Almanac, April 1969, Vol. 15, No. 8

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)

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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. The lecture will begin at many variables in the system and see what grams the project requires is another. 10:30 a.m. at the Drexel Institute Activi- effects the changes have on other parts of And the researchers still need more in- ties Center, 3210 Chestnut Street, with the system. They will be able to test formation about aspects of the system such chartered buses transporting the audience theories, for example, that might take years as the behavior of the walls of the blood to the Show afterwards. A $5.00 charge to test if they had to work experimentally vessels. Most cardiovascular diseases are for the lecture includes admission to the with human beings. Or they will be able diseases of the blood vessels, not the heart Show. to manipulate variables that can't be muscle, Dr. Peterson points out; heart at- Supper at the Show will be held Thurs- manipulated at all when you're dealing tacks usually begin in the blood vessels day with many selected pieces of country with humans. Or they may discover rela- that supply the heart, and his group needs furniture being placed on sale for the first tionships they would have missed without more information about important prob- time. The $7.50 charge that evening in- the model, and discover unexpected aspects lems such as the movement of salts in and cludes admission and the supper. The of the system that can be used to control out of the blood vessel walls. country furniture sale will continue on cardiovascular diseases. Other faculty working with Dr. Peter- Friday and Saturday. Complex as the project is, physiologists son include Dr. George Karreman, associ- The Old Philadelphia Bus Tours this are already thinking about a computer ate professor of physiology; Dr. George D. year will take in three restored colonial simulation project that will be even more Webster, associate professor of medicine; residences and one in Victorian style in complicated. Dr. Peterson recently chaired Dr. Grace Fischer, associate professor of the Society Hill and Washington Square a conference at Woods Hole, Mass., in physiology; Dr. Allan Jones, research sections of town. The tours, conducted which participants attempted to predict the associate in physiology; Dr. Robert Cox, by specially trained guides, will begin at effects long term space flights will have bn research associate in physiology; Dr. Roger 10:15 a.m. on Thursday and Friday. The human beings. Backshaw, associate professor of physiol- $5.00 charge includes admission to the This is an important problem for NASA ogy; and Mr. Charles Cross, electrical Show. which is interested in-the effects of trips engineer, Bockus Research Institute.

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Students to be on Council (Continued from page 1) tion could be varied if a single government Job-Hunting Business Graduates for the entire undergraduate community is certified. In that case, the only require- ment is that each undergraduate school Also Look at City Around Them have at least one and that representative College graduates weighing a career in Young business graduates are not inter- the total number of be 14. representatives Greater Philadelphia are asking tough ested only in business, Dr. Shils said. Students will serve on the Council for questions about such matters as good pub- Unless corporations are geared to provide one and shall be elected in year ordinarily lic schooling for their children, decent sound social objectives, many graduates This elections will be held in April. year housing at the right prices, safe streets, un- will go into government, education, hos- for members to serve next A May year. polluted air, good transportation and pitals and non-profit institutional admin- student enrolled in more than one con- salaries on a level with other major cities, istration. vote in the one in stituency may only reports Dr. Edward B. Shils, professor and "And if do to work for business which he is enrolled. they go principally acting chairman of the and Dr. Shils said, don't One and one industry depart- industry," "they undergraduate graduate ment. want to work in cities which specialize in student shall also be elected to the Steer- Speaking before members of the Greater branch offices. are interested in ing Committee which now includes nine They Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, Dr. in cities where the members. These student working corporation faculty repre- Shils catalogued the career demands of are located. sentatives will be elected the headquarters usually They by incoming MBA's, BA's in business and other want to be where the action is and where Council at its and shall be college May meeting graduates outlined in a recent the decisions are made." chosen from a list of at least four nominees question- important naire circulated among his students. Dr. Shils also noted that some cities prepared by the incumbent Steering Com- Minimum traffic mittee. congestion, a whole- have a reputation of providing the univer- some environment for their families, with a based on local The amendment to include students on good sity graduate salary civic a markets rather than the national market. the Council came as a result leadership, reasonably