TAGE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, APRIL 10, 1966 ~P~E TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY. APRIL 10, 1966 - - _ STUDENT LABS: Theater. By ANN L. MARCH10 "The Student Lab Theatre pre- sents excerpts from Pushkin's 'Eu- gene Oneigin' at 4:10 p.m. Free admission." Posted sparingly in the Frieze' Bldg. throughout the se- niester are signs like these, offer- ing to students 'who see the pro- ductions the experience of theatre- in-practice. As the name implies, the Stu- dent Lab Theatre is not organized solely or even primarily for aud- lece reaction. William R. Mc- Graw, head of the lab theatre, de- scribes its purpose as three-fold. The basic function of the theatre is to - provide an opportunity for student directors and designers to execute their work for public per- formance. In the process of directing and designing, two more objectives pre- sent themselves. As a second goal the lab threatre offers students an opportunity to act, especially less experienced ones who would normally restrict their perform- ances to classroom scenes. The third objective is to provide a production situation for plays which may not be used in major productions (i.e. audience oriented productions). Because ofthis, the theatre takes on an experimental aura, often as entertaining as the play itself. The selection of the play to be presented is usually the choice of the ,student. director with staff assistance. Directors are chosen. from three directing courses. One is an intermediate .directing course covering a wide variety of plays.' The second, which is not offered as frequently, limits its study to' contemporary experimentalist playwrights. The third studies plays from the various historical periods. Twice a Year Experience Offered ONCE Production; Humorous, Boring 'U' CENTER IN NEED: Asian Expert Shortage Seen sented. This semester's plays in- cluded Richard Reichman's "Jour- ney to Quadangh" and ' Steven Coffman's "The Squirrel That Jumped Over the Stump." The Arena Theatre, located on the first floor of the Frieze Bldg., stages most of the non-admission plays. Although many people feel that the close proximity of the audience upsets the aesthetic dis- tance-empathy relationship, Mc- Graw feels that the theatre is not a major handicap.- He asserts that the theatre is flexible enough to produce adap- tations of most of the important plays and can be used as a round, two or three-sided or corner stage. However, he admits that the plays that do well are those which do not depend on elaborate vertical scenery. The advantage of the theatre is the intimacy gained by the feeling of audience participation in ritual that does not exist when a pros- cenium stage is used. Experimental research in the area of the arts has only recently become a legitimate discipline. This ° ipcludes the study of aud- ience measurement in various media. Studying audience reaction by using different styles. of pro- duction or approaches to study helps evaluate the efficacy or ed- ucational value of these- methods. Although these studies have al- ready been applied to radio and television audiences, only very re- cently have universities begun to study theatre audiences. The funds for the lab threatre come from the theatre's budget, which, for the most part, is self- sustaining from sales during the major season. The theatre is limited by this budget and could readily use government or private grants for its students. Yet the current record of pro- duction is impressive. This year the lab theatre will have presented 14 plays. Beginning this year the theatre plans to extend into the 3A half term, which will enable even more students to take part in the productions. Of course, the designing and directing aspect is necessarily lim- ited to students in those classes. However, the acting is open to anyone interested.. Next Thursday there will be a public performance given by the lab theatre of the rarely perform- ed opera, "The Music Master," which was composed in the eight- eenth century by Giovanni Bat- tista Pergolesi. It was first per- formed as a comic intermezzo be- tween the acts of a sacred drama, "La Conversions di S. Guglielmo d'Aquitania," probably by fellow pupils at the monastery of St. Agnello Maggiore. The director of the opera is Michael Robbins, who is seeking his master's degree in theatre and who has had a strong background in music. By BETSY COHN There is no order and continuity in something when it is "happen- ing" nor is there a single theme that can define an evening spent watching a performance of the ONCE group (members of the Dramatic Arts Center). "Orange Dessert" began last night's presentation as two seated ladies came into view on a large darkened stage. They were in- structed by a sourceless voice (whose voice and breath were ar- ticulated clearly in the micro- phone) instructing them on their seating, leg movements and walk- ing. The two ladies, strut around the stage gracelessly until the vaporish narrator can no longer tolerate giving them instruction. Their antics subside and the stage is then dominated by an elliptical film segment of the peeling, sec- tioning, and burning of an orange. The next bit of action, "Soft Centers," focuses on the maize Industry Unable To Fill Available Job Positions and conflicting domains of the rat race. The maize is carefully chor- eographed by two dusty looking gentlemen who place adhesive tape on the stage floor. The two gentlemen, w i t h corresponding ladies, work within the