Almanac, April 1969, Vol. 15, No. 8
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VOLUME 15, NUMBER 8 APRIL, 1969 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Tuition, Fees Increased; Council Adopts Amendment Will Total $2350 Next Year Tuition and fees will be increased at To Include Student Members the University of Pennsylvania beginning The University Council last month designate-or provide for the designation with the 1969-70 academic year, Dr. Gay- adopted an amendment to its bylaws to -of student representatives. In a school lord P. Harnwell, president of the Univer- include students as full voting members without such a certified organization, the sity, has announced. of the Council and its Steering Committee. amendment requires that the Vice Provost The tuition and fees for most full-time The amendment calls for the addition conduct an election among the entire full- students will be increased by $200 for a of 30 student members, 14 from the un- time student body of the school. final total figure of $2350. Rent for Uni- dergraduate schools and 16 from the grad- The amendment specifies that five stu- versity residence halls will also be increased uate and professional schools. There are dents must come from the College of Arts by $100 to make the average room rent currently 85 members on the council in- and Sciences, three from the Wharton $560 per student per year. cluding 63 faculty representatives and 22 School, three from the College of Liberal In announcing the increases in a letter academic administrative officers. Arts for Women, two from the Engineer- to parents and students, President Ham- Two methods for selecting student ing Schools and one from the School of well noted that in spite of record philan- members are outlined in the amendment. Allied Medical Professions. thropic support in recent years, University A school with a student organization or Four students must come from the costs are continuing to rise more rapidly government certified by the Vice Provost Graduate School of Arts and Sciences than revenues. for Student Affairs as being elected on a (one from each division), two from the He explained that increases were made democratic constituency-wide basis, shall Wharton School and one from each of "only after the most careful consideration the other graduate and professional of all possible sources of additional income Afro-American Studies schools. and a searching review of expenditures for (For purposes of representation, the the next academic year." Committee Appointed School of Allied Medical Professions is Student aid will be increased to elim- Dr. David R. Goddard, provost, an- being treated as an inate, as well as the can, the nounced last month the a principally undergrad- University appointment of uate school and the School of as economic factor as a deterrent to educa- to a Nursing, committee undertake comprehensive a graduate school.) tional President Harnwell of toward the establish- opportunity, study approaches The ratio for undergraduate representa- said. ment of an academic which program (Continued on page 3) would emphasize African and Afro-Amer- ican life and culture. The committee has also been charged with considering the establishment of a black social center. Model of Dr. Alfred J. Rieber, chairman of the Circulatory System department of history, has been named chairman of the committee. Being Developed on Computer Serving on the committee will be both The National Heart Institute has physiology and director of the Bockus Re- faculty members and students, including: awarded Dr. Lysle Peterson and his asso- search Institute, points out that heart dis- William R. Adams, assistant dean of ad- ciates a $2 million grant to continue a ease and the other diseases of the cardio- missions; Dr. Igor Kopytoff, associate computer simulation project that could vascular system are now the leading cause professor of anthropology; Dr. F. Hillary lead to one of the fundamental medical of death in the United States. In his opin- Conroy, professor of history; Dr. Samuel tools of the near future-a computer ion, cardiovascular disease is essentially a Z. Klausner, associate professor of sociol- model of the human circulatory system that systems disease. ogy; Dr. Herbert S. Wilf, professor of will include the cardiovascular system and "If we're going to learn how to deal mathematics; Dr. Robert Rutman, asso- the aspects of the nervous system, the with it, we have to look at the system as a ciate professor of biochemical animal kidney system, and the endocrine system whole," he explained. "The model we're biology; Dr. Herbert Spiro, professor of that control and regulate the cardiovascu- putting together will let us look at all the political science; Dr. Philip Rieff, Benja- lar system. variables that affect the system and all the min Franklin Professor of Sociology; Mr. A 60 man