CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, June 20, 1984
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KANU reviving radio plays
By MARY ALICE LEARY Staff Reporter
Radio drama played to big audiences in its heyday in the 1930s and '40s and has been brought back to the audience with a KANI radio drama enthusiast.
Darrrell Brogdon, program director at KANU, is the force behind "Imagination Workshop," a KANU theatre repertory company, which is in the process of beginning production for its third play.
“It’s like going to Detroit to build an Edsel,” he said. “Nobody is doing it anymore.”
Brogdon has worked with radio plays since 1975 at stations in Beaumont and Denton, Texas, before he staffed the staff at KANU 7209 iwo 490.
BROGDON SAUID THAT when he came to KANU, he wanted to develop a core of people in the city who were interested in radio drama.
"When I came here I wanted to do it some more," he said. "There is an audience for it. We have heard from them who are excited about radio drama."
Brogdon said that KANU had been willing to develop funds for his plays and was supportive of his effort. He
said that the station had purchased the rights to "The Martian Crown Jewels," his first play for KANU, and "Who Goes There," so he could develop it into a script for his next play.
"Who Goes There?" is a play based on a science fiction classic by John Campbell, Jr. and was made into two movie versions of "The Thing." The novel describes a complex and ambitious play he will be doing for KANU. Brogdon said.
"IT'S A LONGER play than the others," Brogdon said. There will be more intense action than in the other plays that he has produced for KANU, and the sound effects will be tricky.
"Who Goes There" is about a frozen creature that is thawed and studied by a group of scientists in the Antarctic. The scientists soon discover that the creature can re-shape its own cells and can move quickly. The creature changes characters several times, while the scientists try to figure out who the real person is and who the immiser is.
"It's about an extra-terrestrial," he said. "The play is really about paranoida."
Brogdon said that radio plays were produced differently today than they were in the 1940s, when
actors recited their lines in front of microphones while the play was being produced.
NOW, ACTORS RECITE their parts three to four weeks before the play is produced, he said. The music and is mixed with the actor's parts.
"The actors are folks who participate in community theater," he said.
Finding people who wanted to act in the plays was no problem, he said, and both of his radio productions featured actors with whom he had worked in the past.
The time it took to produce a play depended on the story, he said, but was always a time consuming process. He said that he and his staff of two, a production assistant and a recording engineer, created their own sound effects as well as pre-recorded sounds.
IN "THE MARTIAN Crow Jewels," because the listeners could not actually see that the martian was not a human, Brogdon wanted the character to have a distorted voice. To create the special effect, the voices of all of the characters were recorded on tape, while another tape was made to distort the voices, Brogdon said.
Three KU profs awarded research grants
Three KU professors have won Fulbright-Hays research grants giving them the opportunity to research abroad in their areas of study.
She chose Liberia, she said,
because her scholarly interests were in
ethnic politics, and "there are lots of
ethnic politics in Liberia."
The Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act (Fulbright-Haryt Hact) of 1961 is financed partially by the federal government. It gives the program that states as its objective the "promotion improvement and modern foreign language and area studies in the United States."
JOANE NAGEL, associate professor of sociology, has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays grant to teach at the University of Liberia.
By CINDY HOBSON Staff Reporter
Daniel Bays, associate professor of history and director of the Center for East Asian Studies, said that his Fulbright-Bury grant would send
him to Taiwan and Hong Kong to do research on early 20th century Chinese history.
"KU has had a remarkable record in the number of graduate students" who have received grants, Ryan said.
Leslie Dienes, professor of geography and meteorology and of Soviet and East European Studies, received a Fulbright-Hays grant to conduct research in the Soviety Union. He is also credited that could not be reached for comment.
MARY RYAN, assistant director of the study abroad office, said that graduate students and graduating students will apply through her office for a grant.
Any major is eligible, she said. The applicant must design a research project that can be described on one page of the application.
The Fulbright-Hays program also offers grants to graduate students.
said, "half would go to New York and the other half would go to California."
Students have a choice of which country to study in, she said, but the Fulbright-Hays program would choose the university.
"If students had their choice," she
ONE REQUIREMENT of the program, Ryan said, was that the applicant be fluent in the language of country to which he or she was going.
Nagel said that the program payed for living expenses, health care and insurance and "fringes like a utility card." The agency describes job opportunities where electricity is expensive."
Along with money from the government, Ryan said that the countries to which scholars went contributed funding."
Consultant plan aids in fire safety
Bays said that his family would accompany him to Taiwan. His children, ages 14 and 9, will attend the American school in Taipei.
"It is a whole family program." she said. The program will pay airfare to Liberia for her and her husband.
By SHAWNA SEED Staff Reporter
Public places, crowded at night,
traditionally give firefighters headaches.
Historically, McSwan said,
the most hazardous situations arise
when fires break out in public places
 during peak occupancy time.
"We lived in Taiwan seven years ago, so we're looking forward to going."
MCSWAIN KNOWS first hand of the havoc a fire can wreak in a crowded public place. He served with the Army during WWII as Ala., when a fire in a club killed 25
To about 25,000 KU students, they are places to eat, see a movie, have a drink or to dance. To Lawrence Fire the student has a final death traps for the student.
THE MOST COMMON violations. McSwain said, were locked exit doors, overcrowding, exit lights and emergency lights that didn't work and abnormal numbers ofcomms devices brought in for special events.
McSainn said that although the consultants found 200 violations, business owners and managers in prence had not been irresponsible.
In 1982, Lawrence's fire department took a big step towards achieving this goal. A night consultant program was started, which involved consultants from the department and local sections of public places at night, when the hazard is the greatest, McSwain said.
people. It is that type of fire McSwain hopes to avoid in Lawrence.
"Our main objective is to prevent fires and emergencies in public places before they happen and make sure that we get out of buildings. McSwain said,
"A lot of people have managed their businesses well," he said. "Before, when we just had yearly inspections, we always had good training and into consideration their responsibility into their patrons and to themselves."
The program, which recently won a national award for fire safety and disaster prevention, has found over 204 violations of the city's fire codes
since 1982.
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