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September 11, 1976
Otterbein College, Westerville, Ohio
Herman to bring 'Bein big band bash
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Woody Herman who has kept alive that unique and e xciting phenomenon-the big band sound-will appear in c oncert at Otterbein College, Thursday, Sept. 16, at 8:15 p.m. Appearing w i t h t h e Thundering Herd in Cowan Hall, Herman will open the Otterbein Artist Series with this special pre-season concert. Students c an obtain tic kets free by showing their I.D.'s at the Cowan Hall box offi ce.
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Pl aying jazz that has Theatre of the Deaf, Feb. never gone out of style, 17; Hartford Ballet, April Herman's selections are 19; and bas s-ba ritone likely to be works by Richard McKee, April 28. contemporary small band Binaghi and McKee are players Chick Corea, Eddie Affiliate Artists and will Harris or George Cables. He share O t terbein's four also regularly includes such PACT WE EK appointments H e r m a n s t a n d ards as this year w i t h p ianist "Laura," "Caidonia" and R o o sevelt N e wson and "Lemon Drops." actress Niki Flacks. Miss Other events slated by Flacks w i l l present a the Ott e r b e i n C ultural one-woman show in Barlow Affairs Committee for the Workshop Theatre, Nov. 5. season are mime Graciela Mr. Newson will offer an Binaghi, Oct. 21; National informal Rug Concert in the Campus Center, Jan. 20. Each of the four will spend one w eek in the community.
Student find-new telephones
S tudents arr iving on campus are not finding the type o_f phpn e system described to them last spring term. Complications arose almost immediately after school let out. The original company contracted to install the proposed system lost their patent to the system and couldn't deliver. Otterbein College was then stuck with thousands of dollars of already-in stalled cables and were forced to go ahead with the next best system. I n p lac e o f t h e highly-touted computer-sys tem phones students are
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acco mmodated with tan push-button phones. The latter cannot "ring back" to signal when a desired party is off the line after a b u s y signal is r e a c h e d . T h e y w ill, however, beep t o let the "callee" know someone is trying to get a line. This will only occur when the call is corning from an outside line. Inside calls will not beep. Final cost for the inferior system was greater than the original p r ojected cost. Stud ents w i l l pay the original cost while the college will absorb the loss.
Forty expected out For speech, debate O v e r 40 O tterbein students are expected to participate in debate and individual speaking events c o ntests this y ear, representing the college at f o r en sics t o urnaments throughout the midwest. The college's forensics program, run as a part of the Department of Speech & Theatre, is one of the oldest continuous forensics programs in the midwest, according to Don Hines, Director of Forensics. H ighlighting the year's a c t i v i t i e s w i l l be participation in Pi Kappa Delta Nationals in Seattle, Washington, and possibly competing in Individual Events Nationals at George
H·alls open
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Fighting the phone syst.em switch board in the Campus Center is Margurite Bagley.
Appearing in the Otterbein Artist Series is Woody Herman master of the big band sound.
Residence halls will open for new students on Friday, Sept. 10, at 8 a.m.; for returning upperclassmen, on Saturday, Sept. 11, at 9 a.m. The first contract meal for new students will be lunch on Friday, Sept. 10. For returning upperclass men it will be breakfast on Monday, Sept. 13.
M a s o n Un i v ersity i n Fairfax, Virginia. Hines also indicated he expects the squad to again compete in tournaments at O h i o Un i v e r s i t y , Georgetown College, Ball S t a t e , Kent S tate, Heidelberg, Bowling Green, a n d o t h e r l o c a tions throughout the central U.S. Otterbein debaters will j o i n d e b a t e r s f r om throughout the country in d_e b a t i n g t h e n a t i o n a l intercollegiate resolution, "T h a t t h e f e d e r a l g o v e r n ment should guarantee greater consumer safety tn manufactured products." Otterbein will again be fielding debate teams in novice, junior v a r s i t y , a n d v a rs i t y divisions. I n d i vidual events p a r t i c i pants w il l have opportunities to compete in prose, poetry, and dramatic duo interpretation, ai well as many original events such as persuasive, informative, after-dinner, extemwra ne o u s , a n d i mpromptu speaking. ''W h i l e p revious high s c h o ol f o r e n s i c s p a rtici p a t i o n i s g o o d
backgr o u n d , i t i s not necessary for competing in Otterbein's program," Hines continued.
Cochran 1s queried W hen t h e B o ard of Trustees met in June no decision was reached on the fate of Cochran Hall - not enough data was available. According to Woodrow Macke, Vice President for Business Affairs, a study is be irig made on the financial feasibility ( or infeasibility) o f r e m o d eling the dormitory and improving it to meet current housing codes in opposed to tearing it down. "E verything must be considered;" commented Macke, "the needs of the college in terms of housing as well as the financial burden." The m ain hold-up in arriving at an acceptable figure is the negotiations with the insurance company but Macke feels confident a recommendation to the trustees will be readied by November.