Ford Focuses U. of P. Raises Tuition $200 Tuition at the University of Pennsyl- a new course unit total of $120. On vania will be increased effective with Tuition in the University's graduate Fringes President and schools also will be in- By Dr. Fred C. Ford the 1966-67 academic year, professional Director of Personnel Gaylord P. Harnwell announced Febru- creased. 2. In a letter mailed to students and par- IN The Outer Fringe published in 1965 ary Tuition for full-time undergraduates ents, President Harnwell reported that Dr. Mark H. Ingraham of the Univer- will increase $200 annually, from the "Rising educational costs associated with sity of Wisconsin presents his report on of $1,570 to a new total of the maintenance of the University of the first comprehensive study of faculty present figure With the fee, under- in benefits, other than retirement and in- $1,770. general Pennsylvania's leadership position tuition and fees will total American higher education make manda- surance plans, provided by institutions of graduate $1,950 annually. tory an increase in student tuition for the higher education. The study was under- Summer School tuition will rise $20 1966-67 academic year. taken for the Commission on Faculty and course unit as of the 1966 session to on Staff Benefits of the Association of Amer- per (continued page 6) ican Colleges with the collaboration of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity As- sociation and the assistance of the Amer- ican Association of University Professors. The report is based not only on the in- formation furnished by 757 colleges and universities, including the University of Pennsylvania, but also on the judgments of their administrative officers. Dr. Ingraham has a fresh and highly readable style. He brings to his report a long and broad personal experience as a teacher and administrator and is frank in his appraisal of the role of the benefits program in general and of the individual elements in the program. Following a chapter by chapter presentation of specific benefits, ranging from housing to park- ing, he undertakes in a concluding section to present his personal ranking of some of the more valuable staff benefits. The categories are listed in order of his esti- mate of their decreasing importance: Category I 1. A reasonable retirement policy and provisions for post-retirement an- THE PENNSYLVANIA SEWING CIRCLE? No, the dedication of the nuities including Social Security. new Graduate School of Education building. At the ribbon cutting ceremony are 2. Time for continued scholarly ac- Dr. Maurice J. Stratton, President of the Education Alumni Association; A. J. tivities including leaves for re- Caruso, executive director of the General State Authority of the Commonwealth of search or education, and aid for Pennsylvania; President Harnwell; Dr. John R. Rackley, the Commonwealth's scholarly work in the summer. superintendent of public instruction; and Dr. Morris S. Viteles, dean of the Gradu- (continued on page 5) ate School of Education and professor of psychology.

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Dr. Robert D. Dripps Honored by Chair in His Name Friends of Dr. Robert D. Dripps, physician, teacher and research scientist, have endowed a professorship in his hon- or at the School of Medicine, where he is chairman of the Department of Anes- thesia. The establishment of the chair-to be known as the Robert Dunning Dripps Professorship of Anesthesia-was recent- announced President Harnwell. ly by Dr. Robert D. Dripps Dr. Harnwell said the income from the endowment would be used to support "a perpetual succession of distinguished teacher-scientists" in anesthesia. The first appointment to the chair has not yet been made, he added. The Dripps Professorship, capitalized at $500,000, is the seventh new chair to be established at the University in the course of its current $93,000,000 Devel- opment Program. Donors of the endowment include Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lincoln McNeil. Mr. McNeil is the founder of McNeil Lab- oratories, Inc., Fort Washington, Pa. Speaking on behalf of the donors, Mr. McNeil said: "Having known Dr. Dripps since his childhood and having also been in a position to observe the progress of medical science over many decades, I Professor, Classify Thyseif find it wonderfully appropriate that LAW: "A professor whose imitation of Socrates makes him worthy of hemlock." the advances in anesthesia that have Humpty S. Dumpty. been made under Dr. Dripps' leader- VETERINARY SCHOOL: "The best informed professor on campus. He ship will be continued into the long gets his information right from the horse's mouth." Humpty S. Dumpty. future in association with his name. DEMOGRAPHY: "A professor who teaches what a web we weave "We are especially happy to be able tangled when first we practice to conceive." Adapted from Don Herold. to recognize Dr. Dripps in