Singer Buffy Sainte-Marie to be featured
Festival of Arts coupons still on sale
Student Union Activities will continue coupon sales beginning Wednesday in the SUA office for the fourth annual Festival of the Arts.
About 22,000 coupons, which entitle each coupon holder to attend the six performances, were sold during registration, said Darrell Reed, Leawood senior and SUA Festival of the Arts chairman.
Martin Ritt, film director; Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and novelist; the New York Rock Ensemble; Barbara Rose, contributing editor to "Artform Magazine;" and singer Buffy Saine-Marie will be featured at the festival.
All performances begin at 8
p. m. in Hoch Auditorium.
Martin Ritt will discuss his current work including his adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Howard Slacker, "The Great White Hope." The play is the story of a Negro prize fighter.
Other Riff productions include "Hud," "Edge of the City," "The Long Hot Summer," and Hemingway's "Adventures of a Young Man." His most recent film, "The Molly McGuires," is now being released.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, whose book of poems, "A Coney Island of the Mind," is now going into its sixteenth printing with a quarter million copies in print,
will present a reading of his work March 31.
Ferlinghetti's novel, "Her," published in 1960, is now in its seventh printing. Other poetry books by the author are "Starting from San Francisco" and "Unfair Arguments with Existence."
His numerous poetry readings in both this country and abroad include appearances at the Berlin Literary Colloquium and the poetry evening at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
Performing April 1 will be the New York Rock Ensemble, a quintet noted for performing classical selections before intermission and coming back after the break with rock adaptations of their earlier pieces.
Barbara Rose will discuss her views about the uses of modern art April 2.
and cello; Brian Corrigan,
rhythm guitar; Clifton Nivison,
lead guitar; Martin Fultrman,
drums and oboe and Michael
Kamen, piano.
An evening of modern dance will be presented by the Luces Hoving Dance Company, April 3 The Holland-born Hoving began his career as a member of the Jooss Ballet, later going to the Jose Limon Dance Company where he achieved fame for his portrayal of characters in "The Moors' Pavance" and "Emperor Jones."
Survey reveals sentiment about language requirement
Figures concerning a survey to determine student opinion of the foreign language requirement at the University of Kansas indicate that of students who participated in the survey two-thirds of freshman and sophomore students favoring a change want the requirement abolished.
In the junior and senior range, dissent seemed to be evenly divided between those who merely wanted a requirement change and those who wanted it abolished entirely.
The figures represent only students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said Robert Duncan, a coordinator of the survey.
The Committee on Language Research, a part of the North College Student Advisory Board, sponsored the survey.
Over 4,000 surveys were received from students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Duncan said. He said because the
Blending classical with contemporary, the group boasts three Juilliard trained musicians. Last summer the ensemble sold out three shows at Stanford University.
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college has the highest amount of required hours in a foreign language, the committee has first analyzed surveys from students in the College.
Comprising the ensemble are
Dorian Rudnytsky, bass guitar
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with his own dance company the last few years, he has served as choreographer for such companies as the Juilliard Dance Ensemble, New York; Bright Culberg Company, Sweden; and Kurt Joos Folkwang Dallet, Germany.
Duncan said students were asked to give their own comments and that many indicated they wanted improved courses—courses including studies of the culture and philosophy of a foreign country. The survey also showed many students favored lessening the amount of classes and making teacher choices more selective.
Buffy Sainte-Marie, a Cree Indian noted for her songs portraying her feelings about injustice to her people, will climax the festival April 4.
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Who?—You
Hoving has made four overseas tours with the company under the auspices of the State department. He has appeared frequently in New York on Broadway, on television and in concert.
What?—1-12 months on Tropical Island
When?—Now
He has been awarded choreographic grants by the U.S. National Endowment of the Arts and the Dutch government. Hoving is a member of the Juilliard School faculty.
Where? Unspelled Caribbean Island
Why?—Why not?
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Open year-around. Car rides co-ordinated. Cost—$100 mo. (Not a Hippie Commune)
For Students and Teachers
Not only protest songs compose the artist's repertoire. Included is traditional folk music, blues and country and western music.
He recently has acquired a reputation as a lecturer-instructor in most of the major dance centers of the world. Touring
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Her recordings include six albums and the singles "Now That the Buffalo is Gone," "Universal Soldier" and "My Country Tis Of Thee People Are Dying."
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Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 16 and 17, 1970
to assist you in placing your orders for Graduation Announcements
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