War drums pound
ROTC has no increase
As the war drums pound on in Viet Nam, many KU students will have to serve in the armed forces. Some students are in the reserves, others will await the draft, and others are in the ROTC programs.
If Viet Nam causes alarm among KU students, it cannot be detected by the number of students enrolling in ROTC.
Commander Hugh H. Dunkum Jr., USN, said that enrollment figures for this year as compared to last year show an increase of 50.
A spokesman for the Air Force ROTC unit said there is no noticeable increase in enrollment this year over last year.
Jim Robertson, Independence freshman, said he joined the ROTC program because of the literature he received last summer from the armed forces telling him of the various advantages ROTC has to offer, and also because of the financial assistance it offers in the last two years of the program.
RICHARD FENSKE, Wichita junior, said he entered ROTC because he would rather do his service time as an officer than as an enlisted man.
DAN HARRINGTON, Penfield, N.Y., junior, who has been in ROTC for three years said he joined "because he wanted to serve his country." Harrington said he had given the program a
great deal of thought before entering.
He said "it is a great honor, afforded only to a few, to be an officer who is good enough to serve rather than the average man."
Noted film critic comes to School of Journalism
The lights dim, all eyes center forward, the sound rises, music emerges from the scattered speakers, and the motion picture begins.
The man with the fair skin, the dark suit, the light sweater vest is Richard Dyer MacCann, assistant professor of journalism. He's doing more than watching a motion picture. His business is film and the criticism of film.
He has practiced this trade from Hollywood to Seoul to KU. This Friday evening at 5:15, he begins a new weekly program on KANU-FM.
"Looking at Films with Richard Dyer MacCann" will review current motion pictures, during their run at Lawrence theatres and will occasionally broaden to include those appearing on campus. Special features include general comments on the state of film and response to listener's letters.
Constantly concerned with the film he suggests that the "role of the critic should be to call attention to content . . . he can encourage excellence in the film-maker and a deeper sense of appreciation by the viewer."
The quiet man can list three books and nine years as "Christian Science Monitor" Hollywood correspondent for credits.
With an A.B.A. in political science from KU, a Harvard Ph.D. in government, a Phi Beta Kappa key and numerous film articles and teaching assignments in film courses behind him, he turns to radio in what he calls, "An age of great turbulence in communication and a new fascination with the art of the film."
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A program designed to acquaint freshman women and new women students in general with the structure of the Associated Women Students (AWS) will be presented at 7 and 8:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
AWS sets orientation
On The Hill
The presentation will be the first formal orientation conducted by the organization although informal discussions were led last Thursday and Friday evenings in the freshman women's dormitories.
According to Susan Weinlood, Hutchinson junior and senator in charge of AWS orientation, "The AWS Orientation Committee hopes that through these discussions and its general presentation on Wednesday night to make the new woman students at KU feel
more a part of AWS as well as see the role she can play in it."
Plans for the presentation Wednesday began this summer. The program will be based upon a skit entitled "AWS-101"—101 indicating the 101st class to enter KU.
Alumni officials attend meeting
Robert Cobb, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts, and Vince Biltotta, alumni field secretary, journeyed to two southwestern states this weekend to attend alumni meetings.
They were guests at alumni meetings in Albuquerque, N.M.; Phoenix, Ariz., and Tucson, Ariz., before attended Saturday's game in Tucson.
While he was writing it, John Barth described his new novel, GILES GOAT-BOY as "a longish story about a young man who is raised as a goat, later learns he's human and commits himself to the heroic project of discovering the secret of things."
When GILES GOAT-BOY was published last month, the critics displayed none of Barth's restraint. GILES GOAT-BOY has become one of the most celebrated literary events of the new publishing season, and John Barth has been variously described as:
"the most prodigally gifted comic novelist writing in English today... Who else but Barth would dare create a hero who was sired by a computer out of a virgin?..."
"No summary, no excepting can possibly convey the fantastic richness of the novel, its profligate bounty. Barth could have cut it by a third (though one would hate to see a line of it go) and made the reputation of a dozen novelists by distributing the pieces among them." —Newsweek Magazine
"clearly a genius...
“What is one to do about John Barth? Is he — as so many people interested in original, funny, creative, and brilliant writing agree he is — the most original, funny, creative, and brilliant writer working in the English language today? Or merely, as these same people hasten to add, the most impertinent and long-winded? Is Giles GOAT-Boy the great American novel, come at last into being, or just a long, though expert, shaggy-goat story? And if so — or indeed, if not so, or both — whose beard is being pulled? Mr. Barth is clearly a genius . . . but what does that mean? Intoxicated by GLES GOAT-Boy, I would suggest it applies to someone who by force of will and wild connections in the mind, intoxicates . . .
"What is one to do about John *Birth*? Well, first of all, partake, eat, quaff, enjoy. Whatever the doubts and recriminations, they will keep till morning; I not sure they matter in the slightest."
—ELOI FREMONT-SMITH. *New York Times*
"like Mephistopheles - or perhaps Batman.
"the Mythopheles — or perhaps Baltham"
("GLES GOAT-BOY is a gothic fun-house fantasy of theology, sociology, and sex, leaping across great tracts of human history . . . Prodigious . . . Reading GLES GOAT-BOY, and debating its meaning, will be one of the most bracing literary exercises of 1966 and beyond. It is a satire of major import." - Time Magazine
"a rarity among American novelists in having a brilliant mind . . . a mind that invents ideas only to flout them . . . "With this fourth novel, John Barth at 36 increases the likelihood that the years since World War II are among the most rewarding in the history of American fiction."—RICHARD POIRIER, Washington Post Book Week
"the best writer of fiction we have at present and one of the best we have ever had . . .
"His audience must be that same audience whose capacities have been extended and prepared by Joyce, Proust, Mann and Faulkner.
"For some time we have been wondering what to do with the training given us by those giants of modern fiction . . . The answer now seems clear. The difference between competence and genius can hardly be made clearer. And Barth is a comic genius of the highest order." —ROBERT SCHOLES,
front page New York Times Book Review
GILES GOAT-BOY is published by Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, which usually devotes this column to Anchor Books, but felt that plugging this particular hard-cover novel was irresistible. GILES GOAT-BOY is $6.95 at one of the best-equipped book sellers in the country - your college store.