Seeing Is Believing
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Weird, But It Happened! 'Nothing' Became' Anything'
By TOM SAWYER
(Of The Daily Kansan Staff)
"Nothing" definitely became "anything" Tuesday in the Student Union when Student Union Activities sponsored "something" in its art forum series.
"Dada" is the name chosen by a group of non-objective artists of the 1920's, who, bitterly disillusioned by war, jokingly called their art works the "dada" of childlike, incoherent babblings. There was no rhyme nor reason. There was no objective. It was nothing. Mr. Talleur's play jumped from this Dadaism to tongue-in-cheek humor: "To insure static performances, the director has selected stuffed animals for the parts."
But perhaps only the 125 fortunate people who saw author John J. Taller, instructor of drawing and painting, and his staff of four artist-students produce the parable, "Rien," will ever understand. They saw "nothing." For that is the literal meaning of the French title of the Dadaist play.
The Punch and Judy stage, the eerie recorded bongo drum music, and the strange, dim lighting all added to the Morality Play," which had half of the audience appearing alternately as Suffering and Ignorance.
The paradox of the thought-provoking void or "nothingness" left some observors looking like the baffled rube at the carnival playing the old shell and pea game. Others were quite convulsed at the sparkling pen of Mr. Tallure.
Not since the controversial professional play, "Waiting for Godot," has individual criticism been so varied: Is it a practical joke? I hate it! What's it supposed to be? Is it an impractical joke? I love it! Pity it won't be given again! (True).
Speaking of ethics in art is like teaching birth control to rabbits. Art is the sex of the imagination; a portion of the audience had a very "sexy" time.
Certainly no fraudulent advertiser, Mr. Tallure was afterwards heard remarking: "Everyone who has a meeting says something. We decided to have one and say nothing. I certainly hope it's been stimulating." It was—very!
Campus parking permits are now available to students for the spring semester and may be picked up in the Traffic Office in Robinson Gymnasium, Joe G. Skillman, chief of the campus police said Tuesday.
Parking Permits Available Now
Students must have purchased their 1957 license plates before applying for spring semester parking permits. Under the ruling put into effect at the beginning of the first semester, all students with cars in Lawrence must register them at the Traffic Office within 24 hours after bringing the car into the city.
Chief Skillman said that faculty and staff members will not be required to renew their permits since they are issued for a full year, but 1957 license plate numbers should be turned in at the Traffic Office as soon as possible.
The ruling also applies to those students who will bring cars to Lawrence for the first time during the spring semester. A car must be registered even if it is not driven on the campus, chief Skillman said.
3rd World War? He Says No
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live in is to react upon the ideas which are at opposite poles from ours.
Third, the revolution came with the first successful explosion of the atomic bomb.
Ike Doctrine Negative
Mr. Cooke said that the Eisenhower doctrine will make little difference in the Middle East because the areas for economic aid have not been defined, nor the military strength to combat armed aggression by Russia.
The danger of a blowup in the Middle East is in the Arab hatred of the Jews, he continued.
"The Middle East consists of a group of young, contradictory nations." Mr. Cooke said. "There are two big reasons for the mess there. One, it is a hideously underprivileged area, and two, the creation of the state of Israel. There is only one real unity in Arab countries and that's hatred of the Jews."
Nationalism is a third reason, Mr. Cooke said. It is opposed to both communism and the western democracies.
Fumbling the Middle East is our own fault, but he added we had a great victory, too.
"That victory is that Russia has hit the tip of a wave and has started to go downhill. She has deliberately let satellites off the leash to form national Communist governments."
Reds Have China Problem In Communist China the Soviets
Hungary's Premier Opens Terror Move
BUDAPEST — (UF) — Dictator- Premier Janos Kadar opened a new campaign of terror against Hungarian intellectuals today by indicting 11 patriots for publishing and distributing free newspapers after the Nov. 4 attack by the Soviet army.
Two of the nation's better-known writers were among the 11 accused of "counter-revolutionary activities" by publishing or distributing the paper.
have a real problem, Mr. Cooke said. If they give less industrial aid to China, she will be less of an ally; if they give more, she will be more of a danger.
However, the greatest unsolved problem for the United States is still Communist China, Mr. Cooke said.
"I believe Communist China is here to stay," he said. "Chinese Nationalists don't have the slightest chance to return to the mainland, or again control the mainland."
The E. I. DuPont de Nemours and Company will again make two awards to the chemistry department for the coming school year, Dr. A. W. Davidson, department chairman, said today.
DuPont Offers Two Awards
A teaching fellowship will be provided for a graduate student studying for the Ph.D. degree. It will pay $2,400 to a single student and $3,000 to a married person. The fellow's fees also will be paid and the University will receive an additional $500.
Patricia Reynolds, Takoma Park, Md., graduate student, currently holds the DuPont teaching fellowship, which is devised to hold promising young chemists in teaching work. While most doctoral degree candidates do some teaching, they have a tendency to concentrate their part-time employment on research projects. The DuPont award, one of 35 being made for next year, is an attempt to make teaching assignments equally or more attractive.
The other DuPont award is a summer grant of $1,500 to enable a young faculty member to pursue research of his own choosing. KU is one of 20 universities receiving this grant. William J. Argersinger, professor of chemistry, held the research fellowship in the summer of 1956.
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The two awards are part of DuPont's 1957-58 educational aid program totaling more than $1,000.000 at 122 universities and colleges.
Wednesday, Jan. 9, 1957 University Daily Kansam
War Brought Hardships, But Korean School Stayed Open
When the cold war broke out in Korea in 1950, Yun Shik Koh, Seoul, Korea, graduate student, was in the midst of a teaching career at Chun-ang University in Seoul.
He taught pharmaceutical chemistry there and was later chosen to come to an American pharmacy school for a year of study.
The Korean war halted the operation of Chun-ang University, but only long enough for it to move from Seoul to Pusan. Koh said that although facilities were limited, the University stayed open throughout the war in spite of hardships. There was no electricity, very few textbooks, and heat was supplied by a small gas generator.
The university continued to be filled during the war, but reasons, for getting an education had
Press Barred From White House
WASHINGTON — (UP) — The White House today barred all press, radio, and picture coverage of the ceremony on Sunday, Jan. 20, when President Eisenhower takes the actual oath of office for his second term.
Press Secretary James Hagerty said coverage had "gotten out of hand," and the White House decided to make the ceremony completely private.
changed, Koh said. Instead of learning a profession, most of the students took a course they could apply to the future reconstruction of Korea.
For this reason, the greatest increase in enrollment was in the field of natural science, and the most noticeable aspect of it was the increase in women students in this field, Koh said.
Enrollment Increase
He feels the goals of these women are different from ones of the American coeds.
"American girls are not interested in natural sciences but only in home economics or in preparation for marriage. In Korea the girls go to school for their studies," he said.
Because he escaped much of the danger of the war and was able to continue his teaching career, Koh feels has was more fortunate than many Koreans. After his studies at KU, he will return to Seoul, where he will take part in his country's reconstruction program.
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