TheSewanee News MARCH 1978 LAND-USE STUDY BEGINS The University of the South has be- gun a comprehensive land-use study of its 10,000 acre domain, a study that could lead to significant changes in forest management, housing practices, energy produc- tion, and business development. Almost no aspect of land use at Sewanee will be untouched by the study. Charles O. Baird, chairman of the forestry and geology depart- ment, is coordinating the study, . which was requested last fall by the interim administration and the Board of Regents. Dr. Baird said the basic pur- Cap and Gown pose of the study is to gather in- formation that will allow the re- using the waste water Morgan's gents and the administration to to irrigate Steep where Bridal Veil and fertilize forest plantations. The Falls is located. make more informed decisions in Regents Approve timber grown the future about the management could possibly be Dr. Baird said the timber in of the domain. used as a partial energy source for that area has been valued at more $12 Million Budget heating and cooling University An important aspect of the than $100,000 but that sale of the buildings. timber might be in conflict with The University Board of Regents study is that as many people as The land-use study also will be approved a $12.1 million balanced possible will be involved. Twenty- other land uses such as hiking and concerned with timber production budget for the next fiscal year one technical advisory committees scenic enjoyment. and forest management in presently Interest also has been express- when it met February 23-24 in are being formed from Sewanee heavily forested areas of the do- ed in recent years in the plans to Sewanee. citizens and business people, facul- main. The regents already have set build an apartment complex for the The budget will be presented ty, students, staff, and alumni. aside Thumping Dick Cove, an area elderly. At least an initial purpose to the Board of Trustees April 20. These committees will be of virgin timber, as a protected area. would be to provide a suitable The total represents a $500,000 gathering information on topics But Dr. Baird said the Univer- housing alternative for widows who increase over the current year and as diverse as agriculture, historic sity has other areas of very valuable are residing in large houses central contains a contingency reserve of and scenic areas, wildlife manage- timber and must be able to make to the University campus. $100,000, the first such reserve in ment, athletics and outdoor recrea- intelligent decisions about whether Dr. Baird said he and the ad- several years. tion, and cemeteries on the domain. to manage and sell the timber or ministration want as much input John W. Woods, the board An advisory board will repre- maintain those areas of the domain as possible, including concerns of chairman, said the regents "have a sent such agencies as the Tennessee for recreation or wildlife and biolo- alumni and their possible interests good feeling" about what is being Department of Conservation, the gical study. in camping or recreational areas. accomplished by the interim admin- Tennessee State Planning Office, One such critical area is about A study report is expected to istration in a time of financial and the Tennessee Valley Authority. 500 acres in Hawkins Cove, below be completed this summer. concern. A TVA Townlife group is be- "I think professional manage- ing asked to study Sewanee's busi- ment is showing results in an ness area and make recommenda- academic environment," he said. tions for long-range development. Ayres Praises Campus Support "Tough choices are being made." Finally, behind these commit- Robert M. Ayres, the acting tees is a steering committee made Acting Vice-Chancellor Robert M. couraging to our long-term hopes vice-chancellor, who joined Mr. up of Arthur M. Schaefer, Univer- Ayres, speaking at opening con- and dreams for Sewanee. Woods for a press conference after administrative contin- sity provost, and the vocation in January, urged "An urgent request was made the meeting, said the regents also heads of each of the three Univer- ued efforts to hold down costs at to cut costs and to look again at voted to give special attention to sity academic divisions. Sewanee, noted plans to broaden our absolute needs with an effort the area of deferred giving. He said is athletic The land-use study being the program, and thanked to balance this budget now and to a director of deferred giving will be built on work done between 1972 the students, faculty, and staff for plan for a balanced budget next employed without increasing the and 1976, during the