsylvania's commitment of Arts and Sciences first convened on April 27, 1982. The Committee to equal opportunity. members were: Dr. Sandra T. Barnes, associate professor ofanthropol- The committee considered a total of 51 internal nominees and 103 ogy; Dr. John J. Cebra, Annenberg Professor of natural sciences and external nominees. It engaged in informal discussion with persons espe- chair of biology; Dr. Robert F. Engs, associate professor of history; Dr. cially well informed and qualified for the position ofdean ofa school of C. Drew Faust, associate professor and chair of American civilization; arts and sciences. Dr. Thomas P. Hughes, professor of history and sociology of science On the 9th of November, the committee submitted to the President (chair), Allison Mankin, student representative; Robert Shepard, stu- and Provost the names of four persons considered likely candidates for dent representative; Dr. Paul Soven, professor of physics; Dr. Eliot the position. Professor Joel Conarroe's name was among them, and he Stellar, University Professor of physiological psychology in anatomy was subsequently named dean. and Provost Emeritus; lone A. Strauss, alumni representative; and Dr. -Dr. Thomas P. Hughes. Chair Frank A. Trommler, professor ofGerman. Dr. Mary Ann Meyers served as administrative secretary. the summer and fall of 1982 the committee held some 20 3601 Locust .WlkJC8 During P. of Philadelphia. 19104 scheduled meetings. The chair made progress reports to meetings (215) 898-5274or 5275. School of Arts and Sciences chairpersons and to the SAS faculty. The committee met with the administrative staffofthe FAS dean's office and the student The University of Pennsylvania's journal of record andopinionii publishedTuesdays during with representatives of the undergraduate and graduate body. academic year and as needed during summer and holiday breaks. Guidelines for readers and Onthree occasions, the committee invited the President and the Provost contributors are availableon request.

ofthe University to exchange views and arrange procedures. EDITOR KarenC. Games The position was advertised in Almanac. The Chronicle of Higher ASSISTANTEDITOR Marguerite F. Miller M. Education. The Daily Pennsylvanian, and The New York Times. Letters EDITORIALASSISTANT Linda Fischer WORK-STUDY ASSISTANTS KevinDough",Unda Sotnychuk soliciting nominations were sent to individual members of the SAS members ofthe administration, and officers of national ALMANAC ADVISORY BOARD Clifton Cherpack, chair. Murrsy Gerstenhaber. Jsmshed faculty, scholarly D. Jr.. June Axinn and Marvin for the Senate. and societies, the American of Arts Ghandhl, Charles Graham, Carolyn Faculty organizations including Academy Denise McGregor for theAdministration .... Jane Bryanforthe Librarians Assembly .... Shirley and Sciences, the National Science Foundation, and the American WintersfortheAdministrative Assembly .... Uns L Deutsch forthe A-3 Assembly. 2 ALMANAC, February 1, 1983

For restoration ofthe Iobb;' out- side the Arthur Ross Galleri faculty andstudents of GSFA 'S sculpture department reproduced twoeight-foot brass lampsby Frank Furness. Robert Engman. JackiJacovini (see photo) Marry Ingram. John Lee and Nick Vidnovic worked on the project.

