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Controversial movie about gays probably to show in Lawrence
Staff Reporter
By MARK PITTMAN
It is only a matter of time before "creating," a controversy in depleted spawning waters, becomes heroes homosexuals, is shown in Lawrence, according to Edden Harwood, district manager for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
"I haven't signed any contract as of now, but I don't see why it shouldn't be shown," Harwood said.
"Cruising," based on a novel by Gerald Walker, stars Al Pacino as a patrolman assigned to go undercover to find a brutal rapist in the homosexual community. The picture's explicit violence and sex with William Friedkin's handling of the topic.
GAY ACTIVISTS have been enraged by Friedkin's treatment of what they call stereotypes in the movie *Friedkin Rinmed*. The film mocks the role of protest. Demonstrators picketed previews in New York and San Francisco and the town of Milwaukee, 100 theaters nationwide also evoked protests.
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But the Lawrence gay community has adopted a wait-and-see attitude toward the film, according to Todd Zwali, co-director of Gav Services of Kansas.
Zwahl, who hasn't seen the movie, said that his organization had planned no formal
Zwaith said they were hoping it would go over quietly because any sort of bad publicity for the film might improve box office receipts.
protest but that circumstances might change.
"Any negative reaction should be directed to the people responsible for making the film." Zwahl said.
Zwahi also said he thought that gays shouldn't picket an anti-gay film, just as anti-gay shouldn't rotest a roe-avian film.
A GAY KU STUDENT who had seen the movie, Bill Clark, Lawrence graduate student, said he didn't like the movie and didn't lift up the "Anny Bryant syndrome."
"People resort to violence sometimes, when given things they don't understand," Clark said.
Another gay KU student, Rickey Baker Kanese City, KA, sonnip, sophomore, the film appealed to the "homophobic." Baker saw a male X-rated version of the film at preview.
Clark said the only redeeming social value of "Cruising" might be a warning to all people not to get into sexual roles they couldn't handle.
In the Kansas City area there have been no protests, although the剧院 had been prepared with extra security for the opening nights of the show.
"We really haven't had any problems," said Greg Rutkowski, division manager for
American Multi-Cinema, one of two Kansas City are theater chains showing the picture. "Any picture that is this controversial is not," she said, but I don't think it has been excessive."
Both American Multi-Cinema and Mid-America Cinema, the other chain showing the film, have disclaimers on the marquee of the usual publicity for "Crulée."
THE DISCLAIMERS STATE that, when a character known as "blind-binding," the剧院 are forced to run a picture without a preview of its contents face a possible rejection.
The notice also apologizes to patrons and suggests that complaints be addressed to United Artists, distributors of the film.
However, box office receipts may play a more important role than moral outrage in determining the length of the film's run in Kansas City.
Rutkowski said the film would continue until another motion picture came along that would be more profitable.
He said his company probably would show the film for about four weeks. Film purchasing agreements usually call for a minimum of one week.
"We're not locked into this if the picture doesn't do well," Rutkowski said. "But at this point I don't see any cut off."
Rutkowski said that "Cruising" should be showing in Lawrence for six to six weeks.
National solar energy conference to aid utility companies in long-range planning
Final plans are being made for a national solar energy conference to be sponsored by the University of Kansas and Kansas Power and Light Company. May 11 in 13 towns
The purpose of the conference is to help utility companies decide how solar energy can be deployed. A recent working coordination to Robert Riordan, manager of KU Applied Energy Research and Public
directors by President Carter in 1977 and has served as chairman since 1978. He is a member of the White House energy staff and served as a resource consultant to Mr. Obama.
Besides Freeman's address, the conference will consist of presentations by energy experts from around the country, Riordan said.
"There is plenty of information going around about solar energy, but no one has made definite plans on how they are going to use it. There is enough data; we can."
Response so far has been good, Iordan said, and almost 300 state and federal energy officials, utility managers and professors have registered for the conference.
Woollohf said he might have to turn people away if registration continued at the same rate during the next few weeks.
