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This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Grand Valley Forum, 1976- at ScholarWorks@GVSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in 1977-1978, Volume 2 by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@GVSU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ran orum across Dance camP-us Alliance Any staff women who are interested in jommg a weekly noon-hour Bible study should contact Lynne Stephens in the library order department at extension ToPe,form 115 or Jody Bacinski in Seidman at extension 636. Dance Alliance, the Performing Arts • Center's modern dance company, will S.W.I.G. (Social Work Interest Group) present its spring production, also called invites its members and other interested "Dance Alliance," at Stage 3 in Grand persons to attend a discussion led by Rapids, Wednesday through Saturday, Judge John P. Steketee (Kent County, March 8-11 and March 15-18. Probate Court, Juvenile Division), who The performances will feature guest will speak to the class of SPS 354 on the artist Susan Rose and works choreo­ topic "Juvenile Justice" on Friday, March graphed for students by professional 10, from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Laurel Room artists-in-residence Gretchen Langstaff, in the Campus Center. Muriel Cohan and Patrick Suzeau. Included in the program will be • "Suite Seven," choreographed by Gretchen Langstaff, and "Between Main The COT Liaison Committee will hold and First" and "Improvisations," choreo­ an executive meeting today, March 6, from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. in the graphed by dance students. North Conference Room of the Campus Tickets for the performance are $2.00, general admission, and $1.50 for students. Center. The agenda includes discussion of For reservations call extension 485 a new salary proposal and a proposal to Bonita Rose, resident performing artist at Grand Valley, instructs a class on Monday through Friday, or 454-0481 be submitted to the Planning Board. If performance techniques in preparation for the upcoming Dance Alliance from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on performance anyone has any additional items, please concert. nights. call Nancee Miller at extension 272 . • Rabbi Yosaif Weingarten of the Chabad House in Grand Rapids will be in the Campus Center today, March 6, to inform Jewish people about their religion. The Chabad House is part of the Ott Named Board Chairman Lubauitcher World Chassidic group. All faculty, staff and students are invited to Dr. Arnold Ott, vice president of Doan meet with Rabbi Weingarten. secretary and assistant treasurer, respec­ in that pool, then proposals within the Associates of Midland, Michigan, has been tively. pool will be recommended on a merit elected chairman of the GVSC Board of basis . • Control. Ott, a charter member appoint­ In other action, the board approved a ed to the board in 1960, previously revised sabbatical leave policy establishing Visiting artist coming to campus for served as vice chairman from 1962 to a selection procedure to be used in cases The board also approved an appoint­ the 197 8 spring term needs a room or an 1969. when not all proposals deemed worthy of ment and evaluation policy for Grand apartment. Call G. Jaris, extension 519. award can be funded. Under the new pol­ Valley's institutes. The policy defines the A former resident of Muskegon and icy, applicants who have earned the most ranks of instructor, assistant professor, • Grand Rapids, Ott, 60, holds authorship sabbatical leave credit will have first con­ associate professor and professor. It also on more than 50 domestic and foreign sideration. Eligible proposals will be stipulates that peer group evaluations be The international students at Grand patents and 19 technical publications. He groups in three "pools," for applicants held as necessary for reappointment, no earned his B.S. degree and an honorary less than every three years, rather than Valley are sponsoring an international with at ·1east four, five, and six consecu­ Sc.D. from Central Michigan University annual as had been the policy in the past. festival this evening, March 6, at 7 p.m. in tive years of service at Grand Valley. the Multipurpose Room in the Campus and his Ph.D. from Michigan State Uni­ versity. Center. There will be a dinner, live enter­ The available money will be used to The board requested a report at its tainment and displays. Call extension 270 Lansing attorney Thomas Downs, a fund all the requests in each pool in the next meeting on Grand Valley's policy for free reservations. member of the board since 1974, was re­ order of most years of service. If there regarding faculty members running for elected vice chairman. Ronald VanStee­ are not sufficient funds to cover all re­ political office. President Lubbers told • land, Jean Ellis and Richard Hansen were quests within any one pool, but funding the board the policy has been to allow re-elected secretary-treasurer, assistant is adequate to cover at least one proposal faculty members to run for office pro­ The Michigan Academy of Science, vided they are able to meet their teaching Arts, and Letters has accept~d Grand and committee work commitments to the Valley's invitation to hold its March 23- college. 