THE RECORD

SEPTEMBER 15,1975

VOL. 1, No. 9

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

EDITOR Hoyt H. Purvis

122 STUDENTS ENROLLED AS SCHOOL YEAR BEGINS

Classes for the 1975-76 academic year at the LBJ School began on September 2 with 122 students enrolled. The number of students represents a substantial increase over last year, when 95 students were enrolled during the second semester.

This year's entering class, with 65 students, is the largest in the School's history. The School has graduated 113 students in its first four graduating classes, and thus the current enrollment exceeds the total number of previous graduates.

As a result of the increased enrollment, the number of Policy Research Projects at the School has been expanded from six last year to nine this year. Subjects of this year's Projects are:

. Policies for the Elderly: Design, Development, and Evaluation of a Meals System for the Elderly;

. Institutional Analysis of Geothermal Development in Texas;

. Public Policy on the Status of Women;

. Public Policy Toward the Arts;

. Lower Rio Grande Valley;

. Texas Transportation Legislation;

. Juvenile Justice in Texas;

. The City and the New Federalism: An Initial Assessment of the Housing and Community Development Planning Process.

. State Governmental Operations.

NEW FACULTY

The School has also added new faculty members for 1975-76. Dr. David C. Warner has been named an associate professor of public affairs and began his new duties at the beginning of the semester. Warner was most recently at Yale University. (See The Record of July 21 for a complete story on Warner.) Warner is teaching a section of the political economy course and is also working on the Policy Research Project on Policies for the Elderly.

Additionally, Dr. Lodis Rhodes and Dr. Richard Schott, both of whom were participating faculty members at the LBJ School last year while also serving elsewhere in the University, are now full-time LBJ School faculty members.

Rhodes, who holds a Ph. D. from the University of Nebraska, previously served as an assistant to the Provost. He is teaching research management and skills, and helping direct the Policies for the Elderly Project.

Schott, who has a Ph. D. from Syracuse University, and was a foreign service officer, previously taught in the Government Department. He is teaching a section of the policy process course and is one of the faculty members directing the State Governmental Operations Policy Research Project.

The new U.S. Air Force research associate at the LBJ School is Lt. Colonel James F. Record (see page 3). Record succeeds Lt. Colonel Ralph Furtner, who has been assigned to duty in Germany.

Returning this fall after a leave of absence to work with the Ford Foundation in Amman, Jordan, is Jared E. Hazelton, associate professor of public affairs.

Participating faculty members this year include:

Joe R. Feagin, professor of sociology; John H. Vanston, assistant professor of mechanical engineering; James L. Wyatt, III, assistant professor of fine arts; and Mark Estes, assistant professor of architecture and planning.

All four are assisting in the direction of Policy Research Projects, with Feagin working on the Status of Women; Vanston, Geothermal Energy; Wyatt, Arts Policy; and Estes, Lower Rio Grande Valley.

Also serving as a participating faculty member again this year is Anthony C. Neidhart, assistant professor of government at Southwest Texas State University. Neidhart teaches research and management skills and is working on the Juvenile Justice Policy Research Project.

Other participating faculty members include R. Barry Lovelace, Hoyt H. Purvis, and Kent D. Talbot, all members of the LBJ School staff.

"ON THE RECORD"

. Two-hundred people attended the annual LBJ School picnic, held at Zilker Park on Sunday, September 7. In addition to consuming large amounts of fried chicken, students, faculty, staff, and families, took part in softball, football, volleyball, and other recreational activities. The Student Orientation Committee—Martha Katz, Bruce Byron, Dan Friedhoff, and Dan Casey—made the arrangements for the highly successful event.

. Orientation will continue through September with sessions planned at noon on September 15 and 22 in the Student Lounge. On September 15 a video tape of President Johnson's talk to students in December, 1971, will be shown. On September 22 Hoyt Purvis and Dan Friedhoff will present a program on sports on the UT campus.

. A recent issue of the Energy Conservation Project Report notes that the first phase of a project to collect state legal and administrative energy materials has been completed. Data collection in Texas was supervised by Professor David Anderson of the UT School of Law, with Professor Marlan Blissett of the LBJ School serving as consultant.

