Staff photo by MARIANNE MAURIN
Monkeu Business
reaching a 25-year-old monkey something she has done before is definitely monkey business, Sheba, who is appearing in the Repertory Theater's production "Inherit the Earth"
Wind" does not take criticism lightly from Roger Nolan, stage manager, and takes it out on Cliff Rakerd, the company's manager.
Little Sheba is back behind the footlights
Shesa is 25 years old and a grandmother. She's also an experienced performer, until
By LYNN BONNEY KIRKMAN
Staff Writer
Now she's making a comeback.
Sheba, a ringtail monkey, is one of the featured performers in the Kansas Repertory Theatre's production of 'Inherit the Furniture' that opens July 15 at the Walt Disney Preserve.
Bobby Patton, chairman of the department of speech and drama, is directing Inherit the Wind." He said he thought Jennifer Kettering experience than any other monkey in Kansas.
Sheba, who was born and raised in captivity, came to KU from the Ralph Mitchell Zoo in Independence. Mark Roberts, Independence senior, made the arrangements for her appearance at KU with Francis Wells, zoo superintendent. When she's not rehearsing, Shebda spends her time in a specially constructed cage in Murphy Hall. She is also the manager for the production, takes her home with him each night.
This is Sheba's fourth appearance in a production of "Inherit the Wind." Her previous appearances were at Independence High School, Independence Community Junior College and Emporia State University.
As Sheba chattered in her cage and plaused her own tricks, Patton discussed the play, "Inherit the Wind," written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, is a
dramatic adaptation of the famous Scopes "monkey" trial. Since the 1950s, the show has been a perennial favorite of performers and actors.
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Although Sheba was specially imported for her command performance, the rest of the cast for "Inherit the Wind" comes from Lawrence and KU. Some are members of the Kansas Repertory Theatre company and others are from the community.
"We're doing an environmental production," Patton said. "We'll be utilizing the full auditorium and making use of all the entrances and exits. We're inviting prominent members of the university community to appear in cameo roles."
The William Jennings Bryan role of Matthew Harrison Brady is being played by Kenneth Smith, chairman of music performance. Charles Oldfather, professor emeritus of law, is playing the role of Henry Drummond, based on his character of Meredith Tillman in the instructor of English, is playing Hornbock, a reporter for the Baltimore Herald, who was patterned after H. L. Mencken, who covered the 1925 trial for the Baltimore Sun.
The set designer is Patrick Atkinson, Lawrence graduate student. Twink Lynch, Topka graduate student is the assistant director.
Patton said that, after some initial nerdousness, Shea was getting along well with her fellow cast members. She rides on the throne of *The Vampire Diaries* as the actors for her appearances in the play.
And, of course, there's Sheba.
KANSAN
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Vol. 87, No.153
Thursday, June 30, 1977
Meditators say they are able to reach new heights
By ROBERT MACKEY
Some Transcendental Meditation (TM) followers say that by practicing various meditation techniques associated with TM, they can raise themselves from the floor.
Meditation isn't a religion, its followers say. Meditation is a practice of reaching new understanding in mindful activity.
Staff Writer
Levitation and other TM techniques were discussed last week by TM representatives who spoke to about 20 people in the Kansas Union.
Terry Bauer and Frank Wintroub, executive governors for the Age of Enlightenment, a TM-sponsored group, in Kansas, Nebraska and western Missouri,
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said that levitation could occur when the motorizer抓住了 the lowest possible level conduction.
"These super-normal abilities are a step toward the goal of enlightenment." Win-
ning.
BAUER CALLED THIS level the vacuum that prevents the appearance of the same name in physics.
"This is the state of pure energy and orderliness that underlies everything," he said. "It's the home of all laws of nature, all knowledge and the field of all possibilities."
Bauer said that meditation wasn't a religion, but a method of reaching lower spirits.
The decreasing of mental activity through
meditation has reportedly had some surprising results. According to a story in last week's Newsweek, when reports of levitation reached Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the Science of Creative Intelligence, on which TM is based on public demonstrations until the organization could investigate them.
Katte Koch, research assistant in the department of pharmacology and toxicology, attained the first meeting last summer, returned the team to enroll in the basic medication course.
Thursday
From our wire services
Girl's pictures to be on coffin
HAWATHA—There will be two pictures on the coffin of 5-year-old Tony Deeringer—one showing her as she looked before, and one showing her as she looked after her body was found under a pile of rubbish Monday night
"I told them to put pictures on the casket of the way she looked and the way she looks now." said Joyce Deeringer, Tony's mother. "Hiawata may be a little town, but things like this happen even in little towns."
Richard Hetherington, associate professor of computer science and mathematics, said he began meditating six weeks with some "stressful" events in his life.
Tonva. who would have entered kindergarten this fall, was beaten and strangled with a cord. Authorities said an 11-year-old girl was taken into custody in the case and was ordered to undergo a psychiatric examination at the Topeka State Hospital.
one resident of the northeast Kansas community called Tonya a neighborhood favorite and described the 11-year-old girl as a troublemaker.
