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Mime Theater Claude Kipnis Mime Theatre, presented by the University Union and the South Carolina Arts Commission, will hold workshops at 1:30 and 7:30 In the Hunington Gallery Surrealistic ar Several examples of Robert A. Nelson's surrealistic approach to ar t are exhibited in Huntington Gallery this week, and Nelson will give a public lecture on his work at 12:30 p.m. Thursday in Room 203 of Sloan College. Nelson has staped a nostalgia of good and evil to fit a climate of fantasy or revamped history. He has bent the historical figures of the American past into hero icons which fit personal imaginative narratives. According to Nelson, the result of his work is "an assemblage of signs, symbols and signets which is like a fantastic book illustration, tobacco can advertisements, badly reported history, problems in mechanical drawings, and a ( foolish surreal resurrection of multipurposed ghosts and shades Vitn escaping from both the main halls and the little-known side cubicles of American historical time." Nelson is a graduate of the A f School of Art Institute of Chicago .L M where he earned his B.A.E. and M.A.E. degrees, and New York ~University where he earned his reVIVes Ed.d. degree. He is currently senior staff Plans are bein -member of the Cleveland State museums -spons University art department. Dpartment of a Nelson has exhibited in most If there is sufi major juried American print, students will tras drawing and painting exhibitions. Florence, Rome His work is widely represented in Tour leader wi many outstanding private chairman Six ui collections, and major examples of may be earned ft his paintings, drawing and prints A meeting of in are housed in 60 American Sloan College. M museum a d umiversiy ollens. irn ut p.m. today, and 11 a.m. Wednesday in Capston Campus room. The major performance is 8:15 p.m Tuesday in the Booker T. Washington Auditorium. Admission is free with USC I.D. ton display artist Robert A. Nelson istory Department summer study tour ; made to revive the summer study tour of European red in 1972 by the Art History Division of the rt. icient Interest, a four to six week tour of about 25 el to Europe this summer to visit Amsterdam, Paris, Venice, and Munich. I be Dr. Charles Randall Mack, Art History Division idergraduate or graduate credit hours in Art history r major, cognate or elective credit. terested persons Is at 3 p.m. Wednesday in Room 306, ack also may be contacted at 3895 or 4236. Homecoming ...Annual excitement turns to apathy BY CHUCK CROMER and TERRY DUGAS Of The Gamecock Staff Homecoming is usually considered the gala event of the football season. Parties before and after the game, mums, parades, class reunions, scores of events all make this traditional date something to look forward to. For the past three years at USC, excitement has turned to apathy. The majority of the students don't care either way. A serious attempt was made this year to reestablish Homecoming to what it once was. The Homecoming Committee should be commended for its attempt; however, its success was only barely noticeable. "The Way We Were" was the theme of Homecoming this year. Since few students even remember that, it was necessary to jar their memories on the events of the past high school days. Homecoming Week officially began Thursday at the Coliseum with "Night of Gold." Nostalgia was the theme; shabbiness was the quality. The whole concert was pretty much a waste. Johnny Thunder's performance is best recalled by his orange suit and the bad feedback of the Coliseum's sound equipment. According to Les and Celia Potter, heads of the event, the Crystals also had badly mixed sound. "They had good vocals but they didn't come across to the audience. As a matter of fact, they hardly got a reaction." The Dovells were nothing more than a nightclub act. They did a perverted Osmond Brothers routine with a long version of "The Streak." Chubby Checker is a good performer but not a great talent. He was the only one who got the people in terested in the music and the nostalgia idea. During "Limbo Rock" he had members of the audience come onto the stage and try to limbo under a stick. He ended with "The Twist," -and when the show ended at 11:30, the people, 200 strong, were ready to leave. Cockfest '74 was 6iled, also, as "The Way We Were"; however, the only people who could identify with the bobby-socks and greased hair theme were the alumni. Cockfest was the most elaborate high school pep rally in the state. A crowd of over 2,500, the largest in the history of Cockfest, watched the usual trite Greek skits and listened to the insipid wit of Bob Fulton. This atmosphere was occasionally relieved by the entertainment. The Radiant Vibrations, USC's female pop choir, turned out a good performance and the Carowinds Blue Grass Band was far better than last year. Ever since the discontinuance of the name bands at Cockfest, it has become a Greek and alumni showcase. The Greeks can flex their collective muscles and the alumni can feel as if it were part of the crowd again. There's nothing objectionable to that as long as the rest of the student body can keep a respectable distance. The Homecominig parade was supported by en thusiasm and spirit by students and a large number of townspeople. Numerous floats and bands were im pressive, and emuch time, patience and imagination made the parade a success. The Homecoming Parade had died out three years ago because of lack of interest. Rejuvenated this year, it was easily the highlight of the festivities. Unfortunately the Homecoming concert Saturday on the intramural field was plagued by poor planning and questionable talent. The committee received $3,000 in student funds to book that over-aged symbol of post puberty, Wolfmnan Jack. He brought a $750 band and then placed imseit on stage for a thirty-minute set. It call could be forgiven had the intramural field been a seething mass of humanity. But only about 800 people sed,r up.