NancyPorter-Engman

A Gallery for the Furness Building

On February 8 members ofthe University will gather for the opening ment as a public member on various delegations to the United Nations ofan exhibition, Francisco Goya y Lucientes: The Disasters of War, La and its economic and social agencies. "Arthur Ross has a long-standing Tauromaquia. Spanish Entertainment, andotherprintsfrom the Collec- friendship with the University of Pennsylvania where he studied and tion ofthe Arthur Ross Foundation. which has subsequently benefited from his interest in education and the They will celebrate not only the show, but its showcase-the new arts," said President Hackney. "His concern in this areahas also been felt Arthur Ross Gallery-in a building that is itself a work of art. The in New York City where his programs for preservation and beautifica- Furness Building, a 19th-century masterpiece of Victorian architecture tion have benefited both the cultural life and theenvironment ofthe city. designed by Frank Furness, served as Penn's main library from 1891 It is a matter of pride that he has chosen to establish the Arthur Ross until 1962, and currently houses thefine arts library and related archives Gallery in Philadelphia, recognizing it as an appropriate means of and collections. enriching the learning experience at the University." The newgallery is in Furness's first-floor south wing, a Robert Rodes McGoodwin design added in 1931 to house the Horace Howard Furness The Opening Exhibit Shakespeare Library. After 1962, when the Shakespeare collection movedto the sixthfloor ofVan Pelt, its former home was refurbished by The opening exhibition, on loan from the Arthur Ross Foundation, the Class of 1939 to serve as a meeting roomfor both University Council includes a complete edition of Francisco Goya Lucientes' La Tauroma- and the Stated Meetings ofthe University Trustees. quia prints on the bullfight. Twenty plates from The Disasters of War, a When Frank Furness designed the building he intended it both as a graphic account ofthe sufferings whichthe Napoleonic wars brought to gallery and a library, according to Dr. Paul Todd Makler, curator ofthe Spain, and otherselected etchings will be on display from February 8to University's art collection. March 31. Amongtheworksisthe renowned lithograph Spanish Enter- The Arthur Ross Gallery is important, Dr. Makler said, becauseit will tainment, which Goya executed at the age of 80, near his life's end. The give students the experience of living with art. "They should take it as lithograph is one of a set of four, known as the Bulls ofBordeaux, and part of life, not something relegated to Sunday afternoons at the Art represents theultimate expression ofhis Spanish character and ancestry. Museum. ... The idea is not to rival the Philadelphia Museum of Art, In his introduction to the catalog of the exhibit, Arthur Ross noted but to provide students with an educational experience-and an oppor- that Goya was "ushering in a new age ofart." tunity to curate shows," he explained. "Goya was born in the tough, barren northeast region ofSpainand his The opening ofthe gallery means that Penn can beginto showcase its great artistry and brilliant use of the copper plate as an art form soon 4000 treasures accumulated since becoming a university in 1791. The established him as one of the great artists of all time," Mr. Ross con- University-owned art includes famous pieces such as the prized Thomas tinued. "Coping with his changing fortunes gave him an independent Eakins painting, The Agnew Clinic, and the David Rittenhouse Orrery, and iconoclastic perspective on life. A towering figure by the end ofthe made by the mathematician and Penn professor in pre-Revolutionary eighteenth century, he had the strength and talent to become a precursor days. of a new beginning in art both as to subject matterand style." "The Arthur Ross Gallery will be the first of a number of separate La Tauromaquia was the name given to the set of 33 Goya etchings galleries to be developed in the Furness Building and integrated with its issued in Madrid in 1816. The series brought him wide acclaim and fine arts library and archives," according to Dean Lee Copeland of the; further established his reputation as one ofthe great figures intheworld Graduate School ofFine Arts. "Wewill be able toexhibit the present and of art. This work was, in some ways, a reaction to his completion ofLos future collections of the University and it will also allow us to bring Caprichos, that sardonic indictment of Spain's social and political struc- exhibits here from outside for the enjoyment and education ofstudents, ture. The epigraph to the catalogue accompanying the exhibition is faculty, staff, and the Philadelphia community,"he said. drawnfrom adescription by Goyaof a print from The Disasters of War. Dean Copeland said that the goal is to restore the entire building (the 'Tis the way of the world-men tease and fight one another he who Furness Building is listed inthe National Register of Historic Places) and yesterday played the bull plays today the horseman in the ring. that Mr. Ross's generosity is a significant step toward achieving this. Fortune directs the spectacle, assigning the roles according to her Professor Marco Frascari ofthe Graduate School is the designer of fickle caprice. the gallery, which will retain its Gothic motif. He is using the original Atthe time The Tauromaquia was published, bullfighting was a political McGoodwin walls and the present multi-paned windows, which will issue: despite its popularity, there was liberal opposition to the Spanish include photo-sensitive glass to control the amount of sunlight in the national pastime. Although Goya's opinions are not clearly stated, the gallery. The lobby is also being restored. The wooden doors and all other influence of the Enlightment view appears in the brutal realism ofsome wood trim has been returned to its original light color; the black iron- of the episodes, which are reminiscent of the pessimistic visions of work staircase will be returned to its original light tone. Two lanterns that human nature depicted in The Disasters of.War. wereonce on top ofthe stairposts have been recreated by GSFA students Dibersión de Espaifa. (Spanish Entertainment), from the lithograph and faculty. series Bulls of Bordeaux completed in 1825 in France, will also be Arthur Ross was an undergraduate inthe Wharton School, 1927-30, a included in the exhibition. Thisprint showsan event common in Spanish member of Sigma Alpha Mu and the Punch Bowl business board. He villages-bulls set free in the main squareso allcan test their potential as then attended Columbia University where he received his B.S. degree in matadors. As in The Tauromaquia, the bullfight appears to be a com- 1931. Since then he has had a distinguished career in business and mentary on the Spanish populace. Goya died in exile threeyears after the philanthropic activities and has also served the United States govern- series was finished. -M.FM. ALMANAC, February 1, 1983 3

For some weeks, references have been made in the campus press to four undergraduate deans, with representatives ofthe Admissions projected studies ofundergraduate attrition. Itshould be emphasized Office, Office ofStudent Financial Aid, Registrar's Office, and the that before we can derive detailed information about the reenroilment Council Committee on Admissions and Financial Aid. The Provost andattrition ofschool-specific groups or any other subgroups ofthe has asked the Associate Provost, Dr. Marion Oliver, to sit in an advi- undergraduate student body, we must have aformatfor analysis that is sory capacity;andwe shallname two student representatives, who will common to all oftheschools, anda consistent data base so that participate but will not have access to individual student records. analysis can be replicatedfrom year to year. This is not a task that will be completed overnight, but it is one that The Director ofStudent Data has taken the initialstep ofcreating an must be carried out as meticulously as possible to ensure that we begin analytic data base, and in the document published below, offers some with a soundbase which allows us to make use ofthese data with con- preliminary comments on cohorts offreshmen entering since 1973. For fidence in the months andyears ahead. the Council of Undergraduate Deans, the next step is the formation of -George S. Koval, Acting Vice Provostfor University Life, a work team to begin analysis ofthese data. On the team willbe the (Convenor, Council of Undergraduate Deans)

