No. 3 December 1967
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Volume 14, Number 3 December, 1967 Institute to Study Ad Hoc Committee Declared Legal Health Care Costs The Steering Committee of the Uni- that it seemed undesirable that students The formation of an institute to study versity Council has decided that the ad performing the same actions under the the costs of health care was announced hoc Committee on Implementation of same circumstances in the same group be by President Harnwell at a special press the University's Policies on Free Speech penalized differently. conference October 16. The Institute is and Lawful Assembly was properly con- In order to assure that there be not believed to be the first in the nation to stituted and has jurisdiction over the merely fairness but every appearance of undertake a multidisciplinary research cases brought before it. it, the Steering Committee decided each approach to the problem of health care The legality of the committee, formed accused student should be given the op- expenses. last month as a result of student protests tion of having his case heard either by Known as the Leonard Davis Institute which prevented job applicants from the ad hoc committee or through pre- in Health Economics, it was made pos- talking to CIA and Dow Chemical com- existing disciplinary procedures. sible by the gift of Mr. Davis, a certi- pany recruiters, had been challenged by (continued on page 3) fied public accountant and chairman of students. the Colonial Penn Group, a Philadel- A statement released by the Steering phia-based insurance company. Committee November 27 declared that Davis was instrumental in establishing their action in setting up the ad hoc com- Shafer Dedicates the first national health insurance plan mittee had been appropriate to the cir- for retired persons some years ago. cumstances and in the best interests of Dietrich Executive director of the Institute will both the students involved and the Uni- Library Dedication ceremonies for the Univer- be Dr. Robert D. Eilers, who until versity. It felt the violations differed in sity's new $5,000,000 Dietrich Graduate assuming this position has served as ex- significant respects from those which had Library Center were held October 13 (continued on page 5) been handled by existing procedures and with the Hon. Raymond P. Shafer, gov- ernor of the Commonwealth of Pennsyl- vania, as the main speaker. Dr. Gaylord P. Harnwell, president of the University, and Wilfred D. Gil- len, chairman of the University Trustees, took part in the ceremonies along with 'Warren J. Haas, director of University libraries, the Rev. Stanley E. Johnson, University Chaplain, and two sons of the late H. Richard Dietrich. The building is named in memory of H. Richard and Daniel W. Dietrich, brothers and alumni of the University's Wharton School of Finance and Com- merce. The Dietrich family and the General State Authority of the Common- wealth of Pennsylvania jointly provided funds for its construction. The Dietrich and Van Pelt Libraries together comprise a $10,000,000 campus library complex. With a combined ca- pacity of 2,500,000 volumes, the build- ings now house all but about a half mil- Students at work in the Woody History of Education Seminar on the second floor of lion of the University's books. the new Dietrich Graduate Library Center. (continued on page 3) 2 THE ALMANAC University Helps Form Freedman in Charge Lippin cott Library Allied Health Association of Student Housing Celebrates Birthday The University of Pennsylvania and Arthur R. Freedman, a former man- A reception for faculty members of Temple University have joined with ager for Radio Corporation of America, the Wharton School was held November eleven other schools across the country has been placed in charge of implement- 14th in observance of the 40th anni- to form The Association of Schools of ing the Student Housing program to versary of the founding of the Lippin- Allied Health Professions. build a 5000-capacity complex by 1972. cott Library. The Association was established to Freedman will be responsible for man- The library was established in 1927 help meet the needs of today's changing agement and total direction of the pro- through the efforts of the late Dr. Emory pattern of health care. Its aim is to gram including planning, programming, R. Johnson, then Dean of the School, the financial aid of Mrs. Bertram provide a forum to which the Veterans budgeting, and scheduling of all aspects and Administration, the U. S. Public Health of the Housing Facilities Program. He Lippincott, daughter of the founder of Service, the Association of American will also handle coordination of the pro- the Wharton School. Its primary pur- Medical Colleges, the American Medical gram with the ad hoc Trustees' Com- pose is to service the research problems Association and other professional groups mittee, students, and