TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1970
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
NO. 7
Campus
Calendar
Tuesday, July 28
Repertory Theatre,. "Indians ,w 8:30 p.m.,
Howell Theatre.
Wednesday, July
Instructional Communications Second
Annual Festival, Union.
Summer Opera, "Don Pasquale 8:30
' p.m.; Kimball Recital HalL
Repertory Theatre, "Twelfth Night,1
8:30 p.m., Howell Theatre.
Thurday, July 30
Instructional Communications Second
Annual Festival, Union.
Summer Repertory Theatre, "Indians,
8:30 p.m., Howell Theatre. ,
Friday, July 31
Summer Opera, "Don Pasquale, 8:30
p.m., Kimball Recital Hall.
Repertory Theatre, "Oh, What a Lovely
War," 8:30 p.m., Howell Theatre.
Saturday, August 1
Summer Opera, "Don Pasquale 8:30
p.m., Kimball Recital Hall.
Repertory Theatre, "Twelfth Night,
8:30 p.m., Howell Theatre.
Monday, August 3
Repertory Theatre, "Twelfth Night,"
8:30 p.m. Howell Theatre.
Tuesday, August 4
Paul Newman Film Series, "Secret War
of Harry Frig, I p.m.. Union.
Repertory Theatre, "Indians," 8:30 p.m.,
Howell Theatre
Wednesday, August 3
Administrators Luncheon, Discussion
Leaders: M. Scott Norton and Howard
Eckel, "International Education, An
Administrator's Concern, 11:45, Union.
Repertory Theatre, "Oh, What a Lovely
War," 8:30 p.m., Howell Theatre.
Thursday, August 6
Summer Film Series, "Bridge on the
River Kwai," 7 p.m.. Union.
Repertory Theatre, "Twelfth Night,"
8:30 p.m., Howell Theatre.
Friday, August 7
Repertory Theatre, "Indians," 8:30 p.m.,
Howell Theatre.
Saturday, August 8
Repertory. Theatre, "Twelfth Night,"
8:30 p.m., Howell Theatre.
Monday, August 10
Repertory Theatre, "Indians," 8:30 p.m.,
Howell Theatre.
'Don Pasquale,' comedy opera,
opens Wednesday on campus
The opera-comedy "Don Pasquale
will open Wednesday at Kimball
Recital HalL
The Italian opera, with music written
by Caetano Donizetti and libretto by
Giacomo Ruffini, will be sung in English.
Curtain time is 8 p.m. Wednesday, Fri
day and Saturday.
Mark Cruett of Lincoln, a music ma
jor, will play Don Pasquale, whom he
describes as "funny and old." Don Pas
quale has a nephew, Ernesto, played
by music major Gary Lamb of Lin
coln. Ernesto is in love with Norina, a young
widow "of lively disposition, spoiled, but
sincere and affectionate." Her role is
shared by Mary Schwaner of Cambridge
and Sandra Utsumi of Lincoln.
John Brandstetter of Wayne, plays Dr.
Malatesta, whom he describes as "a
physician, an enterprising and
resourceful man, a friend to Don Pas
quale, but a better friend to Ernesto,
Ernesto and Norina want to get mar
ried, but Don PasquaJe opposes the
marriage. Dr. Malatesta, playing Cupid,
presents Norina to Pasquale as the doc
tor's sister, a meek little thing, just
out of the convent, and convinces the
old man to marry her..
A mock marriage take? place and
the sweet, shy maid turns into a shrew,
mucii to Uie L-jn's dismay.
After leading Don Pasquale to merry
Sandra Utsumi as Norina and John
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By Charles Ilass
A college education can be a reality
to a handicapped person living in
Nebraska as a result of Legislative Bill
dance, the conspirators reveal the plot
and the Don is so relieved to be out
of his disastrous marriage that he con
sents to Ernesto's and N o r i n a ' s
betrothal.
Other cast members are Charles
Dorsey of Lincoln as the Notary, and
Dennis Spence of North Platte, David
Weyrauch of Lincoln, Rita Smith of
Missouri Valley, Iowa, and Connie
Easton of Hebron as servants.
The traditional musical-theatre will be
spiced by projected backgrounds, film
sequences and a number of other
theatrical techniques relatively new to
opera. These innovations have been
developed by production designer Dean
Tschetter and special filming was done
by Bart Smith.
Professor John Zei, director of the
opera, said that this presentation will
be a "departure from the staidness and
stuticness of old opera."
"Certain parts of the old opera are
necessary to retain, because they were
written with those things in mind," he
continued. "But to keep interest, we
are mixing modern contemporary ways
and sets with the old opera.
"Music is illusionary. It adds an
abstract dimension to the theatre. The
color, the lights and the music tie in
with the action," he added.
Musical director is Dr.. Richard
Grace.
decimate,
Brandsetter a? Or, Malatesta rehearse for the opera "Don Pasquale
their own pow wow at the 10th annual
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The law, passed in 195 by the
Legislature, sets special standards for
"all buildings and facilities used by the
public which are constructed ... by the
use of state, county or municipal
funds . . ." The five sponsors of the
statute designed it to open the doors
of many public places to the handicap,
ped.
