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...girls-enjoyable but hardly creditable academically." Since then, his department's faculty has more than doubled to 13; music courses are so popular that two-thirds of the sophomore class is enrolled in them. M.I.T.'s student orchestra regularly sells out the 1,200-seat Kresge Auditorium, and next spring will perform in Philadelphia, Dallas, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles. One orchestra and faculty member, Pianist Robert Freeman, has been chosen to head the prestigious Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester. Other departments boast similar expertise in the arts...
...point. During the day the students donned leotards and crowded round for master classes conducted by Ailey Regulars Estelle Spurlock and Hector Mercado. At night the youngsters and other Iowa City dance devotees, attired in everything from sweatshirts to evening gowns and sneakers to wingtips, poured into Hancher Auditorium to see such Ailey staples as Flowers (a rock piece based on the life and death of Janis Joplin) and Masekela Langage (a militant, African-flavored work about the effect of violence on lives today). If there was a showstopper, it was Ailey's early (1960) Revelations, a scintillating fusion...
...Detroit has suffered enormously. Says Mary Ellen Riordan, president of the Detroit teachers federation: "Kids are jammed into schools so that it's almost impossible to handle them. You see 200 kids in a 'study hall' which is nothing more than the balcony of the auditorium-with the orchestra practicing onstage; you see 2,000 kids shoved through a 200-capacity lunchroom in 22-minute shifts. In a lot of places, school amounts to nothing more today than 13 years of baby-sitting...
...part of the birthday celebration. The Crimson will sponsor a panel discussion on Saturday The Press and First Amendment Rights. The panel will consist of five former Crimson editors, and will be open the public. The discussion will begin at 2:30 p.m. in the Boylston Hall auditorium...
...hearing progressed, the Commissioners drifted in and out of the auditorium. After each speaker finished they asked a few questions to clear up some point of another. The public hearing were only a formality which had to be honored. Even if the Commissioner had paid close to what was bring said, they would have found little information in the testimony to indicate how best to serve the public...