No. 27 April 4, 1995 - University of Pennsylvania

INSIDESEC Agenda 4/5, p. 2PPSA Call for Nominations, p. 2Speaking Out, pp.2-3Rideshare: Providers Needed, p. 3CrimeStats, Update, p.3• The Coming of SATAN April 5,with Advisory on Penn’s Response, p. 4Pullout: For Comment: AdministrativeRestructuring, Phase I ImplementationTuesday, April 4, 1995 Published by the University of PennsylvaniaVolume 41 Number 27Stanley Johnson, BaccalaureateCommencementand Baccalaureate 1995Almanac April 4, 1995Jane Alexander, CommencementJane Alexander of the NEA, Stanley Johnson of PennJane Alexander, the acclaimed actress andPBS producer who now chairs the National Endowmentfor the Arts, will be Penn’s Commencementspeaker on Monday, May 22 at 9:30 a.m.,with Penn’s longtime Chaplain Stanley Johnsonleading the Baccalaureate service on Sunday,May 21 at 3 p.m. in Irvine Auditorium.It will be the University’s 239th Commencement,and the Chaplain’s 8th Baccalaureate sermonin his 34 years at Penn. He has the distincthonor of having given the Baccalaureate addressfor an unprecedented seven-year stint, from 1968to 1974.Ms. Alexander, who attended Sarah LawrenceCollege and the University of Edinburgh, willreceive an honorary degree during the Commencementin recognition of her combinationof public service with an illustrious career intheater, film and television. Appearing in 40 filmsand over 100 plays in New York and regionaltheaters, Ms. Alexander has received six TonyAward nominations (with the award for The GreatWhite Hope); five Emmy Award nominations(with the award for Playing for Time); and fourAcademy Award nominations.Ms. Alexander produced the highly praised AMarriage: Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz.for PBS’s American Playhouse, and won theTelevision Critics Circle Award for her portrayalof Eleanor Roosevelt in Eleanor and Franklin:The White House Years. She is also the co-authorof a translation of Ibsen’s The Master Builders.She is active in the National Stroke Association,Women’s Action for New Directions, and theWildflife Conservation Society.She is one of seven recipients of the honorarydegree this year. Her fellow honorees are:Dr. Stanley N. Cohen, the Kwoh-Ting LiProfessor of Genetics and Professor of Medicineat the Stanford University School of Medicine.He was the first to master genetic replicationby discovering a method for inserting genesfrom one species into an unrelated species andinvented the revolutionary science of recombinantbiotechnology, enabling advances in basicbiology and the clinical treatment of disease.Dr. Cohen received his undergraduate degreeat Rutgers University and his M.D. from theUniversity of Pennsylvania.Dr. Mary Maples Dunn, president of SmithCollege since 1985. Retiring from Smith in June,when she will become director of RadcliffeCollege’s Schlesinger Library, the nation’s leadingresearch center on the history of women.A renowned scholar of Colonial America, Dr.Dunn is the author of William Penn: Politicsand Conscience, and with her husband RichardDunn, the Nichols Professor of History at theUniversity of Pennsylvania, is the editor of thefour-volume The Papers of William Penn.Dr. Harry B. Gray, the Arnold O. BeckmanProfessor of Chemistry and director of theBeckman Institute at the California Institute ofTechnology. A seminal figure in modern chemistry,he is considered the founder of the fieldof bioinorganic chemistry as well as a pioneerDeath of Dr. UdayagiriDr. Naren Udayagiri, the John SculleyIII Term Assistant Professor of Management,died March 25 after a seizure, atthe age of 43. A scholar who had been anengineer and an executive, he joined theWharton faculty in 1992. This semester hewas teaching global strategic managementin the MBA core, while doing researchon competition in industries with rapidtechnological change.Dr. Udayagiri was a 1974 alumnus ofBangalore University who took his master’sfrom the Indian Institute of Managementin 1989 and Ph.D. from the Universityof Minnesota in 1993. In India he had beena senior corporate planning executive atArvind Electronics, senior engineer atKirloskar Electric, and project engineerat Kudremukh Iron Ore Company.He is survived by his wife, Dr. SujayaUdayagiri; his mother, Sushila Udayagiri;and two sisters, Manju Srihari and MridulaUdayagiri. The Wharton School’s facultyand students, in conjunction with the family,plan a memorial fund in his name.in the field of biological electron transfer.Dr. Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, one ofthe world’s preeminent historians and a majorfigure in French intellectual life. He is alsothe immediate past Director General of theBibliothèque Nationale, where he was closelyinvolved in planning for the new Bibliothèquede France. Currently Professor of the History ofModern Civilization in the Collège de France,Dr. Le Roy Ladurie has served on the faculty ofthe Universities of Montpellier, the Sorbonne,and the University of Paris VIIAlvin V. Shoemaker, chairman of theTrustees of the University of Pennsylvania from1986 to 1994. During his tenure as Penn’s Trusteechair, he co-chaired the record-breaking $1.4 billionCampaign for Penn, chaired the search thatresulted in the appointment of Judith Rodin asPenn president, and co-chaired the University’s250th Anniversary Commission. He also foundedthe Trustees’ Council of Penn Women and was amajor force behind the creation of the Penn Clubin New York which opened its doors last spring.Dr. Donald M. Stewart, president of The CollegeBoard since 1987. He had previously served forten years as the sixth president of Spelman Collegein Atlanta. From 1970 to 1976. Dr. Stewartheld a number of positions at the University ofPennsylvania, including executive assistant toformer President Martin Meyerson, instructorin public policy analysis, associate dean of artsand sciences, and professor in the Departmentof City and Regional Planning.

senateFrom the ChairThe following agenda is published in accordance with the Senate Rules.Agenda of the SenateExecutive Committee MeetingWednesday, April 5, 1995, 3-5:30 p.m.1. Approval of the minutes of January 23, February 1 and March 1, 19952. Chair’s Report3. Past Chair’s Report on activities of the Academic Planning andBudget Committee and on the Capital Council4. Proposed procedure on interim suspension of faculty5. Proposed procedure on department closings6. Agenda of annual Faculty Senate meeting April 19, 1995, includinga. Just cause revision proposed by SEC (Almanac March 14, 1995)b. Just cause revision proposed by petitioners7. Petition objecting to SEC action 3/1/95 proposing an amendedpolicy on consensual sexual relations (Almanac March 14, 1995)8. Other new business9. Adjournment by 5:30 p.m.Note: The location of the annual meeting of the Faculty Senatehas been changed to Alumni Hall, Towne Building.PPSAPPSA Call for Nominations: April 17The Penn Professional Staff Assembly (formerly known as the A-1 Assembly)invites nominations for its Fiscal Year 1996 officers and members-at-large.Participation in the PPSA is an exciting way for professional staff to shareconcerns and explore important issues with peers across the University.The Executive Committee is especially interested in expanding participationfrom schools and centers which have not been represented in recent years.The PPSA has contributed to a number of University processes, includinglast year’s Presidential Search Committee, and Commission on Strengtheningthe Community. This year we provided a forum for discussion of the Coopersand Lybrand report with Provost Chodorow and Acting Executive Vice PresidentJack Freeman. Members of the PPSA participate on a number of Universitycommittees and the group has representation on the University Council’s SteeringCommittee.All “A-1” employees of the University are invited to participate.Nominees should be willing to commit themselves to regular attendanceat the assembly’s monthly lunchtime meetings, and to limited work outside ofthose meetings. Self nominations are encouraged.Please submit nominations for the chair-elect, vice chair-elect, and memberat-largepositions by April 17, 1995 to:Jim Beermann, Medical School Business Office150 Anat-Chem/6061; e-mail: beermann@MSCF.MED; phone: 898-6401The election meeting will occur during the second week in May.Speaking OutAll of this week’s letters stem from acolumn in The Daily Pennsylvanian ofMarch 24 which cited Dr. Houston Bakeras a source.Dr. Baker has been travelingand could not be reached, but his responsehas been invited for a future issue. — Ed.