THURSDAY FEBRUARY 15, 1973
Czech Orchestra Performs Monday
The Czech State
Orchestra, from one of the
largest of European
orchestras, will present a con
cert at 8 p.m. Monday, Feb.
19, in the Greensboro War
Memorial Auditorium.
The performance, with
20-year-old Vaclav Hudecek
as violin soloist, is a feature of
the Guilford College Arts
Series, and it will be the only
attraction this year not to be
held in Dana Auditorium.
Cliff Lowery, arts series
director, explained that the
famous orchestra on its first
American tour with
Greensboro its only North
Carolina stop is expected
to attract too large an
audience for the 1,000-seat
Dana, so the War Memorial
Auditorium was booked for
the performance.
One of the strongest
music centers of Europe has
long been Brno, the city of the
great Czech composer Leos
Janacek and the famed Czech
Radio Orchestra.
Seventeen years ago.
Janacek's colleague Bretislav
Bakala was asked to
reorganize and expand this
formidable orchestra. Since
then, the renamed Czech
State Orchestra has attained
even greater reknown as one
of the world's finest and
largest symphony
orchestras.
Economics Dept. Announces
Guilford will be seeing a
few notable changes in the
economics department begin
ning next fall. The new
curriculum has been designed
to make the department more
attractive to all students, not
just prospective majors. Ac
cording to Dr. Abdul-Magid.
chairman of the department,
those teaching economics feel
the need to "try to create
more interest in the study of
economics on the part of the
students at Guilford".
Many students have
avoided economics courses,
according to Dr. Abdul-Magid,
because of several common
misconceptions about the
department and the discipline.
Contrary to popular opinion,
the economics department is
no more difficult than the
average department on cam
pus and it is not
mathematically oriented.
Women have tended to avoid
economics because,they have
felt that it is a "man's world";
yet women have been among
the better economics students
within the last several years.
New emphasis will be
placed on topics of current
interest, and less attention
will be given to technical
matters. Courses will be
geared to give a "bird's eye
view of the field" for those
who are simply interested in
obtaining a general picture of"
the field of economics. An
area of particular interest to
students will be Consumer
Economics. Thes new course
will include studies of con
sumer rights and protection
laws, as well as practical in
formation concerning how to
economize and purchase
homes, cars, and insurance
policies.
The new course
offerings are as follows:
(1) Consumer
Economics (Econ. 100) will be
The CSO is a living
memorial to the vigorous and
exciting spirit that was
Janacek's, a spirit which per
vades the orchestra's inter
pretations both of its exten
sive 20th century repertoire
and its solid base of works of
the old masters, including the
Czech masters Dvorak and
Martinu.
The CSO's long-awaited
North American tour, begin
ning with a concert
Wednesday night (Jan. 31) in
New York's Carnegie Hall,
promises concert experiences
of the highest order.
"Under Maestroes Jiri
Waldhans and Jiri Belohlavek.
these concerts celebrate an
unsurpassable Czech musical
achievement," declared
Lowery.
European critics have
raved about CSO perfor
mances. In Warsaw, the
orchestra "gave a perfor
mance that glittered with
riotous colors, playing with
the utmost verve and
temperament. The Czech ar
tists were acclaimed with
storms of applause. .
In Berlin, the orchestra
was "sheer delight ... a
sensational success.'' In
Stuttgart, it "put its whole
heart into its performance." In
Hamburg, it "reached the
highest level of performance."
The New York Times
offered as an introductory
course suitable for general
knowledge with emphasis on
personal finance. This course
will not be acceptable as
social science requirement,
nor will it count as part of the
required courses for majors in
economics.
(2) Economics 221
will be revised to include con
tent of both macro and micro
economics. This course will
become less technical and
will be counted as social
science requirements.
Economics 222 will not be
counted as social science re
quirement since only majors
(economics and management)
will take this course.
Dr. Khamis Abdul-Magid, chairman of the Economics Department
THE GUILFORDIAN
said on February 2, 1973;
"Prague has been the
source of Czechoslovak
orchestras touring the United
States, but the Czech State
Orchestra that played in the
International Festival of
Visiting Orchestras in
Carnegie Hall on Wednesday
night was from Brno, capital
of the province of Moravia.
Still, it had the characteristics
of the ensembles from the
national capital and at its best
was a lovely group to hear. Its
strings produce a light, sweet
tone that gleams like silk. The
winds tend to parallel this in
weight and timbre, although
the brass can be somewhat
heavy. The over-all effect is
smooth and mellow, and the
playing is invariably accurate.
Federal Loans
Change
The Federally
Guaranteed Student Loan
program as of March 1 will
undergo a change. The old
$15,000 adjusted effective
income maximum has been
removed. Now for the first
time parentis) or a student
must submit a confidential
statement from the College
Scholarship Service.
