Nanook News, Vol. 14, No. 29 (April 30, 1971)

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Publisher Office of University Relations, Department of News Service, University of Alaska

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Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/11122/3901 Foreign Correspondent Speaks Harrison E. Salisbury, a distinguished acquaintanceship with most of the Soviet the Soviet Union followed. Returning to authority on Soviet Union-China- leaders since Stalin’s day. New York in 1955 he reported widely on American relations, will speak in the Four years ago Salisbury became the juvenile delinquency and other domestic Regents Great Hall on campus next first American journalist to be admitted matters, turning some of his series into Monday at 8 p.m. His topic for to North Vietnam where, from Hanoi, he books while making extensive tours of the lecture, to which the public is invited, sent dispatches that were reprinted all the Soviet Union, Siberia and Central is “The Great Ping Pong Explosion.” over the world. Asia during the next dozen years. Two Salisbury is a former Moscow-based George Polk Memorial Awards, followed correspondent of The New York Times, a Born in Minneapolis, he is a graduate by the Asia Award of the Overseas Press Pulitzer prize winner for international of the University of Minnesota. He Club, came to him and book after book correspondence and, since 1964, an worked for the United Press in this rolled off his typewriter. Among them assistant managing editor of The Times. country, London and Moscow and was were “The 900 Days, The Siege of His appearance on the campus is foreign news editor of United Press Leningrad,” “War Between Russia and sponsored by the Festival of the Arts International four years before joining China,” and, in 1971, “The Many Committee of the College of Arts and The New York Times staff in 1949 as Americas Shall be One, a study of the Letters. Salisbury was the lecturer choice Moscow correspondent. American scene.” He also turned out a of the Department of Journalism. Six years of fruitful reportage from novel, “The Northern Palmyra Affair.” In his post of assistant managing editor of The Times he has maintained his close watch over the uncertain relationship r— — r ------between the big communist powers, continuing his visits to the Soviet Union and his travels on the periphery of mainland China. The recent admittance to China of the American ping pong players gives him an opportunity to forecast the effects of ping pong on world affairs. His nanook background is marked by wood Wires Volume lew XIV, $ * s April 30, 1971 Legislators With the outcome of State employes’ pay increase legislation still uncertain at Founders' uieok Juneau, President William R. Wood sent the following telegram to Governor William A. Egan and a group of concludes legislators last weekend: “Each percentage point of proposed The University’s second annual University’s history, the o.ther bearing classified personnel pay raise bill adds Founders’ Week reaches its climax this the signatures 4fcskan Regents, will $45,600 to University expenses. Five per weekend with formal dedication of three be unveil^

u a a PlansPsych Lab k u a c Highlights A unique educational experience is Persons who wisn turther information SUNDAY, 6 p.m., THE GOON SHOW. The on the course or who wish to enroll Secret Escritoire. available to those in the “helping” SUNDAY, 6:30 p.m., BBC WORLD professions, through the University of may contact the UAA psychology THEATRE. “Invitation to a Voyage” by Alaska, Anchorage, this summer. department, telephone 279-0584, or Jean-Jacques Bernard. The Human Relations Laboratory, a write to the Admissions Office, UAA, TUESDAY, 5 p.m., STORIES OF THE three-credit psychology graduate course, 2651 Providence Avenue, Anchorage VELD. “My Leopard.” will be held on scenic Kenai Lake, 100 99504. TUESDAY, 7 p.m., THE IMMIGRANT. “The miles from Anchorage, June 4-13. Dr. Post indicates that there may be M ediator.” Participants will live at the lake site, a limited number of partial scholarships WEDNESDAY, 12:30 p.m., SOURDOUGH, which is equipped with cabins, meeting available for the course. OOLOOS AND KUSPUKS. Next Time - Can That Moose!! hall, and recreational facilities. WEDNESDAY, 7 p.m., PLAY OF THE A specialist in human relations, Dr. WEEK. “Baboon!” by Cecil Jubber. Robert Chin, has been engaged kuac moves