A Preliminary Report on Reenrollment and Attrition

The increasing importance of undergraduate education at Pennsyl- "noise" does and must exist in these data. My experience leads me to vania is clear. The commitment ofthe institution to the undergraduate believe that the data are basically correct despite the fact that some enterprise was recently affirmed by President Hackney in "Choosing individual records in the data base are still in error. The best way to put Penn's Future." As we begin to scrutinize our efforts at recruiting, that assertion to the test is to make use of the new data base to analyze teaching, and graduating undergraduates, however, we know too little rigorously the aggregate data presented here. (A look at Table I repre- about our success or failure. Likeour peerinstitutions, we need accurate sents some ofthe difficulties that still persist after considerable effort to information on how many ofour students reenroll each term, what the clean up the data.) nature ofstudent attrition is, when attrition occurs, and what percentage of our students graduate early, on-time, or late. This information is What Has Been Done critical for any sensible evaluation of our admissions and financial aid The only way to proceed with a study of reenrollment is to create a policy, for monitoring ofourstudent service efforts, and foreducational data base of entering cohorts, that is, classes of freshmen and transfer policy and budget planning tasks. students that enter together in specific years. Since the analysis of To date there have been very few efforts to get at the necessary graduation rates requires an historical perspective ofat least four years, numbers. WhiletheOffice ofPlanning Analysis runs a computer model we began with the cohort that entered in 1973. Since we gathered data by each year that targets with some precision the number of students one term from Fall 1973 to Fall 1982, thenewdata base for the study contains canexpect on campus from fall to fall, ithas never purported toconsider information on nine cohort groups, each separating freshmen and reenrollment from the point of view of individual classes and groups. transfers (the Fall 1982 cohort group has not yet been added to the The computer model has been a budget tool designed for that specific purpose and it has not pretended to help us understand the actual process of reenroliment and attrition. TABLE 1 One reason for the remarkable lack ofinformation is the lamentably Freshman Cohotis difficult task that confronts anyone who attemptstogather the necessary by Year data. Efforts that are in large measure manual require significant amounts oftime and arealmost impossible to eachyear as R.port.d replicate part Mat,lculantsRico do wlth ofa regular institutional research function. The study before us, ofwhich Yesrot by Offic. of Rcordson Admissions this is a discussion, was undertaken with the report only preliminary Cohort Admissions Study Datasst Data intent of establishing an automated analysis that would provide us with Sept 1973 1828 1778 1748 the important information we need while also, and even more impor- Sept1974 1920 1891 1858 tantly, establishing a capability to continuethe analysis when each year's Sept 1975 1986 1982 1944 new data are available. Having undertaken the task, I now understand Sept1976 2006 1993 1968 full well why it has not been done before. Sept1977 2020 1999 1947 Sept1978 2139 2121 2087 Since the of Director of Student Data, I assuming position have Sept1979 2049 2024 2017 written two long reports which outline many of the problems of our Sept1980 2172 2149 2149 student data computer systems. These problems are never more appar- Sept 1981 2076 2025 2024 ent than when we attempt to do the type ofanalysis required here. My first report on student data issues resulted in certain changes to the 'A cohort represents a class of freshmen who enter together in a specific year. The brat column lists the number of matriculanta the These Student Data Base file in the fall of 1980, but these changes were not reported by Admissions Office. numbers always includesoft students who indicate they will matriculate, pay a deposit available for theearlier files. The retrospective nature ofthis study forces and never actually arrive. The fact that column two shows the lower number of our actual us to deal with several years' worth of data files where it has been dataast for ..ch cohort is therefor, expected. However, the fact that column three shows that we were able to merge Admission. Office data and Registrar Office data for a impossible to identify precisely our population and match Registrar and slightly smaller groupie evidence of the noise' in the data. The figures for September Admissions Office data. After several months ofwork, ways of dealing 1990 and 1991 are examples of what we should strive for in terms of the ability to link our time. with many of these problems have been developed. I mention this because it is critical that any reader of this report realize that some 4 ALMANAC. February], 1983

study). For each cohort we collected six years' worth of data until the without formal notification. The fact that many students do not tell us of 1977 cohort (which has only five years available) with each subsequent their plans may be due to the fact that those students did not develop cohort reduced by one year more. Since the data are gathered in a time strongrelationships with school offices or student service personnel. We series with appropriate arrays, we can measure performance of each are given no opportunity to find out what troubles the students and what cohort by each year in class. The result is a large data base with 200 may lead to theirdepartures. Our lack of exit interviewing also leaves us million charactersofdata and with a capabilitytocutoff datacollection without valuable information. for specific cohorts after six years while continuing to gather data each We do not know if what appears to be voluntary attrition when year for cohorts that do not yet have six years of data. looking at data on academic performance may have institutional causes Table 2 presented here gives only a small snapshot ofwhat is or will be iffinancial aid information is studied. In fact, one danger we must avoid available for in-depth analysis. Itis still ourintention to add financial aid is the tendency to make judgments solely on the basis of academic datato the system in thefuture, for example. Sincethis is a first attempt performance data because they are the easiest to pull together. Theneed at establishing an automated system ofthis type and since we have some to move forward in the task of adding financial aid data, heretofore problems with any retrospective look at our computer systems, the unavailable, to the study is critical to our ability to analyze this issue. formal analysis should be carefully designed so that it can be replicated Thedata show asignificant number ofinternal transfers, and this may each year. Our initial effort should be directed toward testing the accu- present us with a very interesting avenue of analysis. Experience tells us racy of our data. The best way of doing this is by establishing a work that there are many more students who attempt internal transfer than group to conduct the first analysis, as Vice Provost George Koval has succeed. The relationship between attrition and the failure to effect an announced above. internal transfer is worth analysis. Thedata base provides us withagreat deal of information on these patterns of internal transfer, a form of attrition at the school level. Basic of Reenroilment Description When considering the phenomenon of voluntary attrition, we also must keep in mind the fact that most national studies ofattrition suggest One ofthe most basic questions about reenrollment is what comprises that it is not actual performance that affects whether or not a student this we deal the graduation percentage for any given cohort. In report, continues, but performance in light of expectations. Even though many only with the students admitted as freshmen from 1973 to 1981. Table 2 of our students leave us in acceptable academic standing, it is possible The shows a fairly constant graduation rate ofaround 80 percent. drop that they have failed in light oftheir expectations ofwhat was needed to for the six- and to 73 percent 1978 cohort represents the change from a meet their aspirations for a career or other educational goal. This may the rate of five-year perspective to four years. The data showing gradua- imply the need for some level of survey at the point ofadmissions, exit tion for each cohort at the end of four years demonstrate that the 73 interviews with written records, and possibly a follow-up survey after for 1978 is in fact a better rate than the trend percent slightly graduation departure. would have predicted. The data on active students show that even after six years, 2 percent to3 percent of the cohort students were still active in pursuit ofthe degree. This groupgenerally represents students who leave Conclusion and then return to school. Those students who do not graduate follow a fairly predictable pat- This report aspires to be no more than basic description of reenroll- tern overall. Of the 18 percent to 20 percent who do not graduate, ment and attrition at Pennsylvania. Over the last few months we have approximately one-quarter to one-third leave after the freshman year constructed a data base that will allow for some in-depth analysis, but and up to one-halfby the end ofthe secondyear. Approximately another theway to structure that analysis is not intuitively obvious. Ifthedata are quarterleave overthe next two years withtheremaining students leaving to be useful to the schools in retention efforts, the work group with Pennsylvania in thefifth orsixth year after matriculation, although they representation from the schools and related central offices will structure have generally not beenactive all ofthose years. These figures seem to be such an analysis and allowus to review issues related to exit interviewing, holding steady for thosecohortsfor which we have less than fouryearsof surveying, and other means of adding important information to that data, once again suggesting that the pattern appears to be constant. which we have available. It is to certain areas and to Oneoftheoverwhelming facts ofattrition which suggested strongly possible identify specific problem suggest is issues which must be considered in to increase our retention: by the available data is that students leave Pennsylvaniavoluntarily. The any attempt data that less than 25 of the students who leave us do so suggest percent I. No retention effort is really possible unless we do a better job of becauseofaction the schoolthat terminatesthestudent. the 2.0 by Using getting at the causes of attrition. This involves improving our GPA as a guide, most students who leave are in acceptable academic methods of data on current The actual seldom used it istrue that recording systems, doing everything standing. "drop" is although many possible to ensure that financial assistance can be examined in the withdrawalsareinitiated the school and used as one would usea by drop. future as a variable, and working on some methods for survey Still the basic fact is that attrition is largely a voluntary event. This information and exit interviews. suggests that we can attack the problems if we can isolate the causes. Many possibilities suggest themselves. 2. Only a minority of our students leave us involuntarily. However, and be Onefactor may verywell be the need, as President Hackney puts it, to this could be a significant issue for selected groups must reduce the psychological size ofthe University. In many cases students do studied in light ofevaluations of programs for academic support. not withdraw or on leave of absence. formally go They merely depart 3. We should consider attrition patterns in light ofrecruitment strate- gies. Can we better recruit for retention? 4. As we seek to create an environment more likely to reduce our TABLE 2 attrition rate, we need to identify students before they commit Freshman Cohorts themselves to leaving. We need an effective early warning system. This a task of and coordinating resources we FW* is largely sensitizing Four have in Years Yes already place. SlxYears ofData of Date of Data 5. Weshould consider whether or not we have properly integrated the 73 74 76 l7 SW SW Sept75 SW SW Sept78 variety ofadvisory services available to students. Graduated 80% 81% 81% 81% 80% 73% Graduated Many other issues could be listed easily. Of course, we must approach After4 our efforts withanawareness that a multifaceted problem which must Years 71% 71% 71% 70% 71% 73% is be attacked in many ways. Creating the data base was an enormous Active 2% 3% 3% 2% 3% 9% We can now set out to use it for whatever level of Not Active 18% 16% 16% 17% 17% 18% challenge. analysis is most appropriate. -Vince Conti, Director ofStudent Data

