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78th Year, No. 66
WEATHER WARMER
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Tuesday, January 9, 1968
Solons meet today
Editor': Note: A 60-day session of the Kansas Legislature opened at Topeka today. The following story examines some of the issues that will face the lawmakers.
TOPEKA—Take issues such as highways and education. Add the emotional questions of liquor by the drink and a ban on Sunday sale of merchandise. Mix well in a statehouse in which the legislature has never before convened in a regular session during an election year.
The result is the 1968 Kansas Legislature. Its effects may well be more significant than those produced by any legislature in the state in recent years.
Leaders of both parties agree the top issue facing the legislature is highways. Debate is expected to center on how they should be financed.
Docking wants roads
Gov. Robert B. Docking, a Democrat, will submit a program to the legislature calling for construction of more than 400 miles of express highways and 172 miles of toll expressways over a five-year period.
Docking's program would be financed by bonds. He said $350 million worth of the bonds could be secured by "toll receipts and by Highway Fund resources."
Republican leaders say they will announce their own highway program early in the session.
Education is important
Education is expected to be another important issue since it accounted for 43 per cent of the $619.6 million budget approved by the legislature last year.
KU's budget for fiscal year 1969 will be determined by the legislature. KU asked the Board of Regents for $34,748,841. The Regents cut it to $33,608,380 before sending it to State Budget Director James Bibb who cut it to $33,221,474.
The KU budget for fiscal year 1968 was $30,318,319.
The final budget will be determined by the legislators after they hear Docking's recommendations. In recent years, the lawmakers have authorized more for education than the governor requested.
A bill requiring the Board of Regents to allow the sale of cigarettes on the state's university and college campuses passed the house during the 1967 legislature and currently is pending in a senate committee.
Liquor by the drink
Liquor by the drink, one of the state's oldest and in recent years most controversial subjects, is expected to be debated during the session. The state constitution prohibits "the open saloon" and it would take a vote of two-thirds of both chambers to submit the question to the voters.
A Chicago public relations firm reported a study shows Kan- See Solove page 2
See Solons Meet, page 3
UCCF students defend fired campus ministers
By S. Allen Winchester Kansan Staff Reporter
The trend in campus ministry is toward ministers concerned with social action not those restricted by religious dogma and institutionalism.
That was the reaction of students active in the United Christian Campus Fellowship (UCCF) at Westminster Center, 1204 Oread.
"I'm not interested in theology or God, I'm interested in ethics and action," said Larry Van Sickle, Topeka senior and former UCCF vice-president.
Reaction to firing
His comment came in reaction to the firing of Rev. John Simmons and Rev. Maynard Strothmann, associates at Westminster Center.
mons without having to worry about his being fired on undue grounds."
Miss Moore said campus ministers should be leaders in social involvement and action, but they can get "carried away." "Rev. Strothmann's theological and philosophical background, in combination with Rev. Simmon's active social response, could prevent this if they could work together," she said.
"Rev. Simmons is revolutionary in a responsible and creative way and I hope someone like him will take his place," said Martha Moore, Evanston, Ill., junior.
Students interviewed said campus ministers must have the ability to communicate with students and work with their problems.
"Because of the tendency of student formation of radical groups," said Roy Belcher, Louisville, Ky., senior, "there is a need for greater freedom of interpretation by ministers in the secular world."
They said more freedom for students to direct their own activities is needed, although in the past there has not been complete support by students for such activities. They said they do not wish to defer their responsibility for past apathy.
He said, "We want the freedom of having a man like Rev. Sim-
Ministers should lead
The students favor working together with other denominational
Mark Sherwood, Parkville, Mo., sophomore and UCCF vice-president, said, "It will be difficult to find a man who meets our qualifications, who is willing to work under such a powerful and arbitrary decision-making body as the present Local UCCF Committee."
campus ministries in educational forums.
The committee is responsible for the firings. Most of its members are not part of the Westminster Center congregation and rarely, if ever attend worship services there, one student said.
Carla Nelson enters plea in Federal LSD hearing
WICHITA, Kan. - (UPI)—A young woman allegedly involved in an LSD ring among KU students changed her plea from innocent to guilty in U.S. District Court at Wichita Monday.
Miss Carla Nelson, 24, Lawrence, was named in nine counts of a federal indictment charging unlawful possession and sale of the drug.
Judge Wesley E. Brown ordered a pre-sentence report on Miss Nelson's background.
Philip Barrown Shuman, 22,
Scotts Bluff, Neb., also named in
nine counts of the 11-count indictment,
pleaded innocent. A third defendant, Dennis Norman Quinn, 19, has pleaded innocent.
The indictment listed alleged
sales of about 30 LSD capsules in Nebraska and at KU. It alleged that Shuman supplied Miss Nelson with capsules which Quinn sold to minors living at a freshman dormitory.
WEATHER
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts continued moderating temperatures, with lows in the lower and mid 30s tonight. High tomorrow should be 40 to 45.
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Jim Morrison, Doors light musical fires
COME ON BABY, LIGHT MY FIRE
By Will Hardesty Kansan Staff Reporter
"Where's Morrison?"
"Haven't seen him."
Well, we better go on and hope he shows."
They walked through the crowd and onto the stage. Like with all musicians, there was a checking of the equipment, some testing, some tuning, and a few brrrump-brrrump-crashes as the drummer loosened up his hands.
Suddenly, Jim Morrison, pushing back strands of shoulder-length, brown, curly hair, was there on stage. He looked at them; they looked at him. Without any visible sign, he suddenly grabbed the mike, pulled it to him and shouted-begged-moaned, "Love me two times, baby, love me twice today. Love me two times, girl..."
The Doors had begun their concert at The Family Dog in Denver. It would be their last performance before going to Los Angeles to record their third album and a couple of singles.
The Doors—the "Light My Fire" boys—are four in number: Morrison, the lead singer; Ray Manzarek, pianist - organist; Robby Kreiger, guitarist; and John Densmore, drummer.
Preachers. Not Entertainers
"They come on stage not to entertain, but to preach," Newsweek has said of them, and they did at the Dog. Morrison was all over the stage — leaping, falling, kneeling, singing, preaching.
"... The blues oriented Doors are softer and
smoother, blend in and out in a complex variety of melodic, rhythmic and instrumental changes, punctuated by odd abrupt silences," Newsweek said. They did this, too.
Morrison and the Doors entranced the audience.
A New Sex Symbol
Howard Smith, in the Village Voice, calls Morrison the "biggest thing to grab the mass libido in a very long time." He says Morrison may replace James Dean and Marlon Brando as male sex symbols. "I have never seen such an animalistic response from so may different kinds of women. Plastered all over the teenybop fan magazines. Glossified in Vogue. God, even arrested for a 'lewd performance.'"
Morrison may well be able to fit that "sex-symbol" role which is either being created for him or which he is creating.
Morrison's every move was sensual—he is a sensual looking person. In good form, he was wearing one of those imitation-suede-on-the-outside, fleece-lining-on-the-inside coats, with a white shirt and skin-tight leather pants. His every movement on stage was provocative—the way he stood, the way he held the mike, the way he sang, the way he tucked in his shirt, the way he kept pulling his coat up around him.
After their set, he agreed to a short interview. He was quiet—an abrupt change from his jumping, gyrating, frenzied performance. His
See Morrison talks, page 4.