JULY 21,
1975
VOL. 1,
No. 8
LYNDON B.
JOHNSON SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
EDITOR
Hoyt H. Purvis
Scattered
across the country at all levels of government and in a variety of public
service positions, 56 students who have completed their first year at the LBJ
School are serving summer internships.
These
internships, which are required of all LBJ School students between their first
and second years, involve students in the practical workings of the policy
process and deepen their understanding of public affairs.
The
largest numbers of interns are in Texas and in Washington, D.C., although they
are located from California to Rhode Island.
Here are
the 1975 interns and their assignments:
Texas
—
Bruce
Byron, North Central Texas Council of Governments, Arlington; Deborah
Cartwright, The Moody Foundation, Galveston; Marshall Clark, Johnson Space
Center, Clear Lake City; Glenn Deck, State Comptroller's Office, Austin; Albert
Donelan, Legislative Budget Board, Austin; Larry Eisenberg, Office of the
Governor, Division of Planning Coordination, Austin; Francine Pegues, Office of
the Governor, Division of Planning Coordination, Austin; Michael Faubion,
Houston-Galveston Area Council of Governments, Houston; Dan Friedhoff, Dallas
City Manager's Office, Dallas; Mark Hendrickson, Department of Public Welfare,
Austin; Christie Kennedy, Coastal Bend Council of Governments, Corpus Christi;
Kirk Kimball, Office of the Governor, Division of Planning Coordination,
Austin;
Linda
Look, Houston-Galveston Area Council of Governments, Houston; Katherine Love,
Office of Early Childhood Development, Texas Department of Community Affairs,
Austin; Walter Moore, Bentsen in '76 Committee, Austin; Joseph Motter,
Gulf-Coast Waste Disposal Authority, Houston; Joe Murphy, U.S. General
Accounting Office, Dallas; Alice (Cis) Myers, Texas Education Agency, Austin;
Gary Rose, Office of the Governor, Division of Planning Coordination, Austin;
Leilani Rose, Department of Public Welfare, Austin; Frank Sturzl, Office of the
Governor, Division of Planning Coordination, Austin; Margaret (Peggy) Wilson,
United Action for the Elderly, NASA-LBJ Joint Project, Austin.
Washington,
D.C. —
Bruce
Broberg, National Commission on Water Quality; Daniel Casey, U.S. Civil Service
Commission; Mary Ann Coursey, Federal Energy Administration; Sarah Cox,
Department of Transportation; James Dear, U.S. Department of Justice; William
A. Emory, Representative Robert Krueger; Herbert (Rick) Gentry, Representative
J. J. (Jake) Pickle; Alfred Giles, Congressional Budget Office; Tom Howarth,
American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees; Evelyn Ireland,
Senator Lloyd Bentsen; Martha Katz, Texas State Federal Liaison Office; Paul Lauder,
General Accounting Office; Peter Lemonias, U.S. General Accounting Office;
Malcolm MacDonald, U.S. General Accounting Office; Melanie McCoy, Texas State
Federal Liaison Office; Nan McRaven, Representative Charles Wilson; Phyllis
Parker, Representative Barbara Jordan; David Perry, Urban Observatory Program;
Barry Robinson, Secretary of Defense (Administration); Herman Schwartz, Senator
John McClellan; John Shillingburg, Congressional Budget Office; Frances Zorn,
American Association for the Advancement of Science.
California—Chris
Klauser, City Manager's Office, Westminster; Debra Langford, Department of
Finance, Sacramento.
Georgia—Roberta
Sue Bartow, Office of Planning and Budget, Atlanta.
Massachusetts—Julius
Whittier, Office of the Mayor, Boston.
Michigan—Frank
Jefferis, The UpJohn Company, Kalamazoo.
New
Mexico—Steven Cobble, State Planning Office, Santa Fe.
Rhode
Island—Norman Davis, Rhode Island Department of Welfare, Providence.
New
York—Christopher Delker, World Education, New York.
Wisconsin—Brian
Petraitis, Child Placement Review Program, Madison; Richard Rue, State Bureau
of Planning and Budget, Madison; Peter Weingarten, Department of
Transportation, Madison; Gwen Winnig, Wisconsin Council on Criminal Justice,
Madison.
