UpDate - Vol. 14, No. 28, Page 4
April 20, 1995
Up and coming

A cappella group in Mitchell Hall
     The Golden Blues will perform at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, April 22,
in Mitchell Hall. Admission is $3.
     The spring concert will feature appearances by guest groups and
their latest songs. The Golden Blues is an 11-member, co-ed group.
     For more information, call 837-8870.


'Kaleidoscope' by dance company
     The Delaware Repertory Dance Company, a University student
organization, will present its spring concert, "Kaleidoscope," at 8
p.m., Friday and Saturday, April 28-29, in Pearson Hall.
     The performance will feature various choreographers and dance
styles. Cost is $4 for students and $5 for the general public.
     For more information, call 366-0711.


English series sets talk by author
     Peter Lauter, the Allan K. and Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of
Literature at Trinity College, will discuss "Father Europe in the
Multicultural World," at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 26, in 110 Memorial
Hall.
     The talk, free and open to the public, is part of the
Multicultural Speakers Series sponsored by the Department of English.
     Lauter, who is president of the American Studies Association, has
written and edited numerous books, including Canons and Contexts and
The Heath Anthology of American Literature. He


Delaware Day on Harrington Beach
     Delaware Day will be held Sunday, April 23, on Harrington Beach.
     The day-long festival will include music, Velcro jumping,
miniature golf, electronic basketball and carnival games.
     The event is sponsored by the Delaware Undergraduate Student
Congress and Student Center Programming Advisory Board.


Earth Day festival Saturday on Mall
     The 25th anniversary of Earth Day will be celebrated around the
country on Saturday, April 22. Activities on the UD campus will take
place from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. on the North Mall.
     The Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC) is sponsoring a
campus/community celebration that will include booths, food, music and
entertainment for all ages. Nearly three dozen organizations,
businesses and governmental agencies are planning to participate.
     There is no rain date for the event.
     For additional information, call Anna White, SEAC president, at
837-8676.


Program on dance of South India
     A free, public performance of South Indian classical dance by
Nirupama Vaidyanathan will be presented at 4 p.m., Sunday, April 23,
in Pearson Hall auditorium.
     The presentation will include short explanations of the dances,
as the artist will reach out to the audience to share the significance
of the Asian art form.
     For additional information, call 456-1130.


'Creole Cultures' conference theme
     "Creole Cultures in Latin American and the Caribbean" is the
theme of a two-day conference to be held Friday and Saturday, April 28-
29, in the Perkins Student Center.
     Topics to be covered include Slavery and Creolization,
Creolization in Music and Architecture, Creole Languages in the
Americas, Whites During Slavery, The Creole Identity in Caribbean
Literatures and Post-Emancipation Creole Adaptations. Numerous
workshops are scheduled.
     For information, contact Juan Villamarin, anthropology, 831-2802.


Stats conference in Clayton Hall
     A one-day conference in May will explore university-industry-
government cooperative efforts targeted at graduate internship
programs in statistics.
     Scheduled from 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Friday, May 12, in Clayton Hall,
the conference is cosponsored by DuPont's Quality Management and
Technology Center and the University's Department of Mathematical
Sciences Statistical Laboratory.
     A morning session will highlight the DuPont-UD internship in
statistics, and workshops in the afternoon will cover such topics as
fostering cooperation, marketing the program, benefits to industry and
funding an internship program.
     Cost of the program is $50; $20 for graduate students.
Registration must be completed by May 1.
     For information, contact Lidia Rejto in the Statistical
Laboratory at 831-2346, or send e-mail to: rejto@math.udel.edu.


House tour to benefit HRAA
     Tickets ar on sale for the annual College of Human Resources
Alumni Association Spring House Tour to be held Sunday, April 30 in
support of a freshman scholarship fund.
     The 1995 tour features 12 homes, from Colonial to contemporary.
Six of the homes are in New Castle, ranging from Colonial to Victorian
styles. The houses display many original architectural features and
antique furnishings, with the adjoining gardens also open for viewing.
     House tour brochures serve as tickets and may be purchased one
month in advance for $10 at the following locations: the College of
Human Resources, Alison Hall; Bing's Bakery, 253 East Main St.,
Newark; Kirk's Flowers, Suburban Plaza, Newark; Boscov's Department
Store, Concord Mall, Wilmington; James Pool and Patio Center, 3300
Concord Pike, Wilmington; and the Cheese Chalet, Shops at Limestone
Hills, Wilmington.
     On the day of the tour, tickets will be available for $12 at 1
Red Oak Rd. in the Rockford Park area of Wilmington or at Bertie's
Bag...and Sew On, 200 Delaware St., New Castle.
     To purchase tickets by phone, call 737-1128.


Author to discuss the environment
     At 7 tonight, University anthropologist Willett Kempton, senior
policy scientist, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy, will
talk about his new book, Environmental Values in American Culture, in
100 Kirkbride Lecture Hall.
     Environmental Values in American Culture, based on a six-year
study by Kempton and two colleagues and funded by the National Science
Foundation, documents some of the reasons that one-half to three-
quarters of Americans today consider themselves "environmentalists."
The book was released last month by MIT Press.
     Kempton and his co-researchers, James S. Boster and Jennifer
Hartley, questioned sawmill workers, coal miners, college students and
radical environmentalists and found that most of their feelings about
environmental issues are amazingly similar.


Warhol program in Old College
     Allen Midgette will appear as Andy Warhol from 6-8 p.m.,
Thursday, April 27, in Room 202 of Old College.
     The event is free and open to the public and a reception will
follow.
     Midgette was a featured player in Warhol's movies from 1967-68
and appeared in ****, The Nude Restaurant and Lonesome Cowboys.
     His most famous performance was his impersonation of Warhol on
the college lecture circuit-a prank instigated by Warhol and his
assistant Paul Morrissey. Since Warhol's death in 1987, Midgette has
revived his impersonation cum performance art and appears unexpectedly
as Warhol.
     He also acts in off-Broadway productions and films and, in recent
years, has created wearable art, painting and mixed-media assemblages
based on his Cherokee heritage.
     Prior to his association with Warhol, Midgette was an established
actor in Italy, working with noted European directors Pier Paolo
Pasolini and Bernardo Bertolucci.
     For more information call, 831-6075.