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Hopwood Award winners
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The Hopwood Award winners, from
among 154 contestants who submitted
201 manuscripts are listed by
hometown:
MICHIGAN
Ann Arbor: Victor Cruz, LSA senior, major poetry,
$1,200, "No Sky"; Tina Michelle Datsko, LSA junior,
t minor poetry, $500, "Hold to What is Difficult";
Michelle Dinsmore, LSA senior, minor drama, $600,
"The Beer Tent"; Mary Lawrence Gaitskill, LSA
senior, minor fiction (short stories), $1,100, "The
;Woman Who Knew Judo and Other Stories"; Paul
Jopnston, graduate student, major fiction (novel),
$500, "Arms and Legs"; Diane Gail Klempner,
ResidentiaI College senior, major fiction (novel),
$600, "Kamai"; Anna Nissen, LSA senior, minor
:poetry, $700, "Yellow Balloon"; Shannon Richards,
graduate student, major drama, $1,400, "This is a
Fine Romance," and major fiction (short story),
$2,000, "Granny's Boy," "Strictly Bedroom
Material," and "Friends"; David Allen Victor,
-graduate student, major poetry, $2,200, "Man and
the Crux."
Birmingham: William Fairfax Bahr, Residential
College senior, major drama, $1,500, "Heavy
Metal"; George Quin, LSA junior, minor drama,
$400, "Aftermath."
Buchanan: John Savoie, LSA senior, minor poetry,
$400, "The River."
bearborn: James Edward Garner, LSA junior,,
minor drama, $400, "An Act in One Play."
Detroit. Shelton Johnson, LSA senior, major poetry,
$800, "Brief Anchorage."
Flint: Josephine Kearns, U-M-Flint sophomore,
'minor poetry, $1,000, "Available Materials."
Grand Haven: Dennis Harvey, Residential
College sophomore, minor essay, $500, "Flash" and
"Sleight-of-Hand Moviemaking."
Grand Rapids: Laura Kay Kasischke, Residential
College sophomore, minor poetry, $400, "Withered
Fingers" and "A Collection of Flies"; Barbara
Saunier, LSA senior, minor fiction (short stories),
$900, "Family Matters and Other Stories."
Grosse Pointe: George Orest Dzul, graduate student,
major fiction (novel), $1,700, "Elusions."
Livonia: David Nolta, LSA junior, minor essay,
$600, "Art Historical Essays-1980." '
_ oxford Mary Catherine Wilds, Residential College
junior, minor fiction (short story), $800, "Leroy,"
"Never," and "The Fourth House."
St. Joseph: Laura Jane Roop, School of Education
senior, major essay, $850, "Inventing the American
Novel: Charles Brown."
CALIFORNIA
Coronado: Scott Edwin WEwing, sophomore, major
essay, $700, "Playing Doctor: The Continuing
Reflections of a Medical Student."
ILLINOIS
Chicago: Ari Roth, LSA junior, minor drama, $400,
"Necessities."
NEW YORK
Brooklyn: Neil Gordon, LSA senior, major fiction
(short story), $2,000, "Three Short Stories."
Syracuse: Catherine Landis, LSA senior, minor
essay, $600, "Art, Sympathy, and Female Vocation
in 'To The Lighthouse' and 'Middlemarch.'
NORTH CAROLINA
Chapel Hill: David Marion Holman, graduate
student, major essay, $1,200, "Why Regionalism"
and "Two Meditations on Melville."
OHIO
Shaker Heights: James Jackson, LSA senior, minor
essay, $400, "Post Industrial Anarchy."
RHODE ISLAND
Providence: Erica V. Cassill, LSA senior, major fic-
tion (novel), $1,700, "Daughter."
UTAH
Provo: Timothy Slover, graduate student, major
drama, $1,200, "The Dream Builder" and "Queen of
Diamonds."
news" that they were paying cash
awards for writing. "The fact that they
were giving out money meant that
unlike your mother and friends, they
could tell what was good work," he
joked.,
"Having seen that a play was
something other than learning how to
speak with an English accent, but that
it was sweat and hunger, I was
hooked," said Miller of his first ex-
perience as a playwright.
"When I set about writing . . . I felt
light years away from
professionalism," he said. The audien-
ce laughed when he added, "My only
hope was that other Hopwood entries
would be worse."
"I had already earned more from my
first play than I had during three years
as a shipping clerk," said Miller of his
first Hopwood award. "Needless to say
the contrast was not lost to my mind."
But joking aside, Miller talked of the
idea held by many Americans that
plays are "for fun," and that audiences
do not want to pay $40 to see something
with a serious message. He said the
current trend has been that "nothing
but musicals originate on Broadway."
Miller also emphasized that despite
the notion that theatre abroad is
superior to that of the United States,
American drama has traditionally been
as good as, or better than, European
drama.
"The American writer must write for
his own people," said Miller. "The
writing of plays is not a profession, but
a calling to be practiced for the love of
it, or not at all."
The playwright winced a bit as Hop-
wood Committee Chairman and
English Prof. John Aldrige announced
to the audience of more than 800 per-
sons, "All of you are invited to come up
to the 4th floor (of the Rackham
building) and meet Mr. Miller."
Yesterday's ceremony was part of a
week-long 50th anniversary Hopwood
Festival planned by the Hopwood
committee.
Each year students' entries, submit-
ted under pen-names, are judged by
experts who read them and then rank
the entries. The judges' rankings and
comments are then reviewed by the
eleven-member Hopwood Committee
who decides which entries will receive
awards. The committee is comprised of
University English, Journalism, and
Humanities professors.
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WASHINGTON-In a surprising
{ love, the Senate Budget Committee
rejected President Reagan's package
of spending and tax reductions yester-
lay after adding it up and finding it
didn't achieve the goal of a balanced
budget by 1984.
By a 12-8 vote the Republican-
controlled panel, which had been en-
dorsing the various parts of the plan,
rejected the overall package.
" Sen. William Armstrong of Colorado,
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minority of Democrats in voting again-
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the Democratic-controlled House and
the Reagan administration.
Rostenkowski, in a speech to the
Chicago Association of Commerceand
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billion tax cut for businesses and in-
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