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       Minutes of the Recessed Meeting of the Board of Trustees of the University
of Kentucky, Tuesday, April 8, 1969


       The Board of Trustees of the University of Kentucky met at 2:00 p. m.,
Eastern Standard Time, April 8, 1969 in the Buard Room of the Administration
Building in a session recessed from the statutory meeting of April 1, 1969 at
which there was not a quorum present. The following members of the Board
answered the roll call: Mr. Albert G. Clay, Vice Chairman, Mr. Wendell P.
Butler, former Governor A. B. Chandler, Mr. Richard E. Cooper, Dr. Harry
Denham, Mr. Robert H. Hillenmeyer, Mr. B. Hudson Milner, Mr. James H.
Pence, Mr. Floyd H. Wright, non-voting faculty members Professor Paul Oberst
and Dr. Robert W. Rudd, and non-voting student member, Mr. Wallace Bryan.
Absent from the meeting were Governor Louie B. Nunn, Mr. William R. Black,
Mrs. Rexford S. Blazer, Mr. George W. Griffin, Jr. , Mr. J. Robert Miller and
Dr. N. N. Nicholas. Acting President A. D. Kirwan, and Vice Presidents A. D.
Albright, Robert F. Kerley, Glenwood L. Creech, Lewis W. Cochran and As-
sistant Vice President Alvin L. Morris represented the administration. Members
of the various news media were also present.



       A. Meeting Opened

       Mr. Clav, presiding in the absence of Governor Nunn, called the meeting to
order at 1:55 p. mn. Following the invocation, he designated Mr. Richard E. Cooper
as Acting Secretary for the meeting. Mr. Cooper reported a quorum present and
the meeting was declared officially open for the conduct of business at 2:00 p. m.



       B. Minutes Approved

       On motion by Mr. Hillenmeyer, seconded by Dr. Denham, and passed, the
reading of the Minutes of the March 5, 1969 meeting of the Executive Committee
and the March 18, 1969 special meeting of the Board of Trustees was dispensed
with and the Minutes for the two meetings were approved as published.



      C. President's Report to the Trustees

      Dr. Kirwan stated that something exciting had occurred at the University
since PR 1 was printed and that rather than report on the items contained in this
report which the Board had available for reading, he would like to ask Dr. Alvin
Morris to tell the Board of the liver transplant done by a Medical Center team on
a four.een-month old boy on Monday, April 7. Dr. Morris indicated that this was
the first such operation in the state and about fortieth in the world. He said the
boy was doing very well and all vital signs were encouraging.




 





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       Governor Chandler moved that the Board of Trustees send a congratula-
tory message to the team of doctors who performed the operation. His motion
was seconded by Mr. Wrigaht and, with an affirmative vote by all members, Dr.
Kirwan was asked to send such a letter on behalf of the Board of Trustees.


       D. Recommendations of the President (PR 2)

       Dr. Kirwan indicated that PR 2 contained only routine appointments and
recommended its approval. Without discussion, on motion by Governor Chandler,
seconded, and passed, PR 2, Recommendations of the President, was approved as
a whole and ordered made an official part of the Minutes of the April 8, 1969
meeting of the Board of Trustees. (See PR 2 at the end of the Minutes.


       E. Supplemental Recommendations of the President (PR 3)

       Dr. Kirwan called attention to the recommendation that the Board of
Trustees reappoint Mr. Fred Wachs to a two-year term on the Board of Directors
of THE FUND for the Advancement of Education and Research in the University of
Kentucky Medical Center, the appointment of an Associate Dean for Academic
Affairs in the College of Medicine, and the reappointment of five department
chairmen in the College of Medicine for second six-year terms.

       On motion by Mr. Cooper, seconded by Mr. Butler, and carried, PR 3
was approved as a whole and ordered made a part of the Minutes of the April 8,
1969 meeting of the Board. (See PR 3 at the end of the Minutes.


