Thursday, April 26, 1979
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Renowned French thespians perform at KU
The Comedie Francise, a world renowned French acting group, made a rare appearance at the University of Kansas yesterday.
The performance was sponsored by the department of French and Italian and the department of Chinese.
hour-long performances in the morning and afternoon in the Spencer Museum of Art.
Bryant Freeman, chairman of the department of French and Italian, said he
The seven members of the troupe acted out between eight and 10 plays written by the 17th century French playwright, Jean-Bantise Moliere.
"All the seats were taken a half-hour before the plays began," he said.
The actors flowed into each new character without a pause and held up cards to invite the audience.
JRP residents commit 'Rites of Spring'
Mike Smith's face turned the green color of his after-dinner snack Tuesday night when he downed 12 jalapeño peppers in 40 seconds. Kevin Nelson, organizer of the event, said:
The "Riten of Spring" is a week of events that began Monday at joplin on H. Pearson and ended Tuesday at W. McGraw-Hill.
chance to relax before finals and to celebrate the end of the semester, Nelson
Last night, thirst quenching was the main
After the peeper-eating contest, for which Smith, a Wichita sophomore, won two rolls of Certs, Bill Dahlman, Kansas City, Kan. won the match game snapping contest.
The KU debate team of Steve Griffin, Lawrence senior, and Kevin Fowler, Leavenworth senior, took third place at the 33rd National Debate Tournament last week at the University of Kentucky in Lexington.
Debaters score in Nationals
Griffin and Fowler recorded eight wins and three losses in competition with the top righthand side of the league.
won first place, followed by Northwestern University.
Griffin and Fowler's third place finish completed a year of high honors for the team. They won first place at Georgetown Forest University and Baylor University.
event, and the fourth floor of JRP won the beer-chucking relay. Nelson said six representatives from each floor pair participated in the victory by accumulating the most points.
KU won the National Tournament in 1970 and 1976.
After the beer chug, residents with or without belles full of beer watched a Three Dogs
At the end of the week's activities, the residents who live on the floor with the highest total of points will win two kegs of beer. Nelson said.
Tonight's activities will feature a jellosnarfing contest, imitating Beilush's downing the wiggly stuff in the movie "Animal House."
There will be a meeting
held for men and women students who are interested in being
Host or Hostesses for the Kansas University Athletic Department
on Monday, April 30, 1979 at 6:00 p.m.
in Room No. 135 of Parrott Athletic Center.
Membership requirements state that you must be a regularly enrolled K.U. student in good standing during the 1979-80 academic year.
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Each character were only essential costumes, and the only changes in costume were quick, usually consisting of changing wigs.
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Freeman compared Molier to Shakespeare, who was founded the French Republic about 1630.
"It has existed, for all practical purposes, continuously since it was founded. It is the most prestigious repertory theater in the world."
The troop has 68 members who tour the world. They come to the United States every couple of years, he said, and they usually go big cities like New York and Chicago.
So, when the group made a stop in Lawrence, Freeman was surprised.
"They hardly make it to the United States, much less the Midwest."
He said he had never expected them to answer the department's request that they
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"We wrote them a long time ago. We just locked out."
NIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN On Campus
TODAY: BLACK FACULTY AND STAFF FORUM at 3 p.m. in the Jayhawk room at tne Kansas Union. GRANTS FOR GRADUATE STUDY ABOARD 1980-81, an informational meeting, at 3:30 in the International Room of the Union. UNIVERSITY COUNCIL will meet at 3:30 in 105 Blake Hall.
TONIGHT: DRAMATIC LANGUAGE AWARDS BANQUET will be at 6:30 in the Watkins Room of the Union. POLITICAL SCIENCE-PISGIA ALPHA BANQUET will be at the Pine Roof Room of the Union. SUA BRIDGE will be at 17 in the Pine Roof Union. A PUBLIC LIBRARY will be at 7 in the Lawrence Public Library. GEN. ALEXANDER HAIG will speak on "NATO and Our Future Security Needs" at 8 in Woodruff Auditorium in the Union. KU SKYDIVING CLUB will be at STUDENT RECITAL. Jane Wilson at the piano, will be at 8 in the Swarthout Banquet.
TOMORROW: TENNEY FRANK SYMPOSIUM ON THE TEACHING OF LATIN will begin at 9:30 a.m. BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION SEMINAR, with William L. Beetles speaking on "The Diversification Benefits of Conglomeration," to be at 10 a.m. in 405 Summerfield. LATIN AMERICAN SOLIDARITY will meet from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Sunflower Room of the Union. ENGLISH HONORS AND AWARDS DINNER will be at 6:30 p.m. in the Big Eight Room of the Union. KU FOLK DANCE CLUB will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 173 Robinson. KANSAS ANthropOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION will meet at 8 p.m. in the Forum Room of the Union. KU CHORUS CONCERT will be at 8 p.m. in the Forum Room of the Union. FORUMS WILDERFORMED at 8 p.m. at the University Theatre in Murhaub Hall, Admission free with KU ID
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