University Daily Kansan / Tuesday. March 24, 1987
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Visiting Soviet playwright to lecture during visit at KU
By PAUL SCHRAG
Staff writer
A Soviet playwright, described by KU Slavic languages and literatures professors as the most popular and influential dramatist in the Soviet Union, yesterday began a two-week visit at the University of Kansas.
Evidard Radzinsky will give eight lectures at KU about contemporary and historical Soviet theater, his own plays and recent cultural upheaval in the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbache's leadership.
He also will observe rehearsals of his play, "Lunin," and serve as an artistic consultant to the cast and director. The University Theatre will perform the play April 23. It is based on the life of a 19th-century Russian revolutionary nobleman.
Radzinsky wants the performance of "Lanin" to be videotaped because he hopes that at least part of it can be shown on Soviet television, said Gerald Mikkelson, professor of Slavic languages and literatures.
Radzinsky said that he was glad to be a part of a tradition of 20 well-
known Soviet writers who have participated since 1973 in the KU writer-in-residence program, the only one of its kind in the United States.
"Many of our most eminent writers were here, even during the period when relations between our countries were not warm," he said. "This University was a unique bond that connected our cultures."
Mikkelson said the Soviet writer-in-residence program had enabled the Slavic languages and literatures program to become the leading U.S. center for the study of contemporary Soviet literature and the training of specialists in that field.
Now, Gorbachev is encouraging more cultural openness, and it is easier for Soviet writers to visit, he said.
"Gorbachev is the dividing line," Radizmsky said. "I hope, as everyone else does, that there will be more cultural interaction."
Mikkelson said that Radzinsky had been unable to accept several invitations in previous years.
"People who hear him talk will learn a great deal from him." Mikkelson said. "He's dynamic and charming.
Radzinsky's plays have a popular appeal in the Soviet Union today that is almost unprecedented, Mikkelsen said. Six of his plays are being performed in Moscow theaters, compared to one or two for other popular playwrights.
Mikkelson said that a highlight of Radzinsky's visit would be his lecture about "Cultural Fertiment in the Soviet Union," at 7 p.m. April 2 in Alderson Auditorium at the Kansas Union. Radzinsky will give his opinions about Gorbachev's recently announced policies of openness that promise gradual democratization in the Soviet Union.
Regents approve $1.4 million for KU parking improvements
mazarsky's first lecture will be at 10:30 a.m. to tomorrow in 4046 Wescoe, on Russian writer Anton Chekhov. Some of the lectures will be delivered in English and some in Russian and translated into English. His last lecture will be April 3, and he will leave KU on April 5.
By ROGER COREY
Staff writer
The University of Kansas plans to restripe existing parking, improve lighting in some parking areas and hire an architect to design a new parking garage, Keith Nitcher, KU director of business affairs, said yesterday.
The allocation of the money used to support the parking projects was approved Friday by the Board of Regents.
The Regents approved $1.4 million in parking bonds to be used by the University in fiscal year 1988, which is a $247,765 increase over fiscal year 1987.
"We were pleased to get to increase." Nitcher said. "We have several parking projects that need additional financial support."
The Regents also approved the leasing of 46 acres of University-owned property in Stafford County for oil and gas exploration. The land was bequeathed to the University, but the
administration is not set up to handle property management.
The University will lease the land at $460 for the first year, and $46 for the second and third years. If gas or oil is found on the property, the University will receive one-eighth of the profit, which will be put into the University's scholarship fund.
"We're not in the wildcat or exploration business," said Martin Henry, vice president for property of the Kansas University Endowment Association. "But if you have the land leased for mineral production, you're making money."
In other business, the Council of Presidents also discussed a plan to bring the University of Kansas up to the average financing of its peer institutions. The University is $16 million below the average of its peers in state financing.
"This would be a three- to five-year project." Nitcher said.
The Regents approved the final plans and contract documents for the
new science library, to be built on the Lawrence campus near the Military Science building.
The Council of Presidents also discussed a proposal to add Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Jan. 15 to the school calendar as a holiday. The Regents will vote on the proposal in April.
Two new degree proposals were approved by the Regents. Students at the Lawrence campus may now receive a bachelor of science degree in geography, and students at the University of Kansas Medical Center may receive a B.S. in cytotechnology.
The Regents scheduled commencement ceremonies at the University for May 17. The University of Kansas Grand Ceremonies will be as follows:
1 p.m. - Law.
1 p.m. — Law.
2:30 p.m. — Graduate.
4 p.m. — Medicine.
7:30 p.m. — University of Kansas
— all University.
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