February 1979

THE RECORD

No. 59

LYNDON B. JOHNSON SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

EDITOR: Marilyn Duncan

Government-Business Partnership To Be Explored at March Conference

The current and potential relationships between the public and private sectors will be the topic of discussion at an upcoming symposium to be held March 1-2 in the East Campus Lecture Hall.

The symposium, entitled "The Business of the Nation and the Nation's Business: Toward a New Partnership," is being jointly sponsored by the LBJ School, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, and the UT Graduate School of Business.

Keynote speaker for the event will be Felix Rohatyn of Lazard, Freres, and Company, a major investment banking firm in New York City. Rohatyn is best known publically for his role in developing the Municipal Investment Corporation (MAC), which has kept New York City from going bankrupt.

The morning session on March 1 will feature a speech and panel discussion on the "Rationale for a Business-Government Partnership." Speaking on this topic will be Robert Anderson, Chairman of the Board, Atlantic Richfield Company. Invited panelists for the session include W. Donham Crawford, Chairman of the Board, Gulf States Utilities Company; Leonard S. Silk, member of the Editorial Board, The New York Times, and William I. Spencer, President of Citibank, N.A.

The afternoon session includes a speech by Robert Strauss, Special Representative for U.S. Trade Negotiations, on the topic, "Priorities for Partnership." Panelists will be Jack T. Conway, Senior Vice-President of United Way; William K. Coors, Chairman and Executive Officer, Adolph Coors Company; and John E. Swearingen, Chairman of the Board, Standard Oil Company.

On Friday, March 2, the morning program will be devoted to discussion of ways to overcome fundamental barriers to partnership. Addressing the topic will be Donald Rice, President of the RAND Corporation. Panelists will include Harvey Kapnick, Chairman, Arthur Anderson and Company; Ira Millstein, of Weil, Gotshal, and Manges; John Post, Executive Director, Business Roundtable; and Joseph C. Swidler, of Leva, Hawes, Symington, Martin, and Oppeheimer.

The afternoon session will conclude the symposium with a look at developing a new partnership between business and government. Moderator for the panel will be Walt W. Rostow, UT Professor of Economics and History. Scheduled panelists include John Gardner, author and current Chairman of the President's Commission on White House Fellows; Frank Ikard, American Petroleum Institute; Charls (sic) Walker, of Charls E. Walker Associates, Inc.; and Roger B. Smith, Executive Vice-President of General Motors.

Keith Arnold Retires from University

Dr. R. Keith Arnold, member of the LBJ School faculty since fall 1973, retired from the University January 15.

Dr. Arnold, a specialist in forest ecology and natural resources, served as the School's Associate Dean from November 1974 to June 1977, and held the position of Assistant Vice-President for Research in the University administration from 1976 through August 1978.

In addition, he served as Acting Director of the Port Aransas Marine Laboratory of the UT Marine Science Institute for the Fall 1978 semester.

Dr. Arnold's extracurricular activities have been extensive. His memberships and special assignments include the Society of American Foresters (President 1976 and 1977), the Executive Board of the Man and Nature Organization, the Texas Coastal and Marine Council, and the Governor's Remote Sensing Task Force, among others.

Dr. Arnold is currently in Ft. Collins, Colorado, where he is working with a training program for mid-level government professionals in resource conservation. He plans to return to Austin in mid-March, but will be leaving periodically to serve guest lectureships at various universities, including a spring guest appointment at Texas A&M University.

Despite his many commitments, the LBJ School looks forward to continued close association with Dr. Arnold, as he will maintain his office in Sid Richardson Hall.

'ON THE RECORD'

Dean Elspeth Rostow held a reception for LBJ School graduate Ed Emmett on Monday, January 29 in the School's Student .Lounge. Mr. Emmett, a 1974 graduate, is a newly elected Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives. Attending the reception were LBJ School students, faculty, staff, and alumni.

