Volume 29, Number24 Publishedby the University of Pennsylvania Tuesday, March 8, 1983

IN BRIEF" For Distinguished Teaching: Ira Abrams Awards on Benefits: Response On page 2 of this issue, Dr. Vicki Mahaffey, assistant professor of winners will be inscribed on a plaque near the Provost Thomas Ehrlich to the Senate's responds English, and Dr. Frank Warner, professor of Dean's Office in College Hall. mail-ballot for restructured tuition preference mathematics, are the first recipients of the Ira benefits, and Vice President Gary Posner tells the Abrams Memorial Awards for Dr. on a leave this aca- the on A-I and A-3 Distinguished Mahaffey, scholarly impact of faculty change Established a from Ira demic at London, staffs' tuition benefits for children. Teaching. through gift year King's College, Eng- Abrams, a '31 graduate of the College, the land, has been working on a study of James awards were established last to honor the Trieste Years, scheduled for CGS Director Incoming FAS Dean Joel Conar- spring Joyce, comple- in the arts and sciences for their contri- tion this summer. She has roe has confirmed the fifth associate deanship for faculty published frequently the School of Arts and Sciences, with the an- butions to teaching. In addition to being cited on Joyce and T.S. Eliot. Dr. Mahaffey served nouncement that Dr. David Burnett will continue for intellectually challenging teaching, leading as the assistant chair ofthe English Department as Associate Dean forContinuing Education and to an informed understanding of a discipline, last year and spent two years as the resident Director of the College of General Studies. recipients ofthe award are expected to embody faculty fellow in Hill College House. Calling the continuing education program in SAS high standards of integrity and fairness, to have Dr. Warner is the undergraduate chair inthe one of the most imaginative and best adminis- a strong commitment to learning, and to be department of mathematics, a post healso held tered in the country, he said, "I am pleased that open to new ideas. from 1973-1976. He has published frequently David Burnett will stay on, and look forward to Each year two members of the standing or on curvature functions and forms. He has working with him for many years to come." associated faculty in the School of Arts and spent two summers as a visiting professor, at Sciences will be honored with an award of Rio de Janeiro in 1972 and at the University of Nobelists on Energy: In addition to having three $1000 and a certificate. The names of the Paris in 1975. Nobel laureates in the ceremonies opening the Center for History ofChemistryat Penn thisweek (right), the University will hear from four other Inauguration: Center for History of Chemistry Prize laureates this month. On March 22, ina free The University community is invited to join ter plans to discover and disseminate informa- public forum on "Energy: Our Most Pressing the celebration of the ofthe Cen- tion about historical resources, and Issue," Franklin Professor Lawrence R. inauguration encourage Benjamin ter for History of Chemistry March II. The scholarship and research in the history of Klein (economics) moderates a discussion with Center's inauguration coincides with the cele- chemistry and chemical engineering. Dr. Hans Albrecht Bethe of Cornell (physics), Dr. bration of the ofthe birth of S. Yalow of Veterans Administration 250th anniversary Three Nobel Laureates in Dr. Rosalyn the chemistry, in the Bronx and Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), English chem- Glenn T. Seaborg, Sir George Porter and Dr. Hospital (medicine physiology), ist who discovered nine ammo- and Dr. Eugene P. Wigner of Princeton gases including Christian Anfinsen, will attend an (physics) nia, sulfur dioxide and The Center- Honorary as guests. The forum is in Harrison Auditorium at oxygen. Degree Convocation, of the the firstof its kind in the world-is part inaugural the University Museum, 7 to 10 p.m., sponsored cosponsored program. President Sheldon Hackney and the of and the by SEAS, the Energy Educational Advisory by University Pennsylvania Fred Basolo, president ofthe American Chem- American Chemical The Cen- Council of Electric, and Scientists Society (ACS). ical Society, will preside overtheceremony. Dr. and Engineers for Secure Energy, Inc., a national Anlinsen, Johns Hopkins University, will speak educational organization of professional and re- at the convocation on The Internationalism of search scientists and engineers. Chemistry. Dr. Anfinsen (the 1972 recipient of the Nobel Prize) received his MA at Academic Calendar degree Under discussion at Coun- Penn in 1939 and an here in cil tomorrow will be a to the honorary degree proposal change 1973. Dr. of the 1951 academic calendar, inserting a full day of Drop! Seaborg, (the recipient Add before classes each semester, and tenta- Nobel Prize in chemistry for his discovery of begin Sir Porter 1967 Nobel Prize tively inserting a long weekend (Thursday- plutonium), (the winner in and Dr. Charles Price Sunday) in mid-October in response to a request chemistry) from Dr. Samuel Fager, director of Student (emeritus professor and former chairman of Health, to mitigate increasing symptoms of stu- chemistry at Penn) will receive honorary doc- dent stress. With the proposal, Acting VPUL tor ofscience degrees. The Convocation will be George Koval presents a table showing holidays at 4:45 p.m. in the Rosenwald Gallery, 6th and breaks at other institutions, where "it is clear floor, Van Pelt Library. that many schools have already initiated some (continuednextpage) version ofthis proposal," Mr. Koval said. INSIDE' Change In Pie-registration: Due to a conflict Provost on Faculty Tuition Benefits; with the dates for religious holidays, pre-regis- VP on Faculty/Staff Benefits, p.2 the new chemistry tration for fall 1983 have been changed, Registrar For its opening, History of Highlights of "Preventing Nuclear War," p.3 center honors a leader Dr. John J. Smolen has announced. The correct dates longtime of thefaculn; Staffing in Benefits, Payroll, Personnel, p.3 for pre-registration are now April 6, 7, 8, II, and Charles C. Price (left)-and a.forerunnerin science Of Record: Conflict-of Interest Policy 12. who turned down ajob here over 200 years ago. for Faculty Members, pp. 4-6

-From the Provost History of Chemistry (continuedfrom page!) The celebration begins with the opening of an exhibition Joseph Priestley: Enlightened Chemist, a collection of artifacts, books, cor- respondence, engravings, portraits and equip- On Tuition Benefits for Faculty Children ment, 2 p.m. at the Rosenwald Gallery. Dr. Seaborg will preside and Edward G. Jefferson, chairman of DuPont, will speak on Priest/er's Contribution to Chemistry and Culture. The As in Almanac, the a for a of reported faculty decisively expressed preference restructuring exhibit will remain on view through May 27; tuition benefits. The administration stated its that a to distribute previously judgment restructuring hours Monday through Friday 9 a.m.-5 p.m. tuition benefits more the is desirable and that either ofthe new equitably among faculty proposed and lectures will be given through- with constant costs is to the current a3:2 the indicated that Symposia plans preferable plan. By margin, faculty out the afternoon and evening of March II: favorthe at the Senate on November 17, 1982, for they plan adopted Faculty meeting calling gradual Priestlev's Philadelphia; Whitfield J. Bell. Jr., the for children at Penn and a movement over the next five years to remission of 75% tuition faculty American Philosophical Society, 2:45 p.m., Rosen- direct grant ofup to 40% of Penn's tuition for faculty children attending other schools. wald Gallery, 6th floor, Van Pelt Library. The administration accepts this recommendation and will move to implement the plan adopted Lasers in Chemical and Biochemical Research; at the Senate meeting and endorsed by the mail ballot. This plan provides, for undergraduate Robin M. Hochstrasser, department of chemistry. 