Western News, November 9, 1978
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NEWS Volume 5, Number 11 WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY November 9, 1978 University Nears United :briefsAll regular employees, with the Way Goal exception of facu1ty, should have Efforts are still underway to have recently received a surrunary of WMU reach its $59,000goal in the fringe benefits for the 1978-79year. current Great Kalamazoo United Way Any specific questions regarding drive. these benefits should be directed to Earlier this week, Mrs. Patricia the Personnel Department, Staff Williams, administrative assistant to Benefits Office,telephone 383-1650. the vice president for student services • • • and campus United Way campaign University Dames' annual Arts and coordinator, reported that 1,184 Crafts Auction will be held at 7:30 University employees had pledged tonight in the Trimpe Distributive $53,533.At the same point in the on- Education Building. campus solicitation a year ago, 1,163 • • • employees had given or pledged The doctoral oral examination of $49,915. Barbara Rae Mills will be held at 2 Additional information can be p.rn. Monday, Nov. 20, in the obtained by contacting Williams, Educational Resources Center telephone 383-1752. Conference Room, Sangren Hall. Her A RARE APPEARANCEby comedian Red Skeltonwillbe one ofthe highlights Have you given your fair share yet? topic is "The Functioning ofInformal of the Patron's ChoiceSeries, Act n, here oncampus in Miller Auditorium. See Networks in Relation to the Hiring story onpage 4. Process in Higher Education." Visiting Scholar • • Gives Program Nancy Boynton's• doctoral oral Cancer 'Underground' examination will be held at 4:10p.m. International Nationally prominent psychologist, Monday, Nov. 20, in the Math Com- Is Friday Discussion Ellen Reese, a faculty member at mons, sixth floor of Everett Tower. "Travel/Study "N otes from the Cancer both Mount Holyoke College and the Her topic is "Markovian Multiserver Underground: The Laetrile Con- University of Massachusetts, will Queueing Systems With Servers in Night Set troversy" is the topic of a free, public lecture and conduct workshops here Series." discussion to be presented by Dr. on campus Thursday and Friday, • • • The Kalamazoo area's largest Gerald Markle, WMU associate Nov. 16-17. Dr. James W. Miller, emeritus collection of free, public information professor of sociology, from 3-5p.m. At 3 p.m. Thursday, she will give a president, has been appointed by Gov. on trave~ work and study in foreign Friday, Nov. 10, in WMU's Honors free, public lecture on "Learning William G. Milliken to chair a 17- countries, WMU's 22nd annual College Lounge, Hillside Offices- About Learning from Pigeons and member ballot implementation International TraveVStudy Night, West. People" in 1118Rood Hall. From 9- committee to help prepare the state will be offered from 6:3lH} p.m. He will explore the social, in- 11:30a.m. Friday, Reese will conduct shou1dthe voters approve any or all of Thursday, Nov. 16, here in the east tellectual and medical reasons for the a workshop on "Ethics For People in the tax limitation proposals. It ap- ballroom ofthe Student Center. success of the Laetrile movement in Mental Health Services" in the mu1ti- peared at press time that only the The event will feature displays, the 1970's. Refreshments will be purpose room, Ellsworth Hall. Headlee Proposal had passed in brochures, maps, slide presentations served. The workshop is limited to 30 Tuesday's voting. and the oppOrtunity to talk with ap- people. Those interested in attending are urged to make advance reser- • • • proximately motravel experts and/or Michigan Oil, Faculty members of the Michigan representatives from more than 30 vations by calling 383-1615. Academy ofScience, Arts and Letters different countries, many wearing Gas Is Topic On Friday at 3:30 p.m., Reese will are reminded that titles for presen- their traditional costumes. Faculty "Oil and Natural Gas in Michigan" present a colloquium entitled "The tation at the March 23-24,1979,annual chairmen of WMU's international will be discussed by Dr. James Role of Errors in Learning" at the Hi meeting at Grand Valley State areas studies programs, seminars Fischer, professor of geology at LoInn, 3912DouglasAve. Colleges is Friday, Nov. 17. Mem- abroad, and foreign exchange Michigan State University, during the Her visit to the WMU campus is bership information and names and scholarships will be available for free, public WMUgeologyseminar at sponsored by the psychology addresses of appropriate chair- consultation. 