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  • Date original: 1978-01
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A Weakly Newsletter e or for the Fcx:ulty and Skiff oAWestern Carolina lJI ~ OAowhee. North Carolina January 4, 1978 ARC SATELLITE COURSES SET IN ASHEVILLE Early registration for the Appalachian Regional Commission education satellite program courses offered by Western Carolina University and Asheville-Buncombe Technical Institute will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. January 10 in A-B Tech's Learning Resources Center. The ARC program links a classroom at A-B Tech with television studios at the University of Kentucky via the ATS-6 satellite in stationary orbit some 22,300 miles from Earth. Three courses will be offered by WCU and A-B Tech for WCU graduate credit, with the approval of a student's academic advis­er, or continuing education credit. "Teaching the Young Handicapped Child-­An Overview" will meet weekly January 24 through May 2, "Designing Success Strategies" will meet January 26 through April 27, and "Simple Gifts: Teaching the Gifted and the Talented" will meet February l through May 3 in the Learning Resources Center. All the classes meet from 7 until 10 p.m. Regular registration for the courses is from 6 until 7 p.m. the night of the first class meeting. Tuition is $75 per course. Application for WCU credit carries a $10 fee and continu­ing education credit costs $5 payable to A-B Tech. Texts will be sold at the first class meeting. ADULT DEVELOPMENT TO BE STUDIED A new course on the development of adults and crisis in adulthood will be offered spring semester at Western Carolina University by the School of Education and Psychology. The course will include adult human needs, fulfillment and frustration. Some of the needs that will be studied are physical, security, self-esteem, understanding and information. Human relationships and communi-cation processes will be emphasized. The course will be taught by Dr. Bob Rigdon, professor of counseling in the Department of Human Services. It will be offered on • ­Tuesdays and Thursdays from ll a.m. to 12:15 p.m. beginning January 10 and running through May 4 in room 232 of the Killian building on the WCU campus. Although the course is offered on a graduate level, undergraduates may take it if they meet university guidelines. Other interested persons may enroll for no credit under the Listener's Program by contacting the WCU Division of Continuing Education in Cullowhee, 293-7397. CORE PROGRAM GETS UNDER WAY The first classes in Western Carolina University's Community Oriented Regional Education program will begin next week at Western Piedmont Community College in Morganton. Two courses will be offered in the program during spring semester. An arts and sciences interdisciplinary course--AS! 311, The Classical Ages of Greece and Rome--will meet Tuesdays from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. beginning Jan. 10. The course will be taught by Dr. Ellerd M. Hulbert, head of the Department of History. Management 300, Principles of Management, will meet Thursdays from 6:30 to 9:30p.m. beginning Jan. 12, with Dr. Howard R. Harlow, associate professor of management, as the instructor. The Community Oriented Regional Education program is a cooperative arrangement among Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute, Catawba Valley Technical Institute, Wilkes Community College, Western Piedmont, and wcu. The program is designed for persons who hold the associate of applied science degree in business or engineering technology. It provides coursework leading to the bachelor of science in business administration ..... 2- deqree with a concentration in general management or the bachelor of science degree jn industrial technology with a concentration in industrial supervision. Application forms and further information are available from the Division of Continuing Education, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, N.C. 28723. PHOTO EXHIBIT TO OPEN MONDAY Photography by Western Carolina University senior Chuck Downs will be displayed in the Chelsea Gallery in Hinds University Center January 9 through 22. Downs, of Cullowhee, has been featured in the art gallery in WCU's Carol Grotnes Belk Building, in the Old Dominion Photo Exhibit at Old Dominion College in Norfolk, va., and in "Latent Image," a photography magazine. Color and black and white photographs will be displayed. The artist is scheduled to be honored with a reception in the gallery at 3 p.m. January 10. The exhibit and reception are free to the public. SECOND-HAND BOOK SALE SCHEDULED The WCU Chapter of Psi Chi will hold a Book Flea Market January 12 from 1 to 9 p.m. in the Grandroom of Hinds University Center. The book sale offers two benefits for the students. They can sell their used books for cash and buy books for future classes. Psi Chi members will be available to collect books January 9-11 from 1 to 5 p.m. in the Dogwood Room at the UC. Books will be sold at the price the student desires. Psi Chi will receive 15 percent of the price for selling the books. STUDENTS ATTEND SPECIAL ORIENTATION Sixteen Cherokee High School students got a taste of college