University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Oct. 1, 1970
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Bread and Puppet Theater Actors
Kansan Staff Photo
... a reflection of the world in miniature
Puppet Show Opens Sunday
A unique level of dialogue will take place in a tent on the field northwest of Allen Field House as Peter Schumann's Bread and Puppet Theater stages its first area performance at 4:30 p.m. Sunday.
Schumann said he hoped his theater would be a reflection of the world in miniature—an experience that the audience could help create, not just watch.
"We have joined the children's conspiracy against the boring adult life," said Schumann. "We will build a circus and with the circus we will travel through small and big towns and in the circus we will demonstrate the whole world."
"Sunday's performance, "The Domestic Ressurection Circus," will represent the theater's attempt to "make the world plain . . . to speak simple language that everybody can understand."
This performance will be repeated Monday afternoon, and Tuesday will be replaced with "The Difficult Life of Uncle Fatso," at 7 and 9 p.m.
Schumann explained the underlying reasons for the use of a puppet show—it is a medium for expressing those things that the theater thinks important."
"The importance of story-telling and puppetry is little in the face of hunger and mutilation. That little importance is important. The master plan of all the little importances together has a name: liberation, light the good life," he said.
Peking Spurns Soviet Treaty
LONDON (UPI)—Peking has rebuffed a Moscow offer of a Sino-Soviet nonaggression treaty, diplomatic sources said Wednesday.
Red China's move underscored the gravity of the Sino-Soviet conflict and Peking's refusal to enter into major treaty commitments with the Kremlin leaders whom the regime of Mao-Tsetung distrusts.
Communist diplomats, disclosing the latest development, said Peking rejected the Soviet peace bid out of hand.
The Soviet Union made the offer in the framework of the Sino-Soviet talks in Peking on their border dispute. China is claiming sizeable portions of Siberia and Mongolia.
Chalmers...
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and staff. Some have the mistaken idea that we can provide complete protection. That's not possible in any situation. But we can do a better job with more resources."
Chalmers said he was more concerned by outsiders, rather than KU students who cause trouble, because they don't fall under University jurisdiction.
"Students always have a stake in what's going on at the University," he said. "But when you talk about the non-student you're talking about someone who has no stake and over whom we have no jurisdiction.
"When a criminal act occurs elsewhere, persons involved are subject to police procedure. That's precisely the only outlet we have against outsiders. But our security force is not orientated for that. They're orientated for help, not for capturing.
"What's more we can't get at outsiders with the student code and they're not subject to penalty by the university judiciary. It presents a real problem."
THE COMMISSION, headed by William W. Scranton, former Pennsylvania governor, condemned violence in its report and said "no grievance, philosophy or political idea can justify the destruction and killing we have witnessed."
Speaking of campus violence in general, Chalmers said he agreed with the findings of the President's Commission on Campus Unrest which was released Sunday.
Campus Bulletin
Friday
SUA Popular Film: "The Graduate"
Doodruff Auditorium, 7 and
9:30 p.m.
International Folk Dance Club:
Potter Pavilion 7 n.m.
Hall, 12:25 p.m.
Freshman Football: Oklahoma, Me-
Parachute Jump: Behind Oliver Hall. 12:25 p.m.
Roten Print Sale: South Lounge Kansas, Union, 10 a.m.5 p.m.
India Club Public Lecture; Dr. Agehendh Bharat, "Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Modern India." Forum Room, 7:30 p.m.
Issues Film: "Interview with Bobby
Higgins," High School Rising,
Dyche and Attorney.
The commission also named President Nixon as the chief agent capable of reconciling torn elements in American society.
Experimental Theatre: "Original
Scripts, Swarthout Recital Hall. 8:20 p.
119."
One U.S. gallon of water weighs 8.38 pounds, says the National Bureau of Standards.
Chalmers agreed that the President has the best opportunity "to initiate a program to get the nation back together," but said the "responsibility must be shared by everyone, college students and the electorate alike."
Chalmers said he had hoped a more detailed report of the commission's visit last summer after the two shooting deaths would have been included in the findings.
Collection of Essays Edited by Professor
The 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia is the subject of a collection of essays which a University of Kansas political science professor co-edited and will soon be published.
The professor, Jarek Piealkiewicz, helped edit the book, "The Year of the Bear 1968-1969—The Effects of the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia on Eastern Europe." His co-editor was E. J. Czerwinski a professor at the State University of New York.
The essays in the book were written by persons that were in Eastern Europe before, during and after the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in the summer of 1968.
"It is an attempt to combine a scholarly approach with personal reaction, personal emotion, personal opinion." Piekalkiewicz said. "It is both a subjective and objective evaluation."