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Tuesday. May /4, /985 Published by the University of Volume 3/, Number34

Mr. Harris to Arizona ... Ms. Schlie to Acting Director As Charles Harris becomes head ofathletics at Arizona State UniversityJuly I, the Penn Associate Athletic Director Carolyn Schlie will become Acting Director of Recreation and Intercollegiate Athletics here. The announcement was made by Associate Provost Marion Oliver, who said a search will be started soon to find a successor to Mr. Harris. Ms. Schlie has been an associate director since July I, 1982, when she came from Gettysburg College where she was coordinator of women's sports, and the women's basketball and tennis coach. Since her arrival at Pennsylvania she has administered both men and women's sports. Among her duties are the supervision of the football program and . Ms. Schlie has overseen several NCAA Championship events held here, and she is tournament director of this week's NCAA Women's Lacrosse Championships at Franklin Field. A 35-year-old graduate of Valparaiso University, Ms. Schlie took her Master's degree froth Indiana and joined Gettysburg as a coach and assistant professor of health and physical education. Under Mr. Harris, the University adopted its first official athletic policy in three decades, won three straight Ivy football titles including its first in 23 years, embarked on a program ofphysical expansion, and enjoyed across-the-board-success in intercol- legiate sports setting a school record for Ivy championships with 8 in 1984. "He has made a great difference to the athletic program," said President Hackney. "We will benefit for a long time from the changes he has made and from the efforts of the Charles Harris Schlie Carolyn coaches he has brought to Penn."

INSIDE Funding Watch on Washington-and Harrisburg As the U.S. Senate released its changes in the nonpreferred group's funding is not debated Reagan budget, (which moves to House Budget until after the General Assembly acts on the PART ONE: Committee hands under 's Con- General Appropriations Bill covering the pre- Bill this week), ferred institutions and universi- " On Animal Research (Hackney), p. 2 gressman Gray several factors (state colleges " Council: Fall Break favorable to education ties), to Commonwealth Relations Report; p.3 higher were identified according " Reporton SAS Development (Webber), pp.4-5 by Penn's Federal Relations Director David Director Alexis Van Azdin. The general bill has " HONORS & Other Things; Deaths; p.6 Morse: a deadline of July I. An alumni-and-friends " Alumni Day, UPS Awards, p.7 -Instead of a 25% cut in student aid, Senate group, the Commonwealth Relations Council Computing's Penn Printout voted a freeze at 1984-85 levels. headed by Trustee Charles Wolf of York... Pa., PART TWO: -Instead ofa$35,000 capon family incomefor continues to taketo Harrisburg Penn's storyas eligibility for guaranteed student loans, contributor to the Commonwealth's educa- For Comment, The Penn Profile Senate's cap is $60,000-and this Mr. Morse tional resources and its local, regional and state said may be subject to some phasing as the economy. federal budget undergoes refinement in later stages. -Instead ofa$300 million NIH appropriation Commonwealth Funding Proposals for Penn to fund 5000 projects, the Senate set $500 million to cover 6000. Penn's 198548 Request Governor's 1985.88 Recommendations The Senate also restored some for funding AppropriatIon 198548 1995-86 health the HEAL professions training including 198445Request $ Increase' % kiuease' Govt. Rec. loans, Mr. Morse said. Higher education's Instructionorganizations, and individuals writing to Con- $12,549,000 $13,803,000 $1,254,00010 $13,051,000 $ 502,000 4 gress, have shifted their focus to the House for Medical Instruction 3,467,000 3,814,000 347,000 10 3,606,000 139,000 4 the next few weeks. Veterinary Instruction 6,309,000 6,943,000 904,000 15 6,281,000 242,000 4 Commonwealth Funding: In Harrisburg, Penn's 2,059,000 2,265,000 206,000 10 2,141,000 82,000 4 request this year was for an overall increase of Food and Animal 1,436,000 1,580,000 144,000 10 1,493,00057,000 4 11% which would have added $2,936,000 to the Dental Clinics 805,000 886,000 81,000 10 837,000 32,000 4 1984-85figure (see table). The budgetGovernor Thornburgh submitted in February limited the $26,355,000 $29,291,000 $2,936,000 11 $27,409,000 $1,054,000 4 increase to 4%for the nonpreferred institutions Increases over 1984 - 85 (Penn, Penn State, Pitt, Temple and Lincoln), approprIation. which holds the increase to $1,054,000. This

From the President.

On May 7 President Hackney sent thefollowing letter to Senator Lowell Weicker, Chairman of the Subcommittee of Labor. Health and Human Services, and Education of the Senate Appropriations Committee. A similar letter has been sent to other members of Congress.

On the Head Injury Laboratory and Animal Research Issues

As you may know, the Head Injury Clinical Research Laboratory at Health and the U.S. Department of Agriculture will be invited to partici- the University of Pennsylvania has been the subject ofcontroversy over pate as observers. The committee will conduct a complete evaluation of the use of animals in biomedical research to improve human health. As the laboratory and its research, including a review of the allegations of President ofthe University, I am writing to address several issues which improper procedure raised by antivivisection groups. may have come to your attention regarding this controversy and to Let me add that there have been no such allegations raised by the describe efforts we are undertaking to further engage these issues. Federal authority duly constituted to have jurisdiction over this This controversy should beseen in recent historicalcontext. Last May, research-the National Institutes ofHealth. Indeed, NIH has continued, unknown members of a group, self-described as the "Animal Liberation through the peer review process, to designate the research as exception- Front," broke into the Head Injury Research lab, destroyed equipment ally worthy ofsupport. The most recent favorable NIH peer review took and records, and stole videotapes documenting 60 hours ofexperiments. place in February of this year. Furthermore, the NIH Office of Protec- A short time after the break-in, representatives of People for the Ethical tion from Research Risks is continuing to review the research to deter- Treatment of Animals (PETA) announced that that organization had mine compliance with NI H policies regarding thecare and use oflabora- copies of all 60 hours ofthe stolen videotapes. The Philadelphia District tory animals. Attorney has attempted to identify and prosecute those involved in the Another issue which has been raised, separate from the specific break-in. research activities of the head injury research clinic, concerns the com- The purpose of the experiments conducted in the vandalized labora- pliance of Penn's animal care facilities with regulations under the Animal tory is to develop a model to determine the specific mechanisms of brain Welfare Act. The University has worked closely with the USDA, which injury, in orderto help understand and develop treatment for brain injury hasjurisdiction over animal welfare standards, to promote compliance. in humans. Head injury due to automobile and similar accidents, affect- When the USDA has suggested methods for enhancing compliance with ing 400,000 Americans annually, is among the most prevalent causes of regulations, we have endeavored to correct any real or potential prob- death and disability in the , and severe head injury is lems. Since the break-in, our animal care facilities have been inspected currently fatal to fourout of ten victims. As you know, the development many times by the USDA. A February 1985 inspection found problems ofa successful treatment for a complex medical problem usually requires raised by earlier inspections to have been basically corrected. an intimate knowledgeofthe problem itself. The creation ofa model for Let me take this opportunity to address certain of the broader issues head injuries in primates, whose brain structure is closest to that of involving the use of animal subjects in biomedical research. I believe humans, helps develop such knowledge about severe, often irreversible firmly that the research ofthis or any other University must beconducted brain damage due to injury in humans. I should add that the researchers according to the highest ethical and moral standards. Such standards most closely involved with the head injury research clinic are first and dictate that research involving animal subjects be performed humanely. I foremost neurosurgeons who are primarily engaged in treating human believe strongly, however, that basic biomedical research involving brain-injured patients, and who have gained considerable knowledge animal subjects is absolutely necessary ifwe are to continue to conquer about the human brain from their research on primates. disease and improve the health of our people. This is not simply an In order to respond fully to accusations leveled against the research imperative of the research community, but clearly reflects the popular and the investigators involved, the University has attempted to secure the will for continued biomedical advances, a will which is translated by return ofthe full 60 hours ofvideotapes. PETA has refused to return the Congress into support for biomedical research. Advances in the treat- tapes to the University but released brief and selected portions of the ment ofcancer, diabetes, lung and heart disease, and spinal cord injury tapes to the news media, and produced a 24-minute version which has have all been accomplished through procedures involving animals, and been widely shown and which PETA alleges to document experiments we will need to continue to involve animal subjects in many areas of conducted over a ten year period. Such a brief and selectively edited research, including head injury research, if further advances are to be version cannot represent accurately and fairly the full videotaped docu- made. mentation, and our own review of the research has been impeded by the There is, of course, a small but extremely vocal minority which continued refusal of PETA to make all the stolen tapes available. disagrees with this premise, and whose purpose is to eliminate all research Recently PETA has made available to the U.S. Department of Agri- involving animals, regardless of the benefits toman. This extreme minor- culture fivevideotapecassettes. Thesecassettes appearto represent only a ity attempts, through misrepresentation and innuendo, to impose its will small fraction of the 60 hours of stolen tape. on a society which has made the complex and difficult choice that the Nevertheless, with the anticipated availability of this somewhat larger greater good-to maintain and improve the health of humans and portion of the videotaped record, and acknowledging PETA's complete animals-is served by such research. unwillingness to provide, aftercountless requests, the complete tapes for I hope that this discussion has been useful in your consideration ofthis us to review, the University has appointed a special committee to review important issue. I would be pleased to keep you informed as to the the research conducted by the Head Injury Clinical Research Labora- progress of the review of the research as it proceeds, and you may be tory. This committee will consist of University faculty and prominent assured that the proper conduct of the review has my highest priority. individuals from outside the University who are conversant with bioethi- cal and research issues. Representatives of the National Institutes of

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COUNCIL'

Report of the Ad Hoc Committee to Review the Fall Break Deliveredat Council May 1, 1985

At its meeting of March 21, 1984, the University Council recom- was positive, there was little faculty support for starting the fall semester a mended that to alleviate student stress, a two-daybreakin the fall term be week early in order to allow for a one-week fall break. tried on an experimental basis in 1984-85 and that acommittee composed The few student questionnaire responses that were received (34; see of faculty members, staffmembers and students be set up to evaluate the Appendices) are clearly an insufficient indication ofstudent opinion. Fo results of the fall break. Such a fall break was held on Monday and what they are worth, they show a favorable reaction to the fall break. 22nd and 23rd, this is the of the review Tuesday, October 1984; report Thedata and analysis from the counseling and student health services committee. (see Appendices) indicate the of effects ofthe fall break 9th, the presence positive The committee met twice. At its first meeting on November in reducing student stress. committee discussed the objectives and potential problems of the fall The committee recommends: out its review The committee decided to break, and worked procedures. (I) that the fall break be continued on an experimental basis for two days poll students, faculty, and library and gym directors on their reactions to at approximately the same time in 1985-86; thefall break, and to request statistical datafrom the University Counsel- (2) that a decision whether or not to make the fall break a permanent part ing Service and the Student Health Psychiatry Service which might of the university calendar be taken without too much delay, so that throw light on the effects of the fall break in alleviating student stress. members ofthe university community can make the necessary adjust- ments to In early December, letters requesting reactions to the fall break were the presence of a fall break; that there be extensive about the existence of the fall break; sent to alldepartment chairs and deans, librarians and Gimbel Gym, and (3) publicity (4) that efforts should be made for more coordination among schools and a was inserted in (samples are in questionnaire between undergraduate and graduate programs in regard to the fall Appendices to this report, available at the Office of the Secretary). break; to discuss the to On February 13th, the committee met again responses (5) that next year's fall break review committee begin its work earlier than its letters and student questionnaire and preliminary data from the the committee did this year, and that it include in its polling the counseling and student health services (see Appendices for revised data), residential advisors in the student residences. and to work out its conclusions and recommendations. -Report submitted by Herbert S. Levine, The review conducted by the committee can hardly qualify as being Chair. Ad Hoc Committee to Review the Fall Break scientific. Nevertheless, the committee feels it was able to get a pretty to and effects of the fall break. This is good impression of the reactions Members particularly true of faculty reactions since there was a very substantial to the committee's letter. On the other hand, the student faculty response Dale Appell (Student. College) response to the Daily Pennsylvanian questionnaire was miniscule. Cathleen Bachman (Student, College) In general, the faculty reacted favorably to the fall break. While some Eduardo D. Glandi (Chemical Engineering) were highly enthusiastic and some strongly negative, a large proportion Gwen Jacqawat' (Graduate Student, Annenherg) of the faculty stated they thought the fall break was on the whole useful Herbet S. Levine, chair (Economics) Morrisson Vice Provost, (Jnit'ersitv and caused little damage to academic schedules, continuity and atten- Kim (Asst. Life) Steven Mu/unix fJniversiir Service) dance. An exceptionwas found in the Physics Department, wherethe fall (Director. Counseling David (Material Science and break the of laboratories, and the School of Social Pope Engineering) disrupted scheduling Thomas Ricketts Work librarian indicated that were caused the absence of (Philosophy) problems by Louis Schachier (Student. Wharton) student assistantsto run the while student useofthe help library graduate Nevile Strunipf (Nursing) the overall library remained at normal levels. Though faculty response Roger H. Wabnslev (Physics) COUNCIL

