laureate Council with the assurance that these would re- Educational Council Hears ceive reasonably prompt consideration by its committees. Taylor Committee Report Baccalaureate Council Report At the same meeting of the Educational Council, Mrs. The activities of the University's new Council of Under- Julia Carson, reporting for Dr. George W. Taylor, Chair- Baccalaureate Faculties since its last man of the Committee on Educational Planning of the graduate inception Committees, said that five December were outlined by its chairman, Dr. Philip E. Integrated Development Plan Jacob, to members of the Educational Council at the committees have been appointed to assist in the long-range March 13 meeting of the latter body. planning of the University. Deans, Of these, an over-all committee known as the Joint The Baccalaureate Council consists of seven Committee is of trustees and adminis- seven elected of the composed faculty, directly representatives respective tration. The others are the Committees on Physical Plant faculties, seven representatives "at large" elected by the (Continued on page three) undergraduate faculties as a body from a panel of twenty- four candidates nominated by these undergraduate fac- ulties, and seven other members, including five persons Dr. Eiseley Receives appointed by the President from the graduate and pro- Award fessional Schools, as well as the President and the Provost, John Burroughs ex-officio. Dr. Loren C. Eiseley, Provost of the University, was awarded the John Medal at ceremonies in New At its organization meeting the new Council named Dr. Burroughs Chairman; Dr. S. Reid Warren, Vice Chairman, York City on April 3, in recognition for his latest book, Jacob, The Firmament Time. and a steering committee consisting of Dr. Warren, Chair- of man, Mr. Bernard Cataldo, Dr. Helen Huus, Dr. Jacob, The medal, presented annually by the John Burroughs Otto Association, is given for a popular book in the field of and Dr. Springer. the natural sciences that combines excellence of ad hoc committees were set to deal with writing Seven up with accuracy and is based on originality of observation specific problems facing the Baccalaureate Council. These (Continued on page two) committees, with their chairmen and their particular as- are: signments, Year's Final Senate Committee on Academic Standards and Evaluating Meeting Procedures, Francis W. Irwin; on Composition and Size of Is Scheduled for May 12 the Student Body, Anna Kuba; on General Education, Education, K. The last meeting of the University Senate for the cur- Lynn M. Case; on Goals of Undergraduate rent academic has been called for 12, A. on for the Superior Students, A. Leo year May Friday, Fegley; Programs at 1 P.M. in Ballantyne Hall (W-1 Dietrich Hall). Levin; on Student Life, Morris Hamburg, and on Teaching, item on the is the election of officers Glenn R. Morrow. Principal agenda for the coming year, plus the election of one-third of the The function of the committees, Dr. Jacob reported, is Senate Advisory Committee. to define issues in the field of their charge, and to bring The meeting will also be called upon to act on proposed before the Council sets of proposals or clearly delineated changes in the procedure for the nomination and election alternatives as to how the issues might be met. He said of Senate officers, and on the reports of the several special the dangers of top-heaviness, overlapping and duplication committees which have been active during the academic are recognized, and that every effort is being made to see year. that the Council and its committees function as efficiently A detailed agenda of the meeting and other pertinent as possible. matters will be mailed to all Senate members about May 1. Dr. Jacob urged members of the Educational Council Members are urged to mark May 12 at 1 P.M. on their to submit ideas, comments and suggestions to the Bacca- calendars, and to make every effort to attend.

