Tuesday, January 11. 1983 Published by the University of Pennsylvania Volume 29. Number 16 IN BRIEF SPUP Acting Dean: Dr. Theodore Hershberg, Wharton's Grand professor of public policy and history and 19 director of the Center for Philadelphia Studies Opening: January who headed the Past, year-long Philadelphia Wharton School and staff moved into Present and Future project, was named acting faculty dean ofthe School ofPublicand Urban their renovated and expanded quarters at Policy Hall-Dietrich Hall over the break, effective January 1. He succeeds Dr. Jack Steinberg who after SPUP's and January 19 will be the grand opening Nagel, resigned impending celebration for the phase-out was announced last fall. University community. Festivities begin with the Penn Marching Business Ssrv$csa: Steven Murray has been Band's parade down Locust Walk at 3:45 p.m. named Director of Business Services, adding At 4, the Band plays briefly indoors 'while oversight ofthe University Book Store and the wine and cheese are served in the new atrium, Purchasing Office to his continuing director- the upper and lower courts, the Steinberg ship of Transportation and Communications. Cafe and the student lounge. A ribbon-cutting Elizabeth Tuft and Robert Ferrell remain ceremony will be held in the Cafe at 4:30, with respectively thedirectors ofthe BookStoreand Donor-Alumnus Saul Steinberg, Dean Purchasing. Donald C. Carroll, Wharton student leaders Public Saftty David Johnston has resigned as and the Penn Glee Club joining in. At 5, New director of the campus Office of Public Safety, York Stock Exchange President Don Phelan and Captain John Logan was named acting helps dedicate an NYSE Post for Wharton's director effective January 3. Vice President for old-new home: one of the original brass trad- Operational Services Arthur Hirsch said a ing posts that had stood on the floor ofthe nationwide search for a permanent director Exchange since the early 1900s. In recent ren- will be launched shortly. ovations, the NYSE donated 16 posts to lead- On South Africa: The normally-closed Trustee ing business schools in the country. Echo of Wall Street: The NYSE Post at Wharton Committee on University Responsibility will be open to the University community on Fri- day, January 21,10:15-11:45 a.m. in Room 350 Two Bulletins on Taxation of Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall. The Hon. A. Faculty/Staff Leon and Richard P. Brown, Higginbotham Thefollowingnotices are basedon letters being will discuss their recent to Paying State Tax Unnecessarily? Esq., trips South mailed iofacuhr andstaff. Africa.Judge Higginbotham traveled in August We wish to remind members of the Faculty 1982underthe ofthe and Staff that residents of certain states which auspices Carnegie Corpo- To Faculty and Staffin TIAA-CREF: ration of New York. Mr. Brown went in have reciprocal agreements with the Common- The has been notified that as a wealth of claim October- November 1982 under University Pennsylvania may exemption sponsorship result of a Revenue Ruling issued by the Depart- from withholding of Pennsylvania Personal In- of the International Commit- Legal Exchange ment of Revenueofthe Commonwealth ofPenn- come Tax by completing and filing a form with tee and the African Law Committee of the sylvania, payments made by all faculty and staff the University. The states having such reciprocal American Bar Association Section of Interna- members to TIAA-CREFand similar retirement agreements are New Jersey Maryland, Ohio. tional Law. annuity plans are now subject to Pennsylvania Indiana, and West Virginia. A review of payroll The also-open Stated Meeting will be at 2 Personal Income Tax. We have reviewed this records has identified a number of individuals p.m. in Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall. matter with counsel and have determined that in with Pennsylvania tax withholdings whose resi- order to preclude you and the University from dence is in one of the aforementioned states, and further with to non- have been advised of this matter on an Correction: Almanac's December 14 Trustees having any liability regard they compliance with the Revenue Ruling, we will individual basis. coverage misquoted Chairman Paul Miller on begin to withhold Pennsylvania income tax on If you are currently a resident of a qualifying trends. The table on that issue's 2 gift page your contributions to any and all such annuity state, are currently having Pennsylvania Personal correctly showed a slow trend in alumni gifts, plans, effectiveJanuary I. 1983. Income Tax withheld and wish to terminate such not annual giving as reported on page 1. (The It is our understanding that sister institutions withholdings, you must complete and sign a form reference was mainly to a decline in major have either begun to withold or will begin with- entitled 'Employee's Statement of Non-Resi- individual gifts, as annual giving reports are holding effective January I, 1983. We will con- dence in Pennsylvania," which is available in the Office, 116 Franklin sparse at this time of year.) tinue to review the situation