UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
Vol. VIII No. 1 January 11, 1978 1\ ·vw:cl\iy intern::Ji bulictin serving all campuses Editor: Maureen Smith (612) 373-7507
Public hearing on the composition of a faculty collective bargaining unit on the TC campus will be the first agenda item at the regents' Committee of the Whole meeting Friday at 8:30a.m. in the regents' room, Morrill i~ll, Minneapolis. Anyone who wishes to appear is asked to call (612) 373-0080 and to prepare a written statement. Central question is whether the bargaining unit should include department heads, county extension agents, librarians, and others who may be classified as either faculty or management.
Budget principles for 1978-79 and a report on capital requests before the legislature are also on the agenda. Physical Plant and Investments Committee will discuss purchasing procedures, energy conservation policy, and a proposed long-term lease for the West Bank People's Center, which is housed in aU-owned church building in mnneapolis.
National tribute dinner for Sen. Hubert llumphrey Dec. 2 netted more than $1 million for the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. Total of $5.7 million that has now been raised includes $1 million each from businessmen Curtis Carlson and Dwayne Andreas and more than $3,000 in nickels and dimes from school children.
Senate Consultative Committee will meet Jan. 12 at 12:30 p.m. in Room 625 in the Campus Club in Minneapolis. Other winter quarter meetings are scheduled for Feb. 2, Feb. 9 (on the Harris campus), and r.tarch 9. Any member of the U community is welcome to attend.
Copyright colloquium to inform faculty of the basic requirements of the new copyright legislation and provide an opportunity for questions will be Jan. 17, 1-4 p.m., in Mayo auditorium in Minneapolis. Speakers include Waldo ~ioore, assistant register of copy rights from the Library of Congress, and John Stedman, professor emeritus of the U of Wisconsin Law School. No prior registration needed.
Vietnam-era veterans brought their case for free or reduced tuition to the State Senate Committee on Veteran Unemployment Jan. 10. ~Iinne sot a Association of Concerned Veterans says benefits now are not enough to cover education expenses, especially if a veteran is married. Only 21% of Minnesota's eligible 170,000 veterans used their benefits last spring, and ~1innesota ranks 44th in veterans using the GI bill, the association says.
GI bill passed by Congress in November specifies that nothing in the bill "shall be construed as requiring any institution of higher education to maintain daily attendance records leading to a standard college degree" and requires the VA to cite statutory or legal authority for any rule it issues. Details in Dec. 12 newsletter of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges.
Internal search is being conducted for a director of the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs. Nominations of and applications from tenured U faculty are sought by the search committee chaired by Dean Lee Stauffer. Send norr.inations to Stauffer c/o Academic Affairs, 213 Harrill Hall, Minneapolis, by Jan. 20.
CROOKSTON--Credit course in grain marketing will be offered at Hallock in an effort to establish a satellite CEE center there. Future courses would be offered in conjunction with Northland Community College.
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: I ' r , ~ , !. ; l :_ : : r · Study tour of 4 non-baccalaureate technical institutes in England, Scotland, and Wales will be offered this summer. For more details contact Ervie Glick at UMC, extension 249, or Don Morgan, TC campus, at (612) 373-5569. DULUTH--Symposium on teaching at the U will be Jan. 11 at 3 p.m. in 403 Humanities. Speakers: VP Kegler, Regent Unger, Rep. Tom Berkelman. Session is sponsored by UMD Group for the Improvement of Instruction. UMD Campus Assembly will meet Jan. 19 at 3 p.m. in Life Science 175. President Magrath and Provost Heller will host a pre-game supper for invited guests before the Gopher-Bulldog hockey game Jan. 28 in Duluth. "Sunday Evening With a Professor" series begins Jan. 29 with a talk by George Rapp on archeological excavation in Israel. Fred Schroeder will speak Feb. 12 on popular culture and Thomas Wegren March 19 on "Bach to Rock." Series offers public a chance to meet informally with UMD faculty. Cost for series, including buffet suppers, is $16.50. Reservations may be sent to the provost's office. MORRIS--Orval T. Driggs, Jr., will resign as chair of the Division of Social Sciences at the end of the academic year. He cited recent health problems and a desire to return to full-time teaching after chairing the division for 10 years.
U~~ grounds crews have begun felling about 150 Siberian elms along the north entrance road to campus to slow the spread of Dutch elm disease. The trees, all 25 years old or older, are nearing the end of their normal life spans and many also have suffered hail damage. Convocation: "Guerrilla Tactics in the Job Market" by employment expert Tom Jackson, Jan. 16, 8:15p.m., Edson auditorium. Admission free for ur~ students, $1.50 for others. TWIN CITIES--Delegation of high-ranking Soviet cultural officials headed by First Deputy Minister of Culture Yuriy Barabesh is visiting campus Jan. 11.· More than 100 couples are expected to participate in the 4th annual Muscular Dystrophy Dance-A-Than Jan. 13-15 in the main ballroom of Coffman. Ideas are being solicited for the U booth in the Education Building at the State Fair. Contact Mark Canney, U Relations, at 373-2126 by Jan. 31. Civil service staff members who are nearing retirement are invited to participate with their spouses in the next Creative Retirement Program, beginning in April. Day and evening groups are planned. Call 373-7898 for further information and registration. Human Resources Development will offer 1-day workshops for supervisors in January: Conflict Resolution Skills Jan. 17 and Problem-Solving/Oecision-Making Jan. 26. Both will be conducted by Milan Mockovak, Space is also available in 4-session Office Commu nication Seminar, conducted by Kathryn Barrington, starting Jan. 25. Call 373-7898. Lectures: "Seven Propositions About the Comic Hero" by Maurice Charney; .Jan. 12, 3:15p.m., 2-690 Health Sciences Unit A. "Teaching and Publication as Reward Signals" by Howard Tuckman; Jan. 13, 10 a.m., 64 Eddy Hall Annex. "Twelfth Night as Festive Comedy" by Maurice Charney; Jan. 13, noon, Stoll Thrust Theatre of Rarig Center. "The Development of Organized Clinical Instruction in American Hospitals" by Dale C. Smith; Jan. 16, noon, 555 Diehl Hall. "Depression in the Elderly" by Floyd K. Garetz (Seminar on Aging, with lunch at ll:30 a.m.); Jan. 17, 12:15 p.m., East Wing of the Campus Club. WASECA--UMW personnel will meet with UMW graduates now enrolled on the TC campus Jan. 12 at 5:30 p.m. in the St. Paul Dining Center. Minnesota Humanities Commission has awarded UMW a $2,400 grant for a humanities discuss;on series in February and March on "Rural Women at Work." Clyde Ingle, executive director of the Minnesota Higher Education Coordinating Board, and assistant director David Laird will visit campus Jan. 17 to learn more about UMW programs.
THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EDUCATOR AND EMPLOYER. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
Vol. VIII No. 2 January 18, 1978 A weekly internal ~ulletin serving all campuses Editor: Maureen Smith (612) 373-7507
President Magrath revealed last week that the U ended last year with a $1 million deficit and faces immediate budget cuts to avoid an $800,000 deficit this year. Problems stern from the difficulty in adjusting the budget to less-than-expected enrollment.
Freeze on hiring of academic staff has been imposed. Magrath said an estimated $400,000 will be recovered through the hiring freeze and retention at the cent~al level of unspent staff and supply money. Colleges and departments will have to cut enough from their budgets to recover $400,000 more.
Hubert H. Humphrey:--"a dedicated public servant, a champion of civil rights, and a statesman loved the world over"--was also "a man who steadfastly affirmed the value of :education, and who, as a lifelong friend of the University of Hinnesota, cherished and supported our institution," President Hagrath said in a stater1ent after Humphrey's death.
Government of Japan has given $1 million to the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs.
Plan for salary equalization among faculty on the TC, Duluth, and Morris campuses was approved by the regents last week. President Magrath announced that $180,000 will be !allocated to UMD and $30,000 to UMM for distribution to faculty on the basis of merit. \An additional $135,000 will be allocated for merit increases on a system-wide basis. j /Faculty groups gave their positions on composition of TC campus bargaining unit. AAUP I favors inclusion of all department heads and chairs. UMEA favors inclusion of department chairs, exclusion of heads. ~~T favors exclusion of both, except for department chairs who are primarily teachers and researchers and wish to be included. President Magrath will now draw up his position. All sides have expressed desire to reach agreement.
Shifts in duties of VPs were announced. VP Stein takes over planning coordination (from VP Kegler) and collective bargaining (from VP Koffler). His title is VP for administra tion and planning. Kegler, whose title was shortened to VP for institutional relations, takes over responsibility for the Duluth and Morris campuses (from Stein's office).
Purchasing policies recommended by VP Brown include increasing from $150 to $500 the amount above which bidding would be necessary and requiring that bids be rejected formally, with reasons documented. Proposal may go to the regents for action next month.
President Magrath will speak to graduate students Jan. 23 at 3 p.m. in Murphy Hall auditorium, TC campus, about the effect of retrenchment on graduate assistantships and about the U's commitment to graduate education. Question session will follow.
Minnesota Journalism Center will be established with income from the $2 million endowment gift of John Cowles, CLA Dean Sorauf announced Monday. Cowles Chair and Cowles Fellows program will be established in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Application deadline is Feb. 6 for the 1978-79 Small Grants 'Research Program, which awards funds to faculty members for research projects that promise to strengthen overall competence of the U in the international field. Phone: (612) 373-3793.
Prepared· for the Office of the President by the Department of University Relations and d1stnbuted through departmental offices CROOKSTON--Provost Sahlstrom and division heads will present an overview of education at UMC and the film "Reaching Out" will be shown when UMC hosts U of North Dakota chapter of Phi Delta Kappa educational society Jan. 25 at 7:30 p.m. in Dowell 204.
Campus events: "Impressions of South Africa," a slide show with artifacts, by Donald Sargeant; Jan. 19, 6:30p.m., Trojan Inn. Ag-Arama, with UMC students competing in events ranging from livestock judging to tobacco spitting; Jan. 20-21, winter shows arena. Lecture by Charles Zieske and exhibits on the undersea world; Jan. 26, 8 p.m., Trojan Inn. All events free and open to the public.
DULUTH--Major items on Campus Assembly agenda for 3 p.m. Jan. 19 in Life Science 175 are proposal for incorporating plus and minus grades into determination of grade point average and proposal for replacing the present "Nu grade with the letter "F."
New public lecture series on "Perspectives in Canada" with emphasis on Canadian literature begins Jan. 25. Six lectures this year will feature 5 Canadian speakers, 1 from UMD.
Organizational meeting of UMD American Indian Advisory Board, composed of 24 UMD and regional representatives, was held last week on campus. Board will advise on American Indian education at UMD; faculty, staff, and student recruiting; coordination of programs with others in community; funding of current and future programs.
Brown bag classes Enjoying Literature and Be a Better Consumer will be offered weekly during noon hours beginning in February. Call 726-8113 for registration information.
MORRIS--Archaeological geologist George Rapp, Jr., of UMD will speak on the geological origin of the Atlantis legend as part of UMM's visiting scientist program Jan. 26 at 8 p.m. in Science auditorium. Free.
Highlight of Snow Days activities at UMM this week will be the Mary Martelle Memorial Carnival Jan. 21, 5-8 p.m., in PE Annex.
L'Ensemble, a chamber music group from New York, arrives Jan. 23 for 2-day residency that includes lecture/demonstration on the music of Haydn and Mozart, piano and voice master classes, and public performance Jan. 24 at 8:15 p.m. in the HFA recital hall.
Plant services director Harold Fahl has received a $3,000 grant to study the feasibility of converting UMM's central heating plant from oil-fired natural gas to solid waste. Project will help UMM determine the practicality of constructing a refuse-to-steam heating plant to provide an alternative source of fuel and alleviate the future solid waste disposal problems of Stevens County.
TWIN CITIES--David Giese, assistant dean for internal affairs, has been named acting dean of General College. He succeeds Dean Richard Bailey, who died last month.
Regents agreed to sell U-owned church and lease land to the West Bank People's Center in exchange for agreement by West Bank residents to withdraw opposition to removal of 3 houses for parking lot. Lease would expire if building were used for commercial purposes.
Regents voted 11-1 to permit use of "any excess funds" from the Brown Ctntinuing Education Center for the St. Paul Student Center expansion. Administration opposeJ transfer. Bids came in under estimates for Brown Center and over estimates for Student Center. Transfer of funds is now authorized if the same thing happens when bids are relet.
Details of football coach Cal Stoll's contract have not been worked out. Proposal for 2-year extension of contract is now expected to go to the regents in February.
WASECA--Campus Assembly will meet Jan. 19 at 4 p.m. in Cl31.
LeSueur-Waseca Regional Library begins its schedule of biweekly visits to ~~Jan. 24. THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EDUCATOR AND EMPLOYER. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
Vol. VIII No. 3 A weekly internal bulletin serving all campuses January 25, 1978
Editor: /·.Jaureen Smith (612) 373-7507
Winter enrollment is 52,144, down 2.49:s from last year; decline frc!ll fall to winter was 5.-Ps, compared to 4.2~o last year. Decreases were reported for TC campus (down 2.9% 9 to 41,992) and UJ'vlll (clown 2.39¢ to 1,513) and increases +"or UMW (up 5.5 o to 1,051) and UMC (up 2.596 to 1,031). Enrollment of 6,557 at U~!D is alnost unchanged from last year.
President :1agrath said ~1onday that he has no specifics on how the U' s $800,000 retrench ment will affect graduate assistants but he expects the proposed reversion of funds to cover most of the projected deficit. Magrath spoke to about 100 people at a 45-minute session sponsored by the Council of Graduate Students.
Senate Consultative Committee voted at Jan. 12 meeting to commend the Task Force on Student Acces~ for its report, urge that members of U community Tend full report, defer action on specific recommendations, and ask foT cost analysis of reconmendations. In other action, the SCC voted to express support for the Educational Development Program.
"Bland atmosphere'' of recent U Senate meetings is of concern to some faculty members, sec members were told. sec voted in favor of proposal that 15 minutes of "new business" be open for bringing matters to the attention of the Senate (not for a vote). All other items must be placed on the Senate docket 10 days in advance.
Title changes for some secretarial, accounting, and general office jobs have been pro posed by Personnel. Salaries would not be affectPd; only question is whether staff members \\'OUld prefer the new titles. Watch for story in february Report.
President llagrath has been named to a 4-year term on the board of trustees of the Educa tional Testing Service, which conducts such tests as the Scltolastic Aptitude Test, the Graduate Record Exam, and the Law School Admission Test.
All faculty and staff are reminded that ballots for election of 2 candidates to the board of directors of the ~1innesota State Retirement System must be mailed no later than Jan. 30. Staff members on the TC campus may use Campus '!ail.
Competition to design 3-dimensional art object for presentation to rec1p1ents of Horace T. ~·1orse-Amoco Foundation Award for teaching has been reopened until Harch 3. Info: Center for Educational Development, 317 Walter Library, : linneapolis, (612) 37 3-4537.
Internal search is being conducted for director of international programs. Applications must be postmarked or received through Campus ~!ail by Feb. 20. For further information see announcement sent to all academic units or call Patricia Swan at (612) 373-0740.
CROOKSTON--Provost Sahlstrom will present information on UHC' s building request to the Senate Finance Committee Jan. 30.
Gary McVey, chairperson of the Agriculture Division, will be installed as president of Crookston Chamber of Commerce Jan. 31. Banquet tickets are on sale at U Relations.
Calendar for 1978-79 has been adopted. Fall quarter begins Sept. 7; spring quarter classes end May 17. ------·----·-·------___J Prepared for the Off1ce of trw Prec.ule;nt Dcoartment of University Relations (Jtid di-)lr !Ll 1.1te~j ~-~-:~'OLJf_~t~ ,.'!:_ [)L~t trnc~ntai offices Hotel, restaurant, and institutional management students ~ill host the qu~rterly l~~ restaurant seminar Jan. 27 and 28, 5-10 p.m., at the Trojan Inn. Theme is the Old West. Public is welcome and reservations are encouraged. Call 281-6510 x 254. DULUTH--Grade of "F" will replace "N" in UMD letter grading system beginning next fall, following action last week by the Campus Assembly. Pass-No Credit (P-N) grading system will be continued as an option in some classes. Assembly also approved assigning 10 number values to grades in order to allow considera tion of plus and minus grades in determining grade point average. Scale retains 4 points for A, allows 3.7 points for A-, 3.3 points forB+. Winter quarter "State of the Campus" meeting is Feb. 3 at 2 p.m. in Marshall Center. Grant of $10,457 has been received from the Minnesota Humanities Commission to support a 3-day conference in ~lay on the Italian heritage in the U.S. Conference is expected to attract the public as well as scholars from the U.S. and Italy. Tours of the recently expanded Northeast Minnesota Historical Center in UMD Library will precede annual meeting of St. Louis County Historical Society Jan. 24 on campus. MORRIS--Highlights of International Emphasis Week, beginning Jan. 30, will include a visit by a State Department Middle East expert, a presentation on ~lexican murals, and a film discussion on aging in Denmark and the U.S. UMM football team, which won conference championship and made the NCAA Division III semi finals, was honored at a banquet sponsored by a local booster group Jan. 20. Douglas John, consultant for Northlands Regional Health Service in Moorhead, will meet with administrators and interested persons Jan. 25 to consider possible development of an employment assistance program at UMM for chemically dependent emrloyees. TWIN CITIES--Chemical dependency professionals can now earn baccalaureate degrees through a new program funded by a $209,000 3-year grant from the National Institute of Drug Abuse. Program is cosponsored by the School of Public Health's Chemical Dependency Counseling Program and University Without Walls. Students can take any combination of evening, correspondence, and day courses and may design some of their own learning experiences. Faculty-Alumni Dialogues on current issues will begin Feb. 7 when law professor Barry Feld and alumnus Willie James of the State Department of CorrecUons discuss "Coping With Crime." Other dialogues: "We the People or They the Government?" (Arthur Naftalin and Gladys Brooks), "Our Press--Can It Be Free and Responsible?" (Everette Dennis and Beverly Kees), and "Health Care--Your Life or Your Money" (Richard Ya Deau and Virgil Lundquist). Cost of $50 includes 4 dinners at Alumni Club. Info from Department of Conferences. International Study-Travel Fair sponsored by International Study and Travel Center will be Feb. l, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., in Great Hall of Coffman. February bus passes go on sale Jan. 25 at information centers in the 3 student unions. Department of Environmental Health and Safety is offering 5 seminars on laboratory safety for research laboratory employees beginning Feb. 7. New employees and those who have not attended during the last 2 years are especially encouraged to attend. Interested persons should register for sessions on biohazard control or general safety. Call 373-3199.
Lecture: "Is 'Reverse Discrimination' a Half-Bakked Idea?--Reflections OL the Bakke Case" by Samuel Krislov; Jan. 30, 12:15 p.m., 330 Anderson Hall. WASECA--Agriculture in Nigeria will be the brown bag seminar topic Jan. 25 at noon. Clayton Oslund, chairperson of Related Education, will speak about his experiences in Nigeria while there on leave fall quarter. Winter quarter Parents' Council meeting will be Jan. 27 at noon. Student leaders and college officials will speak on the capital improvement request, student housing, financial aid, and items raised by parents. THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EDUCATOR AND EMPLOYER. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
Vol. VIII No. 4 February 1, 1978 A weekly internal bulletin serving all campuses Editor: Maureen Smith (612) 373-7507
Henry Kissinger announced last week that he will head a committee to raise funds inter nationally for the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. At the same news conference, Ardeshir Zahedi, Iranian ambassador to the U.S., announced a $250,000 gift from the nation of Iran. More than $7 million has been raised for the institute so far. Bills introduced in Congress Monday called for appropriation of $5 million for institute.
Decision packages from departments proposing improvement and expansion of programs are being sought in first phase of biennial request review. President Magrath said in Jan. 5 memo that units should not request increases that exceed 5% of 1977-78 0 &M budget base and cautioned that final amount requested may well be much less than 5% overall.
President Magrath testified in Washington Jan. 25 in favor of urban-grant legislation and cited the U's Center for Urban and Regional Affairs as an analog to the proposal. "CURA has established a record among legislators, state agencies, local governments, and the community as an operation that can get people to work together in developing an idea and then putting it into practice if it works or dropping it if it doesn't," he said. He was one of 3 heads of Committee of Urban Public Universities institutions to testify.
Letters from President Magrath were mailed last week to about 3,500 Minnesota high school students who placed in the top 20% in the Statewide Testing Program and who indicated an interest in any campus of the U. In late February, letters will be sent to 4,500 students who placed in the top 20% but did not indicate specific interest in the U.
U's statement of neutrality on the question of whether to locate a new sports stadium in downtown Minneapolis or suburban Bloomington was repeated last week in a letter from VP Kegler to Dan Brutger, chair of the ~1etropolitan Sports Facilities Commission. Letter said that the U cannot pay rent for the use of any off-campus stadium and indicated that the U's greatest athletic facilities needs are for recreational and intramural sports.
Changes in travel regulations go into effect Feb. 1. Meal limits have been increased and insurance coverage doubled. Details in memo from controller Glenn Smith.
CROOKSTON--Assoc. VP Al Linck and Tom Benson, consultant to VP Koffler, met with administrators and faculty representatives last week to study recommendations of the interim report of the U outreach study group.
Deputy VP William Hueg met Tuesday with faculty and administrators to discuss UMC's 10-year plan, the biennial request, and faculty salary equalization money.
DULUTH--Student Association will attempt to have the Campus Assembly reconsider its decision to reinstate the letter "F" as part of grading system.
CBS news correspondent Charles Kuralt will deliver the 9th Dalton LeMasurier Memorial Lecture at UMD April 9. Lecture series honors founder of KDAL radio and TV.
Daniel J. Ostergaard of the American Academy of Family Physicians in Kansas City will begin June 1 as director of the Duluth Family Practice Residency. He will succeed William Jacott, who will return to private practice.
Prepared for the Off;ce of ~:1P >'res;dco'lt MORRIS--VP Kegler will be at UMM Feb. 3 to confer with faculty, staff, and students and to hear their concerns.
TWIN CITIES--Campus Assembly will meet Feb. 2 at 3:15p.m. in Nicholson auditorium.
Courtrooms in the new Law School building were used for the first time Tuesday. Cases tried before Judge Noah Rosenbloom of New Ulm included a sentence hearing for a Stillwater inmate, a hearing on an alleged parole violation, and a hearing on a civil action against the Minnesota Security Hospital. Courtrooms are among the laboratory facilities designed to allow law students to study the judicial system in process.
Frank Sorauf, Consolidated Fund Drive voluntary director for the Minneapolis campus, reported $180,008.65 (90% of goal) for United Way and $36,219.96 for Student Aid. For St. Paul campus, Benjamin Pomeroy reported $34,769.15 (94% of goal) for United Way and $7,754.50 for Student Aid.
About 40 music students rallied on the steps of Northrop Jan. 23 to protest "the poor conditions under which the staff and students of the Department of Music must operate" and to call for an autonomous school of music.
Summer study course on the British primary school is planned for Brighton, England, from June 14 to July 1. For information contact Tom Post, 240 Peik Hall.
Summer study opportunities in Scandinavia, Turkey, and London will be offered this year by the International Study and Travel Center. Info: Stephen Johnson, 373-0180.
St. Paul chapter of National Secretaries Association is sponsoring an educational seminar for office workers March 4 at the St. Paul Radisson. Registration fee of $18 includes coffee break and lunch. Call Gratia Ouellette at 373-7774 for a brochure.
New national ZIP Code Directory is now available. Copy of any previous edition may be exchanged for a 1978 edition at room 117, Main Post Office, Minneapolis.
Lectures: "Defining a Literary Style: The Anti-Literary Style of Byron and Pulci" by Lindsay Waters; Feb. 3, 12:15 p.m., 207a Lind Hall. "Women and Religion" by Jeannette Piccard; Feb. 6, 3 p.m., Murphy Hall auditorium. "Women's Work: How Can Its Value Be Measured?" by Geraldine Gage; Feb. 8, noon, 496 Ford Hall.
WASECA--Campus Assembly meets Feb. 2 at 4 p.m. in C-131.
Two more hearings on 1978-79 student services fee requests are scheduled for 10 a.m. Feb. 6 and 10. UMW Student Services Committee then will make a final recommendation.
Highlights of Snow Week, Feb. 6-11, include coronation of snow king and queen Feb. 8 and sleigh and cutter parade in Waseca Feb. 11.
THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EDUCATOR AND EMPLOYER. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
Vol. VIII No. 5 February 8, 1978 A vveekly internal bulletin serving all campuses Editor: ~Iaureen Snith (612) 373-7507
New enrollment projections and plans for the 1979 legislative request 1vill be discussed at the regents' meeting this week. Other items: action on composition of faculty collec tive bargaining unit; discussion of student access, Chicano student problen:s, interir1 report on U extension activities, and U position on a metropolitan sports stadium; update on proposed veterinary medicine facility and other capital requests; progress report by VP Koffler on the search for deans of CLA and IT on the TC campus.
Legislative hearings have been completed on the U's $68.7 million request fo: bu~ldings and other capital improvements. Co!l1Dittees in house and senate are now cons1der1ng amounts to be allocated. VP Kegler estimated early Ilarch date for conference committee action. Legislature aims for adjournment by ~larch 17.
Former President Gerald Ford spoke at a dinner for the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs Tuesday in San Francisco. President ~1agrath and Regents Lebedoff and f1oore represented the U. About 250 persons were expected to attend.
Senate Consultative Committee (SCC) meets Feb. 9 at i'·lorris campus. Harriet Lewis will lead a discussion on proposed changes in registration systems. Regular meeting will be follO\,·ed by an open forum for m~1 faculty and students at 2:30p.m. in Edson lounge.
SCC voted Feb. 2 to reaffirm its position that per-credit tuition plan should include a banding provision (so that undergraduates would pay the same tuition for 14-18 credits, for example). Cormnittee members expressed concern that, without banding, students would design programs for economy instead of educational purposes and number of full-year equivalent students would drop. Senate Committee on Resources and Planning (SCRAP) has endorsed straight credit-hour tuition proposal.
Charles Self, assistant director of Physical Plant i'laintenance and Operations on the TC campus, has been elected to chair the Civil Service Committee, succeeding Elizabeth Petrangelo. Chris :1oen has been elected vice chair/treasurer and Deanna Smith recording secretary. All terms are for 1 year.
Check release time has been moved up to 10 a.m. on paydays, effective Feb. 15. Direct deposit service has been improved so that payroll checks will be deposited into indivi dual checking accounts on payday (instead of the next 1mrking day).
Veterans Program Office on the TC campus has begun contacting veterans throughout the state to encourage use of the GI Bill. ~lore than 89,000 Vietnam-era veterans in ~1inne sota have not used their benefits. Vft statistics show that Hinnesota ranks 37th in GI Bill participation by eligible veterans. For info call (612) 373-9891.
CROOKSTON--Selvig Hall has been designated as the campus Visitor Information Center. A staff person will be on duty Saturday mornings in addition to regular business hours.
Provost Sahlstrom announced that the board of the ~linnesota Association of Community and Junior Colleges will hold its summer meeting at UHC in June.
UMC Campus Assembly meets Feb. 13 at 4 p.m. in Dowell Hall 204-205.
------·-·------·------·------·------1 Prepared for the Off1ce of tile Presirlcnt b'i i h: VP Stein will make his first visit to UMC Feb. 16 and address the Rotary Club at noon. Parents' Night activities Feb. 17 include a home basketball game, at which parents of players will be honored, and a reception later in the Trojan Inn. DULUTH--Special meeting of Campus Assembly is set for reb. 15 at 3 p.m. in Life Sciences 175. Agenda item: possible establishment of Students' College (now under jurisdiction of U College) as a program on the Duluth campus. Film "Fire, Water, and Ice," highlighting Minnesota's geology, will have its premiere Feb. 9 at 3:15p.m. in Life Science 185. Narrator is Charles Matsch of geology. Fund drive by local educational TV station WDSE has raised $350,000 to complete and equip building on the UMD campus. WDSE, which has operated out of studios in downtown Duluth, constructed a building shell last summer, now expects to complete construction by July 1. Grant of $54,854 from National Institutes of Health has been awarded to School of Medicine to begin training undergraduate American Indian students who wish to prepare for graduate studies leading to doctorate degree and careers in biomedical research and teaching. Director of grant program will be Robert Pozos, physiology. Business on Campus Day will be Feb. 23, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., in Kirby Student Center. About 50 area businesses have been invited to have information tables about careers and job openings.
~!ORRIS--Black History Week will be observed Feb. 13-18 to acquaint people with black history in this country and contributions of outstanding black Americans. Featured speaker Donald Bogle, author of Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks, will give an inter pretive history of blacks in American films. Academic Dean Gordon Bopp replaces Barbara Anson as head of the Campus Energy Advisory Committee. One of his priorities will be to increase communication with the campus commu nity in an effort to emphasize the need for energy conservation. Fuel savings at UMM from Feb. 1, 1977, through Jan. 27, 1978, totalled 137,479 gallons of oil, or about enough to heat a town the size of Chokio, Minn., for a year. Electricity savings totalled 1,147,100 kilowatt hours, enough to supply the needs of 1/10 of the homes in Morris for a year. TWIN CITIES--Three faculty members will discuss efforts to review and revise the curri culum of their programs at an informal bag-lunch seminar Feb. 9, 12:15-2 p.m., in 850 Social Science. Speakers will be Michael Day of art education, Lawrence Greenberg of child and adolescent psychiatry, and Everett Short of veterinary medicine. "Teaching Through Simulations and Games" will be the topic of a bag-lunch seminar Feb. 16, 12:15-2 p.m., 850 Social Science. Faculty speakers will be Jack Gray of accounting, Roger Park of law, Charles Walcott and Gary Wynia of political science. Space is still available in the Leadership Laboratory supervisory training course scheduled for 5 consecutive Wednesdays (full days) beginning March 1. Call 373-7898. One-day workshops for supervisors will be offered in February: Conflict Resolution Skills Feb. 21 and Problem Solving/Decision Making Feb. 28. Call Kathy Brown at 373-7898.
Audio Visual Library Service staff will serve as the 1978 American Film Fes~ival pre screening committee for films in the "Citizen Action" category. Films will be available for preview by U faculty and staff until the end of February. Sample topics: "Citizens Band Radio," "Democracy," "Justice on Trial." Call 373-3731, 373-5259, or 373-5452. Free blood pressure checks will be administered Feb. 14, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., at the west end of the first floor of Coffman and room 207 of the St. Paul Student Center. WASECA--About 400 participants are expected for the workshop "Getting Started in Farming, Agribusiness, and Agricultural Industry" Feb. 12-14 at UMW. Overall Advisory Committee will meet Feb. 14.
THE UNTVFRSTTY OF \HN\JFSOTA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EOUCATOR AND EMPLOYER. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
Vol. VIII No. 6 February 15, 1978
Editor: Maureen Smith (612) 373-7507 A weekly internal bulletin serving all campuses Enrollment bulge that had been predicted for 1980 or 1981 is no longer expected, VP Brown told the regents. Enrollment is now expected to stay even or increase slightly in the next few years. Regents voted to delay action on the biennial request until they have had more time to study the implications of the new projections. Discussion centered on whether tuition increases have kept students away.
Regents approved President Magrath's recommendations for composition of faculty collective bargaining unit on the TC campus. Key recommendation is that all department chairpersons and heads be included, regardless of title. Also recommended for inclusion: faculty holding "T" appointments, certain part-time faculty. Recommended for exclusion: Ag Exten sion Service faculty holding joint appointments involving county funding.
Wisconsin officials have agreed on payment for some of the costs of constructing new facilities for Minnesota's College of Veterinary Medicine in exchange for an increase in the number of Wisconsin students admitted to the college, VP Kegler announced.
Regents voted unanimously to oppose a bill introduced by Rep. Gordon Voss to amend the state constitution and eliminate the U's charter autonomy.
1 Chicano task force has reported to President Magrath. Among recommendations: centraliza l tiQn of services for Chicano students; increased efforts to recruit Chicano students, i faculty, and staff; program of outreach to the Chicano community. Magrath said he has i "no ideological position" on whether services for minority students should be centralized i or divided according to ethnic groups. "Whichever gets the job done is best," he said. l !Applications for Senate committees for 1978-79 are now being taken in 240 Coffman Union, iTC campus. Deadline is March 15. ISeven awards of $1,000 each will be given this year to faculty who have made outstanding contributions to undergraduate education. Committee of the Council on Liberal Education will make final selection and must receive nominations from colleges by April 10. Funding is from Amoco Foundation. Info: Center for Educational Development, (612) 373-4537.
CROOKSTON--Richard Ashmun, head of the Division of Distributive Education, and Charles ,Hopkins, professor of business and vocational education, both from the TC campus, will ! meet with Business Division faculty at UMC Feb. 16.
Agassiz Regional Nursing Education Consortium will meet Feb. 17 and 18 in 305 Dowell Hall. Wendell Johnson, general education, wil~ represent UMC.
Youth Day contests for 4-H and FFA members and the 19th annual Talent Festival will be Feb. 18 at UMC in conjunction with the Red River Valley Winter Shows. Talent Festival will be at 8 p.m. in Kiehle auditorium.
DULUTH--Regents approved $230,000 expansion and remodeling of Health Service. A former residence, the building will be expandeu to provide 3 additional examining rooms, X-ray facilities, and a larger lab. Funds are from a previous grant from the legislature and past student fees. Completion is expected by next fall.
Prepared for the Office of l nr ! Jnrv\'r.sity Relations Two programs at UMD next week will look at investigative reporting. Panel of editors and news directors will discuss local reporting Feb, 22 at 2 p.m. in 250 Kirby; columnist Les Whitten will speak Feb. 23 at 3:30 p.m. in 311 Kirby and at 8 p.m. in Kirby ballroom.
MORRIS--VP Kegler will be at Ui\11-.1 Feb. 18 for meetings with the Administrative Committee, the Civil Service Executive Committee, students, and faculty. Visit is rescheduled from earlier in the quarter.
New 12-rank pipe organ, designed and built especially for U~~1, has been installed in the new Humanities Fine Arts recital hall. Instrument has more than 500 pipes of lead and tin, many imported from Germany. Husic students studying organ will now be able to practice on campus instead of in local churches.
TWIN CITIES--Regents approved the extension of football coach Cal Stoll's contract for 2 years beyond its 1978 expiration date. Stoll's salary will be considered in June when the regents consider raises for other U staff members.
Law School professors Fred Morrison and Charles Wolfram will take on the administrative responsibilities of the associate dean position vacated Jan. 1 by VP Stein. They will serve until the end of the academic year as acting associate deans. Dean Auerbach said no decision has been made on how the position will be filled on a permanent basis.
Regents reversed January vote and agreed to leave funds from the Earle Brown estate with the continuing education building to be constructed on the St. Paul campus. Earlier vote was to permit the use of "any excess funds'' for expansion of the St. Paul Student C:enter. Regent Lebedoff, who changed his vote, said diverting money from donor's intent would have "disastrous consequences on the future of fund-raising here."
Black History Month activities continue. Robert C. Weaver, former secretary of l!IJD, will speak on "Equal Access to llousing: A Continuing Problem" Feb. 24 at 8 p.m. in the Great Hall of Coffman Union. "The Living Arts of West Africa" is now on exhibit at U Gallery in Northrop, and an exhibit of Nigerian handcrafted textiles will open Feb. 24 at the Goldstein Gallery in the St. Paul Student Center.
Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs is sponsoring a precinct caucus workshop Feb. 17, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., 850 Social Science. Open to all.
Tour of Twin Cities winter landscapes will be conducted Feb. 18 by faculty members William Rogers and Glenn Ray. Cost is $4 per person, $6 per couple. For reservations contact Ray at 161 Alderman Hall, 373-1031. Lecture: "Honor the Promise: America's Commitment to Israel" by Father Robert F. Drinan; Feb. 26, 7:30p.m., Mayo auditorium. WASECA--Annual UMW development drive begins this month with a concerted effort in each Waseca County community and county drives in Steele, Freeborn, and LeSueur counties.
The 1978 UMW speakers' guide, Speak Out for Agriculture, has been mailed to schools, civic groups, libraries, and farm organizations in southern Minnesota.
Ellen Stekert, state folklorist, will be the featured speaker in the first of 3 discussion programs in the "Rural Women at Work" series Feb. 21 at 7:30p.m. in Cl31.
THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EDUCATOR AND EMPLOYER. ..------uNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
Vol. VIII No. 7 February 22, 1978
P, ~:vt=:okly internni bulletin serving all campuses Editor: Maureen Smith (612) 373-7507
President Magrath asked U of Maryland to remove his name from list of candidates for presidency there, after a search committee included him among 5 finalists. Magrath said he had not sought the position and prefers to remain at Minnesota.
Threat to U autonomy was put aside as House higher education committee on 15-5 vote shelved H.F. 496, a bill calling for constitutional amendment to end the U's charter autonomy. Bill had received 2 hearings and 4 hours of testimony this session.
U officials will testify March 13 before congressional subcommittee investigating policies and practices of NCAA. Delegation includes President Magrath, VP Kegler, and athletic director Paul Giel.
Recognition of research needs is shown in budget proposals now before Congress. Agencies consistently call for increases in research and development funds, especially for basic science research. President Carter said in budget message that "the budget increase of 11% for basic research will lead to improved opportunities for young scientists and engineers, and upgraded scientific equipment in the nation's research centers."
Two vacancies will open on the Civil Service Committee with Kathy Tezla's resignation and the expiration of Elizabeth Petrangelo's term in June. Civil service staff who would like to apply for committee membership should write to Bill Thomas, 317 Morrill Hall, TC campus, by March 15. Give name, classification, date of hire, percentage of time appointment, supervisor's name and address, U mailing address, reasons for applying (SO words or less).
Applications for student positions on Senate committees for 1978-79 are being taken in 240 Coffman Union, TC campus, through March 15. Misleading item appeared in last Brief.
CROOKSTON--UMC will help entertain a group of legislators who will be in town Feb. 23 for the Red River Valley Winter Show, an annual agricultural exposition.
Annual Higher Education Day seminar and luncheon, sponsored by UMC in conjunction with the Red River Valley Winter Show, will be Feb. 24. Jack Merwin of the College of Educa tion, TC campus, will speak on the declining scores of high school students on standard tests. Luncheon speaker will be Clyde Ingle, executive director of the Minnesota Higher Education Coordinating Board.
Twenty-seven UMC sophomores nominated by the awards committee will be listed in Who's Who Among Students in American Junior Colleges.
In cooperation with community disaster preparedness officials, UMC is setting up 12 teams of 12 student volunteers each to help in case of flooding this spring.
DULUTH--Campus Assembly voted to continue Students' College despite warnings that full funding for next year is questionable and that the college does not have high priority in the UMD 1979-81 legislative request.
Provost and Mrs. Heller have invited campus and community guests to the Campus Club Feb. 25 for the second campus dinner of the year. Group will attend the UMD-Colorado , College hockey game at Duluth Arena. 1.-- Preparec:J for the Oh' Economic contribution of the forest products industry to 7 counties in northeastern Minnesota totaled $152 million in 1975, according to a study by UMD professors Cecil Meyers, Philip Priest, and Edwin Kallio of the North Central Forest Experiment Station. The study, based on value-added approach, showed that the industry paid $75 million in wages in the area in 1975, or 12.2% of total income in the counties.
MORRIS--Members of the Black Students Union at UMM kicked off Black History Week by honoring Joseph Latterell, chemistry, and William and Ida Stewart of the Minority Student Program for outstanding contributions to the lives of black students at UMM.
UMM junior Dave Kuam designed winning logo in an MCSA Inter-Hall Council energy conserva tion contest. His design, which depicts the earth and its natural resources as a candle that is slowly burning down, will be used in a campaign to promote energy conservation.
Center for Continuing Education's Older Adults Program has been awarded a grant from the Region IV Area Agency on Aging to fund a writing workshop for senior citizens in April. Workshop will be designed to stimulate interest in writing about personal experiences and reminiscences and about local history.
TWIN CITIES--All Feb. 28 extension classes, including those held at neighborhood centers, have been cancelled so that students and faculty can attend precinct caucuses.
Disability Awareness Seminar will be held Feb. 28 in the Mississippi Room, Coffman Union. Lecture-discussions will be on what the TC campus community is like for those who have visual, hearing, or mobility impairments. Sessions, from noon to 4:30p.m., are free.
An error in the winter quarter Class Schedule could cause confusion over final exam schedule. Correct exam time for-rr-MWF classes is 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. March 16.
March MTC and Route 52 U commuter bus passes go on sale Feb. 22 at the 3 student unions.
World Food and Agricultural Development, a handbook for students and faculty that describes learning opportunities at the U, is available from the Institute of Agriculture, Forestry, and Home Economics. Phone: 373-0734.
Department b'f East Asian Languages and Minnesota International Student Association will present a production of "Hao Er Tzu" ("The Good Sun") Feb. 26 at 2 p.m. in Coffman Union Theater-Lecture Hall. The Chinese comedy will be narrated in English. Free admission.
Audio-Visual Library Service will show newly acquired films Feb. 28, 12:30-4:30 p.m., in 140 Nolte Center. Films: "Cross-Country Skiing," "I.Q. Myth," "Supreme Court," "Affirma tive Action and the Supervisor," "I Am Also a You," "Wondering About Things," "Pysanka the Ukranian Easter Egg," and "Martin the Cobbler." Info: 373-5259.
Fifth annual H.K. Hayes Memorial Lecture, by Cornell University agronomist A. Carl Leopold, "The Act of Creation: Personal Processes in Science," and presentation of Hayes graduate student award to Donald Viands, plant breeding major, will be March 1 at 8 p.m. in the North Star Ballroom of the St. Paul Student Center.
WASECA--Deputy VP Hueg will visit UMW Feb. 22 to talk with faculty, staff, and student committees and with the Administrative Committee. VP Brown will visit Feb. 23.
Rural Development Emphasis Week is planned Feb. 27 to March 3. Theme is "Women: Emerging Leaders in Rural Development." Events include a public meeting Monday, a convocation with radio interviews with campus women Tuesday, a discussion in the "Rural Women at Work" series Thursday, and a week-long rural art show.
Classes that normally would meet on the evening of Feb. 28 have been rescheduled so that students and faculty can attend precinct caucuses.
THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EDUCATOR AND EMPLOYER. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
Vol. VIII No. 8 March 1, 1978
Editor: Maureen Smith (612) 373-7507 /\ vvl.::c>kly internal bulletin serving all campuses
Hiring freeze that was imposed in January has been lifted, but the U still faces a cut of $1.4 million from its $216 million budget base for next year, VP Brown announced this week. Problems are intensified by an immediate $800,000 mid-year cut.
'·'" Largest immediate cuts will be from CLA ($125,000), the College of Education ($75,000), and central administration and the College of Veterinary Medicine ($50,000 each). Cuts will not be carried over into next year automatically.
Tentative figures show that CLA will lose $360,733 from its $19 million budget base next , 1. year, education will lose $133,882 from $7 million base, and colleges of ag, forestry, and
- 1 home ec will lose $106,778 from $5.8 million base. If cuts were strictly related to I enrollment declines, Brown said, CLA would have been cut $500,000. Dean Sorauf said $361,000 cut will mean that CLA is hit with cuts of $1 million in 2 years.
Bush Foundation has given $1 million to the U to establish additional scholarships for I minority medical students on the TC and UMD campuses and $536,840 for the new Center for " I Health Services Research on the TC campus. Sam Lewis of Student Financial Aid said the · scholarships will be given over the next 4 years and will be awarded on the basis of need, with the most assistance given to first- and second-year students. U.S. Savings Bonds mail campaign will be conducted on all campuses March 1 to April 15. VP Brown is honorary chairman.
, Deadline for applications for position of director of international programs has been 1 extended by search committee to March 22 in order to increase the number of applicants. Send applications to Patricia Swan, Food Science and Nutrition, TC campus.
CROOKSTON--Freshman wrestler Cliff Kazeck will compete in the National Junior College Wrestling Tournament in Worthington March 2-4.
'DULUTH--Gov. Perpich visited UMD Feb. 24, toured future construction sites, urged formation of a campus committee to study copper, nickel, peat, and uranium research possibilities.
Campus Assembly turned down a proposal to rescind its previous action reinstituting the F grade by a vote of 52 to 43. F grade will be used again beginning fall quarter.
Provost's reception for winter quarter grads will be March 11 at 3 p.m. in Kirby.
Those who quit drinking as a result of treatment for alcoholism report significant improvement in spouse and family relationships, health, and job performance, according to a study by J. Clark Laundergan, UMD associate professor of sociology-anthropology, and Sister Mary Leo Kammeier, director of evaluation and research for the Hazelden Foundation.
MORRIS--Gary Gray, assistant professor of chemistry on the TC campus, will participate in UMM visiting scientist program March 2 and 3. He will meet with faculty and students and will give a public lecture on cancer immunotherapy March 2 at 8 p.m. in Science auditorium.
Prepared for the Off1ce of t!ii' Pte:o:c!c:1t t UMM men's basketball team will participate in NCAA Division III regional playoffs March 3 and 4. Cougars had a 21-5 overall record and won the Northern Intercollegiate Conference title for the second consecutive year.
Faculty members Philip Luther, Sue Brower, Nancy Mason, and James Gremmels received a grant from U Media Production Fund to develop a multimedia program to help students and community residents improve writing skills. Wrestling coach Doug Dufty was named Northern Intercollegiate Conference coach of the year. TWIN CITIES--Search committee chaired by Regents' Prof. John Turner will make recommenda tions for a successor to CLA Dean Frank Sorauf. Committee will send no fewer than 5 names to President Magrath and VP Koffler by July 1. Ashraf A. Ghorbal, Egyptian ambassador to the U.S., is visiting campus March 1. Guests at an informal reception given by the Office of International Programs will include Egyptian students at the U and faculty members. Livingstone B. Johnson, Bahamian ambassador to the U.S., and Cendell Nottage, minister for youth, sports, and cultural affairs, will attend the Gopher basketball game against Michigan State March 4. Game will be the last for standouts Mychal Thompson and Osborne Lockhart, both Bahamians. Parents of the 2 players will also attend. Minnesota Supreme Court conducted its proceedings in the new Law School building Monday. Minneapolis Police Chief Elmer Nordlund will join President Magrath in presenting awards to U police officers at 3 p.m. March 1 in 238 Morrill Hall. About 7,000 TC campus seniors will grade their instructors in a teaching evaluation project sponsored by student government. Results will be published in a "student survival kit." Winter quarter final exam schedule correction in last Brief (II MWF exam from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. March 16) is for units listed in schedule-s-Dn page 150 of the winter Class Schedule. General and Chemical Storehouses will be closed for inventory March 13-24. Orders for supplies to be delivered before closing must be placed by noon March 10. Civil service employees near retirement age (and spouses) are invited to the Creative Retirement Program that begins in April. Call Kathy Brown at 373-7898. Symposium on West African art and textiles will be held March 2-4 on TC campus and at Walker Art Center, cosponsored by Walker and 10 U departments. Info: 373-3057. Center for Youth Development and Research and the Maternal and Child Health program present an interdisciplinary faculty-student-community seminar on adolescent pregnancy and adolescent parents March 2, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Campus Club. Featured speaker is Janet Forbush, executive director, National Alliance Concerned With School Age Parents. Lecture: "International Human Rights" by David Weissbrodt; March 2, 8 p.m., Health Sciences Unit A 2-620. WASECA--Minnesota Historical Society has selected Waseca as site of its proposed agricultural interpretive center. Historical Society director Russell Fridley cited opportunities to work with UMW and the Southern Experiment Station as factors in the decision. Campus Assembly meets at 4 p.m. March 2 in room Cl31. Final programs in the "Rural Women at Work" series will be March 2 and 7 at 7:30 p.m. Home and Family Services division open house, style show, and tea will be March 4, 1-4 p.m. UMW chorus annual winter quarter concert will be March 5 at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium.
THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EDUCATOR AND EMPLOYER. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
Vol. VIII No. 9 March 8, 1978
Editor: Maureen Smith (612) 373-7507 A weekly mtcmal bulletin serving all campuses UMEA planned Tuesday to file cards with the Bureau of Mediation Services to represent TC faculty as a bargaining agent. BHS has indicated it would not accept the cards because ill4FT still owns the cards and the right to be on the ballot. Most UMFT members went to UHEA in 1975. UMEA officials said they would challenge the BMS if it refused their cards.
Disappointment at "lack of consultation" on retrenchment was expressed by members of U Committee on Biennial Request and Budget Review (UCBRBR). Leonid Hurwicz told Consulta tive Committee March 2 that he disagreed with both the extent of the $1.4 million retrench ment and the manner in which decisions were made. He likened the U to a family that is faced with a budget decline and cuts the milk money equally with the champagne money.
After consultation with UCBRBR and Consultative Committee members last week, President Hagrath promised to commit $100,000 of the $600,000 budget reserve fund to those TC colleges hardest hit by budget cuts. Reserves are to cone from retrenchment to allow flexibility and avert another mid-year cut if enrollment drops again.
Tuition policy will be the subject of 2-hour discussion at regents' meeting this week and another 2-hour session in April. Also on the March agenda: proposal for U Hospitals !,addition, public hearing on the scope and composition of a faculty collective bargaining junit on the Duluth campus, assumptions that will go into 1979 legislative request.
\Regents and faculty leaders will meet Thursday evening to discuss how to manage the U in ithe face of stable or declining enrollments. I University College would become part of the Center for Educational Development under a proposal prepared by VP Koffler's office. U College Assembly met last week and decided that a response to the proposal would be sent to SCEP after Gordon Kingston, acting dean of U College, and Julie Carson, chairperson of the Assembly, meet with President Hagrath and VP Koffler to discuss status of innovative education at the U.
Two members elected to the ~1innesota State Retirement System Board of Directors in the January election are Francis D. Hage and Janet B. humphrey.
Office of International Programs is preparing a new edition of the Register of Inter lnational Studies and Travel of the Faculty. Questionnaires have been sent to-all faculty and should be returned as soon as possible to the OIP, 201 Nolte, Minneapolis.
CROOKSTON--Spring quarter started Monday; 20 continuing ed courses are meeting for the first time this week. Among courses are bank supervision and personnel administration, personal growth seminar for housewives, scuba diving.
Establishment of a Career Education Center at UMC has been announced. Center will serve the community as well as the campus population. Robert Dastyr has been named director pending approval by the regents.
Recommendation that radio station KC~1 broadcast class assignments when weather prevents many commuters from attending UMC classes is under consideration.
~Committee has been formed to study the feasibility of establishing a women's center at UMC ~ - ~------·------·--·------~ Prepared for the Office of the Presiclc ~~t rtn,c::t of Unrve•~;ity Relations and distributed tr: cJ:rJattn-,u~t:Ji otttu.c. DULUTH--Construction will begin in early April on 2 residence halls, each to house 75 students in apartment-style units. Buildings will be ready for use in September.
"One World, One Table" is theme of Feast of Nations March 12 in Kirby Student Center. Event is put on by international students at UMD, College of St. Scholastica, and U of Wisconsin-Superior. Exhibits at 1:30 p.m. in Kirby Rafters, program at 2:30 in ~1arshall Center, dinner at 4:30 in Kirby ballroom. Dinner tickets $6.50 from Kirby ticket office.
MORRIS--Group of 22 students will participate during quarter break in a biology/geology field trip to Texas, where they will explore the coastal region at Port Aranses Marine Station near Corpus Christi and at Padre Island. Biology faculty members Robinson Abbott and Ellen Ordway will lead the group.
Fifth annual UMM theater tour to New York City leaves March 16 or 17. Group will see "Annie" and "Dracula" as well as "Don Giovanni" at the ~letropolitan Opera. George Fosgate of theater faculty will lead the tour.
Basketball coach Rich Glas was named coach of the ye_ar in the Northern Intercollegiate Conference. Senior Randy Schwegel was named to the all-NIC team for the second year.
TWIN CITIES--The 44-year-old TC area man who received a new heart in a 5-hour transplant operation Saturday at U Hospitals has been transferred out of the intensive care unit and is reported to be doing well. Operation was the first heart transplant ever performed in Minnesota and is expected to be the first in a program of 5 or 6 heart transplants a year.
Former President Gerald Ford and Betty Ford have given $2,000 to the Hubert H. llumphrey Institute of Public Affairs. Ford gave the check to President Magrath recently in California. Former President Richard Nixon and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis have each given $1,000 to the drive sponsored by the U Foundation.
Gopher basketball star Mychal Thompson set a new Big Ten scoring record Saturday. His total of 1,477 points surpassed the previous record of 1,461 set by Purdue's Rick Mount. Thompson is a consensus all-American (named to AP, UPI, and other all-American teams) and has been named to the all-Big Ten team. His jersey, No. 43, has been retired.
James Ausman, neurosurgery, performed a brain revascularization during Monday night's CBS documentary "The Body Human: The Red River." Freshwater Biological Institute was featured on NBC's "Weekend" Saturday night during a segment on acid rain.
Most College of Education graduates are still finding teaching jobs. Placement survey 9 found that 94 <> of those who graduated in 1976-77 found full- or part-time jobs. About 75% of those were jobs in education. Placement rate of 94% is about the same as in recent years, said William Edson, director of the Education Career Development Office.
Reopening of the Black Student Cultural Center will be March 9, 2-5 p.m., at the new office space in room 301, Dome City, 1507 University Ave. S.E. Team of law students will travel to Washington in April for international moot court competition against more than 150 schools from several countries. They won the regional competition Feb. 25 in Detroit.
Registration is open for evening child care center, which will be open 4 nights a week during spring quarter in the Armory. Info: 376-3042. WASECA--Wrestling coach Lloyd Wilson was named coach of the year by the Minnesota Community College wTestling coaches following the state tournament. Wrestler Tom Conlon advanced to the National Junior College tournament.
Administrative in-service training program on team-building will be March 13.
THE UNIVERSITY OF ~1INNESOTA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EDUCATOR AND EMPLOYER. .------uNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
Vol. VIII No. 10 March 15, 1978 /\ rnlema! bulletin serving all campuses Editor: Maureen Smith (612) 373-7507 '"'~chly How to distribute money available for faculty salary increases will be discussed at an open meeting March 23 at ll a.m. in 238 Morrill Hall in Minneapolis, with phone connections to the coordinate campuses. Legislature appropriated 8% for faculty salary increases for 1978-79, with about 6.5% designated for base increases and the rest for fringe benefits.
Rising tuition costs and declining support of the arts and sciences will be taken into account when the U prepares its 1979-81 legislative request, President Magrath told the regents Thursday. He expressed concern that programs in the basic sciences, arts, humanities, and some social sciences "find it difficult to attract easy public support." U officials will document the impact of a partial tuition freeze, Magrath said. At the same time, he released the administration's plan for a tuition increase of roughly 8% next fall. Budget plan, including tuition increases, is subject to further review by regents.
U stock will be voted in favor of shareholder resolutions that prohibit expansion of American corporations in South Africa. Regents took action Friday on 5 resolutions involving 9 corporations in which the U owns stock. Regents and central administration have issued resolution of neutrality on collective bargaining question. Resolution urges all faculty to become fully informed and to vote.
\Civil service pay plan for performance/progression increases for 1978-79 was approved by I the regents. Key part of the plan is move to a single anniversary date of Jan. 1, with I augmentation given to those employees who have to wait longer than 12 months for increase. Schedule C employees in pay ranges 1-9 who are below maximum for range will receive 4.5% increase if rated 3 (satisfactory) or better. Schedule C employees in ranges 10-21 will receive 0-8% depending on rating and position in range; all increases for collegiate unit may not exceed average of 4.5%. Schedule A employees will receive 0-8%; all increases may not exceed average of 5%. Employees at or above maximum may receive lump sum payments.
More strings are being attached to federal capitation money (per-student grants) in the health sciences, VP French told the regents. Total federal capitation money has decreased to $2.1 million for 1977-78 from a high of $4.3 million in 1974-75.
Congressional action to reform the NCAA if it does not reform itself was urged Monday in Washington by President Magrath. He told a House subcommittee about the "enormous powers and questionable practices" the NCAA used against the U during 2-year controversy. All instruction now offered through CEE or Summer Session would eventually be offered by regular departm~nts if major recommendation of study group on U outreach is adopted. Interim report of study group was major agenda item at Consultative Committee meeting March 9, with Associate VP Linck and consultant Tom Benson representing the study group. Discussion centered on whether including outreach as "an integral part of the faculty's professional responsibility" would make the U less attractive to faculty.
Savings bonds mail campai~n is now being conducted on all campuses. Series E U.S. Savings Bonds are purchased at 75~ of the face amount. For example, a $25 bond costs $18.75.