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Backgrounder

University Counseling Service The University Counseling Service functions under the office of the Vice President for Student Affairs. Its purpose is to provide such specialized counseling as students may require and which may not be available in other campus agencies. It is not designed to replace any previously existing services but to complement them. This counseling gives the student an opportunity to explore areas of concern which may inhibit his or her best performance and thus prevent fulfillment of maximum potential. The emphasis is upon helping the student to become increasingly self-directive. An analysis of the first year's contacts with students emphasizes certain factors: Thirty percent of contacts were with freshmen and 29 percent with sophomores, stressing the need for assistance in the crucial first years of college. A number of students of good potential were helped to avoid failure and elimin- ation from the University. Many needed extra attention with reading and study skills, and the Service works closely with the Reading Clinic. It is most important that such students be identified as early as possible. The majority of student contacts were for the purpose of clarifying vocational and educational planning. Many of these illustrated a close relationship between vocational planning, or lack of it, and academic performance. At Provost Eise/ey receives the John Burroughs Medal Iron, least one-third of those who came for vocational counseling Richard H. Pough, right, president of the John Burroug/,s Asso- had educational or which were ciation, at ceremonies in the American Museum of Natural personal problems brought New York out and dealt with in the course of the contacts. History, City. In considering the referral of a student the question EISELEY arises, "When do I refer a student to Mental Health Clinic, (Continued front page one) and when to the Counseling Service?" This is not easy to and conclusion. The was made Richard since it involves the more basic "Where presentation by answer, question, H. Pough, president of the Burroughs Association, at does counseling end and psychotherapy begin?" All that ceremonies in the American Museum of Natural be done is to a History. can suggest general guide: Dr. Eiseley's work, which was selected last month by If the student is facing some problem, decision or diffi- the Notable Books Council of the American Library Asso- culty which he is having trouble handling, but he knows ciation as one of its "Notable Books of 1960" and was reasonably well what the problem is, he probably needs among the non-fiction finalists for the 1960 National counseling. This will involve the chance to talk the situa- Books Awards, deals with changes and developments in tion through, to analyze it, and to learn how to find an man's view of nature that have accompanied the advance effective solution for it. This may involve educational, of knowledge in the geological, anthropological and bio- vocational, personal, family or social problems. Facilities logical sciences. His previous books have been The are available to administer intelligence, achievement, spe- Immense Journey and Darwin's Century. cial ability, interest and personality tests where they seem In accepting the award, Dr. Eiseley told a distinguished appropriate. audience of scientists that "the humane natural history On the other hand, if the student's difficulty shows itself tradition in British letters with such men as the 17th and in any type of physical symptoms or reaction, or if he 18th century naturalists, John Ray and Gilbert White, and seems to have marked emotional problems, he should be coming down through a long line of British and American referred to the Mental Health Clinic. Wherever there is a writers, including Henry David Thoreau, W. H. Hudson, doubt, a call to Mr. Reinhold at the Clinic or to Mr. Free John Burroughs, William Beebe and Rachel Carson, is in at the Counseling Service may help to clarify the situation. some degree distinct and yet parallel to the scientific The Counseling Service is located in Room 306, Eisen- tradition. lohr Hall, 3812 Walnut st. Its University telephone ex- "This will never fade," he continued, "as long as men tension is 381. The staff at present consists of Mr. John love the earth and the life which they share with other E. Free, Director and Counselor; Frank B. Williams, living things. Without the human observer of natural Counselor, and Miss Sandra Hulbert, Secretary. history, we will lack pity and tolerance, not from intent A student should telephone for an appointment in but from blindness. The laboratory and the machine give advance. An attempt is made to handle emergency situa- us only half a glance into nature. tions as rapidly as possible. When a faculty member feels "The great Anglo-Saxon literary tradition in the natural it is important that the student be seen within a day or so, history field has had, and will continue to have a signifi- a telephone call to the Service explaining this will help. cant effect upon English and American letters," Dr. Every effort will be made to see such students promptly. Eiseley added.

