liThe Company We Keep" wins NEA grant for 1986-87 season The Company We Keep. resident professional dance company at Portland Stale University, has received national recognition with a prestigious grant award from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The grant is to help the company pay dancers' salaries during the 1986·87 season. According 10 Nancy Malschek, executive director for the company, The Company We Keep is only the Charfotte Pistor as Y u m ~ Yum in "The Mikado" Music dept. offers "The Mikado" The PSU School of Performing Arts, Department of Music, will present five performances of Gilbert & Sullivan's timeless satire on Victorian society, "The Mikado," opening Thursday, May 29 in lincoln Hall Auditorium On the podium will be Stefan Minde, former music director and conductor of the Portland Opera. Well-known throughout Europe and the United States, the German-born conductor is in wide demand in the U.S. and abroad. He recently directed a critically acclaimed production of "Salome" with the Seattle Opera. Actress and director Patsy Maxson is stage director for the production. Ruth Dobson, assistant professor of music and head of PSU's Opera Workshop, is musical director. The nine principals appearing in the production are all Portland State students or recent alumni. Performances are Thursday and Saturday at 8 p.m., May 29, 31, June 5 and 7, with a special performance at 7 p.m. on Sunday, June 1. Tickets are $6 general admission, $4 students, senior citizens and PSU faculty and staff, and $2 for PSU students with current 10. For ticket information, call the PSU Box Office, 229-4440. All seats are reserved. _ 8 / PSU Perspective, Sprin8 1986 second dance company in Oregon to receive such an NEA grant in the history of the endowment. The award was made following a two-year review period and three site visits by representatives of the NEA. "The company's greatest need, as recognized by the National Endowment, is to keep its artists working and living in the Portland community, rather than 10sinR them to other cities," Matschek said. The NEA grant will provide a minimum of four wee-ks {of the 32 wee-k season} of guaranteed compensation at prevailing American Guild of Musical Artists scale. The Company We Keep has developed rapidly since its inception in 1979, touting throughout Oregon and the Northwest The company is a finalist this year for inclusion in the Alaska Arts Touring Roster and has louring dates in the Northwest planned into 1988. Justice Council opens PSU office The new Oregon Criminal Justice Council, charged in 1985 with advising state officials on ways to reduce overcrowding in Oregon's prisons and jails, has opened its offices at PSU. Executive director of the 20-member research and coordinating body is Kathleen M. Bogan, an attorney and former counsel to the Judiciary Committee of the Oregon Legislature. She was most recently manager of the City of Portland's Human Resources Bureau. "We expect to use PSU faculty and students to help us collect, evaluate and coordinate data from the criminal justice system that bears on our legislative charge," Bogan said in explaining the council's relationship with PSU. The council also has been charged with making recommendations on how to make the best use of community corrections programs, together with recommending improvements in collecting and coordinating criminal justice statistics used by the police, the courts and the corrections system. Expected to offer assistance to the council in particular are PSU's Administration of Justice Department, together with graduate programs offered by PSU's School of Urban and Public Affairs. Council offices are located in Room 342 of lincoln Hall. USE PSU LIBRARY Alumni Bene fit., Cdrd 229·4948 I PSU's new School of Business building ;s now untkr construction. The structure, which will M financed with $7 million in lottery funds, is schrouled for completion in the f.1I of 1987. Portland State Fulbright winners conduct research at home and abroad Two PSU faculty members are currently conducting research abroad as American Fulbright Scholars in Norway and Singapore. Meanwhile, a senior history researcher from a university in Romania is lecturing at PSU in his capacity as a Visiting Fulbright Scholar. Alexander R. Gassaway, a professor in the PSU Department of Geography, is due to conduct research in geography at the University of Oslo in Norway for a total of four months ending in June of this year. Kuan-Pin Lin, an associate professor in the PSU Department of Economics, is conducting research in economics at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore for four months ending in May. . Meanwhile, Dumitru Sandru, a senior researcher in history at Alexandru loan Cuza University in lasi, Romania is lecturing at PSU in Central European History and Civilization during the 1985-86 academic year. Free Introductory Seminar EVALUATE YOUR APTITUDES MATCH YOUR BEST CAREER OPTIONS Thursday, May 29 7 to 9 p.m. 75 Lincoln Hall Explore the full potential pf your natural aptitudes, your values, and interests. This three-part seminar helps you to make career changes, to re-evaluate your career options. First Session: No charge. John Bradley, president of IDAK Group, Inc., introduces the lDAK Career Match Programdesigned to match individual aptitudes with over 60,000' possible career choices. Purchase of Career Match manual necessary to continue second and third sessions. Available at special discount, $74.95 (reg. $89.95). Second Session: $5 charge. Thursday, June 5. Participants return complete Career Match exercises for computer processing. Further insights into evaluating interest, values and natural aptitudes. Third Session: $5 charge. Participants provided in-depth evaluation of personal Career Match print-out. Includes assessment of individual interests, talents, ten best career matches, and directions to find employers who fit career matches. For further details: Call PSU Alumni, (503) 229·4948. PSU ALUMNI CAREER PROGRAMS P () f)j)\ -::;1 · Pf)rll,lfld ( ) n ~ l ) ! l q-2 1l( I) 221) ~ q - . \ i )
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