-HAPPENINGS- Highlight The School of Music presents Benjamin Britten's comic chamber opera "Albert Herring" at 8 p.m. at Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre. Based on a short story by Maupassant, the libretto by Eric Crozier deals with the theme of chastity as perceived by youth and middle-aged persons. The production runs through Sunday. Tickets are $5, $6, and $7 and are available at the Michigan Union Ticket Office. Films Classic Film Theatre - Love on the Run, 7:15 p.m., The Last Metro, 9 p.m., Michigan Theatre. Women's Studies - The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter, noon, MLB 2. Performances Union Cultural Program - Concert with pianist Heasook Rhee and cellist Sung Zhin Lee, 12:15 p.m., Pendleton Room, Michigan Union. School of Music - Tuba recital with Joseph DeMarsh, 8 p.m., Recital Hall. Performance Network - "Waiting for Godot," 8 p.m., 408W. Washington. Theatre and Drama Department - "Devour the Snow," 8 p.m., New Trueblood Arena, Frieze Building. Second Chance - Masquerade, 516 E. Liberty. Speakers Japanese Studies - Jeff Broadbent, "Center-Periphery Relations in Japanese Industrial Police," noon, Lane Hall Commons Room. Marxist Group - The Political Economy of World Peace, 7:30 p.m., 2443 Mason Hall. Russian & East European Studies - Mira Polak, "Contemporary Yugoslav Politics," noon, 200 Lane Hall. Women in Science Program - Ethel Gilbert, "The Assessment of Risks from Occupational Exposure to Ionizing Radiation," 3:30 p.m., School of Public Health auditorium. Opthalmology Department - Pamela Raymond, "Early Light Exposure in Infants: Report from an FDA Workshop," 12:15 p.m., 2055 MHRI. _ CRLT Faculty Workshop - "Instructional Uses of Microcomputers: Compilation of Bibliographies Using Microcomputer software," 3:15-5 p.m. For info. call 763-2396. Hillel - Avri Fisher, "Arab-Jewish Coexistence in Israel," 7 p.m., 1429 Hill; brown bag with Avri Fisher, "The Project in Givat Haviva: Arab- Jewish Relations (in Hebrew)," noon, Rooms 1 & 2, Michigan League. Museum of Art - Art break with Maria Haidler, "Anders Zorn," 12:10 p.m., Museum of Art. Chemistry Department - David Cleary, "Neutralized Ion Beam Spec- troscopy," 4 p.m., 1200 Chemistry Building. Rackham - James Bristol, "Drug Discovery, in the Pharmaceutical In- dustry: CI-914, A New and Promising Agent for the Treatment of Congestive Heart Failure," 4 p.m., 3554 C.C. Little. Computing Center - Forrest Hartman, "Programming for the Layman, Part 2: Practical Application of Concepts, 3:30-5 p.m., 165 BSAD. Rackham - George Bornstein, "Pound & Browning," 4 p.m., East Con- ference Room, Rackham. Residential College - Arnold Kramish, "The American Decision to Build the Atomic Bomb,"7-9 p.m., Room 126, East Quad. Industrial Technology Institute - John Bollinger, "Automated CAD Programming of Commercial Robots," 3:30 p.m., Chrysler Center Auditorium. Romance Languages Department - Gonzalo Sobejano, "La novela en nuestros dias: Actitudes ante Espana," 4:10 p.m., West Conference Room, Rackham. Renaissance Universal Club - Ratneshvarananda Avt, "Non-Violent Force in Personal Life and Institutional Change," 8 p.m., Room A, Michigan League. Economics Department - 31st annual Conference on the Economic Outlook, 9:30 a.m., Rackham Amphitheatre. Latin American Solidarity Committee - Central American students, 8 p.m., International Center. School of Education - Shelley Kovacs and Deborah Nystrom, "Teacher Certification Information Meeting," 2:30 p.m., Schorling Auditorium, School of Education. Bentley Historical Library - The Rev. Leonard Blair, the Rev. James Hennessey, Philip Cleason, and the Rev. Robert Trisco, "Church History: Retrospect and Prospect," 2-5 p.m., Bentley Historical Library. Mothers Against Drunk Drivers - Ron Harrison, "Alcoholism and rdlts''7.p,m., Was tenaw County Serriff's Department, Hogback Rd.. American Society for Training and Development --5:30 pm., Campus Inn. Cooperative Outdoor Adventures - 7:30 p.m., 1402 Mason. Eating Disorder Self-Help Group - 7-9 p.m., Green Room, First United Methodist Church, corner of Huron and State. Undergraduate English Association - Social committee meeting, 5 p.m.; library committee, 7 p.m., 7th floor lounge, Haven Hall. Michigan Robotics Research Circle - 7:30 p.m., Chrysler Center Auditorium. American Cancer Society - Education and self help group for smokers, 7 p.m., 4105 Jackson. City of Ann Arbor Bicycle Program - 7:30 p.m., Ann Arbor City Hall, cor- ner of Fifth and Huron. Ann Arbor Democratic Party - 8p.m., Ann Arbor Public Library. } Sailing Club - 7:45 p.m., 311 W. Engineering. Medical Center Bible Study - 12:30 p.m., F2230 Mott Hospital. Fencing Club - 8-10 p.m., Coliseum, Hill and Fifth. Rare Book Room Antiquarian Book Society - 8 p.m., Rare Book Room, Graduate Library. Regents - 2 p.m., Michigan Room, University Center, Flint. Psychiatry Anxiety Disorders Support Group - 7:30-9 p.m., 3rd floor con- ference room, Children's Psychiatric Hospital. Miscellaneous Scottish Country Dancers - Beginners, 7 p.m.; intermediates, 8 p.m., Forrest Hills Community Center, 2351 Shadowood. S MichiganLeague Internation Night - Spain and Portugal, 5-7:15 p.m., Michigan League Cafeteria. Student Alumni Council - "Play-by Play" contest preliminaries, 4-6 p.m., University Club. Eclipse Jazz - Jam session, 9:30 p.m., University Club, Michigan Union. Student Wood & Crafts Shop - Advanced power tools safety, 6-8 p.m., 537 SAB. Red Cross - Blood drive, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Michigan Union. Straight Shooters - Turkey shoot, 10 a.m.