L------·------....1 Prepared for the Office of tne F-'resr~!c State commissioner of agriculture William Walker will speak on rural development at a con vocation March 16 at 9:40 a.m. in Kiehle auditorium and will meet with Ag Division faculty. Business Division chair Larry Christiansen will represent UMC on the planning council headed by VP Stein. Cochairing UMC savings bonds drive are Karl Bornhoft for faculty, Judy Reitmeier for staff. Jazz choir will audition March 22 for a USO summer tour to Japan. DULU~~--Dean Crawford of Duluth AAUP chapter and Dean Hendrickson of UMDEA gave recommenda tions to regents on composition of faculty collective bargaining unit at UMD. Proposals of the 2 groups were in essential agreement. UMD Campus Assembly, made up of faculty and students, voted Thursday to take a mail ballot on amending bylaws to allow membership in Assembly by student personnel workers, key nonfaculty academic appointees, professional librarians without academic rank, and others as determined by the Assembly Judiciary Committee. Twenty research projects will be displayed at the 25th annual Northeastern Minnesota Regional Science Fair March 18, 9 a.m.-4:30p.m., in Kirby Student Center Rafters. Guest speaker at 1 p.m. will be John Millhone, director of Minnesota Energy Agency. Fair is intended to encourage science interests of junior and senior high school students. Steven R. Patterson is new director of UMD Administrative Data Processing Center and instructor in the School of Business and Economics. MORRIS--Edward J. LaFave, Jr., Morris banker and civic leader, will receive the UMM Alumni Association Distinguished Service Award at a dinner April 1. He has been involved in the development and growth of the campus since its beginning and has continued his active support during its 18-year history. TWIN CITIES--Plan to expand U Hospitals by adding 4 floors to Unit K-E and expanding surgical suite was presented to the regents. Cost of $25 million would be financed through hospital revenue. Eventual plan would be to build new hospital on Powell Hall site for 400 medical-surgical beds and renovate vacated Mayo space for hospital support departments. Officers of the U Film Society said last week that they will ask the Minnesota House of Representatives to examine the conduct of Rep. Kenneth McDonald, who led an unsuccessful effort to prevent the showing on campus of the Italian film "Salo." Jaakko Iloniemi, Finnish ambassador to the U.S., visited the TC campus March 14, toured the Immigration History Research Center, met with President Magrath, and visited with faculty of the Scandinavian studies department. Snow Belt speakers from the U.S., Canada, Sweden, Iceland, England, and Denmark will converge on Minneapolis for a conference on the "livable" winter city March 19-21. Conference is sponsored by the U and will be at the Spring Hill Center. William Rogers, director of the World Affairs Center, has been collecting ideas from all over the world. WASECA--Regents agreed to amend June 1977 resolution to increase the borrowing authority from $320,000 to $450,000 for the construction of additional student housing at UMW. Donald Browne of the Office of International Programs and a group of visitors from Nigeria will visit UMW March 15. Waseca Chamber of Commerce Farm-City Breakfast will be at UMW March 18 as part of the community's recognition of National Agriculture Day, which is March 20. THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EDUCATOR AND EMPLOYER. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Vol. VIII No. 11 A weekly internal bulletin serving all campuses March 22, 1978 Editor: Maureen Smith (612) 373-7507 Bargaining election for faculty on the TC campus will be conducted by mail April 14-27 and ballots counted April 28, Bureau of Mediation Services announced last week. Three choices on the ballot will be AAUP, UMFT, or no representative. Voting eligibility list from Bureau includes names of 2,356 faculty members. List is being mailed to department heads for posting. Health sc~ences and law faculty are not included in this election. More info coming in letter from President Magrath. C. Peter Magrath and Diane Skomars will be married March 25 at Eastcliff in a ceremony for immediate family only. Witnesses will be Toinie Skomars, mother of the bride, and Adrian Magrath, brother of the groom. Daughters of the couple, Valerie Magrath and Monette Skomars, will also participate in the ceremony. The Rev. Warren Jorenby will officiate. Senate Consultative Committee (SCC) will meet with Presiaent Magrath March 23 to discuss the consulting process. Unhappiness with the lack of consultation on the budget retrench ment was expressed 3 weeks ago by members of sec and the U Committee on Biennial Request and Budget Review (UCBRBR), but members of both committees have said they appreciate Magrath's response to their concerns. UCBRBR met March 17 to discuss timetable prepared by VP Brown on decisions to be made on the biennial request. UCBRBR recommendation on tuition is needed by May, on faculty salaries by the end of June, on rates and floors for graduate assistants by December. Leonid Hurwicz noted that the list did not include "any reference to the programmatic allocation of expenditures" and said the committee should make it clear that its function is to look at the way the U is spending its money. Economy measure urged by treasurer C. T. Johnson is that all mail within a campus be sent in unsealed envelopes in order to make envelopes reusable. CROOKSTON--VP Brown will be at UMC March 30 to discuss business matters and physical plant improvements. Deputy VP Hueg will make his quarterly visit to UMC March 31. A winter storm emergency plan has been adopted for the UMC campus. Child Care Facilities Act grant has been awarded to UMC to fund child guidance classes. Sessions will be held at 6 sites in northwestern Minnesota, based on need. For more information, contact Marilyn Grave, director of the Children's Center, ext. 284. Assertiveness training workshop will be offered March 27 at 9:30 a.m. in ARC 114. Featured speaker Norma Schletpegrell, supportive care coordinator at Hibbing General Hospital, will present "How Can You Realize Your Full Potential?" For more information contact Home and Family Services Division, ext. 295. Federal Bureau of Land Management will hold a public meeting on the proposed northern tier pipeline from Clearbrook to the West Coast on March 23, 1:30-5 p.m., in 114 ARC. ------·------._J Prepared for the Off1ce o+ the Presic!>Cn', ';~; ; · rt o1 University Reiations i '• DULUTH--UMD senior Margo Laskowski will spend ll.months studying in Hungary under a scholarship from the International Reciprocal Exchange Program, cooperatively supported by the U and the Hungarian government. She leaves for Europe in June. While she is there, a Hungarian student will attend the U's TC campus. While some students spend spring break on the Florida beaches, 2 groups of UMD students will visit other sites in the south: 18 biology students will study marine environments in Florida, and 15 geology students will visit Arkansas and Missouri geological sites. MORRIS--Merle Hirsh will resign June 15 as chair of the Division of Science and Mathematics to resume full-time teaching and research. He has held the position since 1972. Arrange ments to find a successor will be made soon. Ted L. Underwood, professor of history and a faculty member for 10 years, has been named chair of the Division of Social Sciences effective June 15. He replaces Orval T. Driggs, who resigned because of health problems. TWIN CITIES--Opinion survey conducted among TC campus students by Minneapolis Tribune found that 86% rate their U education either excellent (35%) or good (51%), with 11% who rate it only fair, 2% poor, and 1% undecided. Results were printed in March 15 Tribune. Search committee for CLA dean invites applications and nominations. Candidates must have a doctorate or equivalent educational background in a discipline within the arts and sciences, substantial scholarly accomplishment, teaching experience, and experience in a leadership role or in academic governance. Applications and nominations, with as much information on the nominees' qualifications as possible and names and addresses of references, should be sent to John Turner, political science, by May 1. Hockey coach Herb Brooks has been named coach of 1980 U.S. Olympic team. Harvey L. Colman, associate dean for clinical affairs at the USC School of Dentistry, has accepted a similar position at Minnesota. Jerome Beker will become director of the Center for Youth Development and Research July 1. He will succeed Gisela Konopka, who will retire. Reproduction through nuclear transplantation--the procedure commonly known as cloning--is the subject of Cloning: Nuclear Transplantation in Amphibia, to be published in June by U Press. It will be the first published monograph devoted exclusively to cloning. Author Robert McKinnell, genetics and cell biology, has been studying cloning for 20 years. National Health Testing Services, Inc., has moved medical screening office from Edina to 312 Central Ave. in Minneapolis to better serve U staff. Screenings include 19 tests, a complete health history, and a Pap smear test for female employees. In addition to U paid benefit for eligible staff, health screening of immediate family members is offered at reduced cost of $68 per screening. Appointments for screening at the Central Ave. center or the Metro Building center in St. Paul may be made by calling 920-6855. Audio-video tape on "Biohazard Containment and Control in the Biomedical Laboratory" is available for viewing at the Diehl Hall Learning Resources Center. Faculty singles group will meet for a bridge and board games party March 30, 8-11 p.m., in Campus Club library. Cost is $5.50. For a reservation or information about the group, call Marie Eller at 373-2883. About 300 students will be honored for their outstanding contributions to the U at a Student Leadership and Service Recognition Dinner May 23. Nomination forms are available at Coffman Union, West Bank Union, Williamson Hall, and St. Paul Student Center. Deadline is April 7. For info call Libby Olstad at 376-2651. WASECA--Business 1nanager Tom Fider is heading the savings bonds campaign at UMW. THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EDUCATOR AND EMPLOYER. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Vol. VIII No. 12 March 29, 1978 Editor: Maureen Smith (612) 373-7507 A weekly internal bulletin serving all campuses UMEA has filed suit in Ramsey County District Court in an effort to delay a bargaining election on the TC campus until UMEA is on the ballot. Suit charges Bureau of Media tion Services (BMS) with improperly denying UMEA the right to become a successor to UMFT. In 1975, many UMFT members and officers switched their affiliation from AFL-CIO to MEA. As situation now stands, choices on the ballot will be AAUP, UMFT, or no rep resentative. BMS ruling precludes dissemination of information by central administration. Letter from President Magrath, mentioned in last week's Brief, will not be mailed. Some of the oldest buildings on the Minneapolis campus will be renovated as a result of the $30.2 million capital appropriation from the 1978 legislature. Bill includes $17.6 million for the TC campus (primarily for remodeling and planning funds), $3.3 million for Crookston, $2.7 million for Waseca, $1.3 million for Duluth, $120,000 for Morris. Remodeling funds were allocated for Folwell Hall ($1 million), Nicholson Hall ($1.9 million), Smith Hall ($2.4 million), and Cooke Hall and Norris Hall ($905,000). Legislature approved $680,000 for working drawings for a $17.2 million underground civil and mineral engineering building, $410,000 in planning money for a music building, and $3.7 million for improving and expanding the Minneapolis campus heating plant. St. Paul campus received $3 million for working drawings for a vocational education building and additions to agronomy and plant genetics, soil sciences, and plant pathol ogy buildings; completion of McNeal Hall remodeling; expansion of intramural sports facilities. Food services building at Crookston was funded at $2.6 million. UMC also received $142,763 for working drawings for a physical education building and recreation areas. UMW received $2.6 million for a classroom-laboratory building. UMD received $643,223 for the state's share of a coal gasification heating plant; $218,292 to remodel social sciences, home ec, and humanities buildings and Alworth Hall; $50,000 for preliminary plans for a business and economics building. UMM received $120,000 to remodel science laboratory facilities. Funds allocated on a U-wide basis were $1 million for improving facilities for the handi capped, $1.5 million for energy improvements, and $750,000 to meet OHSA standards. More and more civil service staff members are reaching the maximum salary in their range. Percentage is now 20% and could be 40% in another year, said compensation manager John Erickson. State does not fund performance increases for employees at the maximum; lump sum payments are funded from money appropriated for other employees. "We have a problem down the road for employees at the max," Erickson said. Story coming in April Report. CROOKSTON--Faculty are being surveyed to find volunteers for a community educational resource bureau in cooperation with Crookston public schools. Experts in various fields are wanted to make presentations to grade and high school students. Info: Steve Kraatz. Collegiate 4-H workshops will be offered April 1 by UMC 4-H students. Demonstrations will be given on mechanized agriculture, horticulture, horsemanship, foods. Info: Don Keith. L______ Prepared for the Office of the Pres1dent t!•- t·trr·erlt of University Relations and distribute~. throu~:h departmental offices ~. Karnival Kapers will be presented by the UMC faculty association to raise scholarship money April 6, 6 p.m.-midnight, in Knutson gym. Admission is $2 and includes a meal. DULUTH--VP Mondale and singer Dana Valery will open conference on Italian heritage in the U.S. May 25 at Duluth Arena-Auditorium. Presentations by 16 Italian and American scholars will trace Italian immigration to the U.S. and immigrants' influence on American society. "Speak of the Gods," a series of 6 half-hour readings from Greek and Roman mythology, begins April 6 on WDTH radio. Arlan Dohrenburg, English, has translated works and will do readings. Shows will be at 9:30p.m. Saturdays and 9:30a.m. Sundays. Avant-garde cinema is topic of series of 7 showings beginning April 8 at 8 p.m. in 90 Bohannon Hall. Series was assembled by Whitney Museum of American Art. MORRIS--Attorney William Kunstler will present a public lecture on "Justice in America" April 4 at 8:15 p.m. in Edson auditorium. Guatemalan folklorist Celso Lara arrives at UMM April 3 for a month-long residency. Lara will teach a seminar on folklore and folk music, meet with classes, present a series of 4 public lectures. The first, "Folklore and Earthquake," will be April 5 at 7 p.m. in HFA. TWIN CITIES--Chief Justice Warren Burger and VP Walter Mondale will be presented honorary doctor of laws degrees at the dedication of the new Law School building on the West Bank April 4. Mondale will give the dedicatory address. Search committee for associate CLA dean for humanities and fine arts seeks applications and nominations. All full-time tenured faculty in the division are eligible. Send nominations, with as much supporting material as possible, to Allen Simpson, 210 Folwell, by April 14. Comprehensive collection of books and other material by and about author John Steinbeck has been given to the U by Milton Altman, a St. Paul book collector. Appraised value $39,085. Members of the U bands will leave for Mexico City March 29 to participate in band festival. New alarm system led to the arrest Saturday of a man who is believed by U police to be involved in many vending machine and money changer machine thefts on campus. Workshops offered to civil service staff are self-awareness and assertive communication (one evening group begins April 13 and another April 18), conflict resolution skills (April 17), and office communication (2-day workshop April 26 and May 3). Info: Kathy Brown at 373-7898. Kaufmanis Speakers' Fund has been established in honor of Karlis Kaufmanis, who will retire in June. Fund will be used to bring distinguished scientists and lecturers to the U to promote education in astronomy. Contributions may be sent to U Foundation. Foreign-language tours of Wilson Library are offered this week and next. Tours available in French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, Swedish, Rumanian, Hungarian, Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Chinese, Japanese. Call 373-3082. Lectures: "Women's Position in the Labor Market" by Marianne Farber; March 30, 8 p.m., 2-690 Health Sciences Unit A. "The Bridge Generation: Problems and Promises of Middle Age" by Gunhilde Hagestad April 5 at 12:15 p.m. and "Support for the Elderly: How Far vJill the Public Go?" by Fay Lomax Cook at 3 p.m., both in East Wing of the Campus Club. "Energy Issues" by Barry Galt; April 6, noon, St. Paul Student Center. WASECA--UMW officials will meet in Rochester March 29 with representatives of various educational institutions to evaluate the 2-year pilot offering of agriculture courses by UMW through the Rochester Consortium. UMW Parents' Council meets March 31 at 1 p.m. in Cl31. THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IS AN EQUA4 OPPORTUNITY EDUCATOR AND EMPLOYER. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Vol. VIII No. 13 April 5, 1978 Editor: Maureen Smith (612) 373-7507 A weekly internal bulletin serving all campuses Request to 1979 legislature for funds in 1979-81 biennium is now being prepared. Central I officers spent most of past week reviewing recommendations from colleges and departments. Plan will be discussed Friday with U Committee on Biennial Request and Budget Review chaired by Mahmood Zaidi. Next week Council of Academic Officers will discuss proposals. Response from consultative groups due April 24. L. A. LeMay, executive assistant in Physical Planning, died suddenly Sunday afternoon of a heart attack. He was 53. Sun Day, a national celebration of solar and other renewable energy sources, will be May 3. MPIRG is planning events on both the TC and Duluth campuses. For more information call MPIRG at 376-7498 in the Twin Cities or 726-8159 in Duluth. Student examination grades are not "public information" and should not be posted, VP Koffler said in a memo. Practice of posting grades still exists in some departments and should be discontinued, he said. Grades may be posted by student identification numbers if the numbers cannot be recognized by other students. Full text of President Magrath's statement to the regents last month about the biennial 1 request and his support for the arts and sciences will be reprinted in April Report. I Measurement Services Center has released the first in a series of 5 brochures intended to I .-~~----~--~----~~~~ i help in conducting effective questionnaire studies. Anyone who is interested should call I (612) 373-2263 for a copy of "Writing Good Questions and Response Alternatives." Minnesota SPAN Association is accepting applications for study abroad in summer 1979 in I1 Haiti, southern India, Sweden, and Tanzania. Applications will be accepted until May 1. Application forms and more information available from SPAN, 103 Nolte, Minneapolis campus. 1 CROOKSTON--Administrative Committee has set its priorities for building and remodeling projects to be requested in the next biennium. Top priority is construction of physical education and recreation building. UMC list will now go to central administration. U Relations and Community Services are preparing brochure on UMC as a community resource (speakers available, faculty consultants, student groups willing to give performances). ! Sen. Roger Moe, DFL-Ada, will speak at UMC commencement May 19. I I High school counselors from northwestern Minnesota will visit UMC April 6 to learn about l new programs, proposed tuition rates, and changes in admissions policies and to voice their concerns. Hosts are Jack Bywater, director of admissions and financial aid, and staff. Latino conference is planned for all day April 8 in Kiehle auditorium, with a Mexican buffet dinner in Bede Hall. Theme is "Roots: Reflections on the Latino." Main speakers will be Jose Trejo from Governor's Office for Spanish-Speaking People, Carlos Ovanda from U of Southern California, and Gilberta Lopez y Rivas from TC campus. DULUTH--Judith Kaplan, assistant dean of UMD School of Social Development, has been awarded a 1978 Bush Leadership Fellowship to Harvard to study public administration. Prepared for the Office of t:H: P;e:~·uc:;r L, rtrrr"nt cf Urrrve:rsrty Relations ancl cl! r il~<1~ed t~lt·cugr·: c!t;r MORRIS--UMM academic dean Gordon Bopp has resigned to become executive VP for academic a~fairs and administration at· Eastern New Mexico U. Bopp, who has been academic dean at UMM since 1970, will assume his new position July 1. Morris banker Edward J. LaFave, Jr., received the UMM Alumni Association Distinguished Services Award for his contributions to UMM from its earliest years through the present. He is the second recipient of the award. Regent McGuiggan made the presentation April 1. Self-Esteem and Relaxation, a noncredit evening class, begins April 11. Seven-week course will focus on development of a sound self-concept. Instructor is David Longley. To register, contact Continuing Education office, 226 Community Services, 589-2482. TWIN CITIES--"Counter-dedication" of the new Law School building was held Tuesday by a coalition of student and civil rights groups. Peaceful events were planned to demonstrate support for overturning the Bakke case, which is pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. Chief Justice Burger and VP Mondale were speakers at the official ceremony. More than half of last year's entering class had used drugs (excluding alcohol) for other than medical reasons, according to a study released last week by the Boynton Student Health Service. Alcohol use increased from 59% in 1967 to 74% in 1970 to 84% in 1977. Cigarette smoking dropped from 34% in 1967 to 24% in 1970 to 20% in 1977. Jerome Moss is chairing a search committee to seek a new dean for General College. Committee will be advisory to President Magrath and VP Koffler. Sigma Chi fraternity house was heavily damaged by fire early Monday morning. Nobody was injured, but 17 Sigma Chi members were treated for smoke inhalation at U Hospitals. Marching Band and Jazz Ensemble performed for Mexican President Portillo last week during a successful trip to Mexico. Portillo requested the performance after hearing the band in an outdoor concert. Benefit concert by Wind Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble, and Marching Band will be April 9 at 3 p.m. in Northrop. Tickets $2.50 for students, $3.50 for public. Proceeds will go to band members, who paid their own expenses on the Mexican trip. Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota will give keynote address at political science lecture series on "Congress: Reform and Resurgence" next week. McGovern's speech April 10 at 8 p.m. in Willey Hall and all other lectures in the series are free and open to the public. Civil service employees who are nearing retirement (and spouses) are invited to partici pate in Creative Retirement group Tuesday afternoons beginning April 11 (2-4 p.m.) or Thursday evenings beginning April 13 (7-9 p.m.). Call 373-4366. Spring organizational banquet for women golfers will be April 13; reservations needed by April 10. Beginners and pros welcome. Call Bobbie Evavold at 373-0956. Campus events: Annual spring festival sponsored by the Minnesota International Student Association April 7-8 in Coffman Union. Woman Power V workshop April 8, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., in the Colony Inn, cost $2; call Paula Page at 373-5093 or 373-1917. Lectures and presentations: Briefing and ~ovie-slide presentation on "The Soviet Threat" by officers of the North American Air Defense Command; April 7, 8 a.m., Bell auditorium. "A Theory of Fiction" by novelist John Gardner (Joseph Warren Beach memorial lecture); April 12, 8 p.m., 2-690 Health Sciences Unit A. "Sweet Grass'' by American Indian author Jamake Highwater; April 13, 4:30p.m., Mayo auditorium. WASECA--VP Wilderson and student affairs staff from all campuses will meet at UMW April 6. UMW Campus Assembly will hold its first spring meeting April 6 at 4 p.m. in Cl31. Phil Carey, director of the Office of Minority Student Affairs and Special Student Support Programs on the TC campus, will visit UMW April 11. THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EDUCATOR AND EMPLOYER. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Vol. VITI No. 14 April 12, 1978 i\ :vr•ek!y internal bulletin serving all campuses Editor: Maureen Smith (612) 373-7507 Collective bargaining election for faculty on the TC campus will be conducted as scheduled April 14-27. Choices on the mail ballot will be AAUP, UMFT, or no representative. Judge Stephen Maxwell of Ramsey County District Court denied injunction sought by UMEA to delay election until the BMS held hearings on its request to be named successor to UMFT. Tuition policy, tuition increases, and student services fee increases are among the money matters to be discussed by the regents this week. Also on the docket: expansion and replacement of U Hospitals facilities, proposed academic programs for Humphrey Institute, salary differences between academic and civil service staff, more shareholder resolutions on corporate activities in South Africa, possible purchase of University Park Plaza office building at 2829 University Ave. in Minneapolis. Special Saturday meeting of Senate Consultative Committee (SCC) has been called for April 22 to discuss recommendations on the biennial request made by the U Committee on Biennial Request and Budget Review. UCBRBR will prepare its final recommendations April 21. Faculty ombudsman might help faculty solve problems and track down information, Thomas Clayton said at the April 6 SCC meeting. Clayton, professor of English on the TC campus, said he made the suggestion a year ago as "an infantryman in the trenches" who felt that many problems could be solved if people knew where to go for answers. Richard Purple expressed opposition to the idea; he said an ombudsman would be "automatically suspect" and salary money could be better spent. U Senate meeting scheduled for April 13 has been cancelled. Agenda would have been short; items will be taken up at the next meeting May 25. Senate Committee on Educational Policy approved recommendation that U College become part of the Center for Educational Development but delayed action on details of proposal. Faculty members planning manuscripts in the humanities of book or monograph length are invited to propose them for the U Press series Minnesota Monographs in the Humanities. Recent volumes are Voices From an Empire: A History of Afro-Portuguese Literature by Russell Hamilton, A History of :\rgos to 500 ~·f.· by Thomas Kelly, and The Radical Lord Radnor by Ronald Huch. Contact U Press or Marion John Nelson of art history, TC campus. Search committee for the position of director of U Media Resources is headed by Maynard Reynolds, 253 Burton Hall, Minneapolis. Applications will close in late May. CROOKSTON--Brochure tracing the history of the campus since 1908 and the establishment of the Northwest School of Agriculture (the forerunner of UMC) is being developed. Two major speech tournaments for 400-500 secondary school students will be on campus during April: district tournament April 14 and Region VIII Speech Contest April 20. Belinda Burton of Hamline U visits UMC April 12 to study international exchange program. Annual meeting of sustaining membership of Northwest Educational Improvement Association will be April 19 at 8 p.m. in Bede Hall. ~------Prepared for the Office of tiH; Pre:,iricrll 1iy rtrnent of University Relations a nci CJI st rd~) ~ 1t t~c/ t!' ~~r: r·L11~"~r ~ t Zl! ()ffi ces DULUTH--Bureau of Mediation Services decision is expec~ed in 2 weeks on which U~ID facul~i will be eligible to vote in a collective bargaining election. At April S.hearing, statements were given by spokesmen for AAUP, UMD Education Association, and U. AAUP, UMDEA, and U agree that faculty working at least 35% time would be in bargaining unit. AAUP and UMDEA favor exclusion of faculty in School of Medicine, aerospace studies, library, and dental hygiene. U spokesman argued for inclusion of those units. National headquarters of Arnold Air Society will be at UMD and U of Wisconsin-Superior next year. Society is an honor group for Air Force ROTC students. Students from the 2 colleges made the joint bid last week at national conclave of AAS. Mail registration for UMD Summer Session begins April 17 for more than 300 courses, 29 workshops, and special classes. At least 20 jazz bands from state high schools will participate in Head of the Lakes Jazz Festival April 14-15 in Marshall Center. Evening concerts will feature small combos, guest artists performing 1'1/ith UMD Jazz Ensemble. MORRIS--Women's Week activities begin April 17. Events include a series of brown bag lunch discussions of discrimination in the job market, women in business, women in non traditional careers, and women in public affairs; lectures on male-female sex roles and women and aging; 2-day residency April 20-21 by At the Foot of the Mountain, a Minneapolis feminist theater collective. Recently installed 12-rank pipe organ in recital hall of Humanities Fine Arts center will be dedicated April 16. Kim R. Kasling of St. John's U will present the dedicatory recital at 3 p.m. Reception will follow. Everyone is invited. TWIN CITIES--Some 1,400 guests gathered April 4 for the dedication of the new Law School building. Honorary doctor of law degrees were presented to VP Mondale and Chief Justice Burger. Memory of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., was evoked by Mondale and others on the lOth anniversary of King's death. r.1ondale called it a "damning verdict ... that a man so rare and peaceful was considered a fit subject for illegal government spying." Mrs. Lyndon B.. Johnson has given a total of $6,000 to the Humphrey Institute. Gift of $5,000 from the LBJ Foundation was supplemented by a $1,000 personal gift .. Campus Carnival will be April 13-15 at the Field House; hours are 6-11 p.m. Thursday and 6 p.m.-1 a.m. Friday and Saturday. Proceeds will go to the American Lung Association of Hennepin County. Tickets $2 at the door, $1.50 in advance (at room 305 Dome City). Chronobiology, the science of biological rhythms, will be discussed on NBC-TV's "Today" show April 13. Andrew Ahlgren of the Center for Educational Development will be featured. Segment is scheduled to be broadcast in the half hour beginning at 8:30 a.m. CST. William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr., former U faculty member who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1976, will speak April 18 at 8 p.m. in 125 Willey Hall. Talk is entitled "Can You Ever Remember Having Seen a Borane, Gustav?" and aimed at science-oriented members of the public. Rep. Donald Fraser will present the final lecture in a political science series ~n Con gressional reform April 14 at 12:15 p.m. in the Coffman theater-lecture hall. H1s topic will be "Role of Congress in America's Future." Space is still available in the 2-day Office Communication Seminar to be held April 26 and May 3. Call Kathy Brown at 373-7898 to register. WASECA--Administrative Committee, division chairs, and Student Affairs staff will meet April 18, the first time the group has met on a formal basis. Similar meetings will be held quarterly to discuss items of mutual interest. Deputy VP William Hueg will make his quarterly visit to UMW April 18. Judging teams in livestock, dairy, and soils competed in national contests in Hartin, Tenn., April 6-8. THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EDUCATOR AND EMPLOYER. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Vol. VIII No. 15 April 19, 1978 A. weekly internal bulletin serving all campuses Editor: Maureen Smith (612) 373-7507 Tuition increase of 8% was approved by the regents Friday. Tuition for the typical undergraduate on the TC, Duluth, or Morris campus will increase from $254 to $271 per quarter. Student services fees will be set next month. Final 1978-79 budget will be subject to board approval in June or July. Plan includes base retrenchment of $1.4 million before next year's $10 million increase is added. Floors and fixed rates for academic salaries will be increased by 6% or 6.5%. Minimum rate for assistant professor will be $13,050 for 9 months. Fixed rate for teaching assistant will be $10,008 (based on 100% appointment). U will abstain from voting on 3 shareholder resolutions that would require 3M, Texaco, and Motorola to withdraw from South Africa. Last month the regents voted in favor of resolutions prohibiting expansion of industries and bank loans in South Africa by 9 corporations in which the U owns stock. Regents voted to favor shareholder resolutions calling for reports from 2 corporations. American Home Products is being asked to study the social impact of the sales and promo tion of infant formula in Third World countries where mothers' milk is considered safer, and ITT is asked to disclose its political contributions in Chile from 1960 to 1975. Regents asked for more information before proceeding on a proposed reciprocity agreement with South Dakota and renewing present agreements with Wisconsin and North Dakota. Among issues: reports of financial difficulties in South Dakota higher education, "accelerating out-migration" of Minnesota students to Wisconsin (5,539 Minnesota students in Wisconsin institutions and 2,357 Wisconsin students in ~1innesota in 1977), political decision by Wisconsin not to proceed with contribution to veterinary medicine building in St. Paul. Vera Schletzer and L.E. Scriven, both from the TC campus, have been elected to the Senate Consultative Committee. Ken Keller and Barbara Stuhler are completing terms on SCC. Betty Robinett, SCC chairman, has been named by President Magrath as vice chairman pro tern of the U Senate and TC Assembly for spring quarter while Robert Holt is on leave. Spring enrollment is 48,896, down 1.3% from last spring's record-setting enrollment but still the second-highest spring enrollment ever recorded. Enrollment by campus: 39,779 on the TC campus (down from 40,480), 6,108 at Duluth (up from 6,045), 1,432 at Morris (down from 1,496), 870 at Crookston (up from 837), 707 at Waseca (up from 687). Civil service staff members interested in serving 1-year terms on the Grievance Review Board should send names, classification titles, and campus addresses to Charles Self, 200 Shops Building, Minneapolis. All non-bargaining-unit staff are eligible. CROOKSTON--UMC will host a dinner meeting for area chapter of Phi Delta Kappa April 20 and will provide an overview of technical collegiate education. About SO are expected. Regent L.J. Lee will be the featured speaker April 25 at annual awards banquet to honor 150 outstanding students and campus leaders. Man and woman of the year will be named. \.. ______······-----·- ----··-· ··--- .... ·------____.l Prepared for the Office of thE· Pre>icl~-, r, :;zH~n" nt of Ur1iversity Relations and clistr ibL;tcd tfl : -'_!t : ncr:ta! of-f1ces Robert Foster of Employee Benefits will be in Selvig conference room at UMC April 25 to meet with employees and discuss insurance and retirement benefits. James Preus, director of Admissions and Records on the TC campus, will be at UMC April 26 to discuss ideas for new registration system. Two sessions are planned: 2 p.m. in Hill 108 and 4 p.m. in Dowell 204-5. DULUTH--David A. Vose, acting dean of School of Business and Economics, will receive Alumni Association Distinguished Service Award at the association's annual meeting April 22. UMD students and area business people will participate in the 4th annual Business Manage ment Game April 25. Computer will determine which team makes the best operational decisions. Eighth annual Student-Business Banquet will be April 26 at Normandy Inn. Department of Communicative Disorders received national accreditation from Education and Training Board of American Speech and Hearing Association. Certification of graduate program is for 5 years. Only other accredited program in the state is on TC campus. MORRIS--Fifth annual cultural heritage weekend will be April 26-30. Highlights: dramati zation of Black Elk Speaks by the Folger Theatre Group of Washington, D.C.; lectures by American Indian actor Chief Dan George, Harvard medical school psychiatry faculty member Alvin Toussaint, black feminist Jane Galvin-Lewis, and black poet Earl Scarborough. A "mother ritual" workshop will be offered April 21 at 10:30 a.m. in Edson lounge as part of a 2-day residency by At the Foot of the Mountain, a feminist theater collective. Participants will have the opportunity to experience the process used in developing the play "The Story of a Mother," which will be presented by the collective that evening at 8:15 in Black Box Theater in the Humanities Fine Arts center. TWIN CITIES--Minnesota Supreme Court Thursday denied an effort by UMEA to stall a faculty collective bargaining election. Order came just minutes before ballots were scheduled to be mailed. Runoff will be held if none of the 3 choices on the ballot (AAUP, UMFT, or no agent) receives more than SO% of the vote. David M. Lilly, chairman of the executive conmiittee at Toro Co., was named dean of the College of Business Administration Friday. Lilly, the first major business executive to be appointed to the position, will begin June 1. Regents voted 8-3 to sell the People's Center building on the West Bank to the center for $1 and give a 25-year lease on the land with an option to renew for another 25 years. U has a 120-day option to buy the University Park Plaza building at 2829 University Ave. S.E. from Northwestern National Bank. Initial cost would be $2.9 million. Plan would be to move out of 4 buildings in same area (3 in St. Paul). Regents expressed some concerns. Dean Sorauf told the regents about plans for the Humphrey Institute: $3-5 million building, memorial component for Humphrey memorabilia, expansion of graduate program, increased opportunities for midcareer education, strengthening of research, expansion of outreach, visits by distinguished practitioners, fellowships, scholarships, endowed chairs. Marching band director O'Neill Sanford reported to the regents on the band's recent trip to Mexico. He said the people of Mexico called the band a "marching orchestra." Meetings of the Chicana-Latino community will be held in the Twin Cities this week to encourage support for action by the regents on a report by U task force on Chicano concerns. U has received a contract from the National Eye Institute to study a new method of treating diabetic retinopathy, a common eye complication of diabetes and a leading cause of blindness in the U.S. William Knobloch will be the principal investigator. Norman Isaacs of National News Council will lecture on current status of journalism/media at 2 p.m. April 20 in Murphy auditorium. Discussion follows. WASECA--Neighborhood meeting at UW~ April 19 at 7 p.m. will give those who live near the campus a chance to express their views on college activities that directly affect them. THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EDUCATOR AND EMPLOYER. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Vol. VIII No. 16 April 26, 1978 Editor: Maureen Smith (612) 373-7507 A. weekly internal bulletin serving all campuses Preliminary report of the task force on intercollegiate athletics was released April 26. Among recommendations: legislative funding for intercollegiate athletics, formalizing Big 10 competition for women, greater integration of athletics with other missions of the U, emphasis on faculty control and clarification of lines of responsibility, consideration of merging of men's and women's programs. Proposals must go to TC Assembly and U Senate and their committees before action will be taken by central administration. Task force conducted a survey of faculty and students. Report said 57% of faculty and 59% of students said sports help the U, while 10% and 4% said they harm the U; 41% of faculty and 33% of students said sports are overemphasized and 32% and 58% said they are not. Registration system proposals will be discussed at Senate Consultative Committee (SCC) meeting April 27 with James Preus, coordinator of Student Support Services, as guest. VP French and Dean Gault of the Medical School will meet with the SCC May 11 for a dis cussion of the relationship between the health sciences and other units of the U. Fred Morrison led preliminary discussion at April 13 SCC meeting on proposal for defense and indemnification of faculty in case of lawsuits. Central question: when is someone working for the U and when is a faculty member on what the law calls "a frolic of his own"? Great difficulty arises in the case of publications, Morrison said. On one side, if the U has liability it must have some degree of control. On the other side, it is "essentially impossible" for individuals to buy libel insurance, and in an era with a "great propensity to litigation" there are some fields that are wide open not only to meritorious libel suits but also to unmeritorious ones that are expensive to defend. Enrollment figures released by National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges show TC campus as largest single campus in the nation with enrollment of 64,629, including extension, and the U as 7th-largest institution with enrollment of 77,215. U officials caution that NASULGC figures for the U do not jibe with their own and that figures from other schools thus appear questionable as well. Sun Day Minnesota has been proclaimed by Gov. Perpich as part of the national celebration of solar energy May 3. Committee planning events at the U is asking faculty to give demonstrations or lectures on the sun from the point of view of their disciplines (e.g., the sun as it affects the weather, helps plants grow, inspires artists and poets). Payroll division of Personnel will not answer phone calls from 8 to 10 a.m. and 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. due to change in work load. Call (612) 373-2062 or 373-1930 in emergencies. On a payday, calls on that day's payroll will be taken from 10 a.m. to 4:30p.m. Spring issue of Transfer, UMC-UMW faculty journal, will be distributed next week. CROOKSTON--Stephen Kraatz, CEE director, will chair a committee that will develop plans for a staff development program for UMC civil service personnel. Bandana, an 8-voice ensemble from the jazz choir, will be on USO tour to military installa tions in Alaska and the Aleutian Islands June 26-July 26. Robert Olson is director. "------· ------·---· Program on sexual assault will be May 2 at 3 p.m. in 102 Dowell. Jackie Gund, director of Grand Forks Rape Crisis Center, will talk about criminality of the act, implications of reporting, preventive measures, how to deal with victims. Sponsor is new UMC Women's Genter, which opened last week. Donald Browne and Gini Rengle of Office of International Programs will be at UMC May 2 for an open meeting in Selvig conference room at 2 p.m. on available grants and Title XII. Child abuse workshop will be May 3, 8:30 a.m.-2:30p.m., in ARC 114. Open to public, $5. Russ Goodman will talk about recent legislation, methods of identifying abusers and abused children, procedures in instances of repeated incidents, methods of investigation. DULUTH--Senior Andrew Lurth, Kasota, is new Student Association president. About 16% of fee-paying students voted in election for president and U Senate representatives. Student elections also carried referendum on fee support of UMD Child Ca~e Center. Fee support was opposed by 442 students; 342 favored fee support of the service to UMD students, faculty, and community. All-Campus Open House has been set for Sunday, May 7, 2-4:30 p.m. Guided tours, baby sitting, refreshments, and side tours to residence halls will be offered. Two representatives of Employee Benefits will be at U~1D May 8-9 to meet individually with faculty and staff about insurance and retirement concerns. Appointments should be made with UMD Personnel Office, 726-7108, by May 3. Speech and language pathology program, offered by Department of Communicative Disorders, has been accredited by American Speech and Hearing Association. MORRIS--Activities planned for Sun Day observance at U~1 include an energy fair on the mall, a concert, films, a modern dance performance, a bike race, and a kite-flying contest. For complete details contact the U~W MPIRG office at 589-4874. Basic first aid and CPR classes will be offered to all faculty, staff, and students May 1-5 under sponsorship of Campus Safety Committee. Call Peter Orr at 589-2814. TWIN CITIES--AI Senstad and Elaine Schneider were winners in student body presidential primary Friday, but complaints have been filed against both candidates. U plans to improve and expand its Minneapolis campus heating plant so that the facility will become both a model for energy conservation and a small electric power plant. If experiment is successful, facility could become a central heating plant for the East and West Banks of campus, St. Mary's and Fairview Hospitals, Augsburg College, and possibly the proposed sports stadium if it is built on Industry Square site. Story in May Report. Human Resources Development will offer these 1-day workshops for supervisors in May: Problem-Solving/Decision-Making May 18, Conflict Resolution Skills May 25. Both will be conducted by Milan Mockovak. Call Kathy Brown at 373-7898. May MTC and Route 52 U commuter bus passes go on sale April 24 at the 3 student unions. Two classic science fiction films--"Things To Come" (1936), based on H.G. Wells's tale, and "THX 1138" (1971), directed by "Star Wars" creator George Lucas--will be shown at a benefit for the studio arts scholarship fund May 5 at 8 p.m. in Willey Hall. Cost $2. Lecture: "Research Needs for the Civil Engineer in Coastal and Ocean Engineering Projects," by Joe Johnson; at the presentation of the 1977 Straub Award to Steven Wright; St. Anthony Falls Hydraulic Laboratory, April 27, 2:30p.m. WASECA--VP Stein will visit UMW for the first time April 27 to get acquainted with the college and its people. On-campus review by a 4-member committee for accreditation by the North Central Associa tion of Colleges and Schools will be conducted at UMW May 1-3. Purpose is "for continued accreditation at the associate's degree level," which was granted in 1975. THE UNIVERSITY OF fvliNNESOTA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EDUCATOR AND EMPLOYER. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Vol. VIII No. 17 May 3, 1978 Editor: Maureen Smith (612) 373-7507 i'!kil blillotin serving all campuses ~ollective bargaining was voted down by TC campus faculty. Vote was 1,032 for no agent (59%), 617 for AAUP (36%), and 86 for UMFT (5%). Bureau of ~1ediation Services mailed out 2,361 ballots, and 1,753 were returned. Eighteen ballots were considered void. Plan for distributing faculty compensation funds is outlined in April 27 memo from President Magrath. Total is 8% of academic salary base; of this, 1.5% must go for fringe ~enefits. Central reserve fund of $500,000 will be held for merit/equalization. ~olleges and coordinate cam~uses will receive amounts equal to 5.9% of their bases. All full-time faculty on appointments of 9 months or more will receive cost-of-living increase of $400; part-time faculty will receive prorated amounts. Cost-of-living raise will take about 1.5% of overall base. Remaining 4.4% will go for merit/discretionary increases. ~ctual amount may be more or less than 4.4%, depending on average salaries in a unit. ~loating holidays for civil service staff next year will be Nov. 24 and Dec. 22 and 26. President Magrath turned down Civil Service Committee recommendation of Feb. 19 or March il9 because of conflict with academic calendar. He said he understands concern about lack ~f any break in schedule between New Year's Day and Memorial Day and hopes better coordi ration between committees will avoid problem in future years. ~otal compensation (salary plus fringe benefits) for U faculty on 9-month appointments ~anks 5th among Big 10 public universities and the U of California, up from 6th in 1976- p7. Average cash salary for 9-month faculty is $27,432 for professors, $19,693 for lssociate professors, $15,826 for assistant professors, and $13,026 for instructors. ~verage salary in constant 1967 dollars has dropped from $16,978 in 1967-68 to $15,114 for ;9-month full professors, from $12,458 to $10,850 for associate professors, from $9,906 to [$8, 720 for assistant professors, and from $7,506 to $6,878 for instructors. Best year was 1970-71 for full and associate professors, 1971-72 for assistant professors and instructors. even faculty members will receive Horace T. Morse-Amoco Foundation Award .for outstanding ontributions to undergraduate education. Recipients, aU from the TC campus, are W. ndrew Collins, Institute of Child Development; P. Vincent Hegarty, food science and utrition; Samuel Kirkwood, biochemistry; Richard Leppert, humanities; Roger Schroeder, anagement sciences; George Shapiro, speech-communication; and Fredric Steinhauser, GC. wards will be presented at collegiate graduation ceremonies. Recipients will also be onored at a luncheon given by the regents May 11. Each will receive $1,000. tate funding to avert an impending financial crisis for U sports was recommended in task , orce report last week. Report said the U will have to find new funding sources or reduce 'ts sports programs if it is to avoid a projected $1.2 million deficit by 1981. resident Carter signed bill authorizing $5 million appropriation for the Humphrey Instltute. nvate funds totaling $8.5 million have been raised. earch for director of international programs has been widened to include candidates from ther universities and from agencies dealing with international affairs. New deadline for pplications is June 15. Applications may be sent to search committee in care of Pat wan, food scienc.e and nutrition, TC campus. ·-·---····-··-----··----·---·-···------·------1 Prepared for the Offrce uf rlw Presi;JC"nr. rlin:'nt cf University [~elations CJnci c!;str·;butf Other upcoming events at UMC: Athletic awards banquet ~1ay 9 at 6:30p.m. in Bede Hall (featured speaker Jim Wacker, football coach at North Dakota State; tickets $4). Senior Citizen Day May 11, including preview of this summer's Elder Hostel; tour of Red River Valley natural history area; sessions on quilting, detective fiction, legal problems of the elderly. Jazz choir concerts May 11 and 12 at 8 p.m. in Kiehle auditorium, featuring many of the numbers that will be performed on the USO tour. DULUTH--Faculty in Library, School of Medicine, and Dental Hygiene Program will be eligible to vote in collective bargaining election, according to ruling last week by Bureau of Mediation Services. Faculty who work at least 35% time or 100 days a year should be included in unit, the ruling said. Pending appeals, election could be in late May. North Central Association of Colleges and Schools has renewed UMD accreditation to and including specialist's-degree level. Review team cited strengths in U administration at system and campus level; excellent quality of undergraduate instruction; development of fine arts facilities; and planning, equipping, and use of physical facilities. Concerns of accreditation team included "lack of clarity and understanding of institu tional mission," need to bolster library holdings in some fields, and need to strengthen institutional research function. Campus Preview will be May 6 at 1 p.m. for high school juniors and seniors and their parents. Sun Day events May 3 include energy displays, lectures, and films from 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. MORRIS--James Olson, professor of chemistry, has been named acting director of the Division of Science and Mathematics for the 1978-79 academic year. The Minnesota Dance Theatre will begin a 3-day residency at UMM May 4. They will offer workshops, a lecture on the history and philosophy of dance, and the world premiere of "Trilogy" on May 5 and 6, accompanied by the UMM chamber choir. For details call 589-2222. TWIN CITIES--NCAA has delayed until August a decision on whether to erase from the books the Gopher basketball record of 24-3 in 1976-77 and change it to 0-27. Mychal Thompson, David Winey, and Phil Saunders played that year under court orders later reversed on appeal. Ken Keller was elected vice chairman of TC Campus Assembly at April 27 meeting. Pearl Rosenberg and Paula Berry were elected to 3-year terms on Assembly Committee on Committees. Chicano Week began Monday. .~ong events still to come: Ralph Guzman speaking on "The Use and Abuse of Chicanos in Social Science Research" May 3 at 7 p.m. in 210 Physics; singer guitarist Jesus (Chuy) Negrete performing May 4 at noon in Coffman theater. Staff tickets for 1978-79 men's football, baseball, gymnastics, swimming, track, and wrestling seasons are on sale for $30 from athletic ticket office, 373-3181. Lectures and presentations: "The Battle Over Bureaucracy: Reform of the Civil Service" by Alan K. Campbell; May 3, 3:30p.m., 50 Law School building. Poetry workshop by Adrienne Rich May 4, 3:15p.m., Mississippi room of Coffman; reading at 8 p.m., 175 Willey Hall. Rudy Boschwitz, I-R candidate for Senate, at a mock press conference in a public affairs reporting class May 4, 10 a.m., Hagen room in Murphy Hall. Symposia on the future of public broadcasting May 9 in Mississippi room of Coffman; panel on TV, 12:30- 2 p.m.; panel on radio 2:30-4 p.m. WASECA--Careers in Agriculture Day will be May 10. High school students and instructors from southern Minnesota will be invited and members of the Overall Advisory Committee will lead panel discussions on various employment opportunities. Other upcoming events: Campus Assembly meeting May 4 at 4 p.m. in Cl31. Annual all college awards banquet May 9 in the Physical Education building. Overall Advisory Committee meeting May 10 at 1 p.m. in room 145. THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EDUCATOR AND EMPLOYER. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Vol. VIII No. 18 May 10, 1978 ;\ wer:::l·\iy internal bulletin serving all campuses Editor: Maureen Smith (612) 373-7507 Biennial request to the 1979 legislature will be discussed at regents' meeting this week. : Also on the docket: intercollegiate athletics, reciprocity agreements, Humphrey Institute. Gordon Kingston, acting dean of U College and assistant director of the Center for Educa tional Development, died Sunday morning of cancer. He was 37. Mass and memorial service will be May 11 at 3 p.m. at Newman Center in Minneapolis. Memorial fund has been estab lished through the U Foundation. Student senators from all campuses met at miD May 6-7 and approved a united lobbying effort. Funds were budgeted to pay a student to serve as a central lobbyist on issues before the legislature that concern students. Students from each campus may still lobby separately. Group also decided to begin contacts with other public colleges in the state. Students passed resolution asking for no tuition increases in real dollars and voted to establish a system task force on tuition. Documents submitted to Business Office in ~1ay, June, and July should indicate the fiscal year in which the department wants them processed, according to April 28 memo from John Miesbauer, chief accountant. Memo also includes information on reversion policy (0100- 0190 funds) and encumbrances and special state balances. CROOKSTON--Commencement will be May 19 at 2 p.m. on the campus mall, Kiehle in case of rain. Featured speaker is state Sen. Roger Hoe, chairman of Senate Finance Committee. Exchange student Mah King Seng of Halaysia will present a plaque at the commencement ceremony to Ervie Glick, director of international programs. Plaque commemorates the exchange program between UMC and Berkshire College of Agriculture in England. Another plaque will be presented to Berkshire later this year. All-College Advisory Committee meets ~1ay 18, noon-S p.m., in the guest dining room in Bede Hall. Among agenda items: reports on the legislature, physical plant improvement plan, new academic programs. Booklet featuring speakers and other program resources from UMC is being developed for summer publication. Tree replacement plan has been developed by Plant Services. DULUTH--m!DEA has decided to appeal BMS ruling on composition of collective bargaining unit. Appeal will be based on inclusion of School of Medicine in the unit. This is S.O.S. (Serving Other Students) Week at UMD with contests and entertainment to raise funds for scholarships and other student-related projects. Goal is $2,000. H.E. Paolo Pansa Cedronio, Italian ambassador to the U.S., and 2 Italian scholars will be attending the Italian Heritage in the U.S. conference Hay 25-28 at UMD. U Relations staff members from all campuses met at UMD May 9-10. Prepared for the Office of the Presrc!ent rtment of Unrversity Relations arrci cJi~.trrbuted til rtmentai offrces MORRIS--Intercultural Weekend begins May 11. Keynote speaker Khalil Nakhleh of St. John's U will discuss the Middle East situation at 8 p.m. May 11 in Science auditorium. Fashion show will follow. Films and exhibits are slated Hay 12 and an international food sampling will be held May 13, 3-6 p.m., in Edson lounge. Junior Jon Dalager of Harris was elected president of the Morris Campus Student Association, and sophomore Tom Hoffman of Franklin was elected VP. "Dithyrambic Festival" in celebration of spring will be May 15-21. Activities include races, workshops and performances by the Aces professional Frisbee team, and a bluegrass festival on the mall May 21. Management by objectives workshop will be offered ~1ay 23 at the Sunwood Inn. For registration materials call 589-2482. TWIN CITIES--F. Gerald Kline has been named director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, subject to approval of the regents. If approved, he will succeed Robert Jones, who has resigned effective July 1 and will return to the teaching faculty. Kline, a graduate and former faculty member of the U, is now at the U of ~1ichigan. Series of bag-lunch seminars on improving educational programs at the U begins this week with a discussion of support services for low-income, minority, and foreign students on May 11, 12:15 p.m., 110 Business Administration. Speakers: Geoffrey Fisher, David Johnson, Michael West, and Glenn Hendricks. Slide show on the Minnesota Energy Agency's energy policy and conservation report to the legislature will be given ~1ay 16, 9:30a.m., in the Coffman Union theater-lecture hall. Report deals with supply and demand of fossil fuels to 1995, conservation, development of energy sources, and energy emergency programs. Carol Ryrie Brink will receive the 1978 Kerlan Award for her contributions to children's literature May 11 at noon in the Campus Club. Brink, author of the children's classic Caddie Woodlawn, is the widow of Raymond Brink, who chaired the mathematics department from 1928 to 1957. Public reception will be held at 2 p.m. in 109 Walter Library. Continuing Education for Women and the Heasurement Services Center have received a $55,000 grant from the Northwest Area Foundation to evaluate and assess adult women's entry and reentry into higher education. Shelley Chou, head of neurosurgery, and Robert Gumnit, neurology professor, are featured in part two of "The Body Human: The Vital Connection," to be shown May 11, 7 p.m., on WCCO-TV. Mail registration for summer evening classes is open now through June 1; in-person regis tration begins May 23 in 101 Wesbrook and MacPhail Center. For info, call 373-3000. Sports fitness school for boys and girls (ages 7 to 12 years) will be July 17-Aug. 11, Monday-Friday, 1-4 p.m., in Cooke Hall. Cost is $90. Info: Gordon Amundson, 373-7839. Lectures: "On the Metrical Structure of Speech," by Paul Kiparsky; May 12, 4:20p.m., 210 Anderson Hall. "Research, Resources, and Publishing in the People's Republic of China," by Chi Wang; May 12, 3 p.m., 30 Law School. "The Survival of Jewish Theolo~y," by :zvee. Zahavy; May 17, 3:15p.m., Coffman Union theater-lecture hall (part of "Jew1sh Surv1val m the Modern Age" series). WASECA--Dairy and soils judging teams will be recognized by the regents May 11 for winning national titles in the National Association of Colteges and Teachers of Agriculture contest in Tennessee last month. VP Brown visited with college officials on the budget and capital improvements May 4. Deputy VP Hueg will be at UMW May 10 for the Careers in Agriculture Day and the Overall Advisory Committee meeting~ Waseca County bloodmobile will be on campus May 11, sponsored by the Plants and Soils Club. THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EDUCATOR AND EMPLOYER. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Vol. VIII No. 19 May 17, 1978 Editor: Maureen Smith (612) 373-7507 A weekly internal bulletin serving all campuses Increasing faculty salaries and restoring some of the flexibility lost through budget cuts are the top priorities in the proposed $647.6 million request that the U adminis tration hopes to take to the 1979 legislature. Regents got their first look at the proposed request last week and are expected to take final action in July. Request re resents an increase of $108.1 million or about 20% over the current budget base and 122.6 million or 23.4% over the appropriation for the current biennium. President Magrath said the request, which includes 119 new faculty positions and 169 new civil service positions, represents an effort to maintain the quality of the U during a time of limited growth. Request for new positions "will be tough to sell, but the need is there and we have an obligation to state it," he said. Regent Schertler expressed concern about the total number of new positions in the request. Request includes an 11% increase in faculty salaries, including fringe benefits, for each year. Magrath said increase would offset expected inflation and help restore pur chasing power lost during past several years. Reciprocity agreement between Minnesota and South Dakota was approved Friday by the Board of Regents, one of the parties to the agreement. Regents also approved 1-year extensions to present reciprocity agreements with North Dakota and Wisconsin. Major fund-raising effort for the Humphrey Institute will end soon, President Magrath told the regents; donations will still be accepted. About $13 million has been raised, including federal appropriation of $5 million that will be available Oct. 1. Plan is to build a modest facility ($3-4 million), put emphasis on programs. Job title changes for most office, secretarial, and accounts positions were approved by the regents and will be effective July 1. New titles were found to be more attrac tive to both employees and supervisors; salaries and seniority will not be affected. Item on Minnesota Teacher Evaluation Project was dropped from the regents' agenda. Report included ratings of Law School faculty by 3rd-year law students. In a separate statement, VP Koffler expressed "strong misgivings" about the design of the project. Senate Consultative Committee (SCC) will meet at UMD May 18. Among agenda items: policy on use of textbooks by professors who write them, problems of student sec members from the coordinate campuses, possibility of representation for Crookston and Waseca. Other questions are expected to come up at open meeting in the afternoon. CROOKSTON--UMC has made its $7,800 budget retrenchment by reducing the number of months of certain positions. Upcoming events: Secretarial workshop all day May 23 in Kiehle auditorium; registration is $7 and lunch $2.75. Faculty-staff recognition dinner May 24 at the Upper Deck; social hour begins at 5:30 p.m. In-service faculty workshop May 24 in Dowell 204-5; Patricia Swan and Phil Carey from TC campus will lead discussion on professional development. --·----·------...... J Prepared for the Office of the PresiciE·~1 hy r:. rt~·.wnt of l!n1versity Relations ancJ cJ:stributerl ti1roug 1·1 d(•p;J(tril':!ltcli o~fices DULUTH--Campus Assembly will meet May 23 at 3 p.m. in Life Science 175. Only item for action is proposal to allow course cancellation only through the last day of instruc tion (not the last day of the quarter as in present policy). Assembly will hear committee reports, receive nominations for committee membership. David Vose has been named dean of the UMD School of Business and Economics and Milton Lebowitz dean of the School of Social Development, both subject to regents' approval. M. Harry Lease, Jr., will continue as acting vice provost for academic administration through June 1979 while search for a permanent vice provost continues. TV series "Literature for Living" on educational station WDSE will be Saturdays at 4:30 p.m. with Wendell Glick, professor of English, as host. MORRIS--Retirement ceremony will honor faculty members Ralph Williams and Bernice Lund, food service staff member Margaret Wirtjes, May 22 at 3 p.m. in Food Service Center. Plains Bookbus, a van display of over 200 books and literary magazines published in the Upper Midwest, will be at UMM May 23, noon-4:30p.m., in front of the Humanities Building. Coordinator Paul Brown will be available to talk with classes or interested persons about small press and literary magazine publishing. Hypnotist James Mates arrives at U~W May 22 for a 2-day residency that includes an 8:15 p.m. performance in Edson auditorium and a workshop on self-hypnosis for personal improvement May 23 at 7 p.m. in Edson lounge. TWIN CITIES--Arturo Madrid, chairman of the Spanish and Portuguese department, has been named associate dean for the humanities and fine arts in CLA. He will succeed Sidney Simon, art history, who will return to teaching after a one-quarter leave. Neal F. Bracht, now at the U of Washington, has been named director of the School of Social Work. Helen Yesner is acting director. Both appointments subject to regents' approval. Retirement ceremony for 177 faculty and staff will be May 24 at 2 p.m. in Coffman Great Hall. President Magrath, VP Koffler, and Assistant VP Thomas will participate. Dorm rates will increase an average of $31 a quarter next year. Typical double room will cost $$60 per person per quarter. Rates range from $535 for a small double room with bunk beds in Pioneer Hall to $711.50 for a single room in Middlebrook Hall. Conferences, seminars, lectures: Bag-lunch seminar on "Courses on Contemporary Issues" May 18, 12:15-2 p.m., 110 Business Administration. "The Tragedy of Illusions Regarding Economic Policy" by Fritz Machlup; May 18, 3:30 p.m., 210 Anderson Hall. Comparative literature conference May 18-20; call 373-5567 for a copy of the conference program. Symposium on "Austria Since 1945" May 19-20, with Austrian scholars from Europe and North America; sponsor is Center for Austrian Studies. "The Impacts of Technology on Privacy: The Case of Banking" May 23 beginning at 9 a.m. in Mayo auditorium. Campus events: Sports Club Fair May 19, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., on Northrop mall. Three-mile art run and Minnesota Iron Pour May 19. Walk-A-Thon/Jog-A-Thon May 20 at Bierman track; proceeds will go to the Patty Berg Development Fund for scholarships for women athletes. Student Leadership and Recognition Awards Banquet May 23 at 6:30 p.m. at the St. Paul Student Center; more than 220 students will be honored. President Magrath greeted guests at the 11th annual National Migrant Education Conference in Minneapolis May 14-17. Units in School of Social Work and CEE were among sponsors. WASECA--Quarterly ~1eeting of students, administrators, Waseca County sheriff, and Waseca police chief will be May 18 to discuss items of mutual interest and concern. Contract was awarded to Associated Lumber Marts to build a 16-unit apartment-style housing project at UMW. Construction will begin in about 2 weeks and will be completed for fall. Spring Activities Day, a new event for UMW students, will be May 18 and will include a variety of judging contests and student-developed information sessions on areas of study. Waseca will have 7 athletes competing in the National Junior College Athletic Association national meet on the U of Illinois campus May 17-20. THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EDUCATOR AND EMPLOYER. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Vol. VIII No. 20 May 24, 1978 A weekly internal bulletin serving all campuses Editor: Maureen Smith (612) 373-7507 President Magrath will visit southwest Minnesota ~1ay 30 and 31. He will speak at lunch meetings in Marshall and Worthington, meet with county extension agents, visit Southwest State U and Worthington Community College, meet in Milroy with student interns who are working in the mayors' offices of 5 southwestern Minnesota towns, and dine with Marshall area alumni. Senate Committee on Faculty Affairs (SCFA) has been asked to look at mandatory retire ment policy for faculty in light of recent legislation. Federal legislation prohibit ing mandatory retirement before age 70 is not applicable to tenured professors until July 1, 1982, but state legislation becomes applicable June 1, 1980. Mandatory retirement age for nonacademic staff is now 70, following regents' action. \For the first time, mandatory retirement age is different for faculty and staff. iRecent inflationary trends have created uncertainty about adequacy of retirement !income levels for retired U faculty and those who will retire in the future. VP Stein has asked a task force chaired by C. Arthur Williams to analyze faculty retirement plan and recommend needed changes. Task force includes retired faculty. Senate and SCFA will review recommendations before they are acted upon. Nominations and applications are sought for position of dean of General College. Send 1materials to Jerome Moss, Jr., search committee chair, 125 Peik Hall, Minneapolis. I I 'Economical use of energy is urged during air-conditioning season. State Energy Code specifies that U-operated buildings on all campuses not be cooled to lower than 78° ;except where safety, research, or medical factors require cooler temperatures. I !CROOKSTON--Provost Sahlstrom delivered commencement address entitled "Our Most Important Resource" at Bemidji State U r.tay 21. President Magrath has accepted invitation to meet with new and returning UMC faculty at the annual pre-fall-quarter workshop Sept. 25. 1Radio station KRAD in East Grand Forks will begin broadcasting UMC's weekly feature !tapes beginning in September. ~lick Metzger has been hired for 1 year to coach the Trojan hockey team. College Liaison Committee reports that highway-improvements are now being made at the entrance to campus at the recommendation of the committee. An entry lane is being provided for traffic leaving campus and joining Highway 2. DULUTH--Bazaar in Ordean Court will lend festive closing to Italian Heritage conference May 27. Foods, greased pole competition, opera scenes, dance, music. "Sister Angelica" and "Amelia Goes to the Ball," UMD' s first operas, will be staged May 25-27 by theatre and music departments. Full sets, costumes, orchestra. '------·------·--·-··-·-·-····------Prepared for the Office of the Presrdem ily if-r; l.,:nrrr_,'ll of Univc:sity Relations anci disttiblJterl tflrou~~h t'trncntJi rJfficc~ Seventy alumni from 6 states will form a concert band to help music professor James R. Murphy celebrate 20 years as band director in 8 p.m. program June 1 at Marshall Center. Also on program is full concert by UMD Concert Band. Other UMD events: State of the Campus meeting June 2 at 2 p.m. in Marshall Center. Opening of annual Student Art Exhibition June 2 at 7:30 p.m. at Tweed Museum. Jackson R. Huntley, speech-communication, will give June 9 commencement address at UMD. Topic is "The Essentials of Celebration. 11 Ceremonies are at 7:30 p.m. in Physical Education Building, followed by reception in Tweed Museum. MORRIS--History instructor Mariam Fernier and senior Mark Williamson of Appleton were elected by the faculty and students to speak at commencement exercises June 8 at 8 p.m. on the campus mall. ' TWIN ClTIES--Al Senstad, CLA junior, was electeJ student body (All Campus Council) president last week. Less than 4% of the student body voted. Reunion will be held at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs May 26-27 to honor the life and achievements of the late Sen. Humphrey and to celebrate the creation of the institute. Reunion is for alumni of the School of Public Affairs and the former Public Administration Center, from which the institute developed. Three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held 3 hearings in the Law School building May 16: a National Football League players' case and 2 cases involving jurisdiction over Native Americans who live ~:m reservations in South Dakota and Iowa. Symposium, reception, and dinner to honor Gisela Konopka on her retirement will be June 6. President Magrath, VP Koffler, and Dean Keith McFarland are on program. Gisela Konopka Lectureships are being established. For more information, contact the Center for Youth Development and Research. Six students have received Bacaner Basic Science Awards of $500 from the Minnesota Medical Foundation for their research. They are: Alvin Beitz, anatomy; Carolyn Cunningham, micro biology; Bruce Domeyer, pharmacology; Joel Dufresne, physiology; Thomas Mozer, biochemis try; and Mohamed Virji, laboratory medicine. Guy Sta.nton Ford lecture, "Grounds for Hope," will be given by Lord C.P. Snow on May 30, 3:15p.m., 125-175 Willey Hall; overflow seating, with closed-circuit TV, will be in rooms 25 and 50 of the Law School building. Lady Snow (Pamela Hansford Johnson) will speak about her novels on May 31, 3:30p.m., Nicholson Hall auditorium. Lectures, seminars, exhibitions: "Culture and Survival: The Elderly Immigrant Jew in America" by Barbara Myerhoff; May 25, 12:30 p.m., 320 Coffman Union. "Stage Design and the Russian Avant-Garde (1911-1929)" by John Bowlt; May 25, 8 p.m., Whiting Proscenium Theatre at Rarig Center. "Will Canada Survive Until 1984?" by Brian Job; May 26, 12:15 p.m., 330 Anderson Hall. "Cooperative Education" by Richard Springer, Deane Turner, and others; May 26, 12:15 p.m., 850 Social Sciences (bag-lunch seminar). "Costume Design Exhibition 1978" with Diane Skomars Magrath as guest commentator; May 31, 7:30p.m., ~kNeal Hall lobby. Human Resources Development is offering two 6-session self-awareness and assertive comnunication workshops beginning June 7. One group will meet 1-4 p.m., the other 6-9 p.m. Call Kathy Brown at 373-7898. Scheduling request for Mayo Auditorium for June 1979 was misplaced by the Scheduling Office. Information is needed again to process the reservation. Call 373-7867. WASECA--Civil service development seminar on assertive communication skills will be presented May 26 in the morning and afternoon. UMW events: "Commedia '78," a 16th-century drama program, May 24 at 7 p.m. on the patio of the women's residence hall. Annual spring horse show presented by Ruff Ryders saddle club May 26 at the light horse management facility. THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EDUCATOR AND EMPLOYER. ..------uNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Vol. VIII No. 21 May 31, 1978 A IJVeekly internal bulletin serving all campuses Editor: Maureen Smith (612) 373-7507 President Magrath told the U Senate May 25 that he is asking the regents to undertake a review of his performance. When he was chosen as U president 4 years ago, Magrath said he would ask for a review during his 5th year of service. Regent Moore is expected to outline plans for the review at the June regents' meeting. Limited cease-and-desist order is still in effect because of collective bargaining elections pending at UMD and in the Law School, Magrath told the Senate. He expressed "great frustration" at inability to move on such issues as tenure code revision and consulting policy. Problem is that "it's not fair game to appear to change terms and conditions of employment" when an election is pending, he said, and "you can't get the law clarified unless you do something and are challenged." Senate voted to establish a select committee to review the structure of central administration and the consultative institutions of the Senate and report to the Senate before the end of the calendar year. Fred Lukermann spoke for the proposal, which was brought to the Senate by 10 faculty members. President Magrath called the motion "a very constructive one." Growing uneasiness among faculty members was cited in the motion. Among concerns: "the impact of financial adversity upon educational policy and practice, a perceived lack of long-term planning, an evident need to clarify the missions of the various components of the University, and the breakdown at critical times of the consultative relationships between the administration and the appropriate bodies of the Senate." Senate authorized Judicial Committee to prepare brief abstracts of future cases without explicit permission of faculty members. Abstract summarizes key findings in a case while protecting anonymity of faculty member. To prevent publication of an abstract, faculty member would have to give a reason that is persuasive to at least a third of the committee. Sam Krislov and Paul Murphy spoke of the usefulness of abstracts to the committee and to potential litigants and those who advise them. Ken Keller, professor of chemical engineering, was unanimously elected vice chairman of the Senate. Slate of committee members presented by Committee on Committees and all items brought to the Senate for action were approved. Regents approved appointment of Tom Scott as director of the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs at May 12 meeting. Scott, professor of political science on the TC campus, succeeds John Borchert, who served as director from 1968 until 1977. Flags and flagpoles will be purchased with some of the money contributed to the Humphrey Inst.itute by Minnesota school children. Students and some teachers from 190 Minnesota school districts have given $7,712.34 to the drive so far, and contributions still arrive in the U Foundation offices every day. Flagpoles are expected to cost about $2,000 each and will probably carry the flags of the U.S. and Minnesota. CROOKSTON--Admissions counseling staff are trying marketing techniques from the private sector to attract and retain new students. '------' Prepared for the Office of the fJresidcnt Dc:;c,rt~nt•nt of University Relations and distriblitod throu r·tr:ll"ntai, offices UMC's agricultural aviation program was featured in a picture story in the Minneapolis Star Variety section May 24. Article was based on interviews with instructor Larry ·Leake and agricultural aviation majors. Two legislative staff members, from the Senate Finance and House Appropriations Committees, were at UMC last week to gather supporting data on UMC's proposed physical education complex, agricultural operations laboratory, and land acquisition. They met with administrators and toured sites proposed for development. DULUTH--More than 1,000 persons attended conference on Italian Heritage in the United States at UMD May 25-28 beginning with banquet appearance of VP Mondale and Italian ambassador to the U.S. Paolo Pansa Cedronio. U's Outstanding Achievement Award will be presented to Sylvester Laskin, chairman of the board of Minnesota Power and Light Company in Duluth, at UMD commencement exercises June 9. Regent Goldfine, Duluth, will present award to Laskin, community leader and charter member of UMD School of Business and Economics advisory committee. Beginning fall quarter, students may cancel classes only through last day of instruction. Campus Assembly voted May 23 to revise policy that had allowed cancellation through last day of a quarter. MORRIS--Civil Service Association's first scholarship has been awarded to Jenny Tanner. Award is presented to a son or daughter of a civil service staff member and is based on academic achievement. Parents are Pat Tanner from Provost's Office and Jim Tanner. Civil service and student winners of the 2nd annual Mary Martelle Award are placement office secretary Pearl Johnson and campus radio station manager Bob Pratt. UMM will host 15 different groups this summer, ranging from the 11th annual Midwest Banking Institute to a philosophy workshop for elementary teachers. The activities will bring about 2,500 visitors to campus. TWIN CITIES--Three faculty members have been selected 1978 Distinguished Teacher Award winners in CLA. They are Lansine Kaba, history; Leonard Polakiewicz, Slavic and East European languages; and Michael Root, philosophy. More than half (52%) of this year's June graduates of the Medical School will continue their medical training in Minnesota. The 264 graduates make up the largest class ever to graduate from the Medical School, and 136 of them have accepted postgraduate residencies at hospitals in the Twin Cities, Rochester, and Duluth. Education and support classes for pregnant teenagers will begin in June, sponsored by Project OPTIMUM (Outreach for Pregnant Teens in Minneapolis, University of Minnesota). Project provides support, counseling, childbirth education. Story in June Report. Women's intercollegiate athletic program will hold its 4th annual Patty Berg Awards Banquet June 1 at the Decathlon Athletic Club in Bloomington beginning at 6 p.m. Award-winning athletes in 10 sports will be honored, as well as the "athlete of the year," who was nominated and voted upon by the student athletes. Lecture: "NATO and East-West Detente" by Peter Buwalda, minister plenipotentiary and deputy permanent representative of the Netherlands to the North Atlantic community; June 2, 3:15-5 p.m., 850 Social Sciences. Handbook for mailing is available from Mailing Services, 190 P&GA. June MTC and Route 52 commuter bus passes on sale through June 8 at 3 student unions. WASECA--Campus Assembly's final spring meeting will be June 1 at 4 p.m. in Cl31. Ground breaking ceremony for student apartment housing project will be June 1 at 10 a.m. Summer conference of the Minnesota Council for Coordinating Education in Agriculture will be at UMW June 7. About 100 people, including leaders from the legislature and state higher education institutions, will attend. THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EDUCATOR AND EMPLOYER. Vol. VIII No. 22 .June 7, 1978 . l ' ~ ' : • I : ~ l_ ' Editor: Maureen Smith (612) 373-7507 Biennial request to the 1979 legislature will again be main topic at regents' meeting this week. Also on the docket: funding minority recruitment and retention programs, possible purchase of University Park Plaza, and the process by which President Magrath's performance will be evaluated by the board, faculty, and external constituencies. Cost-of-living adjustment of 20 cents an hour will be provided for most civil service and bargaining unit employees effective July 1 (July 3 for U Hospitals staff). American education needs "demythologizing" to overcome public disillusionment with the educational system, President Magrath said to the Breck School Cum Laude Society May 31. He said education has shared in an American "crisis of confidence" in major institutions. Most irritating myth is that the U.S. is an overeducated nation in which a college educa tion no longer guarantees payoffs, Magrath said. Economic case for higher education is still strong, he said, and "the really important return from an investment in education is a happier, more productive individual and a better, more responsive citizen." Test scores showing declining literacy rates are the result of more people staying in school long enough to take standardized tests that measure literacy, Magrath said. Mahmood Zaidi, professor of industrial relations on the TC campus, has been elected to chair the Senate Consultative Committee (SCC) in 1978-79. Wendell Glick, professor of English at UMD, has been elected associate chairperson. Medical School policy on private practice was outlined to the SCC by VP French and Dean Gault. Equitable base salary is established for each faculty member, and total income may not be more than double the base; any excess goes to department. French said vast majority of medical faculty are unable to double their base, but some stars bring in more money to U coffers than they receive from the U. Medical faculty are also governed by all-U consulting policy in which outside consulting is limited to one day a week. Problems when faculty are paid from such sources as patient fees instead of 0100 funds were discussed. Tenure cannot be granted when a position is not supported by 0100 funds, with the result that some associate and even full professors in the Medical School are untenured. Mandated salary increases (such as $400 cost-of-living increase) must be taken from department's budget when there are no 0100 funds to generate increases. Andrew Ahlgren, associate professor in the College of Education and associate director of the Center for Educational Development, has won the $1,000 top prize in U-wide competition to design an art object to be presented to recipients of the Horace T. ~1orse-Amoco Foundation Award for outstanding contributions to undergraduate education. U students are invited to submit 2-dimensional works of art depicting creative research at the U to the Graduate School Research Development Center, 417 Johnston, Minneapolis campus. Artwork may be used in a publication series. First prize is $500. For details, contact the center at (612) 373-3001. CROOKSTON--Presidents of various institutions in the Minnesota and Junior Colleges will be at UMC for a workshop retreat June Soil Conservation Service government hearing on the resources conservation act will be held June 12 at 7:30 p.m. in ARC auditorium. DULUTH--The 47 members of University Singers leave June 14 for a 4-week concert tour of Poland and Russia. The tour was arranged and partially sponsored by Friendship Ambassa dors, a nonprofit foundation in New York. UMD theater productions for July and August will include "Last of the Red Hot Lovers," "The Fantasticks," "The House of Blue Leaves," and "Fiddler on the Roof." Performances will be Wednesday through Sunday nights in Marshall Center. M. Harry Lease, Jr., received a certificate of merit for 10 years of service as assistant dean of the UMD Graduate School. Lease will continue next year as acting vice provost for academic administration at UMD, a position he has held for the past year. Scholarships totaling $9,300 have been awarded by the Department of Art to 28 UMD students and 6 Duluth high school graduates. Funds were raised from foundations and memorial funds and by students in the Art Guild. MORRIS--Some 200 outstanding junior and senior high school students will be on campus June 12-30 for the 5th annual West Central Minnesota Institute for Creative Studies. Director of the program is Arnold Henjum of the Division of Education. UMC and UMW student affairs personnel will meet at UMM June 21-22 for discussion of issues of mutual concern. Morris was chosen for its approximate midway location between the two campuses. Retired English and speech professor Ted Long of Park Rapids will join the faculty pro cession for commencement June 8. Fred Farrell, chairman of the campus functions and awards committee, suggested inviting retired faculty to participate in the ceremony. TWIN CITIES--E. Adamson Hoebel, regents' professor emeritus, will address the 562 recipients of master's and doctoral degrees in ceremony June 10 at 7 p.m. in Northrop. Speakers at collegiate commencement ceremonies last week and this week include Norman Cousins, former Saturday Review editor (Medical School, June 2); George Piercy, Exxon senior VP (IT, June 1); and James Shannon, educator, columnist, and former auxiliary bishop for the archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis (Law School, June 9). Thomas Ferris, director of the renal diseases division at Ohio State's College of Medicine, has been appointed professor and head of medicine effective July 1. He succeeds Richard Ebert, department head since 1966. Ebert will be continuing his pulmonary disease research at the VA Hospital in Little Rock, Ark. Pharmacists around the state are being formed into a unique drug information network by the College of Pharmacy. Network pharmacists will call on the college's Drug Information Service Center (DISC) for current information for patients and health care professionals. Woman's Day on Campus is June 14. Keynote speaker Abigail McCarthy will talk about the book she is writing. She will be followed by a panel of 4 men--Charles Bailey, Paul Cashman, Richard Hey, and James Moynihan--who will discuss "The Effects of the Women's Movement on Men." Cost of $15 includes lunch; fee for the morning program only is $7. Call Continuing Education for Women at 373-9743 for further information. Three new staff members of the Bell Museum will be introduced with a showing of their drawings, paintings, and photographs in the Jaques Gallery June 9-July 23. WASECA--New U Senate faculty member is Lora Means; alternates are Thomas Lindahl and Ward Nefstead. Student members are Mitch Fowler, Mona Henkels, Joan Moseman, and Jeff Ruff. President Magrath will be the featured speaker at UMW commencement June 9 at 2 p.m. Ten faculty members will attend the annual meeting of the National Association of Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture in Winnipeg, Canada, June 11-14. THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EDUCATOR AND EMPLOYER. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Vol. VIII No. 23 June 14, 1978 Editor: Maureen Smith (612) 373-7507 ,A. vveekly internal bulletin serving all campuses Highest honor the U can bestow upon a faculty member was presented Friday to Rutherford Aris of chemical engineering and Robert Gorlin of oral pathology, both from the TC campus. Each was given the title of regents' professor and will receive an annual $5,000 salary supplement provided by the U Foundation. Regent Moore announced formation of a 3-member committee to evaluate President Magrath's performance. "We see this evaluation as a positive thing," she said. "It's a report card for him and for us." Magrath, who requested the review, will also prepare a self evaluation, an assessment of his accomplishments and disappointments. Assessment committee--Regents Moore, Sherburne, and Utz--will consult with VPs, deans, provosts, faculty leaders, others. Faculty members who want to comment on Magrath's leadership will be asked to do so through the Senate Consultative Committee. Proposed $648 million request that the administration wants to take to the 1979 legis lature was discussed at regents' meetings. Regents raised basic questions about the request and about their role. Regent Latz objected to the process in which policy questions appear for the first time before the board as items in a biennial request. Regents seemed to favor some specific increases being requested despite questions they raised about proposed total of 119 new faculty and 169 new civil service positions. Budget proposal of $1.1 million for minority student programs in the next biennium was presented by VP Wilderson and Philip Carey, director of the Office of Minority Student Affairs. Carey said budget had been trimmed from original request of $3.1 million. Juan Hernandez, student representative to the Student Concerns Committee, expressed dissatisfaction that the special needs of Chicano students were not recognized. Business students Annie Child, Myron Engebretson, John Nilles, and Leon Moore reported on their study of the U's recruiting methods. They said materials mailed to prospective students are among the worst in the Big Ten, and budget for this activity is very low. They recommend more personalized recruiting and emphasis on the U's academic reputa tion, diversity, location, and relatively low costs. Terry Marchiniak, coordinator of the Minnesota Teaching Evaluation Project, told regents the project needs $21,000 to publish its results and said a "nod of approval" from the U would improve chances of receiving private funds. Regents took no action. Plan to upgrade student accounts receivable system was presented to the regents by VP Brown, who said the current manual system was installed in 1916 when the U collected $300,000 in tuition and enrolled 6,300 students. Regent Latz said the plan sounds like a first step toward deferred tuition payments; Brown assured him it is not. Personal problem identification and referral service will be available beginning July 1 to TC campus civil service and bargaining unit employees on monthly payroll. Similar but seperate program is being developed for U Hospitals staff. Problems for which help might be sought include emotional problems, family and interpersonal problems, chemical dependency, financial and legal concerns. Story in June Report. Brief begins biweekly publication schedule for summer. Next issue: June 28. Prepared for the Oti!ce ot the h-ec;ide::t tJ and r!; :-!!' 1!1',:' , : F: CROOKSTON--Financial items will be discussed June 15 when VP Brown visits UMC. H.B. Craig, associate director of academic affairs at North Carolina State U, will be at UMC June 15 as part of a national survey of agricultural and technical institutes. He will meet primarily with division chairpersons and student affairs personnel. Alumni of the Northwest School of Agriculture, forerunner of U:MC, will hold annual reunion on campus June 24. New publication by U Relations chronicling the history of the school will be introduced. Graduate course in quantity food preparation will be offered by the Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Management Division June 21--30 in 128 Dowell Hall. Instructor is Emmett Hodgkins. Call (218) 281-6510, ext. 254, for more information. DULUTH--President Magrath told members of the UMD Indian Advisory Committee Monday that a task force is studying a broad new program of affirmative action and that Lillian Williams, equal opportunity officer, is investigating charges that affirmative action guidelines were violated when John Red Horse was not selected as dean of the School of Social Development. Magrath said no final action will be taken until probe is completed. The 47 members of the University Singers left UMD Tuesday on their 10-concert tour of Poland and Russia. They will return for a post-trip concert on July 6. TV premiere of color film "Fire, Water, and Ice" starring UMD geology teacher Charles Matsch will be June 20 at 8:30 p.m. on Channel 8. Film takes viewers on a visual geology field trip of Minnesota. MORRIS--West Central Minnesota Historical Research Center at UMM has been awarded a grant from the Minnesota Historical Society to finish computerization of manuscript census material for 1900 from Stevens County. Federal 1900 census, which was released to the public last year, contains the most complete information available for the county. For the first time in several years, UMM will offer summer registration for incoming freshmen. Registration periods will be June 20-21 and July 6-7. "We think our new students will appreciate knowing in advance what courses they will take, and the more relaxed su~~r ~~~o?phere of the campus will make registration easier and less stressful for students, faculty, and staff, 11 said orientation coordinator Bob Rodda. TWIN CITIES--Phillips-Wangensteen Research Laboratory was dedicated June 13 at U Hospitals. When Owen Wangensteen retired 11 years ago after 37 years as head of surgery, Minneapolis businessman and philanthropist Jay Phillips pledged $1.5 million for a research laboratory to commemorate his work. Lab is on 11th floor of Unit B/C. Educators from 50 states are meeting on campus June 14-17 to learn how to combat sexism in educational institutions in their home states. National institute is sponsored by Project BORN FREE, an HEW-funded program in the College of Education. Judy Knight and Shelly Medernach of the women's softball team have been invited to try out for the team that will represent the U.S. at the 1979 Pan American games. Lecture: "Family Planning and Alternate Life Styles for Women in China" by Alice Taylor Day of Australia National U; June 14, 1:30-2:30 p.m., 2-580 Health Sciences Unit A. Mail sent at old postal rates is being returned to departments. Problems are with first class priority, third class, and fourth class mail. Copies of rate and information charts are available from Campus Mail. WASECA--John Fulkrod, associate professor of related education (chemistry) and head track coach for men and women, was named Minnesota Junior College Athletic Association Coach of the Year. Both the men's and women's teams finished 3rd in the state this year. One-week course on artificial insemination will be June 19-23. More than 300 persons are expected for a Craft Fun-Do June 21-22 sponsored by several southern Minnesota county extension offices and hosted by UMW. THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EDUCATOR AND EMPLOYER. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Vol. VIII No. 24 June 28, 1978 Editor: Maureen Smith (612) 373-7507 A weekly internal bulletin serving all campuses Managing the U during a time of stable and declining enrollments and tight budgets will be the main topic at a regents' retreat June 28-30 at Itasca State Park. President Magrath will leave July 7 on trip to Africa and Europe and return Aug. 9. He will make official visits in Morocco, Somalia, Kenya, Germany, and Finland. VP Koffler will be in charge during his absence. State-supported agencies are likely to "witness one of the most severe fiscal climates in recent legislative history" in 1979, President Magrath said in June 19 letter to the U community. He urged realism about "the possibility that lawmakers might not be able, or willing, to fund our requests at the levels we recommend" but said the U must continue to state its needs forcefully and document them carefully. Legislative intervention in salary matters--such as 1977 salary equalization rider- is "unhealthy, demoralizing, and ultimately unworkable" for the U, Magrath said. He said he believes in salary equity but not "salary equalization for campus units with different missions and roles," whose members operate in sharply different markets. Steady increase in the U's level of private support has continued. Preliminary report shows that the U ranked 5th among all universities in total support from private sources and 2nd to the U of California among public institutions. More than $33.8 million in voluntary contributions was given to the U last year. Prime Minister James Callaghan of Great Britain delivered a major policy speech at a benefit dinner for the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs June 26 in New York City. VP Mondale and Sen. Muriel Humphrey were hosts. Alumni Association has a new executive committee to head the 19,000-member group in its 75th year. Alan Ruvelson, president and director of First Midwest Corporation in Minneapolis, will assume the position of national president and director July 1. Full cost of dependent health care insurance and half the cost of dependent dental insurance will be assumed by the U effective July 1. Payroll deductions for those who already have coverage will be adjusted automatically. Health care coverage for families may be added by applying now and furnishing satis factory evidence of good health or by applying during the open enrollment period in August and September. Addition of dependent dental insurance is limited to the open enrollment period. Coverage applied for during open enrollment is effective Oct. 1. Employees who have had a free health screening during the past year are eligible for another screening after July 1. Eligible employees wishing to participate again or for the first time should contact National Health Testing (612-920-6855) for an appointment and contact Employee Benefits for a certificate of eligibility. CROOKSTON--Team of professionals in the field of court reporting will be on campus June 27 to evaluate the UMC court reporting program. rtrrwr t of lJnt'/et-sity Relations rl ~ ,-i (_:;t f i ;·~ l j s Bandana, a vocal ensemble led by UMC music instructor Bob Olson, left on a 29-day tour of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands this week. Tour, under the auspices of USO, will take them to military bases and hospitals, where they will perform popular songs. UMC will display at 5 county fairs in July. Booths have been planned at the. county fairs in Ada, Fertile, Thief River Falls, Warren, and Roseau. DULUTH--President Magrath has called for a new search for dean of U~ID School of Social Development. Investigation neither proved nor disproved any violation of affirmative action policies in consideration given to candidacy of John Red Horse. Milton Lebowitz, who was nominated by Provost Heller, has withdrawn as a candidate. Heller said an acting dean and new search committee will be named by early fall. C. David Hollister, acting dean of UMD School of Social Development through August, has received a postdoctoral traineeship at Stanford U for 1978-79. Provost Heller praised Hollister's leadership as acting dean during a sensitive period. University Singers will return from tour of Poland and Russia to present a final concert July 6 at 8 p.m. at Ordean Junior High School auditorium. MORRIS--Wilbert H. Ahern, associate professor of history, has been named acting dean of academic affairs at UMM. He will assume duties in September. Ahern succeeds Gordon Bopp, who resigned effective June 30 to accept a vice presidency at Eastern New Mexico U. Nationwide search will soon be launched to find a permanent successor for Bopp. UMM Elderhostel is June 26-30. Courses are Small Town in Poetry and Fiction, Art Appreciation: Drawing From Rural Themes, and Philosophical Discussions: Moral Issues. Gail Nelson has been elected chairperson of UMM Civil Service Association. Dorothy Dejager is vice chairperson and Nancy Bohm is secretary-treasurer. TWIN CITIES--Dean David Lilly announced the appointment of Edward Foster as associate dean of the College of Business Administration effective July 1. Foster, formerly associate dean of the Graduate School, will be on leave from the economics department. Legislators visited campus June 27 to tour the Underground Space Center, a cavern 90 feet below ground, and learn about research on the use and development of underground space. Program was part of an informal series for legislators on research at the U. Richard Estensen, professor of laboratory medicine and pathology, has been named the first Elsa U. Pardee Professor of Cancer Biology. Professorship, the only endowed chair in the Medical School's basic sciences, was created this spring with a $500,000 gift from the Pardee Foundation, established by the will of the late Mrs. Pardee. Jacob Neusner, an internationally known historian of Judaism, will join the faculty next fall as a Hill professor in Near and Middle Eastern studies. Wesley Spink has been elected president of the University of Minnesota Retirees Asso ciation. Other officers and directors: Roxana Ford, J. Edward Gerald, Francis Boddy, Alfred Cheese, Donald Cowan, E.W. McDiarmid, Mabel Powers, Ray Price, Raymond Shove, A.L. Vaughan, Dorolese Wardwell. Group has been granted a charter as a nonprofit corporation, and about 150 members have enrolled and paid $5 dues. Human Resources Development is offering 2 self-awareness and assertive communication workshops, both on Mondays and Thursdays, July 17-Aug. 3 (6 sessions). Afternoon group will meet 1-4 p.m., evening group 6-9 p.m. Medical terminology course will be offered Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8-9 a.m., July 11-Aug. 31. Call Kathy Brown at 373-7898 for info. Mail addressed to faculty members at "University of Minnesota" is causing problems. Departments should advise new faculty to include department in address. WASECA--Annual alumni reunion for the Southern School of Agriculture, forerunner of UMW, will be July 9 at the Southern Experiment Station picnic grounds. UMW Campus Assembly's first summer quarter meeting will be July 6 at 4 p.m. in Cl31. THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EDUCATOR AND EMPLOYER. UNiVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Vol. VIII No. 25 July 12, 1978 i\etm serving all campust:;s Editor: Maureen Smith (612) 373-7507 Legislative request of $638 million was approved by the regents Friday. President Magrath trimmed his original proposal by $10 million. Some regents wanted further cuts; faculty leaders wanted more new positions in the request. Request is $98.6 million more than the existing biennial base supported by state appropriations. Kenneth Keller, who is on a 3-member faculty committee that will lobby for the re quest, said it is not high enough to meet the U's needs. Regent Schertler, the only regent to vote against the request, said it is "still way out of line" and too high to be "salable" in the current fiscal climate of the state. VP Kegler said many deci sions on the request were made on the basis of educational needs and said the request was designed to be "justifiable, defensible, and, least important, salable." Regents agreed to separate tuition from instructional costs and to seek a legislative supplement to hold down tuition increases. Only dissenting vote was cast by Regent Schertler, who supported a student proposal that would have asked for a tuition ceiling equal to the cost-of-living increases over the biennium. Regents approved a $550 million annual operating budget for 1978-79 that includes an 8% tuition increase and some budget cuts. Nine regents signed a letter circulated by Regent Schertler asking the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges to change the location of an October meeting scheduled for Chicago and a proposed Miami meeting next April to states that have ratified the ERA. Regent Lee, one of 3 regents who did not sign the letter, walked out of the meeting after a heated exchange with Regent Moore. New purchasing policy was approved. Whenever a bid over $5,000 is rejected, the Purchasing Uepartment will notify the vendor in writing of the reasons. When a bid under $5,000 is rejected, the reasons will be kept on file and available for review. For bids over $500,000, no notification of rejection may be issued until the regents have reviewed the bids. Mandatory bid limit has been raised from $150 to $500. Strong opposition to proposed purchase of University Park Plaza building in Minneapolis was voiced by Regents Goldfine and Lebedoff. Select committee to review the structure of central administration and the consulta tive institutions of the U Senate will be chaired by Dennis Watson, microbiology, TC campus. Committee membership, not yet complete, will be reported in July 26 Brief. Service and support employees on several outstate campuses and stations will be repre sented by Teamsters following vote last month (99 votes for Teamsters, 84 for no rep). Bargaining unit comprises Morris campus and experiment station, Waseca campus and experiment station, Crookston campus and experiment station, Grand Rapids experiment station, and Lamberton experiment station. Wallace Caryl, emergency preparedness coordinator at the U, is in Rochester at the request of Gov. Perpich, helping with recovery efforts after last week's flood. Prepared for the Ofi:ce ••! ;' ,j, , :.", , , ,,.;_ Full-tuition scholarshiE for the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs will be funded annually with the proceeds from gifts from the Rochester community,· it was announced June 30 by David Utz, regent from the first district. CROOKSTON--Committee headed by Don Cavalier will study long-range transition of the Northwest School of Agriculture Alumni Association into a combined NWSA-UMC group. Marilyn Grave, director of UMC Children's Center, has accepted an interim appointment as UMC's women's advocate. She will succeed Renee Wald. UMC will be a training site for a "Computer Science for Educators" project funded with an NSF grant. Program will open with preparatory workshop July 17-21 in ARC 114. Sessions on flower arranging and common garden pests and a walking tour of outdoor flower beds are planned for women's section of Crops and Soils Day July 19. Free. Committee chaired by Tom Bloom has been asked to prepare a list of artifacts recom mended for sealing in the cornerstone of the new food service building next year. DULUTH--Gregory Fox has accepted positions of director of Duluth Center of Continuing Education and Extension, director of UMD Summer Session, and assistant vice provost for academic administration. Appointment is pending regents' approval. Robert E. Carter, first dean of the U~ID School of Medicine, retires this month to become a rancher and artist in New Mexico. He said he has accomplished his goals in medicine and had always planned to retire at mid-age. U Foundation will contact more than 3,000 UMD grads in coming weeks as part of a telephone fund-raising effort. Reception for summer graduates will be 3-5 p.m. Wednesday in Kirby Student Center Rafters. Commission on accreditation of Council on Social Work Education has reaffirmed accredited status of UMD School of Social Development through June 1985. MORRIS--Head Start/Home Start teachers' career program at UMM runs through July 12 for teachers and interested parents. Included: courses on individualized instruction, interpersonal communication, early childhood education, parenting. Two-week workshop on human relations now at UMM is focusing on individual, cultural, and ethnic differences and their implications for educational practice. TWIN CITIES--Sidney Ewing, dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine, has announced his resignation. He will become head of the Department of Veterinary Parasitology, Microbiology, and Public Health at Oklahoma State U. Regents approved appointment of Arturo Madrid, chairman of the Spanish and Portuguese department, as associate dean for the humanities and fine arts in CLA. Memorial service for Dennis E. Puleston, associate professor of anthropology, will be at 3 p.m. July 12 in the Campus Club library, 5th floor of Coffman. Puleston was struck and killed by lightning June 29 in Yucatan, Mexico. Memorials may be sent to the Dennis Puleston Memorial Fund, c/o University Foundation, 107 Walter Library. Faculty and staff members who have benefited from a United Way agency and would be willing to tell the story are asked to write Mike Finley, U Relations, S-68 Morrill Hall. WASECA--Regents approved UMW constitution. VP Brown will visit UMW July 13. Discussion will center on physical plant improve ments now in progress or being planned and on the biennial request. UMW will have a booth at the Dodge County Fair beginning July 12 and at the Waseca County Fair beginning July 19. UMW's year-round educational program received statewide newspaper coverage following a paper presented by Provost Frederick. Favorable editorial comment appeared in a Duluth paper. UMW's summer quarter began June 26. THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EDUCATOR AND EMPLOYER. /Ji 1/G: [3705' UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Vol. VIII No. 26 July 26, 1978 t\ vvePkiy ir1terna! bulletin serving all campuses Editor: Maureen Smith (612) 373-7507 New deans have been named to head 2 major units on the TC campus. Both appointments are subject to approval by •the regents in August. Fred Lukermann, a member of the U faculty for 24 years and now profossor and chairman of the geography department, has been selected to succeed Frank Sorauf as dean of CLA. Sorauf will return to the teaching faculty in political science. Roger Staehle, professor of metallurgical engineering at Ohio State U, has been named dean of IT. He will succeed Walter Johnson, who has been acting dean since last November. Johnson will return to the teaching faculty in physics. Select committee of the U Senate has been chosen to review the structure of central administration and the consultative institutions of the senate. Faculty members are Sabra Anderson (UMD), Rutherford Aris, Ellen Berscheid, Robert Brasted, Richard Calde cott, Nils Hasselmo, Leonid Hurwicz, Donald Rasmusson, Michael Root, and Dennis Wat,son (chairperson). Student members are Becky Kroll and Philip Ryan. Mahmood Zaidi, chairperson of the Senate Consultative Committee (SCC), said the select committee includes no representatives fronl central administration or the sec and no ex officio members. Zaidi said the SCC wants its mm work evaluated along with that of the administration. Report is due before the end of the calendar year. Deadline for compliance with Title IX of the Higher Education Act was Friday, and the U was among 41 institutions with complaints filed against them. Gary Engstrand, assistant to VP Stein, said findings are not complete in any of the cases, and the U expect,~ to be found in compliance. Vivian Barfield, women's athletic director on the TC campus, said she is "very pleased" with the gains made for female athletes. Research projects and policies were discussed July 20 at the second in a serjes of presentations to legislators. Faculty members who took part are health researchers Henry Buchwald and Russell Luepker, solar energy expert Richard Jordan, air pollution expert Ken Whitby, botanist Doug Pratt, Ken Reid of the Mineral Resources Research Center, and geographer and CLA dean-designate Fred Lukermann. Civil Service Committee will meet in Duluth Aug. 29. Hearings on proposed rule changes will begin Aug. 22 in Crookston. Full schedule of hearings will appear in Aug. 16 Brief. Proposed changes were printed in Minnesota Daily July 14. Three students from Sierra Leone who attended the Morris and TC campuses--Andrew Momo, Francis Foday-Musa, and Christian Warne--were killed July 12 in a car-van collisi.on in Edina. Ambrose Lamin, nephew of one victim and cousin of another, and Agnes Momo, widow of Andrew Momo, left for Sierra Leone Saturday with the bodies. Fund has been established to cover some of the expense qf returning the bodies; contributions can be sent to U Foundation, 107 Walter Library, ll7 Pleasant St. S.E., Minneapolis 55455. CRO?KSTON--Progress report entitled ''12 & Still Growing" has been produced for an aud1ence of college supporters. Graphics, photographs, and text trace the 12-year history of m1c. Sample copies are available from U Relations at UMC. Prepared for the Office of the Pres1clent oy th Dtpartrnent of Univer·sity Relatior and distributecl through :-tmentai otf1ces Almost 30 senior citizens have enrolled so far in Elderhostel sessions July 31-Aug~ 5 and Aug. 7-12 at UMC. Publicity is now focusing on attracting commuters. Elderhostel program, on 18 Minnesota college campuses this summer, offers week-long live-in learning experience for people over 60. Legislators from agriculture and natural resources committees of the Minnesota Senate were at UMC Juiy 25 for informational sessions and public hearings. State Department of Economic Security will conduct a workshop for vocational rehabi litation, CETA, and employment service personnel Aug. 10 in Dowell Hall 102. DULUTH--Housing officials have issued annual request to community for apartments and rooms with cooking privileges for rent to students. UMD will have 1,600 students in residence halls and campus apartments this fall; new apartments to be completed this winter will house 150.