•The signers of the first letter below aretenured members of the English Department.Their letter is scheduled to be read at the SASFaculty Meeting on Tuesday, April 4.Courtesy and RespectWe herewith record our support for chairmanJohn Richetti in his act of assuming therole of spokesman for this department inhis Daily Pennsylvanian letter of Monday,March 27. Specifically, we would confirm hiscontention that, despite claims to the contrary,business between the department of Englishand Dean Rosemary Stevens of the School ofArts and Sciences has on both sides alwaysbeen conducted with courtesy and respect.Our department will continue to work withthe Dean and her colleagues towards theachieving of excellence in SAS.— Nina Auerbach,Rebecca Bushnell,Eric Cheyfitz,Peter Conn,Stuart Curran,David DeLaura,James English,Alan Filreis,Alice Kelley,Paul Korshin,Robert Lucid,Cary Mazer,Elisa New,Jean-Michel Rabate,Robert Regan,Peter Stallybrass,Wendy Steinerand Robert Turner‘Caricature’I want to comment on the attack againstDean Rosemary Stevens in a recent columnin The Daily Pennsylvanian that purportedto rest on a letter from a faculty member.If the columnist reported the letter accurately,then it seems to me that the professornot only broke the bounds of collegialitybut also played the role of troublemaker.For a faculty member to report—or to construe—thedean’s remarks to him regardinga meeting with the Asian-American studentsappears to have had no intention but to hurtDean Stevens.I have been working with Dean Stevensfor nine months and have high regard for her.She has accomplished an enormous amountwithin the School of Arts and Sciences andhas been an important contributor to theUniversity’s decision-making processes. Shehas the support of her faculty, departmentalchairs, and associate deans, as they havemade clear to me many times, and she has mystrong support as well. Nothing that I knowof her conforms to the caricature drawn bythe student columnist.— Stanley Chodorow, Provost‘Stunned’I know that many more faculty and studentswrote to the DP in reaction to MikeNadel’s article about Rosemary Stevens thanthey chose to publish. I was among thosewho were stunned by the unwarranted andmean-spirited attack on Dean Stevens.Rosemary Stevens is a fine colleague,a world-renowned scholar in the history ofmedicine, a leader in health policy, a true“gentleperson,” and a woman of courageand conviction. If these are deficits, wouldthat more people had them.— Claire M. Fagin,Dean Emeritus, NursingLetters supporting Dean Stevens and/or criticizing the March 24 columnran in DP editions of March 27 (Dr.Richetti and Dr. Eugene Wolf); March30 (Dr. Samuel Preston and Dr. AndrewPostlewaite) and April 3 (Dr. Albert M.Stunkard, Trustee Natalie Koether, andthe writer just below, whose letter wasseparately submitted to Almanac priorto its appearance in the DP.Dean of DistinctionI am writing to protest the allegationsmade by Houston Baker and Michael Nadelagainst Rosemary Stevens’ administrative,scholarly, and teaching skills. Dr. Stevens isone of the few University administrators whois thoroughly familiar with all aspects of theacademy, having earned graduate degrees inscience and administration. She is an internationallyrecognized expert on issues of healthpolicy and management, and successfullyheld numerous administrative positions hereat Penn, at Yale and Tulane; as a memberof the National Board of Medical Examiners,the American Board of Pediatrics, theAmerican Hospital Association, and the U.S.Congressional Office of Technology Assessment;as a Trustee of the Milbank MemorialFund, members of the Board of Overseers atDartmouth Medical College, and a Director ofthe Clinical Scholars Program of the RobertWood Johnson Foundation, among others.In addition, Dean Stevens has receivedsome of the highest honors awarded tohistorians of medicine in recognition of herexcellent scholarship on the economic, social,and political history of American medicalinstitutions. The book she completed shortlybefore becoming Dean, In Sickness and inWealth: American Hospitals in the TwentiethCentury, published by the prestigious pressBasic Books, garnered her the Welch Medalcontinued past insertAlmanac April 4, 1995

