University Daily Kansan, June 19, 1985
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Prof says Shakespeare plays on royal family
By Gina Kellogg
Staff Reporter
When David Bergeron was a student, he often wondered how his professors spent their time when they weren't in front of a classroom of students or in their offices grading papers and tests.
Since then, however, Bergeron says he has discovered what some professors do — they write.
Bergeron, professor of English, has published three books of his own in the last several months.
His most recent publication, expected to be released Friday by the University Press of Kansas, is a book about William Shakespeare, about whom he already has written four books, along with numerous articles and reviews.
Bergeron's book, "Shaheespear's Romances and the Royal Family," presents an argument that the Stuart royal family, in power during the 16th century, wrote was, using Shakespeare as a source, or "text," for his plays.
"We got off on the track of character identification with the ac
tural historical figures," Bergeron said Friday. Thus few others have looked at the plays from the aspect Bergeron describes.
Bergerman's book is based on five of Shakespeare's last plays, "Pericles," "Cymbeline," "The Winter's Tale," "The Tempest" and "Henry VIII." His book explains the pervasive and complicated link of politics and family issues contained in these plays.
"I'm trying to get away from the simple romantic interpretation of those plays and show a pretty hard-
nosed view in terms of the politics," he said.
Shakespeare included love in his interpretations of the royal marriages, but the royal children were rarely pawns in politics. Bergeron said.
The essential question being dealt with, Bergeron said, is how the family of history pervades the history of art.
"This idea is usually continued by
identifying the characters in fiction
with members of the royal family," he said. "I think this is a dead end."
The most prominent of the political issues with which Shakespeare dealt was the need for an heir, or a clear successor to the throne. This was an issue of great importance during Shakespeare's time because a large gap, about 100 years, had existed in England's history when there had been no heir. King James' predecessors had been childless.
"So it was a question of succession in Shakespeare's plays." Bergeron said. "And this is resolved by the presence of royal children at the end of the plays."
Astronaut candidate boosts stations in the high frontier
By Jill Ovens
Staff Reporter
The eight students in David Downing's aerospace engineering class fired a barrage of questions at the visiting astronaut.
"When are you going to fly?" asked one student. "How many astronauts are in the program?" asked another.
But Charles Lacy Veach, the astronaut, was only too pleased to take off his jacket and relax during the informal discussion that followed his more technical lecture that morning.
Veeach visited Lawrence on Friday for the Leadership Kansas Program of the Kansas Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Leaders from the state have been selected to take part in the program and last week's seminar
was the second of six offered to this year's group.
On Friday morning, Veach speak to the leadership group about the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's program of manufacturing in space and discussed the concern of space stations.
In the afternoon, he responded to questions from students of Downing, associate professor of aerospace engineering, many of whom eventually hope to work in the space program. Both the morning and after school classes at the Space and Technology Center in Nichols Hall, West Campus.
Veach, 40, told the students he had spent two years as an instructor pilot in a specially designed shuttle training aircraft before his selection in May 1984 as an astronaut candidate.
He was one of 17 chosen from about
5,000 civilian applicants.
Veaach said he almost had completed his one-year training course and expected to be assigned to a shuttle flight within two or three years. He said his NASA training had been the most exciting experience of his life.
A six-month academic program followed at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston.
"First of all, we got this NASA and space shuttle tour of the country," he said. "Then we got some survival training. A lot of us had been through survival courses before, but some of the civilians hadn't."
Veach's academic training encompassed the sciences that affect the space program, such as extraterrestrial geology, astrophysics oceanography and meteorology.
"We got a little bit of everything to give us a background in what is being done." he said.
Veach said the astronaut candidates then were assigned jobs for NASA, some of which had little to do with their ultimate mission goal.
Veach has been working in a software verification laboratory. The laboratory has flight computers set up as a full cockpit mock-up of the shuttle. The software used on each flight is unique and requires constant verification, he said.
"The whole thing is a flying computer," he said. "My job is to fly it. I go through all the cockpit procedures. I don't actually do any of the coding or troubleshooting of the software. If it飞 to see it performs as it's supposed to from the pilot's point of view and I write up any discrepancies."
But Veach will not be flying the shuttle when his turn to serve on the crew comes up. As a mission specialist, Veach said he would be performing operational tasks.
"I'll be operating experiments that don't require hands-on research — running things like atmospheric collection systems — and handling the on-going things like science and refueling scientific and communications satellites," he said.
Veach described mission specialists like himself, who have an operational rather than a scientific or engineering background, as "worker bees."
Commission favors grant to get buses
By The Kansan Staff
The Lawrence City Commission last night approved 3-2 a request for a federal grant that might help the Lawrence Bus Co. acquire four new buses for KU on Wheels.
The grant would pay 80 percent of the $590,940 purchase price of the buses if the bus company agreed to invest $18,000.
The city would not invest in the buses, but would own and lease them to the bus company.
The Lawrence Bus Co. is the contractor for KU on wheels, the campus bus service, which also serves part of the city.
the commissioners who voted for the request — Mayor Mike Amyx and commissioners Sandra Praeger and Howard Hill — based their approval on assurance that the grant money could be rejected if proposed lease agreements with the bus company were not satisfactory.
Commissioner Ernest Angino, who voted against the request, said that if the city owned the buses it might be held liable in court for accidents.
Angino also said that because the federal government would help buy the buses, it might pressure the city to hire more bus drivers and the operation of the bus company.
Commissioner David Longhurst also voted against the request.
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