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600 Students Expected for German Day

Come Thursday, March 20, Deutsch will be the language of the day on campus as some 600 high school students, all of whom have studied Ger- man for two or more years, gather for the celebration of the Fifth Annual German Day at WU. Representing some 25 secondary schools in the Greater St. Louis Metro- politan Area, they will be the guests of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures.

After assembling in Graham Chapel at 8:30 a.m. for a brief organ recital, the students will move on to Mallinckrodt Center for a morning's program which will include the performance of a German play in the Drama Studio, instruction in German culture, and an old-fashioned declamation contest com- plete with prizes supplied by the German consulate and the

Goethe Institute, both in Chi- cago.

June C. Mueller, WU Ger- man language coordinator, is in charge of German Day activities; Bernhard P. Zim- mermann, associate profes- sor of German, is the adviser for the play production.

Under his supervision, Rebecca Kettler, WU gradu- ate student, is serving as direc- tor of Die Physiker, by the contemporary German play- wright Friedrich Duerren- matt. Antonia Holdegel, an exchange student from the University of Berlin, is assist- ing her. The play, set in a modern mental asylum, is done in German dialogue interspersed with brief English summaries. The cast, mem- bers of a WU class studying German plays, will enact the "tragic-comedy" concerned with the moral dilemma of the scientist. It will be presented to the public Friday and Saturday, March 21 and 22, at 8 p.m. in the Drama Studio.

In preparation for the declamation contest, the high

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CSAS Sponsors Symposium On Universities in Transition

The Council of Students of Arts and Sciences will present a symposium on "The American University in a Period of Transition" Wednesday through Sunday, March 19 to 23. All events are open to the public and most are free.

Burton Wheeler, WU professor of English and religious studies and former dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, will be the keynote speaker at the symposium. He will speak at 11 a.m. Wednesday in Graham Chapel on the topic, "The Future of American Universities."

WU faculty members and administrators will elaborate on the symposium's theme in three panel discussions, all in the Ann Whitney Olin Women's Building Lounge. The first, "Uni- versity Resources and Constraints in the Coming Decade," will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday. Discussants will be Alan Bur- stein, associate professor of sociology; Robert Blackburn, director of community and government relations; David Kirk, acting dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; and Peter Ruger, general legal counsel for the University.

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David Levy, field director of the student volunteer Emergency Support Team, and Terry Chazan, president of the team, examine some new life support equipment recently added to the team's emergency vehicle. (Photo by Peter Zimmerman)

Team's Actions in Crucial Minutes Provide Emergency Care for Campus

In just its first week of operation, the campus's new all-stu- dent volunteer Emergency Support Team responded to five calls—minor injuries like twisted ankles, to be sure—but enough to convince the group that they are filling a real need.

The purpose of the Emergency Support Team is to provide first aid during the sometimes crucial minutes after an accident or injury occurs and before an ambulance arrives on the scene. Emergency calls to the Campus Police Department are relayed to team members, two of whom are on call around the clock. The on-call pair always includes an Emergency Medical Tech- nician (EMT), who is registered in Missouri to handle frac- tures, airway obstructions and cardiac arrest, and a student certified in Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and Stand- ard First Aid. Members arrive at the scene in an emergency vehicle equipped with oxygen tanks and masks, neck collars, blankets and other first aid supplies.

On-the-spot emergency medical care is essential, said Harry Freeman, WU freshman and registered EMT in Missouri. "I was in an ambulance corps for three years in New York, and I heard horror stories about injured people who experienced severe problems because no one knew immediately what to do for them. I am continuing this type of work with the hope of preventing such situations from occurring."

"Many of the students on the team have medical careers in mind," said Denise Damon, a freshman team member who is studying to become an EMT. "Being a member of the team is a way to find out more about the field. There is also the later possibility of working in an ambulance corps."

The emergency medical team was developed by Terry Chazan, a senior in the human services program. Last year, she began a comparative study of emergency care programs at several universities. She discovered that the State University of New York, Binghamton, had a student-run volunteer

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Rats launched last year in the Soviet biosatellite Cosmos 1129 were held in in- dividual cylindrical cages, each with its own light, food, water, air circulation and waste management systems. The animals ate a special paste diet four times a day.

WU Trio Joins Soviets, NASA On Bone Growth Study in Space

When the next astronauts blast into space, the effects of prolonged weightlessness and cosmic radiation on their bodies will be better understood by scientists than ever before.