so perma- HISTORY: nent a way while he is still in the "A professor who specializes in teaching about things that never written men prime of his career, with many years happened, by who weren't there." Adapted from anonymous of productive work ahead." source. RELIGIOUS Dr. Dripps, a member of the teaching THOUGHT: "A professor who teaches the management of staff since 1938 and department chair- our spiritual affairs as a method of bettering his temporal affairs." Adapted from Ambrose Bierce. man since 1951, heads a large-scale re- search program. His work is credited HISTORY OF ART: "A professor who is fascinated not by art, but the noise with having made advances in reducing made by those who are in the art field." Adaptation. the hazards of anesthesia, preventing and DIVINITY: "A professor who attempts to explain the unknowable in terms treating surgical collapse, and lessening of the not worth knowing." Adapted from H. L. Mencken. discomfort. post-anesthesia PHILOSOPHY: "There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not He is chief of the of Anes- Department philosophers." Henry David Thoreau. thesia of the Hospital, senior civilian con- ENGLISH: "To be able to between a and sultant in anesthesia to the distinguish badly- well-written book Surgeon is not a of literature can do that General of the U.S. Army, chairman of enough; professor occasionally." George Moore. the Subcommittee on Anesthesia of the National Research Council, and former HISTORY: "History repeats itself; historians repeat each other." Philip president of the Association of University Guedalla. Anesthetists, among other positions. ENGLISH: "Our American professors like their literature clear, cold, pure Dr. Dripps was born in Philadelphia and very dead." Sinclair Lewis. and lives in Haverford.

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Almanac Polls Faculty on U.S. Policy in Vietnam

by Dr. Herbert S. Denenberg "In Vietnam, should the United States and but our Editor, The Almanac (A) stop fighting now negotiate keep troops there, out our and then or A of members to an Almanac (B) pull troops, negotiate, majority faculty responding until we can on our own on the indicated that dis- (C) keep fighting negotiate poll they "basically terms?" with the U. S. Government's in Vietnam. agree" policy This was Louis Harris for a re- indicated basic with the admin- question designed by poll Twenty-eight agreement in the December 6, l%5 The istration's 34 indicated basic Seven ported Philadelphia Inquirer. policy; disagreement. Almanac was as follows: their answers so as to elimination from the response qualified require Respondents tabulation. (A) Stop fighting now and negotiate28 Over 50 per cent of the 132 faculty members polled re- (B) Pull out our troops and negotiate10 sponded. The graduate faculties of six departments partici- (C) Keep fighting, negotiate on our own terms 19 pated -chemistry, classical studies, history, history of art, Compared to Harris' results, the University respondents mathematics and political science. were less likely to answer "keep fighting, negotiate on our Faculty names were taken from a 1965-66 Graduate Studies terms." The comparative results: Bulletin. Like the man who discovered he had been writing Percentage prose all his life, the Almanac discovered it had taken a single Na?!. stage cluster sample where clusters are selected rather than University Avg. drawn. Six were selected, and then all randomly departments (A) Stop fighting now and negotiate 50 13 members of their were sent a brief mail graduate faculty (B) Pull out our troops and negotiate 18 4 questionnaire. (C) Keep fighting, negotiate on our terms 32 71 Since this was not a probability sample, it is not valid to Many respondents found that the Harris question was am- generalize from this sample to University faculty opinion gen- biguous and failed to present other important options. For ex- erally. However, due to the response of over 50 per cent, it ample, these alternatives were also suggested: "keep fighting affords strong evidence of the views of some of the departments until we can negotiate" (deleting "on our own terms") ; "keep represented. fighting until we can negotiate without preconditions on either By the mail questionnaire, the faculty was asked: side": and "keep fighting until we can negotiate on reasonable "Do you basically agree or with the Adminis- disagree terms." Seven respondents posed such additional alternatives. tration's in Vietnam?" policy The Almanac was delighted to learn that the respondents Those were who polled, answered as follows: were critical of both questions, one drafted by expert Louis Qualified No Harris and the other by an amateur. Of course, the question Agree Disagree Answer Response relating to "basic agreement" or "disagreement" also drew Chemistry 10 9 8 criticism. Several respondents indicated the issue was too com- Classical Studies 