equitable University system of taxation, sound serv- He that these men of a report from a ad hoc municipal explained young stay student-faculty ices and are from this of constraint. Committee to Consider Student Member- long-range municipal planning away type "They also the of career want to work at ship on the Council. The Committee was high among priorities salaries which are com- seekers, he explained. on a national basis," he said, headed by Dr. John Brobeck, chairman petitive "and believe that is most in New and professor of and included "They don't want to settle for a job in possible physiology, an old York, and on the West Coast. If five faculty and four student members. decaying city," Dr. Shils said. "They Chicago want in a a man decides to move to another Students have been sitting on three Coun- employment fresh and new en- young vironment where he wants to make sure that his cil committees this year and several have citizens can look opti- city, prior to does not work him in future been invited to attend meetings of the mistically the future. The obvious cul- salary against ture of the its art, music, Council, but none have had the right to city, entertain- employment." vote. ment, and the presence of intellectual Dr. Shils reported that to his knowledge over 60 of the MBA's In other Council action, an amendment stimulation are all on the priority list." percent top go to work for for their to include students on a suggested He noted that students are seeking posi- large corporations advisory initial About 30 committee to the University Science tions with firms aware of their responsibil- experience. percent join City medium-size and about 10 Center was approved. ity to the public, firms that are companies per- socially cent choose small or small or- conscious, and pointed out that students businesses A number, he said, choose the are particularly interested in those larger ganizations. large corporations first to gain sophisticated Service Available corporations which employ urban affairs Duplicating specialists. business experience, planning to move later In Houston Hall Basement to a small firm or to start their own He also explained that most As part of its of today's business. responsibility serving brilliant students are from the campus Houston Hall has shying away community, communities where there is an overem- recently opened a Service in Duplicating phasis on a structured social en- the west end of its basement. highly vironment or too much "establishment." In additon to general use Philip Mechem Dead at 76; mimeograph "They want to work in areas," he said, and sign press machines, a 2400 Xerox Law Professor and Author "where the city fathers and the business copying machine with sorter is available. Philip Mechem, emeritus professor of leaders look to change for the better." Fees for having individual or depart- law at the University of Pennsylvania Law The of schools of mental work done on the Xerox copying products graduate School, died March 5 at the age of 76. machine are five cents for the first five business today are well trained in decision The author of several texts on the law Dr. Shils said. copies of each original and three cents making, Hence they want of agency, property and decedents' estates to have an to for all copies of an original after the first opportunity do this early on and two mystery novels, Mr. Mechem the new five. job. joined the faculty of the Law School as will not he said, "with a in 1948 retired in 1963. University departments may charge "They go along," professor rd work done by the Houston Hall Duplicat- old-line conservative judgments based on He had served as President of the Asso- ing Service by indicating the office and intuition and 'seat of the pants guessti- ciation of American Law Schools in 1957. the budget number to be billed on a mates.' In some cities, it takes seven years "He will be remembered by hundreds monthly basis. to reach a decision-making job-in others of lawyers who had been his students as The Duplicating Service is open Mon- only three to four. If Philadelphia is an outstandingly effective teacher whose day through Friday from 10 a.m. to 10 judged by college graduates to be a seven- delightful humor enlivened the educa- p.m.; Saturday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.; and year city, it will not attract the best talent," tional effort," said Jefferson B. Fordham, Sunday from 1 p.m. to 10 p.m. he declared. dean of the school.

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Recreate Density of Matter Related Computers Egyptian Temple To Quasar Red-Shifts Which Disappeared 33 Centuries Ago The way in which light from quasars is shifted towards the red end of the spec- elec- Aten, the sun disc. Scholars are successfully using gle deity, representing trum may be an indication of the extent an tronic computers to recreate visually Following Akhenaten's death, his reli- to which matter is compressed in the that more reorm was Egyptian temple disappeared gious overthrown. Amun center of quasars, suggests Dr. Sidney Dr. Froe- and the of other than 33 centuries ago, reports legion deities were re- A. Bludman, professor of physics and a of the Univer- stored and, in the lich G. Rainey, director probably reprisal, great colleague of his, Dr. M. A. Ruderman of built to Aten sity Museum. temples by Akhenaten New York University, in