The effects of these phenomena on animals were recently studied in a joint Soviet-American project which included an experiment by a team at the WU School of Dental Medicine headed by David J. Simmons, research associate professor of orthopedic surgery and adjunct associate professor of dentistry.

Simmons knew that temporary loss of calcium and skeletal bone mass had been documented among astronauts. He wondered whether non-weight-bearing bones, such as the jaw, would suffer the same losses.

Last summer he traveled to Moscow with officials from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to arrange a study of jawbones of some three dozen rats destined for a spaceflight aboard the Soviet Union biosatellite Cosmos 1129. The satellite was launched successfully in late September from a remote site in Siberia and parachuted to earth after 19 days in orbit. A month later, samples of the jawbones were shipped to Simmons and his associates on the project, Frank H. Winter, professor of physiology, and Jean Russell-Childers, research associate, both in the Department of Biomedical Science at the WU School of Dental Medicine.

Other researchers in the U.S. and the Soviet Union received different parts of the space rats for studies of the thighbone, liver, nasal lining, spine—"everything except the squeak," noted Simmons.

Although analysis is still under way, a preliminary report by Simmons' team shows that in space, growth in the rat jaw- bones effectively stopped, but the formation of dentin, the pro- tein-rich portion of the teeth, continued as normal. Simmons offered one possible explanation. "A rat is constantly gnashing its teeth, even when it's not eating. In terms of biting, the teeth probably remained more functional during weightlessness than other parts of the skeleton."

Next month the WU researchers will look at jawbone sam- ples from rats allowed to recover from their space orbit for a 25-day period. (The first group was killed immediately after- ward for analysis.) The team will determine whether normal bone growth began again.

Simmons will present a paper on his research in July at a meeting of the International Physiological Society in Buda- pest, Hungary. He hopes to participate in a similar Soviet- American space project involving Rhesus monkeys, tentatively scheduled for 1982. Cosmos 1129 was the fifth and final mis- sion in a series of unmanned satellite spaceflights launched by the Soviet Union in cooperation with the U.S. jni Murray

Legal and Business Specialists Discuss China at Law Conference

The WU School of Law will present a conference entitled "Doing Business with China," on Friday, March 14. The con- ference, organized by William C. Jones, WU professor of law, will run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Mudd Hall. A representative of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China will attend.

The panelists and their topics are William W. Clark, of Baker World Trade Inc., Houston, Tex., "The Current Busi- ness Climate in China"; Gene T. Hsiao, professor of govern- ment, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, "The Trade Agreements Between China and the United States"; Thomas W. Huang, a lawyer from Boston, Mass., "Joint Ventures, Prospects and Problems"; Victor Li, Lewis Talbot and Nadine Hearn Shelton Professor of International Legal Studies, Stan- ford University, "The New Legalism in China"; and Gregory G. Tallas, vice president and head of the China Group, World- Wide Banking Department of the First National Bank of Chicago, "Recent Developments in Chinese Trade from a Banker's Perspective."

The School has organized this conference to acquaint lawyers and businessmen who are considering doing business with China with current Chinese law.

The fee of $100 includes materials, lunch and cocktails. For more information, call Jones at Ext. 6444, or Assistant Dean Steven Korenblat at Ext. 6430.

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"Competing Conceptions of Knowledge and Learning," the second panel topic, will be discussed on Thursday, beginning at 1 p.m. Panelists will be Jane Anton, assistant professor of counseling psychology; William Caspary, associate professor of political science; Richard deCharms, professor of education; Leonard Green, assistant professor of psychology; and Ed- ward McClennen, associate professor of philosophy.

Robert Boguslaw, professor of sociology, will lead the dis- cussion of "The Social Mission of the American University" at 1 p.m. Friday. Others on the panel will be Ann DiStefano, assistant professor of education; Evelyn Hu-DeHart, assistant professor of history; Gary Tobin, assistant professor of urban studies; and H. Boulter Kelsey, Jr., assistant dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

David Hadas, associate professor of English, and Nelson Wu, Mallinckrodt Distinguished Professor of History of Art and Chinese Culture, will discuss "The Unexplored Half of a University Education" at 8 p.m. Wed. in Lee Dormitory.

Several informal discussions will be held throughout the symposium. The first, at noon on Thursday in the Gargoyle Coffeehouse, will include an inexpensive lunch and is spon- sored by the In-town Students Association. Others will be held at 9 p.m. Thursday in Mallinckrodt Gallery; and at 2 p.m. Sun- day in the Gargoyle Coffeehouse. The latter gathering will include lunch. The Council will also sponsor a party at 3 p.m. Friday in Bowles Plaza.

