Almanac, 09/1969, Vol. 16, No. 01 - University of Pennsylvania

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City Council Enacts
"Campus Weapons Law"
The City Council of Philadelphia this
summer passed an ordinance widely referred
to as the "campus weapons law." Bill
No. 1187, signed by the Mayor on July 5
as an amendment to Chapter 10-800 of
The Philadelphia Code, reads as follows:
§10-822 Carrying of Weapons in or on
Public and Private Buildings
(1) Definition
Weapon. Any firearm as defined in Bill
No. 2690, approved August 17, 1967 (1967
Ordinances, Page 896), and any other
weapon as defined in Bill No. 544, approved
August 26, 1968 (1968 Ordinances, Page
906).
(2) Prohibited Conduct
No person shall possess any weapon in
any educational institutions except:
(a) private security guards;
(b) City, State or Federal law enforcement
officers;
(c) State or Federal military forces on
active duty;
(d) members of any reserve officers training
corps, color guards and drill or
rifle teams, when engaged in lawful
organizational activities;
(e) any person authorized by law enforcement
agencies to possess weapons.
(3) Penalty
The penalty for violation of this section
shall be a fine of not more than three hundred
(300) dollars or imprisonment of not
more than ninety (90) days, or both.
The bill passed in July was a revised
version of a proposed ordinance which
the faculty members of Pennsylvania and
other institutions criticized in June hearings
at City Hall.
Black Center.
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research project, the "Upward Bound"
tutorial program, and the Philadelphia
Committee for College Placement, through
which black graduates of Philadelphia
high schools find college openings around
the nation. The Society of African and
Afro American Students will have offices
in the new center.
The corporation lists five undergraduates,
two graduate students and two community
leaders-Mrs. Novella Williams
of the Citizens for Progress and Walter
Palmer of the Black Coalition-as initial
members of its board of directors.
The undergraduate members are Miss
Wendy Butcher, a junior in the College
for Women; Donald G. Maynard, senior
in the School of Chemical Engineering;
sophomores Donald F. Wallace and Wilbur
E. Commodore, both of the College
of Arts and Sciences; and David Wideman
of the College of General Studies.
Graduate students are Miss Patricia
Lou Lane, a first-year graduate student in
linguistics, and Buford W. Tatum II, of
the Law School's Class of 1971.
Among other things
APPOINTMENTS:
DR. OTIS H. GREEN, emeritus professor
of romance languages, has accepted an appointment
as Folger Consultant on Spanish
Renaissance Materials with the Folger
Library in Washington, D.C. this fall.
Earlier, Dr. Green presented a lecture,
"Plus Ultra: The Cultural Expansion of
Spain in the Sixteenth Century," at Mary
Washington College in Fredericksburg,
Virginia.
EDWIN L. TAYLOR, executive director of
the Graduate Hospital, has been elected
President-Elect of the Hospital Association
of Pennsylvania. He has been vice-president
of the Association during the past
year.
DR. MANFRED ALTMAN, professor of
mechanical engineering and director of
both the Institute for Direct Energy Conversion
and the Applied Science and Technology
Division of CURE, has been appointed
chairman of the energy conversion
committee of the American Society for
Engineering Education.
ANTHONY C000ING, director of Houston
Hall, has been appointed to represent Regions
I, II, and III on the nominating
committee for the Association of College
Unions International.
DR. JOHN J. MIKUTA, associate professor
of obstetrics and gynecology, has been
elected Secretary-Treasurer of the newly
formed Society of Gynecologic Oncologists,
of which he is a founding member.
Dr. Mikuta is currently director of the
gynecologic oncology section at the University
Hospital and is also treasurer of
the Obstetrical Society of Philadelphia.
Last spring he conducted the postgraduate
course on gynecologic oncology at the
meeting of the American College of Obstetricians
and Gynecologists held in
Miami.
MILES H. SUCHER, assistant to the vice
president for medical affairs, has been
named new Executive Director of the
Heart Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania
while DR. HARRY F. ZINSSER,
professor of clinical medicine and director
of cardiology at the Graduate Hospital,
was elected President of the association.
DR. ARNOLD 0. REICHENBERGER, professor
of romance languages, has been appointed
to the editorial board of the publication
Ibero-Romania edited by Max
Hueber Verlag, Munchen. In April he
took part in the symposium on classical
mythology in modern literature held at
Catholic University of America in Washington,
D.C. where he spoke on "Classical
Mythology in Spanish Poetry of the
Golden Age."
AUTHORS:
DR. HENRY WELLS, professor of political
science, is author of a book, The Modernization
of Puerto Rico: A Political
Study of Changing Values and Institutions,
published by Harvard University Press in
May. Dr. Wells is a Fulbright-Hays lecturer
this year in the School of Political
Science at the University of Costa Rica
and will be on leave until the end of spring
semester, 1970.
DR. MORTON J. SCHUSSHEIM, professor
of city planning, is the author of Toward
a New Housing Policy: The Legacy of the
Sixties, published by the Committee for
Economic Development.
MRS. LOUISE B. BALLINGER, associate in
the Graduate School of Education, is the
author of the book Perspective, Space and
Design, just published by Van Nostrand-
Reinhold.
Teachers, Administrators and Collective
Bargaining, a book written by DR. EDWARD
SHILS, professor and acting chairman of
the industry department and Dr. C. Taylor
Whittier, former superintendent of
schools in Philadelphia, has been honored
by the Industrial Relations Section of
Princeton University as one of the twenty
outstanding books in industrial relations
for the year 1968.
HONORS:
DR. JACK SCHULTZ, professor of medical
genetics, last May was elected to the
National Academy of Science while DR.
JOHN BROBECK, professor and chairman of
physiology, and DR. ERVING GOFFMAN,
Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology
and Sociology, were both elected
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences.
DR. HERBERT LEVINE, professor of economics,
is one of four scholars on campus
to receive a postdoctoral grant from the
American Council of Learned Societies
through its program on Slavic and East
European Studies. The other three are Dr.
Anthony Salys, professor of Slavic and
Baltic languages; Dr. Henry Teune, associate
professor of political science; and
Dr. Mieczyslaw Giergielewicz, professor
of Slavic literature.
DR. C. NELSON DORNY, assistant professor
of electrical engineering, was one of
18 men and women appointed to serve as
White House Fellows for 1969-1970. The
Fellows will serve as special assistants to
members of the White House staff and
cabinet.
DR. JOHN S. MORGAN, dean of the
School of Social Work, received from the
Canadian Red Cross Society its decoration
as an Honorary Member in recognition of