The Register, 1985-10-29

              the check valve is installed now we know it's the water safe to use said vernell stallings associate director of the student union there's just a straight flow of water now no other substance can get into it valve memorial student union water fountains were turned off and the canteen closed for several days last week because of suspected contamination of the building's water supply caused by a missing check by mardell griffin staff writer watson refused to disclose the results of the water test saying that he felt any an nouncement should be made by the director of the physical i know i drank a quart of it that day not knowing anything was wrong with it stallings said there was ab solutely no health problem ft season tickets for this season is only 15 groups rates are available upon re admission to all produc tions except eubie is 5 for the general public 4 for senior citizens and non a&t students and 2 for a&t students with current id cards theatre manager dr h.d flowers ii is the executive director d.e cof fey is the costumer and will direct croesus and the witch;r.p thomason is designer and technical direc tor and emily bailey is based on the life and works of the immortal eubie blake the first american advertising agency was opened by volney b palmer in philadelphia in 1841 time there's no limit for a limited miss lydia a new two-act drama concerns the life of the elderly the sad truth to miss lydia is that all of the characters lived a lie and have never known real happiness they never really experienced love therefore they needed each other to feel belonged too this propitius drama will the university theatre group has scheduled don evans miss lydia for november 1-4 croesus and the witch by vinnette carroll and micki grant on december 3-7 eden by steve carter on february 23-25 and the musical eubie conceived by julianne boyd the richard b harrison players of a&t will begin their 1985-86 theatre season next month quest additional information may be obtained by calling the paul robeson theatre at 919 379-7852 or 379-7900 the season finale is eubie the broadway revue conceiv ed and orginally directed by julianne boyd the music is eden a three-act drama takes place in 1927 the story is centered around two families the bartons a west indian black family and an american black family the plot is centered • around pre judice cultural differences romance and marriage croesus and the witch is a fantasy depicting good prevailing over evil the story of croesus is based on an old black folk tale croesus willbe presented at 9:30 a.m each day for the schools of guilford county be the players entry in the american college theatre festival english professor selected to attend seminar tional bibliography a 14,000 entry annotated work which will be published by green wood press next year all you can eat special.s&95 sunday through thursday huny in to red lobster now and you won't want to hurry out because every sunday through thursday you can feast on as much seafood as you want choose*from four delicious red lobster favorites popcorn shrimp ; clam strips or broiled and fried fish but you're not limited to one choice after you finish one kind of seafood ; you can switch to another then another but come in soon our seafood is endless but our offer isn't kco lodster the mississippi conference is being sponsored in part by the national endowment of the humanities . benson's topic at mississip pi will be the comic perspective in richard wright's eight man benson has also done extensive work on wright's shorter fiction dr joe benson a professor of english at a&t has been selected as one of 30 scholars to participate in a seminar mississippi's native son arr international conference on benson is a noted expert on wright and the afro american novel he col laborated with michael fabre of the sorbonne and ken kin namon of the university of arkansas to produce richard wright an interna the seminar will mark the 25th anniversay of wright's death he was an interna tionally famous black writer richard wright to be held at the university of mississippi on nov 20-24 chemistry professor to lecture ujor credit cards accepted please consult telephone directory for the red lobster restaurant nearest you © 1985 red lobster the colloquium to be held at 7 p.m in barnes hall is ma the program is funded by the national institute of part of a&t's minority ac cess to research careers marc program a biomedical research training program for high ability upper level students in the depart ments of animal science biology and chemistry dr kenneth hicks a pro fessor of chemistry at a&t will speak on some reac tions of molybdenum v dimeric complexes at a natural science honors collo quium on thursday oct 31 dr hicks who received the ph.d degree in physical chemistry with a minor in in organic from howard univer sity began his research career at the university of califor general medical sciences nigms of the national in stitutes of health nih tuesday october 29 1985 the a&t register page 3 water in student union checked for contamination i refuse to give ... a state ment watson said you can say that then nobody can say anybody said anything because the next time you hear about this it'll be something way out in left field plant who was out of town t d by jay hall iony brown a ntionally-known journalist talks with students and faculty in the student union bal room sunday after his speech encouraging the audience to invest in black-owned businesses players begin new season no illnesses were reported in connection with the water pro blem i was called in tuesday morning about 1:30 stall ings said we cut it the water off 2:30 tuesday morn ing and it stayed off until 12 noon thursday the union student union employees noticed the problem when they discovered brown discolora tion in ice made from water in stallings said we don't know if it was something from the air-conditioning system oil or just sludge from the lines merrill watson assistant director of the physical plant said there was no problem with the water it was turned off for safety purposes the city gave us a clean bill of health stallings said the origin of the contamination is unknown but water samples were sent out for testing