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University Daily Kansan
Fridav. Oct. 14. 1960
A Right Denied
Yesterday afternoon the University Daily Kansan ate crow in an attempt to do its readers a service.
This week the Kansan was contacted by the KU Young Democrats and told that Gov. George Docking would hold a press conference in his office Thursday afternoon at which time he would explain his views on higher education.
WHEN WE ARRIVED AT THE CAPITAL building yesterday afternoon, we were informed that we wouldn't be able to take notes or ask questions for it was not an open meeting.
We were assured this meeting was a big break-through toward establishing good relations with the governor. This was the first time since the spring of 1959 that a UDK representative has been allowed in the Governor's office.
AT THE MEETING WE WERE ALLOWED to take two pictures—both group shots. A request for an individual shot of the governor at his desk was denied on the grounds that Kansas pictures had misrepresented the governor before.
Following the meeting, the Kansan requested a chance to talk with the governor. The request was granted through the efforts of KU Young Democrats and the state council chairman.
We were told to be careful of what we said since the Governor is "very sensitive" in regard to the Kansan. We also were told we were fortunate to have been present in the first place and not to jeopardize any future relationship with the governor.
During our conversation with the governor we attempted to assure him that our only objective was to present to our readers his side of certain issues raised in our news columns.
IN ORDER TO ACCOMPLISH THIS, THE UDK political reporter asked if it would be possible to have a personal interview with him in the future in order to ask specific questions on education.
He declined to hold such a conference, saying the Kansan had "viciously distorted" news concerning him. One incident to which he referred occurred Sept. 30, 1958 in Leavenworth, when KU Young Republicans picketed a Democratic dinner.
According to eye witness reports, Docking allegedly called one of the young Republicans an illegitimate son of the then Republican candidate for governor, Clyde Reed. This was published in the Kansan and all over Kansas. Every attempt was made to allow the governor to reply to the charges. No reply was made.
AT A PRESS CONFERENCE WITH THE UDK on Feb. 20, 1959, the governor referred to the incident again. He accused a KU man, who he identified as being the presidentt of the KU Young Republics, of spitting in the face of a crippled Democrat at the dinner. The president of the Young Republics, it turned out, was a woman.
He then launched into a detailed tirade against KU, calling it "a trouble spot in the state of Kansas (which) needs cleaning up."
His statements were published in the Kansan. It was after this that the governor said he would not "talk to unfriendly amateurs again."
WHEN A UPI REPORTER ASKED THE Governor if he had been misquoted by the Kansan, he replied that he had not.
Since that date the Kansan has been barred from the governor's office.
Yesterday the governor said that as far as his office was concerned, the Daily Kansan was "on trial" and would remain so until it redeemed itself. No press conference or interview would be granted until after the election, if then, he said.
The Kansan has tried, and will continue to try, to obtain the governor's views concerning higher education in Kansas. We have attempted during the last two years to contact him by telephone, letter, and in person to obtain those views. The governor has consistently refused to make his views known.
IF THE IMPLICATIONS OF YESTERDAY'S fiasco are that the Kansan should curry favor in order to obtain information from a servant of the people, we will have to decline the offer.
We would like to remind the Governor that he is not penalizing only the Kansan, but also a large segment of the population of Kansas. It is not his prerogative, but his duty to inform the people of his intentions in regard to higher education.
This does not mean handing out warmed-over speeches on throw-away sheets, such as were passed out yesterday. It means cooperating with the press.
And cooperating with the press does not mean cooperating with only those papers that share his views.
We have gone more than half way. It is time the proud Governor bowed to his employers—the people of Kansas.
Ray Miller Managing Editor
An evening with Brigitte Bardot usually leaves this viewer limp as a wet dishrag. But the sex kitten tones down the hinkins in this one, and the result is an entertaining show, well acted and with the savoir faire and completely natural approach to the facts of life that happily characterizes many of the recent French imports.
SCHOOL FOR LOVE: VARSITY:
BLACK AND WHITE
This is not a great movie by any standards. Still, it boasts a catchy if somewhat involved and overdone plot and a good cast to carry it over the rough spots.
At the Movies
The story centers around a school of the arts in Vienna, where a handsome teacher of voice who also happens to be a featured opera singer captivates his female pupils. Bardot plays a nubile young student who becomes involved with the maestro.
The romance develops at break-neck speed from the time the maestro undertakes to correct a breathing fault in his protege by familiarly stroking her thoracic cage to the point where she is splashing happily in the fish pond at his indoor conservatory, with nary a stitch on.