. As a
member of a consultative group on research and development policies for the
National Institute of Education, Dean William B. Cannon has visited and
observed a number of educational research facilities and activities in recent
weeks, including the University of California at Berkeley and the Far West
Educational Lab in San Francisco. The NIE asked the group to provide an outside
review and assessment of actual and potential value to the education community
of R&D institutions originally created or institutionally supported by the
Federal Government.
. The June
issue of Energy Reporter, the Federal Energy Administration's citizen newsletter contains an
article on the LBJ School's activities in the energy field. The Reporter says: "Since 1972, the Lyndon
B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin has
offered some of the most outstanding energy policy courses on the American
academic scene." Reference is made to the School's publications on energy
and to the work of Dr. Marlan Blissett, associate professor of public affairs.
. Dr.
Kingsley Haynes, associate professor of public affairs, participated in an
exchange seminar with Hungarian geographers in Hungary, May 26-June 6. He was
one of nine professors representing the Association of American Geographers at
the seminar, arranged in cooperation with the National Science Foundation.
Later Haynes attended a meeting on U. S. Urbanization Processes at the
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis near Vienna, Austria.
. State Representative David Finney has commended LBJ School students and the Office of Research for assistance in a study on the U.S.-Mexico border. Finney said, "I want to especially commend the efforts of Barry Lovelace and Ruth Roth of the Office of Research, for their gracious assistance and cooperation not only in supplying me with helpful written material, but in directing me to appropriate sources of research, and arranging several stimulating exploratory discussions with students at the School regarding the feasibility of an interstate compact."
. Kent
Talbot, director of policy reference service, attended the annual convention of
the American Association of Law Libraries held in Los Angeles June 21-26.
Later, he attended a meeting of the American Society of Information Scientists
at San Rafael, California, June 27-29. This group studies the latest technology
for on-line access to legal and political science information and visited
Lockheed Laboratories and the Stanford Law School Library. He also attended a
pre-convention session on library planning conducted by the American Library
Association in San Francisco.
. Hoyt
Purvis, Director of Publications, is the author of an analysis of recent
proposals for a national energy policy in the June issue of Telectronics, the magazine of the Petroleum
Industry Electrical Association.
Orientation
and Registration Week at the LBJ School will be August 25-30. The week will
include general orientation sessions, as well as subject review and
introduction sessions, and registration of students for the fall semester.
The week
will begin with a 9 a.m. meeting on Monday August 25 in the East Campus Lecture
Hall. Students will be welcomed by Dean William B. Cannon and be briefed on the
first-year education program and orientation week by Associate Dean Kenneth W.
Tolo. Students will also hear from office and department heads about the
support services offered at the LBJ School.
Monday
afternoon's schedule includes an assessment of economics background,
introduction to digital computers, and review sessions on government and
statistics. A second session on digital computers will be held Tuesday morning.
A meeting
on policy research projects is scheduled for 1 p.m. August 26 for all students.
Representative faculty members will describe the projects for 1975-76 and
following the session students will be asked to indicate their preferences. The
Office of Student Affairs and faculty will review the student preferences on
August 27 and match students with projects so that first-year students can
register on August 28.
There will
be no sessions on August 27 because of the state holiday honoring the birthday
of Lyndon B. Johnson.
Following
registration on August 28, first-year students will continue with review
sessions on statistics, government, and economics.
The Legal
Resources Module, which will continue through September 13, will begin on
Friday, August 29.
The week
will end with a tour of the University campus Friday afternoon and a picnic on
Saturday for all students, faculty, and staff.
The Office
of Conferences and Training of the LBJ School is maintaining its schedule of
seminars, training, and continuing education programs for public officials.
Forthcoming events include a series of advanced professional development
seminars in property tax administration on Multiple Regression Analysis in
Property Tax Assessment. These seminars, which are being conducted by the LBJ School
in cooperation with the Institute of Certified Texas Assessors and Texas
Association of Assessing Officers, will be held July 20-23, August 3-6, and
August 17-20 in the Thompson Conference Center.
Also
scheduled is a Seminar in Public Employee Relations which will provide
introductory training in public employee relations to personnel of local
governments and other public entities in the process of negotiation and
arbitration within the personnel system. It will be in Corpus Christi, July
25-26.
A final
summer event will be the Southwest Criminal Justice Institute, August 24-30,
organized in cooperation with the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration.
LEAA administrators from a five-state region will be in attendance.
Proceedings
of the 1974 symposium on energy and the environment, featuring a keynote
address by the British economist Barbara Ward, have been published by the LBJ
School.
