THE RECORD

SEPTEMBER 29,1975

VOL. 1, No. 10

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

EDITOR Hoyt H. Purvis

SYMPOSIUM ON ARTS BEGINS HERE TODAY

A symposium on "The Arts: Years of Development, Time of Decision" begins today in the LBJ Auditorium. The two-day event is sponsored by the Lyndon B. Johnson Library and UT-Austin.

One of the major topics for the symposium will be the role of government in support of the arts. A number of artists, political leaders, critics, and observers will take part in the discussions.

Keynote speakers will be Beverly Sills, the internationally acclaimed American soprano, who has been active in obtaining support for the arts.

Among the many prominent figures scheduled to take part are Senators Hubert Humphrey and Jacob Javits; Robert Merrill of the Metropolitan Opera; painter Jamie Wyeth; actor Kirk Douglas; Nancy Hanks, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts; and Roger Stevens, former chairman of the National Endowment.

Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson will give closing remarks at the final session on Tuesday.

Mrs. Elspeth Rostow, acting dean of the Division of General and Comparative Studies, has served as chairman of the symposium planning committee and Dean William Cannon of the LBJ School was a member of the committee.

The subject of the symposium is closely related to the topic of the LBJ School Policy Research Project on "Public Policy Toward the Arts" and students in the project will be observers at the symposium. (See page 5.)

As a prelude to the symposium, Ms. Susan Lee, who is involved in several Austin arts projects, spoke at a student-sponsored brown-bag luncheon on September 23.

Ms. Lee cited the numerous programs and opportunities in the arts in Austin. She said that the arts here are "in many ways much more accessible than on the East Coast."

She said, "Austin is a very exciting place to be for people involved in the arts."

Discussion focused on the problems of artists in obtaining support and public recognition and a variety of means for assisting artists were proposed.

Ms. Lee showed tapes of experimental video done by artists in the Interartworks group in Austin.

MAYOR FRIEDMAN DISCUSSES AUSTIN POLITICS, ISSUES

Austin Mayor Jeff Friedman was the speaker for the first student-sponsored brown-bag luncheon of the 1975-76 academic year. Speaking to a large crowd of students and faculty on September 16, Friedman related the history of his involvement in politics and discussed current issues facing the Austin city government.

Friedman, who at 30 is the youngest mayor of a metropolitan area, is a 1970 graduate of the University of Texas Law School and was elected mayor in April, 1975, dated his involvement in politics to the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination efforts of Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy.

Friedman said he became active in the anti-war movement and helped organize the 1970 Austin demonstration against President Nixon's ordering of American troops into Cambodia. The controversy over whether the marchers would be granted a parade permit by the City Council was cited by Friedman as one of the factors which impelled his political involvement.

After serving as a volunteer with the President's Commission on Campus Unrest and working with the Austin Student Committee for Voter Registration, the young attorney entered the race for a City Council position and was a surprise winner in 1971. He was re-elected in 1973.

During his service on the Council, Friedman said there was "a shift away from pro-growth, real-estate orientation--there was an opportunity to question these policies."

"The culmination of that shift," he said, "was the election earlier this year."

"The public's orientation has changed," Friedman said. "There is no longer the fear of the University students, the blacks, browns, and women."

He noted that three women serve on the present Council, reversing a long tradition of little or no female representation.

Friedman said the large amount (52 per cent of the land) of tax-exempt property "poses special problems for Austin," and predicted a small property tax increase for the city.

He said, "Austin does face a budgetary crisis even though it is minor when compared to other cities."

Friedman said he favors "properly planned growth" and that the city should annex "areas that will return tax dollars to the city equal to the amount of services rendered." He noted that a number of large corporations are currently located outside the city limits.

Friedman also discussed possible alternatives to the current electricity rate structure, possible municipal ownership or operation of cable television, and contact with leaders of other cities "concerned with alternative policies."

He said there was no tension in his relations with City Manager Dan Davidson, and said Davidson was "carrying out the orders of the Council, as he is supposed to do."

Friedman said the city's affirmative action program "has been a joke, but it has only been in effect since December and is improving."

"On the Record"

. Daniel J. Reed, assistant archivist for Presidential Libraries of the National Archives and Records Service, will be the guest speaker at a brown-bag luncheon in the Student Lounge at 12:15 p.m. on Tuesday, September 30. Reed, who is here in conjunction with the Arts Symposium, will discuss Presidential papers and other topics.

