SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
50th Year, No.4
Friday, June 22, 1962
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Summer Theatre Focuses On Other Nations
"Summer Theatre International 62," the theme of the University Theatre this summer focuses on countries around the world.
Tonight a Japanese setting graces the stage of the theatre as the Wichita Community Theatre presents "Rashomon," a Japanese story adapted by Fay and Michael Kanin based on stories by the Japanese author Akutagawa.
KU students will be admitted to "Rashomon" for the half-price of 75c by showing their student identification cards. All seats are reserved and tickets are on sale at the University Theatre box office.
Tonight's performers are from Wichita and the play is under the direction of Mary Jane Teall, the director of the Wichita Community Theatre.
The leading roles will be a husband, a wife, a bandit, and a medium played by Felix Peters, Joan Norton, Lloyd Thompson and Milton Meier respectively.
The play which was made into a movie has a Japanese wood setting and is best known for its stylized movement. There are several clashes in the woods with swords the weapons.
Past University Theatre productions this summer have focused on England "The Boy Friend," Germany, "Hello, Out There," and France, "Parc Parisien." Future presentations include four films "Ivan, the Terrible," parts one and two. "The Golden Coach," and "Lady Chatterley's Lover." Two more plays remain, those being "Antigone" on July 5-6 and "Insect Comedy" on July 12-13.
The University Theatre is under the direction of Gordon Beck, an instructor in speech and drama at KU.
The Wichita Community Theatre brings "Rashomon" to KU on an exchange basis. KU will return the exchange this winter by presenting "J.B." in Wichita.
12 Executives In Program
Twelve persons are enrolled in the eighth annual Executive Development Program of the University of Kansas School of Business. The intensive four-week program began June 10 and will continue through July 6.
The principal goal of this concentrated program of study for business and industrial executives is the broadening of their horizons through study and close working association with men of varied backgrounds and experiences.
Instruction is divided into policy administration, the American business climate, human relations in business, and financial administration and management accounting.
The principal faculty are Prof. Wiley S. Mitchell, Jack D. Steele and Richard S. Howey, all of KU, and Prof. William D. Guth of the Harvard Graduate School of Business. Program administrators are Dean James R. Surface of the KU School of Business; Dr. Frank S. Pinet, program director, and Chester B. Vanatta, assistant director.
The executives-turned-students follow a daily classwork schedule from 8:10 a.m. to 4:10 p.m. They are housed in Grace Pearson Hall and attend classes and eat their meals in the Kansas Union.
READY AND WAITING—Officer Paul Sloan stands by the under-construction traffic station at the Chi Omega fountain, but no cars as yet. Forast Hehn of Constant Construction Company works in the background to get the station completed by the last two weeks of summer school, when the new traffic control system gets its first tryout.
Campus Activities
Today
Kansas Union Open House special steak dinner, 5 p.m., Prairie Room, Union.
Free bowling, table tennis and billiards, Jay Bowl, Kansas Union 5-10 p.m.
"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" starring Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives and Judith Anderson. Forum Room, Union, 7:30 and 9:30. Room Dance, Union, 8:30. No admission.
Trail Room Dance, Union, 8 p.m. No admission charge.
Outdoor movies, "Wilderness Trail," "Down in the Forest," and Nanook of the North," 8 p.m., east of Robinson Gymnasium, no admission charge.
Rashomon, University Theatre, 8 p.m. Price 75c with student I.D.'s
Tomorrow
Starlight Theatre bus trip, "The Music Man."
Sunday
Midwestern Music and Art Camp concerts ---
Midwestern Music and Art Camp concerts - Chorus, 2:15 p.m., Clayton Krehbiel, conductor, University Theatre. Symphony orchestra, 3:30 p.m., Gerald M. Carney, conductor. Concert Band, 8 p.m., outdoor theatre east of Hoch Auditorium No admission charge.
Monday
Intramural softball—5:15 p.m., diamonds seven and eight.
Lindley Oilers vs. Haworth; Pharmacy Chemicals vs. Delta Function.
Playground for children of faculty and students open until 9:30 p.m.
Booths Go Up; Drivers Weep
A KU student who owns a car is driving along the road headed for Mt. Oread. When he reaches the edge of the campus he notices a big hole in the road.
By Steve Clark
He winces, because this means that President Kennedy's physical fitness program will become a realization at KU this fall.
- On Jayhawk Boulevard, just south of the intersections of Oread Ave. and 13th Street in front of the Kansas Union and Mvers Hall.
The KU student is going to have to walk.
That's right: The car-driving KU students are losing their "hill" driving privileges and the pedestrian in turn receives privileges unknown for several decades.
- On 14th St., west of the Louisiana Street intersection.
- On Sunflower Road, just north of the Sunnyside Ave. intersection.
RECENTLY THE Board of Regents approved a traffic and control system which will, during the main class hours of the day, restrict the number of moving vehicles in the central area of the campus in which pedestrian traffic is the heaviest.
On Sunflower Road, just south of the Memorial Drive intersection.
