KU
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Vol.87 No.29
SenEx supports varied court size
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, October 1, 1976
See story page seven
Staff photo by JAY KOELZER
The writer's response
Writer-in-residence William Burroughs talks to a Modern American Art class vaster afternoon. Topics of Burroughs' talk
Boredom prompted writer
ranged from eastern mysticism to Richard Nixon, who Burroughs said in time would be called a folk hero.
By GREG BASHAW
Chairs jammed into room 211 Blake Hall where writer-in-residence William Burroughs to speak yesterday were filled filled and it was still 10 minutes before class time.
"Whattyta think about moving the class inside Al Dewey, who teaches art at Brownburg Literature and Burroughs novel, Naked Lunch, asked Allen Millstein, an instructor of a Modern Art American art school."
"The Man wrigglegs . . . His flesh turns to viscid, transparent jelly that drifts away in green mist, unveiling a monster black cintipede." -Burroughs in Naked Lunch.
"Nah, I don't think so," Mullstein said. "I can't see William Buroburs sitting on
"I don't know about this. I don't know whether I want it sit this close to him," she said.
By 1:30 p.m. the only seats left were in the front of the room. Jane Tankard, Leaneap sophomore, sat slowly into a chair right in front of her. She looked around the crowded room. She looked around the crowded room.
"There is a sense in Naked Lunch of the destruction of soul, which is more intense than any I have encountered in any other modern novel."—Norman Mailer.
"Naked Lunch—a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every day."
Burroughs arrived late in a gray suit, big black boots and a hat that left a crease mark across his high forehead when he took it off. He spoke in a monotone, slightly slurring his words. He was without the Senior Service cigarettes, a foreign brand, he'd puffed on all week in his stay as writer-in-residence and drummed his stubby
fingers on the table through most of the tal
"Eastern religions have an effect on the whole method of thought that moves you toward nonlinear thinking," he said, speaking of the development of the cut-up mind, which has enabled him treating your mind work as it actually functions instead of forcing it into a linear operation."
"Naked Lunch is of very small significance . . . From the literary point of view, it is the merest trash, not worth a second glance."—New Republic.
Burroughs took off his glasses and then into his suit pocket. He was asked about the cut-up method of writing, in which he would take a skate apart and piece together his phrases.
"What you see when you walk around is a montage of perceived," she said. "My first drafts are like rough sketches, and the cut-outs are literary equivalent of montage painting."
William Burroughs, 61, grew up in St. Louis where his grandfather began the Burroughs Business Machine Co. He studied literature at Harvard and began studying biochemistry with experiences with heroin addiction on paper. After many years of addiction, Burroughs kicked heroin in 187 by using apomorphine, a solution that regulates the body's metabolism. Burroughs has long claimed apomorphine could be an effective cure for most addicts if its use wasn't suppressed by pharmacological and pharmaceutical professions.
"Drugs are a million-dollar industry, and no one wants to see it end by curing adults."
Burroughs "might have been one of the greatest geniuses of the English language if he had never been an addict."—Norman Mailer.
Clean-up project gains approval
By CAROL LUMAN
Staff Writer
A project of the Lawrence Sanitation Department to clean and beautify the alleys in the central business district isn't a white man's problem. The machines apparently think it will suffice.
Alleys off of Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire streets from Stixth to 11th Streets are the center of the beautification project, which began six weeks ago.
Longhurst said he was impressed that the men on the special route took time to pick up litter and sweep around trash bins in the basement, where they empty the bins, as was done in the past.
"The service is wonderful," David Longhurst, president of the House of Usher, 838 Massachusetts St., said yesterday. "It's an enormous improvement."
If comments of two downtown merchants are representative of the general feeling about their stores, they will be included.
Tom Black, manager of the Royal College
Shop. 87 Massachusetts St., said he had
been in charge.
"The alleys are cleaner than they were before the project beamed." he said.
But Black said that part of the problem in
Burroughs' experiences with drugs and his nightmarish visions while using and withdrawing from heroin are an axis around which his creative work revolves.
"The human body is scandalously inefficient. Instead of a mouth and an anus to get out of order why not have an all-purpose kitchen? No, it's a character from Burghershack." Naked Lunch.
"Burroughs novels are the experience of his aesthetic hate." -Harrer's.
While Burroughs fielded a few questions on America, a man near the back of the room wanted to know what he thought about former President Richard Nixon.
