Mnufitee Calls for Proves? Honrinafions
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Nanook News, Vol. 15, No. 11 (November 19, 1971) Item Type Journal Publisher Office of University Relations and Development, University of Alaska Download date 10/10/2021 19:42:32 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/11122/3935 mnufitee Calls for Proves? Honrinafions from a list of nominees to be prepared by R . W o o d w e re Jim Lentine, an The seven-member search and screening the com m ittee. It is planned that the undergraduate student; Linda Cline, a committee appointed to help select a provost will assume his duties by next July student residence hall advisor and graduate provost for the UA’s new North Region is 1. student; Mendenhall, Russell D. Guthrie, now seeking nominations and applications Nominations, applications and other associate professor of zoology,and Ruth M. for the position, according to its chairman, inquiries regarding this position should be Hegdal, assistant professor of accounting, Pro lessor William Mendenhall. addressed to Mendenhall, Department of representing the faculty; Fairbanks The provost, under direction of the Civil Engineering, University of Alaska, businessman Roger Hughes, representing Office of the President, would have full College, Alaska 99701. the alumni; anduniversity libraries director responsibility for daily operation of all Appointed to the scarch and screening Ted Ryberg, representing the academic and related programs in the committee by university president William administration. region, which includes the northern and northwestern areas of the state as well as the campus here. Mendenhall said the following, more precise definition of the position was drafted by the administration for the commi ttee’s guidan ce: “ He adm inisters all instructional programs in the region, except for public w i * service and research programs. Summer sessions and evening class programs are also under his jurisdiction. He assists the 0 i] y { / u \ appropriate vice presidents in the f 'a \ i f v development of instructional, research, and public service programs to meet the (J\ OVj \ needs of the region, and he advises the president on all matters related to the region.” Mendenhall said he was advised the November 19, 1971; position would carry a salary “in the Volume XV, No. 11 - t $30,000 range.” The president and university regents will appoint the provost CusSiwca f t M s d "A b b I® fs1©©” §®®n Rehearsals have begun for the Nichols and starred Barbara Harris, Larry Pro'sresw UsasSsr University Drama Workshop’s second Blyden and Alan Alda. production of the season, which opens on Dr. Charles T. Cushwa has been campus Dec. 3. appointed program leader and principal “ The Apple Tree,” a three-part musical wildlife biologist for research on forest and based on works of Mark Twain, Frank related ecosystems of interior Alaska — a Stockton and Jules Feiffer, will be staged new undertaking — with the U.S. Forest Dec. 3, 4, 10,11 and 12 at 8:15 p.m. in the The Choir of the North, under the Service’s Institute of Northern Forestry. Fine Arts Theatre. Tickets will be on sale direction of Charles Davis of the music This research is to be headquartered at next week through the department of the institute laboratory on the University faculty, will present a “Concert for speech, radio and drama. Thanksgiving,” on Sunday at 4:00 p.m. in o f Alaska campus here and will involve the Like “ Lovers,” the Workshop’s earlier university as well as a number of federal the Regents Great Hall. production, “ The Apple Tree” consists of Featuring mezzo-soprano Gaynor and state agencies. Cushwa will coordinate several short plays performed as a unit — the research work. Trammer and baritone Dennis Goff, the Twain’s “Adam and Eve,” Fieffer’s Choir will be accompanied by pianist Purpose of the research is to develop “ Passionella,” and Stockton’s “ Lady and information for the management of the Christopher Cleworth. the Tiger.” taiga, or subarctic forest, and tundra Opening the program will be Scott Written by Pulitzer Prize and Drama Wilkinson’s joyous “Hallelujah, Sing,” resources of interior Alaska. Cushwa’s ’Critics’ Circle: award winners Sheldon studies will include the impact of wildfires, followed by “Sicut Loctus est,” from Harnick and Jerry Bock — who also wrote Bach’s “ Magnificat.” The entire chorus insects, and diseases upon wildlife habitats, the music and lyrics for “ Fiddler on the timber and forage production, landscapes will then sing “ O vos Omnes” by Thomas Roof” — the musical also draws on the Ludovicus Victoria and “ Ascendit Deus” and recreation quality, and soil and water work of writer Jerome Coopersmith. The relationship. by Jacobus Gallus. UA production will be directed by Three selections by Alexandre Before his recent arrival in Alaska to professor Lee Salisbury, with musical undertake this new research work, Cushwa Gretchaninoff will be performed, the first, direction supplied by David Williams o f the was assistant leader of the Pennsylvania “Credo,” featuring