Orientation Week Rearranged

Newcastle University College has rearranged port of its Orientation Week so that students can attend the concert an American professor will give here on Friday night.

Organisers of Orientation Week, which began today, agreed to the students' request to hold a symposium on Thursday night instead of Friday night as arranged.

The artist-professor is Tom Lehrer, composer and satirist, whose songs have created considerable controversy.

The editor of the Newcastle University College students' paper (Miss Kay Flanagan) said today that many of her fellow students were planning to attend the Lehrer concert.

Some of them would probably meet him on his arrival in Newcastle on Wednesday afternoon.

"We like his kind of humour," said Miss Flanagan.