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Tuesday,September 3, 1996Volume 43 Number 2

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Why is this issue of Almanac individually addressed?We do this once a year to notify faculty and staff that thejournal of record, opinion and news is back in weeklyproduction, with Compass features continuing as a specialsection. (Job Opportunities resume weekly productionnext week; but see page 15 of this issue for information onfinding them during breaks.)Normally Almanac is distributed via bulk drops to individualbuildings, where each department chooses its own systemfor further distribution.To find out how the system works,try the departmental secretary first, or the head of theschool or building mailroom.If all else fails, mail your label to Almanac (see addressabove), or fax it to us at 898-9137, adding your campusphone number so we can direct you to a source of help.Almanac and the Compass features are also availableelectronically at http://www.upenn.edu/almanac.

IN THIS ISSUE2 Deaths of Dr. Digby Baltzell,

Fr. Hermann Behrens, andDr. Ernest Dale

3 Welcome Back: Dr. Rodinon The Changing University

4 The Summer of 1996;Naming a New Chaplain;Offerings of the

Academic Resource Center;PENNcard: Going Digital

5 SENATE: Chair’s Overviewof the 1996-97 Agenda;SEC Agenda for September 4;Reports of SCAFR and theCommittee on the Faculty

Centerspread: September at Penn

At presstime, URLs had not beenfinalized for the home pages of thePresident’s and Provost’s officesshown here. Navigators canexpect to find them by September3 via Penn’s home page:http://www.upenn.edu/

Credits for PageConstruction:

Penn Library’s CETI:Dr. Joseph Ryan

President’s Office:Holly Loth, C’97

Provost’s Office:Alex Edelman, C’97

University Archives:Steven Morgan Friedman

6 COST CONTAINMENT:Report of the Faculty Memberson the University-WideCost Containment Committee

10-13 Compass Features

10 Dr. White and the Revelationsof Ban Chiang

11 WEPIC’s South African Visitors

12 Modifying Diels-Alder Reactionfor Medicine and Industry

13 Well Said: Some Quotesfrom Penn in the World’s Press

14 OSHA Bulletins

15 CrimeStats, Bulletins

Over the summer a host of newelectronic resources have beenplaced on line via the Penn Web.To note a handful of central ones:

The President and the Provost aremounting home pages that act aswindows on the work of theiroffices, with links to many sitesinvolved in the formation of plansand academic initiatives for the21st Century.

The web site just opened bythe University Archives (belowright) is not only a repository ofhistory in words and images, buta working tool for answeringquestions about Penn today.

On the back cover: Among themost ambitious of the nation’sgrowing number of scanninginitiatives is the Library’s newCenter for Electronic Text andImage, based on unique materialsgathered over the past 200 yearsby the University Librarians.

And, not shown but newly onlineis the Faculty Senate’s home page,found at http://www.upenn.edu/faculty_senate/.

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ociologist whose studies of the White Protant Anglo-Saxon establishment and the ction of its acronym, WASP, made an indelib

mpression on the American consciousness, dn August 17 at the age of 80.

Dr. Baltzell, who had houses on Delanclace in Philadelphia and in Wellfleet, Masas vacationing at his summer home whenas stricken with chest pains and hospitalizeyannis, then moved to Boston, where he pasway at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

As the East Coast’s media learned of eath, reams of newsprint were once againoted to Dr. Baltzell’s work, just as they haeen each time he delivered a new insight i

he workings of the ruling elite of America.Edward Digby Baltzell was born in Philade

hia to a comfortable but not privileged familnd grew up in Chestnut Hill. He took hachelor’s degree at Penn in 1940. After Woar II service as a naval aviator he earnedh.D. from Columbia and returned to Pennecome one of the University’s most popund influential teachers as well as a best-seluthor whose books were popular with the gral public and at the same time respectedolleagues.

An outstanding teacher who built lifetimies with many of his students, he won SAS’s brams Award for Distinguished Teaching 985, an Alumni Award of Merit, the Philadehia Athenaeum’s Nonfiction Book Award, anonorary degreees from LaSalle College andniversity of Pennsylvania.

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Two that were produced early in his care(the 1958 Philadelphia Gentlemen : The Makingof a National Upper Class, and the 1964 TheProtestant Establishment : Aristocracy and Casin America) established his reputation—amonAmerican social commentators as well as schars and students—as a man with something nto say and a persuasive way of saying it. He hstudied the haves as other sociolgists studiedhave-nots, identifying sociological factors thahe believed would bring about a decline in leaership if the ruling elite did not take its responsibilities and at the same time open its doorsrising new energies.

Decades later his Puritan Boston and QuakerPhiladelphia: Two Protestant Ethics and thSpirit of Authority and Leadership contrastedtwo styles of urban aristocracy, with Philadephia coming off second best in the book thounot in his own estimation as the preferred citylive in. Last year in Sporting Gentlemen: Men’sTennis from the Golden Age of Amateurism the Cult of the Superstar, he identified ArthurAshe as the “last best example of the gentmanly values of the amateur.”

Dr. Baltzell, whose first wife, the artist JanPiper, died in 1991, is survived by two daugters, Eve and Jan Baltzell and by his second wJocelyn Carlson Baltzell and two step-daughteJustina Carlton and Julie Carlson Groves. Healso survived by a brother, Dr. William Baltzeland a niece and two nephews.

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The Rev. Hermann Behrens, a distinguished Sumerologist and who had been one of thecore group of scholars in the University Museum’s Sumerian Dictionary Project for the past15 years, died on August 1 at the age of 52.

Only a month before his death Father Behrens had been named editor-in-chief of thedictionary project, a massive effort involving some 250 scholars worldwide who are workingto produce 20 volumes (three have been completed so far). Considered a top-rankingSumeriologist at 52, he was expected by his Museum colleagues to be the leader who wouldcarry the project into the twenty-first century. He had just returned from a visit to his nativeGermany when he died, apparently of a heart attack in his sleep, at the Rectory of St. Francesde Sales in West Philadelphia.

In addition to being an outstanding linguist and scholar of the world’s first oldest knownwritten language, Father Behrens was also the choir director and pastor-in-residence at St.Frances de Sales, active in parish and community life in his adopted city. Born in Ankum,Germany, he was a member of the Order of the Sacred Heart who received his doctorate fromFreiberg University and began his scholarly work as a student and teacher of the OldTestment. After participating in an archaeological expedition to Kamid el-loz in Lebanon in1971-72, and after further study, he began teaching Near Eastern archaeology and Sumerologyat Frieberg in 1979.

The author of three books on Sumerian historical texts and one on Sumerian literature,he joined Penn in 1981 as a research associate on the Dictionary Project. He also taughtcourses in Near Eastern geography at Penn.

A funeral mass was held on August 5 at St. Francis de Sales, celebrating his life as ascholar and priest noted for his warmth and humanity. On Thursday, September 12,University colleagues will hold a memorial service at 4 p.m. in the University Museum.

Dr. Ernest Dale of ManagementAt presstime Almanac was notified of the death of Dr. Ernest Dale, a longtime professor

of management in the Wharton School whose worldwide scholarship and consultinginfluenced economic development across national boundaries. Details of his career will bepublished next week.

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Over the summer, I have watched from my office windowCollege Hall the rise of the structure that will become the RoyDiana Vagelos Laboratories of the Institute for Advanced Scieand Technology. As this important and impressive building taken shape, I’ve thought about the “construction” of the Univerover its 250-plus years. More to the point, I’ve thought about“reconstruction” or “restructuring” of Penn that each generatiobuildings has embodied at various times and in various ways throout its history.

In fact, the University has always been in the grip of change. Igrown, contracted, grown again, plateaued, forged ahead. Alchanging. Much to its benefit, Penn has been shaped and reshagenerations of wise men and women who have responded tdemands of their days and loved Penn as much as we do.

As new buildings take physical form and old treasures arestored, another kind of restructuring is also underway. AcrossUniversity, work teams are bringing profound changes to adminitive life—driven by the same desire for excellenceand frugality that have been Penn’s hallmark sincethe beginning.

Yes, we must—and we can—reduce adminis-trative costs. Shaken by the rising price of highereducation, the public is loudly and increasinglydemanding this of all universities, including Penn,where total annual costs for an undergraduate nowexceed $30,000. But just as important, we have ourown strong institutional reasons to tighten ouradministrative belts: We can reinvest the savingsin programs, in teaching, and in the people of thisUniversity. The “penny saved, penny earned” legacyof our founder should make us proud to do so.

And as we change, we must continue to improvethe quality of life at Penn—for students, faculty,and, in particular, staff, whose work goes unrecognized too oftenwhose contributions are innumerable. It was on their behalf twrote to the Inquirer last spring, following its series on higheducation, to say how proud I am of the staff at this institution.

Several changes in the way we do things are already improvinquality of life at Penn and, I hope, increasing job satisfactConsider just a few examples:

• The $12 million in central administrative savings over the pyear will fund, among other things, an investment in equment, technology, and facilities to support public safetyforts on campus. There is no higher priority than the safetysecurity of everyone who lives or works at Penn.

• The prescription plan negotiated with the PCS Health Sysis saving thousands of University employees time and mo($200,000 annually), as are the lower contribution rates ntiated last year with Blue Cross.

• The result of a major negotiation with AT&T a year agPenntrex has given hundreds of University students apercent reduction in their phone bills.

• The construction of the Barnes & Noble superstore—in ita dramatic improvement in many ways—will create a magon Walnut Street for a wide range of other attractive and mneeded retail establishments.

• By choosing to retire by July 1, 152 employees were abtake advantage of health insurance benefits for retirees. Tretirement also gives us the opportunity to determine whethose positions should be filled or discontinued.

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It is certainly true that some Penn employees, through no fault their own, have lost jobs over the past year, and others will in thfuture, as positions are eliminated in individual schools, departmenor offices over time. Since July 1, 1995, 160 positions have beediscontinued across 18 administrative departments and schools. the 160 employees affected to date, over one-half have obtained njobs, many through our new Position Discontinuation and StafTransition (PDST) plan. We established the PDST plan last year provide salary, benefits, and job counseling during a transition periofor those whose positions have been eliminated. The plan is nperfect, but we believe it is one of the most generous in academNothing less would be adequate for us.

In the mission statement of Agenda for Excellence, the draftstrategic plan that will be finalized this fall, the last paragraphincludes six points about the quality of life at Penn. The first poinsays Penn will “encourage, sustain, and reward its faculty; nurturinspire, and challenge its students; and support and value its staf

These words were not chosen idly. Nor were thewords I chose two years ago, in my first State ofthe University address, to say that our collectiveeffort must be to make Penn even greater byusing our resources in the best ways possibleWe can and must improve the quality of ourservices, reduce unnecessary expenditures, aninvest in the development of our programs andour people. We must empower our employeesextending authority and accountability deeperinto the organization and rewarding success. Wemust eliminate bureaucracy and other impedi-ments to excellence in our administrative ser-vices. On the other hand, we have no wish tomake Penn look or feel like a business corporation with a relentless focus on the bottom line.