. Jurgen Schmandt, professor of public affairs, has been invited to attend an international science policy meeting in Paris, France, December 3-6. He will present a paper on "Innovation as a Policy Tool" which is based on a study undertaken last year for the U.S. House Committee on Science and Technology. The Paris meeting is organized by the French government in conjunction with the International Council for Science Policy Studies.

. Walter H. Richter, director of government relations for the Association of Texas Electric Cooperatives, will be the speaker at a brown-bag luncheon in the Student Lounge at noon, Tuesday October 7. Richter will speak on lobbying and citizen involvement in the public policy process. Richter had extensive experience in government and public affairs and was a State Senator from 1963 to 1966. He organized the Journalism Department and taught journalism at Southwest Texas State University. He has served as state and regional director of the Office of Economic Opportunity; director of the State Program on Drug Abuse, Chairman of the Governor's Committee on Aging, and as a district coordinator for the Campaign for the Texas Constitution.

DR. RADIN WILL CHAIR UNIVERSITY COUNCIL ON WOMEN AND MINORITIES

Dr. Beryl Radin, assistant professor of public affairs, has been appointed as co-chairperson of the 1975-76 Council on the Status of Women and Minorities at UT-Austin. Serving with Radin will be Clifton VanDyke, assistant director of admissions. The appointments were announced by Dr. Lorene Rogers, UT president.

In making the announcement Dr. Rogers noted:

"The function of this council is to make recommendations through the Equal Employment Opportunity Officer, Dr. Peggy Kruger, on policy relating to the status of women and minorities, to assist the EEOO in monitoring and evaluating the University's progress in meeting its Affirmative Action objectives, to assist the EEOO in investigating allegations of discriminatory practices, and to provide counsel and advice to the University's administrative officers."

The work of the council, she continued, "is, in my opinion, among the most important tasks to be carried out on this campus."

CONFERENCE ON WOMEN

Planning is continuing for the conference on Women in Public Life scheduled for November 10-11 and co-sponsored by the LBJ School and the Lyndon B. Johnson Library.

The Conference is being held in conjunction with the observance of International Women's Year. The two-day meeting will include discussion of some of the issues raised during the United Nations Conference on Women in Mexico City earlier this year. In addition, it will provide a forum for women involved in public issues.

A letter of invitation from Mrs. Lyndon Johnson has gone to all women office holders in Texas.

Participants in the LBJ School policy Research Project on Public Policy on the Status of Women are working with the conference planners and will be taking an active part in the meeting.

A number of prominent women will speak at the conference. Details of the program will be reported in future issues of The Record.

LBJ PROFESSORS IN KEY FOREST CONGRESS ROLES

Two LBJ School professors, who have served on a national task force of 75 conservation leaders who drafted policy proposals for the future of renewable resources, will have prominent roles in the Sixth American Forest Congress to be held October 5-8 in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Stephen H. Spurr, a forest ecologist and professor of public affairs and of botany, will give the keynote address for October 7 on "The Need for an American Forest Policy--Its Basic Elements."

Dr. Keith Arnold, associate dean of the LBJ School and director of UT's Division of Natural Resources and Environment, has the responsibility for summarizing the congress. A leading natural resource scientist, Dr. Arnold is president-elect of the Society of American Foresters.

The forthcoming congress will be held in conjunction with the centennial annual meeting of the American Forestry Association.

President Gerald Ford and U.S. Senators Hubert Humphrey and Mark Hatfield are among national leaders scheduled to address the assemblage of conservationists.

The Sixth American Forest Congress will discuss a proposed policy agenda that deals with world forestry, interrelationships of all natural resources and domestic forest programs.

Previous American Forest Congresses were held in 1882, 1905, 1946, 1953 and 1963.

BELOFF SPEAKS HERE ON OCTOBER 30

Professor Max Beloff, a distinguished British historian and political commentator, will speak at the LBJ School on Thursday, October 30 at 11 a.m. Beloff will speak on "America in the World and the Change of Generations--A British Observer's Comment" in the East Campus Lecture Hall.

Beloff has extensive academic experience and in 1974 became Principal of the new University College at Buckingham, in southern England. He has written numerous articles and books, particularly on the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union and their foreign policies.

