Wednesday, November 8, 1972
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Novelist's Talent Versatile
By DIANE YEAMANS
Kansan Staff Writer
John Brunner, British novelist-in-
residence this week at the University of
Kansas, is a man who has found no limits in
writing.
Though Brunner is known for his science fiction, he said he preferred to be known as a humanoid robot.
"It just happens that I've written more science fiction than anything else," she said.
Brunner, 38, has written 63 novels in the past 13 years. He said he had written verse, contemporary novels, mysteries, spy thrillers and songs.
Brunner said he most enjoyed working on his novel, "Star in Zanzibar." The novel was published in 1934.
"I found I could write all kinds of things I thought I couldn't write." he said.
The book brought him the Hugo Award, the American prize for the best science fiction novel of the year, in 1969, and the British counterpart in 1970.
THE THEME of "Stand on Zanzibar", Brunner said, is the psychological pressures put on him by individual by his own Particularly Paradigmatic he is placed on the imaginary world, he said.
"When I have a book really going well, I swear I work about an inch on the floor. I never put my head under it."
Brunner said he became interested in science fiction writing when he was six. He was one of the first
in 10 to 15 days when he had a good feeling about it.
"Someone left a copy of 'The War of the Worlds' in my nursery," Brunner said.
Since then, Brunner said, he has been addicted to science fiction.
Like all young people Bruner wrote a lot of terrible verses when he was 15 or 17, or 18.
HE SAID he did not write verse after that when he returned to England from a four-month stay in England.
He went home in a "spread high" he said, and after settling down wrote 28 poems in and after settling down wrote 28 poems.
Brunner then he sent the poems as "a glorified Christmas card" to people who had been particularly kind to him during his trip.
"I enjoy the discipline of concentrating thought into pre-planned forms," Brunner said. "It compels a person to examine the value of each syllable set down."
The letters he received in return encouraged him to write more verse, Brunner 1895.
His first poems, now in book form, are,
"Sequence of Poems
through the U.S.A."
Since then, Brunner said he has written about 100 poems he is reasonably proud of.
John Brunner
Two Added Awards Settle Display Dispute
The 1972 Homecoming Committee decided Tuesday to award trophies to five displays in the two-dimensional category. A reclassification was made to the committee.
By KATHY TUSSING Kansan Staff Writer
The decision was the result of subdividing the two-dimensional competition into those displays with moving parts and those without. Homecoming Day was Oct. 27.
The first-place winner in the two-dimensional-moving parts category was Sigma Nu-Alpha Chi Omega. Second place went to Phi Delta Theta-PI Beta Phi.
Brunner said some of his songs appeared frequently in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Journal, "The H-Bombs" Thunder has been described as the national anthem of the British peace movement," he said.
DICK WINTERMOTE, executive director of the Alumni Association and Homecoming Committee chairman, said the classifications applied only to this year's Homecoming Committee to set their own classifications for displays.
Alpha Tau Omega was the first-place winner in the non-moving parts division. Second and third places went to Sigma Phi Epsilon and Alpha Delta Pi, according to Bill Adams, Lenexa senior and decorations committee chairman.
The reclassification of two-dimensional displays was the result of an appeal made to the Homecoming Committee after the decorations judges awarded first- and second-class trophies in the two-parties. The Homecoming Committee had earlier defined two-dimensional displays as having no moving parts.
MORE PEOPLE throughout the world are reading today, Brunner said. A good book is a treasure.
The committee also adopted a resolution that the KU-Kansas State University football game, Oct. 13, 1973, be designated the homecoming game. The resolution was submitted by Tuck Duncan, Wilmette, Ill., senior and member committee.
THE RESOLUTION suggested that the committee coordinate all events of the weekend, meet in the spring of 1973 to organize, and request that the Alumni Association write to other universities to ask about the events of their homecoming
The committee will also recommend possible guidelines for membership on next year's homecoming committee to the vice-council for student affairs.
television that has introduced new subjects to the viewer, he said.
"People buy paperbacks as they used to buy magazines and comics," Brunner said. Brunner said he would never teach a course in writing.
"I want an opportunity to find out what I 'want of my own craft!' Brunner said. "I thought I had it. But I can't do it."
He said he wanted to encourage and enthuse people who had a talent to keep
"I want to find from others faults why I would have done it differently," Bruner said.
Brunner said he agreed with Stanley Atimov, associate editor of Newsday, who once said that writing had all the qualities of a drug, including withdrawal symptoms.
symptoms. "Now I'm suffering with facial symptoms from my braces." I turned away.
Brunner gave readings of his poetry, prose and prediction in the Jaywhower room. His book, *The Bunny*, is a meditation.
His week residence which ends Sunday, is sponsored by Student Union Activities and the Student Council.
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Docking to 4th Term .
ministrative coordinator, said, "We had a good platform and a good candidate. The issues were there, but I don't think the people were listening.
"OURS WAS AN image problem. Gov. Docking held up an image for eight years and it is hard for a new face to establish his identity. It was more this problem than a lack of party organization or anything else. I think we conducted a good campaign."
Kay estimated his expenditures at more than $300,000. His campaign centered on what he said was a need for a more positive mentor and progressive programs for the glute.
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Kay defeated former governor John Akin
Abad to win the Republican nomination.
Taxes were a principal issue in the Taxes and Kay stressed his proposal to hold tax rates down.
Former Student Appeals Ticket To KU Court
Before his bid for governor, Kay served two terms in the Kansas House of Representatives and was house majority during the last term of the legislature.
However, a date for the session has not been set, according to Rick Walker, Newton first-year law student and cocounselor for the program. The two KU graduate now in Apsen, Cae.
The University of Kansas Court in Bank will hold a special session to review a Nov. 2-public ticket appeal that was based on evidence insufficient night security on campus.
Kay voted early Tuesday in Lawrence and traveled to Topeka to attend a memorial service for two members of his team, who were killed in a plane crash Saturday.
The three Traffic and Security Court judges referred the appeal last Thursday to the Court in Bank, the next highest court in the KU judicial system, saying the Traffic and Security Court was unable to grant appeals based on that defense.
Deacy stated in her appeal that she parked against a yellow curb rather than in a zoned lot for her own sense of personal freedom. She walked a lengthy distance alone at night.
Cocoulseur Walker, and Helen Szuki,
Kansas City, Kan., first-year law student,
filed the complaint for Deacy, who did not
appear at the hearing.
Walker based his defense argument on the testimony of two witnesses, stating that protection on campus was inadequate, and that it was necessary to take precautions for their own safety.
Decyce was issued a ticket in May 1972 for parking against a yellow curb. In her appeal, Decyce stated that although she had a car parked for a zone, all of the spaces were filled.
A former KU student testified that in the spring semester of 1972 she was a victim of an attempted rape while walking on campus after a night class.
Shirley Gilham, director of Affirmative Action for Women, testified that many cases of attempted rape and assaults were reported on campus each semester.
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