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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, February 23, 1989
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Speaker explains change in theater
Soviet drama reflects liberal ideas, beliefs
Jazz and King Lear are two things that most people wouldn't expect to see in Soviet theater.
by Kris M. Bergquist Kansan staff writer
However, as the government has become more open with glasnost and perestroika, so has the theater.
"Everything is more liberal now," said Alma Law, an authority on the subject. "We don't have to have a happy ending. You can combine the good and the bad."
Law, the co-director of the Institute for Contemporary East European and Soviet Drama and Theatre at the Center for Advanced Study in Theatre Arts, spoke last night in Adleron Auditorium at the Kansas Union.
The institute is at the City University of New York.
The lecture was financed by the theatre and film departments, Soviet and East European Studies, and Slavic languages and literatures.
Maria Carlson, assistant professor of Slavic languages and literatures, said that with glassnost and perestroika going on now, there was a great deal of excitement in the department to hear Law speak.
times in the past 15 years to study its theater.
Law has gone to the Soviet Union 20
"I've always loved theater, and when I began studying Russian language and literature, I thought I'd taught it." Lauren was so fascinated by the production I saw and the people I met. They were always full of surprises."
Law will be giving another lecture today in Murphy Hall about Soviet theater.
In one of the videos shown, director Anatoly Vasilyev said Soviet theater was different than American theater.
"People don't come to the theater to be entertained, but in order to understand things," Vasyliev said. "They have to continue in that history tradition."
Law agreed with Vasilvev
"Theater is taken very seriously." she said. "It is not so much a form of entertainment as a serious forum for problems and philosophies of life."
However, theater does not have to be done in an auditorium. Law said that the Soviet people were hearing revelations about their history every group would form informal groups and meet apartments to discuss the theater.
Law said that theater was being attended by the ordinary people in Russia, such as the hairdressers and the women behind the sales counters.
"They want to see people like themselves, only a little flashier," she said.
Alma Law, a leading authority on Soviet theater, describes the plot of a Soviet play.
Japanese funeral is learning event
Rituals have KU interest
by Brett Brenner Kansan staff writer
"From what I've read, during the last two funerals of emperors, there were no foreign dignitaries," said Ms. Grace Hill, a professor in East Asian Languages and Culture.
The world will have its first glimpse of the funeral of a Japanese emperor this week, and so will the students in the program at the University of Kansas.
The number of dignitaries expected to attend the funeral is a clear indication of how Japan is connected to the international scene. It was said more than 160 foreign representatives are scheduled to attend.
"I'm interested in seeing what will be open and what won't," he said. "This is something that I don't think will happen again in my lifetime."
Because of the 15-hour time difference between the United States and Japan, the funeral will be shown at a different location. It will be Friday morning in Japan.
Robert Minor, chairman of religious studies and teacher of a class in
Grant Goodman, professor of history, said that he would be curious about what would happen at the funeral.
Tsubaki said, "The whole world is looking at this with interested eyes."
side of Japan. The customs are known through other sources, he said, but this is the first time that parts of it will be seen.
Tsukaii said CBS television had informed him that it was running a series of specials this week that dealt with the war in Afghanistan as American-Japanese relations.
CBS will include coverage during its "48 Hours" news program tonight.
Goodman said that his class on Japanese history from 1640 to 1945 would watch the coverage during class.
Tsubaki said that the funeral of Hirohito was important because some Japanese, especially those in the southern provinces, see the emperor as a divine figure.
"There is a mystic heritage that flows in his body," he said.
The younger people, on the other hand, view him as simply a human being, partly because in 1946, the United States made him renounce all nationality and accept a purely ceremonial role i. i. Japanese politics, Tsukaki said.
Hirirohita was born in 1901 and became a regent prince, or crown prince, in 1921. He succeeded Hoshino as the emperor. He died at age 62 years until his death in January.
During his reign, he saw Japan break from isolationism and gain enormous power before eventual defeat in World War II.
New club looks for 'Pizazz'
by Mary Neubauer
Kansan staff writer
The building at 901 Mississippi St will come alive again Saturday when another nightclub opens its doors at that address.
Jon Schmidt, owner of the new club, Pizzaz, said he was not bothered by the failure of past clubs in the building.
azz will be a 21 club.
