Northwestern State University - Potpourri Yearbook (Natchitoches, LA)

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UNION EVENTS £ JABJ V ' j- The Widespread |azz Orchestra performed for NSU students providing entertaining jazz music.

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The Toons, a San Francisco based band, performed in the Union on August FALL 1982 UNION EVENTS August 25 - Howdy Dance August 26 — The Elephant Man — movie August 3 1 — The Toons September 9 — The King and I — movie September 16 — The Rose — movie September 23 - Southern Comfort — movie September 30 — Up In Smoke — movie ( )( tober 6 - Roger and Leann ' s Magic Show October 7 — Watership Down — movie ()( tober 14 - The Warriors — movie October 18 - State Fair Downs October 19 — Widespread Jazz ( )( tober 28 — Prom Night — movie nwmber 1 - Kim and Reggie November 3 - Disco with Deacon )ones November A - Star Wars - movie November 1 1 - Arthur - movie November 19 - Ordinary People - movie ember 29 - Window painting I ) •( ember 2 — Tribute - movie ember 4 - Ronnie Milsap in Concert • Leann s agi show was one of the many Nooners nion Governing Board

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T DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES JONATHAN KOZOL Controversial education writer Jonathan Kozol told a Northwestern State University audience that public school teachers are ' pimping tor the textbook authors when they use guidebooks which instruct them in the way students should react to such material as stories and poems These guidebooks teach manipulation, but will never admit said Kozol, who has been highly critical of the teacher ' s guide accompanying the Basal Reader . Both teacher and stu- dent are denied any chance of intellectual surprises with this type of manipulation, he stated. As Kozol discussed the fake discovery method of educa- tional indoctrination, he said, Children are led to discover what we have already decided upon. The child who breaks the pattern becomes an adversary of the teacher. Kozol, who won the National Book Award for Death at an Early Age and recently published Alternative Schools: A Guide for Educators and Parents, said children in public schools are being pointed toward nationalistic conclusions and directed to learn the superior value of the lives of American citizens. ART LAFFER Dr Art Laffer, supply-side economics theorist was recognized nationally as the economist whose supply-side theory for cutting taxes to increase government revenues was adopted by President Ronald Reagan. Currently a member of the Los Angeles Times Board of Economists, he was one of the President ' s top ad- viser ' s during the 1980 presidential campaign and later served as a member of Reagan ' s Economic Policy Advisory Board. Laffer, famous for develo ping the Laffer curve , previously worked for a brief period in the Richard Nix- on administration ' s Office of Management and Budget. The economist is a professor of business economics at the University of Southern California and has his own consulting firm.