ALMANAC. February 1, 1983 5

ON CAMPUS February 1-13

Exhibition Hours modern master of silent comedy, is part of Artsfest/ 83. The Children's Activities films will be shown in the Studio Cen- Annenberg Center Lobby 3680 Walnut Street. Monday- Theatre. Annenberg ter. Admission: $3 film. $5 for both films in one Film Series Friday 8:30 a.m.-9 p.m.. Saturday noon-9 p.m.; Sunday per evening. February 5 The Wrong Box noon-6 p.m. February 12 Lost in the Wild Arthur Roes Gallery Furness Building 220 South 34th Museum Film Series Street. Tuesday-Friday 10 a.m.-5 p.m.. Saturday and Sun- 6 TheShepherdsof Bernary: VillageofNo River. The Saturday children's film series is free. Filmsare screened February noon-5 p.m. 13 Les Petites Fugues. at I0-.30a.m., Harrison Auditorium,the University Museum. day February andWalnut Streets. 9a.m.- Raft Club 36th Monday-Friday These free films are screened at 2:30p.m.. Harrison Audito- 9 Coursework P.M. rium, the University Museum. Fine Art. Building 34th and Walnut Streets. Tuesday- Students for February 5,6 Gifted Program begins youths Friday 10 a.m.-5 p.m..Saturday and Sunday noon-5 p.m. 7-10 to supplement regular school programs in lan- PUC Film Alliance grades Fin.Arts Library Furness Building. 220South 34th Street. Information: Bruce Robinson. Ext. 3526. February 3 The Twelve Chairs (Mel Brooks). 9 p.m.; The guage (CGS). Monday-Thursday 9 am-lI p.m.. Friday 9 a.m.-I0 p.m.. Twelve Chairs (Leonid Gaidai). 10:30p.m. Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m.. Sunday I-lI p.m. On February 10 Five East' Pieces. 9 p.m.; Easy Rider. 10:30 Stage Unlv.r.lty Museum 33rd and Spruce Streets phone: 222- February 4, 5 Ta Fantastika, a Czechoslovakian troupe p.m. 7777.Tuesday-Saturday. IOa.m.-4:30p.m.;Sunday I-S p.m. A Dream using sound, light, dance and mime to all films are screened at presents Van Pelt Ubr.ry Monday-Friday 9 a.m.-I] p.m. except Unless otherwise indicated, 10p.m.. create surrealistic and stories to celebrate images magical holidays. Rosenwald Gallery. Monday-Friday9 a.m.-5 p.m. Irvine Auditorium. Admission: $2. Annenberg's fifth anniversary of the Theatrefor Children II a.m. and 2 Series: Friday 10a.m. and 12:30p.m.. Saturday Penn Union Council p.m.; Tickets: $4.50 (orch.). $3.50 (baic.). Box office: Ext. Movies Dead Men Don't Wear In 6791. Guided Gallery Tours February 4 Plaid. 8.11:45 p.m.; February 9 The Performing Arts Repertory Theatre Foun- February 5 Egypt the Heat ofthe Night. 9:45 p.m. North American Indians 5 Raiders ofthe Lost Ark. 7:30,9:45,12 dation, N.Y., presents Ishogi African Dancers: 10:30 a.m. February 6 February p.m. and 12:30p.m. Irvine Auditorium (Year 102 Events). February 12 China February 11 Stripes. 8,10.12p.m. The Way We February 13 China February 12 Were. 7:30.9:45 p.m. Midnight: Societs: These Saturday and Sunday tours are free and begin at I High Coursework and Training p.m. at the main entrance of the University Museum. Infor- Schedule subject to change. All shows in Irvine Auditorium. mation and to arrange for group tours: Ext. 4015. Admission: $1.50. Midnight: $1 (Midnight showings of fea- Health and Wellness Project ture films are $1.50). Information: Ext. 4444. Through Apdl 18 Dancefor Health, 12-week course. 8-10 p.m..$70. Films International Toumée of Animation 1-22 Advanced Bodr work, four-week seminar. 7 February February 11 A Tribute to the Animation Artistrt of the P.M..$50. Exploratory Cinema National Film Board of Canada. 6,8. 10p.m. 1-March 8 A Was to Wholeness, six-week 2 Commuters; Year of the Women. February Yoga: February Febraury 12 More Selections covering 42yearsof Canadian Conversations in Vermont: Going Home. course, noon-1:15 p.m., $40. February 9 Innovation and Production. 2.4.6. 8. 10 p.m. February 1-April 19 T'ai Chi Ch 'sian. 12-week course. 7-8 Films at 7:15 and 9:30 Studio Theatre. Annen- begin p.m.. This exclusive Philadelphia showing of 21 animated selec- p.m.. $65. Admissions: students $2. berg Center. $3. tions is part of Artsfest/83. The films will be shown in the February, 3-March 10 Basic Massage and Healing, six- Studio Theatre. Annenberg Center. Admission: (evenings) week course. 7-10p.m.. $90.$75 students. GSAC Film Series $4. $3 students; (matinees) $3.50, $2.50 students. the Health and Wellness These courses are sponsored by February 8 Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors. a of the ChristianAssociation, andare held Project, program February 11 The Hustler. at the CA. Information and registration: 222-5941. Year 102 Films Films are shown in Fine Arts B-I. at 7:30 and 10 p.m. February 1 Malcolm X. 8 p.m.. Duncan lounge. Kings Admission: $1.50; Season pass. $10. Residence). Training Division of Personnel Court/ English House (North Campus Black History: Lost. S,rared or Stolen. 7 February 1 New Eniplo see Orientation, noon-I:30 p.m. p.m.. Upper Jacques Tati Retrospective Rise North Residence). February 2 Purchasing Orientation (first andthird Wednes- Lobby High (West Campus February 7 Mr. Hulot's Holida;: 7 p.m.; Jour de Fete. 9 3 Black 11istory in America, 7 day of each month) call Ext. 4078 to register. February p.m., Upper Lobby p.m. Harrison House Residence). February 8 The Interview Process: From Start to Finish (West Campus 8 Traffic. 7 Mon Oncle. 9 Roots: The The Choice staffwith 1-4 $10 fee February p.m.; p.m. February 4 Escape (episode 3). (for hiring responsibilities). p.m., per Mr. Hulot's Holidas: 7 Play time. 9 February 10 p.m.; p.m. (episode North Common Room. Nichols participant, charged to the participant'sdepartment,follow- 4).8 p.m.. Campus exclusive of all five films the House Residence). ingsupervisoryapproval. This Philadelphia showing by (North Campus February 9 Resume Development. noon-1 p.m. February 10 Preparingto be Interviewed. noon-1 p.m. Formore information and registration contactthe Training Division at 516 Franklin Building/16, Ext. 3400.

Exhibits

Through February 11 Paintings and Sculpture by Dma Wind, Faculty Club. Through February 13 The Art of Storrtelling through Illustrations from Canterhur, Tales, part of Artsfest/83. Lobby. AnnenbergCenter. Through February 18 Letters, diaries, books, manuscripts of Horace Howard Furnessand hisson, markingthefiftieth anniversary oftheFurnessShakespeare Libra:: Rosenwald Gallery. 6thfloor. Van Pelt Library. Through Fall 1983 The Lenape: Wanderers in their Own Land: SharpGallery. University Museum. Ongoing The Egyptian Mummy: Secrets andScienceand Polynesia. University Museum. February 1-March 31 Wilson Et're: tarlt Urban Works. Paul Philippe Cret Gallery, Fine Arts Library. Furness Building. February 2-8 Black Contributions to American Histors: Nichols and Grad Towers B lobbies (North Campus Resi- dence-Year 102 Events).

February 4-26 Work of the Faculn and Students- Department of Fine Arts. Fine Arts Gallery. Fine Arts Building. February 4-26 Fragmentsof invention, theSketchbooksof La Corhusier: Dean's Alley. Fine Arts Building. February 8-March 31 Prints by Gova: Desastres de la Guerra. La Tauromaquia. SpanishEntertainmentandother prints: Arthur Ross Gallery. Furness Building. February 9-15 Black Contributions to American History: Fine Arts. Nicholsand Grad TowerBlobbies; Government, Kings Court/ English House (North Residence- Campus an 1825 Gova. at theArthur Ross February 8(see Exhibits). Year 102 Events). Spanish Entertainment, lithograph by Gallerystarting

