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University Daily Kansan, November 4. 1982
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Play by Hashinger Hall to be entered in festival
By KIESA ASCUE Staff Reporter
For the first time, a living group at the University of Kansas will enter the American College Theater Festival, the annual event of Hashring Hall said this week.
Bruce Jones, the program director, said his play, "The Lonesome Motel Blues," would be in the competition this year.
The play will be presented Nov. 11 through 14 at Hashinger. A judge from the competition will evaluate the play one of those evenings.
"There are many, many more people involved in this play than there have been in the past ones," Jones said. "We want a deal of pride in the size of this project."
For the first time, the hall will charge admission to its play. Tickets will cost $1 at the door, Jones said.
JONES WROTE the script and he co-directs the play.
"The play grew out of concerns I'd developed in other areas about mental illness."
Jones said he wrote the play because he could not find any playwright who handled slices of life from the Midwest very well on stage.
Also, he said, he had read few plays with strong female roles, but more women than men audition for roles in the main characters in his play are women.
Jones also wrote the country-flavored music that flows throughout the naiv.
Kennis Wessel, co-director of the
Institute for Cognitive Science,
play it characters in situations
where they work out problems without talking about their ideas.
"THE LANGUAGE of the playwright vaguely suggests the internal motives and feelings of the characters. We need to see how these motives affect those internal feelings and motives."
The play revolves around a woman, Sally, who discovers that her ex-husband was one of the clients of her deceased mother, who was a prostitute. At the end of the first act, her dead mother telephones.
"Understanding what's going on in the play is more cumulative than perceived," Jones said. "There are clues all the way through. I don't think the play's ambiguous, but moments sometimes are."
Five of the six cast members of "The Lonesome Motel Blues" are Hassinger
"WINNING IS going to Washington, D.C." Willis, who is also head of the KU theatre department, said. "The success comes from being selected."
About 40 plays will be evaluated in the theatre festival in the Midwest region, and four of them will proceed to regional competition. From the 60 plays entered on this level nationwide, between five and seven will go on to national competition at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., said Ronald Willis, national chairman of the festival.
The top prize is $2,000 and publication, he said. The winning playwright receives membership in the Dramatist's Guild
The cost of producing the play was $600, about average for a Hashinger production, Jones said. The hall presents a play every year.
Human rights group finds more graves
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—A human rights group said yesterday it had discovered two more cemeteries that may contain hundreds of victims of the armed forces" "dirty war" against terrorism.
By United Press International
The human rights group, relatives of people who "disappeared" during the anti-terrorist attack of 1976-79, told Judge Pedro Soria the latest discoveries bring to eight the number of secret burial grounds that may contain the remains of thousands of people.
whether their relatives were buried anonymously in the municipal cemeteries of Berissa and Magdalena in the town of La Plata, 33 miles south of Bogota.
IN THE PAST two weeks, human rights groups have discovered more than 1,200 unmarked graves in the paupers' sections of the municipal cemeteries near Buenos Aires and other major cities.
fate of 297 Italian believed to be among those murdered by the Argentine military government from 1976 to 1979.
Judges investigating the cases have confiscated cemetery records to find out whether the people buried there were killed by the armed forces.
The Italian Foreign Ministry has recently issued communicated saying it has made repeated requests to the Argentine government for information about Italians reported missing in Argentina. The Argentine government has never replied to the inquiries, the ministry said.
over relations between Rome and Buenos Aires
ITALIAN AMBASSADOR Sergio C忍川achi said the military's failure to answer Italy's request was a "mistake" years "has always cast a shadow"
Human rights groups began their search for clandestine mass graves Oct. 23 when they learned that the body of a labor organizer, kidnapped by security forces and reported to the police, was parents in an unmarked plot of the Grand Bourg cemetery, 14 miles west of Buenos Aires.
AN ESTIMATED 6,000 to 20,000 people disappeared from 1976-78; most of them kidnapped from their homes or offices by heavily armed men claiming to be members of government security squads.
Departments to replace evaluation forms
By DIRK MILLER
Staff Reporter
The faculty evaluation used in the past to determine tenure decisions, faculty promotions and wage considerations at the University of Kansas will be replaced in most cases with current evaluations, KU officials said yesterday.
Funding for the curriculum and instruction evaluation, handed out by professors at semester's end, was cut. Another group of students was reduced by summer budget cuts.
Students evaluated professors in each class to provide feedback to KU, said Jerry Hutchison, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs.
June Michal, assistant to the vice chancellor for academic affairs, said the departmental evaluations could have helped in curbing tenure decisions as the old evaluations.
"No one can be considered for tenure without some evidence of teacher training."
HUTCHISON SAID the office of
BUT PHILIP MCKNIGHT, associate professor of curriculum and instruction, said that the old survey would be used by some schools and departments but that he expected only 15 to 20 percent of its former use.
McKnight is director of the office of instructional resources, which conducted the surveys. He said the evaluation would be used by the School of Business
and several departments in the School of Education.
Charles Krider, associate dean of the School of Business, said the school wanted to keep the evaluations conducted with data collected from past surveys.
He said the cost of the survey would be about $1,000.
McKnight said, "Departments will probably find that in developing, administering and talying their own costs, the cost will be larger than they expected."
He said the cost had increased to 15 cents a student from a previous estimate of 14 cents, which he had given in an Aug. 23 memo to KU departments. The cost included pencils, evaluation forms and computer tapes.
Computer time was donated by KU, he said.
Gerhard Zuther, chairman of the English department, said it would probably cost the department $30 to run its own survey to about 7,000 students.
The curriculum and instruction evaluation was not without problems,
"There were some doubts about the usefulness of the numerical computations of the old survey," Zuther said.
HE SAID HIS department had relied mainly on the evaluation's comment section. The department would administer the results sheet for students to evaluate faculty.
Hutchison said that many faculty were using a different form than the traditional one.
O. R.E.A.D.
ORIENTEERING INSTRUCTION
will be the topic of this Outdoor Recreation Education Adventure Discovery workshop, tonight at 7:30 p.m.
23rd & Iowa. Gene Wee from the Student Union Activity Office will be presenting this workshop.
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