0 2 6 plicated to indicate "basic" agreement or disagreement, and History 3 10 12 that the question as posed did not indicate the nuances involved History of Art 4 2 5 in the issue. Another said: "I am declining to answer because Mathematics 2 5 16 the problems are much too complex for a simple multiple choice Political Science9 6 17 questionnaire, and I haven't the time to write out the required long statement." (Unfortunately the Almanac only had time Totals28 34 7 64 for the short and simple questionnaire!) The response affords little evidence to support the proposi- There were some interesting correlations between the an- tion that opposition to U. S. policy in Vietnam comes from swers to the two questions. Most respondents who indicated fields of study "unrelated to political science, international re- that we should "keep fighting until we can negotiate on reason- lations and Southeast Asian affairs." Dr. "Wesley Fishel, chair- able terms" indicated basic agreement with administration man of the American Friends of Vietnam, which recently policy. Almost every respondent who checked "pull out our coordinated the signing of a petition on which 190 faculty troops and then negotiate" indicated basic disagreement. About members from 17 New England colleges indicated support of 75 per cent who said we should "stop fighting now and negoti- the administration policy, has claimed that opponents of the ate but keep our troops there" indicated basic disagreement. U. S. policy on the campuses are largely from fields of study After observing all of the problems generated by asking a unrelated to the Vietnam problem. simple question like "Do you agree or disagree with the Admin- Half the signers of the New England petition were profes- istration's policy in Vietnam," the Almanac will be surprised sors of government, history, or the social sciences. When the if any international problem is ever settled by negotiation. The respondents to the Almanac poll from the political science and Almanac also concludes that the same respondents who found history departments are grouped against chemistry and mathe- the simple question too simple would have found a more com- matics, a majority of both groups, in about equal percentages, plex question too complex. And he finally concludes that he "basically disagree" with the Administration policy. However, will leave polling to Louis Harris. Do you basically agree or a majority (60 per cent) of political science respondents disagree? (omitting those who qualified answers) indicated agreement. Some comments received by faculty members, received in A second question was asked: (continued on page 6)

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Medicare Repaints Fringe Benefits Picture by Dr. Robert D. Eilers care facility that provides care for the 61st to 90th day; private- Associate Professor of Insurance primarily for mental diseases. duty nursing Several faculty members at the Uni- E. Home care benefits: 100 visits by Out-patient services: $20 plus 20 per versity have inquired about the desira- a nurse during the year following cent of remaining costs Skilled bility of enrolling in the voluntary por- the patient's discharge from a hos- nursing home: $5 per day for the 21st tion (Part B) of the Medicare program pital or skilled nursing home after to 100th day that will become effective on July 1, a stay of three or more days. Physicians' services: $50 plus 20 per of 1966, as well as the need for those age F. Drugs: when in hospital. cent remaining charges 65 and over to continue in the Univer- Drugs: Unless administered by a phy- Part B of the Medicare program is sician or as part of treatment in a sity's Blue Cross-Blue Shield group cov- designed to cover charges of physicians and hospital or extended care erage group major medical program. and is available to persons age 65 and facility. Thus, the "deductible" amount could The following comments may be of some over who wish to enroll and pay the re- total $110, and the patient's portion of assistance to those who must reach a de- quired $3 monthly charge. An additional cision on these subsequent expenses depends upon matters. It may be well is contributed- to the program by the first to summarize the whether an individual has the Blue provisions of the government on behalf of each partici- Cross Standard or Co-pay Comprehen- Medicare program. pant; thus, there is a substantial subsidy sive Coverage and whether he has Blue Benefits for the Part B program. After the pa- Under Medicare Shield Plan A or B. In any event, Blue tient has paid $50 of physicians' charges Part A of the program offers partial Cross and Blue Shield will not for in any calendar 80 per cent of the pay reimbursement for hospital and nursing year, services for which benefits have been re- reasonable for covered services home expenses (nursing home benefits do charges ceived under Medicare. not commence