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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, January 9, 1968
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Morrison talks about dolls, politics, drugs
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answers came slowly.
You know, I heard some French company was making a boy doll which is anatomically correct in entirety. I wonder if they'd make the doll of me anatomically correct or whether it would be deficient of certain parts.
Q. The Village Voice has an article in it saying a company is now making Jim Morrison dolls. The article says you are becoming the first male idol since James Dean. Is it true about the dolls and what do you think about the comparison between you and Dean?
A. Yes, I thought they pretty well said it.
Q. Would you describe what you think your music is?
A. I hadn't heard about the dolls. I hope they are making them, though. I need one—for security. In fact, I need a whole room full of them more than I need one.
Q. Newsweek says your music is not strictly hard rock, but more blues-oriented and melodic. Do you agree with that?
A. I wouldn't want to.
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Q. Where did you get your pants?
A. I promised my tailor I wouldn't tell.
Q. What do you think of the war in Vietnam and its eventual outcome?
A. I think there are four different possibilities. Either there will be war forever, or one side will win, or one side will pull out, or both sides will pull out.
A. Well, I don't think there will be war forever. And I don't think both sides will pull out. So, that leaves us with either one side pulling out, or one side winning. I don't think the U.S. will pull out. I think one side will win eventually. But, I don't know if I think it will be the U.S.
Q. Which do you think will happen?
Q. Does this mean you are advocating the use of drugs?
Q. The Beatles and Donovan have recently said they are no longer using drugs and suggest those who are still on them should stop. Newsweek said you have quit turning on. Is that true, and what do you think about the whole drug situation?
A. No. I'm just saying the person should do what he thinks is right.
A. I have always said a person should do what is right for himself.
Q. So, if a person wants to take drugs, he should?
A. If he thinks it's right for him.
Q. Some people have said the press and mass media sort of created the "hippie" movement by the amount of coverage given to these people. The people who say this have also said the press killed the movement by giving it too much publicity. What do you think?
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will also put the group down at the same time. This title is picked to be effectual for the press, but at the same time to make the group ineffectual.
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More than $2 million in grants and contracts for research and associated graduate training projects was received by KU and its Center for Research during the first quarter of the fiscal year, beginning July 1.
A. The group called the hippies have been around for longer than just a few months. Even if the group which has the label hippies dies, there will be another group to replace them. That's the way it's always been. Movements die, but other movements carry on with the ideas.
Q. The same press which has given birth to and "killed" the hip movement says San Francisco is no longer the Mecca to those who are called hippies. Do you
The largest total research support was for studies and training programs in mental retardation, a field in which KU is becoming a national research center.
Q. But do you think the hippie movement is dead?
Thirty-two KU schools, departments, divisions, centers, or bureaus were recipients of one or more of the 79 grants. Last year the University received research grants and contracts totaling more than $8.5 million; more than $5 million was received on the Medical Center campus.
KU man studies anti-cancer agents
A career cancer researcher at KU is spending a year's sabbatical leave at the Czechoslovak Academy of Science in Prague.
Dr. Mathias P. Mertes, associate professor of medicinal chemistry, is working in the Institute of Biochemistry and Organic Chemistry continuing his five-year career research study of anti-cancer agents. Dr. Mertes has been studying fluorine in medicinal-fluoromethylpyrimidines.
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think it's true the hippies are moving out of San Francisco, and, if so, where are they going?
Hippies Leave Frisco
Doors To Continue
A. That's a true quote, but it's just a phrase. You know those magazines only have a limited amount of space so they search among all you say to pick out key or good-sounding phrases. I think we are politicians, but I wouldn't want to say what will happen in national politics.
A. It's the whole meaning in itself. To explain would destroy the meaning of the phrase. It has to stand by itself. I can't explain it, or I'll destroy it. It just means we're erotic politicians.
And it looks like the Doors will continue doing their thing—being doors.
Q. Will you explain or elaborate on the phrase itself, then?
It looks like Morrison will continue doing what he has been doing—turning on the females from hippie chicks to society women.
that a true quote and, if so, what do you think will happen in politics in the U.S. this year?
A. There is no doubt there has been a great number of people leave The City. I think this is because of the coverage the press gave the hippies. When there is too much coverage, whatever group is being written about becomes self-conscious. The coverage makes people aware there is this group and they look for members of it. People are leaving San Francisco because it is too well known and because they are too self-conscious. As to where they are going, I'd rather not say, because you, or someone else, will begin to write about it, and then people will get up tight there, and that city will be hot. People are moving out into other parts of the country, though."
Q. Would you say Denver is becoming THE new center?
A. I'd rather not say. There are a lot of people here or coming here, but they're also going to Chicago and other places.
Q. The article about you in Newsweek quotes you as saying you are "erotic politicians." Is
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