restricted area, stripping, zipping and slip- ping precisionally from one sym- bolic aspect of life to another. The background accompaniment is sounds of travel and a tired sta- catto voice counting breathlessly to 2850. If "happenings" have an art, perhaps this meticulously cal- culated episode had it. From precision to a more relax- ed chaos, "Lectures," a series of two part theatre events which pro- vided a voice sound environment for actions from various fields of sports. Irony seemed the obvious focus of these events which includ- ed a soft toned reading of the dogeared pages from a "Fanny Hill" novel while two healthy sportsmen virilely fling Kleenex at one another across a ping pong table. Humor appears unexpec- tantly sometimes, and for some reason, it did in this scene. The climax of the evening came after the anticipating audience was handed intriguing looking sheets with lines, numbers and arrows. The audience folded while the speaker moderated in mathe- matical and scientific terms. The audience remained intent on bend- ing and folding while a blindfolded lady in a black laced net teeters precariously on elevated planks and other forms of animated acro- batics occurred in the background. This was a spoof on aviation, a spoof on pseudo scientific lingo and explanation, and a spoof on the audience which seemed so en- grossed with their folding activi- ties that they missed most of the action on stage. The result was paper airplanes which were di- rectly propelled to the darkening stage. There is comedy in seeing people exposed in their most undignified manners, and.there is humor in absurdity. Yet there is boredom in repitition lack of spontaneity, and in chaotic elements which mock the stabiilty of a unifying theme. Humor and boredom: the ONCE group had both. (Continued from Page 1) "There are few universities that ,an make this kind of commit- ment," said Gosling. "Large re- sources and great imagination are necessary." The center does not actually of- fer a degree program as such, and has no plansto institute such a program in the future, said Ness. The 29 "associates of the center" as he calls them, teach courses in a wide range of established dis- ciplinary departments including natural resources, social sciences and music. There is no department of South and Southeast Asian studies and no students directly involved with the center. Viet Nam is not one of the areas in which the University cen- ter specializes, a fact explained by lack of people knowledgable in the field, said Gosling. It does spe- cialize in Maylasia, the Philippines and Thailand and has programs in India and Pakistan. Because of the Iac1K of Viet Nam experts here, the national program previously run by the University that sends American students to Saigon to study is being undertaken by the Univer- sity of Washington. At present, there are five students in Viet Nam. Since its founding five years ago, the center has been built up under the direction of first Rich- ard Park and then Gosling and through Ford Foundation assis- tants. Last year, the center became -a National Defense Education Act Center meaning that the Office of Education will pay one half of all materials and costs added after the base year (1964-1965). paying $35,000 in matching funds. Said Gosling, "The idea behind this is to help the area centers train more people." Another aid given to students through the center are the Na- tional Defense Foreign Language fellowships. Last year, the center received 32 applicants, half com- ing from peace corps returnees whose interest developed while overseas. In comparison, 64 stu- dents applied for aid in the area of Chinese studies all directly from undergraduate s c h o o I s. "These figures are more evidepce,"' said Ness, "of the lack of academic training in the South and South- east Asian area." Ness numbers the courses now being offered in the area "between 15 and 20 excluding language and' literature courses," but this fig- ure varies from year to year. The emphasis on the type of courses I- ten years from languages and literature to the social sciences. The empahsis, he said, is not I on the area itself, but on the skills of the student's discipline as ap- plied to the area. Departments offering instruction leading to ad- vanced degrees with opportunity to specialize in this area are: an- thropology, economics, Far East- ern languages and literatures, geo- graphy, history, history of art, linguistics, political science and sociology. Enrollment in this field has grown from 54 undergraduates and 81 graduates in 1960-1961 to 250 undergraduates, 300 graduates at present. Anticipated enrollment is a rise to 350 undergraduates, 500 graduates by 1968-1969. The num- ber of masters degrees conferred has dropped but is expected to rise; the number of doctorates has increased and is anticipated to keep increasing. *1, This year the government is I offered has shifted in the past DIAL 8-6416 Academy Award Nominee 4 (Continued from Page 1) fered salaries higher than their abilities warrant. Often graduates have the advantage in bargain- ing with potential employers for starting salaries. A survey of 110 schools by the College Placement council, shows starting salary offers to seniors with technical degrees are aver- aging $663 a month, up 4.4 per- cent from the end of the 1965 re- cruiting period. Offers to students with non-technical degrees are averaging $564, a 6 percent in- crease. The range is from $545 for humanities and social science ma- i jors