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A Weekly Newsletter for the Faculty and Staff of Western Carolina University Cullowhee, North Carolina November 7, 1980 BELK AND CHELSEA OPEN NEW EXHIBITS New shows open November 10 and 11 in the art galleries of Belk and the university center. Replacing th^ exhibition of Russian prints, originally scneauiea rur the art gallery in Belk at this ciiuc but now post poned, is a group of i/j-lnts by three nationally distin­guished printmakers. The invitational exhibit will open with a reception at 7 p.m. Monday November 10 and continue through December 5. Gallery hours are 8 until 12 a.m. and 1 until 4 p.m. weekdays. Tom Hammond, formerly an art instructor here and now at the University of Georgia, has included works in lithographic, intaglio, and engraving media. Evan Lindquist, of the art department at Arkansas State Univer­sity, i3 showing hie recent engravings. The third printmaker^ wonaid Lukasiewicz, will show recent work in silk screen. He is preparator of the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia. Chelsea Gallery in Hinds University Center will be showing graduate thesis exhibits of two Western graduate students in art, Judy Collier McManus of Sylva and Terance K. Painter of Waynesville. The show will open with a 3 p.m. reception November 119 and continue through December 5. Works by Mrs. McManus will include glass and soft sculpture. She has been studying glass blowing under David Nichols, artist in residence at Western. Painter will dis­play functional pottery and prints. Both artists recently had works exhibited in the 33rd annual Southern Highland Handicraft Guild Fair at the Civic Center in Asheville and have had pieces in the Spring Mills traveling exhibit. "INDIANS" TO OPEN SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16 Two extra performances of Indians have been added to the usual six-night run for the University Players. Indians will open Sunday, November 16, and run through Satur­day, November 22, with an extra matinee on Saturday. Tickets go on sale November 12, nexr >(CuiiCiau(iy, in Hocy 122. Arthur Kopit, the playwright, has des­cribed this play as "a combination of Wild West Show, vaudeville, and circus....There are dances, phony horses, things go wrong all the time—mock-murders turn into real murders, there are conversations with the dead. It's a hallucinatory mosaic; a night­mare panorama of Buffalo Bill reliving his life and trying to work out where he went wrong." The action takes place in the center ring of Buffalo Billfs Wild West Show. The Little Theatre of Stillwell Building is being adapted for environmental staging, and arrangements for seating will be a little different from the usual. No seats will be reserved, and some of the audience will sit on the stage, the stage floor, the platform, and the regular seats. (Wear comfortable clothes, says the director.) Performers include Buffalo Bill (played by Jeff Sauer, circulation librarian), Billy the Kid (Teddy Greene), Wild Bill Hickok (Jeff Cox), Jesse James (David Duvall), and assorted politicians and their victims—Geronimo (Steve Torgoman), Chief Joseph (Jim Horton, Biology), Sitting Bull (Terry Nienhuis, English), Tecumseh (Ray Williams), and other Plains Indians. As they re-enact their parts in the con­quest of the West, says director Carolyn -2- Rauch, the legend of the Western hero bravely taming a savage land is shown to be a fraudulent mythologizing of greed and stupidity—just as the Wild West Show was. When Indians made its American debut in Washington, the National Observer said, "It may well be the Great American Play that everyone has been waiting for—the one that captures, in broad perspective, some substantial part of our common ex­perience." The box office will be open for ticket sales in Hoey 122 from 1 until 4 p.m. November 12-22. Tickets are priced at $3 for adults, $2 for students, and $1 for children. The house will open for evening performances at 7 p.m. with seating on a first-come, first-served basis. The show starts at 7:30 p.m. The Saturday matinee will start at 2 p.m., with the house open­ing at 1:30. MOUNTAIN HERITAGE CENTER STREAMS ALONG The current slide-sound show of the Mountain Heritage Center's new Hazel Creek exhibit went to Atlanta last weekend to compete at the national level with 178 other shows. Titled "Stream of Life," the show is a cooperative effort between the center and the WCU Media Center. Nine projectors and 334 slides synchronized by a digital mini­computer are accompanied by an original soundtrack composed by Morris R. Phifer, a graduate of Western. "Stream of Life" competed against 25 other productions in the nine—projector plus class in the non-commercial division, the most sophisticated class in the competition sponsored by the Association for Multi- Image . The production premiered Mountain Heritage Day to supplement a museum exhibit at the center on life patterns of the Hazel Creek watershed around Fontana Lake. Sam Gray, exhibits curator, wrote and directed the show, organized the exhibit, and wrote a book to supplement the production. The book, Hazel Creek: Patterns of Life on an Appalachian Watershed, has just been oub-lished. It emphasizes the tree of life as a way of envisioning the connection of natural cycles and human patterns in one environment, one total pattern. Other center personnel have been quietly doing a number of things, too. Blanton Owen is active on national committees on folk art as it relates to museums, and he has written a number of book reviews and articles on the subject. Out of his in­terest in folk medicine, he developed the small exhibit at the center called "Dr. Daisy's Dental Parlor." A re-creation of Dr. Daisy McGuire's Sylva office, where she practiced for many years, the exhibit in­cludes even older folk remedies for tooth­ache (a dead person's finger in the mouth?). Owen is also engaged in an oral history project, working with a graduate student. He has