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Monday, March 24, 1975
University Daily Kansan
Scholarships awarded
Twenty-seven Kansas high school senior men and 23 senior women have been named Summerfield and Wakins-Berger Scholars at KU for 1975-76. The Summerfield awards for men and the Wakins-Scholars for women are among the highest academic awards, and their awards are renewable for four years, and stipends vary from a small honorarium to nearly full support. The winners were chosen from Kansas National Merit semifinalists.
Bus trip for Yogi speech
Anyone interested in hearing Mahariah Maharih Yogi speak at Mahariah International University, Fairfield, Iowa, should call Jill Scaffold at 843-9402. A bus will leave from the field at 5 Wednesday and will return midnight. The price for the round-trip
Correction
It was incorrectly reported in Friday's Kansan that GSP-Corbin residents could park in the Canterbury House parking lot. The correct parking area is the R-3 zone.
Tonight...
BERNARD COHEN, from the University of Pittsburgh, will speak on the "Environmental Impacts of Nuclear Power" at 4:30 in 238 Mallett. He will also participate in a discussion of nuclear power at 8 in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
A HATIA YOGA CLASS will meet at 4:30 at the United Ministries Building, 1204 Grace
building, 1328 Oakland
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE organization will meet at 6:30 in Danforth
Church.
THE STUDENT SPEECH AND HEARING ASSOCIATION will meet at 7 at 1104 Crestline. Dr. Salmon, from the Veterans Administration Hospital, will speak on aphasia.
binding BAHAI will meet at 7:30 in the Union.
A TAI CHI CHUAN CLASS will meet at 7 in the United Ministries Building.
BANAH INC. at 7:30 in the court
GARY LIFERATION, INC., will at 7:30 in the International Room of
the Union.
of the union:
Richard Steinmetz, a research scientist for the Amoco Production Company, will speak on "Living with Energy and the Environment" at 7:30 in 426 Lindley.
NOTICE!
Because of a UDK error, the summer rate for the Jayhawker Towers Apartments was printed incorrectly.
The summer rate is $220.00 per month, not $130.00 per month as was printed in the Tuesday, March 18 edition of the UDK.
We would like to apologize to anyone who may have been inconvenienced by this error.
—UDK ADVERTISING DEPT.
Basie evokes shimmering past
From the first soft chords of the Count's
band, the bass salve I was transported to
the other.
By TOM BILLAM Contributing Writer
In my mind I was in a dimly lit little club with a small stage whereupon Count Basse sat, grinning and sweating. In my hand was a cool tall drink and on my arm was Lauren Bacall. We sat at one of the rides rising above the stairs, everyone had left but the band and us. Basse played one song for us, we danced alone and walked slowly away into the morning.
This mood of nostalgia pervaded the crowd in Hoch Auditorium Friday evening. Whether the others' imaginations carried them as far as mine did is hard to say, but there was no doubt in my mind that for many of the old and young couples dancing, the music brought back memories, real or imagined, of times long ago and far away.
KANSAN review
Simple as the basic dance movements were when rehearsed slowly during the intermissions, they were ever so much harder when attempted in the middle of hundreds of other frenetic couples. Everyone needed at least 20 square feet of space in which to dance; everyone got about one.
People came to listen and to dance and didn't have to wait long for either. The first tune Basis played, "Why Not?," set the mood for most of the crowd and seemed to be the answer to the numerous questions of "Do you want to dance?"
By the third song, Basie's rendition of "What Are You Doing for the Rest of Your Life," the floor had become packed with a diversity of couples, old, young and inbetween, each dancing their own type of Count Bass shuffle.
Especially heartening was seeing older couples willing to trade partners with the youngsters to teach the young a few smooth steps and swirls. The old style of dancing became one of an expression of gnateness than the modern individualistic dancing.
Between sets I saw many couples instructing other less experienced groups in the skills of the jitterbug. Obviously, some of them had learned only recently, probably with little chance lessons, but that didn't diminish the enthusiasm of either teacher or learner.
All modes of dress seemed appropriate,
but "erra" clothes were abundant. Knee-
length skirts even wore nails, matte
white fringed sleeves, fringed white
and whatever was thought right worn.
Also wore were my feet after four 45-minute sets of music and dancing. The dancing was beautiful, and I absolutely fascinated. If I hadn't been having so much fun trying to
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dance, I could have sat listening in perfect contentment for the entire performance, abbit my feet and hands would have moved with the beat anway.
I felt the energy increase when the saxophone player became soulful in his solo. If you weren't dancing, you were tapping your feet. It was music that made
The Count led his band through many favorites and a few contemporary tunes with their few overt signs. A fewods, direct and free, sound seemed enough to keep the group together.
we move almost without volition. I surrendered to the tune and the Count carried me to the Stardust Ballroom upon wings of fancy.
Count Basie, a master of concealing swinging tension with relaxation, reduces his skills to the bare necessities. A four-bar lead-in, an eight-bar interlude, a single note where another would have played a chord, these were all the Count needed.
The Count brought Swing to Lawrence. Many happy returns.
K.U. Concert Series Presents
"The Sound of Brass"
New York Brass Quintet
Hoch Auditorium Monday, March 24 at 8:00 p.m.
- Free admission to all students upon presentation of current I.D.
- Free reserved seat tickets available while they last at the Murphy Hall box office
- General public tickets are '3, '3.50, '4
- Program will begin promptly at 8 p.m. For further information contact Murphy Hall box office at 864-3982
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