Synopsis of Minutes of May 1 Meeting A proposed amendment to the bylaws(Almanac 4/16/85) to broaden and positive data from the Counseling Service and the Student Health the charge to the International Programs Committee was adopted. A Psychiatry Service, concluded that last fall's experimental break was a second proposed amendment to enlarge the Council membership to success. The report recommended that next fall's two-day break be include the heads of the lnterfraternity Council and United Minorities evaluated and that a decision on whetherto make the break permanent be Council was withdrawn. made early in the 1985-86 year. The committee was asked to conduct the A progress report was presented by the Committee on Student Affairs evaluation and to make early recommendations accordingly. on its investigation ofthe status offaculty-student interaction undertaken Vice Provost Bishop introduced a new draft policy on alcohol use at the request of the Council. The report indicated that interaction is (Almanac 4/23/85). noting that the Alcohol Concerns Committee had considerably better at the graduate/ professional level than at the under- been at work for three years and had produced a number of successive graduate level but is probably similar to the experience at peer institutions drafts reflecting suggestions made by the Council and other groups and for both levels. The committee will continue its work and will cooperate individuals. The comments by Council members generally supported the with the seminars on faculty-student interaction being conducted by the draft. Vice Provost for University Life. The following persons were elected to the 1985-86 Steering Committee: The report of the Ad Hoc Committee to Evaluate the Fall Break (this Robert E. Davies (molecular biology). Elaine Scarry (English). Mark page) was discussed. The chair of the committee, Professor Herbert Stern(social work), Susan M. Wachter (finance), Wendy Ferber (Wh'87), Levine, states that the committee, based upon largely positive reactions and Amy Lyman (Gr Ed). from faculty members, positive though sparse responses from students, -Robert G. Lornda/e

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Thefollowing report describes the role ofprivatefundraising in thegrowth anddevelop- ment ofthe SchoolofArts and Sciencesover thepast ten years. It isa selective rather than comprehensive accounting ofeach andeverygift. It is intendedto show those areas ofSAS which have benefittedfrom private support, the reason those areas were chosen, and the prospectsforfut ure support-R.A. W Development and the School of Art and Sciences by Ross A. Webber

