THE RECORD

FEBRUARY 2,1976

No. 17

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

EDITOR Hoyt H. Purvis

DEAN SEARCH COMMITTEE ISSUES FIRST REPORT

Jurgen Schmandt, Chairman of the Dean Search Committee, issued this first report on the Committee’s work.

On January 22, President Lorene Rogers met with the members of the Dean Search Committee. The Committee is charged to recommend to the President three or more candidates for the deanship. In case none of the candidates is acceptable to the President or all nominees reject the post, the following procedure will be followed:

"…the President may either request the Committee to make additional nominations or invoke such different procedure for selecting the appointee as the President deems appropriate, provided that such different procedure shall include consultation with the Committee before the President offers the position to any candidate." (Handbook of Operating Procedures, U.T. Austin)

The Committee elected Jurgen Schmandt as its Chairman and Frank Sturzl as Vice-chairman. The other members of the Committee are: Albert Blum, Henry David, Jesus Garza, Dagmar S. Hamilton, Jared Hazleton, Ray Marshall (economics), Emmette Redford, Sarah Smith, and Jerre Williams (Law School).

The Committee asked me as Chairman to regularly report to the LBJ School community about the procedures used by the Committee and progress achieved in its work. Consequently, I plan to report frequently about the Committee's work and to use The Record as the principle means of communication, thus reaching faculty, staff, students, alumni, and friends of the LBJ School. In addition, myself and other members of the Committee are always available to answer questions concerning our work. We ask for your active input into the selection process. In particular, I ask that you send me suggestions for suitable candidates. Wherever possible send along the candidate's vita and your particular reasons for believing that he or she would make a good dean. Please let me have your nominations as soon as possible–we hope to move fast. With the optimism of the first meeting, we set ourselves a tentative deadline of April 1 for our report to President Rogers.

At its first meeting the Committee discussed what we were looking for in the dean. While no person should be expected to meet all selection criteria, the Committee agreed that the following characteristics should be kept in mind in our search: age preferably not over 55 (and 60 at the outset), a commitment to further develop the basic educational philosophy of the LBJ School, a willingness to serve for no less than four years, significant experience both in public service and in academic settings, hopefully a person with national standing but equally comfortable in dealing with state issues and politics and, last but not least, a willingness and ability to work with students, faculty, and other groups within and outside the University, whose confidence is essential for effective administration.

To get started, the Committee will advertise the position both nationally and locally (New York Times, Sunday Edition, Washington Post, AAUP Bulletin, Science, Daily Texan and On Campus). This is in addition to an ad already placed by the President's Office in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

In order to generate nominations, we will also write to deans of schools of public affairs/public administration, review names considered by past search committees, and ask for inputs from the School's Faculty Recruitment and Dean Rusk Search Committees.

Once the field has been narrowed down and selected individuals are invited to visit with us, every effort will be made to give all LBJ faculty and students an opportunity to meet with them. At the same time, we agreed that no names will be discussed outside of the Committee prior to the extension of an invitation to visit Austin. In other words: our procedures and selection criteria will be fully disclosed while names of potential candidates will be kept confidential until the later stages of the search procedure.

One final point: the Committee discussed and fully agreed that all members of the Search Committee, whatever their status in the School, have the same rights as well as responsibilities.

For my colleagues working with me on this important assignment, I ask for your active support in finding the School's next dean.

-Jurgen Schmandt, Chairman Dean Search Committee

ROUNDTABLE VIEWS ECONOMY

A roundtable discussion on the current economic situation in the United States and the world was the subject of a school-wide seminar at the LBJ School on January 28.

Dr. Sidney Weintraub, recently named to the Dean Rusk Chair at the LBJ School, chaired the discussion. Weintraub has broad experience in international finance and economics and was assistant administrator of the Agency for International Development.

Also taking part in the discussion with a general outline of recent economic trends and prospects, noting unemployment and inflation figures and citing such factors as the major increases in oil prices. He did point out that the U.S. trade balance had gone from a deficit to surplus in 1975.

