The Pendulum
Volume XIII, No. 17
Friday, February 20. 1987
Elon awarded grant
for teacher workshops
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"The Gilded Age”
sngers of the steamboat Amaranth enjoy a race with the s rival Alum,
■y ’s production of JTie Gilded Age, directed by Mark Lamoa. Ths P. Dudlev WameJ
Tuesday night at8p.m.T4 production is baiKd upon the Mark Twam/Charles l>MileyWarne
il of the same name.
istory prof plans Russia
The University of North Carolina Board of Governors th^ghtl^
Mathematics and Science Education Network
lece an $11 738 grant to sponsor in-service traming workshops
col^te^ nudTIl secondary level mathematKS and
I^*Tne of only two private coUeges to be
money out of the 43 proposals submitted by coU^^ and universities
across the state. A total of 19 grants was awarded,
m p^osal outlines a series of three one-week smnmer sessi^s
geared to the practical application pf
dassroom and laboratory. A lecture/o.scusswn fwmat wdl emphasis
Dlicable software. Participants will be required to create theu own
Sr presentation at a special one-day foUow-up meetmg m
extensive involvement of area business and industry, p^
UcSTv^l be able to observe technological practice m tte
woSace and make a better connection between mstrucuon and
‘“^‘tlie D. Agnew. assistant professor of ^
Elon and Janice L. Richardson, instructor m
^SXly as project director and assistant director Tl^y ^ ^
Dr. Agnew at Elon College.
trip for summer
Ir David Crowe, profisssor ot
r), will lead a one-month
;l/study tour to the Soviet
n Mongolia and China from
e 6 - July 1. The group will be
of the few to be allowed to
to Mongolia, according to
K, who noted that Mongolia
very limited diplomatic rela-
with other countries,
ravel groups generally go to
isia or directly to China and
home,” Crowe said. “It has
almost impossible to coin-
bine visits to both areas by travel
ing from Russia through
Mongolia to China, and Mongolia
is a fascinating country. In fact,
last year’s group was on the first
purely Mongolian-run train to
travel from Ulan Bator to Beijing
(Peking).”
The tour will leave New York’s
Kennedy Airport heading for
Leningrad on June 6. Sites during
the four-day visit will include the
baroque palaces, wmding canals
and imperial treasures of flie tsars.
The group will move on to
Moscow for five days where one
stop wiU be the Kremlin. There
will be a special aicursion to
Tblstoy’s home and burial place at
Yasnaya Polyana.
After Moscow, the group will
fly to Irkutsk, in the heart of
Siberia. The visit to Siberia in
cludes a stay at Lake Baikal, the
world’s largest freshwater lake.
A train ride from Irkutsk to
Ulan Bator will take the group to
the capitol of Mongolia, siniated
in the TViul River VSdley. A stop
will be made at the Gandan
Monastery before traveling (m the
Beijing (Peking) Express to
China.
The temples and palaces of the
Forbidden city, the Great V&U and
the elaborate Ming tombs are
some of the highlights (rf Peki^.
The group will travel on to Xian
Shanghai, Guilin, Guangzhou,
and Hong Kong, from where the
group will depart for San Fran
cisco on July 1.
Crowe, and expert on Russian
history and culture, has con
tributed to six books and publish
ed or delivered over 85 articles,
reviews and papers on different
aspects of Russia, Soviet, East
European and Asian history and
literature. He has been to the
Soviet Union on nine previous oc
casions; has traveled extensively
in Soviet Central Asia, Mongolia
and China; and was also the direc-
See Russia, page 2
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