To do this, five traffic stations are being constructed. The locations of these are:
Motion pictures of the life cycle of two tornadoes have been made by a KU aero-weather research team.
KU Team Records Twisters
- On Jayhawk Boulevard, just east of the Chi Omega fountain.
NEVERTHLEESS, Keith Lawton,
vice chancellor for operations,
quickly points out that cars will not
be banned from atop Mt. Oread.
There are six categories of persons
and cars that are entitled to permits.
They are:
The research team, which last July obtained the first aerial photographs of the "life of a tornado" and its parent cloud over Otis, Kansas, took several minutes of film of recent tornadoes west of Woodward, Okla., just across the border into Texas.
"The great value of this work," says Fred Bates, associate professor of the KU department of mechanics and aerospace engineering, "is that it was made while several aircraft of the U.S. Weather Bureau's National Severe Storms Project operated in and around the parent thunderstorm simultaneously.
- Vehicles bearing the red, permanent, campus pass sticker, valid temporary sticker or departmental pass.
The KU team was in a Weather Bureau B-26 research plane flown by
"This was probably the best operation of the NSSP this season," he added. "When all of the data are in and digested we may have a breakthrough in our understanding of these violent little storms."
- Bona fide guests who would obtain the visitor sticker at the control station.
- Persons having official business with the University (vehicles of persons on personal business calls to individuals will not be admitted).
- Vehicles of staff, students and faculty will be admitted for emergency cases, operational necessity or other rare or unusual cases.
- Public vehicles such as buses, taxis, buses, police vehicles and ambulances.
- Vehicles of persons attending officially scheduled, campus associated meetings previously approved for station entry by the Traffic and Security Office. Persons in charge of such meetings must obtain approval at least one day in advance.
THE NEW system will be tried the last two weeks of summer school to observe its effectiveness. There will be no restrictions during the end of summer school and the beginning of the fall term.
Jim Cook of Jacksboro, Texas, veteran storm-research pilot. While Prof. Bates and associates were looking at the underbelly of the storm and the two tornadoes, a T-33 and an F-100F of the U.S. Air Force Systems Division were penetrating the storm at middle and high levels, and a U-2 was sampling above the storm.
"Pilots flying through squall lines at low levels should be extra cautious — even if they have weather radar," he remarked. "These storms are occurring between heavy storm centers about where you think the place to penetrate the line is located.
KU'S WEATHER research plane was not used because it is not equipped to fly through the storm line from the east, Prof. Bates explained. "However the flight was made below the clouds and no significant turbulence was encountered although we came within a mile of the tornadoes."
"The second tornado started with a dust-whirl on the surface before the funnel formed from the cloud base. Observers on the alert for tornadoes should watch for these whirls, as well as for funnels hanging from the clouds.
"DUST-DEVILS under an overcast sky are apt to be the business ends of tornadoes if a thunderstorm is passing to the north or northeast."
Prof. Bates noted that the Texas Oklahoma observation again demonstrated how with proper planning and experienced personnel, airplanes can safely work close to the storms.
"A next step in research might be attempts to penetrate the tornado funnel with small drones to obtain detailed information about their circulation and pressure distribution.
"Some day, after we have found the way to do it," he predicted, "we shall probably use airplanes to knock out tornaJoes."
Union To Open Doors At 5 p.m.
The Kansas Union throws open its doors tonight as it holds a summer "open house" to acquaint summer school students and Midwestern Music and Art campers with the facilities of the Union.
The "open house" is being sponsored by the Summer Student Union Activities Board, a committee operating in its first year and designed to coordinate summer activities at the Union.
"OPEN HOUSE" starts with a special steak dinner in the Prairie Room at 5 p.m.
Also starting at 5 p.m. and continuing until 10 p.m. is free bowling, billiards and table tennis at the Jay Bowl. Dancing will be offered starting at 8 p.m. There is no admission charge to the dance.
"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" starring Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives, Jack Carson and Judith Anderson will be shown at 7:30 p.m. in the Forum Room. A second showing will start about 9:30 p.m.
The first Starlight Theatre bus trip, sponsored by the Physical Education department, will be made to Kansas City tomorrow to see Meredith Willson's "The Music Man."
The Starlight Theatre is opening its 12th season of stage productions under the stars. There are four more bus trips planned. Ticket prices are $2.25 and $3.25 and both include transportation.
The remaining trips will be "Blossom Time," July 5; "Carol Burnett Show," July 12; "Mexican Holiday," July 19, and "Around the World in 80 Days," July 26.
"The Music Man" is one of the 10 most successful musicals in American stage history and will run at the Starlight through July 1. The show itself is based on Willson's boyhood experience in the high school band of his home town of Mason City, Iowa.
'Music Man At Starlight
FORREST TUCKER, who has given over 1,000 performances of "The Music Man" and has appeared in over 90 motion pictures, will play the leading role of Professor Harold Hill, the lovable con-man who dazzles small-town people into letting him form a boys' band with a promise to teach the kids to play.
Louise O'Brien will play the spunky Marian, the Librarian which Willson admits he patterned after his
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