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Ray to investigate discriminatory policies

By NANCY DALY
Editor-in-(‘hief

Changes in Title IX. the law designed to
eliminate sex discrimination in the
nation’s schools, went into effect last
Monday. The changes promise to keep
Nancy Ray busy.

Ray, UK a turmative action coordinator,
has been assigned the task of conducting
an examination to identify any
discriminatory policies or practices which
may exist at the University.

Health, Education and Welfare (HEW)
regulations drawn up to clarify Title IX
state that educational institutions must
take any remedial action within the next
year. Failure to comply with the
regulations could result in termination of
federal financial assistance.

“One purpose of the guidelines is to give
institutions an idea of where the executive
agency (HEW) intends to enforce.” said
Ray. Enforcement of Title IX has caused
educational institutions much confusion,
she said, so HEW drew up guidelines to
clarify the law’s practical effects.

Title IX prohibits discrimination in
admission, financial aid, employment and
athletics in the 16,000 school districts and
2,700 institutions of higher education which
receive federal aid.

  

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Campus organizations which limit
membership on te basis of sex may be
profoundly affected by Title IX, Ray said.
Groups which receive University funds,
staff assistance or office space will have to
open membership to both sexes, she said.

Fraternities and sororities were
specifically exempted from Title IX
provisions, Ray said, as were physical
education classes.

“There are some legitimate exceptions
on the basis of sex, since the right of
privacy is respected under Title IX.” Ray
said. The regulation allows separation
during participation in contact sports and
permits grouping of students by ability.

”The guidelines provide that in classes
where physical skill is required it is
possible to have separate classes for men
and women,” she said.

Admission policies in University
programs will also be examined, Ray said,
“to make sure they don’t artificially
screen out people on the basis of sex."

HEW guidelines state that education
institutions must make “comparable
efforts" to recruit members of each sex.

“Where discrimination previously
existed,” the guidelines state, “additional
recruitment efforts directed primarily
toward members of one sex must be un-

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Up against the wall

Laura Haddix of Clinton County bounces a basketball against a wall in the Seaton

Center in a drill.

Laura is one of 35 girls participating in a basketball camp

sponsored by the Lady Kats. The camp will be in progress until August I.

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Affirmative action coordinator

dertaken to remedy the effects of the past
discrimination.”

Institutions may not set quotas, different
admissions standards of admission for
either sex, or use sex-biased tests or
selection criteria. Ray said UK would also
check to see if marital status is used to
limit admission.

Ray will coordinate the investigation,
which will actually be conducted by the
Equal Opportunity Panel, a 15-member
administrative committee which reports
to President Otis A. Singletary. The panel,
which is balanced according to sex and

   

race, consists of faculty, staff, students
and community college representatives.

The committee will divide into sub-
committees, Ray said, which will look into
specific sections covered by Title IX and
current UKpractices. “Where we’re not in
compliance, we’ll make recom‘
mendations."

An area not covered under Title IX is
textbooks. One section of the guidelines
states that although HEW “recognizes that
sex stereotyping in curricula and
educational material is a serious matter, it

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PIRGs finding it difficult
to get funds everywhere

By SUSAN JONES
Managing Editor

Although plans to form a student—
supported public interest research group
(PIRG) have not yet been presented to the
UK Board of Trustees, prospects for ap-
proval are dim.

But UK is not the only university having
difficulty setting up a PIRG.

The nonpartisan student groups, which
largely work to protect off-campus con-
sumer interests, first began organizing in
Oregon and Minnesota around four years
ago. Since then the concept has spread to
22 states.

The difficulties, here and at other state
universities and colleges nationwide,
involve the PIRG‘s funding.

Most PIRG's attempt to attain funds by
collecting mandatory student fees added
onto university registration costs, after
first petitioning student bodies to deter-
mine if they favor the PIRG'S formation.

Problems have arisen because
university administrations have refused to
act as a collecting agent for the PIRG,
even when a majority of the students are
shown to favor the additional fees.

According to the Chronicle of Higher
Education. a national education journal,
the dispute took on ”national proportions”
when consumer advocate Ralph Nader
announced recently that he was luanching
a series of investigations of public colleges
and universities.