"You can throw all the money you want at a club, but if you aren't an operator, you can't make it go," he said. "What separates us from the rest of the owners is that we're a working operation. We work with the owners and keep them stand back and say 'It's got to go faster.' We get in there and help."
The Palladium, a 21 club, and the Lawrence Connection, a teen bar, were located in the building before Club Nouveau, another 21 club, opened and closed in the building within one week last semester. Piz-
Tony Sadian, former owner of Club Nouveau, said the club had closed because his former business partner left the country owing Sadian more than $70,000 and had left the club with outstanding bills.
Schmidt said when he began work on Pizzaz, everything Sadian had in the building had been repossessed except some empty beer kegs.
He said some of Sadian's former employees came to Pizazz looking for jobs.
"I'll hire some of them back," Schmidt said. "They seem like good employees."
The club will require no memberships. Schmidt said, and will try to entertain everybody.
"We're going to have a rock 'n' roll night, an oldies night and book live bands on a national level," he said.
often as our market allows. We almost have contracts on some of them."
The club has an innovative light show that will become one of the best in the state, Schmidt said. The sound system will be felt by people on the floor, he said, but will not be uncomfortable for people sitting in the bar.
"Not one of the last four owners were business operators," Schmidt said. "You have to have a strategy to run a business."
The Robert Schmitt, owner of Stagepo, the firm that is providing light and sound equipment, said his company was working with Pizzaz because the owners seemed to know the market and had successful clubs in the past.
"They make a whole lot more sense than the other situation that was there," he said. "The guys seem to know what they're doing."
Quiet time
Giuli Nakashima/Special to the Kansan
Senate finances AIDS group
Students take advantage of the afternoon light on the second floor of Strong Hall to study between classes.
Kansan staff writer
AIDS task force member Steve St. Peter, Wichita senior, said the threat of AIDS was more serious than students thought. He said the facts were reflected in a 20-school study in which KU participated.
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The money allocated to the AIDS task force will be used to pay for pamphlets and advertising to educate students about AIDS, said Brook Menees, student body president and the bill's sponsor.
Student Senate last night passed a bill allocating $423 to the Student Senate AIDS Task Force and passed decisions made by the Parking Board.
In the resolution concerning the Parking Board. Senate criticized the board's decision to change some on campus parking classifications, saying students would lose parking spaces.
The group, which distributed condoms on campus last year, had its request for money to distribute condoms that year denied in finance committee.
"Three in every 1,000 students are infected with HIV. That's 89 to 100 on this campus, and that is increasing." St. Peter said.
It also criticized the board's new fine policy, which would raise group one violation fines from $10 to $15.
Group one violations include park
Filing deadline for president and vice president is March 8. The filing deadline for student senators is March 22.
In other business, Brian Stern, Northbrook, IL, junior and elections committee chairman, announced that applications for student body senators would be available March 3 in room 410 at the Kansas Union.
ing in a zone and not having a sticker or not having the proper sticker.
William Sanders, Lawrence junior and sponsor of the resolution, said fees set by the board to park in the building at Allen Field House were too high.
The physicist, Sergei Shandarin, works at the Institute for Physical Problems in Moscow.
Soviet physicist plans trip to KU
Adrian Melott, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, said that he and Shandarin would research the development and structure of the universe. The two worked together in 1983 at Moscow State University, where they studied how matter clustered in the early universe.
by a Kansan reporter
If he gets the approval of his government, a Soviet physicist will join the KU department of physics under the faculty for the 1989-90 academic year.
Shandarin has accepted the University's invitation to come to
Since things have really changed in the Soviet Union, it's a great opportunity to build bridges.
Adrian Melott assistant professor of physics and astronomy
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"There are two wrinkles to the visit," he said. "one, this is a longer trip (than he has taken in the past); and two we've invited his wife and
Lawrence, but he must wait for the Soviet government to give him permission to travel. Melott said.
dandarin's wife, Victor,
teaches English at an elementary
school, and his daughter, Amia, is a
physiology. Amia is majoring in psychology.
Amia is majoring in psychology.
"They don't have a research reason, so it's not clear if they'll get to come." Meltt said.
"Since things have really changed in the Soviet Union, it's a great opportunity to build bridges," he said.
Bill Fletcher, professor of Soviet and East European studies, said, "Shandarin is a good observer of what's going on in the Soviet Union. He will be a good resource for my students."
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