LBJ STUDENTS, FACULTY HELP ESTABLISH REGISTER

In recognition of the role played by LBJ School students and faculty in the enactment and development of the new Texas Register, Professors Dagmar Hamilton and Emmette Redford were guests of the Texas State Bar Association at a workshop and luncheon on September 25. Eight LBJ School students also attended the workshop: Dan Casey, Bill Emory, Al Giles, John Kamensky, Linda Look, Joe Motter, Herman Schwartz, and Gerry Weller.

The purpose of the workshop was to familiarize lawyers and state agency personnel with the new Texas Administrative Procedure Act/State Register. The Register, like the Federal Register, will serve as a central source of information on proposed government regulations and will also carry notices of meetings of state agencies.

LBJ School alumni (1975) Bill Lalla and Cindy Sesler developed plans for the register as their second-year independent research project. Alan R. Erwin, Director of the Texas Office of State-Federal Relations, wrote to Sesler and Lalla in May: "It is a credit to your work that the State Register bill is the first major piece of legislation proposed by Governor Briscoe in January to have now been signed into law."

"The time and dedication you contributed to the bill was responsible for its successful passage. You not only gained valuable experience as a graduate student, but made a lasting contribution to better state government."

The project was done for Secretary of State Mark White, who with Attorney General John Hill spoke at the luncheon. Bill Didlake was the project director, Dagmar Hamilton the faculty advisor, and Emmette Redford the second reader.

STUDENTS CHOOSE REPRESENTATIVES

Student representatives and committee members for 1975-76 have been elected by LBJ School students.

First-year class representatives are Luis Vallejo and Scott Fleming, while Larry Eisenberg and Frank Sturzl were elected to represent the second-year class.

Committee members from the first-year class are Admissions and Financial Aid, Bob Farley; Speakers, Herb Rubenstein and Lynn Cooksey; Internship, Rodney Ellis and John Hunt; Placement, Cindy Martin; Library-Publications, Marc Jacobson.

Second-year committee members are Admissions and Financial Aid, Peter Lemonias; Speakers, Dave Perry; Internship, Cris Klauser and Rick Gentry; Placement, Al Giles and Melanie McCoy; Library-Publications, Dan Friedhoff; and Faculty Recruitment, Gwen Winnig and Bill Emory.

Once monthly (second Tuesday) the student representatives will meet regularly with the Dean, Associate Deans, and Director of Student Affairs.

TDPW TO SUPPORT ELDERLY FOOD PROJECT

On September 4, Commissioner Raymond Vowell of the Texas Department of Public Welfare signed a contract which provides financial support for LBJ School participation in a project designed to develop a new type of meals system for the elderly. Working together with National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and an Austin-based social services group, United Action for the Elderly (UAE), an attempt will be made to use advanced food technology to provide rural and urban elderly with one hot meal a day, seven days a week.

The LBJ School team is responsible for evaluating the project during its various stages. An attempt will be made to analyze the contribution of the meal system to a general strategy of providing the elderly with alternate (non-institutionalized) care. Other members of the project team assist UAE in developing the meals delivery system in a number of communities. A preliminary two-week demonstration is scheduled for October. Based on experience gained, a three-month demonstration will follow early next year.

PRICE TO SPEAK ON SCENCE INDICATORS

Dr. Derek Price, Avalon Professor for History of Science at Yale, will speak on "Science Indicators" on Friday October 3 at noon in room 3.111 at the LBJ School.

Price, who holds doctorates in both physics and the history of science from Cambridge University, is one of the leading scholars in the area of science policy.

He is a former Guggenheim Fellow and president of the International Commission for Science Policy Studies.

ALUMNI HOST MEETING

The LBJ School Alumni Association will host a gathering for LBJ School students at 5:30 p.m. on Monday October 6 at the Alumni Center. "A Potpourri on State Government" will be the subject of a discussion by the alumni group. All students are invited.

HAZLETON RETURNS FROM MIDDLE EAST

After nearly two years of "very rewarding" work in the Middle East, Dr. Jared E. Hazleton, associate professor of public affairs, has returned to the LBJ School and resumed his teaching assignments, which include a section of the first-year political economy course.

Hazleton, his wife Elaine, and three children left Austin in December, 1973, for Amman, Jordan. He returned here in mid-September, although his family had moved back to the United States a short time earlier.

