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International Show Features Lions. Ribbons and Suicides
"I am very optimistic about the type of show that will be presented this year," he said in an interview last night. "All of the groups, through the presentation of their skits, have shown they are very much concerned about giving a show of high quality."
The twelfth annual International Festival, where, contrary to Kipling, all parts of the world meet together, is almost ready for its program to be presented at 8 p.m., April 17, in Hoch Auditorium.
After its first tryout and practice sessions this week, program chairman David Vargas, Costa Rican sophomore, said he was very much impressed with the response of the foreign students, who will make up the program.
Vargas said he expected some 90 foreign students to work in this year's program. Its aim, he said, is to present to Americans slices of foreign cultures through their arts, music, dance and drama.
VARGAS SAID that many people have expressed concern about the omission of the exhibits and the
Prakash Nagori, Indian sophomore and publicity chairman of the program, said the festival committee had excluded the exhibits and fashion shows because they had involved too much work.
THE ARAB-AMERICAN Club will present Arabian dances through the aid of professional dancers. The dances will be varied, Vargas said. A group of German students will
Friday, March 26, 1965
"We are doing fewer things this year," Nagori said, "but we are going to do them much better. We will have more time and energy to exert in less areas."
fashion show that were part of the program last year, but he felt that overall the show will be better.
The Chinese Club will present a Chinese traditional folk dance called the Lion Dance, Vargas said. In this dance, he explained, two dancers perform under a huge lion costume; their feet are the lion's feet and they move about in different manners making the lion seem alive.
"THIS DANCE is about 2,000 years old." Adrian Fung, Hong Kong graduate student and president of the Chinese Club, said. "We usually perform it around our New Year holiday. There are many different steps that one could use to perform this dance; it takes from five to ten minutes to perform."
present a series of folk songs with a dramatic background of students socializing after a day of class work, Vargas said.
The Chinese Club hopes to do a very traditional "ribbon dance". Fung said. Two dancers, using brightly colored ribbons twelve feet long, wave the ribbons in the air as they dance but they must not let the ribbons touch the floor. Fung said.
Earth Science Group Celebrates 50 Years
"I am not sure at the moment," Fung said, "but we would very much like to have Chinese music to accompany us in our two dances and possibly a folk song. We will try to get some."
An honorary national fraternity in earth sciences will celebrate its 50th anniversary here Monday. Sigma Gamma Epsilon has 57 chapters in the United States, but the first chapter was founded at KU in 1915.
The national convention will run for three days next week. After chapter reports on Tuesday, two field trips are planned for Wednesday--one will deal with the cyclothemic deposits of Kansas and the other with Pleistocene geology of northeastern Kansas.
THE JAPANESE-American Club will present a suicide drama called Hara Kari, Yusuke Kawarabayashi, Japanese graduate student and president of the Japanese-American Club, said. The play is speechless so actions are patomimed. Vargas said.
Wednesday there will be a banquet for fraternity members, Dr. David B. Kitts, associate professor of geology at Oklahoma University, will be the guest speaker. Two of the founders of Sigma Gamma Epsilon will accept a plaque honoring the fraternity's golden anniversary.
THE TWO ORIGINAL founders who will accept the plaque at the banquet are Clark B. Carpenter of Golden, Colorado and Glen L. Allen of Miami, Florida. The two men, along with seven other fellow students, founded the Alpha chapter of Sigma Gamma Epsilon on March 31, 1915.
The Alpha chapter has a unique method of obtaining funds for field trips, guest lecturers, and social events. Members of the chapter maintain a coffee bar in Lindley Hall. This is the primary source of revenue for the chapter and proceeds from the enterprise average five dollars a day, according to Hank Bowers, president of the Alpha chapter.
"We will also have some dances and songs from Latin American groups," Vargas said. "The Filipinos will present a folk dance where a dancer steps in and out of two large bamboo rods clapped together.
The African Club will dramatize a ritual where an African chief is being installed, Vargas said.
"American groups will be expected to provide skits for our in-between acts entertainment." Vargas said. "Any individuals wishing to tell jokes, perform dances or anything else will have a chance to try out at 7 p.m., March 30, in Hoch."
Tau Sigma, honorary dance fraternity, will be having one of its major events of the year this week, when about a 100 high school students from 15 high schools are coming up to participate in a dance symposium.
KU Dance Group Sponsors High School Symposium
The symposium, to be held from 9 to 12 a.m. and I to 2:30 p.m. in Robinson Hall, is the third of its kind held at KU. It was first held in 1963, when only three schools came to KU.
Miss Elizabeth Sherbon, instructor of physical education and faculty adviser to the dance group, said that in the morning Tau Sigma would give a short class on dance notation and technique. After the lunch, there will be a dance composition class and short performances to be given by each of the high schools. Tau Sigma will then perform some of the numbers it did for the January show.
ALTHOUGH THE DANCE symposium is a comparatively new venture, Tau Sigma itself is already an old KU organization. It was founded in 1921 and it gave its first show, which was to become an annual even in 1925. It had a varied program with dances set to classical music. Throughout the thirties Tau Sigma continued to hold its annual show. In 1933 the group held its first modern dance classes and also gave tapdancing lessons. Another feature of the club's activity was the social dance classes it held for university students. Tau Sigma has helped with various performances of the theatre and the university orchestra.
ALTHOUGH TAU SIGMA was originally a sorority, it has been a coed group ever since 1939. Today Tau Sigma has nine men and 29 women members. Members are chosen by tryouts in the fall semester. Some of the other activities of Tau Sigma this year have been the annual recital in Hoch in January, movies in the dance classes on the various forms of modern dance and participation in University Theatre
productions. A spring banquet is scheduled for April.
One of the most exciting of the things done by Tau Sigma was a live television appearance two weeks ago. They performed some of their dances from their January show.
The performance on television was part of Washburn University's program over channel 13 two weeks ago.
Ranger Finds Area For Space Landing
WASHINGTON — (UPI)— Ranger 9 found two and possibly three spots for the America's Apollo spaceship and its two-man crew to land on the moon.
The information was relayed to President Johnson and the cabinet Thursday by James E. Webb, head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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