people talking about transportation, forestry, and mining in the region, looking toward future exhibits on those subjects. Cliff Lovin, the center's director, is program coordinator for the 4th annual Appalachian Studies Conference to be held in March in Black Mountain. Mountain heritage minifestivals may come about in Franklin, Murphy, and Waynesville in the spring. Dr. Lovin thinks the center will get funding for such a program from the folk arts program of the National En­dowment for the Arts, which funded Mountain Heritage Day here. These minifestivals would be half-day affairs, emphasizing local craftspeople and musicians. NURSING EDUCATOR TO SPEAK ON CARING Madeleine Leininger, a nationally recog­nized nursing educator, will give a lec­ture on "Caring: Its Meaning and Function to Nursing" at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13, in the auditorium of the Mountain Area Health Education Center in Asheville. The lecture, sponsored by Western's depart­ment of nursing and Visiting Scholars, is open to the public free of charge. Dr. Leininger is a professor of nursing at the College of Nursing at the Univer­sity of Utah in Salt Lake City. She also serves as an adjunct professor of anthro­pology, the field of her doctorate. She holds several degrees in nursing. She has studied extensively in the area of transcultural nursing and health care and has published numerous articles on these topics. More recently she has fo­cused her attention on the caring behavior of various cultures. -3- POET TO READ AND CONDUCT WORKSHOP NOV. 13 Richard Hugo, a well-known contemporary American poet and editor of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, will be at Western next Thursday to read his poetry and to conduct a poetry workshop. He will read at 8 p.m. Thursday evening, November 13, in Founders' Auditorium, the Mountain Heritage Center. Earlier that afternoon, from 2 until 4 p.m. in Room 147 of the Mountain Heritage Center, he will conduct the workshop. Both are free and open to the public. Participants in the workshop are invited to submit one or two poems for consideration. The deadline for submission is November 11. Poems should be sent to Poetry Workshop, Harold Farwell, Department of English, Western. Hugo's visit is under the auspices of The Arts Journal in its Poetry Forum Series. Hugo was born in Seattle and educated there at the University of Washington. He has published 12 volumes of poetry. In 1974 and 1976 he was nominated for the National Book Award, and he received the Theodore Roethke Memorial Award in 1976. Other awards include Northwest Writers of the Year Award and Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, the Melvin Cane Prize from the Poetry Society of America, the Ken Boyle Award (for a book on creative writing, The Triggering Town, 1979), and runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize of 1980. He directs creative writing at the Univer­sity of Montana, and has taught as visit­ing professor at the University of Iowa, Colorado, and Washington. For the 1980-81 academic year, he was selected as Poet-in- Residence at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock campus. DUKE EXPERT ON AGING TO SPEAK NOV. 12, 13 George L. Maddox, director of the Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development at Duke University Medical Center, will speak here Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 12 and 13. Dr. Maddox will lecture on "Successful Aging" at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 12 in Forsyth auditorium. Before the free lecture, from 1:30 until 3:30 p.m. he will discuss current research on aging and funding sources for such research with interested faculty mem­bers and representatives of area agencies that deal with aging. This meeting will be held in the CIML conference room on the second floor of Bird Building. An informal reception, hosted by the sociology depart­ment, will follow from 4 until 5 p.m. in the archaeology laboratory, Room 119 of the Natural Sciences Building. On Nov. 13, Maddox will meet with interested students from 8:30 until 10:30 a.m. in 104 Killian Building to talk about Duke's research on aging and career opportunities in the field. Maddox, 55, has directed the Duke center for eight years and is also a professor of sociology at Duke. He is a founding member of the National Advisory Council on Aging for the National Institutes of Health. His visit here is sponsored by WCU's Visit­ing Scholars Program, CIML, and a number of deans and faculty members. EARLY MUSIC CONSORT VISITS NOVEMBER 11 The sounds of the Middle Ages and Renais­sance with double-reed krummhorns and schawms, rebecs, organettos, and rausch-pfeiffes will fill the recital hall of Western's Music-English Building next Tuesday, November 11, as Cincinnati's Early Music Consort performs. The five musicians in the consort, masters of the very old instruments and music, will perform at 8 p.m. under the sponsorship of WCU's Lectures, Concerts, and Exhibitions. The musicians are Ben Bechtel, James Carrier, Lewis Peterman, Paula Peterman, and William Reynolds. They will play music from the 13th through the 16th centuries by composers such as Machaut, Dufay, Josquin, and di Lasso. Although the pro­gram is largely instrumental, William Reynolds sings and dances as well. Other unusual instruments featured will be the dulzian rankett, psaltery, harp, viol, recorder, lute, chalumeau, and a variety of percussion. Subscribers to the LCE Program will be ad­mitted without charge. Western students may buy tickets for $1 in advance and $2 at the door. Public tickets are $4 for adults and $2 for students. -4- CHERQKEE PREHISTORY IS LECTURE TOPIC Roy S. Dickens, Jr., an archaeologist who has worked extensively in western North Carolina and adjacent mountain areas, will present a lecture on "Cherokee Prehistory" in the Natural Sciences auditorium Monday, November 10, at 8 p.m. Earlier he will lecture informally with