'Fairies' plan for big future; debut in University opera
They never want to be fairies again—but at least it is a good start.
And the four solo members of the fairy cast of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" have great plans for the future-since they are between the ages of 10 and 13.
The three-act opera opens at 8:20 p.m. Friday in the University Theatre.
The four boys are Rollo Axton, Doug Weaver Jr., Kamyar Givechi, and Robert Pearson, all of Lawrence. "I wish I really bad
"I wish I really had
The Axton boy is the son of Charles Axton, who recently received his Ph.D. in music here. The father was once an advertising executive and president of KTOP radio in Topeka, but gave it up to go back into music. The family will leave May 22 for Germany, where Axton hopes to work in opera.
supernatural powers, then I could turn my teacher into a frog," one of the boys said.
Doug Weaver Jr. is the son of the former KU assistant football coach. This is the second time he
Originally from Tehran, Iran, the Givechi boy is the son of two KU students. His mother is working on a Ph.D. in microbiology, while his father is studying engineering.
has worked in a University Theatre performance.
Robert Pearson expressed a wide variety of interests, wanting to be a park ranger, a singer or an athlete. He is the descendant of one of Lawrence's oldest families, and his father is presently drill master of the Lawrence fire department.
Foreign seminar resumes
A seminar to air the social problems of foreign students was adjourned to 12:30 p.m. today in the Kansas Union Cafeteria because only eight students showed up last night.
Masoud Moayer, Rashti, Iran, junior and seminar organizer, said "There was just not enough time to contact many foreign students since the seminar was decided upon only yesterday morning.
"We will go ahead as planned with our luncheon meeting from 12:30 to 1:30 today and continue with workshop sessions from 1:40 in the Big Eight Room with a short break about 5 p.m. We want students to come when they can. They can listen or join in the discussion."
Moayer said they would summarize the problem areas studied and would draft a final resolution some time tonight. If it is acceptable to the
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Independent Student Party (ISP), he said, it would be adopted in its platform.
"ISP is cooperating with foreign students," Scott Nunley, Ashland, Ky., graduate student, said. "Foreign students feel disenfranchised like graduate and off-campus students. When the foreign students decide what their needs are, we will help them."
Nunley said there were only 755 foreign students at KU.
Nine problem areas are listed for discussion at the seminar with three openings for suggestions, Moayer said. Each problem will be discussed by a team of three delegates. The listed problems are: international living groups, student-to-student interaction, orientation needs, tutoring problems, cultural shock, relations with the Lawrence community, availability of imported goods, hosts for vacations and alienation of foreign students from KU.
"You have to be gruff with them," claimed John Meyers, Lawrence graduate student and assistant director and stage manager for the production.
But the boys claim it is all great fun, even if they do have to be fairies.
"A Midsummer Night's Dream" was adapted from the play by William Shakespeare by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears. It will run April 25, 26, and May 2, 3.
Whitney Young guest speaker at symposium
Whitney Young Jr., executive director of the National Urban League, will be the featured speaker at the KU meeting of the western-central states region of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, said Charles H. Kahn, dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Design.
Young will speak at 9:30 a.m. Friday in the Kansas Union Ballroom, Kahn said.
The three-day symposium which begins Thursday is sponsored by the KU School of Architecture and Urban Design.
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1. IT'S YOUR THING
2. AQUARIUS—LET THE SUN SHINE IN
3. GIMME GIMME GOOD LOVIN'
4. PINBALL WIZARD
5. YOU'VE MADE ME SO VERY HAPPY
6. GITARZAN
7. THE BOXER BABY DRIVER
8. ATLANTIS TO SUASN ON THE WEST COAST WAITING, Donoven
9. HOT SMOKE AND SASAFRASS
10. HAIR
11. SWEET CHEWY WINE
12. THESE EYES
13. HAWAIV FIVE-O
14. THE LETTER
15. ILL TIME SOMETHING NEW
16. BROTHER LOVE'S TRAVELIN' SALVATION SHOW, Neil Diamond
17. PLAYGIRL
18. ONLY THE STRONG SURVIVE
19. GET BACK WHEN NOT LET ME DOWN
20. TIME IS TIGHT
21. BADGE
22. THE CHOKIN' KIND
23. I'M SOMETHING THAT SHE'S GOT
24. MEMORIES
25. GRAZING IN THE GRASS
26. WEATHFUL SINFUL
27. MENDOON
28. MINI-SKIRT MINNIE
29. FIRST TRAIN TO CALIFORNIA
30. MORE TODAY THAN YESTERDAY
31. TREAKING
32. GOOD TIMES BAD TIMES
33. DIZZY
34. RACY ME
35. MERCY
36. IN THE BAD, BAD OLD DAYS
37. STAND
38. I CAN HEAR MUSIC
39. TWENTY-FIVE MILES
40. ISLEY BROTHERS
41. STH DIMENSION
42. CRAYZ ENTIENNESS
43. WHO
44. Blood, Sweat and Tears
45. RAX STEVENS
46. SIMON AND ANA
47. VATHIE
48. ARBORS
49. TEMPTATIONS AND SUPREMES
50. BROTHER LOVE'S TRAVELIN' SALVATION SHOW, Neil Diamond
51. TIME IS TIGHT
52. BOOKER T. AND THE MGS'Z
53. JOE SIMON 26
54. TYRONE DAVIS 24
55. ELVIS PRESLEY 24
56. FRIENDS OF DISTINCTION
57. DOORS 25
58. SIR DOUGLAS QUINTET 14
59. WILSON PICKETT 34
60. GRYLL 34
61. SPIRAL STARECASE
62. DIANA ROSS AND THE SUPREMES
63. LED ZEPPELIN 38
64. TOWER 21
65. STEPENWOLF 20
66. OHIO EXPRESS 40
67. FOUNDATIONS
68. STAND
69. SLY AND THE FACTORY STORE
70. BEACH BOYS 32
71. EDWIN STARR 26
SURE SHOTS
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A MILLION TO ONE BRIAN HYLAND
DAY IS DONE PETER, PAUL AND MARY
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WHEN YOU DANCE JAY AND THE AMERICANS
I'VE BEEN HURT BILL DEAL AND THE RHONDELLS
LET'S DANCE OLA AND THE JANGLERS
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Dear Fellow Students:
I write this letter as a concerned and frustrated student; concerned because the new Student Senate needs outstanding leadership and frustrated because the campaign has focused almost entirely on the issues, and seldom on the candidates.
The platforms of all three candidates seem creative, thoughtful, and progressive. Few students would disagree with much included in any of the platforms. Consequently, we find ourselves choosing between candidates X, Y, and Z. To be precise, in this particular campaign we should be more concerned with the candidates themselves, and less with the issues. What the new Senate Code needs is strong executive leadership. Student government can ill afford rhetoric, on the one hand, or rubber stamp government on the other. More specifically, the situation demands not only exciting, but imaginative, responsible, and responsive student leadership. Mark Edwards is the candidate who would best meet these criteria. He would be obly assisted by Rick von Ende, who has mastered the complexities of the Senate Code, and whose experience would prove invaluable.
An Edwards-von Ende election would greatly enhance the potential of student power at KU. They are badly needed.
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