Beyond
Today's Energy Crisis: Future of the American Environment is a 135-page paperback that may be
obtained from the Office of Publications for $3 (plus 15 cents tax) per copy.
Editor for
the publication is Dr. Kenneth Tolo, associate dean.
The
symposium was sponsored jointly by UT-Austin and the LBJ Library.
Miss
Ward's keynote address is entitled "The Crucial Choices of the
1970's." Other speakers include Maurice F. Strong, executive director of
the United Nations' Environment Program, and Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson.
Also
included are the remarks made in panel discussions devoted to topics such as
Scientific Perspectives, The American Future, and Science, Politics, and The
Troubled Individual.
Among
discussants were Barry Commoner, director of the Center for the Biology of
Natural Systems, Washington University; U.S. Representative Mike McCormack;
Russell E. Train, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; and
many others.
Reynell
Parkins, professor of architecture and planning, was the featured speaker at
the LBJ School's fourth commencement ceremonies in May.
The 39
graduates of the School's fourth class heard Parkins speak on Environmentalism
and the Disadvantaged. Parkins said, "The disadvantaged regard
environmentalism as an excuse by the majority to avoid coming to grips with the
needs of the minorities."
Here are
excerpts from Parkins' address:
The
demands of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Sierra Clubs, and other
environmentalists have had severe economic consequences on the white community.
The effects are devastating to the disadvantaged. Poor housing, low educational
achievement, an antiquated welfare system, racism, and the general problems of
inflation and high unemployment are some of the major issues. There is no
coordinated, integrated, holistic policy to deal with these issues.
Realistically,
the disadvantaged must become interested in environmentalism. We use land, sea,
air, and water like everyone else. Our lives depend on these things. In this
sense, everything that helps the quality of the environment helps all of us. In
a deeper sense, all of us will have to pay our fair share for environmental
needs. On the other hand, the development of an enlightened public policy would
address itself to the needs of the disadvantaged. We cannot expect the minorities
of the United States or the developing nations of the world to forego their
aspirations in order that a limited number of Americans will enjoy the limited
resources of the world. If the standards for the disadvantaged are to be raised
and if we are to avoid further destruction of our resources in our search for
energy, then those of us who are large consumers must be prepared to cut back
on our consumption provided that consumption goes to the disadvantaged. The
Arab oil base, and the significant rise in taxes on bauxite by the government
of Jamaica against Alcoa are merely two examples of developing nations
recognizing the dependencies of the United States on their natural resources.
There is a need, therefore, for a national policy to control growth in terms of
quantity as well as quality...
In closing, let me address myself to the most critical areas of the disadvantaged and environmentalism. That is population control. The birth rate of minorities is significantly higher than that of the White majority. Indeed, many minorities feel that the answer to the minority problem is to have as many children as possible with the hope of becoming the majority. This means that we are confronting an increasing waste of human resources. Without getting trapped into the abortion question, let me affirm the need to recognize the disadvantaged as human beings and therefore our human resources. If we develop them, they can become valuable assets to the society. If we don't, the consequences can be catastrophic. Because we have not developed the disadvantaged, the University of Texas from which you are presently graduating has a student body of41,800. Of this number, about 600 are black and about 2,000 are Mexican-American. The minorities make up one-third of the population in the State of Texas. The largest university in the state should be reflective of this. It is going to require significant enlightenment of the public policy to change these conditions. Conversely, let me point out that the majority of the people in the Texas Department of Corrections are minorities. No true policy of environmentalism can exclude the disadvantaged. We are on spaceship earth. It is a holistic system. We are interrelated and interdependent. The United States has a short period of time to demonstrate to the world that we can establish a pluralistic society with maximum diversity for the individual and a sense of national unity. This was the legacy that President Johnson tried to leave for this country.
The
University of Texas and the Lyndon B. Johnson Library will sponsor a symposium
on the arts Sept. 29-30.
The event
will mark the tenth anniversary of the signing by President Johnson of the
legislation establishing the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities.
The list
of prominent participants will include Nancy Hanks, chairman, and Roger
Stevens, former chairman, of the National Endowment for the Arts; Charlton
Heston, actor; Richard Hunt, sculptor; James Wyeth, painter; O'Neil Ford,
architect; Robert Merrill of the Metropolitan Opera; Maurice Abravenal,
conductor, and Billy Taylor, jazz musician.
