'Griff & Unicorn' makes Kansas debut
Dave Sokoloff, creator of "Griff and the Unicorn," at work.
"Griff and the Unicorn" cavort today for the first time on the Editorial Page of the Kansan.
The comic strip, created by Dave Sokoloff, Wilmette, Ill., freshman, will appear in the Kansan three times weekly.
Griff and the Unicorn deals with personality conflicts between mythological animals.
Sokoloff began drawing Griff and the Unicorn two years ago while a high school student, but dropped the strip, he said, because it was becoming stale. He then began a strip called Mr. Bothtee, influenced by James Thurber. Sokoloff said he dropped Mr. Bothtee because he felt that working with human characters in a comic strip was too confining.
Griff and the Unicorn are the prototypes of the "Odd Couple," with Griff the leader of the group. While Griff is typical of the egotistical leader, Unicorn is "the misanthropic wet blanket" of the group. Sokoloff said, "Heaven knows why he sticks around Griff." All of the characters in the strip are male except Daisy, the only flower in history who does animal imitations.
Sokoloff worked with animals when he first began drawing cartoons, but said he switched to mythological animals because they are more glamorous.
The stars in Sokoloff's mythical animal parade occupy themselves much like university students—attacking footballs, dozing in the sun, probing the traumas of existence, making noise.
Griff and his cronies hopefully will provoke a grin for their readers.
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UDK News Roundup
Costly mistake
SAIGON (UPI)—U.S. helicopter gunships mistakenly opened fire with rockets and machine guns on a group of Vietnamese civilians, killing 7 and wounding 17 in a Mekone Delta accident today.
Military spokesmen said the victims were fleeing a marshy plain where South Vietnamese soldiers had been sent yesterday to find a Viet Cong unit that was supposed to be there.
Calls news conference
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Having announced two troop withdrawals, the White House is now trying to convince Hanoi it cannot expect unlimited U.S. concessions unless it does something in return.
Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird called a news conference for 10:30 a.m. EDT today, presumably to detail which units will be involved in the latest decision to pull 35,000 troops out by Dec. 15.
The withdrawal of 35,000 is in addition to a previous cut of 25,000.
Barricades down
BELFAST. Northern Ireland (UPI)—Roman Catholics backed down on earlier demands and agreed to help remove street barricades today they erected during sectarian riots last month.
The Rev. Patrick Murphy and other leaders of the Catholics' Civil Defense Committee met army officials yesterday and promised their community would pitch in to remove all 160 barriers by Friday.
To fill Senate seat
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (UPI)—Gov. Richard B. Ogilvie was to announce today the man who will take the U.S. Senate seat held by the late Republican Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen.
The man named by Ogilvie in a noon EDT news conference will serve until November, 1970, when voters will choose who will serve the four years which will be left of Dirksen's term.
Plans ninth brewery
ST. LOUIS (UPI)—Anheuser-Busch Inc. announced yesterday plans to build a $40 million brewery and a residential recreational facility near Williamsburgh, Va.
80th Year, No.3
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas Wednesday, Sept. 17, 1969
Haynsworth's fortune is Senate's concern
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Senate liberals want assurances Judge Clement F. Haynsworth's private fortune will never impair his judicial honesty as a Supreme Court justice.
"The essence is whether or not he himself had any interest in the outcome of any case—whether he could benefit from it," said Sen. Joseph D. Tydings, D-Md.
"We go beyond the question of whether he's honest or not," said Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind. He told newsmen he feared Haynsworth might "stumble along naively," keeping honest but failing to realize the public might suspect taint if the judge rules on a case involving a firm in which he had stock or some other connection.
Haynsworth, 56, chief judge of the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., was called back
VP election
Election of a student body vicepresident to replace Marilyn Bowman, who was suspended as a result of participating in the disruption of the Chancellor's ROTC Review, May 9, will be conducted by the Student Senate at 7:30 p.m. today in the Kansas Union Forum Room.
Candidates for the office must be members of the Student Senate. Among those who have filed for the office are: Collene Collins, Quanah, Tex., senior; Gus Di Zerega, Wichita, special student; and Frank Zilm, St. Louis, Mo., senior.
for a second day of questioning by the Senate Judiciary Committee today.
The bespectacled South Carolinian, who appeared edgy and stuttering under hours of questioning, told the committee Tuesday, he never had knowingly judged any case in which he might be remotely considered to have a financial interest.
"I was not aware of any financial interest I might have in the outcome of that lawsuit and I'm still not aware of any." Haynsworth said of a controversial 1963 case in which he ruled at least partially in favor of Darlington Manufacturing Co.
Darlington is a subsidiary of Deering-Milliken Co. Conflict of interest allegations against Haynsworth
arose because Carolina Vend-A-Matic, a firm in which the judge had a one-seventh interest, got about $100,000 of business in 1963 from Deering-Milliken.
Tydings and Bayh said they did not doubt Haynsworth's honesty; but they insisted on asking more questions about the vending firm, the Haynsworth family law firm and perhaps the judge's portfolio of stocks and bonds, which puts him at least close to the millionaire bracket. Haynsworth said he made about $400,000 when Carolina Vend-A-Matic sold out to a bigger firm in 1963.
Pass/No Credit revised
Pass/No Credit has been revised and renamed. Now known as Credit/No Credit, the option is being offered to undergraduate students of participating schools this fall, officials said.
Grades of A, B and C will be recorded as "Credit" on the students' grade report and transcript. Grades of D and F will be recorded as "No Credit." Students will no longer receive credit for D's earned in courses under the option.
Students can no longer elect the Credit/No Credit option during enrollment. Officials said students desiring to enroll in a course under Credit/No Credit must fill out an option card during the third or fourth week of classes, the period from September 29 through October 10. Once the option card has been filled
out, it is not possible to change back to conventional grades.
Any undergraduate student except those in the schools o Business and Education, can elec to take one course per semeste under the Credit/No Credit opition. Students are not allowe to take courses in their declare major under Credit/No Credi officials said.
When a student chooses an eligible course, he fills out an option card. The cards are then kept confidential by the Registrar so instructors do not know which of their students are participating in the option, officials said. Instructors will turn in the usual grades of A, B, C, D or F to the Registrar. Grades will be changed to Credit/No Credit by the Registrar's office.
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