'OBER 2, 1959 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Commander From Japan To Visit 'U' AT INTERNATIONAL CENTER: Students Attend Weekly Teas General Shigeru Sugiyama, Chief of Staff for Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force, will arrive. on campus today for a visit lasting until Monday morning. He will be met at the Willow Run Airport by Col. Ernest A. H. Woodman, USA, professor of mili- tary science and tactics, a repre- sentative of President Harlan 'Hatcher and a color guard formed While on campus he will be the guest of honor at a formal ban- quet sponsored by the University Regents, attend the football game tomorrow and visit different parts of the campus. Gen. L. L. Lemnitzer, Chief of State for the United States Army, invited Sugiyama to come to the United States to meet with him and to tour the country. The visit at the University is only one of the many stops he will make on his more than three week trip through the United States. Instructors Get Offices Two members of the women's physical education department have been appointed to offices in national and regional associations. Prof. Esther L. French of the education school and chairman of the. women's physical education department has been elected presi- dent of the National Association for Physical Education for College Women for 1959-61. Prof. Elizabeth A. Ludwig of the education school and graduate ad- viser in the women's physical edu- cation department, was elected to a two-year term as president of the Midwest Association for Physi- cal Education for College' Women. Prof. Ludwig has recently returned from study in Europe. She will conduct a basic move- ment education workshop in the Milwaukee County Public Schools and will speak in Adrian on Physi- cal Education in England for the Michigan Education Association. A y Placement Association 'To Convene The Michigan College Placement Association will hold its annual meeting today in the Bureau of Appointments and Occupational Information office. Thomas M. Carter, Albion Col- lege director of placement and Association president, will con- duct a session on methods of co- operation among the institutions represented. Vice-President for Student Af- fairs James A. Lewis and Dean Willard C. Olsen of the education school and bureau director Evart W. Adis will welcome the group. The group serves as a clearing house for mutual problems and further cooperation and money saving practices in college place- ment. Mohammedans Fete Prophet The Muslim Student Association will celebrate the Prophet's birth- day at 7:30 p.m. today in Lane Hall. The celebration is open to the public, and will be followed by election of officers. Imam Wall Akram of the First Cleveland Mosque, Cleveland, O., will speak on "Mohammad, the Prophet of Islam." Ve will examine the significance of Mohammad's methods for the present world. t, TEA AND CONVERSATION-A group of foreign students enjoy the hospitality of the International Center at their weekly tea. These social events are a feature of each Thursday afternoon. They last from 4:30 to 6 p.m. and are a time for both foreign and American students to meet each other and enjoy an afternoon of socializing over tea and cookies. COLLEGE ROUNDUP By NORMA SUE WOLFE ATHENS, O.-The Ohio Univer- sity Extension Division is experi- menting in three new fields of. education this fall-radio, televi- sion, and evening classes. A lecture course carrying two hours' credit is broadcast twice a week. Students who listen regu- larly to the lectures and discus- sions, purchase the required text, study the assignments and take the mid-term and final examina- tions on campus will receive credit. DETROIT-Dr. James McCor- mack, present assistant to, the vice-president for academic ad- ministration, has been appointed to the new position of Secretary' Designate to the Board of Gover- nors at Wayne State Unviersity. He will take over his new duties on or about January 1, 1960, as- sisting the university president in preparing for Board of Governors' meetings. * * s BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Two Indiana University students and a staff advisor rescued a 17-year- old boy who was lost in a cave for 23 hours., After a call for help, the advisor of the Indiana Memorial Union Spelunking (cave-exploring) Club and 'two students undertook the successful search. * * * MUNCIE, Indiana -Ball State Teachers College has recently ini= tiated an honors program for the academically gifted student. Honors students will be enrolled in special sections of courses, may be exempted from introductory courses by passing specially pre- pared tests, and are excused from the orientation program ordinarily required of all beginning fresh- men. Those students remaining in the program through the junior and senior years will graduate with the designation "Honors Stu- dents." * * * girl now flaunts tips of gold while the natural blond has brown stripes apparent. Redheads merely vary the intensity of color from area to area. Campus solidarity reigns, how- ever, and most professors and stu- dents find the fad agreeable. A few male students will have none. of it, though, and one of this oppos- ing force merely commented, "Some of it drives you out of your mind." * * * . SYRACUSE, N.Y. - University independents, favoring represen- tation for the majority group on campus, have organized an Inde- pendent League. Formed during campus elections last spring, the league will attempt "to, promote cultural, social and educational advances for inde- pendents on campus." The govern- ment of the league is handled by an executive board and an ad- visory council. CLEAR LAKE, Iowa (P) - An Iowa college student said yester- day he mingled freely with Pre- mier Nikita Khrushchev - even lunched with Russian security guards - during the Soviet lead- er's visit to the state without be- ing asked to identify himself. "I don't know who they figured I was," said Chuck Elsbury, 21, of Clear Lake. 'They never asked. They must have thought I was someone important." Elsbury and another Iowan, ton, crashed security lines sur- Jack Christensen, 29, of Thorn- rounding the Communist boss during his five-hour visit at the Roswell Garst farm near Coon Rapids last week. Christensen, who was photo- graphed having his expansive stomach patted by Khrushchev, told-his "gate crashing" story in a national magazine this week. Elsbury said yesterday that when he started out it was just to see the Premier. Stations To Carry Series On News in Modern America Fifty-nine radio stations willH carry the WtJOM-produced "News in 0th' Century America" series this fall, it was announced today. The series consists of 29 half- hour programs on contemporary news gathering, writing and cir- culation. ;WUOM manager E. G. Burrows and producer-interviewer Glen D. Phillips interviewed outstanding journalists and broadcasters for the series. Among them: Roy E. Larsen of Time, Inc., John. Daly, American. Broadcasting Co., vice-president in charge fo news, Frank Stanzel, general manager of the Associated Press, James C. Hagerty, Presi- dential news assistant and Mil-, burn Akers, executive editor of the Chicago Sun-Times. Prof's Kenneth N. Stewart and Leland Stowe of the Journalism department were consultants for the program, made possible by a grant from the National Educa- tional Television and Radio Cen- ter and the National Association of Educational Broadcasters. Members of the NAEB will first broadcast the series. In addition to WUOM other state stations carrying the pro- grams will be WDET and WDTR, Detroit; WKAR, East Lansing; WMCR, Kalamazoo and WHPR, Highland Park. After the first of next year, the programs will be made available for commercial stations. The percentage of NAEB sta- tions, 30 per cent, carrying the programs is a new record for ac- ceptance of a University-produced series. fil LOOKING FOR SOMETHING? Want to RENT, SELL, Need ALTERATIONS, SERVICES? Looking for BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES,