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Thursday, February 10, 1972
University Daily Kansan
Film Student Interns with Nichols
By CANDY HERBERT
To Hote Caston, Independence graduate student, Mike Nichols is more than just a big-name teacher, a friend and a teacher as well.
rechnically an "assistant director," Caston served an internship with Nicholas observing the movie, "Killmasters of the movie," *Mickael*'s *Knowledge*.
Nichols has gained fame for direction of films such as "The Graduate" and "Catch 22."
This experience and Caston's studies of other Nichols' work have led him to develop his thesis for a master's degree in radio, V - film from the University.
CASTON, WHO is currently directing and producing a series of commercials in Milwaukee. Wis., completed course work for his master's degree at K. U. in 1985. Before resuming work on the series, he taught three and one half years as a Navy nobile affairs officer.
After an in-depth study of Nicholas directing techniques in his own films, plays and films, Caston took the initiative and set up an interview with Nichols. Caston was forced to take on a new role personally talking to the director.
Steve Clark, assistant director of the University of Kansas
Alumni Association and former Sigma Chi fraternity brother of Caston's, the said, "Nichols" directed coinciding quite closely with Caston's, possibly because of Caston's previous study of Nichols. During and after the meeting they seemed to hit it right off."
The institute which, annually selects four young film-makers from a pool of outstanding directors, accepted Nichols' suggestion and placed them in the institute.
Under the new plan the society will consist of three interacting groups—the secretariat, the whole, and project committees.
By RICHARD COOLEY
Kansas Staff Writer
Environmental Society Revises Inner Structure
IT WAS to this rapport, Clark said, that Nichols recommended Caston for an internship awarded by the American Film Institute, a non-profit institution in industry, to the advancement of film studies.
A new organizational plan designed to eliminate the impact of pollution in the National Environmental Law Society was presented at the organization's first meeting of the Kansas Union on Tuesday in the Kansas Union.
Bruce A. Linton, chairman of the department of radio-T-V film in the School of Journalism at Custon, said he thought the rapport established between Caston and Nichols was a brief interview very important.
This year the society is funded by the Student Senate.
Bob Ward, president of NELS and third-year law student from Lawrence, said the society hoped to help businesses adopt environmental action this year, instead of being primarily a discussion group as it was last year.
NICHOLS DIDN'T want an observer," Linton said, "but after meeting Caston, he agreed to let him observe anyway. Hote had to overcome this reluctance, but soon the result was clear: Nichols had no more doubts. Nichols even invited Caston to his home to watch the
THE SECRETARIAT will consist of the society's three officers and will serve as a committee submitted by individual members. The committee of the whole will consist of the entire membership of the organization and the committee of the work being done by the various committees. The project committees will consist of smaller groups of students in areas of environmental concern.
Ward said he hoped the new organizational format would give members a chance to work in small groups on specific areas of environmental abuse in the boundaries of the area. He showed slides depicting examples of environmental problems in the Lawrence area.
Pollution Study Uses Protozoa As Measure
The society is a local affiliate of the national organization formed at Stanford University three years ago. The local group was formed in 1985, but was completely inactive during the first semester this year.
Single-selled organisms may provide an inexpensive yet accurate model of water pollution levels. Eugene B. Bovee, professor of physiology at the University of Virginia.
WARD SAID the society accomplished last year because of poor organization and lack of funds. He said the group met regularly and "did a lot of talking about environmental issues and did very little toward solving problems of environmental abuse.
In a two-year-old study, recently extended through June 2015, scientists at the National Science Foundation Bovee is measuring the effect of various chemicals and pollutants in seawater, trying to analyze pollution levels by charting the movements of humans placed in water samples.
Because protozoa are always present in both fresh and salt water, Bovee said, they might be used as "biological indicators" of pollution levels, thus eliminating the need for expensive chemical analysis.
"We already have evidence that calcium, sodium, potassium, magnesium and organic compounds directly affect movements." He said.
"Some insecticides and agricultural poisons, and many pharmacological agents slow movement even in very small amounts. Certain heavy metals and silver are also toxic and silver are also too toxic."
Assisting Bovee are graduates students John Sims, Lawrence. Ringer E. Goddard, Des Moinos, Ronald E. Goddard, Des Moinos, and Roger E. Lindberg, Lageren.
including junkyards, traffic congestion and air and water pollution.
editing of the film."
When talking about Caston's book, Linton said this respect showed in the quality of the work.
SEVERAL PROJECTS are being considered. Ward said. One project would involve sending information to suggest ways in which their customers could combat pollution. Another would involve research into legal methods by which body shops could be forced to move away from federal highways. Ward said Douglas County Attorney Mike Elwell was cooperator with this program.
"The book is of sufficient academic stature accepted as the author of the same sincere study of Nichols as a director and of his techniques."
LINTON ALSO said that Caston's work reveals more depth than other books on film directors.
"Most books now are written as a result of using secondary sources or from reading what the authors directing, directing it, said Condon. however, has done an in-depth study of Nichols' directing and his actual works, and is writing another source of Nichols himself."
Ward emphasized that the society was not confined to law students, but that any student involved in instrumental problems was welcome.
Caston's book, entitled "The Directing Techniques of Mike Nichols," is scheduled for release by Scribner's in August 1973.
WHEN SPEAKING of Caston
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Following the theory that the best way to become a director is to direct, Clark said that Caston hopes to make a feature-length film about lawyers around Lawrence possibly during the upcoming summer.
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