In ongoing conversations with members of the University community, Executive Vice President John Fry and many others havcommunicated the goals and process of administrative restructurinConversations will continue with the deans and business administrtors of the schools, leaders of the Faculty Senate, the A-1 and AAssemblies, and student and other campus groups, as will updateUniversity Council and reports on our effort in these pages. We wiconsult with more people, and more often. And we intend to communicate still more and still better. Starting now.

In the year ahead, we will build on the progress we have mademany areas, looking to reduce costs and minimize duplicative efforwhile improving productivity, quality, and service in critical admin-istrative areas. Among these areas are: procurement, research sport, human resources support services, computing, housekeepand maintenance, construction management, internal audit, pubsafety, and such auxiliary services as dining.

In each case, we are looking to improve the quality of life oncampus by exploring ways to make Penn a safer, more vibrant, amore satisfying place in which to work and to learn. When the keelements of these transformations are looked at broadly, they addto a university dedicated to service excellence. They add up touniversity that is finding ways to work more effectively—and moreproductively. They add up to a university that is not afraid of changAnd change is truly one of Penn’s most enduring traditions.

Judith Rodin

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Chaplain: Rev. Will Gipson of Princeton

Dean Gary Hack John Prendergast

The Summer of ’96In summer issues of Almanac, major

announcements included the selection ofDr. Ralph Amado as Vice Provost forResearch (see July 16) and of Dr. GaryHack of MIT, above, as Dean of the Gradu-ate School of Fine Arts (see June 18).Also June 18, Dr. James O’Donnell wasnamed Faculty Master of Hill House, andAlumnus John Prendergast, above, editorof the Pennsylvania Gazette.

A new program of dental benefits forretired faculty and staff was announced inthe July 16 issue.

The long-discussed Charter of the Stu-dent Disciplinary System received finalapproval from all of the schools, as re-ported July 18, and will be published OfRecord in Almanac next week.

The Rev. William Christian Gipson, who had been AssociateDean of Religious Life and of the Chapel at Princeton since 1994,became Chaplain of the University of Pennsylvania on August 1.

Provost Stanley Chodorow, who announced the appointment,said Mr. Gipson will also be a Special Advisor to President JudithRodin and will be one of her administrative appointees to theUniversity Council.

“William Gipson brings to the position extensive experience ina University setting,” the Provost said. “During his tenure atPrinceton he worked closely with the Dean of Student Life Office,the Dean of the College Office—where he served as an intern lastyear—and participated as a fellow in one of the five residentialcolleges for first-year and sophomore students.

“He has a clear vision for an urban University Chaplaincyprogram, and the President and I look forward to working withhim.”

Mr. Gipson took his bachelor’s degree in journalism fromNortheast Louisiana University and his master’s from ColgateRochester Divinity School. After serving as the Community LegalEducation and Resource Coordinator for the North LouisianaLegal Assistance Corporation, he worked as a reporter forBerkeley’s California Voice and as an English instructor andCoordinator of Enrichment Activities for Cal State’s Upward Bound Program.

Ordained a Baptist minister in 1980, he was later ordained a dean and elder in the AfricanMethodist Episcopal Church and served as Assistant Minister of the Memorial African MethodistEpiscopal Zion Church in Rochester, NY, from 1987 to 1990.

He joined Princeton as Assistant Dean of the Chapel in 1991, serving also as Chaplain of theschool’s Hallelujah! Worship Service. A member of the First Baptist Church of Princeton, he is alsoa member of the Association for College and University Religious Affairs and the Association forReligion and Intellectual Life. He was actively involved with the Princeton area’s regional schools,serving on the school board, on the Operating Commitee of Princeton Young Achievers, and on theBoard of Trustees of Princeton Friends School.

Rev. William Gipson

Academic Support ProgramsThe Department of Academic Support Programs is a “center” for academic support, with support

services and centralized assessment and referral services now housed on the first floor of HarnwellHouse. Below is a brief description of services offered and referral procedures:

Tutoring and Learning Resources, 3820 Locust Walk, Suite 109, 573-9235 or 898-8596:• Tutoring in most undergraduate lower division courses.• Individual instruction in all aspects of academic learning, including reading, studying, exampreparation and time-management.

Student Orientation Programs, 3820 Locust Walk, Suite 103, 898-4276:• Orientation programs to introduce undergraduate and graduate/professional students to theacademic and social aspects of campus life, as well as important resources at the University.

Pre-Freshman Program/PENNCAP, 3820 Locust Walk, Suite 102, 898-6440:• Program for introducing selected incoming undergraduate students into the intellectual andsocial life at the University through a four-week academically rigorous summer program.• Comprehensive educational/advising services to students identified by faculty and/or aca-demic advisors as needing academic support supplemental to that provided by their schools

Mentor Programs, 3820 Locust Walk, Suite 102, 898-9516:• Informal support network for first-year undergraduate African American, Asian American,Latino/Chicano, and Native American students who are matched with peer mentors and/orfaculty/staff mentors with similar academic interests.

Upward Bound Program and Veterans Upward Bound Program, 3933 Walnut Street, 898-3185:• College preparatory programs for qualified local high school students and veterans.

To refer students for content tutoring or study strategy instruction, call 57 EXCEL (573-9235).Students can be seen on a walk-in basis for study strategy instruction Monday-Friday, 12-3 p.m.

On-site Tutoring will begin September 16, 1996.Individual Tutor Assignments will be made beginning September 30, 1996.Two workshop series are scheduled:

• Mastering the Ivy League will be held September 3, 11, 17, and 25, and October 1, 7-8p.m., in the Smith Penniman Room, Houston Hall.

• Academics Plus (A+), an international series, will be held September 5, 12, 19, and 26,5-6:30 p.m., in Room 27, Bennett Hall.

Complete schedules for workshops and On-site Tutoring are available in Suite 109 Harnwell House.For general information, please call 898-0809.

— Terri White, Director, Department of Academic Support ProgramsHarnwell House (High Rise East), Suite 209 3820 Locust Walk/6134phone 898-0809; fax 898-9301; URL http://dolphin.upenn.edu/~dasp/

PENNcard: Going DigitalIn order to improve PENNcard (the Univer-

sity Identification Card) and enhance its use, thePENNcard Center has begun to issue newPENNcards with a digital photo. Among otherenhanced features, digital photos have applica-tion within electronic security systems, provid-ing additional safeguards to campus buildings asnew types of ID card readers come on line.

The new cards with the digital photos madetheir debut this fall at CUPID August 26-Sep-tember 3. The first students to receive the newcards were Wharton Undergraduate students en-rolled in Management 100.

Starting September 4, the PENNcard Centerwill issue the new digital PENNcards to faculty,staff, students, and associates at the PENNcardCenter (220 S. 40th Street). Alumni, Guests andRecreation users will continue to receive thecurrent version of their cards until new designsare approved.

Please note that new PENNcards are notrequired except for new students, employees,and associates, and for replacement of lost, sto-len, expired, or damaged cards. Recarding willoccur gradually. A general recarding of cur-rent PENNcard holders will not take place atonce. Both versions of the PENNcard (digitaland current) will function in the existing Univer-sity access systems.

Restricted use of the digital photographs forlegitimate educational or institutional purposeswill be maintained at all times. Such use will begoverned by the Family Educational Rights andPrivacy Act, in the case of students, and by theHuman Resources Policy on Records-Confiden-tiality 201, in the case of employees. Photo-graphs are not considered directory information.

Those with questions or concerns may con-tact PENNcard Director Frank F. Neithammer at898-9810 or [email protected].

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Dear Colleagues:On behalf of the Faculty Senate, I am delighted to welcome you

new year at Penn. The Faculty Senate is the official voice of the facuthe University. It acts through an Executive Committee represendifferent schools and constituencies on campus, through standing comtees—on the faculty, the administration, the economic status offaculty, students and educational policy, academic freedom and respbility, and misconduct—and through a consultative committee (toPresident and Provost) made up of the Past Chair (William Kissick)Chair-elect (Vivian Seltzer) and myself. Several issues of major conto the faculty confront us this year, and we will all work hard to addrthem.

The Faculty Senate Agenda for 1996-97Last year, the Senate Committee on the Economic Status of the Fa

(ESF), did an exemplary job examining how Penn faculty salaries msured up when compared to our major competitors and in relation tmetropolitan area Consumer Price Index (CPI) over the last five yearsresults were very encouraging. Average Penn faculty salaries placamong the top five universities and ahead of the CPI for each faculty Averages, of course, do not answer questions about potential inequAn examination of salary inequalities within major, coherent units ofuniversity did not suggest the existence of a serious problem of sinequities, though ESF believed more work needed to be done in this(work this year’s committee will undertake). What was not so reassuwas an apparent lack of clear, consistent, and public salary policies athe University and within the schools addressing issues such as longfloors for salary increases, acceptable inequality in salaries and excriteria for granting higher and lower raises. In the spirit of creatinpolicy on floors, ESF recommended that ordinarily, raises should nobelow the CPI without provostial approval. Its rationale was that rabelow the cost of living represent a defacto cut in pay and can be jusonly in difficult economic times or when someone is seriously undperforming. Nevertheless, the University guidelines for “merit” raises year were from 2% to 6%, the lower end falling slightly below the CPis also worrisome that individual faculty members have too little informtion, even about the broad distributions of salaries and salary raises,able to make considered judgments about the fairness of their treatment. This year’s ESF will work on ways of providing better informtion for the faculty.

In addition to salaries, the University will be redesigning its benepackages this year. In part, redesign is being driven by concern thatmay not be in compliance with federal guidelines regarding comparabbetween its retirement plans for faculty and support staff, or amonplans and those of its hospital. In part too, redesign is being pursudetermine what the University community wants its benefits packagaccomplish as well as to make sure it remains competitive for attrafaculty without being overly costly. The job of the Senate will be to msure that the faculty is clear about what it wants in terms of benefitsloud enough to affect the shape of the redesign in an appropriateresponsible fashion.

The School of Arts and Sciences (SAS) faces long term, seristructural, financial problems that must be addressed. In a university“responsibility centered” budgeting, solving the problem is the respobility primarily of the school’s administration. However, we must not viit as only “their” problem. SAS is the very heart of our great, liberal university. Because of this, the University’s reputation depends, in gmeasure, on the health, quality and reputation of SAS in general, anits undergraduate programs, in particular. Concern for the robust heaSAS is widely shared. SEC and the Senate leadership will work clowith the University administration and with SAS faculty and administtion to improve the situation as much and as rapidly as possible.

