PAGE EN THE MICRIGAIN DAILY SUNDAY, MARCH 28, 1954 PAE ENTR MC IG N DALYSUDY.MACH2~ 15 w . ., ,, ...._,... , ., . Experience, Fun Gained} By Hosteling By FREDDIE LOEWENBERG Visit places that are not the usual tourist attractions, live on a cooperative plan with a small, Landmark in Londontown Tourist Aid The International Commit- tee of SL and SRA are co-spon- soring a room in Lane Hall which has pamphlets and oth- er information about work,1 travel and study abroad. Interested students can ob- tain more facts from Grey Aus- tin, Program Assistant of Lane Hall. Groups Plan11' A*d Proecs By PHYLLIS LIPSKY Vacationers AW ARDS AVAILABIE: Have Choice World's Col leges closely-knit group and enjoy an energetic vacation outdoors. American Youth Hostels offers all this to students who will spend their :summers with one of the organization's bicycle tours to Europe, North America or Hawaii. Now in its twentienth year, the AYH features inexpensive vaca- tions of up to 11 weeps of travel- ing "under your own steam." * * * CYCLING an average of 30 miles per day, hostelers enjoy a leisurely trip to get the most out of their tour. Staying in hostels with groups from all over the world and journeying down back roads, travelers see and learn much that isn't possible on ordin- ary tours. Th'e coeducational groups,' matched according to age, inter- ests and ability, are composed of not more than ten cyclers plus an experienced leader. Students must be physically fit and possess a hosteling pass which may be ob- tained from national headquarters. Prospective hostelers should ' own a bicycle of the lightweight variety and be prepared to live ruggedly, AYH officials say STUDENTS spend the -night in one of the hostels which are now set up in 27 countries. Buildings are erected or adapted to house from three to 30 persons and may be anything from an old castle to a converted barn. Two such hos- tels in the Ann Arbor area, the Pinebrook Hostel in South Lyon and the Saline Valley Farms Youth Hostel in Saline, provide overnight quarters for local travelers. Buying and, cooking their own food, hostelers do their own work and must clean the cabins before traveling further. Where hostels are not available, groups EXPLORE WILDERNESS TRAILS HIKING * RIDING Plan a vacation trip to HAVASU CANYON - "Gem of the Grand Canyon," and summer vacation trip along the JOHN MUIR TRAIL of the Sierra Nevada. HAVASU CANYON TRIPS March into May, Sept. thru Oct., 1954 ... 3, 6, and 8 day trips. Cost from ............. $50 JOHN MUIR TRAIL of the Sierra Nevada, California July into Sept., 1954 Minimum trip 7 days...... $V Write for literature, details, reservations. WAMPLER TRAIL TRIPS 1511 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley 9, Calif. Of Festivals Warming tip in April, the Euro- pean festival season will be going full blast by May 15, tormenting the already confused and rushed tourist with the question: "Where should I go next?" Every day during festival season (which doesn't let up until Oct. 15) promises some musical or dra- matic performance or various oth- er exhibits. * * * PICKING JUNE 1 as a random t People from all over the United starting point, the tourist could at- A SCENE IN LONDON-ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRALTOWERS OVER THE SURROUNDING BUILDINGS Open to Americans camp out or spend the night in a hotel. The AYH is offering 18 tours this year. On the North Ameri- can continent groups .will travel through New England, Alaska, Canada, Mexico.and the Southeast with a transcontinental tour and a combination work-cycling trip also featured. Those going to Europe have" their choice of several routes through the British Isles and the continent each emphasizing two or three different countries, A two- wheeled tour through Hawaii is also planned. On some tours stu- dents may remain after the group returns home or take side trips on their own. Stopovers in cities and points of interest will be made to take advantage of sightseeing opportunities. Trip costs include air, rail or steamship transportation and all living expenses. Bicycles and a lightweight sleeping bag are fur- nished by the hosteler, who is ad- vised to bring nylon or easy to wash cycling clothes plus one city lutfit. For information about specific tours and details, students should contact the National AYH head- quarters, 6 East 39th Street, New York City, or the Ann Arbor Coun- oil, 1204 Oakland Ave. TI LOVE MAKES WORK: S tate Department Louncil Coordinates Student Travel By RONA FRIEDMAN VARIED language courses fol- Love makes paper work, say low in the afternoon. On the staffmen on boats chartered by rb the Council on Student Travel, average sailing about 600 enroll Boy meets girl often resulting in in the language classes. There are love, change of travel plans and classes formed for those with spe- much paper work in the form of cial interests such as photography, replanning groups and changing modern dance or music, tickets. Besides last minute European films and dancing are switches, however, everything else the fare for the evening with oc- appears to run smoothly on the casional extra events such as orig- European voyages. . inal music shows produced by the *r * * a1passengers or scavenger hunts. States as well as from other areas{ of the world are brought together in the cooperative living units, community service projects and summer work camps sponsored by Lisle Fellowship and the Ameri- can Friends Service Committee. For the summer of 1954 Lisle is setting up three International In- stitutes of Human Relations in the United States and two abroad. The Friends Service Committee will conduct work camps in seven areas of this country, and send Ameri- cans to various parts of Europe and to Mexico and El Salvador. LISLE'S living units include people from a variety of national' backgrounds who live coopera- tively for a period of six weeks. This summer Lisle's units in the United States will be con- ducted in the San Francisco area and In and near Denver, Colorado and Washington, D.C. After a week of orientation in the home center the group, which usually numbers about 40, is brok- en up into teams of four to six. Teams spend four day periods as guests of local communities, where! they may be asked to take part in almost any sort of community work or recreational activity. IN COLORADO, for example, teams will be sent to a mining community, an Indian reservation, areas in the city of Denver, and Colorado colleges. The present Lisle headquar- ters are at Lane Hall, 204 S. State in Ann Arbor.} The average cost of Lisle's American units is $150 not in- cluding transportation to and from the unit. European units, which are being conducted in Germany and Scandinavia this summer, cost $500 including passage * * * CONSISTING of groups of ap- proximately 20 college students, American Friends' work camps are run on a cooperative living and working basis for eight summer weeks. - This summer camps in the United States will be set up on Indian Reservations in South Dakota, Iowa, California, and Minnesota, in a migrant labor community in Pensylvania and in urban centers in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and Brooklyn, N.Y., Activities in different camps may vary from some form of phys- ical labor, such as helping the people of an area, build a commu- nity center, to leading recreational activities for Indian children. * * * THE CAMPERS are drawn from .- I tend a festival in Bergen, Norway, honoring Edward Grieg. Featur- ing such artists as Eugene Or- mandy, Nathan Milstein and Jussi Bjoerling, the festival will last until June 15. also scheduled for northern Europe at this time will be a festival in Stockholm from June 1 to 9 in which Handel's "Orlan- do Furioso" will be performed. The Glyndebourne Opera Festi- val in England which also begins June 10, will last approximately six weeks. This year's program will in- clude "Don Giovanni" with Am- ericans James Pease, Margeret Harshaw and Leopold Simoneau in the cast; Strauss's "Ariadne auf Naxos" with Lucine Amara of the Met and Busoni's "Arlecchino" with Elaine Malbin. RUNNING throughout the whole touristseason are the many other festivals in Great Britain. At Stratford-Upon-Avon there will be the usual productions of five Shakespeare plays. Another drama festival will be held in Pitlochry, Scotland, consisting of six plays. The big event of late June, however, will be the festival held in Holland which will boast per- formances by the Scala Opera Company, the BBC Symphony and other musical groups, * * * M1y SHIRLEY K.LEIN Universities throughout the world open their doors to American students during the summer., Through the Institute of Inter- national Education, more than 4.- 000 persons a year from 80 coun- tries study or train in a country other than their own. The Insti- tute lists eight awards to the Uni-' versity of Vienna Summer School' as well as several partial grants to- ward tuition and maintenance at the English and Scottish summer courses at the Universities of Ox- ford, Edinburgh, London and Bir- mingham. The Birmingham course on Shakespeare and Elizabethan drama is held at Stratford-on- Avon. * - * AMONG THE special grants are four labor scholarships given by the Transatlantic Foundation for Study in Great Britain. Open to candidates from the labor union movement, three awards are given at Ruskin College, Oxford Univer- sity and one at Coleg Harlech in Wales. Woolley Foundation awards will be made to four persons for the study of art and music in Paris. A number of social work fellowships are available to gra- duate students for work, study and observation in France. They will have an opportunity to get practical knowledge of the vari- ous kinds of social work in France: work with delinquents,+ group work, public welfare, me- dical social work and factory welfare. Further information may be ob- tained from the Institute of Inter- national Education, 1 East 67 Street, New York City. * * * FRIDTJOF Nansen Haus', the first international house to be es- tablished in Germany after World lin with lectures and discussions on the East-West problem, recep- tions given by the University and the Senate of Berlin, a visit to the Eastern sector, tours of inspection and social activities. Inquiries may be addressed to Fridtjof Nansen Haus. Gottingen, Merkelstrabe 4, Germany. * ** THLE UNIVERSITY of Oslo for the seventh summer will hold a session