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Tuesday, November 16, 1971
University Daily Kansan
Penn House Proves Self-Help Works
Kansan PhoI
. A need to survive .
Penn House Helps Solve Problems of Low Income
By DEBRA BEACHY
Kansan Staff Writer
Penn House was founded three- years ago by welfare recipients who had been helped by a welfare help organization that was born of frustration with the welfare system and the knowledge that a group is more powerful than the individual.
"We were people who were up against a wall and knew that by ourselves we could do nothing," Miller, secretary of Penn House.
Penn House took its name from the street that if fires it stands in. Pennsylvania Street, a quiet residential section of Lawrence. The University of Kansas owns the street. The House to operate there rent-free on the condition that students use Penn House for field work.
When Penn House started three years ago, its main goal was to help welfare recipients solve their own problems and needs. Now, members of Penn House include low-income families as welfare recipients. Sixteen families belong to Penn House.
"We had to expand because the problems of poverty are broader than welfare," explained Mrs. Miller.
THE PROGRAMS that Penn House offers its members include classes in homemaking, construction and quilling. There is also a Speaker's Bureau, a Food Co-op, a Food Co-op and free legal aid.
The Speaker's Bureau is made, up of Penn House members and sends speakers to groups interested in hearing about Penn Most of the speaking engagements have been with groups at KU.
The Food Co-op was formed because of the economic advantage of buying food in bulk quantities. It also serves as a laboratory for learning business skill. It provides valuable experience to those members of Penn House who have no working experience.
The reduction in welfare has hurt welfare recipients. The people of Penn House are like the people of the legislature debates the pro and ons, the people at Penn House sketches how they will manage. They said it is bad now and their winter comes, it will get worse.
IN A SURVEY conducted at Penn House, members were asked how the cut in their welfare checks would effect them.
One weirder mother said "We can't get jobs, we don't have the job training. Maybe they're helping we'll all die this winter."
Another one said, "I know my kids. When they go to school cold and hungry, they're going to go home this year, going to fight all year there."
One of the biggest threats to welfare recipients. Mrs. Miller is a graduate student with medical allowances for people on welfare. At least half of the members at Penn House, she has been crippled or have a heart problem.
"When you look at who is on welfare, that kind of reasoning is insane." Mrs. Miller said.
According to the statistics of the Douglas County Welfare people, 20 per cent of the people on welfare are not or disabled, 20 per cent are elderly, 16 per cent are adults and 48 per cent are children.
Penn House supports itself by private donations and by the contacts it has made with Head
College Assembly Meeting
The College Assembly of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will meet at 4 p.m. today in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union. The meeting will be on Tuesday, April 19th, Procedures Committee, which has been studying revisions of the school. The committee will make recommendations based on their school.
French Club to Taste Cheese
The French Club will hold a cheese tasting meeting at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Council Room of the Kansas Union.
Interviews for an additional student member of the University daily Kansas Board will be held Wednesday evening. Interview
Kansan Board Interviews
Engineering Council Meeting
The Engineering Council will hold a meeting at 17:30 tonight in 215 Learned Hall to discuss further plans of the Engineering Expo and to vote on matters concerning the selection of Business Manager for the Kansas Engineer.
Rodeo Club Meeting
Station. Presently, Penn House mem-
bers have to attend the 400 Start
Camp. The students are trusted.
That coupled with a staff of
dedicated volunteers, has seen
the station open.
"The only thing that Penn House asks of its members is that they be on time for the receive," Mrs. Miller said. "We do whatever needs to be done. That's really what determines our projects and activities."
The KU Rodeo Club will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Regionalist Room of the Kansas Union.
Mortar Board Dinner
Campus Mortar Board members will be dinner guests of the Lawrence Mortar Board Alumni Club. 6:15 ontight at 12W. 82th Court. New area residents who are Mortar Board alumni may contact Mrs. Grover Everett for additional information.
"Clint Eastwood on both sides of the camera means Clint Eastwood on the wrong side of the camera, and one of the few remaining box-office draws, he has jumped behind camera to direct a contemporary suspense thriller. "The movie is (currently playing the Granada)."
By Barbara Schmidt
Kansan Reviews Editor
'Misty' Has Too Much Eastwood
Eastwood has taken on an even, laterner task in choosing to direct himself in the lead role. Now there's nothing wrong with an actor directing or even an actor playing the movie justice. But Eastwood has gone on only halfway in fulfilling "Misty's" potential.
He plays a Carmel, Calif. jockey. The "Misty" of the title is the Erer Garner standard made popular by Johnny Mathis. It is his way of making young woman (Jessica Walter) who happens to be the original Crazy Lady. She manages to meet and sleep with her No. 1 DJ, Jessica wood makes it clear that she was only a passing fling in the night.
the script, by Jo Heims and Dean Riesner, could have made a first class movie. A good action director might have turned out a mettle thriller by skilfully incorporating its inherent suspense elements.
MISS WALTER doesn't hear too well and proceeds to get her hooks into our hero--at the center of it all. Miss California Sunshine, and Miss California Sunshine, and miss freedom." When she finishes the message, Miss Walter grabs a butcher knife and chops up everything (including East Coast jelly).
Instead, Eastwood continually digresses from the plot to take us on pointless tours of the Carmel and Monteverde Jazz Festival for a superfluous musical interlude and to show him and his band the roar of violins play and the surf rocks. These sequences are pretty little
These activities include symposiums, exhibitions, musical nights and dances.
According to Saad, the African Club "should develop better understanding with the community for exploring the cultural background of African nations a very diversified country."
