MONDAYIIl ,January 1, 1979 A supervisor for the state auditor's office made the claim that The University of Texas at Dallas should repay the state $1.2 million that he said was illegally diverted ;gum £ill for purposes not intended by the legislature. R. D. Luckey, Jr., said that UT-Dallas, in 1977, had illegally transferred to other accounts $1.1 million earmarked for faculty salaries and another $75,000 appropriated for lIIBMiB utilities. The original claim was in a Luckey letter dated Nov­ ember 29, 1978. Luckey believed that the faculty salaries trans­ fer had been made to prevent the money from reverting to the state at the end of the fiscal year. There had been a misunderstanding about the portion of appropriations that come from local university funds. The state, local and general revenue funds are nct"broken out" in appropriations, "and that's what caused the problem," said Vice President Stewart C. Fallis, Business Affairs. REF: Dallas Mommg News, page Dl, "UTD may have to repay state $1.2 million," by George Kuempel, 12-19-78. TUESDA Y through SA TURDA Y, January 2-6, 1979 There had been wintry weather and poor driving conditions through the post-Christmas season, . /J,/L / and employees had been ~ through Audio /JI!/??T7~ News to call their supervisors if roads were too hazardous. Icing was especially bad over New Year's. The informal graduation exercises were held in Hoblitzelle Hall, and Andrew R. Cecil Auditorium, on Saturday, January 6, although parking areas were heavily coated with ice. Graduates who REFS: AUDIO NEWS, TOn0800, 1-2-79. could not attend were invited to join \heliQRm AUDIO NEWS, TOR 0916, l-~-79. in the Spring Commencement program. AUDIO NEWS, TOR 0806, 1-4-'19-- IJ,.~~ AUDIO NEWS, TOR ~5-79. Degrees were conferred on a record 338 students~ .,4uP/I? A-I.nv'r:! '7t17'2" f'.rtP 1-(,. , 79- 230 at bachelor's degree level, with 103 master7s . t degrees and five doctoral degrees. There were 106 more degrees granted than in the corres­ ponding ceremony of January, 1978. The new graduates pushed the alumni total to 2,398 since the 1969 opening to graduate students and the 1975 addition of juniors and seniors. /?/lG, REFS: NEWS RELEASE XE128.0817879,'2-20-79 ,ADVANCE, Volume 15, No.3, February, 1979. TUESDAY, J 9 1i January 2, 1979 Karen Morin, doctoral student in Geosciences, " and a Carrollton resident, received a $250 scholarship award from the Dallas Desk and Derrick Club. P"EF: NEWS RELEASE XE128.0697879~ DH, 1-2-79. -893­ J MONDAY, January 8 through THURSDAY, January 11, 1979 ) ~,;"n.I'J /V The regular registration period was not delayed by weather, as conditions be~d sOlDewhat, ,d"..,.,~~ on Monday and Tuesday, January 8-9. Late~ .......,.., )' z" ./ registrdation. was held Jdanuary 1O~ !j!JL.d ~!4, opene agam on Thurs ay, January II. Enrollment was reported in excess of 5,000. REFS: ADVANCE, Vol. 15, No.3, February, 1979 AUDIO NEWS, TOR0858, 1-10-79. A one-man show by Dallas artist Richard Childers opened, running through February 3, in the Visual Arts Gallery. Childers had designed the official banner for the dedication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Airpor~ fl')")"""~ REF: NEWS RELEASE XE128.0707879/DH, 1-3-79. Am"'n-y NoW Two more Geosciences graduate students won $300 grants-in-aid, from the Southwest Section, American Association of Petroleum Geologists. They were Leroy E. Mensch and Richard Houde. REF: NEWS RELEASE XE128.0727879/DH, 1-5-79 MONDAY, January 8, 1979 and WEDNESDAY, January 10, 1979 Auditions were held for "Jesus Christ, Superstar," scheduled in University Theatre on Easter week-end and the following week-end. REF: NEWS RELEASE XE128.0677879/DH, 12-20-78. TUESDAY, January 9,1979 More than 60 Continuing Education courses and ') programs were announced. The new Conference Center was to begin limited operations in January and be in full use by mid-February. REF: NEWS RELEASE XE128.0747879/DH, 1-8-79. BROCHURE, XE300, Personal Enrichment Courses, Patti Driskell, 1-9-79. rt BROCHUREz,Seminars, Workshops and Short XE300urses for nusmess and Industry, Patti Driskell, 1-9-79. XE300;b BROCHURE"Financing Small Business, Patti , riskell, 1-26-79. BROCHURE, XE300, Real Estate Education I Program'l1-26-79. ! 