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Creeley To Read Own Poetry
Robert Creeley, poet and author, will read his poems at 4:30 p.m.
Tuesday in the Javahawk Room of the Kansas Union.
Creeley, currently teaching at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, is the author of some 150 poems, and several books. A native of Massachusetts, he received a B.A. degree from Black Mountain College, N.C., and later earned a M.A. degree from the University of New Mexico. He also studied at Harvard during his undergraduate years.
He will be reading from the book of his complete poems, "For Love," which has received critical acclaim from many authors and critics. Included in "For Love" are ten of the poems that appeared in Poetry Magazine, and which won him the Levinson prize in 1960.
Some works of Creeley's which are currently in Watson Library, are: "All That is Lovely in Man," (1955), "Le Fou, Poems," (1952), "A Form of Women," (1959), "If You," (1956), which includes poems and pictures, and "The Island," (1963).
His visit to KU is being jointly sponsored by the English Department and the SUA Poetry Hour, who brought poet Langston Hughes to the campus last Tuesday.
Too Late For Fraser Hall?
A 2,077 signature petition calling for reconsideration of the plans for new Fraser Hall was presented to Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe Friday afternoon by Walter Hull, assistant instructor in the intensive English center.
Hull has been circulating the petition for the past few weeks and has had students, faculty members, and alumni sign the statement.
A COPY of the petition appeared in the University Daily Kansan, and it stated, in effect, that "New Fraser Hall does not properly represent KU."
Hull said the new design has met with opposition since its introduction to the University on March 29.
"The Chancellor was quite friendly Friday afternoon, but he was not receptive to our ideas as presented in the petition." Hull said.
Hull said Chancellor Wescoe told him little could be done to change the plans for new Fraser.
According to Hull, Chancellor Wescoe said some details on the building will be different than represented on the photograph that was printed in the UDK. An artist's rendition of the new structure should be ready by commencement.
Chancellor Wescoe will be out of town until Tuesday and could not be reached for comment.
No Potpourri This Semester
Speech Potpourri, the speech competition for the students in Speech 1 classes, will not be held this semester.
Wilmer Linkugel, associate professor of speech and drama, and in charge of the competition, said the program had been put off as there was no place to hold it in.
Usually the competition is held in Fraser Theater, but with the theater condemned, there was no other place to go to. No definite date had been set yet for the competition, but it was too late to reserve any other place.
Prof. Linkugel said the competition would definitely be held next semester, in the University Theatre.
For the Speech Potpourri, each of the classes in Speech 1 selected their best speaker as representative for their class. After a preliminary round, eight finalists were chosen, who then spoke on different topics on the final night.
Miss Savage was eliminated in the Miss America pageant at Atlantic City last year in the last round before selection of the 10 semifinalists. She sang classical and popular songs and was a member of the "Kansas State Singers" who toured Europe for two months last fall.
Miss Savage, a junior at Kansas State University, was majoring in elementary education. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority.
At the time of her victory in the Miss Kansas contest last June, Miss Savage said she hoped for a singing career to work as a specialist with exceptional children.
The weather bureau predicts partly cloudy to cloudy and cooler weather tonight and Tuesday with showers over 30 per cent of the area. The low temperature tonight will be around 50.
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Gamma Phi Wins Top Trophy At Sigma Chi Derby Relays
The selection of Kathleen (K.K.) Dole, Wichita, junior, as the 1965 Sigma Chi Derby Day queen climaxed an afternoon of anties, events, and a float parade down Jayhawk Bculevard during Saturday afternoon's 12th annual Derby Day.
The Gamma Phi Beta team walked off with the highest number of points (35) this year, repeating a similar victory last year. Their house was awarded a gold cup traveling trophy and a first place trophy which they keep.
THE SECOND PLACE trophy went to the Alpha Phi house which earned 28 points in the seven event competition. Chi Omega, Alpha Omicron Pi, and Kappa Kappa Gamma tied for third with 22 points. Kappa Alpha Theta followed with 21 points.
EMPORIA —(UPI)— Four persons, including a 20-year-old beauty queen, died Sunday in a two-car crash on U.S. 50 east of Emporia.
The victims were Miss Margene Savage, the current Miss Kansas. her mother, Mrs. Charles Savage, 47, of Florence, Kan., and James Kaminski, 42, and his wife Gloria, 35, of Emporia.
About 175 students and parents who had watched the events, lined the ridge at the back of the tennis courts and watched as five
Highway patrolmen said a car operated by Mrs. Savage went off the road into a ditch, veered back onto the highway and was struck broadside by a car driven by Ray Blasche, 60, of Emporia.
Before the oddly and casually dressed crowd assembled up at the Sigma Chi house, many participated in or watched a parade with the queen candidates, riding in gaily decorated cars.
MARILYN VEATCH. Wichita sophomore (Alpha Phi), won second place in the Miss Derby Day contest. Martha Yankey, Wichita junior (Kappa Kappa Gamma) was third and Judy Stamps, Platte City, Mo., freshman (Carruth-O'Leary) was selected fourth.
The cars were judged and the
Each girl, representing a living group, paraded by dressed in white shorts, black sweater, and high heels.
special judges selected the Miss Derby Day winners.
The judges were Chancellor and Mrs. W. Clarke Wescoe; Arthur C. (Dutch) Lonborg, director of KU athletic events; Mrs. Marjorie Nation, Sigma Chi house-mother, and John Keller and Odd Williams, both Sigma Chi alumni.
Dominican Revolt Called 'Communist Conspiracy'
62nd Year, No.127
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — (UFI) — U.S. military strength in this strife-torn Caribbean republic soared today to 14,000 combat Marines and paratroopers. President Johnson said flatly the revolt had become a Communist conspiracy.