2:45-3:30 Main Lecture Theatre, students away from Penn, up to $1,000 in 1983-84, $1,500 in 1984-85, $2,400 in 1985-86, $3,400 in p.m., Chemistry 1986-87, and 40% of Penn's tuition in 1987-88 and thereafter. tuition remission at Building. Undergraduate The Prototype Conducting for students after 1983 will be in 1984-85 and of Penn's tuition Polyacezylene. (CH)x: Penn matriculating $7,320 75% Pol;'mer; Alan G. MacDiarmid, department of thereafter. children enrolled at Penn as offall 1983, however, will continueto receive the full Faculty chemistry, 3:45-4:30 p.m., Main Lecture Theatre, tuition benefit. Comparable changes will be made with regard to faculty children enrolled in Chemistry Building. professional schools. The Internationalism of Chemistry; Honorary B. Professors Gerstenhaber and Preston, chairs respectively of the Faculty Senate and the Senate Degree Convocation speaker Christian Anfinsen. on the Economic Status of the have that the administration consider Nobel Prize Laureate, department of chemistry Committee Faculty, urged Rosen- with to those members who need loanstoalleviate the financial Johns Hopkins University, 4:45-5:45 p.m.. helping regard faculty may pressures wald 6th floor, Van Pelt occasioned the shift from the current to the new The administration is on this Gallery, Library. by plan. working Joseph Priesiley and Photosynthesis Today: Sir matter in an effort to ensure that the University is as helpful as possible. George Porter of the Royal Institution. London, Finally, a special word ofthanks in appreciation to all those who helped in developing the set of Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry, 8:15p.m.. Ham- recommendations that have now been approved, and most particularly to Professors Gerstenhaber son Auditorium, University Museum. and Preston. I am most grateful. There will be an all day pilgrimage to Joseph Priestley's home and grave in Northumber- land, Pennsylvania, Saturday, March 12. Priest- Icy came to the United States in 1794 in the wake of religious controversy in England. Originally intending to enter the ministry, Priestley met Benjamin Franklin, who encour- aged his scientific career. At one point in that career, Priestley was offered a professorship in On Tuition Benefits for A-i and A-3 Staff Children chemistry at Penn, but he chose instead to join his son in a settlement on The restructuring of tuition benefits over the next five years potentially affects the A-i and A-3 pioneering Utopian the banks of the There in staffs. Currently, A-I staff participate in the same plan as faculty, while A-3 staff receive full tuition Susquehanna. Northumberland, he built an extensive house for theirchildren at Penn but no direct grants for tuition elsewhere. with its own laboratory where he lived until his We have met with the ofboth the Administrative and A-3 Assemblies. We believe the leadership death. For additional information about the ofthe for A-I staffwith constant costs is to the current We restructuring program preferable plan. tour call the Center at Ext. 4896. also recognize that achieving, perhaps overa phase-in period, direct grants for A-3 staffchildren is a desirable objective subject to further study and cost implications. We expect to have a decision in the near future on the impact of the restructuring of the tuition Next Almanac March 22 There will be no issue benefit plan for the A-i and A-3 staff in time for implementation for the 1983-84 fiscal year. ofAlmanac next week, March 15, due tospring 12-March 2 The next issue will -Gary J. Posner recess (March 1). Vice President, Human Resources be Tuesday March22; the deadline for submit- ting copy is noon, Tuesday, March 15.

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Nominations for Rikiis Professorship International Jobs The University of Pennsylvania's journal of record and opinion Careers in InternationalJobs, part of the ongoing is published Tuesdays during the academic year and as needed A Search Committee for the Riklis Professorship series on Career Alternatives for Graduate Students during summer and holiday breaks. Guidelines for readers and contributors are available on request. in Creative Management invites nominations. The offered by the Career Planning and Placement Ser- with proposed chair is a five-year term appointment for vice, has been moved due to a time conflict EDITOR Karen C. Gaines individuals on the non-standing faculty who have Passover from March 28 to March 21. The session ASSISTANT EDITOR Marguerite F. Miller EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Linda M. Fischer demonstrated entrepreneurial and innovative skill in will take place from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in the Benjamin WORK-STUDY ASSISTANTS Kevin Dougherty, and business. Franklin Room, Houston Hall. Dr. Charles Heck, teaching Linda Sotnychuk Nominations should be forwarded on or before Trilateral Commission, will speak on Jobs in Interna- March 25. 1983, to Dr. Howard E. Mitchell, chair- tional Policy and Research;- Dr. Catherine Barale, ALMANAC ADVISORY BOARD Clifton Cherpack, chair Mur- ray Gerstenhaber. Jamshed Ghsndhi, Charles D. Graham, Jr.. man, Search Committee on Riklis Professorship, Irving Trust, will discuss Jobs in International June Axinn and Carolyn Marvin for the Faculty Senate 3100 Hall-Dietrich Hall/ CC. and Ann Kuhiman, Penn's International Suite Steinberg Banking; Denise McGregor for the Administration .... Jane Bryan for the will talk about the The University of Pennsylvania is an Affirmative Programs, Jobs in International Mu- Librarians Assembly .... Shiiley Winters for Administrative .... Una L. Deutsch for the A-3 Assembly. Action/ Equal Opportunity employer. cation and Exchange Programs. Assembly

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Highlights: The Forum 'Toward Preventing Nuclear War' At least 18 events are scheduled between for Policy Studies; presentation of the Social Sys- Professor Ingrid Waldron, Penn, Van Pelt College tems Sciences and and House Piano March 23 and April 19 for the all-University City Regional Planning Lounge. Departments, 200 College Hall. forum, "Toward Preventing Nuclear War," AprIl 13, 7:30 p.m., Nuclear Strategies: Christopher April4,8p.m., Debate on President Reagan's Foreign Lehman, director, Office of Nuclear coordinated by the Office of the President and Strategic Policy, Policy: Congressman Bob Edgar and former Con- U.S. of State, with Penn open to all members of the University. Apreli- Department facultyrespond- gressman John LeBoutihier, presentation of the ents, Professors James Bennett, Regional Science, minary calendar, below, will be updated in later Penn Political Union, 200 College Hall. William Evan, Sociology and Management, and editions of Almanac, April 5,7:45 p.m., Medical Consequences of Nuclear Marc Trachtenberg, History. 200 College Hall. and The Philadelphia Inquirer. War: ProfessorStanleyBaum. Penn,with afilm, The April 14,7:30p.m. Peace Fair: Father Robert Drinan, Last Epidemic; a presentation of Ware College Georgetown University; Arthur Waskow, Menorah March 23,4 p.m., The Economic Costs of War and House and the Pre-Med Honor Society, High Rise Journal; and Carolyn M. Craft, Longwood College. Peace: Professors Kenneth Boulding, Swarthmore; North Rooftop Lounge. Virginia: To befollowed on April 15th and 16th by Edward S. Herman. Penn; Walter isard, Comell April 5, 8 p.m., Debate on Arms Control and the Workshops (call 387-3268 for information) and a Lawrence Klein, Penn; moderated the and by League Nuclear Threat: Paul Warnke, former director of Community Peace Fair (call 386-l530 for informa- of Women Voters. 200 Hall. College U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; W. tion);a presentation oftheReligious Foundationsat March 24,7 p.m., Preventing Nuclear War: His Excel- Scott Thompson, associate director for programs. Penn. Christian Association. Javier Perez de Cuellar, General of lency Secretary U.S. Information Agency; moderated by Jerome J. ApiS 15, 7:30p.m., The War Game (1966) and Eight the United Nations, . Shestack forthe Lawyers Alliance for Nuclear Arms Minutes to Midnight (1980), film presentationsofthe March 25, 10 am., Art and War; Norman Mailer, first Control. Graduate Council-The Annenberg School of Pappas Fellow, Penn selections by the University April 8, 7:30 p.m., The Day After Thnitv (1981) and Communications, Studio Theatre, Annenberg Choir, 200 College Hall. Hiroshima-Nagasaki, August 1945 (1970); film pre- Center. March28,7:30 p.m., The MX System and its Techni- sentations of the Graduate Council-The Annen- April 17,3 p.m. Nuclear War in Evolutionary Perspec- cal and Operation Characteristics: Dr. Richard Gar- berg School of Communications, Studio Theatre, tive: Jonas Salk, M.D., director, The Salk Institute win, Fellow at theTi. Watson Research Center, and Annenberg Center. for Biological Studies, Dunlop A, Medical Educa- Andrew D. White Professorat Large at Cornell, 200 April 9, (TBA) Education in a Nuclear Age: Tony tion Building. Hall. College Wagner, national director, Educators for Social &30 p.m., Concert for Humanity: The Philadel- March 30, 8 p.m., Debate on the Nuclear Freeze: Responsibility, with films and workshops; presenta- phia Orchestra. Riccardo Muti, conducting; Andre Senator John Warner and former Senator George tion of the Graduate School of Education. Call Ext. Watts, piano; Wilhelmenia Fernandez, soprano; the McGovern, Irvine Auditorium. 7371 to register. Academy of Music, Broad and Locust Streets. March31, 7:30p.m. Superpower Conflict and the Vast AprIl 11, 7 p.m., Psychology of the Nuclear Threat: (Tickets Available at Box Office). Majority: Third World Perspectives: George MeRo- Alternatives to Despair: Professor Robert Garfield, April 19,7:30 p.m. Address by the U.S. Secretary of bie, chairman, intermediate Technology Develop- Hahnemann University; Dr. Diane K. Perlman, the Navy, John Lehman; a presentation of the Penn ment Group. London, and Eqbal Ahmad, Institute HUP; Professor John Sabini, Penn; moderated by Political Union, 200 College Hall.

