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Western Carolinian Volume 45 Number 24

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  • Page4 /THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN/March 20. 1980 Carolinian newsbriefs NTE exam The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction has arranged for a special adminstration of the National Teacher Examinations on April 19 and WCU will serve as one of the testing centers. The department has advised in a memorandum that an increased NTE score requirement of 970 will become effective July 1, 1980, and that the upcoming special NTE exam will be the last opportunity for anyone to qualify for certification under the present 950 score requirement. A minimum NTE score is prerequisite to the issuance of any initial North Carolina teaching certificate. This is a special administration and a special form must be used. There also will be a charge of $10 in addition to the regular fees. Registration must be sent directly to the Educational Testing Service (ETS) and must be received by April 4. For further information, contact Counseling and resting, Room 108, Bird Building, WCU, Cullowhee, 28723; or call 227-7469/ Algebra skills The Algebra Skills Test will be given at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday. March 20, in Forsyth Auditorium and at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, March 24. Passing the Algebra Skills Test or passing Math 193 is a prerequisite to Math 103, 107, 121, 122 and 150. There is no cost for the examination scheduled on Thursday or Monday. If a student wishes to schedule an individual examination at a different time, there is a fee of $2. AAUW awards The Cullowhee Branch of the American Association of University Women announces that applications are now being accepted for the A.A.U.W. Scholarship Award for Outstanding Achievement. Applicants must be students who have Junior standing and at least a B average by the end of Fall Semester, 1979. In addition. applicants will be expected to show evidence of leadership ability in contributions to university and community. The award will include a minimum stipend of $100.00. Application forms may be obtained from Ms. Barbara Mann, Dean of Student Development, Room 460, University Administration/Mountain Heritage Building. Deadline for applications is April 11, 1980. If you want further information, call Harriet Parker at 7232. Military Ball The department of military science at WCU has announced that tickets are now on sale for WCU's second annual military ball to be held March 29 in the Grandroom of Hinds University Center. The ball, a formal dinner-dance in keeping with military tradition, will begin at 7 p.m. with the customary mixing of the punch. Dinner, featuring prime rib of beef, will be served at 7:30 p.m. Major General Edward A. I'ariain. deputy commander of the 18th Airborne Corps al Fort Bragg, will be the after-dinner speaker. The ball will continue until midnight with music provided by Contrazz, a popular band out of Charlotte. Seating for the event is limited to 300 with an early sellout expected. Attire will be dress uniforms for military attendees and formal for civilians. Tickets are $8 per person and may be reserved by calling the WCU department of military science at 227-7438.. The military ball will be the final event of ROTC Day at WCU, which will include skydiving exhibitions and a fancy drill team competition earlier. Prof to speak Dr. Harold G. Cassidy, Yale University emeritus professor in chemistry and professor-at-large from Hanover College, will present two public lectures March 20-21 at WCU. Dr. Cassidy, a noted educator, environmentalist and lecturer, will discuss "Our Precarious Habitat" at 4 p.m. Thursday, March 20, and "Ecology of Knowledge: The Intellectual Structure of Western Carolina University" at 3 p.m. Friday, March 21. Both lectures will be in the auditorium of WCU's Natural Sciences Building. There is no charge for SCHOLARSHIPS Applications Now Being Accepted At The Dept. Of Military Science Office Z£M @)AmiyROTC Western Carolina University 227-7438 admission. „_. . Cassidy's visit is sponsored by the WCU departments of chemistry and biology in conjunction with the Visiting Scholars Program. The author of eight books and about 150 research and review articles, Cassidy's research was in the field of adsorption until he invented oxidation-reduction oolv- mers and went on to specialize in that area. While at Yale, Cassidy worked with a group associated with what was to become the Manhattan Project, in determining properties related to isotope separation of uranium compounds. In recent years, he has devoted his time to environmental causes. COOP assistant Michael Bruder, a former juvenile court counselor in McDowell County, has been named assistant coordinator of cooperative education at WCU. The cooperative education program at WCU affords students the opportunity to alternate terms of college study and full-time employment in a career-related field to gain actual work experience while working toward a degree. Bruder is a native of Washington, D.C, and earned both his bachelor's and master's degree at WCU. He was a varsity soccer player while attending Western and won several honors in the sport. He served as assistant soccer coach at WCU in 1974. From 1975-78, Bruder worked with the North Carolina administrative office of the courts and was assigned to McDowell County. During that time he was a member of the Marion Kiwanis Club and chairman of Agape House, a boys' group home. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest E. Bruder of 5801 Blackhawk Drive, Forest Heights, Md. Art to USSR A woodcut by William R. Lidh. associate professor of art at WCU, has been accepted for inclusion in a traveling exhibition of 40 prints and drawings by Southern printmakers which will tour the Soviet Union for two years. The exhibition, entitled "Comparisons and Contrasts 1980-82 (A study of the graphics of two worlds)," is an exchange between a group of printmakers and draughtsmen of the Soviet Union and their counterparts in the southern U.S. It is jointly sponsored by the Southern Graphics Council, and the art departments of the University of Mississippi and Georgia Southern College. More ^an 90 artists were invited to submit works and the 40 in the American exhibition were chosen from more than 180 submitted. The selection of Soviet prints and drawings is scheduled to open in an exhibition at Georgia Southern College in Statesboro, Ga., in October of this year. The Russian exhibit is tentatively scheduled to visit WCU in November. Lidh joined the faculty at Western in 1963 and currently teaches printmaking, drawing and art education courses. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Wisconsin and was a member of the faculty at Illinois State University before coming to Cullowhee.
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