Spectrum, 1961-05-11

              the university of buffalo spectrum photos by fudold see page ll how floats are made see page 12 no ar^y thursday may 11 1961 volume 11 diamond to give last slee lecture of the semester david diamond visiting slee omposer at the university of iiuffalo will give the last in his ries of lecture-recitals entitled rieethoven and the 20th century ii butler auditorium tuesday at 10 the puhlic is cordially in ited to attend admission is free mr diamond has invited jose haniz the brilliant pianist to erform at this recital he will may beethoven's sonata opus 111 nd diamond's sonata 1947 although trained by his father and other prominent musicians in cuba it was his mother who encouraged echaniz to make his new york debut he was 15 years old when he made his debut at aeolian hall with outstanding success since then he has had an interesting career as a concert pianist giving recitals throughout the united states cuba and eu rope but the career of a piano virtu oso was not enough for jose echa iiz in his own words i believe that every instrumental soloist should be a cultivated musician and the more varied his activities he more rounded the musical ex perience which reflects in the performance on the artist's major instrument this is why i teach md conduct whenever the oppor unity presents itself but my first md greatest love my main inter est is the piano glazier gets fulbright lectureship to teach in turkey next year dr lyle glazier associate pro fessor of english and head of the american studies department has een awarded a fulbright lecture ship to turkey dr glazier is the first amer ican to hold a fullbright lec tureship in american literature in turkey american literature has seldom been taught there and until now only by turk ish and british lecturers the university of istanbul hopes to develop courses in amer ican literature to the point where it can grant a degree in this field and establish a chair to be filled by an american scholar mrs glazier an english teacher in hamburg high school plans to each part time in a turkish sec indary school since 1952 dr glazier has been director of the university of buf falo's interdepartmental program n american studies he has cre ated courses in american immi grant literature american negro literature literature of american democracy the significance of the frontier in american literature american borrowings from eng lish literature and two seminars in problems of american civiliza tion and the fine arts in america dr glazier has taught at the university of buffalo since the fall of 1947 coming here after two and a half years of teaching freshman english at harvard and radcliffe first appointed as assistant profes sor of english he was pro moted to associate professor in 1952 he has a.b and a.m degrees from middlebury col lege and a ph.d from harvard university in 1951-52 dr glazier was a faculty fellow of the american council of learned societies last year he was elected a charter member of the university of buf falo's chapter of phi eta sigma national honorary fraternity he is faculty advisor for the university's literary magazine manuscripts astronomy course to be offered for the first time next year the physics department in con unction with university college announced this week that begin ning next semester ub will offer i course in elementary astronomy the course which describes the heavenly bodies and ex plains their apparent motions will satisfy the university college science requirement for non-science majors it will be worth three credit hours and will include a three hour lab malcolm e hults instructor in physics said that the astronomy ab will be different from the bas ic physics labs a variety of mat ters will be covered in the three hour period there will be ob servations of the heavens and irawlngs of the heavens as well as the experiments relative to the course university college holds that all students whatever their objec tives need some course work in certain fields in order to provide a liberal background the col lege wants to introduce more courses in all areas and intro duced astronomy to attract more students several years ago the uni versity offered a course in the study of the heavens but it was not offered regularly with today's advances in science and the recent feats of the united states and russia relative to space travel it is obvious that the course will not only prove in teresting but also beneficial spring weekend queen miss linda benson my fair lady linda won the votes of the student body and the approval of the judges and becomes our fair lady linda is a sister of theta chi chancellor furnas discusses tuition state merger dorms by kathleen shea chancellor furnas tuesday save the students straight-from-the shoulder answers to many ques tions that have been plaguing them since the first reports of i ll's negotiations toward becom ing a state university he spoke at tlie second convocation hour held this year the chief concern of the stu dents as evidenced by their ques tions following the chancellor's address was on practical matters it was stated for instance that although the agreement to merge will probably he signed sometime this fall tuition rates will remain the same during the 1961-62 aca demic year undergraduate rates will de crease to a possible low of 300 a year for the school year 62-63 after our formal merger as a state university on july 1 1961 in response to a query about the applica bility of gov rockefeller's student aid program for this coming year chancellor fur nas said that there is no rea son for it not to apply and that it may even apply after ub becomes a state university depending on the final tuition rates however the grants will not apply until february 1962 another concern among stu dents is the current ruling of the state university board that no state university may have national social fraternities or sororities chancellor furnas indicated his willingness to represent the stu dent interests through the inter chancellor furnas answers some questions on the future floats queen dance for spring weekend it was announced yesterday that miss linda benson has been selected queen of spring weekend and will reign over the activities beginning with the float parade friday morning at 10 and proceeding through the annual spring dance on saturday evening unda lienson of theta chi so ority is a 19-year-old sophomore n medical technology she was in the house committee and the president committee in her fresh nan year tlie same year she was crowned homecoming queen and last se mester she served as president of ler pledge class and was on the dean's list she was also runner-up in the contest for military ball queen this year for the first time the annual spring activities on ampus are to be designated spring weekend thus conforming with the accepted collegiate traditions throughout the united states the new name replaces the old ub designation of m.u.d friday evening the brothers four will perform in a con cert to be held in the clark memorial gymnasium tick ets for the affair are 1 and the evening's program is scheduled to start at 8:30 the brother's pour were origin ally launched by a hoax moved to a collective experiment and ended up one of the big names in the recording field today one evening in october 1959 a woman called at their fraternity house and told them they were to audition for the colony club in seattle a call to the club verified suspicions of the hoax but as they were about to hang up the manager decided to take a chance and asked them to come down and audition anyway the next thursday they started work during the normal school term they play around 26 engagements at the colony from the colony it was off to the hungry i in san francisco during that run they were con tacted by dave hrubeek's man ager mort lewis who volunteer ed to manage them then it was dff to columbia records and they were launched who made the original phone call we never found out friday morning at ten o clock wilt mark the annual float parade this year the parade will weave from the tip of main street to the ub campus wjhere the parade will end and where most of the floats will be dismantled this event each year marks the ulmination of weeks of hard work and effort on the part of the sponsoring sororities and fra ternities saturday evening will mark the annual spring dance jay moran and the checkmates will furnish music from 9:30-1:30 with the ex ception of the midnight intermis sion when the annual spring weekend awards will be given nut last year's float winers in cluded sigma kappa and kappa nu with both attempting repeat performances for this year and to make matters even more in teresting this year they are com net ins against each other schedule for spring weekend tomorrow 9 to 10 am —■ judging o all floats in for mation 10 am to noon — spring weekend parade main street to university campus heview of parade lockwood memorial library judging and disassemblement of floats rotary field parking lot 8:30 pm — spring weekend concert the brothers four ( lark cym—tickets 1.00 saturday 9:30 pm to 1:j0 am — spring weekend dance no tickets will be sold at the door the checkmates presentation of awards town casino continued on page 3 no tickets tickets for the spring week end dance are all sold hut no tickets will be available at the door