THE RECORD

APRIL 21, 1975

VOL. 1, NO. 6

LYNDON B. JOHNSON SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

EDITOR Hoyt H. Purvis

INFORMATION-REFERRAL FUNCTION SUBJECT OF CONFERENCE HERE

A conference on "The Information and Referral Function and the Delivery of Human Services" will be held at the LBJ School Thursday and Friday.

The conference is being organized by faculty and students participating in an LBJ School Policy Research Project. Purpose of the conference is to present preliminary findings of the project and to discuss various approaches to the information and referral (I&R) function.

The keynote address will be made by Representative Lane Denton of Waco, Chairman of the Texas House Social Services Committee. Also on the program for the opening session at 9:15 a.m. Thursday in the East Campus Lecture Hall will be Dean William B. Cannon, Professors Jurgen Schmandt and Beryl Radin, and student Kirk Kimball.

Concurrent workshops will be held at 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Thursday. The three morning workshops will consider the general subject of "Information and Referral: Policy Expectations and Reality." The scheduled workshops and participants are:

The Role of Federal Policy—Students: Christopher Delker, Frances Zorn. Resource Panel: John Hoyas, Bureau of Supplemental Security Income, Baltimore; Harold Gelden, Administration on Aging, Dallas Regional Office; Irving J. Engelman, American Public Welfare Association, Washington, D.C.; Ed Leonard, Regional Planning Officer, Bureau of Supplemental Security Income, Social Security Administration, Dallas; James Burr, Community Services Administration, Washington, D.C.

What Can A State Do?—Students: Christine Klauser, Kirk Kimball. Resource Panel: Robert Kramer, Wisconsin Information System, Division on Aging, Madison, Wisconsin; Robert Pulliam; Margaret Jacks, Director of Florida Division on Aging, Tallahassee, Florida; Billy McPattern, Governor's Commission on Aging, State of Texas; Leo Vidaurri, Social Security Administration, Dallas Regional Office.

Local and Regional I&R Responses—Students: Peggy Wilson, Gwen Winnig. Resource Panel: Shirley Prator, Social Security Administration, Austin District Office; Cathy Terrell, Director, AAA, Waco; Marianne J. Oberbrunner, Director, Wisconsin Information Service Office, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Joe Scott, and Charles Jenkins.

The Thursday afternoon workshops will deal with "The Delivery of Information and Referral in the Community." The specific topics to be considered are Relationships Among Service Providers, The Nature of I&R Delivery, and I&R Services for the Elderly.

Student panelists will be Gwen Winnig, Christine Klauser, Larry Eisenberg, Leilani Rose, Frances Zorn, Peggy Wilson. Among the resource panel members will be Ann Smith, Houston-Galveston Area Council, Aging Services Planner; Chuck Hulbutt, Executive Director of Independent Living, Inc., Madison, Wisconsin; Lupe Mier, Houston Public Library; Faye LaPorte, Director, County Commission on Aging, Marathon County, Wisconsin: and Arden Lewis, City of San Antonio.

A summary of the workshops at 9 a.m. Friday in the ECLH will be followed by an address by Paul Kirschner, associate professor at University of Southern California, and Director of Community Affairs, Ethel Percy Andrus School of Gerontology, Los Angeles, and a panel discussion involving Corazon Doyle, National Alliance of Information and Referral Services; Jerry Chapman, Deputy Commissioner for Administration and Management, Texas Department of Public Welfare; Robert Pulliam; and Nelson Sabatini.

JORDAN, POLK, GOOD TO SPEAK THIS WEEK

Dr. Amos A. Jordan, Jr., Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, will speak at a schoolwide seminar at 4 p.m. Monday in the East Campus Lecture Hall. His topic will be "American Defense: Issues for the Next Five Years."

Jordan will be the first of three speakers at schoolwide seminars this week. He will be followed by William R. Polk, who will speak on Thursday at 4 p.m. and Robert C. Good who will speak Friday at 3 p.m.

Jordan is a graduate of the U. S. Military Academy (West Point) and later served as a professor of political science at the Academy. He was also a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, where he took an M.A., and he received his Ph.D. from Columbia.

A retired brigadier general, Jordan served in Vietnam and Korea and has held a variety of Department of Defense and national security positions. He is the author of Foreign Aid and Defense of Southwest Asia, and Issues of National Security in the 1970s. Prior to returning to the DOD last year, he served as Director of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies.

While at the LBJ School, Jordan will also speak to the Defense Policy Seminar taught by Lt. Colonel Ralph Furtner.

Polk, professor of Middle Eastern History at the University of Chicago, is a recognized authority on the Middle East. He is also President of the Adlai Stevenson Institute of International Affairs and was Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. He received his B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard and a B.A. and M.A. from Oxford. His numerous books include Passing Brave (co-author), and The United States and the Arab World.

