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'Huck,' near 100, draws debate
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As surely as the Mississippi River flows, controversy and attention continue to follow "The Adventures of Robert Finn" as it nears its centennial
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"It's as close as anything to a universally read American novel," said Michael Butler, associate professor of English. "Until recently it was the one book you could assume every student had read."
BUTLER SAID HE IHAD placed the book on the reading list for his English 05 course this semester.
But school authorities in some U.S. cities have faced challenges to the use of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Fim" on grounds of racism Most recently, school officials in Waukee, III. last month removed the cover of a book breaking because of arguments about its offensiveness to blacks.
Three new editions of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" are scheduled for release in February from the University of California
"For a long time the idea seemed to be that great literature made us better," he said. "I simply don't believe it. Literature at its best widens our sense of what is in the world."
In April, the University of Missouri will hold a conference on "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
"Twain spent a lot of time playing bad boy to the literary establishment," he said.
The Waukean case is one of at least eight challenges to the novel in American public schools since 1976, according to an American Library Association pamphlet on banned books.
Vic Fischer, co-author for the Mark Twain Project at UC-Berkley. the original illustrations and omniscience would be included in the new editions.
BUTLER SAID TWAIN bucked literary conventions of his day by using dialect and unwholesome characters.
Some complain that the book is used as early as eighth grade in some schools. Others call for banning it. There are other reasons, few. Few, if any, bans have lasted.
Butler said such objections depended on a questionable view that literature should uplift readers morally.
When "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" appeared in 1885, it was banned in Concord, Mass., as "trash food." The movie's title, according to the AMA pamphlet,
In one passage, for instance, Huck listens to a mistaken woman describe Huck's own death at Jim's hands: "The nigger run off the very night Huck Finn was killed. So there's a dollar for him — three hundred dollars."
THOSE WHO SEE racism in the book point to the frequent use of the term "nigger" and the kinds of
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characters in the book, especially the simple-minded slave. Jim.
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Breeze relieves musicians during 'terrific' Band Day
By the Kansan Staff
The 37th annual KU Band Day marched along smoothly Saturday, and a cool breeze was a welcome relief to the musicians from 65 Kansas high school bands, who sometimes have swelled in warmer weather.
An estimated 5,000 musicians marched in a parade down Massachusetts Street and performed together at halftime of the University of Kansas-Florida State University game. Robert Foster, director of KU bands, said yesterday.
Foster said the event was terrific.
The high school bands marched on the field at halftime, covering it like a patchwork quilt with the school colors of each band. Mem-
pers of the KU band formed a "KU" in the middle of the field.
Flag corps and twirlers accompanied the bands and performed at halftime to "Over the Rainbow" and "Untainted Girl."
As in past years, the halftime show closed with the performance of "Battle Hymn of the Republic," arranged and directed by Foster.
"We never could have done it without them." Foster said. "They are the behind-the-scenes people who make it all work."
One of the reasons the event went smoothly, Foster said, was the help his band and staff received from the Douglas County Sheriff's Department, the Lawrence Police Department, the Highway Patrol and the University of Kansas Police Department.
The bands, twirlers and flag corps performed before 38,600.
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