an issue of The temple once was part of a com- were demolished. Physical Review. Unlike almost all ancient plex of public buildings at Thebes (mod- Egyptian Their calculations were carried out at structures, the Aten in Thebes ern Karnak), ancient capital of the Temple Imperial College in London where they Egyptian empire. It was built during the had been built of small sandstone blocks have been on leave of absence of recently early years of his brief reign by King uniform size-2 feet wide, 10 inches from their own universities. Akhenaten, who ruled Egypt with his high. A laborer could carry a single block Quasars are cosmic radio sources that Queen Nefertiti from 1367 to 1350 B.C. unassisted. This mobility may have led look like stars but produce energy at an The is now a collection of over Akhenaten's successors to reuse the temple blocks in enormous rate. They have puzzled as- 30,000 "scattered and scrambled" nearby structures either as pieces foundations of columns or as in- tronomers ever since they were discov- discovered over the years in the founda- stuffing ered about seven because no side massive pylon walls. years ago tions and inner parts of other ancient one is sure exactly what they are. structures. of each Twenty-five thousand blocks have thus Photographs piece far been One of the many puzzling aspects are matched and reassembled with photographed, and all of the being data on the about quasars has been the way in which the aid of in the IBM service blocks have been computer- computers The their light shifts toward the red end of center at Cairo. processed. matching up of the pho- tographs is now well under Por- the spectrum. Some view this shift as an Dr. said the of way. indication that Rainey Department tions of offering scenes, chariots drawn quasars are receding from Antiquities of the United Arab Republic, us at a others, that by horses in full gallop, and historically very high velocity; Egyptian and American scholars and it is a effect which results important hieroglyph inscriptions already gravitational technicians, the International Business number in the hundreds. from their highly compressed state. Machines Corporation and the Museum Dr. Bludman and Ruderman have cal- are in the jointly participating project, culated what happens at pressures so a of supported by grant counterpart Book on Folk great that the electrons and positive nu- funds from the Smithsonian Institution. Culture Heads New clei making up matter are squashed to- The reassembling of photographs will Publications gether. The factors, not only help to reconstruct visually one history and complexity of For one thing, it is conceiva- material folk they say of history's great structural achievements culture of the United States ble that the speed of sound in such ex- -from but it should be able to shed more light household articles to farm im- ceedingly dense matter is greater than on a dramatic, but little known, period plements-are examined in a new book the speed of light in vacuum. They also of Egyptian history. By matching up just published by the University of Penn- say that pressures high enough to make thousands of fragmented inscriptions to sylvania Press, Pattern in the Material matter behave in this way are likely to form texts and Folk Culture complete showing paint- of the Eastern United States. be founded only inside really dense stars, ings and relief sculpture whole and in Written by Henry Glassie, state folk- such as the hypothetical neutron stars. some of obscur- lorist of proper juxtaposition, the Pennsylvania and director of For several reasons, have and this the physicists ity conjecture surrounding pe- Ethnic Culture Survey of the Penn- so far doubted that matter could behave riod should be removed. Accurate draw- Historical and sylvania Museum Commis- in this way. ings and three-dimensional models will sion, the book launches a new series for However, the two scientists have been also be possible. the Press on in folklore and monographs able to work out the maximum red-shift Akhenaten, often deemed to be the folklife. General Editor of the series is to be expected from stars founder of Monotheism, a Dr. Kenneth S. Goldstein, associate containing precipitated pro- such exceedingly dense materials; their religious upheaval when he wor- fessor of folklore and folklife. Associate replaced calculations are strangely similar to those ship of a pantheon of dominated editors are Dr. Dan Ben-Amos, assistant gods, red-shifts now measured in quasars. by Amun, the god of with a sin- professor of folklore and folklife; Dr. empire, The two men claim this lends some Tristram Potter Coffin, professor of Eng- lish; Dr. Dell support to the view that quasar red-shifts Hymes, professor of an- are in fact a Dr. Roger Shuy to Discuss and Dr. Don gravitational effect caused thropology; Yoder, associate the of Research of by density the objects. As yet, Sociolinguistics professor religious thought and graduate however, Dr. director of the Urban chairman of physicists are only beginning to Roger Shuy, group folklore and folklife. work on the of matter at in the Center for Other books properties high Language Program Ap- published by the Press densities and it is that the new in D.C. this semester unlikely plied Linguistics Washington, include: calculations will be without a will discuss "Current Research in Socio- -The Cass accepted Publishing Experience by great deal of discussion. linguistics with Implications for Instruc- Canfield, based on two lectures he gave tion," on April 23. The talk will be given at the University as an A.S.W. Rosenbach at 2 p.m. in Room D 9-10 of the Graduate Fellow in Bibliography. School of Education. -Inquiry and Testament by George C. Dr. Andre Von Gronicka, professor and For further information, please contact Avery, a study of the novels and short chairman of German languages and litera- Miss Clare M. Tracy in the Dean's Office, prose of Robert Walser; ture; Ext. 7015 or 7014. -The Russian Image of Goethe by (Continued on page 6)