discussion in 123 Natural Sciences at 3 p.m. A reception for Dr. Dickens will follow in the archaeology laboratory, 119 Natural Sciences. Dr. Dickens supervised excavation of the Warren Wilson archaeological site near Asheville and participated in the archaeo­logical survey of several western North Carolina counties. He also was principal investigator for an archaeological field school conducted jointly in 1979 by Western and Georgia State University on the Noli-chucky River in East Tennessee. COMPOSER, PIANIST, TEACHER TO APPEAR Lynn Freeman Olson, a clinician for the National Piano Foundation in Chicago and a consultant in keyboard education for Carl Fischer, Inc., in New York, will give a free piano workshop at Western from 9:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. Monday, Nov. 10, in the recital hall of the Music-English Build­ing. Designed primarily for private studio piano teachers, the workshop will focus on techniques for teaching young children and for teaching newly published music. Olson, a National Arts Associate of Sigma Alpha Iota, has written songs for "Captain Kangaroo" and other popular children's music. His visit to Western is sponsored by Carl Fischer Publishing Company in con­junction with the Smoky Mountain Music Teachers Association and WCUfs music department. A variety of music will also be on display and for sale. FAMINE FORUM'S FOCUS The next University Forum will meet Nov. 17, not on Nov. 10, at 7 p.m. in the New Sci­ences Auditorium. Janice Baker, former staff member for the President's Commission on World Hunger, will be speaker. Her visit is co-sponsored by the Interfaith Hunger Committee at Western as the opening event of its observation of World Hunger Week. SATURN TO SYLVA BY LIVE TRANSMISSION After a flight of over a billion miles and more than three years' travel, Voyager 1 will be passing Saturn next Tuesday, Wednes­day, and Thursday, November 11-13. In co­operation with NASA and Christy Cablevision of Sylva, Western's Media Center will re­ceive direct transmission of the pictures from Saturn as they reach earth. On Tues­day Voyager will fly by Titan, Saturn's largest moon; on Wednesday, close to Saturn itself; on Thursday, Saturn's rings and its other moons. To see the tapes ot the live transmission, come to the Media Center between 2 and 9 p.m. November 12-14. At 4 p.m. Tuesday, November 11, Elizabeth James (Science Education) will give an illustrated lecture to the Astronomy Club on what is already known about Saturn, and on what has been learned from Voyager 1 after it flew by Jupiter last year. All interested persons are invited to attend the lecture in 322 Natural Sciences. "THE GREAT AMERICAN ESCAPE" EXPLORED NOV. 13 Accurate information about alcohol, "The Great American Escape," will be available in an awareness program of that name, spon­sored November 13 by the WCU Student Deve lop­ment Awareness Committee in Dodson Cafeteria, upper level. This program is unique in taking a positive, non-threatening approach to providing in­formation and alternatives to drinking. Over 1,000 students and faculty attended last year's program. This year, with a carnival theme, various tables and booths will pro­vide alcohol information. Any group or in­dividual may create such a booth relating to alcohol and its impact on our lives. For more information on participating or reserving space, call Housing at ext. 7303. STAFF POSITION VACANCIES Apply at the Personnel Office, 330 UA/MHC, within 5 working days from the date of this publication. PAINTER, Physical Plant Department; hiring rate, $10,932; completion of grammar school and 2 years progressive experience in the preparation and painting of interior and exterior walls. GET READY FOR CHRISTMAS AT THE BAZAAR No matter who's on your Christmas list, you'll probably be able to find something that will please him or her at the annual Christmas bazaar to be held November 18-19 at Hinds University Center. Running from 10 a.m. until 9 p.m. each day in the Grandroom, the bazaar features craft and gift items by area craftsmen, clubs, and organizations. Like last year's, the bazaar will include all kinds of good food—baked items you can take home and freeze for the holidays as well as lunchables like turkey sandwiches. Last year there were quiches and Greek delicacies to tempt the palate. Some of the gifts available are works in pottery, leather, needlecraft, and wood. Plants and books—some by local or uni­versity authors, some used—widen the choices. Christmas decorations of all kinds will be offered, too. There's no admission, so you might as well come browse for Christmas ideas even if you can't afford to buy. But many of the items are surprisingly inexpensive, so you may find your Christmas shopping half done before you know it. CATCH THE SEASON'S SPIRIT WITH A FLOURISH AT THE MADRIGAL CHRISTMAS DINNER Christmas may still seem far off, but tickets are already on sale for the Madrigal Christ­mas Dinner, this year to be held on Wednesday, December 3, for one night only. The festive evening of candlelight and music, where you are treated as the guest in a Renaissance manor with English lords and ladies, has been a tradition at Western since 1970. Old Christmas customs like the boar's head procession and the wassail bowl are observed, and Elizabethan entertainments accompany a lavish banquet featuring roast beef and plum pudding. Doors to the great hall (the Grandroom of the university center) will open at 6 p.m., and diners are asked to be seated by 6:30. Cost of tickets, on sale between 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. daily at the university center, is $9 for adults and $6 for children under 12 years of age or for Western students. Tickets may be reserved by calling ext. 7205, and must be picked up within 48 hours of reservation. EVEN A CAT MAY LOOK AT A QUEEN - Western's Cat is already dreaming of Asheville's Christmas parade November 26. He'll ride with Miss North Carolina, Janet Black, being