PSU Magazine Spring 1988

Gift from China PSU's Physics Museum has received a demonstration prism and holder as a gift from Morning Star High School in Sh anghai, China. The Physics Museum, established several years ago in Science Building II, has about 200 items on display and 1,000 more in storage. Don Boileau coordinates the coll ection. Boileau accepted the gift from Kwan Hsu, emeritus professor of phys– ics. She was a student at Morning Star High School in the '30s and obtained th e prism on a recent trip to China to attend the 120th anniversary celebra– tion of the school's founding. Hsu used the prism when sh e was a stu– dent. Hsu also donated a 1960 Chi– nese tachometer used in a factory which made money for a Shanghai middle school. Oscar winning film– maker coming to PSU Academy Award winning filmmaker Vivienne Verdon-Roe will be featured during a special event May 17 to honor "Women in the World," spon– sored by Portland State's International Studies Program. She will introduce her 1987 Oscar winning film, "Women-for America, for the World," a half-hour documentary about women's views on the threat of nuclear war. The program begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Smith Memorial Center Ballroom and will also feature peace activists Ave! Gordly, American Friends Service Committee, and Elizabeth Furse of the Oregon Peace Institute. Proceeds from the event will help the Internation al Studies Program's Distinguished Speakers Fund. Now in its fourth year, the International Stu– dies Program is the University's prim– ary academic unit for teaching about world affairs. Tickets for "Women in the World" are $10. For more informa– tion call 464-3455. New Minority Affairs director The University has appointed a director for the new Office of Minority Student Affairs. Mackie Faye Hill, for– merly intercultural affairs coordinator at Willamette University, was hired for the new position following an exten– sive search. The office is part of a multi-point minority affairs program announced last year by President Natale Sicuro. The central mission of the office is to advocate, coordinate and direct sup– port services for minority students at PSU. Celebrities on campus One of the world's greatest opera performers Jerome Hines, spent two weeks as Artist in Residence at PSU in March. During his residency in the School of Fine and Performing Arts, Hines, dubbed "Superbass" by critics, worked with PSU vocal students in master classes and opera workshops and delivered two free public lectures. PSU MAGAZINE PAGE3 Hines' residency was supported by the Lorene Sails Higgins Charitable Trust which has provided a $225,000 grant to PSU for visiting artists. The grant, which receives yearly approval by the Higgins Foundation, is to be divided over five years. Hines, now in his 4lst consecutive season as a Metropolitan Opera star, is the longest reigning artist in the Met's history. In addition to his primary work with students in PSU's Depart– ment of Music, Hines was able to indulge another of his life's interests, the science of mathematics. He deli– vered a public lecture in cooperation with the University's Department of Mathematics. PSU also welcomed three other notable performers and speakers dur– ing fall term.James DePreist directed the Oregon Symphony in a free "Campus Casual" concert in the Uni– versity's gymnasium during February. The concert featured works by two PSU faculty, Tomas Svoboda and Bryan Johanson. The following week Professor Peter Schutt of the University of Munich, Germany, delivered the Tenth Keith Morden Memorial Lecture at PSU. Schutt is considered one of the world's leading researchers on the effect of air pollutants in North American and European forest decline. On March 4 the Univer– sity received a large turn– out for Ed Bradley, co– editor of CBS-TV's "60 Minutes." In a free, hour– long presentation titled "In My View...," Bradley recapped notable news– gathering experiences and discussed world political and social situations. Metrapolitan opera star Jerome Hines demonstrated stage presence to student Dan– ita Young during his two-week residency on campus.