The School of Arts and Sciences is now ten years old, and has Thomas S. Gates, University Trustee, former Secretary of Defense, and celebrated with appropriate ceremony, last fall, the completion ofits first the first U.S. representative to the Peoples Republic of China, was decade of existence. The necessity for SAS was clearly defined in two endowed by his firm, Morgan Guaranty Trust Company, othercorpora- major University reports in the early 1970s-those ofthe Task Force on tions, and friends; it is occupied by the Dean of the School of Arts and Governance and ofthe Development Commission (the lattercoined the Sciences. term "One University"). At that time, education in the arts and sciences The University also hasgeneratedsignificant support for the advance- was divided among several entities-the College of Arts and Sciences, ment of younger faculty members in the arts and sciences. The Andrew in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the College of Liberal Arts W. Mellon Foundation has been extremely supportive this area, in humanities for Women, the Wharton School (social sciences), and the College of providing grants for mid-career faculty appointments the General Studies. Under the leadership of Martin Meyerson and Vartan ($900,000-1979), and for dissertation support and a faculty early- retirement in the humanities million- Gregorian, and many others, these diverse elements were integrated plan ($1.25 1980). for the under a new Faculty of Arts and Sciences, now the School of Arts and Shortly after the close of the Program Eighties the University Sciences. received, for the benefit of arts and sciences, an extraordinary gift of $4 which administers the Pew As the principal entity at the heart ofthe University, the School of Arts million from The Glenmede Trust Company, other and Sciences has occupied an increasing portion ofthe time and effort of Memorial Trust and important Philadelphia-area philanthropies national concerns. This which is over a the Department of Development and University Relations. Over the having grant, being expended of ten makes the of assistant past ten years (including the present one, not yet complete), Develop- period years, possible promotion promising tenured rank as associate recruitment of out- ment has helped to secure some $43.6 million in gift and grant commit- professors to professors; members from outside the to assure ments for SAS. This is not nearly enough. But certain ofthese gifts have standing young faculty University, for in this and the next decade; and the been pivotal in the developent ofthe arts and sciences at Pennsylvania. replacements professors retiring occasional appointment of an outstanding scholarto provide leadership Arts and Sciences Developing for a department of central importance. This grant was the first ever The creation of SAS coincided with the formal inauguration of the made by Glenmede for this purpose, and is probably one of the largest fund-raising campaign, the Program for the University's largest capital ever made by a foundation for faculty advancement. The Glenmede which had been in the planning by the University's Eighties, years grant in reality was a logical outgrowth of what had gone before. Early academic and administrative leadership, Trustees, and the Department successes employing this strategy provided the basis for the approach to of With a of$255 million, the five-year Program for Development. goal Glenmede which resulted in a very large gift from a philanthropy which the raised $259 million, including $23 million for Eighties ultimately had not previously been identified with the arts and sciences. SAS. A number of more modest grants for faculty development in the arts The arts and sciences have been at the core ofthe University since its and sciences have also been received. And the University continuesto be SAS, it was hoped, would give them new visibility and founding; active in pursuing external support for this crucial purpose. emphasis within the overall fund-raising effort. Because FAS in 1975 lacked the mature constituency which other schools enjoyed, careful Graduate Education: As the level of federal support for graduate educa- formulation ofan effective fund-raising strategy on its behalf was neces- tion in the arts and sciences declines, ever more diligent efforts to sustain sary. It was decided, rather than to employ a scattershot approach on the education of young scholars for academic positions are required. behalf of many individual projects and programs, to concentrate time Here again the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has been of great help, and energy on thoseareas which would have the greatest over-all impact beginning with a 1974 grant of $1.2 million for postdoctoral fellowships on the School as a whole-those generic core areas which affected all in the humanities, whichwas followed by the 1980 grantof$1.25 million, sources of parts of the School. Approaches were planned to major partly for dissertation support. A 1984 gift of $1.3 million underwrites large-scale support, both institutions and selected individuals. In most the Program for Assessingand Revitalizing the Social Sciences, through cases these potential donors had had little if any previous association which faculty and graduate students are examining ways to reduce the with the arts and sciences; thus carefully planned presentations by fragmentation among the social science and humanities disciplines. President, Provost, Dean and key department chairmen were required Ambassador Annenberg contributed the $2 million Annenberg Fel- and to impress upon these sources the significance of the humanities lowship Fund, which is helping the University to attract outstanding natural and social sciences at Penn. graduate students in the humanities. The Karcher Fellowships serve a some This strategy, by focusing attention on core needs, has had similar purpose, and the Fontaine Fellowships, supported by the UPS success over the first decade of SAS. These core needs were defined as: Foundation and University funds, assist minority graduate students " Faculty development. primarily in the arts and sciences. " Graduate Education. Graduate education, like these other core needs, is given primary " Undergraduate education. emphasis in Building Penn's Future, the current $130 million fund- " areas of Strategic opportunity. raising program. The University and the Department of Development " General resources. scholarly are regularly presenting this need to potential donors whose interest Faculty Development: The Program for the Eighties and the momentum might be elicited. it generated have brought to Penn a number of endowed professorships which have made possible the appointment and retention of distin- Undergraduate Education: In keeping with the President's stress on guished senior scholars in the arts and sciences. For example, Ambassa- enhancing undergraduate educationat Penn, the University has directed dor Walter H. Annenberg, a Trustee with broad interests, was persuaded major efforts toward interesting major donors in this area, particularly in to establish Annenberg Professorships inthe humanities, social sciences, thearts and sciences, even before thepresent administration. The Exxon and natural sciences. A chair established in honor of former University Education Foundation had not been known for its interest in arts and Trustees Chairman Donald T. Regan by his former firm, Merrill Lynch, sciences before the University made contact with its president in 1979. and friends was assigned tothe Department ofEnglish. Achair honoring After extended discussion, focusing on the One University concept and