       F. Offer to Purchase Maine Chance Farm Rejected

       Dr. Kirwan reported that on April 4 he had received an offer from Dr.
Arnold Pessin to purchase Maine Chance Farm from the University of Kentucky
Research Foundation for a sum of $2. 6 million. A meeting of the Board of
Directors of the University of Kentucky Research Foundation was called for
Tuesday morning, April 8, at 10:00 a. m. to consider the offer. At this meeting
the Board of Directors adopted the following resolution:

                             RESOLUTION


      BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Directors of the University of
  Kentucky Research Foundation that its President be, and is hereby,
  directed to reject the offer of Dr. Arnold G. Pessin to purchase Maine
  Chance Farm for Two Million Six Hundred Thousand Dollars ($2, 600, 000. 00).




 





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       The Board of the University of Kentucky Research Foundation further
authorized Dr. Kirwan to report its action to the Board of Trustees of the Uni-
versity of Kentucky since Maine Chance Farm had been purchased at the request
of this latter Board for use by the University of Kentucky.

       The Board of Trustees thanked Dr. Kirwan for his report. Dr. Denham
caused to be read the following resolution and moved its adoption:

                             RESOLUTION



       WHEREAS, this Board has been informed that the University of
   Kentucky Research Foundation has received an offer to purchase Maine
   Chance Farm, and

       WHEREAS, this Board continues in the opinion that Maine Chance
   Farm is needed by the University of Kentucky, and,

       WHEREAS, this Board is informed that the Foundation has rejected
   the said offer;

       NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that this Board concurs
   and agrees with the action of the Board of Directors of the University
   of Kentucky Research Foundation in rejecting the said offer.


       Mr. Milner seconded Dr. Denham's motion and with all present voting
aye, the resolution was adopted as read.


       G. Arrangement Between the Council on Public Higher Education
and the Ohio State University Endorsed

       Dr. Kirwan reminded the members of the Board of Trustees that through
an agreement with the Southern Regional Educational Board, the Council on Public
Higher Education presently provides through state funding 14 scholarships in
veterinary medicine at Auburn University. There is need for additional scholar-
ships and, with the help of Mr. Clay, an arrangement has been worked out whereby
the Governor and the Commissioner of Finance are willing to provide the necessary
funds to take care of at least six additional students in veterinary science at Ohio
State University. As with the Southern Regional Educational Board scholarships,
the Council on Public Higher Education will be responsible for the program. Dr.
Kirwan recommended adoption of the following resolution endorsing this arrange-
ment:

                             RESOLUTION

      BE IT RESOLVED that the University of Kentucky endorse an
  arrangement between the Council on Public Higher Education and an




 




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   institution of higher education such as Ohio State University by
   which the current number of scholarships in veterinary medicine
   would, through state funding, be increased by six.


       Mr. Wright moved, seconded by Dr. Denham, that the rsolution be
adopted and all present voted affirmatively.


       H. Dr. Albright Granted Sabbatic Leave and Special Assignment
Effective September 1, 1969

       Dr. Kirwan reported that Dr. A. D. Albright had just been notified that
he has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for lecturing in Belgium at the Uni-
versities of Louvai.nandGhent. He recommended that Dr. A. D. Albright,
Executive Vice President, be granted a sabbatic leave and special assignment,
effective September 1, 1969 and terminating June 30, 1970 for the purpose of
accepting the Fulbright lectureship award to Belgium. The Board extended their
congratulations to Dr. Albright on the great honor he had received.

       On motion by Mr. Cooper, seconded by Mr. Wright, the recommendation
relative to Dr. Albright's leave as made by Dr. Kirwan was approved unanimously.


       I. Honorary Degree Recipients (PR 4)

       Dr. Kirwan recommended that approval be granted to award the honorary
degree of Doctor of Laws to Thomas Dionysius Clark, Russell Ellsworth Teague
and Whitney Moore Young,' Jr. at the commencement exercises on May 12, 1969.
He pointed out that biograph cal sketches on the three individuals recommended
were included as a part of PR 4.

