Papers of Ron Sakolsky, Assistant Professor of Public Administration (1972-), and the People's Institute, a non-profit corporation that did research, consulting and related activities for powerless individuals and groups in Springfield (1974-78). Includes minutes, correspondence, reports, papmhlets, manuscripts, planning material and memoranda as well as newsclippings, press releases and a CBS News interview tape. Correspondence includes letters received from or sent to Sakolsky, University Administrators and faculty, Samgamon County doctors, pharmacists and the general public. Of particular note are the materials concerning the controversy over the publication of the "Consumers Guide to Doctors for Sangamon County". Other People's Institute research and publications are include: "The Power Game: Who Rules Springfield" and the never published "Doing you own Divorce in Springfield." Also includes DES Action Group materials, an activist organization that supported the children of mothers who took the carcinogenic drug DES to prevent miscarriages in the 1950's. DES materials include correspondence between Sakolky and the medical community concerning DES, newsclippings, planning materials and press packets. Also includes Sakolsky essays: SSU student papers; and Sakolsky's Utica College class materials, syllabus and new student orientation materials.