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Friday, Sept. 18, 1970
University Daily Kansan
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Agnew Barbs Misdirected, According to FCC Member
WASHINGTON (UPI)—FCC member Nicholas Johnson Thursday assailed Vice-President Spiro T. Agnew for blaming song writers and singers for promoting drug use while the Republican Party, he said, accepts contributions from corporations that profit from the drug culture.
In a speech before a group of foreign service officers of the U.S. Information Agency, the Democratic member of the Federal Communications Commission took issue with the vice-president's remarks Monday in Las Vegas that entertainers, parents, broadcasters and the press are helping to foster a spreading drug culture in the nation.
"The vice-president is going after the song writers," Johnson said. "One cannot help but wonder how he overlooked Ford's urging, 'Blow your mind,' TWA's taking us 'up, up and away,' the honey company that suggests we 'get high on honey,' the motor bike company that advertises a 'trip on this one is legal' or the Washington, D.C., television station that promotes its programming as great 'turn-on.'"
"Perhaps the critical point is that young song writers and performers don't make political campaign contributions, but that Ford, TWA and other drug image merchandisers do," Johnson said.
"The vice-president might better turn his attention to the corporate campaign contributors of both parties who finance their campaign donations with the profits they make from worthless or harmful drugs, and from cigarettes and alcohol that first 'addict' and then kill hundreds of thousands of Americans a year," he added.
Johnson said Agnew appears to think that popular music with drug-related phrases is the cause of the pressures that lead people to use hard drugs, but he added that "these music people aren't really urging death through drugs. They are urging life through democracy. "The songwriters are trying to help us understand our plight and deal with it," he said. "It's about the only leadership we're getting."
KU Humanities Series to Open
The University of Kansas Humanities Lecture Series, now in its 24th year at KU, is continuing its tradition of inviting a variety of well-known scholars to speak on campus.
The series began Oct. 7,1947, when T.V.Smith, at that time a professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago, spoke to more than 800 persons in the old Fraser Theatre. His topic was "The Humanities in Modern Life."
Since the first lecture, the series has brought 112 renounced Americans and foreign scholars to KU. It has become one of the most prominent continuing lecture programs of its kind in the field of humanities, said Elmer F. Beth, professor of journalism and member of the lecture series committee.
The series is determined to get away from the "speak and run"
type of lecture, Beth said. The committee invites the lecturers to stay at KU for three days.
This prolonged visit by the scholars enables them to speak to classes and student groups, confer with faculty members and graduate students, participate in a variety of panel, forum and discussion sessions, and also deliver a formal lecture in the series. It also enables the lecturer to get feedback from their audiences, Beth said.
All of the lectures in the series will begin at 8 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union. The lectures in the 1970-71 Series are:
● Tuesday—Paul O. Kristeller, Columbia University, professor of Philosophy, "The Dignity of Man in Renaissance Thought."
● Oct. 20—John S. Brushwood, University of Kansas, professor of Spanish and Portuguese, "The
New Latins and Their New Novel."
- Nov. 10—Reinhold Grimm, University of Wisconsin, professor of German, "The Play Within a Play in Revolutionary Theatre." * Feb. 2—Wallace Fowie, Duke University, professor of French, "Baudelaire: The Beginning of a World."
- March 23—R. Buckminster Fuller, Southern Illinois University, professor of architecture.
- April 20—Wayne Booth, University of Chicago, "Modes of Literary Criticism."
- Date to be announced—John W. Hall, Yale University, East Asian studies.
- Date to be announced—Kimon Friar, Athens, Greece, "The Spiritual Odesssey of Nikos Kazantzakis."
No admission charge will be required. All of the lectures in the series are financed entirely by University funds.
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