THE MICHIGAN DAILY T EP's Gain Local Status As Fraternity By ROBERT FARRELL Four years ago a group of five University students started a cam- paign to create a chapter of Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity on this campus. Wednesday, they saw their cam- paign culminate with Student Government Council recognition of TrEP as the 45th fraternity at the University. During the four-year period be- tween the creation of the idea and its fulfillment, the group has grown from the original five mem- bers to a fraternity with 27 ac- tives and 11 in its pledge class. Waives Colonization Granted colony status by SGC last May, TEP's qualifications for full recognition were outstanding enough to see the normal require- ment for an entire year of colony status waived to make it a new fraternity a month early. The group, former president Michael Risman, '60, said, has contracted for the house at 915 Oakland now occupied by Beta Theta Pi, and will move into its new home next year. The fraternity, it was reported to SGC, has fulfilled the 11 points required by the Interfraternity Council before it would recom- mend the new unit for recognition. These requirements included having a grade - point average higher than the all-men average for the University: TEP's average is 2.9, easily surpassing both the all-fraternity and all-men aver- ages. Eligibility Requirements It was also necessary to have at least 34 members (TEP has 38), to have arranged for housing, and to have at least 20 per cent of the house in extra-curricular activ- ities or athletics. Also, TEP has the necessary ac- tive local (Detroit) alumni chap- ter, an alumni advisor and a na- tional charter and has maintained an adequate financial state and provided the required financial reports. PROGRAM NOTES: Parsons Sets 'High Standard' for Dance By CAROL LEVENTEN "I simply will not have an ama- teur concert put on!" Jean Par- sons said vehemently. The head of the dance depart- ; ment thus referred to the "high standard" she enforces in putting - on the dance concert, an annual effort of the Modern Dance and s Ballet Clubs, the Choreographers Workshop and dance concentrates. The opportunity for experimen- tation is, she said, a strong asset of college dance: "We aren't lim- ited by anything - except experi- ence." "Here, we can try anything; and ~:. some of the most exciting ideas I've ever seen have come from col- lege groups," which are freed from catering to critics and to com- mercial taste. Miss Parsons admits that some of the ideas she has injected into the concert, to be presented at 8:30 p.m. April 21 and 22 in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, are "rather far out." One such experiment is "Kalaidochrome." A unique combination of the media of dance, painting and mu- sic, it finds its source in the "ac- tion painters," specifically from Jackson Pollack, who wanted to make the viewer feel the "physical action of the painting," Miss Par- sons said. Two painters, hidden behind a 21 foot screen and using acrilan dye, begin by creating a linear composition on stage. Dancers pick up the action of the painting, in- terpret it in motion, and musi- ciansreact to the implicit themes. The nature of each medium i- creases in complexity, with the painting taking the lead. In a sense, the dancers won't DANCERS PERFORM-Girls learn to portray life, death, sorrow know precisely what their move- and fear in dance and ballet, classes sponsored by the dance ments will be beforehand, but the department. Two girls work on Bartok's "La Monde due Jeunesse,'' painters have been cued to create portraying the world of the adolescent. a rhythmic line which dancers can pick up and the music will en- mining the dance movements; red different media have gained of hance. Certain lines lend them- and orange will "make you move each others' problems: "Oh, we've selves to fluid or staccato musical more rapidly" and the colors, as had the wildest rehearsals!" interpretation, Miss Parsons ex- each line of painting is super- Bartok's "La Monde du Jeu- plained. imposed upon the preceding ones, nesse" has become the focal point She said the emotional value of will necessarily become more and for the dance of the same name, color will be influential in deter- more intense. choreographed by Miss Parsona THREE PLAYS: Shakespearean Festival Set at Stratford,_Ontario I ai I The eighth annual Stratford Shakespearean Festival will be held in Stratford, Ontario, from June 27th to September 17th. Three Shakespearean plays will be presented in repertory in the festival theatre: "Romeo and Ju- liet," directed by Michael Lang- ham, with Julie Harris and Bruno derussi as the "star-cross'd lov- ers"; "King John," under the di- rection of Douglas Seale, starring Miss Harris, Christopher Plum- mer and Douglas Rain, and "Mid- summer Night's Dream," directed by Douglas Campbell with Kate Reid, Leo Ciceri, and Tony Van Bridge. A new production of "H.M.S. Pinafore," directed by Tyrone Guthrie, a continuation of the Musicians' Workshop, concerts by the National Festival Workshop with resident artists Glenn Gould, Oscar Shumsky and Leonard Rose and an international conference of composers will be among the features of the 1960 Music Festival to be held in Stratford from July 15 to August 14. Includes Discussions The composers' conference, to be held the week of Aug. 7, will involve composers from 30 differ- ent countries and will include both concerts and discussion ses- sions, open to the public. One THE PROMETH EAN OPEN DAILY at 2 P.M. Entertainment Nightly Phone NO 2-4786 for Classified Advertising concert will be devoted to compo- sitions which will use new sound media, including electronic music. The perennially popular "Pina- fore" will open on July 15 as the first attraction of the music sea- son. The National Festival Or- chestra, under the leadership of the Festival's music director, Louis Applebaum, will provide accom- paniment. The cast includes Eric House, Marion Studholme and Andrew Downie. A special Shakespearian semi- nar will be held in Stratford by the Canadian Universities in as- sociation with the Stratford Fes- tival the wyeek of July 17-22. Scholars, critics, actors and di- rectors will lecture about Shakes- peare and discuss his work in- formally with those who attend. Group Tours Members of the seminar will tour the Festival theatre and meet members of the -company, hear lectures by Tyrone Guthrie, the distinguished Shakespearean director, and C. J. Sisson; one of the most celebrated Elizabethan scholars, and talk with Michael Langham, artistic director of the Festival, and Robert Davies, au- thor and critic. They will attend all the pro- ductions of the Festival season and use them as a basis for dis- cussion. Other features of the season in- clude an International Film Fes- tival presenting premiere show- ings of distinguished motion pic- tures from many countries, studio productions of two Canadian plays ("The Teacher" by John Gray and "Blind Man's Buff" by Fred Euringer"), and exhibitions of Canadian handicrafts. Information about the Festival program or tickets may be ob- tained by writing to the Stratford Shakespearean Festival, Stratford, Ontario. A A COREt POUt~ O~ S Tf WED., MAY 4 Il, ANN ARBOR HIGH TWO SHOWS 7 and 9:30 P.M. TICKETS $4.40, $3.30, $2.75, $2.20, $1.65 hog I