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Policy and Law Center Created by Sharon Clark News Bureau One out of every six educators in the United States is likely to be sued in any 12-month period according to UM education professor Dr. Robert J. Simpson, director of the recently established UM Center for Policy and Law in Education. Dr. Simpson, who is also state chairman of the National Organization on Legal Problems in Education, said the Center was created to inform educators of their legal rights and responsibilities, because of the growing confusion about litigation and legislation affecting education. It has become increasingly important for educators to be aware of these matters, he noted, particularly since a recent Supreme Court decision, Wood v. Strickland, stated that an educator may be held personally liable for his actions as an individual rather than as a protected official of an institution in instances where a student’s constitutional rights may have been violated. Headquartered on the UM campus in the School of Education, the Center translates the law for its clients through training, research, consultation and dissemination of information about consistent policies and effective practices. Dr. Simpson stresses that the emphasis is on preventive rather than procedural law. “The Center staff believes,” he said, “that when rights and responsibilities of all concerned with an educational agency or institution are clearly stated and mutually understood, cooperation minimizes conflict; reason replaces litigation. “Once litigation against an educator is initiated,” he continued, “it is usually too late for our services, and we recommend that an attorney be hired.” Areas with which the Center is concerned include policy development and maintenance, substantive and procedural due process, contract and tort liability, records and reports systems, school plant safety, adequacy of supervision, high risk activities, collective bargaining and students’ rights and responsibilities. Its clientele includes schools and colleges, school board members and administrators, faculty, staff and students. The Center staff have conducted numerous in-service programs such as that by education professor Dr. Thomas Vest on “Legal Concerns, of School Counselors” for guidance personnel from Broward and Dade counties. Simpson and Vest gave a major presentation on “Personal Liability of Board Members” at the annual meeting of the Northeastern Regional School Board Association in New Hampshire and have held similar programs recently in South Carolina and Ohio. Scientists Gather for Orbis Scientiae Yoichiro Nambu The eighth annual J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize will be awarded at the University Jan. 20 to Dr. Yoichiro Nambu, University of Chicago professor of physics. The 8:30 p.m. ceremony will be held in 126 Cox Science Building as part of the international Orbis Scientiae meeting. The Oppenheimer Prize, established in 1969 to honor outstanding contributions to the theoretical natural sciences and the philosophy of science, consists of a gold medal, a citation and a $1,000 cash award. The recipient is chosen each year by the international selection committee of the Center’s scientific council. The prize is coveted in the physical sciences second only to the Nobel Prize, said Center Director Dr. Behram Kursunoglu. Nambu is being honored for his groundbreaking contributions in high energy physics, Kursunoglu said. In a long list of Nambu’s accomplishments is the formulation of the Bethe-Salpeter equation, a means of describing fundamental particle interactions through fields. He predicted the existence of the omega-meson in the 1950s, years before it was discovered. In the 1960s he proposed the existence of nine elementary constituents of matter, a model which sowed the seed for current speculation on the nature of matter. Previous recipients of the Oppenheimer Prize have been Nobel Maurice Gusman Laureate P.A.M. Dirac, Florida State University; Abdus Salam, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London; Freeman Dyson, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University; Robert Serber, Columbia University; Edwin Salpeter, Cornell University; Steven Weinberg, Harvard University and Nicholas Kemmer, Edinburgh University. Women’s Committee Open Meeting Set The Women’s Advisory Committee on Academic Affairs will hold an open meeting for all interested female faculty members on Tuesday, February 10 at 3:30 p.m. in the Faculty Club. Organized in October 1972 by the Division of Academic Affairs, the Women’s Advisory Committee oj Academic Affairs was charged as follows: 1. To serve as liaison between the Academic Affairs Division and the University Women’s Commission on those matters that are purely of an academic nature. 2. To advise the administration internally within the Academic Affairs Division on specific problems which may arise (continued on page 4) by Valerie Rubin News Bureau Orbis Scientiae 1976, the “circle of knowledge” invitational conference on high energy physics sponsored at the University each year by the Center for Theoretical Studies, will be held Jan. 19-22. “In keeping with the established spirit of these conferences,” said Center Director Dr. Behram Kursunoglu, “most of the presentations of Orbis 1976 will be extensive reviews of new experimental and theoretical discoveries in the frontier areas of particle theory, high energy physics and fundamental physical theory.” Orbis sessions will be held in the Cox Science Building. This will be the 14th annual UM conference on high energy physics. In ceremonies Jan. 20, the J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize will be presented and Miami financier Maurice Gusman will be made a distinguished fellow of the Center in recognition of his continuing support of Center activities. Prominent among the Orbis sessions will be the Jan. 20 afternoon presentation on the controversial monopole theory. Nobel Laureate and Center Fellow P.A.M. Dirac of Florida State University will be among five scientists discussing the latest views on monopole. Dr. Kursunoglu, whose own theory on the relationship of the structure of elementary particles to the origin of the universe has gained world-wide attention, will moderate this session. Acknowledging that his field is the most esoteric and least popularly understood of the sciences, Dr. Kursunoglu maintains the answers to questions about the origin and nature of the universe will come eventually through theoretical physics. The federal government, he notes, will fund research in high energy physics to the tune of $250 million this year. Five Nobel Prize winners in addition to Dr. Dirac are listed among the 110 Orbis 1976 attendees: Dr. Murray Gell-Mann, California Institute of Technology; Dr. Lars Onsager, distinguished professor of the Center; Dr. Willis E. Lamb Jr., University of Arizona; Dr. Julian Schwinger, University of California at Los Angeles and Dr. Robert Hofstadter, Stanford University. Nambu Will Receive Oppenheimer Prize
