Geraldine Fitzgerald a to Star in Mccoy Role
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emphs, ,e 38112 ,Highlights - Friday Happy Hour today will feature o uhwestern At Memphis r shrimp and crab legs in our pub. Southwestern~ At Memphis "In Our Water," however, will make you think twice about your VOL. 68, NO. 16 FEBRUARY 26, 1982 next piece of fish. This excellent film about pollution effects will be " shown at 7 o'clock in FJ-B for $1.00. * Dancing in Hardie auditorium - I Geraldine Fitzgerald Dr. Palmer Hall will roll over in * his grave. Go by the bookstore and contribute your $2.00 to support a to star in McCoy nuclear disarmament and show up role t at 9 o'clock for Afrikan Dreamland Stage and screen acttess Geral- speare Company and actress Pat to be followed by Moroccan Roll. dine Fitzgerald, who made her Carroll. The beer ought to help you dance Broadway directing debut in the Miss Fitzgerald's s o1o show, * around the seats. Tickets will be fall, will share her talents and "Streetsongs," is an entertaining available at the door as well. comment on her life's work as the mix of song and musical commen- 1982 Harry B. McCoy Jr. Visiting tary whiCh has Miss Fitzgerald Artist at Southwestern. chatting with her audience one Miss Fitzgerald, most recently minute - explaining to them the Saturday celebrated for her co-starring role true background of a familiar, sen- in the film "Arthur" and for her timental Irish tune - and singing "Calculated X" will start in the direction of the play "Mass Ap- some rowdy streetsong the next. pub at 9 o'clock. This is not a Inusi- peal" which opened to rave reviews Miss Fitzgerald describes the * cal calculator owner's jam ses- at the Booth Theatre November 12, show, as ranging from "(Edith) sion. This is for electronic New 1981, will visit Southwestern May Piaf to Noel Coward to the some- Wave fans and people who don't 4 and 5, highlighting the opening times exultant noises people sing give a function for fooling with cal- of the college's new McCoy Thea- in the streets when they're just culators on a Saturday night. tre. She will meet informally with walking along feeling happy, or students, 1 e a d discussions with frustrated or whatever." The show, Get serious toward the end of the communication arts classes and directly by Richard Maltby Jr. * evening and prepare to watch a take the stage with her one-wom- (who staged "Ain't Misbehavin' "), special television broadcast featur- an show, "Streetsongs." has appeared at Lincoln Center, ' ing the esteemed President of the program that Circle'In-The-Square, Reno Sween- States. Reagan will show The Visiting Artists United was fund- ey and Brothers and Sisters in New at 12:45 o'clock uttering those brings her to the college ed by the late Harry B. McCoy Jr., York, Studio One in Los Angeles * famous lines "Bedtime for Bonzo!" a Memphis real estate developer and at the White House with Miss who died in 1966. The Program. Fitzgerald performing for former aims to introduce Southwestern stu- President Jimmy Carter. Because of s p a c e constraints, w dents to various art forms as well Sunday as to performers themselves to "Streetsongs," will initially be lim- ited to the Southwestern commu- The international pot-luck feast broaden the liberal arts experience. Miss Fitzgerald will be the sixth nity. Should any seats remain, how- will begin in the pub at 5 o'clock. be made available Visiting Artist in the McCoy series. ever, they will public on a first- 4 Laurie Hurt or Pete McLain can Previous artists featured by the to the general through the McCoy give you more info, maybe even McCoy program, begun in 1978, in- come basis office. The show is clude singer Nancy Tatum, chore- Theatre box in English. 8 p.m., May 4. Third term preview ographer Agnes de Mille, baritone scheduled for At 6 o'clock Robert Short will de- photo by Sherard Edington Hakan Hagegard, the New Shake- (Continued on Page 2) | liver a lecture entitled "Christ, Marriage and the Playboy Society." We are making no promises that new aid cuts literature will be available. College reps protest Reagan's WASHINGTON, D.C. (CPS) - In Hanley, lobbyist for the U.S. Stu- over, would be $1,400, down from school. Observers estimate some what one of them termed a "his- dent Association (USSA). "Further $1,670 this year. 250,000 students will lose their jobs toric" gathering, representatives cuts are going to keep thousands Supplemental Educational as a result of the cut. Monday of the largest and most important of students from returning to col- Opportunity Grants State Student Incentive Grants "I've seen it before" can't be college groups in the land met last lege