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February 7 Martin Luther King. 5 p.m.. Seminar Room Harnwell House (West Campus Residence). An Artsfest of Storytelling February 8 Roots: The Slave (episode 2A 7:30 p.m.. Mayer Hall (North Campus Residence). February 9 Autobiography of Miss Jane Piuman. 7 p.m., Artsfest/83, a week-long celebration of the art of McClelland Hall. Residence). Quad (WestCampus storytelling, will be held February 6-13. February,10 Roots: The African (episode IA 7:30 p.m.. Law The eighth annual festival of the arts, sponsored by Dorms (North Campus Residence). the Center and in a February 11 Roots: Uprooted (episode 5A Chicken George Annenberg supported part by took (episodeOA 8p.m.. NorthCampus Common Room.Nichols grant from the Philadelphia Foundation, a House (North Campus Residence). storytelling theme this year to honor the twentieth anniversary of the Department of Folklore and Folk- life. The opening celebration, February 6 at 3 p.m., features a performance of two plays by the People's For Black History Month Light and Theatre Company in Harold Prince Thea- February is Black History Month, and boasts tre. Tickets are $5. and include a reception afterwards née of Animation (sample above) will be screened a multitude of exhibits, films, speakers, music in the lobby. February II and 12 in the Studio Theater. (Films p.6) a and dance throughout the country. At Penn, Charlotte Ross, professional storyteller and elev- The New Vic Theatre of London will present Tales Black History Month is also a highlight of the enth generation Appalachian, will tell tall tales in a stage performance of Chaucer's Canterbury longer celebration of Year 102-marking the free lobby performance February 8 at noon. Other February 8-13 in Zellerbach Theater. In conjunction 102nd year of contributions of blacks at the Uni- free performances include folksinger Ellen McHale, with the play, a lobby exhibit showing the art of versity. Events include screenings of the Roots February 9, and folksinger Marsha Genenski, Feb- storytelling through illustrations from Canterbury episodes throughout the month. For those who ruary 10. Tales will be in the Annenberg Center through Feb- missed the first two episodes, shown in January, A Jacques Tati film retrospective begins February ruary 13. For more information about Artsfest/83, "The African" and "The Slave," second showings 7 in the Studio Theater. The 17th International Tour- call Ext. 6791. are scheduled for February. For full details of the screenings, see Year 102 Films above. include: Black Contributions Other events to Events American History, an exhibit which runs through Special Technical and Freelance February 2Introductory Meeting for facultyand staffinter- Writing February 8 at Nichols and Grad Towers B lob- in Staff ested helping produce Franklin's Follies: Faculty/ Careers in Technical and Freelance Writing bies. The Penn Gospel Choir will perform Feb- Theatrical Revue;5 p.m. on Wednesdayor noon on Friday, will be the subject of a session presented by the ruary 11 at 7 p.m. in the Harnwell House Roof- Room 200. CollegeHall. Career and Placement Office on Mon- A Racism Awareness class February 4 Saddle Up!: dinner at Faculty Club ($13) fol- Planning top Lounge. Training 7. Michael Markel, for lowed by performance of the Penn Glee Club at Zellerbach day, February Society will be held February 19 from 10a.m. until 5p.m. Theatre, 8 p.m. curtain($6 for show and champagnerecep- Technical Communication, will speak on techni- in Houston Hall, Bodeck Lounge. tion). Reservations: Alumni Relations, Ext. 7811. cal writing, Constance Bile, Educational Com- The Year 102 Coordinating Committee has February 12 Chinese New Year. calligraphy, customs, per- munications, will discuss scientific writing, and organized acalendar ofevents scheduled both on formances, lectures, food delicacies, crafts and tours of the Museum. Fees from Marshall Ledger, Pennsylvania Gazette, will and off campus which can be picked up at the collection; noon-4:30 p.m., University $I to $3 for each event. Information: Ext. 3024. talk about freelance as a career. Houston Hall Information Desk. writing Basketball Homecoming Evening (Harvard vs. Penn): Graduate students and others seekingalterna- cash bar 4:30-7 Tennis Pavilion deck; buffet p.m., Levy tive careers are invited to attend the February 7 supper 5:30p.m. ($10 adults, $6 children); game 7p.m. ($6). session from 4:30-6 p.m. in the Benjamin Frank- Reservations: Alumni Relations, Ext. 7811. lin Room, Houston Hall. For more information call Ext. 7530. Sports (Horn. Sch.dul..) Meetings February 1 Women's Swimming vs. Swarthmore.4p.m. Women's Basketball vs. Lehigh.7:30 p.m. Talks Faculty Senate February 2 Men's Squash vs. Lehigh,4p.m. February 1 Collaborative Learning; Kenneth Bruffee, pro- February 2 Special Meeting on Tuition Benefits. 