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Full Text | Policy and Law Center Created by Sharon Clark News Bureau One out of every six educators in the United States is likely to be sued in any 12-month period according to UM education professor Dr. Robert J. Simpson, director of the recently established UM Center for Policy and Law in Education. Dr. Simpson, who is also state chairman of the National Organization on Legal Problems in Education, said the Center was created to inform educators of their legal rights and responsibilities, because of the growing confusion about litigation and legislation affecting education. It has become increasingly important for educators to be aware of these matters, he noted, particularly since a recent Supreme Court decision, Wood v. Strickland, stated that an educator may be held personally liable for his actions as an individual rather than as a protected official of an institution in instances where a student’s constitutional rights may have been violated. Headquartered on the UM campus in the School of Education, the Center translates the law for its clients through training, research, consultation and dissemination of information about consistent policies and effective practices. Dr. Simpson stresses that the emphasis is on preventive rather than procedural law. “The Center staff believes,” he said, “that when rights and responsibilities of all concerned with an educational agency or institution are clearly stated and mutually understood, cooperation minimizes conflict; reason replaces litigation. “Once litigation against an educator is initiated,” he continued, “it is usually too late for our services, and we recommend that an attorney be hired.” Areas with which the Center is concerned include policy development and maintenance, substantive and procedural due process, contract and tort liability, records and reports systems, school plant safety, adequacy of supervision, high risk activities, collective bargaining and students’ rights and responsibilities. Its clientele includes schools and colleges, school board members and administrators, faculty, staff and students. The Center staff have conducted numerous in-service programs such as that by education professor Dr. Thomas Vest on “Legal Concerns, of School Counselors” for guidance personnel from Broward and Dade counties. Simpson and Vest gave a major presentation on “Personal Liability of Board Members” at the annual meeting of the Northeastern Regional School Board Association in New Hampshire and have held similar programs recently in South Carolina and Ohio. Scientists Gather for Orbis Scientiae Yoichiro Nambu The eighth annual J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize will be awarded at the University Jan. 20 to Dr. Yoichiro Nambu, University of Chicago professor of physics. The 8:30 p.m. ceremony will be held in 126 Cox Science Building as part of the international Orbis Scientiae meeting. The Oppenheimer Prize, established in 1969 to honor outstanding contributions to the theoretical natural sciences and the philosophy of science, consists of a gold medal, a citation and a $1,000 cash award. The recipient is chosen each year by the international selection committee of the Center’s scientific council. The prize is coveted in the physical sciences second only to the Nobel Prize, said Center Director Dr. Behram Kursunoglu. Nambu is being honored for his groundbreaking contributions in high energy physics, Kursunoglu said. In a long list of Nambu’s accomplishments is the formulation of the Bethe-Salpeter equation, a means of describing fundamental particle interactions through fields. He predicted the existence of the omega-meson in the 1950s, years before it was discovered. In the 1960s he proposed the existence of nine elementary constituents of matter, a model which sowed the seed for current speculation on the nature of matter. Previous recipients of the Oppenheimer Prize have been Nobel Maurice Gusman Laureate P.A.M. Dirac, Florida State University; Abdus Salam, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London; Freeman Dyson, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University; Robert Serber, Columbia University; Edwin Salpeter, Cornell University; Steven Weinberg, Harvard University and Nicholas Kemmer, Edinburgh University. Women’s Committee Open Meeting Set The Women’s Advisory Committee on Academic Affairs will hold an open meeting for all interested female faculty members on Tuesday, February 10 at 3:30 p.m. in the Faculty Club. Organized in October 1972 by the Division of Academic Affairs, the Women’s Advisory Committee oj Academic Affairs was charged as follows: 1. To serve as liaison between the Academic Affairs Division and the University Women’s Commission on those matters that are purely of an academic nature. 2. To advise the administration internally within the Academic Affairs Division on specific problems which may arise (continued on page 4) by Valerie Rubin News Bureau Orbis Scientiae 1976, the “circle of knowledge” invitational conference on high energy physics sponsored at the University each year by the Center for Theoretical Studies, will be held Jan. 19-22. “In keeping with the established spirit of these conferences,” said Center Director Dr. Behram Kursunoglu, “most of the presentations of Orbis 1976 will be extensive reviews of new experimental and theoretical discoveries in the frontier areas of particle theory, high energy physics and fundamental physical theory.” Orbis sessions will be held in the Cox Science Building. This will be the 14th annual UM conference on high energy physics. In ceremonies Jan. 20, the J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize will be presented and Miami financier Maurice Gusman will be made a distinguished fellow of the Center in recognition of his continuing support of Center activities. Prominent among the Orbis sessions will be the Jan. 20 afternoon presentation on the controversial monopole theory. Nobel Laureate and Center Fellow P.A.M. Dirac of Florida State University will be among five scientists discussing the latest views on monopole. Dr. Kursunoglu, whose own theory on the relationship of the structure of elementary particles to the origin of the universe has gained world-wide attention, will moderate this session. Acknowledging that his field is the most esoteric and least popularly understood of the sciences, Dr. Kursunoglu maintains the answers to questions about the origin and nature of the universe will come eventually through theoretical physics. The federal government, he notes, will fund research in high energy physics to the tune of $250 million this year. Five Nobel Prize winners in addition to Dr. Dirac are listed among the 110 Orbis 1976 attendees: Dr. Murray Gell-Mann, California Institute of Technology; Dr. Lars Onsager, distinguished professor of the Center; Dr. Willis E. Lamb Jr., University of Arizona; Dr. Julian Schwinger, University of California at Los Angeles and Dr. Robert Hofstadter, Stanford University. Nambu Will Receive Oppenheimer Prize |
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