Dr. Frederick A. Elliston has joined the Center as a Senior Research Associate. He comes to us from the Criminal Justice Research Center in Albany, New York and brings with him a professional interest in business, legal and police ethics. He is currently preparing a casebook on strategies for resolving professional differences and, as part of his project on teaching police ethics, he is writing or editing several monographs.

With support from the Exxon Education Foundation, IIT's Center for the study of Ethics in the Professions is producing a series of instructional modules in applied ethics. Mark Frankel and Vivian Weil are pleased to announce that authors have been chosen for these modules.

James C. Petersen and Dan Farrell of Western Michigan University will write the module on whistleblowing. The author of the module on risk-benefit analysis will be Mark Sagoff of the University of Maryland. Heinz C. Luegenbiehl, of the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, will write about engineering codes of ethics.

A module entitled "Engineers' Responsibilities for Supplying Trustworthy Information on Policy Issues to the Public" will be written by Norman Balabanian of Syracuse University. Rondo Cameron and A. J. Millard of Emory University will be the authors of "Technology Assessment: A Historical Approach." Purdue University professors Martin Curd and Larry May will write about professional responsibility for harmful action.

Eric J. Novotny, of the Communications Satellite Corporation, will contribute a module entitled: "Who Owns Your Ideas? Professional Autonomy and Organizational Control of Knowledge." A module concerning the moral status of loyalty will be written by Marcia Baron of the University of Illinois at Urbana. Paula Wells, of Wells Engineers, Inc., and Hardy Jones of the University of Nebraska will be the coauthors of a module on conflicts of interest.

These modules are intended for use in a wide range of undergraduate, graduate and continuing education courses. Each one will consist of an essay, illustrative case studies, and a bibliography. Drafts of these modules will be tested and evaluated by cooperating faculty at institutions throughout the country. They should be available for general distribution in late 1984.

In other news, Vivian Weil would like to report that a volume of proceedings of the Second National Conference on Ethics in Engineering is "in the works," and should be available sometime next year. This conference, which the Center hosted last march, was reported in the spring issue of PERSPECTIVES. Prof. Wail would also like to mention that the proceedings will include a bibliography in engineering ethics. We would like to receive suggestions for items that we ought to include.

Prof. Tom Calero reports that he has just finished an article on the impact of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act on U. S. exports trade. This paper is one of a number of papers which result from a business ethics conference held at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle in May, 1981. These papers will be published in a book by the University of Illinois Press.

On October 5, 1982, Professors Jack Snapper and Vivian Weil attended the National Engineering Colloquium in Oak Brook Illinois. Prof. Snapper presented a paper entitled "On the Power of Private Organizations to Set Standards," and Prof. Wail spoke on the morality of whistleblowing.

Prof. Snapper would also like to report that he will be participating in panel on teaching computer ethics at the annual meeting of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in Baltimore on December 29, 1982. He will also be speaking on computer ethics in the Lyceum Lecture Series at Dutchess Community College on February 24, 1982.

At the annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science in Philadelphia on October 31, 1982, Prof. Warren Schmaus presented a paper with the title "Fraud and Negligence in Science." He will also be speaking on this topic at a special session on fraud in science, which he helped to organize, at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science to be held in Detroit at the end of May, 1983.

Prof. Fay Sawyier reports that she gave a talk to the annual convention of the Society of Engineering Examiners on August 10, 1982 called the "The First DC-10 Case." She has also been pursuing research on moral issues in architecture, and spoke to the Chicago Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians on May 27 of this year. Her textbook on architecture and ethics, which takes a case study approach, has just been completed, and she welcomes inquiries about it.

Robert Ladenson's book, A Philosophy of Free Expressionand its Constitutional Applications (Rowman and Littlefield) will appear in January of 1983. In this book Professor Ladenson provides a theoretical approach to freedom of expression incorporating the insights of major philosophers and then applies it to a number of important First Amendment issues. Among the topics discussed are constitutional issues in connection with obscenity laws, the privilege claimed by journalists with respect to confidential information, the law of defamation as it affects the mass media, and freedom of expression in the corporate workplace.

Martin Malin's article, "Protecting the Whistleblower from Retaliatory Discharge" will be published in early 1983 in volume 16 of the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform. It will form part of a symposium on individual employee rights. On January 12, 1983, Professor Malin will be speaking to the Labor and Employment Law Section of the Chicago Bar Association on the same subject. Professor Malin is a contributor to the two volume treatise Age Discrimination which will be available on December 27, 1982 from Shepard's /McGraw Hill. The principal author is Howard Eglit (also a faculty member at Kent). Professor Malin wrote three chapters dealing with age discrimination in employment.

Ethics Center Senior Research Associate Fred Elliston recently published with Norman Bowie (from the Value Center at the University of Delaware) a collection of papers ETHICS, PUBLIC POLICY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE (Cambridge, MA: O. G. & H.). It covers a broad array of moral issues that professionals face in the administration of justice. Part one deals with the concept of crime, part two with the police and law enforcement, part three with the courts and sentencing, part four with prisons and prisoners, and part five with policy formation. The topics include white collar crime, deadly force, affirmative action, mandatory sentencing, criminal insanity and the death penalty.

Among the philosophers and criminologists who contributed are Elizabeth Beardsley, Hugo Bedau, Herbert Fingarette. Geri Mockers, Andrew Rack, Ferdinand Schoeman, Ernest Van Den Haag, Roger Wertheimer and Marvin Wolfgang.