Submicroscopic Processes in Living Cells Studied How do Two biologists at the University are Two examples of Dr. lnoue's work molecules make them up? they and studying the chemistry and genetics of demonstrate the potential of the polarized react to changes in temperature pres- the living cell with a specially developed light microscope. sure and in the chemistry of their environ- ment? What controls the of polarized light microscope that has two In 1953, when he first started developing alignment the molecules? unique advantages: It can be used to ob- the microscope, Dr. lnoue used it to settle spindle in serve structures that can normally be a fifty year old controversy biology. MOLECULAR CONFIGURATION MAPPED studied with the electron micro- Ever since the late 19th century, thread- only In 1964 Dr. Inoue and Dr. Sato used it can be used to observe cells like filaments called "spindles" had been scope-and the to the that are still alive and observed around the chromosomes-the polarized light microscope map functioning. molecular of the Dr. Inoue, of strings of genes in the nucleus of the cell. configuration chromo- Shinya professor biology, somes in an insect and Dr. Hidemi Sato, associate Did the spindles exist in living cells, or sperm. Calculations professor were made based on of received an addi- were they only found in cells that had observations with the biology, recently polarized and the calcu- tional $54,000 from the United been treated so they could be studied light microscope grant lations were then used to a dia- States Public Health Service to continue under the microscope? The spindles are produce that shows the of each chromo- their work for another so faint that even with a light microscope gram shape year. some, its and where it "The about our they can't be seen unless the cell has been length, begins and important thing ap- ends. Dr. Inoue said in the specially prepared. proach," discussing "We made detailed new "is that we can cells diagrams of three grant, study SPINDLES EXIST IN CELLS Dr. Inoue "at three without them them sperm," says, months slicing up, chopping And the results them, or them in Dr. Inoue turned his polarized light per diagram. surprised up, mashing damaging us. In all three the other When the molecular microscope on the spindles and demon- samples, chromosomes ways. you study are in the same The structure of the cell with an electron mi- strated that they do exist in cells that are place. chromosomes are not in for the cell has to be alive and uninjured. They could be clearly arranged randomly the sperm. croscope, example, Each chromosome has sliced into thin sections and fixed in a seen under the polarized light microscope a place and each as a of and dark lines that chromosome knows its place-a fact that special material so the section will be rigid pattern bright demonstrated were made of sub- could influence some of our basic ideas enough to handle. With the techniques they up molecular filaments. It is now about how chromosomes interact." we use, we can study living, microscopic undamaged believed, in fact, that these molecular This result will have to be checked with cells. We can watch many submicroscopic filaments move the chromosomes other techniques, Dr. Inoue He wants processes while they are actually happen- during says. cell division-a very important role in a to make sure the patterns on his diagrams ing.,, are MICROSCOPE DEVELOPED basic biological process. really chromosomes. But even here Much of the current research in Dr. the polarized light can Dr. Inoue's is microscope play specialty the development Inoue's at Penn, in fact, is an important role. and use of new laboratory biophysical approaches focused on the How do the The sperm can be observed, for ex- to the of the fine structure of the spindles. analysis spindles contribute to cell division? What ample, under an electron. But how can living cell. One of his main tools is a you tell if the cells have been significantly polarized light microscope he has been altered while were since the they being prepared developing early 1950's. for observation under the electron micro- The Photos of "The Black City" polarized light microscope is based scope? Answer: Observe them with the on a that is used in other fields On View In Fine Arts principle Library polarized light microscope while in which researchers want to the they're study "The Black City," an exhibition of being prepared. atomic and molecular structure of matter. photographs by Gerald Goode, is now on The of the atoms in a FUTURE RESEARCH OUTLINED arrangement crystal display at the Fine Arts Library of the can be observed, for example, by studying University. As an example of possible future re- them under polarized light: the atoms in The work will remain