until 1, will be paid by the plan during the re- , Both types of Blue Cross coverage mainder of the year. Charges for pathol- however), and coverage is automatic for provide a maximum of 70 ogy, radiology, days' hospitali- this portion of the program for virtually psychiatry, anesthesiology zation; the Medicare bene- and dental surgery are included. Charges consequently, all persons age 65 or over, regardless of fits are more extensive in this for services provided by podiatrists and regard. whether they are working. Dependents Under either of Blue Cross cover- chiropractors are excluded. Part B covers type must be 65 or over to be covered. Part A age an individual would be paid or up to 100 home health visits in addition part provides the following benefits: all of the $40 Medicare deductible and to those covered under the basic plan A. Hospital benefits: 90 days of hos- all of $10 amount borne the (Part A) and without a requirement of by patient pitalization in rooms containing for the 61st to 90th of prior hospitalization. Ambulance service day hospitali- two to four beds. The patient must zation. Diagnostic benefits are not and diagnostic X-rays are also covered. pro- pay $40 of the hospital cost before vided under the Blue Cross Standard Incidentally, persons who are 65 or over benefits commence. After 60 days Coverage; the Co-pay has a must enroll in Part B prior to March 31, Coverage of hospitalization have been re- $5 deductible on medical services. Thus, ceived, 1966, if they wish to be covered in this the patient must pay $10 the Co-pay Coverage would absorb part supplemental portion of the program. per day for each of the final 30 of the $20 deductible for diagnostic serv- (Those who will reach 65 after January days of hospitalization available. ices under Medicare and all of the 20 The extra 1, 1966, have seven months to enroll in - - cost of a private room per cent co-insurance up to a maximum must be borne Part B). by the patient, un- of $75 annually. less ordered his When There is virtually unanimous by physician. agree- Both Blue Shield plans offered under benefits have been ment among knowledgeable individuals exhausted, a the University coverage provide indem- that all should enroll in new set of benefits commences after persons eligible nity benefits. For example, the Blue the supplemental as the lapse of 60 days. program (Part B), Shield coverages have maximum amounts B. services: the protection offered is not available at Out-patient diagnostic that will be paid for specific types of After the has for such a low price from private organiza- patient paid $20 surgery, with $200 and $300 being the such tions. Most insurance and services, the program pays 80 companies highest amounts that will be paid for the Blue Cross-Blue Shield are en- per cent of the cost for studies per- plans most serious types of surgery under Blue couraging enrollment in the formed within a 20-day period. program. Shield Plans A and B, respectively. Blue Skilled C. nursing home benefits: 100 Shield also provides indemnity benefits maximum University Group Benefits for days after a person has for physicians' visits. Part B of the been Uncovered Expenses hospitalized for at least three Medicare program pays 80 per cent of The The decision whether a at least days. patient must pay $5 a person all reasonable charges by physicians, sub- day after 65 should retain the 20 days of nursing home University's group ject to the limits noted previously. care have been medical on the received. A new expense coverages hinges The University's major medical ex- of benefits impact the uncovered in the period commences when expenses pense protection, insured through the 60 days have elapsed after prior remainder of the Medicare program Provident Mutual Life Insurance Com- would have on the benefits have been exhausted. individual's fitiancial pany, is a separate plan from Blue Cross- The uncovered D. Psychiatric hospital care: 190-day position. expenses may Blue Shield coverage and seeks to lifetime limit. Benefits are be summarized as follows: not relieve the financial burden of costly paid for treatment in an extended Hospitalization: $40 plus $10 per day (continued on page 6)

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Ford on the University's Fringe Benefits