sponsored in the parade by Western. CATCHING UP WITH GfANTS Western has been awarded a $114,592 grant from the U.S. Office of Education to con­tinue a training program to help teacher aides on the Qualla Boundary earn bachelor of science in education degrees. The program, now in its second year, enables teacher aides and others involved in the education of Cherokee Indian children to take WCU courses at Cherokee Elementary School in Cherokee during the school year and on the WCU campus during the summers. A student who participates to the fullest can earn each year 24 semester hours of the total 128 needed for the degree. Last year, 17 persons participated. This year, an enrollment between 20 and 25 is expected. Project director William Cook said the program's main goal is to increase the supply of well-trained Cherokee Indian teachers and, in so doing, to help Cherokee children learn the value of education. "When a Cherokee child walks into school and sees that most of the teachers are non- Indians and that the Indians working in the school are teacher aides, lunchroom workers, and janitors, he learns that Indians can expect the lower-paying positions, Cook said. "What we want to do is change this so the child also has role models who are Indians in professional positions." Cook said the program prepares participants to meet the special needs of Indian chil­dren by emphasizing, whenever possible, topics from Cherokee and other Indian history, culture, and literature. Parti­cipants, he said, also have the option of taking Cherokee language courses at WCU's Cherokee Center or main campus. The entire program is tailored to the in­dividual needs of participants, allowing each to progress at his or her own pace. A research project here, designed to study exploratory behavior in young children, has been awarded a $53,000 grant by the Spencer Foundation of Chicago. Dr. Bruce B. Henderson, an associate pro­fessor of psychology in charge of the two-year project, said researchers will study the exploratory behavior of more than 100 western North Carolina children, ages 3 to 8. "We hope this research will give us a better idea of why children do or do not display exploratory behavior," he said. Presumably, kids who explore more are going to learn more, so we also hope we'll find ways to encourage children to explore more, both in and out of school." They will find ways to measure behavior like asking questions and examining novel objects, then compare the way mothers and fathers interact with children in novel situations. Finally, they want to find specific strategies that will encourage children to explore more. The Spencer Foundation of Chicago is a private foundation that supports research in education and developmental psychology. Western has received a $10,947 matching grant from the National Science Foundation to upgrade its undergraduate program in food, nutrition, and dietetics. This pro­gram, now in its third year, prepares stu­dents to enter teaching or technical posi­tions or to pursue graduate training. Dr. Noelle L. Kehrberg, assistant professor of home economics, said the grant is being used to purchase scientific equipment for use in laboratory experiemnts that deal with food composition, food safety and preserva­tion, and nutritional metabolism. "This equipment," she said, "will allow us to broaden the scope of our program and give students some valuable real-life experi­ences." With a $4,500 Law Enforcement Education Program (LEEP) grant from the U.S. Depart­ment of Education, Western can continue tuition payments for law enforcement per­sonnel currently enrolled in the criminal justice degree program here. The grant, announced through Rep. Lamar Gudger's office in Washington, will pay this year's tuition for about 10 law enforcement per­sonnel who have previously received LEEP tuition support. NOVEMBER 17-21 IS WORLD HUNGER WEEK. Campus events to make us aware of world-wide hunger will be sponsored through the week by campus ministries and organizations. Watch for them. -3- ARTS COUNCIL HEARS ACTRESS AND AUTHOR The public iB invited to the Jackson County Arts Council meeting November 23 at 2 p.m. in the Founders Auditorium, MHC. Collin Paxton, who has acted as Susan B. Anthony for PBS and appeared in "The Wal-tons" and "The Virginians," will share the program with Louise Anderson, who wrote a children's book, Sammy Racer, and is a member of the state Cultural Arts Coalition. REPORT ON BUILDING PROJECTS Since the last report from the Buildings and Grounds Committee, construction has begun on the addition to Hunter Library and finished on the conversion of Robert­son Hall into apartments for married students. University maintenance people are renovating the Old Student Union with the limited funds available. Several other projects are in planning stages. Under contract but not yet begun is a locker room for women's athletics, to be added to Reid Gym. A new book and supply store is proposed, to be located in the hillside behind Killian; the trustees have approved the architectural firm Foy and Lee to plan it but contracts have not been let. Revenues from the store are supposed to pay for it. A regional activities center or convocation center has been proposed to the Board of Governors as a major addition for the uni­versity community and the region. If the UNC governors approve the formal funding request this month, it will go to the Budget Advisory Committee and from there to the legislature. If funded, the building might be completed by 1985 The library addition is about three percent behind schedule after a nine-month delay in starting. Because early bids were too high, features of the original plan were omitted; when later bids were lower than expected, several features could be restored. Among these are a 24-hour computer and terminal room for student use, a 24-hour vending machine area, housing for the media center in a renovated part of the old library, and removal of the remaining