for American students and English-speaking teachers. While designed primarily for American and Canadian students who have completed at least their freshman year of college, the summer school is open to all English-speaking students. Courses include a general sur- vey of Norwegian culture, his- tory, language, literature and arts, human geography and mu- sic. There are also special cour- ses conducted by University fa- culty, government officials and representatives from industry in various phases of Norwegian po- litical, social and economic prob- lems. With six weeks tuition, room and board, student fees, field trips and other excursions, books, supplies and other incidentals, the estimat- ed cost is $275. To this figure must be added approximately $390 for transportation. For a catalogue or application blank students may write Royal Norwegian Informa- tional Services, 290 Madison Ave., New York City. University of Vienna Summer School at Schloss Traunsee, Gmun- den, Austria, mentioned above as having eight available grants, of- fers courses to American students from July 26-Sept. Designed to promote better un- derstanding between Europeans and Americans,.the summer ses- sion provides study with outdoor vacation at a mountain lake. The school is held at the nineteenth century castle of Traunsee on the shore of a lake. In addition to course work, the summer school's tuition of $200 includes trips to Salzburg and the festival and to nearby interest spots. The University's Spanish club, "La Sociedad Hispanica," offers a. scholarship to the University of Mexico in Mexico City. Tuition and partial room and board are includ- ed in the grant for a six week ses- sion. Various other Latip Ameri- can Universities hold summer ses- sions for foreign students. Inter- ested students may find pamphlets posted on the bulletin board of the PRESENTATIONS of Menotti's War Two, offers an international "Telephone," Mozart's "Entfuhr- course in German studies from TiE tCOUNIL, fioimed by the State Department in 1947, is a. coordinating agency helping every- one from the Institute on Inter- national Education to the Youth Exchange Commission of the Southern California-Arizona Con- ference to get its students abroad. Trying to move as many stu- dents to as many parts of the world as possible in the seven years that it has functioned, the Council's member agencies have sent approximately 35,000 stu- dents abroad-15,000 of them on the Council's ships. The ships have continuous free and voluntary educational pro- grams on the nine day voyage. Mornings are usually filled with discussions ranging from existen- tialism to the East-West contro- versy, JOIN THE RED CROSS The Council on Student Travel has recently sponsored a mid- winter conference to discuss the further development of student travel, At the meeting Birger Nordholm, chairman of the Euro- pean Travel Commission, pointed out that the organization handles only about one-half of one per- cent of the total number of Amer- icans traveling to Europe in 1953. The travel agency, he said, must respond to the challenge of world understanding. "When the Council reaches a larger percentage of the potential traveler we will be fully meeting that challenge." Gordon Boyce, chairman of the Council, commenting on the pro- gram, pointed out that somehow "we have become do-gooders of the head ather than of the heart. Opening the glories of a new land to a young person is not merely a logistical problem. It's an emo- tional experience." ung" and "Don Giovanni," Gou- nod's "Mireille" and other operas as well as orchestral concerts and solo recitals will be given at the festival in Aix-en-Provence start- ing July 10. Austria, home of many compos- ers and musicians, will also play a large role in the festival season. The Bayreuth festival (July 22 to Aug. 22) will feature a new pro- duction of "Tannhauser" in addi- tion to performances of the "Ring," "Tristan," "Lohengrin" and "Par- sif al." Opening close on the heels of Bayreuth, the Salzburg festival from July 25 to Aug. 30. will pre- sent the world premiere of Rolf Liebermann's "Penelope." a variety of backgrounds and lo- calities. Their knowledge of the area in which they work is sup- plemented by visiting speakers who discuss with them problems pecu- liar to the locale. Camps are conducted from June 25 to Aug. 20 at a cost of $135 to the individual, The nearest regional office of the Friends Service Committee is Box 274, Bexley Bra ch, Colum- bus 9.0U. The committee also sends Amer- icans to overseas work camps all over Europe. Activities include re- building projects in areas which have not fully recovered from the damages of the war and reforesta- tion, Aug. 5 to Sept. 1 to any student. Located in Gottingen in the Bri- tish zone about ten miles from the point where the U.S., British and Russian zones meet, Nansen Haus is a part of the University of Got- tingen. Professors and lecturers of the German department of the Uni- versity of Gottingen will hold lectures and lead discussions on themes from the field of Ger- man studies. There will also be. language instruction, political lectures, excursions and social activities. 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