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ADMINISTRATIVE NOTICE PERSONAL MAIL The co-operation of all faculty and staff is requested in affixing the proper postage on all envelopes and packages prior to using the Brock Mail Service. Stamps for personal mail are no longer available in the Mailroom, but may be obtained from the Bookstore, or a new dispensing unit located with the vending machines on the first floor of the Tower. The Mailroom personnel will co-operate in providing information on postage rates and the weighing of personal parcel post packages. (Extension #289) UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE Candidates for Brock's entry in the C.T.V. network's University Challenge, a fun game of knowledge, are prepping busily under the tutelage of Dr. John Mayer. Michael Tew, Harry Artinian, James Vanderschoot, Peter Kocsis, Ed Bednaryk, Paul Thurston, Marnie Timms and Richard Brown are the students seeking positions on the University's challenge team. Dr. Mayer informs that final selection of four students will be made this week. Meanwhile Robert Arn of the English Department has undertaken to produce a one minute 'commercial' on Brock, to be shown during the program. Camera work, direction and cast will be the responsibility of student Bill Toole The schedule for the participants in ‘University Challenge’ is to leave Toronto at noon Saturday, January 16, arrive Ottawa and met by C.J.O.H. executive producer Lorne Freed, conducted to Skyline Hotel where they are to be accommodated, Saturday p.m. watch production of University Challenge round, at C.J.O.H. studio, Saturday evening free. On Sunday morning rehearsal and then taping the real show on Sunday afternoon. Return to Toronto Sunday evening. The telecast date is set for Sunday, March 7. Probable opponent for Brock will be drawn from the following universities, Victoria, B.C., current champion, University of Prince Edward Island, Royal Military College or Bishops. FRANK COSENTINO TO SPEAK ON ATHLETICS IN ANCIENT ROME Frank Cosentino, a former professional football star on the Toronto, Hamilton and Edmonton teams, who is now on the faculty of the University of Western Ontario, -2- BROCK CAMPUS NEWS JAN 7/71 will speak on the Roman attitude toward physical education and sports on Tuesday, January 12 at 12:30 p.m. in Thistle Room 247. Mr. Cosentino has specialized in the history of athletics and interprets the modern view of sports in terms of its ancient origins. The invitation to speak was extended by the departments of Classics and Physical Education and Recreation. LIBRARY: MUSIC FACILITIES All music books, miniature scores and music, LC classification M, previously shelved on floor six, are now to be shelved in the Music Listening Room on floor two. Over the Christmas recess, eight new record decks were installed in the Listening Room and are now ready for use. The total number of listening stations is now twenty-six, consisting of sixteen tape recorders and ten record decks. The room is open for use Monday to Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Monday to Thursday evenings, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. RROCK DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS REPRESENTED AT APA MEETING Dr. Arthur D. Kahn, Chairman of the Department of Classics, spent ten days in Israel, visiting historical monuments and archaeological sites and conferring with Classics department chairmen at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the University of Tel Aviv. He returned to New York to attend the annual meetings of the American Philological Association and the Archaeological Institute of America. He was one of six Classics professors invited to present position papers at an open forum on the state of undergraduate programs in Classical studies. Other papers were presented by professors from Yale, Wellesley, Harvard, Duke and Texas. Dr. Kahn has been invited to become a member of the Committee on Teacher Training of the American Philological Association. Dr. Kahn and Dr. Boggess engaged in informal discussions with Classics professors conducting experimental courses in the discipline, particularly in ancient history and urban studies. At a meeting of distinguished archaeologists and museum directors from all over North America Dr. Kahn and Mrs. Elizabeth Boggess, curator of the Brock Museum of Cypriot Antiquities, made plans for an international conference on Cypriot archaeology and history to be held at Brock the weekend of October 15, 1971, at which Professor Vassos Karageorghis, Director of the Cypriot National Museum, will be the quest of honor. This year both the retiring president of the American Philological Association, Malcolm McGregor of UBC and the newly-elected president, Edward Salmon of McMaster University, are Canadians. IN THE NEWS PROFESSOR H. SCHUTZ Herbert Schutz, Germanic and Slavic Studies, has been awarded a Canada Council Research Grant which will enable him to spend the summer at the Schiller Museum, -3- BROCK CAMPUS NEWS JAN 7/71 Marbach, Germany. He