       Commenting that all three individuals were worthy of the honor, on motion
by Governor Chandler, seconded by Mr. Wright, and carried, approval was given
to the awarding of the honorary Doctor of Laws-degree to Thomas Dionysius Clark,
Russell Ellsworth Teague and Whitney Moore Young, Jr. at the commencement
exercises on May 12, 1969 and President Kirwan was authorized to notify these
persons that they have been selected to receive honorary degrees from the Uni-
versity of Kentucky. (See PR 4 at the end of the Minutes. )



       J. Internal Operating Budget for 1969-70 Approved

       Dr. K'r n said the next item on the agenda was the presentation of the
internal operating budget of the University for 1969-70, a copy of which had been
mailed well in advance of the meeting, thus giving the members an opportunity to
study it in detail. He asked Mr. Albrigkt to make the presentation.




 





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       Dr. Albright said the proposed budget sought to do the following things-

          1. Provide for instruction, advising and counseling of
              approximately 1, 000 new students.

          2. Provide for maintenance and operation of new facilities on
              the Lexington campus and at the Community Colleges.

          3. Provide matching funds for Federal grants.

          4. Provide for the second year of operation in the Hazard,
              Jefferson, Madisonville, and Maysville Community Colleges.

          5. Provide for salary increases of approximately five percent.

          6. Provide funds for continued support of faculty benefit
              programs.

          7. Provide funds for certain selected graduate programs.

       He continued that the budget does not do the following things:

          1. Bring the University to the median of the benchmark institutions
              which has been the target for a long time.

          2. Provide for needed development of certain programs, such as
              statistics, computer science, special education for handicapped
              children.

       The expenditures proposed are the best current estimates of program
support; however, it is proposed that the authority to transfer funds within the
overall general fund allocation should be delegated to the President with such
changes as might be made to be reported in the monthly financial report presented
to the Board. Any changes in expenditures based on increased income estimates
would be presented to the Board for prior approval.

       Attention was called to pages v, vi, and vii of the budget document which
summarized the estimated income and funds available, and it was noted that the
total budget for 1969-70 amounted to $88, 976, 400 as compared with $83, 159, 252
for 1968-69. Of the total budget 58. 3 percent comes from state appropriations,
an increase of 1. 6 percent over state appropriations in 1968-69.

       Mr. Clay thanked Dr. Albright and said it was most commendable that
$3 million of the $5 million increase in the budget was devoted to salary increments
and staff benefits. He asked if any member wished to raise any questions. There
being none, Dr. Denham moved that the 1969-70 operating budget as submitted,
including the authorizations set forth in the letter of transmittal, be approved and




 






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ordered recorded as an integral part of the University's financial system with the
necessary fiscal control being exercised for the collection and appropriation of
income and for the expenditure of departmental appropriations in accordance with
authorized fiscal policies and procedures and accepted as a basis of maximum
expenditures for the year 1969-70. The Board of Trustees or the Executive Com-
mittee is empowered to make such changes in the budget as may from time to time
be deemed necessary upon recommendation of the President. Governor Chandler
seconded the motion and all present voted aye.


       K. Veterans Administration Hospital Plans Approved (FCR 1)

       At the request of Dr. Kirwan, Mr. Kerlev reminded the Board of Trustees
of their former action in authorizing and consenting to the construction of the
Veterans Administration Hospital near the University Medical Center but reserving
the right to approve the final plans. He indicated on a plat map the location of the
proposed facility and showed two elevations of the proposed structure. He indicated
that the hospital would provide 375 beds and would cost approximately $15 million.

