Daily hansan
54th Year, No.119
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thursday, April 11, 1957
—(Daily Kansan photo)
Students Bustle As Revue Nears
By EVELYN HALL (Of The Daily Kansan Staff)
The pulse of campus life has quickened and the tempo of activity centered around Hoch Auditorium is at a high as the date for the 1957 Rock Chalk Revue rapidly approaches.
Students dressed in cowboy or cowgirl, Egyptian, and 1984 costumes are all over Hoch Auditorium nightly, working on the finishing touches to their skits and giving final dress rehearsals. Every night at about 7 groups of these costumed students can be seen carrying props for their skits into Hoch, each group completely preoccupied with its own skit. (See picture).
Political Science Prof To Speak
Jerzy Hauptmann, associate professor and chairman of the department of political science at Park College, Parkville, Mo., will speak at the annual dinner-meeting of the Douglas County Council for UNESCO (United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization) Tuesday, April 16 in the Student Union.
"Does UNESCO Make Sense?" will be the subject of Dr. Hauptmann's speech. The speech will deal with whether there is any use attempting to solve international problems by educational methods.
Dr. Hauptmann, a native of Poland, was a member of the Polish underground in Warsaw during World War II. He became a prisoner of the Germans after the city surrendered.
He received the Ph.D. from the University of Innsbruck, Austria, in 1948. He came to the U.S. in 1950 and spent his first year of post-doctoral study at Northwestern University. He joined the Park College faculty in 1951.
The master of ceremonies. Tom Sawyer, Topeka junior, isn't talking about his part of the production. "They'll just have to come and see for themselves," he snapped with a typical Sawyer snap.
The skits to be presented, chosen from scripts submitted by the various organized houses on the campus
Ex-Halfback Joins Athletic Staff
Gibbens was graduated from Kansas in 1942 with a B.S. in business administration. He earned a master's degree in education in 1947. He was assistant football coach here in 1945 under Henry Shenk. He then coached all sports at Washington High School from 1946-53. He moved to Minneapolis as football coach in 1953 before assuming his present position at Belpre in 1954.
Denzel Gibbens, one-time Kansas halfback, and now superintendent of schools at Belpre, will join the KU athletic staff as assistant to Business Manager Earl Falkenstien June 1.
The Lawrence branch of the American Assn. of University Women will entertain senior women at a tea from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday at the home of Mrs. H. L. Kipp, 1648 University Drive.
He earned football letters here in 1939, 40, and 41, and a baseball monogram in 1942. He entered the university as a freshman from Lecompton in the fall of 1938.
Senior Women To Be Entertained Sunday
Miss Mary Peg Hardman, assistant dean of women, is chairman of arrangements for the tea. Seniors who need transportation may call Miss Hardman's office by noon Saturday, and receive rides from the Student Union.
early this fall, are written, directed and produced entirely by students.
In just a few more days the "Little Broadway at KU" will have had its fling and about 400 students will sleep late Sunday morning.
Nichols Explains Budget Problem
Faced with the problem of sending or losing all the money allotted in the budget, the budget committee faces a seemingly easy task. Raymond Nichols, executive secretary of the University, told the Faculty Forum Wednesday.
Unlike the federal government budget committee which can ask Congress for more funds if they are depleted, the University must stay strictly inside the budget.
"Under the state law, we can keep fees only from those students we estimated will be enrolled here. For example, we underestimated our enrollment by 289 students this year. That meant we could not keep the fees they paid, but had to return them to the state," he said.
However, manipulating a big budget (it was $12 \frac{1}{2}$ million dollars this year) so it is spent efficiently can be quite a job. he said.
Cannot Overestimate Either
"The University is under strict control from both the state and the Board of Regents, not only on the amount of money we can spend but on the amount we can ask for.
"For example, when we made our original request for a raise in salary standards at the University, we wanted a 10 per cent raise. But the Board permitted us to ask the Legislature for only a 5 per cent raise," he said.
$291.000 Expected
"However, a point most people miss is that with our increase in fees next year, we will take in $291,000 more than we did this year, thus more than making up the difference.
ASC Petition Asks For Student Vote
Approximately 20 members of the All Student Council began a search today for 2,000 students to sign a petition which could force a referendum on proposed revisions in the ASC constitution.
Schultz Upholds Student Vote
All Student Council President Jim Schultz, Salina junior, clarified his stand on the current ASC constitution revision issue in an interview Wednesday night.
Schultz said, "I favor and support the current efforts of certain Council members to bring this issue to a vote of the student body by petition."
"I feel that the students of the university should decide this important issue of student government," he said.