with counsel to Payroll Accounting Build- determine what further action and/or relief ing. Pennsylvania taxes will continue to be with- mightbe obtained regarding this matter, and will held unless or until you complete and sign the INSIDE keep you informed. exemption form. " On NondIscrImInatIon Policy (Abel), p.2 -Paul Gazzerro, Jr. -Alfred F Beers " Spring Master Calendar, pp. 3-7 Vice Presidentfor Finance Comptroller " Deaths; A-3 Assembly Spokesman, p.8 On Nondiscrimination Policy by Jacob M. Abel to four business in The hasbeen the of whether applies employers having or more employees doing University community debating question and the law to firm or not to allow on-campus recruiting by employers who discriminate in Pennsylvania Philadelphia applies any conducting own on nondiscrimi- business in the city. hiring in ways which violate the University's policy a in the decision of the Persons who think they have been discriminated against may lodge nation. The issue has been raised, particular, by similar facilities the complaint with any of these agencies where essentially proce- Law School to prohibit use of its placement by Judge service of the fact office because ofthe stated of discrim- dures will be initiated involving complaint, finding, Advocate General's Army's policy The Commonwealth and Commissions homosexuals. investigation and hearing. City inating against enforcement and can orderremedies which will be enforced The issue of whether the should seek to its own have powers University impose the courts. nondiscrimination on ofour and by policy prospective employers graduates The own nondiscrimination includes all the cate- how it could do so In the case of the University's policy effectvely is quite complex. Army mentioned above and thus with that ofthe and its discrimination homosexuals, the becomes even gories is virtually congruent against argument amended) if we the limitation and some more difficult because of the status of the armed services as City (as recently ignore age singular rather of the ordinances. institutions within our and the numerous specialized provisions Philadelphia society extraordinary exemp- It be that considered the Phila- tions for the established written and unwritten codes of conduct which may complaints already being by delphia Human Relations Commission will when resolved makeit clear have always beengranted to them. law no which the what the University's responsibilities are under Philadelphia Underlying this specific debate is a concern for the way in to the which have matter what the University community decides to do. Arguments University approaches and deals with issues significant with who dis- this concern more serious than what effect that the University may not cooperate employers moral content. In some ways is on the assertation that A has criminate on prohibited grounds hinge strongly specifically is at stake in the recruiting question. pattern developed as an to bend the oak the University in its placement activity acts employment agency. wherein the University wishing grapples strenuously that know or could be with In instance, what be a chosen test case Philadelphia law prohibits employment agencies a twig. this may very poorly to know ofan from abet- for the exercise of a limited from expected employer's discriminatory practices (the JAG) very power (exclusion Given the similarities betweentheactivi- threatens to obscure the fact that the has not ting that discrimination. strong recruiting) University yet the Placement Services and a even to succeededdiscrimination of forms borders own wits ithin ties of typical employmentagency, in eliminating extent the existence of an with some which there no The the of implicit quid pro quo about is absolutely disagreement. metaphor applies who recruit here, it seems that the will be well to others of the moral issues which have been employers likely University equally great to with the and hence its own nondis- addressed in the recent These issues were also obliged require compliance City's past. approached by crimination on and of the main policy. seizing symbolic relatively peripheral aspects prob- The debate on this issue has been reasoned and has been lem and then in and University's engaging time-consuming, exhausting ultimately conducted with will, but the result thus far has been At debates. The revulsion over the war in Viet good nugatory. inconsequential University's the of the Council on December 8, two resolutions Nam was in measure the attack on the ROTC meeting University expressed large by were which to deal with the Neither resolu- which had no effect of the conduct of the war. More proposed sought question. program recently, tion reflected the climate described above and each in our to institutionalized racial discrimination found adequately legal opposition expres- some to cast the in the role ofarbiter in sion in our advice to the Trustees to sell to someone else our share of way sought University disputes over discriminatory This latter feature ofthe resolution stock ofcorporations that do business in South Africa.