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The nine-page elections bill introduced by Dick Darville, (KUPA—large men's) Shawnee Mission senior, passed 21 to 11.
The All Student Council (ASC) last night passed a bill complete ly revising the elections system and swore in 24 new council members.
THE BILL provides for replacement of the Hare system of preferential balletting by one in which the voter votes for only the number of candidates to be elected from his district.
The bill requires that each person who wishes to run for an ASC seat must have a petition signed by 10 per cent of the number that voted from his district in the previous election.
ASC passes bill installs members
With temperatures expected to drop to 10 degrees tonight, cars again need anti-freeze to keep running. Not to be out-in-the-cold in his car, Tim Byers, Bartlesville, Okla., sophomore, pours it in. (For weather details see Page 3.)
The committee on committees yesterday amended the bill so that freshman, sophomore, and junior class officers will not be eliminated.
Limitations will be placed on the amount of money a candidate or political party may spend on campaigns. A candidate for council representative may spend only $30 on his campaign, and candidates for student body president and vice-president together may spend no more than $200.
GLUB, GLUB, CHOKE
Al Martin, Shawnee Mission sophomore and student body president, swore in the 24 new representatives elected in the Nov.16 and 17 elections.
EACH CANDIDATE must submit one sample of each publicity item he uses to the elections committee before he distributes it. After elections, he must submit a complete report of his expenses.
Serving KU for 77 of its 101 Years
77th Year, No. 48
LAWRENCE, KANSAS Wednesday, November 30, 1966
Count Basie will appear at SUA festival of arts
By CAROL DeBONIS
Count Basie, jazz pianist, will perform in concert with the folksinger Odetta in the finale of the week-long Festival of the Arts to be sponsored by Student Union Activities (SUA) March 19 through 25.
Edward Albee, author of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf"; the Bill Evans piano trio, classical guitarist Rey de la Torre, and cartoonist Chuck Jones are other representatives of the various aspects of the arts to be featured during the week.
A DRAMATIC production of the poetry of Robert Frost and art displays by William T. Brown and leading schools throughout the country will be included.
The festival will begin Sunday, March 19 with a concert by the Bill Evans Trio and Rey de la Torre. Evans has been voted most outstanding pianist four times in the international
critics' poll. His record, "Conversations with Myself" won the 1964 National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences Grammy for the best jazz long-playing recording of the year.
THROUGHOUT THE WEEK, displays of William T. Brown's San Francisco bay area figurative painting will be exhibited at the Museum of Art. The four best works of leading art schools including those of KU will be on display in the South Lounge of the Kansas Union.
Plans for the Festival of Arts began last April and were inspired by a University of Michigan arts festival week and the success of the Inter-Century Seminar, said Warner.
"As far as we know, a program of this particular scale and with such nationally-known artists has never been tried, although similar festivals have been attempted at other universities," he added.
University conciliation fails
Michigan holds sit-in
By STEVE RUSSELL
Assistant Managing Editor
Approximately 1.500 University of Michigan students marched through a snow storm to jam the halls of the administration building at Ann Arbor, Mich., yesterday, in a sit-in protesting recent decisions made by university officials.
The sit-in, which blocked traffic on four floors of the five-story building for an hour, followed a noon rally headed by the student leaders of the UM Student Government Council, the local chapter of Students for a Democratic Society and the UM Young Democrats.
Roger Rapoport, night editor for the campus newspaper, The Michigan Daily, said the students were protesting an administrative ban on sit-ins and the filing of students' class rankings to local draft boards.
RAPOPORT SAID the student leaders called for the all-campus rally following conciliatory efforts made by UM President Harlan H. Hatcher. Hatcher postponed the sit-in ban and established two committees of students, faculty and administrators to re-examine the sit-in ban and study the question of student participation in university decision-making.
Student leaders at the rally called Hatcher's conciliatory efforts "sweet talk" and demanded complete removal of the sit-in ban by the administration.
Rapoport said the students then dispersed throughout the building and sat down in the middle of the halls. They remained for approximately an hour before quietly leaving the building.
He said university officials took no action to stop the sit-in, "in fact, one official called the demonstration pretty orderly."
Rapoport said the Student Government Council broke off official relations with the administration two weeks ago when university officials announced they would not discontinue reporting students' class rankings to local draft boards despite student protests. In an all-campus election, students voted 2 to 1 against the reports.
HATCHER HAS said the class ranking reports will be filed next Monday.
The students have scheduled a teach-in for this morning to discuss further action to be taken against the University.
Rapoport said the SDS chapter was meeting last night to decide whether to conduct a sit-in of its own today. Two years ago the MU chapter of SDS initiated the nationwide Viet Nam Day Teach-Ins.
Couple promotes Peace Corps
By PATRICIA PRUITT
A Venezuelan city of 65,000 never experienced modern dance until Ree Riley and the Peace Corps arrived.
Ree and her husband Mike, recently returned from two years as physical education teachers at secondary schools in Maturin, Venezuela, are now traveling to American universities promoting the Peace Corps. They are two of six returnees who will be at KU next week for Peace Corps Week.
GRADUATES of San Diego State College, Mike majored in physical education and Ree in biology with a minor in modern dance. Last night after an absence of three years, Ree had much to tell.
Physical education curriculum had been a farce in the school system, especially for girls, said Ree. Formal classes were not held; a ball was tossed to the girls and they made up their own games. Ree organized sports and taught American as well as Latin folk dancing.
In Venezuela, Ree taught modern dance to high school girls who were ashamed to go bare-foot, embarrassed to wear shorts and who did not know they could run and jump uninhibited.
Modern dance, her great love, was her ovn idea and her special project. Although the Rileys and other Peace Corps volunteers were under direction of school officials, they were free to teach
anything they wanted within their classes.
Ree found an empty secondfloor room in the high school and started in.
"MY FIRST problem was discipline," she said. "Those kids never had to come to class or play organized sports. Their physical education grades meant nothing, but I told them they would miss steps if they didn't come and they began to enjoy it
Physical education teachers there were high school graduates with only a six-weeks course in physical education, she said. "They were actually glad if students didn't come to class, because they didn't know what to teach."
"When we left, physical education was considered an academic credit and was required for graduation," Ree said.
Two modern dance clubs with constitutions now exist. The Rileys helped train their successors this summer in Florida, and Ree is confident the precedent will be carried on, although the woman who succeeds her had little modern dance background. The emphasis now will be rhythmic gymnastics.
A tape recorder was the only equipment Reed had. On free
BY THE END of the first year, Ree's students were presenting shows to the school, community, and local prison. They visited the prison often because it had the only adequate facilities in the area.
weekends the Rileys traveled around Venezuela and collected recordings Ree could adapt to her classes.
The first year was slow going.
"THE GIRLS crawled around on the floor with their feet under them, because they were ashamed of their bare feet," she said. "I'll bet they giggled for months about some of the exercises."
The second year was better because some of the first year students returned.
"I looked forward to those classes all day." Ree said.
In the Peace Corps initiative is the saving factor, Ree says. "It's not something you learn. It's got to be there already, and the Peace Corps shouldn't send you
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