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University Daily Kansan Tuesday. Nov. 17, 1959
The president of Carnegie Institute of Technology has expressed concern over the lack of science courses in the arts colleges. The dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture at KU is in agreement.
Science and Art
If this concern is allowed to snowball in the usual manner, eventually it could lead to the next great advance in modern education—the teach-of science as an art.
Then, the pinnacle will have been reached. The great advance of science in education will have overcome its most formidable enemy: The sensitive mind.
Once developments reach this stage, another development logically would follow: This would be the substitution of science for art.
We have no objection to a smattering of science courses mixed in with the arts. This would be beneficial. It would make students, cognizant of their world—of the pressures advocates of science are exerting to make their subject the dominant force in our culture.
But the men of science would not be satisfied with a few courses for arts students. Judging from the way they have sold their product to
the public since the first Russian Sputnik, they will not stop until they have supplanted the arts with systematized knowledge.
We hope the people who retain a deep love for the aesthetic values will fight, and prevail as they have prevailed in the past against the religious purifiers of medieval times and, more recently, the uplifters of the McCarthy era.
This discussion has moved beyond the bounds of the original argument concerning more science courses for arts students. But we are looking to the future when the people of America will be forced to check the influence of science on our thinking.
Unchecked, this movement has the power to supplant our basic concept of individual freedom with a system of cold, impersonal natural laws.
If man allows science to dominate thought to the extent that the arts become secondary values, science will control him.
Science can be as beneficial to man as Salk vaccine, or as destructive as the atom bomb that leveled Hiroshima.
Man's greatest challenge is to see that science remains his tool and does not become his master.
—George DeBord
Greeley's Lawrence
Editor:
The following description of Lawrence (and over-optimistic view on the future growth and importance of Leavenworth) was published a century ago by Horace Greeley, founder of the New York Tribune.
I trust it will prove interesting to 1959 Jayhawkers:
"Lawrence can only grow with the more thorough development of the surrounding country. Across the Kaw on the north, a large Indian reservation (the Delaware) impedes its progress, while town-sites, and very good ones are so abundant in Kansas, that no location but one where navigable water is abandoned for land transportation can be of very much account.
"I should say Lawrence has now 500 dwellings and perhaps 5,000 inhabitants; and these figures are more likely to be over than under the mark.
"She has a magnificent hotel (the Eldridge House)—the best, I hear, between the Missouri and the Sacramento—far better. I fear, than its patronage will justify—though it has nearly all that Lawrence can give.
"She is to have a great university, for which a part of the funds are already provided; but I trust it will be located some distance away, so as to give scope for a Model Farm, and for a perfect development of the education of the brain and the hands together. In our old states, the cost of land is always assigned as a reason for not blending labor with study au-
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thoritatively and systematically;
here there can be no such excuse.
"I trust the establishment of the Lawrence University will not be unduly hurried, but that it will be, whenever it does open its doors to students, an institution worthy of its name..."
"Leavenworth is, of course, much the largest place in Kansas, containing, I judge, 1,000 houses and 10,000 inhabitants. . . .
"Whether the three great cities of America are to be New York, St. Louis and Leavenworth, as one set of friends seem to think, or New York, St. Louis and Atchison, as another set assure me, I do not pretend to decide..."
Assistant professor of economics
Editor:
A rat was killed today (Nov. 15), inside of apartment 7-B, Sunnyside. The tenant called in the assistance of Charles Morgan (7-A) and myself. We cornered it in the living room and clubbed it to a bloody end.
Sunnyside Rats
It measured 14 inches from its yellow teeth to the tip of its filthy tail. It was quite big enough to bite anyone, and especially the two-year-old child in that apartment, or our seven-months old daughter,
just able to crawl. These rats are hungry; they come out in broad daylight; this one met its end at 3 p.m. Sunday.
The last bout Sunnyside had with rats was in April of this year. The rats lingered for a month. I suggest that this time Sunnyside maintenance crews should do something more effective to hasten their journey instead of letting the rats become permanent residents of Sunnyside. I can't sleep or study at night because they're so noisy—eating our food and racing through our walls.