Good is Dean of the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver and is former U.S. Ambassador to Zambia. He was also a research associate at the School of Advanced International Studies, John Hopkins University, and Director, Office of Analysis and Research, in the Department of State.

A graduate of Haverford, Good received his Ph.D. from Yale.

"ON THE RECORD"

. Price Daniel, Jr., former Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives and President of the 1974 State Constitutional Convention, will speak at a brown-bag luncheon Tuesday April 29 at noon in the Student Lounge.

. The spring faculty retreat will be held Thursday afternoon May 1 through noon Saturday May 3 at the Faculty Center.

. Peter Bell, a representative of the Ford Foundation, was at the LBJ School on April 15 as part of a tour he is making of institutions which have received assistance from the Foundation for public policy programs. During his visit to the School he met with Dean William B. Cannon, faculty members, and student representatives.

. Graham Hill, a 1973 graduate of the LBJ School and currently a law student at Southern Methodist University, has been elected editor of the law review at SMU and selected to the Barristers, an honor group for top law students.

. Elizabeth Hall, Director of Student Affairs, has expressed appreciation to the LBJ School alumni who have helped identify job opportunities for graduating students and said she will continue to welcome such information. She also announced that there has been a large and impressive group of applications for admissions to the school for 1975-76, including a number of minority applicants.

. Dean William B. Cannon attended a meeting in Chicago last week of the independent consultative study group considering alternative research and development policies at the National Institute of Education. The consultative group was asked to provide an outside review and assessment of the value to the education community of R&D institutions created or supported by the Government.

. Traci B. Harte, second-year LBJ School student, was recently selected for membership in the Friars Society, oldest honorary organization at UT-Austin. Selection to the Friars is based on academic achievement and service to the University community. Ms. Harte has been active in the Texas Public Interest Research Group and was on the Dean Selection Committee at the LBJ School. She was one of six UT students chosen for membership. Julius Whitter, first-year student, is also a member of the Friars.

. Emmette S. Redford, professor of public affairs, recently appeared on the radio series, 200 Years, for a panel discussion on "The Consent of the Governed," along with William A. Galston, assistant professor of government, and Stanley R. Ross, vice president and provost and professor of history. The series is exploring the American experience in support of the U.S. Bicentennial Celebration, and is carried by KUT-FM and a number of area stations. Dean William B. Cannon will appear on a forthcoming program on "The American Federal System" and Hoyt H. Purvis, Director of Publications, will be on another program in the series discussing, "The Role of the Media in Assessing History in the Making."

. Dr. Robert G. Sachs, Director of the Argonne National Laboratory, will deliver a lecture on Wednesday May 7 jointly sponsored by the LBJ School and the Department of Physics. Sachs, a well-known educator and physicist, will speak on energy options and technical implementation of policy at 4 p.m. in RLM 4.102.

. Cis Myers, first-year student, was elected to the City Council of the City of West Lake Hills, an Austin suburb, in the April 5 elections. Ms. Myers, who was the leading vote getter, previously served as City Secretary and City Treasurer in West Lake Hills.

"SUNSHINE", ACCESS LAWS REVIEWED BY SPEAKERS

Public access laws, open records, and open meetings were the subjects of a brown-bag luncheon discussion in the Student Lounge on April 15. Speakers were Peter J. Petkas, associate director of the Southern Governmental Monitoring Project (SGMP), a special project of the Southern Regional Council, and Ronald L. Plesser, a Washington, D.C. attorney and former director of the Freedom of Information Clearinghouse, who worked with Petkas on the SGMP.

Plesser and Petkas authored a series of reports analyzing state freedom of information and open meetings ("sunshine") laws, an examination of model laws, and a guide to the Federal Freedom of Information Act, as recently amended. Separate reports were issued for each of 11 states, including Texas.

Petkas said the reports are designed primarily to give attorneys, public officials, journalists, and citizens groups insights into the present access laws in their states, and are intended to be useful to lay persons as well as lawyers.

In reviewing the Texas statutes, Plesser said they are "pretty good." He said, "Any citizen can request documents from state agencies, and that agency must provide them within 10 days or receive approval from the Attorney General to withhold them." Plesser said the Texas Attorney General has strictly applied the 10-day rule. He added, however, that there are 16 specific exemptions which allow agencies to withhold access. "There are too many exemptions and it is very confusing," Plesser said, but he noted that "Attorney General John Hill has been generally committed to opening up state government."

Plesser commented that the Federal Freedom of Information Act of 1967 has not been widely used by citizens or journalists, but that the 1973 amendments may change this and "will increase the public accountability of public officials."

Petkas also described the work done by the SGMP in helping citizens groups to influence the development of the "new federalism". He said, "Revenue sharing has brought no major changes in the way money is being spent. The Federal Government is making no effort to determine the impact of revenue sharing, even though it involves $32 billion over 5 years. An opportunity to see how it is being spent is being lost because there is no accountability."