       Dr. D-enham moved that approval be given to the final plans and specifications
for the proposed Veterans Administration Hospital, to be situated immediately south
of the Medical Sciences wing of the Albert B. Chandler Medical Center. His motion
was seconded by Governor Chandler and passed without dissent. (See FCR 1 at the
end of the Minutes. )


       L. Meeting Adjourned

       Having first determined there was no further business to come before the
meeting, Mr. Clay-entertained a motion for adjournment which was made by Mr.
Butler, seconded by Governor Chandler, and passed. The meeting adjourned at
2:50 p.m

                                          Respectfully submitted,





                                          Richard E. Cooper, Acting Secretary
                                          Board of Trustees




(PR's 2, 3, 4 and FCR 1 which follow are official parts of the Minutes of the
April 8, 1969 meeting of the Board of Trustees. )




 



















              PRESIDENT'S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES

                         April 8, 1969



1.   MEDICINE'S FIRST CLASS PLANS SPRING REUNION

      The College of Medicine's first graduating class (1964)
will mark its fifth anniversary with a reunion April 25. High-
lighting the program will be the annual Munich Lecture which
this year will feature Dr. Edmund Pellegrino, former professor
and chairman of the Department of Medicine. Tentative plans
for the anniversary event include a morning program, luncheon
at the Medical Center and the lecture, capped off with an eve-
ning social activity. The 32 physicians who are members of the
Class of 1964 currently are scattered from coast to coast and
overseas. Dr. Art Hellebusch, chairman of the reunion committee,
reports that within two weeks after being notified of the re-
union proposal over half of the members of the class responded
that they were making plans to attend.



2.    COVINGTON DAILY BEGINS SERIES ON "NOW LIFE AT UK"

      The Kentucky Post Times-Star has begun a series of articles
called "Campus Hangup--The Now Life at UK," featuring interviews
with students, faculty and staff made over a period of about ten
days by Post higher education writer Donna McKeown. Miss McKeown
lived on campus while gathering material for her stories and re-
ceived the full cooperation of all University agencies. The series
began on March 22. The writer is a recent graduate in journalism
and therefore was not unfamiliar to the customs and operations of
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3.   DR. RICHARD HONORED BY MEMORIAL FUND

      The University has made provisions for tuition scholar-
ships for the children of the late Dr. Donald L. Richard, asso-
ciate professor of accounting, who died February 15. He is
survived by his four children and his widow, Mrs. Eloise Ruddle
Richard, all of 2119 Georgian Way. Contributions to a supple-
mental scholarship fund may be sent to Leonard Wilson of the
Development Office. The scholarship fund is known as "scholar-
ship fund for children of deceased faculty members." In addition,
the Alpha Mu Chapter of Beta Alpha Psi at the University is
creating a memorial fund to be used as the basis for an annual
award to students demonstrating excellence in accounting. Con-
tributions to this fund may be sent to the Donald L. Richard
Memorial Fund, Department of Accounting.



4.   EXTENSION CLASSES TAUGHT IN EVERY KENTUCKY CORNER

      The University Extension Class Program has classes in al-
most every geographical region in Kentucky. Credit courses are
being taught from Paducah to Prestonsburg and from Louisville to
Somerset. The spring enrollment is 872, the director, James W.
Brown, said. Thirty-six classes currently are being held in ten
community college cities, with a total enrollment of 608. The
largest enrollment is at Ft. Knox. In addition to the community
college sites, classes are located in Bardstown, Cynthiana, Dan-
ville, Florence, Lexington, Manchester, Lebanon, Paintsville and
Winchester. Twenty-six classes are being taught by extension from
the College of Education, eight of them in the Department of Voca-
tional Education, and in eight different locales in Kentucky. The
Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling has eight; the
Department of Curriculum and Instruction has five; the Department
of Special Education has four and Administration and Supervision
has one.

