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Monday, April 3, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Quiet pot supporters meet
Staff Writer
BY SAM VAN LEEUWEN
About 500 people dotted the grounds surrounding Potter Lake Saturday afternoon to show their support for the legalization of marijuana.
Frisbees sailed through the air. Several dragon kites flew overhead. But there were no demonstrations or speeches in support of the event, and the publicized as a “caterpillar Op Offensive.”
The only sign of organization were such posters as "Legal LaTeclite? Legal Pot!"
One woman, who asked to remain unidentified, said, "If this had been a demonstration 10 years ago, you would have known what this rally was about."
AT LEAST half of those present Saturday reported were smoking marijuana.
One of the intents of the gathering was to publicize that marijuana smokers can receive severe penalties if caught, accused of smoking, who also asked to remain unidentified.
"It brings to attention how you can get in serious trouble for just a little marijuana," she said.
He said that decriminalization, which
currently is being debated by the Kansas Senate, would not be enough to satisfy him
"Reducing penalties is not enough," he said. "They are just throwing us a bone to it."
THE SENATE is expected to vote on a bill this week that would reduce the first offense penalties for possession of an ounce of marijuana from the current maximum penalty of one year in jail and a $2,500 fine to a $100 fine.
Although there were no announcements about what could be done to help the bill passed, Bill Miller, Lawrence coordinator of the National Organization for the Repeal of Marijuana Laws, urged interested parties to write letters to the senator from their home.
Miller said he was optimistic about the current bill's passage.
"We think we have enough votes on the floor to get the bill passed," he said.
About 300 signatures have been collected on petitions around Lawrence and at Saturday's gathering. Miller said, which he attended and filed with the Kansas Senate.
HOWEVER, NOT all the people in attendance at Potter Lake favored legalization of marijuana.
One unidentified student said, "I am against legalization because I don't want the government sticking their fingers in and screwing up the quality of marijuana."
Another student said she went to the lake Saturday to get information about the
"I thought they were going to have aodium and speakers," she said.
One of the organizers of the event said the group had contemplated having a band or a public address system to address the crowd but had decided against it.
"WE DIDN'T MAKE any plans because of the bassies that we would have to go through," he said. "It was really just a spur of support for legalization of marijuana."
Approval is needed from the University Events Committee to organize any gathering on KU property. Caryl Smith, committee chairman, was out of town and could not be reached for comment to the group was in violation of the policy.
According to the KU police, no complaints were received about the incident.
Philharmonic distracted but good
By CHUCK WILSON
Bradman
Reviewer
A stray dog almost steals the show from what was otherwise a pleasing performance by the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra Saturday night.
Playing to a sparse audience in Hoch
Auditorium, to mourn Ferrece, Phaillarthem
and the other choruses.
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arrangement of the Toccata and Ritornelli from the Orteo, Monteverdi. The
fairy tale has two variants.
After that the orchestra took up Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Vioi and Orchestra in E-Flat. The allegro maestros moved quickly; duets mars Christie on the violin and Ellen Rozek on the viola perfectly complemented each other.
As they moved through the more sedate andante, Gettieb and Rozek held the attention of the audience and then swirled into the concluding presto. It could only be hoped that Harr had a similarly tolerant couple to help with when he first performed the concertante.
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THE REST OF the concert moved swiftly. At the conclusion the audience gave the orchestra a sustained ovation—not a warm ovation but a warm one nonetheless.
Peress then turned back to the audience and said, "I don't know where to begin. You've heard the beginning, so now you'll hear the finale."
For an encore, Peress led the Philharmonic in playing a Bavarian dance, which he dedicated to canine music lovers. Again violence responded with a long applause.
AFTER AN intermission, the audience returned to hear Dovrak's Symphony Number 7 in D Minor, Opus 70. It was during this concert that the conductor made a large, yellow dot wandered onto the stage.
Members of the audience laughed and talked as the dog wound his way among the musicians. One by one the orchestra members quit playing as the dog walked by, and other sections in the orchestra quit before they tried to see what the competition was.
Finally, as the dog made his way to the conductor's stand in the center of the stage and the last instruments trailed off, Peres gave up. Turning to the audience he threw his hands up in resignation and then bent down to rub the dog's head until someone
The Philharmonic brought a fine guest performance to the University of Kansas.
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Kottke masters acoustic guitar
By JERRY JONES Reviewer
When the Beatles were at the pinnacle of their career, they described themselves as being "adequate musicians." One suggestion they applied to 90 percent of the musicians currently on the market, where you accentuate the charisma and decentrate the music.
complicated arrangement, Kottke has the ability to take each note and make it crisp
However, Le Kottie has reversed that formula. To be sure, to his legion of knights, he could have just said
Kottke appeared, unpretentiously, with a short haircut and wearing a brown sweater and shacks. There was no hype, no aerial stunts, no spectacle, no rapport with the audience. His between-numbers banter was light and con-
fident. He knew where he went next song and to provide time to return his
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guitar, an absolute necessity for this musical craftsman.
Despite his deep, resonant voice, Kottle's forte is stroming, not humming. He has the foresight to choose tunes like "The Dancing Man," in such songs as "Pamela Brown," "Standing on the Outside" and "Power Failure Louise" you can imagine a Gordon Lightfoot lurve
force of his appeal is an incredible ability to play an acoustic guitar as it's never been done.
Still, Kottie shines best when his fingers are flying over the strings. Some of his selections included "Stealing," "Ojo" and "The Driving of the Year Nail." In each
Kottie was preceded by blues guitarist John Hammond, who apparently has no style of his own, but is impeccable at imitating the great blue artists of the past. Sweatings through a lyric like "A woman's like a dresser, someone's always ramblin' on," and one of them took a frivolous line and song it with a tough intensity, as if it were the God-a-worthful truth.
His style is almost impossible to categorize, although some observers have labeled it "American Folk," a style also shared by Peter Lang and John Failen. It is characterized by solid craftsmanship in performances on the acoustic guitar.
KOTTKE, WHO performed Friday night in Hoch Auditorium, used three different acoustic guitars to display his musical wares. One was a classical guitar, another was constructed with a plywood backing and the third was customized expressly for him.
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