PSU Magazine Spring 1987

• Atiyeh to chair Middle East council For mer Oregon Governor Victor Atiyeh has been asked by PSU Presi– dent Natale Sicuro to serve as president of a new advisory council for the Middle East Studies Center, to be reactivated at PSU th is fall. In accepting the assignment Atiyeh said, "While serving as governor, I've tried to get Oregonians to raise their vision beyond their own borders." He added that PSU's Middle East Studies Center had pursued similar goals until it was forced to close in December 1981 due to budget reductions. The State Board of Higher Educa– tion recently authorized a PSU prop– osal to reinstate the center, partly because of increasing student interest in international studies at PSU. Some segments of instruction had continued despite the closure, including a Middle East Studies Certificate Program coordinated by Grant Farr, Sociology. "We intend to offer classes involving all 22 countries of the Middle East," said Farr, "in an atmosphere that is free of • political harangue and bias." • PSU branch office opens at PCC PSU has opened a branch office on the Rock Creek Campus of Portland Community College as a way to increase access to University courses and services. The signing of a formal agreement by PSU President Natale Sicuro and PCC President Daniel Moriarty last December marked the beginning of enhanced cooperation between PSU and regional educational institutions. The Rock Creek office, the first of a series of branch offices throughout the four-county metropolitan area, wi ll streamline enrollment in PSU's continuing educa– tion classes and will provide an impor– tant link to local industry and public agencies. To further encourage cooper– ation among higher education institu– tions, Sicuro hopes to work with other institution presidents to establish a Higher Education Council of Greater Portland. Phase II of the Professional Schools Building will be completed this fall. The six– story, $7 million building at S.W. Sixth and Harrison, constructed with Oregon State Lottery funds, will house the PSU School of Business Administration and International Trade Institute. What in the world? What in the world does PSU's 1987 Summer Session have to offer you? Just the usual array of fascinating courses taught by resident faculty and international visiting professors. You can choose from more than 500 courses, workshops and institutes, many with an international flavor. Summer Session has the cure for wanderlust with international prog– rams in 11 countries. You can join the search for King Arthur in Britain or absorb the language and culture of China at PSU's sister unversity in Zhengzhou. Other programs are offered in six European countries, Kenya and the Soviet Union. Armchair travelers can visit the bogs of Britain and trek across America with an oral historian in the "Tour the World at Home This Summer" lecture series every Wednesday noon on campus (it's free!). Also close to home, the Deutsche Sommerschule am Pazifik (German Summer School on the Pacific) celebrates its 30th year, and PSU's A*L*P*S in Oregon program continues to immerse language students in French, Italian or Spanish on the slopes of Mt. Hood. For a Summer Session catalog, call (503) 229-4081. Eight-week classes PSU MAGAZINE PAGE 3 begin June 22, but there are shorter courses and workshops starting everyday through the summer. Summer Festival offers varied theater About the only thing that playwrights Moliere, Coward and Shepard have in common is that all three will be featured on the PSU stage for the Summer Festival Theater Company's 1987 season. Opening the varied summer schedule is Noel Coward's "Hay Fever," directed by Jack Featherin– gill and featuring guest artist Gaynor Sterchi. "Hay Fever" runs July 1-26 in Lincoln Hall Auditorium. Also on the main stage, from Aug. 12 to Sept. 6, will be Moliere's "School for Wives," to be directed by guest artist Richard Edwards of Seattle. This summer's Studio Theater presentation is a pair of one-act plays by Sam Shepard - "Icarus's Mother" and ''Action" - directed by Julie Akers ('83) and running July 15-Aug. 9. Season tickets for the Summer Festival Theater Company will be available in May, with single perfor– mance tickets on sale after June 1. Call the theater arts department at 229-4612 for more information.