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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, December 12, 1967
Illinois prof to speak on international relations
Charles E. Osgood, professor of psychology and research professor in communications at the University of Illinois, will deliver the third in a series of social science lectures at KU Thursday at 8 p.m. in the Kansas Union Forum Room.
Osgood will discuss "The Semantics of International Relations" as part of the series funded primarily by the Sperry and Hutchinson Foundation.
Osgood received the Ph.D. degree from Yale in 1945, and is a past president of the American Psychological Association. In 1960 he received that Association's award for "Distinguished Contribution to the Science of Psychology" for his research into the nature and measurement of meaning. He has been a fellow with the Social Science Research Council, a Guggenheim fellow and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
Psycholinguistics and the psychology of international relations are Osgood's major interests. He is the author of "Method and Theory in Experimental Psychology," "The Measurement of Meaning," "An Alternative to War or Surrender," and "Perspective in Foreign Policy." He has served as a consultant to the Air Force, the Navy and the arms Control and Disarmament Agency.
A benefit dance and light show will be held tonight for Donald Olson a KU graduate critically injured in an automobile accident Dec. 2.
Olson still critical; benefit tonight
The dance, to be held at Wesley Foundation beginning at 8 p.m., features three rock bands: The Gothic Lamb, In Black And White, and The Burlington Express.
Admission is one dollar but "people can donate more if they want," said Steve Nelson, a friend of Olson's and a Lawrence resident. "We want to collect as much as we can get for Don."
Money to pay bills
The money will be used to pay Olson's medical bills. If there is any left over, Nelson said, it may
be used to help Olson buy a new printing press.
No established organization is sponsoring the dance, Nelson said. Rather, it is an effort of several of Olson's friends.
Olson is now in the intensive care unit of the KU Medical Center after spending several days at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. The Medical Center said Olson was still listed as critical Monday evening.
Olson suffered "severe" head injuries in the accident, as well as chest injuries.
He has not yet regained consciousness, a doctor said.
A tracheostomy has been performed so he can breathe. He also has to be fed intravenously
and rests on a cooling blanket, similar to an electric blanket, to hold his temperature down.
A neurosurgeon at the Medical Center said Olson was showing "very slow improvement. He opened his eyes and squeezed his wife's hand the other day," the doctor said—adding that Olson was "probably not fully conscious" at the time.
This semester Olson had been the business manager of "The Screw," KU's underground newspaper, handling advertising, printing and distribution.
Olson's accident occurred Saturday, Dec. 2, when he lost control of his car on a snow-covered K-10 highway east of Eudora and hit a tree.
Economist will lecture
The President of Consad Research Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pa., will be the third speaker today in a colloquium on urban and regional simulation sponsored by the Center for Regional Studies at KU.
W. A. Steger will speak on "Urban Simulation: Taking Stock of the Recent Past" at 3:30 p.m. in 304 Summerfield Hall.
Steger, an adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh, holds a degree in economics from Harvard University.
The first two speakers in the series were Julian Wolpert, associate professor in the department of regional science at the University of Pennsylvania, and John Harbaugh, professor of geology at Stanford University.
MCI featured in series inauguration
Clarence Kivett, partner in a Kansas City architectural firm, will inaugurate the KU department of Architecture's Alumni Visiting Lecturers series at 3 p.m. Wednesday in the Kansas Union Big Eight Room.
Kivett, a fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a 1928 KU graduate, will discuss
R. Bruce Patty, a member of KU's 1958 architecture class, will assist in the presentation.
Kansas City's Mid-Continent International airport, illustrating with the model his firm prepared. He also will point out design features of the future Jackson County 5 sports Complex.
French club presents Noel tonight
the annual French Noel, a Christmas festival in music, poetry folklore and art, will be presented at 7:30 p.m. today in the Kansas Union Kansas Room.
The Noel, sponsored by Le Cercle Francais and the French department, is designed to give an idea of how the French people celebrate Christmas. The celebration is open to anyone with an interest in France, said Miss Mattie Crumrine, associate professor of French.
Several students will sing solos, duets or trios. A 20-member chorus, directed by Mary Gail Pifer, assistant instructor in French, will sing traditional carols. Eight of the faculty's children will sing the French version of "Jingle Bells."
Scriptures and poetry will be read in French, and one French student's original art will be exhibited. Every year the department displays its "santons," or figurines of the nativity scene, which students and faculty members brought back from Southern France.
presents
CLASSICAL FILM SERIES
THE GOOD SOLDIER SCHWEIK (Germany, 1961)
60c
Heinz Ruhmann
Dyche Auditorium
7:00 and 9:00 p.m.—Wednesday
The hilarious misadventures of a bumbling character who makes the mistake of saying what he thinks during war-time. Starring the delightful "Teutonic W. C. Fields" Heinz Rubin
The University Theatre EXPERIMENTAL SERIES
presents
Experimental Theatre Murphy Hall, 8:20 p.m. Dec.13-19 Jan.4-6