on view through search Dr. Inoue mentions a plan to put the crystal interfere with the polarized May 2, open to the public daily from a radioactive tag on the X chromosome light and create patterns of light and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturdays from 12 noon of the same sperm. The X chromosome shadow that can only be created by that to 5, and Sundays from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. is one of the two chromosomes that deter- particular atomic structure. These pat- The Library is in the Furness Building, on mine sex-and it is known that in this terns-they are called "birefringence pat- South 34th Street between Walnut and case it is the last chromosome formed terns"-occur because the polarized light Spruce Streets. when a sperm is manufactured. The DNA vibrates in only one direction. When it Goode, a 25-year-old graduate student that makes up the chromosome is manu- strikes an atom, it is twisted in a different in city planning at the University, uses factured from another chemical and a direction; the amount it is twisted deter- photography "to develop certain ideas sample of this other chemical can be mines how dark or how bright that partic- about urban problems today," he said. He treated so it is radioactive and introduced ular point will look. concentrates on people in the city, with just before the X chromosome is formed. Polarized light could not be used for subject matter ranging from anonymous The X chromosome will then show up the kind of observations Dr. Inoue and children of the ghettos to familiar figures as a dark spot when the sperm is photo- Dr. Sato are making, however, until Dr. in the news, like Ralph Abernathy and graphed. And the researchers will know Inoue invented a special lens called the Dick Gregory. the exact shape and location of a partic- "polarization rectifier" and made several The young photographer is a native ular-and very important-chromosome. other improvements in the polarized light Philadelphian who was graduated from Such basic questions as How do cells microscope. Today, Dr. Inoue says, his Germantown High School in 1962, then move? and How are the DNA molecules microscope is actually more powerful in worked as a free-lance draftsman for sev- (the genes) lined up in the chromosomes? some ways than an electron microscope. eral years before enrolling in college. are also being studied in the laboratory.

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Volcanic Ash Bed Dating Could Result Commission Gives its $75,000 To Renewal Housing, Inc. In Absolute Geologic Chronology The Quadripartite Commission has de- cided to turn over its initial allocation of University geologists have begun a mas- the University. The three-year project $75,000 to Renewal Housing, Inc. in or- sive chronological analysis of volcanic will be carried out with the aid of a der to set up a "social and physical plan- sediments in the Sangre de Christo moun- $70,679 grant from the National Science ning unit." tains near Santa Fe, New Mexico, which Foundation. (Renewal Housing, Inc. had been des- should bring the evolutionary picture into ignated as representative of community sharper focus. interests during the February sit-in.) According to Dr. Henry Faul, chairman Be The planning unit project and the Uni- of the Geology Department, the sandstone Lysosomes May Culprits versity's further construction plans in the beds of the Santa Fe group are the source In Cholesterol Buildup Area Ill are currently under discussion by of the largest collection of vertebrate fos- Why do cholesterol and other fats col- the Commission. sils ever assembled. Gathered over more lect inside the walls of arteries, eventually At its March 10 meeting, the Commis- than 20 years by the Frick Laboratory of causing various types of atherosclerosis? sion elected its officers. These are chair- the American Museum of Natural History How can this fateful buildup of fat that man, Lawrence Goldfarb, assistant profes- in New York, the collection is the basis kills more than 500,000 Americans every sor of city planning; co-chairman, L. of fundamental studies in vertebrate evo- year be reversed or prevented? Lorenzo Graham, president of Renewal lution. Interbedded with the sandstones A research team at the School of Medi- Housing, Inc.; and secretary, Cathy Bar- are beds of ash deposited by volcanic cine has recently found some clues to this low, sophomore in the College for Women. eruptions; such ash can be accurately problem and are now seeking both the bio- Community members of the Commis- dated. chemical malfunction that is involved and sion are Andrew Jenkins, president of the From mid-Miocene through Pliocene chemicals that will destroy the fatty de- Mantua Community Planners; the Rev. time (about 8 million to 16 million years posits or prevent their buildup. This prom- Edward Sims, executive director of the ago), extinct horses, camels, rhinos, and ising study will be continued during the Volunteer Community Resources Council; deer, as well as an abundance of animals next three years under a $124,434 grant Herman Wrice, president of the Young which have no living relatives, lived in the to the University from The John A. Hart- Great Society; and W. Wilson Goode, Santa Fe region. The era was a period of ford Foundation, Inc. president of the Paschall Betterment great mammal development, especially in Dr. Benjamin