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the need for a better balance between specialization and general learning a further Mellon grant this year of $350,000 for Center endowment, to be in undergraduate education, Exxon provided $600,000 which has been matched one for one from other sources. to innovative and used mainly develop challenging interdisciplinary General Scholarly Resources: Apart from funds raised specifically for the courses for Other, more modest Exxon have undergraduates. grants School of Art and Sciences, the School benefits from efforts to strength- followed, for for South Asia undergraduate public-service internships, en central resources which serve the entire University. This includes Studies, and for Regional language programs. Glenmede's $1.5 million gift in 1984 for computerization and automation The interest of other donors has been directed to undergraduate of the Libraries, and IBM's $6 million commitment for the Threshold education in the arts and sciences. The National Bank Philadelphia Program to develop new applications and innovations in the use of $100,000 for curriculum The Across the provided development. Writing computing in teaching and research. was with Exxon funds and has University program inaugurated gained SAS also benefits from major grants for interdisciplinary programs from Chemical Bank, alumnus Lionel support Cigna Corporation, based in neighboring schools of the University. For example, the Alfred Pincus, C-53, and others. The UPS Foundation has directed of its part P. Sloan Foundation's past and current support of the program in to The of support undergraduate programs. degree corporate participa- cognitive science, administered by the School of Engineering and Applied tion in this was most business firms do undertaking exceptional; large Science, helps the SAS departments of Psychology. Philosophy, and not take an interest in education in the liberal ordinarily undergraduate Linguistics, all essential components of cognitive science as it is pursued arts and sciences. at Penn. SAS is also a partner in the Lauder Institute of Management The continues, of course, to seek increased University undergraduate and International Studies, for which the University secured funding of scholarship and loan funds to assure the continued diversity and quality $10 million. of the student in Arts and Sciences and the other body undergraduate The University must continue to capitalize on these kinds of oppor- Within the six months one of the most schools. past University's presti- tunities which benefit SAS by less direct means. gious student loan funds, the Butcher Family Loan Fund, has been The Case for augmented by $549,000, raising its value to some $2 million, through the SAS Successful fund-raising occurs when there are clearly defined needs generosity of Margaret Butcher, sister of University Trustee Howard Butcher. and goals, active leadership by academic administrators and faculty, involvement of Overseers and Trustees, President and Provost, and full From time to time (albeit too rarely), the University receives unre- commitment of the Department of Development. Such success as the stricted bequests which the President and Provost allocate to priority University has had in funding core needs of Arts and Sciences has areas. For example, this year such a $200,000 bequest is being directed to resulted from a concentration of effort by all these participants, with a renovation of space in Bennett Hall for a new lecture hall and a faculty clear focus and purpose to the effort. As the foregoing indicates, when lounge. the circumstances are right, important external support for SAS is Strategic Areas of Opportunity: The University searches constantly to possible. identify new initiatives which capitalize on its strengths and to expand In the nearly five years since the Program for the Eighties, the pace of those strengths in key disciplines. In such efforts it is usually necessary to fund-raising for SAS has continued at about the campaign level appeal to the known interests and motivations of particular donors; averaging some $5 million a year--without the impetus of a full-scale sometimes donors having diverse interests contribute to the same pro- capital campaign. Development is optimistic that this pace can be in ject. An instance is the new Plant Science Institute, based the Depart- improved. This will come about through continuing efforts to define the ment of Biology. For this $5.7 million enterprise the University secured mission and raise the profile of the arts and sciences at Pennsylvania. The $1 million from the Rohm and Haas Company for the use of the recent redesignation of the School and the College of Arts and Sciences from the Institute director in launching the operation, and $1 million should help in building a substantial alumni constituency which the arts Institute's new Seeley G. Mudd Fund toward the cost of the building, and sciences have not had up to now. Development's assignment of four also have been now under construction. Substantial University funds full-time professionals, backed by the full resources of this Department, Institute, of committed to this project. For the Plant Science application to SAS signifies a substantial commitment. The SAS Board of Overseers in from the some creative fund-raising strategies resulted grants Mudd is being strengthened by the addition of members whose interests are Fund, which supports only the construction of free-standing buildings, core areas of the arts and sciences, and who are able to make substantial and Rohm and Haas, which is concerned with basic biological research. financial contributions of their own. Cultivation events such as last fall's of this new Institute the Several years before the founding University tenth anniversary celebration are drawing alumni back to campus and decided that a major strengthening of the central discipline of biology increasing their interest in and identification with the College. was This involved not a of the necessary. only significant expansion Penn is not alone in encountering obstacles to increasing support of and the recruitment of a new chairman, but careful biology faculty the arts and sciences. Development officers at institutions like Stanford, with the chairman for a total renovation of planning funding Biology's Cornell, and Columbia universities report similar problems. Pronounce- This $6. million was accom- aging Leidy Laboratory building. project ments about the crisis in liberal learning appear almost monthly or with the of The Glenmede Trust and a plished support Company weekly, it sometimes seems. At Penn, with its strong professional Trustee, John Eckman, and an allocation of University by University schools, building alumni loyalty to the undergraduate liberal arts and In the several scientists were recruited to funds. process, leading plant sciences requires extra effort. build the new Institute. help That effort is going forward, along with the effort to build identity and The success in Biology has served as a model for a major component recognition for Penn's arts and sciences in the minds of foundations and Penn's Future, the million Plan for Excellence in of Building $14.5 corporations. University-wide undertakings such as the President's a element of which is the renovation of outdated Chemistry, major Council with its nationwide network of regional committees and volun- and research laboratories. In this effort chemistry teaching Development teers will ultimately benefit SAS as well as other parts of the University. has worked closely with the Chemistry Department chairman and the In time, given stable leadership for SAS and increased involvement of its of Facilities to a University's Department Development design plan faculty leaders, the case for SAS will emerge in clear and persuasive which will offer gift opportunities to a number of donors. This plan form. V should appeal to certain corporate sponsors who benefit from superior Making the case for SAS, and building the constituencies which it education and research in chemistry. needs, will require perseverance, patience, and time. The Dean and External support has enabled Arts and Sciences to establish important others must be willing and able to invest a substantial portion of time new centers of research. An is South Asia scholarly example Regional into making calls on potential donors and hosting visits to the campus. from the Ford Foundation Studies, funded by grants of $400,000 each We need to elicit more gifts from individuals to supplement our fine also and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The Mellon Foundation support from institutions. Past successes support the belief that this the Center made a challenge grant of $575,000 to establish Philadelphia investment of energy will produce results. Given the centrality of the arts national for Early American Studies, which has gained visibility through and sciences to education in all fields, the entire University community projects such as the publication of the William Penn Papers and now has a stake in the outcome. attracts support from diverse sources. This support is being stimulated by The author is Vice President jbr Development and University Relations ALMANAC May 14, 1985 5

