University of Texas Austin - Cactus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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ARTS AND HUMANITIES COMMITTEE m I Fine arts display exhibits Guatemalan culture U..OTTCAKT I, ' 1 I 1 1. ' K ' I Mir mrK a trrant fmm l ot a orrl War. rrtittaa alan nraaantAri mnuii-ul crrrti by SUSAN NEIDERT and TERESA WEIDLER With colorful costumes and life-size mannequins, the Texas Union Arts and Humanities Committee staged their Guatemalan exhibit with style and finesse at the Harry Ransom Center during the month of February said Sarah Gish, committee chairwoman. The committee acquired the exhibit through a grant from Kate and Har- wood Smith, Texas A M alumni. The committee learned of the exhibit through their sister fine arts commit- tee at A M. The committee sponsored exhibits of student artists in the Union Gallery. We ' re trying to move away from our print sales and concentrate more on programming, said Gish. The com- mittee also presented musical groups in the fall, known as masterpiece matinees, and co-sponsored the Modern Arts Symposium Feb. 18-March 1 with the Ideas and Issues Committee. The basic goal of the committee is to expose the students of the UT communi- ty to the arts and for us to learn more about the fine arts, said Gish. The com- mittee, newly formed this year, combin- ed the now defunct Theater and Fine Arts Union Committees. FIRST ROW: Dean Andre Fawvor, Nancy Aviva Cohen, Sarah Dorothy Gish, Suzanne Lori Gadol, Claudia Helena Bravo, Mary Anne Connolly, Elana Jean Zilberg. SECOND ROW: Christina Cameron, George Eric Schroeder, Sandra Jo Mac- Donald, Suzanne Jean Coupe, Sarah Elizabeth Sullivan, Meredith Lynn Muegge. Photo by Bev Cotton After placing the mannequins in their proper places, Nancy Cohen, Sarah Gish, Eric Schroeter and Paige Bellamy dress them up in hand-woven costumes. Photo by Doug Lay ton ArU and Humanities Committee 221

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FILM COMMITTEE Cinema contest examines wide range of films by INGRID WIETING The role of the Texas Union Film Committee is to provide quality pro- gramming and support for the film selecting process, said Jack Jackson, chairman of the committee. The Film Committee consisted of five subcommit- tees which were responsible for pro- viding greater insight into films. One of these, the Film Goer Subcommittee was in charge of providing The Film Goer, a new publication printed every two weeks which reviewed films and discuss- ed upcoming programs. The other publication was put out by the Educa- tion Subcommittee and was a series of film notes giving a detailed discussion of the history and important characteristics of individual films. The goals for the 1984-85 Film Com- mittee were to provide quality programming with high diversity for UT students said Jackson. These programs included the Silent Film Festival, the Academy Awards, and a Truffant Retrospective. This year ' s highlight was the National Film Competition in February sponsored by the Film Com- mittee. This was the third year of the competition. Jackson attributed the high quality of the year ' s competition to better advertising strategies which drew a diversified selection of films. Film committee members Natalie Atkinson, Communication junior; Jack Jackson, Plan II English senior and Mary Mallory, liberal arts junior review judging results of various films in the National Film Competition. -- Photo by Kevin Gutting FIRST ROW: Monica Ann Allen, Christine Marie Bailey, Catherine Minter Maraist, Mary Elizabeth Mallory, Kimberly Jane Neunlist, Carla Marie Matherne, Tracy Lynn McCollum, Teresa Renea Lashbrook. SECOND ROW: Sarah Katherine Stoebner, Frederick Michael Burke, Kenneth Michael Mashon, Matt W. Sitter, Wendell Kirk Barnett. THIRD ROW: Mark Alan Serrill, Teresa Ann Nolan, Jack Richard Jackson, Gary Wayne Tucker, Thomas Fletcher Best. -- Photo by Joseph Jaworski : ' - :-- 220 Film Committee

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CHICANO CULTURE COMMITTEE Literature reading heightens group ' s exposure by BOYD BAUER As we get more publicity out, people will start to realize that the C.C.C. has been revived, said Sandra Ham, Texas Union Chicano Culture Committee Chairman, about Escrito, a literary sym- posium sponsored by the C.C.C. Four performers representing four distinct types of literature read from their own writings as well as from works by other authors in the program. On March 5, Jose Flores Peregrine, a Chicano poet who worked in the Mexican-American Studies Department at the University and was a consultant to McMillan Publishing, read from his book of poetry, Mesquetierra. The second speaker was Sandra Cisneros, a nationally recognized writer, who was the director of literature at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center in San Antonio, read several of her pieces of short fiction. Cisneros was the recipient of several national awards including the NBA Fellowship for 1981. On March 6, Rolando Hinojosa- During Escrito, a four-author literary sym- posium, Professor Rolando Hinojosa-Smith ex- pounds upon a number of his works. Photo by Doug Layton Smith, a professor in the English Department at the University, and the winner of various literary awards, read several of his works. The pieces he read were influenced by his childhood ex- periences in Mercedes, Texas. The second speaker was Carlos Mor- ton, a Chicano playwright who also taught at the University. Morton ' s technique of relating Chicano ex- periences in the form of Greek and biblical mythology allowed him to reinterpret Mexican history and present it in a new and unique style. A room full of interested spectators were on hand both days, and Hams said, We ' re trying to build so that not just a small community of Mexican- Americans, but everybody, knows what we ' re doing. FIRST ROW: Rebeca Cardenas, Griselda Cantu, Virginia DeLaRosa, Cynthia Flores, Sandra Ham. SECOND ROW: Cindi Ann Canti, Tami Lee Townsend, Patricia Garza, Anna Marie DeLaRosa, Antonia T. Ramirez. THIRD ROW: Kenneth Paul Soils, Rolando Galvan Gonzalez, Miguel Angel Guajardo, Oscar Silva, Edward Colunga. FOURTH ROW: Javier Aguilera, Francisco Javier Guajardo, Guadalupe Gomez, Juan Alberto Ramirez, Marcos Alcantara. FIFTH ROW: Ruben Rodriguez Jr., Jaime Vela, Mario Aristeo Rod- riguez, Arnoldo Salinas, Jesse Albert Rodriguez. Photo by Robert Cohen 222 Chicano Culture Committee