Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate
Wednesday, August 24, 1977
And every fair from fair sometimes declines
and summer's lease hath all too short a date.
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd:
By chance, or nature's changing course. untrimm'd:
Easy Life
Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines.
But one eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou
ow st... Shakespeare
Vol. 88, No.1
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Running a motel is hectic, varied
ByROGERMOYER Contributing Writer
The sign of green and orange neon lures the motorists to the motel that rests beside the great American highway. The motel is one of the thousands of mom and pop places that offer a room for the night.
Travelers can wash the road from their faces, shuffle across the worn shag carpeting, flick on the fuzzy black and white TV screens. You can forget to forget as much of the world as they choose.
My wife, Kathi, and I have been managers of a motel for almost two years, seven days each week, 24 hours a day. When we do leave for short periods we hire a 'motel
Our freedom costs $1 per hour.
The first customer of the day arrived early in the afternoon, a salesman who left his card at the desk: "Custom-made vials for the lack that deserves the best."
He calls the office after returning from a classroom, saying, "My television doesn't work."
"I'll be right there to check it out," I tell him. "Yes, thank you for calling."
I take the short walk to the room.
Take the sake well to be the antenna wire that got pulled out when the maid moved the set to clean." I say.
The picture clears as he begins his sales pitch and produces a bottle from his suit-
"Like a drink?" he asks while pouring himself one.
I decline the offer and return to my cold supper.
The evening passes and several other rooms are rented by the average traveler. The older people will ask to stay with them, but most of them. They check the bed for hardness and the bath for cleanliness. Most are exceptionally pleasant people going from one to the next, all having a great time.
The evening has passed with few interruptions. At 1:05 a.m. I've been in bed exactly five minutes when the doorbell rings.
Dressing and walking simultaneously, I take the 18 stents to the office.
"That'll be $10 even."
The light blinds me as I open the office
goor to find a bleary-eyed man leaning on the stark white walls. His liquer breath makes me step back before asking him to do something, or anything, something something and scrawls his name on the card.
I have to catch his sleeve to keep him from falling. With his shaky body propped against the door he fumbles in his jeans for the cash. The door swings under his weight, but each
Theatre gears up for new season
time he recovers enough to keep from stumbling. He makes it out the door with a
"You'll also need the key," I call to his back.
He backpaddled a few feet, grabs the key with an arching swoop and once again wanders down the side of the building. It lays in front of the right room, and even longer to open the door.
"Two men in their twenties come running into the office, ringing the bell constantly—" "We've just been hit and the guy kept calling for the phone to call the cops—thanks."
The parking lot fills with red lights and white cars as the two spill out their story for the second time. They rent a room "to relax because the car can't be driven to Kansas City and we're really tired and we have to identify the driver. We tell them the cops find him and we're never coming to Lawrence again—boy, that dude should be shot."
"That will be $14, including taxes. Fine,
thank you take number five, it's straight.
Thank you."
BY LYNN BONNEY KIRKMAN
Staff Writer
A University theatre program has a two-fold purpose. In addition to training actors, directors and technicians in the theatre, it also provides a drama department also provides entertainment for students in the university community, who attend productions now and after leaving school.
I answer the door again at 2:47 a.m. A young couple sign in, giving a local address and spitting the cost between them. They talk in low whispers and apologize for waking me at that hour of the night. They seem a little embarrassed.
Auditions for the 1977-78 University of Kansas theatre productions will be held Aug. 29 and 30 at 7 p.m. on the main stage of the Performing Arts Building. These auditions are open to all KU students.
"Check out time is 11 a.m., leave the key in the room, have a good night."
are not sold at 10 a.m. on performance days are also available free to students.
year with performances April 21, 22, 28 and 29.
The University of Kansas theatre department offers two "seasons"-production in the University Theatre and the Inez Theatre, both in Murphy Hall.
STUDENTS MAY CLAIM their tickets or discounts by presenting their student IDs and valid, current registration stickers at the box office in Murphy Hall.
There are air ducts that run the length of the model connecting the rooms with a wall.
THE INGE THEATRE season will open with "Seylon KZ," by Myrna Lama, to run Sept. 29 through Oct. 8. Richard Brusley and Alexandra Moss will star in Dec. 5 through 10. "The Second Sheerder's Play," by sister Mary Frances Peters, and "Buffalo Bill's Well," by Bryan Foster, are scheduled April 6 through 15. The season ends with "Sacrifice," to run May 1 through 8.
The 1977-78 University Theatre schedule will feature Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earned," October 15, 15; "A Christmas Carol," January 10; and Lerner and Frederick Loewe, will be presented 11, 12, 17, 18, 19 and 20. Tennessee Williams' "Eccentricities of a Nightingale" is scheduled to be performed February 24 and 25 and March 2. Three Shakespeare plays are to be presented March 36 and 31 and April 1 and 2. An opera, Verd's "Falsaff," will cap the
THE UNIVERSITY THEATRE is a large proscenium-arch auditorium. The Inge, which has seated capacity 1200, provides flexible staging possibilities for directors and performers.
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Producers in the university theatre usually presented with conventional techniques. The Inge season, however, offers student directors a chance to work with actors as integral part of the immersive in nature. Plays by student playwrights are often presented as part of the Inge season.
ticket. The Inge Theatre sets aside half the tickets for each performance for students. These tickets are free. Any tickets which
THE INGE THEATRE'S offerings are determined by a board of students who will be directing and designing shows for the theatre. Two open dates remain in this year's schedule. Productions which will be presented Oct. 10, 2015, Oct. 21 through 11 will be determined soon to allow student writers and directors to submit ideas for productions.
KU students are allotted a limited number of free tickets to University Theatre productions. If a student chooses, he may receive a $1.75 discount on the price of a ticket.
Parks are part of city's heritage
Fred DeVictor, parks and recreation director, said, "Parks enhance the city. They make the community a nicer place to live as far as the quality of the environment
By the Kansan Staff
Lawrence's 72 city parks total 1,280 acres and offer a wide variety of landscaping and activities, ranging from the Holcom Sports complex to the wooded hiking trails in Martin Park.
A 1906 city plan, approved when the total park area in Lawrence was only 24 acres, was passed into law.
The goals of a city park system parallel the expectations first outlined in a 47-year study.
Parks for recreation and leisure have always held a special place in the development of Lawrence, beginning with the provision for two parks in the original
Natural foods movement now blossoming after being kept alive by two believers
By SHARBYN MEREDITH
Contributing Writer
There's an Aunt Wilma in my family who has been drinking Goat's milk, eating raw peanut butter, growing her own bean husks and jokes about her eating habits since the 1940s.
I took the current upsurge in concern about nutrition to stop the jokes and cinvince my family that might Aunt Wilma was right when she warned of the disasters caused by eating overly processed foods. This caused me to become a nationwide health foodad that allows many people to make a fast buck on allegedly natural, unprocessed foods.
Fortunately, the fast buck dad hasn't taken hold in Lawrence. Lawrence health food businesses offer bona fide natural foods and good nutritional advice and, in one instance, an alternative for cutting purchase costs.
Persons who are apprehensive about what to buy in a health food store should not cancel a visit to Norwegian Wood. Clerks in the store offer advice. The store also has a large stock of health food books that can answer many other questions. After a person has purchased the store sugar, might not so mysterious.
NORWEGIAN WOOD. 1144 Indiana St. is, the closest place to campus with a food selection. It calls itself a natural food market. The store carries a variety of cheese and sausages.
MEMBERSHIP REQUIREMENTS are two hours of store work each month and payment of a membership fee. Because of the discount prices afforded members of the collective, both time and money are fully reimbursed.
The Community Mercantile Store, Seventh and Maine streets, is a workers' collective and offers one of the cheapest routes to buying health food products.
The Mercantile's selection includes
the fresh produce that makes a time
a week and organically grown products.
If vitamins and nutritional supplements are a person's top priority, they can be
bought at Norwegian Wood, the Community
and or at Round Corner Drug Co., 801
Massachusetts.