Nader, a long-time supporter of PIRGS,
said his interest had been sparked by the
difficulties several student groups had
encountered in getting their institutions to
agree to proposals that campus-based
PlRGs be supported by mandatory student
fees.

Faith Keating, director of the Nader unit
investigating the colleges and universities,
said the problems center around what
PIRGs invesigate.

“PIRGs often investigate what is of
direct interest to the university, because
universities and university administrators
are often directly involved in business and
industries,” she said. “They don’t want to
see the PlRG’s organized.”

Keating, who would not disclose the
details of her investigation because in-
formation is still being gathered did say
UK was not involved. ‘

Agroup of UK students began a petition
drive last February aimed at the eventual
formation of a PIRG.

The UK funding varied slightly from a
mandatory student fee system. The local
group planned a negative check-off system
which permits “each student at
registration to choose not to participate in
the PIRG plan by filling out a special form
to avoid the fee payment," according to
the petition circulated at UK.

The negative check-off system has been
used at other universities rather than
mandatory fees.

If a student did decide to participate in
KYSPIRG, his registration fee would
automatically be increased $2 and the
money would be used to ”finance the
professional staff and project expenses,"
the UK petition states.

Carlton Currens, who leads KYSPIRG’s
tKentucky-PIRG) petition drive, said the
registered student organization collected
about 2.000 names, which he said was
“way short of the almost 10,000 we
needed.” Currens said Vice President of
Student Affairs Robert Zumwinkle

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At state universities and colleges
nationwide, students are fighting for
establishment and funding of PlRGs—
public interest research groups. PlRGs
are campus-based groups which, for
the most part, concern themselves with
off~campus consumer rights.

The PlRG concept was conceived
approximately four years ago in Oregon
and Minnesota and presently has
spread to 2 states.

The move to form a UK PlRG—
KYSPlRG (Kentucky—PIRG) started last
semester. But here instead of a fight,
we experimced a dribble of energy
which slowly petered out.

The national battle and the UK
squabble both revolve around PlRG
funding. Most PlRGs are funded
through a mandatory student fee, which

 

the student pays along with his
registration fee, after the PIRG polls
students to determine if a majority favor
the fee. Other PlRGs use several types
of check-off systems which allow
students an opportunilty to individually
express their desire to contribute or not
to contribute to the PlRG.

The reaction of UK administrators to
acting as a collecting agent for PIRG
funds was typical of other university
administration across the country. They
balked.

Well, should we really expect
anything more than a typical reaction
here?

As soon as the movement to form a
PlRG got underwayUK Vice President
for Student Affairs Robert Zumwinkle
issued a release stating. “The

' Can we expect anything more ?

University's policy is not to act as a fee-
collection agent for independent
organiations” and “it is unlikely that a
petition to the contrary will be approved
by the Board of Tmstees."

UK KYSPlFtG had specifically been
petitioning for a negative check-off
system—that is, if you don’t want to
contribute you check “no,” otherwise
$2 is automatically added to your
registration fee. The petition stated the
money collected would be used for
financing the professional staff and
project expenses.

The reaction of UK students to
Zumwinkle‘s statementwas also typical
of UK’s particular brand of student
“activism."They had collected ap-
proximately 2,000 signatures, 8,000
short of the needed majority, when as if
Zumwinkle had waved a magic wand,

the “bottom kinda fell out” of the
movement. Well, can we really expect
anything more than typical actions
here?

Faith Keating, a member of Ralph
Nader’s group and leader of an in-
vestigation studying a number of state
colleges and universities concerning
PIRG, said administrators are reacting
adversely to the PlRG concept because
they have very direct “interests” in the
types of practices PlRGs investigate—
businessss and industries.

Special interests might explain why
UK administrators reacted quickly to
evaporate KYSPIRG petitioning. There
is no excuse for students‘ self-
defeating acquiescence to Zumwinkle's
statenent. If anything the statement
should have pointed up the need for a
local PlRG.

 

 

Socialist
supports gays

Editor;

On June 28, W70, thousands of people
gathered in New York’s Greenwich Village
to march in the country’s first annual
Christopher Street Liberation Day
celebration. Each person there had to
weigh many factors before joining, for this
was the country’s first major gay
liberation demonstration.

