Nanook News, Vol. 10, No. 27 (March 25, 1969)
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A NEW LOOK IN THE
NANOOK NEWS
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VOL. X/NO. 27 MARCH 25, 1969
Doc Watson Sings Here Saturday at 8 p.m.
The fact that Doc Watson taught flat-picking techniques on guitar himself to play the guitar and sing which have become popular among is overshadowed, critics say, by younger folk singers today. Uni his ability to express the atmos versity faculty will have a chance phere of his North Carolina home. to see for themselves when Doc Watson and his son Merle hold a He dazzles audiences with his concert at 8 p.m. Saturday in Patty Gymnasium during the Festival of Arts. FACULTY-COURSE EVALUATION PLAN Doc, although blind, was a hit APPROVED BY UNIVERSITYthe ASSEMBLY first time he played to urban audiences in 1961. His style on the stage has been likened to that The University Assembly has ap of Will Rogers. He can spin yarns proved a proposed student-facuity about his Blue Ridge Mountain home committee which will prepare a and recount fascinating tales plan for holding mandatory faculty- about the country people he has course evaluations of all classes known and heard about. •at the university. His critics are lavish in their comments. Robert Shelton of the By unanimous vote at its meeting New York Times said of Watson, "Few last Friday, the assembly accepted singers out of the Southern Appala the proposal made by an ad hoc com chians are so able to evoke another mittee of faculty and students. time, another place, another set of According to the recommendation, esthetic standards." the purpose of such evaluations would be for improvement of courses Watson admits that his style is and student-professor communications. not pure but is a mixture of the folk songs of his Deep Gap, N.C. The committee headed by student home and songs he heard on the F. Patrick Fitzgerald noted that radio and from records. a voluntary evaluation held last year had negligible results because He spent many evenings as a boy too few faculty participated. listening to the old folks debate the guilt of Tom Dooley, who was The assembly also clarified the hanged just a few miles from their duties of alternate representatives home. Both of his parents sang old by defeating a proposal to allow time songs and ballads, his dad was alternates to sit on committees in a first rate banjo picker. His place of the elected assembly mem father-in-law was regarded as one ber. of the best mountain fiddlers. CONT. ON PAGE 4 NANOOK NEWS PAGE TWO MAR. 25, 1969
Festival of Arts THREE TEACHING APPOINTMENTS MADE - 'EVENING IN SPAIN' TONIGHTAT ANCHORAGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
ON SCHAIBLE AUDITORIUM ThreeSTAGE appointments to teaching positions at Anchorage Community The Festival of Arts continues college have been announced by today with a program of music and Eugene Short, dean of the college. poetry, "An Evening in Spain," at 8 p.m. in Schaible Auditorium. Appointed were Wassily Sommer, art instructor; Kermit Syppli Kynell, The program is being produced by assistant professor of political Jean-Paul Billaud and David Williams science, and Sally Monserud, English of the Music Department and with instructor. Their appointments students and faculty of the Depart start Sept. 1. ment of Linguistics and Foreign Lan Sommer was a part-time instructor guages . at the college in 1967 and has stud ied at the Conservatory of Music in Two members of the English Depart Leningrad and the Fleisher School in 1 ment, Glenn Beaudry and John Hulbert, Philadelphia. will present a program of poetry with "Poems and Other Words" at 7:30 p.m. Kynell is an instructor at Foot Thursday in Duckering Auditorium. hill College in Los Altos Hills, Calif. Students of advanced theory and * composition of music will perform Miss Monserud has been instruct their own works in "A Concert of ing in English courses at the Elmen- Student Composition" at 8 p.m. Fri- dorf-Ft. Richardson Unit. dayday in Schaible Auditorium. The program covers both the traditional and the modern idiom. The composi tions were done for credit in a I A NEW LOOK IN THE NANOOK NEWS I class taught by Greeta Brown of the With today's edition of the Music Department. Nanook News, the University Rela- tionsnews service begins an exper Winners of the annual poetry con iment in internal communications. test will be announced in a program at 2 p.m. Sunday in Schaible Audito The Nanook News will appear twice- * rium and the winning poems will be weekly — Tuesdays and Fridays — read. in this four-page format. Its news content will consist entirely of A lecture on "The Portinari Al- material not yet released to the tarpiece by Hugo Van der Goes" will public media, thus informing the be given by Helmut VanFlein at 8 university faculty and staff in ad- * p.m. Monday in Duckering Auditorium. vance of the public. VanFlein will lecture on the sym bolism of the famous altarpiece. During the next few weeks, new design and production techniques MRS. SENKEWITZ KEYPUNCH SUPERVISOR will be tried in an effort to make the Nanook News more readable. *' Mrs. Carol Ingine has resigned from her position as keypunch super For those concerned about budget, visor of the ADP Keypunch group. the twice-weekly Nanook News in the - Mrs. Terry Senkewitz is assuming the four-page format is less expensive duties of lead keypunch operator and to produce -- both in terms of labor communications regarding keypunch time and material cost — than the service should go through her. former weekly of eight or 10 pages. NANOOK NEWS PAGE THREE MAR. 25, 1969
Atamian Speaker KLEIN IN SCOTLAND TO GIVE DRUG PANEL WILL MEET HERE PAPER ON DEER AT SYMPOSIUM Dr. David R. Klein, leader of FRIDAY IN SERIES OF TALKS the Alaska Cooperative Wildlife Re search Unit, today will present a A panel on drug abuse featur paper on deer at a British Ecolog ing state officials and a'univer- ical Society Symposium at the Uni sity professor will be held at versity of Aberdeen in Scotland. 7:30 p.m. Friday in Duckering Auditorium. Klein's paper will discuss food eaten by North American deer and Panelists will include Sarkis what happens when deer over-browse Atamian, associate professor of the preferred plant species. The sociology; Earl B. Andersen, con paper deals with current knowledge sultant for the state Department on the subject with examples of of Education; Mrs. Wanda Cooksey, Klein's work with black-tailed deer, state Department of Education, and reindeer, and caribou in Alaska. James Calhoon, deputy commissioner of the state Department of Public Following the symposium, Klein Safety. will visit the Danish Game Biology Station at Kal to discuss details The panel is part of a three-day of a publication on roe deer growth seminar on drug abuse. Meetings which he studied at the station in begin Friday in the Civic Center at 1967. He will also go to Oslo, Alaskaland. Atamian will give a Norway to confer with Norwegian talk at the morning meeting begin biologists and discuss plans for a ning at 9:30 a.m. graduate student exchange program. Jack L. Kuykendall, police admin istrator instructor is coordinator FOUR-WEEK MINING COURSE OFFERED; of the seminar.