Several kinds of disabilities are
covered by the law, including im
mobilizing physical handicaps, vision
and hearing deficiencies, disabilities re
quiring tile use of crutches, the han
dicaps of the aged, and disabilities of
incoordination.
For those in wheelchairs, detailed
standards relating to the width and slope
of pathways, width of doorways, location
of elevators, and special toilet facilities
are includedi
The effect of this law can be seen
on the University of Nebraska campus.
"All new buildings are designed and
constructed to aid the handicapped,"
said Ron Wright, assistant director of
business and finance for the University-
He said that as other University
buildings are renovated, facilities for
the handicapped will be added.
"We try to do a3 much as possible
to help the handicapped if it's within
our financial means," he continued.
Wright pointed out that neither the 3tate
nor federal governments provide funda
specifically to build facilities for the
handicapped.
He said that the cost of the special
facilities is high, since usually only a
dozen students would need them.
Some of the aids to help the
wheelchair-bound are inadequate, too,
said Wright. He mentioned that a rump
for wheelchairs on the south side of
the Nebraska Union is "very steep for
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roving
a person in a wheelchair.
There
are
be
some sharp turns which
must
negotiated, too," he said.
Wright said that some standards in
the law are loose. He pointed out that
the wheelchair ramps built by the stale
on Centennial Mall meet the standards,
but "it's very difficult even to walk
up the ramps, let alone go up them
in a wheelchair."
He added, however, that the University
"has better facilities for the handicapped
than many downtown businesses." He
pointed to renovations at the College
of Business Administration,, Andrews
Hall and the chemistry building as good
examples of the changes the University
is making.
The law says that special attention
should be given to the blind. Braille
engraved doorknobs or raised room
numbers at a low level are suggested
so that the blind might easily find their
way. However, a clause in the bill pro
vides that the requirement can be waiv
ed when "full compliance . , . is im
practicable." According to Harley Schrader, chief
construction engineer of the University,
student vandalism and irresponsibility
are two reasons why such provisions
are impractical.
He cited cases in which room numbers
and other signs were ripped off the
walls. "If the students will do this kind
of thing when the signs are over a
classroom door, you cun imagine what
they'll do if the signs are lowered,"
he said.
Special ramps on curbs enable
wheelchair-bound people to cross the
street unaided. According to Schrader,
some University students use the ramps
and adjacent extra-wide puthways near
the Sheldon Art Gallery as a private
roudway for motorcycles, scooters, and
small foreign cars. This makes it dif
ficult to plan facilities for the handicap
ped. La said.
The Bourd of Regents decides which
provisions of the law the University will
follow, he added.
Schrader said most walkways on the
University grounds can accommodate
the handicapped. Those with stairways
also have an alternate route which the
disabled can use.
Is the University of Nebraska doing
enough for the physically handicapped
student?
"No," said Miss Celeste Knipmeyer,
public health nurse at the University
Heullh Center. "Much more could be
done at the University," she said. "We
don't have the setup for handicapped
students."
She added that the University of
Missouri, for example, received a grant
from the federal government to fix up
its campus for the handicapped about
five yeurs ago. "The grant could be
used any number of ways," she said.
"They could build ramps, install
elevators, and even provide transporta
tion from the city to the campus for
these students."
She also mentioned that in cases where
students could not function well alone,
the grant was also used to pay another
student to Uve with or near the han
dicapped, to help him with dressing
himself and other daily functions.
At Nebraska, the Health Center helps
the handicapped in several ways. In
addition to providing clearance for
special parking permits for tfcese
students, the center helps determine
whether a disabled student would have
a reosonabla chance for success at the
University.
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Learning Technology
Festival opens July 29
The applications of educational
technology for Nebraska business and
industry will be emphasized at the se
cond annual University of Nebraska
Educaton Technology Festival Wednes
day and Thursday in the Nebraska Union
Ballroom. i
More than 40 learning technology ex
hibits will be open to the public between
9 a.m. and 3 p.m. each day.
"Education and industry could be
brought together in a close working
relationship to advance the effectiveness
of instruction through technology," said
Jim Buterbaugh, head of the sponsoring
Instructional Media Center. "Our festival
should reinforce this learning recom
mendation." The first public showing of Eastman's
most recent multi-screen, multi-resource
presentation, "How Business Looks
Today", is scheduled for the Festival.
Nebraska's Project 20-20 will feature
a special computer-assisted instructional
demonstration which will permit in
teraction via computer assistance with
an informational data bank in
Washington, D.C.
A special feature of the Festival will
be the CBS Electronic Video Recording,
EVR, with CBS personnel demonstrating
this new cartridge which offers a wide
range of possible uses for education and
training.
"Because of the tremendous response
to last summer's festival offering, we
have had to increase space, . . . for our
second festival," Buterbaugh said. "In
addition . . we have included special
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the festival.
