Kansas State Historical Society Topeka, Ks.
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday, March 24, 1953
50th Year, No.112
ASC Vote Favors Bi-camel Plan
'The Contrast' Gives Different Scene Sets
Bv EILEEN FOLEY
Something different in the way of a set will be used for the University theatre production, "The Contrast," to be presented in Fraser theater Wednesday through Saturday.
Students may present their ID cards for reserved seats at the box office in the basement of Green hall. The box office is open from 10-12 am, and from 2-4 p.m. daily, 10-12 am on Saturday.
The stylized setting was designed by Dr. John Newfield, director of University Theatre, Richard McGehee, college junior, and Tom P. Shea, instructor in speech, director of the play.
Instead of the conventional static set, screens will hang on poles and will be swung into place by the actors, as the scene changes. Two of the screens are 7 by 4 feet. At the back of the stage will be a series of six screens of different widths, double-hinged so that the straight line of the screens is broken into patterns.
Mr. Rea rewrote the 18th century play, reducing the number of acts and using several scenes in two acts. The curtain falls on the stage only once during performance—between acts. When the scene changes, the sets are changed during the action of the play to musical accompaniment. A string quartet, dressed in costume and in a box at the left of the stage, is an integral part of the play and the setting.
Actors will bring their own chairs on stage. "We're using extras for crowd scenes to give distance and space." Mr. Rea said. These walk-ons will not go on the tour of Kansas and Oklahoma towns from April 7-18. Mr. Rea said he planned to use high school students for these parts in the towns the group will visit.
Kumpe to Address Smoker
Col. Edward F. Kumpe, professor of military science, will speak for a combined Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Tau smoker at 8 p.m. tonight in the Kansas room of the Union building. The smoker is in honor of spring initiates for the honorary engineering societies. Tau Beta Pi will hold initiation April 1, and Sigma Tau will have initiation April 2.
Queen, Senior Pics Due for Jayhawker
Estes Studios will take a limited number of pictures of those seniors who have not had their pictures taken for the senior edition of the Jayhawker.
Those interested should phone the studio (151) immediately for an appointment.
The deadline for photos to be submitted for the Jayhawker queen contest is midnight tonight. Candidates should turn their photos in at the Jayhawker office or the hostess booth in the Student Union.
Dodds to Give Humanities Talk
Dr. John W. Dodds, director of special programs in humanities at Stanford university, will present the 32nd Humanities series lecture, "Ways of Life in Early Victorian England," at 8 p.m. next Tuesday in Fraser theater.
Dr. Dodds also will give the final lecture in the weekly series of Western Civilization lectures, "The Humanities in Western Civilization," at 4 p.m. Monday in Fraser theater. The lecture is open to the public.
For his Humanities lecture, Dr. Dodds will use material uncovered during more than five years of research for his recent book, "The Age of Paradox."
He received the Ph.D. degree from Yale university in 1932 and taught English for 15 years at the University of Pittsburgh and at Stanford before he became dean of the School of Humanities at Stanford in 1942. Dr. Dodds, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, is the author of six books.
Students Appea To House Group
The University will make its last try for an educational TV station this afternoon when a group of students attend a hearing of the House Ways and Means committee in Topeka.
Dennis Henderson, college junior, organizer of the group, said this morning that he wasn't sure who would be going.
Henderson said Howard Bentley, chairman of the committee, told him the decision of his group would come within a few days. If the decision is positive the legislature will again consider the $450,000 appropriation.
Henderson said his group will try to get the legislature—through the Ways and Means committee—to reconsider its action in killing the appropriations bill for educational TV at the University and Kansas State college.
The proposed bill called for dividing this $450,000 between the University and Kansas State, which would be matched with $200,000 from the Fund for Adult Education of the Ford foundation.
Henderson said.. the chancellor was in favor of his idea of going to Tupeka but didn't want to be connected as a direct sponsor of the action.
-cameral Plan Abolition Proposal Voted Down 4 to 1
Voters in yesterday's speical referendum election chose to have a bi-cameral student government instead of the present form by a margin of more than three to one. $ ^{ \textcircled{2}} $
Bob Worcester, ASC elections chairman, said the second referendum question, abolition of the ASC, was turned down by a vote of more than four to one.
