Almanac, 04/12/77, Vol. 23, No. 28

Almanac, 04/12/77, Vol. 23, No. 28

SPEAKING OUT: On 3400 Walnut, $88 Crunch, Penn 95. COUNCIL: Report of she Research Committee (Steinberg) Response so Research Committee (Langenherg) Action item for April 13: Reallocation Review Published Weekly by the University of Pennsylvania GRANT DEADLINES " OPENINGS " THINGS TO DO Volume 23, Number 28 April 12, 1977 TO PRINCETON INSTITUTE: JOHN HUNT WXPN: APPEAL EXPECTED John C. Hunt, secretary of the corporation and vice-president President Martin Meyerson, Trustee Morton Wilner and key of the University since last fall, will join the Institute for Advanced faculty and administrators involved in attempts to retain WXPN's Study in Princeton, as a senior administrative officer, effective FM broadcast license are in favor of appealing an FCC April 18. administrative judge's April 4 recommendation against renewal. President Martin Meyerson said a successor to Hunt is expected University Attorney Stephen Burbank said Thursday. to be named on or before the Trustees' meeting June 10. In the Mr. Wilner is polling his six-member Trustees Subcommittee interim, Associate Secretary Robert G. Lorendale and Assistant on Electronic Communications to reach an official decision, Vice-President Jack H. Hamilton will share responsibilities of the probably by today, on filing within the May 4 deadline. office with assistance from Donald T. Sheehan, secretary Meanwhile, WXPN goes ahead with its April 13-24 marathon emeritus. appeal for listener support to fund summer broadcasting. For information about six live benefit concerts (folk, jazz, bluegrass, TO WASHINGTON: LEO LEVIN classical, etc.), or just to make a pledge, call 387-5401. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger has announced the appointment of Penn Law Professor A. Leo Levin as director of the Federal Judicial Center, effective July 18. Professor Levin, who coordinated last April's national conference in St. Paul on "The Causes of Popular Dissatisfaction with the Administration of Justice," will be the first non-judge to hold the post in the Center's nine-year history. He will remain on the Law School faculty with a limited teaching schedule. He is expected to offer seminars drawing on his work in the Center, an independent agency of the federal judicial Now, system created by Congress and charged with research, continuing THA T's a education and training, and development of new technology for the administration ofjustice. Job Opening page 8 TO PENN: MARIAN ANDERSON PAPERS Contralto Marian Anderson is donating to the University her library of music, personal papers and memorabilia. The collection traces her singing career from a duet at the age of 6 in a South FAS MEMORIAL CONCERT: APRIL 19 Philadelphia church, through her moving 1939 Easter Sunday concert at the Lincoln Memorial, to world acclaim. The University Choir performs Tuesday. April 19. in the annual Miss Anderson's will be at the concert in her FAS concert in honor of those of its faculty who have died during gift highlighted the Emeritus Professor Allen G. honor tomorrow at 8 p.m. in Irvine Auditorium, where the past year: Schilling Chester. Orchestra and Choral Emeritus Professors Francis B. Clarke and W. Rex Crawford: and University Symphony Society perform Professors E. Friede Erden and Beethoven's Ninth under Wallace Davies, Alfred B. Harbage and John Schoenberg's auf Shover. William Parberry and Eugene Narmour. (Free but with tickets: The memorial concert at II a.m. in Room 200 CH. 202 Music Building at 201 5. 34th, or 518 Annenberg Center.) begins Portions of the collection, which will be housed in the Van Pelt Library Rare Book Rooms, will go on display Thursday in the COUNCIL: BLACK PRESENCE, REALLOCATION Library's sixth floor Rosenwald Gallery. Conductor-composer Council's April 13 agenda includes an information report by Leonard Bernstein is honorary chairman of a committee seeking Dr. Lawrence Klein on the work of the Task Force on the Black funds for curatorial care and of maintenance the Anderson Presence, which was scheduled to issue a draft report in today's Collection as a scholarly resource, and to find other ways of Almanac but will publish a fuller document later. honoring the singer. The chairman is Fredric R. Mann, Robin Action items are a proposed Reallocation Review Procedure Hood Dell president and former ambassador to Barbados. (text on p. 7) and two by-law amendments changing the charges the committee members are Miss Anderson's Among nephew, of the Educational Planning Committee and the Committee on James DePreist, conductor of the Quebec Symphony Orchestra, Research. For the March 9 Research Committee Report and Vice- who holds three degrees from the University of Pennsylvania; and Provost Langenberg's response, see pp. 4-6. her niece, Sandra Grimes of New York City. Others on the committee include actor Gregory Peck, pianist Artur Rubinstein, Philadelphia Orchestra music director Eugene Ormandy, HMO BRIEFINGS: FINAL WEEK producer/ playwright Dore Schary, violinist Isaac Stern, Sol The Philadelphia Health Plan's information meetings on the Schoenbach, executive director of the Settlement Music School; Health Maintenance Organization being brought to West Charles Andes, chairman of the board of the Franklin Mint; and Philadelphia conclude with sessions Wednesday in the Faculty Mrs. Ruth Weir Miller, former executive director of the World Club and Thursday-Friday in