3 p.m. in Women's vs. Princeton/ Bryn Mawr, 7 p.m. Gymnastics fessor of English, Brooklyn College; II a.m. and 3 p.m. 200 College Hall. February 4 Women's Basketball vs. Cornell, 3p.m. Conference Room, Van Pelt Library (Writing Across the Wrestling vs. Harvard/ Franklin & Marshall/ Delaware University Spring Colloquium Series). GAPSA State, 3 p.m. The Effects of Stress on the Behavioral Effects of Ha/lu- 9 6:15 in White Room. Men's Squash vs. Yale, 7p.m. February Meeting. p.m. Bishop cinogens; Dr. Wagner Bridger, chairman, department of Houston Hall. February 5 vs. Yale, I p.m. Wrestling psychiatry, Medical College of Pennsylvania; 11:30 sm., Men'sSquash vs. Cornell, 1:30 p.m. Medical Alumni Hall. HUP (Department of Psychiatry Women's Gymnastics vs. Clarion/ North Eastern, 2p.m. University Council Colloquium). February S Women's Squash vs. Harvard, noon. February 9 Meeting, 4-6 p.m. in Room 2. Law School. Genetics of Taste Psychophysics in Mice; Glayde Whit- February 8 Women's vs.Temple.4 p.m. Swimming ney, department of psychology, Florida State University; February 9 Men's vs. Navy. 4p.m. Squash 11:30a.m., MoncIl Center (MonellChemical Senses Center.) Men's Basketball vs. Temple, 7p.m. February 2 Experiments in Health Care Deliveryfor Older Music February 11 Wrestling vs. Brown/ Haverford, 3 pan. Patients; Dr. T. Franklin William, professor of medicine, February 11 Penn Gospel Choir. 7 p.m.. Rooftop Lounge. Men'sand Women'sFencingvs. Harvard, 4pm University of Rochester School of Medicine, director of Harnwell House (West Campus Residence-Year 102 Men's Basketball vs. Dartmouth.7:30 p.m. geriatricmedicine. Monroe Community Hospital;3:30p.m., Events). February 12 Women's Fencing vs. Barnard, 2 p.m. Dunlop B, Medical Education Building (Center for the February 12 Concertof Traditional Irish Music with Clan- Women's vs. Yale, 2p.m. Gymnastics Study of AgingGuest SpeakerSeminars on Aging; Geriatric nad. co-sponsored by Folklife Center of International House Men's Fencing vs. Columbia.4p.m. Program.Section of General Medicine). and the Cherry Tree Music Co-op. 8 p.m., International Men's Basketball vs. Harvard, 7 p.m. February 3 Bioengineering Applications of Laser Light House. Admission:$5. Information: 387-5125, Ext. 219. February 13 Men's Squash vs. Harvard. I p.m. Scattering; Ralph Nossal, NIH; II a.m., Alumni Hail, 1st Locations: Gimbel Gym: Men 'sand Women Ir Swimming; floor, Towne Building (Department of Bioengineenng. Paleatra: Courts: Men's and Women's Basketball; Ringe School of Engineering and Applied Science). Men'si,,d Wo,nenSqurz*WsiglW.rnanHak Man'swsd Women's Human. Deity and Spirit: Conceptions of Kingship in Information. Ext. 6128. On Stage Fencing. Burma 'sJambudipa; Michael AungThwin. Elmira College; February 3-5 Saddle Up! Glee Club. 8 p.m.. Zellerbach 11a.m., Room 2, University Museum (South Asia Regional Theatre. AnncnbergCenter. Studies Seminar). February 6-13 Arts/i's:: Celebrating theart of storytelling The Potassium Rectifier in Skeletal Muscle; Paul Horn- hi Chaucerand others Move- wicz, of RochesterMedicalCenter, of through Word/Song/Image/ Penn Contemporary Players University department ment, including Jacques Tati Retrospective. International physiology. 12:30 p.m., Physiology Library, 4th floor, Animation Tournee, and the Appalachian Folktales of The Penn Contemporary Playerspresent pian- Richards Building (Department of Physiology, Pennsylva- Charlotte Ross; AnnenbergCenter. Information: Ext. ist Lambert Orkis in recital February 12. The nia Muscle Institute). 8-13 Center Theatre Can- Cardiac andIntravenous Feed- February Annenberg presents program includes the area premiere of Music Surgery. 7l'ansplantation terhurt Tales. The New Vic Theatre of London Three Thiumphs ofthis Century; Dr. FrancisD. Moore, adaptation Professor Richard Wernick's Piano Sonata: Re- ing: by Phil Woods and Michael Bogdanov of Chaucer's story- Mosley Professor Emeritus. Harvard Medical School; 4 a Dark (1982); Oliver Messiaen's telling competition: Zellerbach Theatre. Annenberg Center. flections of Light p.m., MedicalAlumni Hall, HUP (Schoolof Medicine, 7th Tickets/ information: Ext. 6791. Poemes pour Mi (Lucy Shelton, soprano); and Robert G. Ravdin Memorial Lecture). February 11 The Arthur Hall Dancers. 7:30 p.m. (West Union and Solitude by Louis Moreau Gotts- Na, K- ATPase: New Ideas About the Reaction Mecha- Residence-Year 102 Events. Groove Phi Groove nism; Jens Institute of of Campus chalk. The free concert will be held in Lang Con- Norby, Biophysics, University Social Fellowship). Aarhus, Denmark; 4 4th floor. cert Hall, Swarthmore at 8:15 p.m., Physiology Library, 11, 12 Bean a multi-media College p.m. February Soup. performanceby Richards Building (Departmentof Physiology Seminars). Mike Matthews and James Jolman. 8 p.m.at theChristian Association. Information: 386-1530. (Continued on page 8) ALMANAC, February 1, 1983 7