Among
others who will participate are Senators John Tower, Hubert Humphrey, and Jacob
Javits; Congressmen Frank Thompson, and John Brademas; McNeil Lowry, vice
president of the Ford Foundation; John Hightower, chairman of Advocates for the
Arts, and Joshua Taylor, director of the National Collection of Fine Arts.
On the
evening of September 29, a variety of entertainment will be provided by
performing artists to illustrate the kinds of activities which are adding to
the cultural life of communities across the nation as a result of National
Endowment support.
Theme of
the symposium is "The Arts: Years of Development, Time of Decision."
The distinguished assembly of artists, political leaders, critics and observers
will look at the state of the arts in America today, examine the history of
public and private support, and consider the role government should play in the
decade ahead. Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson will give closing remarks.
Previous
symposia in the series sponsored by the Library and the University were on
education, civil rights, urban affairs, and energy and environment.
Dr. David
C. Warner has been appointed as an associate professor of public affairs and
will join the faculty of the LBJ School for the fall semester.
Dr. Warner
has been a lecturer and researcher at Yale University where he has been
teaching courses in health economics in the graduate school and behavioral
science to medical students. He has also coordinated an interdisciplinary
colloquium in health services research.
Dean
William B. Cannon said, "We are highly pleased to have David Warner
joining the LBJ School faculty. With his broad experience and his special
knowledge in the field of health policy, he will bring an added and valuable
dimension to the School."
At Yale,
Warner was a lecturer in the School of Medicine and a research associate in the
Center for the Study of Health Services Research, Institution for Social and
Policy Studies.
In 1972-73
he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale in the fields of econometrics, health care
organization, and social policy.
Previously
he served as Deputy Director, Office of Program Analysis, New York City Health
and Hospitals Corporation and was an assistant professor of economics at Wayne
State University.
He has
written or co-authored numerous articles and is currently collaborating on a
book entitled Resource Allocation for Social Services: The Case of
Education, Housing, and Health.
He has
served on an Advisory Committee on Research and Evaluation of Primary Care at
Yale-New Haven Hospital and has also worked as an advisor to the Ford
Foundation on nutrition, health, and delinquency and as a consultant to various
groups on health care problems.
He has
also worked on several projects in India and was an economic consultant to the
Agency for International Development in a study of Indian fertilizer
distribution.
Dr.
Warner, who received his B.A. from Princeton, has a master's degree in public
administration from Syracuse and received his Ph.D. in economics from Syracuse.
He spoke at the LBJ School in March.
Dr. Marlan
Blissett, associate professor of public affairs, has been named a Guest Scholar
at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D. C.
Blissett,
who has headed three policy research projects on energy at the LBJ School, will
spend several months in Washington conducting research on energy conservation
policies and changing patterns of energy use.
In
addition to examining energy conservation policies being pursued by the
government, he will explore how measures such as taxation, price controls,
rationing/allocation, import controls, utility rate structures, federal
regulation, or use of the market could be used as "levers" for policy
action.
He will
also study the impact of alternative energy conservation measures on U. S.
foreign relations.
While in
Washington he expects to have discussions and interviews with officials in the
various governmental agencies involved with energy policy.
Not only
are there uncertainties about the adequacy of energy supply, Dr. Blissett
points out, but "widespread disagreement" exists over price
relationships, rates of usage, distributional equities, and the role of energy
in sustaining economic growth.
He says
measures for conserving energy and influencing changes in energy use have drawn
increasing attention, but the policy research needed to support
"prudent" governmental decisions in those areas has barely started.
Following
his service as a staff member at the International Institute for Applied
Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria, this summer, Dr. Henry David, professor
of public affairs, will represent The University of Texas at Austin at the
formal opening of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization Advanced Study Institute
at Cortina d'Empezzo, Italy, August 3-16.
The NATO
Institute on Long-Time Prediction in Dynamics is a joint venture of the
University and the National Research Council of Italy. Director of the
Institute is Professor Victor Szebehely, Department of Aerospace Engineering
and Engineering Mechanics.
Dr.
David's summer position with the IIASA includes advising the Institute's
Director, Dr. Howard Raiffa, on leave from Harvard, on a number of
administrative, fiscal, and scientific matters. IIASA is a private,
international research organization performing applied research in systems
analysis. The National Academy of Sciences is the United States' member of
IIASA.