The marchers knew that even the
passing sweep of a TV camera could mean
the loss of a carefully cultivated
”straight” image and in turn, the possible
loss of a job, an apartment, friends,
custody of children and family ties. Their
private lives had made them outlaws.

For centuries gays have been forced into
lives of shame and fear, hiding their
sexuality. But in the 1960’s, as other op-
pressed groups began to rise up and
demand their rights and proclaim their
human dignity, the myths that had
weighed on the backs of homosexuals
began to crack. Together with the rest of
their generation, young gays were lear-
nmg new ways of looking at the world. In
questioning the legitimacy of other social .
norms and in experiencing the power of
large numbers of people fighting together,
young gays were inspired to fight back
aoainst their own oppression.

What kinds of oppression do gays face

today? Their sexuality is specifically
against the lawin most states. Not only are
these laws ineffective in preventing
millions of Americans from engaging in
the "crime” of homosexual love, they
actually encourage real crimes, like the
blackmail of gays. Many jobs areclosed to
gays. Most landlords won’t take
homosexual tenants and those who do
often charge extra. Gays in institutions

rejecting self-contempt and sub-
missiveness and fighting for their rights.
Capitalism cannot stand anything likethis

the labor movement, the Black
liberation movement, the women’s
liberation movement, the radical student
movement, or the gay liberation
movement.

By exposing the cruelfies and
irrationalities of the oppression of

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and in the military face segregation,
brutality and humiliation. And there is the
nausea of self~contempt and fear.

While supporters of gay rights have
made many initial gains, the road to
victory is far from smooth. The largest
obstacle the gay liberation movement has
run up against is the resistance of the
national, state and local governments to
the changes demanded by gay rights
advocates.

Why should this be? Reactionary ideas
and superstitions — sexual taboos,
religion, flag-waving patriotism — are
encouraged by the American ruling class
to promote faith in the corrupt institutions
of capitalist society.

Thus, it is harmful to capitalism to face
large numbers of people who are rejecting
its rules, who are seeking a new kind of
world where human beings are free to live
full lives under their own control, who are

 

from our readers

   

homosexuals, the gay liberation
movement helps demonstrate how deeply
and destructively capitalist institutions
interfere with people’s lives. The central
core of the gay liberation movement is the
fight for full dignity for all human beings
without regard to their sexual orientation.
History and our own generation’s ex-
perience have shown that such human
dignity, free from all prejudice, is not
possible without getting rid of capitalism
~ without a socialist revolution.

Some of those who call themselves
socialists and communists stand on the
wrong side of the fight for gay liberation.
Chief among these are the pro-Moscow a nd
pro—Peking parties around the world. In
the Soviet Union, for example,
homosexuality is outlawed and punished.
This attitude is reflected in the Communist
Party U.S.A., and their youth group, the
Young Workers Liberation League and

various Maoist groups. These parties and
the Soviet, Chinese and eastern European
bureaucracies they represent, must be
counted among the proponents of the fight
for gay liberation and most other freedom
struggles around the world. Un-
fortunately, Cuba, a workers’ state not run
by a corrupt bureaucracy, has also
adopted the position homosexuality is a
”sickness.” For the Cubans to move
forward toward workers’ democracy in all
spheres of life its leadership must look to
the example set by the early years of the
Russian Revoluation, where anti-gay
legislation was eliminated in 1917 — and
not to the reactionary policies of the
current Soviet regime.

Together with revolutionary socialists
around the world, the Young Socialist
Alliance and the Socialist Workers Party
in the US. are working to assembly a force
strong enough to combat and defeat the
most brutal and powerful ruling class in
history — the American capiltalists.

This victory, which will be won by the
vast majority of the American people, can
alone stop the plunge toward world
economic crisis and third world war. it’
will be the victory that will lay the
groundwork for creating a world where
human beings can live together in dignity
and where sexuality, along with all forms
of human potential, will be freed from the
dark closets of fear, intimidation and
repression.

Mark Manning
Young Socialist Atliance

 

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WASHINGTON — ”A virtuous
physicist,” according to novelist Kurt
Vonnegut, "is a humanistic physicist. He
wouldn’t knowiingly hurt people. He
wouldn’t knowingly help policemen or
soldiers hurt people. He knows that a
scientist can be an accessory to murder
most foul.”