SenEx discusses long-range planning in closed meeting with administrators
William Woolloh, assistant vice president of KPL, said yesterday that KU was chosen to co-sponsor the conference because of its strong program in energy research.
By BILL MENEZES Staff Reporter
The University Senate executive committee has assigned a subcommittee to oversee the university's University planning process proposed by SenEx memoir Lawrence Sherr, that
for planning, that the planning process should be made an integral part of current University organization and that planning levels whether possible or department levels whenever possible.
SenEx met in closed session Friday with Chancellor Archie R. Dykes; Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor; and Rajah K. Mansour, the president for academic affairs, to discuss the issue.
In a December memorandum to SenEx, Sherr had proposed a planning process based on five principles and a proposal that is compatible to current organizational practices.
THE PRINCIPLES state that the planning process should involve the administration, faculty and students, that the administration is ultimately responsible
Financial exigency is a policy that would require stability measures, such as the release of tenured faculty members, in times of severe financial crisis.
Long-range University training is an attempt to keep academic standards intact despite possible enrollment declines in the future or financial problems.
At the motion of member Worth, SenXa approved the writing of a preamble to Sherh's proposals that could be taken as a request to the University to work on these proposals.
Sherr's principles also state that long-range planning does not mean planning for financial exigency, although some principals are aware of the Regents financial exigency plan are asked.
for financial aid and a plus and minus grading system,
Zuther reported on a recommendation from the University Senate committee on financial aid to students that some teachers should be a stricter grade point average schedule.
Recommendations from the committee on organization and administration that all students graduating available to all schools were forwarded to the University Council to be
SenEx chairman Gerhard Zuther described the response from the three administrators as "favorable."
Max Sutton, committee chairman, said the revision involved a slight raise in the grade point average requirement.
Anthony Smith, committee chairman, said making the system available to all schools would eliminate inconveniences in computing grade point averages of students in schools that did not use the system, but who took classes in schools that did.
SHERR'S PROPOSALS were approved by SenEx earlier this month.
Only the School of Architecture and the School of Law now have a plus and minus grading system.
"KU has always been a center for energy research and they have the personnel and the ability to schedule the conference," Weelhoff said.
In other business, SenEx discussed a possible tightening of grade requirements
Bv DON MUNDAY
Staff Reporter
According to Riordan and Woolloh, the conference will not require funding from the University. Woolloh said the registration fee is $200, should cover all costs for the conference.
The keynote speaker for the conference will be David Freeman, chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority, a utility company that provided several alternative energy programs.
A reorganization of wildlife management programs in Kansas that is under consideration by the Kansas Legislature was approved by a commissionation by two Lawrence legislatures yesterday.
ONE OF THE PROPOSALS, Solbach said, would allow state tax income tax contributions for contributions made to outdoor recreation in the House of Representatives last week.
State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton and John Solbach, both Lawrence democrats, said at a public meeting yesterday that improvements in Kansas wildlife management needed but that only one of two proposals before the legislature was likely to succeed.
Freeman was named to the TVA board of
"Things like that usually take years," she said. "The Department of Energy and the Department on Aging were created, but it changed the person and get things done."
said, would be the creation of a cabinet-level Kansas Department of Natural Resources, which would incorporate the various outdoor programs into one organization.
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The creation of such a department, said, would probably be opposed by the Kanada government as well as other agencies which would be placed under the department's action.
CHARLTON AGREED, saying that changes in the Fish and Game Commission's structure probably would not be popular.
Joseph Collins, vertebrate zoologist for the American Academy of History, said the focus of either the deduction or the reorganization proposals should focus on timing and management of mature wildlife.
The fish and game commission is now supposed to manage the 80 percent of Kansas wildlife that is non-game, he said, including the appropriations not the staff to do so.
A more comprehensive change, Charlton
"The commissioners are naturally entrenched in the vested interests of their jobs," she said.
"They were told to draw up a Kansas Endangered Species list, which they did," Collins said, "but they weren't given any money to follow it up."
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