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Nanook News, Vol. 15, No. 04 (October 1, 1971) Item Type Journal Publisher Office of University Relations, Department of News Service, University of Alaska Download date 10/10/2021 12:04:54 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/11122/3908 Theatre Offers First Full Season represent a significant savings over the “ Winners” and “Losers” which are The UA speech, drama and radio price of individual tickets for the four performed back-to-back. Both segments department has announced the 1971-72 take place in modern Ireland. “The Apple season of the UA Drama Workshop, with productions.” Tree,” to be produced in early December, four shows — the first full season package There will be two productions each is based on stories by Mark Twain, Frank ever offered by the university group. semester. The fall productions will be the R. Stockton, and Jules Feiffer. The book, According to department head Walter dramatic production “Lovers” and the music, and lyrics are by Sheldon Harnick G. Ensign, “Season subscription sales will musical “The Apple Tree.” and Jerry Bock, with additional material commence during the week of September The first show, “Lovers,” opening on by Jerome Coopersmith. The show was 27th. The purchase of a season ticket will Oct. 15th, is actually two one-act plays, originally produced on Broadway by Stuart Ostrow, under the direction of Mike Nichols. Drama Workshop productions during the spring semester will be “The> M adw om an o f Chaillot,” by Jean Giraudoux, and “The Threepenny Opera,” by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. The two musical productions of this season are presented jointly with the Music Department’s Opera Workshop, under the direction of assistant professor of music David Williams. Tickets for the complete season will De $8.50, while individual tickets for the four productions would ordinarily total $11.00. Special university staff price is $7.50, while students may buy season tickets for $6.00. Information concerning season subscriptions is available at the speech department’s office in the Fine Arts TV in Bush Possible Complex from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday In six months, villagers in Fort Yukon Under an experimental project through Friday;or call 479-7751. and Togiak will know if television sponsored by the Alaska Educational reception through “mini-stations” is Broadcasting Commission and conducted Yen Heads AAUP possible in their areas. by the Division of Media Services, tiny television transmitters will be installed in Dennis Lim Yen, a counselor in the Orchestra Plays the two villages, “to see if we can get university’s Upward Bound program, this adequate reception throughout the week became president of the Fairbanks In Concert Sunday villages,” explained Dr. Charles Northrip, Chapter of the American Association of The Arctic Chamber Orchestra, UA Director of Media Services and University Professors (AAUP). returning from its third annual tour of project manager. Yen, elected vice-president o f the group Alaska, will present a concert at 4:00 p.m. During the six-month experiment, the last spring, takes over from Jean-Paul Sunday in the campus Great Hall. transmitters, on loan from the Billaud, who resigned the post due to the The 21-piece touring ensemble, under manufacturers, will be fed a television press of teaching duties. The chapter’s the direction of UA music professor signal from video tape recorders in the Executive Committee last week Gordon Wright, will present the same villages’ state-operated schools. Day-time determined that Yen, who transferred program they performed last week in a programs and educational films used in recently from the department of speech, four-day concert tour of Valdez, Cordova, the schools will be aired. radio and drama, can retain his AAUP Haines, Juneau, Petersburg, Wrangell and The aim of the project, Northrip says, membership as well as hold office, Ketchikan. is to discover if the dream o f “rabbit-ear although he is no longer a member of the The program, which includes string antenna reception throughout the teaching faculty. music by Biber, Grieg and Mozart, will villages” is a feasible one. Richard Yen served as an assistant professor of feature soloists James Kowalsky, Paul Dowling, chief engineer for the speech for two years prior to joining the Rosenthal and Linda Rosenthal. Trumpet university’s new educational broadcasting Upward Bound program this summer. He soloist Kowalsky, formerly of the Phoenix station, KUAC-TV, will test reception has served on the University Assembly as a and Minneapolis symphony orchestras, with a small portable television, visiting representative from the College of Arts and now plays first trumpet with the the villages several times during the Letters. U niversity-Fairbanks Orchestra. The course of the project for these tests. Billaud, a professor of music, presided Rosenthals, well known for solo and At present, television service in