Ballot counters had the totals last night within two hours after the 6 p.m. closing of the polls. On the reorganization issue the count was 1,042 to 294, and totals for the abolition question were 912 to 214.
The reorganized council will begin to function immediately after the general election in April. The committee then steps toward the transition tonight.
The decision for campus political reorganization made certain to campus political parties the offices they should back candidates for in the April 1 primary. Ballots for the primary will be printed about next Monday.
Students voting in the primary elections for the two parties must satisfactorily identify themselves to the parties conducting the elections in order to vote, according to a recent decision of the ASC.
It was originally intended that the decision of eligible voters for party primary would be determined by the registration for the primaries which took place in the spring enrollment line.
These registrations were declared invalid by the Student Court because they felt the registration did not occur as prescribed by the ASC constitution.
Because the court outlawed the registrations, the ASC waived certain constitutional provisions so that the parties might conduct their own closed primaries and set their own voter qualifications.
Worcester also announced the amounts spent by campus political parties prior to last fall's freshman elections.
Glee Clubs to Hold Concert Tomorrow
The KU glee clubs will present a spring concert at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Hoch auditorium.
Mrs. Marie Wilkins, formerly of the Metropolitan Opera company, will be guest soloist for the combined glee clubs singing the "Wedding Scene" from "I Puritani" by Bellini.
Dale Moore, fine arts senior, and Jerry Hart, fine arts freshman, will also be soloists for the number.
Featured in the concert will be folk songs, modern songs, choruses from grand opera and operetta, and traditional KU songs.
An ASC constitutional statute provides that the announcement is to be made no more than two weeks after the freshman elections. At the time when the announcement was due, Ronald Kull, journalism senior, was ASC elections chairman.
The total expenditures for FACTS, according to Worcester, was $55.30. Pacachamac-NOW-FOR spent $70.02, he said.
Nolte to Speak On Middle East
Richard H. Nolte, American University field staff lecturer on Middle Eastern affairs, will speak to eight classes and discussion groups on the campus next week.
Mr. Nolte, a Rhodes scholar to Oxford university, 1947-50, specialized in Arabic and Turkish languages, history and literature, and in Muslim social and religious institutions.
RICHARD NOLTE
He made field trips to the Middle East in 1948 and 1950, sponsored by the Institute of Current World Affairs. He has lived in Lebanon and Egypt since 1951 studying cultural, social, economic, and political affairs.
Appointments for personal interviews with Mr. Nolte may be made through the chancellor's office.
23rd Atom Test Held in Nevada
Mt. Charleston, Nev. —(U,P)— An atomic explosion, possibly from the warhead of America's atomic artillery shell, gave GIs in foxholes today a taste of the battlefield conditions of the atomic age.
The atomic energy commission touched off the nuclear blast, the second in the spring test series, on Yucca Flat at 7:10 a.m. (CST) with 1300 troops crouched in trenches less than $2\frac{1}{2}$ miles from the 300-foot detonation tower.
A swarm of aircraft, some on simulated air combat missions, flew over, around and even into the mushroom cloud that boiled up seconds after the atomic flash lit the desert.
A list of animals that included
pigs and rabbits and sheep participated in the tests, to provide scientists with data on various biomedical effects of atomic explosion. And a few sheep were used, the AEC said, "to show the individual soldier what can happen to troops not fully protected."
The AEC said approximately S3 aircraft, including 12 B36s, were sent
The test was closed to the public and press, so it was not known beyond that bare announcement where the sheep were placed on the simulated "battlefield" between the trenches and ground zero. It was made known after last Tuesday's test that a 15 kilton bomb can start fires beyond a half mile radius.
on missions over the Yucca Flat test ground. A. Navy propeller-driven plane, also equipped by two other planes, successively flew in and out of the atomic cloud.
Brig. Gen. William C. Bullock, director of troop participations for the tests, announced shortly after the detonation that there were not casualties.
8th Reading Set for Tonight
"John Brown's Body," eighth in a series of readings being presented by the English department, will be given at 7 tonight in room 306 of the Union building. Other readings will be given Wednesday, Thursday, and Monday nights.