24, 1979, meeting on Grand Valley's campus. According to E. F. Gearhart, Parking Task Force dean of the College of Graduate Studies, about 600 persons are expected to attend. It is the first time the Academy's meeting will be at Grand Valley . Suggests Few Changes • Dr. Ronald E. Muller, of the American Last fall, a Parking Task Force rec­ University, will be on campus Thursday, eliminated the cause of confusion by visi­ March 9. He will speak on the topic ommended changes in parking and hand­ tors and said that the campus community ling of parking violations on campus. The "Multinationals - International Econom­ has an obligation to inform visitors of changes were approved and implemented. ic Crisis and World Hunger" at 3 p.m. in Grand Valley's parking regulations. It claimed that special parking for visistors Room 123, Manitou Hall. Subsequently, questions and criticisms Muller is co-author of the book Global would only create additional problems of about some of the changes were raised, administration and enforcement. Reach: The Power of the Multinational and Ronald VanSteeland, vice president Corporations, which won the 1975 for administration, reinstituted the task Sydney Hillman Foundation Book of the force so that it could review the new As for easier access to buildings by Year Award. He is a frequent witness regulations and recommend changes. handicapped persons, the task force rec­ before Congr~ssional committees and has The task force's review included the ognized that need on the one hand, and made numerous television appearances in need for visitor parking, parking for han­ on the other the desirability of limiting the United States, Japan, Europe and dicapped persons, and the use of a single traffic on the interior campus roads. The South America. traffic judicial officer. task force recommended that the access His visit is sponsored by the F. E. road north of the library be opened to Seidman Graduate College of Business The group decided that the new signs handicapped traffic and college service and Administration. that had been placed at reserved areas had (Continued on page 2) Arnold Ott Viewpoint Letter. to What'sReally Happening The Editor Orchids for the Records Office

Something very nice is happening on the second floor of Lake Huron Hall. To the Family? For several weeks now the entire staff of the Records Office has been sweating and swearing over "module dumps," thousands By Nathalie M. Ostroot of half credits, and untold numbers of other misplaced modulars, all in an On campus, at meetings and parties, a decade, the changes we observe are apt effort to produce the first official College and virtually wherever I travel, as soon as to appear quite disruptive of familiar IV transcripts. people learn that my field of study is the patterns. The Records crew has waded in to a sea family, that question is posed: "What's of module credits, transfer credits, slips really happening to the family?" Some­ of paper, and student files ten times times, coming from young adults, the Let's turn to some specific changes. thicker than normal. Yet, despite bitchy question is tossed out as an optimistic Several recent demographic trends have assistant deans and faculty who have challenge , as though to say, "I'm breaking profound implications for the family, but trouble with their math, the crew has not free of my family, and I may never follow by and large they don't attract much at­ sunk but has accomplished a near miracle in their footsteps. That doesn't make me tention from my questioners. One is the in making the many pieces of a College a bad egg, does it?" More often, if the reversal - just since 1965 - of our 200- IV transcript fit together. questioners are older, the implicit con­ year pattern of younger and younger ages Nathalie Ostroot I wish to thank them. They deserve cern is that the family is falling to pieces. at first marriage. Between 1950 and much more. Some want assurance that the apparent 1965, half the women marrying for the never married (21 percent versus 8 per­ On behalf of the students and staff I chaos is just a passing phase in society or first time were teenagers. Since the mid- cent). (Incidentally, the Census Bureau appreciate your work! a stage their own family members are 1960's, the median age of first-time category "unmarried couples" includes R eid Holland going through, while others want confir­ brides has risen to 21. Also, during this middle-aged and elderly women with a Assistant Dean, College IV mation of their conviction that the same period of time, the birth rate in the young man as a tenant; whereas these younger generation is going to the dogs - United States has fallen to 14 per 1,000, constituted the majority of unmarried and taking the family along. or an average of just over two children couples in 1960, now the more prevalent Energy per couple. In addition to the somewhat pattern consists of a young man sharing Those who are convinced that the fam­ older age at marriage, couples are tending living quarters with a young woman.) ily is breaking down tend to lay the to postpone their first child a year longer blame on individuals; people simply than in the recent past. The recognition Among my questioners, divorce is un­ Task Force aren't as "good" as they used to be. In that it costs over $2,000 to bear a child, doubtedly seen as the major issue in the the rosy past of their nostalgia, people another $52,000 to rear a child to age 18, breakdown of the family. Yes, the di­ were more patient, more responsible, and and at least $10,000 more to provide a vorce rate in the United States is high - more self-sacrificing. The family came