Symposium defines interdependence
By BARRY ESPENSON
Of the Emerald
A combined effort will be made
by the political science and
economics departments at the
University this week to communi
cate the importance of their rela
Politics, economics go together, departments say
tionship with debates, lectures
and audience participation.
A seven-part symposium titled
"Modern Political Economy” will
be held today through May 31 to
Prof takes drawing
board to Kent State
By KAREN KAN GAS
Of the Emerald
Roy Paul Nelson's summer job is something of a mystery to him.
The University journalism professor is going to be an artist-in-residence
at Kent State University in Ohio, but he confesses he isn’t quite sure
what an artist-in-residence is.
“I don’t envision myself sitting at a drawing board, having students
crowded around me, watching me while I draw,’’ he chuckles, trying to
explain his future position by process of elimination.
The directors of the Blossom/Kent State Art Program, sponsored
by Kent State and the Cleveland Orchestra, have asked Nelson to
spend a week sharing his knowledge of graphic design and the media
with the art students who participate in the summer-long program.
So far, the directors haven’t said much about what they expect of
their future artist, Nelson says.
"I think they (the sponsors) want to bring to the program a person
who has the experience in a certain area — he’s there so students can
get to know him, ask him questions and presumably be inspired by him,”
Nelson explains.
Nelson says he will be sharing a media perspective of graphic
design with the students.
I’m probably bringing a special dimension to art students because
I’m coming to them from a discipline which is a little more foreign to them
— a word oriented discipline” since he graduated from the University in
1947 and began working for an advertising agency.
"The ad agency that I worked with asked me to write primarily radio
scripts,” Nelson recalls. “I was writing radio scripts for an ad agency and
those were the two areas where I’d had no experience at all. But I did
have the ability to write and I did have a visual sense.”
Obviously, Nelson is still using his ability to write and his visual
sense. He describes himself as an art director, a free-lance cartoonist, a
magazine designer and a book writer, as well as a teacher.
“I would’t be happy just teaching or just free lancing,” he explains.
"The combination of teaching and writing is a good combination. The
contracts and inspirations I get from my students and my research
stimulate me to write.”
Nelson says writing is his form of relaxation.
“Writing, drawing, and designing are hobbies with me. It’s as
important to me for relaxation as is, say, golfing to someone else,” he
says.
If such is the case, it seems Nelson should have a pleasant week at
Kent State, but he admits to a few misgivings.
He says he is concerned that the artists may be "more advanced in
their abilities” than he is.
"As a designer, I think I feel a little more confortable helping people
in journalism schools improve design than I would dealing with students
in art school,” Nelson explains.
Nevertheless, Nelson says he is looking forward to his trip to Ohio.
“I’m sure I’ll come back with a lot of fresh ideas,” he says.
EMU Cultural Forum
Presents
JIMMY BUFFETT
and
THE CORAL REEFER BAND
Tuesday • June 6, 1978 • 8PM
MacArthur Court
UO Students $5.50/$5.00/$4.00
Tickets available at the EMU Main
Desk,"Sun Shop and Everybody's Records
Produced toy Concerts West
illustrate the forms of political and
economic systems combined at
the University.
The symposium was coordi
nated by William Mitchell, political
science professor. All lectures
and debates will be presented by
staff members from the political
science, economics, philosophy
and sociology departments.
All sessions of the symposium
will be held at 3:30 p.m. in 101
Gilbert Hall, with the exception of
the Tuesday sessions, which will
be held in 102 Gilbert.
The first session, “American Poli
tics: Elitist and Marxian Perspec
tives,’’ will feature a discussion
today between Sociology Prof.
Albert Szymanski and Harman
Zeigler, political science profes
sor.
The second topic of the sym
posium, “Elections and Voting:
Recent Work,” will be presented
by Kenneth Poole, political sci
ence assistant professor, and
Economics Prof. Paul Simpson,
Tuesday.
Wednesday, Philosophy Prof.
Cheyney Ryan will present a lec
ture on ‘‘Invisible Hands.’’
Economics Prof. Robert Smith
and Tom Thompson, assistant
political science professor, will
discuss aspects of the “Political
Economy of the Multi-Nationals”
Thursday.
The topic of the fifth session,
"Democratic Theory and Public
Choice,” will be presented by
John Orbell. political science de
partment head and Asst. Prof. W.
Parkes Riley Friday.
Tuesday, May 30, Economics
Prof. Barry Siegel will give a lec
ture on "Planning and Politics:
Marriage or Divorce.”
The last of the symposium ses
sions will be a discussion on
“Political Economy and Public
Administration” presented by
political science professors Judith
Merkle and Lawrence Pierce
Wednesday May 31.
Secretaries people too
‘‘Secretaries are People, Too’’
will be the topic of Tuesday’s
YWCA-sponsored Women
Speak brown bag lunch series.
Starting at noon in the EMU,
room to be posted, a panel of four
secretaries will speak. Panelists
will be Anne Kelsey of Koinonia
Center, Bev Murrow of the Uni
versity Fine Arts Department,
Joanie Coots of the Univesity re
creation department and Helen
Hemmingsen of the University
YWCA.
The discussion is free and open
to all.
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