      In the College of Arts and Sciences, a total of 15 classes
are taught--in English, history, library science, math, psychology
and sociology. Three courses are taught from the College of Busi-
ness and Economics. Brown said 27 extension class teachers are
resident faculty members, who travel to the various community col-
leges or cities where the classes are taught. The remainder of the
staff are either full-time or part-time community college staff,
with the exception of two. One teacher, from Newburg, Indiana,
teaches at Henderson; the other, from Mayfield, teaches at Paducah.
All teaching personnel are approved by the appropriate department
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5.   EXCHANGE PROGRAM AT MONTERREY CONTINUES

      Students again will have an opportunity to fulfill language
requirements during a University-sponsored summer program at the
Institute of Technology and Higher Studies of Monterrey, Mexico,
June 13-August 20. The program is open to University students as
well as those from other colleges and universities. Courses will
be offered in Spanish, sociology, history, music, art, dance, and
archeology. All credit is transferable, since Monterrey is a
member of the Association of Southern Schools and Colleges, an
official accrediting agency. Cost of the program is $375, plus
transportation. The fee includes tuition, room and board. Bus
trips are $88 round trip and there is a possibility a few students
may travel by automobile.

      A tour of several days to Mexico City is being planned, either
before or after the summer session. This would be an additional
expense. The University portion of the program is a part of the
International Summer School Program started in 1960, with UK and
nine other U.S. universities. The 10 schools agreed to send students
to Monterrey, and the Mexican school sendsexchange students here each
summer.



6.   CONTRACT LET FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGES STUDY

     The Council on Public Higher Education has awarded a $44,000
contract to a Tallahassee, Fla., firm to conduct a comprehensive
study of community colleges in the state. The firm, Associated Con-
sultants in Education, will present its final report to the council
by next December 1. The firm's executive director, Dr. Myron Blee,
said a preliminary report would be ready for presentation within
six months. The study will be financed by a Federal grant.



7.   DEVELOPMENT SERVICES' STUDY WIDELY ACCLAIMED

     A study by a University agency is receiving wide acclaim and
is being frequently cited throughout the state. The study is a
comprehensive analysis of the state's economy by the College of
Business and Economics' Office of Development Services and Business
Research, revealing, among other things, that the average Kentuckian
earns only $77 for every $100 earned by the average American. The
study is designed to provide a continuing measurement of the growth
of Kentucky and its subdivisions in comparison with that of the
nation as a whole and of the other states. The University agency
looks for over-all growth in the state's economy in 1969 to be nearly
8 per cent, with personal income reaching $8.9 to $9 billion. It
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8.   STUDENT DENTISTS VISITING KENTUCKY COMMUNITIES

      The new Department of Community Dentistry program, which
is designed to make graduating dental students more "socially
sensitive," appears to have been well received in the several
Kentucky communities where the students have visited. They spent
an average of one week in each town, working with the local pro--
fessional people and involving themselves in other phases of
community life. Towns visited have included Bardstown and Hazard,
and the following is a report from the latter city, as reported in
the Hazard Herald on March 13:

      Six dental students from the University of Kentucky College
of Dentistry this week are getting a look at what they will be
facing the rest of their working life.

      The six are visiting Hazard to learn first-hand the practical
problems of a dentist in the community and how community health
problems can be solved by a teamwork approach.

      A group of Hazard dentists is acting as host for the group.

      Among the items on the agenda for the youths have been actual
visitations of local dentists' offices while patients are being
treated and the touring of numerous facilities and projects.

      Those students in Hazard this week are Stephen Murphy of
Lexington, Fred Ballou of Richmond, David Bell of Frankfort, William
Blevins of Cumberland, Allen VanOverbeke of Louisville and Donald
Falace of Pompano Beach, Florida.

      The program in which they are participating is part of a re-
quirement which requires all third-year dental students to spend one
week in a Kentucky community. This is the first year a group of
dental students has visited Hazard.

      Wesley 0. Young, chairman of the College's Department of Com-
munity Dentistry, says, "the practice of dentistry does not exist in
a vacuum but in a complex society in which the individual dentist re-
lates to the individuals around him, to his community, and to the
larger social forces that shape the nature and future of the profession
and the nation."