college education - literally making each slightly higher than any other modernized Named first. Not admitted as evidence in this child a $64,000 question - apparently is country. If current rates continue, two a sobering prospect to would-be parents. women in every five now in their twenties scheme are my ancestors, a staunch Iowa Upon the recommendation of the The greater maturity of parents and the will be divorced at some time during their farm couple at the turn of the century. Energy Committee, Vice President for expectation of fewer children per family life. However, of those who divorce, They didn't show up in divorce statistics, Administration Ronald VanSteeland has tend to enhance the financial security of three-fourths will remarry, suggesting that but lived in the same house without appointed a task force to prepare a speaking to each other the last twenty families, which in turn promotes family Americans may be disillusioned with thei. partners, but not with marriage as such. contingency plan in the event that Grand years of their marriage. (Could one possi­ stability. Valley's electrical supply drops to a point bly say that they celebrated their 36th Furthermore, the divorce rate has leveled off in the past year. Although it may where the college can no longer continue wedding anniversary several months be­ Other changes attract both attention seem presumptuous to forecast a decline normal operations. fore Uncle John died?) and concern, most prominently, "living in the divorce rate based on a one-year together" and divorce. United States Members of the task force are Ward My own view is that shifts in societal Census Bureau demographers estimate trend, the demographic factors men­ Aurich, physical plant officer chairman· emphases are affecting individuals' beha­ that last year almost 2 million Americans tioned above would lend support to such Richard Mehler, dean of st~dent life: vior. While the changes in the family are were living together without being mar­ a forecast. Couples who are older when Rosemary Alland, personnel officer'. not an illusion, neither are they due to a ried. This is approximately two percent they first marry are less likely to divorce .Richard Hansen, business and finance sudden decline in personal moral fiber. of all couples. While it represents a sharp than younger ones; divorce is less likely officer; John Gracki, dean of the College Very briefly, changes in attitudes about increase since 1970, a more detailed among couples who do not have a child of Arts and Sciences; James Starkwea­ the importance of family formation and study based on men ages 20 to 30, ran­ during their first year of marriage; and ther, director of budgets; William Yerkes, marital stability, changing laws, and the domly selected from Selective Service "living together" before marriage may CAS faculty member; and Laurie Hanger, improving status of women all contribute records, indicated that cohabitation led contribute to a more careful selection of student. All but Mehler, Hansen, and to the family's functioning in quite a dif­ to marriage in almost 40 percent of the a spouse. Starkweather are also members of the ferent environment than it was even a cases, and that divorced men were two What do I make of all this data? First Energy Committee. decade ago. And since most of us can and a half times as likely to be in a "living of all, far from heralding the demise of The task force will present its plan to remember back considerably farther than together" household than those who had . the family, it seems to me we are far VanSteeland and to the President's more concerned with the quality of fam­ Executive Committee for review. ily relationships now than in the past. And unlike my Iowa ancestors, we're will­ ing to take constructive action when rela­ tionships fall short of our ideals. Much of Parking Tennis, Anyone? Help! this action, by the way, takes the form of counseling and therapy, so that existing bonds can be "reinvented" before they (Continued from page 1) Grand Valley's reputation as an athletic "We view this as a learning experience," rupture. Another important aspect in the vehicles. Temporary parking for the han­ powerhouse may be severely jeopardized Collins said, "and we're hoping to learn a improved quality of family relationships dicapped will be designated along the by the poor showing of the college's lot from all the mistakes we're making. are the societal factors that I mentioned road until permanent parking can be ar­ faculty-staff tennis team, which competes "I'm looking forward to getting a earlier. The changes in attitudes, laws, ranged. in the Grand Rapids Men's Tennis League. couple of coaches on our team in the and women's status provide a supportive · Finally, the task force recommended Team member John Gracki, dean of next go-around and getting serious," framework within which personal goals that no change be made in the use of a the College of Arts and Sciences, admitted Collins said. "We hope to get somebody can be pursued. single traffic judicial officer. to the Forum that the team is in last like Jim Harkema, a former tennis player. Yes, I do think our society is consider­ After reviewing the recommendations, place in Division B, the lower division of With more talent like that, we could very ably more individualistic than previously. VanSteeland said, "I have approved the the league. "Since our nearest competitor well shift our position in the league and The good of the person as