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On January 31, Associate Dean Jared Hazleton spoke to the University Area Kiwanis Club on the topic, "Economic and Political Trends in the Middle East." Dr. Hazleton also spoke on that subject January 5 as part of an outreach program sponsored by UT's Center for Middle Eastern Studies for high school social science teachers.

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Dr. Norton Grubb will be in Washington, D.C. on February 6 to testify before the Senate Subcommittee on Child and Human Development. His testimony will relate to a child care bill introduced by Senator Alan Cranston.

On February 17, Professor Grubb is scheduled to participate on a panel on policy issues at the annual meeting of the Austin chapter of the American Association for the Education of Young Children.

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Dr. Henry Aaron, Senior Fellow at Brookings Institute and a former Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at HEW, gave a seminar at the School January 26 on national health insurance choices facing the Carter Administration.

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Professor James Roach was in Washington, D.C. on January 25 and 26 to preside over the Indo-American Selection Committee, a program that awards about twenty-five full- and short-term research grants to post-doctoral scholars and professionals for work in India.

On February 22 through 24 Dr. Roach will travel to Charleston, S.C., where he will attend a meeting of the Indo-American Subcommission Committee on film and broadcasting. This committee is interested in documentary and educational film-making and radio/television production and programming. Among its activities are the exchange of active professional persons with India and the development of collaborative film and broadcasting projects.

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Faculty secretary Mary Donley left the School at the end of January to take a position as bilingual executive secretary in the representative office of Petroleos de Venezuela in Houston. Ms. Donley had worked at the School one year.

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New to the School's staff is Sarai Cardenas, administrative secretary in the Office of Conferences and Training. She comes to the School from Del Rio, Texas, where she worked as administrative assistant in Congressman Bob Krueger's local Congressional Office.

Ms. Cardenas replaces Nancy Bussey, who left the School in January to stay home with her four-month-old son.

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This year's LBJ School Follies, scheduled for February 1, missed the deadline for this month's Record. The advertisements for the event have been strictly off the record and off the wall, but hopefully with proper editing a report will appear in the next issue.

Program for Minorities Scheduled for February

A recruitment program for Black and Mexican-American students is scheduled for February 16–17 at the LBJ School. The program is being coordinated by the OACIP under the direction of Elizabeth Hall. Over 100 Black and Mexican-American students who are currently juniors or seniors in Texas colleges and universities and who are interested in learning about the School's two-year MPA program have been invited to participate in the two-day event.

The program will give interested applicants an opportunity to visit with LBJ School faculty, administrators, students, and alumni to learn about the goals of the degree program and the career opportunities available to graduates. A dinner to be hosted by Dean Elspeth Rostow on the evening of February 16 will include guests from outside the School with interests in attracting Blacks and Mexican-Americans to careers in the public sector.

Invited guests include Representatives Wilhelmina Delco and Gonzalo Barrientos of Austin; Dr. John Warfield, director of the UT Afro-American Studies Center; Dr. Arnold Vento, director, and Dr. Americo Paredes, former director, both of the UT Mexican-American Studies Center.

Soviet Dissident Criticizes CIA at Brown Bag

A Soviet dissident aired some of his views on U.S. foreign policy and intelligence operations in a brown bag seminar held at the School January 24.

Lev Navrozov, who lived and wrote in the Soviet Union until forced to leave that country in 1972, said his dissatisfaction with foreign policy in this country led him to analyze the CIA and its operations in closed societies. His research has resulted in a number of critical articles, the most recent of which appears in the September 1978 issue of Commentary magazine.

Navrozov told students the article demonstrates the ineptness of the CIA by offering examples of disastrous intelligence activities in Russia and China. He said the agency has done more harm than good by misleading the President and the American public and causing U.S. foreign policy to be .based on false presumptions.

The author-critic explained that he and several other enlightened individuals established an organization for educating the public about the current ineptitude and deception in our foreign policy practices. The Center for the Survival of Western Democracies, of which he is director, is seeking to "pioneer an art and science of survival, a defense system of foreign policy." His articles, he said, are one step in this direction.

Navrozov's presentation was sponsored by the School's Speakers Committee.

