University Daily Kansar
Monday, Nov. 19, 1951
Banned 'Anvil' Sells All Copies And Arouses Various Reactions
By DIANNE STONEBRAKER
"Anvil and Student Partisan," official organ of the KU Socialist Study club, went on sale the same day as did the second issue of the Sour Owl. But the reactions to the two publications were quite different.
"Anvil," first banned at the University, only last Wednesday was allowed to go on sale—and this permission was restricted to off-campus sale.
The reaction of students to "Anvil" differed greatly from the reaction to the Sour Owl. One not-too-observant student exemplified this reaction when she went up to an artist's stand and field out her hand with a sweet smile.
Discovering that the publication
He Stays Calm As A-Bombs Light Skies
BY ROBERT BENNYHOFF U.P. Correspondent
Beaty, Nev—How does it feel to live next door to an exploding bomb? or worse yet, to 10 of them?
As a matter of fact, the residents of Beatty have gotten pretty much used to seeing the sky light up and watching mushroom-shaped clouds shoot up over the mountain tops.
Take Irwin Cotton for instance. He's lived in Beatty for the past eight years. He's seen or heard just about every atom bomb that that's been exploded at Frenchman's Flat, a bare 35 air miles away.
Is he scared?
"Most folks in town have seen some of them," he added. "They're pretty interesting if you've never seen one before. The red fire when they first go off and the mushroom cloud later—sure is awful pretty."
"Nope," he says. "After all, there's nothing you can do about it. They're gonna set these things off from time to time anyway, I guess."
"Everybody around town is always talking about the bombs all the time," he said. "Mostly they wonder if something won't go haywire and cause some real damage some day. They figure the government officials must know what they're doing, otherwise, they wouldn't be blowing the darn things up.
"But folks here still wonder what would happen if something went wrong. Mostly they figure we'd catch hell and they wonder what the government would do about it. Maybe they'd evacuate all of us, huh?"
"People around town were pretty nervous when they blew up the first bomb back in January," Mr. Irwin recalled. "We didn't know what would happen to us then. Now they like to make the bombs as a matter of course."
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being sold was not the Sour Owl, she said, "Ch, NO, we don't want THAT!"
Nevertheless, "Anvil" sold out at 4 p.m. the first day it went on sale. Dan Gallin, president of the Socialist Study club, said that they had planned to sell it for three days.
The magazine was sold at 14th and Louisiana street and at 13th and Oread street. The latter stand was the first to sell out.
Comments of those who didn't buy "Anvil" included such phrases as "Damn Communist propaganda," "No, I'm for war," "Drag 'em into court" and "No, not even for toilet paper."
Even those who did buy the publication sometimes commented "It won't set fire to my clothes, will it?" and "Martvr for the cause, eh."
Most of the people who bought "Anvil," however, did not have much to say, according to Galim. "Some seemed distinctly uncomfortable and looked at the stand only from the corner of their eyes as they passed."
He explained that he thought this reaction was because the latter is a less "official" place and people felt less like they were being watched.
"There was no noticeable differentiation along the line of faculty and student or male and female buyers," Gallin said. "However, most of the student buyers were older, probably upperclassmen."
The atmosphere at 13th and Oread street seemed predominantly hostile, while that at 14th and Louisiana street was predominantly friendly, Gallin observed.
The fall, '51 issue of "Anvil" features articles on Roosevelt as a study in the failure of personal politics; an article on sex, class and family in Russia as a "study of women's political power"; and an article in which Irving Howe discusses the 20th century political novel.
Two people asked for information about club and asked to attend meetings.
"Anvil and Student Partisan" is a student anti-war quarterly, published in cooperation with other student socialist groups across the country.
"While we still consider the whole action as makeshift, the rapid sellout of 'Anvil' has done much for the morale of the club," Gallin said.
"Do modern students like to dance? Is dancing a lost art?" These are questions that L. E. Woolley, Union director, is asking as he surveys the hawkless Hawk's Nest on Varsity dance nights.
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The Nest is rather crowded when birds of a feather flock in for between class coffees—but after the last class has been slept through and
the late fall dusk has descended, the soft colored lights might as well be turned out and the Nest turned in for the night.
Mr. Woolley calls the phenomenon "the unknown."
And such a shame that the informal Saturday night "Varsities" go unhonored and unsung. The Student Union Activities has installed a new record player and portable public address system and is providing free recorded music in a collegiate atmosphere—but no college crowd.
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Wilkins Duo Will Present Recital Tonight.
Joseph Wilkins, tenor, and Marie Wilkins, soorano, will appear in recital at 8 today in Strong auditorium.
Mr. Wilkins is chairman of the voice department and director of the University Men's Glee club.
The program will include:
Duet from Act I of "Manon" (Massenet), sung by both artists, "Rossignols amoureux" from "Hip-polyte et Aricie" (Rameau) and "Plus de depit" from "Les Deux Avares" (Gretry), Marie Wilkins.
"Je Suis Titania" from "Migon"
(Thomas), Marie Wilkins.
"Aubade" from "Le Hoi d'Ys" (Lalo), Aria from Act I of "Les Contes de Hoffman" (Offenbach), and "Le Reve" from "Manon" (Massenet), Joseph Wilkins.
"Poems of Paul Verlaine," "Sourdine" (Debusy), "Fantochy" (Debussy), "Clair de lune" (Debusy), "Cest l'extase" (Faure), and "Mandoline" (Faure), Marie Wilkins.
"Phidyle" (Duparc), "Bleuet" (Poulinc) and "Chanson a boire" (Ravel). Joseph Wilkins.
Duet from ACT IV of "Romee et Juliette" (Gounod), both artists.
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