Our status as a great university is linked not only to SAS but tooverall quality of the undergraduate education and experience we proour students. Over the last two years, the Senate Committee on Stuand Educational Policy (SEP) has proposed major changes in the waorganize, administer and budget for undergraduate education. Last yreport, “Making Penn the Undergraduate University of Choice in the

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Century,” built on the work of previous Senate committees and Universplanning groups and argued that interdisciplinary, cross-departmentalcross-school programs can provide students with the kinds of uniperspectives they will need to face the harsh economic realities of the century and, along the way, give Penn a major competitive advantage its key rivals. The report, endorsed enthusiastically by SEC, recognithat a lack of central planning, organization and funding were major roblocks to developing these kinds of programs. It went on to proposeappointment of a Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education with cenresponsibility for developing such programs. It also proposed that respsibility based budgeting practices be altered to adequately support thSuch changes could help break down the barriers that keep studentscrossing academic boundaries and departments and schools from deving them. They also could go a long way towards helping the rest of University take advantage of all SAS has to offer and, in turn, towaenabling SAS to avail itself of the tremendous resources of other schoBesides working to encourage the institutionalization of these ideas, year’s SEP will think about how to foster the continuing developmentlively residential options for undergraduates, and to insure that initiativsuch as Writing Across the University (WATU) and Math Across thUniversity (MATU) truly become university wide and not just primarilySAS based.

The other major concern of the Senate this year will by the changrelationship between the north and south sides of Spruce Street. Facedthe turmoil and tremendous competition in health care, the UniversityPennsylvania Health System (UPHS) is growing very rapidly. This growis changing the culture of medicine and medical education. To quote PChair of the Faculty Senate, Pepper Professor of Public Health Preventative Medicine, Bill Kissick, “The days of the triple threat in momedical specialities, where a doctor could be a clinician, an educatoran outstanding researcher, are over. Furthermore, changes in hosstays mean patients aren’t there long enough for medical students to lfrom them anymore.” To cope with this situation, UPHS is attemptingcreate an adequate patient base for education and research by develClinical Care Associates (CCAs), doctors in other parts of the city asuburbs who are part of the system and who may, perhaps, play somein educating medical students. The relationship between CCAs andUniversity has still to be worked out. We need to work together with ocolleagues in the Medical School to understand these changes and implications for both the long-term shape of the University and for tfuture of faculty governance. Early in the fall, the leadership of tUniversity Senate and the Medical School Senate will meet to create aforce to examine these issues in depth. I expect the work of this groutake 12 to 18 months and to have a major impact on the way we thinour university as we enter the 21st century.

Beyond these central issues, the Senate will be addressing a varieother important matters during the upcoming year. Among other thinwe will work to finalize the new parental leave policy and the new polifor the renewal of terms of deans, to insure schools have effective methof getting teaching evaluations, and to make Penn an even more hospiplace for graduate students. Finally, we will vigorously monitor schoobased restructuring efforts to insure that downsizing does not negativaffect the educational and research missions of the University.

In all of these matters, we welcome your ideas, your support and yhelp. The well-being of the University depends on the active participatof faculty members in university governance. Penn needs your involment. Please feel free to contact me at the Faculty Senate Office (86943) or e-mail me ([email protected]) or Carolyn Burdon,Executive Assistant to the Faculty Senate Chair ([email protected]). I look forward to hearing from you and to working with you

On behalf of the Faculty Senate, I wish you all a productive, engagand successful year.

Cordially,

Peter Kuriloff

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The following agenda is published in accordance with the Faculty Senate Rules. Questions maybe directed to Carolyn Burdon either by telephone at 898-6943 or by e-mail at [email protected].

Agenda of Senate Executive Committee MeetingWednesday, September 4, 1996, 3-5:30 p.m.

1. Approval of the minutes of May 1, 19962. Chair’s Report3. Past Chair’s Report on activities of the Academic Planning and Budget Committee and on the

Capital Council4. Benefits review and changes: issues and implications for faculty5. Electronic Privacy Policy discussion with Martin Pring, Chair, University Council Commit-

tee on Communications6. Continued discussion on motion to abolish annual meeting of the Faculty Senate and replace

it with a detailed written report of the Faculty Senate Chair7. Just Cause revision update8. Other new business9. Adjournment by 5:30 p.m.

Senate Committee on Academic Freedom andResponsibility: Annual Report 1995-96 July 15, 1996

The Senate Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility (SCAFR) had a light work-load in the fall, and a heavier one in the Spring. We have requested that the Senate ExecutiveCommittee (SEC) extend the term of the 1995-96 SCAFR through September 6, 1996, to enableus to include actions on Item 2 on the agenda that is summarized below.

1. A professor complained to us that proceedings against him regarding academic misconducthad not been properly carried out, and was concerned that planned Just Cause proceedings againsthim in his school Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility (CAFR) would not beunbiased. SCAFR determined that the regulations in the Handbook for Faculty and AcademicAdministrators are clear that Just Cause must go to his school CAFR, and that any subsequentappeals would be more appropriately handled by the Faculty Grievance Commission.

2. An appeal from a ruling by a school CAFR (Item 5 in the Annual Report of the 1994-95SCAFR): In March, 1995, a professor (now former professor) filed with SCAFR what amountedto an appeal from an adverse decision from his school CAFR. In it, he complained that the CAFRhad not sufficiently informed him of the grounds for its decision and had not allowed him toreview testimony or written submissions of the respondents. Last year’s SCAFR requesteddocuments from the school CAFR, the last of which only reached us in December 1995. Afterdeliberating, SCAFR concluded that in two important respects, the proceedings before the CAFRfell short of due process:

1) although the CAFR had conducted a thorough investigation, it did not provide anopportunity to hear (or read), cross-question and respond to one another’s oral or writtentestimony and

2) the CAFR’s brief letter to the complainant contained no findings of fact and no adequateexplanation as to the basis for its decision that the professor’s academic freedom had not beeninfringed. SCAFR concluded that the case should be reopened and the parties afforded thehearing thus far denied them. Since the appropriate forum for such a hearing would be theschool CAFR, in early February SCAFR asked the school CAFR if it wished to do so. In earlyMarch the school CAFR informed us that they unanimously agreed that their committeeshould not hear the case since they felt that the previous CAFR had proceeded correctly andthat a reconsideration of the case by their committee would delay a process that should becompleted expeditiously. SCAFR itself, therefore, will conduct the further proceedings in thiscase, and we hope to have finished by the end of May or early June.Consideration of this case brought to our attention the absence of procedural rules for the

school CAFRs and for SCAFR itself. We think this is a problem: as in this case, school CAFRsmay reach decisions that it thinks are procedurally correct, only to find that SCAFR (or,potentially, the next year’s CAFR) disagrees. We are in the process of drafting such regulations,although we do not expect to finish before the term of this committee ends.

Charles Bosk (sociology)David Brownlee (history of art)Frank I. Goodman (law)Larry Gross (communication)John C. Keene (city & regional planning)Robert F. Lucid (English)Vicki Mahaffey (English)Susan Watkins (sociology), ChairIraj Zandi (systems)ex officio: Senate Chair-elect, Peter J. Kuriloff (education)

Senate Committee on the Faculty:Annual Report 1995-96May 23, 1996

This year, the Senate Committee on the Facultyconsidered the following issues:

Parenting Policies: In 1994-95, in response toa request by Deputy Provost Walter Wales to con-sider an extension of the tenure probationary policyfor faculty members who give birth, the committeeundertook a general review of Penn’s parentingpolicies. As a result of that review and the discus-sion it provoked in the committee, in the SenateExecutive Committee (SEC), and in the Universitycommunity, we have proposed two new policies:

1. A simplified maternity policy for facultymembers who give birth. This would replace thecurrent system of individual negotiations be-tween faculty members and their chairs or deanswith an automatic release from teaching dutiesfor the affected semester.

2. A policy for extension of the tenure proba-tionary period. This would provide a year’sextension on request for all faculty memberswho become parents, female or male, biologicalor adoptive. It would also provide a year’sextension for faculty members who experienceother career-disrupting events, as defined in theFamily and Medical Leave Act of 1993: severeillness or the need to care for a close relative.

These proposals have been adopted by SEC,published in Almanac March 19, 1996, and for-warded to the administration.

Foreign Language Lecturers: The commit-tee reviewed a School of Arts and Sciences (SAS)proposal to create two new employment categories:Lecturer in Foreign Languages and Senior Lecturerin Foreign Languages. We endorsed the proposaldespite concerns about the institutionalization ofinstruction by non-standing faculty. After a discus-sion in SEC, we elicited clarification from SASadministrators about the necessity for this practiceand its restriction to language teaching, and theproposal was accepted by SEC.

Affirmative Action: The committee reviewedthe Fall 1994 Affirmative Action Report for theCurrent Standing Faculty prepared by the Office ofInstitutional Research and Planning Analysis. Ourreview identified errors in some of the data used inthe report; these were reported to the authors whointend to correct them. Further review of the reportwas deferred until then.

Faculty Grievance Commission: The com-mittee received a report from a subcommittee formedto investigate the functioning of the Faculty Griev-ance Commission. The report identifies a need toroutinize and clarify procedures and record-keep-ing practices for improved efficiency, consistency,and continuity. The committee has endorsed thoseconclusions and is assembling the necessary docu-ments and guidelines for their implementation.

Janet A. Deatrick (nursing)Howard Lesnick (law)John C. Keene (city planning)Rob Roy MacGregor (medicine)Sheila H. Murnaghan (classical studies), ChairPaul Shaman (statistics)ex officio:Senate Chair William L. Kissick (medicine)Senate Chair-elect Peter J. Kuriloff (education)

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Report of the Faculty Members of theUniversity Cost Containment Committee

6, 1996

The University Cost Containment Committee met eleven times ovthe academic year 1995-1996. The members of the Committee wererepresentatives of the central administration, four Deans, and five facmembers, all appointed by the President. The representatives ofAdministration were the Provost and the Executive Vice President. TDeans were from Dental, Engineering, Nursing, and Wharton. The ffaculty members are listed below. In appointing the faculty members, President consulted with the Chairs of the Faculty Senate. In addition,administrators reporting directly to the Executive Vice President regulaattended the meetings.

The Executive Vice President, John Fry, chaired the committee aprepared its agenda. The meetings themselves provided a forum in wmanagers reporting directly to the Executive Vice President describtheir goals and strategies in restructuring their functions, and their progin achieving these goals. In this type of forum, the faculty were able to fojudgments about the restructuring process itself, but had little input ithe shaping of specific proposals.

The faculty were impressed with the progress made in some arreporting to the Executive Vice President. As an example, the facuconcur in the new goals of Human Resources to make personnel procefully supportive of the operations of other units within the University. Thfaculty and other members of the Cost Containment Committee felt tthe central and school administrations should devote more attention todevelopment of managerial skills of existing personnel. It would be mappropriate for Human Resources to take a more active role in nurtuand developing managerial skills throughout the University.

The faculty regard the decision to engage Barnes and Noble to manand enhance the book store facility as a creative and new approacadministration. Barnes and Noble has wide experience and knowledgrunning book stores, and it makes sense for the University to tap this tof resource. In view of its newness, this use of outside expertise to opethe book store should be monitored closely. If successful, it could serva cost-effective model to provide other administrative services to University community at the same or higher quality than are currendelivered.

The faculty were disappointed with the progress made in PhysiPlant. In particular, the level of maintenance of existing facilities sometimes not satisfactory and appears to vary widely in quality from obuilding to another. The faculty were not convinced that the plansimprove maintenance levels will succeed. The Committee also discusthe high cost of construction of new University buildings, but for reasoof time did not explore this issue in any depth. The reasons for these hcosts clearly need to be analyzed.

