On Campus
Black play schedules auditions
“The Black Dancers,” a newly formed University dance troupe,
will be holding auditions for a play entitled “Year of the Panther” at 4
p.m. Friday in the EMU.
It was created bv University student Patrick Eaglin.
In addition to dancers, the troupe needs people to work in all
phases of the production (typists, seamstresses for costumes,
backstage help, etc.)
Further information can be obtained by calling 343-6105 or 686-4373
(before 5 p.m ).
Eaglin said final date for the play’s performance has not yet been
determined, but “we are shooting for late February.”
Dart awarded Fulbright fellowship
University scientist Francis
Dart has been given a Fulbright
Hayes fellowship to work with
educators in New Guinea and
nearby islands on problems
connected with teaching science
in non-Western cultures.
“People who have never even
seen an electric light have
trouble with the average science
course,” says Dart, professor of
physics who leaves for New
Guinea in March for one year.
He will be working with
researchers at the
University of Papua and New Guinea, while on sabbatical leave from
the University.
A member of the University faculty since 1949, Dart has become
well-known for his interest in the educational problems of developing
countries.
He has been in Southeast Asia several times. In 1957-59 he was in
Nepal with the University contract team which helped that country
establish its first college of education. In 1963, for the National.
Academy of Sciences, he made a study of science laboratories in In
dia, Pakistan, Thailand, Malaya, and Taiwan.
Dart was at the University of Hawaii as a senior specialist at the
East-West Center in 1965-66, studying how western science was af
fecting non-western developing countries. He also returned to Nepal
that year under a Fulbright-Hayes travel grant. In the spring of 1967,
he visited Thailand universities and helped to develop a long-range
plan for American educational assistance to Thailand as a member of
a US State Department team.
Last year he was in Asia interviewing students who wanted to do
graduate work in physics in the US.
His Fulbright-Hayes grant for next year pays travel and living
expenses.
Fellowships awarded for ethnic studies
Two University students have been named recipients of
fellowships recently established by the Ford Foundation to encourage
scholarship in the field of ethnic studies. The two Fellows are Edwin
Coleman, a student in speech and Kathleen O’Brien Jackson, whose
field is political science.
Initial awards totaling $288,052 (none to exceed $5000) will go to 87
doctoral candidates at 54 graduate schools in the nation for writing
disserattions on subjects dealing with the experience and culture of
ethnic minorities in the United States.
“In spite of the intense interest of a new generation of American
students in the history and culture of America’s ethnic minorities, not
enough has been done to develop a body of knowledge or competent
scholars in this field," according to Champion Ward, Ford Foundation
vice president for higher education and research.
“The present fellowships are a step in this direction and com
plement the Foundation’s support over the past two years of Afro
American studies as a new field of scholarly inquiry.”
Of the 87 award winners, 50 are working on dissertations dealing
with Black Americans, 12 with American Indians, eight with Mexican
Americans, four with Asian Americans, and 13 have a cross-cultural
ethnic locus.
Edwin Coleman, 38, is originally form Berkeley, California and
received both his bachelor's and master’s degrees in theatre from San
Francisco State College. He taught at Chico State College before
beginning his doctoral studies at the University, and has also worked
as a musician and in the professional theatre
Coleman’s dissertation topic is “Langston Hughes: A Survey of
His Theatrical Contributions Made From 1935 to 1955.” Coleman
describes Hughes as a "total literary figure—poet, essayist, librettist,
writer of children’s books," but says he will concentrate entirely on
the Black writer’s contributions to the American theatre
Mrs. Jackson's dissertation is titled 'The Changing Role of the
American Indian in Relation to the American Political Context."
Mrs Jackson, 27, is originally from Denver, Colorado and now
makes her home in Seattle. She received her bachelor's degree in eco
nomics and history from Colorado State University and her master's
degree in political science from the University in 1967
She has had some teaching experience, and in 1968 made a survey
of local voluntary associations and development groups in County
Galway, Ireland through a summer training program of the
University's Institute for International Studies and Overseas Ad
ministration
Her doctoral work is an attempt to focus on the role of the
American Indian minority in the political system, from the per
spective of both the dominant society and from the subordinate
position of the minority.
She also hopes to conduct research on political activity of non
reservation Indians and on agencies which deal with Indians as
clients.
ON CAMPUS
Skinny Shapes in
Space dye Separates
Enjoy the magic of new color
combinations.
Left: Pant, wisteria_navy
rose. orange. S.M.L. 20.00 Same
pant in solid colors 20.00
Combined with the placket zip
front, turtlemcek sweater in
matching space dye colors. 13.00
Right: Long sleeeved rib pullover
with buckle neck opening, navy
and wisteria 13.00
White Stag's "Cinch Coat" completely
lined, double breasted with two pockets and
contrast stitching. 50 per cent polyester 50
per cent cotton. Navy, 8-16, 36.00