KU
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU For 78 of its 102 Years
78th Year, No. 11
WEATHER WARMER
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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Monday, October 2, 1967
Keesling resigns boosts 'Concern'
Beginning today, the KU junior class will have a new president.
Jim Blakely, class vice-president from Topeka, will assume class leadership today when Dick Wintermote; executive director of the KU alumni Association, receives a letter of official resignation from Dave Keesling. Herington, current class president.
Keesling has resigned because of ill health.
Constitution provides
Constitution provides The KU All Student Council constitution provides for the vice-president to succeed a resigning class president and for the new class president to appoint a new vice-president.
Keesling, a counselor in McCollum Hall, said he plans to continue his work with "Collegiate for Concern," an organization trying to raise $400,000 for a pediatrics hospital in South Vietnam which would provide housing for orphans and war widows.
Keesling said "Collegiate for
--spring or at the graduation breakfast." Swale said.
WEATHER
Concern" was started last year by the Class of 1969 because they "wanted to do something constructive."
Trainees take over
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts fair weather today and Tuesday with variable high cloudiness. Southerly winds 21 to 30 m.p.h. today diminishing to 10 m.p.h. tonight. The high today should be in the upper 88s. The low tonight in the 60s.
"The hospital," Keesling said, "would be supported by private funds, which would construct, staff and supply the hospital for 3 to 4 years."
Keesling said one of the money-making projects for "Collegiatees for Concern" is a variety show in Hoch Auditorium Dec. 1-2, put on the Board of Class Officers.
By then, trainees from Vietnam, Australia, Europe and Communist China would take over.
"Collegiates for Concern," Keesling said, is part of "Project Concern" started by Dr. Jim Turpin, a medical doctor and ordained Methodist minister, in San Diego.
Keesling, Lois Orth, Bushton junior, and Patty Baldwin, Prairie Village junior, are co-chairmen for the state-wide project, which has its headquarters at KU. Marilyn Fhalz, Colby junior, has also helped.
BULLETIN
Louis Armstrong, Jazz trumpeter will perform at KU's Homecoming Concert Nov. 4, it was announced today by Randy Corbert, SUA board member in charge of special events.
Corbert said ticket information would be announced next week.
'Last Gasp' is among KU seniors legacy
By Judy Brockman Kansan Staff Reporter
The senior gift, movie, tabloid newspaper and Hope Award selection are proposed projects to be completed by the class of '68 before graduation next spring.
A new project undertaken by this year's senior class is a humorous tabloid newspaper called "The Last Gasp."
The newspaper will be composed of articles written by seniors telling of the humorous things that happened to them while at KU," said Joe Godfrey, Topeka senior and publicity chairman of the senior class.
Godfrey said the newspaper will be printed in the spring and distributed at the last senior coffee.
"Any senior can contribute humorous and thoughtful articles or poems written in good news style," Godfrey said.
Plans are also underway for the production of a silent movie.
Swale to satirize silently
Swale said they plan to film the movie in and around KU and will use as many seniors as possible. The scope of the movie, however, will not be limited to just seniors and senior events, he said.
"The movie will satirize the institutions and organizations around campus with some slapstick comedy thrown in," said Tom Swale, Prairie Village senior and director of the film.
"The movie will be shown either at the senior coffee in the
The early selection and construction of the senior gift is an additional project of the class of 68.
"We want to have the gift started before the seniors leave so that it will mean more to them," said Steve Morgan, Wichita senior and co-chairman of the senior class gift committee.
Morgan said the gift committee will ask for gift suggestions which are financially feasible at the senior coffee this month. The committee will then make the final decision.
Suggestions now under consideration are: a fountain in front of Fraser Hall, landscaping and protective weather shelters at the campus bus stops.
"Preliminary nominations for the recipient of the Hope Award for outstanding teacher will be made at the senior coffee, Oct. 27," said Ron Gann, Wichita senior and co-chairman of the Hope Award committee.
Gann said the committee will reduce the nominations to 15 finalists. Students will then vote on these finalists at the senior fall party, Oct. 28.
"Committee research based on the teacher's history, contributions he has made to the university and the overall view of other faculty members and students will help to determine the final selection," Gann said.
The final award announcement will be made during the spring semester.
Timesmen to report on Soviet's Fiftieth
Four New York Times editors and writers, recently returned from a six-week tour of Vietnam, will visit KU Nov. 1.
The newsmen are preparing a 25-part analysis of the Bolshevik Revolution on its 50th anniversary this year.
They include Harrison Salisbury, assistant managing editor; Harold C. Schonberg, senior music critic; the Dorehe Sabura, foreign desk; and Freed M. Hechinger, education editor.
During their KU stay, the men will hold afternoon discussions for students and faculty and an evening press conference.
The Times has sent more than a dozen reporters to the Soviet Union since April 1 in preparation for the series, to begin today.
This will be the group's only midwestern appearance.
Hippies 'love-in' at Potter Lake
(Editor's note: Maggie Ogilvie, Kansan staff reporter, dorned cordoroy jeans and sandals Saturday and journeyed to the Love-In at Potter Lake. Armed with pad and pencil she moved through the crowd attempting to distinguish between the "straights and hippies." Here's her story.)
"Hey, freak! Take these records!"
Christine Leonard led me to the pavilion, past hesitant groups who followed her blanketed and black-hosed form with curious eyes. Some fraternity men who had come to "raise some hell" left before the Burlington Express started playing an hour later.
I did, thinking her greeting didn't sound friendly enough for a "Love-In." But it was probably one of the most spontaneous exchanges between KU hippies and straighter students who met Saturday at Potter's Lake.
Blue prism glasses
Meanwhile, through a borrowed pair of blue prism glasses,
I watched the confusion of 400 people gathering on the lawn.
"No offense," said a straight friend who was "getting sick"
on the prevalent odor of incense, "but you're just not the right type!"
I was not offended until later when introducing myself to a bearded and booted boy who answered, "So what?" So I wanted to know about the Vietnam vigils in front of Watson Friday afternoons, but listened instead to his idea of revolution:
Another hippie told me nothing was planned—but he could tell the numerous "political" participants were impatient waiting for someone to lead the action. The less anxious ones were content to blow bubbles, play their "15-cent Berkeley tourist shop" instruments, or finger beads.
"Organize yourself first. Everybody's trying to go around organizing society. Just grow your hair long. It blows their minds."
There was a girl with a flower painted on her stomach, a boy with the peace symbol painted on the lenses of his glasses and a man with "a-nice-medieval-medal-because - I - like - midieval - history."
And there was Mrs. Leonard, seated on a blanket with a basket of costume jewelry,
Hinnie symbols
match boxes, and other items which might logically have been for her baby son to play with. But he was busy carrying flowers to a clean-cut girl a few feet away.
One of her out-of-town friends was complaining that Joseph R. Pearson Hall had the only food service he had found on campus.
"In the basement of that there's a whole lot of stuff. There's a lot of hostile people up there, but that doesn't matter."
One of his peers had said the hippie subculture has "no right to be aggressive" and straight society "should be tolerant."
'Here I am...'
"It's a big jump to all of a sudden leave, to just hang it all up and say, 'Here I am, World!'" The former Long Beach University student said he left California "to come out and see what's happening all over. After a while it gets old, like anything." He was going to Chicago Sunday.
Another visitor took more than 100 pictures for his light shows at a club in Kansas City. He said he had studied history at the University of Michigan for a semester.
See Hippies, page 9