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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2012
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
DRAMA
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Seth Andrew Machi, a senior from Topeka, performs a monologue from the scripts of "Steam Bath" and "The Real Inspector Hound," before a panel of directors during open call auditions at Murphy Hall on Monday evening.
Auditions beginning for University Theatre
ELLY GRIMM
egrimm@kansan.com
The University Theatre program will host auditions this week for the Fall 2012 season.
Open Call auditions began Aug.
20 and were held in Crafton-Preyer
Theater in Murphy Hall. They
will continue at 7 p.m. tonight.
Callbacks will then be held
Wednesday and Thursday with
the official cast lists posted Friday.
The auditions will be for the productions of "The 39 Steps," "Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead," "Into the Woods" and "If the Whole Body Dies."
The Theatre Rally, which gave students information about the department and its shows, kicked off auditions week on Aug. 19. More than 80 students attended the rally, said Katherine Pryor, managing director of the theater.
Pryor said the University Theatre Committee began mapping out the full 2012-2013 season in May.
"Some of the faculty directors had already begun thinking about it around mid-March," she said.
Pryor said there were criteria for the shows chosen for the upcoming season. The committee considered the research needs of the faculty directors as well as undergraduate and design needs.
"We also take into account what the audience will enjoy, of course," Prvor said.
Auditions are open to undergraduate and graduate students of all majors.
"People think that because they're not a theater major they won't get in, but they do quite often."
"Last season I was a student representative (on the committee) so I actually got to vote," said Thom Browne, a senior from Topeka. "Overall I think we put together a fun season. We definitely have the talent to flesh it out so we can expect a lot of talent from them."
Students associated with theater department also contributed to the season's line up of productions.
browne, now a member of the Tech Crew after acting in past shows, said publicity plays a large
role in enticing audience members.
"We do a lot of publicity for every show to draw students and faculty, as well as the Lawrence community," he said. "Also, it's the high expectation of quality the audience has from us."
Jenny Curatola, a senior from Lansing, said the layout of the season will keep audiences interested.
"They're really covering all the bases this year," she said. "We have a lot of new students coming and lots of big casts to fill."
Curatola said the theater department's loyal fan base provides for a unique experience.
"For students, it's an escape from the academic world" and gives them a chance to support their friends, she said. "We have a large theater following to keep the tradition alive."
Edited by Allison Kohn
LAW
PETA to file lawsuit
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WICHTA. Kan. — People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is threatening a free speech lawsuit against the Kansas State Fair over restrictions on the organization's booth.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas and Western Missouri and a Kansas City law firm have agreed to represent PETA in a potential federal suit.
Attorneys have given fair officials until Thursday to rescind a demand that PETA shield passersby from any videos or pictures depicting animal slaughter.
ACLU legal director Doug Bonney said this is an obvious ACLU case because the state fair is imposing a content-based restriction on PETA's speech that is blatantly unconstitutional.
WILDLIFE
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Eagle killer confesses
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WICHITA, Kan. - A central Kansas man has pleaded guilty to killing a golden eagle while he was hunting coyote near Cedar Bluff Reservoir earlier this year.
The U.S. Attorney's office says 35-year-old Chad Irva, of La Crose, entered the plea Tuesday in federal court in Wichita. He was sentenced to 50 hours of community service and assessed $8,000 in fines and restitution.
federal law.
Eagles are protected under
Ivin admitted firing at the eagle twice after spotting it Jan. 9 in Trego County.
The injured bird was recovered and sent to the Great Bend Zoo for veterinary care. Officials said the eagle's legs were paralyzed from the shooting, and it had to be euthanized.
Irvin's sentence also includes three years of probation, during which he's barred from hunting, fishing, trapping and guiding.
In this 1960 file photo, Martin Luther King Jr. speaks in Atlanta. A 1960 recording of an interview with King never before heard in public is up for sale.
