Scribblers have variety of messages
Daily Kansan Wednesday, December 7, 1966
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Odd literature exists at KU
By RICH LOVETT
It is about time an unnoticed form of literature be given its due on this campus—namely grafati.
Grafati, as discussed in Newsweek, Time, and Fact Magazines is the art of scribbling on walls, desks, doors, and what-have-you. (For non-Italians, grafati is the plural of grafato—"scratch.")
While grafati at KU remains in a basically rustic stage of development, some valuable truisms have been collected by dedicated grafatists across the campus.
For example, it says right there on a table in Watson Library, "W. Clarke Wescoe combs sideways," and "free love is anti-inflation." On another table it tells that "Billy Graham sniffs glue," and "milktrope is an abhrodisiac."
IN ANOTHER building someone wisely noted that "Jesus saves." Someone added economically, "and so can you at the First National Bank." In the same vein is set forth, "Jesus saves—Moses invests." Unfortunately, only men will be able to discover in Malott, "God isn't dead—he just doesn't want to get involved." "Custer died for your sins," appears nearby.
Grafatists, as you might expect, do much of their work in restrooms. In fact, restrooms are a veritable wealth of wisdom for the careful reader. One such cubicle bears this warning:
"Note—the sign on the door of this restroom may be changed from 'Men' to 'Women' without notice." Another cautions, "Beware. This seat is mined." And an unknown observer witnessed and placed on record that "Walter Jenkins was here." At the end of such a list of truths one awed student scrawled, "All I can say is E equals Mc squared."
Prison rally cancelled
The prison houses three former soldiers who were court-martialed and sentenced to three to five years at hard labor for refusing orders to go to Viet Nam.
Plans of the KU Viet Nam Committee to picket the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth this weekend have been canceled in deference to a January movement.
HAM SALSICH, assistant English instructor and committee chairman, said the Viet Nam Committee will not march as scheduled Saturday because it might detract attention from a large protest planned for January 7.
Peace and civil liberties groups from all over the U.S. are being invited to this mass rally for the three prisoners, whose story has attained national prominence.
$222 Glenn Yarbrough at the "Hungry I"
WEATHER
Cloudy, cooler and rainy tonight says the United States Weather Bureau. Tonight's low is expected to be near 40 degrees. For tomorrow, the Bureau forecasts partly cloudy skies and colder temperatures with less chance of precipitation than tonight.
Salsich said that from 500 to 1,000 people are expected to participate in the January march. The group will assemble in Lansing and march along the highway to the Leavenworth penitentiary.
"WAR IS good-byeness,"wrote some great thinker of bygone times in Strong Hall. "Lewdness is crudeness."
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