Shapiro
nominates
new man
to top
Flint post
By KAREN TENSA
Marvin Roberson will be recommen-
ded to become acting chancellor of the
University of Michigan-Flint until a
permanent replacement for the late
Conny Nelson can be found.
University President Harold Shapiro
' will ask the Regents to approve the
recommendation at their meeting next
month.
FORMER chancellor Nelson died on
May 2, of cancer.
Roberson has been vice-chancellor
for University Services in Flint since
September 1980.
"Dr. Roberson's work has been of
great value to the Flint campus,"
Shapiro said. "He is respected by
students and faculty throughout the
} University of Michigan community."
ROBERSON said he was honored by
Shapiro's recommendation.
"Although I'm uncomfortable with
the circumstances surronding my ap-
pointment, I'm looking forward to con-
tinuing the prorama salreadyhat U-M
Flint," aaid Roberaon. "I have no
major agenda changes of my own to
make."
According to Roberson, Shapiro will
be forming a aearcb committee anon to
find a permanent auccessor to Nelson.
The panel will include students, faculty
members, administration, and Flint
citizens and may also be announced at
the Regent's meeting in June, he said.
"Hopefully, the administration will
have their candidate selected by
January 1, 1984," said Roberson.
S-Roberson said it is unlike ly he would be
a candidate for the permanent position,
but said if he was selected he would ac-
cept the job.
Before his first position with the
Univeraity at Flint, he was an inatruc-
tor at Flint Southweatern High School.
He was a pupil personnel consultant for
that diatrict juat prior to joining the
University staff as director of atudent
services.
Roberson was a student at U-M Flint
in 1956 - the year it opened, and
graduated with a Bachelor of Arts
degree in 1959.
Doily Photo by DEBORAH LEWIS
Jerome Smith accepts his appointment as the new director of the Industrial Technology Institute at a press conference in
Detroit yesterday. Smith will take charge of the Ann Arbor-based high-tech institute in August.
Local high-tech institute
appoints new director
By DAN GRANTHAM win, praised the new appointment. tive ways to integrate humans with
Special to thenaily "Without a doubt, Smith is the perfect their electronic colleagues.
DETROIT - A local company active candidate for this job," he said at an in- Naylor said one of the institute's
in bringing robotics to the University stitute meeting yesterday in Detroit. major accomplishments was the
got a new director yesterday, who will Irwin also praised the out-going building of a model factory in Ann Ar-
lead the center in providing resear- Naylor for the gains the institute has bor equipped with the latest technology.
chers with more than $68 million dollars made since its creation in 1981. "(Un- He insists that the advent of new
in grants to develop robots in Michigan. der Naylor) the institute has made technology in factories will not mean an
Jerome Smith was named to head much more progress than we ever end to human involvement. Resear-
the Industrial Technology Institute, a would have believed possible," he said. chers suggest that electronically con-
multi-corporate-sponsored center THE INSTITUTE was founded as part trolled machines can eventually be
based in Ann Arbor. Smith, currently of a program sponsored by the state to used where people cannot work safely
the Technical Director of the Office of lure new high-tech business to or comfortably.
Naval Research of the U.S. Navy, will Michigan. Funds for the institute are Russell Dawby, chairman of the
replace the Institute's Acting Director, provided by the Dow, Mott, and Kellogg board of trustees of the Kellogg Foun-
University Engineering Prof. Arch foundations. dation, enthusiastizally endorsed the
Naylor in August. Although the company does some of institute. "It represents a significant
"I'm here because I think this (the its own research, its main goal is the in- pooling of resources with the common
institute) is an exciting prospect," said tegration of computers and robots into objective of establishingMichigan as a
Smith. "The idea is right for the time." all phases of manufacturing. Irwin said center of excellence in selected areas of
The institute's president, Samuel Ir- the institute also studies the most effec- emerging high technology."
Committee to develop ethics guidelines
By GEORGEA KOVANIS
A committee of University faculty members will
meet in September to spell out "ethical research
guidelines" for their peers, said Alan Price, the
University's assistant vice president of research.
The guidelines have been labeled as an attempt to
discourage faculty and student researchers from
falsifying data, or stealing other researchers' infor-
mation, and will follow a trend set by other leading
universities across the country.
EDUCATORS have been considering committees
and guidelines like those the University has proposed
for several years, Price said, adding that the
American Association of Universities has strongly
recommended adoption of ethical research
guidelines "for two or three years."
The University's committee was first proposed in
February 1982. Since then, faculty members and ad-
ministrators have recommended possible committee
Faculty panel to
review research
members to a faculty panel through the Senate Ad-
visory Committee on University Affairs, (SACUA),
according to SACUA Chairman Herbert Hildebrandt.
Price said that the panel will not be "an oversight
committee," and will not monitor research on cam-
pus. But it will, he added, examine the campus
research environment to see if there are factors at
the University that might cause researchers to cheat.
PRICE STRESSES that the formation of the com-
mittee is not an implication that dishonest research
has been conducted here.
Although researchers at other schools have
falsified data, Price said there have been no incidents
of"fudging" results at the University. "We haven't
had any cases on this campus and I hope we don't,"
he said.
The University faced the issue of cheating on
research projects in 1980, when University graduate
Wilson Crook was accused of basing research on a
make-believe mineral and fabricating data while he
was a researcher with a major oil company.
THE REGENTS revoked Crook's master of
geology degree.
While he hopes the guidelines will serve as a
reminder to reseachers not to cheat, Price added that
no organization can stop professors and students
from falsifying data.
"I don't think it's something you can prevent," he
said.