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University Daily Kansan, October 21, 1981
Writer condemns violence in films
By MARK ZIEMAN Staff Reporter
Movies like "Terror Train," "Prom Night" and "Blowout" offer the viewer nothing but gratuitous violence and are a blatant reactionary response to the feminist movement in America, writer Glen Fitzgerald last night in the opening of the KU Humanities Lecture series.
"They proliferate like maggots in a garbage bucket," he said, and are "twisted dreams from the darkest pits in each of us."
Ellison, author of more than 900 stories and frequent recipient of the Hugo Award from the World Science Fiction Convention, told the audience that many men seemed to be turned on by the violent exploitation and murder of women in films.
"In their dirty little secret heart of hearts they are saying, 'That'll serve the bitch right.' "
ELLISON, who many times was interrupted by tumultuous applause
from the Woodruff Auditorium audience of more than 300 people, said it was the task of audiences and movie makers such as himself to exercise restraint in producing and patronizing such films.
It was not a situation for censorship by the Moral Majority and other "sanctimonious, self-righteous" authors. In the name of God," Ellison said.
"Those of us who do the creating must at some point say 'This has got to stop.'
"Murder has an interesting life these days, and if we don't do something about it, the Moral Majority will."
Ellison said at the beginning of the evening that he was humbled by the seriousness of the lecture series, and for the first part of the evening he spoke from a prepared text, which he had read in his next month in *Future Life* magazine.
As the evening wore on, however,
Ellison and the crowd became more
energetic, and the author reverted to
their old mode of action, caused race riots, a lynching, and
"occasionally, if we can find one, a virgin sacrifice."
"How many (violent films) have you seen, you nice, healthy, Lawrence, Kansas audience?" he asked.
Occasionally he asked the audience whether anyone had seen certain "Bite My Face," "Kill My Mother" movies. When one member replied by applauding, Ellison asked who it was.
"Ask yourself why you want
of those films. Did you applaud
when the heads were saved? d'Are
you doing yourself that you're
sane?"
ELLISON URGED the women in the audience to become more vocal and take more of an active role in voicing their disgust of the movies.
"Who applauded? Please, will you raise your paw?"
Ellison said he was not opposed to all violence in movies, just the unnecessary, gratuous kind that "drips of perversion."
The most dangerous movies, he said, are the ones that masquerade as art, such as "Blowout" and "Dressed to Kill."
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Contributions help support
By CYNTHIA HRENCHIR Staff Reporter
Donations to KU's Spencer Museum of Art were unusually high in the last two years, totaling more than $1 million in new acquisitions, said Douglas Hyland, museum curator for paintings and sculptures.
Highlights of the donated items are arranged in a special exhibition located in the North Balcony Gallery and the lobby on the museum's fourth floor. They will remain on display for the remainder of this semester.
Gifts received within the last two years are not all located in those exhibit areas. Others are placed on display to be a marker to show that they are recent gifts.
"I're really a bumper crop," Hyland said. "We ourselves have a very small acquisitions fund. Friends of the Art Museum is the lifeblood of the institu-
That organization donates funds, Hyland and volunteers free time. Other sources of gifts are KU alumni from as far away as southern California. Residents of Lawrence assist, as do faculty members.
The articles in the Gifts From Our Friends 1980-81 exhibit range from the 18th century to the 1970s. They include
"The faces on the quilt are made of cardboard, cut out and painted."
The museum also was able to purchase with donated funds the entire collection of paintings and photographs in Enquire magazine, Hyland said.
"The one quilt" we have on exhibit now is dated 1790, the oldest quilt in the collection." Hylan said. "The story of a child's life is the story of the history of one family.
"Some give money, others give the objects," he said. "We try to accept things we wish to add to the collection.
While some individuals give funds to the museum to purchase what the staff decides is necessary, others give the object itself. Rvland said.
"The objects that are accepted become a permanent part of the collection."
paintings, prints, photographs, sculptures and even quilts.
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