Folk singer becomes song writer
Popular folk singer Judy Collins
Composing contemporary art songs is another of the many talents of Judy Collins. She is acclaimed for her singing of traditional Anglo-American ballads. Her appearance before an audience has often been described as a religious experience.
KUMC students seek voice
Faculty-student disagreements at the University of Kansas Medical Center are moving toward resolution through a report by a student-faculty committee at the Center.
The students have been seeking involvement and participation in Medical Center affairs. A resolution was passed by the Student Senate Feb. 4 asking for an investigation into the restriction of students from school government. At that time the medical students were concerned about not being allowed to aid in choosing a new head to the surgery department.
Brian Biles, third year medical student and Student Senate representative, announced that a committee on goverance had been formed and was now considering the question of participation of students at the medical center.
The five-member committee is headed by Dr. Charles Brackett in the department of neurosurgery, with two student representatives. They are Edward Martin.
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fourth year medical student, and Melvin Roberts, resident physician.
into practice at the Medical Center what is already University policy, he said.
Biles said he thought Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. believed in this policy and was working in his own way to see that it would be done.
"We feel confident that when a report of that committee comes, it will place students in the decision-making process," said Biles.
It is just a matter of putting
Two freshmen appointed as KU-Y camp chairmen
Two University of Kansas freshmen were appointed Tuesday as chairmen of the 1970 KU-Y Freshman Camp. They are Janet Svoboda, Chapman, and Rick Marsh, Sioux City, Iowa.
The fifth annual Freshman Camp will be held this fall, said Tom Moore, director of KU-Y. It is a weekend of exchange among students, faculty and community citizens centered around vital ideas, he said.
The committee will now begin work on recruiting upperclassmen as counselors for the camp, Moore said. Other members of the 1970 Freshman Camp committee are Lisa Spence, Beloit, Wisc., sophomore; Terry Bridges, Norborne, Mo., sophomore; Beth Dupong, Falls Church, Va., freshman; and Beth Verchota, Glen Ellyn, Ill., freshman.
The camp was held at Tall Oaks, near Linwood, last fall. Outstanding leaders among the faculty and upperclassman cooperated with freshmen in the atmosphere of an ideal university. Moore said.
BRITONS LIKE SPUDS
LONDON (URI) - Britons are eating potatoes at a record clip.
The Ministry of Agriculture says a survey shows consumption of potatoes in the country in 1968 averaged 228 $ \frac{1}{2} $ pounds per person.
FISH SPECIAL
Henry's is here to help the pocketbook of the student again. This time with a fish sandwich special—every fish sandwich sold from Friday, March 20th to Sunday March
Henry's is here to b with a fish sandwich spec. 20th to Sunday, March 22nd will cost only 19c. Why buy fish sandwiches?
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it's Lenten season and a very appropriate time for fish. And since this special will be occurring over Spring Break, you'll be looking for some source of food besides your dorm or living group. So come to Henry's this weekend, and save yourself some money.
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Judy Collins, formerly labeled simply a folk singer, is now referred to as one of America's foremost singers of contemporary art songs, and recently, an important writer of songs herself.
Her most recent records have established her in the foreground of popular music interpreters. Her appearances at college concerts have given her a rare rapport with youth.
She has continued to grow as a performer and more recently as a composer, to the extent that her appearance before an audience has often been described by many as not just a performance, but as a religious experience.
Judy Collins was born in Seattle, the daughter of a prominent radio personality, and was reared in Denver. Her musical training began with piano lessons at the age of seven.
"At sixteen," she said in a press release, "I found that I needed to be together more than I needed to be alone. I found the guitar, and then the only discipline was my desire to get at the communication through lovely, beautiful songs, words put together with melodies that came from somewhere different, immediate, close. The songs were not so much songs as verbal lookings."
Miss Collins has recorded eight albums. The music she plays and sings on her most recent albums is lyrical and poetic. Along with
the songs of such writers as Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell and Jacques Brel, are the songs' of Judy Collins.
Speaking of her new creative phase of writing, Miss Collins said, "I used to think of myself not so much as a singer but as a kind of storyteller who happened to sing. Finally, after all these years of looking for the beautiful songs that I could sing, wanted to sing, I started to write my own songs, and that is completely different. Paul Simon told me it straightens out your head, and he is right."
"Albatross" is the first song Judy Collins ever wrote. "I went over some kind of hump when I began to write my own material last spring. Now I feel regenerated in everything I do," she said.
Her plans are to continue to give concerts with her group of musicians, to write songs, to appear in motion pictures and creative television, to ski and mountain-climb with her young son, to work in peace movements and to travel.
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