In Brief

The Department of Political Science will hold a memorial service for Samuel C. Nolutshungu at 1:30 p.m., Saturday, November 1. The service will take place in the Interfaith Chapel on campus.

Nolutshungu, professor of political science and African politics, died August 12 at age 52. He lived in Pittsford. Donations may be made in his memory to Our Lady of Victory-Saint Joseph"s Church, 210 Pleasant St., Rochester, NY 14604.

Wellcome Visiting Professor

Thomas J. Schall, an expert in the characterization of low molecular weight chemokines that have a prominent biological roles as inflammatory mediators, will be a Wellcome Visiting Professor at the Medical Center for 1997-98.

Schall will visit from October 28 through October 31 and will deliver a lecture on October 30, at 8 a.m., at the Cancer Center Grand Rounds, and at 12:15 p.m. at the Medical Center Grand Rounds.

For more information, call x5-9484.

Gospel music

Area musicians will join the University"s Gospel Choir in a night of gospel music Friday, November 7, at 8 p.m. in Strong Auditorium. Featured will be the East High School Gospel Choir, the C.G. Finney High School Select Chorus and Orchestra, and Envision.

Admission at the door is $3 for students with ID and $5 for the public. For more information, call x5-2828.

German film

The University will present the North American premiere of "German Experimental Films of the '90s" Saturday, November 15 and Sunday, November 16 in Room 201, Lattimore Hall. In cooperation with the Goethe Institute of New York, the University"s Department of Modern Languages and Cultures will show the short films in groups, or programs, over the two-day period. Admission is $4 per program or $10 for the full series. For a schedule of films, call x5-4251.

Also, two rare German films, including one that was the first in the world to treat openly the topic of homosexuality, will be presented by the University on Tuesday, October 28, with live piano accompaniment at 8 p.m. in the Dryden Theatre at George Eastman House.

Presumed lost to the Nazi terror until a major fragment was found in 1979, Different from the Others (Anders asl die Andern) was the first movie to approach candidly the subject of homosexuality. Sex in Chains (Geschlecht in Fesseln) is well known for its realistic depiction of prison life.

The films will be introduced by Randall Halle, assistant professor of German at the University. Admission is $5, $4 for museum members and students with valid ID.

A lecture about these films and the Weimar culture in which they were produced will be given at 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, October 29 in Room 2-560,Dewey Hall by James Steakley, professor of German studies at the University of Wisconsin.

For more information, call x5-4273.

On Mother Teresa

The Nation columnist Christopher Hitchens will discuss his views on the work of Mother Teresa Friday, November 7 in Hubbell Auditorium. The event will begin at 7 p.m.

Author of The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, Hitchens holds some very controversial views on Mother Teresa. He questions her preachings of submission and religious fundamentalism, pondering why the mass media have been absent from any debate critical of Calcutta"s famous officer of charity.

The event will begin with a 30-minute presentation of Hitchens" television documentary Hell"s Angel. A lecture and an extended Q&A session will follow.

The event is free and open to all. For additional information, call 242-9342.

Happy birthday, PMHP

The University"s Primary Mental Health Project (PMHP) will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a reception and dinner at 6 p.m., November 6, at the Four Points-Rochester Riverside Hotel. Tickets are $40; reservations can be made by calling 262-2920. The dinner is part of PMHP"s training workshop for school district and other personnel working in PMHP programs or who want to start projects in their home districts.

A dancer on poetry

Dancer/choreographer Richard Haisma will share his creative talents with the University Dance Program as a visiting artist the first week of November, and he"ll teach dance classes at the University next spring.

Haisma will perform "As the Dead Prey Upon Us," a piece based on the work of poet Charles Olsen, at 8 p.m., Friday, November 7.

"The Paleontology of Dance," Haisma"s second performance, at 8 p.m., Saturday, November 8, will focus on the origins of human movement.

Both performances will be held in the Dance Studio in Spurrier Gymnasium, which is located behind Susan B. Anthony Hall. Admission is $3 for the University community and $5 for the public.

For more information, call x3-5150.

Breast cancer research

Wende Logan-Young, a University clinical professor of radiology, will talk about the 25 years of progress in breast cancer research Nov. 12 at the third event in this year"s Wednesday Evening Lecture Series at the University.

Presented by the Alumni Association, the talk will be held at 7 p.m. in Hoyt Hall. A dessert reception will follow.

Logan-Young, an internationally acclaimed mammography pioneer, is the founder and director of the Elizabeth Wende Breast Clinic in Rochester.

Admission is free, but reservations are requested. Call x3-5894.

Parents" Weekend music

The University Choir and the Symphonic Wind Ensemble will perform their first concerts of the season as part of Parents" Weekend activities.

The University Choir, directed by Tom Folan, will perform at 2 p.m., Saturday, November 1. The University of Rochester Chamber Singers will join the choir as their special guests for a selection.

The University of Rochester Symphonic Wind Ensemble, conducted by Mitchell Robinson, will perform at 2 p.m., Sunday, November 2. Hsin-Ting Feng and Shari Hoffman, both students at the Eastman School of Music, will conduct pieces during the concert.

Both concerts will be held in Strong Auditorium on the River Campus. Admission is free. For more information, call x5-2828.

Back-to-back tickets

All three of the University's authorized travel agencies (NFT, Town & Country Travel, and VanZile Travel) have notified the University that they will no longer issue back-to-back tickets with the same airline and expose themselves to the potential bill-back charge from airlines. The only exception would be where the possibility exists to book back-to-back with different airlines on each of the two round-trips booked.

Major airlines are now able to identify individual occurrences of back-to-back ticketing. The result is that airlines now are automatically billing travel agencies for the difference between the back-to-back fares and the full fare a traveler should have paid.

Back-to back ticketing, a common practice, is when two round-trip tickets are booked between two cities, requiring Saturday night stayovers for discounted fares. By using only the first half of each round-trip, the traveler can complete a round-trip within a midweek period and avoid the Saturday night stayover requirement.

Toastmasters

The "Daybreakers" Club of Toastmasters International meets from 7:30-9 a.m. every first and third Thursday of each month in the Seneca Room (next to the House of Six Nations in the Hospital). All guests are welcome and need not be from the University community to join.

The "Daybreakers" Club will be sponsoring a guest day on Thursday, November 6, from 7:30-9 a.m. in the Seneca Room. All interested parties are cordially invited to attend. For more information, call 784-8321.