. The process for selecting students to be student representatives and to serve on School committees is now underway. The committees are listed in the Student Handbook (pages 49-53). Students are encouraged to participate in the committees, and should consult with the Office of Student Affairs about possible openings.

. Dr. Beryl Radin, assistant professor of public affairs, has been named as a member of the Task Force on Income Maintenance and Social Services of the National Urban Coalition.

. The University of Texas and the Lyndon B. Johnson Library are sponsoring a symposium on "The Arts: Years of Development, Time of Decision," September 29-30. A number of prominent figures in the arts and public affairs will take part. The event marks the tenth anniversary of the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities.

. Dean William B. Cannon has served as a member of a consultative group which has submitted its final report to the National Council on Educational Research, the policy body of the National Institute of Education. The group made major recommendations for changes in federal educational research and development policy. During the summer Dean Cannon visited and observed a number of educational research facilities around the country.

. A recent article by Joe Christie, Chairman of the State Insurance Board, in the Dallas Times Herald on Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) makes mention of the work done at the LBJ School in this area. Christie wrote: "The Board initiated an 18-month study through the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs to provide to the Legislature an examination of the medical, financial, marketing, legal, and regulatory aspects of HMOs in Texas. The results of these preliminary efforts were incorporated into the Texas Health Maintenance Organization Act."

FOUR FOR MOODY FELLOWSHIPS

Associate Dean Kenneth W. Tolo has announced the selection by the LBJ School faculty of four second-year students as Moody Fellows for 1975-76.

The four winners of the Moody Fellowships are:

Sarah Cox, a graduate of UT-Austin in journalism and English, who served an internship in the U.S. Department of Transportation this summer.

William A. Emory, who holds bachelor's and master's degrees in history from Kansas State Teachers College and Pennsylvania State University, and was an intern in the office of U.S. Representative Robert Krueger during the summer.

Tom Howarth, who has a degree in sociology from the University of Connecticut, and was an intern with the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) during the summer.

David Perry, who has a B.A. in political science from Williams College and spent the summer with the Urban Observatory Program, National League of Cities.

SCHOOL CONDUCTS INSTITUTE ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE

The first Southwest Criminal Justice Planning Institute was conducted August 24-29 by the LBJ School to improve the skills of criminal justice planners from four states.

Criminal justice planning agencies, through funds made avilable by the federal government, are concerned with improving the operations of the courts, the police, and correctional systems.

Twenty-five criminal justice planners from regional or local planning agencies in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana participated in the seminar in the Thompson Conference Center.

The five-day training session was conducted by the LBJ School in cooperation with the Dallas regional office of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, U.S. Department of Justice.

Robert J. Macdonald, associate director of the LBJ School's Office of Conferences and Training, said the institute stressed fundamentals of criminal justice planning. Topics ranged from the use of social indicators to an introduction to forecasting, trend analysis, data collection and statistics.

SEMINARS SCHEDULED ON TAXES, EMPLOYEE REATIONS

Forthcoming programs to be organized by the LBJ School's Office of Conferences and Training include a Seminar in Public Employee Relations and a seminar on Multiple Regression Analysis in Property Tax Assessment, one of a series of advanced professional development seminars in property tax administration.

The Public Employee Relations Seminar will be at the Quality Inn in Amarillo, September 19-20. Purpose of the seminar is to provide introductory training in public employee relations to personnel of local governments and other entities in the processes of negotiation and arbitration within the personnel system. The series of seminars in Public Employee Relations is financed in part by a grant under the Intergovernmental Personnel Act of 1970 through the Texas Department of Community Affairs.

Instructors will be Dr. Albert A. Blum, professor of public affairs at the LBJ School and a widely recognized authority on labor relations, and Dr. I. B. Helburn, associate professor of management at UT-Austin.

The seminar on Multiple Regression Analysis will be conducted September 23-26 by the LBJ School in cooperation with the Institute of Certified Tax Assessors and Texas Association of Assessing Officers. Sessions will be at the Joe C. Thompson Conference Center.

The seminar is designed to equip Texas tax assessors with the knowledge and capability to pursue implementation of computerized property valuation through the application of multiple regression analysis. Instructor will be Dr. Terry D. Kahn, assistant professor in the graduate program in community and regional planning at UT-Austin.