(3) Economics 450
will be changed to 220 and
the requirement of 221-222
will be dropped. This course
will be acceptable as inter
cultural studies elective.
(4) Economics 434
will be changed to 335 and
the prerequisite Econ. 221-
222, acceptable as inter
cultural studies elective.
(5) Law and
Economics (Econ. 224) will be
applicable to majors and
acceptable as a social science
elective.
Other changes made
will pertain only to majors.
Dr. Abdul-Magid feels
strongly about economics as
The conductor, leading
everything from memory, was
26 year-old Jiri Belohlavek.
looking younger than his
players, and he seemed to
function in relation to the
repertory as do young con
ductors from any country.
Vaclav Hudecek, a mere
20, was the soloist. His tone,
also, had an incredible
sweetness, and every note
was in place. Again, it was in
his encore, Paganini's
Variations on "Nel cor piu non
mi sen to" for solo violin, that
his playing came to life as he
swept through its virtuoso
tricks."
Students should make
reservations and pick up free
tickets for the concert at the
College Union Office in 68
dorm by 5:00 p.m. tomorrow.
Financial Aid
Application
March 1 is the due date
for returning students to have
their application in for finan
cial aid Students are asked to
please come by the Financial
Aid Office, basement of New
Garden Hall to pick up the
application for financial aid
and their confidential needs
analysis booklet.
Changes
an important part of a liberal
arts education. "Economics is
just as important as political
science, sociology, or psy
chology." It is hoped that
students in all fields will
perhaps come to recognize
economics as an integral part
of their studies at Guilford.
Over supply Of
Graduates For '7o's
(CPS) A recent
"Business Week" special
report has predicted that
there will be a serious over
supply of college graduates in
the U. S. in the 19705.
Rather than being temporary,
the problem seems to be
long-range and will require a
readjustment in the
educational thinking of the
whole country.
While the unemploy
ment rate for the total work
force in the U. S. is 5.6
percent, the rate among re
cent college graduates is
almost 8 percent. Many
college graduates are working
jobs that don't reflect their
ability, creativity or B.A. or
M.A. degrees. However, the
statistics show that a degree
is still somewhat worthwhile.
The jobless rate among non
educated young people is 15
percent.
The teaching field is one
of the most oversupplied.
Teaching jobs expanded by
53 percent in the 1960'5, but
there will be virtually no ex
pansion in the 1970 s. Since
cities are having increasingly
more trouble keeping their
schools going, the only de-
PAGE THREE
Help Dig
This Summer
Students are urgently
needed to help in archaeolo
gical excavations in England
this summer. Deadline for ap
plications is April 1.
City center redevelop
ment, new road-building pro
grams and rapidly changing
land use are threatening the
disappearance of prehistoric
graves. Iron-age settlements,
Roman villas, fascinating re
lics of mediaeval towns, all
over Britain.
American students free
from mid-May, and with pre
vious archaeological exper
ience, are invited to join an
international team on a dig of
the important Anglo-Saxon
site at Spong Hill pagan set
tlements. Experienced helpers
will receive free board for
helping in this important
work. Similar help is also re
quired on work on a mediae
val manor near Chester.
Other students without
experience are invited to join
the British Archaeology Sem
inar at Lincoln College, Ox
ford, organized by the As
sociation for Cultural Ex
change. Six academic credits
can be earned fom
can be earned from participat
ing in this low-cost program
which ends by three weeks'
participation on digs in dif
ferent parts of England and
Scotland.
These include the Assoc
iation's own mesolithic dig
on the island of Oronsay in
the hebrides which last sum
mer was visited by Queen Eli
zabeth, Prince Charles and
Princess Anne. Cost, inclusive
of Trans-Atlantic travel by
scheduled jet, is $790.
Write now for further de
tails to lan Lowson, 539 West
112 th Street, New York, N.Y.
10025.
mand for teachers may be as
replacements for teachers
who retire or die. There could
be nearly two million extra
teachers by 1980, including
everyone from kindergarten
teachers to college
professors.
A federal task force on
higher education estimates
that by 1977 every
recognized profession will
have an oversupply of new
graduates To some extent,
the problem will cut back
programs for budgetary, if not
job-market, reasons. Expan
sion programs for physical
facilities are being cut back all
over the nation.
The decline in college
enrollment has eased the
pressure in some fields. The
over-supply of engineers has
been particularly well
publicized, and engineering
enrollment dropped 17 per
cent last year.
The "Business Week"
article predicts massive job
retraining for college
graduates whose fields are
oversupplied and more people
turning to technical careers
instead of college