WILLOW M. BURAND TO TEACH CLASS BENJAMIN TO TEACH COURSE FOR A four-week general prospecting ANCHORAGE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS course will be offered on campus from March 31 through April 25. Dr. Dayton Benjamin will teach The course will be taught by Willow a course in school administration M. Burand. this summer at West High School in Anchorage. This course is part of a state wide Mining Extension Program that The course, for school adminis includes Anchorage, Ketchikan, trators, will run from June 9 to Shaktoolik, Koyuk, Seward, Cordova, 20 and is a special topics educa Juneau, Willow, Ft. Richardson, and tion course. It will cover gen Eielson Air Force Base. eral principles in school adminis tration in elementary and second The class will meet in the eve ary schools. nings, Monday through Friday, from 7 p.m. and 10 p.m., in Room 201, Emphasis will be on curriculum Brooks Building. Enrollment will innovations, administrative pro be limited, thus interested persons cess, modern teaching, teacher evaluation, organizing to improve should pre-register by calling ext. 7295. There is no registration fee instruction, federal programs, flexible scheduling, and problems for this course. of Alaska. NANOOK NEWS PAGE FOUR MAR. 25, 1969
ACTIVITY CALENDAR NEW TITLES AT UNIVERSITY LIBRARY March 26 - April 1, 19 69 The books listed below were se lected from new acquisitions and WEDNESDAY--Film Group movie "To Be a annotated by Steve Sherman. In Crook" at 6 p.m. in 318 Duckering. structor of library science. Baha'i at 7 p.m. in Home Ec Lounge.
MIAMI AND THE SIEGE OF CHICAGO by THURSDAY— Poetry recital: "Poems & Norman Mailer (JK2353 1968 M34) Other Words" by Glenn Beaudry and A very informal history of the John Hulbert at 7:30 p.m. in 318 last Republican and Democratic Duckering. conventions by the man who didn't vote for president. FRIDAY— Panel on Marijuana sponsored by Dept, of Public Safety and THE INTRUDERS by Senator Edward Education at 7:30 p.m. in 318 Long (JC 599 U5L6) Snoops on Duckering. A concert of student government and industrial sno compositions at 8 p.m. in Schaible' opers in their use of devices Auditorium. from parabolic microphones to indigestible aspirin tablets to SATURDAY— Doc Watson & Son: American eavesdrop on businesses and bed Folk and Country Music at 8 p.m. rooms . in Patty Gym. Regular $2 - Student $1. HARD TRAVELLIN' by Kenneth Allsop (HV 4505 A54 1967b) A history SUNDAY--Poetry contest at 2 p.m. in of the hobo in America that shows Schaible. Interest films spon the positive contributions of a sored by SUB Board at 7 p.m. in restless breed in a restless SUB Lounge. country. MONDAY— Helmut Van Flein: "The THE THOUGHT OF TIELHARD DE CHARDIN Portinari Altarpiece by Hugh van by Michael Murrary (B2430 T374M8) der Goes" at 8 p.m. in 318 Analyzes the writings of a spir Duckering. itual McLuhan who maintained an evolution of internal as well as TUESDAY— Alaskan Native Dancers at external matter. 7:30 p.m. in Patty Gym. Regular $2 - Student $1.
UNIVERSITY ASSEMBLY... Mather said proposals include building an excellent library for CONT. FROM PAGE 1 humanities' scholars, a theme of research in the North Pacific Rim, ■* In a policy committee report or a theme of research in the Keith Mather asked for suggestions arctic and sub-arctic of the world. on a proposal to link faculty in He said his committee is looking the humanities with their environ for further ideas. ment as scientists have done. Mather said the arctic environment The assembly also approved a plan is a common thread for all scien for formation of a grievance subcom tists at the university. He said mittee to sift out grievances which such a thread does not exist with could effect university policy and in humanities. report them to the assembly.