The Vice Provost for Computing has a broad and far reaching visionto the computer facilities that the University requires, but at this time tvision has not been tied to financial and performance goals. Implemenand managing changes in computing at the University is difficult, as Vice Provost for Computing reports to both the Executive Vice Presidand the Provost. Moreover, changes in computing at the central leinteract with computing services provided at the school level. The facudid not feel that there has been a detailed enough agreement amoncentral administration, the schools, and the ultimate users to implemethis time major new initiatives in the computing environment. The faculhowever, do support the major initiative now underway for upgrading tUniversity accounting system.

The Cost Containment Committee reviewed only those administratfunctions reporting directly to the Executive Vice President, namely Buiness Services, Facilities Management, Finance, Human Resources, Inmation Systems and Computing, Internal Audit, and Public Safety. TCost Containment Committee did not review other major administratfunctions of the central administration which do not report to the Exective Vice President but rather report to the President or Provost. Thother major administrative functions include support for student servicdevelopment, admissions, legal services, libraries, radiation safety,

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administrative functions reporting to the President and Provost, thesfunctions should receive in the future the same level of scrutiny as thosreporting directly to the Executive Vice President.

The faculty were generally impressed with the motivation, intellect,and goals of the Executive Vice President. Despite his obvious desire improve administrative services at the University, the faculty are deeplconcerned about the level of success that he can achieve within the curreUniversity administrative structure. Although the Executive Vice Presi-dent has the authority and the willingness to improve those servicereporting directly to him, he has no direct control over the quality andnature of the administrative services that the schools provide or thosadministrative services provided through the offices of the President anProvost.

The Cost Containment Committee did not examine directly the qualityof management at the school level, but continual references by thosmaking presentations to the Committee and the personal experiencesthe faculty members themselves suggest that there is great unevennesthe management skills among schools and within schools. The faculthave the perception that some administrators at the school levels areluctant to accept and encourage change, preferring instead the comfand certainty of the status quo. This attitude of course deters the effectirestructuring of administrative services.

To gain the maximum benefit from the restructuring of administrativeservices, it is absolutely essential that management skills within schooand across schools be of the highest quality. The achievement of thobjective will require the active involvement of the President and Provosto encourage the Deans to devote a substantial portion of their energiesthe improvement of managerial skills at both the school and departmelevels. In turn, the Deans must vocalize this imperative and providecontinuing oversight of this objective.

A basic issue in restructuring administrative services is the relativeroles of departments, schools, and central administration in providinservices. The decentralized decision-making structure of this Universitmakes this issue one of fundamental importance. A decentralized structuhelps to bring the decision-making closer to the end user, but it cadiscourage communication and cooperation across budgetary units. Dspite its obvious importance, there was little discussion of where serviceshould be provided and how to encourage communication among aadministrative units. This lack of discussion represented a major defciency in the activities of the Cost Containment Committee.

The University must find ways to encourage better communication ancooperation across administrative centers and to involve the end usersthe decision-making process. The recent survey of members of the FacuClub is an example of reaching out to the end users.

Cost containment and the preservation of quality administrative services involve difficult choices and will require even more involvement ofall members of the University community. The President and other seniomembers of the upper administration must provide the leadership role this involvement. The faculty members suggest as the next step that tPresident establish institutional mechanisms to move the cost containmeeffort from just the functions reporting directly to the Executive VicePresident to other administrative units, including the schools. In view otheir size and importance to the University as a whole, it makes sense begin this process with the two largest schools in terms of faculty, thSchool of Medicine and the School of Arts and Sciences.

Faculty Members of the University Cost Containment Committee

Marshall E. Blume, Howard Butcher Professor of FinanceSherman Frankel, Professor Emeritus of PhysicsPatrick T. Harker, UPS Professor of TransportationDavid K. Hildebrand, Professor of StatisticsLee D. Peachey, Professor of Biology

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for the Ban Chiang Project was to cleathe windows, then the room, the shelvthen the tools stored at the University Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeologyand Anthropology. Then she had to labthe stone toolsand each littleflake of stonefrom the dig atBan Chiang.

“I was inheaven,” saysJoyce White.“It was realarchaeology!”

Today, Dr.Joyce C.White, 44, isthe director ofthe BanChiangProject, aninternationaleffort andarguably themost impor-tant archaeo-logical dig inSoutheastAsia.

Like manyarchaeologyprojects, hersgets along ona shoestring. But the shoestring existehas never clouded White’s understandof the importance of her project. Indeethe need to publish the findings and toextend the research have become a psion, a white-hot certainty that theknowledge Ban Chiang represents de-serves better treatment.

So she imagines finer things—a bettway to spread our knowledge of historof civilizations. It is a vision for thefuture of archaeology, and how it mustbe conducted, with international andprofessional cooperation and innovativfund raising.

In the meanwhile, the project’s modeoffices are in three crowded rooms in tbasement of the University Museum.Walls are lined with drawers filled withsmall stone objects, each individually

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get movedevery so oftento accommo-date spaceneeded forother projects.

The dig atBan Chiang,in northwestThailand, wasa joint projectof the FineArts Depart-ment of Thai-land,represented bPisit Charoen-wongsa, andthe Universityof Pennsylva-nia Museumof the Archae-ology andAnthropology,represented bthe late Dr.Chester F.Gorman. Whathey found

underground turned out to be extraordnary in ways the excavators had neverenvisioned when they began in 1974.

They found a site of remarkably longcontinuous occupation—from about3,600 B.C. to about 200 A.D. Usually, ia site has long occupation, the occupation is sporadic.

The surprisingly early things theyfound—iron technology, bronze technoogy, pottery in several styles, agricultuand permanent habitation—showed acivilization that developed in a way thachallenged some basic assumptions.

Until Ban Chiang, archaeologists haassumed that the hierarchical pattern ocivilization that developed in the MiddleEast and spread through Europe typifieall societies, and the need for conquesand class differences spurred technolo

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Chiang, the bronzeand iron pieces weretools and ornaments, notweapons for conquest. Nor were clearclass differences apparent in the burials.The civilization at Ban Chiang appearedto have “another way of getting complextasks done,” White says.

It suggested a whole new trajectory forthe development of civilization.

Furthermore, the site gave ballast totheories that prehistoric Southeast Asiawas an important center of civilizationthat eventually sent its agricultural meth-ods and plants, its language, people andpottery to the islands south, southeastand southwest, from Madagascar to Ha-waii to New Zealand and Easter Island, aswath of cultural influence that goesalmost halfway around the world.

These finds were so remarkable thatUNESCO named Ban Chiang a WorldHeritage Site in December 1992. “BanChiang is without question the mostimportant prehistoric settlement so fardiscovered in Southeast Asia,” stated theUNESCO World Heritage Committee.(To date, Ban Chiang is the only prehis-toric site in Southeast Asia and the onlyunderground site in the world thatUNESCO has recognized.)

But Gorman’s death nearly preventedthe dissemination and analysis of muchof the knowledge of Ban Chiang.

“If a professor dies, there goes theprogram,” says White of how archaeolo-gy traditionally has been conducted. Inan unusual move, spurred by a Universi-ty Museum board member who believedin the significance of Ban Chiang, Whiteeventually took over.

While struggling with the Ban Chianganalysis, White learned that fundersprefer to donate to excavations, but notall excavations. One funder turned downBan Chiang, saying “Cemeteries, they’reout of vogue.”

Money for analysis and publication ismuch harder to come by. Yet analysisand publication account for 90 percent ofthe work, says White. For an excavationto have an impact on knowledge, “anaccumulation of details, systematically

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cial democracy, South Africa’s new leadeface some daunting challenges. An ad-vanced economy requires an educated,highly skilled workforce, but one of thechief legacies of apartheid is a black majty that largely lacks these traits. Providinblack South Africans the education they

need to participate successfully in societessential if the new South Africa is to flouish, and the best place to start is with thechildren.

With only slight modification, the sameparagraph could describe the situation inAmerica’s inner cities. So it is probably nsurprising that, on July 25, a group of SoAfricans visited Philadelphia to learn whais being done to meet the challenge here

The visit was part of the Youth ServiceStudy Tour, a week-long tour of four EasCoast cities sponsored by the U.S. Agenfor International Development. The 14-member tour group included members onational and provincial youth commissionand government education officials, all ofwhom are working on developing a modefor a youth service program in South Afri

Six members of the tour group spent thday in West Philadelphia as guests of theWEPIC Replication Project and the Centfor Community Partnerships at Penn. Thgroup observed WEPIC’s community-school programs in action at Turner MiddSchool, compared notes with their American counterparts on how youth service is

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The members who visited here wereNational Youth Commission deputy chair-person Nomfundo Mbuli; Lumka Nongogoa university student and National YouthCommission member; Thembekile Machelesi, chairperson of the Youth Commission

for Eastern CapeProvince; Pierre-Jeane Gerber, amember of the SouthAfrican Parliamentfrom Western CapeProvince and thatprovince’s youthcommission; NeoMasithela, a FreeState MP and head othe Free State’sYouth Commission;and Nono DumileMaloyi, deputychairperson of theNorth West ProvinceYouth Commission.

The group’s daybegan with a visit to

the WEPIC/Burger King Summer Camp aTurner. The group spoke with teachers astudents who produced a community newpaper, saw students in the camp’s healtheducation program do a drill routine onhealthy habits, and viewed scale modelsneighborhood landmarks constructed bycampers. The morning ended with a playwritten by the campers called “The Choicis Yours,” which promoted effective con-flict resolution and pregnancy prevention

The afternoon was spent on the Penncampus, where the participants met withPenn faculty and students who teach ser-vice-learning courses, Penn staff involvedwith WEPIC programs, and local communty leaders over lunch. After lunch, thegroup sat in on the history course “Revitalizing Urban Schools and Their Communi-ties: West Philadelphia as a Case Study,”taught by Center for Community Partner-ships Director Ira Harkavy and Penn Pro-gram for Public Service Associate DirectoAmy Cohen.

Mbuli noted that the commission’s youthservice proposal seeks to develop commuties as well as skills. “We are interested n

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Masithela also noted that the commis-sion’s goal in establishing these programs is“not to disadvantage those who alreadyhave advantages, but to improve conditionsfor those now disadvantaged.”

In both respects, the South Africansthought that what they saw at Turner fittheir goals. Masithela told Penn officials atlunch that, in the group’s final report toSouth African President Nelson Mandela,they would recommend using WEPIC-stylepartnerships as a model for a South Africanyouth service program. “I was very im-pressed with the role of university studentsas partners doing community service andlinking it to academics,” he said. “I alsoliked the idea of education being linked tocommunity problem-solving.”

While the South African youth servicemodel and the WEPIC model share similargoals, there will be significant differences inhow they are reached. Masithela noted thatin South Africa, “because of the past unevenquality of public schools across the country,our education policy will be set at the na-tional level,” and support for youth serviceprograms will follow that pattern.

