University Dally Kansan
Monday, May 5, 1975
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Selling tactics mar satirist's appearance
By WARD HARKAVY Konsan Reviewer
Everyone who hasn't heard of the National Lampoon raise your hand. Only one person? That's what I thought. Then I asked. "What are you asking for the Lampoon, speak at KU Friday?"
Let me say now that I read every issue of the National Lampoon and I appreciate its often brilliant satires. I don't even fit its heavy dose of drugs and sex offensive. In fact, that's sometimes the best part of the Lampoon.
He spoke to an overflow crowd of 300 people at the Forum Room Friday and he began his speech from the podium.
However, I do take exception to a hardset approach of the type exhibited by叭lll
heir him speak, but I wouldn't pay money to hear him promote the National Lampoon.
Although he was obviously a flack for the Lampon, Miller covered other territory in his work.
He read some of his stories to the enthusiastic and affectionate crowd. One of the stories was called "Carnivoral Knowledge" and was about a family that masturbated together and masticated in private.
Miller also shared some aphorisms with the audience such as: "The road to karma is paved with red-hot pokers" and "Peyote stitches were solutions to the entire time I was throwuping."
As is usual when film makers, writers and others of a creative bent speak at KU, the questions from the audience were childish and insipid. "How did you do this?" and "Why did you do that?" are questions that shouldn't be asked of creative people.
If a person wants to understand another's creative work, he should ask questions about the person's other activities, hobbies and interests. A writer should have knowledge that he has ready tried to explain in his original work. That is redundant. That is redundant.
Miller also weaved a colorful first-person history of the National Lampon, tracing its origins to the Harvard Lampon of the late 1960s.
All of this was very interesting and entertaining. But why was he here? He delighted the crowd that jammed the Forum Room and I'm sure most people didn't care that he was promoting the Lamppon.
But, given the Lampoon's savage and cynical wit, his appearance seemed out of place. Such an appearance would likely be satirized by the Lampoon if another magazine tried such blatant salesmanship. It was "look at me, aren't I great."
One of the most disturbing things about Miller's appearance was his self-conscious appraisal of his and the Lampoon's condescension. In a book published at satirist becomes enamored of his own importance, he begins to lose his edge. A few more instances of this kind of self-conciliatory publicity can be useful to cast a witty and balefey eye at American dolores and morals.
Lewis . . .
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Marlyn Marlyn, Lawrence junior, said she and about 75 to 90 percent of Lewis' students had signed a petition asking that Lewis be allowed this would be about 35 students, she said.
Jolene Grabill, Sedgwick junior, said Lewis' dismissal was only a part of the problems in the School of Social Welfare.
Harp and Grabill said they also were involved in signing a petition against the school's personnel committee that was to be dismissed. He added, "This morning to the University Judiciary."
Grabill and Harp said the breaches of the bylaws concern the addition of four faculty members to the committee. The four additional members were from the school's affirmative action committee, they spent $300 a day distracted by the 50 per student-60 per faculty balance that the school's bylaws required for all school committees.
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