Views vary on AWS Senate changes
By Elizabeth Rhodes
"Women's rules, I didn't know they had any."
This came from a wishful sophomore yesterday when asked her opinions concerning women's regulations proposals released Tuesday by the Associated Women Students (AWS) Senate.
OTHER STUDENTS queried ranged from the freshman woman who admitted she had heard of the Senate, but didn't know they were doing "anything big" this year because "I have a hard time following campus news," to the junior man who knew the AWS rules and proposed changes down to the fine print "because I have to just for general self-preservation." A wide grin was his only explanation.
Senate-proposed closing for all sophomores, and the extended late hours for underclassmen drew the most comment. The latter proposal would make late hours regulations dependent upon the interpretations of the individual living groups.
LOU ABERNATHY, Tepeka freshman and Corbin delegate to last month's rules convention, held mixed views about the Senate's decisions.
"They have a definite right to make changes, but I don't agree with their reasons for the sophomore change, as published in the Daily Kansan," she said. "I don't think those were really the reasons.
"Possibly the rules were changed by the Senate so they wouldn't have to be changed later.
"THE EXTENDED hours suggestion wasn't clear enough to suit me. If the rules are made by each living group, a girl might decide where to live by what rules there were like. There was a lot of pressure at the convention to give the living groups more power. Maybe this is the result."
Often, regulations opinions are the result of a conglomerative mental effort. Such was the case with Kay Harris, Shawnee, and Doug Powell, Oklahoma
City, Okla., both freshmen. They decided the Senate suggestions "make the most sense the way the Senate handled them, but it was too bad that the Senate and convention couldn't have agreed on what they wanted beforehand. The rules now sound like a reversal.
"PEOPLE HAD ACCEPTED no closing for second semester sophomores. Now people feel they are taking away privileges. They don't even think of the privileges that are being given to juniors and seniors."
Barby Burnett, Parsons freshman, backs the extended hours because "they would give the system flexibility, so you aren't tied to specific rules."
She expects the individual living groups to interpret extended hours conservatively.
"I don't think they'll interpret them liberally at all. Late nights will probably be kept for special occasions. The system offers a way out in special situations," Miss Burnett said.
76th Year, No.124
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
WEATHER:
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LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Details on Page 11
Thursday, April 28, 1966
Opera premieres tonight
Descendents of'Carry will attend
Four-year-old Risa Foerster, Euless, Tex., has travelled a long way to see tonight's premiere of "Carry Nation." And for good reason—she is Carry's great - great - great - granddaughter. Accompanying her to KU are her grandfather, C. O. Foerster Jr., Elsa, Tex., and his mother, Mrs. Gloyd Elizabeth Foerster.
Mrs. Foerster, great-granddaughter of the famed prohibitionist, travelled the Chatauqua circuits with Carry for several years. She was in Kansas with her great-grandmother in 1907, 1908, 1909 and 1913. This is camera-shy Mrs. Foerster's first visit to KU.
Risa tried to register for future enrollment Thursday morning at the Admissions office, but was told she must graduate from high school first.
THE YOUNGER GENERATION
THE YOUNGER GENERATION The fourth generation of the Kansas saloon smasher looks a little confused by all the excitement created by the "Carry Nation" premiere.
COSA submits alcohol study; Wescoe in dark
Recent recommendations concerning the use of alcohol by KU students on and off the campus have been sent to Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe by the Council on Student Affairs (COSA), according to council members.
By Emery Goad
But according to Chancellor Wescoe this morning he had not received any recommendations and thus could not consider the matter.
The council has held hearings on the topic at their last several meetings. They interviewed students for their response to the topic and consulted other university authorities.
Stanford University recently legalized alcohol on the campus saying, "The university believes that the development of self-discipline, individual responsibility and respect for the law will be enhanced by entrusting to the students a greater responsibility for compliance with state law and by the removal of complete prohibitions which are not enforceable in practice."
Laurence C. Woodruff, COSA chairman, said that even if the council had decided to allow alcohol on campus it would conflict with Kansas State law, that does not permit alcohol on any state property.
He would not release the recommendations of the council on the matter.
Carry Nation stars prepare for world opening
By Cheryl Hentsch
Tonight Carry Nation sweeps out of the pages of Kansas history to startle the world as the formidable apostle of temperance, smashing saloons and reaping headlines as she did 65 years ago.
At 8:20 p.m. Carry sings her crusade on the stage of Murphy Hall for the world premiere of the opera "Carry Nation."
Pulitzer Prize winner Douglas Moore and William North Jayme collaborated to create the opera with a Kansas setting to commemorate the KU centennial. Artists from the Metropolitan and New York City Center Opera companies sing the leading roles in the KU production.
BEVERLY WOLFF, mezzo-soprano, plays Carry. During the past few seasons, she has won high praise for her performance of Cherubino in the New York City Opera's "Marriage of Figaro" and the television premiere of Bernstein's "Trouble in Tahiti." Her career started as an instrumentalist and for several seasons she was first trumpeter with the Atlanta Symphony.
Carry's husband is played by Metropolitan and New York City Center Opera baritone John Reardon. Reardon is well known for his portraits of Don Giovanni, Count Almaviva, Scarpia and others. He also had a leading role in Moore's premiere of "Wings of the Dove."
Patricia Brooks, lyric coloratura soprano, portrays Carry's mother. A member of the New York City Opera company, Miss Brooks also sings with the Boston and Washington operas. Last spring, she sang the title role in Moore's "Ballad of Baby Doe" at the New York City Center. In addition to roles in the Broadway productions of "Kismet" and "Sound of Music," she has danced with the Martha Graham Company and acted in "The Iceman Cometh" and "Six Characters in Search of an Author."
THE FOURTH PROFESSIONAL artist is Kenneth Smith, Metropolitan Opera bass baritone. After a European season performing "Meistersinger" with the Zurich Opera, English-born Smith starred in a variety of roles with the Met. He has appeared with the New York City Opera, Philadelphia Lyric and the NBC Opera. Smith joined the KU faculty this fall as chairman of the KU Voice Department.
ALTHOUGH THEATRE STUDENTS and faculty have been concerned with "Carry" for several months, public interest in the premiere lay dormant until ticket sales began last week. The box office opened April 21 to face double lines of theatre-goers patiently waiting with cushions, sack lunches and transistor radios. At 2:30 p.m., the lines were still there. As a result, the opera is a sell-out with standing room only.
At the theatre, dress rehearsals Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday added to the mounting excitement as opening night rapidly approached. Crew men made final checks on lighting and set decorations while the wardrobe department made last-minute costume adjustments. A zipper broke, a pantalon ripped.
Backstage, both students and professionals began to feel the first twitches of opening night jitters.
Out front, tonight is it—an opening—a world premiere for an exciting opera "Carry Nation."
Curtain going up.