4 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 14,in 1118Rood department and the Visiting Scholars Program. persons are available from Western's Special interest tables willhave and Hall. Refreshments will be served at institutional representative, Dr. distribute information on such topics 3:40p.m. Joseph Engemann, associate as youth hosteling, employment Great-Lakes professor ofbiology. abroad, transportation, camping and • • • hiking abroad, international directed Ed. 300, 301 The next meeting in the "Coping teaching information, and credit Meeting Friday Specialist Here With Teaching" series willbe devoted transfers. Representatives from the One meeting remains for Western The director of the University of to ''Use of Audio-VisualResources"; Kalamazoo Community Ambassador students who will be taking courses in Michigan's Great Lakes and Marine it will be held from 3-5 p.m. Wed- Program and the Experiment in Teaching and Learning (ED 300 or Waters Center, Dr. A. M. Beeton, will nesday, Nov. 15, in m4 Student International Living also will be 301) during the winter semester, and present a free, public, slide- Center. • • • there. who need to apply for their pre- illustrated lecture on "The Changing An international tasting tea, directed teaching participation ex- Great Lakes" here at 4 p.m. Thurs- Due to an inadvertent error in the perience. day, Nov. 16,in 181WoodHall. distribution of the 1978-79University sponsored by the University Student Center Board, will highlight the event They shou1dattend the meeting at He also will discuss the Michigan F acu1ty/Staff/Student Telephone 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 10, in 2107 Sea Grant Programs for research, Director, several hundred extra with samples of a variety of foods from other"countries. Sangren Hall, according to Norma L. education and advisory services on copies of the new publication were Hungerford, coordinator of par- economic, environmental and delivered to the various residence The International TraveVStudy ticipation. Information will be management problems dealing with halls here on campus. If you have an Night is directed by Eleanor L. presented on the participation ex- the resources of the Great Lakes. extra copy of the directory, please Krawutschke, coordinator, Foreign perience, how students are placed in Refreshments will be served before return it to the University Switch- Study Services at WMU. It is co- schools and agencies, what can be his talk. board/Information Center in the sponsored by the Foreign Study gained from the experiences, and Beeton's visit to the WMUcampus lobby of the Seibert Administration Office, Honors College and the possible placement opportunities, she is sponsored by the University's Building. CollegeofArts and Sciences. noted. biologydepartment. Two • November 9, 1978 • Western News Storyteller Reserve Bank Medieval Publication Released Economist Visits Medieval Institute Publications "york Art" is the first reference Gives Talk Jean M. Lovati, an economist with here at Western recently published volume of the Early Drama, Art and Dr. Caroline Feller Bauer, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. "York Art: A Subject List of Extant Music Project, sponsored by the associate professor oflibrarianship at Louis, will deliver a free, public and Lost Art Including Items Medieval Institute; it is under the the Univers~ty of Oregon, will present seminar-lecture on "NOW Accounts Relevant to Early Drama," written editorship ofDavidson. The project is "A Gala Happening, Featuring and Share Drafts: A New Source of by Dr. Clifford Davidson, WMU a coordination of extensive research Creative Ways to Introduce Competition for Commercial Banks," associate professor of English, and and publication of interdisciplinary Literature to Children" from 9:30 here on campus from 8-9:30 p.m. David E. O'Connor, Radcliffe studies of theater through the middle a.m.-3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 10, at the Wednesday, Nov. 15, in 3750Knauss Research Fellow at the University of ofthe 17thcentury. Kalamazoo Public Library. Hall. York, England. The volume catalogs more than She will spend the day at the Van Assigned to the Bank Markets 1,000examples of subjects treated in Deusen Auditorium in the library Section of the Research Department, Special Career the art of York, including those ap- showing parents, teachers, Lovati distributes and coordinates pearing in stained glass, sculpture librarians, students, child care staff bank holding company casework Fair Wednesday and manuscript illumination, and is members and others telling how to within the department, and analyzes Western's first, free Career Fair for illustrated by plates showing some of stimulate children's interest in books. and makes recommendations on the Health, Human Services and the most important items. Bauer is well-knownas a storyteller, competitive effects of bank holding Government Careers will be held Davidson, the author of two artist and lecturer, and as the author company formations. from 10 a.m.-noon and 1-4 p.m. previous books, "The Primrose Way" ofthe' 'Handbook for Storytellers." Since joining