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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, November 3, 1967
Saturday, alums come
Saturday, the alums come home.
They come to watch a football game, gawk at the mini-skirts, cuss the hippies and wonder at the ever-changing physique of the Hill they once knew well.
Indeed, they will survey a campus they once thought hard to forget and instead find it difficult to remember. Because time is cruel, miniskirts will blurr visions of crinolines, passing hippies will make zoot-suits seem unfathomable and the white brick and steel will tear at memories of brown stone and ivy.
Such talk, though, is shockingly rude. The man who came to watch a football game and dwell on youthful years is instead annoyed at the many changes upon the grounds of his alma mater.
Well, rude it is, but the point is there: things are not the same anymore, nor will they ever be.
Inescapably, change has become the format of this University and all others. Occasionally, it
is unwittingly made for its own sake—more often, however, it is made out of necessity.
But unfortunately, this whole business of change is confusing. It is bothersome to administrators who are forced to change policy and then acclimate themselves. Students, as dynamic as they are, also chafe at change when it strikes a nerve. Most frustrating, however, is that change, whether it be the destruction of a beloved building or the lifting of student restrictions, has ironically become the status quo.
And surely it is all incomprehensible to the alum who ultimately is asked to pay for change.
So for that reason, ease the news of change gently upon him this homecoming. Tell the alum that the least he can do is question those who wish to upturn the traditional values; determine that any offered change is based on need and not on change for its own sake.
And realize that change is most painful for those who remember how things were.
kansan book review
Burgess novel disappointing
Last year I praised Anthony Burgess' novel, "A Vision of Battlements." Last year I had something to praise. The newest Burgess novel to reach paperback, however, is a pale reflection of this brilliant talent.
Anthony Burgess is still the best of the current British novelists. In his trilogy, "The Long Day Wanes," he assumed the mantle of Kipling and Maugham and successfully interpreted the colonial picture of the 1950's. In his horrorific view of a future England, "A Clockwork Orange," Burgess contributed a significant warning to the list compiled by Huxley, Orwell, and Shute.
Burgess' chief preoccupation has been with human communication. As a linguist-scholar he has accomplished the long-overdue editing of Joyee's "Finnegan's Wake." Specifically, Burgess places his heroes in conflict with their worlds and records the language that they evolve in the resulting struggle. Shakespeare is seen, for example, turning life experience into poetry in "Nothing Like the Sun."
David Hillier is the character in "A Tremor of Intent." Hillier, typical of Burgess' heroes, is a linguist and he has committed his knowledge of the Cyrillic alphabet to British espionage. Committed is the proper term for Hillier, for, although the dirty business of contemporary saying threats to disenchant him, he remains faithful to the higher war of "God and Not-God," the war "of which the temporal wars are
a mere copy." "As for the evil," Hillier affirms at last, "they have to be liquidated."
Hillier faces the same unpleasant world that destroyed Alex Leamas of "The Psy Who Came in from the Cold." But Burgess is not LaCarré, and his dedication to a mystical battle for Good is more reminiscent of C. S. Lewis' quasi-religious "That Hideous Strength."
Perhaps this mixture of genres is responsible for the failure of "A Tremor of Intent." It is Burgess' task to find faith in a novel of disillusionment, to salvage values from the most obvious example of a devalued world. His hero feels that the struggle is successfully concluded, perhaps, but the reader remains sadly unconvinced.
At this weakest link—the transition from "nada" to commitment—Burgess most required the sheer power of his talent with language. If his logic was going to be thin, his sound and fury might have wonderfully filled the vacuity. Unfortunately, language overwhelms the reader in only one passage of this novel: the night of Oriental delights that Hillier shares with Miss Devi (a memorable night and passage, indeed).
Minus his usual themes, minus his usual tour de force of language, minus a convincing argument. Anthony Burgess nevertheless creates a novel that can be read and enjoyed. Credited to a lesser writer, "A Tremor of Intent" might find more praise. But for those who follow the production of England's prose laureate, a certain disappointment is inevitable.
This is the time that we must all stick together and do our best to bring home a victory for our University.
Pepper writes students
To the KU student body:
Victory on the football field is very satisfying but we must each bring home a victory in so far as we each represent our University. I believe that our football team will do its best to represent our school on the field Saturday and I hope that you, as students, will conduct yourselves in a manner becoming to our great University.
I can't begin to tell you how much I appreciate your support and your enthusiasm for our football program. As I told you after the Nebraska game, this is your football team win, lose, or draw.
I want you to know that you are our student body win, lose or draw as well. I certainly hope that after the game Saturday we are both winners.
Pepper Rodgers Head Football Coach
Paperbacks
PEKING DIARY, 1948-1949: A YEAR OF REVOLUTION, by Derk Bodde (Premier. 95 cents)—Modern history and the first in a new series called "Political Perspectives." It includes both original writings and reprints and is a vivid description of what happened in that year China fell to the Communists.
WORLDLS IN COLLISION, by Immanuel Velikovsky (Dell, 95 cents)—Somewhat of a modern classic in book publishing, and one of the most controversial volumes of almost two decades ago. Velikovsky puts forth the theory that more than once the order in our planetary system was disturbed, causing enormous shocks, that the earth became a chaos, that skies darkened and land masses were destroyed and large numbers of the human race perished. Velikovsky has written a new introduction.
Official Bulletin
TODAY
Foreign Students; Sign up now for next Friday's People-to-People tour to Topka. See the November Interactive Campus newsletter for details
Kansas St. Teachers' Assoc. Meet-
eet location: Allen Field House.
Kansas Union.
Institute on Legal Medical Evidence. All Day. Kansas Union.
Reading and Study Skills Club Enrollment, 8:30 a.m. 102 Bailey
Mum m Society, 2:30 p.m. Prayers.
Kansas Union.
Freshman Football. 2:30 p.m. K
House. Here, Southwest of Alla Field
K座.
Popular Film, 7 & 8: 5 p.m. "Grap s of Walth." Dyche Auditorium.
Foreign Film. 7:30 p.m. "Not on Your Life." Spain. Hock Auditorium
University Theatre. 8:20 p.m.
"Gypsy."
Homecoming House Decorations
Tour. Evening. Campus.
SATURDAY
Alumni Registration. 9-1 p. m.
Louge, Kansas Union.
General Homecoming Reception.
9:30-11:30 a.m. Lounge, Luggage U.S. 100.
Class of 1957 Reception 9:33-11 a.m.
Jayhawk Room, Kansas Union
Ks. Federation Crop- Country Championship, 10:30 a.m. 3:2d and Iowa.
School of Business Alumni Reception 3:30 a.m. Music Room, Kansas Union
Engineering Alumni Reception,
11 Union, Browning Room, Kansas
University
Journalism Alumnium Reception, 10:30 a.m. Traditions Room, Kansas Uni KU. Law Society Annual Meeting, 11 a.m. Courtroom, Gon Hall
General Homecome Buffet Lunchmen
11-1 p.m. Ballroom, Kansas
Union
Football. 1:30 p.m. Homcoming.
K-Stat.. Here.
Carillon Recital. 4 p.m. Albert Gerken.
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