Changes in Personnel, Benefits, Payroll and Related Operations Comptroller Alfred Beers and Human Payroll under Mr. Coverdale. grievance procedure, and create 'one stop' Resources Vice President Posner have assistance for schools and as well as for Gary Personnel: The changes announced by the Vice colleges announced a series of staff changes, including President for Human Resources, like those in employees with general questions," Mr. Posner the transfer of Personnel Benefits from the said. "Barbara Johnson and four staff mem- Mr. Beers' area, created no net increase in posi- area to Personnel. bers-Leslie Achuff, her in SAS; Comptroller's tions but made some realignments of existing replacement With the resignation of William Drye in staff-or, as noted, filled vacancies. Meryl Johnston of Wharton; Jeanne Hitman, December, benefits came under Acting Bene- Irene McMenamin, who has been assistant who comes over from Medicine; and a new fits Manager James J. Keller. He and Manager director of labor relations under Mr. Budd person to be selected at Medicine-will consti- of Records Effie will now to tute the Staff Relations Mr. Posner Thompson report since 1975, has been named Manager of Labor Group," Budd, director of labor and staff rela- added. Two members of the will be George Relations. She is to handle all aspects of labor Group tions under Mr. Posner. Other on-site at SAS and Medicine, due to the size changes: relations activity, serving as the University's of those Schools. Comptroller's Office: Mr. Beers announces that chief negotiator and taking responsibility for and complexity Kenneth B. Campbell, former assistant comp- "the promotion of fair, reasonable and stable troller general, has been promoted to Associate labor relations with union-represented staff," Research Standards: Drugs & People where he will be Mr. Beers' Mr. Posner said. Comptroller prin- Back-to-back conferences for researchers, grant aide and will function on his behalf in his Judith Zamost, who has been cipal assistant direc- applicants and those who monitor research are sched- absence. Mr. Campbell's responsibilities will tor of training, becomes Manager of Training uled March 30 through April I at the Hilton Hotel, include the development and implementation and Staff Development, with the assignment to the Coordinator of Penn's Committee on Studies of accounting policies and procedures, man- "continue expanding and professionalizing" Involving Human Beings, Ruth Clark, has an- nounced. agement of the accounting system and related such programs. Members of the University may attend a financial subsystems, and direction of the A new Manager of Compensation, Adrienne one-day session on "Making Your IRB Work" on March 30 accounting and sponsored program staff. of the of at Charlottes- Riley University Virginia to learn how Internal Review Boards function in Harold F. Coverdale, former director of ville, takes office March 15. She assumes the reviewing projects and monitoring the progress of has been to Assistant functions held Claire payroll, promoted compensation formerly by biomedical and behavioral research involving human In of Comptroller-Payroll. charge payroll, Nagel, who has joined the United Lutheran subjects. and Mr. student payroll payroll accounting, Church Council. The next two days are spent on "Current Chal- Coverdale assumes all of the payroll responsi- Gerri Walker, former area personnel assist- lenges and Practical Problems in Drug and Device bilities formerly held by Marstin Alexander, ant director at the Dental School, moves to the Reseach," March 31 and April I. The approval pro- cess, the standards used, and their on who has been reassigned as Assistant Comp- Franklin Building as Manager of Employ- impact study design are part of the program. troller-General Accounting. Mr. Alexander, ment. She replaces Susan Kosloff, who has Both the IRB and Drug & Device conferences are reporting to Mr. Campbell, will manage gen- joined George Washington University. sponsored by Public Responsibility in Medicine and eral accounting, trust accounting, accounts A new Manager of Staff Relations, post, Research (PRIMeR), a nonprofit organization in and s and review. Also reas- Barbara Johnson from the School of payable, analysis brings Boston. For information on programs and fees: signed is Daniel Kelley, former director of Arts and Sciences to "foster a positive staff Ruth Clark at the Office of Research Administra- research accounting, who becomes Director of relations climate, handle the nonacademic tion, Ext. 7293.

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Conflict of Interest Policy for Faculty Members Thefollowingpolicy, adopted by the Faculty Senate on November JZ 1982, andapproved by the Provost on March 1. 1983, replaces the Policy on Extramural Consultative and Business Activities ofFaculty Members which appears onpp. 41-47 ofthe 1979 Handbook for Faculty and Administrators.

I. Introduction academic dean or director. This policy applies in full to all Standing Faculty, Standing Faculty- 2. Faculty members shall make known to their department chairs and aca- Clinician Educators, and all full-time members of both the Associated demic deans or directors the prospect of each continuing engagement. at least, all Faculty and Academic Support Staff, hereinafter simply designated including, engagements expected to extend for a substantial of an academic term. members should decide to enter a faculty members. Parts of it also apply to those with part-time faculty portion Faculty relationship only if, after discussion with their chairs and appointments; these cases are noted in the appropriate sections. The department academic deans or directors, there is concurrence that the proposed details of this policy derive from the following general obligations: engagement will not conflict with the faculty members' professional obliga- I. All are to conform to the moresand ethical standards of employees required tions to the University, or with the University's outstandingor prospective the and the rules to enforce them. University promulgated commitments for teaching and research. 2. as a member a commitment of time Employment faculty presumes primary 3. In addition to the prospective disclosure cited above, all faculty members and intellectual resources to the academic mission of the and its University must report on the extent of their extramural activities of all types as functioning as a community. detailed in Section VII below. The followingsections cite specific types of activity that have commonly been found to conflict with these obligations, and the procedures and Ill. Conflict of Financial Interest between the regulations that have been devised to identify and resolve such conflicts. University and Extramural Organizations are intended to serve as and not as a They examples comprehensive Members of the faculty or of their immediate families (including Situations not covered them will in the of compilation. by bejudged light parents, children, siblings, spouse) may have significant investments or the above general obligations. interests or hold official positions in extramural business organizations, of actions that run counter to the first Examples general obligation whether or not they have undertaken to perform continuing work or include discrimination on the basis of irrelevant characteris- nepotism, services forthem. Such economic or official relationshipsare of concern tics, inappropriate use of the University's name, and exploitation of any if: of association with aspect the University for unacceptable purposes or I. The organizations are engaged in activities that parallel activities in which private gain. They are proscribed at all times for all faculty members, the University is currently or prospectively engaged, and in which faculty extending to those in part-time employment as noted in the relevant members play (or might appropriately play) a role in their academic capac- sections of this document. Excessive commitment of time or mental ity: or 2. The have a or effort to extramural engagements or other non-University activities organizations present prospective relationship with the Uni- versity, e.g., as of or services or as to research during the academic year constitutes a violation of the second general suppliers goods parties contracts, and the conduct of those relationships may involve faculty obligation. As used in this policy, the academic year is defined for each members in their academic capacities; or faculty member as that portion of the year during which they receive a 3. The engagements undertaken by faculty members under the aegis of from the for services. salary University extramural business organizations might be suitable and appropriate activi- ties for execution within the University. If. Conflict of Interest in the Allocation of Time A. Policy on Disclosure of with that are and Effort to Extramural Activities Relationships Organizations Suppliers or Potential Competitors of the University. In either of these The that its members are not University recognizes faculty employees situations, faculty members shall be required to report the facts and in the usual sense, and that a allocation of academic time and precise circumstances to their department chairs and academic deans or direc- effort is Their of in their areas of inappropriate. pursuit knowledge tors so that appropriate steps may be taken to avoid conflictsof interest, is to be a commitment. A limited associa- competence presumed lifelong especially ones in which-faculty members may benefit from a knowledge tion of faculty members with government, professional agencies, and of confidential information. or is when it public private organizations appropriate, especially may In the foregoing it assumed that those with part-time faculty appoint- enhance their as scholars. competence ments will not normally participate in University decisions that could Policy on Extent of Extramural Activities. Forms of extramural activity engender such conflicts of interest for them. Whenever this condition include part-time engagement for a fee as a technical or professional does not obtain, the policy stated above extends to them. Furthermore, consultant or practitioner and formation or association with business in any circumstances in which part-time faculty members are engaged in enterprises or non-profit organizations. In principle, both such associa- externally sponsored research projects contracted with the University, or tions are approved under the following conditions: in which they stand to benefit from a knowledge of confidential informa- I. Faculty members should not engage in such extramural associations to an tion, full disclosure of their relationships with relevant extramural organ- extent that detracts significantlyfrom theiravailability fornormal academic izations and of the facts pertaining to any potential conflict is required. duties. These commitments in aggregate should not exceed one day per B. on seven-day week during the academic year. Exceptions to this will be permit- Policy Acceptance of Engagements through Extramural Organi- ted only in unusual circumstances and require the specific approval of the zations. Faculty members with positions or connections in extramural president or provost, the appropriate department chair, and the appropriate organizations who wish to undertakeengagements throughthose organ- 4 ALMANAC, March 8, 1983

zations rather than the University are obliged to offer first to the business associates that duties to the extramural organization are thus University each such engagement (grant, contract, client, etc.) in which limited. This is especially necessary in the case of corporate officers who they would assume one or both of the following relationships to the are normally regarded as owning a comprehensive fiduciary duty to the engagement: corporation and its shareholders. The suggested format for such a I. Owner, executive or other principal decision-making position responsible disclosure is: forthe conduct of that business enterprise; and/or J. Smith, a vice president of this corporation, is a member of the 2. Principal investigator or othersubstantial responsibilities for thesatisfaction faculty of the University of Pennsylvania and as such is subject to of the engagement. limitations by the University on the time that may be devoted to the affairs of this In By requiring that each engagement be offered to the University, the corporation. any instance where the interest of this conflict with the interest of the of Penn- following ends are served: corporation may University sylvania, J. Smith will resolve such conflict in favor of the University a. The disclosure of the type, scope and extent of extramural activities is of Pennsylvania. achieved, in accord with University policy; b. The decision as to whether an engagement is appropriately undertaken as a The provost shall have the power to require such a disclosure in any University or extramural activity is shared with the University administra- instance where he/she adjudges it necessary. tion, thereby avoiding possible conflicts of interest, and the appearance of such conflicts. V. Conflict of Interest in Externally Sponsored Research members to conduct in business enter- Faculty intending engagements Detailed information and regulations concerning sponsored research with which are associated shall disclose in to their prises they writing may be found in the 1977 Research Invest igatcr's Handbook, modified chairs and deans: department by the "Guidelines for the Conduct of Sponsored Research," published I. The nature and terms of the and proposed enterprise, in Almanac 4/7/81. Copies of both are available from the Office of The it an extramural 2. reasons why should be conducted as activity. Research Administration. If thechairs and deans the are not as agree that engagements appropriate All faculty members, including those