(continued from page 1) Each faculty member, in making his 3. medical insurance. Major personal appraisal of our benefits pro- 4. Continued benefits and privileges gram against that recommended by Dr. for retired faculty members and Ingraham, is invited to send to Dr. widows medical including major McGill for Committee consideration any insurance and work facilities for suggestions for improvement to our pro- retired members. gram. Category II 1. for new mem- Housing-especially An Editorial? bers. Secretarial Service: 2. life insurance. Group The 3. Children's education. Marginal Fringe UNIVERSITIES, NOW SO at 4. Provisions for income dis- adept acquiring during atom smashers, and caused sickness or acci- giant computers, ability by multi-million dollar dent. buildings, may be neglecting to provide an even more im- 5. Health services and basic group portant condition of medical insurance such as Blue Dr. Fred C. Ford work-adequate secretarial help. Cross-Blue Shield. institution had provided for its faculty This by implication is one of the con- Category III members the benefits in the included clusions of a recently published book, The 1. Faculty Club and social facilities. various categories. Outer Fringe, an examination of all fac- 2. Travel expenses to meetings. If Dr. Ingraham were to evaluate the ulty benefits other than annuities and in- 3. Parking. benefits program of the University of surance. The book is based on an elabo- 4. expenses. Moving Pennsylvania, I believe that he would rate questionnaire 757 col- IV completed by Category assign us an excellent rating. Each of leges and universities, the Uni- 1. Credit Union. including the 21 items he lists has either been cov- versity of Pennsylvania. 2. Athletic facilities. ered an effective or is locally by program In the chapter on secretarial help, the 3. An fund-"president's emergency one where a present effort is being made book concludes: effec- fund." "Clearly economy, to improve the particular benefit. Our tiveness of work, and morale would all 4. events. Campus newly-adopted long-term disability in- be enhanced by more and sometimes bet- The priority of an effective salary pro- come would his plan certainly satisfy ter secretarial help. One gains the im- in faculty compensation is unques- recommended Continued gram coverage. steps pression, however, that the really profes- tioned. The to a benefits pro- assignment are being taken to increase the institu- sional secretaries (in contrast to student of funds that would otherwise be tional gram contribution to our TIAA/CREF help and new temporary typists) who in salaries will however, a paid provide, annuity program. Our local housing situ- serve our institutions are a dedicated, in- wide of from among the ation differs range opinions from schools not located in dustrious, intelligent group who, in members in a institution. spite faculty given metropolitan areas, but the excellent of coffee breaks, an enormous with a base produce An assistant professor salary services being provided by the Faculty amount of first-class work." of $8,000 will view the assignment in a Information Office and the Housing The chapter ticks off precise figures on different light from the professor with a Personnel newly-established Guaranteed the exact nature of secretarial help fur- base of $16,000. No matter how objec- Mortgage Plan give the faculty member nished: tive strive to be, a fac- they might single the guidance and assistance he may need. & 80 percent of the and member 25 of and a mar- colleges nearly ulty years age Having a good present benefits pro- all of the universities ried member of 50 with three provide typing faculty gram is one thing; retaining a favorable either or "sometimes" for children cannot a bene- regularly teen-age approach institutional standing among those uni- research articles; fits program with the same scale of ob- versities with whom we wish to be com- & 20 percent of the institutions pro- servation. is another To be most effec- pared story. vide for typing of scholarly books; In his in terms of benefits tive a benefits categorizing program must be placed 40 percent do so "sometimes"; frequency and importance Dr. Ingraham under constant and review. At study & The overwhelming majority of in- is, of course, attempting to rank the bene- this Pennsylvania responsibility has been stitutions provide for the of fits elements on the basis of typing optimum assigned to the Personnel Benefits Sub- instructional materials. value to the total rather than to faculty committee of the Faculty Affairs Com- The book notes: "When one talks with the needs of a specific individual. Even mittee under the of chairmanship Dr. faculty members across the country, the then he recognizes that local conditions Dan M. McGill, Frederick H. Ecker impression is gained that secretarial help could dictate different, sometimes drasti- Professor of Life Insurance. Recom- is insufficient in quantity and spotty in cally different, rankings on various cam- mendations on in cover- changes present quality." In fact, the authors thought puses. The order of his rankings will be and additional benefits are mad age by secretarial help should be "taken for questioned on some campuses, but it this for the consideration of the group granted as part of the working structure would seem that a more fruitful activity Affairs Committee and the Uni- Faculty of a college or university" but found out would be the appraisal of how well the Council. versity that this was a mistaken assumption.