Speaking Out continuedfor distinction in the history of medicine fromthe American Association for the Historyof Medicine, the James A. Hamilton BookAward of the American College of HealthcareExecutives for the best book of 1990,the Baxter Foundation Prize for distinctionin health services research, the AmericanBoard of Medical Specialties Special Awardfor unusually important contributions tospecialist certification in medicine, and theArthur Visel-tear Award of the AmericanPublic Health Association.While the attacks on her credentials maybe been prompted by ignorance, DP columnistsseldom being known for checking theaccuracy of the “facts” they present, the characterizationof Dean Stevens as a holdoverfrom the days of the English Colonial Empireis nothing short of libelous. In contrast to thecolumnist’s own employment of ethnic andgender stereotypes to discredit RosemaryStevens, during the ten years I have knownher, she has never referred to any group ofpeople in a condescending or racist way.Rosemary’s most noted personal qualitiesare her respect for heterodoxy, coupled withher quiet, diplomatic efforts to achieve nonconfrontationalmeans of dispute resolutionif at all possible, her kindness, her empathy,Speaking Out welcomes reader contributions. Short, timely letters on University issues can beaccepted Thursday noon for the following Tuesday’s issue, subject to right-of-reply guidelines.Advance notice of intention to submit is appreciated.—Ed.Almanac April 4, 1995and her personal and ethical integrity.Dr. Stevens was one of the most marvelousteachers I encountered as a graduate student,and I was delighted that she agreed to be mydissertation advisor—a role she continuedto play after becoming Dean, despite theincreased demands upon her time. As anyonewith an institutional memory will know, Ihave by no means been always in accordwith Dean Stevens’ administrative decisions.I vehemently and publicly opposed the decisionsto replace Smith Hall and to dissolve theAmerican Civilization department, where Ireceived my undergraduate degree. Althoughmost graduate students would have beenleery of so publicly opposing their advisors,I knew that Rosemary would never allow ourpolitical disagreements to spill over into ourmentoring relationship.The opinions of a single faculty memberwhose assertions are swallowed whole andregurgitated by a columnist in need of materialshould not be accepted as a valid or universalevaluation of the character and abilities ofRosemary Stevens.— Julie Johnson-McGrath, Ph.D. SAS ’92Lecturer, Department of theHistory of Science, Harvard UniversityAbout the Crime Report: Below are all Crimes Against Persons and Society listed in thecampus report for the period March 27 through April 2, 1995. Also reported were CrimesAgainst Property, including 50 thefts (including 2 burglaries, 4 of autos, 19 from autos, 3 ofbikes and parts); 4 incidents of criminal mischief and vandalism; 3 of forgery and fraud. Fullreports are in Almanac on PennInfo.—Ed.The University of Pennsylvania Police DepartmentCommunity Crime ReportThis summary is prepared by the Division of Public Safety and includes all criminal incidentsreported and made known to the University Police Department between the dates of March 27and April, 1995. The University Police actively patrol from Market Street to Baltimore Avenue,and from the Schuylkill River to 43rd Street in conjunction with the Philadelphia Police. In thiseffort to provide you with a thorough and accurate report on public safety concerns, we hopethat your increased awareness will lessen the opportunity for crime. For any concerns or suggestionsregarding this report, please call the Division of Public Safety at 898-4482.Crimes Against Persons34th to 38th/Market to Civic Center: Robberies (& attempts)—1, Threats & harassment—203/27/95 10:19 AM Dietrich Garden Harassment03/30/95 5:40 PM Sheraton Hotel Robbery of cash at gunpoint03/31/95 12:40 PM Bookstore Unsolicited magazines received38th to 41st/Market to Baltimore: Robberies (& attempts)—1, Threats & harassment—103/27/95 1:51 PM 40th & Locust Juveniles took other juvenile’s bike04/01/95 10:39 AM Harnwell House Unwanted phone calls received41st to 43rd/Market to Baltimore: Robberies (& attempts)—103/27/95 2:19 AM 4201 Walnut St. Robbery by male w/simulated gun30th to 34th/Market to University: Aggravated assaults—103/31/95 2:18 PM 33rd & Chestnut Male w/gun hit complainantCrimes Against Society34th to 38th/Market to Civic Center: Disorderly conduct—203/29/95 9:08 PM 3400 Blk. Spruce Male acted disorderly/cited03/31/95 4:04 AM Coxe Dorm Disorderly male overturned trash cans/cited38th to 41st/Market to Baltimore: Disorderly conduct—104/02/95 4:58 PM High Rise North Male urinated from window/cited30th to 34th/Market to University: Alcohol & drug offenses—103/30/95 8:57 PM 3200 Blk. Chestnut Vehicle stopped/controlled substance foundRideshare: Providers NeededThe Red Arrow lines serving DelwaareCounty are now on strike along with innercitySEPTA workers, increasing the need forproviders in the Rideshare program set up byPenn Transportation and Parking.Anyone who can offer fellow Penn faculty orstaff a ride is urged to add his or her name to theonline listings by following the process outlinedin Almanac March 14 and March 28.