F. Miller, associate pro- League. William Julye, Mantua business the adaptation of grazing animals to their fessor of surgical research and a member man affiliated with the Young Great So- environment. of the Harrison Department of Surgical ciety, has been named alternate. "If we were able to determine accu- Research, is director of the research proj- The names of faculty, students and rately the dates of the volcanic ash beds ect. He has done extensive atherosclerosis trustee representatives appeared in the found in the Santa Fe group," says Dr. research in the last decade and during the March issue of Almanac. Faul, "we would have the possibility of a past year has found evidence that lyso- precise time control over geologic chro- somes may be the culprits in cholesterol nology based upon a rock-stratigraphic buildup. Afro-American Studies method." Lysosomes are minute bodies within (Continued from page 1) Since many hundreds of North Ameri- cells that contain enzymes which perform in the College of Arts and Sciences; Ira the and can mammals have already been tied to excretory digestive functions of R. Harkavy, junior in the College; Miss the cells molecules into this framework, he notes, and the sequence by converting large Gaynell Y. Oubre, freshman in the College of the beds themselves is well known, care- small, soluble substances that can be easily for Women; Miss Barbara Z. Perman, the ful radiometric dating of selected ash beds dispersed by body. Dr. Miller has dis- sophomore in the College for Women; could lead to an absolute covered for the first time the presence of Clayton R. Ramey, sophomore in the Col- chronology; the geologists would have a valuable tool for enzyme cholesterol ester hydrolase, a lege; and Miss Mercedes Sherrod, fresh- This is known determining not only when lysosome. enzyme to break man in the College for Women. evolutionary down some cholesterol changes occurred, but at what rate they compounds. (Re- took place. cently, an investigator in California has found an in that breaks Books could observe, for instance enzyme lysosomes They down neutral (Continued in teeth or limbs, or even brain [ordinary] fats.) from page 4) changes Dr. Miller's is that size as animals themselves to their theory cholesterol -On Haplology in Indo-European by adapted takes when environment over millions of buildup place lysosomes func- George Cordona, investigates a problem many years. tion at a faculty level. He is also of Sanskrit Such an absolute would also searching grammar and is the first pub- chronology for chemicals that stabilize the lication in the add new dimensions to relative chronolo- may lyso- new Haney Foundation somes and them nor- series. gies used elsewhere in the world, Dr. Faul keep functioning mally. says. -Phineas Bond by Joanne Loewe Neel, He points out that as more and more studies relations A variety of will be Anglo-American during dating techniques cholesterol and other fats accumulate in the war the applied to the volcanic ash, Revolutionary period through including po- the arteries, they form masses called person of Bond who was a win- tassium atomic Loyalist; analysis by absorption plaques. When these plaques accumulate ner of the Allan Nevins Prize of the and determination spectrophometry argon in the coronary arteries, the result is an- Society of American Historians. by the isotope dilution method. gina pectoris. The plaques can damage -The Korean War and American Poli- Dr. Faul is an authority on nuclear the smooth wall of the artery, producing tics: The Republican Party as a Case Study dating and has been working on geological blood clots that lead to coronary occlusion. by Ronald J. Caridi, discusses the determination for shaping age many years. He is They also can weaken the artery wall so of American foreign by now a new policy partisan settting up age laboratory at it "balloons" into an aneurysm. politics.

University Receives Grants Among other things Amounting to $71,500 The of has University Pennsylvania at the Service Institute received two $20,000 from APPOINTMENTS: Officers Foreign grants totaling in D. C. the Esso Education Foundation. A. Lao LEVIN, professor of law and Washington, DR. RALPH SHOWERS, of elec- The contribution includes $15,000 as former vice provost for student affairs, professor trical was a member of a the third of five installments of a $75,000 will assume the newly-created position of engineering, committee which the for the and Vice President for Academic Affairs at prepared report pub- pledge Development Program lished the Joint Technical $5,000 for the Public Finance Center of Yeshiva University, effective July 1. He by Advisory Committee of the IEEE entitled, the Wharton School of Finance and Com- will be responsible for the day-to-day "Spectrum to a Re- merce. functioning of the university including Engineering-The Key Progress, on Technical Policies and Procedures The University is one of 300 education faculty and the operation of educational port institutions Esso and will, in addition, be con- Recommended for Increased Spectrum receiving grants totaling programs was result of $2.7 million for the current academic cerned with academic planning ranging Utilization." The report the four of technical year. through the undergraduate, graduate and years study by many in telecommunications and was An unrestricted of $5,000 from professional faculties