Tulane University - Jambalaya Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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Chrisluphcr ( hriMophcr « ak» u Crulcsvjr of I j» jnd Dircdof of ibc Tu- lane Intiiiulc of Comparaiive Law He holds a LL B . L L.M.. and Ph.D. from Moscow Slale L ' niversiiy School of La and a J.S.D. from ihc L ' niversiiy of Il- linois College of Law. Since 1970 he has held (caching posi- tions al several universiiia. Pusineii , 27

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BUSINESS SCHOOL — Front row: James T Murphy, Kenneth Boudreaux, William Mindak, Lillian Gibbs, Christine Lentz, Meyer Feldberg. Irving LaValle, James Linn; Middle row: John Ingersall, Joni Steinberg, Robert Dailey, Jeffery Barach, Stuart Wood, Larry Arnold, Richard Kelsey. Soliman Y. Soliman, Gerard Watze; Back row: Lee Thomas, Don Fogal, Frank Jaster, Walter Burnett. Victor Cook, Beau Parent, Seymour Goodman. LAW SCHOOL — Front row: Rodolfo Baliza, Joseph Sweeney, William Lovett, Elizabeth Cole, Deborah Riess; Second row: Luther McDougal, Charlotte, Meriwether, Jane Johnson, Suman Neresh; Third row: Harvey Couch, Catherine Hancock, Sarajane Lowe, David Combe, Christopher Osakwe. Bradley Gater, Vernon Palmer, Thomas Carbonneau; Back row: George Striklen, Thomas Schoenbaum. Robert Force, Paul Verkuil, Konstantinos Kerameus, Paul Barron, Joel Friedman, Richard Pierce, Robert Peroni, A.N. Yiannopoulos, Oliver Houck. MATH — Front row: William Green, Albert Vitter lU, Donna Mohr; Second row: Jackie Boling, Meredith Mickel, Hester Paternostro, Maurice Dupre, J. Thomas Beale, Michael Mislove, Morris Kalka, Ronald Fintushel: Third row: Ava Holliday, Martin Guest, Karl Hofmann, Frank Quigley, Michael Rose, John Liukkonen, Terry Lawson, Edward Conway III, Laszlo Fuchs; Fourth row: Phuong Lam, Ronald Knill, Gary Sod, Martha Mark, Jerome Goldstein, Frank Tipler, John Dauns, Steven Rosencrans; Back row: John Diem, Weichung (Joe) Shih, Arnold Levine. 26 Business School School of Business Early in its history, Tulane ' s School of Business acquired a reputation for being innovative, lively and a magnet for the area ' s best and brightest students. Founded in 1 9 1 4 by Dean Mor- ton A. Aldrich, the school offered a Bachelor of Business Adminis- tration Program and, beginning in 1 940, a Master of Business Ad- ministration Program. The Bachelor of Business Ad- ministration, discontinued in 1964, was reinstated in 1976 as the Bachelor of Science in Man- agement (BSM). The school is now graduating more students than in the 1950 ' s and ' 60 ' s, said finance professor Dr. James Murphy. In fact, the post-war graduat- ing class was the only time the number of students has been greater than it is now. The application rate is the highest ever and extra classes have been added to meet the growing demand. The school ' s first graduating BSM class after reinstatement to- talled 40. That number has jumped to 111 graduating this year and 150 students are being admitted for next year ' s class. It ' s growing by leaps and bounds, says academic programs coordinator Martha Little, which shows we made the right decision in reinstating it. It looks like it ' ll be a stable, steady pro- gram. Little said the undergraduate business major is currently the most popular one on campus. Now, as it has always been, the school is interested in innovation. Computer games are utilized and though they may seem new to the rest of the world, they ' re actually old hat at Tulane. Way back in 1963 Tulane was holding one of the first symposia on the subject; there is a Commu- nication Skills Center, a comput- er laboratory and a Decision Room, which houses video screen computer terminals for various projects and course work. The intensive two-year pro- gram which every BSM candi- date takes is so varied and wide- ranging in its appeal that students from a number of different back- grounds are beginning to find their way in. It ' s not unusual to find former art majors in accounting classes and former English students go- ing into finance. We ' re attracting a variety of really bright students, said Mar- tha Little. And companies are beginning to woo our undergrad- uates — they ' re able to get jobs all over. We ' re on the cutting edge of business knowledge, Assistant Dean Chastian Taurman, III says of the school. Murphy believes the school is always asking ques- tions and that, in a way it ' s never been before, it ' s now poised to meet the needs of a growing city and a burgeoning South. Norman Mayer Hall, home for Tulane ' s School of Business, will undergo a facelift before the 1982-83 academic year. J

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BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING — William Van Buskirk, Moshe Solomonow, Joon B. Paik, David Rice, Cedric Walker. CHEMICAL ENGINEERING — Front Row: Henry Luttrell, Aysel Atimtay, Young G. Kim, Kyriakos Papadopoulos; Sec- ond Row: Danny McCarthy, Ray V. Bailey, Bert Wilkins; Back Row: Richard Freedman, Sam Sullivan. Engineering ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING — Paul Duvoisin, Robert Drake, James Cronvich, S. T. Hsieh, Edward Williamson. Charles Beck, Daniel Vliet. MECHANICAL ENGINEERING — Kamal-Eldin Hassan, Chester Peyronnin Jr., Robert Watts, Paul Lynch, DeWitt Hamilton Jr., Harold Sogin. 28 Engineering The Tulane Engineering school has just emerged from a decade of sustained growth. If the market is indicative, the Tulane Engineer- ing school has a good record. The average salary for an Engineering Graduate is a staggering $27,000. This growth is due to an in- crease in the academic quality of the students. The school searches for 245 high quality freshmen to enroll in the Engineering School. Fully 25 percent of the class is female. The Engineering school has provided excellent career op- portunities for women as well as men. According to Engineering Dean Hugh A. Thompson, soci- ety is moving towards the devel- opment of a postgraduate engi- neering program. Right now graduates cannot afford to con- tinue their education and go right into the job market. This has led to a shortage of faculty. There will be no solution to this problem until society pays faculty more. It takes six years to produce a PhD, six years of not being employed. The only answer, it seems, is to increase faculty salaries to the point where the University pays more than industry for a PhD. This way the investment made by the professors will be repayed. Currently, the Engineering school is divided into six major divisions. These are Biomedical, Chemical, Civil, Electrical, Me- chanical and Computer Science. The school ' s goal is to graduate 35 seniors in each field. Mr. Thompson notes that Tu- lane ' s size is optimal for interac- tion between the divisions, and the Engineering school interacts well. For example. Engineering students often go on to Law or Business school. If Tulane was a larger institution, he added, there would be administrative barriers between the divisions. What lies in the next decade for the Engineering School? Dean Thompson points out that the technological rate of progress staggers the imagination. The ad- vancements in artificial intelli- gence and robotics are as unbe- lievable as landing a man on the moon was a few years ago. Growth has actually been cur- tailed by lack of classroom space. But hopefully, fundraising will add more space, expand oper- ations, and provide new pro- grams. The Tulane Engineering school will have more growth in research, and rise in National sta- tus, he said. Eleanor Comer, Larry Korn and Bill Dillingham examine University Center displays during Engi- neering Week in March.