— Office of Business ServicesUpdateAPRIL AT PENNSPECIAL EVENTS6 Open Studio; with a Silent Small WorksAuction of graduate work, Undergraduate JuriedExhibition, Happy Hour,refreshments served andguided tours of the graduate studios; 5:30-7:30p.m.; Morgan Building, (Fine Arts GraduateStudents Events).11 Amelia Pedroso’s Ibbu-Okun; performanceby the seven-member Afro-Cuban women’s percussionand dance group from Havana; 8 p.m.;Du Bois College House; $7, free/Penn faculty,staff, and students; information: 243-0826 (Music;Black Graduate and Professional Student Association;Du Bois House; Latin American CulturesProgram; Women’s Studies; The Inspiration;Folklore and Folklife; Arts House; Egbe’ Eku’I‘jo’, community dance and drum group).TALKS5 Trophoblast Cell Differentiation: An In VitroModel; Michael Soares, University of Kansas;noon; Hirst Auditorium, Dulles (ReproductiveBiology).10 Generation of Force by the MicrotubulebasedMotor Protein Kinesin; Jonathon Howard,University of Washington; 2 p.m.; Physiology Library,Richards Building (Pennsylvania MuscleInstitute).Leading the Passover Seder; Neal Loevinger,rabbinical student; 7 p.m.; Hillel (Hillel).Social Responsibilty and Business Ethics;Ben & Jerry, Ben & Jerry’s Homemade IceCream; 8p.m.; Irvine Auditorium (Connaissance);PennCard required.Deadlines: The deadline for the May at Penncalendar is April 11. The deadline for the Summerat Penn calendar is May 9. The deadline forweekly updates is Monday of the week prior topublication.3601 Locust Walk Philadelphia, PA 19104-6224(215) 898-5274 or 5275 FAX 898-9137E-Mail ALMANAC@POBOX.UPENN.EDUThe University of Pennsylvania’s journal of record, opinion andnews is published Tuesdays during the academic year, and asneeded during summer and holiday breaks. Guidelines for readersand contributors are available on request.EDITORKaren C. GainesASSOCIATE EDITOR Marguerite F. MillerEDITORIAL ASSISTANTSTUDENT AIDESUCHS INTERNMary SchollLibby Bachhuber, Suma CM,Julia Gusakova, Zack Miller,Stephen J. Sanford, Jenny TranLafonda StewartALMANAC ADVISORY BOARD: For the Faculty Senate, MartinPring (Chair), Jacqueline M. Fawcett, Phoebe S. Leboy, WilliamKissick, Barbara J. Lowery, Ann E. Mayer, Paul F. 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SYSTEM SecuritySATAN—not a virus but a tool for detecting system vulnerablities—is scheduled for release world wideon April 5, 1995. Because this has mixed implications for systems subjected to screening, Penn’sOffice of Information Systems furnishes the two advisories below.Penn’s Network Security and SATANImagine a regular column in Almanac that reported every unlockeddoor, open window, and file cabinet key number on campus. Startingon Wednesday, April 5, the Internet equivalent will become availablewhen SATAN (Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks)is introduced.SATAN was written for use by computer and network administratorsto enable them to scan their systems for security weaknesses,which could then be remedied by following guidelines available in theSATAN software. Since SATAN will be freely distributed, however,anyone on the Internet with access to a sufficiently powerful UNIXworkstation will be able to scan PennNet for security vulnerabilities.If any vulnerabilities were found and exploited, sensitive data(including, in some cases, end-user and system passwords) could bedisclosed, altered, or deleted and computer systems could be renderedinoperable.Since SATAN scans primarily for well-known vulnerabilities inUNIX systems, the Office of Information Systems and Computing(ISC) has been advising the University’s computing administrators toapply all the security software upgrades recommended by operatingsystem vendors (DEC, HP, IBM, Sequent, Silicon Graphics, Sun, etal.) and by the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), a federally-fundedInternet security agency at Carnegie Mellon University.SATAN does not probe security weaknesses in personal computers,such as DOS or Windows PCs or Macintoshes running MacOS, orin Local Area Network