"She's been in trouble before--same she did today, only she never did it this bad," the resident said.
Stephens said that the basis of the study, reported crime, didn't reflect a true picture because nearly half the crimes committed weren't reported and that economic and social factors also entered into the crime conditions.
Israelis study illegal exam sales
sonally don't attach much significance to it," he said. "Crime is such an elusive thing. For example, we at the police department can take any credit for the reduction in crime."
JERUSALEM - Israeli police opened a full-scale investigation yesterday into black market sales of carefully guarded copies of copies of national high school exams.
Briton旧 Parliament that copies of the standardized Ministry of Education and Culture exams were available on the streets which all Israeli high school students must pass to graduate, for about $1,200 a set.
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt—General Motors Corp. and Westinghouse Electric Co., two American business giants threatened with being blacklisted, have announced that they have no dealings with Israel, Arab boycott officials revealed recently.
Reports of black market tests circulate around Israel every year at exam time. But this was the first time that there has been any documentation of such sales, and Biten's report quickly escalated into a full-blow scandal.
The investigation was announced after Charlie Bilton, a 30-year-old member of the Knesset parliament, set off a furor by producing an advance copy of this year's math exam. Bilton got the test student who bought it on the black market.
Arabs "clear" U.S. companies
The instructions, held in seven sessions, cover aspects from the mundane—such as what to do if the telephone rings while meditating—to the esoteric experiences that meditators might have. The course is designed for students and $165 for non-students.
A chief administrator of the Damascus-based Arab League boycott organization said Westinghouse and GM have agreed to have no business ties with Israel.
Jim Sciffo, chairman of the Age of Enlightenment in the Lawrence area, said that the late 19th century was a time of
The boycott organization, which has offices in 20 Arab countries, served notice three months ago that the two U.S.
Under legislation awaiting final passage by the U.S. House of Representatives, American companies generally will be forbidden from cooperating in the Arab economic boycott.
The organization blacklists companies that it accuses of helping the Israeli war effort through investment in development projects. A firm is removed from its website when it closes down operations in Israel and started business in an Arab country instead.
businesses would be black-listed by the Arab states if allegations that they were doing business with Israel proved true.
Raseball
Weather
Storm clouds should be back over Lawrence today and remain for the weekend. The National Weather Service in Topapek picks a 40 per cent chance of rain today and chances of rain Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
Montreal 5, Chicago 6; Los Angeles 13,
Atlanta 7; New York 5, Philadelphia 3;
Detroit 7; Boston 2; Seattle 3; Chicago 1;
Milwaukee 1. Minnesota 0.
"It has certainly relieved the tension and anxiety in my life," he said. "I know it works on tension, but because of my physical background, I'm skeptical of the other clients."
Meditators also say that TM offers its followers increased control over health and social relationships. Wintrobu said that when lower levels of consciousness were reached by meditators, an energy reservoir and some of that energy was related.
Only subtle changes can be detected in the individual, he said, but broad social changes are reported to occur, including an alleged decrease in the rate of crime.
mediating were found to have significant decreases in reported crime over a one-year period. The study was done by the International Meditation Society's university in Switzerland. One of the cities studied was Lawrence.
Darrell Stephens, major in the Lawrence Police Department, said that he didn't have any statistical evidence to support the study.
A IN MUCH PUBLICIZED 1974 study,
cities with one per cent of the population
"I have reviewed the study and I per-
Businesses buy bonds for union
Stern Brothers and Co. of Kansas City, Mo., Merchants National Bank of Topeka and associates submitted the lowest interest bid yesterday for the $2 million in revenue bonds to help finance the construction of the satellite union.
The combined interest bid submitted was
round off year for the bonds being sold
by the firm.
The bonds, in denominations of $5,000, are tax exempt and will mature periodically through 1997, Keith Nitcher, director of the firm and financial affairs, said Tuesday.
The estimated cost of the new building in $40 million, according to current proposals from a firm.
The University's payment on the bond issue will remain about $180,000 each year, although the amount of interest paid will decrease.
Warner L. Ferguson, associate director of the Kansas Union, said Tuesday that most of the money not supplied by issue bond funders were accumulated Union funding, bond surplus.
The rest of the money will come from the goa a semester student activity fee earrings.
The total Union activity fee paid by each student is $25.50. Of that amount, $12 is paid directly to the Union for operating expenses, $8.50 is paid for the debt on the outstanding bond issues and $6 for the satellite union.
The satellite Union will be located northwest of Allen Field House and should be ready for student use by July 1, 1979. Ferguson said.
Spotting Spots
The number of spots visible on the sun varies through an 11 year stage. In 1976, the sun reached its minimum and expected to reach its maximum in 1985.
Staff photo by KENT VAN HOESEN
Louis participated in the high school Astronomy Camp, uses the 2000 millimeter Celestron 8 telescope to photograph the sun and sun spots. This view of the sun (inset) shows two spots. At the maximum of the sun spot cycle, 10 to 20 spots are visible.