Apprenticeship PRP Members Travel to D.C.

On January 17–19 representatives of the Apprenticeship PRP presented a progress report on their current research to the Federal Committee on Apprenticeship (FCA) in Washington, D.C. Participating in the presentation were faculty members Kenneth Tolo (Project Director), John Gronouski, and Robert Glover; second-year students Paul Hilgers and Jeff Clark; and first-year student Annette Lovoi.

The LBJ School project is examining two areas of concern to the FCA and the apprenticeship community: relations between the federal apprenticeship agency and those of the states, and the potential for improved linkages between pre-apprenticeship programs and CETA.

Professor Tolo, Mr. Clark, and Ms. Lovoi made an oral presentation of the project's accomplishments and future directions to the FCA Subcommittee on Goals and to the full committee. Also, the students conducted several interviews with labor, employment, and apprenticeship officials.

The next FCA meeting will be held in Austin April 1820, at which time the Apprenticeship PRP will present its findings and recommendations for the committee's comments and review.

[news item]

Computer Programmer Will Pang's hours have been changed. The revised hours are as follows:

MWF: 8 a.m.–12 noon; 1–3 p.m.

TTH: 8 a.m.–2 p.m.

Former Programmer Dianne Blackburn left the School in mid-January to work in Seattle, Washington.

ALUMNI FORUM

Upcoming Alumni Events

Three major continuing education programs are being planned for the coming months:

February

Harlan Cleveland, Director of the International Affairs Program at the Aspen Institute of Humanistic Studies in Princeton, N.J. and the Distinguished Tom Slick Professor of World Peace for Spring, 1979, will discuss his "New World Order" with alumni at a brown bag luncheon. Austin alumni will be notified of the date of the meeting by the phone network.

March

Barbara Jordan, the Lyndon B. Johnson Public Service Professor, will meet with contributing alumni for an informal evening session in late March or early April. Details will be announced when available. This will be an exciting opportunity to meet Ms. Jordan, and we hope that many alumni will be able to attend. If you have not yet contributed to the Alumni Association, you may do so by mailing a check to Bob Campbell, P.O. Box 13241, Austin, TX 78701. (Reminder: the suggested Austin alumni contribution is $10. This includes a free alumni directory, newsletter, and special events such as the session with Barbara Jordan and continuing education activities.)

April

The Alumni Association will sponsor a roundtable discussion with three former Austin mayors and current Mayor Carol McClellan. The group will discuss the changing nature of Austin as viewed during four mayoral terms. Details of this session will be announced in the March Record.

Internships

With increasing enrollment at the LBJ School, locating and placing student interns becomes more difficult each year. Alumni are urged to explore appropriate internship possibilities within their agencies or firms; please contact Wilda Campbell, Placement Director at the LBJ School, for further information.

Business and Government Symposium

The Board wil be happy to provide assistance in locating accommodations for any alumni travelling to Austin on March 1 and 2 for the Business and Government Symposium.

Call or write Malcolm McDonald for information.

Alumni Directory

The Alumni Directory has been published and mailed to all contributing alumni. Additional copies are available for $4.00 each. Current LBJ students may purchase the Directory for $2.00. Contact Dennis Deegear (P.O. Box 13241, Austin, TX 78701).

Nomination Procedure

The Alumni Board proposes the following nomination procedure for election of 1979–80 officers:

(1) Nominations will be accepted from May 15 through June 15, 1979.

(2) All nominations must be postmarked by June 15, 1979.

(3) If the nomination is not self-designated, the nominee must acknowledge his/her willingness to run for office by formally notifying the Board.

Any graduate of the LBJ School is eligible to serve on the Alumni Board, including graduating members of the 1979 class. Nominees may submit program statements to be published with the ballot.

This nomination procedure will cut costs because it will eliminate the need to mail out nomination ballots. A single voting ballot and nominee statements will be mailed to all alumni following the nomination period. Please notify the Board if you disagree with this proposed procedure.

