News Release (April 28, 1968)

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./.&Ews RELEASE NEw CoLLEGE 1 176 -4/25/68 cSARASOTA, FLORIDA 33578 Ref.: Furman c. Arthur 813/ 355-7131 FOR USE: SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 1968 SARASOTA--Enrollment for all five "Dialog" seminars being offered by New College students to interested local citizens is still open, according to student coordinator John Thompson. The seminars, which will be held in Hamilton Center on the college's East Campus on five Monday evenings beginning tomorrow night, are led by qualified students with full faculty cooperation. Individual seminars are being offered in mathematics, poetry, literature, drama, and psychology. In "The Flavor of Pure Mathematics," Allan Jaworski will lead discussion in a survey of some of the more fascinating areas of modern pure mathematics, including a study of some of the basic concerns of algebra, topology, set theory, and philosophy of mathematics. Jaworski, who will graduate in June, was named the designate of a Woodrow Wilson graduate fellowship. He has taught mathematics and tutored some area mathematics teachers. Only a high school background in mathematics is needed. --more

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NEW COLLEGE Page 2 Two young poets, second-year students Helen Hickey and Paul Adomites, will jointly offer the seminar, "Modern Poetry: Poets of Art, Poets of Action." The distinction between the poetry of art and the poetry of action will be studied through the readings of T.s. Eliot, Hart Crane, James Dickey, W.B. Yeats, and Robert Bly. Four plays will be studied in the drama seminar, "Theater: Sacred and Profane," led by third-year student Jill Chamberlain. Two contemporary plays, a 17th Century play and Greek drama will be examined in a consideration of the form and function of the theater. "Literary Theory and the Art of Poetry," a seminar led by third-year student Laurence Alexander, will attempt to develop an understanding of poetry by approaching it philosophically through the study of aesthetics and literary theory. "The Psychology of Animal and Human Behavior11,led by first-year student Don Heth, will discuss new developments in psychology with emphasis on experiments in behavior. Registration for each seminar, which will meet each Monday evening for five weeks from 7:30 to 9 p.m., is $5 plus the cost of textbooks. Following each seminar session, coffee will be served in .. Hamilton Center and class members may share in interdisciplinary discussions. To register, interested persons should call the college number 355-7131 and ask to register for "Dialogs" or be present for the registration at 7 p.m. Monday evening in Hamilton Center on the college's East Campus. 30 -