Friday, November 1, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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KISMET
In a scene from the University Theatre are Mike Rapport, Pasadena, Calif., senior, and Onnallee Zimmerman, Ford junior.
Kismet opens to large audience in University Theatre
A large opening night crowd attended this fall's musical spectacular "Kismet." The ladies were each presented with carnations last night, as has been a past custom for the University Theatre's largest and most involved production.
A tale of entwined romance and destinies, the Arabian Night setting was in old Baghdad. A highlight of the play was the haunting music of Alexander Borodin, performed very beautifully by Melinda Grable, Shawnee Mission senior.
The costumes were splashy with color and sparkle, blending with the exotic sets of the East. The settings were not as flashy as some in the past, but this was due to at least ten scene changes. However, the audience's murmurs showed an appreciation of their intricacies.
Heading the cast was Mike Rapport, Pasadena, Califi$_{1}$ senior, as the Poet who weaves his way from a beggar by "an iota of iambic and a title of trochaic" to a man who marries his lovely daughter to the all-powerful caliph. Miss Grable portrayed the lovely Marsinah who falls in love with the caliph, John Wolfe, Roswell, N.M., junior.
Pictured with Rapport is Onallee Zimmerman, Ford junior, who, as the Wazir of Police's "wife of wives", enchants the Poet with her lusty ways. Lance Hewett, Topeka junior, is the crafty Wazir who often left the stage with a cackle reminiscent of Halloween witchetry.
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KSTA key note speaker says teachersunderpaid
The teaching profession doesn't attract the "cream" of society when it is willing to pay only for "skim milk or water", said the main speaker at the opening session of the Lawrence section of the 105th annual convention of the Kansas State Teachers Association (KSTA) in Allen Field House yesterday.
Edgar Benton, chairman of the board of education of Denver, Colo., spoke to more than 2500 teachers on "Teacher Militancy: Long Overdue."
Besides low pay teachers have a right to become militant because they have been left out of the policy-making while they are in the "engine room of education." Benton said.
The really good enlightened teacher is often, especially in a large city district, threatened by the board of education which has the "capacity and ingenuity to identify, isolate and destroy the truly enlightened teacher," Benton said, and as a result these teachers are leaving the profession.
Traditionally and legally in most states the board of education has total power in determining policy, to hire and fire teachers and to determine the course of study. Benton added the boards usually act in the traditional, safe way, so that now there exists a gap between what is expected and what is needed.
Boards of education "won't provide the motive power for the recording of priorities in education," Benton said.
"Teachers have historically played a useless role in the processes of education," Benton said. Now teachers don't perform the
"basic subsistant motive power for change," he said. "Teachers can establish the context through which needed change can be made.
"The school crisis in Kansas and the U.S. exists because education is trying to save our society from chaos," Benton said. "The best and last chance of public education in the U.S. is the teacher," he added.
In American life one sees "the explosion of deferred dreams" and the teachers are beginning to act to make a reality from their "deferred dreams." The explosion in New York is a good example. Benton said.
The problem is a clash between the citizenry and the teachers. The citizenry, mostly Negro, have finally gotten to speak about the affairs of their district school system. They want to assure their children of an adequate education, Benton said.
The teachers, on the other hand, have been for years "putting up with conditions unsympathetic and downright hostile to effective education," Benton said. Now there is a clash, and the teachers, "because of a bureaucracy inconsistency, resisted intrusion into the school to eject him (the teacher). Both are right and neither is wrong in this conflict, but it still is tragic," Benton said.
He added that the road to better education will be "rocky"
Storch in Film
HOLLYWOOD (UPI) — Night club comedian Larry Storch will play a Mexican bandit with Akim Tamiroff in "The Great Bank Robbery."
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Benton ended his speech by quoting from a commencement address given to the 1889 University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine class, saying "stand up bravely even against the worst..."
Bookies receive bets on election
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (UPI)
Nevada bookmakers have received hundreds of requests from persons wanting to bet on the outcome of the November election.
Sammy Cohen, operator of the Santa Anita Turf Club book, says it has been illegal to accept such bets since 1890.
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