[news note]

Professor Steve Spurr spent three weeks in July and August as Consultant to the College of Forest Resources, University of Washington. He divided his time between investigating problems of timber production and supply in the Douglas-fir region and work on his report for the National Research Council on the biological productivity of the United States with regard to renewable natural resources for industrial materials. Spurr will return briefly to Seattle in October as the first George Young Lecturer at the University of Washington.

COLONEL RECORD NAMED AIR FORCE ASSOCIATE

Lt. Colonel James F. Record is the 1975-76 United States Air Force Research Associate at the LBJ School.

Colonel Record comes to the LBJ School from Washington, D. C. where he was in the Tactical Forces Division, Directorate of Programs at Air Force Headquarters.

A native of Indiana, Record is a graduate of Purdue University and has a M.S. in public administration from Auburn University.

He received his commission and entered the Air Force upon his graduation from Purdue in 1961. After completion of pilot training at Laredo AFB, Texas, he remained at Laredo for four years as an instructor pilot. During his service at Laredo he was selected as Instructor Pilot of the Year and as Outstanding Junior Officer of the Year.

Colonel Record had a lengthy combat tour in Southeast Asia before being assigned to Texas once more in 1969, this time to Randolph Air Force Base at San Antonio.

He received the Quenell-Campbell Award in 1971 for outstanding contributions to instrument flight.

Colonel Record has completed the Air Force's Squadron Officers School, Air Command and Staff College, and Industrial College of the Armed Forces. During resident school in the Command and Staff College, he simultaneously received his master's degree from Auburn.

He is a senior pilot with over 4,500 hours flying time. Included in his decorations are the Distinguished Flying Cross with two oak leaf clusters, the Bronze Star, Meritorious Service Medal with an oak leaf cluster, Air Medal with 26 oak leaf clusters, Air Force Commendation Medal, Presidential Unit Citation, and the Outstanding Unit Citation with one oak leaf cluster. Colonel Record was selected to the rank of major and lieutenant colonel below the zone. He was selected as an Outstanding Young Man of America in 1970.

At the LBJ School Colonel Record is assisting with the Transportation Policy Research Project. He will also be participating in other seminars and classes and has a strong interest in international affairs.

He and his wife, Peggy, are the parents of three sons, the youngest having been born on September 4.

ALLUMNI ASSOCIATION TO MEET STUDENTS

The LBJ School Alumni Association is planning an informal evening of discussion for LBJ School students on Wednesday, October 1 at 5:30 p.m. Location of the gathering will be announced later.

The Alumni Association recently elected officers for 1975-76, with Michael Moeller named as President. Moeller is Committee Coordinator for the Texas Senate Water Subcommittee and Administrative Assistant to Senator Kent Hance.

Vice President is Bruce Esterline of the Office of Early Childhood Development, Texas Department of Community Affairs.

Jean Shoemaker, social services program analyst in the Texas Department of Public Welfare, is the new secretary of the Alumni Association.

Jan Younglove, planning coordinator, Criminal Justice Division, Office of the Governor, was elected treasurer.

Director of Committees is Mel Waxler, a UT Law School student and consultant to the Austin Mayor's Commission on Electric Rates.

DAVID HELPS OVERSEE TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT

Dr. Henry David, professor of public affairs, will serve on the Oversight Committee of the Institute of Society, Ethics, and Life Sciences and the Future Group, a Connecticut-based research organization, engaged in a technology assessment study of life-extending technologies. The study is funded by the National Science Foundation. The first meeting of the Oversight Committee on the study for the Futures Group was on September 12.

David has been administratively responsible for a National Academy of Sciences study, conducted by the Committee on the Life Sciences and Social Policy, Assessing Biomedical Technologies: An Inquiry into the Nature of the Process, published earlier this year.

This summer while serving as a staff member at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria, Dr. David presented a paper on certain aspects of U.S. science policy to the staff of the Czechoslovakian Ministry of Technology and Investment. He was invited to make the presentation by the Chairman of the Czech Committee for the IIASA, Dr. Tibor Vasko.