residence and academic life when they visited the Western Carolina University campus toward the end of fall semester. The high school juniors and seniors ate in the WCU cafeterias, stayed in residence hall rooms complete with roommates and attended at least one class session as part of a WCU course designed to orient college hope­fuls with campus life. Dr. Thomas B. Westcott, coordinator of WCU's counseling program and assistant professor of education, and others were teaching the aspiring scholars how to study, to read texts, to apply for financial assistance, to deal with professors and administrators effectively, and to enjoy football games and other campus activities with "fellow" students. The students underwent a mock registration where they met with academic advisors, stood in long lines, and were told that courses weren't available because they were filled-­just like regular students. Even the two examinations given during the semester were as much learning as testing experiences. "I gave the kids all kinds of questions--multiple choice, true-false, fill-in-the-blank, short answer, computation, and essay--so I could test them and teach them how to take college level exams," Dr. Westcott said. And the high school students learned about college credits since the course carries one semester hour credit that can be applied toward graduation at whatever schools they attend. CHEROKEE CLASS SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED Western Carolina University will offer 14 spring semester courses at its Cherokee Center in Cherokee High School. Registration for the courses will be held from 7 until 8 p.m. January 5 in the school. The courses to be offered area Social Welfare Policies, Programs, and Services; Special Topics in Nutrition; Man and Culture: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology; Introductory Chemistry; The Cherokee Language; Freshman Composition; Masterpieces of American Literature from the Colonial through the Modern Period; World Civilization from the Mid-Seventeenth Century to 1919; Mathematical Analysis for Business Decision II; Elementary Algebra; Beginning and Advanced Beginning Swimming; Weight Training; General Psychology; and Biology in the Contemporary World. Any interested person may apply for admission to the classes taught at Cherokee regardless of their place of residence. ... UNIVERSITY FORUM TO BE OFFERED AGAIN A course bringing together college freshmen, scholars and authors from many disciplines, retired u. s. Army generals, religious leaders, and area residents at WCU last fall will be offered again beginning January 23. The University Forum for Contemporary Issues, or Arts and Sciences 300, attracted some 550 WCU students and many university community members to nine meetings with topics ranging from the Panama Canal treaties to the right of pornographers and censors and the ruling of America by big corporations. This spring planned University Forum topics will include discussions of current abortion issues, student rights, the use of "soft" drugs by society and the decriminalization of marijuana, nuclear disarmament, national medical care, and the role of technology in shaping U. s. foreign policy Sound like the table of contents in the latest Time or Newsweek? That's exactly what it should sound like, according to Dr. Curtis W. Wood, forum coordinator and associate professor of history at WCU. He and a student-faculty committee try to design forum programs to bring important current issues--items generally only read about in newspapers and weekly news magazines--to a more immediate level for a verbal potpourri of discussion, debtate, and query. The first spring semester forum, "Disarmament: Prospects and Problems," will feature Steve Summerford of the Southeast Regional office of the War Resistors League in Chapel Hill and two WCU faculty members, Dr. Max R. Williams of the history department and assistant professor of political science William Latimer. Further information is available from A Weekly Newsletter for the Faculty and Staff of Western Carolina University Cullowhee, North Carolina January 17, 1978 Dr. Curtis Wood in the history department. All meetings of the University Forum are free to the public. CERAMIC SCULPTURE ON DISPLAY The ceramic sculpture Qf Frank Fleming and Frank L. Engle are featured in "New Attitudes in Clay," an exhibition now on display in the art gallery of Carol Grotnes Belk Building. Engle is currently professor of art at the University of Alabama. He received his training at John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis and the University of Iowa and the University of Evansville. He has been awarded numerous commissions from churches, universities and other institutions in the South, and his work has been collected widely. Fleming is a graduate of the University of Alabama, and now lives in Birmingham. He has participated in exhibitions across the country, including the National Exhibition of American Crafts at Newport, Rhode Island; Contemporary Crafts of the Americas at Fort Collins, Calif.; 35 artists in the Southeast at Atlanta; and the National Small Sculpture Invitational Exhibition at Cypress, Calif. The exhibition, sponsored by the WCU Lectures, Concerts, and Exhibitions Committee, is free to the public. It will continue through Jan. 27. COURSE TO FEATURE SCIENCE FICTION Students enrolled in English 479 this semester will have their minds zapped by ray guns of the future and will be hurtled light years into space. The course is a popular study of science fiction literature, films and history taught by associate professor of English Dr. J. Karl Nicholas. Hinds University Center and the English Department plan to show 11 sci~fi movies in connection with the readings done by students in the course. Dr. Nicholas said the course is designed to touch on various kinds and aspects of science fiction ranging from the history of science fiction, interplanetary travel, computers, the future, sci-fi comedy, and "soft" science fiction--the social sciences sci-fi. Television science fiction will also be considered by the class. The films and their dates are "Things to Come," January 18; "Destination Moon," February 1; "The War of the Worlds," February 8; "Five Million Years to Earth," February 15; "Silent Running," February 22; "Farenhei t 451," March 1; "Alphaville," March 8; "On the Beach," March 15; "The Man in the White Suit," March 22; "The Day the Earth Stood Still," April 19; and "2001: A Space Odyssey," April 26. All the films except "Silent Running'' will be screened at 8 p.m. in Hoey Auditorium. "Silent Running" will be shown at 4 p.m. in Forsyth Auditorium. Admission is $1 for each movie. The films are open to the public. HUNTER LIBRARY STAFF COMMENDED Hunter Library was among 31 member librar­ies of the Southeastern Library Network (Solinet) to be named in Solinews, The Solinet Newsletter to the list of commendable libraries for the quarter July-September, 1977. The list is compiled to recognize those libraries with very low error rates in cataloging records added to the Ohio College Library Center's computerized on-line cataloging data base. Robert Bland, Ted Bugg, Heni Cason, Carla Crisp, Ann Gray, Hiddie Morgan, Dusty Morrow, Eric Olson, Deane Rager, Dineli Samaraweera, and Sue Thomas are responsible for this achievement. READING WORKSHOPS TO BE OFFERED Three Western Carolina University faculty members, two of them recently published, will be traveling in January and February 2 to Charlotte, Greenville, s. c., and Cleveland, Tenn. to conduct workshops on teaching children to read. Virgie M. Mci"ntyre, Dr. c. Thomas Pickering, and Dr. Richard s. Craddock will be teaching students, teachers, parents, and school administrators methods of teaching children to read. Mrs. Mcintyre, an assistant professor of elementary education and reading, is the author of "Reading Strategies and Enrichment Activities for Grades 4-9" (1977). The paperback, published by Charles E. Merrill of Columbus, Ohio, is a resource of units, ideas, games, and strategies for motivating, teaching, and reinforcing reading for students. She received an A. B. degree from Berea College, an M.A. degree from WCU, and a C.A.S. from Syracuse University, and is a veteran of the North Carolina public school system and reading workshops. Dr. Pickering, who holds B.S.Ed., M.Ed., and Ph.D. degrees from Ohio University, is an associate professor in the WCU elementary education and reading department and author of "Helping Children Learn to Read: A Primer for Adults" (1977). The volume, published by Chesford Incorporated of New York, opposes the use of "cure-all" methods and materials and supports adoption of "common sense" means of teaching children to read. Dr. Pickering says that specific teaching systems carried to extremes can often hinder children learning to read. A professor and chairman of the elementary education and reading department at WCU, Dr. Craddock received an A. B. degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and M.Ed. and Ed.D. degrees from Duke University. The dates and locations of the conference are January 28, the Ramada Inn on South Pleasantburg Drive, Greenville, S. C.; February 4, the Holiday Inn at the airport, Charlotte; and February 18, the Holiday Inn on I-75, Cleveland, Tenn. Further information is available from the Division of Continuing Education. TROPICAL SOILS LECTURE SCHEDULED An expert in tropical and subtropical soils will speak in room 263 of Stillwell Science Building at 8 p.m. January 24. Dr. Stanley W. Buol, currently a professor in the North Carolina State University Soil Science Department, will talk about the application of information about tropical soils to southern United States soils. Dr. Buol researches tropical soils at NCSU's experiment station in Yurimaguas, Peru. He has spent eight of the past 10 years researching soils in Latin American and African tropics. He received a B. s. degree in 1956, an M.S. degree in 1958, and a Ph.D. degree in 1960 from the University of Wisconsin. The lecture, sponsored by the WCU Visiting Scholars Program, is free and open to the public. NTE SCHEDULED FEBRUARY 18 The National Teacher Examinations will be administered in Killian Building February 18 at 8:30 a.m. Test scores are partial criteria for state teacher certification, employment by school systems, and college graduation of education majors. 