The maintenance department was told of our "visitors" last Tuesday. It brought around two small containers of poison late Wednesday afternoon, and two wooden traps (for 54 apartments). It also suggested that we plug the holes with steel wool. The rats must be using the steel wool to line their nests with, because they pull it out as fast as I pack it in the holes.
The 54 Sunnyside apartments pay the University about $60 a month, or $3,200 total, monthly. This should entitle us to some professional exterminators to protect us. I wonder how long the rats would be allowed to visit a certain house on Lilac Lane?
—Philip W. Prawl Lawrence senior
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
"IF YA ASK ME HE GIJUST ANTISOCIAL —HE WANTS TO STUDY FOR FINALS FOR A WHOLE WEEK-END."
Sara Maxwell and Wayne Long
By John Husar
When a critic becomes excited about a particular show, it is easy for him to mess up his writing with superlatives. Therefore, I will try to dispense with flowery adjectives and prosy phrases in reviewing last night's opening of "Brigadoon" in the University Theatre.
"Brigadoon" has many qualities to cheer the theater fan. There is Frederick Loewe's music, which has lasted for over a decade. Songs such as "The Heather on the Hill," "Come to Me, Bend to Me." "Almost Like Being in Love," and "There But for You Go I" make an evening memorable no matter how or by whom they are performed.
AND ALAN JAY LERNER'S fairy-tale contributes equally to the play's success. The story of "Brigadoon" concerns a Scottish town which miraculously comes to life one day each century. The townsfolk sleep for one hundred years at a crack, therefore remaining untainted by the changing times.
Two visiting Americans stumble into the town on the day it happens to wake up. One falls in love with a local lassie and is forced to decide whether to join the community out of love for the girl, never to be able to return to his former life, or to leave before the town goes to sleep for another hundred years and disappears. He chooses the latter, being unsure of his feelings for the girl and his normal life. As Mr. Lundie says:
"Tis the hardest thing, to give everything—even though it's the only way to get everything." The American soon regrets his choice and returns to the deserted townsite out of love for the girl. As faith can move mountains, love moves the town. The play has a beautiful ending which I dare not reveal.
THE KU PRODUCTION of "Brigadoon" is better than most collegiate attempts at musical-comedy simply because of the University Theatre's advanced technical capabilities. Sheer numbers do their job, too. Close to 100 people form the show's company.
Virgil Godfrey's settings conform to the show's fantastic "never-never-land" location, resembling the background of an animated cartoon. E. Arthur Kean's vivid lighting fades from mood to mood, satisfying one's imaginative, rather than realistic, tastes. Only Herbert L. Camburn's costumes appear authentic, dating to 18th Century Scotland.
In all KU musicals a line can be drawn between acting ability and singing ability. Most of the players fall on one of the sides. In "Brigadoon" three of the four leads are able to satisfy the demands of both forms of theater, which is a good percentage.
JOYCE MALICKY, in her first comedienne role, belts out three lusty songs. She combines her proven voice with friendly sex habits with such polish that she steals first honors.
Harry Hopkins is the first decent tenor to perform in a KU show in recent years. As a bridegroom, his character is balanced and light. Wayne Long, who plays the love-smitten American, has a strong baritone voice, which outstrips his dramatic talent. But Long's latent talent emerges during the show's crucial moments, and so saves them from the destruction which would be inevitable with a less temperate player.
Director Sidney Berger evidences a good sense of comedy as the American's companion. Larry Snneegas, a disdained lover; Phil Harris, his father; and Charles Kephart, the town elder; play the more convincing straight roles.
THE CHOREOGRAPHY was unusually disappointing. Tomi Yadon, whose dance direction has been a source of delight in the past, has provided the company with a series of boring dances. While maintaining a distinct Scottish base, the dances are shoddy and lack precision. The dancers are heavy-footed and appear to do more walking than dancing. They fail to keep the viewer's eye from wandering to the sets and singing chorus.
Robert Bautian's 26-piece orchestra shows great improvement since "The King and I" last year, when the musicians seemed to play under the aegis of a lemon instead of a baton.
"Brigadoon" is not the KU theater's best offering. Some of the season's earlier dramatic plays and last year's "Carmen" were more entertaining. But for color, music and pure enchantment, "Brigadoon" is the season's brightest and happiest show.