THE RECORD

January, 1978

No. 48

LYNDON B. JOHNSON SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS,

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

EDITOR: Marilyn Duncan

DR. SINGER TO HOLD VISITING RICHARDSON PROFESSORSHIP

Dr. S. Fred Singer, a geophysicist and environmentalist from the University of Virginia, will teach at the LBJ School for two months this semester as Visiting Sid Richardson Professor.

Dr. Singer has held academic posts as professor, research scientist, and university dean. In a variety of governmental positions, he has served in Europe as scientific liaison officer in the Naval Attache Service, as the first Director of the U.S. Weather Satellite program in the Department of Commerce, and from 1967 to 1970 as Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Department of Interior.

During 1971 he was a Federal Executive Fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he studied the impact of governmental policies on population, natural resources, and environment, primarily from an economic point of view.

He has published numerous technical and general articles on the physics of the earth and solar system and on the physical environment with special emphasis on water resources, the atmosphere, oceans, and space. He has written and edited several books, most recently: Is There an Optimum Level of Population (McGraw-Hill 1971), The Changing Global Environment (Reidel, Boston 1975), and Arid Zone Development: Potentialities & Problems (Ballinger, Cambridge, 1977). He writes extensively for newspapers and magazines on public policy problems in the fields of energy and environment.

Dr. Singer, who will arrive January 18, will lecture on a variety of topics related to "Science and Public Policy" during his two-month appointment at the LBJ School. These include "The SST Case," "Automobile Emissions," "Carbon Dioxide and Climate Change," "Limits to Growth Unlimited," and "Oil, OPEC, and the National Energy Plan."

HAZLETON RETURNS FROM THE MIDDLE EAST

Professor Jared Hazleton, associate dean of the LBJ School, recently spent two weeks in Jordan as a consultant for the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Dr. Hazleton, an economist, reviewed an agricultural irrigation-social services land reform project in the Jordan Valley and advised on ways to evaluate its impact.

The U.S. is making investments in the Jordan Valley, he says, because it is interested in the political stability of Jordan, "and agricultural development is critical to that nation's future."

The Jordanian project involves the east bank of the Jordan River from the Lake of Tiberias (Sea of Galilee) on the north to the Dead Sea on the South. With the help of the U.S., Jordan is attempting to make that normally arid region more agriculturally productive through the use of irrigation and to attract more small farmers to the area through the delivery of social services such as highways, schools and housing loans.

Water for irrigation does not come from the Jordan River, "which is too saline," reports Dr. Hazleton, but from a partially completed canal that eventually will parallel the river for about fifty miles and capture fresh water run-offs from nearby highlands.

Tied to the Jordan Valley development are land reform measures that began almost twenty years ago to redistribute to small farmers some of the vast properties along the Jordan River that were previously held by "large tribal landowners," he explains.

Dr. Hazleton was in the Middle East from 1973 to 1975 as an economic adviser to Jordan's Royal Scientific Society. At that time he made the first evaluation of the impact of the irrigation canal project and the land reform laws.

(Derived from UT News & Information report.)

[news note]

First and second year students are asked to meet in the Student Lounge on Wednesday, January 18, at noon. Student representatives to School committees should come prepared to give brief committee reports.

'ON THE RECORD'

Professor Lynn Anderson was one of twelve persons appointed by Mayor Carole Keeton McClellan to the Mayor's Economic Task Force. The function of this committee is to appraise the city's current financial condition and to evaluate the city's financial management activities. Upon the completion of these tasks, the committee will be enlarged by additional mayoral appointments and the larger group will look at Austin's economic future and make recommendations to the council on fiscal policies to guide Austin for the next twenty years.

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Dean Elspeth Rostow has been invited to speak to the Texas Press Association on January 20. Her topic, in response to the other speaker's topic of "Survival of Newspapermen in a World Populated by Uptight People," will be "Survival in a World Populated by Uptight Newspaper People."

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Students who are interested in running for class representatives for the Spring Semester should sign up in the OACIP January 16–19. Ballots will be posted for verification on January 20, and elections will be January 23–24.