1 I - \!a1Driskell, t THURSDA Y, January 11, 1979 Jeri Yunker had come a long way since she cleaned her first patient's tooth. A dental hygenist for 12 years in Dallas, she was to take office as President of the American Dental Hygenists Association in October. She had chaired the ADHA committee on Governmental Relations, and had become concerned about the political aspects of her profession. First considering going to law 11 IJlj school, she instead had enrolled at The tt:tvl1 I University of Texas(ln1'Ofiticru Economy, to seek master's and doctoral degrees. REF: NEWS RELEASE XE128.0757879/MG, 1-11-79. Russ Miller became editor of U·T·DATELINE. REF: U'T'DATELINE, Volume XII, No.1, circa 1-11-79. ) -894­ J ! SUNDAY, January 14, 1979 College IX (General Studies\students and families joined in a charter Ibus trip to see ) the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts showing of "Pompeii," at Fair Park. REF: U'T'DATELINE, Volume XII, No.3, 1-18-79. MONDAY, January 15, 1979 Daniel Rosenkrantz, State University of New York, Albany, opened a series of 14 lectures by leading computer scientists and mathematicians. The Distinguished Lecturer Series was sponsored by the Program in Mathematical Sciences, and arranged by George Kimeldorf. Rosenkrants also lectured on January 17, and the series continued as Jeffrey D. Ullman of Princeton University spoke on January 22 and 24; Michael J. Fischer of the University of /MG, Washington was the January 29 and 31 speaker. REFS: NEWS RELEASE XE128.0717879A.1-5-79. ADVANCE, Vol. 15, No.3, February, 1979. TUESDAY, January 16, 1979 G. Frederick (Ted) Shepherd, President of the Geological Information _ Library of Dallas (GILD), was named to the Technical Review Board of the United States Depart­ ment of Energy. The board was established ,to review development of a system for classi­ fication Mwl indexing of oil and gas reserve data. ~ REF: NEWS RELEASE XE128.0777879/MG, 1-16-79. ) THURSDAY, January 18, 1979 Nineteen pieces by 14 young British artists went on exhibit .. in the second level of McDermott Library. The exhibit was loaned by William J. Carey, former President of the Dallas Theater Center, before it was placed in his private collection. It ran through February 15 at The University of Texas at Dallas. REF: NEWS RELEASE XE128.0687879/MG, 1-2-79. I Jerry Hirsch, evolutionary studies expert from r the University of Illinois, spoke on "Our. I Intellectual Watergate: Genetics, Race. IQ and ,.1" ~ Socio'libiology." His Wewl'Were a counter "'lUI/v viewpoint to those of Nobel Laureate William II. $h"e:.JI~ T JAil ik. lie., , who had S,JMkDal spoken at 5> UT-Dallas on September 12, 1978. REF: NEWS RELEASE XE128.0737879/MG, 1-9-79. cf.~ CHRONOLOGY, "Has Intellectual Humanitarianism Gone Berserk," William B. Shockley, • 9-12-78. SATURDAY, January 20, 1979 /_ ~/JhrAY On a somewhat snowy morning, the <MHeS::Of Continuing Education completed the major part of its move from the third level of McDermott Library to the new $3.1 million Conference Center, located at the intersection of Drives A and C on the near west campus. Full opening of the facility was announced for mid-February; the news release pointed out that ) Richardson, with 75,000 population and 2,000 fIIiIIIi. businesses, had never before had a 36,000 squ~e ~oot structure, including three large audItOrIUmS, to attract conferences and meetings, -895­ J I SATURDAY, January 20, 1979 (CONT) e Telephone changover from the McDermott ) Library location was not completed, and Patti Driskell came to that site to answer calls. On the way, she saw an accident in which a man's automobile struck a utility pole and knocked him unconscious. Her prompt action, going to a nearby home and calling for emergency help, was presumed to have saved his life. REFS: NEWS RELEASE (Not Numbered)/MG, 1-26-79. Personal recollection of AI Mitchell..! /-'Zo.. 7'f,. An additional, final audition for the forthcoming production of "Jesus Christ, Superstar" was held in University Theatre. REF: U'T'DATELINE, Volume XII, No.3, 1-18-79. MONDAY, January 22, 1979 Information gathered by the Venus Multiprobe mass spectrometer experiment indicated that the atmosphere of the ultra-hot planet had more of a cerl!!inJelement.., argon than had been expected. "Because Venus and Earth were presumed to have been formed from the same swirling nebula, said John Hoffman, the amounts of argon had been 5 expected to be equal. RE]ft: NEWS RELEASE XE128.084A7879/'\1G, 1-22-79. cf., CHRONOLOGY, SATfiRDAT-SUNDAY, 12-9 and 12-10-78. TUESDAY, January 23, 1979 A chapter of the International Association for Students of Economics and Management (AIESEC) ) at the 20th Annual Conference of had been formally the association, ill Seattle. The Dmversity 01 Texas at Dallas proposal was presented there by Rebekah Riordan and Steve Marcus. The chapter held its first 1iII__on-campus meeting on this date, and there was an initial membership of 30. REFS: U'T'DATELINE, Volume XI, No.3, 1-18-79. ADVANCE, Vol. 15, No.3, February, 1979 cf., CHRONOLOGY, Circa 12-1-78. THURSDAY, January 25, 1979 British art~"Moira Kelly joined patron William ,t J. Carey in a gallery talk on the current exhibit t of works by young British artists, in McDermott ~ Library.