including the Albert experts grant undertaken to a from the American Oil Foundation has also Einstein College of Medicine, Ferkaug in response request the White House. been received for use in the University's Graduate School of Humanities and Social capital building program or for any other Sciences and the Stern College for Women. educational purpose. DR. PETER D. EDMONDS, associate pro- HONORS: The gift is one of 150 unrestricted fessor of electrical engineering, has been DR. WILTON M. KROGMAN, chairman grants to outstanding private universities reappointed Secretary-Treasurer of the and professor of physical anthropology and colleges and is not to be used for en- IEEE Group on Engineering in Medicine and director of the Philadelphia Center dowment purposes. The contribution is to and Biology for 1969; in addition, he for Research in Child Growth, will re- ceive the be spent currently and applied wholly or served on the local conference committee annual Ketcham Award for basic in part toward such purposes as research, for a national meeting of the Acoustical science (craniofacial growth) research in orthodontics later this month the faculty salaries, libraries, teacher training, Society of America held last week in during of the American Association of operating costs and building programs. Philadelphia. meeting A third $46,500 has Orthodontists to be held in Miami. grant totaling been AUTHORS: given by the E. I. du Pont de Nemours & The Council on Social Work Education Co. DR. ROBERT L. PFALTZGRAPP, JR., during the annual meeting of its House of science, is The funds are part of more than $2.3 assistant professor political of Delegates held in Cleveland last Jan- Politics and the In- million awarded to 155 colleges and uni- editor of the book uary passed a resolution in memory of J. B. versities around the country in Du Pont's ternational System just published by the late DR. ROLAND J. ARTIGUES, pro- annual aid-to-education program. The Lippincott Company. Dr. Pfaltzgraff has fessor of social work, expressing the high a series of lectures in which he was held the social money is intended to shore up areas of also been busy giving regard by Political work graduate education affected by recent Fed- in seminars on Contemporary profession. In their resolution the eral grant restrictions and cutbacks. Analysis and International Relations Council cited his work, noting that it Those University departments receiving Theory for mid-career Foreign Services had "left a lasting impression and had funds include Chemistry ($20,000), Phys- helped to confirm Dr. Artigues' compas- ics Chemical sion and intellectual concern throughout ($10,000), Engineering ($7,- Awarded 500), and Biochemistry ($5,500). In ad- Powers, Segre his academic career and had led him to dition, a $4,000 graduate fellowship was Sloan Foundation Fellowships direct primary attention and most of his awarded to assist gifted students with un- Dr. Robert T. Powers, assistant profes- energy to social welfare legislation and dergraduate degrees in science and engi- sor of physics and mathematics, and Dr. the social welfare system as social work neering in obtaining a master's degree in Gino C. Segre, assistant professor of educator, social worker and social critic." business administration. physics, were among 76 faculty recipients The money will be used by the depart- at 44 American universities and colleges TRAVELERS & SPEAKERS: ments for graduate fellowships, financial to be awarded Alfred P. Sloan Foundation DR. RUSSELL P. SEBOLD, chairman and aid to undergraduates, equipment pur- Fellowships for basic research. professor of romance languages, has been chases, and summer grants to promising The two-year fellowships are worth an asked to read one of the plenary papers young faculty members. average of $8,750 a year, and are awarded at the Spring Conference of the Society by a panel of senior scientists to nominees on the Ibero-American Enlightenment to the for be held at the of Illinois on Dr. Haviland, 72, showing greatest promise original University Dead, and creative research in the physical sci- May 9th and 10th. The title of the paper Served University 48 Years ences, including mathematics, physics and will be "The Influence of the philosophy Dr. Thomas P. Haviland, emeritus as- chemistry. More than 650 nominations of the Enlightenment on the emergence sociate professor of English at the Uni- were received by the Foundation this year, of Spanish Romanticism." versity, died March 2 following an illness. the average age of the 76 winners being Dr. Sebold has also been asked to pre- He was 72. under 30. side over one of the Spanish literature Dr. Haviland served the University for The fellowships may be used for any sections at the Kentucky Foreign Lang- 48 years, retiring in 1967. He received purpose by the young scientists to carry uages Conference this spring. The topics the A.B. degree from the University in forward their research, including equip- for this section are largely in the area of 1919 at which time he joined the faculty, ment purchases, travel, technical assift- 18th and 19th century Spanish literature. and the Ph.D. in 1928. His special interests ance, computer time, or relief from teach- DR. STANLEY BAUM, associate professor were American literature, poetry and ing duties when the circumstances permit of radiology, was visiting professor of creative writing. it.