old stadium bleach­ers. The only major part still missing is a bay that would have been set into the bank occupied by some of the bleachers. UNCONVENTIONAL PLAY OPENS THIS WEEK Tickets went on sale Wednesday, November 12, for Arthur Kopit's Indians. Buffalo Bill begins to relive his exciting, not always admirable past in the Little Thea­tre of Stillwell Building Sunday night, November 16. Performances run through Saturday, with a matinee added for the last day. Most of the famous cowboys and Plains Indians are seen in the play. Buffalo Bill and his Wild West Show become meta­phors for the American experience of white-Indian conflict• Outrageously theatrical displays and intense inner struggles vie for the audience's atten­tion. Faculty members may be especially interested in seeing their colleagues Jim Horton (as Chief Joseph), Terry Nien-huis (as Sitting Bull), and Jeff Sauer (as Buffalo Bill himself). Theatre-goers should be prepared for an unusual dramatic experience. Reflecting the creative structure of Kopit's play, environmental staging will take the place of the Little Theatre's traditional ar­rangement. Because some people will not be sitting in conventional seats, every­one should wear comfortable clothing. There will be no reserved seating, so the house will open each evening at 7 and for the matinee at 1:30 p.m., 30 minutes before curtain time. Those who come early will have the best choice of seats. To reserve tickets, call the theatre office in room 122 Hoey (7365) between 1 and 4 p.m. weekdays. They are $3 for adults, $2 for students, and $1 for children. WESTERN'S BANDS WILL PLAY TUESDAY It will be the "Western Pops" next Tuesday when three band organizations play in the third annual WCU Bandorama. The free public concert is set for 8 p.m. November 18 in the Music-English recital hall. As a trumpet trio, faculty trumpet in­structor James Buckner, his wife Anne, and Hayesville freshman Mike Hedden will play. The marching and symphonic bands will perform under the direction of Joe Scagnoli and Robin Dauer, and the jazz ensemble will play under the direction of Mario Gaetano. -4- NAMES IN THE NEWS Three members of the Management and Market­ing department recently conducted workshops in Pheonix, Arizona, for the Project Manage­ment Institute (PMI), an international ef­fort to improve managerial professionalism. The weekend workshops held October 25-26 were organized by JOHN H. ADAMS, PMIfs cur­rent director for educational services. Dr. Adams led introductory workshops on "Prin­ciples of Project Management." WILLIAM D. KANE conducted the advanced workshop for 50 senior project managers who are known na­tionally. In this executive development program, Dr. Kane facilitated an interchange of experience and ideas on the special pro­blems of managing large projects with high costs, high technology, and high pressure. A graduate student and research assistant in the department, Dorothy J. Crum, was res­ponsible for facilities and technical pre­paration. She also assisted in conducted two of the workshops. JIMMIE E. COOK (director, Reading Center) presented a paper at the 24th annual con­ference of the College Reading Association in Baltimore, October 30 and November 1. He also participated on a panel November 6-7 in Winston-Salem for the N.C. Associa­tion of College Professors of Reading. The topic was "The Role of Remediation." Dr. Cook is a contributing editor to Early Years. BILLIEE P. PARKER (Elementary Education and Reading and Special Services) will present a session on the integration of reading and writing skills at the sixth Southeastern Regional Conference of the International Reading Association at Norfolk, Va., Novem­ber 12-15. WALTER THOMAS (dean, Technology and Applied Sciences) has been elected to a three-year term on the Executive Committee of the En­gineering Technology Leadership Institute. Its goals are to improve the leadership capabilities of department heads and deans to educate potential leaders. ROGER BISSON (Modern Foreign Languages) at­tended the North Carolina Foreign Language Association meeting in Southern Pines on October 24-25. There officials of the state Department of Public Instruction presented him with a certificate recog­nizing his work with high school teachers. JIM HOLLAND (Personnel) has been elected to the office of president for programs of the Higher Education Personnel Asso­ciation (HEPA) of North Carolina. As a state chapter, HEPA is an affiliate of the National College and University Per­sonnel Association. PAT R. CARTER (director, Upward Bound/ Special Services/Talent Search) and DEBBIE ZACCARINE-DAVIDSON presented a workshop, "Improving Your Self-Esteem," November 4 in Franklin. It was sponsored by the N.C. Council on the Status of Women and the Franklin chapter of the Business and Professional Women's Organization. HAZEL McCRONE (Housing) recently presented a program on "Computer Usage for Housing Assignments" 'at the N.C . Housing Officers Conference held at East Carolina Univer­sity. DOUG CANIPE (Housing) will co-chair dis­plays and exhibits for the program commit­tee of the 1981 N.C. Housing Officers Conference, to be held at Western. LYNN DOYLE is also a member of the program committee. RANDY RICE (Housing) will serve as presi­dent of N.C. Housing Officers for 1981 in conjunction with Western's hosting of the 1981 conference. He also presented a program at the 1980 conference, held at ECU, on alcohol education ("The Great American Escape"). STAFF POSITION VACANCIES Apply at the Personnel Office, 330 UA/KHC, within 5 working days from the date of this publication unless otherwise stated HOURLY EDUCATIONAL/DEVELOPMENTAL AIDE II POSITIONS (substitute teachers called in when permanent teachers are absent); Child Development Center; $3.50 per hour; graduation from high school or equivalency and one year of experience working with children, developmentally disabled, or blind population as appropriate for the job (volunteer, mother, babysitter), or