Some of the interests of the club include African art, drama and music. The club tries to develop proposals, suggestions and ideas
Basically, the African Club covers a wide range of issues and intends to alert the American
EASTWOOD DOES deserve credit for handling the action montages in the violent scenes of the building, and the foundation of underlying suspense on which to place these scenes, you find yourself still chomping popcorn and thinking, "Why was that building as the credits rush by at the end.
Luckily, what "Mist" lacks in suspense it makes up for with fine timing. Eastwood is adequate as he irresponsible DJ on the verge of being a hitmaker until off balance. Donna Mills makes a convincing California outdoors girl as Eastwood's sometimes steal. Clarice Roe is also making a McEachin as another swinging DJ and Donald Siegel, who
bubbles by themselves, but each digression dissipates whatever tension had already accumulated.
The club, which has 55 members, is open to students of other nationalities, Saad said. Egyptian students also attend the meetings. Few members are contributed to the club, though a few have been doing a decrease" of members, along with a lack of enthusiasm.
Lucy Lippard, art critic and author of "Pop Art," will speak in series sponsored by the University of Kansas Museum of Art, at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Forum Room, Kansas City. The book is an introduction to a collection of several biographical articles on 20th Century art. Her talk will focus on responses to her own experiences in audience which relate to her areas of interest, including contemporary art, conceptual art, and women's rights in the arts.
BUT IT IS Miss Walter's performance that makes the movie worth seeing. In early 1950s it was not a women's show, she's a psychotic or merely a possessive young woman with a wired sense of humor, she plays it up and uses it to make you wonder without getting alarmed. And when she picks up a butcher knife, she seethes her fingers and is so good as the homicidal crazy lady that you almost cheer her, waiting for the moment Eastwood will get it in by that indefatible butcher knife.
directed Eastwood in "Coogan's Bluff." "Two Mules for Sister Sarai and The Beguiled," are portrayed by Evan Peters and real in support roles.
The African Club at the University of Kansas began effectively seven years ago after the first time the club has actually been on the "scene of the University activities," according to Farouk Saad, a political activist and president of the African Club.
Shortly after the package was found, a person identified as Stanley J. Schaake, Rt. 1, asked if the package had been found. Elwell said,
"Misty" has a lot of proverbs, most of them caused by poor direction. Perhaps the kindest
Although Schaake identified the exact amount of the money in the package, he could not explain where he believed that the money belonged to him.
Critic Speaks
In an attempt to determine the rightful owner, the package was opened and found to contain the broken necklace. Journey Mike Elfew said recently.
"The only thing we have is his word," Elwell said.
Two weeks ago, a brown paper package containing $11,400 was discovered by an employee of the Cansas Union Bookstore.
$11,400 Lost in Bookstore; Owner Still Undetermined
The ownership of the money secured by the local bank's safe deposit box, with Douglas County Sheriff Rex Johnson keeping the
Frank Burge, Union director.
Problems for African Club
thing we can do for director,
Eastwood is to patiently put up with
"Play Misty for Me" as we
await his next film. "Dirty
By JEANNE RIMES Konsec Staff Writer
Harry", in which he reverts to the role he does best, acting in front of the camera, not behind it.
"The main problem of the club is that there is a lack of enthusiasm," Saad said. "The majority of African students are enthusiastic about many things, such as meeting attendance."
An African dance is planned for Dec. 4. About the middle of February, the African Club is
sponsoring a three-day conference on African affairs. One of the major events of the conference involves plans for an interdisciplinary program followed by an invitation from African students and the department of African studies to Khalid, foreign minister of Egypt, and other international affairs. An invitation will also be sent to Abdelall E Tabed, dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Khartoum and a scholar in Arabic, Arabic and African literature.
The African Club has several events planned. The next event will be an African get-together at Room of the Kansas Union. This event will feature African music and all students are invited to attend.
After explaining the proposed events of the club, Saad said, "I intend to freeze the plans because of lack of enthusiasm."
students at KU about the problems that are taking place in South Africa. Saad said.
Various publications including
the Aion, Delos, Nose, Time
literary applique and the
New York Review, has
published his works on Greek.
Interviews for an additional student appointment to the University Daily Kansan Board will be held Wednesday evening November 17. If you are interested, call the Student Senate Office for an interview time.
864-3710
Latin, Italian, Spanish, English and American literature and on the theory and practice of translation.
Honors Carine-Ross has received include the Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (1963-64) and the Women in Science Center Fellowship (1969-70).
Carner-Ross's translated works include "The Hippopotus of Euripides," "Cesare Pavese," and "Dialogues with Leuco."
said that the matter required great caution because Schaake was planning to take the question of ownership to court.
D. S. Carne-Ross, professor of classics, romance languages, and comparative literature, will be visiting Tuesday in woodruff Auditorium. Carne-Ross, the third guest lecturer in the Humanities Series, will speak on "The Arts of Romance" in A Cultural Critique."
Carne-Ross to Lecture On Arts of Resistance
Carnar-Ross is scheduled to visit various humanities classes here. He has indicated that he would be pleased to meet people in the language and the Italian wing of the romance languages to discuss the problems of translation, the virtues of retaining literature in the languages and of reading Italian as well as other subjects within his field.
Carnie-Ross taught at the University of Texas at Austin from 1961 to 1963. He is presently the Faculty at Boston University.
From 1854 to 1959 he worked as third program producer for the British Broadcasting Company in London.
Elwell said that Schaake had told him that he planned to use the money to go to Colorado.
He received his Master of Arts degree in English language and literature from Oxford in 1948.
"We'd be more than willing to give Mr. Schaake the money if he can give us some idea where it came from." Elwell said.
Tickets Available at KIEF'S