Jordan, national director, programming, Oak MediaDevel- Februsey 11 The Regulation of Cotecholamine Synthesis (Continuedfrom page 7) Kineses: Dr. opment (On TV.). California; 4 p.m., Colloquium Room, via 7)rosine Hydroxylase: A Rolefor Protein Weiner, and chairman, of Fsb'uy 4 &oadband Matching; Moahe Kisliuk, visiting Annenberg School of Communications (Communications Norman professor department Room 222, The Moore of Colorado School of Medicine; professor, TelAviv University noon, Colloquium). pharmacology. University School (Valley Forge Research Center Seminar, Systems Fresh Fish Poetry andStorytelling Series: an evening of noon, Mezzanine Room 100, Old Medical School (Depart- Engineering Department). Penn writers; 7:30 p.m., Christian Association Building ment of Pharmacology). Borneo Part and Present: The Sexual We of Savages, (CA). Borneo Past andPresent: Headhunting as a WayofLife: of 1:30 Revlsi:e4Carl LHoffman, professorof anthropology; 1:30 F.beuwy 9 Graduate School of Fine Arts Lecture Series: Carl L. Hoffman, professor anthropology; p.m., firm of Skidmore, Auditorium, Museum (University p.m., Rainey Auditorium, University Museum (University Bruce Grahm, partner in the Chicago Rainey University Museum). Owings &Merrill;6:30p.m., Room BI, Fine Arts Building Museum). R. Ails, of Architecture). 12 ia,rne Ross, F.,ua,y 7 Neural Crestandthe Origin of Vertebrates: (GraduateSchool of Fine Department Fsbruary Becoming Women of Influence: of CBS, andSusanWestlake, GlennNorthcutt, Division of Biological Sciences,University Fsbsua,y 10 Cardinal Directions of Color Space: Psycho- director, School Management, and of Michigan; 11:30 a.m.. Library, Monell Chemical Senses physical andPhysiological Evidence:John l(rauskopf, Bell coordinator, study on personal leadership qualities Center (Monell Chemical Senses Center). Laboratories; II a.m., Alumni Hall, let floor, Towne Build- found in womenexecutives;3p.m.. BodekLounge, Houston Catecholamine Regulation of Cardiac Contractile Sys- ing (Department of Bioengineering. School of Engineering Hall (Inter-Sorority Council). 14 A Factor the Maintenance tem: Saul S. Winegrad, professor of physiology, School of and AppliedScience). Fsbnawy Neurotrophec for medicine-, noon, Mezzanine Room 100, Old Medical School Roman 71-ode with SmithAsia: RomnilaThapar,Jawahar- of Ganglionic Cholinesterases: Dr. George Koelle, professor Museum of School of Medicine; noon, Mezzanine Building (Departmentof Pharmacology). lal Nehru University; II a.m., Room 2, University pharmacology, School of Macromolecular Diffusion in Polymer Melts: Robert L. (South Asia Regional Studies Seminar). Room 100, Old Medical Building (Department Laurence,department of chemical engineering, University of Substrate-Selective MonoamineOxidase-InhibitingAnti- Pharmacology). Massachusetts; 3:30 p.m.. Alumni Hall. Towne Building depressants: Clinical and Laboratory Studies: Dennis (Department of Chemical Engineering, Air Products and Murphy, chief, Clinical Neuropharmacology Branch, Medical Chemicals, Inc.). NIMH; 12:30 p.m., Mezzanine Room 100, Old To list an event Darwin and Wallace: llvo Decades Debate: Malcolm School of Pharmacology). of Building (Department Informationforthe weekly Almanaccalendar mustreach Kottler, University of Minnesota; 4 p.m., Room 107, Philadelphia's Homeless:Mark Stern, assistant professor, Jay our of/ice at 3601 Locust Walk/CB tt 7lssprlar to the SmithHall (History& SociologyofScience: Perspectives on School of Social Work; 3:30p.m., Room Ill, NursingEdu- 7lye'p.th4mito. Thenext desssràFánney8,at Darwinism). cation Building (Center for the Study of Aging Faculty iuoanjarlbFekeneylSlwie. Satellite Earth Stations-an Alternative to cable, Gerry SeminarSeries on Aging).