associate degree in mental health or child development program; or an equivalent com­bination of education and experience. GRANT-FUNDED POSITIONS. HOURLY DATA ENTRY OPERATOR II, Office of Alumni Affairs; $4.24 per hour; graduation from high school or equivalency and six months of experience as a data entry operator or typist; or an equivalent com­bination of education and experience. NO FRINGE BENEFITS. The A Weekly Newsletter for the Faculty and Staff of Western Carolina University Cullowhee, North Carolina November 21, 1980 MADRIGAL DINNER OFFERS HOLIDAY SONG, SPIRIT From the first brass fanfare to the wassail toast and the departure of the noble lords and ladies singing Leontovich's "Ukranian Carol," the annual Madrigal Christmas Dinner December 3 promises to spirit the imagina­tion back to the Elizabethan age of Merrie Olde England. First held on the WCU campus 10 years ago, the banquet that transforms the Grandroom of Hinds University Center into the great hall of a 17th-century English manor has become a traditional harbinger of the holi­day season. The evening features a festive dinner, brightly attired singers and lords and ladies, and lots of revisited customs and pageantry. The cast includes the Lord and Lady of the Feaste, James and Barbara Dooley, the Jester of the Manor, Robert Zipperer, and a beggar woman, portrayed by Sharon Smith. Western's Early Music Ensemble, directed by Dr. Robert Holquist, will provide the madri­gal entertainment. The group will sing such selections as "Which is the Properest Day to Sing" by Thomas Arne, "Mon coeur se recom-mande a vous (My Heart Doth Beg You'll Not Forget)" by Orlando di Lasso, "Flora Gave Me Fairest Flowers" by John Wilbye, "Io piango (I Weep)" by Luca Marenzio, "When Allen-a-Dale Went A-Hunting" by Robert de Pearsall, and "Counterpoint of the Animals" by Adriano Banchierri. Tickets to the dinner, presented by WCU's department of music, department of speech and theatre arts, Hinds University Center, and Last Minute Productions, are now on sale at the university center at costs of $9 for adults and $6 for children or WCU students. Doors open at 6 p.m. and guests are asked to be seated by 6:30 for the opening fan­fares . SENATE ACTS ON GENERAL EDUCATION PROPOSAL Last week the faculty senate took several actions on the General Education Proposal. The senate heard several statements of position and passed an amendment specify­ing procedure. Discussion will continue at a special session which has been set for Monday, November 27, at 3 p.m. Discussing the position of the administra­tion with regard to the proposal, Chancel­lor Robinson urged that the faculty take definite and definitive action whether to discontinue the discussion or to move ahead toward developing an acceptable and workable general education program. Anita Oser, chairman of the ad hoc committee to evaluate the Proposal and insure faculty involvement, reported on the questionnaire sent out last month. About 41 percent of the faculty responded to the questionnaire, which asked faculty to rate how acceptable they found the program's objectives, both the general and the specific, and how fea­sible they thought implementation might be. Over half those responding agreed with the overall objectives and most of the specific objectives; feasibility of meeting the spec­ific objectives was in most cases somewhat less acceptable, with a few particularly so. A statement from the Cap and Gown Senior Honor Society expressed strong agreement in favor of revising general education require­ments, but warned that without good planning and high-quality evaluators monitoring could be a problem. The society affirmed free choice in selecting general education courses so that students changing majors will not suffer. An amendment, passed by secret ballot on a vote of 22 to 13, set out a process for test­ing and assessing the Proposal in several -2- phases. In the first phase, for the aca­demic year 1981-82, the skills objectives would be applied to the present general edu­cation program, with existing courses to be resubmitted on the basis of those objectives. The freeze on new courses would be lifted, and they would be encouraged in all areas. The committee arrangement would be tried. In the second phase, for the academic year 1982-83, the experiences would be reviewed and evaluatedo New courses would be en­couraged, specifically at least one course in each of the ten areas of the new Pro­posal. In the third phase, for the fall of 1983, faculty would confirm the Proposal, modify it, or select something else. IRISH OFFICIAL GIVES TIPS ON GENEALOGY "The Irish Roots of Western North Carolina" will be the topic of a lecture Monday night in the University Forum series. Brian Trainor, director of the Public Record Of­fice of Northern Ireland, will discuss the migration of the Irish, especially the Scotch-Irish, to western North Carolina. He will also explain the use of the Public Record Office of North Ireland by Ameri­cans doing genealogical research and the problems that they may encounter. He will emphasize the value of local and family history. Trainorfs visit is a result of contacts made by Tyler Blethen and Curtis Wood of the history department, who researched this topic in Northern Ireland earlier this year. The Forum's meeting November 24 will be at 7 p.m. in the New Science Auditorium. It is the last in the fall semester series. ORIGINAL READERS THEATRE DECEMBER 3 AND 4 "A Pox On Pigs, Plagues and Pestilence," a readers theatre production written, direct­ed and p roduced by Western's readers theatre class, will be presented on campus at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, December 3 and 4, in the Little Theatre of Stillwell. The student theatre production, accompanied by a special effects slide show, is a comi-cal, yet serious commentary on the nature of human plagues. It takes a unique, dramatic look at such things as the bubonic plague, pollution, prejudice, and