a unique indi­ changes for implementation. The task is seven games away," Gracki said, "we've easily come out near the top. vidual takes precedence over the good of force evaluated all recommendations and got the bottom spot pretty much locked "It's just that now we have a lot of the family. This isn't necessarily anti­ made compromises where they should up." administrative riffraff-like John Gracki." thetical to the wel.1-being of the family, have. It is doubtful that some parts of Despite the team's dismal win-loss According to Gracki, some weaknesses however. Permission to meet one's own any parking policy will ever be acceptable commonly found in academic circles are record, Collins claims the players are needs may facilitate active participation to everyone, but the changes are respon­ experts at some facets of the sport, such being transferred to the tennis court. In in the family more readily than a sense of sive to the most critical issues raised." as gamesmanship. For example, he said, playing doubles, he said, two Grand Val­ martyrdom or guilt did. ley players often call meetings to decide "when the ball goes past you, you look who's going to return the ball. "And we accusingly at your partner. The look Finally, I expect an increase in the never make decisions in these meetings - conveys everything." types of relationships we regard as fami­ Grand Valley Forum only recommendations," he said. Collins suggested that the team's lies, as well as increasing acceptance of strong showing in Situations in which both Grand Valley the area of gamesman­ this diversity. Rather than insisting that The Grand Valley Forum is published ship could be a result of the members' players yell "Yours!" simultaneously one partner and one family style is best on Mondays by the Communications occur frequently, Gracki reported. long experience in academia. for all persons at all stages of life, we will and Public Relations Office, Clarice Collins said the tennis games have strive for the best fit possible for each Geels, editor. All materials should be The CAS dean hinted the team could provided an interesting study of body person at any given time. sent to the editor in the Communica­ be suffering from lack of qualified leader­ language. "The quality of body language tions Office, Manitou Hall, Grand Val­ ship, a point disputed by coach Bob depends, of course, on the quality of the Nathalie Ostroot is an associate professor ley State Colleges, Allendale, Michigan Collins, a CAS psychology professor bodies involved," he said. "There are of anthropology and sociology in the Col­ ~9401. Telephone: 895-6611, exten­ who says team members "don't have the good bodies and bad bodies. Ours are lege of Arts and Sciences. She has been sion 221 and 222. right psychology to win." mostly decrepit." at Grand Valley since 1975. Metrics Newspaper Course Popular

The radio announcer who tells you it's somewhat less complicated, he says, ment has backed off from an aggressive not only 32 degrees fahrenheit today - because Gambia is much smaller and less metrics campaign, with the U.S. Weather but also zero degrees Celsius - is doing developed than the United States. "And Service and the U.S. Department of you a favor. He's preparing you for the the Gambians took conversion to the Transportation delaying deadlines for day, less than three years away, when metric system as a matter of pride," converting weather forecasts and highway temperatures will be reported in metric Ablon said. "To them, it was sort of a signs to metrics. only. symbol of coming into the 20th century." "Conversion to the metric system is politically unpopular," he says. "Legis­ Although that may sound like a pro­ Ablon says the metric system is not' lators don't want to vote for it, admin­ gressive step for the United States, Col­ difficult to grasp, but Americaris are so ' istrators don't want to administer it and lege IV mathematics instructor Leon accustomed to the English system of people don't want to be bothered with it." Ablon says it's actually just a matter of measurement that they have a psycho­ catching up with the rest of the world. As logical problem adjusting to the seemingly "Let's face it - it's a big nuisance. But of 1975, the only countries not using the foreign metric system. it should have been done 150 years ago." metric system were the United States, "Actually, anybody who wants to do Burma, Yemen and Liberia, according to anything seriously -whether it's scientific Nuisance or not, more than 300 Ablon, who was first exposed to the research or international business - has persons have ordered textbooks for a problems of conversion in 1973, when he been doing it in metrics for years," Ablon College IV newspaper metrics course spent some time in the West African said. "Most of our food is dual-labelled which attempts to take the mystery out Leon Ab/on country of Gambia, a former British now. And liter bottles of soft drinks are of metrics in seven articles covering the colony. everywhere." base-ten system, length, area and peri­ The conversion process there was Ablon acknowledged that the govern- meter, volume, mass and weight, temper­ ature and general metric applications.

The course, designed by Ablon , is being published in the Grand Rapids Press. Participants have the option of taking the course for one college credit, awarded through College IV after successful Sabbatical Awards Granted completion of a final exam. More than 30 persons have registered for credit.