· Housing office has arranged with Hotel Duluth to accommodate overflow and is exploring possibilities for housing students at U of Wisco:n.sin Superior and College of St. Scholastica. Survey designed to discover recr·eational needs of out-of-state visitors is being conducted by UMD faculty and students. Lake Superior Basin Studies Program has contracted to. do survey for the Department of Natural Resources. Study includes interviews at 14 locations where tourists enter the state. Hyung K. Kim, professor of business administration, has been appointed associate dean of UMD School of Business and Economics and director of MBA program. Appointment is subject to approval by regents and Graduate· School. MORRIS--U Relations is coordinating an exhibit at the Stevens County fair in Morris, to open Aug. 14. Display will be staffed by U Relations and admissions personnel. Subcommittee on Alternative Energy Systems or the House'Select Committee on Energy will be at U~~1 Aug. 11. Highlight will he a visit to the wind generator project near Wheaton--a joint endeavor of UMM, the West Central Hinnesota Community Action Program, and other state agencies. Rep. Russell Stanton heads the subcommittee. TWIN CIH~S--A::i~~mbly Committee on Intercollegiate Athletics has cret~ted a sub committee to investigate alleged vioiad.ons of NCAA and Big 10-ruies in the football program. Copyrighted story in Minnesota Daily last week charged coach Cal Stoll with giving players loans "that are never repaid.'' Stoll called the allegations "ridiculous" and said he welcomes the investigation. Athletic director Paul Giel, who was asked by VP Stein to undertake a preliminary investigation, will report his findings July 27. Subcommittee meetings will be closed. Anyone with information should ca 11 David French at 373-0852 or 373-0853. Humphrey Institute has received $10,000 check from Olivia Newton-John. Other show business personalities who have contributed: Victor Borge, Johnny Carson, Angie Dickinson, Alfred Hitchcock, Dustin Hoffman, Bob Hope. Major gifts of $100,000 have cvme from Helen Reddy and her husband, Jeff Wald, and from Lew Wasserman of MCA, Inc. HEW investigator was on campus July 12, reportedly to check records documenting how a complaint was handled following student government election in April 1977 and to determine if there is a basis for a complaint against the U. More than 50 Elderhostel students.are on camous this week, taking a Scandinavian folklore class taught by Anatoly Liberman, a Minnesota history class taught by Norman Moen, and a class on psychology of everyday living :taught by Vera Schletzer. WASECA--Campus Assembly meets Aug. 3 at 4 p.m. in Cl31. Implementation of the campus constitution, approved by the regents in July, is on the agenda. Other upcoming events at UMW: OVerall Advisory Committee Aug. 9, annual Civil Air Patrol encampment Aug. 4-12. THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IS fu~ EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EDUCATOR AND EMPLOYER. Vol. VIII No. 27 Aug. 16, 1978 Editor: Maureen Smith (612) 373-7507 1 Regents reaffirmed their commitment to the affirmative action and equal opportunity admissions programs at the U at meeting Friday. Administrators told regents that the Bakke decision will have little effect on U admissions policies. VP Stein told regents he will meet with admissions officers of all U colleges to brief them' on Bakke case and ask them to institute specific affirmative action plans. Oct. 2-3 workshop is set. Law School admission policy is the only one, Stein said, that could be questioned in light of Bakke decision. He will ask law faculty to review their policy. President Magrath told regents he will make a public report after investigation into charges of administrative impropriety in psychiatry department. Minneapolis Tribune alleged improper billing practices and declining quality of patient care and student training. Search committee to find successor to William Hausman, who resigned as head of psychiatry, was appointed by Magrath. Hausman's resignation will be effective at end of 1979 or when successor is named. Committee head is Frederic Kottke, physical medicine-rehabilitation. Regents authorized administration to undertake legal action to allow consideration of re visions in faculty tenure code, consulting and grievance procedures. Revisions have been delayed 4 years pending collective bargaining elections. Legal action will also seek re lief from order of Bureau of Mediation Services prohibiting administration from communica ting collective bargaining information to faculty while.elections are pending. Elections for Law School and Duluth campus still have not been held. Regents approved promotions for Donald Zander, to associate vp for student affairs, and Clinton Johnson, to associate vp for finance and U treasurer. Board also affirmed appointments of Fred Lukermann as dean of CLA and Roger Staehle as dean of IT. Setting priorities in U's biennial request to legislature will be discussed again by regents next month after ~1agrath consults with faculty leaders. Two civil service committee members were appointed by regents last Friday. They are Myra Battenfeld, mnv, and Gary Donovan, UMH. Both begin serving at Sept. 26 meeting. Open hearings on proposed civil service rule changes will be held: Aug. 22, 11:30 a.m., Crookston; Aug. 23, 11:30 a.m., Morris; Aug. 29, 11:30 a.m., Duluth; Aug. 31, 11:30 a.m., Waseca; Sept. 6, 11:30 a.m., St. Paul; and Sept. 8, 11:30 a.m., Minneapolis. Summer enrollment on all campuses was 16,733 during the first term and 13,574 during the second, an all-time high for second term. Last year's totals were 16,769 and 13,532. Department listings to be updated for the 1978-79 Student-Staff Directory have been sent to all departments and are due at U Relations by Aug. 21. Questions: 373-7505. Recent gifts to Humphrey Institute include $75,000 from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Laurance S. Rockefeller, and $15,000 from the Minnesota AFL-CIO. CROOKSTON--Groundbreaking ceremony for Learning Resources Center addition will be Aug. 22. Gov. Perpich, area legislators, general contractor, and architect have been invited. '------·-· ---···- --- ·- Several outdoor sites are being considered for installation of tape equipment to guide visitors around campus. Tapes will give information about UMC facilities and programs. UMC will host Rotary and Lions Club members at a luncheon meeting with the Trojan foot ball team Aug. 31. Head coach Jim Sims will be featured speaker. Alumnus Douglas Sandstrom was 1 of 3 conservation officers who received a meritorious award for valor during recent flooding in Rochester. Sandstrom is also a former UMC staff member and will be honored by the college this fall at homecoming. DULUTH--Klaus Jankofsky, English, has been Rppointed assistant dean of Graduate School, with responsibility for U~ID programs. Appointment is pending approval by regents. Jankofsky will succeed M. Harry Lease, acting vice provost for academic administration. Minnesota Medical Foundation awarded $47,998 in research grants to 10 medical faculty. PMlJ classes this fall will begin Sept. 7. Freshmen will register next week during orientation; other students register Sept. 5-6. UMD's first provost, Raymond C. Gibson, visited campus recently. Gibson, now retired from faculty of Indiana University, served :ts UMD provost from 1947 to 1950. U Foundation received pledges of almost $9,000 in telephone campaign to UMD alumni. ~~()I{RI_-?_--UMM bulletins will be printed on new schedule of every other month. This month's -issue lists fall, winter, and spring quarter evening classes. Others will update winter and spring evening classes, summer session, residential life, and general information. TWIN CITIES--Registration for fall extension classes begins this month. Call 376-3000 to request a bulletin listing over 2,000 evening, late afternoon, and weekend classes. U's option to buy U Park Plaza building expired in August without any action by regents. Human Resources Development is offering a postal information session, Aug. 23, 11 a.m. noon, 311 Murphy Hall. Call 373-4366 to register. State1~idc Conference on Battered Women is being sponsored by Minnesota Women's Center, ~ug. 18-19, at St. Cloud University. Registration forms are available in 540 Johnston. Pledges worth $20,809 have been collected by women's athletic program from its Walk-A Than/Jog-A-Than event last ~'lay. Additional pledges will be collected this month. international Study and Travel Center, 40 Coffman Union, will have two group flights to Europe this fall. Departures from Chicago are on Sept. 6 and 20, with open-return dates within one year of departure. Cost is $365 plus tax. Call 373-0180 for information. Lecture: Children's Literature Forum, Jane Resh Thomas; Aug. 17, 2 p.m., 109 Walter. Three-month-long festival of Russian Arts, sponsored by U Gallery and Committee on In~titutional Cooperation, will open in October. Highlight will be exhibition, "The Art of Russia: 1800-1850," at Landmark Center, St. Paul. Other events: theater produc tions, music and dance performances, classes, lectures, films, and a symposium. WASECA--UMW was granted continued accreditation by North Central Association of Colleges an~Schools for 5 years. Action follows self-study last year and on-campus visit in May. Two consultants will be at UMW Aug. 16-17 to evaluate preoccupational preparation program. UMI\ and UMC will staff a booth in the Education building at the Minnesota State Fair. Rt~naissance Art fair will be held Aug. 2~ and will be main focus of 10 a.m. convocation. THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EDUCATOR AND EMPLOYER. Vol. VIII No. 28 Aug. 30, 1978 I Editor: Maureen Smith (612) 373-7507 r,:,;c :: mpu:~es . ITwo lawsuits filed by the U administration Friday in Hennepin County District Court seek i ! injunctive relief from rulings by the Bureau of Mediation Services (BMS) concerning faculty I I bargaining elections. One suit seeks authority to proceed with consideration of revisions I i in tenure code, grievance procedures, consulting policies. Other suit seeks relief from I I ruling against communication of bargaining information by the administration. I I I 1 Bargaining elections still pending in Law School and at UMD. VP Stein said U officials do I not want to stall an election but are using the "time window" provided by an appeal at UMD. i Public Employee Relations Board recently took under advisement the appeal by a Duluth i faculty union of the BMS ruling that the UMD Medical School be included in bargaining unit. l I Senate Select Committee examining the consultative process within the U invites written i testimony from faculty and staff. Comments should be directed to Dennis Watson, Box 196 i f-.!ayo, Minneapolis. Senate Consultative Committee and representatives of the faculty caucus I group will be among groups appearing before the committee. Dean Sabra Anderson, Duluth, i has been appointed to gather information from the coordinate campuses. Weekly committee meetings will begin Sept. 28 at 8:30 a.m. in 1050 Mayo, Minneapolis. Lawrence the Lakewater Trout, a mechanical talking fish, is appearing at the U exhibit at the state fair. Exhibit focuses on ~1innesota's water resources and U projects to improve 1 them. Lawrence has 17 short speeches on such varied topics as why fish have scales and lthe economic importance of tourism in northern ~1innesota. :Open enrollment for adding dependent health or dental insurance or changing carriers 'will continue through Sept. 30. No evidence of insurability is required. U pays full cost of dependent health insurance, half the cost of dependent dental insurance. Employees should apply now to change from Blue Cross/Blue Shield low option to high option coverage (now paid in full). Questions: (612) 373-2115. jcarl Adams, associate professor of management sciences on the TC campus, will serve part ' time as a special assistant to VP Stein to work on long-range planning. Sheldon Goldstein has been named director of U Media Resources, replacing Burton Paulu, who retired. Goldstein has been associate director since 1972. Anne Wirt, research associate for the VP for academic affairs, died Aug. 23. She was 52. Memorial mass will be offered Sept. 12 at 10 a.m. at the Nehman Center in Minneapolis. Family requests that memorials be given to the charity of the donor's choice. CROOKSTON--Gov. Perpich spoke at last week's groundbreaking ceremony for a new library at UMC and praised the campus for its good relationship with the legislature. President Magrath and Diane Magrath will be special guests at traditional dinner for new and returning faculty Sept. 5. In-service sessions and Welcome Week activities for new students also will be next week. Classes begin at UMC Sept. 7. Activities celebrating family life in mid-America are planned for Trojan football home opener Sept. 9. The day has been designated Community Day, and families of faculty from Crookston high schools have been invited to a post-game picnic on the mall. ------·-····---·--·· ·-- . ------ '_, i '"" i'. ·j t:~; Rdatlor I;,' Plans have been postponed indefinitely fq,r a ggurmet dinner at UMC to raise funds for the Humphrey Institute. Benefit had been scheduled for mid~November, hut Sen. Muriel Humphrey has indicated that she will be unable to attend at that time. DULUTH--UMD research activities were profiled in a sesslon with northeastern Minnesota legislators Aug, 24 on campus. Willard Dodge .has been appointed acting dean of the School of Social Development. C. David Hollister, who served as acting dean for the past year, will be on leave during 1978-79. New search committee for permanent dean will be appointed soon. Tweed home, formerly used as the UMD provost's residence, is being offered for sale through a local realtor. Price: $175,000. UMD Child Care Center will again be open this fall, providing licensed day~care services for children of UMD students. Costs are $3.75 for half day, $7.72 for full day, $36.75 weekly. Reduced rates are available for parents who volunteer to work for 2 hours a week. More information: 728-4812. MORRIS--Continuing Education is introducing a pilot program for area women this fall. Program will help women explore professional, personal, and intellectual interests and introduce women to resources available to them through the U. Two courses in real estate will be offered by Continuing Education in the fall. Funda mentals of Real Estate begins Sept. 21 and Advanced Fundamentals, for those who have taken the first course, begins Sept. 14. TWIN CITIES--NCAA Council has imposed sanctions on the U and changed the official NCAA record for the 1976-77 basketball team from 24-3 to 0-27. Individual scoring and perfor mance records of Mychal Thompson, David Winey, and Phillip Saunders will be left intact. Big Ten Conference standings and records are not affected. VP Stein said U officials worked hard to insure that the outstanding accomplishments of the players would not be wiped from the records but are "extremely disappointed" at the action taken against the U with "its unfortunate effect on Coach Dutcher's record." Dutcher was not at the U at the time the infractions occurred. NCAA official said anyone reviewing Dutcher's statistics will be aware of his actual won-lost record as a coach. Associate VP Al Linck is chairing an advisory search committee for a new dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine. Other committee members: faculty members Thomas Fletcher, Richard Goodrich, Samuel Kirkwood, Alan Lipowitz, Paul Quie, R. Ashley Robinson, George Ruth, Mary Walzer; associate scientist Fern Bates; alumnus Kenneth Greiner; student Barry Yano. School of Nursing hopes to increase its graduate student enrollment about 70% (85 students) next year. Dean Ramey said hope is to alleviate critical shortage of nurses with graduate training in Minnesota. Human Resources Development will offer 2 full-day workshops for U supervisors in September: Conflict Resolution Skills Sept. 19 and Problem Solving/Decision Making Sept. 27. Course in medical terminology begins Sept. 26 and will meet Tuesday and Thursday mornings, 8:15- 9, through fall quarter. Creative Retirement Program for civil service employees who are nearing retirement begins Oct. 12; spouses are invited to participate. For registration information call Kathy Brown at 373-4366. WASECA--Final meeting of Campus Assembly for summer quarter will be Aug. 31 at 4 p.m. in Cl31. Recognition of summer quarter grads will be Sept. 5 at, 10 a.m. Summer quarter ends Sept. 8. First football and cross country contests of 1978-79 season will be Sept. 9 at Willmar Community College (football) and Golden Valley Junior College (cross country). THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EDUCATOR AND EMPLOYER. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Vol. VIII No. 29 Sept. 13, 1978 Editor: Maureen Smith (612) 373-7507 ,fl.. weekly internal bulletin serving all campuses ;Fiscal year 1978 ended with the U in the black, but by a narrow margin. VP Brown told the regents that income exceeded expenditures by an estimated $15,000 out of a budget of more than $215 million. "I don't need to explain to you that's a very tight squeeze," he said. Small margin for fiscal 1978 did nothing to pay off the $1 million deficit from 1977, Brown said. Officials are now developing a plan to cover the deficit over the next year or two. Brown said cash flow is large enough so that the deficit hasn't yet affected operations. Regents opposed a tuition plan that would require ~1innesota students to pay a larger share of their educational costs. HECB has given preliminary approval to a plan calling for students to pay about 25% of their instructional costs through tuition. Regents affirmed earlier decision to ask 1979 legislature to reduce the 24% that U students now pay through tuition. Lower percentage rate would not mean reduced tuition but would merely cause tuition to rise less rapidly than in past several years. State University System students now pay about 21% of their instructional costs. Objectives for evaluation of President Magrath were approved by the regents. Magrath will be rated on his administrative and management abilities; effectiveness as a U spokesman; leadership; impact on improving educational opportunity; long-range planning efforts: and relations with legislators, state government, and U faculty, staff, and students. A con sultant--Prof. Joseph Kauffman of the U of Wisconsin--will work with assessment commHtee. ;~~~~~--~~~~~~~~it~u~t~e~· in Navarre was renamed Friday in honor of Richard G. Gray, . , a M1.nneapolls sinessman. In 1968 Gray helped form the Freshwater Biological Foundation, which in turn created the institute that became part of the U in 1976. a graduate student in the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, was awarded Royal Society of Arts si:ver medal by President Magrath at the regents' meeting She graduated summa cum laude from U College last December and plans a career in administration and management. ~~~~----~~--~A~s~s~o~c~ia~t~io~n~ invites students, faculty, staff, and families to join alumni a Zoological Garden Sept. 24. Special discount tickets: adults $2, youth (6-16) $1, children (1-5) free. Tickets available from Alumni Relations, 2610 Ur.lver sity Ave., St. Paul (pick up 9-5 Monday-Friday or order by mail). 1978 revisions of Business Procedures Manual have been completed. Departments that have revised pages should call Human Resources Development at (612) 373-4366. ~~~~~~--Committee will be named to meet periodically with admissions counselors and sions office on ways to promote interest in collegiate technical education. s of Trojan football players will be guests of honor Sept. 16 at game against inerd Community College. Prepared for the Office of the President by the Department of University Relatior and distnbLJted through departmental offices Joint planning committee from UMC, Northland Community College, and East Grand Forks AVTI may be formed as an outgrowth of preliminary discussions, Provost Sahlstrom said recently. UMC has been invited to apply to host the Minnesota Rural Youth Institute sponsored by the Governor's Rural Development Council. One-week program would be on campus next summer. Continuing education classes for fall include computer science, pottery and sculpture, physical fitness, yoga, scuba diving, typing, and the aging process. DULUTH--Herbert Sorenson, president of Duluth State Teachers College (U~ID's predecessor) from 1938 to 1946, will receive a Distinguished Alumni Award from St. Cloud State U Oct. 14. Now retired, Sorenson has written several textbooks in education and taught at U of Kentucky and U of South Florida since leaving DSTC. Arts for the handicapped will be topic of day-long symposium Sept. 23 at UHD. Speakers, movies, and small-group sessions in individual arts are planned. New department heads at U~: Gordon Levine, geography; Marlowe Smaby, psychology. MORRIS--Mary Hicks has been promoted to the post of director of student activities at U~~. succeeding Robert Rodda. She had served as program adviser for student activities. Plans for orientation Sept. 22-25 include keynote address on "Cultural Encounters on Campus Today" by equal opportunity director Lillian Williams and a "new games" festival with opportunities for students and townspeople to participate in noncompetitive group activities. U~'s first home football game Sept. 23 has been designated as the annual Community Bowl game, with a portion of the gate receipts to go to a worthy community activity. TWIN CITIES--Results of controversial Teacher Evaluation.. Project have been published in a supplement to the Twin Cities Reader. Forms for rating teachers were sent last spring to 6,700 graduating seniors, and about 39% completed and returned them. Welcome Week speakers: several faculty on science and technology Sept. 19, 1 p.m., Coffman men's lounge; John Brantner on death and dying Sept. 21, 1 p.m., 285 Ford Hall; Nancy Olkon on women in politics Sept. 22, 11 a.m., Coffman women's lounge. John Najarian will be keynote speaker at first-day-of-classes program Sept. 25, 1 p.m., Coffman theater-lecture hall. Church Street and parking lot next to Northrop are being redesigned to make a "mini mall." Traffic on Church has long been restricted to U buses and service vehicles, but other motorists have continued to use the street. Construction is expected to be completed before fall quarter classes begin Sept. 25. Construction of new Learning Resources Center in St. Paul will begin Sept. 15. Central library has moved all public service functions to former lounge area of Classroom-Office Building. Library will eventually return to enlarged and remodeled facilities. Thomas Fiutak, assistant dean of students at Cornell U, has been appointed director of the Student Activities Center. He replaces Diane Skoma:rs Hagrath, who resigned in June following her marriage to President Magrath. Josef Mestenhauser has been promoted to director of the International Student Adviser's office. He replaces Forrest Moore, who will serve as assistant to VP Wilderson for 1978-79. WASECA --Annual country breakfast Sept. 25 will kick off UMW's 8th year. Other upcoming campus events: open house in conjunction with Corn and Soybean Day at the Southern Experiment Station Sept. 14, annual faculty-staff update conference Sept. 20-21, resident adviser workshop Sept. 22, beginning of Welcome \'leek activities Sept. 22. Richard Brown, William Coleman, and Thomas Lindahl have been elected to the Grievance Committee for Academic Freedom at UMW. Elaine Schwarz will serve as an alternate. Board of directors of UMW Alumni Association meets Sept. 16 to complete plans for homecoming. Rams home season begins that afternoon against Worthington Community College. THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EDUCATOR AND EMPLOYER. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Vol. VIII No. 30 Sept. 27, 1978 Editor: Maureen Smith (612) 373-7507 A weekly internal bulletin serving all campuses Effective system for reallocating institutional resources must be developed, President Magrath said in a draft document now being circulated. Magrath said there will be "ample opportunities for consultation in the development of whatever reallocation mechanism is eventually implemented." At the same time, he said, work on 1979-80 budget must begin soon. Legislative auditor Eldon Stoehr has issued a report criticizing the way Medical School faculty are allowed to earn part of their incomes from private practice without "adequate accountability or control." VP Brown said limits on earnings are monitored meticulously, most U doctors make less than they could in outside practice, and Medical School caliber would drop if private practice fee system were discontinued. Auditor also criticized the U for incomplete disclosure of its finances. Brown said the U feels its legislative request budget should deal only with the activities for which it is seeking state support. State funds provide only about 38% of the U's total income . . Detail of all U budgets is included in the regularly published Annual Report. Minority employees constituted 6.2% of the U's nonstudent work force in April 1976, equal opportunity officer Lillian Williams reported to the regents. In the faculty category, 220 or 5.5% of the 4,323 employees were members of minority groups, but more than half of these were Asians. Blacks, Hispanics, and American Indians were only 2% of the total. I Reversion pol icy has been modified with the goal of generating $600,000 (or . 353% of 1 operating budget) in an attempt to reduce the recurring deficit, provide a modest reserve, and meet soft-money commitments. Details in Sept. 21 memo from President Magrath. I I John Wallace, chairman of the philosophy department on the TC campus since 1976, has been ·appointed associate dean of the Graduate School, subject to regents' approval. Philip Porter, geography professor on the TC campus, has agreed to serve as director of the Office of International Programs but cannot begin until fall 1979 because of a sabbatical leave. LaVern Freeh, assistant dean of the Institute of Agriculture, Forestry, and Home Economics, is assuming the directorship in the interim. New Faculty Information Bulletin is being distributed to TC faculty through campus mail, to new faculty through departmental offices, and to coordinate campus faculty by U Relations offices on ~ach campus. Additional copies are available from U Relations, S-68 Morrill Hall, TC campus, phone (612) 373-2126. HERS Workshop for academic and professional women will be Oct. 7 on the TC campus. Target audience is advanced graduate students and recently hired academic and professional women from all campuses of the U. For info call Minnesota Women's Center at (612) 373-3850. CROOKSTON--Provost Sahlstrom reported on UMC's international student and faculty exchange program at a conference in Edmonton, Alberta. Meeting was second in recent weeks to plan an association of colleges and universities in the Midwest and central Canadian provinces. Consortium would be formed to promote student exchanges. Fuel conservation plans at UMC were discussed when the college hosted a House select COltllili ttee on energy this week. Prepared for the Office of the President by t!'e Department of Ur11versity Relatior and distributed through departmental off1ces "UMC' s Image" will be the topic at first of two civil service workshops planned for fall. Provost Sahlstrom will lead the discussion Sept. 28 and 29, 4-4:30 p.m., in Dowell Hall 128. First two of an anticipated 20 students from Nigeria have arrived at UMC. Students chose UMC for programs in mechanized agriculture and hotel, restaurant, and institutional management. Group will number more than total number of international students in any year since college's international exchange program began. Homecoming festivities this weekend include game with Vermilion Community College, reunion of class of 1968, Alumni Association annual meeting, dinner dances in two locations. DULUTH--Northeast Minnesota Historical Center has received a grant from state historical society to do a series of oral history interviews with Duluth women involved in politics. First of a series of programs on "wellness lifestyles" will be Sept. 27 and 28 in Kirby Student Center. Keith Sehnert, author of How To Be Your Own Doctor, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 27 and John Brantner from TC campuswiiT talk Dil11 Psychology of Intoxification" at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 28. Booths and workshops are planned during daytime. Two noon "brown bag" classes wi 11 be offered by CEE this fall: "Hamlet" taught by Lewis Levang and "You and Your Financial Planning" taught by William Kuhlmann. Details: 726-8113. MORRIS--Fifth annual Midwest Philosophy Colloquium theme is epistemology; related evening lecture series is titled "Why Philosophy? The Value of Philosophy in a Technocratic Society." First speaker, Robert Audi of the U of Nebraska, will discuss philosophy and public policy Oct. 4 at 8 p.m. in Humanities Fine Arts recital hall. Peg Michels Peterson has been named associate director of the West Central Minnesota Research Center and will assume primary responsibility for the center while director Wilbert Ahern serves as acting dean for academic affairs. TWIN CITIES--Sunao Sonoda, Japanese foreign m1n1ster, and Fumihiko Togo, ambassador to the U.S., visited campus Friday. Sonoda received the Regents' Distinguished International Service Award. Nation of Japan recently gave $1 million to the Humphrey Institute. Festival of 19th century Russian arts will bring several distinguished Soviet scholars and performers to the TC area. The "Art of Russia: 1800-1850" exhibit will open in the Landmark Center in St. Paul Oct. 7. Lecture series will begin Oct. 3 with talk by Donald Treadgold on "The Russian Idea in the 19th Century" in Willey Hall, 8 p.m. Most route 52 commuter buses are now operating on a detour route on the East Bank and will return to regular route with stops along Church St. Oct. 2. Routes 52J, H, and S are operating on a revised route with stops on Union St. until further notice. (West Bank stops remain unchanged.) Questions about schedules: call 373-0374. Civil service employees who are interested in planning for their retirement are invited to attend the next Creative Retirement Program beginning Oct. 12 for six 2-hour sessions, 2-4 p.m. Call Kathy Brown at 373-7898 for more information. Lecture: "The Process of Technology Assessment" by Kenneth J. Arrow (James Bryant Conant professor at Harvard and 1972 Nobel Prize winner); Oct. 4, 3:30p.m., 350 Anderson. WASECA--UMW campus grounds were selected for the grand award in the best-maintained school or university grounds category of the 1978 grounds maintenance award program sponsored by the Professional Grounds Management Society. Brad Pedersen of the faculty , former grounds maintenance supervisor, will receive the award next month in Indianapolis. Construction has begun on an addition to and remodeling of the plant service area of the campus to provide vehicle repair area, maintenance shop, storage area, and offices. About 20 Nigerian students are enrolled at UMW this fall in technical agricultural education. New apartments that will house 64 students will be occupied within a few days. In the interim, the students are staying in local motels. THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EDUCATOR AND EMPLOYER. UNIVERSITY Of MINNESOTA Vol. VIII No. 31 Oct. 4, 1978 Editor: Maureen Smith (612) 373-7507 . Working group to develop interim criteria and guidelines for the 1979-80 budget is chaired I by Associate VP Al Linck and includes David Preston, William Gardner, Warren Ibele, Ken 1 Keller, Fred Morrison, and Jim Clark, with Carl Adams as observer and David Berg as staff. Reallocation of resources must occur if the U is to remain vital: this is the assumption of everyone involved in the planning process, ~Iarrison told the Senate Consultative Commit tee (SCC) Thursday. Other SCC members said reallocation does not seem inevitable to every one and said the draft