THURSDAY, 5 p.m., STORY WORLD. “The especially for this course to assist with Ogre Who Built a Bridge.” instruction. Dr. Chin, Coordinator of Last week the long-awaited removal FRIDAY, 1 p.m., THE MASSEY LECTURES. Advanced Training Programs and o f KUAC radio from studios in Dialogue on the Alleged Death of God. Organizational Consultant for the Constitution Hall to new facilities in the FRIDAY, 3 p.m., CONVERSATIONS AT Human Relations Center at Boston lower level of the Fine Arts Complex CHICAGO. “Crime in American Society.” University, is a professor of psychology was accomplished. SATURDAY, 1 p.m., METROPOLITAN at that school. The new studios, with approximately OPERA. Wagner’s “Parsifal.” Dr. Hal Post of the UAA psychology 10,000 square feet of floor space, are department is organizing the laboratory; shared with KUAC-TV. With the move, Dr. Marie Doyle, associate professor of the station gained its second production psychology, will also participate. Priority studio, making live on-air programming, HELP WANTED f o r enrollment will be given to while other programs are taped, possible The following positions are now open: educators, psychologists, businessmen, for the first time. PERSONAL SECRETARY - (Grade 10), iwo personnel officers, government In addition to the two production positions. Requirements: high school diploma; personnel, counselors, nurses, clergy, studios, the new radio-TV core area three years responsible clerical experience; police or others providing human contains two control room s, a typing speed of 60 wpm; bookkeeping services or assisting in personal or newsroom, and the KUAC program background (classwork or experience); shorthand speed of 80 wpm (one position). organizational change. director’s office. “This unique experience is not ACCOUNTING CLERK - (Grade 10), one With the move came new broadcast position. Requirements: high school diploma; limited to those persons desiring equipment funded by a Health, three years accounting experience; knowledge academic credit,” Dr. Post said. Education and Welfare grant totalling of double entry bookkeeping; basic accounting The group will be involved in a $17,962 with $6,000 of University theory; 10 key adding machine. variety of training group experiences, matching funds. The new equipment EXECUTIVE SECRETARY - (Grade 12), seminars, films and skill development includes two tape recorders, cartridge one position. Requirements: high school exercises. There will also be free time tape machines, engineering testing diploma; college background desirable; three an d opportunities for relaxation, equipment, and remote broadcasting to five years experience as an Administrative reading, meditation, sports and tools. Secretary; typing speed of 70 wpm; familiar with dictaphone; ability to work well under conversation in one of the most Station personnel accomplished the pressure. spectacularly beautiful settings in move without loss of air time, with the CREDIT CLERK — (Open salary, minimum Alaska. old KUAC production studio serving as 10A), one position. Requirements: part time “This lab is for individuals looking an on-air control room until the new position; accounting background; perseverance for new ways of dealing with problems,” control room line could be hooked to (following up delinquent accounts); strong the transmitter. personality. Post explains. “The residential setting on ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY - (Grade Kenai Lake away from their everyday The foremost advantage of the move is increased production quality. In the 11), two positions. Requirements: high school environment will make it easier to find diploma; three years experience as Personal old location, in a building not designed new solutions and new ways of relating Secretary; typing speed of 60 wpm; shorthand to others.” to meet the special requirements of a speed of 95 wpm (one position only); He is enthusiastic about the radio station, production reflected a dictaphone experience (one position only). laboratory, which is designed to provide variety of unexpected and unwanted For more information contact Central three significant types of experience: noises, including vibrations of footsteps Personnel Office, Bunnell 112, Ext. 7349. opportunities to become maximally and machinery. The new core radio-TV aware of a person’s impact upon others; area features sound-isolated NANOOK NEWS, th e faculty-staff bulletin of