Masithela’s characterization of SouthAfrican public schools also applies toschools in the United States, but as WEPICReplication Project Director Joann Weeksexplained, “the tradition in the United Statesis that education is a local matter, so pro-grams like these originate in the communityinstead of being created by a central govern-ment directive. It also means that localgroups have to leverage funding from anumber of sources to support these pro-grams.” The Burger King Corporation’sthree-year commitment to funding theWEPIC summer camps and the involve-ment of Penn students, faculty and staff inWEPIC programs are examples of suchleveraging of resources.

Overall, the group was impressed by boththe philosophy and the operation of theWEPIC summer camp. And the city im-pressed some group members as well: Non-gogo said, “I like Philadelphia better than Idid Washington [where the group began andended its East Coast tour]. It reminds me ofmy hometown of Johannesburg.”

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Many excavations remain unanalyzedand unpublished. But she could not leteither death or dearth of money interferwith disseminating the knowledge fromsuch an important project.

That determination has helped trans-form White into a champion of BanChiang. When a lack of money threat-ened, she took a fund-raising course (aPenn) and learned how to ask for mone

Short $15,000 to resolve a controveron the dating of some artifacts, she didsomething unusual. She formed theFriends of Ban Chiang (FOBC). Contributors’ names—her Aunt Hilda includ-ed—brighten the wall of the drearycorridor outside the project offices. Sheovercame the embarrassment of askingher staff for money, and, to her surprisethey donated, too. She has an advisoryboard and she has coordinated all fundraising efforts with the development staof the museum and the central development staff of the University. She publishes a small FOBC newsletter. She holds

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Museum, shared the costs to send hersamples to Oxford, England, for dating.She sought money from Thai sources awell, and received a $52,000 grant fromthe John F. Kennedy Foundation of Thaland to cover production costs for monographs about Ban Chiang. “Publicationgrants are hard to come by,” she crows

Because of the lack of clear strata inthe soil at Ban Chiang, dating is particularly difficult. That’s why White hasextended the field research, workingwith specialists in other areas to con-firm her chronology of life at BanChiang.

The Thailand ArchaeometallurgyProject, an international joint project ofthe University of Pennsylvania Museumand the Thai Fine Arts Department, isputting the metal finds at Ban Chiang inta context of ancient metallurgy nearby.And by forming the Thailand Palaeoenvironment Project with another expert,White was able to get core samples fromlake bottoms near Ban Chiang to confirmthe disputed early dates of agricultural

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death, the struggle for money, the slowprocess of publication, the importanceworking with specialists and experts incollateral fields and across internationborders, new competition from foreignuniversities for talented foreign studenand Southeast Asianists—have led heher vision, an endowed center for Soueast Asian archaeology at the UniversMuseum. White has already written anpresented the first round of fund-raisinmaterials.

The center would build on Penn’sreputation as the premier U.S. researcand publication programs in the archaology of Southeast Asia. It would attrafrom around the world post-docs, visiting scholars, graduate students. It woprovide artists, photo labs—an infra-structure enabling archaeologists to alyze and publish more efficiently. Itwould permit teamwork among expertAnd if a particularly famous SoutheasAsianist were to die or leave Penn, thecenter would remain and the knowledgwould be preserved.

Researchers from the University ofPennsylvania have developed a new prcess that promises to improve the efficiecy with which the pharmaceuticalindustry develops new medicines anddrugs.

The new processwill modify the Di-els-Alder reaction, achemical processwhich the industryrelies heavily upon toproduce potentialdrugs.

“Until now theDiels-Alder reactionhas normally beenconducted with liquid solvents and solu-tions,” said Jeff Winkler, professor ofchemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. “That cannot be done in two or thresteps; it requires many intermediate processing steps. At every intermediate styou are guaranteed to lose some of whayou will need at the end to assemble the

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commercially viableproperties instead ofa few promisingvariations.”

Winkler and hisgroup modified theDiels-Alder reactionto bypass most of thliquid processing.Instead they usedsolid polymer beads

to force some of the intermediate reactions. Solid polymers allowed Winklerand his colleagues to better control thereactions and eliminate some intermedate steps. With the number of steps reduced, the yields went up. Thesolid-phase technique also producedmore variants of the final product for

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“We think this is a bigstep in chemical processing,” Winklernoted.

Pharmaceutical companies spend mil-lions of dollars each year developing andresearching new drugs, which is reflectein the price consumers pay for medicine.The researchers believe this new develoment could save the industry costs, and,ultimately, benefit the consumer.

The importance of the Diels-Alderreaction is not limited to the pharmaceutcal industry—the plastics and textile in-dustries also rely heavily on Diels-Alderfor their products.

Scott Hoyt, a Penn graduate studentworking under Dr. Winkler’s supervision,presented the results of the research at tAmerican Chemical Society’s 212th Na-tional Meeting in Orlando, Florida onAugust 27.

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—Larry Rome, associate professor obiology, explaining the toadfish’s use ohis super-fast twitch muscle, the faste

known muscle in vertebrates (ThWashington Post, Monday, August 12

“Kids are the unseen stakeholders inthe American workplace.”

—Stewart Friedman, director of theWharton Leadership Program, summar

ing his study which found the greatermother’s degree of authority, freedom an

control over decision making on the jobthe fewer behavior problems in her kid

(The Wall Street JournalWednesday, July 31)

“Every place that I have examinedwhere community policing has occurred,there has been a dramatic drop in crimeparticularly in violent crime.”

—Marvin Wolfgang , professor ofcriminology, discussing efforts to comba

youth crime (Cleveland Plain DealeWednesday, August 14

“It’s a prescription for social disaster —another act in a 20-year-old tragedy inwhich federal and state governments haabandoned our nation’s cities.”

—Michael Reisch, professor of socialwelfare, criticizing the latest welfare

reform law (The Philadelphia InquirerFriday, August 16)

“It is one of the most horrible dilemmafor a couple because it is faced most oftby people who are trying very hard tohave a baby — and then they turn arounand have to talk about abortion.”

—Arthur Caplan , director of the Cen-ter for Bioethics, commenting on th

difficulties involved with a fetal reductionoperation (London Evening Standar

Monday, August 12)

“It was pretty challenging and I’velearned a lot about the history of comput

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award-winning student project to recreathe processing power of ENIAC on

single silicon chip (South China MorninPost, Thursday, August 15

[Many expected to find] “a lot of crazi-ness—kooks—when it came to politicaltalk radio. But they found that this islargely not true.”

—Joseph Turow, professor of commu-nication, said of the graduate studen

who worked on the Annenberg study talk radio (Los Angeles Times, Thursda

August 15)

“I think people will increasingly askthemselves: Is my getting something foless really worth the price the entire community pays?”

—Edward Shils, G. W. Taylor Profes-sor Emeritus of Entrepreneurial Studiein an article on anti-superstore sentimeand the so-called Wal-Mart effect, whe

the opening of a superstore actuadecreases the total number of jobs in

region (Philadelphia Daily NewsTuesday, August 13

“That’s the stereotype. And it’s wrongFundamentally, they are very, very simi-lar. But the press for Hillary Clinton hasbeen negative.... And the press for Elizabeth Dole has been largely positive. Whthat suggests is she has been more artfcrafting an image, because if you look athe reality of their lives, they are functionally similar.”

—Kathleen Hall Jamieson, dean ofAnnenberg, comparing the media

portrayal of Hillary Rodham Clinton toLady MacBeth and the portrayal of Eliza

beth Dole to Cinderella (The ArizonRepublic, Sunday, July 14

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in the absence of a protein necessary forHIV infection (The Atlanta Journal,

Friday, August 9)

“What do kids watch? They watchMTV. If you’re going to get the kidsinterested in science, you’ve got to do itin a manner they’re accustomed to. Iwant [elementary school teachers] to learnthe culture of childhood today.”

—Ryda Rose, professor of education,describing her strategy for helping teach-

ers teach science better (The New YorkTimes, Sunday, August 4 )

“It may have less to do with whetheryou love your mother.”

—Jay Amsterdam, professor of psy-chiatry, explaining his research on a pos-

sible link between viral infections andclinical depression (Chicago Tribune,

Tuesday, July 23)

“Personal trading by fund managers maybe allowed by law, but it makes us queasy.”

—Leo Katz, professor of law, com-menting on practices within the mutual

fund industry (The Washington Post,Sunday, June 30)

“You have teachers and principals andsuperintendents who are wedded to theold idea that if you ... get an education,you can make it, you can defy the oddsand have a decent standard of living.[But] the William Penns of the world arenot really equipped with the resources todeliver these people out of their circum-stances.”

—Elijah Anderson, the Charles andWilliam L. Day Professor of Social Sci-

ence, explaining the bleak situation facinggraduates of William Penn and otherinner-city high schools (Los Angeles

Times, Sunday, June 30)

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ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND SAFETY

Updating Penn’s Exposure Control PlanThe OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens Standard requires that the University’s

Exposure Control Plan be reviewed and updated annually. The Office ofEnvironmental Health and Safety (OEHS) reviewed the University’s Expo-sure Control Plan and an updated version of the plan is now available.Principal Investigators/Area Supervisors who have completed Appendix Cof their existing Exposure Control Plan should obtain a copy of the new planand update Appendix C. Copies of the University’s Exposure Control Planare available at the OEHS web site, http://www.oehs.upenn.edu, or bycalling OEHS at 898-4453.

The Exposure Control Plan includes recent information from the Cen-ters for Disease Control and Prevention on reducing the risk of tuberculosistransmission in health care settings. It also establishes practices and proce-dures to eliminate or minimize occupational exposure to bloodborne patho-gens.

The updated plan must be readily accessible in the workplace to allemployees who work with human source materials and other potentiallyinfectious materials that may transmit bloodborne diseases. This includesbut is not limited to Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Hepatitis B Virus,non-A non-B hepatitis virus(es), Human T-cell Lymphotrophic Virus typeI, syphilis, malaria, babesia, brucella, leptospira, arboviruses, relapsingfever, Creutzsfeld-Jakob Disease agent and viral hemorrhagic fever.

Safe and Effective Use of AutoclavesThe use of an autoclave is a very effective way to decontaminate infectious

waste. Autoclaves work by killing microbes with superheated steam. Re-cently, there have been several accidents involving the use of autoclaves oncampus. In an effort to raise user awareness in the University community, theOffice of Environmental Health and Safety offers the following safety tips:

1. Do not put sharp or pointed contaminated objects into an autoclave bag.Place them in an appropriate rigid sharps disposal container.

2. Use caution when handling an infectious waste autoclave bag, in casesharp objects were inadvertently placed in the bag. Never lift a bag from thebottom to load it into the chamber. Handle the bag from the top.

3. Do not overfill an autoclave bag. Steam and heat cannot penetrate aseasily to the interior of a densely packed autoclave bag. Frequently the outercontents of the bag will be treated but the innermost part will be unaffected.

4. Do not overload an autoclave. An overpacked autoclave chamber doesnot allow efficient steam distribution. Considerably longer sterilization timesmay be required to achieve decontamination if an autoclave is tightly packed.

5. Conduct autoclave sterility testing on a regular basis using appropriatebiological indicators (B. stearothermophilus spore strips) to monitor efficacy.Use indicator tape with each load to verify it has been autoclaved.