Goff as soloist; the music faculty. Walter :Ensign, Jr., is others included on the program are “ Holy Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit of the technical director, and choreographers are U. S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Radiant Light” and “ Songof Simeon.” Renee Morgan and Lesley Salisbury. Making up the major portion of the Sport Fisheries and Wildlife at The cast includes in the major roles Pennsylvania State University. program’s second half will be three vocal Melinda Mattson, Ron Wilson, Joel pieces by Johannes Brahms: Mattson, Nona Holm, Robert Krize, Renee “Nachtwache” (Night Watch), “ Letztes Morgan, John Franich and Tom Butters. Gluck” (Last Happiness) and “ Brausten “ The Apple Tree” requires a large cast, a lie Berger” (Thunder all ye Mountains). an even larger production crew, complex Franz Schubert’s “ Stadchen, opus 135 sets and a multitude of costumes — as well (Serenade) will be performed by soloist as demanding singing and dancing of the Gaynor Trammer. The program will close cast. First produced on Broadway by with the choir’s customary finale, the Stuart Ostrow, it was directed by Mike “ Alaska’s Flag” anthem. n a n o o k n e w s PAGE 2 November 19, 1971 Carife©© e:J Iftpes T o accommodate “ additional Calgary, Alberta. Kenneth Childs, director interested contractors,” the University of Caribou confronted with a mock of field research for the project and a UA Alaska’s purchasing office has moved back pipeline are generally diverted from their graduate student, presented the findings. the deadline for submission of bids to original path by the obstruction, During the two-month project, provide alcoholic beverage service in the preliminary results of a study conducted conducted this summer at Prudhoe Bay, new $4 million student campus center by the UA’s Cooperative Wildlife Research two mock pipelines were constructed. here. Unit show. One, more than 10,000 feet long, was built The study, co-sponsored by Alyeska Prospective bidders will now have until of snowfencing covered with burlap to Pipeline Service Company, B.P. Alaska Nov. 26 to submit their bids. The former simulate a 48-inch pipeline. Passages — Inc., and .the U.S. Bureau of Sport deadline was Nov. 17. ramps and underpasses — were provided Fisheries and Wildlife, were described The university’s Board of Regents have for caribou in this study, funded by earlier this month at the First International approved sale of alcoholic beverages in the Symposium on Ungulate Behavior, held in Alyeska Company. campus center, and the Alaska Legislature The other optical barrier, constructed has repealed a law prohibiting sale o f such by B.P. Alaska, was built of 3,600 feet of beverages within a mile o f the campus. galvanized culverting, with 6 to 8-foot high . Bidders are required to tour the new Sfydewite I'M elevated sections provided as caribou center and discuss planned operations. underpasses^ In both cases, an observation Some 15 persons participated in a tour of tower was erected near the research site. Test Children’s the facility Friday. Film sequences showing both individual Under contract and bid specifications, caribou and groups of the animals the contractor would provide alcoholic Hearing/ Spaecfe approaching the barricades are presently beverage service from Jan. 1,1972 through being analyzed to determine their Several thousand Fairbanks area school June 30, 1974. The university, at its responses to the mock pipeline. children will be tested for speech and option, may renew the agreement for not A total of 1,707 caribou approached hearing defects next week by University of more than two additional twelve-month the optical barriers during the experiment, Alaska students. periods. of which 1,521 were observed directly and Students enrolled in speech pathology The contractor “ will be selected on the 186 were studied through track counts. At classes on the College campus will begin basis o f the bid which is most advantageous b oth sites, approxim ately 82 pfir cent o f testing at Main Junior High School on to the university considering cost, the caribou were diverted from their paths, Monday, continuing the tests at various experience, type of service offered, while the remainder used ramps and schools throughout the week. UA assistant management services, and other tangible underpasses, or crawled under the professor of speech pathology Phyllis factors.” barricade. Of the diverted caribou, the Phillips is coordinating the project through Bidders, in return for an exclusive larger part returned in the direction from the North Star Borough School District. concession, would either pay the which they came, while some followed the Approximately ten students presently university a percentage o f gross sales or barrier to its end. enrolled in Speech Pathology 211, operate the beverage service on a cost-plus “In most cases,” the study notes, “ Fundamentals of Speech Correction,” management fee basis, with the university “caribou will parallel the barriers for will be participating in the project.