Thursday, October 5.1967
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Leap year Rock Chalk features 'girls' night'
"Girl's night out!" labels the premier of the 1967-68 Rock Chalk Revue, Feb. 29. The Revue is an annual presentation of the KU-Y.
"We want KU coeds to ask dates to take them to the Leap Year performance," Allen Purvis, Topeka senior and producer of the show, said.
March 1 and 2 will be the other two showings. The Revue will be in Hoch Auditorium.
A record of 12 skits are being prepared for this year's Revue, Purvis said, but only four skits will be selected by judges for presentation.
The 12 skit scripts must be submitted to the KU-Y by Oct. 6. Purvis and Drew Anderson, Plainview junior and assistant producer, will read the skits during the weekend and make suggestions on them. The scripts will be returned to the groups Tuesday.
Judges will read the scripts three times before making the
Author of 'Catch 22' coming here
Jordan Crittenden, author of the widely-acclaimed novel, "Balloons are Available," and Joseph Heller, author of "Catch 22," will be KU's writers-in-residence this semester.
Crittenden, a KU graduate who lives in San Francisco, has written short stories published in the New Yorker and Atlantic magazines.
Heller, educated at New York University, Columbia and Oxford, has worked for national magazines and has also taught at Penn State University and the University of Pennsylvania.
Crittenden will be at KU from Oct. 9 to 29, and Oct. 18 will read selections from his works in the Kansas Union Forum Room. Heller will be here the first week after Christmas vacation.
This is the third year of the KU writers-in-residence program.
Lit scholar to speak here
An eminent scholar in German and comparative literature, Victor Lange of Princeton University, will open the 21st year of the KU Humanities Lecture Series, Tuesday.
He will speak on "Three Forms of Modern Fiction" at 8 p.m. in the University Theatre. An informal reception will follow in the Murphy Hall lounge.
Lange is chairman of the German Department and director of Comparative Literature at Princeton. He formerly was chairman of the German department at Cornell University.
Like other Humanities visiting scholars, he will spend three days at KU, speaking to classes and other student groups, and conferring with faculty members and graduate students.
At 3:30 p.m., Monday he will speak on "Understanding Another Culture" at a coffee-forum in the Kansas Union Forum Room, sponsored by Student Union Activities (SUA).
Lange is a member of the Fulbright Commission, of the advisory board of the Goethe Institute in Munich, of the executive board of the American Comparative Literature Association,
final selection. The names of the judges are not published.
Bill Lupton, Wellington junior and Rock Chalk business manager said last year's advertising netted $1300 for Rock Chalk. This year, because of new businesses in Lawrence, Lupton hopes to clear $1500.
The publicity budget has also been increased, Lupton said.
"I am gratified by all the interest shown in this year's notheme show," the producer said. Purvis has a triple major of international relations, Latin American area studies and geography.
Last year he worked as Rock Chalk house manager and in his sophomore year as in-betweenacts manager.
Delta and Delta Chi; Templin Hall and Lewis Hall; Kappa Kappa Gamma and Beta Theta Pi; Gamma Phi Beta and Sigma Chi; McCollum Hall men and McCollum women; Delta Tau Delta and Pi Beta Phi; Alpha Phi and Kappa Sigma; Delta Gamma and Delta Upsilon; Tau Kappa Epsilon and Alpha Chi Omega; Phi Kappa Alpha and Alpha Delta Phi.
Business manager Lupton was on the advertising committee of last year's Rock Chalk. He has a double major of personnel administration and political science.
The 12 groups participating in Rock Chalk this year are Kappa Alpha 'Tneva' and Alpha Tau Omega; Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Delta Delta Delta; Alpha Gamma