Daily hansan
Lawrence. Kansas
61st Year, No. 64
Wednesday, Dec. 18, 1963
WINTER NONSENSE—These KU men were creating all sorts of acrobatics on ice yesterday afternoon as they slipped, slid and fell on Potter
Lake in an effort to adapt to the season's first freeze. Students have been figure skating, jumping and playing impromptu ice hockey there since Friday.
African Students Protest Discrimination in Moscow
MOSCOW—(UPI)—Four hundred African students complaining of discrimination in the Soviet Union demonstrated for four hours today outside the Kremlin walls in Red Square.
"Moseow is a Second Alabama," said one of the placards carried by the demonstrators.
There was no violence. United Press International correspondents and others in the area said they saw no scuffles between demonstrators and police or other incidents.
ABOUT 100 OF the demonstrators were admitted to the education ministry building where they handed the education secretary a
William Avery Enters '64 Race For Governor
Pledging to give "a job opportunity in Kansas for every Kansas boy and girl," William H. Avery, a KU graduate, announced his candidacy for governor of Kansas in a press conference at Topeka today.
Avery, a Wakefield farmer who is currently Kansas' second congressional district representative, became the first person to announce his candidacy for the Republican party's 1964 gubernatorial nomination.
petition asking for an investigation of the death of Asira Addo, an exchange student from Ghana, who they said had been found naked beside railroad tracks north of Moscow.
The demonstrators carried signs in English and Russian, one of them saying, "Don't Kill Like Cannibals." Another said, "Away With Gangsterism."
The student, according to the sources, was returning to his school at Kalinin from a Kenya independence celebration in Moscow.
In a prepared statement, Avery gave prime attention to state finance.
"URGENT ATTENTION to efficiency and economy in government is demanded by the trend to expanded state services and deficiency in state income," he said. "As I view the Kansas finance problem, we have now over-committed existing sources of revenue."
"We must turn this tide by stimulating the growth and development of Kansas economy. My objective as governor would be a job opportunity in Kansas for every Kansas boy and girl. To find these jobs we must look to accelerated growth in the industrial complex of Kansas."
The former Kansas legislature representative spoke of Kansas position among agricultural states
The Soviet Union denies any racial policies and is in the midst of a political offensive to win friends in Africa. Racial disturbances have broken out previously in the Soviet satellites. Last Feb. 12 about 200 African students demonstrated along the main boulevard of Sofia, Bulgaria while complaining of discrimination.
"Each Kansas farm worker produces more than any other farmer," he said. "No doubt this is in part due to the excellent research effort at Kansas State University.
After massing in Red Square, the students broke up into two groups one marching in order to the Ministry of Education and the other to the Ghanaian Embassy.
temperatures while "highly intoxicated."
Unfortunately, agricultural progress has not meant more jobs for our young people."
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SCORES OF SOVIET militia (the police) had cordoned off Red Square and closed the entrances to the big Gum Department Store which forms one side. The Kremlin walls are opposite, with the onion domes of St. Basil's and the silver-roofed historical museum.
QUALIFIED SOVIET sources said that Addo, a second year medical student, whose death led to today's demonstration, was found fully clothed near Kalinin, about 100 miles north of the Soviet capital.
They said an autopsy showed that the African had frozen in below zero
None of the demonstrators entered the Kremlin proper, whose main Spassky Gate was closed as soon as the first demonstrators were sighted.
Students apparently had come from as far as Leningrad and Kiev to participate in the demonstration, a well-planned operation.
No ASC Action On 'Stop Week'
A proposed "stop week" was discussed by the All Student Council last night in a three-hour session dominated by reports from 15 organizations and committees.
A motion from Walter Bgoya, Tanganyika junior, to request the University to set aside a class-free week prior to final examinations was finally tabled so that the calendar committee of the University Senate may be consulted.
"The last week before finals should be free of classes, although review sessions could be set up for students to review their work with their professors." said Bgova.
THE MAIN OBSTACLE pointed out was that the calendar committee usually works two years ahead.
"The committee is now arranging the 1965-66 schedule," Bill Brier, Overland Park junior, said.
BOB STEWART, Bartlesville, Okla., junior, said that by notifying the calendar committee of an active interest in a "stop week," the ASC may cause the University to make allowances in the future.
The amendments were introduced by Brier, whose large men's residence hall district would have gotten six ASC representatives instead of five last month if 40 invalid ballots could have been counted.
Amendments to the elections bill which will add voided ballots to valid ones in determining living district representation in fall elections were approved unanimously.
Voided ballots, however, still will not count for candidates themselves.
AMENDMENTS TO BOTH the elections bill and the ASC constitution were required because both mentioned the procedure on the counting of invalid ballots. Neither may go into effect unless the constitutional amendment is approved by the student body this spring.
