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University Daily Kansan, June 24, 1982
Summer theater offers varietyv
By JEFF TAYLOR Staff Reporter
The stage is set this summer for performing arts at the University of Kansas. A variety of entertainment may be available through June and July.
The Kansas Repertory Theatre will present three plays, and the Summer Concert Series, sponsored by the School of Fine Arts, will present two works by Jacqueline and a brass quartet. Jacqueline is director of the programs.
The Repertory Theatre's three plays will be produced simultaneously, creating quite a strain on company members who are building the sets, working with the sound and rehearsing up to 15 hours a day.
L. FRANK BAUM'S "The Wizard of Oz" will open July 8. "Bilthe Spirit" by Noel Coward will first be presented July 9 and Alan Acckyburr's "How the Other Half Lives" will open July 10.
The plays will be in the University Theatre in Murphy Hall. Evening performances Thursday and Friday will begin at 7:00 p.m., and Saturday afternoon performances will begin at 2:00 p.m. and Sunday matinees will begin at 1:00 p.m. The summer season will run through July 25.
The "Wizard of Oz" has been chosen as the community production. A cast of 55, includes the people from the community, the repertory company and the KU faculty. Twelve students will play in 8 will play the parts of Munchkins.
CHARLA JENKINS, director of public relations for the University Theatre and the Summer Concert Theater will be entertaining and very bicec.
"The community show is a good experience for all of us," Jenkins said. "Company members become engaged with community members."
Stacey Warner, 14, 945 Sunset Dr. will play the part of Dorothy.
"She's got a voice and poise on the stage that a Broadway performer would envy, " Jenkins said.
There are in company members who will be acting and running backstage crests for "Oz" and the other plays. Jenkins described "Bilthe Spirit" and "How The Other Half is as funny, contemporary plays."
THE SUMMER THEATER season, Jenkins said, is designed for family entertainment.
The Summer Concert Series is not as heavily toned as the regular school term programs are, Jenkins said. The summer programs are lighter because the atmosphere on campus is different.
"It's not nearly on the scope that the regular series is," Jenkins said.
"It's got more of a general appeal. Much of the series is planned to appeal to KU summer students and school students attending camps."
Performers who come to KU during the fall and spring are generally more established and well known, Jenkins said.
Michael Lorimer, a guitarist, will appear June 12. The Aspen Solosolo, a piano trio, will be at KU July 8 and the Chicago Brass Quintet will perform July 13. All performances will be 8:00 p.m. in Swarovitch Recital Hall.
Tickets for the Kansas Repertory Theatre productions and the Concert Series went on sale June 14. All seats for the plays are reserved. Concert seats can be reserved, but general tickets and information about play times can be obtained in the Murphy Hall Box Office.
SPECIAL DISCOUNTS for the plays are available to KU students, senior citizens, children and groups of 15 or more. Tickets for the general public for the summer concerts are $5.
KU students with a summer ID will be admitted for $2.50, and senior citizens and other students will be admitted for $4. Music campers attending the Midwestern Music Camp will be admitted for $1.
MU courting Brinkman for dean's job
COLUMBIA, Mo.—Del Brinkman,
dean of the KU William Allen White
School of Journalism and Mass Communications, is being considered as a prime candidate for a similar position at the University of Missouri.
Only one of five finalists being considered for the post of dean of the MU School of Journalism has been scheduled for a second interview. Sharon Yoder, MU director of university relations, will meet Tuesday—and that finalist is Brinkman.
"What I have to decide now is whether or not I want to go to the next interview. I don't know enough about the job to make a final decision."
From Staff and Wire Reports
YODER SAID that this was still preliminary to mention a new dean because the chancellor and provost would make the final decision.
"I don't know that I'm the top choice," Brinkman said last night.
"Yesterday, the provost said he intended to explore further Dean Drinkman's interest in the opposition." Yoder said.
Brinkman said the search committee contacted him first.
Russ Dorrer, associate professor of journalism at MU and a member of the search committee, said the committee has reviewed candidates several months ago.
Uehling and Provost Ron Bunn by the search committee.
"I did not apply for the job," he said.
"I am in a good job now that I like."
"We've heard nothing but good things about him," Doyer said about Brinkman. "He's said as a rock, not flashy, and asks all the right questions."
The sign in the window of Tom Amya's barber shop at 842% Mass. St. said, "Willard's Water Exclusively Sold Here."