Dr. Martin Ostwald, professor of classical studies, has been elected second vice president Honors & Other of the American Philological Association for Things 1985; the office automatically leads to first National Academy vice president in 1986 and president in 1987. chair of Dr. Robert Rescorla, professor and Dr. John A. Quinn, Robert D. Bent Profes- to the National psychology, has been elected sor and chairman of chemical engineering, has Academy of Sciences. Known for his exten- been named a Fairchild Scholar at the Califor- sive research in elementary learning process, nia Institute of Technology. He will spend fall Dr. Rescorla is co-author with Allan Wagner 1985 there. Pavlovian con- of Yale of the major theory in Dr. Herman Schwan, professor of model. ditioning, called the Rescorla-Wagner bioengineering, has been chosen as the first re- His election is the sixth in the department (the cipient of the d'Arsonval Medal of the Dorothea Jameson and Leo other five are Drs. Bioelectromagnetics Society. M. Hurvich; Dr. Jacob Nachmias, Dr. Richard Dr. Rescorla Dr. Siemmler Medicine's Dean Edward J. Stemmier was Solomon and Dr. Saul Sternberg, newly ap- elected a Master of the American College of from Bell Labs) and the eighth count- pointed Dr. Houston A. Baker, the Albert M. Physicians, for outstanding contributions to Drs. James Sprague and Eliot Stellar of the ing Greenfield of Human Relations, has medicine and medical education. Medical School hold secondary appointments Professor honored with a 1985 Alumni Award for Dr. Paul B. Weisz, Distinguished Professor in In another head count based on been and has psychology. Achievement in of Chemical Bioengineering Science, affiliation with the Mahoney Institute of Neu- Distinguished Postgraduate been awarded the 1985 Perkin Medal of the Science (the Drs. Hurvich, Dr. the Fields of Literature and the Humanities by rological Howard American section of the Society of Chemical Nachmias, Dr. Solomon, Dr. Sprague, Dr. University. Dr. Derk Bodde, emeritus in Ori- Industry. Stellar, and from other disciplines Drs. John professor Wind, the Lauder Professor of ental studies, received the Dr. Jerry Brobeck, Louis Flexner and George Koelle), distinguished is the of the 1985 Charles scholar award of the American Association for Marketing, recipient one institute of the University has what may be Parlin Award, the nation's Asian Studies; he was cited for contributions Coolidge highest a record of nine Academy members. award. Dr. Wind is the fourth to Chinese Studies at the since marketing Also elected this year was Dr. Walter Isard, University Wharton to attain the honor since its 1938. professor adjunct professor of regional science now on in 1945. The earlier three were Pro- Dr. M. Cohen, associate inception the Cornell Faculty. During his 23 years at Jeffrey professor fessors Wroe Alderson Reavis Cox of has been named to the New (1954), Penn Dr. Isard founded the regional science physics, Jersey and Paul Green Institute of Achievement Honor (1958) (1977). department here in 1959 and established the Technology Roll for Scientific Achieve- peace science unit in 1970. Extraordinary ment. associate Search Committee: Women's Center Presidential Dr. Thomas A. Gennarelli, pro- Investigator fessor of neurosurgery, received the 1984 Wil- The committee to advise on selection of Dr. Yuen-Wah (Eva) Ma, assistant profes- liam Fields Caveness Memorial Award of the a new director of the Penn Women's Cen- sor of computer and information science, has National Head Injury Foundation in recogni- ter has been announced by Vice Provost been selected a Presidential Young Investiga- tion of contributions to the basic understand- James Bishop: (or by the National Science Foundation. The ing of the nature of traumatic head injury. Chair: Patricia Rose, director of Career award provides faculty near the beginning of Dr. Thomas P. Hughes, professor of history Planning and Placement. their careers with up to $100,000 a year in a and sociology of science, has been elected to Members: Dr. Susan Cohen, assistant pro- mix of funds from industrial and federal the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars. fessor of nursing; Dr. Peter Conn. professor sources, and may be renewed annually for five In June, Dorothea James and of English; Rose Hooks, Public Safety staff; Professors Dr. Phoebe of bio- years. Dr. Ma's field is computer architecture. Leo M. Hurvich go to Monaco to receive the Leboy, professor of mobile networks and chemistry/Dent; Dr. Ann Matter, associate The design computer Deane B. Judd-AIC medal of the Association of studies; Jill Col- of and professor religious Nagle, partitionable reconfigurable computer Internationale de la Couleur for their funda- lege 86; Libby Smith, Graduate School of are her research systems among special mental contributions to the science of color vi- Fine Arts student; Dr. Jacqui Wade, director interests. sion - in particular, for collaborative research of Afro-American Studies. to provide quantitative bases for an opponent- Staffing: Carol Baffi Dugan, Career Plan- Honorary Degrees process mechanism of color vision and their ning and Placement Dr. Elias Burstein, the Mary Amanda elaboration of the concept experimentally over Wood Professor of Physics, will receive the 30 years. honorary degree of Doctor of Science at Dr. Jeffrey Kallberg, assistant professor of Brooklyn College's Commencement June 4. music, who won the Einstein Award for the DEATHS Dr. Russell P. Sebold, professor of Ro- best musicological article in 1983, has also James Birchett, an engineer in the Physical mance languages, was awarded the Doctorate won the Music Library Association prize for Plant Department, died March 7 at the age of47. in Humane Letters Honoris Causa by the Uni- the best article of 1984. Mr. Birchett came to the University in 1980 and - versity of Alicanti, Spain, this year the first Dr. Thomas W. Langfitt, vice president for stayed until 1984. He is survived by his wife, foreigner ever to receive an honorary degree health affairs, was elected president of the LaRuth Birchett, and three daughters, Bridgett. and Shelita. from the institution. American Academy of Neurological Surgeons Stephanie, this year. Helen Hammer, a retired Dining Services cash- ier, died 4 at the of 69. Mrs. Hammer in Brief Dr. Irwin Lucki, assistant professor of psy- April age Honors came to the University in 1957 as a line chiatry, was the first recipient of the new serving Norman Adler of who attendant in Dining Services and later served as a Dr. psychology, Young Psychopharmacologist Award, given cashier from 1961 until 1979. She is survived Basis of Behavior by heads the Biological pro- the American Psychological Association, for her daughter, Rosalie Pilz. first of the Frank gram, is the recipient Harry his work on the mechanism of action of Elizabeth Pritz, a doctoral candidate in the to the Center for Ad- Guggenheim Fellowship antidepressant drugs. Comparative Literature and Literary Theory Pro- vanced Study in the Behavorial Sciences at Professor Ian L. McHarg, chairman of gram, died April 2 at the age of 38. after a long Palo Alto. Dr. Adler is a psychobiologist with landscape architecture and regional planning, illness. Ms. Pritz came to the University in the fall special interests in sexual behavior and aggres- received the American Society of Landscape of 1979. She is survived by her husband, Barry sive behavior. Architects' Medal. Weingarten.