Natural foods are usually usepple and good tasting and the Sister Kettle Cafe, 14th and Massachusetts streets, is proof. Sister Kettle is open from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. every day except Monday, when the hours are 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. It is closed Sundays.
SISTER KETTLE'S menu ranges from carb brownies to fresh juices and salads
served with homemade whole wheat crackers. The atmosphere is relaxed and there is live entertainment on weekend and the resulting material to choose from while one eats.
Contrary to stereotyped belief, people interested in natural foods are not always skeletal forms restricted to mashed yeast and bean sprout diets. Lawrence has an authentic natural food trend that is delicious and easy to become acquainted with.
Staff photo by RICK PADDEN
Stocked crocks
Kneeling amongst large crocks filled with grains and flours, Karen Weber, an employee of Wheatgrain and Natural Foods store (1344 Indiana), can help up a sackful of Trifluate flour, weighing and natural food ingredients.
"preserve, reclaim and develop the best of natural scenery in the community and to provide ample recreation areas for nature lovers," says Dr. Gillespie, an envoy of grass, trees and flowers."
sports-minded Lawrence residents are drawn to the city's 13 ball fields, nine lighted tennis courts, three recreation centers—with basketball, gymnasium, handball and rifle range facilities—and a municipal swimming pool.
Lawrence has about 285 acres of parkland, excluding Riverfront Park. Riverfront Park, which runs along the Kansas River, is waiting for federal appropriations before it can be developed further.
The 1,000-acre park will have camp and picnic areas, bike and hiking trails and boat ramps. One portion of the park is now open to the public.
The park was a project of the Horizons subcommittee of the Lawrence Bicentennial Committee. Land for the park was made available by the city.
The first efforts to turn the junk-littered woodland into a park began in November 1975 when Horizons subcommittee members marked a trail for the Riverfront Park.
The trail is a flood-plain forest trail, which passes through a variety of forest and wildlife communities, including a willow canopy forest and a lush river bottom field.
Except for the four-mile trail, the park remains relatively unimproved. A permit for overnight camping can be obtained from Parks and Recreation Department.
Without the Riverfront Park, Lawrence falls short of the National Recreation and Park Association's recommendations for a larger coverage a city should have for its population.
Some of the older neighborhoods don't have enough park land, DeVictor said, adding that the park shortage is difficult to remedy.
The Parks and Recreation Department, with a $656,000 budget, employs 35 full-time employees. There are an additional 100 to 150 job openings in the summer for maintenance workers, life guards, teachers and counselors.
outsideors.
Here are descriptions of several parks:
SOUTH PARK on Massachusetts Street south of the main business district is Lawrence's oldest public school, a celebration of summer concerts—formal flower garden, picnic tables, horseshoe courts, a playground and wading
MARTIN PARK, one mile west of Lawrence on Peterson Road, is the only park outside of the city limits. The 19-acre park offers hiking and nature trails in a wooded environment, a picnic area, fire ring and grills.
HOLCOM SPORTS COMPLEX, two blocks west of 52th and 10th streets, is a 31-acre park with four lighted hall diamonds, grass fields and tennis and lawn courts.
BROKEN ARROW PARK on south Louisiana Street has a group picnic shelter, which can be reserved, a diamond balloon, a volleyball stand and a ample open space.
VETERAN'S PARK, 19th and Louisiana
CENTRAL PARK, Sixth and Kentucky streets, is the site of the Lawrence Municipality's original Santa Fe locomotive. Other features of the park are a basketball court, volleyball standards and a picnic area. In winter, part of the park is flooded for ice.
streets, provides two lighted tennis courts, a basketball court and volleyball court.
CENTENNIAL PARK, Sixth and Iowa streets, is 35 acres that were donated to the city in celebration of the Lawrence Centennial in 1964. The park has a 2-acre jogging loop, a small wooded area, group shelter, picnic area and tennis courts.
Gazebo gala
Staff Photo by KENT VAN HOESEN
From picnics to ball games to weddings, Lawrence parks offer a variety of uses. Lark Ruckle and Randy Mason chose South Park and its gazebo for their wedding last summer.