THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol. 85—No.27 Wednesday, October 2, 1974 The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
By Kansan Photographer JIM THOMAS
The play's the thing
Gerrick Tetchman, West Bloomfield, Mich., senator, as Zancks an attentive eye at Empress Janet Taylor, the Parkland fresh park administrator.
Actors to face 'tough test'
Actors in the University of Kansas Theatre for Young People will face the toughest test of their career when they perform today, according to their director.
The Theatre will present "The Emperor's New Clothes" for about 4,000 people in Lawrence and Kansas City grade schools today through Saturday.
play, one of two major productions by the University of Kansas Theatre for Young People will, be performed today through Saturday to about 4,000 area grade-school children.
Jed Davis, director of the theater, said yesterday that an actor must learn how to play for children and that most of the cast hadn't done that.
"Tomorrow is going to be a big revelation for them," he said.
The form of a children's production is more concerted, Davis said. It is comedic, by the short attention span of children, who often quicken some change and magic effects.
Schmidt compared an audience of children to the child in "The Emperor's New Clothes." The reactions of both are verbal, spontaneous and honest, she said.
Acting techniques for children's theater are the same as used for adults, Davis said, spending clearly, making the audience feel character and projecting to the front.
Young audiences are much less kind than adult audiences, according to Toni Schmidt, stage manager for "The Emperor's New Clothes."
If they don't like the play or are bored, they start screaming and screaming, she said.
The actor must keep his energy up and keep moving to be aware if his audience is unwell.
more physical action in a children's play,
sensitive to the child's needs follow
having pictures
Schmidt said she liked children's theater herself because the actor could get an audience to watch her.
"It's important to them," she said. "Theater is a beautiful, magic thing for them. The actor's duty is to make it better than their imagination and make a lasting impression. You can't give them second best."
Set construction also differs in a
set design. Brian Martin, a
designer for the order company,
Because children have difficulty in following the action, they need bright colors and glittering things to attract them, he said. The same is true of costumes, he said.
About 25 students are involved in "The Emperor's New Clothes," Davis said. Students manage, direct and design sets and costumes for the show, he said and casting for all shows is open, so anyone who is interested may audition.
The spring show crew is limited to about 10 persons for economic reasons, Davis said. The company is paid, and may receive as many as six credit hours for the tour.
Davis said the spring tour extended over the whole second semester. Twenty-five performances were given last year. Some individual performances may last a week, and each member doubles up on jobs such as make-up and costuming.
Davis said he saw the tour as a tremendously valuable learning experience.
Computer sharing pleases KU, high school officials
The KU Computation Center is sharing computers with Lawrence High School.
The agreement calls for the University to provide LHS access to its Honeywell 635 computer through two computer terminals and one computer on an IBM 360 computer and two data entry machines.
The agreement also allows students at LHS to enroll in University courses and have access to the computer. In these courses, the student can place material at a slower pace but take the same
tests, Paul Wolf, director of the computation center, said yesterday.
Representatives of both the University and LHS said they were happy with the agreement, which took effect in July and expires next June.
"We believe the agreement relates to Chancellor Dykes' outreach program," said Roberts.
He said he thought the agreement offered two benefits to the University.
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Troponing is a part of theater life, he said, and the tour is good public relations for the University.
Partly sunny
"We justify it almost entirely on that basis," he said.
The groups perform two major plays a year for grade school children in the Midwest, Davis said. The second play, "Fowl," will be given next spring to schools in western Kansas, Missouri and possibly Nebraska or Illinois, he said.
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The high today will be in the
70s, under partly sunny skies.
Tonght temperatures will dip to
60°C in the morning and
should reach the low to mid 80s.
Foreign study plan draws disapproval
By GARY BORG
Reporter
Disapproval of the Pearson Integrated Humanities Program (PHIP) for study in France next spring was registered yesterday by the Educational Policies and Procedures Committee (EPPC) of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Dennis Quinn, director of Pearson College, said the EPIC action meant, for all practical purposes, the defense of the program in France for the spring of 1975.
The EPPC vote was 7 to 1 for disapproval with one abstention. Ed Rolfs, the only student member of the committee present, was the only dissenter to the motion.
Concern with possible detraction from the Pearson Integrated Humanities Program (PHIP) on the Lawrence campus was expressed by several committee members. We were concerned with possible organizations involved with study in a foreign country.
Rofs said he was confident that the three professors in charge put together an ambitious project.
"It would be unfortunate if it the PHIP program" were squelched by ad-multiple attackers.
He said 160 students were already signed up for the program.
Robert Cobb, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said the program couldn't be squelched if it hadn't yet been approved. However, he said that the professors involved could be trusted to conduct aworthwhile program.
"But this involves putting students in a foreign country under people who aren't well versed in the language," Cobb said. Robert J. Squier, chairman of the EPPC.
said he didn't envision the Pearson program as a foreign studies program.
"I see it as the IPHF encapsulated and I "
Squir said the split involved with the three professors in the Pearson program probably would detract from the program on the Lawrence campus.
Robert J. Friain, professor of physics and astronomy, said he was concerned with the lack of library facilities that would be required in order to meet and the lack of a university atmosphere.
Friauf said he also was concerned that students would "wind up in an American ghetto" and have little contact with French culture.
Sara Kiesler, associate professor of psychology, said the proposed 15 hours of credit for the semester spent in France was too much.