the opportunities to experiment with new construction. On-air and production ways of behaving in a laboratory equipment will be moved away from the University of Alaska, is published each week during the situation, where feedback is obtainable station transmitter, which will be left in from other participants; intellectual Constitution Hall. academic year by the Office of understanding of theories and practices While the KUAC staff is generally University Relations, pertaining to personnel and happy about its new facilities, one Department of News Service, organizational change, the development announcer isn’t. “Now I’ll have to go' 108 Bunnell, phone 479-7581. o f human potential, and the outside to see if the weather is cloudy Larry Davies, News Service improvement of interpersonal or clear for my weather report,” he Manager; Patricia Monaghan, relationships and facilitation of human grumbled about the new windowless editor; Don Carter, contributor. effectiveness. location. NANOOK NEWS PAGE 3 April 3u, iy/i PIPELINE LEAKS FLYING NANOOK OF THE WEEK AWARD takes its Poems written by University WRITERS’ WORKSHOP first trip to Anchorage this week, to honor DAVID HOKE, students have appeared recently in several publications. In University Assemblyman from Anchorage Community the English section of “Ala,” a Buenos Aires magazine, College, for his exciting revelations of the love life of an poems by Matthew Dick (“Two Young Lovers”), Virginia assistant professor, which he delivered at the April Assembly Wetzel (“Lying Inert”), Mike Arvey (“Laughter Escapes meeting. Even University professors have a lot to learn from Me”) and Joan Cuban (“My Poems”) appeared. A poem students, Hoke says. entitled “Suzanne” by workshop instructor Oliver Everette was also included. The spring/summer issue of “SB Gazette” The newly-named University Institute of Agricultural includes “The Fag” by Virginia Wetzel, “Apple Trees” by Sciences gave notice in the April issue of Agroborealis, its Mike Arvey and “Holy Man” by Joan Cuban. Emily Brown’s semiannual publication, that it is determined to help keep poem “The Seal Figurine” has been accepted for inclusion in Alaskan farmers “a step ahead of the competition.” The an American Indian issue of “Bleb” magazine. A brochure of Institute replaces the time-honored Agricultural Experiment the best poems from the workshop is being published Station, so-called for more than 70 years. The Board of through Thom Henricks Associates of Birmingham, Alabama. Regents of the University changed the name and thus gave the University its seventh full-fledged institute. These Students are still seeking contributions to the Ambulance research units complement the seven instructional colleges on Drive. Approximately half of needed $10,000 has been the main compus here. Dr. Horace F. Drury, the Institute collected. Co-chairmen of the student-initiated “We Care” director, noted in his foreward in Agroborealis that “even drive are campus nurse Mrs. Lucille Garrison, and University the better informed tend to believe that an Experiment fire chief Buck Whittaker. Station is merely a place where experiments are performed with various kinds of seeds and fertilizers.” It is our David Hoke, assistant professor of mathematics, is the mission to provide a constant stream of new knowledge and new president of the Anchorage Community College Faculty new materials to help keep our farmers a step ahead of the Association. Hoke, who succeeds outgoing president Beatrice competition and to improve the quality of life for our McDonald, was elected by a meeting of the ACC faculty on gardeners, homeowners — in fact, for all our citizens. This is April 15. Other officers elected to assist him for the a big order and the Institute of Agricultural Sciences is still a 1971-1972 scholastic year include Ronald W. Mosher, vice very small organization, in need of the help and president; Sally A. Janis, secretary; and Bill Mackey, understanding of all Alaskans and hopefully of outside treasurer agencies and research foundations as well. Now that we have Alaskan gardeners can get an early start on their gardens taken off our boots and come into the parlor with the rest by growing their own transplants, advises Alan Epps, of the folks, we hope that we will be in a better position to horticulturist of the Cooperative Extension Service. “At this make our story heard.” time of year, for many of us, there is an