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EDUCATIONAL COUNCIL World Rivalries Promote (Continued from page one) Growth, the Committee on Operations, and those on Edu- Studies on cational and Staff Services. Language Campus Planning the The Taylor Committee is considering on a school-by- The University of Pennsylvania has become one of :hool basis the current state of recommendations emanat- nation's major centers for the study of hitherto neglected ing from the Educational Survey, which have been ap- and "exotic" languages as the United States, keeping pace proved by the Committee on Educational Policy. At the with Russia in their contest for world leadership, prepares request of the President, it is determining those recom- hundreds of young men and women to communicate with mendations on which action has already been taken, those the underdeveloped peoples of the world in their own not requiring special resources on which early action is tongues. planned, those which the Schools would like to implement According to figures compiled in March, Pennsylvania's if the resources were available, and those which the program of instruction in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Marathi, Schools feel should be delayed in their implementation, Nepali, Tamil and Telugu-the principal languages of with the reasons for this view. India, Pakistan, Ceylon and Nepal-is the largest in the Mrs. Carson also cited a number of problems evolving country, in terms of dollars, among those supported by the from consideration of the individual Schools, which will U. S. Office of Education. These be discussed in detail in the Committee's full report. In the current school year the Office of Education is include the University's relations with Philadelphia cultural $1,575,000 to in 44 honors use spending support training programs resources, the concept of an program, optimum "obscure" tongues at 46 university centers. In terms of of teaching resources, enrollment policy in relation to dollars, this is three times as much as the Federal Govern- im- available housing, adult education, and the academic ment allotted for the same purpose in 1959-60, while the plications of contract research programs. number of languages taught has been increased from 25 in that year. Art The teaching of these and other languages outside the Exhibit of Vietnamese bounds of the conventional Romance, Germanic and Slavic at Museum languages has been made the responsibility of the South Opens University Asia Regional Studies group, under the chairmanship of An exhibition of rare archaeological material and of Dr. W. Norman Brown. recent art work, both from Viet Nam, opens April 21 at the University Museum. It will remain on display until May 28. Included are stone sculptures of the Cham civilization University Gets $200,000 and lately discovered objects of gold, silver and precious stone never before shown in the United States. The exhibi- Ford Grant for Demography tion is sponsored by H. E. Tran Van Chuong, Ambassador The Ford Foundation on April 6 announced a grant of of Viet Nam, and under the patronage of local leaders in $200,000 to the University in support of training and international cultural activity. research in demography, the science of population statis- The objects being shown, all originating in Viet Nam, tics, for a five-year period. have been gathered mainly from government collections in The will the to its are little-known grant permit University expand pro- Saigon and Hue. They augmented by gram of population studies by adding a faculty member to specimens from collections in the United States and coordinate and direct the western and thus include now dis- program, by offering fellowships Europe, objects widely for demographic study, and by making library acquisitions persed throughout the civilized world. and of needed office An unusual feature of the exhibit is a collection of purchases equipment. minted for Roman Dr. Vincent H. Whitney, Chairman and Professor of cameos and medallions emperors- is chief for the with Dr. items recently recovered from excavations just southeast Sociology, investigator project, which reveal Indo-Hellenistic Dorothy Thomas, Professor of Sociology and Director of of Saigon, strong inspiration. the Research Center, as his associate. The exhibit is designed to reveal the ebb and flow of Population Chinese influence between periods in which Indian, Near Eastern and even Greco-Roman cultural penetrations left strong traces in the customs and artistry of Viet Nam as a Marketers Honor Zellerbach cultural cross-roads. Harold L. Zellerbach, a trustee of the University and chairman of the executive committee of Crown Zellerbach Sunday Film Schedule Corporation, was presented the Parlin Award of the Phila- to be shown at the auditorium delphia chapter of the American Marketing Association at Motion pictures Sundays ceremonies at the Warwick Hotel on 18. of the University Museum during the latter part of April April are: Mr. Zellerbach, a nationally known leader in the manu- April 23-"Ancient Egyptian Images, Ancient Grecian facture and marketing of paper products and containers, Images and Art in the Western World," a survey of art also delivered the annual Parlin lecture following the forms from ancient to modern times. award dinner. April 30-"Louisiana Story," Robert Flaherty's charm- The award, given annually for outstanding contributions ing film on Acadian life in Louisiana. in the marketing field, is named in honor of Charles Films are shown at 2:30 P.M., and are open to the Coolidge Parlin, manager of research at the Curtis Pub- public, free of charge. lishing Company for more than a quarter of a century.