Although it is the first locally developed Twenty-four Grand Valley faculty Library of Congress, the University of 1978-79 fall, winter and spring terms to college course to be printed in the Press, members were recently granted sabbatical Maryland, and the National Institute of do further playwrighting and to continue the metrics course is not the first news­ leaves by the Sabbatical Awards Commit­ Mental Health in Washington , D.C. a research project on producing classic paper course designed by Ablon, who is tee. One member was granted a profes­ plays for modern audiences. He plans to on a sabbatical leave from the College of sional development leave. They are: work at Oxford University, at libraries Staten Island, a unit of City University of and theatres in London, and in cities in Greta DeLong, of the Educational New York. He has published numerous Beverly Berger, of CAS's art depart­ Studies Institute, was granted a sabbatical Europe. books and articles on mathematics and ment, was granted a sabbatical for the for the 1979 winter term to complete re­ written a 45-article series on basic skills 1978-79 fall, winter and spring terms to search on an inventory of pupil attitudes Charles Knop, of CAS's chemistry de­ which was published in a New York daily study the metal techniques of raising and related to future expectations and self­ partment, was granted a sabbatical for the newspaper, the Staten Island Advance. forging at the Cranbrook Academy of Art concepts and to publish the results. 1978 fall term to enroll in graduate level in Birmingham, Michigan. chemistry courses at Michigan State Uni­ Milton Ford, faculty member at Col­ versity. David Bernstein, faculty member at lege IV, was granted a sabbatical leave for College IV, was granted a sabbatical leave the 1979 spring term to conduct a study Ricardo Meana, of CAS's School of for the 1978-79 fall and winter terms to of the differences and similarities in Pedestrians Public Service, was granted a sabbatical write a book entitled Theoretical Psy­ values education in public and private in­ for the 1979 winter and spring terms to chology: A Primer, which will provide an stitutions of higher education. He plans do graduate work at the University of introduction to the ways in which psy­ to do research at representative colleges Chicago and research on Justice Stevens. chologists use models. He plans to spend and universities which engage in values Have considerable time in the libraries of education. Grand Valley and Michigan State Univer­ Rosalyn Muskovitz, a faculty member sity. Ursula Franklin, of CAS's foreign lan­ at William James College, was granted a . guage department, was granted a sabbati­ sabbatical leave for the 1979 winter term Arthur Cadieux, faculty member at cal for the 1978-79 fall, winter and spring to do an internship in Montreal and re­ Rights Too Thomas Jefferson College, was granted a terms to write a book dealing with Rilke search in Israel and Puerto Rico in the sabbatical leave for the 1978-79 fall and and Valery. She plans to do research at design field. winter terms to produce a series of paint­ university libraries in this country and at According to Purl Cobb, the director ings. He plans to work in New York City. the Rilke-Archiv in Weimar, the Biblio­ Harvey Nikkel, of CAS's chemistry of safety and security, if drivers on theque Nationale, and the Bibliotheque department, was granted a sabbatical for campus don't become more courteous, Robert Chamberlain, of CAS's English Sainte-Genevieve in Paris. the 1979 spring term to work and study the college may have to put up traffic department, was granted a sabbatical for at the pathology laboratory in St. Mary's lights along Campus Drive so that the 1978-79 fall, winter and spring terms pedestrians can cross safely. Donald Hall, of CAS's physics depart­ Hospital. to prepare a composition handbook, a "We have received many complaints ment, was granted a sabbatical for the freshman-level text and one anthology. about inconsiderate drivers who will not 1978 fall term to write a laboratory man­ Toni Poll, of CAS's physical He plans to spend time in the library of slow down for pedestrians," said Cobb. ual for the physics curriculum. He plans and recreation department, was granted a Grand Valley and to work in either Lon­ "Since the campus has been designed so to stay in this area. sabbatical for the 1978-79 fall, winter don or Cambridge. and spring terms to study motor perfor­ that most parking lots are across the road mance at the University of Northern from the buildings, most people have to Robert Conrow, faculty member at Richard Harder, of CAS's psychology Colorado. cross the road at least twice a day, which William James College, was granted a sab­ department, was granted a sabbatical for adds up to a lot of pedestrians." batical leave for the 1978-79 fall, winter the 1978-79 fall, winter, and spring terms Ronald Potter-Efron, a faculty mem­ Putting up lights would slow down and spring terms to study works by and to do an extensive study of the develop­ ber at Thomas Jefferson College, was traffic, but it would also require drivers about William James and to write a paper ment of young children, both normal and granted a sabbatical leave from January 1, to stop when there were no pedestrians, based on the notion of the 1970's imple­ disabled, at