'The Big Dump Revue Winner
By Blaine King
"The Big Dump" bounced on stage in Hoch Auditorium Saturday night, bounced gag lines around for 15 minutes, and bounced off with the top trophies in this year's Rock Chalk Revue.
The Alpha Tau Omega-Kappa Alpha Theta skit was a take-off on the Boston Tea Party, with light-hearted references to everything from KU's basketball fortunes to Mississippi.
Second place honors went to "For Whom the Rock Rolls," the Sigma Chi-Chi Omega version of the New Frontier in the CrosMagnon days.
**THE SIGMA PHI EPSILON-Alpha Delta Pi and Beta Theta**
Pi-Pi Beta Phi skits received honorable mention.
About 7,200 persons saw the Revue Friday and Saturday nights, said John Bumgarner, Tulsa, Okla., junior and business manager of the show.
By winning the Revue, Alpha Tau Omega retires the traveling trophy, which goes to any house which wins Rock Chalk three times.
"The Big Dump," which had as much professional savoire faire and as many jokes as a Bob Hope monologue, was the story of a whistle-blowing Sam Adams and a flag-waving Betsy Ross leading the colonists against British oppression.
CONSTANCE HUNTER, Hutchinson senior, as Betsy Ross, was the best performer of the evening. But she shared the stage with John Seeevers, Wichita junior, the grasping British governor Lord North, and Clark Ellis, Wichita junior, as Sam Adams. And a maxim-spouting Ben Franklin, played by John McCulloh, Abilene sophomore, got his share of the applause.
The skit ran wide-open all the way, and dared use complete slapstick, as when Paul Revere leaped on stage astride a saddle. But in Rock Chalk, slapstick is funny.
Second-place "For Whom the Rock Rolls" also had the characteristic of several major characters continuously interacting, and a continuously moving plot.
"For Whom the Rock Rolls" was the story of the beginning of thought, when caveman Jack Kennedy invented thinking and started a university to teach his contemporaries how to think.
KENNEDY WAS PLAYED by Hoite Caston, Independence senior. Caston made the show what it was, but he had help from Judy Wenstrand, Wichita sophomore, as his breathless wife Jawky, and from John Suhler, Cross River, N.Y., sophomore, as Dr. Sawbonus Wesconus, Kennedy's chief rival.
Richard Keeler, Bartlesville, Okla., junior, did a good job as Prof. Wasborn. Wasborn, a history professor, was the only major character in the skit that did not interact with the other main characters, but he provided a good break in the action of the skit without distracting from the plot.
Monday, March 4. 1963
The Beta Theta Pi-Pi Beta Phi skit, "The Polo Game," was the story of Marco Polo's journey to China, this time to get money for King John, who needed cash to finance Caroline's campaign in the near future.
KING JOHN ASSIGNED THREE members of the Peace Corps to go with Polo. But in China, the Chinese decided they did not want Polo to leave, and gave him the gold he wanted in a statue too big to carry away.
Polo, played by Bryant Hayes, Alexandria, Va., junior, was the only major character in this skit. Saki, leader of the Chinese students, played by Joe Norton, Caldwell junior, and Saki's wife, played by Martha Hershey, Salina sophomore, were downstage most of the time, but most of the better lines went to Polo, the only villain in the skit. Saki's wife, who was padded out to fantastic proportions and who got a laugh just by walking, was permitted to rear back and throw straight lines all evening.
While the other skits all contained some topical material, "The Polo Game" was the only skit to comment on Nolen Ellison's fight with a Missouri basketball player the night before.
"HILL AND GULLY RAIDERS," by Sigma Phi Epsilon and Alpha Delta Pi, tried some new stunts which added life to the skit. The fade-out to a trio on the opposite side of the stage was unique this year, and the effect of "freezing" the cast in midstage while Chancellor Roscoe, John Erickson, North Kansas City, Mo., sophomore, spoke was something different, if not new.
The skit told of a raid on KU by Quantrella's raiders from Missouri, who planned to kidnap KU football coach Jacque Michele. KU had beaten Missouri 37 straight years in football, and Quantrella wanted to help MU win. Quantrella, played by Roz Young, St. Joseph, Mo., junior, was aided in her plans by the KU student body president, Jack Worley, Wichita senior, who felt his prestige was being undermined by the football team.
The skit ran into some difficulty staging the burning of Lawrence, and left the student body president in a discussion with Quantrella longer than time allows in Rock Chalk.
The between-the-acts entertainment this year was better than it has been for a long time, providing a welcome change from the student MC who tries hard to be funny but always ends up sicker than Lenny Bruce with the Asian flu.
Some of the between-the-acts got just a bit further off-color than necessary for humor, but some of the dance routines could have provided examples for the skits, and some of the between-acts lines—"I swear with my hand on Roger Wilson's sport coat"—showed more attention to satire than some of the skits.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Daily Hansan
60th Year. No.95
.45 Slug Rips Through Stouffer Place Bedroom
Without the one-cent-a-gallon tax increase, the improvement program would take 20 years, according to a needs study prepared by engineers several months ago.
Police were searching for the person who fired a 45 slug through a bedroom window at Stouffer Place early Sunday morning.
TOPEKA — (UPI) - The Kansas House Republican members voted today against supporting the proposed one-cent increase in the state gasoline tax.