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Ray Miller Managing Editor Carol Heller, Jane Boyd, Priscilla Burton and Carrie Edwards, Assistant Managing Editors; Pae Sheley and Suzanne Shaw, City Editors; John Macdonald, Sports Editor; Peggy Kallos and Donna Engle, Society Editors.
NEWS DEPARTMENT
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John Peterson and Bill Blundell ... Co-Editorial Edit
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BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
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—Bill Blundell
However, we don't see as much of Bardot as usual in this movie, thanks to the limitations of the plot and the commendable good taste of our censor. But this adds enjoyment instead of subtracting it. The moviegoer can then let his hormones drop back into reasonable balance and enjoy the pecidilloes of the characters, who finally wind up "finding themselves" after they discover that the maestro is not such a desirable package after all.
The film is also marked by some very fine singing, admirably dubbed into the track, and spicy but completely artless dialogue which is admirably suited to the post- adolescent schoolgirls.
The characters can't completely refrain from the old low-neckline deep-breath routine, but the viewer must expect this as inevitable.
'YOU GUYS BETTER RUN ALONG NOW, WORTHLAST HAS TO STUDY FOR A PRETTY RUGGED 'FIGURE DRAWING TEST TOMORROW.'
The Japanese Influence
By Jack Schrader
Sunday saw the opening at the Museum of Art of a revealing collection of Japanese prints from the Museum's own Thayer Collection, a rare event for the avid oriental enthusiast on campus.
THERE WERE THOSE FORTUNATES viewing the show who were pink with pride over a recent visit to the Orient, among them being my friend and colleague Jim Gohl, whose article in the Daily Kansan has already given us an idea of what the Japanese prints mean to the experienced traveler of the Far East. Yet in scrutinizing this colorful display of Japanese artistry, I was well enough content to view the prints in the light of their tremendous influence on the art of the West within the last century.
I AM HINTING, OF COURSE, at the vast influence of these prints on that vanguard group of French artists dubbed "the Impressionists", hence, on the whole development of modern art. The Japanese prints, which were a common form of genre art satirizing everyday life in Japan and often used as packing material for Japanese export-ware, arrived in certain quantities in the ports of France and Holland and were soon the rage among the Bohemian crowd of Paris. Our own Whistler was tramping about dressed in kimono and utilizing vaguely oriental-motifs and composition in his paintings and lithographs, and the "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji" suddenly became "One Thousand Views of Mont-Marte."
It was no doubt the fleeting composition, the "birds-eve view" utilized in these works by such skilled Japanese hands that created the greatest impact upon the moderns. The dehumanization of landscape which had already begun in Europe about the time of the opening of Japan was no doubt given a boost by these completely free and spacious conceptions; the white-flaked hills of Japan, depicted by Hiroshige and others, became the snow-filled compositions of Monet.
YET A CENTURY AFTER their first great impact upon the West, the Ukiyo-ye prints have not lost their significance to Western Art. One simply has to look closely about him to discover the many ways in which their influence is still felt. Modern poster design, which developed from the innovations of Toulouse-Lautrec before the turn of the century, owes its flatness to the Japanese print and the model it set for Lautrec. Then the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, who, I might add, once owned the Museum's exhibited prints as part of a vast personal collection, owes certain concepts of space to the Japanese wood-block masters. Following the winding ramp of New York's controversial Guggenheim Museum is no less an experience than following with the eye the composition of Hokusai's "Great Wave."
If we view the current exhibition in this light, keeping in mind at the same time how important Ukiyo-ye is to Japanese tradition, we may suddenly find rewarding experiences in modern art.
Perfect Theater.
The Theater Corner
That best describes "The Trial of Captain John Brown."
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Presented by the Experimental Theatre in Swartout Hall, "Trial" is one play you will never be able to say that you couldn't "identify with" or "felt remotely distant from."
You are there. Part of the cast is in the audience, part of the audience is on the stage and the leading figures continually chastise and address the audience who take the part of the courtroom crowd.
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George Bradley as the prosecutor, Darryl Patten as the Judge, and Dan Kocher as defense counsel. Mention must be made of the toobrief appearances of Phil Harris, Twon Winston and Keith Jochim.
It is a moving, fast-paced powerful drama that doesn't skip a beat until the lights go down.
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Credit for the unusual staging and fine directing goes to Moses Gunn who selected and brought the play to KU for a rewarding experience for those who see it.
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—Frank Morgan
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