The Michigan Daily- Tuesday, May 15, 1984- Page 3 SECOND FRONT PAGE Angell noted for quiet leadership By LILY ENG Popular, sharp, and intellectual are adjectives that were used repeatedly yesterday to describe Prof. Emeritus Robert Angell, who died Saturday evening at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital after a month long bout with abdominal problems. He was 85. As a student, sociology professor, and director of the LSA Honors Council, Angell was affiliated with the University for over 60 years. Friends depicted -Angell yesterday as extraordinarily popular, vivacious, and unpretentious. Colleagues complimented his leadership, intelligence, and friendliness. "His death is a loss for the University and a loss for the department of Sociology," said Prof. Mayer Zald, chairman of the sociology department. IN HIS autobiography, "The Joys of Modest Success," Angell explained that he grew up in a "well educated, stable, religious, and affectionate family." Prof. Theodore Newcombe recalled that Angell was a "very modest and quiet person." "He didn't even mention he was chairman of the sociology department when he wrote his autobriography," said Newcombe. Angell graduated from the University in 1921 with a bachelor's degree and went on to receive a master's and doctoral degree. He was a sports editor at the Daily during his undergraduate years and after joining the faculty he served on a number of boards and committees, including the executive committees of LSA and Rackham. WHEN ANGELL retired in 1969, he had been a University professor for 34 years, a chairman of the sociology dept. for 12 years, and the director of the LSA Honors Council for four years. According to Horace Miner, professor emeritus of sociology, Angell always found time to help his staff academically and personally, "The fact that Professor Angell was always addressed as 'Bob' by members of his department is indicative of the close relationship which existed among us," Miner said. Werner Landecker, professor emeritus of sociology, said that before Angell was appointed chairman in 1940, the sociology department was small. "He was the architect of the department. He had the organizing ability to build it up," See FRIENDS, Page 4 Brave new world An artist's drawing of Engineering Building I shows the 30 foot wide atrium, center, that will run east and west along the entire length of the building. The new building will be built between the G. G. Brown Building, right, and the W. E. Lay Automotive Lab. The ground breaking ceremony, featuring Gov. James Blanchard, will be Thursday at 1 p.m. 'U' reaches eollege bowl tourney "Itga ... quiet about 'U' ties SACUA discusses fate of . education faculty By PETE WILLIAMS The governing body of the Univer- sity's faculty yesterday discussed the problem of the professors who may be displacbd as a result of the 40 percent budget cut to the University's School of Education. The Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs met with represen- tatives from the education school's executive committee in a closed meeting to consider the fate of its programs and their tenured faculty members. PROF. MORTON Hilbert, SACUA chairman, said the school is still in the preliminary stages of implementing the financial cuts and that it is too early to tell who or how many tenured faculty members would be removed from the school. Prof. Carl Berger, the dean of the School of Education, said that because of the severity of the cuts, it is likely that some tenured faculty members will have to leave the school. "The University reduced the number of our faculty by 40 percent," Berger said. "And we only have five untenured faculty members." THE 40 percent cut in the Education School's budget amounts to $1.9 million in cuts over five years and includes the removal of 30 of the school's 75 faculty, as well as the elimination of some of the school's programs. The cuts are part of a five-year University plan to reallocate $20 million to high-priority areas. Both Hilbert and Berger said that most of these faculty members would undoubtably be assigned to jobs in See SACUA, Page 14 By EVA SCHERER A team of five University students who "find no rational explanation for what they do" have qualified for a national college trivia tournament later this month. Equipped with their University educations, the University Activities Center-sponsored team will travel to Columbus to compete with 15 other teams. THE COLLEGE Bowl, a national program which was reborn on campus last fall, tests the agility and strength of the mind. College students match wits on knowledge from the classroom and from the street. The competition consists of two seven minute halves of questions on topics ranging from literature, history, and science to baseball and old movies. The University team predicts they will finish among the top four teams - along with the University of North Carolina, the University of Chicago, and Armstrong State. The finals of the national competition will be broadcast on May 23 on NBC. THE TEAM consists mostly of science majors and "on the whole does well' on questions in that area, according to Steve Newton, a graduate student in military history who can also answer most questions on baseball. Team member Larry Garvin, a graduate student in neuroscience, has a talent for obscure knowledge, especially in literature, according to his teammates. Joe Pipp, a graduate of chemical engineering calls himself "a kind of a mental sponge" and said he was "weaned on old movies and televised sports." ALSO ON the team are Dave Moran, who has a bachelor's degree in physics and Brad McNiff with a degree in math and computer science. The team members consider college bowl "a gentlemanly pursuit, like sports used to be in the old days," said Newton. They have held one 45 minute practice session before the nationals - not wanting to be overprepared. There are teams that practice techniques such as stalling and memorizing almanacs, but they usually do not do so well," said Newton. "You simply have to have a quick recall and be able to link things together," said Pipp, who said the team is fast - "good at taking a little bit of information and jumping on it." The team was chosen in an intramural competition last- January. The players were the winners of the competition between 25 teams. It was the first College Bowl competition held at the University since 1981. "For a first year program, (I'm pleased) with the campus participation and the success at the regionals," said Pipp. College bowl attracts trivia fanatics according to the team members. Moran said his greatest moment in College Bowl was knowing that the bakery in Connecticut famous for its pie pans is Ma's Frisbee Bakery. Garvin said he is ashamed to admit he knew that the lead singer of the Dead Kennedy's was Jello Biafra. The team member's said their ultimate goal is to appear on the David Letterman show. I