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Show Activities Take Shape As 'U Days' Festivities Near will be presented at the dance. Wallace, commenting on the progress pro-gress of U Days, was very optimistic. opti-mistic. "There's been a lot of enthusiasm en-thusiasm generated for U Days," he said. Alumni are invited. versity Songfest will take place in Kingsbury Hall, 7:30 p.m. The songfest competition pits singing groups in several different categories cate-gories who compete for first, second sec-ond and third place trophies. Preliminaries for Songfest are April 24. Fifteen groups will be selected to perform in Kingsbury Hall at 6 p.m. The annual Block U whitewash will be sponsored by the IK's on May 3. Closing U Days events will be an informal dance, featuring Linda Ronstadt and the Stone Ponies as the guest concert group. Holden Caulfied will also play. The dance begins at 8 p.m. Concerts Con-certs will be at 9 and 11 p.m. Tickets Tic-kets are $1 with ID. The queen A queen contest, art competition, annual songfest and informal dance will be featured in this year's U Days celebration, stated Chairman Brent Wallace. Scheduled for the week of April 29 to May 4, U Days will start with the finals of the Miss University of Utah competition. The U Days queen, who must be between 18 to 28 years old, will represent the University in the Miss Utah for Miss America pageant held in early summer. The selection criteria includes in-cludes natural beauty, poise, talent and personality. Competitions include in-clude swimsuit, talent and interview inter-view divisions. Ten Finalists Preliminary competition will be April 18 at 10 a.m. Ten finalists will be chosen then. Candidates for U Days queen must be sponsored spon-sored by individual or groups. Finals wiU be April 29 at 8 p.m. in the Union Ballroom. On May 2, an art contest will be held. According to Wallace, teams of two people will paint for two hours on a two by three foot poster. pos-ter. The paintings will, decorate the U Days dance. The contest begins be-gins at 2 p.m. and lasts until 4 p.m. U Songfest The evening of May 2, the Uni- |