Scientists as ”murderers” is a
possibility we now must entertain,
however frightening its implications.
Consider for a moment some of the
”murders” committed during the last few
years in the name of biomedical science.

in 1972 it was the revelations of the
Tuskegee syphilis study, in which one of
our own Government agencies watched

with cool scientific detachment the ravish-
ment by syphilis of 200 black men chosen '

at random for treatment with placebos
instead of curative doses of penicillin.
Later it was Willowbrook, a scien-
tifically impeccable but morally dubious
experiment where a potentially lethal
hepatitis virus was deliberately ad
ministered to mentally retarded children.
From experiements such as these has

come ”progress” in biomedical research:

new knowledge in the crippling and killing
effects of untreated syphilis; the
development of vaccines for certain forms
of hepatitis.

Along with these "advances,” however,
has also come a creepy‘realization that
when left to their own devices biomedical

scientists are capable of some rather na'sty
mischief indeed. We are learning the hard
way that science is not neutral; it is not
concerned solely with ”truth”; it cannot
be considered apart from the effects it will
have on our everyday lives.

Further, our attitudes toward practicing
scientists have been downright unrealistic
Rather than conforming to our precon~
ception of white-coated visionaries
laboring after truth in ivory towers. Our
typical biomedical researcher today is a
member of a huge team thatoften renders
little or no accounting to the public and,
further, seems to lack clearly defined
guidelines as to what constitutes ethical
research.

Rather than ”truth” much of the recent
scientific research has been shown to
derive its inspiration from gimmicky
funding procedures, smooth public
relations and just plain political clout.

Even our prestigious National Institutes
of Health, which sponsor more than 75 per
cent of the basic biomedical research in
this country, refused for years to draw up

a policy and procedure code until finally

shamed into it when two of their sponsored
researchers were found guilty of injecting
live cancer cells into uninformed subjects.

The core issue in all of this is, of course,
how to continue research while conducting
experiments on people without
dehumanizing them or depriving them of
their legal rights. And it is this knotty
question that is tearing the scientific
community apart these days.

One thing fundamentally wrong is the
design of the typical experiment using
human subjects. All too often such ex-
periments are set up in a manner that
almost'g uarantees emotional distance and
alientation between the experimenter and

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contemporary researchers to have no
personal knowledge of the identity of the
participants in their own experiments,
which are carried out via intermediairies.
All too often scientific objectivity is
distorted to include callousness and lack of

concern for the human aspects of
research.

Other important types of research using
human subjects raise compelling

questions that are now being largely
ignored. Meaningful drug research to
benefit children, for instance, can only be
carried out with children as research
subjects. (Doses, response patterns, side
effects, all differ for children from those
for adults.) But whose children should be
experimented upon? And by what
methods, and by whom are they to be
chosen? So far, the selection process has
been simple and pernicious: the poorest
child, the most helpless child, the child
whose parents can somehow be bought off.

Clearly something must be done to
restore a spirit of public acc0untability on
the part of scientists. Do we need yet more
horrors to bring home the truth that
science is too important to be left to the
scientists?

Our ultimate goal must be a
democratized science that will free us
froma ll thek inds of oppression that can be
visited on us by a biomedical technology
out of control. For decisions must now be
made on how we will choose the subjects
for future crucial experiments leading up
to the cu res for cancer, heart disease and
schizophrenia

So far, human experimentation has
depended on the poor, the imprisoned,
those operationally defined as "insane.”
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subjects of human experimentation, we
have all suffered in one way or another
from the resulting moral myopia, for our
perception of the rights of the people we
choose to use in experiments is, more than
anything else, a measure of our own
humanity.

As we are being told increasingly these
days, biomedical science is in a crisis. But
I think the crisis goes a lot deeper than who
will control funding or whether or not we
will have some form of socialized
medicine.

The large question is whether or not we
are likely to end up with even a civilized
medicine.

