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Show The Daily Utah Chronicle, Friday, May Page Two Creative air in tegrated into poetry by MARTHA WICKELHAUS Chronicle staff Keeping young students interested in poetry long enough to teach them about it has been trying the souls of secondary education teachers for years. Poetry-in-the-Schoo- ls program is attempting to break down the stereotype of rigid, dull poetry by getting students to write. The program is Division of Fine Arts the State sponsored by (SDFA). It has been functioning successfully in many states, including Kentucky, Washington, New Jersey, Nevada and Utah. The program works on a matching-fund- s basis. Participating schools pay part of the costs and the SDFA pays the rest. Young poets, often graduate students travel to different schools, spending about a week in each school The writer works directly with the students in classrooms, and with teachers in special seminars and workshops. The impression most students have of verse or deeply poetry is greeting-car- d Ed said Lueders, professor of philosophical, Poetry-in-the-Schoo- Is English and Poetry-in-the-Schoo- ls participant. "It is the middle, ground, playing with language, making it do meaningful things that the poetry program deals with." Lueders said the role of poetry in schools is changing. There is added emphasis on contemporary poetry. Classes don't deal with simply the strongly structured, cerebral poems. ''Poetry is no longer something old to be studied in museums,' he said. "It's alive and well. Everyone knows musicians are writing music, artists are doing paintings. Poets are : : ." "Poetry-in-the-Schools- Poetry-in-the-Schoo- ls Honorary society holds initiation , The Journalism Hon- orary Scholastic Society, Kappa Tau Alpha (KTA) c initiated 25 new members Thursday at the Com-municati- Week Banquet held in the Union Building. Students initiated into the society included: Mark ; ; Bain, Myrna Bagley, Anita Madsen Bennett, Scott Christiansen, Jill Cook, Diann Cottle, Nancy Etheridge, Jason Fife, Lori Halver- - Briefs Campus " poetry now." writing ' Stephen Rufus is a poet involved with the program. He said he feels the purpose is to suggest ways of working poetry into the normal everyday curriculum of schools. Rufus said there are misconceptions among teachers that they have to pick and choose poetry on their students level. "This gives the students a stifled sense of what poetry is," he said. He said he tries to bring poems into the class to give students an idea of a different kind of poetry. As part of his class he devises exercises to help them understand poetry that is considered above their level. He does this by having them write about the poem rather than his telling them what it means. "Poetry can be something which one can J enjoy and have fun with," he said. "The language of poetry is comon everyday language, not foreign, esoteric stuff that only strange people want to write." Rufus said students usually greet the writers with a mixture of curiosity and enthusiasm. "The writer comes in from outside to offer the students something different a break from the daily routine." "They are always curious. Sometimes they don't know what they are doing or why. They soon discover that poetry is not what they thought it was," he commented. Rufus said the student's work is surprisingly good. "My main interest is to get them to write good stuff, not just to get them to open up. However, I'm not overly concerned with the product, rather I'm concerned with the process." Rufus said the students' work is sometimes powerful and illuminating. "It's not always bright, cheery and childlike. They're capable of a mature voice." This summer, Lueders will be teaching a class called The class will deal with how to present poetry as a subject in public schools. The class will include a workshop held jointly with the State Division of Fine Arts. The workshop will deal with the goals, methods and results of the program. tion. They must be majors in Journalism and Mass Communication in their junior year or higher level of education and in the top 10 percent of the son, Julie Heath, Espen Holje, Jane Jurinak, Julie Knowlton, Kenneth Lord,-JohV. Luz, Lisa Murray, Janice Linda Reiley, Peck-Sanso- Mark class. Shenefelt, Corey Vickie Smith, Bryan Thielke, Susan Tillman, Anne Waters and Nedra Williams. Officers Smith, were also elected for the academic year 1978-7They are, president, Linda Reiley; 9. To be elected as members in Kappa Tua Alpha, students must meet the criteria set by the KTA national constitu vice president, Julie Heath; and secretary Lori Halverson. The campus advisor is Prof. Milton C. Hollstein. man shnws His jnaintines u are included in Late evaluations Course evaluations for winter quarter will be late because of mechanical problems, according to ASUU Academic Affairs spokesman Wally Garff. Garff explained Thursday that the forms that had been used were impossible to scan with University equipment, and that the forms are being processed off campus. "We ordered forms with rectangular boxes, but the equipment has just changed to use circles and we had to f irud another place with the right kind of machinery," said Garff. He added that the evaluations will be coming, and by the fall the system will be and the evaluations will continue up-to-da- te on schedule. Israeli festival Israel's 30th Independence Day celebrations will open with the B.Y.U. International Folk Dancers at 8:00 p.m. at the Jewish Community Center on Saturday Fallafel, Tehina, Kabbab (ground lamb spiced with cumin, garlic and other Middle Eastern spices) and other traditional foods will enhance the jubilation. LDS events Hanks, member of the Presidency First Quorum of the Seventy of the LDS Church, will speak Friday at the Institute's Noon Devotional in the Central Chapel. Hanks, a graduate of the University's law school, has been on the United States President's Council for Physical Fitness and sports and is prominent in the scouting program. Special services in honor of Israel's 30th Independence anniversary will be held Friday night at 8 p.m. at Congregation Kol Marion Ami I). South. Gov. Scott Matheson and officials of the LDS church will attend. Synagogue, E. 2425 Senator Orrin