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UNIVERSITY OFlMINNESOTA NEWS SERVICE-214 ADM. BIDG. MINNEAPOLIS 14, MINNESOTA FEderal 2-8158 EXT. 6700 OCTOBER 3, 1960 IVAR GLEMMING TO COORDINATE 'U' MUSIC TELECASTS (FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE) "At Home With Music", the University of Minnesota music department's weekly TV music program to be heard on Monday nights over station KTCA, Channel 2, at 9:30 p. m. this academic year, will be coordinated by Ivar Glemming. Violinist Glemming, a member of the Minneapolis Symphony orchestra from 1921 to 1931, came to the University's Minneapolis campus this fall from the St. Paul campus where he directed the band and orchestra and taught music theory in the school of agriculture. On Monday, Oct. 17, Johannes Riedel, program pianist and music professor, will demonstrate what Latin American musicians do with and to North American rhythms and tunes. Both popular dance tunes and religious songs will be used as illustrations. Also scheduled for University fall quarter appearances on the "At Home With Music" programs are: Oct. 24, Alfred T. Loeffler, Jr., vio1aist; Oct. 31, Philip B. Lillesto1, harpsichordist; Nov. 7, Paul R. Knowles, tenor; Nov. 14, Norman E. Abelson, bass-baritone; Nov. 21, Paul Freed, pianist; and Nov. 28, George L. Houle, clarinetist. -UNS- UNIVERSITY OYMINNESOTA NEWS SERVICE--214 ADM. BIDG. MINNEAPOLIS 14, MINNESOTA FEderal 2-8158 EXT. 6700 OCTOBER 3, 1960 KUOM TO AIR 'YALE REPORTS' (FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE) I "Yale Reports", a series of discussion on subjects of general interest, ,I will be broadcast on KUOM, University of Minnesota radio station, at 4 p. m. : on Thursdays, beginning Oct. 6 and continuing through the fall. ~ I Five programs will be devoted to the subject "Alcohol and. the Citizen", three to tlThe World EconomyU and four to "The Emergence of the Caribbean Region". The first program features experts from Yale's Center of Alcohol Studies. On these programs, Yale university faculty and visiting personalities to the Yale campus will participate. Hostess for each program is Mrs. Edith Kerr. -OOS- UNIVERSITY OF 1flNNESall NEWS SERVICE-..2l4 ADM. BIDG. MINNEAPOLIS 14, MINNESOTA FEderal 2-8158 EXT. 6700 OCTOBER ), 1960 NIGERIAN STUDENTS AT 'u' TO MARK NATION'S INDEPENDENCE (FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE) Nigerian independence will be celebrated by University of Minnesota , Nigerian Student association members and. their guests in a series of activities Friday and Saturday (Oct. 7-8) on the University campus. Though Nigeria received her independence Saturday, Oct. 1, the local celebration has been postponed until this weekend because of many o.ther school opening activities, according to A. F. Andrew-Jaja, University pre-medical student ~ ,I and Nigerian Student association representative. I A 5:15 p. m. soccer match with Macalester college students at Macalester will open the Independence Day celebrations Friday, Andrew-Jaja said. The Independence Ball will be held at 9 p. m. in Coffman Memorial Union main ballroom. The ball will be free and open to the public. Governor Orville L. Freeman and the Twin Cities Mayors, P. Kenneth Peterson, l1inneapolis, and George Vavoulis, St. Paul, as well as all foriegn counsuls in residence in the area have been invited to attend the Independence Day dinner at 6 p. m. in the Union junior ballroom. The Reverend George p. Hall, University Lutheran Student association director, will address the meeting• • UNS- , , I UNIVERSITY OFMINNESOTA ~ NEWS SERVICE--214 ADM. BWG. MINNEAPOLIS 14, MINNESOTA FEderal 2-8158 EXT. 6700 OCTOBER :3, 1960 PROFESSOR NIXON TO OPEN ECUADOR JOURNALISM CENTER (FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE) Minneapolis -- Raymond B. Nixon, University of Minnesota journalism professor, has been invited by Latin American editors and journalism educators to conduct the first classes at the new International Center for Higher Education , in Journalism in Quito, Ecuador. Professor Nixon, editor of the Journalism Quarterly and president of the International Association for Mass Communication Research, will open a two-month session Monday (Oct. 10) at the Latin American center with a series of lectures comparing journalism in Europe and the Americas. His lecture, which will extend through the first week of classes, Oct. 10-15, also will cover the relation of journalism to pUblic opinion. The center in Ecuador is the second International Center for Higher Education in Journalism established under United Nations sponsorship. The first, at the University of Strasbourg, France, opened in 1957 to serve Europe, Africa and the Middle East. A recent conference in Bangkok, Thailand, planned a future program for Asia. I Purpose of the new Latin American center and its European counterpart, is r to help develop journalism education and practice in all lands. I ~ Educators and journalists studying at the Quito center will be sponsored by professional organizations within their countries. J Professor Nixon was the United States representative to the 1958 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural organization meeting in Quito at which the new Center was planned. .UNS. I ~ UNIVERSITY OrMINNESOTA NE.WS SERVICE--2l4 ADM. BLDG. MINNEAPOLIS 