__THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY. I 'U' CONTROLLER: Lee 'Coordinates' Business Staffs By LEWIS COBURN I A man who often thinks in terms of hundreds of thousands of dol- lars and who has delivered and signed checks for as much as $800,000, University Controller Gil- bert L. Lee, Jr., is in charge of seven major University business departments. Lee noted that he doesn't actu- ally see the money since major transactions are made by check and cash is handled by the Uni- versity cashier-one of Lee's sub- ordinates. In fact, the University business- man said his main job is to "co- ordinate" the "fiscal and budget- ary" activities of the staffs he heads. -Daily-Eric Arnold UNIVERSITY CONTROLLER--Gilbert L. Lee, Jr., directs seven major business departments. In his capacity as controller he notes that his most important job is to "co-ordinate" the "fiscal and budgetary" activities of the staffs he heads. Although he doesn't actually handle money, a function of the University cashier, he has delivered and signed checks for up to $800,000. NOTED BRITISH WRITER: Graves To Read Own Poetry In Talk at Rackham Today Supervises Payroll, In addition to the cashier's office, Lee has supervisory respon- sibility for the accounting, pay- roll, disbursement, purchasing, and internal audit departments and the business department of the. Engineering Research Institute. Working closely with University Vice-President in charge of busi- ness Wilbur Pierpont, Lee observed that much paperwork crosses his desk and that one of his jobs is to keep it "flowing.", Noting with a smile that "20 percent" of the people he meets ask him what the difference is be- tween a "controller"-his title- and a "comptroller," Lee turned to a dictionary and pointed out that the words are synonomous. No 'Profit' Turning to a more serious ques- tion, Lee said the major difference between working for a public in- stitution and a private firm is that the institution is not, concerned with "making a profit." He noted that while the Univer- sity's endowment of $25,000,000 is "rather large" for a state-support- ed school, it must still depend on the State Legislature for most financial support since endowment fund earnings are usually "ear-i marked" for such things as re- search projects, Lee observed that there is "vir- tually no endowment for general spending." Before joining the University business staff in .1951, Lee was a member of a local accounting firm. He graduated from Michigan State University in 1941 after which he served with air force training command, emerging in 1946 as a lieutenant colonel. After the war, Lee earned his masters degree in business administration at the University. Steigerwalt Named Head Prof. Albert Steigerwalt of the business administration school will be chairman of the fourth annual Midwestern Conference on Busi- ness History to be held Feb. 15 in the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Building in Madison, Wisconsin. Development of public utility regulation will be the subject of the conference. Forest McDonald, chief of the American History Research Center at Madison will speak at the morning session on "Samuel Insull and the Movement for State Utility Regulatory Commissions." Prof. Martin Glaeser of the University of Wisconsin will moderate a dis- cussion following the talk. E. Hardy Luther, general man- agement training supervisor, Con- sumers Power Co., Jackson, Mich., will discuss "The Impact of Regu- lation of 'Public Utilities in Michi- gan" at the afternoon meeting. The discussion following this paper will be moderated by Nicholas Les- selyoung, Wisconsin's public serv- ice commissioner. Chapter Elects New Officers Election of officers for the Uni- versity's chapter of the American Society of Public Administrators, a part of the Institute of Public Administration was held Monday. Paul L. McCauley, Grad., was elected president and William L. Steude, Grad., vice-president. John T. Kehoe, Grad., is the chapter's new secretary, and Moop Young Lee, Grad., the new treasurer. The new Graduate Student Council Representative is Myron J. Medin, Jr., Grad. These offices are for the spring semester. How does one evaluate the work- ings of an .educational program? SGC is now in the process of such an evaluation which is a result of one of its regulations. According to the 1949 Student Affairs regula- tion, "Recognition or permission to reactivate will not be granted a group which prohibits member- ship in the organization because of race, religion, or color." In his 1952 letter to the Com- mittee on Student Affairs, Presi- dent Hatcher stated, "We believe that the processes of education and personal and group convic- tions will bring us forward faster, and on a sounder basis (in the removal of fraternity and sorority membership restrictions), than ... methods of coercion." Acting on the premise that any governing body Las an obligation to know how its regulations are working out, the Council has pass- ed a motion which establishes a committee ". .. to study progress made in recent years in the area of fraternity and sorority mem- bership