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Tuesday, June 10, 1975
University Daily Kansan
OPINION
The Summer Prospectus
This is not a statement of principles like the one written by Charles Foster Kane. It is merely a few words to tell of our desire to serve you in the best manner possible.
I will not make any rash promises about the Kansas this summer. However, we do intend to give accurate, fair and comprehensive coverage of the news.
The Kansan will not be solely a campus newspaper this summer. We will cover events and issues of national and international interest as well as campus city and state activities.
The Kanas will continue to carry the Pulitzer prize-winning cartoons of Don Wright. We will also occasionally use syndicated columns.
However, we think that it is the comment on national as well as local issues.
Naturally a newspaper is only as good as its staff. I think our staff is a good one even though we may be relatively inexperienced.
The associate editor Peter Poreteous is a graduate student in journalism. He is a
graduate of Denison University majoring in English. Porteous has worked on the Kansan as a reporter on the county beat.
He will be responsible for a large share of the editorial comment and will handle our Associated Press wire copy. Fortune also will be the coordinator for the back-to-school campaign in Kansas for which the summer Kansan staff has a major share of the responsibility.
The campus editors Glenn Meyer and Kenn Louden have undergraduate degrees from KU in English and history respectively. They are both graduate students in the Department of Journalism. A reporter on the Kanasi and he also holds an assistantship in the journalism school.
Louden is a Kanan veteran having been an assistant campus editor and en-
gagement trainer.
The copy editors this summer are CatyBenz, Richard Parson, Kathy Steckert and Tom Weishar. All are graduate students in the journalism school.
Waldo Pepper hurt by big budget
By CHUCK SACK
Kansas Recigner
By CHUCK SACK
The pleasure of "The Great Waldro Pepper" is tempered by the pity one feels for director George Roy Hill. The pilots who have seen him make a living without sacrificing the joy and freedom flying gave them have fascinated Hill for a long time, and watching the film makes one feel that Hill is an almost mounted yet intensely personal picture.
Unfortunately, his project gained too much studio financing, and as everyone knows, a hobbyist without limitations is a hobbyist out of control. Through the film there is the haunting feeling that the budget was too small for the story and characters had been lost.
Casting Robert Redford, with his golden, tousled hair and flashy, mouth-wash-admirable as Waldo Pepper wasn't necessarily a mistake. Redford does a wonderful job of teaching children to be competitive yet admittedly naive dream of becoming the world's greatest flier.
Despite his talent as an actor, though, Redford's toothy countenance is too well known to prevent the viewer from mentally turning Waldo into a larger-than-life figure. It is easy to attempt to trigger that famous grin was probably the beginning of the picture's downfall.
The picture's old-time biplanes guaranteed a high budget. Under the guidance of Frank Tallman, the crew runs through well-executed wing walking, air-to-air transfers and a variety of loops, dives and rolls, making the film a catalogue for air stirring. By the time that Redford and his team landed in the city, inserted into the story, however, all changes for a respectably made, small-budget movie disappeared.
"The Great Waldo Pepper" is the story of a young pilot who feels he missed his chance for fame in the war and who returns home to try his luck at barnstorming. But Waldo is a successful businessman, back in backwoods Nebraska with a story of his battle with the German flying ace, Ernest
Filming in wide-screen Todd A-O makes the frame seem empty, but period details, which are carefully observed without the overkill of nostalgic expeditions like "Paper Moon" or even "The Sting". help. So does it all alternately washed out and lushly colored.
Kessler, but in mid-story a rival reveals Waldo's delicaton. Waldo had cast himself in the role of an American ace in one of the war's most legendary dogfights. He had never seen Kessler, not even in touring air shows.
Although William Goldman's script is certainly not epic in scope, it cannot be faulted. Because of the script's modest aims, it doesn't seem either offensive or villainous. The latter later gets a job in Hollywood as a stunt movie in the film based on Kessler's life.
The film also has its rewarding moments. At one point Waldo steps outside after viewing some footage of the film he is making and suddenly sees before him a large replica of his idol's plane. It is a stunning image set in a land where truth and miracles are impossible to distinguish. Although the plane has only been described verbally before, the strength of the legend shows the viewer as much as it does Waldo.
A later confrontation on the ground between Waldo and Kessler himself carries a similar, if somewhat more melancholy, power. In scenes like these, one can see past the extravagance to the purity of the original story.
"The Great Waldo Pepper" is still basically satisfying as entertainment, and the passages aloft are more than worth the price of admission. But as a depiction of the director's dream project, it is disappointing.
When, through an unfortunate series of events, Waldo is grounded, he is given the chance to fly. He meets who gave up his visions of glory to take a job with the fledgling Civil Aeronautics Administration. "Are you going to license the birds, the sky, the clouds?" Waldo asks him
That confrontation between the idealistic dreamer and the pragmatic realist is staged as though it were at the center of Wado's work, but in a kind of indicative of the problems of film itself.
