Velvel to speak at Mobe meeting
Lawrence Velvel, associate professor of law, will speak at the Student Mobilization Committee meeting in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union at 7:30 p.m. tonight.
General plans for spring will be discussed, including the anti-draft week March 16-22 and the moratorium April 5.
KU-Y to run restaurant
Meals will be served for the first time on a Sunday at the Captain's Table, 1420 Crescent Road, when the KU-Y takes over the operation of the restaurant for the day.
The restaurant will be open from 11 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Sunday.
Members of the KU-Y will be serving meals, washing dishes, cooking, cleaning and doing the cashier work, said Janice Cebula, Goodland junior and a coordinator of the program. All proceeds will go to the KU-Y to finance their activities, she said.
Phi Delta Kappa meeting cancelled
A meeting of Phi Delta Kappa, professional fraternity for men in education, originally scheduled for tonight at 7:30 has been cancelled. Persons scheduled to present the program are unavailable.
Russian scientist to speak
A Russian woman scientist will be at the University of Kansas Monday to meet with University microbiologists and speak at a seminar.
Irina Tarasevich of the Gamaleya Institute of Virology in Moscow will meet with David Paretsky, chairman of the microbiology department, and his colleagues. He will lead a seminar on "Endemic Rickettsiosis" at 4 p.m. Monday in 610 Haworth Hall.
Miss Tarasevich chose to visit KU's microbiology department because of its international reputation in the field of rickettsiology.
Angel Flight officers installed
The new officers of Angel Flight, the women's auxiliary to the Arnold Air Society, were formally installed on Feb. 28.
The new officers for 1970-71 are: Sue Gauen, Evanston, Ill. junior, commander; Cyndi Artman, Hays junior, executive officer; Margie Drackert, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore, in charge of administration; Harriette Stewart, Leavenworth sophomore in charge of information; Susan Majure, Overland Park junior, comptroller; Carol Garland, Glenview, Ill., sophomore, pledge trainer; Karen Park, Oakley sophomore in charge of operations; Julie Jardes, Overland Park sophomore, rush chairman; and Linda Ireland, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore, drill team commander.
Assistant professor gets grant
Steven J. Parker, assistant professor of Slavic languages and literature, has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship for the 1970-71 academic year.
Parker, nominated last fall from the KU faculty for the national competition, was one of 80 scholars in the humanities field who were chosen for the fellowship. There were about 500 nominees from colleges and universities.
His award was in the special program for younger humanists. The awards were made to humanists who have recently received their degrees and who have not held any other major fellowship.
Parker will use the $9,500 nine-month grant, which starts Sept. 1, to continue his study of the prose writing of Vladimar Nobokov. He will do research in Paris, Berlin and Switzerland.
Theatre troop to perform
A lecture on Brazil's Black Theatre by a Brazilian director and a performance by a Brazilian theatre troop will be held at KU Monday and Tuesday.
Abdias do Nascimento, director and founder of Black Experimental Theatre of Rio de Janierio, will lecture on Brazil's Black Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Monday, in the Kansas Union Oread Room, as a part of the Luso-Brazilian Studies Colloquium Series.
The Arena Theatre of Sao Paulo will present "Arena Conta Zumbi," a musical drama of protest from Brazil, at 8:20 p.m. Tuesday in Wood-ruff Auditorium.
The play, part of the Brazilian Black Theatre, is the story of the struggle of Zumbi, a rebel slave of the 17th Century, who is remembered as one of the great heroes of Brazil. Although the play is in Portuguese, a background program in English will be provided.
Harvard professor to lecture
Eric Teicholz, professor of architecture in the Harvard Graduate School of Design, will lecture on computers and architecture at 8 p.m. March 12 in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
Engineering sessions to begin
Field and laboratory testing will be the theme for the 19th annual Mechanics and Foundations Engineering Conference organized by the University of Kansas civil engineering department,
The conference for professionals and construction personnel will be Friday in the Kansas Union Forum Room, Registration will begin at
8 a.m. in the north lobby, with the first session scheduled for 8:45 a.m. The sessions will be followed by a tour of the soil mechanics laboratory in Learned Hall.
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Miss Vicki to be 'puffed up'
told newsmen through masses of tangled curls.
The long-haired American warbler, who arrived here Tuesday for a nightclub engagement, said his 17-year-old bride, Miss Vicki, is expecting a baby in September.
SYDNEY (UPI) — Tiny Tim is going to be a father.
Tiny married Miss Vicki on the Johnny Carson Show last December.
"I don't care whether it's a boy or a girl, or anything, as long as it's okay."
"I am absolutely thrilled," Tiny
know if his special love diet of honey and peanut butter had anything to do with Miss Vicki's "happy condition."
Tiny told newsmen he didn't
"I don't know what I did, but it certainly makes me feel good," Tiny said.
He said Miss Vicki remained home on doctor's orders.
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