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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Fridav. December 13, 1968
Don't get uptight
The fall semester's almost over and in this last week before Christmas and the final one in January before finals, it's easy to get uptight.
Last minute tests are crammed into the remaining time and papers assigned at the beginning of the semester suddenly reach their due date. Students who had planned to catch up on that extra reading or improve their grade in a bad course find that the nights just aren't long enough.
And after awhile all your problems can snowball; the whole thing can seem hopeless. It's important then that students know where to go to talk over their problems or depression.
Advising anyone to talk to a counselor, psychologist or psychiatrist always sounds melodramatic- until you check the suicide rate at KU and find that two students a year take their own lives. Use the services available if you need them, it saves wear and tear on the nerves.
Watkins Memorial Hospital has a mental health clinic with trained psychologists on call from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 8:30 a.m. through noon Satdays.
However, the clinic, like all other departments of Watkins, is now understaffed. A clinic official said yesterday that unless a student needed immediate attention, anyone applying for an appointment now wouldn't be able to see a psychiatrist or psychologist until after Christmas.
The first three sessions of counselling are free.
The KU psychology department also has a staff cliniced by psychology graduate students. This is a training setup with graduate students under supervised teams and controls.
This service is available also five days a week from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday 8 a.m. to noon. Students can either make an appointment or just go in during the open hours. This service is free.
Residence hall counselors are also available to talk with students and discuss their problems.
The campus ministers of the Wesley Foundation do individual, non-psychiatric counseling by appointment. Other campus and denominational ministers are usually available for individual counseling also.
Alison Steimel Editorial Editor
Kansan Movie Review
'Funny Girl'—Streisand
By MIKE SHEARER
"I'm the greatest star. I am by faaaar, but no one knows it."
There is something about "Funny Girl" which makes the story of one of America's greatest stars, Fanny Brice, easily the best musicale ever put on film.
That enhancing "something" is not Omar Sharif who has watered his glassy eyes through enough movies to have complete control over his salivary glands which are where the rest of us have tear ducts. But in a fast-paced, colorful musicale, a leading man just must do no more than be handsome. Omar doesn't.
Nor does the fine actress Kay Medford give "Funny Girl" its glamour. Miss Medford, who played the part on Broadway where her part included singing, suffered from a drastically reduced role in the film. She was diminished in the rewriting from a loving, Jewish mother to a pleasant face muttering catch-phrases.
The film's vivacity certainly is not attributable to the choreography, direction or the songs themselves, all of which are good.
The excellence of the film belongs to the Brooklynese voice and the sensual star behind it. Barbra Streisand has been called phenomenal by so many critics that it is nearly impossible to praise her talents without creating or nurturing cliches.
She was a star on Broadway and television and in the recording industry, but she has said repeatedly that being a star today means being a movie star.
If she isn't "the greatest star,"she is minimally the most versatile female performing today, with her only possible rival for versatility in history being Miss Brice herself.
The comic Streisand, the actress Streisand and the singer Streisand take slapstick, melodrama and soppy songs and make them fresh. The very fact that stage-door musicales have been run into the ground makes the success of "Funny Girl" all the more astounding.
Ugly duckling makes good, wins a handsome fellow and gets her heart broken. If a movie-goer analyzes the plot, he may become abdominally ill.
But if a movie-goer watches Streisand, listens to Streisand and follows the choreography, "Funny Girl" cannot fail to be a movie he'll want to see at least twice. Each time he sees "Funny Girl," he will be more amazed at the vivacity of its star. As on Broadway, where Miss Streisand was reputed to have offered a better performance with every appearance, the film dazzles with increasing intensity.
Any "goooogeous" broad who can turn a hum-drum song like "People" into a production is an entertainment wizard. Any dame who can revive a soap-opera song like "My Man" into one of the most sensitive finales ever filmed deserves to win roles which use her talents to the ultimate. After she has filmed "Hello Dolly" and "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever," Streisand should stop remaking Broadway hits, and take her creativity into new areas of the musicale field industry.
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I have never assumed that right necessarily resides with numbers, notwithstanding President Johnson, the Joint Chiefs, and the 570 KU students enrolled in ROTC. I see no reason that the teaching of subject material (the science of genocide) so alien to human existence should be sanctioned, indeed encouraged, by the University of Kansas. Accordingly, I would remove university credit from ROTC courses. The freedom of the military to offer and the freedom of interested students to accept military training apart from the campus is hardly in danger.
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The Hill With It by john hill
"Dad, who really wins from the Vietnam fight?" "Quiet, Joe, I'm gettin' the word from Walter Kronkite." "Dad, what's your stand on civil rights?" "Quiet, Barb, I'm watchin' the fights."
"Mom, is the generation gap down your alley?"
"Quiet, Les, I'm watchin' Big Valley."
"Mom, what's the fate of the human race?"
"Quiet, Ruth, I'm watchin' Lost in Space."
"Mom, in overpopulation, who'll be to blame?"
"Quiet, Fred, I'm watchin' The Newlywed Game."
"Mom, what about welfare and folks on relief?"
"Quiet, Jean, I'm watchin' It Takes A Thief."
"Dad, how should the government mend its fences?" "Quiet, Bill, I'm watchin' Truth or Consequences." "Dad, which political theory is really the best?" "Quiet, Ann, its time for Wild, Wild West."
"Mom and Dad, are your lives dull?"
"Quiet, kid, we're missin' the commercial."
"Say, isn't it too early for communication to go?"
"Quiet, kid, we're catchin' the late, late show."
One ticket for the Orange Bowl flight, please.
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DISOBEDIENCE AND DEMOCRACY: NINE FALLACIES ON LAW AND ORDER, by Howard Zinn (Vintage, $1.45)—"... when one looks around and sees the condition of the black person, the existence of poverty, the continued stupidity of war, the growing blight of an unnatural life in malodorous, crowded cities of inhuman suburbs—and when one considers the impotence of our existing political institutions in affecting this, we know that not just mild, petty, gradual steps, but revolutionary changes are needed." There is one of the sentences that makes this book by a professor of history and government a stirring, and to some, undoubtedly, a frightening one. Zinn's position is that of classical supporters of civil disobedience: some conditions are so bad that they must be forcibly opposed even though such opposition constitutes breaking the law.
A HUNDRED YEARS OF PHILOSOPHY, by John Passmore (Pelican, $2.25)—A history of modern ideas in knowledge, logic and metaphysics. Amone
the persons considered by Passmore in this huge volume (huge, even for a Pelican paperback) are Collingwood, Mill, Wittgenstein, Spencer, Russell, Sartre and Whitehead.
THE BENSON MURDER CASE and THE CANARY MURDER CASE, by S. S. Van Dine (Gold Medal, 75 cents each)— Thirty to 40 years ago it's pretty likely that if you read murder mysteries you'd have been addicted to S. S. Van Dine. His hero was a Sherlock Holmes-like detective, very cerebral, named Philo Vance. The stories were extraordinarily complex, usually involving big city people, old families, dumb cops all over the place, and Philo Vance getting together the whole cast for the final confrontation and explanation. Gold Medal is bringing back the Philo Vance books, and though they're pretty campy they're still worth reading. The first two are "The Benson Murder Case" and "The Canary Murder Case," the first about the murder of a Manhattan man about town and the second about the murder of a Broadway showgirl.