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Six Perms! Perms! Perms! We’re Having A Special For You! $19.95 Written Guarantee. expires Oct. 13, 1964 Includes Haircuts. Styling & Written Gu vo trnuMMhM W 11th Santa Clara Fred Meyer Center Fred Meyer Center 345-2592 688-5123 Open: Mon - Wad 9-8; Thurs 99; Frt 9 Sat 98; Sunday 12-5 -I Institute celebrates anniversary By Michael Doke Of the Emerald It’s been 25 years since the Institute of Molecular Biology was founded at the University, and this weekend the occasion will be marked with an anniversary celebration. Today and Saturday Oregon Gov. Vic Atiyeh and four Nobel Prize winners will be on hand to recognize the achievements of the institute. The event will include a tribute to the contributions of its founding director, Aaron Novick, former biology head at the University who is retiring in December. The late University biologist George Streisinger, who died in August, will also be honored there. Attending the celebration will be James Wat son and Alfred Hershey, both Nobel Prize win ners from Harvard University’s Cold Spring Har bor Laboratory in Long Island, New York. Fran cois Jacob, a Nobel laureate at the Pasteur In stitute in Paris, and Linus Pauling, an Oregon native who received a Nobel Prize in both chemistry and peace, also will be present. Seymour Benzer, a Cal Tech biologist, will give the first George Streisinger Memorial Lecture at 3:30 p.m. today in Room 150 Geology. Benzer will speak on “Genes, Neurons and Behavior in Drosophila.’* A day-long symposium will be held Saturday at the Soreng Theatre in the Hult Center for the Performing Arts. Atiyeh and Richard Hersh, vice president for research at the University, will give opening remarks at 9:30 a.m. Watson and Her shey will introduce the speakers. Jacob’s lecture is entitled “On Human Diver sity," and Gunther Stent, a University of Califor nia, Berkeley molecular biologist, will discuss "Uniqueness in the Creations of Art and Science.” Pauling will discuss molecular structure and molecular biology at 2:30 p.m. Following Pauling’s talk, Mark Ptashne of Harvard University will speak on how regulatory proteins turn genes on or off. Another Harvard biologist, Matthew Meselson, will conclude the session with a talk entitled “Yellow Rain: Chemical Warfare or Natural Phenomenon?” The events are free and open to the public. The University’s Institute of Molecular Biology was established Jan. 1, 1959, to foster research on the nucleic acids and proteins basic to all living organisms and to train students in research techniques. Institute research has con tributed basic knowledge in such areas as clon ing, the structure and functioning of the DNA double helix and genetic enginnering. Four of the institute’s 16 faculty members have been elected as members of the National Academy of Sciences. et aL THERE WILL BE A TWO-DAY BLOOD DRAWING in Room 167 of the EMU on Tuesday and Wednesday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Students are encouraged to take advantage of this convenient A student bites a teacher. The school psychologist goes berserk. The substitute teacher is a certified lunatic. And students graduate who can’t read or write. It’s Monday morning at JFK High. TEACHERS United Artists Prams An AARON RUSSO Production An ARTHUR HILLER Film sum* NICK NOLTE • JOBETH WILLIAMS JUDD HIRSCH • RALPH MACCHIO “TEACHERS” ALLEN GARFIELD w* LEE GRANT «i RICHARD MULLIGAN Written by W.R. McKINNEY Product™ Deupsed by RICHARD MCDONALD Director of Photography DAVID M. WALSH r Eiecuwe Producer IRWIN RUSSO Produced by AARON RUSSO Directed By ARTHUR HILLER SOtMtmtAOL AVAILABLE ON OA* HCOUSANDCASTnU of ZZ TOP BOB SEGER JOE COCKER NIGHT RANGER .38 SPECIAL THE MOTELS FREDDIE MERCURY IAN HUNTER ROMAN HOLLIDAY ERIC MARTIN Me FRIENDS STARTS OCTOBER 5th AT THEATRES EVERYWHERE way to donate blood on campus. LOS ANGELES Entries for the WRITERS OF THE FUTURE con test a quarterly contest for original works by new and amateur writers of science fiction short stories and novelettes will be ac cepted now through Dec. 31. For contest rules send a self addressed stamped envelope to: Writers’ Award Contest. 2210 Wilshire Blvd. 343, Santa Monica, Calif. 90403. THE INTERNATIONAL TRADE ADMINISTRATION of fers undergraduates and graduate students majoring in trade-related fields the opportunity to obtain paid, hands-on experience in their field through the co-op Education Program. Students rotate between full- or part-time work and full-time study. Co-op employees may be offered employment with ITA following completion of their academic and work-experience requirements. To be eligible for the program, students must be U.S. citizens, have completed 90 quarter hours, and have at least a 3.0 GPA. Ap plicants from the University are due in Washington, D.C. by Oct. 17. For more information, contac International Studies Program. 837 PLC at 686-5051, or Gerald Fry, 919 PLC at 686-4867. THE UNIVERSITY CYCLING TEAM will be starting organized club rides. All cycling enthusiasts are encouraged to attend. The first ride will be Sunday following an 11 a.m. meeting at 13th and University St. in front of Geology. OSPIRG IS HOLDING A LOCAL CHAPTER MEETING to day at 12:30 in EMU Century Room D. The meeting is open to the public. STUDENT CAMPAIGN FOR DISARMAMENT invites all students interested in working for arms control and peace to our first meeting Monday at 5 p.m. in Room 108 EMU. Bring ideas, friends and energy! ALPHA KAPPA PSI MEMBERS — Be at the Founder's Day pizza party tonight at 5:30 p.m. at Old Town Pizza Co. of Eugene at 174 E. Broadway. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: If you are interested in being part of a non-partisan effort to elect a woman to the five-man board of county commissioners, please at tend a meeting at 1555 Oak St. at 11 a.m. on Saturday, or call Erik at 345-3186. HARD TIMES LUNCH RETURNS. Authentic Latin food menu for only $2. Com em panadas, tomato salad, pucheo (meat or vegetable extra) dessert, baked goods and coffee. Served at 1236 Kincaid Street next to the University Bookstore.