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Leading Composer Speaks

Milton Babbit, a leading avant-garde
composer will present an illustrated lecture in
Cabell Hall Auditorium tomorrow night at 8:15
p.m. on the subject, "What Makes
Contemporary Music So Difficult to
Understand?"

Preceding his talk, two of his compositions
will be presented. Contact Sablinsky, a concert
pianist who recently moved to Charlottesville,
will play "Partitions" a composition for piano.
Soprano Marilyn DeReggi will perform a second
piece, "Vision and Prayer", which is a setting of
Dylan Thomas' poem for voice and electronic
tape.

Mr. Babbit is currently the William Shubael
Conant Professor of Music at Princeton
University. He is also the founder and a
member of the Committee of Direction for the
Electronic Music Center of Columbia-Princeton
Universities.

Tenants Meeting

A meeting of the Charlottesville
Tenants Association will be held tomorrow
night at 8 p.m. in the Informal Lounge of
Newcomb Hall. The purpose of the meeting is
to discuss action which can be taken to correct
abuses in off-grounds housing.

Afro-American Lecture

Addison Gayle Jr. will speak
tomorrow night on the topic "Afro-American
Literature: The Politics of Liberation" in 301
Wilson Hall.

Mr. Gayle, an assistant professor of English
at Baruch College of the City University of New
York, edited "Black Expression" and "The
Black Situation." He is also the author of "The
Black Situation" and "Oak and Ivy".

Aeronautics Address

A meeting, sponsored by the
American Institute of Aeronautics and
Astronautics (AIAA), will be held tomorrow in
the auditorium of the Aero-Mechanical Building
of the School of Engineering.

The speakers will be Arthur L. Slotkin,
director of student programs for the AIAA, and
Michael J. Schoenberg, a third-yearman in the
engineering school.

The topic will be AIAA student activities on
the national and international level with
emphasis on the recent International
Aeronautical Federation Congress in Brusseld,
Belgium.

Mathematics Lecture

Paul R. Halmos will deliver a lecture
entitled, "Algebra and Analysis in Operator
Theory" at 8 p.m. Thursday, October 14.

Mr. Halmos was awarded in 1970 the special
title, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics,
by Indiana University. He is the author of "A
Hilbert Space Problem Book".

Urban Crisis

Edward C. Banfield, author of "The
Unheavenly City" and "Big City Politics" will
speak Monday, October 18 at 4 p.m. on the
topic "The Nature of the Urban Crisis".

Mr. Banfield is the Henry Lee Shattuck
Professor of Urban Government at Harvard
University.

Photo By Andy Stickney

Carl Deaver, State Narcotics Agent

His Concern Is Growing Area Drug Abuse