almost Retirement plan members who will retire at the end of uncontrollable urge to start gardening,” Epps notes. this school year are advised that retirement applications “Transplanting will allow many gardeners to mature some should be requested from the Retirement Office 45 days warm-season crops which would not mature with normal prior to the effective date. Therefore, members who wish seeding, and will hasten maturity of cool-season vegetables their retirement to be effective on July 1, should submit and provide a longer season for display of many annual applications sometime during the month of May. Members flowers.” He suggests further: Materials needed for starting also should be aware that applications may be withdrawn at transplants are easily obtainable — containers, germinating any time up to the effective date of retirement. media, and seeds, with some water, light, and warm temperatures thrown in to insure success. Almost any type A packet of information on PREPLANNING AND of container can be used if it can be properly drained and RECOVERING FROM FLOOD CONDITIONS if high water will hold together for three months when damp. Some levels occur in Alaskan communities has been prepared by possible choices include small wooden boxes, plant pots,, the Cooperative Extension Service. Referring to federal flood peat pots, peat pellets, tin cans, milk cartons, foil pie plates, insurance Dr. James Matthews, associate director of the plastic freezer cartons or any number of other household service, notes: “Communities are designated as eligible after containers. If a watertight container is used, a few small their local governments request the coverage and provide holes should be punched in the bottom to allow excess assurance that they will institute flood management moisture to drain out. Additional gardening information is programs through zoning ordinances by the end of 1971.” available from your District Agricultural Agent. He said that Extension Service packets, including a four-page “pre-flood information” questionnaire, digest of advice and A sculpture by Alex Duff Combs, associate professor of room contents inventory form, and a 21-page “post-flood art at Anchorage Community College, is presently on display information” booklet, would be available at district offices at the “Object Makers 1971” art exhibit in Salt Lake City, of the Service throughout Alaska. In compiling this booklet, Utah. The ceramic sculpture, a sea form, will be on display the Service states, it has “drawn upon its own experiences in at the exhibition through May 15. The art display is being previous emergencies and upon the resources of other held in the Utah Museum of Fine Art at the University of agencies and individuals.” Comprehensive advice is offered Utah in Salt Lake City. The purpose of the “Object Makers” on how to avoid undue loss and damage to dwellings and exhibition is to encourage new techniques in art. Professor contents and on plans for living an an evacuation site. Dr. Combs recently attended the American Craft Council Matthews announced that anyone wishing this material could Southwest Regional Conference in Salt Lake, which planned obtain it from the state office of the Cooperative Extension the event. Workshops were held in various media, including Service here at the University. plastics, clay, wood, fiber, metal, glass and electro forming. NANOOK NEWS PAGE 4 April 50, 1971 Walrus Freezer Dedication Sundav Under the supervision of the will have individual storage bins, with for four years, is a circular wooden tank University of Alaska a huge “walrus additional bins provided for the village freezer” has been completed at the 55 feet in diameter and 12 feet deep, Eskimo village of Savoonga on St. store and other uses. Several methods with a capacity of 200,000 pounds of Lawrence Island and will be dedicated for freezing the walrus meat are to be meat. It is designed to conserve this Sunday during the annual Savoonga evaluated this spring. resources and bolster the village’s Walrus Carnival. The system, Johnson related, was subsistence economy by preserving the The dedication ceremony, timed to designed “for economy, simplicity and walrus meat, a dietary staple, from coincide with the start of the spring trouble-free operation.” The Savoonga spoiling during the summer months. It is walrus hunt, is expected to draw not freezer, he and his associates believe, can a pilot