pediatric psychology training 1979, to December 21, 1979, to study in noted Cobb. He said the Safety and mentation of James's philosophy in both facilities in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michi­ the Social Work School at the University Security Office had also discussed the organizational and institutional form. He gan and Wisconsin. of Michigan. installation of a push button light, which plans to work at the William James Asso­ would allow pedestrians to control traffic, ciation and the Herb Trade Association in Judith Harpold, of the Educational Philip Pratt, of CAS's mathematics and but that would also be open to abuse, Santa Cruz and the University of Califor­ Studies Institute, was granted a sabbatical computer science department, was grant­ since some poeple might push the button nia at Santa Cruz. for the 1979 spring term to teach chil ­ ed a sabbatical for the 1978 fall term to after crossing, making cars stop for no dren's reading skill groups and language study data base management systems at reason. Gilbert Davis, faculty member at arts demonstration lessons, serve the fac­ the University of Michigan. A third possibility would be to have a Thomas Jefferson College, was granted a ulty as a language arts resource person, flag person at the crosswalks between sabbatical leave for the 1978-79 fall win­ and assist the building principal at the Margaret Proctor, assistant dean and classes to control traffic while people ter and spring terms to study the primary Rosewood Elementary School in Jenison. faculty member at William James College, cross the road. "A safety program desi gned texts in the legislative and legal history of was granted a professional development for elementary school children should not pre-20th-century censorship, as well as Edward Haurek, of CAS's anthropol­ leave for the 1978-79 fall , winter and be necessary for college students," said works which were the object of censor­ ogy and sociology department, was spring terms to study the Story Workshop Cobb. ship. He plans to do research at the Uni­ granted a sabbatical for the 1978-79 fall method of teaching writing at the Univer­ The college would prefer not to spend versity of Michigan, at Indiana University, and winter terms to develop a textbook­ sity of Chicago. the money for traffic lights or fla g and in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, manual for the sociology curriculum. He persons, said Cobb, but would if it were Chicago and Detroit. plans to do research at the University of John Shontz, of CAS's biology depart­ necessary. For now, however, he is hoping Chicago and Michigan State University ment, was granted a sabbatical for the that a plea to drivers to be more con­ Arthur DeLong, of CAS's psychology and/or the University of Michigan. 1979 spring term to study the ecology siderate will be sufficient. " I'm not sure department, was granted a sabbatical for and flora of the desert in Arizona and to why some people feel such a sense of the 1979 winter term to do research and Dennis Kennedy, of CAS's English de­ participate in courses and seminars at the power when they get behind the wheel of write articles. He plans to work at the partment, was granted a sabbatical for the University of Arizona. a car," said Cobb. Events On and Around the GVSC Campus

Monday, March 6 South Conference Room. 12 noon: Film - "Knowledge or Certainty." Concludes the "Ascent of Man" series 3 p.m. : Lecture - "Multinationals - International Economic Crises and World by Jacob Bronowski. Campus Center, South Conference Room. . . Hunger." By Dr. Ronald E. Muller. Sponsored by the F. E. Seidman Graduate 3 and 7 p.m.: Film - " Hiroshima Mon Amour." Sponsored by the Russian, Spanish, College of Business and Administration. Manitou Hall, Room 123. and French Clubs. Lake Huron Hall, Room 132. 7 to 10 p.m.: Workshop - "Life Planning." Part of the " Woman as an Individual" 7 to 10 p.m.: Workshop - "Elimination of Self-Defeating Behavior." Part of the Workshop. $12. Holland High School, Room 204. For more details, call the "Woman as an Individual" Workshop. $24. Rockford High School. Room 9. For Community Education Division, extension 565. more details call the Community Education Division, extension 565. 7 to 10 p.m.: Seminar - "Self-Management Seminar for Men and Women." Meets 7:30 to 9 :30 p.~.: Public Forum-"The Idea of Community and Popular Culture." Thursdays for four weeks. $24. Rockford High School. For more details, call Part of the Courses by Newspaper series. Muskegon Community College , Over­ the Community Education Division, extension 565. brook Theatre. 8 p.m. : Dance Alliance. See Wednesday, March 8, for details. Tuesday, March 7 7 to 10 p.m. : Workshop - "Living with Yourself as a Working Mother." Part of the Friday, March 10 "Woman as an Individual" Workshop. $12. Lake Michigan Hall, Room 105. 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.: Conference - "Mathematics in Action." For K-12 teachers. For more details call the Community Education Division, extension 565. $6. Campus Center. For more details, call the Community Education Division, 7:30 to 9 :30p.m.: Public Forum - "The Idea of Community and Popular Culture." extension 565. Part of the Courses by Newspaper series. Grand Rapids Press, Community Room. 8 p.m.: Dance Alliance. See Wednesday, March 8, for details .