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cials, newspapermen and professors from five European, Other two African, nine Asian and four Latin American coun- Among Things tries attended a seminar on American Minority Peoples conducted at Princeton, N. J., by Dr. J. P. Shalloo, As- CONGRATULATIONS: To Professor John S. Griffith sociate Professor of on March 18 . . . Dr. Mar- Sociology, of the Chemistry Department, on being awarded the Morton Benson, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages, low Medal of England's Faraday Society for 1961. The lectured on "Soviet Standardization of Russian" at the award is given to a scientist who has not passed his 33d tenth anniversary observance of the Institute of Contem- birthday and is based on his publications in the previous porary Russian Studies at Fordham University on March three years in the fields of physical and theoretical 24. chemistry. Allen Keller, Instructor in Earth Science, presented a OUR TRAVELERS (Midwestern branch): Dr. Helen paper in Denver, Colorado, recently before the Geologic Huus, Associate Professor of Education, spoke on "Why Society of America on "Structures Behind the Bannock Children Will Read" at a luncheon meeting of the fifth Thrust, Idaho Dr. Bruce K. Goodwin, Instructor in annual Michigan Reading Association Conference at Earth Science, spoke on "Structural Behavior of the Lima Michigan State University, East Lansing, on March 2 Granite Southeast of Media, Pennsylvania," before the Dr. Otto Pollak, Professor of Sociology, spoke on Pennsylvania Academy of Science at Gettysburg on March "Family Dynamics in Various Cultures" in the fifth annual 31 Metta Bean Lectureship at the University of Wisconsin, RIGHT AROUND HOME: Dr. Jonathan E. Rhoads, Madison, on March 29 ... At the University of Michigan, John Rhea Barton Professor of in the Ann Arbor, Dr. Malenbaum, Professor of Eco- Surgery University Wilfred School of Medicine, was a guest on a special "Eyewitness" nomics, spoke March 12 on the economic problems of the entitled "Cancer Will be Cured" on Station . . Dr. program emerging nations outside the democratic camp . WFIL-TV on March 24 . . . Dr. Alfred Senn, Chairman Richard F. Schwartz, Assistant Professor in the Moore of the of Slavic and Literature, Electrical returned from Department Languages School of Engineering, recently and Dr. Gregory Luznycky, Lecturer on Ukrainian Litera- Ann Arbor where he spent last semester as a visiting As- ture, at the Taras Shevchenko centennial celebration Professor of Electrical While in Ann spoke sistant Engineering. held in Town Hall, Philadelphia, on March 25 ... A paper Arbor Dr. and Mrs. Schwartz became the parents of Dr. D. W. C. Shen, Associate Professor in the Moore Frieda Diane, born 9... by twins, Eric Christian and January School of Electrical Engineering, entitled "A New Chart Other visitors to the Midwest recently have been Dr. Relating Open-Loop and Closed-Loop Frequency Re- James C. Charlesworth, Professor of Political Science, sponses of Linear Control Systems," was published re- who participated in the conference of the American As- cently in Translation No. 60 of the Soviet publication, sembly on National Goals at Racine, Wis., March 16-19; "Ekspress Informatsiya." On March 22 Dr. Shen presented Dr. Donald S. Murray, Comptroller, who visited Indiana a paper on "Reliability of System Components under and Western Reserve Universities as a member of a special Stationary Random Perturbations" at the Institute of Radio section of the National Institutes of Health, to eval- Engineers' international convention . . . Dr. Edward B. study Shils, Associate Chairman and Associate Professor of In- uate for Center and Program Project Research applications dustry, spoke on "The Influence of Automation on Post grants, and Dr. William Gomberg, Professor of Industry, School Education" at a of the Presidents' in High public hearing Mayor's who addressed the Young Organization Commission on Higher Education at the Free Library of Minneapolis, on "Economic Growth and Automation." Philadelphia on March 23. Margaret B. Scott, who retired TRAVELERS ELSEWHERE: Dr. John Perry Hor- recently as the University's chief telephone operator, has lacher, Chairman and Professor of Political Science, is been succeeded as chief operator by Mrs. Elizabeth Hansen three weeks of in Puerto Rico as a A paper by Dr. David Geselowitz, Assistant Professor spending April public in the Moore School of Electrical entitled member of a U.S. Labor board to estab- Engineering, Department wage "Multiple Representation for an Equivalent Cardiac Gen- lish minimum wage rates in the glove, leather and tobacco erator," was chosen the best in the field the Instructor paper by industries in the island ... Dr. Irwin Siegelman, professional group on Medical Electronics of the Institute in Chemistry, participated in the tenth annual Science of Radio Engineers. Teachers Workshop at the Behrend Campus of Pennsyl- vania State University in Erie on April 13. He spoke on "The Chemical Education Materials Study." . . . Louis THE ALMANAC B. Schwartz, Professor of Criminal Law, spoke March 26 Published monthly during the academic year by the at the Unitarian Church of Delaware County on "Explora- University for the information of its tion of Legal, Economic, and Moral Implications of the faculty and staff Recent Government Antitrust Suit Against Electrical The Editors are assisted by an Advisory Com- Companies." mittee representing the Faculty, Administration, and Personnel of the David Solomons, Professor of lectured University. Accounting, Editor Frederic G. March 27 at the 1960-61 Faculty Seminar Series of the Hyde and Business Administration of the Address Development Building School of Commerce Printed at the of Alabama. His was, "Is the University of Pennsylvania University subject Concept Dept. of Publications, Forms, and Printing of Business Income Really Necessary?" . . . Visiting offi-