      Assisting in the week-long study are the regional office of the
Kentucky Department of Health, the Perry County Health Department and
the office of Public Assistance,

      Dr. Young is accompanying the dental students on the tour.

      Since arriving here earlier in the week, the students have been
briefed on many of the anti-poverty programs, federal-assistance pro-
jects and the development of the Hazard Appalachian Regional Hospital
and the Hazard Community College.

      In addition, the young men have discussed the various problems
of communities and the role of the medical profession.



      Earlier today, the youths were guests at the weekly meeting of
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9.   GOVERNMENTS COUNCIL MOVES HERE THIS MONTH

      The Council of State Governments will move into its new
headquarters the last of this month. The 40-acre site on Spindle-
top Farm was leased a year ago to the former Chicago-based organi-
zation. Brevard Crihfield, the council's executive director, said
he hopes to be doing business from the new headquarters by Monday,
April 28. Joining Crihfield here will be about 30 persons, ranging
from clerks and stenographers to budget analysts, planners, edu-
cation experts and tax technicians. A creature of the 50 states,
the council receives its entire financial. support from all of them,
and is governed solely by state officials and legislators. Dr.
George A. Bell, the council's research director, said the University
may well do a good deal of the research for the council, and that the
University will be provided an opportunity to work in close coopera-
tion with the council. He believes the ensuing interchange of pro-
fessional views and services will materially enhance the programs of
the University in business research, government research, and law.



10.  STUDENTS HELP CHARITY, REMODEL HOUSE, EVANGELIZE

      Over 800 University students took part in the recent Heart Fund
drive in Lexington, ringing 10,000 doorbells. Ann LaMaster, campus
coordinator of the Heart Fund participation, said that all but one of
the 19 fraternities and 14 sororities on campus were represented by
the solicitors. Last year the students raised $6,500 and the UK
corps of canvassers was the first of its kind in the state; several
other Kentucky colleges and universities picked up the idea this year
and initiated similar projects.

      Later in the month a group of students from the campus Lutheran
Student Center volunteered to restore to Minimum Standard Housing Board
acceptability the home of Mrs. Vina Sacra on Driscoll StreEtin Lexing-
ton. The students donated their labor and materials to fix the house,
and the city building inspector "gladly" granted an indefinite stay of
condemnation.

      A University student from Winchester was one of two Kentucky
students selected by the Baptist Student Union for its "Florida beach
ministry" during Spring vacation two weeks ago. The "beach minister"
was to work among vacationing contemporaries in the Daytona Beach area.
William N. Stacy was charged with talking with as many students as he
could, to organize folk-singing sessions and similar activities.



11.  UNIVERSITY FURNISHED KENTUCKY SOIL FOR MOON-SHOT RETURN

      Later -this year when the country's astronauts step from their
spaceship following their return from a moon landing, they will step
down onto a miniature United States, a mixture of soil taken from all
fifty states of the union. Kentucky's contribution to the "miniature
United States" was bored from an area on the University campus. Dr.
Charles E. Barnhart, director of the Experiment Station, and Interim
President A. D. Kirwan, selected an area near the library from which
to take the soil sample, which later was dispatched to Houston, Texas,
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12.  ONE TEAM VICTORIOUS, ANOTHER LOSES, IN NATIONAL PLAY

      The girls basketball team at the University hit the national
hardboards in their own NCAA-type tourney last week. The extra-
mural team lost in its opener, however, to the University of Iowa
by 41-33 at the National Invitational Collegiate Basketball Tourna-
ment at Westchester State College, Penna. Coach Peggy Pruitt said
"I think we should have won on Thursday, but the girls were scared
and I don't know what happened." In a consolation game on Friday
the UK team lost to Purdue by 55-53, but in a double overtime.