Hazleton focused on the impact of multinational corporations (MNCs) and said that 30 percent of the total American corporate earnings in 1974 were from overseas and that this was an increase from only 6 percent 10 years earlier. He said that the MNCs are "outside the control of any single country" and said more consideration should be given to the implications of the growth and power of the multinations.

Hazleton also dealt with the scarcity of raw materials and the economic problems of the less-developed countries (LDCs).

Rostow began with a review of cycles in economic history and the work of N.P. Kondratieff and Joseph Schumpeter in dramatizing and explaining these cycles.

Rostow said, "You've got to change the pattern of investment to get the world back into structural balance."

Noting that the "automobile has peaked out" as a major factor in U.S. economic growth, he urged investment in alternate energy sources, such as solar energy. He said a new phase of growth in the OECD World could be based on investment in new forms of energy, energy conservation, and agricultural research and development.

He was critical, of the "pathetic political debate" in the country as to an energy policy and said,” We are being inhibited not be MNCs but by Congress unwilling to make political decisions." He said "once you get a consensus" investments could be made on that basis.

"On the Record"

. Texas Attorney General John Hill is scheduled to speak at a brown-bag luncheon at the LBJ School at noon on Tuesday February 24 in the Student Lounge.

. Dr. Bertram Brown, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, will speak at a school-wide seminar on Wednesday February 11. Other featured speakers scheduled later this semester include Jack Valenti, who will speak on March 5, and Douglass Cater, who will speak in early April.

. Hannah Eisner and Scott Fleming have been elected as the new representatives of the first-year class at the LBJ School, while Sarah Cox and Larry Eisenberg have been chosen to represent the second-year class. The representatives were selected in class elections last week.

. Kent D. Talbot, director of policy reference services at the LBJ School, spoke on "Introduction to Legal Research" at a recent Law Firm Librarians Workshop in Houston. The workshop was sponsored by the State Bart of Texas. Professor Roy Mersky, law librarian at UT-Austin, was director of the workshop.

. A book review by Hoyt Purvis, director of publications, was published in the December issue of Texas Law Review. Purvis reviewed Stephen C. Schlesinger's The New Reformers: Forces for Change in American Politics. In the review Purvis discusses the true meaning of "reform" and its significance in contemporary political affairs.

. Ann Richards, active in Democratic Party affairs and a current candidate for Travis County Commissioner, will be the speaker for a student-sponsored brown-bag luncheon on Tuesday February 3. Ms. Richards has recently been an aide to State Representative Sarah Weddington.

. Guns or Butter?, a slide presentation on the military budget and national priorities, will be shown at a brown-bag luncheon in the Student Lounge at noon on Tuesday February 10. The slide show was produced by SANE, A Citizens' Organization for a Sane World, and is narrated by Paul Newman. A discussion led by Hoyt Purvis and Tom Howarth will follow the showing.

. Mr. Roland Moore of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget will conduct placement interviews at the LBJ School on Wednesday February 11. Dr. Charles Cranford, director of the Division of Resource Development for the Dallas Regional Office of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, will be at the LBJ School on February 13 for interviews. Details are available from the Placement Office.

. There are a number of new employees on the staff of the LBJ School. The new artist in the Office of Publications is Laura Eisenhour, who has a bachelor of fine arts degree from the University of Houston. Rita Tennison is the new senior clerk in Central Duplicating. In the Office of Student Affairs, Iris Hartman is a new secretary and Sandra Bernal is a clerk-typist under the work-study program. Carol Nittinger has been named as an administrative secretary in the Office of Conferences and Training and has just moved to Austin from San Antonio. Claire Brennan, who previously worked at Seton Medical Center, is now a senior secretary in the Office of Research. Charlotte Pollard is an administrative assistant in the Marine Science Institute.

CONFERENCE CONSIDERS LAND-USE POLICIES

Just as the public recognizes water and air as resources that need some kind of regulation, Texans now need to look at land as a similar resource, State Land Commissioner Bob Armstrong said January at a conference on land-use policy sponsored by the LBJ School and the Texas Advisory Committee on Intergovernmental Relations.

