Up With People group will sing
By KENNETH CUMMINS Kansan Staff Writer
Up With People is a singing force which includes three full time traveling casts of college and high school students who take their campuses on the road with them.
Sally Vangen, a member of the Up With People B-cast, said the 120 member cast is an accredited high school called Up With People High School. She said the cast is composed of high school juniors and seniors and a 15 member faculty corps to instruct the students. The faculty members also perform with the group.
The other two traveling casts, A and C, are composed of about 150 college students each.
Miss Vangen is in Lawrence as part of a four-member advance team to prepare for the B cast's appearance in Lawrence the week of Oct. 27.
The B cast is composed of students from all parts of the United States, and 10 from foreign countries. The college casts, Miss Vangen said, are more international.
The high school's Social Studies program was created by the KU extramural independent studies division. A student enrolling in the program may choose his course of study from among 15 modules.
Miss Vangen said there were no requirements on how a student should proceed in a course. Each student decides what he is going to do with the course and how he will relay his information to the other class members.
Not much class work is involved and the student is mostly on his own. Grades are determined by evaluating what each student has learned.
Beside the regular courses, students receive credit for performances, costume design, stage decoration, advance team work, orchestration and solo performances.
The college system was created at the University of Hartford, Hartford, Conn. College students of any rank can become cast members, but a student can remain with the cast no longer than
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four years. These students receive no draft exemptions,
Up With People began four years ago at a youth conference at Mackenac College, Mackenac Island, Mich. The conference of 150 students decided to organize a musical show to "shout their youthful outlook to the world."
The show was a huge success and Up. With People continued to grow. Late in 1965 they received an invitation to Japan. Since then they have performed in Asia, Europe and South America. Up With People has hundreds of regional groups involving 60,000 youths in the United States. Sing Out Kansas is a spin off from this program.
The show is completely original with all material being written
by the group. The titles of such songs as "What Color is God's Skin," "The World is Your Hometown" and "Dawning has just Begun" reveals the group's optimistic outlook.
Miss Vangen said the cast members are persons who have seen the show and have asked for an interview. They are interviewed not for their musical ability but on their plans and why they want to be in the show.
When a person joins the cast he pays $100 as a registration fee to cover costumes and his education. He then pays $50 a month for traveling expenses.
in homes in the areas where they will be performing.
Up With People is a non-profit education corporation and a large amount of its funds come from donation. The cast members stay
"People like to be in the group for a year and receive their training," Miss Vangen said. "Then they carry this global, futuristic philosophy into their life careers."
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