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LSCA BY DAVID HAVIRD The University of South Carolina Award for Distinction in Literature for 1974 will be presented to American poet Robert Lowell, 8:30 p.m. Monday, April 15, in the new Business Administration Auditorium, at which time Lowell will give a reading from his works. Analysis Lowell is considered by many to be the finest poet now writing in English. He is the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, a National Book Award, a Bollingen Poetry Translation Prize, and is former Poetry Consultant to the Library of Congress. The USC Award for Distinction in Literature was instituted in 1973 by the Lectures Committee (now called Ideas and Issues Com mittee) of the University Union. Its purpose was to bring some of America's best and most famous writers to a campus which, besides Yevgeny Yevtushenko, had for several years had virtually no visiting authors of any im portance whatsoever. I I For the session starting July, 1974, Euromed will assist qualified Amer ican students in gaining admission to recognized overseas medical schools. And that's just the beginning. Since the language barrier constitutes the preponderate difficulty in succeed ing at a foreign school, the Euromed program also includes an intensive 12-16 week medical and conversa tional language course, mandatory for all students. Five hours daily, 5 days per week (12-16 weeks) the course is given in the country where the student will attend medical school. In addition, Euromed provides stu. dents with a 12-16 week intensive cul tural orientation program, with Amer ican students now studying medicine in that particular country serving as counselors. Senior or graduate students currently enrolled in an American university are eligible to participate in the Euromed program. For application and turther information, phone toll tree: (800) 645-1234 in New York State phone: (516) 746-2380 or write, Euromed, Ltd. 1 70 Old Country Road ward I 'Lowell is c by man; the fines now w in Eng The principal reasons for this vacuum were a lack of vision on the part of previous Lectures Committees and the fact that the English Department did not and still does not receive from the administration a budget even remotely adequate for main taining some semblance of literary life. In hopes of remedying this situation, Jim Mann, a graduate student in English, joined the Mothe To Re4 ArtsA L Annual I The second annual Renaissance M Festival, bringing the flavor of 14th R through 17th century Europe in di food, music, art, drama and lec- th tures, will begin on the campus by Saturday with a University ai Theatre performance of D Shakespeare's As You Like It. The festival will continue R through the following Friday with in banquets, a concert, lectures by H noted Renaissance scholars, art m demonstrations and performances of by a band of wandering minstrels. m Sunday an evening of art and se music will be held at the Columbia c< 1208 Knox Abbott Drive, Phno o Go T mnsidered rtobe t poet riting lish.' L.ectures Committee in September, 1972, and proposed the concept of anovel award to be presented to ecipients chosen exclusively by he students on the committee and resented on behalf of the student ody. As a result of Mann's efforts, the iward was approved by the ommittee and three recipients were chosen, with a modest lecture fee allotted to each. They were Allen Tate, Eudora Welty, and rwell E The Id of the stituting the Uni " eAward Visual A Havinj tually n< W ard apearsyes,t years, t alleviate ena1ssanc useum of Art at 6 p.m. in the bE enaissance Gallery, with a fo scussion of the Renaissance art ,m ere, and musical presentations at the USC Collegium ofMusicum D id other members of the H< apartment of Music. ar On Monday and Tuesday nights Ag anaissance banquets will be held the Campus Room of Capstone >use at 7 p.m. A representative eal recalling the lavish banquets th the Renaissance will feature wV any courses. These will be p4 rved ceremonially by servants in p1 stume, with enteratinment la1 Our sea isti 'Caab o Low4 Photo by Fay Godwin. tobert Penn Warren. Tate appeared on campus in i pring, 1973. 'tne award, in the < orm of a plexiglass medal lesigned and executed by art< raduate student Ted Metz, was resented to the 74-year-old Tate n March 6, after which he read i rom his poetry. The event was t vell attended by the student body and the Carolina community. I Medals identical to the one Tate i eceived were sent by mail to BY JANET LEE prom tertainment Writer Rol the: as and Issues Committee Tuesc Jniversity Union is in- B us i or the first time this yaar Audit ersity of South Carolina delivc for Distinction in the the v: ts- Mol noted the fact that vir- prom well-known artists have Amer on campus in recent genei committee is seeeking to unqu< the situation by bringing ticula Week Be *g ween courses. Tickets are $5.50 students and $8 for adults, andC y be purchased through Friday C C the University Theatre, partment of English, Russell A use, Taylor Streets Pharmacy t( I the Columbia Music Festival n tra rcoing "W av pa Phlontet, he aG id . Ti esofrafficnontorenltn Taeo ppad o apsi pr in93 et.r, n h radat studeTeMt,wa Romd hin poetr .Then wa s Welty and Warren, and the com mittee continued to negotiate with Warren for an appearance in the fall. (Welty, it discovered, no longer travels.) Negotiations with Warren proved successful, and he gave a poetry reading this past November at the Law School Auditorium, attended by a stan ding-room-only audience. The committee has hoped it will be able to perpetuate the award on an annual basis and instill it with considerable prestige. In fact, the award to Allen Tate was reported last year in Poetry Pilot, the monthly publicatioh of the Academy of American Poets which s widely read by ,the nation's oets. Inspired by past success, the :ommittee chose to present the [974 Award to Lowell as the sole 'ecipient, and, impressed by the :ommittee's past handling of the award, Lowell graciously ac :epted. By its efforts the committee Llready has managed to garner a neasure of prestige for the iniversity which it otherwise vould not have had, and the USC kward of Distinction In Literature s on its way to becoming an annual iffair. inent American artists to 'e at USC. )ert Motherwell will receive 1974 Award at 8:30 p.m., lay, April 16 in the new ness Administration orium, after which he will r a lecture on some aspect of sual arts. herwell is one of the most inent members of the ican abstract expressionist -ation, and he is stionably its most ar te tneorist. Ins Soon Renowned Renaissance scholar, Dr. Francis Fergusson of olumbia University will speak at :30 Monday on "Trope and llegory: Some Themes Common Dante and Shakespeare" in the ew Business Administration uditorium. From Page One "My feeling is I'm against, this losing of Green Street," said 'inlay. 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