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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1966)
School of Music Offers Workshop The University School of Mu sic will conduct a workshop in performing and interpreting con temporary instrumental music this summer, made possible by a $4,000 Ford Foundation grant. "An exciting atmosphere of study and performance" has been promised music teachers who en roll in the four week, six-credit workshop slated for June 20 to July 15. Two prominent composers and lecturers will serve on the work shop staff, in addition to Univer sity faculty members. Two prominent visitors, Vin cent Persichetti, of Juilliard School of Music in New York City and Roger Nixon, head of the de partment of theory and compo sition at San Francisco State Col lege, will serve on the workshop staff in addition to University faculty members. The three courses to be in cluded in the workshop are “Con ducting Contemporary Music,” "Analysis of Twentieth Century Music,” and “Contemporary Mu sic Performance Laboratory.” 'Susannah' Opens Run at UT Friday "Susannah,” billed as a vital and exciting modern American opera, will open at the University Theatre this weekend. The musical drama has receiv ed public acclaim repeatedly since its New York City Center Pro duction in 1956. The story is an adaptation of the apochryphal tale of the Bibli cal Susannah, wife of the mayor of ancient Babylon, who was threatened with public castiga tion and destruction if she did not submit to the lustful desires of two of the elders of the town. Playwright Carlisle Floyd has retold the well-known story in an East Tennessee Hill setting. “Susannah” will play Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, April 15 17, and April 21-23 at the Univer sity Theatre. Curtain time is 8 p.m. The major roles in the opera have been double-cast. Faber De Chaine is dramatic director for the University Theatre produc tion and James Miller is musical director. Both are members of the University faculty. Tickets are $2.50 each and may be purchased at the University Theatre Box Office, Ext. 1781. The box office is open from noon to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and noon to 9 p.m. on perform ance nights. WU Festival Draws Faculty, Dancers Several University facult» members and a University dance group are taking part in the 2nd Annual Willamette University Festival of Contemporary Arts being held this week in Salem. Irish novelist Benedict T. J. Kiely, visiting professor of Eng lish at the University, is the no velist-in-residence for the Festi val and a participant in a dia logue. David Foster, Festival film art ist-in-residence, is an associate professor of art at the Univer sity. During the Festival he is discussing selected contemporary films and participating in several dialogues. Jack Wilkinson, head of the Department of Fine and Applied Arts in the University’s School of Architecture and Allied Arts, is a guest of the Festival and is taking part in a dialogue. Others from the University in clude Thomas Marshall, associate professor of Romance Languages, and the University Repertory Dancers, directed by M. Frances Dougherty, professor of physical education, and K. Wright Dunk ley, associate professor of physi cal education. The Festival will run through April 15. Fee for tha three courses is $84. Participants registering for additional courses pay $14 per credit hour. Tuition for eight or more hours is $110. Robert Vagner, professor of music and director of the Uni versity Bands, is workshop co-or dinator. The dean of the University School of Music. Robert Trotter, will also be on the workshop fac ulty. Workshop participants will have an opportunity to conduct and perform 20th century music in large and small ensemble. Three high school bands, one college band, and a high school and col lege orchestra will be on cam pus during the four-week pe riod. Works of such composers as Bartok, Copland, Davidovsky, Dahl, Hindemith, Rochberg, Stock hausen, Stravinsky, and Webern will be studied. The Oregon School of Music is one of four music schools awarded a total of $18,000 for such workshops under the Con temporary Music Project admin istered by the Music Educators National Conference and funded by the Ford Foundation. Applications to attend the workshop should be sent to Pro fessor Robert S. Vagner. School of Music at the University. New Advising System Begun To Speed Fall Registration The University is inaugurat ing a new system of academic ad vising this Spring term to in crease consultations between fac ulty advisers and undergraduates, and to make possible early plan ning for next year's study pro grams. The period of early advising will begin April 18, and continue through May 13. This will be the advising period for all currently enrolled students who expect to return to the University for the 1966 67 school year. The purpose of the early advising program is to avoid the fall term “crush” and to give more time for care ful advising. All currently enrolled under graduates are urged to meet in dividually with their advisers during regularly posted office hours in the spring advising pe riod to plan their 1966-67 study programs. The Office of Academ ic Advising will assist students who are unsure concerning their assignment. A record of the conference will be made on the list of se lected courses form and signed by the adviser. The original of this form will be sent to the Of fice of Academic Advising, a copy retained by the adviser, and a copy retained by the student Students and advisers should be sure the students’ names are I clearly and legibly printed on the form so the lists can be quickly tiled in the registration packets. When the student returns in the fall he will find the original copy of the form In his regis tration packet and will he ready I to enroll in courses. Students ! who want to make major changes in their programs can review their programs in the fall with their advisers. Picture Appointments Must Be Made Now Seniors and graduates who wish to have their graduation cictures in the 1966 Oregana must make photo appointments with Kennell-Elll* Photo Stu dio by Friday, April 15. No portrait pictures will be taken after this date. ZTA's Elect Zeta Tau Alpha recently in stalled their 1966 67 officers which ! include: Deniece Birdseye, pro si dent; Peggy Bonnar, vice-presi dent and pledge trainer; Donna Smith, secretary; Beverly Curtis, | treasurer; Evelyn Windust, mem ! hership: Jeanne Pinkerton, his torian; Nancy Cordon, ritual; Kar | en Carpenter, scholarship; and Marcia MiUen, activities chair man Because the time schedule for tin* next school year will not lie available during the period of early advising, the list of cours es selected will he tentative. Phil Schoggon, director of Academic Advising, said the ba sic pattern of undergraduate course offerings In most schools and departments is sufficiently stable from year to year to per mil sound general planning for most undergraduate students without the time schedule. Advisers should have photo copies of academic records issued to students last fall. If students have retained these photocopies they should bring them to the advising conference. Missing pho tocopies can be replaced by the registrar's office on the request of the adviser, hut this might take a few days. Reports of tall and winter term grades were sent by the regis trar to students and to the ad viser or to the various depart ments. However, students a r e urged to bring their copies to the advising conference. Oregon Dally Emerald Thr Of(|Ui Daily Miner aid putlulnd five lime* in September ttul five day* n week .lining the academic )rar, etrrpt (luting am in* I ton period*. l»y the Student HnMi* cation* Hoard of the University of Oregon Second cl**» postage paid at Eugene, Ore gun V740J ^ulacfipti'di rate* $$ per year. 12 per term We set out to ruin some bail bearings and failed successfully The Bell System has many small, automatic telephone offices around the country.The equipment in them J could operate unattended for I ten years or so, but for a problem. The many electric motors in those offices needed lubrication at least once a year. Heat from the motors dried up the bearing oils, thus entailing costly annual maintenance. To stamp out this problem, many tests were conducted at Bell Telephone Laboratories. Lubricant engi- A neer George H. Kitchen decided | to do a basic experiment that % would provide a motor with the worst possible conditions. He deliberately set out to ruin some ball bearings by smearing them with an icky guck called molybdenum disulfide (MoS2). Swock! This solid lubricant, used a certain way, actually increased the life expectancy of the ball bearings by a factor of ten! Now the motors can run for at least a decade without lubrication. We’ve learned from our “failures.” Our aim: investigate everything. The only experiment that can really be said to “fail” is the one that is never tried. Bell System American Telephone & Telegraph and Associated Companies