Wednesday, March 8 . Saturday, March 11 8 p.m.: Dance Alliance. Susan Rose, visiting artist. Sponsored by the Performing 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.: Workshop - "Assertiveness Training." $24. Lake Michigan Hall, Arts Center. Stage 3, 72 Ransom N.E., Grand Rapi_ds. $2 general admissi?n, Room 105. For more details, call the Community Education Division, extension $1.50 for students. For reservations, call the Performing Arts Center, extens10n 565. 485, Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., or Stage 3, 454-0481, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. : Workshop - "Physical Fitness for Women." Part of the "Woman from 6 to 7 :30 p.m. performance nights. as an Individual" Workshop. $15. Grand Valley State Colleges Field House. For more details, call the Community Education Division , extension 565. Thursday, March 9 . 8 p.m.: Dance Alliance. See Wednesday, March 8, for details. 12 noon: Concert, GVSC Orchestra, Joel Levin , conductor, Campus Center, Mam 9 p.m. to 12:45 a.m.: Music - A mini-concert featuring La-Bandia Mia, a Latin Lounge. Part of the Lunch break Series. . . music group, and Disco Macaroni. $.50 student admission, $1 for non-students. 12 noon : Faculty-staff discussion. Sponsored by Campus Mm1stry. Campus Center, Sponsored by the Organization for World Music and the Programming Board. Campus Center, Multipurpose Room.

Monday, March 13 3 and 7 p.m.: Film - "Don Quixote de la Mancha." Sponsored by the Spanish, Biology Students French, and Russian Clubs. Lake Huron Hall, Room 132. Exhibitions Go Underground Tuesday, February 21, to Tuesday, March 7 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.: Painting show. Featuring works by abstractionist John Seery. Students in one of Glenn Anders' cave formation, types of caves, and the Sponsored by Thomas Jefferson College. Campus Center Gallery . biology courses are being exposed to life abundance of life supported by cave eco­ in the underworld as part of their educa­ systems. At the beginning of the term tional experience at Grand Valley. students select topics to study, then re­ Anders and a group of students re­ port their findings during classes. The turned to Grand Valley recently after field trip gives them an opportunity to spending three days exploring and exam­ experience the things they've been study­ Job Openings on Campus ining activities in the underworld of ing. _ southern Indiana. "Most of the students in the course are Clerical, Office, Technical The underworld Anders and his class Environmental R esource Planner - biology majors," Anders said, "and the Temporary full- and part-time secretar­ explored was in four limestone caves. The William James College. field trip gives them a chance to see cave ies. Work periodically on a call-in field trip they took on February 10, 11 Substance Abuse Program Developer - ecosystems and the adaptations life forms basis. $3.25 to $4 per hour, depending and 12 was part of Anders' one-credit, Student Life Office. make to live in darkness. This is some­ on the position. For further informa­ full-term seminar, Cave Biology. R esearch Assistant (Environmental thing they haven't seen before, and might tion contact Ellen Brown at extension Caves can be a true paradise for biolo­ and Ecological Setting Project) never see again ." 215. gists, although many people think cave The serious exploration of caves is College of Arts and Sciences. exploration is confined to geology enthu­ called speleology, and differs from spe­ Maintenance-Service siasts. Caves contain a fragil e ecosystem lunking, which is the sport of cave e?'-­ Painter, Physical Plant. Permanent, supporting many life forms, including Faculty ploration. Anders and others interested m full-time postion. Salary, Grade 5, salamanders, blind fish and crayfish, Media generalist, William James Co l­ cave life are called biospeleologists. $5.33 per hour. crickets, beetles, flies, and of course, bats. lege . M.F.A. or Ph.D. Position involves Before embarking on the Indiana trip, Electrician, Physical Plant. Must have a Biologists are interested in the adapta­ teaching film and video production Anders took the students to a local gyp­ journeyman's electrical license, five tions made by organisms living in an envi­ and theory courses. Begins September, sum mine for a "first cave experience," years of experience in electrical with ronment