      A trophy was brought home over the same weekend by the Paducah
Community College basketball team after winning the National Junior
College basketball tournament at Hutchinson, Kans., defeating Robert
Morris College of Pittsburgh in the finals of the week-long, double-
elimination contest. Paducah became the second school east of the
Mississippi River to win the NJCT. The Paducah victors were honored
by townspeople and well-wishers upon their return to the city over
last weekend.



13.  NEWSPAPER STORY DESCRIBES $5 MILLION AGRICULTURE RESEARCH

      A story by Ernie Clark in the Louisville Courier-Journal
(March 24) discusses the more than 186 research projects currently
underway at the University experiment station. Mr. Clark quoted
Dr. Charles E. Barnhart, the station's director, to the effect that
the $5 million represented in the 186 projects was exclusive of the
more than $2 million being spent each year on smoking and health
studies at the school. Cited were projects ranging from agricultural
economic problems to those connected with veterinary science, Cited
specifically was a project by Dr. Milton Shuffett, an agricultural
economist, who is attempting to forecast what Kentucky agriculture
will look like in 1975. The purpose of the study is to try to fore-
see what farmers must do to prepare for the changes that will come.



14.  PHARMACY CAREER DAY ATTRACTS 70 HIGH SCHOOLERS

     The annual Pharmacy Career Seminar last Saturday brought to-
gether the largest number of participants in the event's eight-year
history for an all-day orientation program. Sponsored by the College
of Pharmacy and Kappa Psi, pharmaceutical fraternity, the seminar
introduced some 70 high school and junior college students to careers
in various fields of pharmacy. Faculty members and pharmacy students
guided the visitors in panel discussions and tours of facilities in
the college and throughout the Albert B. Chandler Medical Center.
The program in the College of Pharmacy building also featured several
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15.  REPORT ON SENATE DESCRIBES GOALS, ORGANIZATION

      The history of the faculty Senate was outlined recently for
general press release by three of that body's Council members.

      Members of the Senate are elected by the faculty from within
it own ranks. Among its primary functions, the Senate is charged
with responsibility for determining the broad academic policies of
the University, serving as a medium of communication between the
Board of Trustees and administrative officers on the one hand and
the faculty and staff on the other, promoting the educational inter-
ests of the University, and approving all new academic courses and
programs. Numerous councils and committees within the 219-member
Senate share the task of discharging its basic responsibilities.
The primary unit is the Senate Council, composed of nine elected
members. Faculty's elected representatives on the Board of Trustees
are non-voting ex-officio members of this Council. The Council's
chairman is Dr. J. R. Ogletree of the Department of Administration
and Supervision in the College of Education. Vice-chairman is Dr.
Nicholas J. Pisacano, of the College of Medicine, and secretary is
Dr. William K. Plucknett, of the Department of Chemistry. Dr. Ogle-
tree said the University Senate "is discharging its responsibility
with increasing commitment to the University--commitment in terms of
its responsibilities to its students and to the Commonwealth."

      Dr. Pisacano describes the Senate Council as "a committee on
which we serve with great enthusiasm.  It's exciting and we have
people who take their work seriously. Although the work of the Coun-
cil takes up many hours a week, it is a labor of love and it is a de-
sire to maintain the integrity of the faculty in University affairs."

      Dr. Plucknett says the University "really is the faculty and
students. It exists to serve the people of the Commonwealth and the
nation, and society at large. The faculty should see that this is
done in the most judicious way."

      The Senate has additional units which include the Graduate
Council, Undergraduate Council, and Academic Council for the Medical
Center. They define problems and make policy recommendations affect-
ing their own specific educational areas to the Senate Council or
through it to the Senate. The Community College System has a Council
which is parallel to the Senate. The Senate has three standing com-
mittees: Rules, Library, and Honors Program. The seven advisory com-
mittees include those concerned with Student Affairs, Community Colleges
University Extension, Intercollegiate Athletics, International Education
Programs, Center for Developmental Change, and Privilege and Tenure.
These committees are advisory to both the University president and to
the Senate, although they are agencies of the Senate.