6. Do not mix contaminated and clean items together during the sameautoclave cycle. Clean items generally require shorter decontamination times(15-20 minutes) while a bag of infectious waste (24” x 36”) typically requires45 minutes to an hour to be effectively decontaminated throughout.

7. Always wear personal protective equipment, including heat-resistantgloves, safety glasses and a lab coat when operating an autoclave. Use cautionwhen opening the autoclave door. Allow superheated steam to exit beforeattempting to remove autoclave contents.

8. Be on the alert when handling pressurized containers. Superheatedliquids may spurt from closed containers. Never seal a liquid container with acork or stopper. This could cause an explosion inside the autoclave.

9. Agar plates will melt and the agar will become liquefied when auto-claved. Avoid contact with molten agar. Use a secondary tray to catch anypotential leakage from an autoclave bag rather than allowing it to leak onto thefloor of the autoclave chamber.

10. If there is a spill inside the autoclave chamber, allow the unit to coolbefore attempting to clean up the spill. If glass breaks in the autoclave, usestongs, forceps or other mechanical means to recover fragments. Do not use bareor gloved hands to pick up broken glassware.

11. Do not to leave an autoclave operating unattended for a long period oftime. Always be sure someone is in the vicinity while an autoclave is cyclingin case there is a problem.

Autoclaves should be placed under preventive maintenance contracts toensure they are operating properly. If you have any questions aboutmaintenance and use of autoclaves, please contact OEHS at 898-4453,email: [email protected].

Training Program ScheduleThe following training programs are required by the Occupational

Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) for all employees who workwith hazardous substances including: chemicals, human blood, bloodproducts, fluids, and human tissue specimens. These programs arepresented by the Office of Environmental Health & Safety (OEHS).Attendance is required at one or more session, depending upon theemployee’s potential exposures.

Laboratory Safety (Chemical Hygiene Training): Provides acomprehensive introduction to laboratory safety practices and proce-dures at Penn and familiarizes the laboratory employee with theChemical Hygiene Plan. This course is designed for employees whohave not previously attended Laboratory Safety at the University.Required for all University employees who work in laboratories.

September 11 10:30-11:30 a.m. John Morgan Lecture Room BOctober 3 1:30- 2:30 p.m. John Morgan Lecture Room B

Occupational Exposure to Bloodborne Pathogens: This courseprovides significant information for employees who have a potentialexposure to human bloodborne pathogens. Topics include a discus-sion of the Exposure Control Plan, free Hepatitis B vaccination,recommended work practices, engineering controls and emergencyresponse This course is designed for employees who have not previ-ously attended Bloodborne Pathogens training at the University.Required for all University employees potentially exposed to humanblood or blood products, human body fluids, and/or human tissue.

September 19 10:30-11:30 a.m. John Morgan Class of 1962October 22 1:30-2:30 p.m. John Morgan Lecture Room B

Occupational Exposure to Bloodborne Pathogens (in a clinicalsetting): Required for all University faculty and staff who havepotential clinical exposures to blood and other human source material.It is intended for employees with direct patient contact, or those whohandle clinical specimens, and administrators who routinely work ina clinical environment. Topics include: risks, protection, work prac-tice controls and emergency procedures. This course is designed foremployees who have not previously attended Bloodborne Pathogenstraining at the University.

September 26 10:30-11:30 a.m. Stemmler Hall Room 104October 14 11:30-12:30 a.m. Stemmler Hall Room 104

Laboratory Safety—Annual Update: This program is requiredannually for all laboratory employees who have previously attendedChemical Hygiene Training. Topics include chemical risk assess-ment, recommended work practices, engineering controls and per-sonal protection as well as an update of waste disposal and emergencyprocedures. Faculty and staff who work with human source materials,HIV or hepatitis viruses must attend the Laboratory Safety andBloodborne Pathogens—Annual Update (see course description).

September 12 1:30-2:30 p.m. John Morgan Lecture Room BOctober 10 10:30-11:30 a.m. John Morgan Class of 1962

Laboratory Safety and Bloodborne Pathogens—Annual Up-date: This program is required annually for all faculty and staff whowork with human source material, HIV or hepatitis viruses and havepreviously attended Occupational Exposure to Bloodborne Patho-gens. Issues in general laboratory safety and bloodborne pathogens arediscussed. Topics include bloodborne diseases, risk assessment, rec-ommended work practices, engineering controls and personal protec-tion as well as an update of waste disposal and emergency procedures.Participation in Laboratory Safety—Annual Update is not required ifthis program is attended.

September 24 1:30-2:30 p.m. John Morgan Lecture Room BOctober 17 10:30-11:30 a.m. John Morgan Lecture Room B

Attendees are requested to bring their PENNcards to facilitatecourse sign in. Additional programs will be offered on a monthly basisduring the fall. Check OEHS web site (http://www.oehs.upenn.edu)for dates and time.

If you have any questions, please call Bob Leonzio at 898-4453.

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The University of Pennsylvania’s journal of record, opinion andnews is published Tuesdays during the academic year, and asneeded during summer and holiday breaks. Its electronic edi-tions on the Internet (accessible through the PennWeb) includeHTML and Acrobat versions of the print edition, and interiminformation may be posted in electronic-only form. Guidelines forreaders and contributors are available on request.

EDITOR Karen C. GainesASSOCIATE EDITOR Marguerite F. MillerEDITORIAL ASSISTANT Mary Scholl

ALMANAC ADVISORY BOARD: For the Faculty Senate, MartinPring (Chair), Jacqueline M. Fawcett, Phoebe S. Leboy, PeterJ. Kuriloff, Ann E. Mayer, Vivian Seltzer. For the Administration,Stephen Steinberg. For the Staff Assemblies, Berenice Saxonfor PPSA, Diane Waters for the A-3 Assembly, and Joe Zuccafor Librarians Assembly.

The Compass stories are written and edited by theOffice of University Relations, University of Pennsylvania.ACTING MANAGING EDITOR Phyllis HoltzmanNEWS STAFF: Barbara Beck, Jon Caroulis, Carl Maugeri, Esaúl Sánchez, Kirby F. Smith, Sandy Smith.DESIGNER Jenny FriesenhahnCLASSIFIEDS Ellen MorawetzThe Compass, Suite 210 Nichols House, 3600 ChestnutStreet, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6106(215) 898-1426 or 898-1427 FAX: 898-1203Classifieds: 898-3632E-mail:[email protected]

Suite 211 Nichols House3600 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6106Phone: (215) 898-5274 or 5275 FAX: 898-9137E-Mail: [email protected]: http://www.upenn.edu/almanac

About the Crime Report: Below are all Crimes Against Persons and Crimes Against Society from thecampus report for July 8 - August 18, 1996. Also reported were Crimes Against Property, including 186thefts (including 26 burglaries, 14 thefts of auto, 49 thefts from autos, 28 of bikes and parts); 5 incidents offorgery and fraud, 32 of criminal mischief and vandalism, and 7 of trespassing and loitering. Full crimereports are in this issue of Almanac on the Web (http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/v43/n2/crimes.html).—Ed.

The University of Pennsylvania values diversity and seeks tal-ented students, faculty and staff from diverse backgrounds. TheUniversity of Pennsylvania does not discriminate on the basis ofrace, sex, sexual orientation, religion, color, national or ethnicorigin, age, disability, or status as a Vietnam Era Veteran ordisabled veteran in the administration of educational policies,programs or activities; admissions policies; scholarship and loanawards; athletic, or other University administered programs oremployment. Questions or complaints regarding this policy shouldbe directed to Anita J. Jenious, Executive Director, Office ofAffirmative Action, 1133 Blockley Hall, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6021 or (215) 898-6993 (Voice) or 215-898-7803 (TDD).

This summary is prepared by the Division of Public Safety and includes all criminal incidents reported andmade known to the University Police Department between July 8 and August 18, 1996. The University policeactively patrol from Market Street to Baltimore Avenue and from the Schuylkill River to 43rd Street inconjunction with the Philadelphia police. In this effort to provide you with a thorough and accurate report onpublic safety concerns, we hope that your increased awareness will lessen the opportunity for crime. For anyconcerns or suggestions regarding this report, please call the Division of Public Safety at 898-4482.

Crimes Against Persons34th to 38th/Market to Civic Center: Robberies (& attempts)—3, Threats & harassment—607/17/96 9:43 AM Civic Ctr. Garage Unknown male followed complainant07/23/96 4:40 PM 3400 Blk. Walnut Complainant threatened07/27/96 10:06 AM 3700 Blk. Spruce Robbery by 2 suspects/fled in vehicle07/30/96 12:09 PM Franklin Bldg. Complainant reports being harassed08/02/96 12:24 PM 3440 Market St. Harassing message received on voice mail08/09/96 12:56 AM Int’l House Male harassing complainant08/09/96 4:29 PM 100 Blk. 36th Death threat received08/09/96 9:05 PM 36th St. Subway Robbery by unknown suspect08/10/96 1:15 AM 3400 Blk. Spruce Wallet taken by 2 unknown males38th to 41st/Market to Baltimore: Robberies (& attempts)—11, Simple assaults—8,

Threats & harassment—707/10/96 12:19 PM 200 Blk. 40th Unknown male hit complainant07/10/96 3:28 PM 3925 Walnut St. Unknown female hit manager07/13/96 9:09 PM Harrison House Complainant struck on lip by thrown object07/15/96 7:34 AM 300 Blk. 40th Male attempted to take bike by force07/16/96 10:51 AM 4000 Blk. Locust Unwanted calls received07/18/96 3:50 PM 3800 Blk. Spruce Dispute/complainant sprayed w/pepper spray07/19/96 8:46 PM 40th & Baltimore Unknown suspect took bike07/20/96 2:08 PM 316 S. 40th Landlord threatened complainant07/22/96 12:38 AM 41st & Irving Robbery by unknown males (2)07/24/96 4:12 AM 3800 Blk. Chestnut Drexel student robbed07/25/96 12:00 PM 100 Blk. 40th 2 males making harassing comments07/25/96 10:25 PM 3801 Chestnut St. 2 males held up store07/26/96 12:05 AM 4000 Blk. Locust 2 males robbed complainant07/26/96 12:32 PM 216 S. 40th St. Unknown male robbed establishment07/29/96 5:48 PM High Rise North Complainant punched07/30/96 10:08 AM 307 S. 40th Harassing calls received07/31/96 9:09 PM 4107 Baltimore Assault by known person07/31/96 9:50 PM 3915 Walnut St. Property taken08/05/96 7:42 AM Harrison House Threat received at receptionist area08/09/96 2:19 AM 41st & Spruce Robbery by 3 males on bike08/10/96 2:01 AM 200 Blk. 40th Robbery by 3 males/fled in vehicle08/10/96 2:36 PM 3800 Blk. Locust Purse/contents taken/recovered/arrest08/14/96 3:22 AM Hamilton Court Phone harassment08/17/96 12:52 AM 39th & Chestnut Unknown person followed complainant08/18/96 9:47 PM 40th & Locust Complainant struck in face08/18/96 11:20 PM 4000 Blk. Pine 4 juveniles assaulted complainant41st to 43rd/Market to Baltimore: Robberies (& attempts)—9, Threats & harassment—307/20/96 3:07 AM 42nd & Baltimore Robbery at gunpoint07/25/96 4:37 PM 4200 Baltimore Robbery at gunpoint07/27/96 12:29 AM 4201 Walnut St. Robbery at gunpoint07/27/96 8:45 PM 200 Blk. 42nd Attempted robbery/male fled07/30/96 8:18 PM 4100 Blk. Locust Complainant reports being harassed07/30/96 8:40 PM 4100 Blk. Locust Unwanted calls received07/31/96 12:23 PM 42nd & Osage Robbery of purse by 3 juveniles07/31/96 11:24 PM 4300 Blk. Pine 2 robbed by 2 unknown persons08/03/96 11:09 PM 4100 Blk. Walnut Purse taken by unknown person08/11/96 8:58 PM 4201 Walnut St. Store robbed by unknown suspect with knife08/15/96 7:11 PM 202 S. 43rd St. Unwanted calls received08/18/96 11:48 PM 43rd & Locust Robbery by unknown male in vehicle30th to 34th/Market to University: Robberies (& attempts)—2, Simple assaults—1,