INSURANCE PROJECT REPORTS PUBLISHED

Final reports of the State Insurance Policy Research Project of 1973-74 have now been published by the LBJ School.

Preliminary reports of the two projects—the Feasibility of No-Fault Automobile Insurance for Texas and the Feasibility of Health Maintenance Organizations for Texas—had been issued last year.

The reports were submitted to the State Board of Insurance, which had requested the two studies.

The two projects were coordinated by Lynn F. Anderson, associate professor of public affairs.

Copies of the reports are available in the Office of Publications.

COMMENT ISSUE FEATURES CONSTITIONAL ANALYSIS

The proposed new Texas Constitution is the subject of the August issue of Public Affairs Comment, the quarterly publication of the LBJ School.

Dr. Janice C. May, associate professor of government at UT-Austin, makes an article-by-article analysis of the proposed constitutional changes which Texas voters will consider on November 4. She also traces the history of the constitutional revision effort, noting that "the propositions on the November ballot represent the culmination of years of effort on the part of supporters of Texas constitutional revision."

Copies of Comment are available in the Office of Publications.

NEW LIBRARY HOURS

New library hours will be in effect this week, according to Kent Talbott of the Public Affairs Library.

Monday through Thursday, the Library will be open from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.

On Fridays, the Library hours will be from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. Saturday the Library will be open from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. and on Sunday the hours will be from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m.

[news note]

Two 1975 graduates of the LBJ School have gone to work as aides to members of the Austin City Council. Chet B. Allerhand has been employed as assistant to Council Member Betty Himmelblau, while William C. Lenhart, Jr., is working as an aide to Council Member Lowell Lebermann.

ACTIVE SUMMER FOR FACULTY

Dr. Beryl Radin

Dr. Beryl Radin, assistant professor of public affairs, has returned to the LBJ School after spending the summer at the Social Security Administration in Baltimore. Radin worked as a staff member for a special study group considering the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program.

She said her work "grew out of and was built on my experience with Policy Research Projects at the LBJ School during the last two years."

Radin was the only outside staff person working on the project with the special study group, composed of five experts in welfare and public administration appointed by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and the Commissioner of Social Security. The group examined the administrative problems involved with the SSI program and will make a report by the end of the year.

Radin took major responsibility for eligibility questions and issues related to client perspective, such as outreach, advocacy, and linkages with other programs. These were among the problems dealt with by the Policy Research Projects Radin has helped direct at the LBJ School.

The SSI program, which began in 1974, has been the subject of considerable attention recently, and hearings on the program have been held in Congress. Radin was the author of an article on "The implementation of SSI: Guaranteed Income or Welfare?" which was published in the fall, 1974 issue of Public Welfare.

Radin said that in addition to working with the SSI program, her summer with the Social Security Administration also gave her some additional experience with the federal bureaucracy which she believes will be useful in her teaching and research.

Dr. Gerard Rohlich

It was a busy summer for Professor Gerard A. Rohlich, who has a joint appointment as professor of public affairs and C. W. Cook professor of Environmental Engineering.

Rohlich, who is project director of a Policy Research Project on geothermal energy at the LBJ School this year and headed last year's project on water quality, attended meetings in both Europe and South America during the summer.

He was invited by the Center for International Management Studies to participate in a Conference on National Strategies for Environmental Control and Human Development at Bled, Yugoslavia.

About 50 individuals were invited to characterize the scientific, technical, socio-economic, and legal components of human development. Rohlich served as a member of the Research and Development Panel for Water Resources. In addition to the United States, representatives from Switzerland, Italy, Yugoslavia, Hungary, England, Romania, the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria, and Egypt were in attendance.

Rohlich made two trips to South America. In June, at the invitation of Dr. Paulo Nogueira Neto, Special Secretary of Environment of the Brazilian Interior Ministry, he participated in the First National Meeting on the Protection and Environment in Brazil, and presented a paper on "Water Quality Criteria."

The meeting was attended by Brazilian authorities responsible for the implementation of programs for environmental control and invited representatives of environmental programs in other countries.

Later Rohlich returned to Brazil to visit authorities in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro to work on water quality modeling of the Paraiba River. This visit was part of a program sponsored by the World Health Organization in which several faculty members from the University of Texas are participating.