UM Profiles, February 1971

University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana Montanan Magazine, 1969-2020 University Relations 2-1-1971 UM Profiles, ebruarF y 1971 University of Montana (Missoula, Mont.: 1965-1994) Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/montanan Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Recommended Citation University of Montana (Missoula, Mont.: 1965-1994), "UM Profiles, ebruarF y 1971" (1971). Montanan Magazine, 1969-2020. 16. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/montanan/16 This Magazine is brought to you for free and open access by the University Relations at ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in Montanan Magazine, 1969-2020 by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Economist Milton Friedman to Lecture Here Dr. Milton Friedman, Newsweek maga is a continuing program founded in honor discussed “New Industrial State: The Case, zine columnist, economics professor at the of Senate Majority Leader Mansfield’s 25 Criticism and Consequences” in 1969, and University of Chicago, years of congressional service and the Uni Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), who discussed “United States Relations with and a member of the re versity’s 75th anniversary in 1968. The series is being supported with $119,- Latin America” in 1970. search staff for the Na Dr. Friedman, whose books and articles tional Bureau of Econo 000 donated to the UM Foundation through various fund-raising activities. on economics have been published exten mic Research, will be the sively, holds a bachelor’s degree from fourth speaker in the Dr. Friedman will give his main address Rutgers University and a master’s degree on the night of April 9. He will be on cam Mansfield Lectures on from the University of Chicago. He was pus April 8-9 to meet informally with stu awarded his doctor of philosophy degree International Relations dents and faculty. April 9 at the University at Columbia University in 1946. Sen. Mansfield launched the lecture Dr. Friedman was a principal economist of Montana. series in 1968 with a discussion entitled The lecture series, es for the U.S. Treasury Department’s Divi Friedman “China: Retrospect and Prospect.” sion of Tax Research during World War tablished four years ago Other speakers in the series have in at UM under the Mike and Maureen Mans II. He served as president of the American field Endowment of the UM Foundation, cluded Dr. John Kenneth Galbraith, who Economic Association in 1947. Ju Vol. 3, No. 7 University of Montana, Missoula, Montana 59801 February 1971 UM’s $100,000 Ford Grant Aimed at Students A $100,000 Ford Foundation grant grants during the next three years. cisms of the present system of edu mean at the undergraduate level,” awarded to the University of Mon The grant was specifically cation, which his program will he says. tana this month will be used to awarded to Dr. Solberg and the treat—that there is too much de If his program works as planned, evolve a new approach to educa College of Arts and Sciences, but partmentalization and that there is he says, it will demonstrate to stu tion at UM through a program de Dr. Solberg intends, through pro not enough investment in the edu dents and faculty “that they can signed by Richard A. Solberg, dean grams he will initiate, to improve cation of freshmen and sophomores. function together in an academic of the College of Arts and Sciences, the educational procedure of the Dr. Solberg thinks the University community in developing and liv and faculty and students. entire University. must find an alternative to de ing through a common educational UM President Robert T. Pantzer, Dr. Solberg’s ultimate goal for partmentalization in order to pro experience.” in announcing the award of the the fund, which during the next vide a more total experience for Ideas for a new approach to edu “Venture Fund” grant, praised the. few years will be matched by an the student. cation started brewing in Dr. Sol efforts of Dr. Solberg, who was in equal amount of local money, is to “Knowledge isn’t departmenta berg’s mind because he saw man strumental in obtaining it. “increase the value of the human lized,” he says. And he feels the changing much more quickly than “Although the Ford Foundation (the UM student) to society. The energy and money invested in an the structures (the functions of a is not specific on how the $100,000 proposal centers on the under undergraduate’s education ought to university, for instance) he was is to be used by the University,” graduate student, his academic pro be on a par with that provided at creating. His view is that an edu Pantzer said, “Dean Solberg’s crea grams, his life style, his sense of the post-graduate level. cational system must have the flex tive and comprehensive proposal to freedom and responsibility and his Specific plans for the new ap ibility to keep