Thursday, October 2.1975
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University Daily Kansan
First production made of 'Telemachus Clay'
A "collage of voices" is what director Paul Gaffney, assistant instructor of speech and drama, called "Telmachus Clay," a young man in the William Inslee Memorial Theatre.
"Telemachus Clay," written by Louis John Carlin in 1862, is the first production in this year's William Inge Memorial Theatre series. It plays through October. 11.
According to Gafney, the play is the story of a young man's search for his identity. The play was played by Jim Frost, Salma graduate student. Clay leaves his middle America home in Downsville Town to go to Hollywood to sell a story he 'writes for' him.
In Hollywood, Clay is involved with the worst elements of society, but he does not resort to violence.
CLAY LEARNS **THAT if he wants to accomplish anything in life he must depend on himself because his own actions, not his background, make him what he is.**
"His roots lie in clay," Gaffney said, "in himself and in the earth."
Gaffney said the name Telemachus was chosen by Carlino because of similarities between this character and the son of Odysseus in Homer's "Odyssey." However, he said, there is no deep classical allusion, nor is the play a modern "Odyssey."
The staging of the play is nontraditional.
Eleven actors play 90 characters. There are no sets and all the characters are dressed identically.
Because sets and costumes indicate nothing about the play, the actors must portray everything by their voices and their poses, he said. The traditional emotional contact between people on stage must be built up in the actor's mind.
EACH ACTOR STAYS in one area of the stage and plays his part directly to the audience, Gaffney said, so that the audience knows the character as the other character she see him.
Gaffney said the audience would be challenged to picture each scene mentally. "The more fertile your imagination is and the more you let it roll, the richer the experience," he said. "No one is disatisfied because you can fulfill each scene for you."
Gaffney said the handling of almost 70 light cues in less than two hours was difficult. But he says he crew, Fluidity of motion on stage must be presented through lighting rather than the actors' movements, he said. Music has been used to provide fluidity and the set scene, he said.
"TEEMACHUS CLAY" IS unusual a teenage character, but she is beaged notrenditionally, Gaffney tells us, had so many characters that in a traditional play, all the costume changes would be
The story, in which time and scenes change frequently, would be impossible to portray with sets, he said. Instead, words, lights and music signal scene changes.
Gafney said there was a difference between the college in "TeslaMach" and the raider.
In reader's theatre, poems and short storeis are used more than plays, he said, and the parts aren't fully characterized as they are in "Telemachus Clay."
Some of the cast have performed in the type of play before, according to Gaffney. However, he said, Frost has never acted before although he has sung in musicals.
FIVE CAST MEMBERS are making their first appearance in a major KU theater presentation.
He said cast members ranged from doctoral candidates to freshmen. The range gives the play an interesting texture, he said.
Besides Frost, members of the cast are Jeanne Averill, Lawrence graduate student; Benny Bartley, Newberry, S.C. graduate student; Deyana Eubanks, Wichita freshman; Lambriy Helen Hedge, Brooklyn, N.Y., graduate student; Kirby Kembie, Wichita senior; Paul Kennedy, Madison, N.Y., graduate dependent, Mo. freshman; Craig Sundusky, assistant instructor of speech and drama; Vičke Stevens, Pacific Palisades, Calif., junior; and Jeff Tamblyn, Shawnee Mission senior.
Faculty members accused
Charges of misconduct in the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare were referred to the attorney general's office by the Legislative Post Audit Committee.
State Rep. Wendell Lady, R-Overland Park and chairman of the committee, said, "We saw no evidence to substantiate the claim that we were involved in jurisdiction, anyway, so we referred the matter to the attorney general. We're not investigating body."
Members of the school faculty were charged with misuse of travel funds and advertising themselves as therapists in their classes for the purpose of giving therapy outside the University. Names are being withheld until further investigation.
Using methods and tools in education.
University policy states that faculty
members must receive written permission to do outside work.
The charges, made by Steven Lewis, former assistant professor of social welfare, were brought to the committee's meeting, Mr. Mike Glover, D-Lawrence, Lady said.
"We asked the University to report to us on the charges," he said. "We received a report from the School of Social Welfare through the chancellor. The report said there was no evidence of wrongdoing in the school."
Lady said Lewis, whose contract with KU was allowed to expire last May, attended the closed meeting. No presentation was held or a legal representation for him, he said.
"We really didn't conduct a very extensive investigation," he said.
440 ballots cast in 1st day voting
A total of 440 students went to the polls during the first day of fall (Saturday).
Britt Buckley, Senate elections committee chairman, said the turnover was good for the first day of elections and was considerably more than the first day of elections last fall. But he didn't know exactly how many voted the first day last fall.
More students usually vote on the second day of elections than on the first, Buckley said. He predicted the total votes would exceed 1,000.
Pollis will be open today from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Kansas Union lobby, the fourth floor of Wesco Hall and the second floor of Summerfield Hall.
Enrollment of 21,738 is KU record
Polls will be open this evening from 5 to 6:30 at Ellsworth, Naismith and Corbin balls, and from 5 to 7 at Alpha Gamma Delta Pla and Kaon Kappa Gamma house. Delta Pla and Kaon Kappa Gamma house.
The Senate ordered 1,500 ballots for the election.
Sixty-one students are running for 20 senate seats and 18 are running for 18 seats
The University of Kansas's record fall enrollment is now official.
GU Dyck, dean of admissions and records, said yesterday that 21,738 students were officially enrolled on the Lawrence campus, compared to 20,396 last year. The KU Medical Center enrollment is 1,803 this year.
Official enrollment figures are collected on the 20th day of classes, he said, to account for late enrollment and dropped classes. The number of full-time equivalent (FTE) students, on which State funding is based, should be released today.
The 21,738 figure is converted to FTE by eliminating religion and ROTC courses, he said. An FTE in then counted for every college or nine graduate hours of enrollment.
Dyck said there would be 1,100 to 1,300 more FTEs than last year, a greater increase in FTEs.
State money has already been allocated for this year on the basis of FTE estimates made last year, he said. The University is requesting permission to spend student fees on campus.
Combined enrollment for the Lawrence campus and the Med Center is 25,841, he is 26,340.
Ron Hamilton said yesterday that he had planned his Tuesday resignation as University of Kansas comproiler for a time when KU was in good financial shape.
"It's better to leave the University when it's in good shape than when it not, and right now KU has an increased enrollment, and good support from the state," he said.
Hamilton, who intends to go into business for himself in Lawrence, said the University's reputation had grown greatly in the last four years.
Under Chancellor Raymond Nichols' leadership, he said Improvement relations must be integrated.
University comptroller resigns
Budget . . .
The committee members said they thought that the Kansan was underestimating revenues from increased advertising rates. Members also said that if the Kansan deserved a $50,000 reserve fund and that the reserve deserved an equally large reserve
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any increase of the paper's line item allocation.
The committee voted 9-0 to leave the Kansan's allocation at nothing.
The Black Student Union was criticized for its lack of organization and was subsequently allocated only $100. The group's members were generally very satisfied when it's better organized, members said.
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He said his experience as University comptroller since December 1971 and his six months as assistant comptroller for internal auditing before that would help him
Chuck Burrows, associate comprupper, will be acting compruputer until a new one is selected, he said. A search committee has determined the position should be filled by December.
in his new position because both jobs dealt with financial matters, and because he had established several contacts through working at KU.
steadily improved since Archie Dykes became chancellor.
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on starring LINCOLN KILPATRICK - CEO ANNE SOSA - BARBARA CARRERA
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