Hazleton worked on a variety of projects for the Ford Foundation. His primary assignment was as a project specialist in economic research, working with the Royal Scientific Society in Jordan. However, his work also took him to nearly all the Arab countries in the Middle East, including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Lebanon, Kuwait, and Bahrain.

He said that he found that "our approach here at the LBJ School" was, in many respects, applicable to his efforts to foster economic planning from a public policy viewpoint. Likewise, he found much in his experience that he will be able to apply to teaching and research here.

Hazleton said this is a period of "radical change in the Middle East," and that the impetus for the change came from the 1973 war.

Changes in Area

Having made several visits to the area before 1973, Hazleton noticed "a tremendous psychological change." It was important, he said, that the "Arabs feel they won the war--at least, for the first time, they were not defeated."

He said "there was a reversal of the spirit of Nasser," with a move away from tightly centralized control of the economy and on the freedom of the individual. This was particularly true, he said, in Egypt, but also in Syria and even in Iraq.

"There is a real difference in feeling and a belief that it is possible to find a rational solution to their problems," he said.

Hazleton said he expects that there will be official moves for re-establishing closer relations with the West and pointed out that many individuals have maintained a feeling of close ties all along.

"They want to be friendly with us, although they don't want to be in anyone's camp."

Because of these changes in official attitudes, Hazleton said "it was a good time to be there."

Another major factor affecting the area is the increased oil revenue. "This opens up great possibilities for solving problems," Hazleton said, "if they can harness the oil revenues to meet the needs of people throughout the region. It gives of Jordan, various government agencies problems and it creates a much more optimistic attitude."

Work in Jordan

In Jordan, Hazleton's work was aimed at helping to attract back to Jordan people with scientific training and to utilize them in meeting the country's needs. The Royal Scientific Society, to which he was assigned, is under the patronage of Crown Prince Hassan, brother of King Hussein.

He worked with Jordanian economists in setting up a Department of Economic Research and trying to stimulate and coordinate economic research in public policy in conjunction with the University them a chance to come to grips with their and the Royal Society.

"We were successful in establishing the Department of Economic Research and staffing it with young economists. We got out about 12 reports or scientific papers dealing with economic issues in Jordan," Hazleton said.

"I had the feeling that we were successful, although we had some difficulty in building the department because of the difficulty of attracting economists back to Jordan. Many of them were in the U.S. or working in international agencies for higher salaries."

"We also found it difficult to get research done because of the division between the various agencies and organizations. There was a lot of institutional feuding, which made it difficult to coordinate," he said.

He pointed out that helping Jordan plan economic development was complicated by the fact that the country "receives an abnormal amount of external aid." He said, "The U.S. provides $80 million a year in direct support and many of the oil-exporting countries in the Middle East also provide support. Consequently there is a lack of discipline and incentive to plan better. Planning tends to focus on specific projects without an overall development strategy."

"However," said Hazleton, "the potential is there. Jordan could perform much better than other less-developed countries."

He said that from the public policy viewpoint the problem was not so much related to the technical aspects of development planning, but getting the resources needed for economic policymaking and planning and coordinating the various economic policies of government. Coordination is made more difficult because of the involvement and influence of various personalities with their own interests.

Other Countries

In Egypt, Hazleton worked on a proposed research project with the Institute for National Planning. Here he encountered problems trying to get people to do relevant research. He said the Western-trained economists were willing to do research but that the "research was not really dealing with Egypt's problems." Russian-trained economists, on the other hand, were not really interested in research, but instead operated out of strong ideological commitment.

In Bahrain, a newly-independent Persian Gulf nation, Hazleton worked with "one of the top young government officials in the Ministry of Finance" and submitted a 125-page report on Revenue Expenditure Problems and Prospects for Bahrain. The small nation faces the prospect of running out of oil and "will have to face up to a significant change in their economic situation."

Hazleton also worked on projects in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and at the University of Aleppo in Syria.

He also made numerous trips to Beirut, Lebanon, where the Ford Foundation has its regional office. On several of these visits he encountered problems because of the outbreak of civil war in the country. On one visit in April "we watched a battle from our hotel room window."

Hazleton described his stay in Jordan as "extremely pleasant" and said "it was rewarding not only to me personally but to all my family."

He was able to travel on the West Bank and to visit several archeological sites in the area and pursue an interest in ancient pottery.

STUDENTS AUTHOR INDICATORS HANDBOOK

Community Indicators For Your City is the title of a Student Independent Project Report recently published by the LBJ School which will serve as a guide for city officials interested in setting up community indicator systems.

