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What's Inside?
Skiing is believing, see page 8. . Abernethy named player of week, see page 6. .
The "fighting 89th" Congress discussed on page 2. .
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KU faculty members have taken to the track as the physical fitness "kick" has come to KU.
The program is mainly designed for the male faculty member with "an intellectual excess" around the midriff, Easton said.
Over 30 men have joined the Jawhayk Joggers in their twice weekly exercises. Most of the time is spent running, Easton said.
Heading up the new program at KU is Bill Easton, professor of physical education and former track coach.
"This is not a high pressure running," Easton explained. "Each man will set his own pace." Easton, who is in his 60s, also dons jog togs and runs with the rest of the faculty.
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Mostly fair skies with little change in temperature is the forecast for Thursday by the U.S. Weather Bureau. Winds will be light.
Humanities Lecturer Evaluates Actor, Role
Wednesday, October 27,1965
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Rv Earl Haehl
The actor and the character in drama form a relationship very similar to that of body and soul, Robert Champigny, visiting Humanities lecturer, said Tuesday night.
The spirits or characters cannot feel or have intentions, he said. They are allowed to appear certain ways, but they do not have
ROBERT CHAMPIGNY
... "body and soul"
THIS IS NOT BECAUSE a dramatic character is a psychic and not a physical being, Champigny said. He explained that a spirit can exist without a body, as is shown by recorded voices. "Talking props" such as tape-recorders, radios, telephones, become disembodied spirits, he said.
Champigny, research professor of French at Indiana University, spoke to approximately 250 persons in the University Theatre on "Dramatic Characters; Denatured Spirits."
CHAMPIGNY EMPHASIZED a quality that needs to be maintained by the spectator. The characters on stage had no bodily manifestations, he said. The bodies were the actors, while the gestures were the characters.
He supported his statements with analogies, such as comparing a play to a painting. One may touch the painting, but he cannot touch the actual subject of the painting, he said.
Champigny compared the actor-character relationship to the concept of body and soul. The body is the actor and the soul is the spirit he said. The analogy breaks down because there is a one-to-one relationship between body and soul, but an actor portrays many characters and a character is portrayed by many actors, he said.
the humanity to have introspective thoughts.
Champigny said the spectators should remain detached. They retain a position in time and space. But his opening statement was, "Dramatic characters are dramatic characters, not human beings."
THE NATURE OF dramatic characters should not be spellbinding he said. It should be enlightening.
The ethics of dramatic characters was the theme of the second part of the speech. "To appear is the basic dramatic virtue." Champigny said.
A good character must have a good appearance, he said. A hero must have a brilliant appearance.
CHAMPIGNY SAID that drama can integrate criticism into its own medium. He cited the theatre of the 1930s also known as the "theatre of the absurd."
Theta Tau Change Prompts Charges, Election Confusion
By Stephen Russell
An All Student Council Elections Committee decision last night sparked University Party accusations, Theta Tau's resignation from the Inter-Fraternity Council, and an appeal to have the committee reconsider its decision.
At a special meeting the committee voted eight in favor and five against, with two abstentions, to reclassify Theta Tau fraternity from the professional-cooperative voting district to the fraternity voting district.
Tom Stanion, Pratt junior and president of Vox Populi, speaking to the committee in favor of reclassification, said the original criteria used by the Elections Committee for classification in the fraternity district was IFC
recognition. Even though Theta Tau has been in the pro-co district it should be moved back to the fraternity district because they are a member of the IFC, he said.
TOM SHUMAKER, Russell senior and president of University Party, speaking against reclassification, said the IFC includes in its membership both social and professional fraternities. He said Theta Tau is a professional fraternity and therefore belongs in the pro-co district.
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Larry Hedlund, Overland Park junior and social chairman of Theta Tau, said in its constitution and in all publications Theta Tau
Bill Erier, Shawnee Mission senior and co-chairman of the Elections Committee, said apparently a contradiction exists between the constitution of Theta Tau and that of the IFC, since the IFC constitution in two places states its members must be social fraternities and the Theta Tau constitution ascertains that it is a professional fraternity.
Looking Ahead Notables Plan For Progress
Theta Tau wishes to remain in the pro-co district, he said.
is listed as a professional fraternity for engineering students. According to the constitution a student must be majoring in one of 40 listed areas in engineering before he can become a member.
The KU Council for Progress will meet Friday in the Kansas Union to consider the needs for private support of the University in its second century.
The Council, composed of 250 distinguished alumni and friends of KU appointed by Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, will study the objectives, adopt goals, and subsequently help the University achieve those goals.
Chancellor Wescoe will moderate a panel on "The Missions of the University." William M. Bass, professor of anthropology, Edward E. Smissman, professor of pharmacy, and William A. Conboy, chairman of the department of speech and drama, will be on the panel.
MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL include Gov. William H. Avery, Oscar S. Stauffer, Harry Darby, Ray Evans, William Inge, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, K. S. Adams, Ben Hibbs, and Deane W. Malott.
The Council will see a newly prepared film strip, "A Glimpse of Greatness," narrated by Bill Shipley of New York City, a 1940 graduate.
Dr. C. Arden Miller, dean of the School of Medicine and director of the Medical Center, will describe the position and mission of the Kansas City campus.
THE MASTER BUILDING PLAN for the
Lawrence campus will be outlined by Keith Lawton. Vice Chancellor for Operations.
Vice Chancellor James R. Surface will moderate a panel, "Opportunities for Greatness." The panel: Herbert J. Ellison, professor of history and chairman of the Slavic and Soviet area program; Paul W. Gilles, professor of chemistry, and W. Eugene George, chairman of the department of architecture.
W. Stitt Robinson Jr., professor of history, will speak in behalf of the faculty.
The session will close with a statement by Chancellor Wescoe. A reception at the Museum of Art, dinner at Lewis residence hall, and the University Theatre's performance of "My Fair Lady" will follow.
Temporary chairman of the Council is Stanley Learned of Bartlesville, Okla., president of Phillips Petroleum Company.
CERTAIN PARKING AREAS will be reserved Friday and until noon Saturday for the Council for Progress meeting.
The parking areas: Jayhawk Blvd., between Thirteenth Street and Bailey Hall, the Guest lot across from the Kansas Union, and 20 spaces in the southeast corner of zone X, announced E. P. Moomau, Chief of Traffic and Security.
JIM PITTS, Wichita senior and president of the IFC, said any fraternity can join IFC providing they agree to follow the conditions of their constitution. He added that a member does not necessarily have to be a social fraternity.
Pitts agreed, however, with Brier the working policy of the IFC in accepting membership conflicts with their constitution and said they would have to take steps to amend it.
Brier reminded committee members a roll call vote could be called for by any member. When no one requested one, they voted by secret ballot and passed the motion.
THE ELECTIONS COMMITTEE debated whether to follow tradition and place Theta Tau in the fraternity district because they are a member of the IFC or to ignore the IFC recognition and make their own ruling on the fraternity's classification, a professional fraternity, and place them in the pro-co district.
In an UP meeting later on in the evening, Russ Cummings, Topeka fifth year engineering, made the following statement.
"THE THETA TAU situation is an obvious attempt by Vox to thwart UP in its effort to run a qualified candidate for the pre-co district. There is no other reason for changing Theta Tau's status. In other words, they (Vox) are playing a game."
Shumaker later accused Vox of gerrymandering and said Theta Tau's status was brought up before the Elections Committee as a "plot to get our (UP) candidate from the pro-co district to throw it wide open."