Hatch, 2760 h, Jewish scholar Professor Abraham Kaplan, z widely recognized Jewish philosopher and scholar, will give two public lectures Monday at the University. The president of the Israel Philosophical Association will speak at 10 a.m. on ' The Self and Its Identity" in the Tanner Pvoom of Spencer Hall. This discussion is under the auspices of the Colleges of Humanities, and Social and Behavioral Science. At 3:30 p.m., Kaplan will lecture on "Jewish Mysticism: The Kabbalah of R. Isaac Luria" in the Olpin Union Den. The presentation is sponsored by the Middle East ff OMxtoq JJWftn 7 'if J,, ; , In Murray: Fashion Place Mall. (801) In Oram: University Mall, (801) 225-408- 8 268-153- 0 . numerous public and private collections. Crown will discuss his works at a gallery talk Sunday at 3 p.m with a reception following at 4 p.m. He will meet with an art class Monday afternoon and wtih the Utah Watercolor Society at the museum Monday at 7:30 p.m. Edward D. Maryon, dean of the College of Fine Arts, characterizes Crown's watercolors as "general works with rural and urban style. landscape themes in a Crown uses vivid colors and strong stylized images to portray his messages." semi-abstra- ct Colder honored Scott E. Calder, former University student body president who will graduate in June, has been awarded a $3,000 graduate study fellowship from Phi Kappa Phi honor society. Calder is an economics major and plans to attend Harvard Business School. He was one of 30 recipients selected from 117 of the nation's outstanding 1978 been has Calder an honor graduates. society member in each of his four years at the University. He was one of seven juniors selected in 1975 as Phi Beta Kappa from a class of more than 4,000. Calder served as president of the Associated Students of the University in 1976-7- 7 and then was named chairman of the Utah Council of Student Body Presidents representing all Utah schools. He is a current member of Beehive, the University's highest academic and service honorary, and was selected for Owl and Key and Mortar Board, both senior honor societies. The University chapter of Phi Kappa Phi has received seven graduate fellowships since 1967. Each recipient was a member of the Honors Program. Calder's brother, Kent, was the 1970-71 recipient who subsequently graduated from Harvard. Eccles awards Nine University graduate students were selected to receive Marriner S. Eccles Graduate Fellowships in Political Economy the University Graduate School announced Friday. They are Lynn S. Alvord, communication; David K. Broadbent, law; Laurie A. " Chivers, educational administration; Richard S. Collins, economics; France A. Davis, communication; Marcene Lee Erickson, social work; Ann Hansen, eoncomics; Kay Ann Hoogland, law; and Patricia A. Parmelee, psychology. Each will receive a renewable cash stipend of $6,500 for four quarters for advanced studies in fields relating to public policy beginning fall quarter of 1978. The announcement was made by Dr. Center. St erling M. McMurrin, dean of the A professor of philosophy and sociology University Graduate School and chairman at the University of Haifa, Kaplan has been of the fellowship awards committee. He said associated with numerous academic-organizationthe recipients of "these highly prestigious a.id institutions. grants were chosen in nationwide Although born in the Soviet Union, competition on the basis of their academic Kaplan holds dual citizenship from the excellence and the probability that their United States and Israel. graduate education will produce important results in the public interest." The fellowship program was established in 1977 from an endowment by Marriner S. Keith Crown, a prominent California Eccles, former chairman of the Federal watercolor artist, will visit the Univeisity Reserve Board and First Security Corp. of in and with an Sunday Monday Utah. A long-tim- e conjunction supporter of education, exhibition of his paintings in the Utah Eccles was interested in encouraging Museum of Fine Arts. promising gradute students to pursue Crown has been a professor at UCLA degrees in subjects of major public concern, since 1947. His watercolors have been ranging from finance and banking to energy displayed nationally in more than 60 one- development. stretch the truth a little, too. Sometimes threats are Once Allgire took a more direct and physical. word about a consumer's Recently while doing a still being under product st ory on gypsy contractors, it was not. when warranty, who put a phoney resurfacthe discovered Allgire ing on people's driveways 10 minutes mistake about and then skip town, Allgire before airtime, and the show by NOLYN HARDY and his cameraman were had to be cancelled. Special to the Chronicle surrounded by 15 angry men. "No one wants to talk to Allgire said his program Allg ire and the film escaped me before a broadcast," said a special kind of requires but the cameraunharmed, Dick Allgire, consumer-advocat- e man suffered two broken reporting that regular for KUTV-- 2 whose newsmen wouldn't and ribs. The show was aired, "Trouble Shooter" program use. He must take shouldn't assualt attempt and all. airs as part of the noon and 6 a calculated risk in for that news Getting on information But help people p.m. weekdays. publishing who have been off is wants talk to ripped him considered to be everyone might part of the programming, afterwards including libelous. But he believes he too. Before a recent show on sometimes the program performs an important a faulty sprinkler system director and the station public service. The type of which cost two elderly crime well as as he exposes would manager, angry Ogden women $1,500, otherwise go unnoticed businessmen and their Allgire persuaded another lawyers. Allgire was on campus to firm to redo the work at no The threats of lawsuits are speak to journali sm students cost and made sure his a common reaction to his last Thursday. He was a viewers knew who did the student at the University broadcasts. The best defense is to make sure you have the job right, as well as who did when a summer internship it wrong. truth and the facts to back it with KUTV-- 2 led to his Consumers sometimes up, he said. present job. s Jf 12, 1978 Art exhibition Allgire reveals |