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Restoring the Morris Fernery One ofthe nation's oldest automated green- houses, an engineering breakthrough when it was built in 1900, will be restored at with $150,000 of a $400,000 grant from the William Penn Foundation. The Arboretum will receive the money over the next three years to fund restorations, reno- vations and new staff positions, according to Dr. Bernard C. Watson, president of the Will- iam Penn Foundation. Food, Fun, Etc. The check presentations come At the time of its construction, under the at the end of Alumni Day. The preliminaries (all well as some 4000 Arboretum's Founder John Moms,the Fernery open to faculty and staff as feat alumni to attend) start with the mara- represented a considerable of engineering signed up because it used roof braces to the thon run (sign-up 9:30 - 10-30 a.m., near Cov- support enant on 39th Street and Locust Walk; $5 entry weight of the glass roof without interior pole fee), followed by the 11:30-a.m. - 2-30 p.m. pic- supports. The mechanisms regulating the nic ($8), and the annual Parade of Classes down Fernery's tropical atmosphere were also impres- Locust Walk. Some highlights along the way: sive technological advances for the Victorian " "St. Elsewhere" Producer John Masius, a Age. Watching the Records Break Wharton alumnus, talks about the TV series and By the mid-1950s, however, the Morris had once housed more than Penn's 1985 Alumni seem a lot like the the fictional Penn Med alumnus Dr. Mark Craig Fernery-which Day may he created for it a.m., B-ll Vance Hall). 400 species-fell into disrepair. Later, renova- at day's end, as the Class Gifts rush (10:30 across the finish line to break their own " History Professor Michael Zuckerman gives tions made to the roof replaced the original giving domed roof with a records - and maybe, for the first time, top the a talk on teaching the student of the 'eighties straight glass covering. Ivy League in a reunion class record. The known about the leaders of the 'sixties (9:30 a.m., B-6 The restoration will re-establish the Fernery's stars include: Vance Hall). original appearance and make the structure, " Dr. Howard Brody of Physics offers "Ten- now open to the public on a limited basis, more " Class of 1960-first class in Penn history to nis Advice from a Physicist" (3 p.m. Friday, B-6 accessible to visitors by 1987, the Arboretum's give $1 million for a single project (Quad Vance Vall). renovations). centennial. About 200 species of fern and fern " The Glee Club's 1985 show, "Where'm I allies grow in the rock-lined Fernery today. *Reunion records for six of the five-year in the Goin'?" reprises at 8 p.m. Friday "The Fernary is a key element in the land- classes: 1925, 1950, 1955, 1960, 1975, and. School Auditorium. Director Bruce Annenberg scape, whose actual presence and symbolic " Class of 1980, the contender for leading the Montgomery reminds any Glee Club alumni in that class after the finale as value convey much of the spirit of this Victo- Ivy League giving year. they're invited to sing onstage The fern, Victorian's fasci- " this well as to in touch with him 7569) about rian garden. and the Class of 1985, year's graduating get (Ext. most seniors, records for dollars ($28,000 dinner at the E. Craig Sweeten nation with it, is perhaps one of the setting plus) Saturday night's said and for donors (561 to date) by a senior class. Center. important representations of their age," Jeffrey Roberts of the Arboretum. Second Year Another project to be funded by the founda- Public Policy Initiative Fund Awards-The tion grant will restore the exterior of Gates Fourteen research and course-development Professor Janet R. Pack ofpublic policy and Hall, which serves as the Arboretum's adminis- projects have been selected for funding under management: Political Economy of Macro- trative center. Approximately $100,000 will go the Public Policy Initiatives Fund. Established economic Policy; toward the repair of the building's exterior in the fall of 1983, the Fund has received two Professor Judith A. Smith of nursing: masonry and roofing. awards totalling $110,000 from the UPS Foun- Development of Patient Classflcation System The final $150,000 ofthe grant will establish dation to the University. to he usedas a Home Care Management Tool; a salary and benefits fund for two new positons Professor William Grigsby of the urban pol- Professor Robert Summers of economics: to be created at the Arboretum: An assistant icy research group (Fels): to develop new grad- International Patterns ofGovernment Expen- director of education will be hired to help uate course-Theoretical and Policy Aspects ditures and Taxation; strengthen the Arboretum's connections with for Third World Development; Professor Paul A. Tiffany of management: graduate and undergraduateeducation at Penn, Professors Thomas P. Hughes and Rosem- Role of Public Policy in Decline of Major organize internship and professional develop- ary A. Stevens of history and sociology of Industrial Sectors in Post- World War II ment programs, and coordinate public out- science: to develop new graduate course- America; reach and interpretive programs. Also, a full- Politics and Policies ofScience and Technology; Professor Michael L. Wachter ofeconomics, time staff painter will be hired. Professor Robert Kohler of history and law and mangement: to development two new The William Penn Foundation grant and sociology of science and graduate student graduate courses-Economics of Law and other gifts bring the Arboretum's First Century Glenn E. Bugos: Comparative Study of War- Economicsfor Lawyers; fund-raising campaign total to $4.6 million ofa time Feedback and Peacetime Testing Practices Professor Daniel A. Wagner of the literacy $7 million goal. in Modern Naval Research; research center (GSE): Research in Coopera- Professor Peter Linneman of finance: Moti- tion with State and Local Institutionsfor Pub- $95,000 for WXPN wztionsand Policy OutcomesofCorporate Mergers; lic Policy and Literacy. WXPN, the University's community radio sta- Professor Janice F. Madden of regional Professor Dennis A. Yao of public policy tion, recently completed its 16th annual telephone science: Economic Significance of Displace- and management: Second-Source Competition fund-raising campaign. Last year's drive raised mentfor Workers: An Empirical Investigation and the Experience Curve; $90,000, which accounted for approximately two- Gender thirds of the station's operating budget. During of Differences; The 14 projects were chosen from 21 pro- this such records, Professor Diane 0. McGivern of nursing: year's campaign, premiums, as posals by an Advisory Committee chaired by t-shirts, and concert and theatre tickets, were Phase Public Policy Fellowship Planning of President Emeritus Martin Meyerson. Its mem- given away for pledges of varying amounts. The Program in Health Care and Related Fields; bers are Professors Renee C. Fox, William efforts of the station's student and non- science: diligent Professor Jack Nagel of political Hamilton, Edwin Mansfield, Hasan Ozbek- student volunteers and small, paid staff produced Interaction Between Approval Ballot andElec- han, Curtis R. Reitz, and Anita A. Summers. $95,000 which will allow the non-commercial sta- toral Decision Rules; tion to continue to air alternative, quality music.

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The Handwriting on the Roof MAY ON CAMPUS The University Museum reports that Update more than 2500 roof tiles were "sold" during Dome Tilers Week, when graffit became not only respectable but benign Museum-lovers bought clay tiles at EXHIBITS $2.50 each and signed their names on them - in English, Egyptian Printed Images in an Emerging Technology; hieroglyphs, and other languages - to Brandywine Workshop: Monday-Friday 9-5, help the Museum repair its famous doni University City Science Center Gallery. Through and the rest of its tile roof. The tile salt May 31. Information: 387-2255. brought in over $6700, and checks are still coming in from pledges. These donations also released more than $6700 in matching funds from FITNESS/LEARNING the Pew Memorial Trust's challenge grant to the Museum, for a total of Penn NSA more than $13,000 toward fixing the roof. Even Dome Tilers Weekly informal discussion meetings, 7 p.m., though Room 235, Houston Hall. Information: Ext. Week is over, the Museum still 8701. welcomes contributions for the roof: Contact Carroll Sheppard, director of and 15 Nine Levels ofConsciousness (Buddhism development at the Museum, Ext. Psychology). 6322.

