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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, March 30, 1955
One Man's Opinion
Taste can be a subject of discussions and different opinions; tact is something which follows a definite code.
If, in the Union ballroom, a Buddha 9 1/2 feet wide and 12$_{\mathrm{ft}}$ feet high—constructed on a wooden frame-work with chicken wire covered with paper-machie and golden paint—is put up to create the atmosphere of an Oriental dinner, this can be a question of good or bad taste.
But if after the dinner the same Buddha appears on top of the new fountain at the end of Jayhawk boulevard, just in time to face the hundreds of people leaving the Rock Chalk revenge, who are in the right mood to make their jokes about the Buddha's design in the local Jay-style (Hawks-nose and football shoulders), this is nothing but lack of tact.
The originators of the Buddha- idea should have known that the figure of Buddha is not a feature for high school art dinner toasts and Oriental nights, but is in its many appearances the subject of worship and religious cults for more than 200 million people in Asia and all over the world.
They should have known that the art of Buddhist figures lays not in extraordinary sizes but in their touch, the smile of wisdom and knowledge.
Or did they follow that trend "as we got a $21 million field house we might as well have a 12 feet high Buddha?"
What would a member of any Christian church say if he, in India attends an European dinner where the Crucifix is displayed as an appetizer? Remember that we have Buddhist students on our campus here; what might their reaction be?
Strange things are only ridiculous to those who do not know or understand them. -Heiko Engelkes
Spring Flowers to Rock Chalk Revue
CAR TUNES
ity committee notified the public of the event; lighting for the skits was planned—all of which was co-ordinated with the counseling board of the YMCA.
The Rock Chalk Revue, as a tradition at the University, is young yet, but in its six years, it has been developed into one of the big events on the Hill. Sparked by the competition between the eight houses entered, it emphasizes the abilities and talents of college students.
Credit should be given to each house which participated and to each member of the Rock Chalk Revue.
Friday and Saturday nights, the sixth annual Rock Chalk Revue was presented in Hoch auditorium before the largest audience in the history of the production. The 1955 Rock Chalf Revue seemed to be a complete success to the audience, performers, and organizers.
Through their efforts, the Revue successfully completed its sixth year and provided two nights of laughs, excitement, suspense, and enjoyment.
—Nancy Neville
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The audience both nights saw eight entertaining skits written, produced, directed, and enacted by KU students. Each skit brought out talent, originality, and the organizational ability of a group of students. Each was so smoothly presented that perhaps to one who was not concerned with the production of the Revue, the work involved was not apparent. But to those who had a part, it meant weeks of organization and rehearsing, budgeting time, and maintaining constant enthusiasm.
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And behind the scenes, a group of students had been working night and day to organize the show as a whole and iron out any problems. The Rock Chalk Revue staff who had put in their time and effort to organize and plan the production had been working since September. Last spring, Norman Capps, was chosen as the producer of the 1955 Revue and had begun the preparation for the show then.
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Capps and his staff of 17 other students, and the technical adviser, Herk Harvey, laid down rules, checked scripts, and held meetings to which they all were called at any hour.
In - between - acts had been selected;
stage crews were organized: the public-
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May I remind you that your small account of last Thursday's meeting of the Cercle Francais was almost entirely inaccurate, in addition to suggesting to you my embarrassment before a heading as presumptious as Keske Explains Debussy.
I played the six pieces called The Children's Corner (why not identify them in this way?), and talked about them briefly, calling attention to several erroneous conceptions of Debussy's "impressionisms." These pieces were composed for his daughter (not children), Claude-Emma Debussy, whom he affectionately called Chou-Chou. I did not really "explain" anything
of the two preludes that I played afterward, inasmuch as this was a kind of postscript to the programme.
How do you explain such inaccuracies? It is less important as an individual happening, but its consequences are rather puzzling, if this is the kind of training that your journalists are given.
Yours sincerely
Walter Keske
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Eds. note: We goofed. Thanks for calling our attention to it.
Fountain Gets Sprinklers
The buildings and grounds department currently is installing the sprinkler system in the Chi Omega fountain. Landscaping of the project will begin soon, according to C. G. Bayles, superintendent.
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