in part-time employment, parti- a and if conclude that theotherconditions of the University activity, they cipating in externally sponsored research projects contracted with the extramural of the will be met, then consulting policies University they University should refrain from any use of their employment that is will advise the faculty members to proceed. Otherwise, they may require motivated by, or givesthe appearance of being motived by, thedesire for that the be conducted within the engagements University. private gain for themselves or other persons, including particularly those with whom they have family, business, or financial ties. The potential for IV. Disclosure of University Affiliation private gain is present when any private agencies or enterprises in which in Publications of Extramural Organizations they have significant financial interests or consulting, managerial, or Faculty members who form or associate with extramural business other employment relationships stand to benefit. Examples of situations enterprises or non-profit organizations should exercise particular care from which conflicts of interest may arise include, but are not limited to, that their University affiliation is appropriately cited in publications of the following: such organizations. Problems that can arise from failure to observe this I. Undertaking or orientation of sponsored research to serve the needs of a injunction include: private agency or enterprise in which a responsible staff members has an interest. I. Such an organization, by reason of the participation of faculty members, 2. Purchase of instruments, materials or other items for might be considered to have some formal or informal relationship to the major equipment, research from or in which a University. externally sponsored any agency enterprise staff member has an interest. 2. Faculty members by reason of their positions in such organizations, might responsible 3. of limitations on the free of and access to the be expected to discharge duties and responsibilities for those organizations Acceptance any publication results of research. be the that would be inconsistent with their primary duty to the University. any sponsored Exception may granted by provost for privileged information, but only in the form of a delay in the release of A. A business or non- Disciaming University Relationships. enterprise such information. The delay will only on rare occasions exceed three with which a member has a connection, profit organization, faculty may months. Those wishingto engage in research of a kind whose resultscannot release to the public from time to time publications concerning itself and be so disseminated may only do so as an extramural consulting activity its activities. In all such publications it may be desirable and, in may underthe conditions described in Section If. cases, required by law that a faculty member's affiliation with the 4. Transmission to any private agency or enterprise, use for personal gain, or other unauthorized use of the work results, materials, records, or University be disclosed. product, information from research that is not made The impact of such disclosure will depend on the circumstances. At gathered sponsored generally available through publication or other free access. one extreme a faculty member might serve as a member of the board of 5. Acceptance of gratuities or special favors from a privateagency or enterprise directors of an established business or non-profit organization, where with which the University conducts business in connection with asponsored there is not even a remote implication that such organization is in any research project. way connected with the University of Pennsylvania. At the other A. Disclosure to Officials. Before extreme all or a large number of the principals of an organization Responsible University participating in research all members must written (officers, directors, promoters and substantial shareholders) may be any sponsored project, faculty give notice of their extramural or other faculty members. In such cases, there is a strong implication that the consulting relationships sponsored research that relate in to the to the organization may be connected with the University of Pennsylvania, projects may any way project chairs and them to the deans and vice even that the University bears some responsibility for its activities and appropriate department through for research. financial or interests success. In these cases, an express statement of the form: provost Any significant managerial that may relate in way to the must be disclosed in to The has no connection, directly or indi- any project writing the vice members in research rectly, with the University of Pennsylvania. provost. Any faculty engaged sponsored projects must disclose in the same manner any change in their outside in prominent type, should be included in all publications released by activities or interests. In the light of such disclosures, the University will such organization. The provost shall have the power to require such a take to neutralize or eliminate conflicts of statement to be included in all that refer to appropriate steps potential organizational publications interest. faculty members, when it is in his/herjudgment necessary. The foregoing rules extend to part-time faculty members, when their B. Distribution of Effort. The sponsoring agency supporting research association with the University is mentioned in an organizational must not be misled as to the amount of intellectual effort that faculty publication. members are actually devoting to these research projects. A system of B. Affirmationof Obligationsto the Universlty. A faculty member may precise time accounting is incompatible with the inherent character of have a position of responsibility (continuing or temporary) with an the work of faculty members, because the various functions that they extramural business organization. In such cases it should be made clear perform are closely interrelated and do not conform to any meaningful in any publications of the organization that the obligations, in terms of division of a standard work week. However, if externally sponsored both time and responsibility, of the faculty member to the extramural research agreements provide that faculty members will devote a definite organization are limited by and subject to the policy of the University of fraction of effort to the projects, or if it is agreed that they will assume Pennsylvania. This alerts both the public and the faculty member's specified responsibilities in relation to such research, demonstrable rela- ALMANAC, March 8, 1983 5

tionships between the stated efforts or responsibilities and the actual VII. Requirements for Reporting extent of their involvement are to be expected. Each faculty member, in Extramural Activities and Obligations such circumstances, shall confirm the fraction of effort devoted to the At the end of each academic year, each faculty member shall submit to projects in the effort reports required of all faculty members who are so his or her department chair and dean a report of his or her extramural engaged. activities during that year, containing the following information: I. Number of days (or hours, if preferred) of extramural activities for fee C.Advice and Guidance. conflicts Any questions concerning potential (include consulting, professional practice, outside teaching commitments, of interest, appropriate distribution of effort, or other problems asso- lectures for honoraria, etc.); ciated with externally sponsored research, should be addressed to the 2. Names of organizations (government agencies, private firms, partnerships, office of the Vice Provost for Research. etc.) for which the extramural activities conducted represented acontinuing engagement; 3. Number of days (or hours, if preferred) of extramural activities on behalf of business enterprises in which they have financial interests or official Vi. of More than One Family Member Employment positions. the of more than one member University policy permits employment 4. Names of business organizations in which the faculty member is a significant whether or not of a family (including parents, children, siblings, spouse), owner, partner, officer, director, or staffmember, etc. the concerned are in the same academic or administrative persons The last item shall also be reported by all part-time faculty members for The sole concern, in such as in all department. University's appointments whom any of the following conditions obtain: others, is that or staff members are the best candidates with faculty The organization is a supplier of the University and the part-time faculty respect to the requisite academic or administrative qualifications for member participates in the decision to engage its services. employment. However, the University recognizes that the appointment The organization supplies goods or services to the University to be used in of two or more family members, especially within the same department, the performance of externally sponsored research projects in which the can lead to abuses and generate pressures and prejudice among col- part-time faculty member participates. The member is to confidential informa- leagues. To guard against such conflicts, the following rules must be part-time faculty privy University observed: tion that could be used to the business advantage of the orgaization. The affiliation of the part-time faculty member with the University may be I. No member shall in whatsoever in the decision to faculty participate any way mentioned in any publication of the organization. employ, promote, reappoint, or terminate a member of his or her family on Forms for the reporting of extramural activity are available from the the Standing Faculty or Associated Faculty. Office of the Provost. 