Wonder water called cure-all
"We sell Willard's Water as a plant food and fertilizer," Mike Amyx said, a barber in Amyx's shop.
By CAROL MILLS Staff Reporter
But Tom said that he used it for burns and that he liked to recount the stories told him by people who use the water.
"People say the water will cure anything." Amyx said. "Some people use it for headaches, burns, curing cataracts, you name it.
The man who sells it in the Lawrence area is Bob North, Linwood. He said it might do some good.
"But the guy who sells it guarantees nothing."
"There's no guarantee. I can't say it will do anything," North said. "It's not cleared by the FDA for internal use."
THIS ELINIR CALLED Willard's Water may be a placebo, or it may just work. For $7.75, one can buy an ounce of Willard's Water, dilute it in a gallon of water and use it for anything he can think of.
Willard's Water has been said to cure farm animals, domesticated pets, and human ailments such as emphysema, headaches, insomnia, nervousness, even a hangover. The water is used as plant fertilizer, too.
"My wife is a real houseplant nut," North said. "And I noticed that one of the plants looked neglected, so I poured it in and planted it. The next day it had perked right up.
North said that the effects of using Willard's Water might be psychological, but that he was not sure.
"She spilled some grease on one of her pantsuits, and she threw it in the washer with some Willard's Water and it took out all the grease spots. Some of the spots had been in there for a few wishings."
THE MIXTURE CONTAINS 99.34 percent water. The rest of the mixture consists of: rock salt or normal table salt; sodium metallicase, used in fireproofing textiles and petroleum refining; calcium chloride, which is used as a flammable dust agent; and magnesium sulfate, used in fireproofing and fertilizers.
THE WILLARD'S WATER story started in 1968. Dr. John Wesley
Reports by the Federal Drug Administration show that Willard applied to the administration for a drug exemption to do clinical studies with the water in 1971. The administration reported that no records were made of information for the administration to respond, and no further records exist of Willard pursuing the exemption.
Willard last added lignite to the mixture and decided to sell it as a fertilizer. But cattlemen in South Dakota found it so much valuable and steers of all kinds of problems.
So, in 1973, Willard formed his own company, CAW Industries Inc. This company now sells and manufactures Dr. Willard's Water with lignite.
So Willard's Water was born.
Willard, professor of chemistry at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City, S.D., developed an engine cleaner at the request of his son.
North said that 200 to 300 people used the water in Lawrence.
"I heard about it on the Jack Tobin show on 61 radio." North said.
"So I looked into it and found a guy in Kansas City who markets it. I've been selling it since February.
"I don't sell anything that I don't believe in myself. I've always had trouble sleeping, and I still do, but I sleep better now than I used to. I drink about 6 ounces a day. Three or four in the morning, and that many ounces again at night."
But North will not guarantee anything, nor will the man who markets Willard's Water in Kansas City, Kan., guarantee it.
"TESTS HAVE BEEN done on birds and animals," said Don Hendrickson of
Solvent Inc., which markets the water,
"Birds get a natural calmness, and I think people have a better mental calmness." But I don't have any physical problems.
Hendrickson, who has sold the water since 1980, said that he had talked with people who have been cured of pain from arthritis and residual pain from chemotherapy. One opiometrist, he said, had been hospitalized for glaucoma and cataract victims.
"Not because the water actually has properties that do cure ills," he said, "but because the people who take the elixir believe the tonic works. And consequently, they build up their own defenses against the nain or discomfort."
Schwering said an example of this kind of self-curing process was found in studies regarding the body's own pain-killing system.
But a former consultant for the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Randy Schwering, said that elixirs like Nitrous Water should not be taken lightly.
Hendrickson would not admit that the water might be nothing more than a placebo. He said that he would not sell anything that he did not believe in.
NEARLY 100 candidates' names were submitted to MU Cancellor Barbara
"RECENT RESEARCH has shown that one's expectations can actually produce natural pain killing substances called endorphins." he said.
These endorphins are continually giving the brain information that moderates the sensation of pain. Schwering said.
"Placebos in some people do actually create a biochemical reaction," he said. "There is a 'real' vs. 'mental effect."
How Willard's Water works, if it in fact does, remains to be seen. THE FDA has distributed advertisements telling consumers that any representations of spurious services as beneficial for any medical purpose with illegal and without scientific merit.
But in spite of the FDA's advice, Hendrickson said, "thousands of people have had their tonsils removed."
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