WU Swimmers Are AIAW Regional Champs The WU Women's Swim

Team won the Division III, Region 6 Association of In- tercollegiate Athletics for Women Swimming and Div- ing championships last week- end in Vermillion, S. Dak. The WU team led the scoring with 379 points, followed by Grinnell College with 342 and Carlton College with 294.

Fran McDonald, a sopho- more, and Lorraine Ross, a

freshman, led the team to vic- tory. McDonald placed first in the 200 meter butterfly and second in the 400 and 1500 meter free style and in the 400 meter individual medley. Ross placed first in the 100 meter individual medley and second in the 200 meter individual medley and freestyle.

The WU relay teams took first in the 200, 400, and 800 meter free style races.

WU graduate art students Ann Raynsford and John Bjerklie, who organized the "Paper as Art, Art as Paper" exhibit currently on display in Bixby Gallery, admire a work of art by WU alumna Leila Daw (MFA '74), who now teaches at SIU-Edwardsville. (Photo by Herb Weitman)

WU College Bowl Team Beats Harvard and MIT The WU College Bowl team day, June 25, will earn the

scored a stunning upset in competition at Marshall Uni- versity, Huntington, W.Va., over the weekend and emerged as champions of Di- vision I of the national Col- lege Bowl tournament.

In the 16-team competi- tion, the WU team made a clean sweep of its four matches as it soundly trounced the heavily favored Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) teams.

Honored for its outstand- ing performance at a banquet Monday night in Hunting- ton, the WU players accepted a $1500 scholarship awarded by the College Bowl Founda- tion. The WU College Bowl team, composed of Captain Mitch Goldman, Vic Chand- hok, Craig Leff, Kurt Wol- lenberg and alternate Sally Fleming, was jubilant as it headed back to WU with Coach Barry Bergey.

Sometime in April, the WU College Bowl team, as cham- pions of Division I, will meet the victor of regional matches still in progress which will de- termine the champion of Di- vision II. The winner of this final competition, which will be broadcast over CBS radio station KMOX-FM (103 on the dial) at 9:30 a.m. Sun-

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coveted title of national Col- lege Bowl champion. CBS sponsored portions of the tournament. Should WU tri- umph in this crucial tourna- ment, it might be invited to compete for the World Col- lege Bowl championships.

At Huntington, the WU College Bowl team, which adopted the nickname the "Vigilant Volvox" after an alga which has two cell types that work well together, first downed the University of Georgia, 265-150.It then eliminated Harvard Univer- sity 330-195, beat the Univer- sity of North Carolina team from Chapel Hill by a score of 320-275 and won the Divi- sion I championship by crush- ing MIT 390-185.

Individual games in the College Bowl competition are aired each Sunday morning at 9:30 a.m. over KMOX-FM.

Republicans Will Hold Public Hearings at WU

The Republican National Preliminary Platform Com- mittee will hold public hear- ings on the Washington Uni- versity campus March 21.

The public will be invited to appear before the Committee to make recommendations on national and international is- sues. The hearings will be con- ducted in the Mudd Court- room at the School of Law.

The Platform Committee will hear testimony during three sessions: 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m.; 2 p.m.-5:30 p.m.; and 7:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.

Avant-garde Sculptor Speaks About His Work in Firebrick

The eclectic series of Visiting Artist Lectures sponsored by the WU School of Fine Arts this semester continues March 19 with a talk by sculptor John Mason, often described as "a post- modernist sculptor." His illustrated talk on his work will begin at 8 p.m. in Steinberg Auditorium.

Mason was the subject of a major article in Art in America last year which analyzed an exhibition of his work, John Mason Installations from the Hudson River Series, organized by the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, N.Y. The exhibition con- sisted of 10 different environmental works installed at two- week intervals over a period of three months and designed for specific spaces in ten different museums. The full series, as it has been projected through Mason's drawings, consists of 12 works. Numbers I and XII have not been executed.

In the article, Rosalind Krauss, who prepared the cata- logue for the Hudson River sequence, observed that Mason's separate but interrelated sculptures for this show "all exist as floor-bound aggregates of firebrick, spreading over and claim- ing large—in some cases, vast—areas of ground." She added, "The experience they offer is both systematic and sensuous, at once highly rational and elusively eccentric."

This show was the culmination of the development of Mason from a ceramist to an artist preoccupied with the "logi- cal orientation of brick to floor." In making this transition, Mason is often said to have moved from Abstract-Expression- ism through Minimalism to an "environmental phase."