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Lost audio interview of King Jr. surfaces
CIVIL RIGHTS
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Stephon Tull was looking through dusty old boxes in his father's attic in Chattanooga a few months ago when he stumbled onto something startling; an audio reel labeled, "Dr. King interview, Dec. 21, 1960."
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But one historian said the newly discovered interview is unusual because audio of King discussing his activities in Africa is rare, while two of King's contemporaries said it's exciting to hear a little-known recording of their friend for the first time.
He wasn't sure what he had found until he borrowed a friend's reel-to-reel player and listened to the recording of his father interviewing Martin Luther King Jr for a book project that never came to fruition. In clear audio, King discusses the importance of the civil rights movement, his definition of nonviolence and how a recent trip of his to Africa informed his views. Tull said the recording had been in the attic for years, and he wasn't sure who other than his father may have heard it.
Tull plans to offer the recording at a private sale arranged by a New York broker and collector later this month.
"No words can describe. I couldn't believe it," he told The Associated Press this week in a phone interview from his home in Chattanooga. "I found ... a lost part of history."
Many recordings of King are known to exist among hundreds of thousands of documents related to his life that have been catalogued and archived.
Tull said his father, an insurance salesman, had planned to write a book about the racism he encountered both growing up in Chattanooga and later as an adult. He said his dad interviewed King when he visited the city but never completed the book and simply stored the recording with other interviews he had done. Tull's father is now in his early 80s and under hospice care.
During part of the 51-year-old interview, King defines nonviolence and justifies its practice.
"I would ... say that it is a method which seeks to secure a moral end through moral means," he said. "And it grows out of the whole concept of love, because if one is truly nonviolent, that person has a loving spirit; he refuses to inflict injury upon the opponent because he loves the opponent."
The interview took place four years before the Civil Rights Act became law, three years before King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech, and eight years before his assassination. At one point in the interview, King predicts the impact
of the civil rights movement.
"I am convinced that when the history books are written in future years, historians will have to record this movement as one of the greatest epics of our heritage," he said.
King had visited Africa about a month before the interview, and he discusses with Tull's father how leaders there viewed the racial unrest in the United States.
"I had the opportunity to talk with most of the major leaders of the new independent countries of Africa, and also leaders in countries that are moving toward independence," he said. "And I think all of them agree that in the United States we must solve this problem of racial injustice if we expect to maintain our leadership in the world."
Raymond Winbush, director of the Institute for Urban Research at Maryland's Morgan State University, said the tape is significant because there are very few recordings of King detailing his time in Africa.
The broker, Keya Morgan, said he believes that unpublished reel-to-reel audio of King is extremely rare and said he's confident of the authenticity of the recording based on extensive interviews with Tull, his examination of the tape and his knowledge of King. He's collected many of the civil rights icon's letters and photos.
Tull is working with a New York-based collector and expert on historical artifacts to arrange a sale.
A spokeswoman for King's daughter Bernice, head of The King Center in Atlanta, said she was traveling and couldn't comment on the audio.
"I can't think of anything better to try," Lowery said of nonviolence. "What we're doing now is not working. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Matching violence with violence. We've got more guns than we've ever had, and more ammunition to go with it. And yet, the situation worsens."
"I wish people all over America, all over the world, can hear this message over and over again," he said.
Rev. Joseph Lowery, who worked with Kirg g while a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, agreed.
U. S. Rep. John Lewis, a Freedom Rider who organized Tennessee's first lunch counter sit-in at age 19 in Nashville, said hearing King talk about the sit-ins took him back to the period when more than 100 restaurant counters were desegregated over several months.
"To ... hear his voice and listen to his words was so moving, so powerful," said Lewis, adding that King's principles of nonviolence are still relevant today.
"That to me is what's remarkable about the tape."
"Its clear that in this tape when he's talking ... about Africa, he saw this as a global human rights movement that would inspire other organizations, other nations, other groups around the world," said Winbush, who is also a psychologist and historian.
"I was like, wow! To hear him that crisp and clear," Morgan said. "But beyond that, for him to speak of nonviolence, which is what he represented."
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