-7 p.m., Indoor Range, North University Building. To submit items for the Happenings Column, send them in care of Happenings, The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Malicious Intent / k~ f~ 'Pen pals' strive to bolster ranks of 'U' mnnorities The Michigan Daily - Thursday, November 17, 1983 - Page 3 By CLAUDIA GREEN A new "pen pal" program is giving the University's minority recruitment efforts a more personal touch. Under the direction of Monique Washington, coordinator of minority recruitment in the undergraduate ad- missions office, two work-study studen- ts are writing letters by hand to studen- ts who are interested in enrolling at the University. "I CAN ONLY hope that by providing this personalized attention, students will begin to feel that the University is a human place.. . and that they can be a part of the student life here," said Washington. LSA Junior Maria Torres and Millicent Newhouse, an LSA sophomore, have written more than 100 letters to students, most of whom have sent the University their college en- trance test scores. Torres and Newhouse, who are minority students, introduce them- selves in their handwritten letters and tell how the letter recipients can con- tact them. "I THINK minorities have this idea that Michigan isn't for them. Having students that are actually here talking to them will help, instead of just talking to a counselor," Newhouse said. "It adds that personal touch," said Torres. the women also greet minority students who come to visit the Univer- sity from Detroit high schools, and Torres said that many of the students SAID defeats IGNITE in LSA-SG elections (Continued from Page ) has won a seat, and none are projected to win a spot on the council, according to Surovell. But losing presiden- tial candidate Andrew Hartman and vice presidential candidate Andrew Sriro gave Berman and Wyman their best wishes - with a warning. "We congratulate Eric and his party on win- ning and challenge them to follow through on their promises, because you better believe we'll be there next year," Sriro said yesterday. Sriro said he believed the large election turnout was "mostly due to IGNITE's innovative campaigning," which included handing out popcorn to potential voters and parking a poster- covered car on the Diag. However, many of the independent candidates disagreed with that assessment. "We like to think that we made the election and that SAID probably wouldn't have campaigned as hard if we hadn't been out there on the first day handing out flyers," said in- dependent candidate Jim Rosenberg. He and five other independents pooled their resources to campaign together. "I think we should all get on, as far as we campaigned," said Larry Bottinick, an independent who worked with Rosenberg. "But elections don't always go by how you campaign." "The six joint independents ran an excellent campaign, and I think any one of them would make a good represen- tative of the student body," Berman said. Berman said he approved of IGNITE's campaign gimmicks, saying they were "good for publicity and helped people realize that the elec- tion was going on." recognize her name from the letter they received. SINCE THEY began writing to students in early October, Torres and Newhouse have gotten responses to ap- proximately one-quarter of the letters they have written, Washington said. Although the correspondence is bet- ween two minority students, the prospective students are interested in more than minority affairs on campus. The students usually have questions about application procedures and areas of study, which Torres and Newhouse answer with the appropriate infor- mation and a second letter. The program is a new effort to in- crease the University's 10.5 percent minority enrollment. Figures released earlier this month showed that, while Asian enrollment increased this year, black enrollment fell from 5.2 percent to 4.9 percent, and Hispanic enrollment remained unchanged. As a follow-up on the pen-pal program, Washington said the ad- missions office will survey students who received letters to see how many actually applied to the University. If the program is successful, "there's no reason why we can't expand it to other target groups who aren't necessarily minorities but may be at some disadvantage when they enroll," Washington said. Hom e grown Daily Photo by TOD WOOLF Steve Kuhn sells carnations for a dollar each in the Fishbowl yesterday. 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