3 Further information and registration forms are available by writing the Testing Center, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, N.C. 28723 or the National Teacher Examinations, Educational Testing Service, Box 911, Princeton, N.J. 08540. The deadline for registration is January 26. ABOUT THAT JANUARY PAYCHECK Effective January 1, 1978, the Social Security percentage and base will be increased from 5.85% with a base of $16,500 in 1977, to 6.05% with a base of $17,700 in 1978. NAMES IN THE NEWS Marilyn Jody (coordinator of Academic Advisement, CAP Center) attended a national conference featuring problem-solving work­shops on "What Works for Underprepared College Students?" in Washington Dec. 14-16. The conference was sponsored by NETWORKS (formerly National Project II) of the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education. Bob Rigdon (Human Services) conducted a workshop on communicating effectively for Union County High School in Blairsville, Georgia, November 14. On December 3 he held a workshop on "Self-concept" for middle-school, high school and district counselors in Greenville, South Carolina. Roger Bisson (Modern Foreign Languages) participated in a four~ay workshop sponsored by Exxon Educational Foundation at Dartmouth College October 24~27. The workshop was attended by 10 faculty members from u.s. colleges and universities which have applied for grants to implement the Dartmouth Intensive Language Model. NEWS FROM CAMPUS Ann Ball (M~litary Science) has been elected Vice-President of District I of the North Carolina Association of Educational Office Personnel. Ruth Shuler (Chancellor's Office) has been appointed Chairman of the State Scholar­ship Committee of the North Carolina Assocation of Educational Office Personnel. Theda Perdue (History) is spending Spring Semester at the Center for the History of the American Indian, Newberry Library, Chicago. She will prepare a manuscript on aboriginal Cherokee Society from archival materials and from information collected from the records of French and Spanish traders of the eighteenth century. Ray Menze (Art) will have an exhibition of photographs at the Piedmont Arts Association in Martinsville, Virginia, February 1-28. Menze also will have a one-man exhibition at Berry College in Mt. Berry, Georgia, March 20-April 7. PUBLICATIONS Barbara A. Cosper, "The Effect of Nutrition Education on Dietary Habits of Fifth-Graders," The Journal of School Health, October, 1977. Max Schreiber, a review of Richard K. Vedder, The American Economy in Historical Perspective, published in Studies in Economic Analysis, Volume I, 1977. R. J. Swanson, a review of Robert Kysar, John, the Maverick Gospel, in Choice, November, 1977. Vijaya Samaraweera, "Land as 'Patrimony': Nationalist Response to Immigrant Labour Demands for Land in the Early Twentieth Century Sri Lanka, "Indian Economic and Social History Review, XIV~ no. 3. ·, . September 1977. Vijaya Samaraweera, "Sri Lanka's 1977 General Election: The Resurgence of the UNP," Asian Survey, XVII, no. 12, December 1977. '- 4 A Weekly Newsletter for the Faculty and Staff e or of Western Carolina University Cullowhee, North Carolina January 24, 1978 BAROQUE FESTIVAL TO FEATURE TURECK, BACH ARIA GROUP, HABERLAND AND PBQ Music, art and literature of the Baroque period will be featured in a four-day Baroque Festival beginning January 26. The event will include musical perfor­mances by pianist Rosalyn Tureck, the Bach Aria Group, and the Piedmont Brass Quintet, a lecture on German literature of the Baroque by WCU German professor Paul Haberland, the opening of an exhibition of Baroque prints and a showing of the film "The Baroque Period" from the "Civilization" series narrated by Kenneth Clark. The festival will open in Hoey Auditorium Thursday at 8:15 p.m. with an all-Bach recital by Rosalyn Tureck, whom the New York Post call "the foremost Bach interpreter playing today." Miss Tureck, whose reputation as the first lady of Bach dates back to a series of six all-Bach concerts at New York's Town Hall in 1937, is founder and director of the Inter-. national Bach Society. She is one of only four American women ever to receive an honorary doctorate from Oxford University, based partly on her three­volume work 1 "An Introduction to the Performance· of Bach." In 1958 Miss Tureck became the first woman ever to conduct the New York Philharmonic, in four Carnegie Hall concerts of Bach concerti. During her career she has performed through­out the world, and has made recordings for most of the major labels. The Bach Aria Group, an internationally celebrated ensemble dedicated to the Bach tradition of placing vocal and instrumental soloists on an equal footing, will perform Friday at 8:15 p.m. in Hoey Auditorium. Organized by William Scheide, its director, in 1946 to perform arias and duets from Bach cantatas, the Bach Aria Group is now composed of Benita Valente, soprano; Lois Marshall, alto; Seth McCoy, tenor; Norman Farrow, bass-baritone; Samuel Baron, flute; Robert Bloom, oboe; Charles Treger, violin; Laszlo Varga, cello; and Yehudi Wyner, piano. The music critic of The Washington Post has described the group's program as "music without equal or any near parallel." Both Miss Tureck's