restrictions and to report back to the Council . . . on the facts and on possible Council pol- icy in this area." The policy as suggested by Pres- ident Hatcher is essentially an educational philosophy. Many SOC members believe in such a policy, but mere belief is not always enough if change is really desired. Thus, the Council wishes to know if this subscription has effected change, i.e., where does SOC now stand in relation 'to the conditions which existed in 1952? The ques- tion is, has the educational process worked? Certainly any educational policy is open to interpretation. Rob Trost and Marilyn Houck, empha- sizing the work of IFC and Pan- hellenic in the area of written bias-claus removal, have stated that much progress has be achieved. They point to statisti which verify the statement. Hoa ever, Peter Eckstein;author of tV motion feels that more facts a needed than those shown by stat tics. Unwritten restrictions as I posed upon a local chapter by i national are just as important molding action as are writte clauses. National interpretation determined by practice. It is the intent of the motion determine the relationship of ti 1949 regulation, and thus the pos tion of SOC, to the realities of th 1958 situation. It is intended pur ly as a basis for re-examination Council policy. It is illogical think that in passing the motio the Council wishes to coerce an local chapter into pledging an one who is not wanted by ti organization. In providing for a committee four members of Panhellenic an IFC and three SGC members, mo of the investigation will be hand led by the IFC and Panhelleni The Council encourages this, How this investigation will 1 carried out will of course bed e termined by tle committee. A educational philosophy affec many things and it would be rather narrow interpretation the policy to attempt to find ti complete results in one set statistics. Attitudes of local an national fraternities must ther fore be ascertained through con tact with them. The motion calls for a study determine possible Council polic Perhaps the present education policy should be more active. Pe haps it is proving to be more thE adequate. In any case it definite affects an SGC regulation ant any governing body has an obl gation to know the effects of i legislation. (Paid Advertisement) COUNCIL COMMUNIQUE: SGC Views Bias Practice 'For Possible Policy Move I The career of Robert Graves, who speaks at 4:10 today in Rack- ham Lecture Hall, has been called a portrait of versatility. Born in London in 1895, Graves has gained world prominence as a novelist, poet and critic. Ac- cording to Prof. Herbert Barrows of the English department, the re- markable fact about Graves is that "he has done so many differ- ent things and done them all well." Graves postponed his Oxford education during World War I to enlist in the Royal Welch Fusiliers. The army environment served to Travel Talks To Start Soon The Burton Memorial Trave- logue series will open for the third consecutive year at 8:30 p.m. Feb. 20 in Hill Auditorium with "Paris and the Riviera." Robert Mallet and Thayer Soule, who have narrated the series since it began two years ago, will return for the 1958 pro- gram of five lectures. Following "Paris and the Rivi- era" the University Oratorical As- sociation will continue the Burton lectures each successive Thurs- day evening for four weeks there- after at the same time. only include France's famed "City of Light," but will also take the audience down the Route Napo- leon from Grenoble in southern France to Monaco and the Riviera plus scenes of peasant life and customs, the chateau country and the French Alps. stimulate his writing of poetry on which his reputation today ulti- mately rests. Prof. Barrows notes that "currently many people con- sider Graves as one of the best practicing English poets." In 1929 Graves moved to the island of Majorca off the coast of Spain, where he established a press and published many of his own works. At that time his critical works began to gain recognition along with some of his most .famous novels. Prominent among the lat- ter is "I, Claudius," one of several unusual treatments of early Rom- an life which have been described by critics as "brilliant, if eccen- tric." In today's program, Graves will read and comment on his poetry. I Are You Insured? STUDENT U Try FOLLETT'S First USED BOOKS at BARGAIN PRICES F LLKTTES STATE STREET at NORTH UNIVERSITY I I NOW AVAILABLE THROUGH S.G.C. FOR COVERAGE THROUGH SEPT. 10, 1958 INFORMATION AT STUDENT ACTIVITIES BLDG. II * r 1l DIAL NO 8-6416 "much m Week Nights at 7 and 9 P.M. Dial NO 2-3136 Ends TONIGHT An Adventure Without Equal!- . .. Starts THURSDAY ,..a, may be shocked but... YOUTH' WILL UNDERSTAND! A" ore I I than American audiences are used to see- ing of what 23- year-old girls are made of!" -LI FE AR AB-PT PRODUCTION }* .L''°,.*...... .:' .S~."1 f r :': J";, . ThVI v s a good ftpe .,$ ::RiM;:; <. <">y ,,.h.... > ,r^ ; '' . r, r. .y . " , . : y' ::;:.r' ,;. pry,, . "'. ? % ' ? . :;.', f .< , ,;,f? c r si .' y r, ' :: "XS ry'ti. 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