2. No faculty member shall participate in any other vital decision, including All members must also on a salary determination, affectinga member of his or her family on the Stand- faculty report continuing and timely basis ing Faculty or Associated Faculty. to theappropriate administrators the relevant circumstances, as noted in the sections cited, whenever of the conditions are met: " Furthermore, faculty members should take care to avoid conflicts of any following I. have or wish to initiate a with an extramural business interest or theappearance of such conflicts in the employment of a family They relationship that is or become a or of the Univer- member in a non-faculty position. All decisions regarding such employ- organization may supplier competitor (Section III. A.) ment should be conducted in strict conformance with the relevant sity 2. wish to undertake an contract, client.etc.) contained in the of Personnel Pol- They engagement (grant, through regulations, University Pennsylvania an extramural organization (Section III. B.) Manual, available from the Office of Personnel Relations. icy 3. They intend to participate in a sponsored research project that may be The above requirements extend to those with part-time faculty related to their othersponsored research projects, to any of theirextramural appointments whenever they may exercise decision power over the consulting relationships, or to any organization in which they have signi- employment of a family member. ficant managerial or financial interests (Section (V. A.).

ON CAMPUS March 8-27 Academic Calendar Information: Marja Hock-Smit. Ext. 3123. members (for an additional $7 charge classmemberscanjoin March 24 Toward Preventing Nuclear War: an address by the horticulturalist/speaker Joy Logee Martin for a box March12 Spring recess begins at close of classes United Nations SecretaryGeneralJavier Perez de Cuellar.7 lunch afterclass). March 21 Spring recess ends at 8:00am. p.m.. Irvine Auditorium (The Office of the President). March 12 Propagationfor the Home Gardener, three ses- March 25,26 New Approaches to Law, in the Public Inter- sions, 10a.m. six est, on such topics as Criminal Justice Practice and Public March 14 Botany for Gardeners, sessions. 6:30p.m., $65. Children's Activities Interest Law:Race. Class & Sex:keynoteaddressby Father $48.75for Arboretum members. Drinan. Georgetown University Law Center. 7:30 p.m..The March 15 Horticulture Therapy, six sessions. 7 p.m.. $60. Film Series Law School (Penn Law School students). $45 for Arboretum members. andSite two 7 March12 The MixedUp Filesof Mrs. BasilE. FrankweiIcr March 26 Archaeology of Ebla. all-day symposium led by March 16 Mapping Analysis, sessions. p.m.. March 19 Digb: The Biggest Dogin the World Dr. Paolo Matthiae, director of the Italian excavations of S20.$15 for Arboretum members. six I March 26 Angels in the Outfield this Syrian site. 9 am.. Rainey Auditorium. University March 19 Conifersfor the Home Landscape, sessions. Museum. Information: Ext. 3024 (University Museum). p.m.. $25. $18.75 for Arboretum members. TheSaturday children's film series is free. Filmsarescreened March 30 Toward Preventing Nuclear War: a debate Information/ Education 247-5777. at 10:30a.m.. Harnaon Auditorium, the University Museum. registration: Department. between Senators George McGovern and John Warner on the viabilityof a nucleararms freeze: 8p.m.. Irvine Audito- Training Division of Personnel Recreation Classes rium (The Office of the President). March10 Resume Development, noon-1 p.m. March 15, 17 Your Positive!,: 9 am.- March26 Classes in swimming.fencingandgymnastics. six Approaching Staff sessions. Registration: Gimbel Gymnasium, noon-4 p.m. noon (participants must attend both sessions). $30 fee per Information: Helene Hamlin. Ext. 6102. Coursework and Training participant, charged to theparticipant'sdepartment,follow- ingsupervisoryapproval. College of General Studies March 16 Purchasing Orientation. 2-3:30 p.m., call Ms. March19 Learning a Language-Basic. 9:30a.m. Vaccaro, Ext.4078 to register. The Archaeologist and His Work. 10:30a.m. March17 Preparing to be Interviewed. noon-1 March22 Fiction Writing I:A Workshop. 7:30 p.m. March18 The Art of Delegation. 9 am-noon. $10fee per March23 Anton Chekovs The Three Sisters. 8p.m. participant, chargedto the participant'sdepartment, follow- March24 Editing Working. 6p.m. ing supervisory approval. Workshop Business Writing. 6:15 p.m. March24 The Interview Process: From Startto Finish for March 19 The How and Mummies, a hands-on Why of March 30 Exposition. Advocacy, Argument: A Workshop staffwith hiring responsibilities, 1-4 p.m. $10 feeper partici- for children 9-12. 1-2:30 workshop ages p.m.. University in Prose Writing. 6p.m. pant. charged to the participant's department, following Museum. $15 for one adult and one child, $5 for each These are non-credit courses sponsored by CGS. Dates supervisoryapproval. additional family member (CGS). shown are starting dates of courses. Information and regis- Information/ registration: Training Division. 516 Franklin tration: Ext. 6479 or 6493. Building/16. Ext. 3400. Conferences March 18 Day-long seminar on Housing Demand Assess- Health and Wellness Project ment: Methodsand Modelsfor Developing Countries. Fine March 9 Of Angelwing and Maidenhair: Living with Bego- March 15-AprIl 19 Yoga: A Way to Wholeness. noon-I:15 Ferns, 10:30 $12, $9 for Arboretum Christian Association Arts School (Department of City and Regional Planning) nias and a.m.-noon. p.m..Chapel. Building. 6 ALMANAC. March 8. 1983

March 17-April 19 Basic Massage and Healing. 7-10 p.m., On second floor lounge, Christian Association Building. Stage March 10-27The Philadelphia Drama Guild's Daughters. For information about this and other courses in already John Morgan Evans' comedy about four generations of progress call 222-5941. Italian women coping with life in the Bronx; Zellerbach Theatre. AnnenbergCenter. Tickets! information: Ext.6791. March 18-27 Center Theatre Workshops Annenberg Series' Woza Albert!, a social and political satire that uses comedy to March 12 Hmong Pa Ndao Workshop Series, demonstra- oppose Apartheid, the play originated in South Africa as a tion and sale of Southeast Asian appliqué and embroidery, collaboration between actors Percy Mtwa and Mbongeni 1-3 p.m.. International House. Registration feeand informa- and director Barney Simon; Zellerbach Theatre. tion:387-5125, Ext. 219. Ngema Annenberg Center. Tickets/ information: Ext. 6791. Match21 Men's Workshop led by Marvin Berman, allday, March 23, 30, AprIl 6 Anton Chekov's The Three Sisters. Christian Association. Information: 386-1530. three-part program featuring the play and two classroom sessions. 8-10 p.m.. Annenberg Center. (CGS) $35. $28 for Annenberg Center subscribers. Exhibits March 24-26 All Nonsense. Bloomers. 7 and 9:30 p.m.. Houston Hall Auditorium. Tickets: $3.49 on Locust Walk Through March8Black Women. AchievementAgainst the andat the door. Information: Ext. 7038. Odds, Houston Hall (Penn Women's Center-Year 102 Events). Through March 9 Black Contributions to American His- tory:Business, Kings Court/English House(North Campus Events Residence-Year 102 Events). Special Through March 11 Department ofArchitecture's Annual Through March11 Sculpture by Anita Rile andPaintings Design Week, with guest architects lecturing at 6:30 p.m.. by Betty Campbell. FacultyClub. Room B-I, Fine Arts Building: March 8 Mario Botta. Through March1$ Recent Additions to theSpecie!Collec- Ticino. Switzerland; March 9 Barton Myers, Toronto, tionsofthe Van Pelt Library, Klein Corridor, 1stfloor. Van as the and O'Hara as Yudie Bank great-grandmother Jenny Canada. Pelt Library. Tessie. her in a grand-daughter, Daughters, comedy of March 15 Men's Basketball NCAA first round double- March31 Wilson Ere: Urban Paul Through Early Works. tensions and tenderness in afami!c Challenged by crises in header. 