Tuesday, March 23.1971
University Daily Kansan
Traditional Theater Not Represented by Blackbird
By DICK COWDEN Kansan Reviewer
Blackbird Theater is not a band of gifted actors, playwriters and musicians. It is a group of people who like to strut in front of other people and be for a smile, a laugh, or a nod of approval. That is all. To take them for anything else, to mistake their intentions.
Andy Trompetter is the pudgy, outgoing leader of the Theater. Before the performance last week, he met the Trompetter munched a pastrami sandwich and explained the nature of his family of per-
"The main problem we have is that people try to compare us with traditional theater. I'm not sure what we are, but if someone demands a definition, I'd say that we are just regular people who paint theatrical pictures for our audiences and see what they think of them. We do what we do in their fun or we wouldn't be doing it."
"We don't do stuff with a plot
very often. In fact, when people try to read too much into our plays, they really can't enjoy them.
"You see, we're reactionaries to traditional theater. Traditional theater can get really pretentious and overly sophisticated that. We like to convey moods
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and create images the audience can easily identify."
Not everyone can enjoy Blackbird Theater. Last night, the audience walked in expecting a fairy tale andary and walked out disappointed.
Blackbird Theater opened their performance by singing sentimental old songs and acting in various fabrics, fashion, with well-used instruments. This was followed by a cranky movie production of Little Mouse. Then the group adagioed in the Furry lake had no need to do with chickens. It
was a clever, light portrayal of human futility.
The other two seiments of the show were "Ivan the Fool" a mimeed version of Toddy's play and "Indians," the Theater's original musical. Both these plays seemed to appeal for the audience's.
"Ivan the Fool" moved so slowly, many forget to applaud at the end of the series of images and impressions of what happened when the Western culture clashed with the Japanese. The film seems choppy and less than exciting until one sat on the set and saw the actors' expressions.
The University Council will be meeting new faces at its next meeting. Ten members were elected Saturday by a mail vote from the ranks of the council.
13 Elected to Council
Student members of the council will be elected at the Student Senate meeting Wednesday night.
The council is composed of 39 faculty members and ten student senators. The faculty members are represented with one third elected each year.
A mail ballot containing 50 names of candidates was sent to the committee. The ballots were tabulated Saturday and the results were
The new University Council members are: Joseph Marzluff, professor of Navy ROTC; Henry
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Student Protest Hearings Reveal Committee's Duties
(Editor's note: This is the fourth in a series of ten articles on Student Senate committees.)
The Student Senate's Committee on Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities recently held several public hearings on the issue of the Declaration of Protest According to Kevin LaGree, Hutchinson senior and chairman of the committee, these proceedings will help problems his committee faces.
"The hearings resembled opened-talk sessions more than recitations of evidence. The hearing was the most international University agencies and of a disoriented Student Senate got thorough attention. They seem to underlie many problems that have been predicted at graduation." LaGree said.
"The crux of the problem was that no one apparently knew what to do, or if they did, didn't care to do it." he said.
By MATT BEGERT Kansan Staff Writer
The Enactment on Freedom of Protest was presented to the Senate as a result of an alleged student group's right to protest.
THE AGENCIES and procedures do exist whereby complaints may be filed. The Code of Conduct guarantees students the LaGree said students were not informed about correct procedures.
The Enactment was to provide Student Senate support for any protest group that agreed to abide by the Code. The Senate should agree with the protest group should any dispute arise, La Gree said.
"Their intentions were good, but I believe they approached the solution in the wrong way. Any attempt to broaden the Code by
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (UF1)—The Department has surveyed its paperwork and found 1,200 forms which are nonessential or illegal.
So, the agency said Thursday, they are being thrown out at a saving to taxpayers of $45,000 a year.
enactment only add to the statutory clutter of student government."
LaGree said the problem arises from a lack of activity on the part of the students, and not from a lack of legislation.
"WHAT IS NEeded in place of more law is more action, but action that has purpose and direction.
"There is a lot of good intention and a lot of energy in the Senate, but not much," Senate appeared to have no power; which I disagree with," he said.
LaGree said he would like to make the Committee of Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities a center for students and the government.
"I would make the Committee of Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities a clearing house for student's complaints about the school doing that much, one problem would be eliminated. Students would know where to go with their complaints. The committee would have responsibility for through on the complaints."
take to present a complaint, according to LaGree. Certainly referring very quickly and efficiently referring the complaint to either the vce-anchiorate for student committee or the committee for Human Relations
"To operate either of these courses of action smoothly, the Committee on Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities must have hands with the Human Relations Committee and the vice-chancellor."
There are three courses of action which the committee could
LaGree said the alternative action which the committee could take would be to assist the group who files the complaint in bringing suit before the university committee request advice from the University Attorney on the matter.
"THE COMMITTEE need not be compliant, although that option is open. The committee should guarantee the complainant its resources and support."
have been sold and the deadline is this afternoon. The tickets are available in the SUA office.
"The important matter is that the committee be prepared to use all of its resources and be necessary to help the complaintant achieve a just resolution."
The three-day travel plan includes a round-trip bus ride from Lawrence to Houston, accel-
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afternoon games, transportation
and to from the games and a trip
to beach at Galveston on Friday.
The buses will leave Lawrence around 6 p.m. Wednesday and will arrive in Houston around 11 a.m. Thursday, Irv Robinson, the president of Prairie Village senior, said. The buses will return to Lawrence about midnight on Sunday. Beer and set-ups will be available on Monday.
Robinson said that the contract for the trip costed $86, but because final reservations had already been refunded, Most of the accommodations at the hotel will be for three or four persons to a room, and there are vacations for only two in a room will be charged $10 a person extra.
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