"I think Nikon will go down in history as a great folk hero," he said, to gales of the media. "He completely debunked the reverence the country had for the presidency and I think that that unquestioned power the President had was so important."
the past was the fault of merchants, not sapitation workers.
Merchants are sloppy, according to Black
So, a special three-man crew was assigned to the route. They worked downtown first, beginning at 6 a.m. and finishing by midday--before delivery trucks began using the alleys. Then they their assigned residential area near downtown
One of the area's past problems was that merchants and passbyss were careful when they dumped trash, Earl Cheek, a sanitation department supervisor, said.
For Burroughs, the image of a dependence on junk can be applied to all people, and even those without reliance on material form, a forced feeding of image, thought and energy from those in control. The only escape from this addictive form is through the first form of tummy—the body itself.
"I'd been a bartender, an externinator, a terrible private detective and a junky," he told another class Wednesday "After I retired, I worked as a small stock with this writing business."
THE NEW PROJECT will be a success only if every bitches in he, said.
Standard equipment for the crew is a truck, a broom and a shovel.
Weed cutting in the alleys will be another service. Cheek said. The crew will bring in or replace bins needing repairs and spruce them up with a coat of paint.
"The sanitation workers can clean the hell out of the place, and then the merchants throw stuff without making sure it gets in the bin." Black said.
The men sweep around the bins after they've been emplied, and this winter the
See BOREDOM page eight
KU, county settle on bill for wagon train stopover
By JIM COBB
University of Kansas officials faced the Douglas County Bicentennial Commission in a $250.65 charge made by KU for use of University property by Bicentennial Commission.
Staff Writer
Del Shakel, executive vice chancellor,
Max Lucas. University director of facilities
Libraries seek $35,000 extra for student help
The University Senate Libraries Committee has asked the University of Kansas to provide $35,000 to supplement student wages in the library system. The committee said this week that it might request a loan from the university if additional funds were not provided.
Letters sent to Chancellor Archie Dykes, Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, and Ron Calgaard, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said the funds available for wages during the 1976-77 school year were about $120.00 less than the amount requested.
The amount requested was $291,695, and available University and work-study funds
SUPPLEMENTAL FUNDS are necessary to keep Watson Library open the 86 hours a week it now operates, the committee's letter to Dykes was. The group said the 86 hours scheduled were substantially longer in library hours at universities similar to KU.
The letter said the wage problem was "only symptomatic of the overall difficulties that the libraries face owing to inadequate funding."
Earl S. Huyser, professor of chemistry and chairman of the libraries committee, said the University was developing a legacy of poor library funding.
"IM IN MY second year on the committee," he said. "During my first year, I became aware of the severe shortage of funds to maintain a library like the one we should have at the University of Kansas. And it isn't only in student wages."
Huyser said the letter indicated only that there was a possibility that the committee would recommend a reduction in hours if the additional funds weren't provided. The final decision on how to cope with fund availability will be made by library officials, he said.
THE LETTER said that the number of hours of student help in the library had declined about 33 per cent during the last five years. During the same period, it said, student enrollment has increased by 25 per cent.
If additional money isn't provided, the only other sources of funds are the library's personnel and acquisitions funds. Reducing other personnel will add to problems such as the need to find new materials in the letter said, and a reduction in new books will create more problems in the future.
planning, and Mary Soderstrum, assistant to Lucas, attended the commission's monthly meeting in Kanwaka Hall west of Lawrence.
Shankel and Lucas fielded questions about services and facilities provided by KU for the wagon train visit and both expressed dismay that the University had been thrust into an adversary relationship with a local civic group.
AFTER MORE than an hour of discussion and questions by commission members, the commission voted to pay $1,126.78 of the bill for overtime wages of University employees. Shankel said KU would waive a charge of $450 on any materials during the wagon train visit.
The approved resolution stated that the county Bicentennial group, the Lawrence Bicentennial Commission and the KU Bicentennial Committee should cooperate to pay the bill within a week. It was passed, 7-1
A resolution presented earlier calling for the cooperation of the Lawrence City Commission and the Douglas County Commission to pay the bill tiled 4-4.
THE ADMINISTRATORS stood a few steps from the head table in the high-ceilinged hall. A miniature wagon train was the table's centerpiece.