Threats & harassment—207/28/96 10:16 PM Unit Blk. 33rd Unknown male attempted to rob complainant08/05/96 11:35 AM 3200 Blk. South Female grabbed by unknown male08/08/96 10:45 PM 200 Blk. 33rd Escort person being harassed by passenger08/11/96 1:55 PM 200 Blk. 33rd Bike taken from complainant by force08/13/96 1:14 PM Penn Tower Harassment received on emailOutside 30th to 43rd/Market to Baltimore: Robberies (& attempts)—4, Simple assaults—1,

Threats & harassment—2, Indecent exposure & lewdness—307/09/96 10:36 AM South St. Bridge Male arrested for indecent exposure07/14/96 12:53 AM 4400 Pine St. Robbery at gunpoint07/16/96 9:34 AM South St. Bridge Male exposing self07/17/96 6:44 PM 2017-23 Broad Complainant threatened07/30/96 10:33 AM Walnut St. Bridge Unknown male followed complainant07/30/96 11:08 AM 4128 Popular St. Juvenile assaulted by parent07/31/96 2:07 AM 4300 Locust St. 2 robbed by 2 unknown suspects08/08/96 11:05 PM 517 S. 41 St. Suspect stopped in reference to indecent exposure08/09/96 3:14 PM 4300 Blk. Spruce Complainant robbed by unknown suspect with gun08/18/96 11:52 PM 300 Blk. 43rd St. Complainant robbed by 2 unknown males with gun

Crimes Against Society34th to 38th/Market to Civic Center: Disorderly conduct—307/08/96 12:26 PM Vance Hall Male urinating in public/citation issued07/16/96 3:24 PM College Hall Male refused to leave area/citation issued07/26/96 5:37 PM 130 S. 34th St. Male cited for disorderly conduct38th to 41st/Market to Baltimore: Disorderly conduct—207/23/96 3:09 PM 4006 Spruce St. Male arrested for disorderly conduct/intoxicated08/10/96 4:07 PM 3900 Blk. DeLancey Male cited for obstructing highway41st to 43rd/Market to Baltimore: Disorderly conduct—107/26/96 6:10 PM 42nd & Locust Male became disorderly during vehicle stop/arrest

The University of Pennsylvania Police DepartmentCommunity Crime Report

Job Opportunities at PennOpportunities appear weekly in Almanac

during the academic year, but not in this first fallissue because it goes to press early for individualaddressing to faculty and staff. As is usual dur-ing breaks, a four-page printout of this week’sopenings is available at 3401 Walnut Street. JobOpportunities are also posted daily on the Weband can be reached via the Human Resourceshome page (http://www.upenn.edu/hr/).

Book Store Clearance SaleAn inventory clearance sale is now under-

way at 38th & Walnut (the old Kelly & Cohen’ssite), with goods from the the nearby Book Store(general books, gift items, photo supplies, sun-dries, etc.) 50% off; Monday through Friday,8:30 a.m.- 4:30 p.m. until stocks are depleted.

F/S Families: Admissions SeminarsPenn employees and their families—whether

their college-bound teens plan to apply to Pennor elsewhere—are invited to seminars spon-sored by the Undergraduate Admissions Officethis month. Focusing on the college selectionprocess for colleges large and small, public andprivate, admissions officers discuss what it takesto compete, how to get the most out of a campusvisit, and other issues such as financial aid.

Call 898-8587 to register for one of twosessions held at Alumni Hall, Towne Building:Saturday, September 7 at 10:30 a.m. or Wednes-day, September 11 at 5 p.m.

Penn VIPS School Supplies DriveTo donate supplies for West Philadelphia

school children and homeless shelters, beforeSeptember 9, call 898-2020 for information.

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At the ICA: works in variousmedia by Eastern European art-ists who began their careers dur-ing the 1980s. Below, Slovakianartist Simona Bubánová Tauch-mannová’s Slovensko, oil oncanvas, 1991. See Exhibits.

ACADEMIC CALENDAR1 Academic Day; Opening Exerciseand Freshman Convocation; Under-graduate Deans’ Meeting; Penn Reading Project.

Center for University of Pennsylvnia Identification (CUPID). ThroughSept. 3.2 Community Building Day.3 Advising begins; Placement Exams4 First day of classes.7 Community Service Day.20 Add period ends.

CHILDREN'S ACTIVITIES21 ICA Family Workshop; childrenages 6-12 and their adult escorts makartworks inspired by Beyond Belief (seeExhibits); 11 a.m.; Institute for Contemporary Art; reservations required: 8987108; $1/child, free/members and vol-unteers. Repeated September 22.

CONFERENCES6 The Inscriptions of Yaxchilan;Kathryn Josserand and Nick Hopkins;Florida State; workshop on decipherinHieroglyphic writing from the ClassicaMayan city in Mexico; slide lecture (seTalks), 7:30 p.m.; University Museum;$85, $75/members, $55/full-time stu-dents; $10/lecture only; registration:

898-4890 (Pre-Columbian Society; Museum). Through Sept. 8, 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m13 A Symposium on the Life and Woof Romare Bearden; David Driskell,University of Maryland-College Park;Elizabeth Alexander and Paul RogersChicago; Sharon Patton, Michigan; inconjunction with A Graphic Odyssey(see Exhibits); 3-6:30 p.m.; Room 110,Annenberg School; reservations: 898-2083; information: 898-4965 (Afro-American Studies Program ).28 Contemporary Diagnosis and Maagement of Choroidal Melanoma; 8:30a.m.-noon; Scheie Eye Institute; info/registration: 662-8141 (Scheie Eye Inst.30 The Nazi Medical Trials: A Legacof Horrors; Michael Grodin, BostonUniversity; Robert Proctor, Penn StateArthur Caplan and Mildred Cho, Centefor Bioethics; Robert Baker, bioethicsand Union College; Bernett Johnson,veterans affairs and dermatology;Jonathan Moreno, SUNY Health Sci-ence Center at Brooklyn and bioethics12:30-5 p.m.; Penn Tower Hotel; $50,free/full-time students with ID; pre-registration required; information: 898-7136 (Center for Bioethics).

EXHIBITSAdmission donations and hours:

University Museum: $5, $2.50/se-niors and students with ID, free/mem-bers, with PENNCard, children under Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m.Sunday, 1-5 p.m.; closed Mondays anholidays. Institute of Contemporary Art$3, $1/students, artists, seniors, free/members, children under 12, with PenCard, and Sundays 10 a.m.-noon;Thursdays, 10 a.m.-7 p.m.; Wednes-days-Sundays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; closedMondays & Tuesdays. Morris Arbore-tum: $4, $3/seniors, $2/students, free/with PENNCard, children under 6;Mondays-Fridays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.Other galleries: free.

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Beyond Belief: Contemporary Artfrom East Central Europe; works by art-ists and artists’ groups from Poland, theCzech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Ro-mania and Bulgaria; reception, 5:30-7:30 p.m.; ICA. Through October 27.7 One House, One Voice, One Heart:Native American Education at the SantaFe Indian School; photographs from ofthe school, once federally operated, nowtribally run; Museum. Through Jan. 5.11 John Laub: Recent Paintings; pleinair paintings of the Adirondacks, FireIsland and Martha’s Vineyard; KleinGallery, 3600 Market. Through Oct. 11.26 Evolution: A 50th Anniversary Ex-hibition of the Architecture of KlingLindquist; see also Talks; Upper Gal-lery, Meyerson Hall. Through Sept. 30.

NowTaking Place; Kroiz Gallery, Ar-

chitectural Archives, Fisher Fine ArtsLibrary. Through Sept. 20.

Sculpture of Harry Gordon; Arbo-retum. Through 1996.

Time and Rulers at Tikal: Architec-tural Sculpture of the Maya; Museum.Through Fall 1997.

OngoingAncient Greek World; Living in

Balance: Universe of the Hopi, Zuni,Navajo and Apache; Ancient Mesopota-mia: Royal Tombs of Ur; The EgyptianMummy: Secrets and Science; Raven’sJourney: World of Alaska’s Native Peo-ple; Buddhism: History and Diversity ofa Great Tradition; Museum.

FILMSFilm/Video ProjectFilms and programs at Int’l House; fulldescriptions: http://www.libertynet.org/~ihouse; tickets (unless noted): $6, $5/members, students, seniors, $3/childrenunder 12; foreign language films withsubtitles (unless noted); info/tickets: 895-6542; repeat dates and time in italics.7 Keita: The Heritage of the Griot(Kouyate, Burkina Faso, 1995); 12:30p.m.; Sept. 7 screening free. Sept. 8, 3 p.m.

A Feast at Midnight (Hardy, U.K.,1995); 2:45 and 5:45 p.m. Sept. 8, 5 p.m.13 Twister; open captioned; 7 p.m.Sept. 15, 3 p.m.19 UFVA Festival; Program #1, 7p.m. Program #2, Sept. 24, 7 p.m.

Independent Film/Video Ass’nRegistration: 895-6594.8 Philadelphia Independent Film/VideoAss’n Potluck/Open Screen; 7 p.m.; reg-ister by Sept. 6.23 Festival of Independents Roundtable6:30 p.m.28 Working With AVID; 12-4 p.m.

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The Reluctant Mystic:Krzysztof KieslowskiWorks by the late Polish director.7 Decalogue (1988) ten one-hourfilms; # 1, 8 p.m.; # 2, 9:15 p.m.; $4/screening, $36/series. #3-#10 screenedSept. 8-13. Series repeated twice; callfor full schedule.17 No End (1984); 7 p.m. Sept. 18,9:30 p.m.

Camera Buff/The Amateur (1979);9:15 p.m. Sept. 18, 7 p.m.

American Independents12 Puerto Rican P.O.V.; 7:30 p.m.20 Community Visions; 7 p.m.; free.26 The Ad & The Ego (Boihem andEmmanoulides, USA, 1996); 7:30 p.m.Sept. 27, 1 and 7:30 p.m.