reallocation document has confused and demoralized many people. Any future retrenchment will include all units of the U and the burden on academic units will thus be lessened, Keller said. "For the first time we're being asked to develop II guidelines for nonacademic units." Although a welcome step, he said, formulation of these I guidelines will be "the hardest part of what we're going to do." I confusion has resulted from listing of dates in reallocation document, sec members said. i "Deans and department heads don't know what's expected of them," Betty Robinett said. VP i Brown explained later that real deadlines are given in timetable for 1979-80 budget but ! illustrative dates are given in overall permanent schedule that is proposed. I IHigher Education Coordinating Board has given final approval to a plan to increase the percentage of instructional costs paid by tuition, despite opposition from U regents and \ officials and heads of other educational systems. Recommendation will go to legislature. I Judge Donald T. Barbeau of Hennepin County District Court has ruled that Nathan Stein, who says he was paralyzed because of staff negligence at U Hospitals, can sue for damages. Stein's injury occurred at a time when the U was protected from lawsuits under "sovereign immunity." Case is expected to go to the state supreme court. Early childhood development and family research at the U will be discussed at an informal program for legislators Oct. 10 at the Campus Club in Minneapolis. Speakers: Shirley Moore and Alan Sroufe, Mary Lou Gilstad, Diane Hedin and Michael Baizerman, Hamilton McCubbin, and Robert Leik. Not open to the public. Andrew Hein, assistant dean of the Graduate School, was on a 7-member committee that wrote a report on "The Bakke Decision: Implications for Higher Education Admissions." Report was released Sept. 11 and is described in Sept. 18 Chronicle of Higher Education. Proposals for improving undergraduate education may be submitted until Oct. 30 to the Council on Liberal Education Small Grants Program. About $20,000 is still available to support work in 1978-79 by faculty members, faculty groups, or faculty-student groups. Info: Center for Educational Development (CED), 317 Walter, Minneapolis; (612) 373-4537. CED staff will conduct a workshop Oct. 12, 3:15-4:30 p.m., in 60 Architecture, TC campus. Focus will be on the purposes of the Small Grants Program and its use in improving undergraduate education, with tips on developing effective projects and proposals. CROOKSTON--Matching grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board totaling $8,900 has been approved for design and creation of a sculpture on the UMC campus mall. ------·--··---·------' Prepared for the Office of the Pres:cJent ty rhe Uc~p;:ntrmnt of University Relatlor and d1·;tnbuted tr1mu~l1 "+'-,.lC'ntal cffrce:s List of artifacts is being compiled and memorabilia collected for a cornerstone dedicatory ceremony to take place when the new food service building is completed. UMC officials hope ground will be broken for the facility some time this fall. Continuing Education will sponsor a puppet workshop Oct. 10, 8: 30-noon, in ARC 114. One of the objectives is to teach people how to use puppets to help disturbed children. Members of the Minnesota Vocational Agriculture Instructors Association will meet at UMC Oct. 12. About 50 MVIA members will be guests at a dinner meeting in Bede Hall. DULUTH--Marjorie Austin, director of admissions at UMD since 1967, has been named assistant dean for student affairs of the UMD School of Business and Economics. Gerald Allen, registrar, will be acting director of admissions in addition to regular duties. Rudy Boschwitz, I-R candidate for senate, will speak at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Kirby lounge. The Environment Times, edited by Provost Heller, is now available nationally and overseas by subscription; it is a monthly magazine of the National Association of Geology Teachers. MORRIS--Stan Waterman, cinematographer for "The Deep, 11 will talk on underwater photography Oct. 10 at 8:15p.m. in Edson auditorium. Free for UMM students; others $1.50. TWIN CITIES--Paul F. Dwan-Variety Club Cardiovascular Center (Health Sciences Unit K-E) will be named in ceremonies Oct. 5. The $8.5 million building contains interdisciplinary research labs and teaching space for the basic sciences. Dwan, a clinical professor emeritus of pediatrics, began the fund drive in 1971 with a $2.4 million gift. Louis Tobian, who has headed the Medical School's hypertension section since 1964, will receive an award and a $10,000 prize from the American Heart Association's Council for High Blood Pressure Research Oct. 5 in Cleveland, Ohio. Memorial service fo~ J~ Arthur Myers, long-time Medical School faculty member and expert on tuberculosis, will be Oct. 10 at 3:30 p.m. in Coffman theater-lecture hall. Gaylord Anderson, dean emeritus of School of Public Health, will give eulogy. Myers died Sept. 11 at age 89. Consolidated Fund Drive this month seeks support for United Way and Student Aid Fund. Theme is "Vote Yes on Proposition U." United Way goals are $195,000 for Minneapolis and $36,850 for St. Paul, up 6% from last year's g1v1ng. N. L. Gault is voluntary director of the drive on the Minneapolis campus and Robert Erickson is directing the St. Paul drive. Pharmacology department is looking for U faculty members to help develop a research training program in toxicology. Contact Marion Anders, 289 Lyon Labs, 373-5112. Space is available in self-awareness and assertive communication workshop Wednesdays, 6-9 p.m., Oct. 11-Nov. 15. Call Kathy Brown at 373-7898. Lectures: Richard Obershaw on coping with grief; Oct. 12, 10:30 a.m., 555 Diehl Hall. Lutper Brady on integration of various treatment methods in the control of cancer (Ethel N. Ruvelson Lecture); Oct. 12, 8 p.m., Mayo auditorium. WASECA--Deputy commissioner Norm Dybdahl and Mark Ferkul of Minnesota Department of Finance reviewed the 1979-81 capital improvement request for U~~ during a visit Oct. 3. First fall meeting of the Campus Assembly will be Oct. 5 at 4 p.m. in Cl31. Reception for new faculty and staff will be given by Provost E.C. and Shirley Frederick at their home Oct. 8. THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EDUCATOR AND EMPLOYER. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Vol. VIII No. 32 Oct. 11, 1978 A weekly internal bulletin serving all campuses Editor: Maureen Smith (612) 373-7507 Open forum for faculty members to share their views and concerns with President Magrath will be Oct. 18, 3:15-4:15 p.m., at the Campus Club in Minneapolis. Magrath said he plans similar meetings at other U locations in the coming year. Tour of Glensheen, the mansion willed to the U by the late Elizabeth Congdon, will be among the activities of the regents when they meet Oct. 12-13 in Duluth area. Meetings will be at Glensheen, at UMD, and at the Cloquet Forestry Center. Fall enrollment may be announced by President Magrath in his report to the regents Friday. Also on the agenda: discussion of a long-range development plan for the Duluth campus, final selection of a site for the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. Ken Keller, chemical engineering professor who has been active in U governance, has been named faculty legislative liaison for the 1979 session. He will be released from teaching duties half-time during winter quarter to help with presentation of legislative request. Tough challenge will face U leaders who try to sell the legislative request, President 1Magrath said in an Oct. 3 letter to members of the U community. He cited lawmakers' 1sensitivity to concerns of taxpayers, governor's stringent budget guidelines, and !comparatively modest increases requested by the other state systems. ! lcivil rights lawyer Ralph Smith, on the TC campus Oct. 4, said few universities will have 'to change their admissions practices as a result of the Bakke ruling, but financial laid programs could be in jeopardy if they set aside specific amounts of money for minority students. Smith said issues have not been resolved, predicted more lawsuits. President Magrath is among "100 Young Leaders of the Academy" featured in Change magazine for October. He is quoted saying that "contrary to what some critics and educational Cassandras tell us, the American academy has not lost the confidence of the public." CROOKSTON--Sunflower Bowl Oct. 21 pays tribute to the sunflower industry's effect on the Red River Valley's agricultural economy. Homecoming queens from high schools throughout northwestern Minnesota and Grand Forks, N.D., will compete for the Miss Sunflower Bowl title. Trojans meet Itasca Community College Vikings in last home football game. Bach's Lunch Day was Oct. 9. Dining hall was closed, an ensemble from the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra gave a free concert, and box lunches were served to students, faculty, staff. DULUTH--National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice has awarded $249,000 contract to Burt Galaway, School of Social Development, and Hamilton (Joe) Hudson, state Department of Corrections, for a national assessment of adult restitution programs. College of Education and Iron Range Historical Society are developing series of curriculum material on Iron Range history. Teams of teachers are writing materials on immigration, mining development, communities, ethnicity of the area. Materials will be ready for use next fall. Project is supported by $42,000 grant from Ethnic Heritage Program of HEW. Prepared for the Office of the President by the Department of University Relatior and distributed through departmental offices Crafts from across the state will be part of a juried exhibition of the Minnesota Crafts Council Oct. 15-Nov. 19 in UMD's Tweed Museum of Art. Exhibit includes 200 entries in ceramics, fibers, glass, metal, and wood. UMD mathematics department will host the annual math meeting of the Lake Superior Association of Colleges and Universities Oct. 21. For info contact Mark Luker at 726-8240. MORRIS--Dayton Ballet Company from Dayton, Ohio, will be at UMM Oct. 12-14 for a residency that will include a master class, a lecture-demonstration, a seminar on lighting, and evening concert performances Oct. 13 and 14 at 8:15p.m. in proscenium theater of Humanities Fine Arts. TWIN CITIES--Three high-ranking officials from the Ministry of Culture of the U.S.S.R. visited the Twin Cities last weekend for the opening of "The Art of Russia: 1800-1850." President C. Peter and Diane Magrath were hosts at a private dinner Saturday evening. Homecoming will be Nov. 4, but pre-homecoming activities will begin Oct. 15 with a 5- and 10-kilometer mini-marathon along the West River Road. Registration is $4, with proceeds to go to a scholarship fund. Registration forms are available at Superamerica stores, the student unions, the homecoming office in Temporary North of Mines, and the Recreational Sports office in Cooke Hall. Thirty CLA professors will lecture or appear on panels at "CLA Today" Oct. 21. Among the talks: "What We Now Know About Madness" by Norman Garmezy, "Landscapes of Fear" by Yi-Fu Tuan. Dean Lukermann will speak on "CLA's Future." Arthur Naftalin will give luncheon speech on the "Taxpayers' Revolt." Cost is $10. .For info call 373-0381. Joe Glazer, one of the country's best known interpreters of work and labor songs, will present a concert Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. for the benefit of the Immigration History Research Center. Tickets are $3 and are available from the center at 826 Berry St., St. Paul. U.S. national women 1s volleyball team will meet Japanese team Oct. li at Williams Arena. Warm-up at 7 p.m., game at 8 p.m. Tickets on sale at the Bierman ticket office. Lecture: Raymond U. Lemieux on "Typing Reagents for Important Human Antigenic Determinants by Way of Chemical Synthesis" (Fred Smith Memorial Lecture); Oct. 16, 3:30p.m., 175 Science Classroom Building. WASECA--Representatives of Control Data will meet with faculty Oct. 11 to discuss computer assisted instruction and the impact of computers on agricultural indust~y. Dean N.B. Basnyat of the Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science, Tribhuvan University, Nepal, will visit UMl~ Oct. 11 as part of a study of American agricultural colleges. THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EDUCATOR AND EMPLOYER. -uNIVERSiTY OF rvHNNESOTA Vol.VIII No. 33 Oct. 18, 1978 Editor: ~Iaureen Smith (612) 373-7507 A wet'k'y 1'1tunal bulletin serving ail campuses Record enrollments at UMD, UMC, and UMW brought fall enrollment to 55,203, up 126 from last year and second only to the record enrollments of 2 years ago. Enrollment by campus: Twin Cities 44,828 (up from 44,778), Duluth 6,809 (up from 6,744), Morris 1,433 (down from 1,561), Crookston 1,083 (up from 1,036), and Waseca 1,050 (up from 958). Proposed $12 million large-animal hospital for the St. Paul campus is among $100 million in funds for new buildings that the administration hopes to request from the 1979 and 1980 legislatures. President Magrath presented the total proposed request to the regents Friday in Duluth. Action on the request is due at the board's Nov. 10 meeting. Large-animal hospital proposal sparked discussion about the proposed expansion of College of Veterinary Medicine facilities. Expansion had been planned with a Minnesota-Wisconsin reciprocity agreement in mind, but Wisconsin has since decided to build its own school. Proposed building request includes $3 million in system-wide funds for improvement in access for the handicapped to U facilities and $4 million for such items as removal of trees with dutch elm disease, energy conservation improvements, and upgrading of facilities to meet the standards of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Regents criticized the administration of student aid funds by HECB, which recently announced that it had a surplus of $5 million in unspent student aid. There is not too much money, but there are too many restrictions on use of the funds, they said. Regent Latz said the maximum income limits have not increased with inflation. Site for construction of a building for the Humphrey Institute on the Minneapolis campus was approved by the regents. Building will be on the site of the Science Classroom Building on the east end of the Washington Ave. bridge. Various committees will decide how much of the institute's funds will be spent on the facility. Long-range development plan for the Duluth campus was presented to the regents. Among recommendations: increased research space; a new central entrance; a "ring road" traffic system; and more space for parking, housing, and recreation. Regent Wenda Moore will tour the People's Republic of China later this month. Regents passed motion asking Moore to invite students from China to attend the U. People's Repub lic recently said it would send 10,000 Chinese students to study at foreign universities. Senate Select Committee met with President Magrath Oct. 5 and with representatives of the Faculty Caucus Oct. 12. Faculty and other members of the U community may contact com mittee members individually if they wish to comment on the consultation process and administrative structure of the U. Committee also solicits written testimony. Members of the select committee are Sabra Anderson, Rutherford Aris, Ellen Berscheid, Robert Brasted, Richard Caldecott, Nils Hasselmo, Leonid Hurwicz, Becky Kroll, Donald Rasmusson, Michael Root, Philip Ryan, and Dennis Watson (chair). CROOKSTON--U Relations and Admissions offices have compiled a pocket-sized directory of info for prospective students and visitors to UMC. Copies will be distributed to faculty and staff for use when acquaintances ask for information. UMC students will dress in the style of the 1950s for "Grease Day" Oct. 24. "Fashion Flashbacks" that evening will raise money for educational field trips for students in fashion coordination. Kiehle auditorium, 7:30p.m., $1 in advance, $1.50 at the door. Stan Friedman, one-time nuclear physicist who now lectures throughout the country on ufology, will speak on "Flying Saucers Are Real" Oct. 25 at 8 p.m. in Kiehle auditorium. French cuisine will be on the menu when students in the restaurant management class operate "L'Ecole de Fete" Oct. 27 and 28 at the Trojan Inn. Advance reservations requested. DULUTH--Thea Johnson Lecture Series has been established to bring leading scholars and thinkers to mm. Series is funded by a trust left by Thea Johnson, Duluth furrier who died in 1975. Wayne C. Booth of U of Chicago will be first speaker, .Nov. 2. Homecoming events begin with bonfire and pep rally Wednesday. Also planned are chariot race Friday noon, student dance Friday night, alumni dinner Friday night, luncheon honoring Duluth State Teachers College graduates Saturday. UMD plays Notre Dame Friday night in hockey; football team meets St. Cloud State Saturday afternoon. Info: 726-8197. Student Association is sponsoring free legal aid clinics for students Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. in 101 Kirby Student Center. U~ID professor and humanities coordinator Fred Schroeder will deliver the Sigrid Mitchell Memorial Lecture Oct. 25 at 9 a.m. in Tweed ~1useum lecture gallery. He will use slides and readings to show how items from the past can have meaning today. Series is in memory of a Duluth civic and cultural leader. Coping with stress will be topic of "wcllness lifestyles" programs Oct. 26 in Kirby ballroom. Human sexuality is topic at 10 a.m., typical student problems at 1:30 p.m.; movie on depression among college students at 2 p.m. Campus Assembly will meet Oct. 26 at 3 p.m. in Life Science 175. MORRIS--UMW s 16th homecoming is Oct. 20-22. Cougars, still undefeated in Northern Intercollegiate Conference, take on Bemidji State at 1:30 p.m. Saturday. Other events include bonfire and pep fest Friday; reception for alumni hosted by Provost Imholte Saturday; rock concert featuring Lamont Cranston Saturday; and Sunday-afternoon concert by the ml}.1 concert band, U chorus, and chamber choir. UMM will host a post-high-school planning program for high school seniors and their parents Oct. 24. Representatives from some 80 universities and colleges, community colleges, vocational schools, trade schools, and the military will be on hand. Program will be 1-6 and 7-9 p.m. in PE Center. TWIN CITIES--CLA is "in a state of well-organized poverty" but has continued to maintain broad offerings and services, Dean Lukermann said in Oct. 12 issue of nb. "We either stop now, cut back and reallocate, or go on spiralling downward," he said. Lukermann proposed return "to priorities set by academic policy and programmatic needs." Faculty Women's Club reception for members and prospective members will be Oct. 21, 2-4 p.m., in the Campus Club, 5th floor, Coffman. Women faculty and staff and wives of faculty and staff of a rank equivalent to instructor or above are invited. Info: 644-7491. Dairy team won first place in national intercollegiate dairy judging contest at Madison, Wis., Oct. 4 during the World Dairy Expo. Lectures: "Swedish Disarmament Policy" by Ingrid Sundberg, member of Swedish Parliament; Oct. 20, 2:15p.m., 850 Social Sciences. "Negotiations on r>1utual Balanced Forced Reductions and Detente in Central Europe: A Progress Report" by P. Terrence Hopmann, Oct. 23, noon, 850 Social Sciences (bag lunch). WASECA--Homecoming begins with coronation Thursday evening. Game Saturday against Austin Community College is also the annual Pigskin Bowl game between the 2 teams. International Agriculture Emphasis Week will be Oct. 22-28. THE UNIVERSITY OF mNNESOTA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EDUCATOR AND EMPLOYER. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Vol. VIII No. 34 Oct. 25, 1978 Editor: Maureen Smith (612) 373-7507 /\ weekiy interne! bull0tin serving all campuses Timetable for consultation on 1979-80 budget guidelines has been set. President Magrath will issue proposed guidelines by Oct. 30; U Committee on Biennial Request and Budget Review (UCBRBR) will meet Nov. 1 and Senate Consultative Committee (SCC) Nov. 2. UCBRBR and SCC will hold joint public hearing the afternoon of Nov. 15, with phone hookup to coordinate campuses. Informal discussions are also expected on all campuses. Magrath will consider all input (due Nov. 22) and then issue final budget guidelines. Collegiate budgets will be due late in January or early in February, and administration's proposed budget will be ready in March. People who participated in reallocation 7 years ago are pessimistic about how much chance there is for item-by-item review, UCBRBR chair person Fred Morrison told the SCC, but "we lvould like a crack at it." Advantage this time is that the administration is assuming more responsibility for staff analysis, he said. President Magrath met with about 20 TC campus faculty members at an open forum Oct. 18. Questions were asked about reallocation, affirmative action, parking priorities, and appointment of a half-time associate dean of the Graduate School without an open search. Some speakers said faculty are "demoralized" and feel that "the voice of the academic is not being heard." Larry Mitchell, English, said faculty could "sleep easier at night and teach easier in the daytime" if they had confidence in the administration. Reallocation doeument (the long-term plan) is only a draft and is available from his office, Magrath said. "It's not a secret document. The whole purpose is to stimulate discussion." In response to other faculty comments, Magrath said the academic VP has "far more influence than you perceive" and deans are "forceful advocates for their faculties." Magrath and faculty members agreed that the forum was useful. Count of registrants in 1977-78 CEE classes has been released. Number of'credit course registrations was 81,796, down 734 from previous year. Registrations were down 3.5% in Twin Cities, down 7.9% in Rochester, up 20.8% in Duluth, up 93.8% in Morris. Noncredit registrations on all campuses were up an average of 15.7%. Central Mail List Services maintains a file of addresses of faculty, staff, and alumni and some specialized lists; smaller lists can be selectively compiled. Computer-generated lists or labels can be ordered for $11 per thousand. Lists cannot be used for political or commercial purposes or personal business. Call (612) 373-2357 for information. CROOKSTON--Dean James Tammen, College of Agriculture, TC campus, met with Agriculture Division, Administrative Committee, and faculty members on his first visit to UMC Oct. 23. Counselors and food science teachers from northwestern Minnesota and eastern North Dakota will be at UMC Oct. 27 for hotel, restaurant, and institutional management activities day. Clergy day at UMC will be Nov. 2. Area clergy of all denominations will hear extension agent Marlin Johnson talk on "The Future of Northwestern Minnesota Agriculture." Theme of conference is Minnesota farming and its relationship to world food production. Topic at afternoon session will be the Christian presence on the college campus. ' L_ ------·------·--~-·-·------·--·------·-~-~.! l I I Prepared for ti:e CJH c·· , · ,, ' · ·... · · ') r~ '' ! ~~ r L ! Oi , ; . __, , : ; :·, , ' · -i r- : · r r_ ~ ~ _ :'-, · i ,_,·, Otto Bremer Foundation, on behalf of 4 member banks in the Crookston area, has given $8,000 to the UMC scholarship fund. Check was accepted last week by Provost Sahlstrom. Campus sculpture committee chaired by Michael Smith has been formed to direct fund-raising activities for a modernistic sculpture on the UMC mall; Minnesota State Arts Board has approved a matching grant. DULUTH--200 area high school mus1c1ans will participate in the 19th annual string clinic Nov. 7-8 in Marshall Performing Arts Center. Sponsor is music department. Minnesota Chamber Players group has been formed by music faculty. Musicians are available for concerts, recitals, and clinics on an individual basis or as ensembles. Group's first concert is Oct. 29 at 4 p.m. in Bohannon 90; donations will go for music scholarships. State Arts Board will sponsor meeting on arts activities in communities Oct. 30 in Tweed Museum. Sessions, beginning at 9:30a.m., will explore project ideas, planning, promotion. Spirituality will be considered as part of .a wellness lifestyle Nov. 1. James Kwako will speak on 11 Spirituality, Wellness, and l\lholeness" at 1 p.m. in Kirby ballroom. Panel and small group sessions follow at 2 and 3 p.m. MORRIS--Women's Evening on Campus will be Nov. 2 in Humaniti~s Fine Arts center recital hall. Minnesota public services commissioner Juanita Satterlee will speak on "One Woman's Journey: People, Places, and Problems Along the Way" following 7 p.m. registration. Series of presentations is planned to give a sampling of resources available through UMM. Open House for high school seniors Nov. 4 will include introduction to campus, chance to meet with facuH.y and administrators, and football game against Moorhead State at 1:30 p.m. TWIN CITIES--College of Forestry celebrates 75th anniversary this year. Minnesota Forestry Issues Symposium and a banquet will be Nov. 9 at the Radisson-St. Paul. Dean emeritus Frank Kaufert is 1 of 3 alumni who will receive Outstanding Achievement Awards. CLA's futJ.Jre is also the U's future, Dean Lukermann said at "CLA Today" program Oct. 21. Lukermann noted recent attacks on liberal education, said 11 CLA has really only one thing to sell and that's its faculty," and said the core of liberal education is inquiry. "Education is not about answers," he said. "All our answers so far have been wrong." Marching band will present its 17th annual fall indoor concert Oct. 29 and Nov. 12 and 19, all at 3 p.m. i~ Northrop. Proceeds are used to pay for the band's annJ.Jal appearance at an out-of-town Gopher football game. Director O'Neill Sanford said 2nd and 3rd perfor mances are traditionally sold out. Tickets are on sale for $3.50 (students $2.50). Minnesota Symposium on Child Psychology will be Oct. 26-28. Among speakers are Robert Emde, Bernard Weiner, F.F. Strayer, Jeanne and Jack Block, Thomas Shultz, and John Gottman. Details will appear in the Daily, or call 373-2387 for information. Microcomputer seminar will be Oct. 31 in Murphy auditorium, with a general session 9-11:30 a.m. and a technical session 1:30-4:30 p.m. Info: 373-4361. Lectures: "The Secretory Process Revisited" by Nobel laureate George E. Palade (Arnold Lazarow Memorial Lecture); Oct. 31, 5 p.m., 2-650 Health Sciences Unit A. "The Classical Tradition in Rhetoric" by George A. Kennedy; Nov. 2, 3:15 p.m., 308 Folwell. WASECA--About 125 high school FFA and 4-H students will be at UMW Oct. 25 for a judging contest sponsored by the animal industries club. 1977 get-acquainted issue of the Waseca Daily Journal rece,ived a merit award from the Minnesota Education Association in a statewide contest for media support of education. Events: Child abuse workshop and mini-course sponsored by the Home and Family Services division Oct. 27-28. Parents' Day in conjunction with women's volleyball contests against Rochester and North Hennepin Community Colleges Oct. 28. THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EDUCATOR AND E~WLOYER. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Vol. VIII No. 35 Nov. 1, 1978 ;.\ /v'E:("k!y int,'IT!ili btJ!l1:tin serving all cJr~1puses Editer: Haureen Smith (612) 373-7507 Proposed guideline~ outlining the process and criteria te be used in planning the internal budget fo:r 1979-80 were released today. Interim document is for planning next year's budget while long-term reallocation process is undergoing discussion by Senate committees. Retrenchment and reallocation process wi 11 be bui It upon the 1972-73 budget process, as recommended in the ·draft reallocation document. Retrenchment target is $3 million, or i about L 7% ef the eligible budget base. In 1972-73, the process involved abeut $6 million,! :or 6~s of a $100 million base. Base is now clese to $175 million. I Senate Consultative Committee (SCC) wi 11 discuss the interim guidelines at Nov. 2 meeting ! on the St. Paul campus. SCC also will make its recommendations on the capital request and heaT presentations on the College of Agriculture. Open brearil'\g on the bud-get guidelines will follow TC Campus Assembly meeting Nov. 16 .at the Earle Brown Center in St. Paul; budget discussion will begin about 4:30 p.m. U-wide :hearing with plu:me hookups to the coordinate campuses will he Nov. 15. Mabmeod Zaidi, sec chair. said faculty participation in budget de 1 iberations is "esse,ntial.'' ;Beer .and tuitioR were among the topics dis.cussed when President Magrath ·met with student leaders Oct. 2:6 on the TC campus. Magrath said he would support the preposal by student body president Al Senstad that beer be served in student unions if the students put forward a "respcmsible" pLan that Magrath could take to the regents . .:Beer sales .could reduce the .amount of student fee income necessary to sapport the unions as well as provide a more relaxed atmosphere for students, ·Senstad said. n;rf our student unions, built with student money, turn into ghost towns at 4 p.m. each day--which happens ail too often--something is missing," he said. I Se.nstarl and Magrath agreed on the goal 0f holding tuition as low as possible but disagreed I on how best to .appr(}ach the legislature. 'Regents 1 pol icy, which Magrath rec(}mmended., has I no proposed tuition ·ceiling. Student government position has been to .ask the legislat·ure ' to hold tuition increases to the level .of increases in the cost of Jiving. .Senst.ad said student-supported lobbyists will present their case to the legislature. :Minneapolis architecture firm has been selected to design the building for the Humphrey [nstitute on the 'rC campus. Leonard Parker Asseciates, wh(} also designed the Law School building, were chosen by the State Designer Selection Board. Median .t.ota1 t.ab for tuition, fees, and room and board at major U.S. public universities rose 7 .'8% for 1978-79 over last year, according to the National Association of State Unive.rsiti.es and Land-Grant Co1lege.s. Increase for resident students on the TC campus was about 6%, with average resident tuition up from $927 to $990 and room and board up from $1592 to $1680. Consumer Price Index rose 6.8% during the same time. Faculty applications for single-quarter leaves in 1979-8{) are due Nov. 20 in .deans' or provosts' offices. Information is .available in departmental and college offices. Staff memboers may request time off without loss of salary to vote during the morning of Nov. 7. Supervisors should bas.e permission on a reasonable .estimate of time needed. Prepared for the Off1ce of the President by tl:t" Department of LJn,vcrs;+y Relatior and d;st~ibuted tr:muph c!eucP-tmental c/f1c:s CROOKSTON--For the 4th season in the past 5, the Trojans will represent the northern division in the ~1innesota 2-year college football championship game. Trojans went undefeated in conference play. Championship game will be Nov. 11 at Macalester Stadium. UMC officials are meeting with representatives from Northland Community College and the East Grand Forks AVTI to formulate a joint curriculum planning and review agency. Faculty from Home and Family Services will lead area high school students in a series of classroom demonstrations Nov. 9. DULUTH---Campus advisory committee will be appointed to develop details of plan for foreign study by UMD students. In plan adopted by Campus Assembly Oct. 26, UMD faculty would offer regular classes in London. Idea is that the classes, most of them in liberal arts, will gain value from the foreign setting. "Perspectives on Swedish Immigration, 11 compilation of papers presented at Swedish Heritage Conference at UMD in April 1976, has been published by the Swedish Pioneer Historical Society, Chicago. ~1aterial was edited by Nils Hasselmo, TC campus. Handicapped Students Service Program and Career Planning and PlaGement Office are cooperating on career program for handicapped students. Program will include on-the-job internships, career planning, help with job hunting. Information on federal regulations and job modification will be available to employers. Advertising's effect on stereotyping and self images of women will be topic of presenta tion at 8 p.m. Nov. 6 in Kirby ballroom. Speaker is Jean Kilbourne, assistant director of the New England Screen Education Association. Alumni Association is holding a "UMD night" for graduates Nov. 1 in Hibbing. MORRIS--Cougar football fans can now see delayed broadcasts of all games Sundays at 9 p.m. on Channel 5, Morris. Project also gives speech-communication students experience in taping and production. Cougars are still ranked first in the nation in NCAA division 3. UMM Center for Continuing Education is sponsoring 2 workshops Nov. 14. Workshop on family violence will be 9:15 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Federated Church in Morris; one on conducting effective meetings 1vill be 8:30a.m. to 4:30p.m. at the Sunwood Inn. Details: 589-2482. TWIN CITIES--Largest parade in recent homecoming history is planned for Nov. 4 at 11 a.m., beginning at Sanford Ilall and concluding at Williams Arena. Homecoming barbecue, open to the public, will begin at 11 a.m. in Williams Arena; admission is $2.50. Homecoming theme is the 1920s, and week-long series of jazz-era music and classic films are scheduled~ Gophers meet Indiana Hoosiers at 1 p.m. Saturday in Memorial Stadium. Reported crimes on campus show a slight decline for the first 9 months of the year, from 1507 in 1977 to 1440 this year. Biggest problem is larcenies, with 959 reported cases (up from 853). Offenses against persons: 30 assaults each year, no rapes. Robert Redford will star in an upcoming 20th Century-Fox film that will be a_ fictionalized version of the experiences of criminal justice studies professor Tom Murton when he was warden at the Arkansas State Penitentiary Cummins Prison Farm in the 1960s. Civil service staff members interested-in attending the business procedures course on the St. Paul campus starting Nov. 14 should call Kathy Brown at 373-7898. Luncheon Nov. 16 for civil service staff on St. Paul campus includes lecture-demonstration on "Energy Today and Tomorrow.'' Call 373-1083 for information or box-lunch reservations. Lecture: "Recombinant DNA: The Science and the. Politics" by Stanley Cohen; Nov. 2, noon, North Star Ballroom, St. Paul _Student Center. WASECA--Officers and executive committee members will be elected at Campus Assembly meeting Nov. 2 at 4 p.m. in Cl31. THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EDUCATOR AND EMPLOYER. UNIVERSITY l\11NNESOTA Vol. VIII No. 36 Nov. 8, 1978 l, ' Editor: Mauree.n Smith (612) 373-7507 i-\ '/ :\•. in serving ail campuses Public hearing on proposed reallocation guidelines will be Nov. 15 at 3:15p.m. in 238 Morrill Hall, Minneapolis, with phone hookups to the coordinate campuses. Faculty and regent concerns about their roles in a time when the U is not growing may be discussed Nov. 8 when regents meet with faculty members of Senate Consultative Committee (SCC). Regents will meet with the board of governors of U Hospitals Nov. 9. Proposed $100 million capital request will be considered by regents Nov. 9. Request includes $16.5 million for a civil and mineral engineering building in Minneapolis, $12.5 million for a large-animal hospital in St. Paul, $7 million for first phase of a structure in St. Paul for agronomy and plant genetics, plant pathology, and soil science. Music building in Minneapolis, for which the 1978 legislature provided planning money, is listed for continued planning and land acquisition. President Magrath said the U will explore the possibility of locating a new facility on the riverbank and obtaining private grants to cover any costs beyond the $12.4 million suggested by the legislature. Regents' docket also includes mandatory faculty retirement age, proposed ~Hnneapolis campus heating plant that would generate electricity, report on safety policies in the use of recombinant DNA in research, and administration's response to Duluth student complaints last month about disturbances in the dormitories. Reallocation guidelines and capital request were discussed by SCC and U Committee on Biennial Request and Budget Review (UCBRBR) last week. Formula retrenchment and selective reallocation are proposed. Critical decisions about priorities would be made at the unit level, VP Koffler told the SCC. Allocation requests would be considered at the collegiate level and then centrally. Deans' judgments would usually prevail, Koffler said, but departments would have the right of appeal. Maintaining good program~ will have a higher priority than restoring the quality of programs, and restoring program quality will take precedence over program expansion, according to the guidelines. Criteria for assessing activities will include centrality to the U's mission, quality, demand, and legal or public policy mandate. Renovating buildings should. take precedence over new construction, SCC and UCBRBR agreed. Other concerns expressed about the capital request: that a large capital appropriation might be seen by the legislature "as a substitute for an adequate operating budget," that new buildings might carry with them impUcit program commitments, and that operating costs I of new buildings might not be fully covered by legislative formula. ! i SCC discussed President Carter's proposed 7% ceiling on salary increases. Fear was voiced! I that voluntary controls will affect only government employees. Consensus seemed to be j that the U should still seek faculty salary increases of 11% for each year of biennium. Faculty members need to catch up with the inflation of recent years, Rick Purple said. Women's volleyball teams from Duluth and TC campuses won state small college and large college tournaments Nov. 4 in St. Paul. CROOKSTON--Select committee is developing questionnaires to assess UMC's recruitment activities and publications for prospective students. Observance honoring former U~~ students who died in battle will be Nov. 10 at 11 a.m. at the soldiers' memorial monument at the campus entrance. U~~ administrators will discuss legislative activities and fund-raising strategies with directors of North111est Educational Improvement Association Nov. 16. Hearing on proposed route for the northern tier natural gas pipeline will be Nov. 15 at 1 p.m. in Agricultural Research Center. General contractor for the project will preside. DULUTH--Provost Heller will chair board of trustees of Lake Superior Association of Colleges and Universities--consortium of 7 colleges in Minnesota; Wisconsin, and Michigan--in 1978-79. Between 150 and 200 area high school students are expected to attend orchestra and choral clinics Nov. 8 and 9 at U~ID. Clinics are sponsored by music department. Winter quarter registration begins Nov. 27 and classes begin Nov. 30 at UMD. Fire began in a wastebasket, burned kitchen tah1c and carpeting in a unit of Village Apartments Nov. 1. Nearby resident put out the fire with an extinguisher. t>10RRIS--Campus forum on retrenchment, resource allocation, and preparation of the 1979-80 budget will be Nov. 10 at 2 p.m. in Science auditorium. Prospective students wanting to learn more about UMM can now reach the admissions office via a toll-free number: 1-800-992-8863. TWIN CITIES- -Minnesota Lions Children's Eye Clinic and new ophthalmology faci H ties wi 11 be dedicated Nov. 9 in a program at 2:15p.m. in Mayo auditorium. Clinic, built with $300,000 raised by the Minnesota Lions, is on 9th floot of Health Sciences Unit B-C. Second annual High School Visitors Day on the St. Paul campus was Nov. 3. Taito 0. Soinc, professor of medicinal.chemistry, died Oct. 22 on a hunting trip near Virginia, Minn., where he was born in 1915. "Going Under To Stay on Top," a conference on practical aspects of earth-sheltered housing, will begin Nov. 10 at 7:30p.m. and continue the follm11ing day. Participants may register at the door in Willey Hall on the West Bank. Info: 376-5341. ~ational Health Testing van is now on ~orthrop Field south of the Field House. Eligible employees can make appointments for free health screening beginning NoV. 13, 9:30 a.m.