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Bonnie Callum and Steve Marquette, Kansas Repertory Theatre players, rehearse in the play "Tales from Olympus." Cullum plays the Greek goddess Aphrodite and Marquette plays the Greek god Zeus. "Tales from Olympus" will be presented at 11 a.m. July 16-18 and 22-25 at the William Inge Theatre in Murphy Hall.
Enrollment thriving in KU classics
By BRENDA DURR Staff Reporter
The Latin language and the classics could have ended up like Plato, Socrates and Cicero—dead.
Instead, Latin is making a back come and
back to English. UCLA's department
was steadily grown from one
"Enrollment has been building steadily over most years and that's encouraging to us. Karl is a great leader."
Rosen, who became chairman on July 1, said that although humanities courses had declined, his department had not been affected.
"FOR THE PAST two years we've been above, but now we've moved up around 42%," Rosen said.
Rosen has taught at KU since 1961 and has been acting chairman of the classics department three times. The former chairman, Oliver Phillips, will be studying and teaching in KU's history department on a Mid-Career Faculty Renewal Development Award.
Enrollment in classics may increase further because of America's back-to-basics educational movement has led more high school students to take Latin, Rosen said.
"There has been an upwasing in Latin in high school. There's more hope that high school students will continue to study Latin in college," Rosen said.
SO MANY STUDENTS have been taking Latin that there is a shortage of teachers, he said.
But most KU students are academically unprepared for the beginning Latin couses, Michael Shaw, associate professor of classics, said.
It's a great tragedy that students are coming unprepared for university-level courses, Shaw
Not coming prepared was one reason that enrolment in higher level language courses
By the time most students begin to grasp a language, he said, they will be graduating.
But John Senior, associate professor of
English skills, had a more basic problem: lack
of English skills.
"Generally, the English level has gone down," Senior said. "Now we need time teaching English grammar and sentence structure, things students should have learned in the seventh grade."
In addition, Senior said, students are more interested to teach that the students of the early 1970s.
"But now they're more obedient, better dressed and they have a haircut. They're terrified of ideas. All they care about is finding a good job and getting money."
"THEY RODE INTO the 70s as radicals and
autobiographies. I was treated by
Teachy." They wrote in *jess*, his book.
Of the students majoring in languages, Shaw said, meet will use their degree to supplement and enhance their study.
The Greek majors went on to various professionals, ranging from two doctoral candidates.
"Majoring in Greek languages tends to support something else, like economics or law," he said. "However, some students actually develop Greek skills, in addition, in 10 years, five Greek language majors."
Most students take either Greek or Latin languages because of the College of Liberal Arts.
"THEY HAVE TO take a language, or they're curious about the language," he said. "Most take the language they're most curious about, then make use of it in the language when they like the instruction."
The college language requirement for a bachelor's degree requires at least 10 hours in one language or 10 hours in each of two languages.
"We raise political and artistic questions," he said. "Some business majors say they don't need languages. But some others do see that, in addition to accounting, they're also human. Unless he sees the human side, his business is meaningless.
But classics should be looked upon as more than a required language course. Senior said.
"The classics have a tremendous role to play.
"You don't have a future if you don't have a past."
Spouses' dramatic collaboration gives summer repertory a children's fantasy
Bv LINDALANG
When University Theatre director Ronald Willis works evening hours on a play, he usually eats supper, says goodbye to his wife Marie and then heads for the theatre in Murphy Hall.
Staff Reporter
For the past six weeks, however, he has had a welcome change of pace. His wife has accompanied him to the William Ige Theatre, where members of the Kansas Repertory Theatre have been rehearing the four plays they will present through July 30.
beautiful as he is and endure in the children's comedy, "Tales from Olympus," that will be performed by the Kansas Repertory Theatre at 11 a.m. today, July 17-18 and 22-25 in the Ige Theatre. This is also the play that Mrs. Wilma wrote in May of this year.
the play, who explains the gods and goddesses to the audience and serves to tie the scenes together.
The two of them have been involved in a joint effort, along with members of the repertory board.
Attending the rehearals was a good opportunity to hear and see the play, not just read it. The lines were changed to clarify the meaning, and the character scene was added to expand a character.
Willis plays Hesiod. Greek poet and narrator of
Wills said members of the repertory group had more input in shaping the play than in other plays he had directed at the University of Kansas. Individual personalities and capabilities of repertory group members helped to shape the play, according to Wills.
"It's a wonderful experience and a rather humbling experience," she said.
"The cast has been open and responsive to nuances in the play," he said. "It takes a huge, passionate effort."
"We wanted a play that would utilize the resources of the Kansas Repertory Theatre and would not cost heavy royalty fees." Willis said.
Wills originally asked his wife to write the play because there was a need for one that the Kansas Repertory Theatre could perform. She previously had written short stories for children and a Christmas extravaganza when she taught speech and drama in Fort Collins, Colo.
Willis was interested in a play based on mythology, so his wife researched the topic and helped him with it.
Included in the play are three tales, "The Coming of Mollusca," the Creation of Mollusca, and "Mollusca's Sandra's Box."
"AT FIRST, WE see the gods in their majesty," Mrs. Wills said. "Then they let their hair down, and we laugh as we recognize ourselves in them and the games they play.
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"It is written so it is no longer just the majestic
he she said." We see the goda we have
created.