"The Great Waldo Pepper" makes one feel that George Roy Hill directed the story of Waldo's dream with the calculating mind of his play-it-safe squadron leader. The pity of his decision to make impossible for Hill to make the little movie that could have brought the dream to life.
Gable's back and KU's got him
By KAREN LEONARD
Kansan Staff Reporter
The film that caused an uproar in the underwear industry in 1834 will be shown Friday night in Woodford Auditorium as part of the SUA summer film series.
Heartbrook Clark Gable didn't wear an undershirt in the film "I Happened One Night," and undershirt sales consequently slumped by more than half.
"Films are about the only things planned for this summer," Katherine Giele, assistant director for programs of Kansas Union, said yesterday. The Wilderness Discovery camping equipment rental program is also active.
Steve Benjamin, SUA film chairman, this summer that of the most SUA filmers this summer would be older films, including several from the '30s and '40s.
Highlights of the summer film series will be the classic Marx Brothers film, "Duck Soup," and "High Sierra," starring Humphrey Bogart, Benjamin said.
On July 22, John Ford's "The Grapes of Wrath," film based on the novel by John Steinbeck, will be shown. The film stars Henry Fonda and John Carrindale in the drama from the Oklahoma dustbowl that migrates to California in the '30s to pick crops.
Also to be shown is "The General." starring Keaton Beaxton as a Civil War hero. The film is considered by some to be one of the greatest film comedies ever made.
"The Flow that Broke the Plains," made in 1956 and considered one of the best films ever made.
"Recent films are too expensive for the summer," he said. "Last Tango" was an exception to the rule," said Benjamin. "We got it on a special deal.
"Last year's summer series was really good. We had at least three or four films a week. This summer we will have two or three films a week."
Benjamin said his favorite among the movies offered this summer was "Modern Times," starting Charlie Chaplin, who also directed the picture.
“It’s one of Chapin’s best, visually a very movie and also very funny.” Benjamin
the same night. The settling of the Great Plains and the subsequent drought and soil erosion have had an effect on them.
The summer film series usually hasn't made money, according to Mike Miller, the director.
Miller said Benjamin was exercising good judgment and being more cautious than others.
Benjamin said more recent movies weren't being shown for economic reasons.
Benz has an undergraduate degree from KU in history and has worked at the KU News Bureau. Paxson has a KU undergraduate degree in political science and has worked on the Kansan in a variety of jobs, in addition to being a graduate assistant.
In addition to the summer film series, SAIA is sponsoring Wilderness Discovery Camps.
Steckert has a degree in elementary education from Colorado University, and is currently working for the School of Education. Weishaar graduated from the University of Iowa with degrees in English and film.
Items available for rental include packs and frames, stoves, six-man Coleman tents, and rugs.
"They're just managing the budget better this summer." Miller said.
Giele said the SUA might schedule some canoe trips later this summer.
Hal Eden, SUA supervisor, said no other SUA trips had been organized.
The photo editor this summer is Don Pierce, who has worked as a Kansan photographer and also at Pierce. He is a junior photographer who is scholar so she was worked for the Topek Capital Journal.
My name is Ward Harkvay, and I'm the editor this summer. I have a degree from KU in history and political science and I've also been a journalist graduate student. I am also a journalism graduate student.
The publication of the Kansan would be impossible without the long hours and hard work invested by the business side of the Kansan staff.
This summer's business manager, Jim Merrill, is yet another graduate student in the journalism school, Merrill, a KU professor. He will be co-recipient for the Missouri Public Service Co. in Kansas City, Mo. The assistant business managers for the summer Kansan are Cindy Long and Jerri Kadel; the advertising manager is Gary Birch.
The Kansan is printed at the University Printing Service. We are indebted to this fine crew of printers, who are very tolerant of student folios.
As you can see, this summer's staff comprises people with diverse backgrounds, with interests ranging from movies to sports to ecology to photography.
We hope to produce a lively and
informative paper this summer—one that will
be useful both in the classroom and in the
workplace.
"FOLLOW ME!"
Sanford contrasts with Wallace
The recent entrance by Terry Sanford into the race for the Democratic party nomination for president is, though a futile
Sanford is a Southern moderate, the former governor of North Carolina and presently the president of Duke University.
His candidacy is quixotic but admirable. He says that one of his main targets is George Wallace, another candidate for president in 2016.
Wallace's candidacy is tolerable, but his election, or even nomination, would be disastrous.
His past histrionics about "nigras" have given way to a veneer of moderation and racial harmony. He has even elicited the support of some southern black leaders, people who obviously know how powerful Wallace still is in his home area.
But that's all this new moderate tone is—a veneer. Underneath the populist words of Wallace, one still has the feeling that he was, is and always will be a demagogue.
When Wallace was a raging bigot, it was easy to ignore him. Now that he is purging a like moderator populist, he is much more compassionate.
