University Will Train New Ethics Instructors

The University plans to found the country's first postgraduate training program for teachers of ethics in professional fields such as medicine, law and business.

President Bok said recently he commissioned a committee to develop the program because he felt most of the people teaching professional ethics come primarily from with in their fields and do not have sufficient back grounds in philosophy.

"What is missing in this country is any program to prepare people rigorously to teach these courses that is comparable to the kind of systematic preparation that people get to teach in most other courses said Bok.

Interscholastic

The program will draw from all of the University's faculties, and students will be fairly free to design their plans of study to suit their interests, he said Students will probably take some sort of basic course or tutorial and then choose electives from any area of the University during the year long program.

The committee that developed the program, chaired by Divinity School Dean George E. Rupp, delivered its report to Bok last week, and members said they found the president enthusiastic about their proposal Members declined, however, to discuss the specifics of their report, deferring to Bok, who initiated the work.

After Rupp's committee delivered its report to Bok, the president discussed the project with the deans of the various faculties.

"We all think it's a very good idea," said Dean of the Graduate School of Education Patricis A. Graham. "The issues of professional ethics are clearly of interest to the University and professional schools but they really haven't been addressed," she added.

Graham said that at the deans meeting, "the prime issue was: does the University want to be involved in this? And the answer is definitely, yes."

Rupp said only that the project was interesting and that he hoped the committee's work would be useful. The committee included members from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Law School, Medical School, Business School and Ed Schools.

Details, Details

Before the plan's specifics are made public, details of administration, finances and staff must be worked out, sources said.

Bok said the two major stumbling blocks to implementing the program were finding money to fund it, and someone to head it--a problem he mentioned as especially difficult because of the shortage of qualified people.

He said that because of other time pressures during May and June he did not expect the and somehow have found a way to survive.

"The only thing that can stop us now," Kleinfelder says, "is ourselves. And that hasn't happened all year We've always found a way to win."

What's changed this time, though, is that Harvard is the slight favorite in The Rematch, whose parallels with a year ago are too strong to ignore.

A year ago, the Minutemen held the nation's number-four ranking, the homefield advantage in the quarterfinals and the knowledge that it had already beaten the Crimson during the regular season.

All that's reversed now, and Kleinfelder says this year's situation "is exactly the way I'd like to have it."

"I think we have a big advantage because we've beaten them already and plus we're playing at home," says Harvard Captain Maggie Hart.

And Moryl concedes, "It's going to be a lot tougher for us to go in there and win than if we were playing at home."

But if there's a dark cloud in all the Crimson optimism it's that of its three home losses in the last five years, two of them have come at the hands of UMass.

The Game Plan

What Harvard will do to avoid another loss to the Minutemen, Kleinfelder says, is sacrifice attacker Bambi Taylor from the offense and post her on the defense. There she'll team with junior Jenny Greeley to double-team Moryl, UMass's All-American scoring machine.

"That worked the first time," Kleinfelder says, recalling the earlier meeting this year.

While the Minutemen will look to Moryl, the Crimson will count on Hart to do the damage. The Crimson's senior captain scored four goals in the 7-4 Harvard win earlier this year and has emerged as one of Harvard's all-time finest players.

With Moryl and Hart in the spotlight, the burden ought to fall on the defenses. And that's where the Crimson has the advantage. Led by juniors Ellen O'Neill and Andy Mainelli, the Harvard defense has been the strongest part of the young squad, limiting opponents to just under five goals a game.

On the Line

For Kleinfelder, who feels her squad is peaking at the optimal time, the opportunity to play UMass "is something we've practiced for all year."

Then she adds, "Now it's time to put ourselves on the line."MAGGIE HART (right)