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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, September 22, 1967
Beer, hippies, football, etc.
Dick Gregory is coming to KU. If he thinks the Negro faces discrimination in the South, he should see the KU student body during enrollment.
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The solution to one phase of Psychedelia seems to be simply to tell the hippies to go or get off the pot.
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It appears that the legal sale of beer in the Kansas Union is about as likely as strolling up to the Dean of Women's office and asking for a Scotch and water.
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Little Miss Muffit sat on her tuftit,when along came her adviser and told her she couldn't sit on her tuftit this semester because she had an even student number.
El Gallo mentioned that during enrollment, he got into one interesting line, but it ended in the ladies' rest room. The janitor wouldn't give him the SSN number. Gallo says these activities courses are getting harder to get into all the time.
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It seems both KU and K-State are getting the football season started with a lot of good action. But there's a difference—K-State has been makin' more noise.
Well, we'll see how big-mouth Gibson and his clawless Wildcats fare when they meet the strong silent types on the Hill Nov. 4.
And thank Heaven that Howdy Week is over. Obnoxious signs are never welcome.
— John Hill, Allan Northcutt
China-the unknown
Foreign News Commentary By Charles R. Smith
HONG KONG — (UPI) — Communist China is still the big "X" factor in the Vietnam war.
Is China likely to enter the conflict and have a direct confrontation with the United States?
If so, at what point would the Chinese make their move?
Is the escalation of American bombing in North Vietnam—the blasting of the port of Haiphong and raids right up to the China border—pushing China to the brink of intervention?
Nobody Knows
These are only a few of the questions political analysts in this China listening post, and plenty of people elsewhere, are asking as the United States steps up the air war over North Vietnam.
Nobody outside the inner circle of Peking policy makers has the precise answers.
But some diplomats and other observers with long experience in China watching have some educated guesses.
There's no clear consensus but the predominant theory is that it will take more than stepped-up bombing inside North Vietnam to get China directly involved in the conflict.
There long has been general agreement among most experienced China watchers that China
would not intervene directly in the Vietnam war unless;
—She were attacked directly and deliberately by the United States.
—There was a large-scale land invasion of North Vietnam.
—The Hanoi regime was threatened with imminent collapse.
Widely Accepted
Obviously, there are other conditions or situations which might bring China into the war. But these are the mostly widely accepted.
China's policy on the Vietnam war is based on the premise that "wars of liberation," supported from outside but kept contained, offer the best method for expanding Communist control.
A key element in the ideological
... quotes ...
Francis Bacon in "Of Marriage and Single Life": "Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton, in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 1887: "Power tends to corrupt: absolute power corrupts absolutely."
"Some Supersonic Warplanes, Some Money To Pay For ThemAnd Oh Yes, Some Food For The Peasants”
dispute with the Soviet Union has been China's contention that such wars can be contained. The Russian position is that such local wars contain the seeds of a general war that could become a nuclear confrontation.
Letters
China's position on the Vietnam war has been essentially the same since it began. She pledged complete support and a willingness to do whatever was necessary when and if the North Vietnamese asked.
To the Editor:
As chairman pro tem of the still-nascent Graduate Student Association, I would like to thank the Kansan for its coverage of last Tuesday's meeting, but point out that at our meeting we neither formulated a list of grievances nor made any demands upon the administration for representation. The meeting was held to set up standing committees to investigate the need and the possibility of campus representation of graduate students in academic affairs that concern them.
Regarding this purpose, the meeting succeeded, since two committees were formed, one to investigate the possibility of functional representation on the University Senate, the Graduate Council, and the ASC, the other to contact graduate students in more departments so our group will become truly representative.
Quoting me, the article read, at one point, "We object to changes in grading system of the Graduate School." What I said was that it is unfortunate that there is no medium, such as a Graduate Student Newsletter, for notifying graduate students of administrative policy changes, such as the new grading system.
Actually, the newly modified system will benefit graduate students. Instead of automatic probation after a predetermined number of hours of "C," the student now remains in good standing as long as he maintains an over-all GPA of 2.0, no matter how many "C's" he receives.
I was interested to read the views of Hamilton Salsich, who was present at the meeting and is now working on one of the committees. However, Mr. Salsich's views are merely personal opinion and may or may not be incorporated into the organization's policy itself.
The Organizational Committee is presently drafting a statement of policy to be put before the graduate student body. After ratification, this draft proposal will become official policy for the association.
Jack Casey Stanley graduate
Hawaii-a classic yawn
By Scott Nunley
Never in recent months has the American public been offered a movie quite so long and so dull as "Hawaii." In some inexplicable fashion, Director Hill has managed to turn an exciting source and three exciting stars into a classic yawn.
As such giant "roadshow" films become more familiar to the public, something less like snobbery and more like quality will be demanded of them. This is the day to question the huge box-office receipts and apparent acclaim won by these early behemoths.
The roadshow typically flashes a name author and name stars from its marquee. The original novel by, for example, James A. Michener is ballyhooed loudly, while the bastardized screenplay by Trumbo-Taradash remains unwhispered. Superstars are produced for the aggrandizement of the superfilm, where a recognizable face is more valuable than a memorable performance.
The final lure of the typical readshow is color. Miles of Viennese or Polynesian background footage are run before the awed viewer in complete disregard of the needs of plot or theme. If minds reel or tears flow, the film editor is triumphant.
Extraordinary Fees
Names and color are expensive, of course; and to return its vast investment, the roadshow rents for extraordinary fees—which the local movie operator immediately passes on to his customers. In some nouveau snob theaters, such as the Glenwood in Kansas City, reserve seat luxuries themselves may lend an air of value to the long-playing feature.
"Hawaii" is not, however, the typical roadshow; it must be some zenith of crass profiteering. Even "The Sound of Music" offered more substance to its overblown reputation. And, in fact, the larger budget of the roadshow, coupled with more intelligent direction, can occasionally produce a truly magnificent film on the order of "Dr. Zhivago" or "My Fair Lady." But "Hawaii" is not great or even mediocre; it is embarrassingly bad.
Max von Sydow's attempt to play an aged missionary would do credit to a local high school senior. With ludicrous stereotyped mannerisms, he hobbles to the island dock to bid his children a sentimental farewell. Makeup too obviously plastered and painted creaks almost as forlornly as von Sydow's walk.
Julie Andrews does begin the movie with promise, creating an interestingly pious New England Miss. Her early scenes with von Sydow are the film's few gleams. No one seems to know, unfortunately, how to develop the miss into a missus; so with good cheer and platitudes, Julie wastes into an early grave.
Attempt at Quality
With a vast scene to photograph, Director Hill, too, makes an initial attempt at quality. His pre-credit sequence recreates the mythology of the islands and his frosty New England moments crackle with strength. Even the voyage of the Good Ship begins stormily and well—but flounders at anchor in that placid lagoon.
The remainder of "Hawaii" is stifled by a succession of dull interiors. Ship cabins and village huts stumble by with a frequent lack of transition. Almost any one of the Enda Ferber movies—"Giant," "Ice Palace"—manages to handle the passing of the years with more skill.
The time is gone when the novelty and glamor of the roadshow were enough to insure steady months of high-paying customers. The new superfilm will have to show its medals, of which "Hawaii" lacks even a Good Conduct Ribbon.
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