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LAURELS: Medicare Ravels The San Diego Chapter of the Amer- Fringes ican Civil Liberties Union sponsored a (continued from page 4) ably consider that the uncovered expenses champagne reception in honor of Dr. illnesses or injuries. The maximum of the Medicare program that would be Clarence N. Callender, emeritus benefit under this program is $15,000. borne by Blue Cross and Blue Shield pro- fessor of business law and former chair- If a person has the University's Blue are not a sufficient risk to entail the man of Cross-Blue Shield Plan B coverage, monthly cost of $6.03 per individual for the department. Dr. Callender major medical benefits commence after Blue Cross Co-pay and Blue Shield Plan was saluted as the chapter's most distin- the individual has personally paid for B coverages. It should be noted, how- guished civil libertarian. He was also medical expenses that equal two per cent ever, that Blue Cross would pay for any honored with the establishment of "The of his base salary. Such benefits continue days of hospitalization, up to their maxi- Clarence N. Callender Collection on until the individual's eligible medical ex- mum, after Medicare benefits were ex- Civil Liberties" in the San Diego County penses are less than $100 in a three- hausted. Also, withdrawal from Blue Law Library. month period. This deductible amount Cross-Blue Shield raises the deductible Among the many tributes and letters is five per cent of one's base salary if he for the major medical coverage from two read at the reception was the following, does not have the Blue Cross-Blue Shield to five per cent of one's base salary. written by Bernard F. Cataldo, pro- protection. The major medical plan pays Nevertheless, the cost of Blue Cross- fessor of businesslaw 80 per cent of most charges after benefits Blue Shield protection may still be Callender's former associates and commence. (Daily hospital room and viewed by many as being excessive for many friends at the of board benefits are limited to $25, and the protection afforded over and above University Pennsylvania satisfaction there are a few other restrictions.) Thus, the major medical coverage. note with deep your proposed to the University's major medical plan tribute to him. We refer your cham- in his honor on would pay 80 per cent of most of the TUITION INCREASE pagne reception January and add our felicitations to medical expenses not paid under Medi- (continued from page 1) twenty-third, on this occasion. Each of us care after an individual had himself paid "The University announces these tui- yours happy medical expenses totalling two or five tion adjustments with regret in view of here has a vicarious joy which attends per cent of his base salary. the additional financial burden placed on the event. Dr. Callender has long cher- Quite probably the carriers for the our students and their parents. At the ished and long championed the cause of University's group coverage will suggest same time, I can assure all concerned that freedom and individual liberty, and we that changes be made in the protection this step is absolutely necessary and that are well aware of his great contribution for those eligible for benefits under no student, currently enrolled or pro- to that cause. We applaud your action Medicare. There is little doubt that a spective, will be denied a University of and acknowledge with pleasure your with Blue Cross-Blue Shield person Pennsylvania education as a consequence choice of this distinguished civil liber- major medical and Medicare coverages of the increased charges. tarian." and, has overlapping protection in a "Accordingly," Dr. Harnwell contin- sense, is over-insured. ued, "the forthcoming tuition adjust- IN TRANSLATION: Conclusions ments will be accompanied by a more Three books Dr. Elizabeth B. Persons age 65 and over should elect than commensurate addition to our stu- by educational to participate in the supplementary por- dent aid resources. These resources cur- Hurlock, lecturer in psy- will be available in translation. tion (Part B) of the Medicare program. rently afford aid to approximately one of chology, Her school text, Child Growth and It would seem advisable for those every three students at Pennsylvania and, high eligible to participate in the Medicare among students receiving aid, about one- Development, and a college text, Child program to consider retaining the major third receive assistance to an extent Development (McGraw-Hill), are now medical coverage. The protection af- greater than tuition." being translated into Japanese. Another forded under the major medical plan Dr. Harnwell reported that the tuition book, 1dolescent Development, has been probably justifies the monthly cost of increase "reflects the upward cost of liv- translated into Polish. It was published $3.00 per family (75 cents per indi- ing trends generally throughout the in 1965 by Panstwowe Wydawnictowo vidual) for most individuals aged 65 country. Our personal dollars buy less. Naukowe, Warsaw, Poland. and over. More specifically, it reflects the critical It is likely that many individuals who financial problems confronting America's VIETNAM POLL are eligible for coverage under both and universities, whether or colleges gift (continued from page 3) Medicare and the University's group tax-supported. medical expense insurance would be well "All have one thing in common. Their connection with the poll, will be reported advised to discontinue their Blue Cross dollars also buy less." in a subsequent issue. Other faculty and Blue Shield protection after July 1, He continued, "It is interesting to note members are invited to send a brief state- 1966, unless a special program is de- that historically income from student ment of their views on Vietnam for veloped by Blue Cross-Blue Shield for tuition has been just about equivalent to quotation. persons age 65 and over. The benefits the faculty salary payroll." The funds *The Harris tabulation does not add to of the two programs overlap currently, to meet all of the other costs which. the 100% as he offered an additional possible and benefits will not be must bear to maintain its response-"no opinion." In the opinion of the duplicate paid University Almanac, this would not be needed in event response the that medical expenses are plant and conduct its work come from in a faculty poll dealing with Vietnam, or incurred. Moreover, many will prob- other sources. any other question.