7and 9p.m.. Paleatra. Ticket information: Ext.6151. Philippe Cret Gallery. Fine Arts Ubrar Furness Building. their lives and the women alternate!;' personal marriages, March19 Penn Crew on the River, Prints by Gopa: Desastresdo la Guerra. La Family Day: Schuylkill Tauromaquia, argue andsupport one anotheras the; bringtheirowngen- starting at Strawberry Mansion Bridge at 10:30 am, and Spanish Entertainment and other prints: Arthur Ross eration'svalues to contemporary problems. (See On Stage) finishing under the Columbia Bridge; awards, demonstra- Gallery, Furness Building. tions and refreshments, 11:30a.m.at the Pennsylvania Boat- Morris Arboretum's Photo Contest Exhibit, winning house. Free, but reservations encouraged: Alumni Rela- entries featuringdifferent aspectsof the Morris Arboretum: Museum Film Series tions. Ext. 7811. Hillcrest Pavilion. Admission $I, 50¬ children and senior March 13 Winstanle;: March 25 Jamaican 5:30-8:00 Club. citizens. Night. p.m., Faculty March20 Dante's Inferno. March 25-27 EAA Alumni Reception. March 16-April 8 Paintingsb.;' Joan Wolf-Davis andSculp- March27 Don Giovanni. March26 Family Day: Mask & Wig at the Club. Refresh- ture by Karen Singer, Faculty Club. These free films arescreened at 2:30 p.m.. Harrison Audito- ments on sale before I p.m.curtain. Reservations and tickets March 11-April 24 Connections: &idges/Ladders! Ramps/ rium.the University Museum. ($3adults. $1 children): Alumni Relations, Ext. 7811. Staircases!Tunnels. Institute of Contemporary Art. Open- ThroughMarch 31 The University Museum Shop features ing March 10,5-7 p.m. selected Egyptian. Pre-Columbian andChinesejewelry at SO Ongoing The Egyptian Mummy: Secretsand Science and PUC Film Alliance off regular Information: Ext.4040. Poh'nesia. Museum. percent prices. University March 10 Questfor Fire. Fall 1983 The Wanderers in their Own Through Lenape: March 24 Man ofMarble. Land: Sharp Gallery. University Museum. Unless otherwise indicated, all films are screened at 10 p.m.. (Horn. Schedules) Irvine Auditorium. Admission: S2. SpOrts March 16 Men's Lacrosse vs. 7 Exhibition Hours Loyola (Bait.). p.m. March 18 Men's Tennis vs. Concordia.3 p.m. Arthur Furness Roes Gallery Building. 220 South 34th Penn Union Council Movies March 19 Men's Lacrosse vs. Delaware, 7p.m. Street. Tuesday-Friday 10 am-S p.m.. Saturday and Sun- March 23 Baseball vs. Haverford. 3p.m. March 25 Fame. 7:15, 9:45 p.m. Midnight: Dial Mfor day noon-5 p.m. March24 Women's Lacrosse vs. Murder. Maryland. 7p.m. Family Club 36th andWalnut Streets. Monday-Friday9a.m.- March25 Baseball vs. March26 F&M. 3p.m. 9 Taps. 7:30,9-.45.12 midnight. p.m. Men's Tennis vs. Boston U.,3p.m. FIn.Arts Ubrary Furness Building. 220South 34th Street. Schedule subject to change.Allshowsin Irvine Auditorium. Metch26 Men's Lacrosse vs. Yale, II am. 9 a.m.-II 9 a.m.-l0 Admission: $1.50. Midnight: $1 of fea- Monday-Thursday p.m.. Friday p.m., (Midnight showings Men's 1J'ack vs. St.Joe's/ La Salle. I p.m. 10 a.m.-5 I-lI ture filmsare $1.50). Information: Ext.4444. Saturday p.m..Sunday p.m. Men's Tennis vs. Temple. 2p.m. Hllicrest Pavilion Morris Arboretum, Hillcrest Avenue, Locations: Bower Field: Baseball: : Men's between Germantown and StentonAvenues, Chestnut Hill, Serious Films and Women's Lacrosse, Men's Rack: Lott Courts: Men's 247-5777. lOam, to 4 phone: Daily p.m. March8 Just Oneofthe Boys: The Part.;' Game: The Date Tennis. Information: Ext. 6128. Instftuts Art Fine Arts 34th of Contemporary Building. (films on acquaintance rape presented by Women Organized and Walnut Streets. 10 a.m.-5 Tuesday, Thursday, Friday Against Rape). p.m.. Wednesday 10 a.m.-7 p.m.. Saturday and Sunday Madh 22J. Edgar Hoover (ABC news documentarycover- noon-5 Talks p.m. ing every issue from 1924-1973). University Museum 33rd and Spruce Streets phone: 222- March8 Inventionand Writing: Richard Young. Carnegie- These free films are screened at noon and 2 p.m. in the 7777. Tuesday-Saturday 10 a.m.-4:30p.m., Sunday I-S Mellon University; II a.m., Van Pelt Library Conference p.m. Houston Hall Art Gallery by the Office of Student Life; Van Pelt 9 am-Il Room (The Writing Across the University Program). Ubrary Monday-Friday p.m. except discussions will be held afterfilms. Information: Ext. 6533. holidays. Rosenwald Gallery. Monday-Friday9a.m.-5 p.m. Does Membrane Lipid Peroxidation Play a Role in the Pathogenesis ofAnthrocycline C'ardiotoxicity':Dr. Edward Year 102 Films Minnaugh. National Cancer Institute. N.I.H.. Bethesda. Maryland; 12:30 p.m.. Physiology Library, 4th floor. Guided Gallery Tours March 9 Impact Rasism: The Dividing Line. I and 4 p.m.. Richards Building (Respiratory Group of the Department of March12 Classicaland Roman World High Rise North Upper Lobby (RacismCommittee. Depart- ment of Physiology, Department of Anesthesiology). March13 African Roots ofAmerican Jazz Residential Living). Lectures on Nonlinear Problems:Louis Nirenberg, NYU- March 19 Egypt Courant; 3p.m., Room A-8. David Rittenhousc Laboratory March 20 Buddhism (Hans R.ademacher Lecture in Mathematics). March 26 Highlights Meetings WhyDo Women Live Longer than Men? Ingiid Waldron, March 27 Polynesia GAPSA March9 Meeting, 6:15 p.m. in Graduate Student associateprofessor, department of biology; 3:30p.m..Room Houston Hall. These Saturday and Sunday tours are free and begin at I Lounge. 113. Nursing Education Building (Center for the Study of p.m. at the main entrance of the University Museum. Infor- Thsst.sL March11 Executive CommitteeStated Meeting. Aging Faculty SeminarSeries on Aging). to 2 Tea Club. mation and arrangefor group tours: Ext. 4015. p.m., Room. Faculty Global Energy: Economic Relationships: James Zuc- UnIv.r.lty council: March9 Meeting.4-6 p.m. in Room chetto, assistant professorof regional science;4p.m., Room Law School. 2. 217, Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall (Resource Management Films and Technology Series). Mechanisms of Cancer Metastasis: Dr. George Poste, Exploratory Cinema Music professor of pathology; 4 p.m.. Room 151-152. School of March 9 Mujerde Milfuegos; Tidikawa and Friends. Veterinary Medicine Cell March 12 The Collegium Musician Serenata-One Hun- (Comparative Biology). March 23 La Soufriere; How Much Wood woulda Wood- March 9 Nerve-MuscleSynapse Formation in Tissue Cul- dred Years of the Trio-Sonata, a baroque ensemble, with chuck Chuck: Huie's Sermon. ture:LeeL. Rubin, assistant professorand Andreand Bells Ruth Conant Drye on baroque flute. Kim Heindel, harpsi- Films at 7:15 and Meyer Fellow.The Rockefeller University;noon. Mezzanine begin 9:30 p.m.. Studio Theatre, Annen- cord, and Karen Meyers,theorbo.;2p.m.. LowerEgyptian Room 100, Old Medical School Building (Department of berg Center. Admissions: $3. students $2. Gallery. University Museum (University Museum). Pharmacology). March 20 Jazz Innovators, workshops and concerts with Jewish Liturgical Chant in she Hungarian Tradition: An Illinois JacquesandSlam StewartQuintet, noon-5 p.m.and GSAC Film Series Eshnomusicological Approach: Judit Laki 12:15 p.m., 8 p.m.. International House. March25 LacombeLucien. Graduate Lounge. 233 Houston Hall (GSAC Lunchbag March25 Retrospective ofGeorge Rochberg'spiano music. Seminars). Films are shown in Fine Arts B-I, at 7:30 and 10 p.m. with pianist Jerome Lowenthal; 8 p.m., Harrison Audito- on Admission: $1.50; Season pass. $10. rium. University Museum. Tickets: $6 ($4 for students). (continued page 8) ALMANAC, March 8. 1983 7

Acid Induced Airway in the Cat; Dr. John Greek and Roman Jewelry; Reynold A. retired (eon:inuedfrom page?) Responses Higgins, Boyle. CHOP; 12:30 p.m., Physiology Library, 4th floor. deputy keeper.British Museum; 8p.m.. Rainey Auditorium, Shakespeare's Heroines: A View by Char/one Perkins Richards ofthe of University Museum (Museum, AlA Lecture). Gilman; Georgianna Ziegler, assistant curator, Furness and Building(Respiratory Group Department Physiology. Department of Anesthesiology). March 23 Boethius: Prose Rhythm as a Feature of Latin Special Collections; 12:15 p.m., Women's Studies Office. 106 March 21 Applications of Thansition Metal Reagents to Stile: Rebecca R. Harrison, doctoral student; 12:15 p.m.. Logan Hall (Women's Studies Brown Bag Seminars). InorganicSynthesis;Larry Sneddon, professor of chemistry; Room 233. Graduate Lounge. Houston Hall (GSAC Lunch- Lectures on Nonlinear Problems; Louis Nirenberg, NYU- 3:30 Alumni Hall. Towns Building (Department of bag Seminars). Courant; 3p.m., Room A-8. David Rittenhouse p.m.. Laboratory Chemical The Poetics of Women's Displays; Deborah Kodish. (Hans Rademacher Lecture in Mathematics). Engineering). Making a Film Documentary in Rural China; Richard Great Lakes College Association, Phila. Urban Semester; Poetry Reading by WD. Snodgrass, author of Heart's Gordon, film maker, photographer. 