FOLK SIT 7 GE" 70 APPEAR AT FFEREYD Stanley Shepherd will appear at the Behrend Campus at 2830 p.m. on Sunday, March 20, to present a program of West Indian folk sons. Shepherd forsakes his usual slide rule as a member of the Physics Department at Penn State to accompany himself on the guitar. He is a native of Jamaica, and provides a historical introdudtion to the melodious songs of his homeland. Native folk songs of the West Indian isles form the basis of Shepherd's program. He illustrates the development of the folk forms from their original African roots through the West Indian melodies and their popular uses of today. Shepherd, a student of the Jamaican folk forms, is adept at explaining the origin of the familiar style and rhythm of the Caribbean folk idiom. He studied in England, and returned to teach physiss in his native land after receiving his degree. He later came to the United States, and did graduate work at the Kent State University, receiving his masters in 1959. Shepherd taught in Ohio and Alabama before coming to the Altoona Campus of Penn State. He was transferred to the University Park Campus in 1965. He has presented programs throughout central Pennsylvania. His easy delivery and free style of introduction leads his audience with him from, ballad to work song to Calypso, amny of the sons being audience participation numbers. This program is part of the Pennsylvania State University's Artists Series and will be presented in Erie Hall. The program will include such favorites as Brown Skin airl, You Play de Game, She Takes All My Yary Anne, and other numbers. Money, All Behrend students will be admitted free of ohar7e. UNIVERSITY PARK SPnRIS YEWS Penn State's wonderful gymnastics squad has finished the season with a perfect 8-0 record and has won the Eastern team champ ionship for the second straight year. The team will be competing in the Eastern Intercollegiate League Championships this Friday and Saturday at Pittsburgh to determine Eastern individual titlists in all the separate events. These titlists will later compete at the NCAA Championships to determine national titlists. The KAI?, wrestling semi-finals and finals will be held in Penn State's recreation building on the afternoon and night of March 12. Capacity crowds of over 7,000 are expected. The following is for those who won der how Penn State athletic teams have been doing in the lost-won department. The basketball team has an impressive 10-4 mark, the fencing team is 1-4 for the season, the trab - k team has a 1-2 record, the wrestling team stands at 6-2, and the Eastern Champion gymnastics squad is 8-0. THE WOPID OF APU On Saturday, March 5, at 8:00 pem.9 Erie Hall will be the scene of the showing of the sixth movie in the for eign film series. This film comes from India, The World of Apu, accom- panied by a short entitled Bharatnatyam. It promises to be one of the best foreign films shown this year. Jeff Disend has requested to be heard by the Student Affairs Committee aboutt the method of serving food in the cafe teria and the quality of food being served to the students. It will be interesting to see how this turns out. Have you seen the new cubicles in the library? They are expressly designed aid studying by blocking out distractions. A student can now study in peace, unless he doesn't want to. In a recent poll taken among Behrend boys it was discovered that most of them prefer girls' hair to be long and straight. WHAT , S ITEM'?
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