Energy
Policy in Texas: State Problems and Responses is the subject of the May issue
of Public Affairs Comment, the quarterly publication of the LBJ School.
The
article by Dr. Marlan Blissett, associate professor of public affairs at the
LBJ School, and Bob Davis and Harriet Hahn, staff members of the Division of
Planning Coordination, Office of the Governor, is an examination of recent
developments in energy policy in Texas. Included is a summary of action taken
in the 64th Legislature's recent regular session.
The
authors note that the energy issues which emerged during the Legislature
"demonstrate the need for a coordinate approach to energy policymaking in
Texas," pointing out that more than 100 pieces of legislation, affecting
more than 30 states agencies, boards, and commissions, were introduced.
The
authors state that the "current strategy of relying on the private sector
to resolve basic questions of energy production and consumption may lead to
long-term difficulties in diversifying the resources base of the state."
"Charting
new policy directions will not be easy, but with major energy planning
responsibilities now entrusted to the Governor's Energy Advisory Council it
should be possible to develop a coordinated response," the authors
conclude.
Copies of Comment, which is edited by Lynn F.
Anderson, associate professor of public affairs, are available from the Office
of Publications.
Some of
the food technology developed for the space flight of astronauts will be a key
ingredient in a new project on which the LBJ School is collaborating with
several federal, state, and local agencies.
The
project is to devise a meal system of nonperishable foods (in cans or
flex-packs) that home-bound elderly folk could easily reconstitute, simply by
adding water and heating. It is designed to reach elderly citizens who are
missing out on available hot-meal programs—either because they live in
rural areas beyond the range of Meals-on-Wheels vans or because they are too
frail or cannot drive to get to communal eating centers in cities for one hot
meal a day.
If proved
feasible, the new meal system would make it possible for an elderly person to
have a hot meal seven days a week, since no Meals-on-Wheels service is
available on weekends. It also would improve nutrition for the elderly, who,
through loneliness or apathy, frequently do not bother to prepare proper meals
just for themselves.
More
importantly, the proposed project would permit some elderly persons to continue
living in familiar surroundings rather than being institutionalized.
Involved
in the project, in addition to the LBJ School, are the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration; Texas Research Institute of Mental Sciences (TRIMS),
which is the research arm of the State Department of Mental Health-Mental
Retardation; and United Action for the Elderly, an Austin-based social services
organization for the elderly.
The
Governor's Committee on Aging has been instrumental in establishing contacts
between the project participants, and featured a report in the summer issue of
its publication, Research Utilization for the Aging.
Throughout
the coming months, the meal program will be tested, tasted and demonstrated on
small and large scales in rural and urban settings.
NASA's
role will be to contribute its technical competence and experience in
redesigning menus and packaging.
Drawing on
foods that astronauts have found palatable and serviceable, each basic meal
package will be composed of thermostabilized, dehydrated, freeze-dried or
wafer-type foods that have a shelf life of one to two years.
A basic
meal generally would include an entree, two vegetables, a dessert and beverage.
Enough meal packs would be delivered to an individual—either by mail or
in person—so that no menu would be repeated in a 20-day period.
Professor
Jurgen Schmandt said the LBJ School will "assist in the general planning
of the project and then evaluate the results of the demonstration." One
student, Margaret (Peggy) Wilson, is working this summer as an intern on the
project.
Dr.
Schmandt reports the meal systems plan also will be part of an LBJ School policy
research project next fall that will examine public policies toward the elderly
in general.
Late next
spring, according to Dr. Schmandt, the demonstration project will be evaluated
after extensive interviews are conducted with the elderly persons who ate the
meals. A final report will be completed in the summer of 1976, and a workshop
on the project results will follow in the fall at the LBJ School.
While the
project will be field-tested extensively, "many problems need to be solved
before such a new distribution system can become widely available," Dr.
Schmandt says.
The UT
professor says close attention will be paid to the "aesthetic
appearance" of the food. In that regard, he reported he recently partook
of a "tasty" meal of space food at the Johnson Space Center in
Houston.
"Some
of the food I tasted at NASA looks more like moon dust in its dehydrated form
than the kind of food which makes us look forward to an appetizing meal,"
Dr. Schmandt says. "But once water is added, the 'dust' reverts back to
the shape of beef as we know it.
"It
will be important, therefore," he continues, "to find out whether
people will react negatively when they open a package and find something unlike
any food they have seen before."