remote over the AAUP chapter last year. The only orchestra appearances around the state, areas o f Alaska is available only through full-time teacher of piano on campus this \ O will perform the “Sinfonia Concertante for cable hook-ups or through translation of semester, he has also resigned from the Violin and Viola” by Mozart. television signals from major stations. The university’s Tenure Committee. Although 1 Orchestra conductor Gordon Wright is cable hook-up system, although providing piano classes have been limited to music beginning his third year at the university, adequate service, is costly, and the two majors and minors, overflow enrollment where he is orchestra director and an villages chosen for the experiment are too has caused a substantial increase in the i assistant professor of music, teaching far away from existing television stations class load of Professor Billaud and Christa music history and stringed instruments. to pick up signals. Bruce, a part-time piano instructor. NANOOK NEWS PAGE 2 October 1, 1971 ISEGR Book Available library Seeks Occasional articles, papers and speeches development and the issues of land use Alaskana by members and associates of the Institute determination in the state, speculates on Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, making a of Social, Economic and Government what will happen when the land freeze major effort to build up its Skinner Research bearing on broad Alaskan issues ends, and with Douglas N. Jones draws a Collection of materials on Alaska, the have been collected in a new book just picture of the impact of a native land Arctic and Antarctic, is calling on the published by the institute, “Alaska Public claims settlement on economic public for assistance. Policy—Current Problems and Issues.” development. “The long-range goal is to build the Gordon S. Harrison, editor of the book, best collection in the world on Alaska writes in an introduction: “The major Robert B. Weeden gives an Alaskan and one of the' best on the rest of the issues of public policy in Alaska today conservationist’s view of the Public Land polar regions,” said Charles Parr, tht concern land use and natural resource Law Review Commission’s report and library’s Arctic bibliographer. development—or, generally speaking, discusses man in nature. “Eventually,” he said, “the collection economic development. .. Thus, Alaska’s should include every United States, resource development is the theme that Harrison and Morehouse also write on Canadian, and Russian government links each of the 17 articles in this rural Alaska’s development problems, document dealing primarily with Alaska, Arthur E. Hippier on patterns of volume.” all of the books written by or about early migration, urbanization and acculturation The book is divided into five explorers, trappers, travelers, prospectors in the state, Weeden and David R. Klein on sections—one overview section and four on and settlers, the published diaries and wilderness and oil, Gregg K. Erickson on land, petroleum development, journals of the soldiers who played a Alaska’s petroleum leasing policy, and environmental quality, and rural significant role in Alaska’s first decades Scott R. Pearson on a framework for development. under the American flag, territorial and evaluating use of Alaska’s land and natural Among contributors to the book is state papers, guidebooks and maps, resources. Thomas A. Morehouse, who with institute scientific reports and biographies of director Victor Fischer wrote the recently Another contributor is George W. prominent Alaskans.” published “Borough Government in Rogers whose various papers and articles Much o f this material will be copied provide five chapters for the new institute Alaska.” In the new book, he writes, with on microfilm to insure its preservation. Harrison, on state government and publication. economic development in Alaska. At this time, the library is particularly The 327-page book—for sale at $5 a concerned with building its periodical Arlon R. Tussing considers the copy — can be obtained from the institute,, collection. economic and social impact of Alaskan oil College, Alaska. Among the periodicals the library would like to obtain are the Alaska-Yukon Magazine, the National Quarterly Highlights Geographic Magazine (before 1900), Beaver, Spirit of Missions, Missionary Below are highlights of KUAC’s fall quarter Thursday, 8:30 p.m. - CROSSROAD IN Review of the World and other early programming. For a complete program listing, TIME. KUAC’s award-winning documentary missionary magazines, and Outdoor Life. call or write the station, UA campus, 479-7492. series on the Athabascan Indians of Interior Alaska. Distributed nationally this fall by Many pre-1950 Alaskan newspapers are Sunday, 8:00 a.m. - JAZZ OF THE PAST. National Public Radio. (Repeats Friday also needed. 30 minutes of old jazz recordings produced and mornings at 8:00 a.m.) The foundation of the library’s present hosted by Lennie Kessl, former faculty member Friday, 8:30 p.m.