PRP Research Indirectly Aids Chicago

For those who remember the School's role in developing and testing, in cooperation with NASA, shelf-stable meal units for the elderly, a recent episode will be of interest.

Professor Jurgen Schmandt reports that the day after Chicago became snowbound, the School received frantic calls for emergency delivery of NASA meal packages. Obviously none were available, either here or in Houston. But a private enterprise in New York City, which has been mailing prepackaged meals to social services nationwide since picking up the idea in 1977, was finally contacted, and a shipment of six hundred meals was sent to Chicago.

(The following report, labeled For Immediate Release, was received by the Record in late January.)

The Rocky Mountain chapter of the Lyndon B. Johnson School Alumni Association recently held its first annual brown-bag luncheon at the very chic Northern Hotel in Billings, Montana.

Guest speaker at the gala event was Michael Ross, a leading authority on coal development in the western states. Mr. Ross' speech was entitled, "Primary and secondary avenues to successful white-collar embezzlement: a case study."

In honor of the 100 percent attendance by the Rocky Mountain chapter*, Mr. Ross spoke from a specially constructed three-legged stool, handcrafted from prime Rocky Mountain balsa.

Mr. Ross was accorded honorary membership in the Rocky Mountain chapter for his "extreme puerility and lascivious frivolity." Shortly after, his stool collapsed and he was accorded a standing ovation.

*Both members attended (Dean Breitinger, Billings, MT, and Barbara West. Denver, CO, co-chairpersons of the RMCLBJSOPAAA).

Library "what's" line

Gifts to LBJ School Library

1975 Class Gift

The Graduating Class of 1978 has recently presented its class gift to the LBJ School Library. As announced during the Spring Commencement exercises, the class elected to create a gift fund for the Library, to which the '78 graduates might donate, rather than reclaim their University-required property deposit fees. Funds in excess of $300.00 have been accumulated, and will be used for the purchase of special reference materials which would otherwise be unavailable to the School Library.

Specifically planned for purchase are three volumes of the Readers' Guide to Periodicial Literature, covering the years 1965–1968. This acquisition will complete a full run of the serial index and will judiciously close a gap which, unfortunately, coincides with portions of the Johnson Presidential years. Also planned for purchase is a new edition of the Rand McNally Commercial Atlas and Marketing Guide, and if funds permit, retrospective volumes of the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences—political science, economics, and sociology series.

This gift is a significant contribution and substantially improves the level of support which the Library is able to afford the School curriculum. Equally important, the gift, as characterized by class representatives Laura Doll and Bryan Hamon, expresses "hope and support for future LBJ students...[and] represents [class] gratitude to the School...[and its] Library."

The LBJ School Library is grateful to the Class of 1978, both for its thoughtful gift and for its expression of good will.

LBJ School Contribution

The Deans of the LBJ School have recently reaffirmed their support of the Public Affairs Library. To strengthen the relationship between the Library and the teaching and research programs of the School, funds were made available for the purchase of monographs directly supporting the curriculum in the areas of energy, natural resources, and international affairs.

A brief analysis of the purchases reveals that 270 monographs were ordered with a total gift of over $4,000.00. These expenditures are tabulated according to curricular area and fractional distribution in the following table.

Books are beginning to arrive, and professors and students will be notified of publications related to known subject interests.

The Library is very appreciative of the continued support of the LBJ School and reaffirms its desire to serve the scholarly needs of the students, faculty, and staff.

	Energy and Natural Resources
Curricular Area	Encumbrance	Fractional Distribution
Transportation	$494.20	11.8%
Parks/Recreation	409.10	9.8
Heritage/Conservation	772.80	18.4
Energy	701.10	16.7
Regulation of above	88.50	2.1
	International Affairs
Peace/Conflict Issues	234.45	5.6
Development	796.70	19.0
Trade/Economics/Misc.	697.40	16.6

Natural Heritage PRP Report Released

Preserving Texas' Natural Heritage, a report resulting from the 1977–78 Policy Research Project, was published in January by the LBJ School. The book reviews the needs and opportunities for natural heritage preservation in Texas and examines current heritage efforts in the state. It explains how Texas can build a Heritage Preservation Program for the protection of irreplaceable resources, and recommends that the Texas Legislature establish such a program in this session.