4 p.m.. Colloquium 12:15 p.m.. Room 106. Women's Studies Office. Logan Hall Needle, In Radical Pursuit, and The Fuhrer Bunker. and Room, Annenberg School of Communications (Communi- (Women's Studies Brown Bag Seminars). Pulitzer Prize winner, 4 p.m.. Annenberg School Audito- cations Biography and Fiction; Carolyn Heilbrun. Columbia rium (The of Leon Colloquium). Writing Program. Department English. Russian Darwinism 1860-1890: Ideology: Science and Franklin Room. Houston Hall Lecture Committee). University;4p.m.. Benjamin Social Change;Daniel Todes, University of California. San (Department of Englishand Women's Studies). Metabolic March 10 Complex Computer Modeling of Sys- Francisco; 4 p.m., 107 Smith Hail (History & Sociology of Recent Work; Eugene Kohn, principalin the architectural tems; D. Garfinkel, professor ofcomputer information and Science: Perspectives on Darwinism). firm Kohn, Pederson. Fox. New York. NY; 6:30 p.m.. science, SEAS; II a.m., Alumni Hall, Itt floor, Towne Build- Lecture Series. Robert Marvin, landscape architect from Alumni Hall. Towne Building (Graduate School of Fine ing (Department of Bioengineering. School of Engineering Walterboro, South Carolina; 6:30p.m.. Alumni Hall. Towns Arts Lecture Series). and Applied Science). Building (Graduate School of Fins Arts Lecture Series). March 24 Neuronal Assemblies: Experimental and Theo- Burma's Role in International Politics; Frank N. Trager, Bookreading and Child Rearing: A Diary Study Dr. rectical Problems; Dr. G.L. Gerstein. professor of physiol- research professor. Department of National Security Affairs, Sandra Josepha Hoffman. Graduate School of Education; 7 ogy, and Dr. Marc Bloom., assistant professorof anesthesi- Department of the Navy; II a.m., Room 2. University p.m.. Room D-44. Graduate School of Education (Center ology; II a.m., Alumni Hall, 1st floor. Towns Building Museum (South Asia Regional Studies Seminar). for Research in Literary Communication). (Departmentof Bioengineering, SEAS). Lectures on Nonlinear Problems;Louis Nirenberg, NYU- Fresh Fish Poetry andStorytelling Series:a poetry read- Sri LankaandIts Relationship with theMain/andandthe Courant; 3p.m.. Room A-8. David Rittenhouse Laboratory ing by Ann Michael; 7:30p.m.. Christian Association Build- Indian Ocean; Howard Wriggins. Columbia University; II (Hans Rademacher Lecture in Mathematics). ing (CA). a.m., Room 2. University Museum (South Asia Regional Peripheral Auditor Function in theEar: Middle Earand March 22 The Role alA CTHin Salt Intake andHyperten- StudiesSeminar). Cochkar Mechanisms; Dr. James C. Saunders, department sion, Rudy Bernard, physiology department, Michigan Vascular Compression of the Cranial Nerves and Brain- of otorhinolalyngology and human communication; 4p.m.. State University; 11:30a.m.. Monell Center (Monell Chemi- stem: A Concept of Disease Relatedto the Aging Process; Physiology Library. 4th floor, Richards Building (Depart- cal Senses Center). Dr. Peter J. Jannetta, professor and chairman, department ment of Physiology, Pennsylvania Muscle Institute). In Vivo Differentiation ofHuman Monocttes; Dr. Steven of neurological surgery. School of Medicine. University of Elizabethan P/ayscrjpts and Modern Interpreters; Alan Douglas. CHOP; 12:30 p.m.. Physiology Library. 4th floor. Pittsburgh; 4p.m.. Section A. Dunlop Auditorium. Medical Dessen, professor of English. University of North Carolina Richards Building (Respiratory Group of the Department of Education Building (Annual D. Hayes Agnew Surgical at Chapel Hill; 4 p.m.. 6th floor. Van Pelt Library (Depart- Physiology. Department of Anesthesiology). Lecture). ment of English Spring Lecture Series). Materials Science in Microelectronics; Harry J. Leamy. March 25 Models of Literary Influence in the Divine March 11 Wideband High Resolution Arrays; Shauh Teh technical staff. Bell Laboratories; 4 p.m.. Auditorium, Comedy; Rachel Jacoff. Wellesley College; 4 p.m.. East Juang. EES/ Valley Forge Research Center. noon. Room LRSM (Materials Science and Engineering. Engineering. Lounge.4thfloor. Williams Hall (Graduate Romanic Asso- 222. The Moore School (Valley Forge Research Center LRSM). ciation. Medieval Studies Committee). Seminar. Systems Engineering Department). The Profession of Authorship in America. 1900-1950: Is March 14 In Vitro Action of Endotoxin at the Cellular Therea Profession ofAuthorship in America?;James L. W. Level; Laurie Kilpatrick-Smith, department of biochemistry West Ill, professor of English literature. Virginia Polytech- and biophysics. School of Medicine; noon. Room 100. Old nic Institute and State University; 4 p.m.. Rosenwald To list an event Medical School Building, (Department of Pharmacology Gallery. 6th floor. Van Pelt Library (A. S. W. Rosenbach and Biochemistry/ Biophysics). Lectures in Bibliography). Informationfortheweekly Almanac calendar must reach March 15 Clinical Implications of the Regulation of &,4t BlackIntellectualismon White Campuses:David Bradley, our office at 3601 Locust Walk, Ce the Tuesdaypriorto the Weight; Albert J. Stunkard. department of psychology; 11:30 novelist; 7:30 p.m.. Multi-Purpose Room. DuBois College Tuesday 0/publication. The next deadline is March 22. at a.m., Monell Center (Monell Chemical Senses Center). House (DuBois College House-Year 102 Events). noon fortheMarch28 issue. 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LawSchool: Room 28. basement; coaching experience helpful, ability to plan and schedule, Project Budget Assistant (5441) S9,925-$12,250. LoganHall: first floor, near Room 117; knowledgeof University procedures). Psychology Technician I (D0074) Sl2.850-$l5.750. LRSP&first floor. opposite elevator. Building Administrator (5367) $14.500-519.775. Research Laboratory Technician Ii (2positions) $l0.175- Richards BuIlding: first floor, near mailroom; Buyer Purchasing (5417) $14.500-519.775. $12,400. RlttenhouseLab:east staircase, second floor. Director,Admission Medical School (5362). Research Laboratory Technician III (positions)SlI.225- Social Work/Caster Building:first floor. Director of Development forFAS (Associate Develop- 513,775. Steinberg Hall-Dl.titch Hall: ground floor. ment Officer IV)(5445). Research Laboratory Technician lii (5456) pe:forms TowneBuilding: mezzanine lobby; Library Department Head 1(5390)$14,500-S 19.775. hemotologic and clinical chemistry tests using automated Van Pelt Library, ask forcopy at Reference Desk; Librarian I or II (3 positions) Librarian I 513,100-17.800; equipment and computer technology in a clinical pathology Vstednaiy School: firstfloor, next to directory. Librarian II $14.500-519.775. laboratory; performs coagulation and blood gas tests and NursePractitioner II (1)0078) $16,350-S22.600. routine urinalyses (degree and ASCP certification from a For further information call personnel relations. 898- Nurse, Staff(5447) S12.000-$16.100. medical technology program, familiarity with automated 7284. The University is an equal opportunity employer. Programmer AnalystI (C0995)$14,500-$19.775. equipment, experience preferred) $12.850-515,750. Where qualifications include formal education or training. Programmer AnalystIi (2positions) S16,350-$22.600. Research Machinist 11(5345)514,575-518.700. significant experience in the field may be substituted. The Research Specialist Junior (3 positions) S12,000-S 16,100. Secretary11(3 positions) S8.775-SI0,725. two figures in salary listings show minimum starting salary Research Sped" I (Iposition)513.lOO-S17.800. SecretaryIII (16positions) $9,375-S11,500. and maximum starting salary (midpoint). Some positions Research Specialist II (C0847) $l4.500-S19.775. Secretary, Medical/Technical (2positions) $9.925-Sl2.250. listed may have strong internal candidates. If you wouldlike Senior Research Coordinator(C0756)5l6.350-S22,600. Secretary, Technical/Word Processing (D0075) $9,925- to know more about a particular position, please askat the Staff Relations (Area Manager, Personnel) (5448). $12,250. time of the interview with a personnel counselor or hiring Staff Writer I/Researcher (5378) S12,000.$16,100. 'T'pIst 11 (5443) 58,250-S 10.000. department representative. Openings listed without salaries Staff Writer 11 (5444) $l4.500-S19,775. SecretaryIV (5446) SI0.575-S13.100. are those in which salary is to be determined. Resumes are TemporaryExtraPerson (Lab Technician) (1)0059). required for administrative!professional positions. Support Staff Administrative/Professional Staff Part-Time Positions Administrative Assistant 1(3positions) S9,925-S12,250. Admissions Officer 11 (5420). Administrative Assistant Ii (D0055) Sll,325-Sl4,050. Administratlv./Proleealonal 11 Administrative Applications Programmer Analyst (5154) provides Secretary i(5356)Sll,225-S14.000. Coordinator, Clinical Education (D0004) $16,350- technical in the administrative Student Permanent Records (5454) checks support computer support Coordinator, $22,600(prorated to 60% of full-time). documentation, and custo- of student and data for systems through programming the processing transcripts prepares ProfessIonal (2 positions) hourly wages. mer interaction (two to three years' Cobol PL/I program- the computer; calculates cumulative averagefor undergrad- ming experience in IBM hardware, CICS experience a plus) uate transcripts (five years' responsible clerical work, famil- Staff S16.350-$22,600. iarity with data processing as a user, high school graduate) Support Assistant Controller (5421) $16,350-$22,600. S10.575-S13.100. Permanent Employee (8 positions) hourly wages.

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