Cobb said any motion of disapproval by the Franchise Board should include an amendment with the Frank should include an amendment with
Cobb, as acting dean of the College in the absence of Dean George R. Waggoner who is hospitalized, will have final authority over the program.
an "implication of a positive nature and not negative."
"We should emphasize that it's not a disapproval in principle." Cobb said.
"I'm going to catch it in the neck anyway," Cobb said.
The final action taken by the EPCC stated its disapproval of the Pearson program in France for the spring of 1973 and added that the action wasn't disapproval in principle.
The program had previously been considered by the Advisory Committee of the Pearson Humanities Program and the College Conference on Study Abroad.
The foreign studies committee recommended that the program be postponed until the next year, and a letter to Cobb stated the committee's belief that the Pearson program would be a valuable addition to KU foreign study programs. It was also a part of organization outlined by the committee.
Student files not given without authorization
Reporter
By VALERIE J. MEYERS
Campus burglary rate increases
Student files and listings aren't released for use as mailing lists by private companies, according to several University officials. Local insurance company databases also used the student directory and referrals as sources of potential clients.
Although the number of on-campus burglaries in the first half of 1974 increased over last year, the value of the stolen articles has decreased.
The incidence of burglaries on the campine rose 40 per cent from the same period in 1973, according to statistics of the Department of Security and Parking.
From January 1973 until June 1973, there were 108 confirmed burglaries. During the same period this year, there were 151 burglaries, the statistics showed.
However, the value of items taken in burglaries decreased more than 90 percent.
In the first six months of 1973, items valued at $40,218 were stolen, but only $15,574 worth of articles was lost in the first six months of 1974.
Statistics for burglaries in August and last month are available. Robert Ellison, an author at the University of Chicago, wrote:
KU is second only to Michigan State University in the number of burglaries reported in 1973 from a group of 69 campesados, according to the FBI Uniform Crime Reports. The report said KU had 260 burglaries in 1973.
In about 80 per cent of the campus bargiaries are made through an entrepreneurial door. Eltanin
He said students who knew they would be gone should take precautions against burglaries before they left their residences for any length of time.
Articles that don't have serial numbers should be marked, preferably with the student's Social Security number, Ellison and/or Chandler, for this are available in residence halls.
The most important precaution is that students should lock their doors, he said. Also, students should make a list of valuable items, including all serial numbers.
The Lawrence Police Department now has some items that were stolen in New York, Police Lt. Charles Greer said yesterday.
Stolen items that have identifying numbers and that are worth more than $00 are listed in a nationwide computer system. If the items are found, their ownership can be traced through the identification number.
Identification numbers can also help convict burglaries because the numbers give more information.
The most popular items stolen by burglar's are stereos, television sets.
One way to keep valuables from being stolen is for students to take them with them when they leave their residences, Greer said. He said jewelry, watches and other valuable items could be locked in banks or safe deposit boxes.
Greee said students could also prevent burglars by giving an apartment key to a friend who would check the residence regularly.
jewelry, musical instruments and other things that are easy to move and sell, Greer
If a person buys stolen goods and is caught, the stolen items will be confiscated and the person can be prosecuted for possession of stolen goods, he said.
Greeal said he had mixed emotions about whether a person should arm himself with a gun, knife or other weapon to protect his property.
People have a right to defend themselves, he said, but they might end up shooting the police.
Greer suggested the use of chemical Mace, an eye irritant, because it was nonlethal. Mace comes in a spray can and is accurate up to 10 feet. However, the user would remember he will be in the same room as the burglar when he uses it, Greer said.
Several preventative steps may be taken to keep burglar out, he said. First, all locks should be locked and the house locked.
The best type of door lock is the dead-bolt lock that requires a key from the inside or outside to unlock it, Greer said. With the dead-bolt lock, a square piece of metal locks is used and won't unlock when slight pressure is applied to it like some locks will, he said.
Second, the door jams will be solidly built so it won't give way when pressure is pumped.
Third, sliding glass doors commonly found in apartment should be locked even when they are not in use.
An inexpensive second lock for sliding doors can be made by cutting a wooden door's door runners. When placed in the runners, the preventens the sliding door from opening.
Don Hartmann, general agent for Hartmann and Associates, an insurance company, said recently that a primary source of potential clients was the KU directory.
"The most preferred way," he said, however, "is other students—clients who learn from each other."
Hartmann said that at the beginning of the year most contacts were made through the directory but that as the year went on, referred leads increased greatly.
Dennis Garrison of the New York Life Insurance Company agreed that referred leads were a main source of potential damage and that the directory was another source.
John Myers, director of admissions, said KU student listings weren't released to private companies, although they once were.
The practice was discontinued about the time the present student code was written, but it has been reintroduced.
The Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities and Conduct says, "The official student academic record, supporting records, and other student files are confidential."
Myers said an exception to this rule was the list sent to the Lawrence Daily Journal-World each year for the KU edition. The announcement is sent to the hometowns of freshmen.
The list wasn't sent to the Journal-World
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It's easier than it looks
Caro Manley and Joseph Beach, Lawrence graduate students, kept each other smiling when they donated blood in the Kansas Union Ballroom yesterday. The blood drive will probably exceed its goal of 500 pills if the response as in great as it was
By Kansan Photographer JAN SEYMOUK
yesterday, according to drive organizers. The Interfraternity Council is coordinating the drive, which is scheduled to run