Mason is a California artist identified with what Los Angeles critic and editor of Artweek Sandy Ballatore has char- acterized as "Southern California Formal" as distinguished from "San Francisco Funk." Mason's guru was Peter Voul- kos, the acknowledged progenitor of California ceramists, with whom Mason worked at the Otis Art Institute, first as a stu- dent, and then as a peer. The pair set up a joint studio in 1957.

Mason has taught on both coasts—for a long period at the University of California, Irvine, and more recently at Hunter College in New York. He has received many honors, including the Ford Foundation Award at the 67th American Exhibition of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1964.

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ambulance group, and their program became the model for the WU team. "Our ultimate goal is to organize a student-run volunteer ambulance service for the campus and the South-40," she said.

Helping to make the emergency support team a reality were a number of WU administrators. Norman Schneider, director of the WU Police Department, agreed to transmit emergency calls received by the campus police to the team, and Joe Evans, associate vice chancellor for Business Affairs, acquired fund- ing. Mary L. Parker, MD, director of the University Health Service, provides medical supplies and offers courses in CPR. Specialists from the Health Service also give lectures and demonstrate techniques to the group.

Those interested in participating should call Terry Chazan at 727-3627 or David Levy at 863-2546. Denise M. Woltering

Tyson Offers Tours in March and in May

The Tyson Research Cen- ter in Eureka, Mo., will offer tours of the facility to mem- bers of the WU community and their families Saturday, March 29, and Saturday, May 3. Hosted by Richard Coles, director of the Center, the tours will begin at 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. each day, and

last for approximately two and one-half hours. The tours are held to acquaint the Uni- versity community with the Center, which is not usually open to the public. Tour groups will be limited to 25 people. To reserve a place, call 938-5346 on Mondays, Wednesdays or Fridays.

Calendar March 7-20 FRIDAY, MARCH 7 9 a.m. School of Dental Medicine 114th Annual Dental Alumni Association Meeting. Marriott's Pavilion Hotel, #1 South Broadway. Registration at the door. For more information, call 454-0387. (Also Sat., March 8.) 12:30 p.m. WU Woman's Club Health Food Mini-Lunch, "Health Foods Can Be Dangerous to Your Health," Walter H. Lewis, WU prof, of biology and senior botanist, Mo. Botanical Gardens. Stix International House. Reservations may be made by calling 894-2655 or 863-5646.

SUNDAY, MARCH 9 4 p.m. Olin Library Dedication and Reception. The Whitney Robson Harris Collection on the Third Reich, 1933-45, a collection of some 200 volumes as well as a transcript of the Nuremberg Trials, will be dedicated. Reception sponsored by the WU Women's Society. Olin Library, level four.

MONDAY, MARCH 10 12:45 p.m. Society of Professors Emeriti of WU Luncheon. "What is WU Doing in Space Research?" Robert Walker, McDonnell Professor of Physics and director of the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences. Whittemore House. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12 4 p.m. Department of Physics Colloquium, "Proton Decay and the Baryon Number of the Universe," Edward Kolb, dept. of physics and astronomy, Kellogg Radiation Laboratory, Calif. Inst. of Technology. 201 Crow. Coffee will be served at 3:30 p.m.

MONDAY, MARCH 17 2 p.m. Department of Chemical Engineering Seminar, "Wavelike Dissolution Patterns," T. J. Hanratty, prof, of chemical engineering, U. of Illinois- Urbana. 100 Cupples II.

TUESDAY, MARCH 18 12 noon. Biomedical Engineering Program Seminar, "Development of the Umbilical Vein Biograft," Steven Weinberg, director of research, Meadox Medicals, Oakland, N.J. 305 Bryan. 3 p.m. George Warren Brown School of Social Work Colloquium, "Promoting the Services of a Social Work

Agency," Earl Rosen, director of publications, Jewish Community Centers Assn., St. Louis. Brown Hall Lounge. 7:30 p.m. Hillel Lecture, "The Politics Behind the Draft: From Apathy to Activism," Daniel Elazar, prof., Temple U., Philadelphia, Pa., and author of Community and Polity. Hillel House, 6300 Forsyth.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19 11 a.m. WU Council of Students of Arts and Sciences Symposium Keynote Address, "The Future of American Universities," Burton Wheeler, WU prof, of English and religious studies. Graham Chapel. 4 p.m. Campus Y and P.O.C.A. Panel, "A Question of Conscience," a discussion on conscientious objection. Panelists will be Yvonne Logan, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; Bob Rankin, a former CO; Peter Theodore, Society of Friends; and Father Jay Alberg, St. Louis U. Lambert Lounge, Mallinckrodt. 8 p.m School of Fine Arts Lecture. John Mason, sculptor and ceramicist, will give an illustrated lecture on his work. Steinberg Auditorium.