Mr. Armstrong said the issue of land management boils down to a leadership issue of effectively informing the public about the problems that result from "rapid and rampant growth."

"We are not talking about no growth," the land commissioner said in regard to the possibility of land management and control, "but about how we grow."

Stressing the need to address "ahead of time" the problems generated by growth, Mr. Armstrong said "growth is coming," citing a report that population in the South will increase by five million persons by 1980–"and Texas will get more than its share."

Poor land management can result in economic loss, he added, noting that it is expensive for cities to bring sewers or roads up to standard in substandard subdivisions the city plans to annex.

He suggested that developers operating outside the jurisdiction of a community be made to have some responsibility to the entire community.

Commissioner Armstrong said it is time for Texans to "look where we are, see what's left" and try to reach some "sensible agreement" between the advocates and opponents of land-use management.

David L. Callies, a Chicago attorney who is co-author of a book, "The Quiet Revolution in Land Use Control" told the participants that the "quiet revolution" in land-use matters sometimes is not so quiet.

What excites people, he said, is when land-use management shifts to land-use control.

Most of the quiet revolution, Mr. Callies continued, has come about in "response to a crisis."

Among major changes in land use that have evolved over the past few years, he listed:

. The shift from local to state governmental units of the authority to deal with land.

. A new mood at the judicial and legislative levels, particularly among judges who will be interpreting new state-level land-use laws.

. An increasing willingness on the part of federal agencies to set broad policy guidelines for land-use management.

Mr. Callies noted the difficulty in deciding where "the line be drawn between public and private interests."

Professor Richard RuBino of Florida State University told the conference that greater coordination of land-use planning is a "dollars and sense" proposition.

More effective use of tax dollars would result, Mr. RuBino said, if local planning organizations and processes were restructured to facilitate land-use management at the local level.

He also noted that since more effective land-use management has to occur somewhere, it is better for it to occur at the state and local levels or else eventually the federal government "will force it down our throats."

Urging local Texas governments to formulate comprehensive coordinated growth policies, he suggested that the responsibilities of local zoning commissions be expanded to assure better coordination over a wide range of land-use planning problems.

RuBino said local governments can handle most of the responsibilities of land-use planning and management but that all unmet state and local responsibilities in the land-use area will require the "positive attention and action of the state legislature."

"Problems of land use will not fade away," he continued, adding that each state has to move to protect its unique and critical areas from irreparable damage.

Mr. RuBino predicted that future land-use activities would be closely tied to economic development.

Land use is not tied solely to environmental concerns, Mr. RuBino explained, but also is related to economic and social issues. He deplored the nation's "myopia" in focusing on only one problem at a time rather than seeing the interrelatedness of all the concerns in the land-use issue.

He expressed the opinion that, on the national scale, the land-use movement is "not slowing down–it is still gathering a head of steam."

Also addressing the conference was John Mixon, a University of Houston law professor, who noted the "confusing array" of existing state agencies which all have some hand in land-use management.

He said Texas has not developed a background of planning that would provide policies for meeting federal guidelines pertaining to clean air, water pollution and environmental analysis, among other issues.

Such delay, he said, may cause Texas to "lose the opportunity to grow" by, in effect, forcing industries to locate in other states where there is more certainty about conformance with federal standards.

TWO POLICY RESEARCH REPORTS PUBLISHED

Reports from two Policy Research Projects conducted at the LBJ School during the 1974-75 school year have recently been published by the Office of Publications.

The Coastal Zone Management Project report is entitled An Institutional Analysis of Coastal Zone Management in Texas. The project, which received partial financial support from the Ford Foundation, the Office of the Governor of Texas, and the National Science Foundation, reviewed the relevant institutional structure within which a Texas coastal management program would be expected to operate.

Major recommendations of the report include:

. Texas should adopt a one-stop permit procedure for coastal developments.

. Texas should facilitate public participation in decisions which affect the coastal zone.

. There should be formal interactive arrangements among federal, state, and local agencies in a coastal management program to strengthen coordination and cooperation.