What we finally do about regulating
humanexperimentation will go a long way
toward deciding this issue. We are now
being called on to combine our traditional
recognition of the need for human ex-
perimentation with a new need: to define
and protect our fragile identities as
thinking and empathizing creatures.

if we can do this we just might be lucky
enough to have our "humanistic scien-
tist.” Certainly there are compelling
advantages for all of us in such a
development. Even for the scientists
themselves, who might realize some
unexpected benefits. According to Mr.
Vonnegut, ”Being a humanistic scientist,
incidentally, is a good way toget two Nobel
Prizes instead of one.”

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Richard M. Restak, M.D., is author of the
forthcoming book, "Premeditated Man:
Bioethics and the Control of Future
Human Life."

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.e _ Journalism accreditation loss

may affect doctoral program

By WALTER HIXSON
Assistant Manging Editor
Accreditation loss in the
Department of Journalism may
be adversely affecting its parent
School of Communications.
Dr. Lewis Donohew, school of

communications director, says

the accreditation situation may
be delaying approval of a
proposed communications
doctoral pmgram.

First proposed in fall. 1973, the
doctoral program now awaits
approval or rejection from Dr.
Otis A. Singletary, UK president.
Should Singletary approve the
pmgram, it would go before the
Board of Trustees and to the state
Council on Public Higher
Education (CPHE) for final
approval.

The program, which would be
the mly communications doc-
toral program in the state, has
already passed the University
Senate.

Donohew said the effect of the
journalism department’s ac-
creditation loss could be
misconstrued by CPHE.

“They might consider jour-
nalism (re-accreditation) the
first priority before going ahead
with any new programs. It’s an
obvious criticism that could be
made, but actually, they’re
different programs,” Donohew
said.

Dr. Lewis Cochran, vice
president for academic affairs,
said Singletary is considering the
program on its administrative
feasability. “it’s generally true
that the University is well ad-
vised to adopt an advanced
graduate program,” Cochran
said. He would not guess what
Singletary's decision would be.

Don Clapp, assistant to the
president, said a decision will
probably be reached next month.
He said the program will have to
be fit into a five-year plan of
expenditures now being prepared
by the University for CPHE.

Although Clapp said the
program would be beneficial,
CPHE granted only one of
several pmgram requests from
the University in recent years.

“They‘ve only accepted one
program in the last several years
—» a masters for public ad-
ministration," he said.

Asked if Singletary was con—
sidering the journalism ac-
creditation loss in the doctoral
program decision, Clapp said,
“I'm sure a relative program will
be considered by the president."

Journalism. along with
telecommunications and speech,
is a department within the School
of Communications.

A communications doctoral
program, if established, would be
staffed by graduate faculty,

usingexisting class facilities with
no additional budgetary
requirements, Donohew said.

Donohew sees the program as a
way to “attract and hold strong
faculty and help provide strong
teaching assistants in the
program."

He said there is a steady
demand for the program. “A
number of graduates have
wanted to stay for doctoral
work," he said.

The proposed doctoral
program would have no more
than 12 students at one time.
Donohew said.

Complaints about landlord

spark Student

By FRANKLIN RENFRO
Kernel Staff Writer

The Student Senate will in-
vestigate the University housing
list because of objections raised
about a particular landlord
whose property appears on the
list.

A committee was formed at
Thursday's senate meeting after
Senator-at-Large Shelley Griffith
said a house owned by the Graves
Brothers Co. burned down. The
company’s property is included
on the housing list.

Griffith said Student Govern-
ment (SG) should ask Associate
Dean of Students Frank Harris to
remove the Graves company
from the list.

“None of my buildings has ever
burned down. Some have caught
fire, probably started by winos,”
said David Graves.

Griffith said some of her
acquaintances rented from
Graves and he raised the rent
considerably after they moved in.

Graves refused to answer
specific questions about raising
rents.

“He‘s not a very reputable
landlord," said Sherry Allen,
head of the SG Tenant Landlord
Program. Allen attempted to
remove Graves from the UK

. housing list through former Dean

Senate probe

of Students Jack Hall because of
claims of false advertising.

“If an apartment was $145 a
month,” Allen said, “Graves
didn‘t mention that each person
had to pay a $100 deposit, $50 for
furniture, and you have to pay for
parking space too.”

Graves’ houses were off the
housing list for a few months,
Allen said, but were put back on
since the University had no proof
he poorly managed his property.

“Dean Hall may have forced
Graves off the list just to placate
me,” said Allen.