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Minority students of the LBJ School will host an open house for minority students of the University of Texas and Huston-Tillotson College on Thursday, February 2, from 2–5 p.m. in the Student Lounge. The OACIP is cohost.

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After much ado, the School's new PBX telephone system is now in service. Outside callers should note that the central switchboard number is 471-4962

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In order to better serve the faculty and students, the Public Affairs Library is extending its hours for the spring semester as follows:

Sunday:	1 p.m.—11 p.m.
Monday Thursday:	8 a.m.—11 p.m.
Friday:	8 a.m.—5 p.m.
Saturday:	10 a.m.—4 p.m.

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Professor Lynn Anderson was one of ten UT faculty members initiated into the UT chapter of Phi Kappa Phi national honor society in ceremonies at the Lyndon B. Johnson Auditorium on December 7.

The fall initiates, who included ten faculty members and 581 undergraduate and graduate students, were selected for membership in recognition of their superior academic achievement and good moral character.

LBJ School Dean Elspeth Rostow gave a speech on "The Tasks of the New Agenda."

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Professor Matthew Berman is in Alaska for nine months as a post-doctorate fellow in a Rockefeller Foundation program in environmental affairs. He will be working in Anchorage to help resolve emerging conflicts between economic growth and environmental preservation in the region.

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In addition to the employment changes of the alumni listed in the article on page 3, last minute information gives us these changes:

Stan Kaplan ('77) has left the Center for Defense Information in Washington, D.C. and will begin working at the California Energy Commission in Solar Policy.

Cindy Martin ('77) will soon leave U.S. GAO in D.C. and join the World Bank in Washington working, we believe, in economic development.

John Riddle ('77) left Dallas and the Building Trades and has accepted a position in D.C. with U.S. GAP.

NOMINEES FOR PRESIDENTIAL MANAGEMENT PROGRAM ANNOUNCED

The Dean's Office recently nominated eight second-year students for the Presidential Management Internship Program. The School nominees are Kenneth Apfel, Susan Bodilly, Bonnie Fisher, John Hall, Ellen Juran, John Schulze, Lee Solzbery, and Mary Kay Stack.

First alternates are Reed Greene and Aileen Whitfill, and second alternates are Chauncey Nealy and Catherine Sims.

The Presidential Management Internship Program was signed into order last summer by President Carter. The program will annually recruit 250–300 new graduates with MPA's to work for two years in executive agencies in Washington, D.C. and throughout the U.S. Placements will be made through the Civil Service Commission.

The School's Placement and Internship Committee interviewed twenty-three applicants and submitted a list of recommendations to the Dean's Office in December. Nominees were selected by the Dean and Associate Dean on the basis of the Committee's recommendations.

The applications of the School's eight nominees will be judged by a regional committee, which will make the final selection on the basis of such factors as scholarship, commitment to public sector employment, and ability to overcome social and economic barriers.

Selections will be announced in April.

DEAN RUSK TO BE FIRST VISITING RICHARDSON FELLOW

Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk will be visiting the LBJ School March 5–11 as the first Fellow in the Richardson Distinguished Visiting Public Officials Program.

The program will bring a series of distinguished public figures to the School to discuss informally various aspects of public policy from personal perspectives. Each visitor will be accessible to other departments on campus during the week he or she is at the University.

Mr. Rusk, who served as U.S. Secretary of State from 1961–69, is currently the Sibley Professor of International Law at the University of Georgia in Athens.

SPURR TO HEAD FORESTRY SOCIETY

Professor Stephen H. Spurr has been chosen president-elect of the Society of American Foresters. He will become the group's president in 1980 and serve a two-year term.

His position as the society's president-elect was assured when ballots of the organization named him the 1978–80 vice president (a post which is tantamount to being president-elect). The membership consists of more than 20,000 forestry professionals and forestry technicians, including LBJ School Professor Keith Arnold, who just completed a two-year term as president.

Dr. Spurr has served on the President's Advisory Panel on Timber and the Environment and is a current member of the board of the Nature Conservancy. He is the author of several books on forestry, including Aerial Photographs in Forestry, Forest Inventory, Photogrammetry and Photointerpretation, and Forest Ecology.