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Job descriptions and qualifications are listed only for vices, reference experience, academic background in one or Coordinating Assistant II (D0038) $II.925-Sl4.975. Technician $11,225- those positions which have not previously appeared in more science disciplines, leadership and interpersonal skills) Information Systems (D004l) Almanac. Positions whichhave appeared insprevious issue S14.500419.775. $14,000. for student defer- are listed byjobtitle, jobnumber andsalary to indicate that Ps'ogr.nwnsr Analyst 1(5393) analyzes and conducts in- Junior Accountant (5347) responsible the position is still available. Listings arecondensedfrom the vestigations into segements of computer operations; super- ments. billable agencies, loans and counter service work personnel bulletin of January 31 and therefore cannot be vises the work of programmers; designs and develops flow performed under general supervision, balances and explains considered official. New listings arc posted Mondays on charts; establishes controls on input-output data: programs, accounts to students; answers inquiries about billing proce- establishes dures and bill statements school some personnel bulletin boards at: codes, and evaluates new routines for the system; (high graduate, college re-run for the computer; tests debugging and preferred, aptitude for clerical work and figures. good com- Anatomy-Chemistry BuildIng: near Room 358; procedures implements assigned problems (degree and one year's pro- putational skills) 59,925-512,250. Ccllsg.11*first floor, or high school graduate, some college. Nurse Assistant (5361) $8,500-510,200. Franklin Building: near Personnel(Room 130); gramming experience and four $14,500-519.775. Physical Laboratory Technician II (C0989) $10,175- Johnson Pavilion: firstfloor, next to directory; years' programming experience) $12,400. Law Room 28. basement; I (C0995) 514,500-S 19.775. School: Programmer Analyst Ill answers and Hat: first floor, near Room 117: II 516.350-522.600. 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Some positions Staff Assistant I 100. tography and radioimmunoassay involving micropipetting If like (D0017) 512.000-516. solutions and standards; records and calculates listed may have strong internal candidates. you would Staff Wrttsrl/Rseearchsr (5378)512,000-516,100. prepares to know more about a particular position, please ask at the data (degree in biochemistry, one to two years' experience. time of the interview with a personnel counselor or hiring clinical lab training preferred); (1)0045) performs experi- department representative. Openings listed without salaries mental animal testing and evaluation, performs data analy- are those in which salary is to be determined. Resumes are Support Staff sis; administers tests to normal and clinical populations for administrative/ in some statistics $11,225- required professional positions. 58,775-510,725. (degree psychology, helpful) Accounting Clerk (5376) $13.775. 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Director of Frslsmlty/SOrodty AffaIrs (5297) $16,350- Administrative Secretary I (5356) performs extensive Part-Time Positions 522,600. secretarial duties for the acting dean of SPU P/ future direc- Dlrsctor ol Public Safsty (5381). tor of Fda Institute; composes and types correspondence; Admsuional and stu- Librarian I or 11(3 positions) Librarian I Sl3.l00-l7.800, communicates information to public, staff, faculty, professional (4 positions) hourly wages. Librarian II $14,500-S 19.775. dents; arranges appointments and conferences (high school Extra Person I) 65 excellent Temporary (Research Specialist Library Department Head 1(5390) oversees the organiza- graduate, some college preferred. wpm typing, (D0032) $13,100-517,800 (pro-rated). tion, administration, and operation of the chemistry library; speaking and writing skills, must be able to meet the the collection and service to the demands of a work environment) $11,225-514,000. develops provides library changing Staff unit (ALA-accredited MLS, two-three years' experience in Clinical Lab Sped" (1)0033)512,600-515,500. Support science library, experience in public and/or technical set- Collection AasI.t..,I (4854) $9,925-512,250. permanent Employee (II positions) hourly wages. 8 ALMANAC, Februaty 1, 1983