to $677 for chemical engi- neers. Short Period Hiring According to Miss Mildred D. Webber of the University's Place- ment Services, many companies are willing to hire graduate men for as little as one month. The man who works for a short period and is then either drafted or en- lists, can take a leave of absence, maintain his position in line of superiority, receive all increases in pay, and have a job' awaiting him after two or three years of miltary service. Other places which Miss Web- ber recommends students with masters degrees to investigate are junior and community colleges. Instructors at junior colleges are not required to have a teach- ing certificate. The job is ideal for the person who wants to work full-time before going on to get his doctorate, or part-time while continuing to go to school.' "ONE OF THE YEAR'S 10 BEST! Twice during the year scripts selected by the English department 1 from playwriting courses are pre- Viet Catholics Denounce Anti-Ky Riotings, flut Call for Representative Government (Continued from Page 1) boats andn . Marine helicopters' handled the exodus. The crystalization of Buddhist hierarchal opinion was disclosed after: Ky appointed a new com- mander for -the 1st Corps area, in an apparent attempt to reas- sert his -government's authority against the challenge of dissident elements in that area-South Viet Nani's five northern provinces. The new commander is Maj. Gen. Ton That Dinh, 39, who has served since 1964 as inspector gen- eral of the Vietnamese joint gen- eral staff in Saigon. Nominally listed as a Roman Catholic, he was among the officers who took part in the overthrow of Diem, a Cath- olic. He -was born in Hue, a center of the northern agitation. Dinh flew to Da Nang to suc- ceed -Maj" Gen..Nguyen Van Chu- an, whom-the junta appointed last month only to --find he shared. -some of .the sympathies of the dis- sidents. Chuan had succeeded Lt. Gen. Nguyen Chanh Thi, regard- ed -as a potential political rival of Ky, who was dismissed March 10. Vietnamese Roman Catholic stu- dents, in an Easter Sunday meet- ing, denounced antigovernment violence, but called for a represen- tative government "as soon as possible" and declared Viet Nam's sovereignty must be respected. The , theme of representative government and the respect of na- tional sovereignty is the same as PH. 483-46804 04tmmO CARPENTER ROAD FREE CAR HEATERS OPEN-AT 6:30 P.M. NOW SHOWING that sounded by the country's powerful Buddhists in a series of m e e t i n g s and demonstrations throughout the past month. It had been expected that the meeting of the Catholic students would be critical of the violence that has broken out, but their open stand on the other two issues had not been anticipated. Earlier indications had been that the Easter meeting would be de- voted to outlining a position against recent violent demonstra- tions.; Sunday's meeting was sponsored by the Saigon University Catholic student's organization, and speak- ers represented several schools within the university. The meeting was held ink an 800-seat public hall next door to the British Embassy and . about two blocks from the Saigon Basil- ica, the main center of Catholic worship in the city. Thirty minutes -after. the meeting. began, only about half the seats in the hall had been filled. Banners printed in English and displayed outside the building said: "Democracy is Not Anarchy. Just Cause Exists Only When Na- tional Sovereignty Exists." Even the most inaccessible business doors open quickly when you can -offer a college education plus practical secretarial skills. In the upper echelons you may find that being an executive assistant is your forte-or you may work up to becoming an executive yourself. 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The manfesto added that the people have a right to struggle for a life of freedom, democracy, peace and decency. "The p r e s e n t administration must establish as soon as possible a democratic regime and turn over power to the people's true repre- sentatives in an orderly and re- sponsible manner. , "We are indebted to the allied forces for their participation in our strugglefor freedom. But we demand that they respect the Vietnamese people's self-determi- nation and sovereignty, If you have not seen Psycho, you're really missing something. If you have, see it again.. H ITCHCOCK'S PSYCHO with TONY PERKINS last performance TONIGHT 7 and 9 P.M. The most touching picture of the year!" -N.Y.Pos "* * A film to be cherished!" -N. Y. 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A ID required 50c ANNOUNCING TWO (2) OPENINGS for STUDENT MEMBERSHIP on the Board of Governors for Religious Affairs at the University of Michigan (This Board is composed of students, faculty, staff and alumni of the University of Michigan who meet monthly for a dinner-meeting at the Union to discuss and advise on matters pertaining to the area of religion at the University: curricular offerings, counseling opportunities, the educational and per- sonnel services of The Office of Religious Affairs, campus and community religious bodies in relation to the University, etc.) Such an advisory board needs people interested in this vast area; particularly does it need students who can contribute knowledge and understanding about student concerns, needs, hopes, ideas, etc. I I I presents JOAN "ONE OF THE a LYNN BARI1 JOEL CROTH£RS WOODY ROMOFE -aa '- lLatNK- JLUM" kRvM & i ,n tkf(AVISTA Dn't~b4 ao. 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