Among other things regional planning, last month addressed Region of a Reactor," (co-authored by the Graduate School of the University of DR. WARREN D. SEIDER, assistant professor Southern California on "The New Tech- of chemical engineering) at the one-day radiology last month at M.D. Anderson nologies and Urban Planning" and has meeting of the Twin City Section of the Hospital in Houston where he gave lec- been invited by the University of London American Institute of Chemical Engineers. tures on the role of angiography in the to deliver a course of Special University DR. ARIEH LOYA, assistant professor of detection of gastrointestinal hemorrhage. Lectures in May. Arabic, in January was member of a TV Prior to that visit he was also visiting pro- At the 15th annual meeting of the Or- symposium on the Arabic-Israeli conflict fessor and guest of the Department of thopaedic Research Society of the Ameri- in the Middle East. Earler, he was chair- Radiology of Harvard Medical School can Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons man of the Committee on Islamic Egypt where he lectured on various aspects of held in New York City, DR. CARL at the annual meeting of the American cardiovascular radiology. BRIGHTON, assistant professor of ortho- Research Center in Egypt held at the Uni- Earlier in the semester, Dr. Baum par- paedic surgery, presented a paper on "In versity late last term and presented a paper ticipated as a guest faculty member in a Vitro Epiphyseal Plate Growth Under on "Secular Poetry of Egypt under the Symposium on Controversies in Angiog- Various Oxygen Tensions." DR. MARVIN Ayyubids." raphy sponsored by The Cleveland Clinic STEINBERG, assistant professor of ortho- DR. KENNETH R. ATKINS, professor of Foundation and was visiting professor at paedic surgery, presented a paper on physics, lectured at Wabash College in the State University of New York in "Thyrocalcitonin in Osteoporosis of Dis- Crawfordsville, Indiana last month under Syracuse. use." the auspices of the American Association Dg. NOAH S. PRYWES, professor of elec- DR. A. K. J0sHI, associate professor of of Physics Teachers and the American trical engineering, recently participated in electrical engineering, was invited to give Institute of Physics as part of a broad, the Council Meeting of the International a talk to the Washington Linguistics nationwide program to stimulate interest Technical Cooperation Centre in Israel Club at the George Washington Univer- in physics. The program is now in its which is planning a World Congress to sity, on the topic of "Formal Grammars twelfth year and is supported by the Na- be conducted in Israel in June of 1970. and Their Relevance to Language Struc- tional Science Foundation. In addition to ROBERT B. MITCHELL, director of the ture." lecturing, Dr. Atkins assisted faculty mem- Center for Urban Research and Experi- DR. PAUL J. KORSHIN, assistant profes- bers with curriculum and research prob- ment and professor of city planning, last sor of English, attended a conference called lems and met informally with both students month attended a conference in Mexico "The Dictionary and Literary Studies" held and faculty. City sponsored by the Organization of by the Department of English at the Uni- DR. GEORGE N. STEIN, clinical professor American States, World Bank, the United versity of California at Riverside in Jan- of radiology, last month gave a talk on Nations and AID together with the Ford uary, where he read a paper entitled "Radiological Approach" as part of the and Rockefeller Foundations. The purpose "Johnson and the Renaissance Dictionary." Symposium on Management of Gastro- of the meeting was to discuss a common More recently, at a small Colloquium held intestinal Hemorrhage presented by the strategy on financing of urban education by the University's English Department, Academy of Medicine of New Jersey at and research in Latin America. Later in Dr. Korshin gave a talk on "Swift and the Muhlenberg Hospital in Plainsfield, the month he attended a meeting for the Typological Method in A Tale of a Tub." New Jersey. Directors of Urban Centers at Wayne DR. STUART W. CHURCHILL, Carl V. S. DR. MANFRED ALTMAN, professor of State University in Detroit and in Febru- Patterson Professor of Chemical Engineer- mechanical engineering, presented a paper ary, served on a panel of the National ing, in February gave a lecture on "To entitled "The Minicar Mass Transit Sys- Academy of Science meeting in Washing- Compute or Not to Compute," as part of tem" at the Carnegie Mellon Institute in ton, D.C. to evaluate applicants in the the Distinguished Series of Lectures in Pittsburgh recently. He later addressed Graduate Fellowship Program of the Na- Chemical Engineering Frontiers sponsored a group from the Philadelphia Gas Works tional Science Foundation. by the Dow Chemical Company. He on "Philosophy; the Missing Link in BRITTON HARRIS, professor of city and later read a paper, "Mixing in the Inlet Transportation Planning."

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