University Daily Kansan
Fridav. Nov. 2, 1962
Food, Sex Topics Of Campus Poets
Poem subjects ranged from food to sex at the Student Union Activities (SUA) poetry hour yesterday.
THE VARIETY of works composed by KU talent was as different as the appearance of the student poets.
Gordon Bennett, Lawrence graduate student, in bow tie and grey suit termed himself a "would-be poet" who writes because he enjoys it. Bennett read, among others, a Halloween poem which he "dashed off while my wife was giving a haircut" for his children to take trick or treating.
Bennett recommended that every-one become a poetry scribler. "Poems create the climate for real talent," he said.
Fine, Lawrence junior, was so nervous that between stanzas of the poem he sipped coffee or drawn on his cigarette.
IT COULD HAVE been his beard, but Warren Fine's appearance seemed to imply a Bohemian flavor.
He explained that his poem was divided into nine sections. It tells how boy meets girl, they part and both grow up. Later man meets women.
At one point he mentioned man's lonliness and his search for love. In another verse he said "Laughter is the only key in man's search for happiness."
Delmar Wilcox, Omaha, Neb. graduate student dressed in dark blue suit, embodied the scholar.
WILCOX SAID that no longer can a university be regarded as a place where people go when they have nowhere else to go or when they can't make it out in the world.
This was the theme of his poem, "The Scholar."
He also said that art galleries are like walking graveyards, meaning that they stand as lasting memorials to the authors' names.
Below are portions of Fine's "Reply to a New Love's Query" and Bennett's "College Lunchroom."
"Reply to a New Love's Query": The universe confuses you And so you ask me what it means, But I am a vagabond too. I, like you, am an illkep guest Who has never met his host; I have stopped here as a ghost stops For a moment in a mirror, Whose sex appearance goes unseen, And soon will disappear.
SO DO NOT ask me what it means
Or what you are to do:
Woman I am as lonely as you.
Synthetic soles scurr and stop, and ran-tab-
Tap on vinyl floors. The gleaming, unstained
Rods roll through white hands. Flat brown travs
Caress cheese casseroles, steam-
table nests
NOSTRILS SPOUT, notions flap as meager
Designed to fill the scholar's crop healthily.
Gabbling, gobbling mouths smile and smile.
Puse their pride, know all the while
That all the answers rest in numbers, glands and viaducts
As hands coil round the coffee cups stealthily.
THE HEART leaps and screams echoing Faustian fates;
We hear from the kitchen the rattle of dirty plates.
Record Classes Boost Enrollment
The record KU enrollment at Lawrence of 10,509 students includes two record-sized classes, graduate students and juniors.
The largest class still is the freshman class, although its total of 2,576 is down 45 from the record set last year. The decline reflects the slight nationwide dip in the number of U.S. and Kansas births in 1944.
After the freshmen, next largest group is the 1,990 graduate students, despite the fact that the move of the freshman medical class to the Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., took 86 graduate students to that campus. Despite the move, this year's graduate class has 151 more members than last year's—an all-time high.
The senior class, unaffected as yet by the 1960 enrollment upsurge, continues its gentle decline of the past four years to a present total of 1,746, 9 less than last year.
The sophomore class made its big jump last year—nearly 350 students. This year the class had a small 81-student rise to 1,884. The bulge of two years ago, which increased the 1960 freshman enrollment by nearly 500 students, now has reached the junior class, jumping it 357 over last fall to a total of 1,981.
"Paint Your Wagon," Lerner and Loew's hit musical, will bring the rough and rowdy California gold rush days to the stage of the University Theatre at 8:30 p.m. Sunday.
Phil Harris, Lawrence graduate student, is Ben Rumson, a wandering miner who moves from strike to strike. He takes his daughter, Jennifer, portrayed by Sylvia Anderson, Wilmette, ill., junior, with him.
Rumson founds a rush town and Jennifer grows from tomboy to lady among 400 miners.
Gold Rush Fun Coming Here
THE MINERS finally suggest Rumson send her back East to a finishing school.
It's bad enough knowin' what you ain't got—namely women, the miners sav.
But it's worse seein' what you ain't got—namely Jennifer.
BEFORE JENNIFER leaves she falls in love with Julio Valveras, played by David Holloway, Gas City junior.
Valveras is a Spanish-American youth, desperately trying to earn enough money to buy a ranch in the California Valley.
"Wanderin' Star" is the theme song of the musical. Other popular
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numbers in the show are "I Talk to the Trees," "Another Autumn," "Flisa," and "Maria."
William Kuhlike, instructor of speech and drama and director of the show, said the plot of the story is not just a framework on which to hang song and dance numbers. It's a story that needs to be told like "The King and I" or "Oklahoma."
A HIGH POINT in the show is a can-can by Mimi Frink, Lawrence freshman. Miss Frink is a French ballerina imported to "dance on her big toe" in Jake Whippany's saloon. Whippany is played by Roger A. Brown. Topeka graduate student.
Miss Frink, Tomi Worthham, Lawrence graduate student, and C. Eugene Masoner, Lenexa freshman, have the major dance roles in "Paint Your Wagon."
The play will run through Nov. 10.
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