UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, April 16, 1993
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Museums to pull out rarities
By Jess DeHaven
Kansan staff writer
The world's smallest fish, oldest rock and the bird with the biggest mouth will be among some unusual exhibits on display this weekend at KU museums.
"That's One for the Record" will be the theme of this year's KU Museum Day, which will be held from 1 to 3:30 p.m. Sunday at the Wilcox Classical Museum, the Museum of Natural History and the Spencer Museum of Art. This is the 13th year for the event.
Kathryn Morton of the Museum of Natural History said the day was a chance for the museums to bring in the public.
"It's really a chance for us to roll out the red carpet and show off," she said.
Wilcox Museum will present a slide show on ancient Olympic athletes and display Greek and Roman art. Visitors to Spencer Museum will see two exhibits of paintings and prints.
Additional displays will come from the Museum of Anthropology, the McGregor Herbarium, the Museum of Invertebrate Paleontology and Snow Entomological Museum.
The Museum of Anthropology will contribute an exhibit called "The Long and Short of it," which will allow visitors to compare their height with the shortest and the tallest people in the world.
participants will receive prizes.
Exhibits are only a part of the days events, Morton said. Treasure hunts for children in each of the museums will provide an educational aspect to the event. After completing the hunt.
Betty Banks, associate professor of classics, said the treasure hunt in Wilcox Museum would keep with the theme of the day.
"The clues will be like what's the oldest object, what's the ugliest and what's the biggest," she said.
"Besides having all the record exhibits, it will also be a day for Big Fight champions," she said.
Morton said members of KU's swimming teams, the women's basketball team, the volleyball team and the football team would also be on hand to greet visitors and sign autographs.
The Jayhawk mascot and the KU juggling troupe also will provide entertainment for visitors.
Morton said she expected 600 people at the event, which is free.
Hilleary to star on stage, not field
By James J. Reece Kansan staff writer
Chip Hillery, former Kansas quar-
terback, has made it to the Final Four.
The Final Four of Theater, that is, which will be presented this weekend by English Alternative Theatre at 100 Smith Hall.
"It's healthy competition," said Paul Lim, director of E.A.T. "That's why I'm calling it the Final Four."
The series will feature staged readings of four one-act plays written by KU students in Lim's beginning playwriting class. Hilleary, a Westerville, Ohio, senior, will make his stage debut in two of the plays.
Lim will direct each play, with two
performances tomorrow and on two Sunday, both at 8 p.m. Lm said that the audience would vote each night for its favorite play. The two winning scripts will be performed again at 8 p.m. Monday, and another vote will be taken to determine which play is most popular with the audience.
He said he hoped the students would learn something about the theater by watching their plays come to life. But Lim said that he has learned a lot too, especially from Hilleary.
"I feel like I'm a coach to Chip Hillary."
10-year-old Kevin Vernon. Vernon fit a part in the play, so Lim asked Hilleary if he would like to appear with Vernon in the play.
Hilleary will appear in two plays tomorrow. One is "Fireworks" by Kate Kelley, Redfield, S.D. senior.
The second play tomorrow is "Remembering Eliot" by Eustacia Dizuk, Lawrence senior.
Lim said a common thread between
the plays was that they were all writ-
tings.
Another play by writer Daphnie Young, Oshkosh, Ws., senior, will be presented Sunday against "Bobbing for Apples" by Trisha Watson, Lawrence senior. All productions are free.
Age of Aquarius to dawn at Hashinger Hall
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of the group of hippies who try to discourage Claude from going to war.
Davis said that before he had read the script he had not wanted to be in "Hair."
"It's a really interesting character, but I'm not wild about the draft-dodging and the drug use," he said.
"I think it was because of a lack of knowledge of hippies," he said. "I thought that they were about drugs and being wild, but I saw that they dealt with issues just like we do."
"It's unfortunate that drugs were such a big part of it, though."
'Black Spade, one of the songs Davis is singing in the production, sarcastically addresses the issue of racial prejudice. The script calls for an African-American character other than Davis' to perform the song. But Davis will sing the song because he is the only African-American cast member.
"It has some funky lyrics that I don't like, but I suppose it makes a point," he said of the song, which includes a series of racial slurs that includes "nigger" and "tar baby."
Davis said he thought the issue of racism was especially relevant.
"We haven't had a day of racial equality vet." Davis said.
of being the 'liberal' and 'fine arts'
dorm," he said. "I think that it's really
cool that we're allowed to do it."
O'Donnell said he was excited that Hashinger was staging the production
O'Donnell said Jim Rupprecht, residence hall director for Husinger and Ellsworth halls, was initially a bit more aggressive. "Hair" for fear of offending people.
"It really follows the 'Hash' tradition
Glassman, the play's director, said, "He asked me if we were going to do the nude scene. When I told him that we weren't, he told us to have a good show."
The nude scene is the eye-popping scene that has the entire cast singing and dancing in the buff.
"We're not doing it because I can't make my actors do something that I wouldn't do." Glassman said. "But there is a lot of dirt dancing."
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