He said,
"I found the food definitely of better quality than the TV dinners you
find in supermarkets."
Cost per
meal will be another important factor that the study will have to take into
consideration.
A
technical assistance guide, Resources for Local Manpower and Vocational
Education Planners,
has been published by the LBJ School for the Manpower Services Division of the
Texas Department of Community Affairs.
The guide
was prepared by the Vocational Education Policy Research Project at the LBJ
School during the 1974-75 academic year.
L. C.
Harris, III, Director of the Manpower Services Division of the TDCA, said,
"The partnership between the Manpower Services Division and the research
project has been most gratifying as it has produced mutual benefits. We have
received much more information than we could have collected ourselves and the
students have gained 'real world' experience.
Professor
Kenneth W. Tolo, project director, said, the data resource guide is "an
effort to improve linkages between manpower and vocational education in the
Texas Balance of State (BOS) area."
Professors
Henry David and Anthony Nedhart were also involved in the project. Student
participants were Deborah Cartwright, Lawrence Chretien, Thomas Denton, Dan
Friedhoff, Jan Godfrey, Irma Honda, Evelyn Ireland, Frank Jefferis, Debra
Langford, William Lenhart, Katherine Love, Nan McRaven, Alice Myers, Phyllis
Parker, Barbara Parness, and Carrie Sewell.
Two
students will begin the LBJ-Law School Joint Program this fall, according to
Dr. Kingsley Haynes, associate professor of public affairs, who has been
coordinating the joint program.
Professor
Haynes said both of the students participating in the joint program have
completed their first year of law school. Other students have been given a
tentative acceptance to begin the joint program, pending their successful
completion of the first year of law school.
Details on
the program are available from the Office of Student Affairs.
A working
session on a proposed Policy Interconnections Project was held at the LBJ
School July 14-16. Participants focused on the major national-international
policy issues of energy, food and health, population, and raw materials, and
the interconnections between these areas and their relations to the broader
questions of economics, international relations, and the quality of life.
Participants
in the three-day meeting included faculty members from the LBJ School, as well
as from other components of The University of Texas, and a group of outside
consultants with special knowledge in these areas.
Those
participating from outside the LBJ School included Wilbur J. Cohen, former
Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and currently Dean of the School of
Education, University of Michigan; C. W. "Tex" Cook, Chairman of the
Executive Committee of General Foods Corporation, with extensive experience on
food and business questions and service on several Presidential Commissions; Alan
Harris, foreign service officer and special assistant to the Administrator of
the Environmental Protection Agency for international environmental and energy
questions; and Dr. David Kendrick, professor of economics at UT-Austin and a
consultant to the World Bank.
Dr. Steven
Magee, associate professor in the Graduate School of Business, University of
Chicago, and an international trade consultant to the Department of Commerce;
Dr. William J. McGanity, professor and chairman of the Department of Obstetrics
and Gynecology, University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, and an authority
on nutrition and health, having served as Panel Chairman of the National
Nutrition Policy Study; Dr. Dudley Poston, acting director of the Population
Research Center at UT-Austin and associate professor of sociology.
Elspeth
Rostow, acting dean of the Division of General and Comparative Studies at
UT-Austin, associate professor of government, and a consultant to the
Commission on Critical Choices for Americans; Dr. Walt W. Rostow, professor of
economics and history, former Presidential assistant, author, and consultant to
the Critical Choices Commission; and Dr. Herbert Woodson, director of the
Center for Energy Studies at UT-Austin, and ALOCA professor and chairman of the
Electrical Engineering Department.
Dean
William B. Cannon was the overall chairman for the session. Associate Dean
Keith Arnold and Professors Stephen Spurr and Kingsley Haynes from the LBJ
School took part along with Lt. Colonel Ralph Furtner, who has been the U.S.
Air Force research associate at the School.
Hoyt
Purvis, director of publications at the LBJ School, has served as project staff
director, and Sue Ford Patrick, a foreign service officer on leave, has served
as deputy director.
At the
working session suggestions were developed for a possible long-term project
with the general goal of aiding national management of policy interconnection
problems. A suggested group of implementing programs, which would serve as the
framework for a series of research projects, studies, and educational programs
to be coordinated by the LBJ School was also developed by the participants.
Additional
information on the Policy Interconnections Project will be included in future
issues of The Record.