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'A Sword for Hippolytus' lay n Thursday The cast for the University Theater summer production of "A Sword For Hippolytus, a new play by George L. Wil liams, was announced by Dr. Joseph Baldwin, director of the play. The appearance July 25, 26 and 27 of the play in Howell Theatre will be the first per formance anywhere of a script described by its director as a "brilliant and fanciful come dy." The author is an Instructor of Speech and English at Cen tral Connecticut State College, X e w. Britain, Connecticut. Two of Williams' one-act plays have been produced in off Broadway Seven Arts Theatre in New York. One of his long plays won the national con test sponsored by the Ameri can Playwrights' Theatre in 1960. The play was produced in Hollywood. The director, Dr. Joseph Baldwin, professor of speech and dramatic Art, himself a playwright, has made a spe cialty of introducing plays to the stage which have not been done previously. Although the play is a com edy, it is based on the tragic legend of Phaedra and Hip polytus. Cast as Phaedra is Sue DePriest of Lincoln, sec retary in the Office of Student Affairs. Hippolytus is played oy aciav uimi namsa, sen-j ior premedical student from ' Ord. Jim Roach, senior philoso-i Dhv student from Lincoln, will I lw oxn th r;roL- Hn 1 Theseus A mvsterious wom - an from his past, Winona. Is played by Sharon Binfield.! senior in m n s i r erfuratinn i from Hinsdale. Illinois. In changing the legend of p Phaedra from tracedv to com-f edy, the playwright provided Hippolytus with "another wo man," the Princess Aricia. played by Julie Keller, teach er of speech and English at Milford High School, graduate student in speech and drama tic art. Richard Cross, also a teacher of speech and Eng lish, plays Icarus, the legend ary Greek who flew with wings made of feathers and pink wax. Mr. Cross, from Norfolk, is in graduate study in speech and dramatic art. Bringing Icarus into the story J of Phaedra and Hippolytus is one of Williams' more fanci ful comic notions. Constance Hunsaker, junior in speech and English from Lincoln, plays Hebe, Phae dra's old nurse. Hebe's two sons. Andreas and Demetrius, are played by Charles M. Armstrong III, sophomore in Because of Non-Partisanship Com Lcoislot I III TOE cm Mnr VfirnLaH t M-rua UrmUtre M UA wtomt. Oat tamnoMT fcffM has m tap tih fltMt In 4ttiwi. ! mr- hw tmr. vte'k mtm n tm trim Mm- frhmd mi $mrMtm' fry! Ur pfft V. I. 4itwr BrujiB How does a partisan gov ernor get along with a non partisan Legislature? The answer seems to de pend upon which chair you are sitting in. If you are Sitting in the legislative chamber as a senator in Nebraska's Unicameral Legislature, the chances are you probably would say, -Just fine." If you were sitting in the governor's chair, the an swer would apparently be, -Not very welL" At least these were the majority answers in this survey of 68 senstors and six governors. Most gover Afefir. Officials Speak On Pufihan Question rmiks'm m-mrtmm ltUtmr mrrm -rUr m IX I. v km fcrtr Vtrw4 mom f fcrfcnn' wrmmt fararMuto-r tm m4r Ut hfceima rmrrrm VHmMnk mm Mr wtiM By BOB MOHXIKE Recently there has been a lot of discussion about Ne braska's non-partisan legis lature and our partisan Governor. How do these men who run our state feel about this? To find the answer to this question we went to the men whose job it is, as se lected representatives of the prople of Nebraska to work under this system, to get their feelings about this question. Governor Frank B. Mor rison said, "I have nt changed my mind nor my opinions oa this question. I still believe that our non speech and dramatic art from Lincoln, and Bart Butalla of Omaha, a graduate of Creigh ton University. Women servants belonging to King Theseus are played I by Nancy Hughes of Lincoln, junior in speech and dramatic art; Susan Granata of Lincoln, senior at Lincoln Southeast High School; and Estelle Web man of Superior, senior in speech therapy. Man servants are Thomas R. Holland of Overton, junior in English; Robert C. Frank lih of Falls City, freshman in architecture; and Bruce L. Borin, freshman in speech and dramatic art from Lincoln. Two flutcplaying servant boys are played bv Roy Bald win and Joe Baldwin of Lin coln, sons of the director. Rov is a seventh-grader and Joe ' is a ninth-grader at Irving Junior High School. Curtain time for the pro - duction in air - conditioned Howell Memorial Theatre is 8 p.m. The plavw right will flv from Connecticut in time to see the Friday and Saturday nights' performances. Playwright Admires Playwright When a playwright admires lotner playwright s work, another ine .logical thing tor him to P" ie Plav - he is also a theatre du-ec- tor. This is the case in Universi- of Nebraska Theatre this u,,1",er WIUt:n WUJ Proauce the premiere of George i (Continued on page 3) I 11-12,000 Expected During Fall Term The registrar's office anti-1 pected to pav the $25 fee be cipates 11.000 to 12.000 stu- j fore the July 31 deadline. Au dents w ill register for the fall " g u s t admission applicants term, topping last year's 10, 401. Slightly over 6.000 students, about 1.500 of them freshmen and transfers, have paid their $25 deposits to reserve class room space for this fall, ac- J cording to Mrs. Irma Laase, assistant registrar. ciose 10 i.uuu are sua ex-1 us nors said that liaison with the Legislature was diffi cult to maintain in at least some instances. The sena tors told a different story. Sixty-two senators com mented on the baison with the governor. Fifty