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RAVE REVIEW: From a February New York Times Book Review Section: "Philip Rieff (University Professor of Sociology) has become our most learned and provocative ON ECONOMICS: critic of psychoanalytic thinking of the mind and character of its first "Policy debates in the political arena compelling Rieff's 'Freud: The Mind of undoubtedly entail predictions of the con- proponent. the Moralist' remains the exe- sequences of a particular policy. It can sharpest be vouchsafed that the discussion and im- gesis yet to be done on the moral and intellectual of Freud's work. plementation of public policy would be implications It was a critical of improved, and would be less scrambled masterpiece, worthy the man who inspired it; and it is now and confused with a greater apprehension followed a work that suffers not at of the concepts of economic theory." by all in of "Inherently, it is frivolous and aca- comparison" ("The Triumph the demic to dispute or attempt to arbitrate Therapeutic"). the issue of whether or not economics LAURELS: 'really' is a science. Whether is physics Dr. Morris Hamburg, professor of or is not a science is Dr. E. Sculley Bradley unimportant-the statistics and operations research, was vital point is that the study of physics to the Com- ON WALT WHITMAN AND recently appointed Advisory illuminates a range of matters that are mittee to the Bureau of Statistics, De- THE GREAT SOCIETY: inscrutable without its devices." From partment of Internal Affairs, Common- Intermediate Price "'The good society,' as WThitman Theory (Chilton wealth of Pennsylvania; and to the Dr. Wein- preached it, was defined in The Ameri- Company, 1964). By Sidney Steering Committee of the National traub, economics. can Declaration of Independence, but it professor of Governors' Conference on Compara- has only recently attained the rank of tive Statistics. He is also the co-author, Presidential policy. Whitman over and with John H. Norton, instructor of over again proclaimed the inalienable statistics and operations research, of natural rights and the consequent equali- "Recommendations for a Coordinated zation of opportunity for all persons- Federal-State-Local Program of Small even women. He was equally depressed Area Data on Population, Labor and by the contemporary blue-stockinged Income" published by the Subcommittee woman as reformer and professional by on Economic Statistics of the Joint Eco- the and maiden of opposite debilitating nomic Committee of the U. S. Congress. From Prob- al chivalry." "Contemporary Fortunately, the article has no subtitle. lems Forecast by Walt Whitman," a Dr. Hamburg also wrote a paper speech delivered by Dr. E. Sculley which was delivered at the Institute of Bradley, professor of English, at the Management Sciences' (TIMS) annual tenth the Ameri- anniversary meeting of Dr. Weintraub meeting in Vienna. The paper will ap- can Studies Sidney Association's regional meet- pear in the Psychology of Management ing at Baylor University. APPOINTMENTS: Decision, to be published by the College LAURELS: on Management Psychology of TIMS. Recently appointed a member of the It is entitled "Statistical Decision Theory Dr. Britton Chance, chairman and U. S. Army Materials Research Agency and Benefit-Cost Analysis for Preferred. professor of biophysics and director of was Dr. John O'M. Bockris, professor ness of Choice Among Alternative Public the Eldridge Reeves Johnson Research of chemistry and director of Electro- Projects." Foundation, recently returned from chemistry Laboratory. . . Governor Amsterdam, where he received the William Scranton has appointed Morton Genootschap Medal of the Amsterdam Lustig, assistant supervisor, Government Society for the Advancement of Medi- Consulting Service, to membership on cine, Surgery, and the Natural Sciences. the Steering Committee for a Pennsyl- Among the previous recipients of the vania Conference on Natural Beauty. medal were Albert Einstein, Sir Henry SPEAKER: Dale, and Sir Hans Krebs. Dr. Chance is the first American to receive the medal. Dr. John N. Hobstetter, professor of metallurgical engineering and director AUTHOR: of the Laboratory for Research on the Divisional Performance: Measurement Structure of Matter, discussed "The and Control is the title of a new book Materials Frontier" at the Philadelphia by David Solomons, professor of ac- Luncheon Series sponsored by the alumni counting. The book was published by societies of the College, College for the Financial Executives Institute, under Women, the Engineering Schools, and a research contract with the Institute. the Wharton School. Dr. Morris Hamburg