Repertory cast
of parts, jobs,
One night she's a courageous nurse
on the World War I battlefield, a sexy
French girl and a singer. Another night
she's an attendent to an Italian Duke.
And a third night she is a president's
lady and then Annie Oakley herself.
Is she a wizard or just a little girl
with a big imagination?
Neither. She's Margaret Hawthorne,
one of the fourteen full-time members
of the university's Repertory Theutre
cast.
Miss Hawthorne, from Mansfield, La.,
is a graduate student at Baylor
University in Louisiana during the school
year. She has acted and sung in
musicals there.
Other actresses and actors in the
repertory theatre also huve many and
varied parts. Gary Hill of Lincoln, for
example, is a World War I Soldier in
"Oh. What a Lovely War," a clown
in "Twelfth Night", and an Indian Chief
in "Indians."
How did the actors, some from as
far away as New York and California,
others from such 'hometown' towns as
Hay Springs and Roca, end up in this
particular theutre cumpuny?
University Theutre sent out invitations
to universities across the country, and
interested actors and actresses respond
ed. They were then sent applications,
which some of them returned with tapes,
pictures and resumes.
From these applications, those with
Uie best background and talent were
picked by a board from the University
Theatre to participate in tryouts held
here in March.
Of the 95 who auditioned, the final
cast of 14 was selected.
Among the cast members is a husband
and wile. Willium and Betty Gnuse ol
White Plains, N.Y., formerly of Hastings
and Grand Island.
Mrs. Gnuse, a professional airtress,
is the choreographer for "Indians" and
plays Maria in "Twelfth Night."
Gnuse, professor of Theatre at Nassau
Community College in Garden City,
N.Y., plays several parts hi "Oh, What
a Lovely War" (as do most of the
actors), Valentine in "Twelfth Night."
and Senator Logan in "Indians." Gnuse
has also directed past productions for
University Theatre and is now wirking
on his Doctor's d.gree in theatre at
NU.
Most of the cast are graduate students
and some are professional actors, but
Donovan Diez. the youngest member of
Uie cast, is just out of high school,
a 1970 gruuuute of Omaha Bishop
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government, university and organlza
tional technology projects to be festival
offerings."
"Learning technology," he said,
"unlike the traditional audiovisual ap
proach, must be functional in the
instructional system at the curriculum
planning phases.
"The recent shift from emphasis on
classroom instruction to the curriculum
planning function has been responsible
for finally alerting learning technology
to the importance of the systems ap
proach. It is also why audiovisual as
a designation of a group of media is
subsumed learning technology.
"The design of instructional pro
cedures and resources is the primary
concern of learning technology," he said.
"However, educational technology is
not just equipment," he added. "It is
a combination of the human aspects and
the scientific aspects of learning."
Buterbaugh said the festival responds
to a statement made by president
Richard Nixon in his message on
Education Reform to Congress March
3. The president said:
"There comes a time in any learning
process that calls for reassessment and
reinforcement. It calls for new directions
in our methods of teaching, new
understanding of our ways of learning,
for a fresh emphasis on our basic
science and advanced technology to bear
on problems that only appear to be
insuperable."
Over 8,000 people are expected at the
Festival, which is free and open to the
public.
on sign in final preparation for
has variety
backgrounds
Diez has played in high school, Omaha
Parks and Recreation Dept., and Omaha
Junior Theatre productions. He plays
assorted soldiers in "War," an officer
in "Twelfth Night," and Duke Alexis,
in "Indians."
Regular University Theatre goers
during the school yeur may remember
the names of several of the summer
Repertory group. Mitchell Tebo of Roca,
Willium Szymunski of Lincoln, Dana
Mills of Hay Springs and Stephen Gaines
of Grand Island, all have been active
in regular NU productions.
Bruce Bowen of Council Bluffs has
played in productions at the University
of Nebraska in Omaha as well as In
the Omaha Playhouse.
Repertory actors from fur away places
(out-of-stnte, that is) are Donna Haley
of Northbrook, ill., Robert Neu of Ar
' lington, Va., James Sanilbrd of Arcadlu,
Calif., and Sheridan Thomas of Los
Alamos, N.M.
J-School head
is chairman
of committee
Prof. R. Neule Copple, director of the
University of Nebraska School of
Journalism, has been appointed
chairman of the Hearst steering com
mittee of the American Association of
Schools and Departments of
Journalism.
The appointment pluces Professor
Copple in charge- of the Education: !
Steering Committee of the Willium Ran
dolph Heurst Foundation, which seta
rules under which nutionul writing and
photography contests for students uro
conducted.
The University of Nebraska School of
Journalism won first prize in 1961-62 and
HMJ2-63 and has placed high in the com
petition nearly every yeur.
Copple will assume the post at a Foun
dation dinner for the A.A.S.D.J. to be
held Aug. 13 In Washington, D.C.
A member of the University of
Nebraska faculty since 19S9 and director
of the School of Journalism since 1966,
Copple holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree
from the University of Nebraska and a
Master of Science from Northwestern
University. He was city ediior oi tu
Lincoln Journal twin l'JS2 to I9."i!l.
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