Houston Hall: 9:30 and II a.m.. I Affairs Council. and 2:30 p.m. each day. Speaking Out INCOMPLETE GROW UP Penn needs proper housing for its Universi- Archives: its historical materials, Footnote the faculty/staff benefits table About the planning and proposal for the ty extending a full block under Franklin Field, are 4577, p. 3: Penn faculty and senior 3400 Walnut-Sansom land: rapidly for lack of heat and air controls. administrators are eligible immediately for I object to planning by the "Sansom deteriorating Penn also needs for the Louis the $900 "tuition away" but other ad- Committee." Philadelphia's 1965 urban proper housing Kahn Archives and future archival ministrative 'professional staff have a three- renewal plan said the land was for "in- gifts; and for the year waiting period-Ed. stitutional education." The Sansom Com- expansion storage space present 25 and future libraries, donors' mittee, formed in 1970. has objected to all including libraries and other collections of, University proposals to date; in 1973 it filed (as say, Braille materials); for the INCOMPLEAT suit against the RDA and HUD. alleging permanent housing Bookstore and other services; classrooms; It seems my predecessor may have missed commercialization and "adverse impacts." administrative and offices; your invitation to list our publication in your (The Daily Pennsylvanian 11/21/75 at I, col. faculty storage for administrative records and other Compleat Campus Reader (April 5). Rest 4; DP 7/1/76 at 2, col. I.) Its demands include space materials; facilities for the American Law assured that we continue to publish six times rehabilitation of present Sansom buildings Institute at I, col. I), biomedical a year at a subscription price of $18.00. and reimbursement for all costs of its (DP 3/31/77 research (DP 3/31/77 at 3, col. I), and future I hope we will be included if your list is interfering-approximately $105,000 (DP and restaurants and These are reprinted in the future. 10/14/76 at l,col. I). projects; shops. for a next to the -Alfred W. Putnam, Jr., Editor-in-Chief The Committee is chaired by one recently priorities, especially parcel Franklin and the Van Pelt-Dietrich University of Pennsylvania Law Review convicted of and sentenced to federal prison Building complex. for telephone fraud (DP 11/26/76 at I. col. We knew it would didn't I recommend that the file suit happen-just I); it represents, among others, a landlord University know how it would to. Below the RDA and HUD if further many happen court-ordered to stop racial discrimination, against they the Sansom row, and that it are corrections and additions from other violation of the Landlord and Tenant Act, delay clearing editors who called or wrote-MA. the Sansom Committee suit to recover and violation of the Unfair Trade Practices reopen costs. Six years is too long to deprive Penn of JOURNALS and Consumer Protection Law (DP9/I0/76 needed facilities and deprive the environs of Unfortunately there is no student rate for at I. col. 5); and it represents a half-block of consequential benefits. I also recommend use Edebivat. It's $10 per year or $5 per issue. dilapidated buildings that are eyesores from of the northeast Chestnut corner if faculty Expedition should have read Expedition: front, back, side, and above-with hazardous really need housing not procurable under the The Magazine of Archaeology and so-called streets and sidewalk. This is what guaranteed mortgage program (Almanac Anthropology. Call 224-264 (not 246). claims a University skyscraper would have 9/7/76 at 3). But would most not prefer salary Add Hispanic Review, since 1933 a quarter- "adverse impacts" upon the neighborhood. increases, or merit increases, or simply more ly journal devoted to hispanic languages and I also object to the present proposal, job security, for the same money the Universi- literature. Dr. Russell Sebold is general including faculty housing, an art gallery, and ty risks? And access to academic and editor, Dr. Jose M. rehabilitation of present Sansom buildings prefer Regueiro managing other resources on the same land? editor. $12 (individuals), $7 (student), $18 (DP 3/3/77 at I, col. 2). What have the first -John Fraser, (institutions). Ext. 7428. and last to do with "institutional education"? Clerk. Biddle Law Library Add Journal of Public Interest Law, to And what is the need for the second, given so start in November with student much art gallery space at ICA and the Van publication Titus Hewryk, director of facilities develop- editors Braff, Todd Collins and Pelt-Dietrich complex, and even more a few Jeffery ment, notes that (a) the encouragement of on- Cook.

View Full Text

Details

  • File Type
    pdf
  • Upload Time
    -
  • Content Languages
    English
  • Upload User
    Anonymous/Not logged-in
  • File Pages
    8 Page
  • File Size
    -

Download

Channel Download Status
Express Download Enable

Copyright

We respect the copyrights and intellectual property rights of all users. All uploaded documents are either original works of the uploader or authorized works of the rightful owners.

  • Not to be reproduced or distributed without explicit permission.
  • Not used for commercial purposes outside of approved use cases.
  • Not used to infringe on the rights of the original creators.
  • If you believe any content infringes your copyright, please contact us immediately.

Support

For help with questions, suggestions, or problems, please contact us