file servers running Novell Netware andAppleShare.ISC is also coordinating plans to run SATAN immediately onall systems at Penn. Responsibility for running SATAN in the fourlargest Schools is as follows:• Medicine: Computing and Information Technology• SAS: Workstation Services (WKS) in SAS Computing• SEAS: Computing and Educational Technology Services (CETS)• Wharton: Wharton ComputingIt is possible that especially vulnerable systems—and any systemsknown to have been compromised—will have to be temporarilydisconnected from PennNet until problems can be diagnosed andsoftware “patches” applied.Penn strongly discourages individuals from running SATANagainst any computers or networks (whether at Penn or elsewhere)without the express permission of the owners of the system. At best,such actions would be misunderstood as break-in attempts. At worst,they could result in damage to computers and networks as well aslegal action by the system owners.ISC security advisories and any late-breaking news on SATAN areavailable at http://www.upenn.edu/security-privacy/ or by contactingthe Information Security Officer at the address below.Dave MillarUniversity Information Security OfficerUniversity of Pennsylvania3401 Walnut St., Suite 335BPhiladelphia, PA 19104-6228security@isc.upenn.eduvoice: (215) 898-2172fax: (215) 898-1729For PGP 2.6 Public key: http://www.upenn.edu/security-privacy/Addendum: CERT Advisory April 3, 1995Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks (SATAN)The CERT Coordination Center staff has examined beta version0.51 of the Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks(SATAN). This advisory contains information based on our reviewof this pre-release version. When the official release is available, wewill distribute an updated advisory. SATAN is scheduled for releaseon April 5, 1995, at 14:00 GMT.1. What is SATAN?SATAN is a testing and reporting tool that collects a variety of informationabout networked hosts. The currently available documentationcan be found at ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/security/satan_doc.tar.ZSATAN gathers information about specified hosts and networksby examining network services (for example, finger, NFS, NIS, ftp,and rexd). It can then report this data in a summary format or, witha simple rule-based system, investigate potential security problems.Problems are described briefly and pointers provided to patches orworkarounds. In addition to reporting vulnerabilities, SATAN gathersgeneral network information (network topology, network servicesrun, types of hardware and software being used on the network). Asdescribed in the SATAN documentation, SATAN has an exploratorymode that allows it to probe hosts that have not been explicitly specified.Thus, SATAN could probe not only targeted hosts, but also hostsoutside your administrative domain.2. Potential Impact of SATANSATAN was designed as a security tool for system and networkadministrators. However, given its wide distribution, ease of use, andability to scan remote networks, SATAN is also likely to be used tolocate vulnerable hosts for malicious reasons. It is also possible thatsites running SATAN for a legitimate purpose will accidentally scanyour system via SATAN’s exploratory mode.Although the vulnerabilities SATAN identifies are not new, theability to locate them with a widely available, easy-to-use tool increasesthe level of threat to sites that have not taken steps to addressthose vulnerabilities. In addition, SATAN is easily extensible. Afterit is released, modified versions might scan for other vulnerabilitiesas well and might include code to compromise systems.[Technical details deleted. For complete report, see http://www.upenn.edu/security-privacy/]CERT advisories and bulletins are posted on the USENET newsgroupcomp.security.announce. If you would like to have futureadvisories and bulletins mailed to you or to a mail exploder at yoursite, please send mail to cert-advisory-request@cert.org.Past advisories, CERT bulletins, information about FIRST representatives,and other information related to computer security areavailable for anonymous FTP from info.cert.org.© Copyright 1995 Carnegie Mellon UniversityThis material may be reproduced and distributed without permission provided it is usedfor noncommercial purposes and the copyright statement is included.CERT is a service mark of Carnegie Mellon University.Almanac April 4, 1995