project financed principally by only the 800 residents of the two St. be duplicated elsewhere for around t h e Economic Development Lawrence Island villages of Savoonga $100,000. Administration of the U.S. Department and Gambell but government officials The installation, under development of Commerce. from Washington and Juneau, legislators and members of Congress, newspaper editors, television cameramen and COMING EVENTS commentators, representatives of Native groups, University spokesmen and many ANNUAL SHOW OF STUDENT ART WORK in the Main Gallery and showcases, others. through May 5. Main gallery hours are 12-5 p.m. daily. Student-organized FOUND The Savoonga project, costing about OBJECT SHOW in the Student Lounge Gallery, open daily. $150,000, has been a cooperative effort FRIDAY b y th e Economic Development ASUA MOVIES this weekend are THE ROBE, showing tonight, and THE Administration, the University’s IAEE GREEN BERETS, showing Saturday and Sunday; both in Schaible Hall at 7:00 and the village of Savoonga, with p.m. Admission charge is $1.00 or ASUA membership card. assistance from the Bureau of Indian EVA McGOWN MUSIC ROOM DEDICATION, first intermission of opera Affairs and the University’s Sea Grant tonight. Program. DIDO AND AENEAS. 8:15 tonight and tomorrow. Fine Arts Theatre. The big tank in which the walrus SATURDAY meat will be stored has about 550,000 GOVERNOR’S DAY activities today are ROTC Awards Ceremony, 10:30, Patty pounds of brine with a salinity of 11 Gym; annual no-host ASUA Awards Luncheon, noon, Commons; dedication of per cent in its lower part. Above the Regents Great Hall, 3:00 p.m., Fine Arts Complex, public reception following. brine is a platform on which families SUNDAY HARRIET AND LUTHER HESS DINING COMMONS DEDICATION, 2:30 p.m., Upper Dorm Complex; Dr. Ernest Patty, guest speaker. jazz concert RECITAL BY RICHARD PORT, Schaible Hall, 2-4 p.m. today. UNIVERSITY CHORUS CONCERT, Great Hall, 4:00 p.m. today. MONDAY Wednesday THE FALLACIES OF HOPE are revealed in today’s CIVILISATION film, If you like popular music, you’ll likeshowing at 3:00 and 7:45 p.m. in Schaible Hall. In this penultimate film of the the style of the new University Stage BBC series, Kenneth Clark deals with that war-ridden period, the 19th century, and Band, presenting its first concert on its great imperialist, Napoleon. He cites John Ruskin’s “unwelcome words, ‘No great art ever yet rose on earth but among a nation of soldiers,’ ” in this survey of the Wednesday. The twenty young musicians who effects of political upheaval upon the arts. comprise the band generate upbeat Short course in INVESTING IN STOCKS AND BONDS FOR THE NOVICE versions of popular favorites, as well as begins tonight and meets each Monday through May 31 from 7:00-9:00. Associate backing solo jazz performers, under the Professor of business administration Dale Swanson will instruct this noncredit direction of music professor Duane course, for which tuition is $10. Register in Eielson 119 or mail tuition to Office of Mikow. The Contemporary Jazz Concert, Short Courses. For further information call Ext. 7715. the band’s first public appearance, begins EARTH SCIENCES SEMINAR this week features Jim Deininger speaking on at 8:15 on Wednesday, May 5, in the “Petrology of the Wrangell Volcanics near Nabesna,” at 4:00 p.m. in 201 Brooks. University Fine Arts Theatre. There is no HARRISON SALISBURY, foreign correspondent for the New York Times, will admission charge. lecture tonight at 8:00 in the Great Hall, under the sponsorship of the annual Featured in the 90-minute light jazz Festival of Arts. There is no admission charge. performance will be a four-member pop group called “Timescoop.” Also TUESDAY appearing will be trombonist Philip Brink Film group offering this week is THE BURMESE HARP, a 1956 Japanese of the UA music faculty, flutist Sam anti-war film, tonight and tomorrow at 8:00 in Schaible Halt Levine and vocalist Renee Morgan, who WEDNESDAY will present jazz solos. CONTEMPORARY JAZZ CONCERT, 8:15 p.m. in Fine Arts Theatre. (See story In addition, commentary will be this page.) provided by Tom Duncan, KUAC radio THURSDAY program director, who will introduce Nichol Williamson’s HAMLET will be shown this evening, 6:30 and 9:00, in Schaible. each piece and explain the historical development of jazz as a unique musical GEOPHYSICAL INSTITUTE SEMINAR, 3:30 p.m. in the Elvey Building- style. Conference Room.