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Inauguration Walter I. Garms gets a handshake and a plaque from President Sproull (at lectern) on the occasion of his recent inauguration as dean of the Graduate School of Education and Human Development. The third member of the trio is Faculty Marshal Richard F. Eisenberg '45, '48G, associate professor in the College of Engineering and Applied Science, who as University marshal carries the mace at ceremonial University functions. A nationally known authority on educational financing and administration, Garms has been a member of the Rochester faculty since 1972. African visit President Sproull was in Africa last fall as a member of a delegation that was, among other concerns, charged with investigating ways of sharing U.S. technical, scientific, and educational expertise with developing countries in that continent. The twenty-eight-member delegation was headed by President Carter's Science Adviser, Frank Press, and included heads of such federal agencies as the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. Sproull and Harold Enarson, president of Ohio State University, represented private and public universities, respectively. In reporting about the visit, Sproull said, in part: "The result of our trip was both encouraging and sobering. It seems clear that not all of the fifty countries in sub-Saharan Africa are likely to survive with independent and democratic governments, or to attain such if they do not already have them. "There are particular reasons why the four we visited [Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Kenya, and Senegal] can become especially strong and why the United States should be a part of that strengthening. Each of the countries has its own special opportunities; each has its special and serious problems." 22 Birds of a feather Why do certain birds prefer to feed in groups? And what determines the size of those groups? These are questions Thomas Caraco, assistant professor of biology, has been asking himself. By observing the behavior of a group-feeding bird, the yellow-eyed junco, over long periods of time, Caraco has been able to develop mathematical models that predict the size of such groups under a given set of conditions. He found that as flock size increases, each bird is able to spend less time on the lookout for predators (in this case, mainly hawks) and more time on feeding. However, aggressive behavior and territoriality tend to increase, keeping the flock size in check. Environmental factors, such as temperature and food density, also playa role. Temperature is critically important: Birds must eat more in cold weather to maintain their body heat, so they have less time available for aggression. Thus, as the weather grows colder, the flocks grow larger. By studying such simple animal groupings, using mathematical models, ecologists hope to develop techniques for analyzing the interactions within more complicated animal societies. William F. May '37 New professorship The William F. May Professorship in Engineering has been established at the University with support from the American Can Company Foundation in honor of William May, recently retired chairman of the board of the corporation. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University's class of 1937, May is chairman of the executive committee of the University's Board of Trustees and chairman of the Trustees' Visiting Committee for the College of Engineering and Applied Science. May joined American Can Company in 1938 as a laboratory technician. Following his retirement from the company in October, he became dean of the New York University Graduate School of Business. A national leader in cultural, business, and philanthropic organizations, May holds the National Conference Brotherhood Award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, the Humanitarian Award of the Association for the Help of Retarded Children, and the National Collegiate Athletic Association Award. He has served on numerous boards, including those of New York City's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the United Nations Association of the United States, the American Museum of Natural History, the Council for Financial Aid to Education, and the Committee for Economic Development.
A good bet Is college still a good investment? Hal Cline, assistant professor of economics at the Graduate School of Education and Human Development, thinks so. But although the investment of time and money in a college degree still provides a good return, Cline says, recent studies indicate a slight drop: The rate of return is probably about nine percent now, as against ten percent a decade ago. Compared to other investments that have not kept pace with inflation, however, such as a savings bank account, college is still a good bet. According to Cline, studies by other researchers showing that college doesn't payoff the way it used to have ignored the way the composition of college students has changed in recent years. "Colleges have become more accessible now to a larger proportion of the population," he explains. "The 1960s were a time of great expansion in the number and kinds of colleges, a time when important legislation improved equality of educational opportunity. "Some studies have lumped together very different kinds of students to make their comparisons. The decreased average salaries for college graduates relative to other groups do not indicate a decreased rate of return to an individual; they indicate expansion of educational opportunity. " These figures shouldn't affect an individual's decision to go to college, Cline advises. The important question is, "If I go to college, what will it do for me?" In the media Readers of national publications, as well as of scientific and professional journals, regularly come across references to the scholarly activities-and professional judgments-of people at the University. Following is a cross section of some of those that you might have seen in recent months: o Eastman School student William Eddins '83 grinned proudly in a photo in a recent People magazine. As well he might. William, fifteen and a sophomore, is the youngest undergraduate to enter the University in recent memory. He gained this distinction by skipping second and third grades-and by being a firstrate piano player (he was one of twelve pianists, out of 200 applicants, selected for places in his class at Eastman). Now a student of David Burge, professor of piano and cochairman of the keyboard department, he ended his first year on the honors list. So much for what one of his friends wrote, in affectionate salute, in his high school yearbook: "To the shrimpiest boy in the class." D "Medication and diet aids may be all right for the short term [if you want to lose weight], but eventually you are going to have to change your eating habits," says Dr. Robert Campbell, an endocrinologist and professor of internal medicine at Rochester. He was quoted in the October 1980 issue of Science Digest in an article on how to control appetite and Chase-Riboud Prize winner Barbara Chase-Riboud (above), a sculptor and poet of American and Canadian descent, is also a novelist of note: Her 1979 work, Sal[y Hemings, has won the most recent Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, given each year by the University's annual Writers Workshop and the Department of English. The prize honors a work of fiction by an American woman. Among Chase Riboud's predecessors as winners of the Kafka Prize are Mary Gordon, author of Final Payments (a portion of which was reprinted in the Spring 1980 Rochester Review), and Judith Guest, whose Kafka Award-winning novel, Ordinary People, was made into one of 1980's most successful films. eating behavior. In the article, he explained the limitations of over-thecounter diet aids containing bulk. D Do pretty girls get more dates? The answer is no, according to an article in Seventeen magazine. The article cited a study-written by associate professor of psychology Harry Reis, professor of psychology Ladd Wheeler, and John Nezlek of the College of William and Mary-that found no correlation between looks and social life. "Beauties are supposed to be incredibly desirable," Professor Reis told Seventeen. "But men paint an unrealistic picture of such women." Men are afraid to be rejected by them, so beauties may lose out, he says. Reis also discussed attractiveness and dating in a "Today" show interview. A report about his findings has been syndicated to newspapers around the country. The study had been mentioned in an earlier Time magazine column. D How to get the most out of freshman orientation week was the subject of a recent column in Glamour. The column quoted advice from Miriam Rock '42, associate dean of the College of Arts and Science at Rochester. Her suggestions to incoming freshmen included getting to know their advisers, other faculty, and administrators; selecting courses carefully; becoming familiar with the campus and community; solving any last-minute financial aid problems; and checking out college athletic facilities. D "The director is blind and uses a braille script, but he has an eye for drama," announced the headline on an Associated Press story about David Richman, assistant professor of English and director of the U niversity's Drama House. The article described Richman's techniques in directing Macbeth, presented this past summer by the University of Rochester Summer Theatre. DThe nausea, vomiting, water retention, and irritability that characterize premenstrual syndrome can be treated medically, Dr. Anthony Labrum states in an article in Science Digest. Dr. Labrum is associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology and of psychiatry at Rochester. Most premenstrual symptoms are 23
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