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Show Arts & Leisure THE THUNDERBIRD SOUTHERN UTAH STATE COLLEGE, CEDAR CITY TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1990 PAGE 8 Drill team has smiles and snap Poet to recite REVIEW BY JASON NORTH public. Stafford will also guest teach that day in the Creative Writing class at 1 1 am. in SC 201 and the Introduction to Poetry class at 12.30 a.m. in SC 121 Staffords poetry reading is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council Literary Program and the SUSC Literary Guild. The SUSC visit is the beginning of the poets Utah tour of four colleges. The guest poet is a former resident poet and consultant to the Library of Congress. He has published nine major collections of poetry and 14 limited edition books. He is also the author of Writing the Australian Crawl a View of Writing as a Vocation, and many articles and essays on poetry and literature. Stafford is SUSCs best received poet writer of the last 20 years. He has visited our campus on numerous occasions; we almost claim him as our own, said David Lee, department head of language and literature. Anybody who says they dont like William Stafford, as a poet or as a human being, has probably got something wrong with them, Lee said. Staffords major awards include the 1982 National Book Award for the Most Distinguished Book of Poetry by an American; the 1981 Shelley Memorial Award to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters; and the Guggenheim Foundation Award of 1966-6He is also the Poet Laureate in his home state of Oregon where he taught at Lewis and Clark College in Portland for 30 years. A frequent visitor to Utah, he continues a demanding scedule of lectures and readings that has taken him throughout the United States, the Middle East, Far East and Europe. Poet William Stafford will read from his poems Feb. 20 at 8 p.m. in the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery. The reading is free and open to the The two teenage dancers glided onto the floor. She jumped as he gently lifted her over his outstretched forearm her high heels flying past his smile. The sibhngs, Heinz and Keesha Kirchhausen, were guest performers at the annual review of the Waukeenyan Dance Team Thursday. The SUSC drill team performed five dances, sharing the program with four other drill teams, including Dixie Colleges Rebelettes, and a few talent numbers. The Waukeenyans Rhythm Nation had vitality the dancers moved with a tough and sassy attitude. Pistol was snappy. The dancers pseudo-martiart kicks were a creative variation of the standard chorus line kick. Smiles were more frequent during this dance and also Sing, the opening number of the evenings review. Because there was only one dance number that used props, the other four strongly emphasized the dancers movements. Spread Your Wings, one of those four, was too stilted. Its emphasis was on a patchwork of standard drill team moves with nothing interesting or new. Perhaps there is only a limited number of ways for a drill team to move, but certainly a troupe like SUSCs Waukeenyans could borrow moves from other types of dance to make themselves unique in the drill team world. The Waukeenyans definitely have the talent and ability to perform complex, expressive movements. TP eir energy just needs to be refocused on more originality. al Show looks at hobby Researching Family Histones, a public affairs program and the final installment in the Times and Seasons series, airs Wednesday, Feb. 21 at noon on KGSU-F91.1, the SUSC radio station. half-hou-r The American Library Association estimates that searching out family histories is among the most popular hobbies in the United States, second only to stamp and com collecting. Popularity ranges from an innate desire to know ones origins to proof of lineage so one can join a historical organization to eternal theological implications such as those embraced by the LDS Church. Program coordinators quote Roots author Alex Haley who calls the family the building block of our whole social structure, as they trace record keeping from the oral genealogies of primitive societies to the sophisticated computerized archives of today. Museum of SU offers Great Basin science The museum gives people a chance to learn about this area its plants, animals, ancient peoples and its said Joann Bowns, director of geology, the Museum of Southern Utah and associate professor of biology. Located next to the ROTC, the museum houses a collection of specimens from the fields of paleontology, geology and biology, and is free to the public. Its hours are 4 to 6 pm. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 6 p m Thursday and 4 to 5 p.m. Friday. There are over 30 display of animals, seashells, fossils and ancient American Indian artifacts. The museum emphasizes specimens from .he Great Basin Area, Bowns said. For 20 years the specimens were displayed m a structure that was eventually torn down in the The exhibits were then stored in the mid-1980- s. The museum is not as large as it needs to be and there are still a lot of archaeological items in storage, said biology professor Russell Anderson. At present, there really isnt a place to expand, but if additional space and funding is made available then we would expand the exhibits, he said. Bowns said the museum currently operates on a budget of $1,000 and is administrated by the school of science. She said, I think its a real gem considering that weve had a very small budget. Anderson said, Were stretched just about as far as we can He sa.d immediate plans for the museum include keeping it open as many hours as possible through the use of volunteer students and faculty members and work study students. The repertoire of items comes from gifts, loan agreements and purch .ses made by the museum. In the last month, we have borrowed wo exhibits from the Utah Museum of Natural History (University of Utal ) pieces of petrified wood and grinding stones of the Anasazi and Fremont Indians. They have agreed to lend us specimens on a rotating basis, Bowns said. different science departments until fall quarter this year when the museum was reopened. '4 x 's Ns iJi The black bear cub displayed is on loan to the Museum of Southern Utah Bowns said the museum had about A lot of school children come through and some groups of Cub Scouts 1,000 visitors since its reopening. |