. A coastal management plan for Texas should meet the federal criteria set out by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

. The interdependencies of the coastal environment dictate the adoption of a regional approach in any coastal management program.

. Alternative plans ranging from a slight reorganization to a consolidation of all natural-resource related activities must be contrasted in terms of their relative abilities to mesh with the political realties of the state, as well as with state and federal requirements.

Dr. Kingsley Haynes, associate professor of public affairs, served as project director. Other faculty members were Dr. Stephen Spurr, Ralph Aldave, and Ralph Furtner.

Student participants were Peter Bernstein, Steven Cobble, Herbert Cowden, William Emory, Chris Evans, David Fege, Richard Gentry, Cynthia Keever, Christie Kennedy, William Lalla, Paul Lauder, Melanie McCoy, James Mitchell, Walter Moore, Joseph Motter, Barry Robinson, Gary Rose, Robin Tillman, Gerald White, and Diana Zuniga.

Copies of the 72-page publication may be purchased from the Office of Publications for $3 per copy.

The second report is a preliminary report issued by the Utility Regulation Project entitled Utility Regulation in Texas.

The report makes a number of recommendations concerning rate regulation, utility rate structures, utility accounting systems, purchased gas adjustment clauses, resource allocation for Texas utilities, quality of the consumed production, government intervention in utility service extension, protection of consumer rights, and social costs in public utility service. Among the report's recommendations are:

. Utility rate structure should be redesigned to insure a level of service adequate to meet basic residential needs and to discharge wasteful and inefficient use of energy resources.

. Gas utilities should be allowed to adjust their rates quarterly through the use of mandatory purchased gas adjustment clauses.

. The state should design service performance standards for utilities.

. Government should define the obligation of utilities to anticipate future demand for services.

. Government price controls and policies such as subsidies, which may result in over-consumption of resources, should be reviewed and corrected.

. Government should undertake to establish priorities for allocating services among existing users and between current and future users in the event that resources cannot be secured to meet the needs of both.

. The Legislature should pass comprehensive legislation designed to define and enforce consumer rights and utility responsibilities related to consumer relations. (The report lists specific recommendations for legislative provisions.)

. The establishment of authority to determine the price of social-cost abatement, to enable this cost to be included in the rate-making base and thus allow that cost to be paid by the consumers and the stockholders of the utility.

The three-part report includes sections on rate regulation, public utility service quality and the need for regulatory reform in Texas, and a model bill for a utilities commission.

Faculty members on the project were Professors Marlan Blissett, project director, Dagmar Hamilton, and G. M. Williams, Jr.

Student participants were Chet Allerhand, Bruce Byron, Mary Ann Coursey, Dan Frederick, Al Giles, Jane Ann Hart, Traci Harte, Keith Hopson, Linda Look, Malcolm MacDonald, Richard Rue, Herman Schwartz, Cindy Sesler, Peter Weingarten, David West, and Julius Whittier.

Copies of the report have been forwarded to members of the new state utility commission. A copy of the report is available in the Public Affairs Library.

HAYNES RETURNS FROM TRIP ITO MIDDLE EAST

Dr. Kingsley E. Haynes recently returned from the Middle East, where he was advising the Ford Foundation on its Resources and Environment Program.

Dr. Haynes visited two projects in Egypt–The Western Desert Modelling and Reclamation Project in Alexandria and Burg El Arab, and the Nile-Lake Nasser Project being directed out of Cairo.

He also spent a brief time in the Sudan at the University of Khartoum, where a small group is instituting the first environmental studies program in Africa.

Amman, Jordan was the last stop, where Dr. Haynes visited the site of a new Marine Science Center on the Gulf of Akaba on the Red Sea.

The primary focus of the consultation had to do with the integration of environmental research in policy formulation and project execution in the rapidly changing economies of the Middle East.

WATKINS BLAMES BIAS FOR CITY'S PROBLEMS

Al Watkins, instructor in government, speaking at a student-sponsored brownbag luncheon on January 27, said that the "crisis in the cities" is due to a "policy bias" in the federal government.

Watkins, a New Yorker, said the crisis has hit not only New York City but a number of other cities across the country.

