UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday. September 25,1995
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Haskell protests Indian bureau cuts
Government ignores treaties and rights,say students and faculty
By Tara Trenary
Kansan staff writer
Haskell Indian Nations University students, faculty and friends attended a rally Friday to oppose the federal government's Bureau of Indian Affairs budget cuts.
Students carried signs along 23rd Street which read "Our ancestors paid a high
price for their children," "Great nations, like great men, should keep their promises," and "Education is a Trust Responsibility."
The rally was planned by a group of students to oppose the Indian nations' trust responsibility and treaties' rights being overlooked by the government, said Dina Drye, an organizer of the rally.
Drye said the group also wanted to inform students about what was going on with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the federal government.
The bureau's budget has been cut by $255 million for 1996, said Hannes Combest, education secretary to the president of Haskell.
Combest said the cuts would directly affect tribes and tribal programs such as Tribal Priority Allocation, which includes law enforcement, social services, natural resources and jobs.
"The loss of money will be directly to tribal government," she said.
Many people spoke at the rally — including Haskell's president, Haskell's student senate president and several Haskell students — about the problems Native Americans face now and may face in the future if more cuts are made.
gone," said Brendan Winders, Juneau,
Alas., Haskell freshman.
Terry Brochie, Ft. Belknap, Mont., Haskell graduate, believes that education is the answer to controlling funds for Indian affairs.
"If we let them cut funding this time, they'll continue do it until all funding is
"A lot of times society doesn't care," said Brochie, now a KU junior. "It's important that we educate ourselves because we are the young minds."
Bob Martin, Haskell president, said that the budget cuts would directly affect the university.
"There's a lot of work to be done, but what I think will make a difference is the students," he said.
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KU's 'Billy Budd' takes modern tone
Melville novel was basis for production with war metaphors
Shawn Johnson, Wichita senior, plays Billy Budd, who is delivering a fatal blow to Cleggant, played by Charles Whiteman, Lawrence resident. "Melville, Billy and Mars," a play based on Herman Melville's novel "Billy Budd," was read Saturday night at the Spencer Museum of Art.
By Novelda Sommers Kansan staff writer
Kansas wasn't at the top of Joyce Adler's list of places to spend her 27th wedding anniversary.
But the Herman Melville scholar and playwright and her husband, Irving, were at the University of Kansas last week to see a reading of Adler's play, "Melville, Billy and Mars." English Alternative Theater presented the play Saturday night.
About 200 people attended the free performance at the Spencer Museum of Art auditorium.
"Not Paris, not London, not anywhere exotic," said Adler, who lives in Vermont. "Kansas is wonderful, and the people are great."
Adler said she liked the theater's production. Paul Lim, associate professor of English and the faculty adviser for the theater, directed the production and modernized it. The play was staged in conjunction with the Moby Dick exhibit at the museum.
Adler's original dramatization was set during the Napoleonic Wars on a British ship, but Lim's version is set on a modern American ship.
must not be at peace. In one scene Claggert has a sailor beaten for leaving his post.
"Melville, Billy and Mars" is based on Melville's novel "Billy Budd." It is about a young, handsome sailor forced into the crew of the warship Bellipotent. Budd's reputation as a peacemaker makes him the target of Claggert, the ship's evil master-arms. Claggert says that in order to be fighters, the sailors
As Claggert tries to convince the ship's captain that Budd has tried to arouse mutiny, Budd and Claggert scuffle and Claggert dies. The captain rules that Budd must be executed.
Adler said Melville's original work was a statement against war and the beatings U.S. sailors endured under their superiors.
Lim's modernization used slides portraying gay sailors and students at the Citadel celebrating when Shannon Faulkner
dropped out.
"We decided to include metaphors of war within the military," Lim said. "The military goes by a very rigid code of ethics, which a play like 'Billy Budd' questions."
Shannon Skelton, Tyler, Texas,
senior, was the stage manager
for the reading and portrayed a sailor. Skelton said the cast had rehearsed only four times.
"It was more than just a reading where people just have scripts," he said. "We use props and costumes and act out the play. It keeps the audience more engaged."
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Avery said he was impressed with the house, although he was sure it was not without a few flaws.
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Kaufman said 54 percent of the members' families and alumni contributed money for the renovations. Kaufman said the largest donation — $450,000 — was given by Keith Bunnel, a 1946 KU graduate.
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"I wanted to help the boys, not just for now, but for the future," he said.
Dave Jilek, Fargo, N.D., junior, said the fraternity members had to move out of the house last year and into Meadowbrook Apartments, 101-T Windsor Place, while the renovations were being made. Jilek said that he was glad that the renovations finally were finished, and 78 of the 85 members were living together again.
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