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University Daily Kansan Thursday, April 30, 1959
Step for Better ASC
The 1958-59 All Student Council relinquished its position to the newly elected council last night, but not until it took definite action to help insure a more effective ASC for next year.
In the action the council provided that members who miss more than two regularly scheduled meetings without a written excuse or four regularly scheduled meetings with or without a written excuse will be dropped from the council and replaced.
We congratulate the ASC for passing this regulation. It was one of the 14 issues presented by The Daily Kansan prior to the election.
This move is not aimed at forcing persons to attend meetings in which they are not interested. But it will insure that all council members maintain an active interest in the work of the ASC and are present to participate in it.
If a member no longer wants to serve, he can be replaced immediately instead of his name remaining on the roll while he contributes no time to the council.
This is the first move toward achieving an effective student government. The old council has paved the way. It is now up to the new council to fulfill its responsibilities. —Pat Swanson
Life Is Playground for Adults
Are we making a playground out of college. This question was asked by Jerome Ellison, a professor at the University of Indiana, in a recent issue of the Saturday Evening Post. The author supported his affirmative answer by examples such as queen contests and college pranks.
"Are we making a playground out of college?"
After reading the article, the American adult would question the necessity of spending tax only to expand the playground for the college youngsters.
I have a question I would like to ask of the author.
Are adults making a playground out of life? Are our actions so much out of the pattern set by our elders as to make them unreasonable and without basis?
The reply that "times are changing" is always given to an accusation of shocking action. Our actions which parallel the changing times are not as shocking as the times themselves.
Society is in a perpetual evolution, and the actions of young people are geared to this evolution. If conditions are such as to require a college education, the young person adheres to it. If the society provides an ethical or moral code, the person follows it.
If studies and the inevitable extracurricular
We in college are only following the pattern set by adults in their lives. If they choose to live a life filled with superficiality and frivolity, are we expected to conduct ourselves in college in a different manner?
activities are as complex and as necessary as they appear to be, we adjust ourselves to the requirements.
Mr. Ellison suggests the abolition of cars on campuses. If our elders find it so necessary to drive cars in the "outside world," why should college students not be allowed to live in equal status in our mobilized society?
Another question asked is "What on earth is the matter with young people today?"
We think there is nothing the matter with us— that we are normal university students. The only ones who seem to be qualified to judge on the worth of young people today are the young people of yesterday.
Supposing our judgment were passed out of our elders' hands and our jurors were our peers, what then would be the decision? And similarly, the judges of our elders should be their peers.
The adult world should be cross-examined before its slightly blurred carbon copy, the college world, is examined. —Janet Juneau
Villain Unaware
...Letters...
Unhappily it does not, as you suggest, require either dramatic background or talent to "put one over" on a Daily Kansan reporter. And while I have been of late generously credited with both in your pages, I am afraid I must demur. I do not expect to bring truth to these hallowed pages-I have dealt with the Daily Kansan before, but a certain innate desire for the light drives me to try once more.
Your reporter, upon calling me.
asked if I were Marvin Carlson and whether I had recently received a fellowship for next year. As my name is, unhappily, Marvin Carlson, and I have, to my present sorrow, received a fellowship for next year, I naively assumed that she was interested in me. A wiser man might have seen through the ruse but alas, I succumbed to her story.
The "yarn" I "spun," except for the usual typographical errors and misunderstandings, was a true picture of my humble but honest background. Even the rather
strange version which appeared in the Daily Kansan did not awaken my suspicions as I am injured, as I say, to the "freedom of the press."
Now I find that willy-nilly I am forced into the role of an unscrupulous villain, the betrayer of trusting youth and the disseminator of idle fancies. I can only cry nay, as a voice crying in the wilderness, extending abject apologies to poor Marlan and your hapless readers, by now probably as confused as I am.
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
"I THOUGHT I MADE IT CLEAR—THERE IS NO HOMEWORK FOR THIS COURSE."
But enough, I can do no more except to gasp, with my closing breath, that I am not a theater major, as you have in your zeal reported twice, but a major in English. Cry you mercy, good sirs.
Wichita graduate student
Marvin Carlson
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ACCUSED -Linda K. Plake and Steve Callah, falsely accused lovers, perform a scene from "The Winter's Tale."
By John Husar
If an old saying is true, some caretaker in an old cemetery near Stratford-on-Avon may have heard a sound like bones rattling underneath unmarked sod last night. Through mystic powers old Will Shakespeare may have been awake then.
The brain behind those bones, if they are what's left of old Will, created some of the world's most brilliant plays, among them "The Winter's Tale," presented last night in the University Theatre.
Shakespeare's insight into the stronger human emotions, his ability to draw characters, and the beauty of his sensitive, poetic lines flower in this story about a thoughtless king's suspicious mind. The terrible ends resulting from the king's punishment of his innocent queen on unfounded charges of adultery and treason illuminated man's need to understand and to trust others to a degree. Shakespeare also warned against trust without understanding by contrasting a conflict between a thief and a fool.
Shakespeare ends with the printed word, however, and it takes a pretty imaginative theater group to produce him. The KU artists picked up the playwright's work and made it into a creation of their own.
Director Virgil Godfrey cut and rewove parts of the play, winding up with three closely-knit acts instead of five. He also instituted an enchanting ballet which sealed together the play's three parts. Tomi Yadon's choreography for these "fairy dancers" was delicate and regal, fitting the show's mood and settings.
Bill Henry's tasteful settings ingeniously used the stage facilities to symbolically enhance the atmosphere. His crowning effect was a tapered series of lighted candelabra suspended from the ceiling. Herbert L. Camburn's rich and detailed costumes and E. Arthur Kean's gorgeous lighting headlined the season in those two departments.
In fact, the show was so technically outstanding, Shakespeare himself seemed to fade from the most important spot. Too many times we were caught absorbing the wonder of it all while letting the lines slip past without notice. This can be both good and bad. Future audiences may not come to see a Shakespearean play, but rather a lavish production designed from a Shakespearean play.
Two pairs were outstanding in their deft handling of difficult roles. They are Al Rossi and Steve Callahan as the king's servant and his wronged friend, and Bob Moberly and Louis Lyda as the thief and the fool. Others of importance were Marvin Carlson, John Welz, Karl Garrett and Joyce Elliott.
The acting, too, showed understanding. Sidney Berger's characterization of the king was masterful and correct with the exception that his voice was often a loud monotone. Linda K. Plake could have been a more animated queen, but Sara Maxwell was fiery, strong and yet compassionate as the queen's lady.
What of the bones rattling? Well, if they did belong to old Will, and provided there was no earthquake in that cemetery last night, the sound of bones just might have been from a pair of four-century-old hands applauding another successful opening of one of their self-authored plays. This time the bones couldn't roll over.
Worth Repeating
How big does the class have to be before the student can be reasonably comfortable coming to class unprepared?—Dean George Waggoner of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
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The problem for people in America today is other people.—David Riesman.
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I can't abide the existentialists who say that life is impossible and that you must hold your nose.—Archibald MacLeish