Taiwanese Cinema:The Second Wave22 Good Men, Good Women (Hou,1995); 8 p.m. Sept. 28, 7:15 p.m.25 The Red Lotus Society (Lai, 1994);7 p.m. Sept. 27, 9 p.m.

The Peony Pavilion (Chen, 1994);9:15 p.m. Oct. 1, 7:30 p.m.28 Rebels of the Neon God (Tsai,1992); 5 p.m. Oct. 1, 9:15 p.m.

Vive L’Amour (Tsai, 1994); 9:45 p.m.

FITNESS/LEARNING7 Penn Faculty and Staff College Ad-missions Seminars; information sessionfor parents and their college-bound children; 10:30 a.m.; Alumni Hall, TowneBldg.; registration: 898-8587. RepeatedSept. 11, 5 p.m.24 Conflict Mediaton:Resolving Dis-putes in the Workplace; Alan Bell,F/SAP Counselor; 12-1 p.m.; BishopWhite Room, Houston Hall; registration898-7910 (Faculty/Staff Assistance Program).30 Francophonie; with Claire Bre-técher (see Talks); 5:30-7 p.m.; Annen-berg Center (French Institute).

Quit Smoking Program; eight-ses-sion/four-month program with behav-ioral and group therapy and treatmentfor stopping smoking immediately or instages; day and evening programs begSept. 16 and 18; information: 662-3202(Lung Center).

English Language ProgramsEvening Course Registration; classesmeet 6-8:30 p.m.; Academic Writing;Mondays, Sept. 20-Dec. 9; Speaking andListening; Mondays and Wednesdays,Sept. 18-Oct. 23; TOEFL Preparation;Tuesdays and Thursdays, Sept. 24-Oct24; Language of Meetings; Thursdays,Sept. 26-Oct. 24; $145/5-meeting class$290/10-meeting class ($10 for late registrants); info: 898-8681.

Guided Walking Tours; Saturdaysand Sundays; 2 p.m.; Morris Arboretumadmission and hours: see Exhibits.

Jazzercise; 5:30-6:30 p.m.; Mon.,Tues., Thurs.; Philadelphia Child Guid-ance Center; first class free; $3.50/clas$2.50/students; info: Carolyn Hamilton,662-3293 (days), 446-1983 (evenings).

College of General StudiesSpecial Programs; unless noted, coursesmeet weekly, 6:30-8:30 p.m.; informa-tion/registration: 898-6479.10 Folklore of Britain, Ireland andWales; public audit course; 4:30-7:10p.m.; $200. Through Dec. 3.16 Playwrights’ Circle; $150 (includestext). Through Nov. 25 (no class Oct. 14& 21 or Nov. 18).17 Improving your Speech and Voice;$130. Continues Sept. 19, 24 & 26.18 Interior Design: Expressing YourOwn Style; $165 (includes PhiladelphiaMuseum of Art entrance fee). ContinuesSept. 25, Oct. 16 & 23.

Children’s Book Production andIllustration I; 6:30-9 p.m.; $165.Through Nov. 6.19 Black and White Photography;$120; darkroom not provided or re-quired. Through Oct. 24.

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Beginning Playwriting; $160 (in-cludes text). Through Nov. 21 (no classOct. 17 or Nov. 14).20 Journal Writing Workshop; 9:30a.m.-4:30 p.m.; $85.21 Power Speaking; 9:30 a.m.-4:30p.m.; $120.

Soil, Mulch and Compost; 10 a.m.-noon; $25.25 Writing a Novel; $125. ThroughOct. 30.

Overview of Fund Raising; $180,$165/Fund Raising Certificate ProgramThrough Nov. 20.27 The Internet in Fund Raising; $135,$125/FRCP; 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.28 Pruning Concepts and Technique10 a.m.-2 p.m.; $50.30 Writing for Movies and Television;6:30-9 p.m.; $125. Through Nov. 4.

The What and Why of Collecting;$150. Through Nov. 18.

MUSIC22 Samba Nosso; music of black Braziand other New World African cultures;Sunday Concerts series; 2:30 p.m.; Museum; free with admission (Exhibits).30 New York New Music Ensemble;new music for acoustic and electronicinstruments and digital tape written byJames Primosch, music; Edmund Campion, Arthur Kreiger, Thea Musgrave,Paul Rouders; 8 p.m.; Annenberg SchTheater (Music).

Folklife CenterConcerts at International House; tickets:$15, $13/students & seniors, $10/members; subscriptions: $70/5 concerts (suscribe by Sept. 16 and get 6th free); ca895-6546 for full; day-of-show tickets:at Int’l House box office two hours prioto show; advance tickets: 893-1145.6 Solas; Irish music quintet led byPhiladelphia’s Seamus Egan; 7:30 p.mInt’l Housewarming reception follows;concert and reception: $23, $18/mem-bers and subscribers.7 Chamroeun Yin; open rehearsal ofCambodian court dances; 11 and 11:3a.m. Finished performance: Oct. 26.29 Shoba Sharma; Sharma performsbharathanatyam dance, a classical, native Indian dance; 3 p.m.; co-sponsoreby South Asia Regional Studies.

SPECIAL EVENTS6 Housewarming International; sam-pling of programs at International House:movies, music, dance, and receptions;see Films and Music. Through Sept. 8.26 Memorial Tribute to Barbara Jordanvideo excerpts of major speeches by thepioneer for Southern Blacks in the Texasenate and U.S. Congress and remem-brances by men and women who knewher; 5-6:30 p.m.; Room 110, AnnenbergSchool; register by Sept. 19: (610) 566-36827 Live Auction of Rare Plants; 5-7:30p.m.; Morris Arboretum.28 World Culture Day: Ancient Olym-pic Games Day; races, wrestling, javelinand discus demonstrations, Greek galtours; noon-4 p.m.; Museum; free withadmission donation (see Exhibits).

SPORTSTickets for fall sports, except football,are free. Football tickets: 898-6151.Home locations: field hockey, football:Franklin Field; soccer, Rhodes Field;volleyball, The Palestra.12 Field Hockey v. St. Joseph’s; 7 p.m.13 Volleyball v. Haverford; 3 p.m.17 Volleyball v. La Salle; 7 p.m.18 Men’s Soccer v. La Salle; 4 p.m.20 Volleyball v. Towson State, 7 p.m.;Ltwt. Football v. Cornell, 7:30 p.m.21 Volleyball v. Rutgers, 1 p.m.; v.Rider, 6 p.m.25 Women’s Soccer v. Bucknell; 4 p.m.28 Football v. Colgate; 6 p.m.

TALKS5 Beyond Belief Slide lecture; DavidCerny, artist; see Exhibits; 6 p.m.; ICA.6 Dynasty and Alliance at Yaxchilan:Introduction to Maya Glyphs; see alsoHieroglyphs Workshop (Conferences);7:30-9:30 p.m.; Museum; $10/lecture; reervations: 898-4890 (Museum).9 StAR and p450c17 in the Regulatof Salt, Sugar and Sex; Walter Miller,UCSF; noon; M100-101, John MorganBldg. (Pharmacology).10 Babylon Revisited: The Tablet andthe Spade; Andrew George, Universityof London; Kevorkian Lecture; 6 p.m.;Rainey Auditorium, Museum; reserva-tions: 898-4890 (Museum).11 Immunobiology of Interleukin 12;Giorgio Trincheri, Wistar; 4 p.m.; Grosman Auditorium, Wistar (Wistar).12 The Unanswered Need: Building Itellectual Capital to Meet the Challengof the Future; Neal Lane, director, NSF; p.m.; Auditorium, LRSM Bldg. (LRSM).

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Exhibit Tour; Laura Hoptman,MOMA and Beyond Belief (Exhibits) cu-rator; 6 p.m.; ICA (ICA).16 Proteins that Interact with NuclearHormone Receptors; David Moore, Har-vard; noon; M100-101, John MorganBldg. (Pharmacology).

Charity and Empowerment: NGO’sand their Antecedents in South Asia;speaker tba; 3-5 p.m.; Room 103-5, Wil-liams Hall (South Asia Regional Stud-ies). Talk series continues Sept. 16 & 23.

Mere Nuisance Value? Explainingthe Persistence of Skilled Labor in theU.S. Foundry Trades, 1880-1930;Howell Harris, University of Durham,England; 4 p.m.; Room 500, 3440 Mar-ket (History & Sociology of Science).18 Novel Structures and TransportPathways of the Cell Nucleus; GideonDreyfuss, biochem./biophysics; 4 p.m.;Grossman Auditorium, Wistar (Wistar).19 Chemistry and the Future of Medi-cal Research; Harold Varmus, director,NIH; Ullyot Lecture; 6 p.m.; Room 1-B,Meyerson Hall (Chemistry; ChemicalHeritage Foundation).

Populist and Avant-Garde Culturein Eastern Europe in the 20th Century;John Lukacs, cultural historian; in con-junction with Beyond Belief (Exhibits);6 p.m.; ICA (ICA).23 Science, Industry and the Law inthe Making of Natural Knowledge; PaulLucier, Renssalear Polytech; 4 p.m.;Room 500, 3440 Market St. (H&SS).24 Game Playing with Paradise: Eras-ing Boundaries Between High and LowCultures; Ingrid Daemmrich, Drexel; 1p.m.; Faculty Club (Penn Women’s Club).25 The CAT and the HAT: New In-sights Link Histone Acetylaiton to GeneActivation; David Allis, University ofRochester; 4 p.m.; Grossman Audito-rium, Wistar (Wistar).26 On the Theme of Post-Totalitarian-ism; poetry and fiction by Linh Dinh; inconjunction with Beyond Belief (Exhib-its); 6 p.m.; ICA (ICA).

Evolution; Bradford White Fiske,AIA, Kling Lindquist; see Exhibits; 6:30p.m.; Upper Gallery, Meyerson Hall.30 Sodium-Dependent GlutamateTransporters in the CNS: Pharmacol-ogy, Regulation, and Function; MichaelRobinson, pediatrics and pharmacology;noon; M100-101, John Morgan Bldg.(Pharmacology).

Le Trait de Langage; Claire Bre-técher, French cartoonist; 3-4 p.m.;Cherpack Lounge (French Institute).

Biomembranes and Networks inLarge Deformation; Dennis Discher,mechanical engineering and applied me-chanics; 3:30 p.m.; Room 337, TowneBuilding (Chemical Engineering).

Immunity in Acute and PersistentVirus Infections; Peter Doherty, St.Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital,Memphis; Wiktor Lecture; 4 p.m.;Grossman Auditorium, Wistar (Wistar).

Mechanical Philosophy and the Re-embodiment of Knowledge; Mary Voss,Princeton; 4 p.m.; Room 500, 3440 Mar-ket St. (H&SS).

Bande Desinée et Sociéte; chalk-talk with Claire Bretécher, French car-toonist and Synge Wilkinson, DailyNews cartoonist; 7-8 p.m.; AnnenbergCenter (French Institute).

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