FACULTY SKETCH:

G.M. WILLIAMS, JR.

At the request of a number of LBJ School students, The Record begins with this issue a series of articles on LBJ School faculty members. Rather than starting at the top of the alphabet, we decided to begin at the end of the alphabet and proceed in reverse order.

G. M. (Gery) Williams, Jr., assistant professor of public affairs, is in his first year of teaching but he brings diverse experience and training to the LBJ School.

Williams and his wife, Lee Ann, are the parents of two children, Gery III, age 11, and Lee Ann, age 7.

He received his Ph.D. in urban and regional planning from the University of Michigan last year and his M.A. in public policy studies from Michigan in 1973. He did his undergraduate work at Princeton, receiving an A.B. in 1963 as a honors graduate in politics. He also spent a year at the University of Michigan Law School.

Williams entered graduate school after returning to Michigan to serve as special assistant to the Director of the Highway Safety Research Institute at Michigan. He held that post for two years prior to entering graduate school and continued to work at the Institute during three years of graduate study. At the Institute he was involved in general program development and new research programs with an emphasis upon bridging the gap between technical research and practitioners, facilitating the use of scientific knowledge in safety applications. Special projects included coordination of an interdisciplinary team to design and implement a national conference devoted to scientific and community-action problems in community response to alcoholism and highway crashes.

His Ph.D. dissertation was entitled Subsidized Highway Mayhem: Empirical Definition of Injury Accident Experience and Suggested Policy Research for Traffic Safety and Transportation Planning.

Williams spent two years at the U.S. Department of Transportation before returning to his home state of Michigan. In 1967-68 he held several positions in the DOT including service as special assistant to the Director of the National Highway Safety Research Institute, National Highway Safety Bureau, which involved program planning and budget preparation. He also served as special assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs and was involved in liaison and program coordination responsibilities with Congress, the White House, other federal departments, state and local government, industry, labor, and the public.

Prior to joining DOT, he spent a year as assistant director of the Greater Detroit Safety Council.

An experienced political campaigner, Williams was Executive Director of Michigan Citizens for Humphrey-Muskie in 1968, and was Assistant Campaign Manager of his father's unsuccessful statewide campaign for the U.S. Senate in 1966. He grew up in a political environment, since his father G. Mennen Williams, served six terms as Governor of Michigan and was active in national Democratic Party affairs. The senior Williams also served as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs and is currently on the Michigan State Supreme Court.

Williams describes his professional interests as applied research, teaching, and public service directed toward organization for problem-solving, analysis of social problems, and efficient and effective delivery of social services. At the LBJ School he has taught research and management skills, specifically statistical analysis and planning. He also is involved in the Policy Research Project on Energy Research, focusing on regulatory reform of public utility service quality.

Although he had traveled widely nationally and internationally, Williams had never visited Texas prior to coming to the LBJ School as a prospective faculty member last year. But he and his family are adjusting well to the change in climate and he has found Austin and the University to his liking.

POST-SECONDARY PRP PUBLICATION AVAILABLE

A Policy Research Project Report on Post-Secondary Education Planning in Texas: Techniques for Policy Analyses has been published and is now available from the Office of Publications.

The report is the eighth in the LBJ School's series of Policy Research Project Publications, and resulted from work of the 1973-74 Post-Secondary Education Policy Research Project on behalf of the Coordinating Board, Texas College and University System. This is the third publication resulting from the project, which also produced the Texas Atlas of Higher Education and the MAPPER Users Manual.

Purpose of the project was to assist state and education institution officials in the development of improved methods and processes for more effectively analyzing data and making decisions in the educational environment, particularly in regard to student demand for higher education in Texas.

The report includes a survey of educational institutions in the Austin-San Antonio region which reveals substantial interaction among the institutions, both within the public and private collegiate sector and within the proprietary school sector. The report states:

"Between the two sectors, however, there is minimal communication. Program development responsibility in the examined institutions is generally assumed by faculty personally interested in the new program—but often uninformed about sources of supply/demand information. Varying emphasis is placed upon student and employer demand. All institutions, however, would likely benefit from improved techniques for better understanding present demand (e.g., student flows) and anticipating future requirements."

The report recommends steps for improving this process:

. Post-secondary institutions could strive harder to incorporate the planning concerns of other institutions in their service areas into their planning and decision-making process.

. Institutional responsibility for investigating the feasibility and desirability of new programs should be assigned to a single institutional office, with appropriate statewide coordination exercised by the staff of the Coordinating Board.

. The feasibility of using sub-state jurisdictions as clearinghouses for supply/demand information related to post-secondary education program and facility development should be more closely examined.

. Guidelines for the establishment and operation of vocational education advisory committees should be reviewed.

