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By Mary K. Tilghman

Get out your dancing shoes. National Kathy Wildberger, Leslie Garner and Joan Dance Week is upon us with classes and Smita in a rehearsal shot of QUARTET performances in , FOR WOMEN, by Jeff Duncan. and . This year, the second UMBC has par­ ticipated in the national celebration, students, faculty and staft are invited to stretch their limbs and their talents by participating in the regular dance classes Members of the dance company IMPETUS offered this spring. There are two begin­ in rehearsal of ENERGY FIX, choreo- ning technique classes, two beginning graphed by director Jeff Duncan. : ballet classes and one African dance class and a special men's class to try out dance steps. ' 'Part of the reason for doing this is to Vernon Sharpe & Betty Lee, members get a taste," said Jeff Duncan, artist-in­ of IMPETUS dance comoanv il.l moment residence who is coordinating UMBC's of STONEWAY, choreography by director celebration of Dance Week. "You don't have to do it perfectly,'' he said, adding Jeff Duncan. that he didn't expect that of the regular students. Men dance, too. Jeff Duncan said he wants ''the atmosphere to be such that men aren't afraid to dance--that it's all right." A men's class is offered this spring and 22 men are enrolled. Duncan said he urged men on campus to try it. Interested in African dance? That's being offered for the first time at this Dance Week celebration. Tuesday there's a class open for participation. Thursday, there's a lecture-demonstra­ tion. Your dancing shoes are being resoled? You're too shy to get out and dance in a room full of dance students and a mirror? There's things to watch all week, too-­ performances, dance films and lecture demonstrations. From today, April 23 to Friday, April 27, Impetus and Dance Kravetz Kravetz classes and workshops will be perform­ Valerie Bettis, Veloz and Yolanda, Martha Graham will be shown 3 to 5 the purpose of National Dance Week is ing in the dance studio (FA 317)--as well to "open the door" to get dance "into as a performance in the library. Jose Limon and Martha Graham will p.m. in BS 120. have their dancing shoes on this All week long in the Fine Arts Gallery, the cultural mainstream.' ' Duncan said Impetus, UMBC's resident dance dance should be up there with the company will perform three times--Mon­ week--on film. an exhibit will feature dancers caught in On Wednesday ballroom dancing by the act. Poster-size photos of dance .symphony, opera and museums in recog­ day at 1 p.m., and Wednesday and nition and in awards of grant money. Friday at 8 p_.m. Veloz and Yolanda, a film of a dance artists and a collection of photos by Sallie choreographed by Herbert Ross (who Kravetz, a Baltimore photographer, can Dance is ''still the low man on the totem ''Black Garden,'' ''Bright Fields,'' pole,'' he remarked. He reasons that and "Snow, Black and Triple," three directed "The Turning Point" in 1977) be seen 11 to 2 any day. and a solo by Valerie Bettis, "Desperate What's more, UMBC is the only place dance week puts the dance program in pieces from the student repertory work­ the spotlight and in the view of the shop will be performed in the library Heart,'' in which she . is dancing to in Baltimore to try out your dancing shoes. Duncan said he tried to get other media. gallery Thursday at 4 p.m. A reception spoken poetry will be shown at 1 p.m. in area companies involved but ''nothing And it allows UMBC students, who will follow. "Everybody is welcome to FA 306. Friday five films featuring the J offrey came of it." usually don't dance, to dance. Where are the big reception after the library your dancing shoes? events," Duncan said. Dancers, Spanish dancer Antonio and The artisitc director of Impetus said l)rCiff~------~fr-om--pa_g_e~7 organized for college campuses and a na­ and strict enforcement be ordered, costs the next target. motives. tional lobbying effort is being coordinated could be very high . . . signs of public Representative Jim Weaver, Oregon "Our mobilization capacity is in a state in Washington. hostility to the U.S. military could serious- Democrat, challenged the mad rush of disarray," said Representative Charles The Director of the Conunittee on ly degrade the deterrent value of our toward conscription. Bennett. "The time for action is right Militarism in Education charges that our forces and invite adventurism by potential "Historically," Weaver said, "except now." alleged need for more manpower is part of adversaries." _ for the period between the Korean an\ "I don't consider it a sacrifice to serve the same "crackpot realism" that led us "C 1 d & your country," said Abraham Kazen, Jr., into Vietnam. According to Dr. Robert I. ongresslona e ate on the draft Issue &eglns a Texas Democrat. "Ido,"respondedBen- Rhodes, the new call for registration and May J .• The law could be passed by July and by · nett,whowasbadlywoundedinWorldWar the draft will increase the power of the II. Pentagon and cold war tensions, and re­ The battle over bringing back the draft create bitter campus protests, in addition Oct. J • national registration could &e a reality." will undoubtedly divide the country sharp- to making no positive contribution to our ly between young and old. Many Amer­ national security. Several Congressmen and columnists · Vietnam wars, our nation has turned to the icans are expressing concern about youth Public response in upcoming months is have insinuated that the motives behind Draft in time of war or just before we went alienation. There is a cry across the land indeed crucial to the success of registra­ reinstituting the draft are not the altruistic to war. Is there a good possibility that we that there are few democratizing experi­ tion and draft reswnption. The Pentagon reasons on which study commissions will find ourselves at war in the coming ences left for Americans. stated ina recent stufy on the draft, "En­ focus-there are military purposes. months? If so, where? ... Those who will be marching on Washing­ forcement is a key issue in peacetime Americans have been assaulted by recent ''Are we preparing for war so as to keep ton on April 30 believe the disruption and registration. H most young men regis­ Time and Newsweek suggestions that our excessive habits; the wasteful squan­ often dashing of young lives is one hell of tered, then costs could be low and enforce­ Russian exertion of force in Western dering of energy? ... If that is not our an unusual excuse for a "democratizing ment-could be ignored except for isolated Ew·ope is a growing possibility. American motive, why are we moving so fast on the experience.'' Their struggle, however, :::t­ instances of flagrant violation such as advisors are already in North Yemen. One Draft? Why is a bill being rushed out to volves fighting for many of the fundamen­ public display of resistance. Should the Congressman won 1ered aloud if the Per- register and classify our young people?" tal democratic precepts upon which this registration meet widespread resistance sian GuH, sper.!!~~ally Saudi Arabia, was But proponents insist on cleaner nation was founded.