The project was directed by Professor Keith Arnold and managed by John Hamilton, Research Associate and current Director of the Natural Areas Survey Project.

The report (PRP Report #31) is available from the Office of Publications at a cost of $3.00/copy (for mail orders, there is an additional 80 cents postage and handling) plus 5 percent state sales tax when applicable.

Illinois Legislative Interns Meet Here

Twenty-five Illinois Legislative Staff Interns visited the LBJ School January 21–22 to attend meetings on the workings of the Texas Legislature. The meetings were arranged by the School at the request of Sangamon University in Illinois, which coordinates a statewide program for interns.

LBJ Alumni who participated in the two-day event were Ed Emmett (class of '74), State Representative from District 78 in Houston; and Debbie Cartwright ('76). Research Director, Office of the Texas Speaker of the House. Also participating was Dora McDonald, part-time student at the School and staff member for State Senator Carl Parker.

Other speakers at the meetings included State Representative Gonzalo Barrientos of Austin; Texas Senators Ed Howard of Texarkana, and Carl Parker of Beaumont; Sam Kinch, Assistant Bureau Chief for The Dallas Morning News Austin bureau; Theo Brown, lobbyist, Texas Chapter of Common Cause; Tom Adams, Deputy Director, Office of State-Federal Relations; Janice May, Associate Professor of Government, UT Austin; Lynn Moak, Director of Research, Office of the Lieutenant Governor; Tom Keel, Director, Texas Legislative Budget Board; and local attorneys J. P. Word and Tony Korioth.

Spurr Article Examines Silviculture In U.S.

According to a recent article by Professor Stephen Spurr, the productivity of American forests can be doubled or tripled over the next fifty years through proper forestry management (silvicultural) techniques. However, the U.S. is "sadly lacking in definitive research studies that could have a broad application in the shaping of national policies on forests."

Dr. Spurr makes those observations in a major article in the February issue of Scientific American magazine.

"The biological productivity of the commercial forestlands of the U.S. is such," Dr. Spurr writes, "that the net realizable growth of the forests could be doubled within half a century by the widespread application of proved silvicultural practices." Such conventional practices, he points out, include the selective harvesting of mature trees "to encourage natural regeneration" and also the thinning of growing stands "to increase the growth in diameter of trees that will eventually be harvested."

Furthermore, Dr. Spurr goes on, a tripling of U.S. forest production could occur through widespread application of intensive silviculture (or "tree-farming"), which entails growing valuable commerical tree species in more or less pure stands. Such intensive silviculture, he says, would involve "the complete use of hardwoods and the utilization of the entire tree...."

In the article, the LBJ School professor points out that about one-third of the world's land area is forest and that almost half of the world's harvested wood is used for fuel. "At present wood serves as fuel mainly in the less industrialized countries," he notes. "It is quite possible that the industrialized countries will turn increasingly to wood as fuel, not so much by burning it directly as by making more use of bark and industrial byproducts and by converting wood or wood residues into methanol, gas and charcoal."

He says research in silviculture is carried out by the U.S. Forest Service at eighty-two laboratories, by workers at some sixty universities and by a limited number of wood-using industries. However, even though about "four hundred scientist-years" are devoted annually to research relating to the biology, cultivation and management of forests, to the genetics and breeding of forest trees and to the economics of timber production. Dr. Spurr claims that "not enough work has been done on a number of problems that have become major issues in the encounters between environmentalists and forest managers."

Among the kinds of questions Dr. Spurr thinks silviculture researchers should be working on are:

• How do forests of even age and uneven age (forests composed of different tree species and growing on different sites) compare in productivity and loss of nutrients?

• How do pure and mixed stands of trees compare on those matters and on relative vulnerability to insects, diseases, and other hazards?

(Adapted from UT News and Information Service release.)