will study the archives of Hermann Kasack, deposited there, and which have not been investigated before. PROFESSOR E. KAYSER Edmond P. Kayser, Geography, has been re-appointed to serve on the St. Catharines Urban Renewal Citizen Advisory Committee for the year 1971. INTERLIBRARY LOANS AVAILABLE NOW TO UNDERGRADUATES Interlibrary loans are now available on an experimental basis to undergraduates. The Ontario Council of University Librarians has established a pilot project to be conducted in the Brock, Queens and Western Libraries. Each of these three libraries is able to borrow for their undergraduates from the libraries of the other provincially assisted universities in Ontario. The experiment will run from January 1, 1971 to April 30, 1971. The results of the experiment will be analysed by the staff of the Ontario Universities Bibliographic Centre Project to determine whether this service can be continued on a regular basis. Any student holding a valid Brock identification card is eligible to request material directly through the Reference Department of the library. Endorsement by faculty is not necessary. Full details of the procedures to be followed by undergraduates requiring interlibrary loans are available from the Reference Department. The interlibrary loan service to faculty, graduate students and staff is not affected by the implementation of this pilot project and will continue in the usual manner. JANUARY PROGRAM/PHILOSOPHY CLUB The Philosophy Club has announced its January Program. On Friday, January 8, Professor Dale Riepe of the State University of New York will give an illustrated lecture on 'Zen Art'. On Friday, January 22, Professor G.B. Madison of McMaster University will speak on 'Merleau-Ponty's Concept of the Role of Philosophy'. Both lectures will be held in Room 107, first floor, Brock Tower, beginning at 8:00 p.m. B.U.S.A.C. FINE ARTS COURSE LECTURE Mr. Peter Kolisnyk (Kolisnyk's Reflections), one of Canada's own top 'Thirty' will give a lecture Monday evening, January 11 th at 7:00 p.m. in Room 107. Admission is free. Faculty and Staff are invited. WINTER CARNIVAL BIG AFFAIR The annual Winter Carnival, beginning January 14 and ending January 18, will include a medley of social/cultural happenings. -4- BROCK CAMPUS NEWS JAN 7/71 Richard Needham, Globe and Mail columnist, visits on Friday, January 15 at 1:30 p.m., and Toronto Workshop Productions presents The Hostage in Thistle Theatre that night. On Friday evening there is a Variety Show in the theatre at 8:30 p.m. Any group or individual in the university community is invited to participate. On Saturday an informal concert at the Lincoln Curling Club will feature Columbia Recording Artists The Perth County Conspiracy and Syrinx, the world's only travelling Moog Synthesizer Band. Admission is $2.50 at the door; $2.00 in advance. From noon until midnight on Sunday horror fans will be chilled and thrilled by a great fright spectacular. Eight blood-curdling films, including six Edgar Alien Poe adaptations, can be viewed for just $1. The movie version of Hamlet is being presented in Thistle Theatre Monday afternoon, and in the early evening 'War Games' will be practised on the football field. To climax the carnival week there will be a Pub Nite in the Poesis Lounge at 8:30 p.m. NOTICE BOARDS Notice boards are an effective medium for reaching the University Community. To achieve the greatest efficiency it is a prerequisite that uniformity of presentation be achieved, overcrowding on bulletin boards avoided and the freshness of news maintained. There are basically three types of bulletin boards within the University: Students, Departmental and Official. The supervision of the student notice boards is a student responsibility; likewise the Departmental notice board is the responsibility of the department concerned; the Official notice board is the responsibility of the Department of Information and Development. There are at present eight locations designated as Official bulletin board locations. These boards are being purchased and it is expected they will be in place later this month. The objective of 'Official' bulletin boards is not to curtail posting but rather to handle notices in an orderly manner. It seems important to draw attention to the fact that there are a number of places in the University where notices are not to be posted because they give rise to maintenance problems: 1) ELEVATORS, 2) ON WALL SURFACES; surfaces are damaged because dirt adheres to those spots where scotch, adhesive or masking tape is used, 3) GLASS SURFACES; most of the glass used in the building is thermophane and if a poster is stuck on it unequal expansion results when the sun is shining on the glass. -5- BROCK CAMPUS NEWS JAN 7/71 The cleaning and maintenance staff have been instructed to remove all notices, posters, etc. from these areas. MASS MAILING Increased mailing costs and certain duplications in our current mailing lists have encouraged the University to undertake a review of mailing procedures with a view to cutting down wasteful costs.