THURSDAY, MARCH 20 8:30 a.m. Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures German Day for area high school students. The program will include an organ concert, a declamation contest and two performances of Friedrich Duerrenmatt's "Die Physiker." Graham Chapel and Drama Studio, Mallinckrodt. 4 p.m. Center for the Study of Public Affairs "Public Affairs Thursday" Series, "The Decline of Collective Responsibility in America," Morris Fiorina, WU visiting scholar on leave from the Dept. of Political Science, California Inst. of Technology. Lambert Lounge, Mallinckrodt. 8 p.m. Department of English Reading. Edwin Brock, author of numerous volumes of poetry, among them, The River and the Train, will read from his work. Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall.

Exhibitions "Thomas Alva Edison: 'Wizard of Menlo Park.' " Olin Library, level three. 8 a.m.-12 midnight, Mon-Thurs.; 8 a.m.-8 p.m., Fri.; 9 a.m.-6 p.m., Sat.; and 11 a.m.- 12 midnight, Sun. Through March 31.

"Paper as Art, Art as Paper." Bixby Gallery. 10 a.m.-12 noon and 1-4 p.m., weekdays. Through March 21. "Early Medical Photography, 1839-1900."Medical Library entrance cases, 615 S. Taylor. 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., weekdays. Through March 31.

"Monuments in 18th- and 19th- century Otology." Medical Library Annex, 615 S. Taylor. 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., weekdays. Through March 31.

"The Knowledge of Natural Things." Rare Books and Special Collections, fifth floor, Olin Library. 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., weekdays. Through April 11.

Music WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19 12:15 p.m. Department of Music Student Recital, with performances by several students. Graham Chapel.

THURSDAY, MARCH 20 8 p.m. Department of Music Faculty Voice Recital with Edmund LeRoy, baritone soloist. Graham Chapel.

Films MONDAY, MARCH 17 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Historical Cinema Series, Great Expectations. Brown. $1.25. (Also Tues., March 18, same times, Brown.)

TUESDAY, MARCH 18 4 p.m. Department of Art and Archaeology Film, Michelangelo, the Last Giant. Steinberg Auditorium.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19 7:30 and 9:45 p.m. WU Filmboard Series, Mr. Klein. Brown. $1.75. (Also Thurs., March 20, same times, Brown.)

Walker Named to Space Board Robert M. Walker, WU

professor of physics and di- rector of the McDonnell Center for Space Sciences, has been appointed to the Space Science Board, a committee of the National Academy of Sci- ences. Board members are re- sponsible for advising NASA on the space program. For the past three years, Walker has served on a subcommittee of the Space Science Board called COMPLEX, the Com- mittee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration.

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school students planning to attend German Day here have been provided with the texts of three German poems. Each school will be represented by a student who will give a dramatic reading of one of these texts. The best orators will be selected by a panel of impartial judges. The winners will receive appropriate German books.

For more information on these festivities, call Zimmer- mann at Ext 5135 or Mueller at Ext. 5163.

Sigma Xi Seeks Nominees The WU Chapter of Sigma

Xi, the national honorary so- ciety for science, is accepting nominations for new mem- bers through March 31. Candidates for full member- ship are new faculty mem- bers, postdoctoral and re- search associates, PhD candi- dates and associate members who have demonstrated through published research their eligibility for election to full membership. Senior level undergraduates in honors programs who expect to graduate in the spring are candidates for associate mem- bership. Nomination forms are available from Sigma Xi secretary John K. Gohagan, WU professor of technology and human affairs, Box 1106.

Law Team Places Third The trial court team in the

WU School of Law placed third among 24 teams in the recent Midwest Regional Trial Court Competition in Chicago, 111. Its record was 7 wins and 2 losses. The WU team lost to Loyola Univer- sity of Chicago in the finals.

Student members of the team included Kathy DeWos- kin, David Harris, Tim Thorn- ton, Ken Vuylsteke and Brad Winters. The team's "coach" was Ron Carlson, WU profes- sor of law.

Correction An item about Social

Security exemptions on sick pay in last week's WU Record, should have noted that checks of employees on the monthly payroll will reflect sick leave credit for the pre- vious month.