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Friday, March 31, 1972
University Daily Kansan
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Science Fiction Goes to College
By JOE ZANATTA
Science fiction has become part of the college course, James Gunn, KU lecturer in English, said Monday.
"A few years ago you could count the number of science fiction courses in the country on one hand," Gunn said. "Now at least 150 courses have been reported in a recent sur-
Gunn not only teaches a course on science fiction but is also a successful science fiction writer. He was also a contributing Fiction Writers of America. He is in the process of finishing a film series on science fiction writers
"IT IS the literature of alternatives," he said, "for those dissatisfied with the answers implies there is another way."
"It doesn't really matter if the answers science fiction provides are the right answers. Its purpose is to dramatize the problems.
James Gunn
"Nobody is going to come up with the final answers, but an awful thing that happens is that the conscious of a different kind of world, that's what a scientist calls the *unconscious*.
were presented as radio dramas and his story "The Cave of Night" was presented on television as a short film or Ortiz on the Dessin Playhouse.
KU Pep Club Discloses Sharp Membership Fall
The KU Pep Club has suffered a bursage in this ownership this year, Gall Gordon, Prairie Village senior and president of the club, said.
During the last three years the membership has ranged from 200 to 265 girls, not including the 50 to 75 girls who usually dropped out between the football and basketball teams. This year, from an approximate membership of 100, the club dwindled to 70 girls.
Gordon said she was uncertain about the cause of the decline in the club's membership.
Debra Harvey, a Lawrence junior who has belonged to the pep club for three years, suggested that girls felt that as club members they were no different from other spectators.
Gunn has been writing science fiction since 1948. He had had 10 novels and over 50 stories published. Four of his stories
"If we can give the girls something different such as
The Pep Club has undergone organizational changes within the last two years, Gordon said.
different routines or chants, then would be a possible increase in Pep Club interest," Harvey said.
In the past, the club consisted of two groups, the freshman girls known as Frost Hawks and the upper-classmen known as Jay. Both groups seemed to know what the other group was doing. Gordon said.
The Jay James were disbanded in 1869-70, but four members decided to continue the division in the Pep Club. Now, although the Forsh Hawks and upper-class girls elect their office, they function as a unified group.
Besides cheering at athlete events the club helped with the Big Blue campaign last guided supportive athletic recruits around campus and reupholstered the Lashback mosaic.
Senators-Elect to Study Duties, Rules at Retreat
Bailey said the workshop would consist of informal group exercises designed to facilitate interaction and present factual information.
He said the workshop would also offer an opportunity for the new senators to get to know each other informally.
Saturday afternoon there will be presentations by Chancellor E Laurence Chalmer Jr.; Dr. Michael Hodgson for student affairs; and Professor Heiler, vice chancellor for academic affairs, he said.
financed by Student Senate filing fees.
HIS BOOK "The Immortals"
was the basis for the television movie and weekly series "The Immortal."
According to legislation passed this year, the Student Senate workshop will be an annual activity for newly-elected senators.
Gunn's latest book, "The Burning," is about a rebellion against the government by its mutualists by the community. It is set in Lawrence, Kansas City and Leavenworth, burning of the University of Kansas.
The idea for the book, Gunn said, came from the Joe McCarthy era.
"It was an anti-intellectual era," said Gunn, "when faculty members were accused of being sexist." The students supported. "Anti-intellectualism in the American public was reappearing in a dangerous form."
"I SPECULATED why man is
scientist. Scientists can do
and understand things other men
will not be able to no matter how
he thinks."
About 50 newly-elected student senators are expected to attend a workshop this weekend at AllendaleCamp, near Jingo, R.I. Bailey, Ackleshon students and tutors of the workshop, said Thursday.
"the laymen have a good reason to be suspicious. Warfare and the atomic bomb put the enemy out of the reach of the layman."
In "The Burning" the laymen or "lowbrows" rebel and kill the scientists in an attempt to regain control of their destinies.
Most of Gunn's stories are set in this area, especially in Lawrence and Kansas City. The book was that it was easier to write about something you knew about. GUNN'S BACKGROUND is one of general science. He has a B.S. degree in journalism and an M.A. in psychology.
Five students in civil
engineering are elected to
the student chapter of
the American Society of Civil
Engineers for the spring
Bailey said the workshop was
Chapter Elects Five Officers
"When I need to know something, I need research. I know how to find it and that's a good fiction writer needs to know."
They are Dan Higgins,
Jason M. McFarlane,
Mark Lesh, vice-president,
Topkea sophomore; Bill Thomas,
recordess secretary, Eudora
secretral, and corresponding secretary,
Rick freshman, and Rick Henderson,
treasurer. Prairie Village junior
graduate program will include the
organization will include the
design and building of an exhibit
and engineering Exposition in April.
"My stories are not very technical," he said. "Techniques are not what I'm interested in. What I am interested in questions are what I deal with.
Bailey said that the purpose of the workshop was to make information available to the new legislators and to regulate the regulations of the Senate, parliamentary procedure and the nature of their office.
Gunn's idea for an earlier novel, "The Joy Makers" came from his research on "feeling" in an encyclopedia, he said. The type
happiness, "want what you get," that brought about the book that is built around a world with a workable concept of happiness.
"EVERYTHING IS a source of ideas," Gunn said, "if you are looking for them. A science fiction writer is under the obligation to come up with new ideas or, at least, a twist on an old
"The Listeners" a novel scheduled for release next February. It was stimulated by Sullivan's "We Are Not Alone."
The book is about scientists who listen for communications from the environment that could take over 100 years for a response, and indicate, and obtain funds for in a democratic society because of the length of time they can listen.
"What I was mainly interested
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in doing," he said, "was using the theme of communication in people' lives, both interpersonal and interhuman communication.
A Josten representative will
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TWO OTHER books by Gunn and this is a scheduled reading. This is a collection of his stories that have previously appeared in
"The History of Science Fiction" by Gunn is a textbook for science fiction classes. It follows the growth of science fiction from its early writing of Homer, Vergil and Plato, through H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, and up to the now popular "new wave" science fiction class. Gunn has been one of the most avid fans for his science fiction class.
Gunn said he did most of his writing during the summer, which he always reserved for this purpose. A little written can also help with other tasks, he said. He was given a sabbatical leave by the University last fall and used the time to finish "The Listeners"
GUNN IS also completing work on a series of films he has produced for KU's Extramural Independence movement or called "The Adventures of Joseph."
In the series he interviews celebrities of the science fiction world. Completed parts of the series include people such as author Isaac Asimov; John W. Campbell II, Jr., editor of The Nature Stars magazine and Forest Ackerman, science fiction historian.
Gunn said there was much student interest in science fiction. "I don't want to read literature," said Gunn, "that no serious scholarship paid any attention to. But now literary fiction is the new science fiction, and science fiction writers are breaking into the new maturity in science fiction."
"It is a way of getting to reality or that mainstream fiction cannot, 'Gunn said, 'by asking questions like 'Where are we going? Where are we going? Do anything about it?' or 'Can we create a better world?'"
KU to Present Film Festival
The 1972 Ann Arbor Film Festival will be presented today and Saturday in Woodruff Auditorium.
The art department of the university of Michigan selects the films which will be included and sponsors the festival each year.
38 underground experimental films lasting an average of 15 minutes each.
This year's festival consists of
The festival has been brought to the city of Kansas by the department of design, a museum, sculpture and the department of design. There is no admission.
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