University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, January 28, 1976
Festival of Arts faces last gasp unless April show is a success
The annual Festival of Arts will get its last chance to succeed in Anil.
Whether this festival breaks even or makes money will determine the possibility of future festivals, Carol Poulson, program director for the festival, said yesterday.
Mike Miller, activities adviser to the Kansas Union, said all but two of the nine festivals in the past 10 years had lost money.
Thornton Mason, chairman of publicity for the festival, said he thought the tickets
sold well at enrollment but that he wouldn't know the number of tickets sold until next week.
Miller said losing money hadn't been the only problem with past festivals. Performers sometimes canceled their concert due to something or another, something to out in their place, he said.
Mason said a lack of money had also con-
Last year's entire program was canceled,
because the director got too far behind.
Financial Aid complies to affirmative action rules
By DAVID HAUBER
Staff Writer
Three federally funded programs administered by the Office of Student Financial Services in compliance with active action guidelines during the 1974-75 school year.
That is the conclusion of a report released yesterday by the Office of Affirmative Action. The report came as no surprise to Jerry Rogers, director of financial aid.
"We thought that it showed that whatever we were doing was all right by affirmative action guidelines," he said. "The thing this is that we don't pay any attention to it."
Because financial aid operates in a nondiscriminatory manner, Rogers said, the affirmative action statement was changed in his office's handling of cases.
"We奖助 on the basis of academic and financial need. The color of a person's skin makes no difference," he said, referring to the breakdown of aid in ethnic categories.
Rogers says any change in the methods of his office would mean it would have to reversely discriminate to compensate for any alleged noncompliance.
"There were some students (eligible for aid) we rejected because of poor academic progress. So many people think that the student is getting financial aid that is he's black."
The normal GPA cutoff for aid is an overall 1.65.
Rogers went on to say that many minority students received a higher proportion of the money distributed in relation to their costs because their need was usually greater.
The affirmative action report was the first of its kind, Rogers said. It gathered information for money allocated from the National Direct Student Loans, the Supplemental Opportunity Grant and the College Work Study programs.
This kind of check-back or monitoring system instituted by affirmative action to gather data, Rogers said, will be assisted in the future by ethnic and race computer cards that students fill out during enrollment.
Bonnie Ritter Patton, director of afirmative action, said that the computer cards, that formerly were optional, are now providing information just as your name and sex are.
She said the report on the financial aid office could only be a general indicator of the way the office had operated. In the future, Patton said, the computer cards would eliminate tracking down students to find out information of ethnic origin or race.
Included in the report was a breakdown of the different ethnic groups eligible for aid. Of the eligible applicants, 400 were denied aid for not filling out the application properly, not attending the meeting, not analyzing or not meeting academic standards.
Statistically the report must be considered incomplete, Patton said, because 115 of the eligible students denied aid weren't able to be categorized. However, it could also be used for "noting any gross discrepancies and noting trends in the future."
tributed to the failure of the program last year.
"Given these findings, we can relax," she said of the report.
A percentage summary of the report is: surveys.
74. 3 per cent of applicants were white
- 9.6 per cent of old residents were white
* 14.8 per cent were black or African-
American in the mean dollar distribution to white students
$11,000
Poulson said she had tried to adopt this
character to the community as well as
to students.
MINORITIES:
2.5 per cent of applicants were minority students
2.3 per cent of academic rejections were to minority
2.1 per cent of academic rejections were to minority
10.2 per cent of minority applicants were aid residents
10.3 per cent of fund distributed were in minority
classes
"I was trying to work for a well-rounded
job," she said, "but you can't include
everything."
Mason said an $8 package of tickets to all five performances of the festival would be available at the SUA office in the Union until April 4, the first day of the festival. After that, he said, tickets will be sold for individual performances at a total cost of $16. All festival performances will be in Hoch Auditorium.
Herbie Hancock, formerly with Miles Davis, will present a concert with his fourman group, the Headhunters, on Saturday, April 11.
The festival will present the Chicago Chamber Orchestra, George Pillpton, the American Chamber Ballet, Lionel Hampton and his orchestra and Herbie Hancock.
The chairs will be removed from the floor of Hoch Auditorium for a dance concert by Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra Friday, April 9. Poulson said there was a possibility that the orchestra would play on concert. Hampton and his orchestra will play music from the Big Band era.
The American Chamber Ballet, a company of 15, choreographed and directed by Joel Benjamin, will perform classical and contemporary works.
The company will perform Wednesday, April 7, in Hoch and will give a children's performance in a Lawrence school. The company will also teach, a master dance class.
George Plimpson will speak Monday, April 5, on the "Amateur vs. the Pro." Plimpson has written for Sports Illustrated and Harpers and is the editor of Paris Review, which he found he wrote. He was a writer for the Detroit Lions an amateur with the Detroit Lions, "Out of My League," "One for the Record," "Mad Ducks and Bears" and "Boosey Man."
Twenty members of the Chicago Chamber Orchestra, a small symphony, will play pieces for woodwind and brass instruments with some strings on Sunday, April 4.
They will play an American opening selection, the Dvorak Serendade in D Minor Opus 44 and the Mozart Serenade No. 10 in B Major, the Chamber Orchestra of Dieter Kober, a professor of music at the City College of Chicago, who holds a doctorate in Musicology. He is the permanent conductor of the Chicago Chamber Orchestra and the conductor in cities in Canada and Europe.
Poulson said the budget for the festival was $24,000.
Elections for Student Body President, Vice-President, and 102 Student Senate seats will be held Feb.18 and 19.
Public Notice
All Interested students should pick up filing forms in Student Senate office, 105 B. Kansas Union.
Filing deadline for the ticket of Student Body President and Vice-President is 5:00 p.m. January 28.
Filing deadline for Student Senate Seats Is 5:00 p.m. Feb.4.
For further information contact Student Senate Office, 105 B Union, or call 864-3710.
(Paid for by Student Activity Fee)
Continuing Ed offers course by phone
A telephone network in 25 Kansas communities will allow residents to take a social welfare course offered by the University of Kansas Division of Continuing Education.
Lawrence used telephone terminals that amplify voices. He said yesterday he expected about 50 persons to enroll in the class, which began yesterday.
The course, "Social Problems, Policy and Program Analysis 1," focuses on developing the ability to observe and analyze social welfare policies and programs for poverty and income maintenance.
Edward P. Dutton, associate professor of social welfare, will teach the course from
Most of the people in the class would be licensed social workers who must continue their education to keep their licenses, but he wants them to work in social problems would take the class.
The telephone network connects communities across the state, from Johnson County to Albany.
Pittsburg, Dutton said the network would allow participants to converse freely with him and each other, and handout materials would be distributed at each location.
A monitor will be at each telephone terminal to help those who want to enroll.
Juniors, seniors or graduate students can receive up to three hours credit for the equipment fees are $16 a credit hour for four hours and $22 a credit hour for graduate students.
YOUR presence is requested at the Voluntary Action Day of the K.H. Volunteer Clearing House.
The Clearing House Staff invites you to share in an orgasmic burst of enthusiasm
on Wednesday and Thursday, twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth of January Nineteen hundred and seventy-six
in the Kansas Union Lobby Lawrence, Kansas
R. S.V.P.
If you are currently helping as a volunteer, please stop by and let us know if you will continue with your agency this semester.
THIS ORGANIZATION IS FUNDED FROM THE STUDENT ACTIVITY FEE.