Folk dancing gives relaxing outlet
Anyone can learn to folk dance, and when a group of people like the KU Folk Dance Club get together the learning is as fun as the dancing.
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With the allocation was the Senate's endorsement of the program and a pledge to additionally fund the program $300,000 next year.
"Social change carries a big price tag," said Dave Awbrey, Hutchinson senior and one senator who submitted the proposal.
Other students who also submitted it were Gus diZerega, Wichita graduate student; Mike Warner; Candy Howard; Phil Lovett, Wichita senior and Vickie Adams.
The senate passed a resolution in sympathy with the students and community and Kent State and South Carolina University. Copies of the resolution will be sent to those universities.
Also passed was a resolution commending those University officials, departments and organizations responsible for the cancellation of the ROTC review.
A student insurance coverage policy was chosen by the Senate. The policy with Travelers insurance company has rates of $54.25 for a single student, $107.90 for a student and spouse, and $162.05 for a student, spouse and dependents. No maternity benefits are included in the policy, which is the same one adopted by students at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
The Senate established a speaker's bureau of students from KU to be available to communities in Kansas to help communications throughout the state.
Senate committees and boards recommended by the Students Senate Executive (SenEx) committee were accepted by the Senate. They are:
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Students, faculty members, graduate students and anyone else meet Friday evenings at 8 p.m. in 173 Robinson Gymnasium to dance. Many members know dances they have learned either from people from other parts of the world or from the leader of the group.
"We just get together for the enjoyment and fun of dancing," one member said, "the group is not a membership club, but people just come whenever they
The leader of the group, Stephen Resovich, started the group about three years ago. He taught the members mostly Balkan and Servian dances that he had learned from his parents.
Bill and Donna Silvert brought many new dances to the group that they had learned from a Cleveland folk dance club.
have the time and are looking for a lot of fun."
"There, the club is usually larger and you can get enough people to make a good size ring dance," Mrs. Silvert said. Her husband is an assistant professor of physics at KU.
Folk dancing is not only for fun, some members say, but has other advantages.
"Dancing, I believe, provides an opportunity for people to become physically involved in a full range of human emotions in a safe, sane and therapeutic way," Resovich said.
Robert O'Bryan, assistant instructor in mathematics, said he believed modern dancing was
fine for the people who like it, but folk dancing was more fun because of the group participation. He added that it was good exercise.
The group tries to present a variety of dances from other countries. One time a German student taught the polka and another time a teacher from Poland shared some of his native dances. Resovich said that knowing folk dances gives people some root to their past and ancestry. Through the dances the individual can get an idea of the kind of life his ancestors lived.
Most modern dances today, he said, are forms of rebellion. Folk dances go beyond that and can be learned for their cultural, geographical and ethical values instead of merely being an outlet for repressions.
Resovich hopes someday to find enough interested people to make the club a performing group. Forming a group would not only reflect recognition on the University, but would provide the satisfaction of practice resulting in a good performance.
Resovich, though he learned most of his dances from his parents, studied with eight to ten teachers who were mostly non-Slavic. He comes to KU once a week for the club and during the day he teaches science at Bonner Springs Elementary School.
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Bill Silvert, who has taught dances to the group, said of folk singing, "I've heard many people talk about the right way to do a dance, but there isn't any one way, you just do it as fast as you can."
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