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Volume 5, Issue 6
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, July 26, 1968
Camp debaters hold tourney
By SUE BUNGE Kansan Staff Reporter
The Kansas debate topic is different than the national one, because the schools of Kansas have a rule prohibiting Kansas debaters to debate the national topic before school in the fall. Therefore, the Kansas topic is resolved that college students should have greater freedom in determining campus policies.
The tenseness wich prevails at all debate tournaments was at least doubled Tuesday afternoon in Fraser Hall as debaters met for the finals in both National and Kansas debate topics.
The national debate was won by Bill Pray and Joe Roby in a 3-2 judge decision against Alan Prater and Brenda Hodge.
The Kansas topic victory was obtained by Don Bucker and Ann Crawford with the judges decision being 4-1. Their debate was against Linda Listrom and Dave Holston.
Roby and Pray, the winning national team, will debate the Denver University debate workshop champions Friday, July 25, over a telephone hookup. There will be loud speakers set up at either end of the room for the debaters to hear, Bobby R. Patton, director of speech and drama division, explained. There will be a three minute critique of that debate, but no judge.
THIS YEAR'S national debate topic is resolved that; the United States should establish a system of compulsory service for all citizens.
Food Costs Corrected
Last week's Kamper Kansan mistakenly quoted the price of food preparation for Camps at $1.20 per day. The actual fee fee the Camp pays the dormitory department is $15 per week per camper.
Cold type continues
Again the Kansan expands its use of the new computerized offset type leased by the KU Printing Service. The four pages of this issue of the Kamper Kansan has been set by the machine.
The debaters for the negative on the national team, Prater and Hodge, are both from Shreveport, La. Roby, national affirmative is from Watertown, S. Da., and his partner Pray lives in Oakpark, Ill.
Don Bucker, Ann Crawford, and Dave Holston, finalists in the Kansas debate are all from Salina. Dave's partner, Linda Listrom, lives in Topeka.
Forensics champions declared
By BARBARA KIMBLE Kansas Staff Reporter
A week-and-a-half long forensics tournament has been held by the Speech and Debate Camp prior to the end of the summer's activities.
Finals were held in poetry interpretation, prose interpretation, extemporaneous speaking, dramatic interpretation, and original oratory.
Others were held in duet acting, informative speaking, and radio speaking; debate semi-finals were held.
The extemporaneous speaker draws a current event topic half an hour before he is to speak and prepares a five to seven minute speech. Original oratory is persuasive speaking. Informative speaking is a five to seven minute speech giving just information, no opinion, on specified topics.
BURMAH SMITH,
Middlesboro, Ky. won poetry
interpretation. Prose
interpretation was won by Sue
Short, Pullman, Wash., Brenda
Hodge, Shreveport, La., won
extemporaneous speaking and
Burmah Smith placed first in
dramatic interpretation. The
first place winner in original
oratory was Alan Prater,
Shreveport, La.
Duet acting was won by Joan Babbage, Harlan, Ky., and Burmah Smith. Bill Russell, Omaha, Neb., placed first in informative speaking and Martha Mackey, Hutchinson, won radio speaking.
Winners of the individual contests presented their selections in recital Thursday. An interpretation workshop recital was held Wednesday night that included "John Brown's Body."
—Kansan photo by Mike Magee
HAIL THE NEW KING AND QUEEN! Their majesties, Debra Baca and Adrian Call, reign over the camp formal.
Baca, Call crowned
By CONNIE BATES Kansan Staff Reporter
The highlight of the '68 camp took place as Debra Baca and Adrian Call were crowned Queen and King of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp Saturday evening at the formal dance in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Following the singing entertainment of the Concert Chorale and a ballet interpretation of West Side Story, the guests parted to allow the promenade of the king and
queen candidates down the center of the ballroom. Each king candidate escorted a queen candidate on his arm to the speaker's platform as their names and hometowns were read by counselor Emerv Goad.
WHILE THE candidates formed a semi-circle, Russell L. Wiley, camp director, stepped up to the speaker's platform. He gave a brief speech thanking the 99% of the campers that had worked to make this year's camp a success and said he hoped they
had benefited from it in some way. He was then handed the envelope containing the names of the candidates selected by the all-camp vote.
Recital is planned by Ballet Division
Tonight at 8 p.m. in the University Theatre, the Ballet division will perform a modern dance "Facets" for the first time, in addition to the traditional ballet.