of total darkness and almost 1978. Salary: $11,000 to $24,500 for designed to identify claustrophobics and skills in motor control panels and constant temperatures. the academic year. those that aren't comfortable in total lighting panels. Permanent, full-time The purpose of Biology 390A, Cave darkness. All the students passed the position. Third shift. Salary, Grade 5, Biology, is to give students knowledge of Executive, Administrative, Professional cave test and were allowed to join the $5.33 per hour. Director of Instructional Television - field trip. WGVC-TV. $13,000-$17,000 an­ The class visited four commercial nually. caves, caves that are open to the public CETA Computer Programmer A nalyst - and offer lighted walking tours. Arrange­ International Studies A ssistant Computer Center. $12,500-$17 ,000 Sketches ments were made for the group to leave International Studies Institute. annually . the tours and have "wild cave" experi­ William D. Bell, of the School of ences in chambers and tunnels that Health Science, has had his paper, entitled haven't been adapted for public tours. "The Effect of Galactose Oxidase, with They spent a night in an undeveloped and without Prior Sialidase Treatment, on area of one cave, where the temperature Channel 35 Highlights the Viability of Erythrocytes in Circula­ remained a constant 54 degrees while it was in the low 20's on the outside. Ex­ tion," written with G. N. Levy , R. Wil ­ In Performance at Wolf Trap: Benny ploration was limited to horizontal starring Leslie Howard as Professor Hig­ liams, and Da vid Aminoff, published in Goodman. The King of Swing is featured chambers because of the hazards involved gens and Wendy Hiller as Eliza, will be the Proceedings of the National Academy in a special jazz concert videotaped at in using ropes to climb in and out of ver­ shown. March 10, 9 p.m. of Science, October, 1977. Wolf Trap Farm Park for the Performing tical tunnels and sinkholes. Arts near Washington, D.C. Goodman and "I'm not trying to make experienced his sextet perform such classics as On March 18, at Eastern Michigan cavers out of the students," Anders said. National Geographic Special. "The University, T JC faculty member Gilbert "Rhapsody in Blue," "Sing, Sing, Sing," Living Sands of Namib." In the Namib "I just want to show them the cave eco­ and "Avalon." March 7, 8 p.m. Davis will read a paper at the 82nd system. There's a tendency to put lots of Desert, bordering 1,200 miles of the annual meeting of the Michigan Academy emphasis on studying ecosystems in Atlantic coast of Africa, temperatures of Science, Arts, and Letters. Davis ' oceans, deserts and tundra, and lots of sometimes reach 170 degrees. This pro­ paper, tracing the early rise of literary Nova. "The Case of the Ancient gram examines the strange creatures and time is spent on them. With caves, we Astronauts." Focuses on the evidence censorship in America, will be presented have a really different ecosystem that's as unusual plants that have adapted in at the Language and Literature Section of supporting the popular theory that astro­ amazing ways to one of earth's most close as Indiana, and easier to study first­ nauts from other worlds visited the earth the Academy meeting. hand." hostile environments. March 6, 8 p.m. thousands of years ago. March 8, 8:05 Repeats March 11, 6 p.m. Cave Biology has been offered three p.m. Repeats March 11, 2:30 p.m. Robert S. Junn, of CAS's political times, with approximately 10 students science department, delivered a paper, enrolled in each class. Response to the entitled "Using a Case Study-Simulating class and fi eld trip, funded by the biology The First Night of Pygmalion. Chron­ Special. " A Birthday Party for Josef Worktext in Teaching of International department and the students, has been icles the events leading up to the opening Strauss." Willi Boskovs ky and the Vi enna Law," written with two colleagues, to the good. of George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" Philharmonic celebrate the 150th an­ International Studies Association's annual "The only complaints I get are that in London in 1914. Immediately fol­ niversary of compose r Jose f Strauss. meeting on February 22 in Washington, the field trips aren't long enough," An­ lowing, at 10 p.m., Gabriel Pascal's March 12, 8:05 p.m. Repeats March 19, D.C. ders reported. motion picture production of the play. 12 noon.