'Lovely' crowd jams final show
By NED VALENTINE
A standing room only crowd filled the Experimental Theater, spilling out into the lobby during the final showings of "Oh, What A Lovely War."
The British war-satire musical, which was originally scheduled for eight showings, was increased to ten because of the overwhelming response. All tickets were sold out six days before the first performance.
Jack Wright, Massillon, Ohio, graduate student and director, said he was especially pleased with the large turnout.
DESPITE THE NUMBER OF TIMES the musical ran,the cast was able to maintain its enthusiasm down to the last show, he said. But they were tired.
Each cast member had to assume four of five roles during the play and was on stage most of the time. In addition, each character sang and danced as chorus members.
Only one minor incident interrupted the otherwise smooth performance, Wright said.
At one point in the play, a member of the audience is given a revolver and blanks and asked to shoot one of the actors on stage. The part depicts the assassination sparking World War I.
ONE NIGHT THE REVOLVER clicked through five shots before finally going off, Wright said. It kept the production staff more tense than the audience.
Other than that incident and a couple of blown fuses, the show ran smoothly through the ten straight performances, Wright said.
Docking honors aged
Gov. Robert B. Docking will visit KU this evening to attend the 17th annual Kansas State Conference on Aging in the Kansas Union.
He will present the "Distinguished Older Citizen" award to an older person who has made significant contributions on behalf of his fellow senior citizens.
The conference, which will continue through Tuesday, will fea-
Psychologist to talk, LSD
LSD, the drug which can cause prolonged mental illness if used improperly, will be the topic when Dr. Robert Soskin speaks at the Psi XI meeting at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the Kansas Union Jayhawk Room.
Soskin is a psychologist associated with the psychosomatic department of the Veterans Administration Hospital in Topeka. He will address the group on the advantages of LSD psychotherapy over the conventional method.
He holds a Ph.D. from Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., and became interested in LSD therapy in 1964. Soskin has conducted many experiments with LSD.
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have offered the system long enough to gauge its effect. Of those that have, however, Princeton and Brown have found it moderately successful in tempting students to try new fields.
PRINCETON, which began pass-fail last spring, is expanding the program to include auditing courses for credit with pass-fail grading.
Almost three-quarters of the Princeton undergraduates took the pass-fail option when it was first offered, reported Edward Sullivan, dean of Princeton's College. Only about one-eighth of the Brown undergraduates took a pass-fail course, however.
The new grading system is not limited to
experiments in established schools, though; several new colleges are trying pass-fail. For example, when Hampshire College in Massachusetts opens in 1969, students will be given grades of pass, fail, or distinction.
WHILE MOST educators recognize the usual grading systems pose many problems, not all believe pass-fail grading is the absolute answer.
It's not likely, for example, that graduate schools would be enthusiastic about a transcript containing only P's. Other methods of distinguishing the outstanding students such as the student interview reports used by some small colleges with pass-fail may not be satisfactory either, mainly because of the time required to read the reports.