Thursday, April 27, 1972
University Daily Kansan
Kansan Staff Photo by ED LALLO
Students Act in Opera Workshop
.. Paula Plummer, Ian Thomas in "Lheure Espagnole" ..
U.S. Education System Faces Numerous Attacks
Singers Shine in Opera
BY DAVID HEALY
Kansas Reviewer
By FRANK SLOVER Kansan Staff Writer
The Opera Workshop performed the overflow auditions of the Experimental Theatre last night. About 25 chairs had originally been donated, were added, over 25 people were forced to sit on the floor or stand up.
I suspect that the Expo I had to attend, but that the audience could hear various male singers who cannot project enough for the other two women.
"L'HUEUR ESPAGNOLE" is Ravel's only true opera. His "L'enfant et les Sortièges" is considered to be more pan-
*L'heure Espagnole* by *Maurice Ravel* and *Maureen Schiech* by *Glaimo Puccini* were both sung in English. They are 20th century creations, first written in 1895. Puccini shortly after World War I.
Both productions suffered from mediocre blocking and melodrama acting, making the version slightlySilver Sheila the vocal line often yielded to the drama. Whatever the producer made up for in singing, they made up for in singing.
Although he is often compared to his contemporary, Debussy, Ravel is not as adventurous.
Editor's Note: This is Part 1 of a system in America. This story deals with some criticisms of the methods and goals of today's leaders.
The concept of several differ- different types of bachelor's degrees, with varying contents, was also con- sidered.
EARLIER THIS MONTH, the Educational Policies and Practices Committee considered the Bachelors of General Studies required for admission, called, as well as modifications to the Western Civilization and
KU Choruses To Psalmodize 'King David'
Requirements were discussed and faculty members tended to accept only the basic requirements, with the exception of the Western Civilization course. The degree is greater degree, the comprehensive exam associated with
Early this semester, the University of Texas, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences met to review and possibly redefine bachelor's degrees.
The two University Choruses,
the University Singers, the
Concert Choir and the Concert
Chorale will participate.
James Ralston, teaching associate in choral music, said "King David" had not been danced at KU for several years.
Three KU students will be he
deber Debra Hater, Rayon M.
Junior; Rebecca Hayes, Overlard
Park junior; Steve Robinson,
Miller
The production is being presented by members of five University of Kansas choral with the University Symphony.
Some members expressed a favorable opinion toward the creation of an alternative degree Degree, to the BA. This new degree would have fewer requirements now necessary for graduation.
There will be a production of "King David," a retelling of the biblical story with narration and music, Saturday in Hoch Auditorium.
He remains much more classical in his compositions.
"L'heure Espagnole," which loses the full import of its meaning in translation, is a showpiece of Mr. Maker's wife entertains three prospective lovers simultaneously in her husband's absence. The husband returns, and then leaves with the situation. It ends in fardess.
Thank heavens this was in English. Otherwise, understanding would have been harder. We were little indication of the drama.
Ravel's forte was piano, both of which he did exceedingly well. On the other hand, Puccin's work will prove he has a job to do, and I credit Scheichi" was written late in his career and it reflects his mastery
"GIANNI SCHICCHI" is better written than Ravel's opera. The music of the change of mood in the drama. Had it been sung in Italian, the English-speaking world would be better known. The music contains the drama.
"Gianni Schiechi" is from a
"Tritite" of one-act operas. "Il
Tabarro" and "Suar Angelica"
were the other two.
"Igami Seichichi" is based on the book by Nagi Yoshino. It concerns the surviving relatives of Buozo Donati as they try to write themselves into his life.
There was no room in the Eclectic Theater, and she sort out a song that Ann Hillman and a piano took its place. She was admirable as a one-man
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Two new fiction paperbacks don't look or sound like fiction at all. She is the second of Brautigan's THE ARROTION: AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE (100+) ($2.25). The plot is about a girl who is library, a girl comes to see him, moves in with him, becomes her friend, and Tuanna to get her an abortion.
Benjamin Siegel's CASE HISTORY (Crest, 95 cents) is about a psychiatrist and his work with a patient. Several people are involved with this man in this ultimately exciting, suspenseful story as the psychiatrist himself becomes a trajeform in the tragedies that unfold.
High adventure is the mood of Decmond Bagley's RUNNING book is about a former secret agent who goes on a mission to Iceland—a messenger who rapidly becomes involved in the plot. Farris' SHADOW ON HARRISON HIGH (Pocket, 95 cents) is set in that now-famous drug and drugs is the message
SUSAN HOWATCH'S PEMARRIC (Crest, $1.65) is a different cup of tea; one of her best books and gets in Cornwall—rugged moors, hills and family mansion to which one of the men of the family brings his new wife. It's old-fashioned, recalling the big books she loves.
"The persons who want high standards maintained for the BA degree want it as a safety valve," he said, "and the progressives who want it means to liberalize degree structure and create more autonomy."