nuclear power. The cast includes all 12 members of the class, taught by Carolyn Rauch. VISITING ARTIST-SCHOLAR SHOWS WORK DEC. 1 Carole Robb, a visiting Fulbright-Hays scholar from Great Britain, will be on the campus of Western Monday, December 1. She will work with art students during the day and give a public lecture on her work that evening. Ms. Robb, who is a figurative painter, was educated at the Glasgow School of Art and the University of Reading. Her work is most often shown at AIR Gallery and Collectors Gallery in London and Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol. She currently holds the prestigious British Prix de Rome award in painting and received the Major Visual Arts Award of the British Arts Council in 1979. While in this country concurrent with the Fulbright-Hays award she is the recipient of fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the McDowell Colony in New Hampshire. Her visit to WCU has been funded largely by the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars. Ms. Robb's slide presentation on her work will be at 7:30 p.m. in Belk 104 December 1. SENIOR MUSICIANS IN RECITAL SUNDAY Western's department of music presents Ronald Simmons and Steven Medford in a senior recital Sunday, November 23, at 3 p.m. in the recital hall of the Music- English Building. The program will include works by Schubert, Massenet, Dello Joio, Moore, Caccini, Mendlessohn, Schumann, Saint-Saens, and Wain. Medford, a bass-baritone, and Simmons, a clarinetist, will be accompanied by pianist Barbara Dooley. The recital is open to the public free of charge and a reception will follow. NOTICE - LIBRARY HOURS CUT OVER HOLIDAY Hunter Library will be closed for four days, Wednesday, November 26, through Saturday, November 29, to permit workmen to relocate some primary electrical lines. The work is necessary in the construction of the new addition that will triple the size of the existing library. Librarian William Kirwan said the relocation work was scheduled during the Thanksgiving holidays to minimize inconvenience to users • The library will re-open Sunday, November 30, from noon until midnight. Mountain Heritage Day University of North Carolina Television will carry two segments of Western Carolina University's 1980 Mountain Heritage Day celebration on its magazine show, "Porches," at 9 p.m., Friday, November 28, 1980. "Porches" is a 30-minute show. Fiddle maker Earnest Hodges will be featured on the first portion and musician David Holt on the closing segment. Two other features unrelated to WCU also are scheduled. UNC-TV is broadcast on several frequencies in the western part of the state. Most persons in the university community receive UNC-TV on channel 56, Franklin. Other frequencies in the western area are channels 59, Andrews; 67, Bryson City; 27, Canton; 33, Asheville; 17, Linville; 67, Burnsville; and 59, Spruce Pine. -3- INSTRUCTIONAL IMPROVEMENT GRANTS There will be a meeting for all inter­ested faculty members on the Vice Chan­cellor's Instructional Improvement Grants December 2 at 3 p.m. in the Music-English recital hall. The vice chancellor for academic affairs will award up to four grants to individual faculty members or groups of faculty to be used to support proj­ects specifically designed to improve the quality and effectiveness of in­struction in a course or group of courses. The grants can be used to purchase supplies or equipment, to acquire part-time help , or to support necessary travel, provided the use of funds for these items results in long-range in­structional improvement. Each grant will be awarded on a com­petitive basis in the spring, to be used the following academic year. Proposals, to be prepared according to guidelines provided by the Office of Academic Affairs, will be evalua­ted by a faculty-student committee to be named by the vice chancellor. All proposals must be received in the Office for Academic Affairs by March 1, 1981. At the meeting December 2, the guide­lines will be amplified and suggestions will be offered for proposal prepara­tions. Questions should be directed to the Office for Academic Affairs. • operative HHTvrroN Western Carolina University 123 Bird Bui lding Cullovhec, North Carolina 28723 (704) 227-7133 POSITION AVAILABLE COOPERATIVE FPUCATION ASSISTANT COORDINATOR A grant-funded position under the supervision of the Coordinator of Coopera­tive Education the primary responsibility of the Assistant Coordinator vill be job development. He/she will make contact with and visit employers to solicit training positions for Western Carolina Universitv undergraduate students in all five Schools of the University: Arts and Sciences, Business, Technology and Ap­plied Science, Education and Psychology, and Nursing and Health Sciences. The Assistant Coordinator will also work closely with Faculty Coordinators and Co-op Departmental Advisors to maintain communication between the Cooperative Education office and t he regular academic programs; to encourage student partici­pation; to insure the validity of prospective training assignments; and to coor­dinate visits to students on the work site. The Assistant Coordinator will also assist the Coordinator in the routine functions of the program's operation, including interviewing and counseling stu­dents and preparing then to compete for training assignments. QUALIFICATIONS: Applicants should have excellent written and oral communication skills and be able to relate easily to employers as well as to faculty and students. Bachelor's degree required. Master's degree and/or related work experience preferred. Experience in Cooperative Education and/or Career Planning and Placement desirable. SALARY: Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. DATE POSITION AVAILABLE: DEADLINE: January 12, 1981 Applications must be received by December 12, 1980. Mail resumes to: Ms. Susie R. Ray Coordinator of Cooperative Education Western Carolina University 123 Bird Building Cullovhec, North