The health of this nation is not good enough to withstand the assault on deciency it would suffer if George Wallace were
Though Terry Sanford will certainly lose, perhaps he will shed some light on Wallace's true nature. The notion that the South is a rednuck haven is a false one, made all the more false every time Terry Sanford speaks. He, rather than George Wallace, closely represents the moderation of what is becoming the New South.
—Ward Harkavy
Organ institute at KU this week
By PENNY CHILTON
Kansas Staff Reporter
James Moeser, professor of organ and the moving force behind the institute, said Sunday "The need to fill a cultural vacuum prompted him to organize the institute."
A chance to learn one or two new things has attracted organ students, organ teachers, church organisers and "just listeners" from across the United States to the University of Kansas for an Institute for Organ and Church Music this week.
Moeser, who is the newly appointed dean of KU's School of Fine Arts, said he thought the institute was going to be very successful and would qualify for a quality of people we have been able to get."
The institute, which began Sunday and lasts through Friday, has never been tried at KU before. Moser said. Free nightly programming is encouraged by the institute through Thursday.
Catherine Crozier, internationally recognized organist, and her husband, Harold Gleason, author of organ instruction manuals, are among guest artists.
Crozier attended the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., where she earned a bachelor's degree in music, a performer's certificate and a master's degree in music. She earned an artist's diploma, the highest award for performance offered by the school.
Crozier has played in organ concerts throughout the United States and Europe and was one of three organists chosen to play the inaugural organ recital at Philharmonic Hall in the Lincoln Center in 1962.
Tonight John G. Schaeffer, guest organist
at the Plymouth Congregational Church
at the Plymouth Congregational Chur
Crozer became a faculty member at Eastman and the department head in 1953. She received an honorary doctorate from Smith College, Northampton, Mass., in 1965.
Crozier presented a concert Sunday evening at the Plymouth Congregational Church and Moser presented a concert there last night.
KU positions will be filled by fall term, says Shankel
By MARK PENNINGTON
Kansan Staff Reporter
Gary Flanigan, former director of the SES, resigned his post in the middle of the year. The Black Student Union (BSU) demanded Flanigan's resignation in Oct-
The 11 University administrative positions that were vacated during the last academic year will be filled and operating on a basis determined by executive vice chancellor, said Saturday.
Shankel said the only search committee that was currently operating was one reviewing applications for dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
"They have a number of good candidates and hope to have a recommendation to us by February."
Another post Shankel said he thought would be filled this summer was director of Supportive Educational Services (SES) in the office of Minority Affairs.
George Waggoner, dean of the College,
will assume his duties on July 1 as associate
vice chancellor for academic affairs. His
credibility will be international
programs.
Shankel said the BSU wasn't the only factor in Flanigan's decision to resign.
concerns with a program at 8 p.m. Thursday
at the Plymouth Congregational Church.
"It was more a difference in philosophy between Gary and the director of the office of Minority Affairs about how the SES program should be operated." Shankel said.
Schaeff, who is a faculty member at Augusta College, will play selections by Jasmin Guilleme, Maurice Durufe, Jean-Antony Frillane Gulain and Olivier Messaien.
Applications are also being reviewed for the directorship of the Intensive English Center. However, Shankel said it wasn't a search he was involved with. It will be handled through the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Meeser said the institute had been designed to attract university students from throughout the United States, private and academic instructors and church organizers.
Individuals from South Carolina and Virginia to the Rocky Mountains, and from Texas to the Dakotas have come to the institute, Moeser said.
Albert Gerken, KU carlionneur, will present a program at the Memorial Campusile at 6 p.m. tomorrow, Gerse Hancock, will present a series of lectures in New York City, will complete the series of
Students in the spring semester class of Democracy and the Bureaucratic State, (Polls 130), were surprised on the day of their final when their professor didn't show
Shankel also said there would probably be a search committee formed to screen applicants for the position of associate vice chancellor for Outreach. The position was opened when Ronald Calgard was selected as a new faculty member in academic affairs. He will begin on July 1.
Gary L. Wamsley, associate professor of political science, was at an administration school.
Wamley is also director of the Institute of Public Affairs.
Ed Rolfs, student body president, said that some students complained to him about the incident. Rolfs said that he was having an investigation and said that no action would be taken without approval of the Stud-Fx committee.
Warnsiley sent letters of apology to all of the students at their home addresses.
Wamsley offered the students three courses of action. They could take the grade that they received on an earlier paper, take a make up exam or take a combination of
"I have a joint appointment here," he said. "and I just had the wrist drap in new heat.
Wamley sent letters or apology to an or the students at their home addresses. "I feel bad about the whole thing," Wamley said, "but there's no excuse.
Staff photo by DON PIERCE
Judy Dirks became the 100,000 graduate of the University of Kansas at commencement ceremony in late October. She met with the Life Corps at the KU Alumni Association and was honored by a banquet held at the University of Kansas.
100. 000th araduate
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