. Additional student information concerning both pre-matriculation interests and follow-up/placement data is necessary for effective institutional program development and state-level coordination.

Project Director was Kenneth W. Tolo, associate professor of public affairs. Other faculty participants were Kingsley E. Haynes, associate professor of public affairs, and James A. Fitzsimmons, associate professor of management.

Student participants from the LBJ School were Michael Berrier, Dave Fege, Lydia Gardner, Barbara Parness, Carrie Sewell, Abdul Shakawy, Patricia Siemen, Karl Spock, Robin Tillman, Melvin Waxler, Janet Weiskott, David West, James Williamson, and Jan Younglove.

CITY MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE SCHEDULED

The LBJ School will hold its second annual City Management Institute April 28-29.

The institute is designed to provide professional development training for city managers, assistant city managers and others engaged in urban management.

Sessions will be held in Thompson Conference Center and the East Campus Library Lecture Hall.

Delivering the keynote address will be R. Marvin Townsend, Corpus Christi city manager, who will speak on "Defense of the Council-Manager Plan: The Corpus Christi Experience."

Robert M. Lockwood, an energy specialist on the staff of the UT Bureau of Business Research, will speak on "The Energy Crisis: Its Effects on the Shape and Function of the American City."

A number of workshops will be conducted during the institute. Among workshop topics will be:

—Charter revision, led by Lynn F. Anderson, associate professor of public affairs and director of the Office of Conferences and Training.

—Emergency medical services, by Robert J. Macdonald, associate director of the Office of Conferences and Training.

CAREER DAY PLANNED

Career Opportunities in Government Day will be conducted at the LBJ School on Saturday, April 26 from 8:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Career Day, under the sponsorship of the Austin Society for Public Administration, will provide students in the Central Texas area the opportunity to interview or make contact with representatives of state and local government agencies that are seeking to fill current employee vacancies.

CALIFANO FORESEES MORE PRESIDENTIAL POWER

The Presidency "has to remain very powerful and probably will be even stronger in the future" former Presidential assistant Joesph Califano said at a LBJ School seminar on April 9.

Califano predicted that "The Presidency will be even more powerful in 10 years than it is today—no matter who is in office."

He said Congress is "separate but unequal largely because of its own fault," adding that "Congress is not rationally organized and has all the problems indigenous to a collective body."

"The rhetoric of Congress has, to a large degree, been just that," Califano said. "They have given broad authority to Presidents."

He did cite the Congressional Budget Office as one important step by Congress in reasserting its role and stressed the "importance of developing it into a firstrate operation."

Califano noted Presidential access to television as one of the reasons for the continuing growth of Presidential power, pointing out that a majority of the people get most of their public affairs news from television.

"On the whole, modern media is more an instrument of Presidential power than an adversary," Califano said.

"I have never known the President not to be granted television time when he requested it," Califano said. "Every time President Johnson went on television to speak on the Vietnam War, support for the war skyrocketed."

In commenting on a wide range of subjects Califano said:

"States and cities are obsolete relics of another age as now organized. There are too many of them...It is time to start looking at more effective ways of decentralizing power."

"We're going to have a large military force for a long time. We're going to be living in a world in which we are going to have to protect ourselves...particularly until wealth can be better distributed among nations."

"A four-year Presidential term is far too short to really gain approval for and get implementation of a comprehensive legislative program. . ."

"We need to improve the quality of federal judges and the way the courts operate...The courts should pay particular attention to the rights of the individual and to the press."

Califano, currently a partner in the Washington law firm of Williams, Connolly, and Califano, was President Johnson's chief aide on policy matters.

COMMENCEMENT EVENTS SCHEDULED FOR MAY 17

Plans for graduation have been finalized. Commencement Ceremonies will be held Saturday, May 17 at 2 p.m. in the East Campus Lecture Hall. A reception will be held on the eighth-floor patio of the LBJ Library on conclusion of the Commencement Program. In case of rain, it will be held in the LBJ School Library. Commencement speaker will be Professor Reynell Parkins of the UT School of Architecture. A record number of students will graduate—39.

Because of seating limitations, only second-year students, their guests, and the faculty will be able to attend the actual Commencement Ceremony. An attempt will be made to pipe the proceedings of the Ceremony to the Student Lounge for the benefit of first-year students and alumni, if sufficient interest is displayed. The Commencement Committee would like to invite all first-year students and alumni to the Commencement Reception atop the LBJ Library at 3 p.m. on May 17. Additional information regarding Commencement will be forthcoming in the next edition of The Record.

—William Wade

Commencement Committee

SOFTBALL SERIES

The second annual LBJ School Softball World Series will occur on Sunday, April 27. The first-year class and the second-year class will tangle in game number one beginning promptly at 12 noon. The winner will play the faculty-staff team immediately thereafter. We have Williams Field reserved from 12 to 5 p.m. as a neutral site for the contests.