Folk artist to perform at Union
Dean Rutledge, folk artist who has appeared at such clubs as Mothers Blues in Chicago and the Poison Apple in Detroit, will perform at the SUA coffeehouse at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday in the Union Prairie Room.
Between his two one-hour performances each night, an open mike will be provided so any member of the audience may sing or play the guitar. Underground movies will also be shown.
Admission cost is $1.
Committee freshmen announced
Seven freshmen have been selected for membership on the Kansas Relays Student Committee.
The committee handles the business end of the Relays said John Mauk, senior co-chairman. Their jobs include sending out entry blanks to the high schools, drawing up the program, making "cheat-sheets" for the press to tell who is participating when and where, relaying information to the press through walkie-talkies for quick results and electing a queen.
The freshmen selected are: Roger Haack, Bird City; Jeff Joyce, Ulysses; Ed Lanning, Lawrence; Joel Mangold, Kansas City, Mo.; Robert Peddicord, Wamego; Don Richardson, Ellinwood and Paul Shellito, Wichita.
Mardi Gras trip made by NROTC
The drill team and color guard of the NROTC unit at the University of Kansas participated last week in the Krewe of Iris parade in the New Orleans Mardi Gras.
This was the second year that the NROTC drill team and color guard have been invited to march in a Mardi Gras parade.
Also making the trip was the NROTC rifle team and Sgt. John B. McDonald, USMC and rifle team coach. This team competed in the first annual Mardi Gras Invitational Rifle Match hosted by Tulane University and placed second.
Health grant awarded to KU
The U.S. Public Health Service awarded the University of Kansas a $340,000 health sciences advancement award to study the mechanism of drug action.
The grant, part of a five year $2 million program, will provide for drug research at the K.U. Medical Center in Kansas City and the Lawrence campus. Research will focus on the basic chemistry and physics of drugs, their behavior and mechanism of action.
Diesel technology to be discussed
Mr. Roy Kamo of the Cummins Engine Co. will speak on the future of diesel technology at the meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, at 7:30 p.m. tonight in room 201 of the Mechanical Engineering Building.
Orchestra to perform at Hoch
The San Antonio Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Victor Alessandro, will perform in concert at 8:20 p.m. Thursday in Hoch Auditorium.
The program is part of the Kansas University concert course sponsored by the School of Fine Arts.
Rock Chalk tickets still on sale
Plenty of the best seats are available for the Friday, Feb. 27, performance of Rock Chalk, said Steve Cloud, Prairie Village junior and Rock Chalk staff member.
He said that $1.75 seats are still available for Saturday night's performance. All of the $2.25 seats for Saturday night have been sold. Tickets are now on sale.
Counselor applications available
Applications for resident assistants are available this week in the office of the Dean of Men, said Fred McElhennie, associate dean of men.
All students who will be a junior, senior or graduate student next year are eligible. Applicants are selected on the basis of leadership and must have a "more than respectable grade point average," McElhene said.
Arts festival coupon sale begins
Around 2,200 coupons were sold during registration, said Darrell Reed, Leawood senior and chairman of the Festival of the Arts committee. Each coupon entitles the coupon holder to attend the six performances beginning March 30 and continuing through April 4.
Curricular changes approved
Student Union Activities began coupon sales for the fourth annual Festival of the Arts today.
KU faculty members approved new courses, course deletions, title changes and a change in requirements for a B.S. degree in radiation biophysics at a meeting Tuesday in the Kansas Union Forum Room.
Curricular changes approved were recommended by the educational policies committee in six areas-American studies, biological
sciences, geography, geology slavic languages and literature Spanish and Portuguese.
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First Rock Chalk producer returns for twentieth show
by ANN MORITZ Kansan Staff Writer
The producer of the first Rock Chalk Revue, Roy Wonder, Burbank, Calif., will return to award the trophies at this year's performance on Saturday, Feb. 28.
This year is the 20th anniversary of the Rock Chalk Revue.
In a letter telling how Rock Chalk began, Wonder said that immediately following World War II there was a revue type of show sponsored by the Kansas Union called College Daze. Wonder was the business manager for this show in 1949. From this Wonder gathered ideas for a campus variety show, he said.
The basic plan developed from a show presented each year at Kansas State University, Wonder said.
Wonder then had to find a sponsor for his activity. He talked to the executive director of YMCA at the University of Kansas. Rev. Dave Riggs, and sold his idea.
"In order to stir interest in this new campus endeavor I made arrangements with the producer of the variety show at Kansas State to write a letter to the University Daily Kansan, in which he complained bitterly at our having stolen K-State's idea. The letter was published in the
Letters to the Editor column. I then responded with another letter to the Kansan with an appropriate rebuttal, which likewise was published, I think we had two or three such exchanges. I don't think very many people knew of the conspiracy at the time. It served its purpose and we gained much campus interest," Wonder said.
"Up to this time we had called the show the Y-Orpheum, like K-State's title, but it seemed appropriate that we establish our own name. The Kansan sponsored a campus contest for a name. A $25 savings bond was offered as a prize for the best entry. I have forgotten the name of the girl who won, but I think she picked a good title in "Rock Chalk Revue." Wonder said.
Wonder has not seen Rock Chalk since his first production in 1950. He is employed as assistant to the vice president for public relations of Lockheed Aircraft Corporation in Burbank, Calif.
Status of college women studied by AWS group
not a man would get a scholarship before a woman, or vice versa.
The third subcommittee is screening various departments to see if there is any evidence of sex discrimination in hiring.
An Associated Women Students (AWS) committee, the Commission on the Status of Women, has been divided into three subcommittees to study the status of college women in three facets of university life, said Suzy Bocell, Kansas City junior and chairman of the committee.
One subcommittee is studying freshman women and how they chose their dormitories. Another subcommittee is looking into the area of financial aid. A question being considered is whether or
They are also investigating which schools have a concentration of women and which show a marked lack of women majors. Subcommittee members are interviewing people in the schools of medicine, architecture and engineering.