University of South Florida - Aegean Yearbook (Tampa, FL)

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OPPOSITE: English guitarist, Julian Bream. ABOVE: Polish Mime Ballet Theaire: Labyrinth. BELOW, LEFT: Janus: Piec- zuro in Polish Mime Ballet Theatre's Departure of Faust. BELOW, RIGHT: Irish actress, Siobhan McKenna in her one woman show, Here Are Ladies.

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12 Florida Center For The Arts One outstanding example of a multitude of opportunities USF offers the Tampa community, is the Florida Center for the Arts. This tremendously valuable tin the sense of offering loy- men personal experience with highly professional and cre- ative talentt creotive-educotionaI-culturol unit at USF pro- vides an appropriate atmosphere where the arts are prod- uced, learned, discussed and disseminated. Functioning since 1968 as the Arts Management Unit for the College of Fine Arts, a staff of professional arts admin- istrators originate, manage and publicize seven maior arts programs: the USF Artist Series, Dance Residencies, two Film Series, the Summer Chamber Music Series, the Art Bank, Galleries and Exhibitions, and the GRAPHICSTUDIO. Its contributing purpose to USF students and the Tampa community is its sponsorship of quality programs which people normally wouldn't be exposed to, which appeal to non-mass audience tastes. Its publics are afforded the opportunity to observe the work of performing and studio artists and to associate personally with them in conference and workshop situations. The USF Artist Series sponsors nationally and interna- tionally known performers, performing both in the Univer- sity Theatre and in oft-campus ouditoriums. Outstanding artists such as Julian Bream, British classical guitarist and lutenist; the Julliard String Quartet; the New York Pro Musica; Siobhan McKenna, Ireland's leading actress; and the Polish Mime Ballet Theatre, oward-winning avant-garde troupe, are a small fraction of the superb per- formances offered throughout this program. The Dance Residencies program retains talented dance troupes who reside at USF for short periods while conduct- ing classroom seminars, public lecture-demonstrations, pub- lic performances and master classes for USF and other interested dance students. The troupes have included Louis Falco and Dance Company, the Alwin Nikolais Company and the Jamie Cunningham and Acme Dance Theatre. The Film Art Series, presenting 12 films quarterly, cho- sen for a combination of technical, photographical and directional uniqueness, and the free Afternoon Film Art Series, consisting of 100 short, experimental film presenta- tions yearly, comprise the Center's two Film Series Proe gram. Concerts, free Iecture-demonstrotions and master classes by some of the world's foremost interpreters of chamber music, are provided by the Summer Chamber Music Series. Pianist Jacques Abram, cellist Bernard Greenhouse, violinist Davis Nadrin, and violist Walter Trampler are some of the artists who have appeared in this series. The Art Bank, alias museum without walls,' is a part of the University's permanent art collection containing ceramic, graphic and photographic works by major con- temporary artists, which are grouped into travelling exhib- itions loaned out to Florida educational institutions, librar- ies, museums, ort organizations and businesses who pro- vide these displays as a cultural service to the public. Approximately 30 free, public exhibitions are staged yearly in three university galleries on campus, displaying the works of students and faculty members, additions of the Art Bank collection, and travelling exhibitions from maior national galleries and museums, as part of the Gal- leries Exhibitions program. The Centerts GRAPHICSTUDIO is a professional work- shop where visiting American and European artists produce graphic works while in residence at USF. Those artists who have used the workshop include James Rosenquist, Gold Light, and Robert Rauschenberg, Cardboard Construc- tions.

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University Volunteer ServiceslUVSl University Volunteer Sewices is an unstructured service organization consisting of 500-600 volunteers lUSF students and staffl dedicated to improving their community and world through the unselfish giving of their time to worthwhile pro- grams and projects. The program affords volunteers a realistic evaluation of their maior and the opportunity to receive actual experience outside the classroom, in expressing skills learned in the class- room. By involving themselves with the community, they not only help the receivers of their effort, but also themselves. Sixty programs are now in operation, however, UVS will gladly create and develop programs designed to fit any potential volunteer's specific maior or special interest. UVS's belief is that everyone has a desire to participate in a particu- lar area of interest and they can satisfy that desire by provid- ing a working environment for the volunteer to practice his skills and knowledge in. Just a few of the programs volun- teers are now involved in are: Adopt-a-Grandparent e volunteers provide companionship lpersonal visits, letters or phone callsl to elderly people in three area nursing homes. Special Education e a tutorial service with the emotionally disturbed, physically handicapped, blind, mentally retarded, slow learners, and the deaf. Pollution e under the guidance of U. 5. District Attorney, Dr. Blasingame, volunteers compile evidence of pollution around the Tampa area for possible court use. Juvenile Homes - tutorial and recreational guidance given to young delinquents at the Lake Magdaline and Seffner iuve- nile homes. Migrant Program e allows students the opportunity to work with the United Farmworkers in speaking, mailing, and making contracts for the main office. Social Programs e participants in the Proiect Aware program take a lower socio-economic child out of his home environment and befriend him. Intensive Tutorial 00 USF students help others as well as themselves as they volunteer their time each week to young people who have academic difficulty, in the Intensive Tuto- rial llTl program. The 500 tutors in the program meet at least two hours per week with youngsters 3-18 years of age on a one-toeone basis, in an effort to instill upon the pupils a positive self-image; a feeling of success; an increase in learning achievement and an ability to read and comprehend materials. To IT, the key to tutoring is the establishment of rapport. They stress the devel- opment of a relationship between tutor and pupil as well as academic content and skills. Tutors are assigned a child for a quarter at a time. They work with the student trying to build hislher academic capabilities through the use of games and sto- ries ttutors have taught math by shooting basketball and reading by spelling with M Ex M'sl, and develop the student's own personality and sense of worth by paying particular attention to the child's culture, interests, special problems, and achievements. Teachers at individual schools are available as consultants as are trained IT staff members. Educational Resources on campus and the IT library offer the tutors special materials and information should they desire it. l'l' sums it up better than anyone could in their guidance booklet to tutors: What is more to the point is what he thinks of himself and his world, what he thinks of you and your world, and what he thinks you feel about him. Your student may not think much of himself. His blackness, his poverty, his inability to succeed in the classroom may fill him with shame and deep sense of chronic, personal failure. He may think that you think of him in those terms and he may be suspicious and defensive, resentful of you, your motives, and your attempts to get close to him. like all children, he desperately needs to feel accepted and to respect himself e but he might not see much about himself to love. You may be warm, sensitive, and sincere - you should be e but he may not believe you at first. Be patient. Don't push. But keep trying.