of them said liaison could be main tained or worked out very easily. Twelve of them dis agreed. And those senators who disagreed did so with some vigor. For instance, one said, "Not worth a darn. As a matter of fact, it . doesn't even work that well. To be perfectly honest about it, in most legislative sessions liaison is non-existent and this is coupled with the legislative feeling that they will have no part of it." Another senator agreed with a terse, "There is practically none (liaison) now." partisan legislature is do ing a great job, and is the best for the state of Ne braska as a wlioie." "Although," he continued, "it makes my job as Gov ernor a little more difficult, in that I have no one in particular whom I can go to if I wish for action on certain legislation. Never theless, after a while, you get to know the legislators and what they stand for, and you can usually get them to cooperate whole heartedly if they too are in terested in this particular type of legislation." Governor Morrison con cluded that, "All in all I think that it is a good sys tem, and 1 think that it has (Continued on page 4) Tuesday, July 23, 1963 World Affairs Preview- osfta By VERL HATCH The Costa Rican ambassa- ; dor to the United States, Gon- zalo J. Facio, and his wife, Ana Franco de Facio, will ad dress a special Summer Ses sion's convocation tomorrow. The Ambassador will speak at 2 p.m. in the Nebraska Union Ballroom on Pan American affairs, according to Union programming of ficials. Following the convocation (about 3 p.m.) the John and ! Man-Ann Marshal trio will f P'ay iann American uance m,,sc the Crib. The Arthur ! Murray Dancers will give an ! exhibition of Latin dancing : f"d then the dance floor w ill be open to everyone, said Mrs. Gayle Sherman, Union program director. Facio and his wife will be Dutch Engineer To Lecture Today A distinguished Dutch en gineer. Prof. D. A. Kraijen heff van de Leur, will lecture and mnrtnr-t spiwal cAminarc i at the University today and i wdne;dav , , butio f . Summer Storms." will be given at 2 p.m. today in the 232 Nebras- nion. The pubHc is ia- vited (Continued on Page 2) cannot reserve classroom space and must register in September. - - - John E. Aronson, director of admissions, estimates ap plication from new students, mostly freshmen, at over 3 400, about 300 ahead of last year. "And we're accepting j them fast and furiously yet," jj ne said In many instances the senators took into account the fact that Nebraska's legislators outside of the Legislature where they have party politics are predominantly Republican. Several of them who had not served with a Demo cratic governor wondered aloud how liaison would work under these circum stances. One described a situation of mixed politics this way: Cooperative Liaison "Under non-partisanship, liaison between the gover nor and the Legislature has been very cooperative. For instance, a Legislature com posed predominantly of members of the Republican party has elected a Demo crat as speaker and it has elected also a Democrat as chairman of the committee on committees, which com mittee receives the names of the governor's appoint ments and gives them approval. In each case the closest harmony prevailed between the Legislature and the governor who was a Republican." Another legislator won dered how a different mix ture of parties might work out when he said, "There have been times when the relationship between the governor and the Legisla ture bas not functioned too well under the non-partisanship Unicameral. On the other band, probably the liaison would not be too good if the governor was of one party and a partisan Unicameral was controlled by the opposing party." Some senators felt that the political parties had made too much of an issue of the problem of liaison. "Personally, I didn't feel that there was as much of a problem as party bosses made it out to be," one ex plained. Another cited what be thought would be a disad vantage under partisan ap Peoi With LiDCOEro Amtbosso available in the Crib at that time for questions, she said. Facio was one of the mem bers of the governing Jun ta that took over the ex ecutive and legislative pow ers of the government of Cos- ta Rica after its civil war in 1948-49. His list of public offices since 1948 have included min isterships of foreign affairs, economics and finance, mem ber of his country's congress and president of the congress from 1953 to 1956. He was a member of the east by the Carribean Sea, delegation that accompanied and on the south bv panamai President Jose Figueres in;0n the wi hv t'ho vati his official visits to Puerto j Ocean. The country divides Rico and Ecuador and the ; into three distinct regions. It meetings of Presidents in : jS a fertile coastai plain and Panama in 1956. (extends into a cool mountain- Facio w as the founder of the 'eous region. National Liberation Party in ; 1946 ui.der the leadership of The principal crops are cof Jose Figueres. and member 'fee. bananas, and cocoa and In " 4 v ; - II'. , -f-w-i'r - ' i I , Gonzaio J. lacio i proach. He said, "The gov ernor now generally pays attention to each senator itder the partisan ap proach he might pay real attention only to the major ity or minority leaders." STORM WARNINGS w ere sent up for governors who might get "to partisan" in their approach. One veter an legislator said, "In this field, a great deal depends upon the governor and his ability to work with a par tisan group. If a governor attempts to inject partisan ship into his association with the Legislature, then he will fail with his pro gram ..." Another agreed and com mented: 'The liaison be tween the Legislature and the governor is good unless fm,m..mmt4r m tiiw itii -i i i. ! y.,.!