appropriate Univer- of the Wharton faculty and students. can relate. sity committees. Miss Dorothy Bemis, who retired from The concept of coordinated education Freedman, a graduate of the civil the library system in 1938, Was the or- within the areas closely related to medi- engineering department of the Towne ganizing librarian. cine originated at the University of School, served in London as director of The new facilities of the library are Pennsylvania with creation of its School an engineering group designing and approximately ten times larger than the of Allied Medical Professions in 1950. constructing ballistic missile sites in space originally occupied in 1927. The The School offers programs in occupa- England. He graduated from the Uni- library is now headed by Mrs. Eleanor tional therapy, medical technology and versity cum laude in 1951. He has B. Allen. Mrs. Allen received both her this and master's from the physical therapy. taken postgraduate studies at Uni- bachelor's degrees Temple University's College of Allied versity and at Drexel Institute of Tech- University and has been with the Lip- Health Professions is the newest such nology. pincott Library for over 25 years. school in the country, having been estab- lished in 1966. Courses already have been opened in medical technology, physical therapy and occupational ther- apy. Programs in nursing and medical Underwater Detected Sonar records science are scheduled to start Ship by next September. Use of a sonar device has enabled Dr. After the device recorded five distinct Twenty more colleges in the United George F. Bass to explore the site of a "bumps" indicating a protrusion at the States now are setting up programs in Roman ship sunk more than 2,000 years bottom of the sea, Dr. Bass brought into health related fields, and by the end of ago in the Aegean Sea off the Western use the museum's two-man, 16-foot long 1968, it is anticipated that a total of 60 coast of Turkey. Dr. Bass is assistant midget submarine, the 1sherah. The colleges will be participating in such curator of the Mediterranean section of .rlsherah had no trouble in reaching the programs. the University Museum and assistant bumps, which turned out to be the re- professor of Classical Archaeology. mains of the Roman ship. The ship, believed to have been pri- Some terra cotta tiles were visible. Carpenter Receives marily a wine carrier, lies embedded in Dr. Bass believes these once formed the sand at the sea bottom in water about roof of the ship's galley. Lying in a pile Honorary Degree 300 feet deep. nearby were the ship's large water jar Maj. Aaron E. Carpenter, chairman In 1963, Turkish sponge draggers and other pieces of pottery. The ship of the board of E. F. Houghton & Com- fished out a bronze statue of a Negro itself was hidden under thick layers of pany, received the honorary degree of boy, probably of Greek origin and dating sand, but its outline was unmistakable. doctor of science in economics at a spe- to the late Hellenistic period. Dr. Bass Dr. Bass has deferred plans to attempt cial Convocation of the University in reasoned that the statue probably came salvaging the ship until 1969 because of October. from a sunken ship since he doubted the complex organizing that is necessary. Major Carpenter joined Houghton & that anyone would deliberately dump He will devote next year to teaching. Company, a manufacturer of oils and such an object into the sea. The expedition, composed of mostly leathers, after his graduation from Penn- He set out to find the ship this sum- Pennsylvania graduate students, also sylvania in 1906. He is a member of mer with the aid of a side-scanning used sonar to explore another area of the the Germantown Dispensary and Hos- sonar device. This electronic instrument Aegean at the southern coast of Turkey. pital board of managers, a trustee of the emits sound waves; when these waves There sponge draggers found the bronze Philadelphia Museum of Art, a fellow strike an object, they are reflected back bust of a woman, possibly the goddess of the Royal Geographical Society, and to receiving instruments which record Demeter. Although the sonar turned up a member of the St. Andrews Society the depth and the distance of the object about 15 "bumps," further exploration and the Newcomen Society. in the form of a-graph. has been left for some future date. DECEMBER, 1967 3 Legality of Ad Hoc Committee Questioned by Students... (continued from page 1) students were summoned to appear be- of University facilities." The alternative procedures will be ap- fore a closed hearing of the committee About 90 students had blocked the plicable to all cases involving issues of to determine whether there was any entrances to rooms in Logan Hall where free speech and lawful assembly until re- doubt about the facts in the alleged CIA and Dow job recruiters were inter- placed by permanent ones following the charges against them.