Two of the new volumes are romantic historical novels by MARY ANNE *Pocket*, $1.25) and Norah Lofts's *The CONCUBINE* and NORAH LOFTS's *The CONCUBINE* a treasure of a lush story about a woman and her conquests in Regency *London* "The BOYBIRD" to *London* Bojney-is there a queen who left
According to Howard Bawardgartel, professor of psychology and chairman of the EPPC, the principles of the BGS degree will probably be accepted from all factions' demands from all factions.
And now this month's Gothics.
One is Jake Alen Hodge's *SAVANNAH PURCHASE* (Crest, 89 cents)—identical cousins of Jean and Marion French Revolution who become involved in an impersonation.
language requirements.
hasn't been chronicled in a recent novel?
Black Troupe At KU Gets USO Praise
Hans Holzer's GOTHIC GHOSTS (Pocket, 95 cents) includes 19 stories of haunted houses and the ghosts in them.
It seems strange to mention another book in this context, but the one we had was PASSIONATE WITCH (Pocket, 95 cents) is an old one, from the library that carries a witch. It seemed awfully funny in those sweet old books.
For western fans there is Hall G. Evart's *FUGITIVE* THE CANYON (Pocket, 60 cents). It a collection of short stories.
these concerns have become known outside the meeting halls of university faculties or shared with student representatives.
Perhaps such discussions have always taken place in academies of higher learning but it has only been in the last few years that
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Kathelen Westcott's THE BRIDE OF KILERKERN (p. 94) and about this girl, and this old house and strange voices out of the past.
A certificate of appreciation was given to the University of Kansas by the USO for a KU basketball team that entertained U.S. servicemen in February and March. The group toured the Northeast Command, which is comprised of Greenland, Newfoundland, Brador and Newfoundland.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (AP) — Former President Lyndon B. Johnson was released from Brooke Army General Hospital afternoon and flown to his ranch, the hospital announced.
The show, produced in KU Experimental Theater, was directed by Horace Bond, visiting instructor of speech and drama to teach students contemporary one-act plays performed by 15 KU students.
WHETHER SUCH intranuiversity discussion has accrued (and it probably has) the current emphasis on being invoked by indictments of the American education system from critics both inside and outside the country.
The challenges are directed at the entire system and include both the philosophical and the dimensional dimensions of education.
The most extreme attacks come from commentators whose complaint is not that American schools are not succeeding in teaching students what they are supposed to learn but that the wrong things by the wrong methods with the wrong goals.
Two examples of the current literature excoriating American education are "Education and Ecstasy" by George Leonard and Teaching As a Subversive Instructor, by Matthew Austman and Charles Weigartner.
LEONARD ARGUES that American schools are not now either allowing or encouraging learning.
According to his definition:
"To learn is to change. Education is a process that changes the learner."
He complains that by holding them, he reminds them to memorize sterile, meaningless facts, the teacher is defeating the purpose of
He identifies "one of the first tasks of education" as being "to return man to himself, to enlarge the role than to stifle awareness."
H isthesis: "Education, at best, is estatic."
Postman and Weingartner have much the same sentiments toward the purpose of education
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but instead of portraying true "education" in purely "ecstatic" terms, they define it in terms of "education" that the ability to cope with the future.
THEY MAINTAT that the traditional subjects taught in schools bear no relation to the impact of acceleration becoming serious because of the impact of the acceleration of a future world, known as future shock.
The authors set, or reflect, the tone of much radical criticism of American education by their denunciation of the supportive role it plays for what they inwardly as the evils of American society.
The recommendation is to end all "teaching" and "subjects" with students to ask questions about anything they find interesting, so that "subjects" are intermingled it is counterproductive to restrict teaching.
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These schools, according to Leonard, tend to produce what is necessary to prevent the "social machinery" from breaking
Leonard complains that when earnings potentials are thrust at the surface he tends to indicate "that giving an acceptable interpretation to 'Ode' on a Grecian Urn" somehow makes it better uphorb and drive a blower.
LATER HE SCORES the militaristic discipline to be found in schools as unsuited to the proper purposes of education.
These necessities include:
'Right answers', specialization,
standardization, eager
detachment, detachment from the self'
Postman and Wiengartner begin their book with this concluding problem in the United States is mental illness; there are more Americans suffering from depression forms of illness combined."
He continues, "If education continues along the old track, humanity sooner or later will simply destroy itself."
THEY DESCRIBE the American system of education as having supported a system which has led to a揪a problem of problems, including: air pollution, the Bomb, Vireo, Foreign aid, english, the whoami i-problem and the whatso嘎 all-menl problem.
School to Host Awards Dinner For Architects
The School of Architecture and Urban Design will hold an awards banquet at 7 to 9pm in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union.
"KU and International Education" will be the top of the guest speaker, J.A. Bazle, director of foreign study and associate dean for education.
The Donald P. Ewert Memorial scholarship and the distinguished alumni presentation will be presented at the banquet.
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SENATOR ROBERT DOLE
OF KANSAS
Chairman of the Republican National Committee
Senate Spokesman for the Nixon Administration
Senator Dole, appearing at the University of Kansas in the Vickers Lecture Series, follows a similar performance here by Democratic National Chairman Larry O'Brien. He will speak on current national issues and then be open to all kinds of questions from the audience.
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