University Daily Kansan, September 25, 1980
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Abilene seminar revisits 1950s On Campus
By VANESSA HERRON Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Or so it is said.
The 1950s were a time of Tuesday Weld and Senator Joe McCarthy, the stroll and the leather jacket. A time when everyone loved Lucy, like Keee communists, and a time of shoebe doo wop wop and do-yeh-me fallout shelters.
However, today through Saturday four KU faculty members will help resurrect the decade in a conference called "America in the 50s."
Most KU seniors were born in 1959, the year the 50s vanished along with Studehubs and pogo sticks. They only second-hand memories of the decade.
THE CONFERENCE, which is free and open to the public, will be at the Dwight E. Elsenhower Library in Northampton where it presents the late president's 90th birthday.
At the three-day conference nationally known figures including Allen Ginsberg, poet Arthur Fleming, chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and General Andrew Goodpaster, Eisenhower's White House
secretary, will join panel discussions on the 50s.
James Gunn, professor of English, and Robert Deksoy, assistant professor of history, will discuss science and technology in the 6s4, and journalism in the 7s3. In journalism, will join a discussion of the decade's film, music and drama.
THE 1950s have been labeled falsely as irrelevant and uneventful, said Don Burt, instructor of English who helped teach the course. He also will take part in panel discussions.
The title of a discussion Friday will be the *Schizophrenic Fitties: Affluence and Stress*.
"For one thing, people were afraid in the 1860's." Burt said.
"On college campuses, there was the fear of conformity. They had heard about suburbs where all the houses were gray flannel suits."
DURING THE 50s, there was also a widespread fear of the "Red Menace,"
After communist takeovers in China after Korea, the fear of communism can harm China.
"People were afraid there were and lurking in every closet." Burt said.
One casualty of the 50s communist investigations, organized by the late Senator Joseph McCarthy, R-Wis. John Henry Pauline, a former New York radio star who will deliver a keynote on McCarthyism at the conference.
"Faulk got caught in the red scare and was blacklisted," Burt said. "He lost his job and didn't return to show business until the '70s."
FAULK, WHO NOW performs on the television series "Hee Haw," described his experience on McCarthy's blacklist in a book called "Fear on Trial."
In the 1950s, there seemed to be a sense of never-ending plenty, said Gunn, a professor and science fiction writer.
Most people who were not scientists or science fiction novelists were not interested in the genre.
"The general public didn't have to deal with problems like pollution," he said. "And nuclear power was simply considered to be a cheap, safe form of energy."
The social problems that were to explode during the 1960s already were simmering in the 50s. Burt said.
"Both in the 50s and in the 70s," Burt said, "the atmosphere was tranquil—but unessy."
THE ENGINEERING CAREER FAIR will be open to all engineering students from 1 to 4 p.m. in Allen Field. Students who are seniors meet from a. 9 to p. 1, only.
TODAY
William Warfield will discuss "MY LIFE IN MUSIC" at the Graduate School Tea and Talk Lecture, 3:30 p.m. in the Kansas University Jawkway hawk.
Dean Collins will speak on GERMAN OPERA at the meeting of the German Club, 4:30 p.m. in 4965 Wescoe Hall.
"THE ART OF THE JAPANESE SCREEN" is the subject of Yoshihiro Takahashi's *East Asian Studies Lecture,* 4.p.m. at the Spencer Museum of Art.
TONIGHT
A RAPE PREVENTION AND LEGALRIGHTS SEMINAR, sponsored by Phi Delta Sigma and the KU Police will be presented at 7 p.m. in Iawai.
SCROMEEME will hold its regular meeting at 6.n. in 2007 Learned Hall.
John Rodrick, Associated Press Bureau Chief for Peking and Tokyo, and William R. Perry, East Asian Studies Lecture, at 7:30 p.m. in the Kansas University Forum Room.
The "ASCENT OF MAN," sponsored by the Western Civilization Department, continues with "Hidden Structure," 7:30 p.m. in 3140 Wescourt Hall.
The LIFE-ISSUE SEMINAR ON
SEXUALITY, discussing
contemporary theories of sex, will meet at
the Christian Ministries
center 7:48 p.m.
THE COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union Council Room. Barbara Ballard will speak.
The KU Pre-Dental Club will present a seminar on "DENTISTRY AS A PROFESSION" at 8 p.m. in Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
TOMORROW
The ENGINEERING CAREER FAIR will be open to all KU students from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Allen Field House.
The BIOLOGY CLUB will meet at 4
in the Sunflower Room in the
Kansas Union.
The KU Dance Club offers beginning INTERNATIONAL FOLK
DANCING lessons at 7:30 p.m. and request dancing from 9 p.m. in Robinson Gymnastics.
The INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN
THE KAPPA UNION's Regionalist
p.m. in the Kapappa Union's Regionalist
SATURDAY
The OBSERVATORY at 500 Lindley Hall will provide an open house at 7 p.m.
SUNDAY
The Association for Experiential Education will sponsor a mini-conference on "EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION IN THE ARTS" from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. in Robinson Dance Studio, Room 242.
Larry Day of the School of Journalism will speak on "THE CHURCH IN LATIN AMERICA: CRUCIBLE OF CHANGE," at the Fellowship Supper at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center, 5:30 p.m.
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