pace with the ever- utilize the funds to develop the stu wide-ranging activities,” Dr. Sol proach to education are now being accelerating changes in the human dent as a total person and thus in berg says. worked out at all levels of the condition. crease his value to society met with Dr. Solberg envisions the UM school by administrators, faculty “The Venture Fund appears to be excellent response from the Ford undergraduate as the chief figure and students, but Dr. Solberg has one step, and an important one, in organization.” within the University community, outlined objectives. The initial supporting the difficult effort to This is the first year for the Ford “interacting with faculty and ad three-year program, he says, will keep the liberal arts college aca Foundation’s “Venture” program. ministrators.” He adds, “His Uni involve: demically strong yet humanistically The University was one of six versity experience ought to be • Re-defining and widening the flexible, structured yet innovative, schools in the western United holistic and intelligible as a foun undergraduate program in arts and soberly relevant yet non-profes States to receive the initial grants. dation for an informed and en letters, social, biological and physi sional,” Dr. Solberg concludes. Schools in the three other regions riched future.” cal sciences. of the country will be receiving Dr. Solberg has two major criti • A multi-discipline approach to ecology that would focus the view Drug Class Offered points of what are now many de Two University of Montana pro partments on man and his position fessors are continuing the UM Ex in the cyclic nature of the earth. tension Division’s course sequence • A cluster approach to human in drug use and abuse during win and youth studies, involving a re ter quarter. newal of the University’s commit Teaching the one-night-a-week ment to individual differences and program are Dr. Victor H. Duke, sensitivities. professor of pharmacology, and Dr. • A revision of general Univer Robert R. Zimmermann, a psychol sity course requirements and the ogy professor. implementation of innovative ex Winter quarter discussions will periences as designed by faculty concentrate on alcohol as a drug. and students in order to expose all students to those aspects of liberal education deemed minimal. The youthful Dr. Solberg, in his first year as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (he was acting dean last year), sees at least one problem in implementing his pro gram—re-educating the faculty to a whole new approach to education. “The faculty is frequently more ADVISING FOREIGN STUDENTS—Mrs. Julie Betty, background, conservative than the administra new foreign student adviser at the University, converses with two of tion,” Dr. Solberg says. UM’s foreign students, Tom Kapoor, doctoral student in education He claims there is too much em from Delhi, India, and Bergljot Behrens, junior in education from phasis on subject matter accumula Oslo, Norway. Mrs. Betty, 23, has 51 foreign students to work with tion in education today. “We intend this year, the majority of them Oriental. She has a bachelor’s degree to change that tendency to the ex in German and history from Kalamazoo College in Michigan and a tent that faculty members actually master’s degree in guidance and counseling from the University of perceive what a liberal arts educa Michigan. tion in contemporary society can Female Discrimination Assailed By MAXINE JOHNSON Associate Professor of Business Administration and Assistant Director, Bureau of Business and Economic Research and PATRICIA DOUGLAS Assistant Professor of Business Administration and Research Associate, Bureau of Business and Economic Research Over the years women have gained many legal rights: they have the right to vote, to sue and to be sued, and to form binding contracts; they are free from unauthorized invasion of physical and mental privacy; and although the word sex was initially added to the Federal Civil Rights Act for the purpose of laugh ing the legislation off the floor, the Act—sex amendment and all—was passed in 1964, making sex discrimination illegal. Un fortunately, however, statutory provisions do not reflect society’s attitudes in general, and many times attitudes are more influen tial than the courts in shaping lives. As professional women, we regret that society discourages women from striking out in new directions, that women fre quently have fewer choices than men as to how to live their lives, and that parents, teachers, and counselors sometimes fail to point out that women can be successful in many occupations traditionally reserved for men. We resent the fact that subtle and not-so-subtle forces influence young women to become sec retaries and public school teachers but discourage them from aspiring to the executive suite or the superintendent’s office.

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