this fall, and others will never SEOGs, which currently serve The SSIG fund matches grants - some 615,000 college students, made to students by the states. The your excuse this time. Dr. Leonard week to preview with alarm and get to attend college at all." to politically surprise - President would be eliminated. administration wants to end the Pronko will demonstrate the Ka- The spokespeople, solemnly fac- Ronald Reagan and the 1983 edu- ing an audience of reporters and National Direct program entirely, which this year buki. This is all legit - at 8 o'clock cation budget he wants Congress to association staffers in a House com- Student Loans serves 300,000 students. in Hardie. Yet another freebie from pass. mittee hearing room, said the Rea- Under the NDSL program, cre- Guaranteed Student Loans Phi Beta Kappa .... Representatives of state schools, gan education budget would affect ated during the Eisenhower admin- About 3.5 million students took pr iv a t e universities, community all federal student aid programs: istration, 250,000 students now get out GSLs this year, but the admin- and junior colleges, students and Pell Grants low-cost loans to pay for school. istration wants to cut drastically faculty members bitterly predicted According to numbers leaked to The administration will ask Con- the number of students eligible for Tuesday that as many as two million college the press, the administration wants gress to end all funding for NDSLs. them in the future. Reagan pro- students will be hurt by the cuts. Congress to cut funding for Pell College Work-Study Program poses to eliminate all graduate and r"In the town where I was born Thousands of them may be driven Grants by 40 percent. Only students The Reagan budget calls for a 27 professional school students from lived a man who sailed the seas from campus altogether. from families earning less than percent funding cut for this pro- the program, double the loan orig- "Deep cuts have already been $14,000 a year could get the grants, gram, under which the federal gov- ination fee to 10 percent of the loan and he told me of his life in the value, make borrowers pay market land of submarines." If you didn't made in appropriations for student compared to a limit of $27,000 this ernment helps colleges pay stu- financial aid," summarized Ed year. The maximum grant, more- dents working their way throulgh interest rates (up from the current recognize that sentence then you nine percent) starting two years need to attend this week's movie after l e a vi n g school, and limit Nennn to tak shasbriefspe GSLs to students with "unmet and rediscover your heritage as needs." a child of the sixties. "Yellow Sub- But Dr. Edward Fox of the Stu- mmarine" will show at 9 o'clock. Discovery' beginning to take shape dent Loan Marketing Association, A schedule for the week-long one of several people leading the Auditions which helps arrange GSLs among Discovery: Southwestern in Per- discussion. banks around the country, says I spective is beginning to take Southwestern At Memphis' those changes might effectively Wednesday Finally, there will be a forum mean the end of the GSL program. shape. Discovery will be a series on Thursday night to discuss McCoy Theatre will hold audi- of events for "The World We Live "Any change in the (GSL) legis- Sing along with the Beatles night bringing the students saving and improving third term. tions and faculty together for an ex- In," (The Insect Comedy) in lation is the forerunner of an in- in FJ-B. We do not condone this This forum will try to provide amination of our school and Hall, March 4 and 5 at credible amount of expensive pa- communication between the stu- Tuthill sort of behavior during films but community. 5 p.m. and March 6 at 2 p.m. perwork for the banks (who actual- on what third it is rowdy night and no one could The week of Discovery will dents and faculty The play, to be directed by Ray ly make the loans)," says Fox, who stop you if you have to express your begin on Saturday, May 1, with term should offer. Hill, is the third and final of- was not at the Washington press a field day for faculty members fering of the 1982 McCoy season. conference. "Banks could certainly obnoxious little self. be dropping out in the future." and students. The teams will be Scholars It will run May 13-16 and 20-23. "Moments of Madness" will organized through academic de- Written by Czechoslovakian That's just one consequence of once again grace the stage of the partments, so be on the watch The Oxford Scholarship Com- playwrights Josef and Karel Ca- the cuts if Congress approves them, according to the press conference Publynx at 4:30 and 5:00 o'clock.