-. .hi lr ' if, if Yi I I N 1 ; 1 ! Summer Nebraskan of the Executive Board the following years as well as many other high political af fairs. He is editor of the weekly magazine "Sired" (1942-45) and a weekly newspaper "Ac- cion Democrata" and also ed itor of the "La Republica, Facio and his wife Ana have six children, Sandra, Al da. Romulo, Ana Catalina, Giannina, and Caiia. Costa Rica is the second smallest republic in Central America hminHpri nn the he becomes too political in his actions." Own Party Sought Other legislators frankly admitted that when it came to liaison between a parti san governor and a non partisan Legislature the governor sought out mem bers of his own party with in the legislative body. "I believe this liaison ex ists," said one, "since I find that the governor tends to rely on members in the Legislature that he knows belong to his party." A colleague agreed that liaison was not a problem for about the same reason. He said, "There are al always enough represent atives in the Legislature from both parties to pro vide liaison between the Governor Frank . kvtLmA ,,,,,,,, dE!""Sl or 1 o beef is exported. The customs and culture of north by Nicaragua, on the Costa Rica exhibit many Eur opean characteristics because most of the original people are Spanish settlers also German and Austrian. Officials Meeting To Review Budget By JIM RISSER Administration officials are meeting this week with deans, department chairmen, and agency heads of the Universi ty to review their budget re quest in light of the Legisla ture's chopping of the Uni versity's recomrrendations by some $5 million. Similar hearings were held prior to the time when the school submitted its requests to the Legislature's Budget Committee. "We didn't get what we asked for, so we have to do it all over again," Vice-Chancellor Adam C. Breckenridge said last week. The administration will have no pronouncements on the effect of the cot in its requests nntil after the inter views are completed, Breck enridge said. He estimated that the hearings will last until the end of this week or into next week. The decisions on how to and other university person- nel. The Regents will use the 1 -. : - j ! decldmgtowh o "S S S J reduced budget to allocate to j lVLfi5 ftS each department, Greenberg. "Jte J j budget would result in neces- No action is expected bvjsar' federaI funds lost Governor Frank B. Morrison' 0" sa,d Monday that no in regard t the budget unless .mention of a special session University officials can point !for this purpose has been out specific instances where 'mentioned since the Gover matching federal funds will be , nor's original statement, lost, according to Norman A. j "I believe that a definite Otto, administrative assistant i situation wuld have to be to the governor. j pointed out by the University, Gov. Morrison, w ho is at-' along with a definite case tending the Governors' Con- j showing the need for the mon dhide up . the University's i ey," Otto said. governor and the Legisla ture." Several senators indicat ed without going into detail that a governor mast tread a rather narrow path. One senator, w ho is for the shift to partisanship in the Legislature, warned that li aison is "O.K., except the governor has to be careful what be asks of them." At least one legislator ex pressed his faith in the gov ernor's negative power. He wTote that liaison has worked out fairly well so far, and he added, "The power of veto held by the governor is worth 26 votes, lie can introduce a bill at any time. He is not handi capped." Another legislator simply felt that liaison was no Morrison at his desk. Page One Tail! The art of the country is rich in gold and, jade orna ments, pottery and stone sculpture. A native textile is woven in such a way that the design appeared only on the right side of the material. This art is being revived to day. $31.6 million must then be presented to the Board of Re gents. Breckenridge explained that the determinations are made on an annual basis, al though the total amount ap propriated is for the 1963-1965 legislative biennium. In commenting on the budg et. Dr. Ben Greenberg of York, president of the Board of Regents, said yesterday that the Board will do the best it can with the budget that has been passed. "A great many of the pro grams we have allocated money for will have to be de ferred," Greenberg said. "We received no money for growth and development." The Regents will meet next week to review the recommendations coming out of this week's h e a r i n gs. Greenberg said that the rec commendations will be the combined effort of. the ad ministrative officials, deans, and other personnel. Governor Morrison, who is attending a governor's con ference in Miami Beach. Venn! r problem because, "the gov ernor is the executive and should not concern himself with any legislation. The three main divisions of gov ernment have their individ ual responsibilities and should not infringe on the duties of others.' 'He added a rebuke for some of his fellow legislators when he said, "I think the Legisla ture does not, or never has, assumed its full responsibil ities." Might Shift These were the senators talking. These are the men who party leaders say are in an enviable position. In fact, party leaders who have long advocated a shift to partisanship in the Uni- (Continoed on page 4) 1 I f-