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THE ELECTED: Dr. Herman Beerman, professor of dermatology in the School of Medicine, has been elected president of the Ameri- can Academy of Dermatology. The new president of the Organiza- SPEAKERS: AUTHORS: tion of American Historians is Dr. Dr. William T. Fitts, Jr., professor Dr. Samuel Seltzer, D.D.S., asso- Thomas C. Cochran, professor of of surgery, attended the scientific meet- ciate professor of oral pathology, and history. Dr. Cochran is also a newly ing of the Alabama Chapter of the Dr. I. B. Bender, associate professor of elected chairman of the Conference on American College of Surgeons at Point oral medicine at the School of Dental Slavic and East European History. His Clear, Alabama, and delivered a paper Medicine, are co-authors of The Dental book on The Hussite King was just pub- on "Treatment of Breast Lesions." Pulp (Lippincott Company). lished by the Rutgers University Press. Dr. Otto Springer, Dean of the Col- Dr. Frederic Roll, associate profes- lege and Vice-Provost, attended the sor of civil engineering, was an invited TRAVELING SPEAKER: meetings of the Modern Language Assoc- participant in a colloquium on the Dr. Vincent H. Whitney, chairman ition of America in and served Nature of Inelasticity in Concrete and of sociology and director of Population as chairman of the Medieval Section of Its Structural Effects held at Cornell Studies Center, attended the FirsL.In- the Association. University. He presented the following ternational Conference on Family Plan- Dr. Albert J. Stunkard, professor two papers: "Long-Time Creep-Recovery ning in , . He was and chairman of psychiatry in the School of Highly Stressed Concrete Cylinders" also invited to read a paper at the Second of Medicine, has returned from a trip to and "A Method of Superposition for World Population Conference in Bel- Japan and Thailand, where he lectured the Time-Dependent Deformation of grade, Yugoslavia. at the Second International Conference Concrete and Cement Mortar Due to on the Regulation of Food and Water Decreasing Uniformly Distributed Stres- Intake, Tokyo, and at the Royal Thai ses." Dr. Roll was also an invited par- The Almanac is published monthly in the International Army Hospital and the Prasat Neuro- ticipant Conference during the academic year by the both in 'While on the Structure Concrete and Its logical Hospital, Bangkok. of University for the information of its in the Thai Dr. Stunkard also Behavior Under Load held at Imperial capitol, faculty and staff. addressed alumni of the School of Medi- College, London, in September where he the "The Relation cine . . . Dr. Howard E. Mitchell, presented paper, Suggested news items should be sent Between and Residual assistant professor of education and di- Time-Dependent to the Editor. rector of the University's Human Re- Deformations of Unsealed Concrete, sources Program, was a consultant at Mortar and Paste Subjected to Uni- Dr. Herbert S. Denenberg, Editor the planning session of the White House formly Distributed Stresses." Associate Professor of Insurance Conference on Civil Rights. W-l47 Dietrich Hall Dr. Luther L. Terry, vice-president LAURELS: for medical affairs, spoke on "Present Dr. Edward P. Hutchinson, pro- University of Pennsylvania and Future of the U.S. Public fessor of attended Presi- Objectives sociology, by Printing Office Health Service" before a medical school dential invitation the signing of the new assembly. immigration bill at the Statue of Liberty

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