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University Daily Kansan Monday, Nov. 20, 1961
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A Theater Review
Society Criticized In 'The Sandbox'
By Richard Currie
Edward Albee makes some valid criticisms of American society in his one-act play "The Sandbox" which was presented at Westminster Center Saturday and Sunday night.
Albee took characters from "The American Dream," a three act play, and put them to work for him in "The Sandbox." The result is a mocking 15-minute play in which Albee strips all his characters bare except one, Grandma, and chides Americans for their treatment of the aged and their attitudes towards death. He says they are silly and inhuman, though not as cut and dried as that.
Grandma is the only one in the play who has any affinity with the human race, aged, broken and cast about as she is by her daughter and son-in-law. They come to the beach to bury her where the angel of death, a young actor dressed in white clothes, is fluttering his wings in a certain sort of anticipation. What it is I do not know. Grandma dies sweetly after hurling some biting remarks at her undertakers which are hilarious.
YET THE PLAY is so short in character delineation that none of them quite come off. You are left with the feeling that you see the message and know the characters, but somehow it is not because of what the playwright said but what you know personally. Perhaps it is Albee's intention not to draw sharp characters but to have them merely comment or recite upon their parts. Nevertheless, what they do say has relevance to American thinking and practices.
For an amateur cast the play was well done. Harriet Wyatt, Miami Okla., junior, as Mommy and DeAnna Denlinger, 1324 West 19th Terrace, as Grandma, grasped their parts and performed adequately, though Mrs. Denlinger was not as effective as she had been in rehearsals.
ROBERT PHILLIPS. Chanute senior, directed the play and did justice to its meager fare, probably extricating all the value Albee put into the character. For his initial attempt at direction he did remarkably well.
A panel discussion followed the play during which Peter Caws, associate professor and chairman of the department of philosophy and L. R. C. Agnew, professor and chairman of the department of medical history, expressed disappointment at the lack of character delineation but saw some of the criticisms the play made and termed them valid.
Allen Crafton, professor emeritus of speech and drama, the third member of the panel said he saw little value in the play or its characters but praised its performance.
Dance Planned For Ball Team
LEE SAID IT IS HOPED that seven members of the team will be at the dance although he said no promises have been made.
A "Football Appreciation Dance" will be held in the Kansas Union ballroom Saturday 8:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. in honor of the KU gridiron team, Gene Lee, Wichita junior, has announced.
"This type of dance sounds like what we used to do when I played," said Coach Jack Mitchell.
The charge of admission will be $.75 and the dress is to be casual.
"There used to be a lot of school spirit then and the students would all get together after the game and have a big dance which the players would attend. It's good to see such enthusiasm return," continued the Kansas football boss.
"THIS TYPE OF DANCE is a great honor for the team. It is good to know the students are behind it so much and feel it is deserving of such an honor." said Mitchell.
Music for the dance will be provided by what should be an exciting combination of musicians.
Vaun Kampschroeder, Wichita junior, has announced that an "All-Star" rock-n-roll quintet will play for the dance.
This group will be composed of five of the best individual musicians in the area especially picked for this dance.
**Foreign Students:** Please turn in your试卷 to the International Campus Advisor by Wednesday. The forms are on page 11 of the November issue of the International Campus Newsletter.
Catholic Daily Mass: 6:30 a.m. St.
John's Church, 13th & Kentucky.
KuKu  Pep: 6:30 p.m., Oread Room, Kansas Union.
Russkii Klub sobiraetas 7:30 chasov.
20s sonia. U'v umosobrani my budymen
Union, V'u umosobrani my budymen
pet russkylie pesni. Viz izuchahushiye
russkylie russkylie yazyk ochen
origalhaystua.
TODAY
TOMORROW
Episcopal Holy Communion and Breakfast:
7 a.m. Canterbury House.
P-T-P Tour Planned To K.C. Wednesday
Episcopal Evening Prayer: 9:30 p.m.
Danforth Chapel.
Official Bulletin
People-to-People will have its third Industrial tour to Kansas City, Mo., Wednesday. The bus will leave the Kansas Union at 12:30 p.m. All students who are interested may sign up at the People-to-People office in the Kansas Union, or in the Dean of Men's office, Strong Hall. The tour will be at the Chevrolet Co. in Kansas City, Mo.
KU J-School First in Nation
The William Allen White School of Journalism and Public Information placed first among all accredited schools and departments of journalism in the national newswriting competition sponsored during October by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation.
Fred Zimmerman, Lawrence junior, placed second among the individual competitors. Scott Payne, Bethel junior, received honorable mention.
Last year Zimmerman ranked seventh among all individual competitors for the entire school year, and Frank Morgan Jr., who was graduated in June, rated second. The School of Journalism won $5,600 in the contest. For placing second in the October news writing category Zimmerman will receive a scroll and a $150 fellowship.
The Naval Research Reserve Company will have its fall inspection at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in Room 105 of the Military Science Building.
Inspection Set For Naval Reserve
Kansan Want Ads Get Results
MU Suspends Badge Wearer
The University of Missouri suspended a student Friday for refusing to say where he had gotten an AHAMF button.
It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull—Henry Louis Mencken
The student body president of MU Roger Bridges, said in a telephone interview last night that the MU dean of students has called in several student leaders in an attempt to find the sources of the AHAB buttons and the AHAMF buttons.