- 6:30p.m. Call 373-2115 for authorization and 373-2047 for appointment. Spaces are available in conflict resolution skills workshop Nov. 14 and leadership laboratory beginning Nov. 15 for 5 Wednesdays. Call Kathy Brown at 373-7898. League of Women Voters is forming a U chapter. Next meeting will be Nov. 13 at 5 p.m. in 496 Ford Hall. Membership is open to all women and men of voting age. Commuter bus service is now available between the U and the Lindstrom-Forest Lake area. For fare and schedule information, call 335-8745 or 373-0374. Lectures: "Reflections on Recent Trends in Human Services" by Martin Rein; Nov. 13, 4 p.m., 33 McNeal Hall. "The Talmud as History" by Jacob Neusner (Hill Lecture in Judaic Studies); Nov. 15,8:15 p.m., Willey Hall. WASECA--South Central Education Association annual meeting and awards banquet will be at U~1W Nov. 11. Robert Collins, assistant provost for administration, and Edgar Urevig, a member of UH\Il's Overall Advisory Committee, will receive distinguished service awards. A UM\\1 faculty member will receive the outstanding educator a\llard. Campus events: craft fair Nov. 11, property evaluation short course Nov. 13 and 14, Overall Advisory Committee meeting Nov. 15. THE UNIVERSITY OF mNNESOTA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EDUCATOR AND EMPLOYER. UNIVERSITY OF MiNNESOTA Vol. VIII No. 37 Nov. 15, 1978 !letin serving all campuses Editor: Haureen Smith (612) 373-7507 President ~lagrath's plan for allocating $445,000 in merit/equity salary adjustments for faculty members is outlined in Nov. 3 memo. Provosts and deans have been asked to identify units to be considered for adjustments. Committee chaired by VP Koffler will review pro posals and make recommendations, and Magrath will make final selection by Jan. 3. Higher faculty salaries should continue to be the U's top priority in seeking funds for 1979-81, President Magrath suggested to the regents. Holding down tuition is another major need, but a specific priority place could not be assigned to this concern, he said. Regents approved a $100 million capital request. Discussion centered on 3 buildings pro , posed for the St. Paul campus. Request also includes $4 million for an addition to the I business administration tower and $3 million for renovating space for the School of Public I Health (both in Minneapolis), $3 million for a business and economics building at UMD, l $3.4 million for a physical education building and outdoor recreation complex at UMC. IM?re financial aid for students from middle-income families and elimination of parents' I income as a factor in financial aid requests by students who are financially independent 'from their families have become new goals of thE' regents. Regents endorsed HECB request ! for an additional $12.1 million for student aid in 1979-81 and asked for some improve- ! ments in IIECB procedures to avoid allowing needed aid money to go unspent. ! Recent federal legislation will increase the number of U students who qualify for financial aid, President Magrath said. Family income limit has been raised to $26,000. Multiple use of Glenshecn, the 7.6-acre estate in Duluth, as a conference center, museum, and tourist attraction is recommended in consultant's report, which says $1.1 million would be needed for renovation. President MagrR.th will make recommendation in December. Problems in UMD dormitories have been caused primarily by overcrowding due to housing shortage, Provost Heller told the regents. Heller and Vice Provost Bruce Gildseth said noise, littering, and discipline problems have decreased significantly in the last 4 weeks; offenders will be warned and then asked to leave if problems persist. Repairs have been made and telephone lines added in response to student complaints last month. L.E. Scriven, chemical engineering, told the regents about a $280,000 federal grant he and colleague H. Ted Davis have received to continue their research on several aspects of petroleum recovery. Lyndel King, U Gallery director, reported on a $166,813 grant to support the exhibition of Russian art currently at the Landmark Center in St. Paul. Group protesting the tl's investment in corporations that do business in South Africa briefly disrupted the regents' meeting. Regent Unger said he hopes the group will work through regular channels so that the divestment issue can be placed on the December agenda.; I 1 Committee on Social Responsibility in Investments is meeting Nov. 15 for continued dis- cussion of policy of selective divestment of stock in companies doing business in South Africa and discussion of possible shareholder resolutions the committee may wish to recommend to the regents for introduction during the 1979 annual meeting season . '------·------·- ----·---·-- --- ... ------~---*·----·-·-----Q--~--·-----~ Alumni director Vincent Bilotta has resigned effective Feb. 28. He will stay in his post until the alumni office has completed a scheduled move to Morrill Hall. Bilotta said he has accomplished most of his goals and now wishes to spend more time with his family. Faculty members interested in serving on Senate committees are urged to return survey forms sent out Nov. 10 by Senate Committee on Committees, chaired by Dean Stuthman. Student-Staff Directories available beginning Nov. 16 at all U bookstores (except Health Sciences Bookstore) on TC campus. One coupon, to be exchanged for free directories, has been sent to each department. Departments that have not received coupon should call 373-2126. Any staff member who wants personal copy for home use may purchase it at book store for $2. Provosts' offices are handling distribution on coordinate campuses. CROOKSTON--Groundbreaking ceremonies for food service classroom building and dining hall will be Nov. 28. A number of state officials will participate. Narrative will soon be taped for pilot project in which outdoor audio tapes will be installed to welcome visitors to UMC and furnish tour information. DULUTH--Reception for 180 UMD fall quarter graduates and their families and friends will be Nov. 19 at 3 p.m. at Tw.eed Museum. M. Harry Lease, Jr., acting vice provost for academic administration, will greet guests and introduce graduates who are present. Provost Heller is new president of American Geological Institute. MORRIS--Pat Redig of College of Veterinary ~1edicine, TC campus, is first speaker in UMM's visiting scientist program. His talk at 8 p.m. Nov. 17 in Science auditorium will focus on efforts to return injured birds of prey to nature. Cougar football team won its 4th consecutive Northern Intercollegiate Conference title. Rated #1 in the nation in NCfu\ Division III, the team will participate in division playoffs for the 2nd year in a row, hosting St. Olaf Nov. 18 at 1:30 p.m. on the U~~1 field. TWIN CITIES--Major discovery by geneticist Burton Shapiro has brought researchers closer to exposing the genetic culprit in cystic fibrosis. Details in story in December Report. Senators Muriel Humphrey and Wendell Anderson visited campus Nov. 6 to present a check for $5 million from the federal government for the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute. Campus Assembly meets Nov. 16 at 3:30p.m. in 135 Earle Brown Center (corner of Buford and Gartner), St. Paul. Open discussion on budget guidelines follows at about 4:30p.m. Cuban minister of higher education and a delegation of 9 Cuban academic and government officials will visit campus Nov. 15-16. They are exploring the possibility of sending students to the U, and U officials are looking into sending students and faculty to Cuba. Three professors from Somalia who were hosts to President Magrath there will visit the U Nov. 17. Interested faculty and staff could meet with them in the morning. Call 373-3793. Memorial tribute to Katharine Densford Dreves, director of School of Nursing from 1930 to 1959, will be Nov. 18 at 1 p.m. in Willey Hall on the West Bank. Faculty members interested in serving as faculty marshals in Graduate School commencements should contact Claudia Wallace in U Relations at 373-2126. President Magrath and Diane Hagrath will greet new women faculty members and wives of new faculty Nov. 16 at 7:30p.m. in the Campus Club library. For info call 644-7491. Conference on feminist perspectives on teaching and research will be April 22-24 at Spring Hill Center. Faculty members and graduate students from any unit will be placed on the conference mailing list if they send name and address to Women's Studies, 492 Ford Hall. Incorrect journal vouchers were sent for telephone billing period Sept. 25-0ct. 24 (for 373- and 376- numbers). Corrected vouchers have now been sent. Questions: 373-2029. WASECA--Harold Matson, associate professor of agricultural industries and services, received the outstanding educator award of the South Central Education Association at its annual meeting and awards banquet Nov. 11. Open house for prospective students will be Nov. 19, 1-4 p.m. THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EDUCATOR AND EMPLOYER. Vol. VIII No. 38 Nov. 22, 1978 :1 --·:' : l! I Editor: Maureen Smith (612) 373-7507 'All faculty are invited to an informal meeting with President ~1agrath Nov. 28 at 3:15p.m. I in-156 Earle Brown Center, St. Paul. Any topic of interest or concern may be discussed. I 1 Need for clarity in criteria was the dominant theme last week when faculty members dis- cussed reallocation guidelines. Department heads spoke of the difficulty of making cuts when "we're down to essentials." Memories of 1971 retrenchment are "still vivid and not very positive," Donald Browne of Senate Committee on Educational Policy said in a letter, and departments should have a chance to show how much they have been hurt by past cuts. I !Math professor Sylvan Burgstahler, speaking by phone from UMD, asked if budget cuts might become a self-fulfilling prophecy by suggesting to the legislature that further cuts could be made. President Hagrath said he believes the U would fare worse if it did not attempt reallocation. Fred Morrison said the U's last major reallocation was viewed with favor by the legislature and the following session was "one of our better sessions." Senate Consultative Committee 1vas to give its recommendations on reallocation guidelines to President Magrath Nov. 22 after reviewing all written and oral testimony plus report of U Committee on Biennial Request and Budget Review. Magrath will make his recommenda tions by Dec. I; regents wi11 take formal action on concept of reallocation Dec. 8. New recommendation voted by Committee on Social Responsibility in Investments is that the U sell -all stock in U.S. corporations doing business in South Africa after giving the corporations the opportunity to withdraw their South African operations. Committee chair Barbara Knudson said recommendation, in effect, is for "total divestiture over time." Regent Wenda Moore, on her return from a visit to the People's Republic of China, said she is optimistic about the U's chances of attracting Chinese students but said Minnesota is unlikely to receive any of the 500 Chinese students wl1o will study in the U.S. this aca demic year. First group of Chinese students will he "narrowly specialized scientists," most of them at least 35 years old, said Norris P. Smith of the International Communica tion Agency, who has worked on the exchange program and was recently in the Twin Cities. Office of International Programs has sent out questionnaires to solicit expressions of interest in a People's RepUblic of China exchange program. Information will soon be conveyed to appropriate Chinese officials. Anyone who can't make the Nov. 22 deadline should send questionnaires to International Programs (612-373-3793) as soon as possible. Educational exchanges between the U and Cuba are being organized as the result of a 2-day visit to the U by an 11-member Cuban delegation last week. Group of U faculty will be assembled for a possible visit to Cuba in February, and a group of students may visit Cuba next summer. Details must still be worked out. Contact: LaVern Freeh. Minnesota may be the first U.S. institution to have an exchange program with Cuba. Fernando Vecino Alegret, Cuban minister of higher education, said his delegation has visited several universities and is closest to an agreement with the U. No Brief next week. Thanksgiving holiday falls during news-gathering time. '------·------~-----·---- (:·I:._ Li :·! :· f : :~ 1 ;; CROOKSTON-:-Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Management Division is planning a low-key effort to secure gifts of major pieces of equipment for the new food service classroom building. Major food service industrial firms will be approached. UMC is cosponsoring the only regional showing of U Gallery traveling exhibition "A Minnesota Depression Scrapbook." Documentary black and white photographs will be on display Dec. 4-29 at First National Bank of Crookston. Folk singer Jerry Rau will present an info1mal program of songs by Woody Guthrie and others at a reception Dec. 3, 7-9 p.m. First 3 of 6 planned dinner parties for UMC and Northwest School alumni will be Nov. 29 in Red Lake Falls, Nov. 30 in Moorhead, and Dec. 6 in East Grand Forks. Trojan football team finished the season ranked 15th in the nation following defeat in state 2-year college championship game. Trojans lost 40-8 to Rochester Community College. Second in series ·of continuing education programs for UMC civil service staff will be on telephone procedJres. Two sessions will be in 204-205 Dowell, Dec. 6 and 7, 3:30p.m. DULUTH---Student-s·:a.ff directories will be distributed to students during winter quarter registration Nov. 27-29 in Physical Education building. Faculty and staff will receive their directories in campus mail. Elving Anderson, actir.g director of Dight Institute for Human Genetics, TC campus, will lectun:' on nGenetic Control and Human Values" at 8 p.m. Nov. 29 in Life Science 185. Between 20 and 25 representatives of federal agencies will be on campus Dec. 6 to explain full-time and part~tir~e employment opportunities. Kirby Student Center, 9 a.m.- 3 p.m. Joint S1J'TI!"le2 ''l'='''t:ir:;;:; ~:rf th'=:: American Mathematica 1 Society and the Mathematics Association will be at Utv[) next J:..ug. 2J -25. As many as 2,000 mathematidans are expected. ~'!ORRIS--Cougars ar"" h~aded for Springfield, Ohio, and the semifinals in NCAA Division III Nov. 2S. Game h':~.:.~~ agah1st Wittenberg U. UMM defeated St. Olaf. Nov. 18. U Relations staf+ members from all S campuses will meet at UMM Nov. 29-30. TWIN CITIES·--College of Pharmacy will discontinue its bachelor of science in pharmacy degree program ana expand its doctor of pharmacy degree program. No students will be admitted to the bachelor's program after fall 1980. Details in December ~epor!_. Nominaticms of faculty c2.nd:~dates for Campus Assembly Steering Committee are ir:,';i ted by nominating ca1!11.mittee. Steering Committee members serve on Senate Consultative Co;nm5.'t:tee, Send nominations by Dec. 22 to Donald Rasmusson, agronomy and plant genetics, St. Paul. National News Council will convene on campus Dec. 5 and 6 to hear complaints against the news media. Among the cases: a charge of "inaccuracy and distortion" in an NBC documen tary about Marin County, Calif., and a complaint by syndicated columnist Jim Bishop that "conflict of interest" was involved in a financial contribution to an anti-casino campaign by the 1<1iami He!.~]d. Open to public in 320 Coffman beginning at 9 a.m. botr• days. President Jarne!'i ~. MHL~r~ ;;£ 'J of Louisville will speak Nov. 29 on living systems theory and appliu>.tioc t:) :a:roblcm- Vol. VIII No. 39 Dec. 6, 1978 A weekly internal bulletin serving all campuses Editor: Maureen Smith (612) 373-7507 Dean Carl Auerbach of Law School has announced his resignation effective June 30. He said the new building that was one of his goals when he began as dean in early 1973 is "now a splendid re~litl' but the academic ends for which building was sought "seem further than ever from being achieved." He cited lack of support for increasing Law School enrollment and faculty positions, high student-faculty ratio, comparatively low faculty pay. Consultant's evaluation of President Magrath and reyort on how regents assess their own effectiveness will be presented to the regents at their Qeeting Friday. Regents will consider a proposal that the U sell its stock in corporations that do business in South Africa and will discuss the report of the task force on intercollegiate athletics recommending state funding for men's as well as women's varsity sports and proposing that the U consider asking professional teams to subsidize college athletics. Priorities for the legislative request, interim budget guidelines, and a plan to extend the mandatory retirement age for faculty members to 70 are also on the regents' docket. Senate Consultative Committee (SCC) has made its recommendations on reallocation process. Among them: promising dissemination of reallocation results, asking deans to justify any reductions in percentage of women and minorities, looking at departments that may be seriously underfunded, channeling reco~~endations through the academic VP's office, using the same criteria and priority-ordering in preparation of the biennial request. Tentativeness of procedure in initial year should be stressed and people made aware that 1.7% is the maximum to be cut from any of the 38 primary budgetary units, SCC said. Cordial discussion between President Magrath and about 15 faculty members in St. Paul last week centered on reallocation. Faculty members expressed awareness of difficulty of Magrath's task, urged that mistakes of 1971 retrenchment not be repeated. Herb Johnson, agronomy, said he hopes reallocation results will be worth all the paperwork and pain. U Senate sent its Committee on Business and Rules a proposal to amend the Senate constitution to increase student membership by 10 students elected as representatives of ethnic minorities and international students on the TC campus. Christine Moen has been elected chairperson of the Civil Service Committee for 1979, Deanna Smith vice chairperson and treasurer, and Myra Battenfeld secretary. More than half of the presidents and board chairmen of the nation's top 500 industrial and top nonindustrial firms are alumni of state and land-grant universities, a recent survey shows. Among Minnesota alumni listed: Irving Shapiro of du Pont, John Gerstenmaier of Goodyear, R.E. McDonald of Sperry Rand, Stephen Keating of Honeywell, Michael Tenenbaum of Inland Steel, A.W. Clausen of BankArnerica, W.T. Beebe of Delta Airlines, 18 others. State and land-grant universities now enroll 3.4 million of the 11.3 million students in higher education in the U.S. More than half of the members of Congress and more than half of all living American Nobel Prize winners are alumni of state and land-grant schools. Prepared for the Office of the President tr1c [) THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EDUCATOR AND EMPLOYER UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Vol. VIII No. 40 Dec. 13, 1978 A weekly internal buiietin serving all campuses Editor: Maureen Smith (612) 373-7507 President Magrath was given high marks in an evaluation by the regents and a consultant who interviewed faculty, regents, legislators, and students about his performance in the 4 years he has been at the U. Magrath was characterized as accessible, responsive, fair, humane, energetic, dedicated, hard-working, intelligent. Report praised Magrath for improving the U's credibility with the legislature but said many faculty members felt he was giving too much attention to regents and legislators. At the same time, some regents and legislators saw him as too anxious to please faculty. Regents delayed action on a proposal that the 1J sell its $14 million worth of stock in American corporations that do business in South Africa. Regent Lebedoff proposed that the U divest its stock over a period of time so that the sale would not result in a loss to the U, but several board members questioned whether the stock could be sold without loss. Proposal to seek state funding for men's sports on the TC campus was discussed. (Women's sports and coordinate campus sports already receive state funds.) Little opposition to the proposal was expressed, but the regents decided further deliberation was needed. Regent Lebedoff said it is "almost a waste of time" to debate whether intercollegiate athletics are important when they are clearly "so important to so many people." Regents approved a $748,000 addition to the $638 million biennial request for the adminis tration of student aid programs. New federal law is expected to make 12,000 more students eligible for aid, encourage more students to seek advice on whether they qualify, and require more paperwork as a result of a quarterly rather than an annual reporting method. Proposal to increase the mandatory retirement age for faculty from 68 to 70 during the current academic year was defeated by the regents on a 9-2 vote. Administration and a Senate committee had recommended the change, which would have affected 16 faculty members. Under state law effective June 1, 1980, mandatory retirement age cannot be under 70. Regents heard report from John Najarian about a $762,107 NIH grant to continue studies in organ transplantation. Transplantation program at the U is the largest in the world. President Magrath met recently in Washington with the heads of 40 other American univer sities to establish a Hubert H. Humphrey North-South Fellowship Program to bring inter national students to the U.S. Visits would be for a year and would culminate in a workshop at the U sponsored by the White House and the International Communication Agency. Retrenched civil service positions may be calculated (this year only) on the amount shown in the printed budget, VP Brown said in Dec. 1 memo. Normally "step savihgs"--difference between budgeted salary and base salary for a position--have reverted centrally, and the U's estimates of civil service costs have anticipated some savings due to turnover. Grants totaling $250,000 will be awarded to faculty and faculty-student groups through 1979-80 Educational Development Program (EDP) to support projects to improve educational programs. Projects will be evaluated and placed in priority order within each college; proposals submitted by colleges will be reviewed by a faculty-student committee. College EDP committees must forward top-ranked proposals to the Center for Educational Development by March 5, 1979; dates on which committees must receive proposals vary by college. Prepared for the Office of the President by the Department of University Relatior and distributecJ through departrnenta! off1ces CROOKSTON--Erman Ueland, associate professor of animal science, will be acting chairman of Agriculture Division during the current leave of absence of Gary McVey. Curriculum committees from East Grand Forks AVTI and NorthJand Community College will join UMC officials at a luncheon meeting Dec. 18. Representatives of the 3 institutions will continue discussion of possible cooperative programs. Procedures for filing grant applications on behalf of high school seniors will be reviewed at a basic grants workshop at UMC Dec. 18. Gerald Hamerlik, financial aids director at U of North Dakota, will address his presentation to high school counselors. Plant services director Bill Menzhuber recently outlined a proposal to change the traffic flow pattern around campus and double the size of the mall area. Entrance road to campus would be extended about 300 yards to the south; mall would then encompass proposed new physical education facilities and 3 residence halls now located south of the mall. Northwest Educational Improvement Association directors will write to residents of their areas in an effort to attract more sustaining members. DULUTH--Human Rights Week Dec. 11-15 includes panels, films, and wrap-up discussion Friday featuring Congressman Donald Fraser. Victoria S. Gokee has been named American Indian community program associate and Donald B. l'vlurdock director and instructor of American Indian studies. UMD has 90 American Indian students. UMD School of Social Development and St. Louis County Social Services Department have received $209,925 for a joint 1-year project for social service training. Half of the money will go for in-service training for social service workers and half for expanding the school's graduate program in social welfare administration. U~1D Student Art Guild auction with proceeds to art student scholarships will be Dec. 18 :1t 7 p.m. at Tweed Museum of Art; ISO art works will he up for bid. MORRIS--Provost Imholte will he host at a Christmas party for the UMM community Dec. 20 at 2:30p.m. at Food Service Center. Everyone invited. Plans are under way for U~~'s second summer Eldcrhostel, June 17-23. Courses will be Profits and Morality, Science and Social Change, and History of the Immigrant Experience: American Tapestry or Melting Pot? TWIN CITIES--Dick Siebert, Gopher baseball coach for 31 years, died Saturday at U Hospitals after a long illness. He was 66. Benjamin S. Pomeroy, professor of veterinary medicine, will serve as acting dean of the College of Veterinary ~1edicine until a successor to Sidney Ewing is found. Ewing recently resigned to return to the veterinary faculty at Oklahoma State U in Stillwater. Two new studies on epilepsy drug therapy will begin in the Comprehensive Epilepsy Program as part of a $2.2 million federal grant. Sociologist ~1ichael Patton will direct study of factors that contribute to noncompliance with drug regjmens and neurologist Ilo Leppik will lead study of seizure control ability and side effects of 2 anticonvulsive drugs. Theater professor Arthur Ballet has been named director of theater programs for the National Endowment for the Arts and has said he will accept if he can continue to teach at the U. President Magrath said he is hopeful that fiscal arrangements can be worked out. WASECA--Students at Northwestern College in Roseville who plan to be missionaries overseas will take a sequence of courses at UMW to learn about agricultural production. Other Bible colleges in Minnesota are also reviewing the program. Waseca County Corn Growers are meeting at UHW Dec. 13. Congressman Tom Hagedorn is the featured speaker. Civil service developmental seminar on word processing will be Dec. 18; a word processing center opens on campus at the beginning of winter quarter. THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EDUCATOR AND EMPLOYER UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Vol. VIII No. 41 Dec. 20, 1978 /1, weekly internal bulletin serving all campuses Editor: Maureen Smith (612) 373-7507 President Magrath outlined details of the U's $99.5 million requested increase in its operating budget for 1979-81 to Governor-elect Al Quie and members of his administration Dec. 13. Request of $648 million is about 18% above the appropriation of last biennium and includes about 113 new academic positions and 114 new civil service positions. Magrath told Quie that the request in some specifics is not in conformity with guidelines given to state agencies on holding the line on increases, but he said "we believe we are within the spirit of the guidelines." About 61% of the requested increase is needed because of inflation, he said, and 10% is needed to comply with government regulations. Faculty salary increases of 11% for each year of the bienniwn are included in the request. Magrath said he is waiting for details on President Carter's voluntary 7% wage increase 1 guidelines, which may allow for exceptions when salaries have not kept pace \vi th infla tion. Magrath said the 7% and 6.5% increases faculty members received over the past 2 years were not enough to keep pace with inflation. Increased state investments in such areas as agriculture, business, and mineral technology could have economic payoffs to the state, Magrath said. He cited the development of Era wheat at a cost of $300,000; increased yields since 1970 have boosted farm income by $220 million. He said basic research money helps generate projects that attract federal money. "We get a tremendous multiplier from basic research money, but it is very hard to get." Senate Consultative Committee (SCC) members at Dec. 12 meeting applauded the inclusion of examples in budget guidelines but said some examples do not gibe with stated criteria. Wendell Glick, UMD, said he is "very distressed with developments on my campus." Glick said UMD is being treated as a single budgetary unit instead of 5 units as outlined in the guidelines and Provost Heller has asked UMD schools to retrench by 3.5% instead of 1.7%. Athletic task force report will be studied by a subcommittee of SCC and returned to the full committee Jan. 4. Betty Robinett said she wishes less emphasis could be given to sports. Vera Schletzer said a few large schools that have deemphasized athletics have found that "expenses stay about the same but what you lose are the gate receipts." CLA and Grad School will be asked to make presentations to SCC this academic year. Visits to coordinate campuses were discussed. Betty Robinett expressed concern about travel costs and disappointment at the low turnout at the last meeting in Duluth. She suggested that the committee visit a campus it has not visited before--Waseca or Crookston. Christmas and New Year holidays will be observed with the closing of the U Dec. 22, 25, and 26 and Jan. 1. Next Brief will be published Jan. 10. CROOKSTON--Questionnaires were circulated to about half of the student body Monday in 10 a.m. classes. Goal is to discover why present students chose to enroll at UMC. Results will be analyzed by student recruitment committee in an effort to determine priorities for activities and publications designed to attract new students. Prepared for the Office uf tf:e F)rt=:0 rt'r Clr1(i t.!r ~-~ ;t~ :~ ~f ·,_.. ~;-: Committee will be formed to plan for the uses of Bede and Dowell Halls after completion of new dining facility at UMC, and a long-range study committee will recommend ways to ease the transition when food service and Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Management Division move from present locations to new dining hall. Fourth in series of regional reunions for alumni of UMC and Northwest School will be Jan. 11 at 6 p.m. at Jax Cafe in Minneapolis. DULUTH--Campus Assembly voted Dec. 14 on 3 changes in liberal education requirements. Minimum requirement in each of 4 categories was reduced from 9 to 8 credits (to conform to new pattern of 4-credit courses). Number of liberal education credits allowed from courses with the same prefix was limited to 12 (forcing a greater variety of courses). Maximum of 4 credits of physical education and recreation courses was continued, but such credits will now be listed separately within the 48 required liberal education credits. Recently completed study by the UMD Bureau of Business and Economic Research has identi fied the significant amount of business activity ($7.8 million in 1977) generated by the fine arts in the Duluth-Superior metro area. Study was directed by the UMD School of Fine Arts and economics faculty members Wayne Jesswcin and Richard Lichty. UMD geology professor Donald M. Davidson, Jr., has accepted an appointment as chairman of the Department of Geological Science at the U of Texas, El Paso, effective March 1. MORRIS--Kathy Ray has been named program adviser in Student Activities. She succeeds Mary Hicks, who was recently named director of student activities. Audubon film-lecture on "Song of the Northern Prairie" will be Jan. 2 at 8:15 p.m. in Edson auditorium. Cinematographer Allen King will be on hand for discussion. Free to ~1 students, $1.50 for others. Guthrie Theater costumes will be on exhibit in HFAC gallery heginning Jan. 4. TWIN CITIES--Because of demand in past years for family activities over the holidays, the Bell Museum of Natural History will remain open even when the U is closed. Popular "Touch and See Room" will be open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday and 1-5 p.m. Sunday, except Christmas Eve Day, Christmas Day, New Year's Eve Day, and New Year's Day. Museum will be open Dec. 22 and 23, Dec. 26-30, and Jan. 2. State representatives Irv Anderson and Rodney Searle will talk about "Leading n Deadlocked House" with host Art Naftalin on "~Unnesota Issues" show on Channel 2 Jan. 1 at 7:30p.m. and Jan. 2 at 1:30 p.m. "The View From the Senate" with state senators Robert Ashbach and Nicholas Coleman will be the topic Jan. 8 and 9. President Magrath will appear Jan. 22 and 23 to discuss "Financing the University in the Next Biennium." ~lid-Career Medical Fellowship Program for primary care physicians in non-urban areas of the state has been established by the Bush Foundation of St. Paul. Family practitioners and general practice internists and pediatricians receivi11g a fellowship will spend 3 to 12 months at a major medical center expanding their medical skills. Selection committee coordinated by Douglas Fenderson of the U will select up to 15 fellows each June. Saturday morning art classes for young children (ages 5 to 10) will be offered hy the Institute of Child Development and the Art Education Program beginning Jan. 13 and continuing for 10 weeks. Fee is $20. Call Virginia Eaton at 373-9851 or 373-2390. Thomas Nelson, English and CEE, died Dec. 15 at his home in Minneapolis. He was 61. WASECA--First winter meeting of Campus Assembly will be Jan. 4 at 4 p.m. in Cl31. Student Development office \\ill conduct student leadership training workshop Jan. 5. Interviews for admission to Animal Health Technology program are being conducted on campus through Dec. 28, and 64 students will be selected for admission beginning summer 1979. THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EDUCATOR AND EMPLOYER