Carolina 28723 Western Carolina University is a constituent institution of the University of North Carolina and an AffIrmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Spring semester registration for Western's Cherokee Center will be held at Cherokee High School from 4:30 until 6 p.m. on Thursday, December 4, and during the first week of classes, Monday - Thursday, January 12-15. NAMES IN THE NEWS JUDY H. DOWELL (Home Economics) participated in a meeting November 4-5 in Asheboro, N.C., called by the State Department of Public In­struction to establish Regional Teacher Edu­cation Committees. JANE HALL (Child Development Training Proj­ect) was the keynote speaker for a confer­ence in Asheville November 7 on "Children and Families: Commitment to Caring•' Her address was entitled "Children of Today: Families of Tomorrow." BARBARA A. COSPER (Home Economics) was key­note speaker for the North Carolina School Food Service Supervisors and Directors in a meeting at Wilmington, N.C., October 28. She spoke on "Nutrition Awareness for School Food Service in North Carolina." ROY THOMPSON, JR. (CIML) has been appointed chairman of the North Carolina Small Busi­ness Administration (SBA) Advisory Council. The 25-member advisory council meets bi-annually to discuss the needs of the state's small business community and to determine how those needs can be met by the SBA, a federal agency that provides financial and management assistance to small businesses. The advisory council also makes recommenda­tions to the SBA and informs local business and commercial interests of specific SBA programs and economic conditions within the state. -4 TED C. MOODY and WILLIAM C. McGOWAN (Physics) attended the Southeastern Section American Physical Society Meeting November 6-8 in Chapel Hill. Moody presented a paper, "An Open Multi-Truck Physics Lab­oratory." Dr. McGowan presented "A Rota­tional Motion Experiment for the Intro­ductory Physics Laboratory" and presided over a session on the teaching of physics. Three students from the department also attended the meeting and its joint s essions of the Society of Physics Students. James E. King III presented a paper "The Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar Device." DAVID HARRISON (Home Economics) took a group interior design students and others to museums and historical sites in Williamsburg and New York September 28-October 5. NOELLE KEHRBERG and BARBARA COSPER (Home Economics) attended the National Convention of American Dietetics Association in At­lanta October 6-10. WALTER THOMAS (dean, Technology and Applied Science) has been awarded a one-of-a-kind special certificate from the Engineers' Council for Professional Development. The certificate was awarded to acknowledge the "valued contribution to the Accreditation Commission" and for his "good work in the interest of quality education." JIM ADDISON (English), CREIGHTON SOSSOMON, and BRIAN WALTON (both History) attended the UNC-C Writing Conference held in Char­lotte September 5—6. They discussed the importance of writing to other disciplines besides English. FRANCILE WATERS (Home Economics) was a dele­gate to the State Convention of North Caro­lina Home Economics Association in Fayette-ville, N.C., October 29-November 1. JOYCE BALDWIN (Home Economics) attended the National Meeting of the Association of College Professors of Textiles and Clothing October 28—November 1 in Washington, D.C. MARILYN JODY and TERRY HOYLE (English) at­tended the Na tional Developmental Studies Conference in Atlanta November 6-8. WILMA COSPER (head, Home Economics) was keynote speaker for the Governor's Leader­ship Development Conference for Women of Macon County, held in Franklin November 4. She spoke on "The Status of Women in Today's Society." EVA ADCOCK (Music) traveled to Gardner- Webb College October 16 to conduct a workshop for Appalachian music and dance. JOHN W. McFADDEN, JR. (Administration, Curriculum, and Instruction) conducted a two-week instructor training course for the North Carolina Justice Academy at Southwestern Technical College October 13-24. ELIZABETH JAMES (Science Education) at­tended a workshop in Reidsville, N.C., October 15-17 on "Science Teaching and the Development of Reasoning." The pro­gram, developed at the Lawrence Hall of Science of the University of California, is based on intellectual development as it applies to all education, but espe­cially science. Participating educators from three states analyzed goals of edu­cation and means of achieving them. JAMES W. WALLACE (Biology) presented two papers at the recent International Botan­ical Meetings held at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Titles were "Polyphenolics and Their Phylogene-tic Significance in the Marsileaceae" and "Flavonoids and Their Phylogenetic Signi­ficance in the Gleicheniaceae." JUDY H. DOWELL (Home Economics), JENNIE R. HUNTER (Administrative Services), WILLIAM D. KANE, JR. (Marketing and Management), and WILLIAM R. LATIMER (Political Science) were initiated with eight-two students, one of them CAM STOLTZ (Computer Center), into the national honor society of Phi Kappa Phi. Eligibility is based on academic excellence, personal integrity, and student status. Faculty members who have been recog­nized as superior teachers are also eligible. STAFF POSITION VACANCIES Apply at the PERSONNEL OFFICE, 330 UA/MHC, within five working days from the date of this publication unless otherwise stated. SYSTEMS ACCOUNTANT, Controller's Office; salary depending on qualifications; gradua­tion from a four-year college or university with a major in accounting, business adminis­tration, or management information systems, and four years of related experience. Ap­plicant should have extensive experience in systems analysis and computer programming as related to accounting systems. Accepting applications until position has been filled. HOUSEKEEPING ASSISTANT, Physical Plant Depart­ment; hiring rate, $6,852; good physical con­dition.