The caucus voted about two-to-one to support a plan to transfer the authority for drivers' license examining from the State Highway Patrol to the State Motor Vehicle department.
The bullet broke a window in Apartment 8 of Building 3 about 2:30 a.m. Sunday.
JOSEPH P. CARROLL, Lawrence graduate student and the resident of the apartment, was asleep in a bed directly beneath the window.
The Senate-approved plan would free about 25 patrolmen for trooper duties.
He said he felt something fall on his face, but did not get up to see what it was. He apparently felt plaster dust broken loose by the slug.
The bullet went through the
The secret caucus voted 46-17 against lending any Republican support to the increase, proposed in a bill introduced by the House Roads and Highways committee.
GOP Won't Support State Gas Tax Hike
The increase would have financed a 15-year improvement plan for Kansas roads and highways.
screen and curtains, pierced the corner of a wall, and penetrated the east wall of the bedroom.
THE SLUG finally bounced off the inside of the east partition of the room and dropped to the floor. Police recovered the slug from the floor between the walls.
parently ejected from an automatic pistol.
Carroll's wife, Mary Alice, said she heard a noise about 2:30 a.m. Sunday, but did not bother to see what the noise was. Neighbors in apartment 9 also said they heard a noise about 2:30 a.m.
Police said the bullet was apparently fired from a moving car at 19th and Iowa streets.
THE PATH OF the bullet, determined from the angle of the holes in the walls, lined up with a sign at the intersection.
An empty 45 casing was found about 15 feet south of the intersection. Police said the shell was ap-
The corner of the walls in Stouffer Place is made of metal molding, police said. The slug peeled the molding out as it went through.
HAD CARROLL been standing in the path of the bullet, even after it had gone through the corner of the wall, he would have been seriously injured, officers said.
The walls are made of wood and plaster board.
THE SLUG WAS not believed to have been fired from the same pistol which was used several weeks ago to shoot out the windows in one of the traffic control stations.
The slug will be sent to the ballistics division of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation for comparison with the bullet taken from the control booth, Joe Skillman, chief of campus police said.
Indian Summer Fades; Snow Forecast Tonight
After an Indian summer weekend, KU students are scrambling for their raincoats and umbrellas. The Topeka weather bureau predicts rain changing to snow late tonight.
The high today is expected to be in the 40's with the low tonight in the 20's. This morning very little snow accumulated in northeast Kansas as compared with the heavy snow expected in the north central area later today.
STEADY RAINS which began in Topeka last night had dropped 1.98 inches by 8 this morning. Lawrence recorded 1.33 inches in rains while 1.09 inches of rain fell in Ottawa, 20 miles south of here.
In other areas around the state, the forecast is cloudy and cooler with possible snow tonight and ending Tuesday. Only traces of moisture were recorded over western Kansas but freezing drizzle continued at Garden City and Dodge City and light snow had set in at Goodland.
Hazardous driving warnings are out for most of the day in the northwest part of Kansas where about three inches of snow have accumulated. Snow is expected to end at noon today and be replaced by northerly winds 20 to 30 miles per hour.
Weathermen look forward to a high of 40 Tuesday with winds diminishing this afternoon and tonight.
YD Leader Says Club No 'Playground for Ambitions'
The only avowed candidate for the presidency of KU Young Democrats says his main task, if elected to the office, will be to "inform students that the Young Democrats organization will not be a playground for political ambitions."
This was the view taken last night by Max Logan, Holiday junior and presently one of three chairmen of the organization.
The Young Democrats will hold an election at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Ballroom of the Kansas Union.
"This 'troika' has been very difficult to work with, and, consequently, we haven't done anything." Logan said. "I think a club project and club unity are primary needs for the organization."
Leaders of the club believe this year's election will take place without the controversy that marked last year's election and left the organization without leadership for more than five school months.
Only one meeting, February 27, has been held this school year.
"And, after last week's meeting, we met and the consensus was that there would be no other candidates than Max. We anticipate practically no contest."
"Max is the only one who has indicated any interest or done any work," John Young, Salina law student and one of the chairmen, said last night. "In all meetings we (the chairmen) have had, there have been no conflicts."
Other offices to be decided are vice-president, secretary-treasurer, a Collegiate Council representative and possibly a membership chairman.
Young said 125 of the club's 200 members are expected to attend the meeting. Nominations will be open from the floor at the election.
Logan said he could see no opposition for the presidency at the moment, "but it could develop that someone else will want to run for the office."
In the first of two elections last spring, Barry Bennington, Cheney senior, was re-elected president on March 4.
Aylward's claim to the club's presidency was disputed on the basis that the March 28 election was not held in accordance with election procedure rules in the Young Democrats' constitution.
Two weeks later, Pete Aylward, Ellsworth senior, was elected to the position when irregularities were charged concerning the issuance of membership cards at the earlier election.
Logan said he had planned to propose a club project this year, but, because of the club's internal problems, was unable to make any progress.
Finally, Bennington nominated Aylward, Logan and Young as club chairmen. The three were elected January 9.
Logan said the purpose of KU Young Democrats is, first of all, "to provide a place where Young Democrats can become informed of the subjects which are presently bothering Democrats on state, regional and national levels.
"The club should provide a place for a Democrat to speak with other Democrats," he said, "and find out he's not all alone on this campus."