He cited figures showing that the federal government has been collecting $7 billon more than it spends annually in New York State, while spending $1 billion more than it collects in Texas.

He said, "New York City has been subsidizing the growth of Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico. The federal government has been spending in the South and Southwest and draining resources from places like New York City."

Watkins cited military spending as a major factor supporting the economy in the Southwest and said, "San Antonio's growth is based on military spending. Otherwise it would be a tiny, small little hamlet."

Watkins commented that, "Those cities which tax least are getting the lion's share of federal revenue sharing."

Watkins was also critical of "federal government subsidies for automobile transportation through highway and street building" and said that in contrast the government "is doing little for mass transit in cities like New York."

The high cost of living in New York, he said, "necessitates higher salaries" although he did acknowledge that "union work rules and benefits such as large pensions" have contributed to the city's financial difficulties.

GRONOUSKI TO DEVELOP PLAN FOR MILWAUKEE INTEGRATION

Dr. John Gronouski, professor of public affairs, has been named by United States District Judge John Reynolds of Milwaukee as a special master of the court to supervise public school integration there.

On January 19 Judge Reynolds issued an integration order for Milwaukee schools and appointed Gronouski to develop a plan of integration to the submitted to the Court for its approval; to monitor its implementation; and to evaluate its effectiveness in achieving integration.

There is no deadline for Gronouski's plan, although he will submit a progress report to Judge Reynolds by May 1. Also Gronouski was given wide latitude for developing an appropriate plan.

The Milwaukee School Board is also being required to develop a plan and submit it to Gronouski.

Gronouski was given full power needed for the job and has been empowered to hold hearings and to subpoena records if necessary.

Gronouski issued this statement on the occasion of his appointment:

"I deeply appreciate the confidence Judge Reynolds has shown in me in appointing me special master with the task of developing a plan for implementing the law requiring intergration of the Milwaukee School System.

"This is a burdensome assignment which no one would casually assume. I do so fully aware of the difficulty of finding workable solutions to complex social problems. I bring to this assignment no ready answers or preconceived notions other than a firm commitment to the proposition that to have an orderly society we must accommodate to the rule of law.

"I ask all citizens and groups in Milwaukee to approach this period of transition with that sense of community which underlies Milwaukee's enviable record of progress and stability. I also ask for the help of the people of Milwaukee, for the development of a successful program of school integration requires the thoughtful inputs of a broad cross-section of individuals, groups and institutions that make up the community.

"It is my hope and expectation that, with the benefit of citizen contributions to its development, the plan I ultimately submit to Judge Reynolds win be regarded as fair and reasonable by the people of Milwaukee. I am also hopeful that once again, as has been the case so often throughout our history, Milwaukee and Wisconsin will demonstrate national leadership in pointing the way toward resolution of this most vexing and critical social problem."

HUMAN RESOURCE PAPERS PUBLISHED BY ASPA

The January issue of ASPA News and Views, the publication of the American Society for Public Administration, contains this report:

ASPA's Section on Human Resources Administration (SHRA) has just published Human Resource Administration a collection of selected papers presented at the 1975 ASPA National Conference in Chicago. The 76-page volume was edited by Beryl Radin of the LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin.

The areas covered include topics of a general nature, such as the effects of structure on the management of human resources programs, various tools for research and evaluation, and educational programs in human resource administration, to more specialized targets, such as criminal justice systems, programs for the elderly, and new developments in policies and direction in the provision of leisure services.

The publication was made possible through the cooperation of the LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin. Complimentary copies have been sent to all SHRA members.

WOOD TO SPEAK HERE

Dr. Robert C. Wood, President of the University of Massachusetts at Boston, will visit the LBJ School on Monday February 2 to meet with faculty and students in the Student Lounge from 1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.

In 1969 he was Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, having earlier served as undersecretary of HUD.

Dr. Wood has also served as professor and chairman of the Political Science Department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Additionally, he was director of the Joint Center for Urban Studies.

His publications include The Necessary Majority–Middle America and the Urban Crisis.