(UT News & Information Service)

MEAL SYSTEM CONFERENCE REPORT PUBLISHED

The proceedings of the national conference on the NASA Meal System, held in Washington, D.C. last June, was published recently by the LBJ School. Shelf Stable Meals for Public Sector Uses, edited by Professor Jurgen Schmandt, reports on the major sessions of the conference, which was cosponsored by the LBJ School and NASA.

The volume includes the conference report on the first demonstration of the meal system for the elderly conducted in 1976 in Texas (as described fully in PRP #16, Meals System for the Elderly). It also contains conference discussions on the potential uses of the meal system for various public sector needs, on a proposed national demonstration of the system for the elderly, and on the viability of the system's extension into private industry.

The publication is dedicated to Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, who was keynote speaker at the conference. His address on "Policy Priorities for the Aged" is included in the volume.

Copies are available at no charge from the Office of Publications.

ALUMNI FORUM

FINANCIAL REPORT

As of January 1, 1978, sixty-three persons have made contributions to the LBJ School Alumni Association, totalling $408.00. Expenditures to date are as follows:

Newsletter (including postage)	$ 50
Alumni Social at the Texas-Exes Center	$ 50
Christmas Party	$ 30
Directory (estimated expense)	$200
	$330
Balance	$ 78

We anticipate that some of the balance will be expended on the Professional Day tentatively planned for late February.

--Malcolm MacDonald

ALUMNI FIND NEW POSITIONS

Over the past few months several alumni have accepted new positions. Norm Linsky ('77) has left GAO and the United Mine Workers and has accepted a consultant position with Computer Sciences Corporation in Falls Church, VA. Steve Morgan ('77) is now a management analyst for the U.S. General Accounting Office, the Logistics and Communication Division, Washington, D.C.

Bob Nicholson ('77) has accepted a position as assistant planner in the Weber County Planning Commission (in Ogden, Utah). Wayne Roberts ('77) has joined the Texas Legislative Budget Board. Vicki Tynan ('77) joins several other LBJ graduates in the Austin Manpower Office, and Bonnie Young ('77) has left the Central Texas Health Systems Agency to become a planning assistant at the State Comptroller's Office.

James Dear ('76) has joined the Navy and is training for a Naval Intelligence position. Peter Lemonias ('76) has left Boston GAO and transferred to the D.C. office of GAO. Mike (Herman) Schwartz ('76) left Little Rock and went to Washington, D.C., where he accepted a position as a consultant with Public Technology, Incorporated. Dale Whittington ('76) is serving as a regional economist for the Ford Foundation in Cairo, Egypt.

William Wade ('75), after finishing his law degree, has gone to Galveston, Texas to join the law firm of Mills, Shirley, McMicken and Eckel. Mel Waxier ('74), another recent law school graduate, has accepted an attorney position with the Texas Railroad Commission.

Sharon Gillespie ('73) began this month a new position in Health Planning with the Office of the Federal Cochairman, Southwest Border Regional Commission in Washington, D.C.

There are probably other graduates who have made career changes this fall. The LBJ School Placement Office always welcomes news of such changes. Also, because the office frequently receives information about job opportunities, all alumni who might be considering changing jobs are encouraged to contact Wilda Campbell.

GRONOUSKI JUDGE IN HOMEMAKER EQUITY COMPETITION

Professor John A. Gronouski has been selected to serve on a seven-member panel of judges in a nationwide competition sponsored by Babson College of Massachusetts. The competition will involve the presentation of the Edward L. Bernays Foundation Award of $3,000 for a practical program to achieve economic justice for American homemakers.

The award will be given for the best essay of 5,000 words or less on the means of solving the problem of legal and economic inequities for homemakers.

The panel of judges includes, in addition to Dr. Gronouski, two presidents of women's colleges, Drs. Matina S. Horner of Radcliffe and Barbara W. Newell of Wellesley; the Banking Commissioner of Massachusetts, Carol S. Greenwald; well-known economist Robert J. Lampman of the University of Wisconsin; Congresswoman Margaret M. Heckler of Massachusetts; and Senator Wendell R. Anderson of Minnesota, author of the Homemaker Retirement Act of 1977.

