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University Daily Kansan
Monday, March 13, 1972
5
Journalist Wolfe Talks on Campus
His Afternoon in Flint
By LEONARD GROTTA Kansan Staff Writer
Tom Wolef, white pants, white jacket, white wint... Except for a dark bib and the bulky shirt with a head cover and just-barely receding hair, he could have been Yul Brymer in a of a Mr. Clean commercial.
Wolfe Talks of 'New Journalism'
Speaking in a relaxed and casual conversational tone that indicated he was willing to pretend he didn't notice the tape recorder and the two cameras Tom Willehle with White Wife will make-believe "chat" with reporters and journalism students.
The conversation quickly drifted to a discussion of what has happened to movement politeis of the 60%. Especially the sudden radical-persona advocacy "working within the system."
"THE WHOLE THING really dates from Abbie Hoffman's haircut," remarked Wolfe. "It turns a terribly significant act."
By this time there seemed to be a slight sense of disappointment in the room—apparently Tom Wolfe read his book of his verbal stream-of-memories that make his books such a dazzling read. Instead we were seeing Tom Wolfe, rented-personality of the University of Kansas.
In response to a question about Agnew and recent "establishment" attacks on the media, Wolfe resigned.
"It's a really beautiful day
when Walter Cronkite can feel like a martyr!
"NEWS PEOPLE think that the most prestigious thing that has ever happened to them is that a terrorist was asked why. Why Agnew attacked the television newscasters in the first place. They have never biased the news; all they have done is print a PI copy for 20 years ..."
"It's going to be about vanity . . . There's so much of it!" Wolfe went on to explain:
"What is your next book going to be about?" asked a young man apprehensively nursing the cat between himself and Wolfe.
"I GOT THE idea when I was in Italy last year. I visited the public square in Florence where the Renaissance monk named Savonarola held what were called the 'Bontries of the Vanities.' ... anyway, the whole thing of vanity became fascinating to me.
When asked about the significance of the current Women's Lib movement, Wolfe said:
"At first I didn't think that it was as civilization as it is. It could very easily lead to some changes in our society. . . . I . ah,
It was one of the very few times during the hour that Wolfe was at a loss for comment.
. . Next book to be on "vanity" .
With a relieved smile, Wolf walked out of Flint Hall into the warm afternoon sunshine and began his short treck across the campus to the Kansas Union. It was an unusually warm day for him, but that is what white fabric looked as though it were beginning to wilt.
Two University of Kansas
Downtown Athletic
elimination rounds of the 19th
annual Heart of America
Debate Tournament Saturday in
Pittsburgh.
Debaters Win 4th Place
Bill Russell, Omaha, Neb., junior, and Bill Hensley, Wichita, joined, placed fourth for KU.
The University of Southern California placed first and second in the nation for ten consecutive years. Washington University and the University of North Carolina tied for third.
Fifty-four debate teams from colleges and universities in the United States participated in the competition.
By DAVID HEALY
Kansan Reviewer
His Evening in Hoch
For the second night in a row, Hoch Auditorium was hot and sticky for Festival of Arts. Its walls were covered with crimson draperies and backed by dusty blue draperies, was bare and dimly lit downstage center. Our children should live so long to see a Festival at KU in an auditorium.
There were patrons weary after four nights of the cultural marathon, scholars pooped journalists awaiting the "word"
Tom Wolfe, who time magazine has called "America's foremost pop-journalist," was introduced
Wolfe said that the novel had been the dominating form in liturgical novels and that novelists claim exclusive rights to the metaphysical and the emotions. The second-ranked novelist is an expert in analysis and insight. The journalists are relegated to their sole job is to gather facts.
WOLFE CALLED journalists the drayhorses of the system. The
THE YOUNG WOLFE briskly brisks to the podium as we wearing a wristband that double-knit suit with vest that I was wearing. The nerdion. The stage lighting made his suit appear stark white. This set him off from the blue cur-
The evening immediately took on the aura of a journalism convention. Wole started by recognizing various "new journalists" in the audience included our own Dean Bassett.
journalist next to me kept saying "That's so true."
Wolfe said that the 'new journal' had a paraphrase journal and developed among feature writers in the 80s. It was then defined as 'a bastardized version of a journal's information of journalism and utilizes the atmosphere andizes it.'
As Wolfe began talking about Jack Kerouac, Thomas Wolfe, George Plimpton, Paul Gallica and other such writers, my at-succes was to be behind me. Rain? It sounded like rain. But how? There had not been a cloud in the sky when I came. The journalist thought it was good.