Some commission members, particularly those from smaller communities in the county, didn't hide their concern about the bill. Martha Parker, Clinton, opposed the original resolution because she said it wasn't right for the Bicentennial group to Lawrence and Douglas Cooper to give it more money to pay KU's bill.
"To take the money that we worked so hard to get and spend it for something we did not initiate just seems absurd," she said.
CHARLES DURR, Eudora, said that if the commission paid KU's charges, "then we'll feel obligated to Dr. Bradley for what he did."
Durr was referring to accommodations provided to the wagon train by William Bradley, a Lawrence veterinarian. The wagon train, scheduled to stay on the KU campus, met in a park at night. After participating in a local parade on the second day of its visit, wagon train
members expressed dissatisfaction with facilities provided by the University and threatened to leave Lawrence ahead of schedule.
Bradley invited the group to stay on his arm at no charge and sponsored a barbecue.
LUCAS AND SHANKEL, who said they had been criticized for the University's role during the group's visit and for the bill, defended their actions. They said that an area on West Campus that had been planned for use by the wagon train was scrapped just before the visit at the suggestion of the wagomaster.
In addition, they said, workers for Buildings and Grounds and KU police were also required to overtime work not directly related to the University. The commission had been warned in advance of the visit that KU employees' overtime would have to be paid.
A charge of more than $900 had been discussed during preliminary planning for the visit. Lucas said the University Events Office had asked to waive fees for use of KU facilities.
SHANKEL SAID, "Perhaps we should have been more specific about costs, but we were assured that there would be no problem."
Administrators sent a list of overtime pay charges, Shankel said, to Clemence Hills, Bicentennial commission chairman. Those charges were $655.43 for Buildings and Grounds employees, and $470.95 for KU police.
"The next thing we knew was that there was considerable unhappiness," Shankel
Employees who worked during the group's 24-hour stay on campuses haven't been paid for it.
SHANKEL AND Lucas said that after preliminary discussion of the wagon train's visit, Chancellor Archie Dykes approved the plan. After several locations for the wagon train were considered, it was decided that an area on West Campus would be ideal.
Heavy rains before the train arrived April 29, however, prompted a wagon train
See WAGONS page eight
Variety of festivities highlight Parents Day
"Science Can Be Fun," a lecture by Clark Bricker, professor of chemistry, will highlight Saturday morning activities for the University of Kansas Parents Day.
Bricker's lecture, similar to one he has given in the Soviet Union, will be at 10 a.m. in Woodruff Auditorium. Bricker said this week the speech included impromptu demonstrations of chemical experiments and was planned to be both entertaining and
The lecture will follow a reception for
Special treatment
Two of the three members of a crew on a special route that hits the alleys in the Lawrence central business district move a trash
can to their collection truck. The added service in the downtown area, started six weeks ago by the Lawrence Sanitation Department.
parents at 8 a.m. in the Kansas Union Paul Gray, a KU alum, and his band, the Gaslight Gang Dixieland Band, will play on the sidewalk along Jayhawk Boulevard during the morning's activities. Also, a film on technology will be shown in the Union
Special exhibits and presentations that will be open all day include;
—Buddist art, Chinese snuff bottles and a special photographic selection at the KU Museum.
-Chalk fossils, photographs of the taxidermy process and an exhibit about Kansas fish in the Museum of Neural History.
-Availability of telescopes in the astronomical observatory atop Lindley Hall so that parents may observe sun spots or planets during the morning.
IN ADDITION, individual schools and departments will have special programs for parents. Open houses have been planned in the schools of pharmacy, journalism, and business. Navy ROTC will have an open house and a picnic for parents.
The School of Architecture will display student projects during its open house and will sponsor a picnic for parents at Potter Pavilion. The department of chemical and mechanical engineering reception will include tours of a recently completed addition to Learned Hall.
Receptions are planned for parents of students in the department of political science and the KU Marching Band. Tours of Engel Library will be conducted by the department of Germanic languages and literature.
HOPE balloting finishes today
Today is the last day of balloting for the five HOPE Award finalists. Seniors presenting their KU ID's may vote from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the information booth on Jayhawk Boulevard. Senior class card holders may vote at the Regina Senior Alliance party from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Broken Arrow Park.
Each senior may vote for up to five of 17 semifinalists. The five finalists will be announced Oct. 4, and after additional voting, the winner will be announced Nov. 5 at the halftime of the KU-Iowa State football game.