We haven't been able to seize the buttons. The AHAB buttons have been out for two years.
About MU efforts to prevent violence at the KU-MU game Saturday, Bridges said he had personally sent letters to all organized houses at MU asking them to not wear the lapel buttons. He said he had written an editorial in the campus newspaper and had spoken on radio several times.
HE ESTIMATED THAT the number of AHAMF buttons was very limited, but that the extent of the AHAB buttons was hard to judge since they had been out for so long.
"We've done all we can about getting more drastic," he said. "As a group, I'm sure both student bodies won't cause trouble. The problem is a certain group of individuals on both sides."
He said the buttons at MU were "more of a fad than an effort to say something against KU," and added that MU has had buttons going around before other games.
One of them, he said, is that the buttons are not needed for an increase in school spirit. The game itself takes care of that."
The KU student body president, Max Eberhart, Great Bend senior, said that KU's objection to the lapel buttons can be based on five reasons.
ALSO, HE SAID, "The buttons could cause a rise of negative feelings and negative emotions in people from Missouri.
The buttons would help a MU student looking for a fight to find a KU student, he said.
"We are trying to keep feelings pointed toward the game, not toward each other," he said.
"YOU COULD POSSIBLY ENDanger yourself by wearing an ATAP button."
PREMIER DIAMOND SHOP 916 Mass.
Referring to the KU students who planned to sell the buttons, Eberhart said:
"Dean Woodruff warned these people. They took the risk. It's my understanding they were in it for profit, thus weren't too much concerned about what would happen."
An employee of the University Thursday night charged that the University's Building and Grounds department has been violating the school's non-discrimination policy.
Speaking at a meeting of the Lawrence League for the Practice of Democracy, the worker explained the reason for his charge.
KU Hiring Policy Hit At Lawrence Meeting
"I have worked on the hill for 15 years, and I know some people who have worked for 20," he said. "Why aren't these people foremen? When they (the University) need a new foreman they bring in a white farmer who has probably only cleaned a barn."
VARSITY
NOW SHOWING!
HE CONTINUED, "We as a race always have to be a little better; we always need another piece of paper to qualify.
Sidney Poitier
"I think they (Buildings and Grounds) do discriminate," he added. The worker's remarks followed a report by Oswald P. Backus, professor of history.
"A Raisin in the Sun"
Prof. Backus said that he had discussed the hiring of workers with C.A.Harkness, personnel officer for the University.
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"He told me that the University's policy is one of non-discrimination and that the school doesn't believe in discrimination because of color." Prof. Backus said.
PROF BACKUS CONTINUED,
"When asked if there are any job openings at the present time, he (Mr. Harkness) said that there are four." (The four are: a secretary in the zoning office who must know shorthand and typing; two electricians and a steamfitter.)
Mr. Harkness said that for the electricians and the steamfitter a
journeyman's license of experience, or the equivalent thereof, is necessary, Prof. Backus explained.
He commented that Negroes are quite welcome. Prof. Backus added.
Prof. Backus said that he was convinced by the conversation that Mr.Harkness is sincere and that he believes the University will obey the non-discrimination policy.
He explained the dilemma as one in which they (LLPD) encourage people who are interested in getting a job, but there aren't enough unskilled jobs for them.
"THE PROBLEM IS THAT Buildings and Grounds has not been employing Negroes in skilled positions, and besides that there are no opportunities for them," he said.
Harry Shaffer, assistant professor of economics said there is no Negro electrician with a journeyman's license because unions will not take Negroes.
"WHENEVER WE TELL Negroes to go to Buildings and Grounds they ask why. They say they won't get hired anyway."
Hobart Woody, of Lawrence, who works in a lab at the University, said that the University does hire workers as apprentices.
The League decided to contact Harry M. Buchholz, superintendent of the Buildings and Grounds Department, and ask him to speak on their policy.
"They're all wet," said Buchholz in a telephone interview Monday with the UDK. "If a man comes in for a job, and he is well qualified for that job, he will get the job regardless of race or creed."
Union Leaves Labor Group
Lyddane said discontent began in his local, formerly affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO), when former CIO members were soundly defeated for offices in the state federation during its convention last month.
HUTCHINSON — (UPI) — More than 200 union communication workers withdrew from the Kansas Federation of Labor because they "felt they would have no representation." Hutchinson local President George Lyddane said today.
Most of the offices were won by men formerly associated with the old American Federation of Labor (AFL) before the organizations combined to form the AFL-CIO.
The Hutchinson Local 6400, Communications Workers of America, pulled out of the state labor organization earlier this month, and Lyddane said he hoped other communications locals in Kansas would follow the lead.
Diplomat's Son Acts
James Yount of Kansas City lost his position as executive vice president of the federation and the only other CIO-affiliated member of the federation's executive board lost his seat.
Ahn has been portraying Orientals in film productions in Hollywood for the past 25 years.
JIM'S CAFE 838 Mass. GOOD FOOD DAY and NIGHT
"One for the Road"
Make it Spudnut
Buy a dozen -
Eat them on your way home for Thanksgiving - you'll love 'em
Be sure and be back for the big game Saturday!
AND REMEMBER
You'll enjoy delicious Spudnuts Before, During, and After the game
Get them at
Spudnut Drive-In
1422 West 23rd