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School Nation/World Section 2 - page 3 - plaindealkr-hkr alp. frida\ . January 4. im-> Re-entlw program at college holds orientation on Jan. 9 Logic runs in com and music The Adult Re-entry Program (REP) at McHenry County College (MCC) is holding orientation for individuals returning to school after a break their education on Wed-in nesday, Jan. 9, beginning at 6 p.m. in the college lounge. Orientation offers the op­ portunity for adult returning students to learn about MCC and speeial programs that exist for them, tour the campus and meet other students. If you have registered for e . 1 n # . classes for the first time or are p i f p f l fnr ill On contemplating • a return to ^Avxva ivi school, you are encouraged to stop in Wednesday night for coffee and information. There is no charge for par­ ticipation, but if you plan to attend, call the REP office at 455-3700, ext. 334« so materials are set aside for you. Students are academics r Three area students have been admitted to Iowa State University with "Recognition and Award" for high academic achievement in high school or two-year college. Cynthia S. Swinford, Pre- business, McHenry; Janice Slager, Animal science, Round Lake Beach and William V. H o w a r d , A e r o s p a c e Engineering, WSHder Lake ranked in the upper five percent of their graduating class. Each student also had to have a grade point average of 3.50 or better to be admitted with "Recognition and Award" honors. S6I100I briefs ENTRANCE EXAM r The Elgin Academy will be holdifag entrance examinations for students applying to the lower school (grades K-5J on Saturday, Jan. 19, and Saturday, Jan. 26, at 8:30 a.m. Applicants must register by Jan. 15. To register or obtain more in­ formation call the Admissions office, 350 Park St., Elgin, 111., at (312) 695-0300. EIU GRADUATE Brenda Ann Bingman, of McHenry, graduated recently from Eastern Illinois Univer­ sity, Charleston. Bingman was awarded a degree in secondary education. AMBASSADOR Robert A. Kalck, of McHenry, has b been nafredf a charter member * in the ; DePauw University Ambassador's Club. The club was formed this semester and is a select group of students who will represent the university to a variety of ways. MC PLACEMENT Marian Central Catholic High School will hold a second placement test for any eighth graders who missed the first one in early December. The test will be held Saturday, Jan. 12, in the cafeteria at 8 a.m. Students should arrive at Marian Central by 8 a.m. for the test and will be finished at 11:15 a.m. Call Sister Mardelle at 338-4220 for more information. UWW GRADUATE < Patricia E. Kennebeck, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Kennebeck, of McHenry, graduated cum laude with a bachelor of business administration degree from the University of Wisconsin. Whitewater at mid-year com­ mencement exercises. FINANCE COMMITTEE The Johnsburg Dist. 12 School District finance committee toII meet at 7 p.m. Jan. 8 in the administrative conference room. On the agenda is the beginning of the 1985 budget process and variables. « * ADMISSION TEST Saturday, Jan. 12, is the date of admission testing at the Elgin Academy for grades 6-12. Candidates should arrive by 8:15 a.m. and testing will begin at 8:30 a.m. in Edwards Hall, 350 Park St., Elgin, 111. Testing will conclude by 11:30 a.m. HONORS Sarah Lowery, daughter of Thomas' E. Lowery, of McHenry, has been named to the President's List at North Central College, Naperville, 111. Eligibility is based upon a grade point average of 3.7 or better on a 4.0 scale. SEMESTER ExAMS The end of the first semester at East and West Campuses is Jan. 17. First semester exams will be held on Jan. 16-17. There is no school on Friday, Jan. 18. Lunch will be provided and students will be dismissed at 1 p.m. on both exam days. Report cards will be mailed during the last week of January. Y By Stephen Miller UPI computer writer NEW YORK - Programming computers takes cold, precise logic. Composing music requires creativity, and flights of fancy. That is the conventional wisdom, but it may be dead wro: g. Quite a few musicians say they get the same thrill from program­ ming that they get from writing music. They insist that the mathematical base of music and programming is exactly th^same. "There is a parallel." said pianist Peter Nero, "With both music and programming there is a certain logic." Nero doesn't use computers in his music,, as many other musi­ cians do, but he is a self-described "electronics freak." »The serial number on his first microcom­ puter, purchased nearly 10 years ago, says it was the 26th off the assembly line. He uses a number of computers, including two portables that he takes on the road, to keep track of his hectic travel schedule. "My entire life is in my portable." And while he keeps computers out of his performances, he has thought about the link between composing and computers. Nero said musicians are confin- f ed to certain rules in musical form and that it is a similar to the struc­ ture faced by programmers. Jazz-Rock musician Herbie Hancock is noted for his use of computers in his music and also for his prowess as a programmer. He has ,a room full of <»TrfJ)uters hooked up to a variety of syn­ thesizers. It's not too surprising in^ „ steve Manes, a bass player in his case, since his college major 7\he orchestra of a Broadway was electrical engineering. "I did notice that when I got into computers I became obsessed with it with a similar kind of inten­ sity as the kind of obsession I ex­ perienced when I first started playing jazz," said Hancock. In a not-quite-random survey, a number of musicians responded to a question about the correlation between computer programming and music. Some of the responses came in interviews, such as the ones with Nero and Hancock, but the majority came from elec­ tronic messages on various com­ puterized bulletin boards -- mean­ ing that rthe musicians who responded are already used to "playing" computers. show, said, /'In music school, I had a composition teacher who said there was only one rule to music -- any note follows [any note. But anyone who failea^to observe the simple logic of a flow of notes couldn't produce music with 20 years of technique and theory behind him. I think this ap­ plies equally to working with com­ puters." Another composer, Joe Zitt, said, "Programming is writing a score for the computer to play. Composing is writing a program for musicians." Zitt thinks the skills of program- mers and compose r s a re analagouS, "clarity, logic, ahd ac­ curacy." 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