“My property is a head and
shoulders above any of the houses
on the off-campus housing list. If
someone wants to get out of a
lease, they’ll bring cockraoches
in and complain, then they’ll kick
the walls in,”’ Graves said.

Barry Donaldson, a staff
members at Tenant Services and
Organization Assistance (TSOA),
said, “When you start getting the
full picture, you’ll see that he
(Graves) is a shrewd man, he
knows his business, he knows how
to manipulate people. In a
tongue-incheek way, the man is
a good lawyer."

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At UK Theatre

Good actors,comedy revive
’Luv’s‘ soap Opera-type plot

By “UNA HAINS
Arts Editor
If you‘re one of those people who romanticizc
about love and marriage with stars in your eyes,
you need to see Luv. This Broadway comedy will
quickly dispense with all your mistaken notions.

A spoof on love, marriage and sex, this play is
well-presented by the UK Theatre as one of its
three shows in summer repertory. It can be
viewed again on Thursday, July 30, and Satur-
day, Aug. 2.

K Review

Contrary to what the dreamers think, love is
not “fireworks on the fourth of July.” Instead it

 

is purely scientific _. “...a gradual development
based on physical attractiveness, com-
plimentary careers and simple social

similarities,”as character Ellen Manville says.

Ellen is one of three characters in the play. She
is the intelligent. scientific-minded wife of Milt
Manville, a Wall Street “wizard." His best friend
from college, Harry Berlin, is the third
character.

Each of these performers does a splendid job
of portraying his own zany character.

Actor Stephen Currens outshines the others in
his brilliant portrayal ofHarry Berlin. Harry is a
combined wino-hypochondriac with no purpose
in life. When Milt first sees him after 15 years, he
is about to commit suicide. Milt talks him out of
it by stating what an effect love would have on
him, if he'd give it a chance.

A total contrast in characterization, Milt,
adequately played by Anthony McKonly, is a
flashy, successful, loud—mouthed businessman.
His hang-up is he doesn’t know exactly what he
wants in life, or love —4 he just wants something
t or someone).

Ellen is well presented by Kathleen Foley. She
is an intellectual, yet sensual character. Like

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'Plaza Suite‘

Neil Simon‘s ‘Plaza Suite‘ is currently playing at Diner's
Playhouse until Aug. l0. Tonia Lewis and Frank (‘aracino are
pictured in a scene from the three-part comedy.

Milt, she too has trouble in finding the true
meaningof love in her life.

As the play opens. Milt is attempting to divorce
Ellen by introducing her to his down-trodden
best friend, Harry.

Milt thinks this situation is perfect. He wants
out of his marriage so that he can marry his
lover Linda, but he doesn’t want to hurt his wife.

Therefore, when he sees Harry in such
desperate need of love, he promptly decides that
Ellen would fulfill that need.

Voila! It's a perfect set-up for everyone — Milt
is freed, Harry ’s pointless life is revived, and
Ellen isn’t left alone! The resulting plot is simple
enough.

Ellen and Harry marry. Linda, whom we
never meet, and Milt marry. Then, Ellen and
Milt see each other after their divorce and decide
they are still in love. Thus, they proceed to
dispense with Harry. (Linda has already left
Milt.)

As wild as it may sound, every act is totally
expected by the viewer. There are no surprises
in the plot (except I expected Linda and Harry to
get together, but they didn't, not in the course
of the play, at least). ‘

With such a boring plot, the actors have to do
quite a good job to save this one. And save it,
they do!

In addition to the individual actors’ efforts, the
comedy of this play helps it survive. The one-
liners aren’t too effective, but repititious scenes
are amusmg.

For example, when each of the three
characters tells about his unfortunate
background, it progressively gets worse — and
funnier.

Likewise, the repititious theme of suicide
becomes more humorous as each one tries it and
is stopped by another. who, in turn, tries it
himself in minutes.

For a play with a superficial soap opera—type
plot, Luv becomes quiteentertaining through the
performers’ talents and the comedy they project
and through the statements it makes about love.

Auditions
for chorus
announced

All students are invited to
audition for one of the University
choral groups, Sara Holroyd,
Director of Choral Activities,
said.

Groups available for