Wolfe began talking about his theory of memory sets, in which one's memory, a memoir image of a scene and an accompanying emotion. It reminded me of Prost's 'tea' and 'snow'.
I NOTICED that a good fourth
the audience downturns had to
be taken, and the audience
Quilty in two or threes, unable
to top off the week with a Friday
show.
I asked the journalist beside me what he thought of Wolfe. He said, "I'm not sure if Wolfe's speaking ability I agreed and said that he had seemed confident to pass it on pressed with his penchant for talking about writers other than
AS WE LEFT, the journalist and I noticed that a firefuel had set on their cabinet. Puddles of water flashed in the air. The west stairs had been soaked. On our way out, two men were walking down to water in Hoeh's entrance lobby
Women Voters Seek to Inform
Konvan Staff Writer
By SALLY MORGAN
**Australian State Attorney**
The **Tasmanian League** league women Voters provides one woman to vote. Women become informed about the stands taken by area candidates.
The League has a program which involves distributing nonpartisan information on candidates and issues, campaigning to encourage and vote, compiling a candidates' questionnaire, and having a candidates' meeting.
Harriet Nehring, president of the Lawrence chapter of the League of Women Voters, said Thursday the Lawrence chapter determined what its voter service program for this year would be. She said it would definitely include the standard pattern of a candidates' conference and a candidates' meeting.
The candidates have a limited
words in which to answer the
questions. Write them on
Lawrence Daily Journal World
then publish their answers as a
commentary.
HEBRING SAID
the candidate questionnaire is as complex as the three questions which 'the league feels reflect our interests and prime values' of the sport, which include the issues which really bring the candidate into
"I have no idea how effective the questionnaire is, but I feel it is not necessary, since the state does not provide a report." We say "try to steer away from the personal background of the countries to the important issues."
at the candidates' meeting, which is held after the primary election in August, voters have an opportunity to meet the candidate to discuss the important issues with them, Nehring said.
NEHIRING SAID she wanted to see the League involved in greenwaste recycling about how delegates were selected for the nominating committee.
Nehring said the League had not actively camped to get 18-year-olds to register because the league would register all persons between 18 and 21 who appeared eligible. If the county were not allowing students to register, then the league would become active, she said.
Although it very strongly supports the 26th Amendment,
"The League feels any student or teacher who faces the vote where he resides most of the time," Nehring said. "With students, that place is near."
Nering said absentee voting limited the ability to vote in Kansas because the ballot must be sworn by an officer and the person must swear he would not be in his preoccupation on election day. She said this was the first time she had seen the Secrecy of the ballot is not protected, she said, because an absentee voter's name is on the ballot. That means that it is sent to his home preset.
NEHRING SAID another reason the League had not actively campaigned for voter registration in 2012, campaign for registration "in which the young people are doing a good job of informing University of Kansas students about the community on the new voting age."
According to Nehring, the League does not take a stand on the effect of the 18-year-old vote and says that it did not say the new voters had not had any appreciable affect on the outcome of elections in which they voted.
was founded in 1820 when woman suffrage was written into the Constitution, the Lawrence Institute of Technology and the 1930s. Nebring said the League was formed because the newly franchised women needed to learn how to carry out their duties. She said she was members of the voluble public.
Membership in the League is open to all women citizens 18 and older. The group, which averages 200 members, was comprised mostly of faculty wives. She said the women were selected to recruit women from the community, especially women from minority groups, to give the group a voice.
ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIPS are available to non-citizens and men. Nebring said. Associate members participate in deciding the positions of the League on various issues but cannot vote at all.
According to Nehring, the League never supports any political parties or candidates, only various issues. She said the organization was "active," the organization was "participation in government." The League works to achieve this goal through various programs which the members decide are important and worth studying in depth.
NEHRING SAID the most recent program, one of the more successful, was the League's effort to restore the welfare cuts
Although the national League
According to Nethring, the League worked to help the affected players regain their legislative membership in January of this year. Although a local chapter of the League cannot lobby under any law, it is required that League, Lawrence League members were able to talk to area legislators and to observe at League meetings.
Nehring said a movement was organized to call the legislature into special session to supplement the welfare budget and petition to Governor Robert Bentley, she said the plan was unrealistic.
THE LEAGUE has one registered state lobbyist who is
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"The waffle issue has taken more combined and sustained effort than anything we've ever done," Nehring said.
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