Delbert Unrub, University Theatre scenic designer, designed the setting and the lights for the production. David McGreevey, KU graduate, designed the set design for the theatre, Lawrence幼儿, did the make-on-design.
Glass littering causes many problems
By MARCHERZFELD
Staff Reporter
The empty beer bottles outnumbered the people by a wide margin yesterday afternoon at Centennial Park, while cyclists on Lawrence and Riverside constantly look for fire-tilling glass fragments.
Mayor Marci Francisco, a regular bike rider, familiar with the problem of broken glass in buildings.
"The streets are pretty full of glass." she said.
Although Francisco and other city commissioners agree that discarded glass does pose a problem, the most feasible solution to the problem is not clear.
TWO PEOPLE WHO have differing solutions are John Morris, KU assistant professor of architecture and urban design, and Chiquita Coors Co. distributor, Laplace, Inc.
Morris, who called Centennial Park one of Kansas 'few glass-lined parks, favored a complete ban of gas beer bottles or at least a 5-to-20 cent deposit placed on the bottles.
"The deposit is just one solution," Morris said. "You eliminate glass bottles, then you eliminate ice."
Cornelius wanted to set up a glass recycling program in Lawrence, which she said would solve the problem of glass fragments littering streets and parks.
LAPEKA ALREADY recycles all-aluminum cans at 2711 Oregon St. paying 25 cents a pound. However, the distributor currently accepts only Coors bottles, naviing 1 per cent bottle.
Cornellism plan to start a glass-recycling program in Topkapi the end of fall, including recycling old bottles.
months. This program would accept any glass
that is flat and would pay one-half cent per pound of glass.
Morris said that recycling glass would only be a partial solution to the problem.
"If you want the privilege of drinking out of glass bottles, you should be willing to pick up the costs. A hefty deposit would be a reasonable way to cut down on the glass problem."
"The problem with recycling glass is that you throw a bottle down and someone's got to pick up the pieces," Morris said. "People don't want to do that."
Morris said that the money from deposits could fund increased park patrols and clean-up
Morris said that the people who would recycle glass bottles would not be the same people who would use plastic bottles.
"YOUVE GOT TO protect the masses from the few." Morris said. "It's only the one in a thousand person who's going to go out and throw the bottle. That's the problem."
Assistant City Manager Mike Wildgen said Morris's solution was idealistic.
"Police have to see the littering happen to enforce the littering ordinance." *Wildfire geo*
"Many cities have a park patrol, but we don't have that kind of manpower," he said.
Wilden said that the Lapeka program was partly a public relations strategy.
"It is a PR thing, but if it works, there's nothing wrong with that." Widow said.
Cornelius said that the recycling program was intended to prevent the type of legislation Morris
"A REGULATION like the bottle ban can be a nightmare to enforce." Cornelius said.
Cornellus said the aluminum-recycling program has proved that private enterprise can make a big difference.
"When people voluntarily recycle we're putting new money into the economy, unlike a debt repayment."
However, she added, "At our level, the recycling program has never been a profitable program for us. As a distributor, we lost money on it."
Lawrence had a glass recycling machine from 1974, called the Whomper because of the noise it made.
Cornellus said buyers quit purchasing from the program.
The Lapeka program had a better chance of success because "the glass industry has found that they can save considerable energy by recycling.
"I have seen the price of glass rise $5 to a tom
the six months, from $35 to $40." Coriellus
thus said.
City commissioners seem to favor the Lapela policy because they said, Morris's solutions were not based on facts.
Commissioner Tom Gleason said, "We just can't ban bottles."
Francisco said a deposit would not deter a person who was in the habit of breaking bottles.
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A bill that would have required state-wide regulation of glass bottle bottles in Kansas failed on February 28.
Gleason and Francisco said that Lawrence would have to set up check points to prevent beer bottles from coming in from other parts of the state.
Kauffman
"You could just go buy beer in Oliahe." Francisco said.
The other 30 percent of his time is spent preparing and reviewing contracts, drafting and testifying on behalf of legislation, drafting policies, reviewing student disciplinary cases, testing faculty handbooks, handling faculty discipline cases and performing other duties as assigned, he said.
Victie Thomas said most of the increase in her workload fell into two categories.
ONE IS LITIGATION dealing with employment discrimination suits. The other is the response the University is required to file when students who have National Direct Student Loans from the University file bankruptcy action.
Kauffman said he could devote more time to preventing litigation if an assistant attorney was available.
"I don't think there will be as rapid an increase as there has been in the last 18 months," she said. "I think we will see a gradual increase in the number of cases in the next few years."
Litigation can be reduced by reviewing student handbooks, faculty handbooks and all contracts with the court.
"We would at least have the best shot at making sure the language in the publications and the contracts is in a form that the University understands and can live with," he said.
"I THINK AN attorney has the responsibility to anticipate areas from which problems are likely to arise," he said.
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Thomas said she thought litigation in the next few years would continue to increase.
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"There's a lot of work to be done with them," Carlin said. "And even after they get a job, the problem is not solved. Many of the women manage to get hired, but then don't last a week. They find that a job is sort of like being a mother—you go everyday."
The Lawrence program is funded through two grants. One is from the Kansas Department of Education's Vocational Education program. The other grant comes through the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act's Title VII Private Industry Council grant.
"The PIC grant is one of the few CETA programs that supposedly will not be cut," Welborn said. "We are worried, but we do have funding through this fiscal year."
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