team of physiologists, pro- complex relationships that affect the way Philip Pochoda, lecturer in sociology; and grammers, mathematicians, biologists and the variables act on each other." the Reverend Allen Happe of the Christian clinical experts has been working on the Such a model should lead to new under- Association. project for six years, supported by grants standing of the functioning of the human Student members include Miss Cathy totaling approximately $3 million. The circulatory system and could lead to the A. Barolow, sophomore in the College for new grant will support the project for the development of an artificial heart that will Women; Frederick D. Chandler, freshman next five years. react to changes in the environment in the (Continued on page 6) Dr. Peterson, who is a professor of (Continued on page 2) 2 Annenberg School to Award Antiques Show Will Feature Silver Fellowship in Playwriting A Shubert Fellowship in playwriting, Made by 34 Philadelphia Craftsmen paying $2,500 for the academic year, has Over 100 pieces of silver made by 34 Inquiries about special events may be been given to the University and will be Philadelphia silversmiths will be specially made by calling the following number: awarded by the Annenberg School of displayed at the 1969 University Hospital CA 4-4969 (Area Code 215). Reserva- Communications for the 1969-70 academic Antiques Show this month. tions, including checks, should be mailed year. The silver, made between the closing to: Mrs. Leon H. Collins, 1236 Arwyn Applicants for this award must be years of the 17th century and the early Lane, Gladwyne, Pa. 19035. Checks should graduate students and must undertake to be made to a 3-act the years of the 19th century, has been lent by payable "University Hospital complete full-length, play by private collectors and is not usually on Antiques Show." spring semester of the academic year of view to the public. Arrangements may also be made for the fellowship. Preference will be given The annual Show will groups to visit the Show and attend special to students working for a degree in com- eighth Antiques events, and room are also avail- munications, but the best and open at 12 noon Tuesday, April 22 and meetings qualified able. most will be awarded will run through April 26 at the 103rd promising playwright 33rd and Lancaster The Show will be open daily from 12 the fellowship, regardless of field of Engineers' Armory, noon to 10 and from 10 a.m. until studies. Avenue. p.m. on 26. Admission is $2.50 should submit work In addition to the silver visitors 3pm April Applicants prior display, daily. A snack bar will be open; in addi- in playwriting and will be judged on the will view a wide of furniture, china, range tion, luncheon will be served April 22 basis of accomplishment and promise. glassware, and other decorative items as 25 from noon to 2 The cost Further information about the Fellow- walk the "streets" of the through p.m. they shoplined is $3.00 and advance reserva- be obtained from Dr. Show that are named for famous colonial per person ship may George tions are advisable. Gerbner, dean of the Annenberg School. Philadelphia craftsmen. The Antiques Show is held for the bene- fit of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania by the Hospital's Board of Women Visitors. Fifty-four of the coun- try's leading antiques dealers will display antiques for sale. Development of Artificial Heart Could Result Visitors to the Show may make advance reservations for several special events, the (Continued from page 1) lasting a thousand days or more. And the first being a Preview Dinner on Monday same way the real heart reacts. solution that looks most practical at present evening prior to the Show's official open- The model Dr. Peterson's team is de- is a computer simulation that will include ing the following day. veloping will not be a physical mockup of every aspect of the human body that could On Wednesday, an illustrated lecture on the circulatory system of course. Like all be affected by such a trip. The University "The Elegance of Philadelphia Silver" will computer models, it will be a mathemat- City Science Center, of which Dr. Peterson be given by Mrs. Thomas J. Curtin, a ical description of the system and will is Executive Vice President, is now mak- descendant of silversmith Joseph Richard- have many uses when it is completed- ing a preliminary study of this project. son, Jr., an expert silversmith herself and including some that can't be predicted in Dr. Peterson's group still has many assistant professor of occupational therapy advance. problems ahead of it. The development of and acting chairman of that department Investigators will be able to conduct more precise instruments is one problem, at the University's School of Allied Medi- experiments in which they can change and the development of the computer pro- cal Professions.