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Miss Kansas Dies In Highway Crash
Sunday night the President ordered 4,500 more U.S. troops into
Monday, May 3, 1965
After about five minutes of searching Susan Hibbard, Kansas City, Mo., freshman (C and O) ran to the judges with her block. The Gamma Phi Beta house was second; GSP, third; and the Pi Phi House, fourth in the event.
THE GIRLS played "Musical Buckets" where one representative from each living group marched
winners were announced at the Derby Day events. The Alpha Phi float won first prize; Kappa Alpha Theta, second; Kappa Kappa Gamma, third; and Carruth-O'Leary, fourth.
THE EVENT WHICH turned out to be the most unusual was the "Mystery Event." A girl from each living group was instructed to find a small wooden block with her group's name upon it which was buried somewhere in a round metal tank.
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The tank was filled with flour and had a layer of mud in the bottom.
Santo Domingo's international zone from bases on the East Coast. Special U.S. envoys and members of an Organization of American States (OAS) peace mission also flew in to try to enforce a shaky cease-fire and establish a stable temporary government.
Since Wednesday, when Johnson dispatched 556 Marines to Santo Domingo, American military strength here has been increased to approximately one-half the number of U.S. troops fighting the Viet Nam war.
In a 30-minute radio and television address to the nation Sunday night, Johnson declared that what began nine days ago as a "popular
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democratic revolution" has since been taken over "by a band of Communist conspirators."
HE SAID the United States and other hemisphere nations "cannot, must not and will not permit the establishment of another Communist government in the Western Hemisphere."
In New York, the United Nations Security Council was called into special session at 8:30 a.m. CST today to discuss charges by the Soviet Union that the presence of U.S. forces in Santo Domingo amounted to aggression.
More than 2,000 U.S. Marines had arrived in Santo Domingo earlier Sunday to fight what special U.S. Envoy John Martin called the
"Castro Communis t.s. who "are now in control" of the revolt.
FIVE AMERICAN servicemen are said to have been killed in the fighting. Dominican casualties on both sides were estimated conservatively at 1,000 dead and 1,200 wounded.
In Norfolk, Va., U.S. military authorities could not confirm the report from Santo Domingo that five U.S. soldiers had been killed. They said their total was two Marines and two paratroopers killed.
About 3,000 American citizens and nationals of other countries have been evacuated since Thursday. Another 1,500 U.S. citizens and 3,500 refugees from other nations were being taken out today.
The unified military command at Norfolk, Va., said today U.S. planes had flown 361 missions out of Santo Domingo. The Tactical Air Command (TAC) and Military Air Transport Service (MATS) aircraft removed 3,957 persons, including military personnel, and 2,859 tons of cargo, a spokesman said.
MARTIN, former ambassador to the Dominican Republic, said Castro Communists would take over the country if U.S. troops were pulled out.
The OAS peace mission, consisting of five ambassadors of Latin American countries and their civil and military advisers, set up headquarters near San Isidro air base, headquarters for the military junta which the rebels tried to overthrow.
By Harihar Krishnan
Lecturer Sees Win For U.S. in Viet Nam
The war in Viet Nam, which has been going on for 20 years, will certainly and should result in a victory for the United States and South Viet Nam.
Frank N. Trager, professor of government and international relations, New York University, made this statement on Friday during his talk on "The U.S. Role in Southeast Asia."
Defending the United States policy of escalating war in Viet Nam, he declared, "This should have been done a long time ago. This is the right action we have taken."
"BY VICTORY, I MEAN," he said, "creating an independent and free South Vict Nam, with the aid of the United States, where the people will be able to decide
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things on their own and not be bothered by the subversive elements supported by the communists."
He added, "The only way to deal with the present situation is to inflict heavy punishment on those from whom the infiltrators get all their help."
He was referring to the recent bombing raids carried out by the U.S. on the Viet Cong supply lines.
In reaching his conclusions supporting the present U.S. policy in Viet Nam, Prof. Trager relied on the historical development of the relationship between the U.S. and Southeast Asia.
"IF YOU LOOK UP any political history text book relating to U.S. policy in Southeast Asia," he said, "you will find very little mentioned up to the period of the beginning of the first World War."
"Southeast Asia, for a long time, was a neglected area by the U.S. One reason was that by and large
Southeast Asia had become a colonial area," he said.
Prof. Trager then told how England, after its colonialization of India, Burma and other areas, succeeded in establishing its hegemony in Singapore.
While all these developments were taking place, he said, "the U.S. was still unconcerned about the affairs in Southeast Asia."
"It was only in the beginning of the twentieth century when we took over the Philippines," he said, "and thus we also became imperialists like France, England and the Dutch."
"BUT LATER ON OUR conscience began bothering us. Because of the pressures from the Congress, we decided to give up the Philippines just as we had given up Cuba," Prof. Trager said.
Prof. Trager declared that even after the end of World War II, the feeling in the United States was not to interfere in the affairs of Southeast Asia.
"We had very little to gain from these areas," he said. "Their rice, rubber and tin oils and other products were something which we did not need."
"EVEN AFTER THE FALL of China to the communists in the 1940s, our interests in Southeast Asia remained negligible."
Prof. Trager said it was after the "Crisis in Southeast Asia" speech, delivered by Dean Acheson, that a new reaction towards Southeast Asia took place in the United States.
"Acheson, who had become one of the cruelly vilified secretaries of state," he said, "made reference in his speech about the character of all the colonial powers in this area."
ACHESON'S ANALYSIS. Prof.
Trager said, was based on the fact
that England, France and the
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