Also passed were two resolutions ratifying business of the Big Eight Student Government Association and the newly-formed Council on Higher Education in Kansas, and a resolution congratulating Breon Mitchell, Salina senior, for winning a Rhodes Scholarship.
NEW LEGISLATION was introduced last night by Jerry Bell, McLouth senior, and Jim Cline, Rockford, Ill., sophomore. Bell moved that debate on business be limited to periods of from five to fifteen minutes unless rules are suspended. Cline proposed to kill the ASC bill which requires all extra-curricular organizations to register with the council and to form a constitution committee, which would maintain revised copies of the ASC constitution and bills for members.
This legislation will be considered at the next council meeting Jan.7.
THE ASC CHAIRMAN ruled that two former council members who filed letters of intent to run for student body president or vice-president could not serve apprenticeships. John Stuckey, Pittsburg senior, said Greg Turner, Seattle senior, and Charles Whitman, Shawnee Mission senior, could not become apprentices—and hence gain speaking privileges—because their previous service on the ASC has qualified them to run for the top two offices.
All but one organization receiving funds from the ASC reported on their activities. Such reports are required every two months or their appropriations may be frozen. People-to-People did not give a report.
Sam Evans, Salina junior, was named by Vox Populi to replace Larry Gamble, Pittsburg senior, as School of Business representative. Gamble sent a letter of resignation to Stuckey last night.
Art Curator Discusses Van Gogh's Life
By Linda Ellis
The tormented life of Vincent Van Gogh and its influence on other painters was discussed yesterday by Gerald Bernstein, curator of the KU Museum of Art.
Bernstein said, "Van Gogh had tremendous impact on his own generations down to the present.
"VINCENT VAN GOGH was first to bring feeling, emotion and expressionism into painting."
The artist was born in 1853 but did not begin his career as a painter until 1882. His career lasted eight years until he committed suicide in 1890.
In his early years Van Gogh was torn between the two factions of his family. On one side were the religious fanatics and on the other were the art dealers. Van Gogh leaned toward the religious life.
the legacy of Van Gogh reaches into the 20th century, he said.
HE BECAME a missionary and traveled around Belgium and other countries as a type of social worker. He failed the tests required to become a priest. Bernstein said Van Gogh "failed to become a priest because he was over emotional."
The artistic technique used by Van Gogh is called expressionism which Bernstein defined as "the desire of
the artist to emphasize personal, direct contact with the work of art: an emotional experience."
Van Gogh's early works were in the tradition of Holland, where he was born and reared. His later works were in a different style however. One of the early paintings, "The Potato Eaters," showed coal miners in Belgium eating their meal in an underground cave in a dimly lighted corner. It showed the intense inner emotion that motivated the work. Bernstein said this particular painting was a clue to what would eventually form his technique.
DURING THIS early period in his life, Van Gogh went to Paris to join his brother, an art dealer. This was another stage in his life when he began to use new techniques in his work. He started to use device like the heavy application of paint to the canvas and the use of intense colors.
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During this Parisian period he was influenced by Cezanne, Renoir and Seurat. He tried to use the techniques of Seurat but was unsuccessful. Seurat worked out a scientific system of dots that solved the problems of impressionism.
In 1888 Van Gogh went to Southern France to get away from the torment that was Paris in those years. He was influenced by Seurat, impressionism and Japanese prints during the years before he left Paris. He tried to produce the same feeling in his works that the Japanese presented in theirs.
"One of the most telling examples of Van Gogh's work is 'Starry Night,' said Bernstein. "In it he attempts to show the energies of the night. In large, strong strokes he tried to get across the feeling of the power of the skies at night."
At that point he decided to form a "House of Friends" and invited Paul Gauguin to live with him and paint. Gauguin had a great influence on Van Gogh because of his attempts to relate to flat patterns of color.
WHILE IN southern France the artist had many of his greatest moments. He became conscious of light as an emotional, symbolic thing.
BERNSTEIN SAID the painting was hard to describe or discuss. He said a person cannot say what it looks like but can experience it.
Van Gogh's experience in southern France cost him his health, and in 1889 he had a nervous breakdown. He stayed in an asylum for less than six months, and after his release he went from bad to worse and finally took his life in 1890.
The works and techniques of the Dutch artist influenced 19th and 20th century art.
AMERICAN ARTIST Charles Birchfield, in depicting a heavy, mechanized society, employs some of the same devices that Van Gogh used.
Comparing a work of Van Gogh with one of Reginald March, Bernstein pointed out the similarities of purpose in both men. Van Gogh's "Prison Yard" showed an intense scene at the local prison. March's "Jobless" was a scene taken during the depression of the 1930s. Both men were commenting on social customs of their times.
"Van Gogh should not be viewed as a madman or a fool but as a tormented soul who wanted to get his emotions down in the only way he knew how," Bernstein said.