14, MINNESOTA FEderal 2-8158 EXT. 6700 ocroBER :3, 1960 'U' CONVocATION TO GIVE BACKSTAGE LOOK AT BALLET (FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE) A backstage pr~view of the Royal Danish Ballet will be given at a special University of Minnesota convocation at 11::30 a. m. Wednesday (Oct. 5) in Northrop Memorial auditorium. The program is open free to the public. The Ballet is scheduled to appear in Northrop auditorium at 8::30 p. m. Tuesday and Wednesday (Oct. 4 and 5) under auspices of the University Artists Course. Wednesday's convocation will give the audience a look at the Ballet's backstage preparations, including scenery shifts. lighting and staging of properties. Three members of the company will explain the activities taking place, and will discuss touring, the Royal Theater in Copenhagen, the art of ballet and ballet techniques. The talks will be accompanied by demonstrations by some of the company's dancers. Narrators for the backstage program will include Jens Louis Petersen, general manager of the Royal Danish Ballet; Bengt Hoeberg, state director; and Niels Bjorn Larsen, balletmaster. The convocation will be sponsored by the University's department of concerts and lectures. -UNS- -- ------------------------------------------.., UNIVERSITY OF MINNESO.TA NEWS SERVICE-214 ADM. BIDG. MINNEAPOLIS 14, MINNESOTA FEderal 2-8158 EXT. 6700 OCroBER 3, 1960 WEISER TO PLAY PUBLIC CONCERT (FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE) Pianist Bernhard D. Weiser, University of Minnesota music department associate professor, will present a free public concert at 8:30 p. m. Friday (Oct. llf) in Northrop Memorial auditorium. Professor Weiser's program will include: "Chromatic Fantasy and Fuguefl•••••••••••••••••••••••Bach "Sonata", Opus III••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••Beethoven Chopin Group--- "Mazurka" Opus 50, No. 3 "Grande Valse Brillante" Opus 42 "Nocturne" Opus 62, No. 2 "Two Etudes" Opus 10, Nos. 11 and 7 lO "Triana ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••Albeniz "Fairy Tale" Opus 20, No. 2•••••••••••••••••••••••••Medtner nSca.rbo" ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••Rave1 -UNS- UNIVERSITY OF'11INNESOTA NWS SERVICE--214 ADM. BlDG. MINNEAPOLIS 14, MINNESOTA FEderal 2-8158 EXT. 6700 OCTOBER 4, 1960 GENETICIST'S TALK TO BE BROADCAST FRIDAY ON KUOM (FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE) "The Human Biological Future", a talk delivered by Professor Hermann J. Muller of Indiana university on the University of Minnesota campus, will be broadcast on KUOM, University of Minnesota radio station, at 1:30 p. m. Friday (Oct. 7). Professor Muller will discuss possible changes in human heredity which might occur during the next 10 or 20 generations. Muller received the 1946 Nobel prize in genetics for research done at the University of Texas in the late 1920's and early 1930·s. His experiments showed that X-rays could produce mutations in germinal cells causing heredity changes in offspring of irradiated individuals. He has been the "distinguished service professor of zoology" at Indiana University since 1953. The lecture was originally delivered on the University campus September 21 and was sponsored by the University's Dight Institute for Human Genetics and department of concerts and lectures and by the Minnesota Human Genetics League. -UNS- r--- UNIVERSITY OYMINNESOTA NEWS SERVICE-214 ADM. BlDG. MINNEAPOLIS 14, MINNESOTA FEderal 2-8158 EXT. 6700 OCTOBER 4, 1960 NW ECONOMIST TO LECTURE AT 'U' (FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE) Robert H. Strotz, Northwestern university economics professor, will speak on "The Keynesian Economic Model With a Generalized Money Illusion" at 3:;0 p. m. Friday (Oct. 7) at the University of Minnesota. The lecture, to be held in Room 1, Vincent hall, will be sponsored by the University's department of economics and will be open to the public. -UNS- UNIVERSITY OFIITNNESOTA NEWS SERVICE-2l4 ADM. BIDG. MINNEAPOLIS 14, MINNESOTA FEderal 2-8158 EXT. 6700 OCTOBER 4, 1960 'u' GEOLOGY PARTY TO EXPLORE '!WO ANTARCTIC MOUNTAIN RANGES I I (FOR IMMEDIATE REIEASE) • t Minneapolis --- A nine-man University of Minnesota geology expedition, headed by geologist Campbell Craddock, will leave for Antarctica this month to conduct studies of two unexplored mountain ranges in eastern Marie Byrd Land. The party will leave from Washington, D. C., Oct. 23 and will return March 1. The expedition is financed by an $85,080 grant to the University from the National Science Foundation's United States Antarctic Research program to conduct a study of bedrock and glacial geology in eastern Antarctica. This year's project is a continuation of a University expedition made in 1959-60. While Craddock, an associate professor of geology, is on fall and winter quarter leave, his classes will be taught by E. K. Walton, visiting assistant professor from the University of Edinborough, ScoUand. Second in command to Craddock on the expedition will be Robert H. Rutford, University graduate student in geology. Other University members of the group will include Dr. Raymond C. Bonnabeau, Jr., resident fellow in surgery, the expedition's physician, and geology graduate students Thomas W. Bastien, 4335 Lyndale ave., S., Minneapolis; Thomas P.