Rules and conditions of the competition are posted on the second-floor bulletin board.

SOVIET DISSIDENT SPEAKS HERE

Vladmir Bukovsky, who from 1963 to 1976 spent eleven years in Soviet prisons and psychiatric detentions for his anti-Soviet beliefs, gave a public lecture in the East Campus Lecture Hall December 6 under the sponsorship of the LBJ School.

Mr. Bukovsky said he believed President Carter's stand on human rights had helped some people inside the Soviet Union to "speak up" and had made Soviet authorities "more cautious" in regard to oppressions and imprisonments for fear of spoiling U.S.-Soviet relations.

However, the speaker, who was released in the West in December 1977, noted that although there is considerable dissent inside the Soviet Union, most citizens do not feel free to express themselves.

Political opponents of the present regime, he said, can be tried not for their convictions but for "criminal offenses" such as the diffusion of ideas and information. And, although the new Soviet constitution, in theory, gives all citizens a "whole range of important human rights . . . every article which confers any such right now contains a qualifying phrase, which excludes any act not specifically aimed at strengthening the communist system."

Thus, Mr. Bukovsky said, one may "harbor any views one pleases, but God forbid that one express them orally or in writing."

He was critical of the policy of detente, which he said led to an easing up on behalf of Western nations on Soviet violations of the Helsinki Agreement relating to human rights, and called such a development a "direct betrayal of the East European countries."

He disagreed with what he said was a "Western demand" that to fulfill provisions of the Helsinki Agreement would damage detente and ruin East-West relations.

"With whom, may I ask, does the West wish to improve relations? With the peoples of the Eastern countries, or with their rulers?"

Mr. Bukovsky cautioned Western diplomats against thinking they can gain greater concessions from the Soviet Union by "various devices of quiet diplomacy."

"The epoch of the secret alliances and sly courtiers has ended even for diplomacy," he said.

"Openness and democracy in public life demand a similar approach in politics," he noted. "But for the leaders of the Soviet Union, for whom lack of openess is the most vital condition for staying in power, such behavior of the West is more convenient. This is exactly how the Soviet Union presses onward with its expansion."

Mr. Bukovsky asked: "Did not the West get enough lessons in secret diplomacy from Hitler and Stalin, which cost us millions of lives and the loss of half of the world?"

He added that "a number of Western countries are presently ready to abandon all demands for the implementation of the Helsinki Agreement itself, which provides for strict control of the terms agreed to."

Such an abandonment, he said, would betray the right to freedom of the deprived and oppressed nations in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and would mean "Western democrats are paving the way for tomorrow's victory of totalitarianism on their own territory for their own future enslavement and oppression."

(UT News & Information Service)

ACADEMIC CALENDAR

January

16	LBJ School Spring Semester classes begin
16-19	Late registration
23-24	Fee bill paying for students who register late. Deadline Tuesday, 5:00 p.m.
31	Deadline for graduating students to return Master's degree candidate packet to the Graduate School.

SPEAKERS PROGRAM FOR LBJ SCHOOL—JANUARY 1978

DATE	TIME	PLACE	SPEAKERS	TOPIC
January 17 Tuesday	12:00 noon	Student Lounge	Liz Carpenter, Martha Smiley, and Marta Cotera	IWY Convention
January 20 Friday	12:00 noon	Student Lounge	Jared Hazleton	Economic Development in the Middle East
January 24 Tuesday	7:00 p.m.	SRH 3.242	Barry Lovelace	Grant-Writing Workshop 1 (for students only)
January 25 Wednesday	7:00 p.m.	SRH 3.242	Barry Lovelace	Grant-Writing Workshop II (for students only)
January 27 Friday	12:00 noon	Student Lounge	Marvin Braiterman	Alienation and Anti-Politics in Public Service
January 31 Tuesday	12:00 noon	Student Lounge	Dr. Jared L. Cohon Assistant to Patrick Moynihan and Professor, Johns Hopkins University	Policy Analysis: Can It Be Done by Congressional Staff?