"I feel that a unicameral legislature should be adopted for the ASC. I feel that it would expedite legislation, clarify discussion on legislation, enable the group to make decisions, and enable the group to attain a sense of unity and responsibility.
Proportional Representation
"I also feel that this unicameral legislature should be composed of representatives elected according to proportional representation from the various residence groups. Selection on this basis would cut the size of the council which should raise the caliber of the representatives and increase their interest, knowledge of student government, and responsibility."
He continued, "Representatives from residence groups would enable forms of permanent communication to be developed between the constituency and the representatives, thus bringing the Council closer to the student body. "It would also be an assurance that the Council was representative of all students. The Council will never gain the respect it should hold as long as it remains the tool of any one group or groups."
- The petition is being circulated in all residence and scholarship halls, fraternities and sororites. The group will continue its soliciting Friday.
Under a new system, representatives would be elected from the following living districts:
Changes Heard Up
Tuesday evening the proposed revisions were bogged down in the ASC, preventing a referendum. The controversy arose over the plan to revise representation to the ASC.
If enough names are valid, the petitions will be turned over to the ASC election committee which will schedule a special referendum for Wednesday.
Changes Held Up
Social fraternities, social sororites, men's University dormitories, women's University dormitories, freshmen women's dormitories, cooperative houses and professional fraternities maintaining houses, and students living in unorganized houses.
"The revisions have been blocked by a minority in the Council; therefore we want to change the system so this can't happen again," said Bob Billings, Russell sophomore, one of the organizers of the group.
If a sufficient number of signatures are obtained, the petitions will be turned in to the ASC secretary who will check the names against those in the student directory.
"Enough people on the Council are in favor of the revisions and we feel the students should get a chance to vote on it," Dick Patterson, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore said.
Names To Be Checked
Weather
Friday mostly cloudy, continued cold. Low tonight 20 northwest to 32 extreme southeast. High Friday 30-40
Cloudy and cold this afternoon with light snow north portion, freezing drizzle southwest, and scattered light rain southeast. Unseasonably cold tonight, occasional freezing drizzle or light snow.
Five Characters
One of the most controversial plays in the history of the theater will be given its first college production at 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday in Green Theater.
Controversial Play Begins Here Next Week
"Waiting for Godot" has created hot and heavy arguments ever since its first presentation in Paris. It was written in French by an Irishman and after being translated, was seen all over Europe. It finally opened in New York last year and criticism flew in all directions. Some critics loved it, some hated it: none were lukewarm. Heated debates rage over precisely who or what "Godot" is. And no one has a satisfactory explanation—not even the author!
In "Waiting for Godot," there are five characters: two hoboes, Dan A. Palmquist, Centron Motion Picture Co., and Dale Bellerose, Lawrence sophomore, who are waiting for Godot on a country road beside an old tree; a boisterous, bumptious tyrant, Rupert Murrill, assistant professor of sociology, who is driving a slave, Glenn Q. Pierce Jr., Lawrence graduate student, at the end of a rope; and a sweet, timid boy, John Wiebe, Lawrence Junior High School student, who appears at the end of both acts to report that Godot is not coming. The fact that Godot never comes is the essence of author Samuel Beckett's theme.
Mixed-up Dinner Makes Comeback
The house mother had the Daily Kansan cub reporter on the carpet.
"Why don't you write a story about the good food we have here?" she asked.
"You are not referring to that story the other day?" he asked.
"Yes," she answered. "the one where you told about that accidental mixture of leftover chicken and noodles and vegetables."
Speechless the student started eating the main course of his dinner—chicken, cheese, gravy and bread crumbs mixed together.
Godot Represents God
The simplest explanation of the play is that Godot represents God. The two hoboes are waiting for a salvation that never comes. Although the cynical tyrant, a man of action, is aggressive, his fate is no happier. His worldly triumphs and successes result in blandness and the servility of his slave results in stupidity. None of the characters receives any comfort from the author.
However, the implication (to some) is clear: a spiritual value still exists, and the author has not abandoned Christian standards. Man has to do something more than "wait" for Godot, that is, for salvation; and if he wants salvation, he'd better begin doing something.
So far as can be learned, the Studio Theatre is the first amateur group to produce "Waiting for Godot."
The play will be under the direction of Allen Crafton, professor of speech and drama. Mr. Crafton, who has directed over one hundred plays here since 1923, predicted:
"If our audiences react in the way other audiences have, I'm expecting a few, at most a small minority, to like it immensely and believe they have seen something extraordinary in theatrical entertainment; another small group (I hope not large) will be mad and wonder why anything so senseless was given; and a third group, I'm sure the largest, will be interested but puzzled."