SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
50th Year, No.7
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday, July 3, 1962
First Student Play 'Antigone' Starts Thursday
The first theatre production by students enrolled in the summer theatre program "Antigone" will be presented Thursday and Friday at 8 p.m. in the University Theatre.
The production will be directed by Wendy Combest, a graduate student in speech and drama.
THE PRODUCTION will be a contemporary version for "Anti-gone," by Jean Anouilh. It is taken from the classical story by Sophocles.
The plot centers around a struggle by two brothers, one of whom is trying to wrest the government away from Creon. The brothers are killed on opposite sides of the battle. Creon makes the one that supported him a hero, and leaves the other on the plains to rot. He decrees that anyone who attempts to bury the body will be sentenced to death.
Antigone decides she is going to bury her brother and the result is a struggle between God-given laws which Antigone believes in and the man-made laws of Creon.
"ANTIGONE" can be classified as a modern drama with a classical mode. It is in two parts and there will be an intermission between.
The main characters are: chorus, Steve Calahan, Lawrence graduate student; Antigone, Carol Strickland, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore; Ismeine, Nancy Rate, Halstead senior; Creon, Bob Strack, Lawrence junior, and Haemon, Bill Evans, Clarksdale, Miss.. graduate student.
Tickets are $1.50. Students with identification cards will be admitted free.
There will be an "Actor's Showcase" in the Experimental Theatre at 8 p.m. today. There is no admission charge and three scenes will be presented.
Educators Arrive Here
About 50 high school speech teachers in Kansas and Missouri will arrive here today for a conference and workshop.
The meeting is sponsored by the KU speech department and the University Extension. It will run through tomorrow.
Two widely known speech educators will lead the conference. They are Robert T. Oliver, professor and chairman of the speech department at Pennsylvania State University, and Charlotte I. Lee, professor of interpretation and acting chairman of the department in the school of speech at Northwestern University.
Prof. Oliver will speak on "Educating the High School Speech Student in Political Responsibility." He has been a consultant to the Korean delegation to the United Nations, and is the author of 18 books on speech and international affairs.
MISS LEE will talk on "Oral Interpretation in the High School: Courses and Contests."
Prof. Oliver will also speak at the KU lecture series in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union, Thursday at 4 p.m. He will speak on "American Foreign Policy: A Problem in Public Relations."
Miss Lee will speak at the lecture series Friday in an interpretation: "In Other Words; Selected Prose and Poetry From Contemporary Writers."
Other speakers at the speech conference, all of the KU faculty, are Oscar M. Haugh, professor of education; James N. Neelley, assistant professor of speech and drama; and William A. Conboy, professor and chairman of speech and drama.
CRANE'S EYE VIEW—Construction workers make minor crane adjustments in building the $834,000 addition to Dyche Museum. The addition is scheduled for completion in April 1963. Work started early this spring. The addition is
financed by a state appropriation (42 per cent), National Science Foundation grant (38 per cent), private gifts (15 per cent), and a U.S. Public Health Service grant (five per cent).
Museum of Natural History Construction Progressing
Bv Steve Clark
Machines purr, concrete mixers roar, workmen scurry and students walking by casually turn their heads to watch as the new addition to the Museum of Natural History, south of the Kansas Union. takes shape.
"The construction is moving along well," reports E. Raymond Hall, director of the museum. "In the coming week it is expected that the topmost floor will be poured. The weather has been in our favor so far."
The new addition will be seven floors high and will be covered with rock to blend in with the present structure.
IT WILL bring into functional arrangement students and instructors, specialized literature and research and study specimens.
The addition will house an auditorium that will accommodate about 200 persons.
There will also be laboratories and space where specimens for research and study are housed in cases, the tops of which will serve as laboratory tables.
The new addition will only slightly affect the present structure. In essence the new addition will be used for study and research rather than displays and exhibits.
There are several new displays under construction. All are designed to be used as teaching aids.
These include a spring scene along a roadside showing some resident birds and some migrating birds in early spring.
ANOTHER IS also on the bird floor and depicts the six kinds of woodpeckers that are resident in Eastern Kansas and will emphasize
the relationships between these birds and woody vegetation.
The third project is for Willistone-
Martin Hall and will be devoted to fossil vertebrates and will feature a Phytosaur. The large reptile, extinct for more than 200 million years rounds out the fossil reptile display.