concert and that of the Bach Aria Group are sponsored by the Lectures, Concerts and Exhibitions Committee. Admission will be free to WCU students and subscription series members of the LCE, $3 for other adults, and $1.50 for other students. All other events of the Baroque Festival will be free to the public. The Kenneth Clark film on the Baroque period will be shown Jan. 28 at 7:30 p.m. in room 104 of Carol Grotnes Belk Building. The exhibition "Prints of the Baroque" will open with a public reception, lecture and concert Jan. 29 in the lobby of Belk Building. Dr. Paul Haberland, associate professor of German, will lecture on German Baroque literature at 2 p.m., followed by a concert of Baroque music by the Piedmont Brass Quintet, WCU's resident brass ensemble. The music will include works by Bach, Purcell, Gabrieli, and other Baroque composers. Members of the Piedmont Brass Quintet are Mary Lazarus Teague and Douglas Hedwig, trumpet; John Woolley, trombone; Dan Ashe, French horn; and John Sizemore, tuba. The exhibition will be held in the art gallery in Belk Building, and will continue through Feb. 5. Among the artists represented are Rembrandt, Callot, Rubens, Piranesi, and Boucher. Gallery hours are 8 a.m. until noon and 1-4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and 2-4 p.m. on sundays. In ~d~i~ion to the LCE Committee, co-spon­sors of the festival include the WCU Fine Arts Center and the departments of art, music, modern foreign languages, and speech and theatre arts. CULLOWHEE TO IMPROVE ITS NIGHT LIFE? Tired of having nowhere to go in Cullowhee after an evening of music or theatre? The Top of the Stairs restaurant on the third floor of Hinds University Center wants to help. The Top of the Stairs will offer an after­the- concert and after-the-theatre special immediately following the performances of Rosalyn Tureck (Jan. 26), the Bach Aria Group (Jan. 27), and The Acting Company (Feb. 3). The special will include hors d'oeuvres and coffee, and the price will be $1. If the idea is well received, it will be ~epeated following all LCE star attractions programs. WESTERN RIVER NOT ON MAP A river is snaking its way through the basement of Stillwell Science Building. Western River is not the product of a natural disaster but a model for beginning geology students to observe the character­istics of stream currents, siltation, and depth variations. A continuous stream of water flows from a tank to a fiberglass-coated wooden trough which widens, narrows, winds, and twists its way to a tank where it is recycled through the trough. Dr. John J. Chapman, professor and chairman of the WCU earth sciences department, received a $1,500 Vice Chancellor's Instruc­tional Improvement Grant in May, 1976, to develop the model. Western River was constructed by Dr. John T. Wilcox, an associate professor of earth sciences at WCU, and undergraduate geology majors in an old football locker room in time for students in freshman physical geology courses last fall to work with it. Sand in the model behaves like silt in a river or stream. It whisks through rapids and forms deltas in lakes and banks on the inside of curves. The river rises and swiftens through narrows and becomes shallow and slow in wide spots. The water is higher and faster on the outside of curves. Planned additions include tributary streams, devices for measuring water depth, 2 a device for adding a continuous trickle of sand to the water, and a connection between two bends to change the course of the water and create an oxbow lake in the old riverbed. Dr. Chapman said he plans to allow physical geology classes and students in upper-division courses to work with the model more extensively this semester. "Building it was a unique experience," Dr. Chapman said. "There aren't any books you can read on how to design and build a model river--ours is the first I've ever heard of." Vice Chancellor's Instructional Improve­ment Grants, a project begun in 1976, are awarded to faculty members to improve teach­ing methods for a specific course or group of courses. Proposals are considered on a competitive basis by WCU Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Dr. Robert E. Stoltz. SCULPTOR TO SPEAK HERE Sculptor Frank Engle will present an illustrated lecture on his ceramic work at 3 p.m. January 27 in room 104 of Western Carolina University's Carol Grotnes Belk Building. The talk is in conjunction with an exhibit in the art gallery in Belk, "New Attitudes in Clay," which includes work by Engle and Frank Fleming, his student. Engle is currently an art professor at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. The exhibit and lecture are free to the public. DINNER THEATRE TO OFFER "PLAZA SUITE" Neil Simon's comedy, "Plaza Suite," will be the main attraction in an evening of dinner theatre Jan. 25 . in the Grandroom of Hinds University Center. Curtain time for the production will be 7:30p.m., and a buffet serving line will be open from 6 to 7 p.m. The menu will include roast beef, green beans almandine, baked potato, salad bar, rolls, coffee o= tea, cobbler. Ticket prices are $5 for adults, $3 for students, and $1 for children. The box office will open in the lobby of the Grandroom at 5:30 p.m.