administra- suggestions given the interim ad- year as well," he said. development department budget. tion of Dr. J. Jefferson Bennett. ministration. Mr. Ayres added that the re- However, the present study will While reiterating his state- sponse from the faculty and staff have a much broader scope than ment of last fall that the University has been gratifying. He also said those efforts that produced the is in a survival mode, Mr. Ayres said that the effectiveness of Arthur M. 1,000-acre facilities siting plan. there is hope for balancing the bud- Schaefer, the interim provost, in In addition he said : "We con- The new study also is being get even this fiscal year. handling the budget process has en- tinue to want the best football pro- dovetailed into another study of "Although the budget for this abled the vice-chancellor to spend gram possible, but desire to strength- waste-water treatment and disposal year had already been adopted more time seeking financial support. en other programs such as soccer, on the mountain where there are when I arrived July 1 (and we were In a brief discussion of the track, and tennis." no free-flowing streams year around. budgeted to have a deficit of $110, athletic department and coaching He said such changes must Dr. Baird said the Environ- 000), I think many of us felt that changes, Mr. Ayres said plans are still be made within the constraints mental Protection Agency is being to add a fifth year to a stream of being made to add a third woman of a very tight budget. approached about the possibility of budget deficits would be most dis- to the coaching staff. sympo- The final event of the Athletics sium will be a round-table discus- Committee to Study ion of the place of liberal arts in acting vice- "I would hope for a reaffir- the education of the scientific and Robert M. Ayres, the January mation of the football program," technical worker. Presiding over chancellor, announced in Coach Bryant said, "but it is the the panel discussion will be Dr. the formation of a special commit- athletics at most expensive sport in terms of Robert P. Glaze, C'55, vice-president tee to "make a study of salaries, travel, and equipment. If for research and graduate studies at Sewanee and present an evaluation S MPOSIUM we are going to have a football pro- the University of Alabama at Bir- to the Board of Regents." gram, we are going to have to pay JORS CAMP mingham. Panelists will include Dr. The committee was formed H for it." Jerry A. Snow, C'61, of Washington, following a request from Walter Arthur M. Schaefer, Univer- D.C., who is in private cardio- Bryant, University athletic director. "Chemistry in American Life" is provost, will chair the com- vascular practice; Dr. James S. Coach Bryant said he asked for a sity topic of a symposium to be pre- mittee. Other members include the Mayson, C'59, a physician in New- committee initially to study the sented April 7-8 in Sewanee by Albert Roberts III, president of the port Beach, California; and Zachary football program and to evaluate chemistry department alumni in Associated Alumni; James Gentry, A. Coles, C'59, of Pfizer Chemicals the costs and the needs. honor of Dr. David B. Camp. Dr. an alumnus and member of the Uni- in Greensboro, North Carolina. retires at the end of this year versity Advisory Committee on Camp Dr. Edward Kirven is in teaching chemistry at Sewanee Athletics; Stephen Puckette, dean after charge of the Sewanee arrange- 24 years. of the College; Douglas Seiters, for ments for the symposium. Dr. Organizer and moderator of dean of men; Mary Sue Cushman, Kirven, C'68, who earned his Ph.D. vigorous interest in the many pre- the sympoisum is Dr. Joel L. Price, students in dean of women; Anita Goodstein at the University of Minnesota, is med and engineering 1963 alumnus who won a Rhodes and the Rev. William A. Griffin, a now an assistant professor of chem- addition to those in the chemistry Scholarship and remained at Ox- faculty members; Amy St. John istry in the college. department. Of the chemistry ma- earn a Ph.D. in neuroana- and Williams, students, and ford to Dr. Camp has taught some 100 jors about 90% have gone on to Tommy He is now associate pro- William U. Whipple, vice president tomy. chemistry majors, and has taken Ph.D. and M.D. careers. fessor of anatomy at Washington for development. Coach Bryant is University Medical School in St. an ex officio member. Louis. The opening address will be given by Dr. D. Stanley Tarbell, Distinguished Professor of Chemis- llllllllll I try at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Tarbell taught at the University of Rochester when Dr. Camp was in graduate work there.