Presently there are four major expeditions from the Natural History Museum in the field.
William E. Duellman, assistant professor of zoology, and seven advanced students, are in Oaxaca, Mexico, studying under natural conditions, the fauna of each life-zone from the arctic alpine, above timberline, down to the lower tropical life-zone.
Campus Activities
William Clemens, assistant professor of zoology and assistant curator in charge of higher fossil vertebrates at the museum, is at the San Juan basin of Northern New Mexico studying vertebrate paleontology.
Tuesday
8 **p.m.**—Faculty Club square dance. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ridgway; hosts. Pat Beedles; caller.
8:30 p.m.—Fireworks display.Memorial Stadium.
8-9 p.m.-Hour dance.Kansas Union.Informal.Dance band.
6 p.m.-Corbin Hall picnic.
Wednesday
Classes dismissed.
Thursday
4 p.m.—KU Lecture Series, Forum Room, Kansas Room.
6:30 p.m.—Bus leaves Robinson Gym for "Blossom Time" at Starlight Theater. Reservation.
Intramural softball—Pharm. Chemicals vs. Firebirds; Hicks vs. Betas
8 p.m.—"Antigone." University Theatre.
6 p.m.—Faculty Club. Family Night buffet supper. Mr. and Mrs.
James Gunn; hosts.
AS THE SUMMER progresses Prof. Clemens and his party will work along the contact between the Cretaceous deposits and the overlying geological formations all the way northward to Montana.
One principal objective is to look (Continued on page 8)
Independence Here,
No School Tomorrow
The independence will be short-lived, however, since classes will resume Thursday.
It is only apropos that KU students will receive their independence on Independence Day as there will be no classes tomorrow, in order to celebrate July 4.
Regents Request $17.3 Million For KU In 1963-64
The KU budget for the coming fiscal year took a step nearer completion over the weekend as the Kansas Board of Regents announced that it will request a $17.3 million appropriation for KU.
The figure is a 6.2 per cent increase ($1.1 million) over the appropriation for the 1963 fiscal year, which started Sunday, and runs until June 30. 1963.
reed said the Board reduced KU's original request of $17,378,549 by $87,799. The Board of Regents request will be submitted to the November meeting of the Kansas legislature.
Clyde Reed, Parsons, chairman of the Board of Regents, said the increase in the request is based on higher projected enrollments. The Board will review the requests at an October meeting in light of actual fall enrollment.
Overall, the Regent's requests for the seven state-supported schools totalled $42,508,843. This is a $3.8 million, or 9.8 per cent, increase over the appropriation granted by the legislature for the 1963 fiscal year.
INCLUDED in the Regent's request is about $12 million for salaries and $336,000 for capital improvements - regular maintenance, new pedestrian walks, resurfacing, stage curtains, construction of a steam tunnel, and construction of a service road. It does not include major construction projects.
Reed said a full-time enrollment of 34,150 is expected at the five state institutions of higher learning and the KU Medical School in the fall semester of 1963. This compares with a projected enrollment of 32,366 this fall. This year the combined enrollment was 30,355.
Requests for new faculty positions were granted on a ratio of one to each additional 17 students at KU and Kansas State, and a ratio of one to 20 for the other three state colleges.
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Bombs Set For Stadium
Memorial Stadium will be filled tomorrow night with more fireworks than it has had since last fall's Missouri football game.
The fireworks this time will be the real thing, not the fireworks ejected from clashing helmets and bone-crushing tackles.
THE FIREWORKS display is being sponsored by the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce and will start at 8:30 p.m. Advance tickets are on sale at 25 cents. Tickets at the gate tomorrow night will be 50 cents.
Approximately $1,500 worth of fireworks have been purchased for the big Independence Day show which draws about 10,000 persons annually.
Both aerial and ground displays will be featured during the show, Chamber of Commerce officials said. Some of the favorite ground displays have been retained and several new ones added. Some new type aerial bombs also have been added for this year's show.
Advance ticket sale locations are: Lawrence National, First National and Douglas County State banks, Bob Harrell Texaco, Round Corner Drug, Royal College shoe store, Elrdidge Hotel, Zimmerman's Hardware, Raffelock's Surplus Store, Kief's Record at the Mall, Eldon's Mobile. The latter will be open all day July 4.