23 Six Causes of Illness (Buddhism and Medicine). Issues in Parent Involvement VPs Take Employees for Ride 30 Theory of khinen Sanzen (3,000 Worlds in The owns and 12 One Momentary Existence of Life). Issues in Parent Involvement in the Schools: A University currently operates Dialogue Between Parents and School Profes- vans which hold up to 15 riders and commute sionals, is the theme of a conference May IS spon- daily from places as far away as Downingtown. sored by the School of Social Work and co- According to Vanpool Coordinator Roy Savell, MUSIC sponsored by the Pennsylvania Association of about 165 employees take part in the service which School Social Work Personnel Region VI, as well provides efficient and inexpensive transportation as the Graduate School of Education to and from All it takes to start a 18 Collegium Musicum withfeatured artist Joan Special campus. vanpool Certification The is a driver, an alternate driver, and 13 Kimball, early music for the Recorder; 2 p.m., Education Program. all-day passengers. conference is an for school The will the van, for Lower Egyptian Gallery, University Museum, $2 opportunity parents, University buy pay repairs donation requested. professionals and social workers to discuss their and provide riders with a friendly means of com- Bach and Handel, Favorite Arias and Sonatas; concerns about involvement to enhance the edu- muting at a monthly cost between $37.50 and $50. Paula Brown, soprano, Christopher Trueblood, cational opportunities of children. Registration The driver, rides free and has use of the van, but countertenor, Mary Hostetler, baroque violin, for the conference, including lunch, is $25 and will Mr. Savell says that the vanpools' biggest problem Mary Ann Ballard, viols, Ruth Conant Drye, take place at 8:30 am. at Bodek Lounge, Houston is that drivers are in short supply. baroque flute, and Webb Wiggins, harpsichord; 8 Hall. To Be Taken: p.m., Church of the Saviour, $6, $4 students and VanPool #11 covering the German- senior citizens. Information: 247-4323 (Serenata). town and Mt. Airy areas has space available for new Free Colorectal Cancer Screenings riders. Arrival at the University is no later than 8:30 HU P is sponsoring a Colorectal Screening Day, a.m. Departure is no later than 5:15 p.m. Ifyou are in cooperation with WCAU-TV and the Ameri- interested contact Rosalind Carter at Ext. 5036. can Cancer 18 from 9a.m. TALKS Society, Saturday, May to I p.m. Adults over age 40 are encouraged to take advantage of free for colorectal No Issue May 21: After the traditional budget break, 14 Modification Nuclear and Mitochondrial screenings of cancer: a rectal examination, an on-site Almanac will publish a May 28 issue - including a Gene Expression by Hypoxia; Dr. E. D. Robin, digital stool blood test, and a three-part stool blood test Summer On Campus calendar for which the dead- School of Medicine, Stanford University; 12:30 is the final issue of Volume A to use at home and return to the hospital for line May 15-as 31. p.m. Physiology Library, Richards Building issue starts Volume 32. - Ed. reading will be offered to participants. The screen- July (Respiratory Physiology Group and Department ings will be held in H U P'S Hematology/ Oncology of Anesthesiology). Clinic on the fifth floor of the Silverstein Pavilion, 17 Microwave Radar Imaging by Self-Survey; 3400 Spruce Street. For more information call 3601 Locust VtIk/C8 Tianhu Lei, graduate student, department of sys- 665-2954. Philadelphia, Pa. 19104 (215> 898-5274 or 5275. tems engineering; II a.m. Room 216, Moore School (Valley Forge Research Center).

The University of Pennsylvania'sjournal of record and opinion is 21 Control of Pulmonary Vascular Tone by International Women of the 80's published Tuesdays during the academic year and as needed Peroxide Metabolism and Guanylate Cyclase International Classroom of the University during summer and holiday breaks. Guidelines for readers and Modulation; Dr. Michael S.. Wolin, contributors are available on department Museum presents Perspectives: International request. 12:30 of physiology, New York Medical College; Women the 80's, May 18, in commemoration of of EDITOR Karen C. Gaines Library, Richards Building p.m., Physiology Women's History Week and the 1985 United ASSISTANT EDITOR Marguerite F. Miller (Respiratory Physiology Group and Department Nations International Conference on Women in ACTING EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Howard M. Gensler P. of Anesthesiology). Nairobi. Women from Latin America, Africa, COMPUTING/EDITORIAL AIDE Grace Hemandez WORK STUDY STUDENTS Kevin M. in Dougherty Asia and the Middle East will participate two Michelle Friedman panel discussions, to explore ethnocentricity in Michael S. Markowitz Deadlines America as they have experienced it, and also to John J. Neumann Leonard S. Perlman examine the issues women in The weekly update deadline for calendar entries significant facing This seminar at I is at noon, a week before the Tuesday of publica- their countries today. free begins ALMANAC ADVISORY BOARD Chair, Jean A. Crockett; Jacob Museum M. Abel, Carol P. Germain, T. Hiz. Alfred J. Rieber, Eliot tion. There will be no issue May 21. May 14 is the p.m. in Rainey Auditorium, University Henry Stellar. Arnold W. Thackray, R. Tomazinis, for the deadline the summer Send to and concludes at 4:30 p.m. For reservations and Anthony for pullout. Faculty Senate; William G. Owen for the Administration; call Thea Abu at Ext. ... Almanac, 3601 Locust Walk/ C8 (second floor of more information El-Haj, Carol Carr for the Librarians Assembly;... Edwin.Ledwell for the the Christian Association Building). 4067. Administrative Assembly;... Joseph KanefortheA-3Assembly.

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