"Fanfare," a classical ballet, choreographed by Miss Alexandra Zaharis, "Bagatellen," a humorous, contemporary ballet, choreographed by Larry Long, and "Capriccio Espagnole," a character ballet, choreographed by Miss Marguerite Reed are scheduled to highlight the evening.
MISS REED, Miss Zaharis and Long have also choreographed Brahms' waltzes which will be
included in the program. According to Long, the choreography was just finished this past week. The finishing stages were polished hastily.
A brief moment of silence was observed as he fumbled with the paper, but was erupted as he announced, "Your queen is Miss Debra Baca, and...your king is Mr. Adrian Call. Would Debra and Adrian please step forward?" Following tradition, Wiley crowned and kissed Queen Debra, while King Adrian was only crowned. Both Adrian and Debra are in the music division of the camp.
About 100 dancers from 25 states have been rehearsing six weeks for the recital.
Bill Evans, who choreographed "Facets," and Greg Lizenbery, are the guest artists performing in "Facets." Evans and Miss Reed will dance in "Capriccio Espagnole."
The ballet performers will wear costumes and live piano accompaniment will be provided by Joanne Atkins.
The audience of well-dressed couples represented a large percentage of the camp. Both the dance floor and the balcony were comfortably filled.
MUSIC FOR the dance was provided by the Kamper's Kix Band, consisting of volunteer campers and counselors. The dance was their first public appearance. Pat Taylor, an Ellsworth counselor, was responsible for the program and was assisted by Emery Goad.
Since the campers are not allowed to ride in cars, a special bus service was provided from the dorms to the Union throughout the evening.
Strict regulations were enforced involving the weekend guests invited by the campers. They stayed in JRP and McCollum and were given special guest cards to prove their identity.
Spanish students
Spaniards eat lunch at KU
By NANCY RANDALL Kansan Staff Reporter
Fifty-four students from a university in Seville, Spain stopped at KU for an informal luncheon with the Spanish division of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp.
After lunch about an hour was spent chatting with the Spanish campers. Since most of the Spaniards could not speak English all conversations were in Spanish.
THE GROUP, spending 10 days in the United States, came to visit Seville's sister city, Kansas City, Missouri. The Geralda Tower, a replica of the Geralda Tower in Seville, located at the Kansas City Plaza, was
one of the highlights of their trip.
The Spaniards told of their costumes and the differences they noticed here. In Spain a chaperone is taken on all dates but they generally do not have any set hour to be in.
"They were all very friendly, warm natured and easily liked," said Jenny Ledbetter, Irving, Texas, a Spanish student.
THE SPANISH people live an unscheduled life and come and go as they please. "I think they are pretty contented people," Jenny said.
A lot of comments were made on "the red badge of courage." Everything in the states has a number said one
Spaniard.
Another Spanish student said she was surprised they knew so much about American politics. "They knew all about our presidential candidates; who they liked and who they didn't like," said O'linda Wright, Manter, Kansas.
Making of fake I.D.'s halts
One Spaniard said most of the people in Spain had no opinion about the U.S. involvement in the Viet Nam War. However, he also said most of the college students feel we should pull out.
They also commented on the food served in the U.S. One liked it because it was so different and another missed the wine and beer.
Suspension of the manufacture of false camper identification badges has been agreed upon by a downtown merchant and officials of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp.
Charles Lawson, Ellsworth Hall supervisor and Richard Brummett, Camp supervisor, visited the store and protested to the operator that non-campers were acquiring the badges. After a later telephone call to Russell L. Wiley, Camp director, a settlement was reached and the store supposedly stopped making the false badges.
The only discrepancy in the badges and the real ones seems to have been that the fakes did not have the white backing present on the originals. The store's manager reported only half a dozen badges were sold,
but eight badges have been confiscated by camp officials and another four were displayed at the store.
Two Ellsworth Hall counselors investigated the store. One of them said, "We found a Lawrence teen-ager in front of Lewis Hall after closing last Wednesday with a fake badge on." The two counselors went downtown and ordered two counselor badges. When they received their badges, paying $1.50 each, four more counselor badges were ordered. These badges, after camp officials visited the store, were given to other counselors free of charge.
The store had apparently been selling the badges to campers and non-campers alike. The manager said he never questioned buyers if they were campers until camp officials complained.