Authors of the publication are Jan Godfrey and Jim Weaver, 1975 graduates. The book was funded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in cooperation with the Texas Department of Community Affairs. Project advisors were Paul E. Shoemaker and Allan S. Mandel.

The publication is a follow-up to work done in Policy Research Projects at the LBJ School during the 1972-73 and 1973-74 school years. The first of the projects, the Community Analysis Research Project (CARP) was designed to research the current state of indicator technology and assess the possibility of applying this technology to the urban decision-making process. The second year, under the Community Activity Indicators Project (CAIP), indicator systems were actually set up in several cities in HUD Region VI, which includes Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana.

Community Indicators For Your City outlines how to set up an indicator system and presents the uses for such a system.

In their preface to the report, authors Godfrey and Weaver wrote: "After discussion with regional HUD personnel following these two (Policy Research) projects, it was determined that there was a gap between the largely academic nature of the two previous projects and the necessary practical information needed by cities which might be interested in implementing the indicator system. This handbook should help bridge this gap by being a useful guide for city officials interested in setting up an indicator system. Practical ways in which these systems can be used in normal city decision-making processes are also present."

The publication, which sells for $3, is available from the LBJ School's Office of Publications.

PUBLIC ARTS POLICY SUBJECT OF PROJECT

Public policy toward the arts is the focus of one of the new policy research projects now under way in the LBJ School.

Three faculty members and 16 students will analyze the impact of public policies on the arts and recommend ways such policies might be improved to facilitate the work of artists.

Although national policies in the arts will be examined, the primary target of the study is Texas' public policy toward the arts and how that compares with the policies of other states.

Directing the project are Dr. Albert Blum and Dagmar Hamilton of the LBJ School Faculty, and Dr. Leslie Wyatt, assistant professor of art and assistant to the dean of the UT College of Fine Arts.

Dr. Blum notes that governments in varying degrees foster public policies that help sustain man's spirit, as well as his physical well being.

Ireland, for example, gives tax benefits to its artists, he says. Only 10 years ago, the U.S. established the National Endowment for the Arts which, among several of its activities, helps promote the arts through matching grants to state arts councils.

The LBJ project will be looking at the role of various Texas state agencies in the arts, primarily the Texas Commission on the Arts and Humanities.

The project also will explore the economic benefits to communities--in the form of increased tourism or attractiveness to industry--that accrue when a new art museum or opera company is formed, for example.

In addition, the study will try to determine educational benefits that come from various artist-in-school programs and from increased awareness of citizens for the arts.

Other policy questions will range from how the arts can be brought to citizens who never darken the door of a museum or concert hall to how local talent can be encouraged and recognized.

Dr. Blum hopes the LBJ School study, in analyzing how public policy can help make the arts a more meaningful aspect of human life, will develop materials that could be useful to other states. In addition, LBJ students participating in the analysis will gain insights that could be useful if they choose to become professional employees of public agencies in the arts, he says.

LBJ SCHOOL CALENDAR, OCTOBER 1975

1 Student Meeting, 12 Noon, Student Lounge

2 Public Personnel Management Institute, Thompson Center [through Friday];

Film: Cuban Missile Crisis, Policy Process Classes, 1:30 p.m., room 3.109

3 Dr. Derek Price, 12 Noon, room 3.111

4 UT Football, Utah State at Austin

5 (SUNDAY)

6 LBJ School Alumni hosts LBJ School students, Alumni Center, 5:30 p.m.

7 Brown-bag Luncheon, 12 Noon Student Lounge, Walter Richter

10 First-Year Students Computer Session, 1-5 p.m.

11 UT Football, Oklahoma at Dallas

12 (SUNDAY)

14 Student Representatives meet with Deans and Student Affairs Director, 12 noon

17 First-Year Students Computer and Writing Session, 1-5 P.M.

18 UT Football, Arkansas at Fayetteville

19 (SUNDAY)

20 Faculty Meeting, 12 Noon

24 First-Year Students Computer Session, 1-5 p.m.;

Dean Cannon hosts gathering for First-Year students and faculty 5 p.m.

25 UT Football, Rice at Austin

26 (SUNDAY)

30 Prof. Max Beloff speaks,11 a.m., ECLH

31 Meeting on Science Policy, Nuclear Division, American Physical Society