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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, April 27, 1965
LANGSTON HUGHES, poet, songwriter and playwright, will speak at KU at 4 p.m. Wednesday in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union. Joplin-born Hughes lived in Lawrence in his boyhood, and since became an outstanding spokesman for the Negro cause.
Langston Hughes Talk Scheduled Wednesday
Poet, biographer, playwright, novelist and songwriter-James Langston Hughes is all of these.
The Joplin, Mo.,-born writer, who has lived in Kansas City and Lawrence, will give readings of his poems tomorrow under the title "Life Makes Poems," at 4 p.m. in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
Hughes, long a literary spokesman for the American Negro, is author of more than 20 published books.
Several of his songs and lyrics have been recorded by popular artists and sing on the concert stage by such artists as Marian Anderson, Roland Hayes, and the Westminster Choir.
His plays include, "Mulatto," "Don't You Want To Be Free," "Street Scene," and "Jerico Jim Crow." His operas include "Troubled Island," "The Barrier," and "Freedom Train."
Hughes completed high school in Cleveland and received an A.B. degree from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania in 1929. The 63-year poet has worked as a seaman on voyages to Europe and Africa, and has lived in Mexico, Paris, Italy, and the Soviet Union.
He holds honorary degrees from Lincoln, Howard University and Western Reserve University.
Hughes' other honors include the Harmon Gold Medal for literature, a Guggenheim fellowship, a Rosenwald fellowship, a grant from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Apisfield-Wolfe award of 1953 for the best book on race relations, and the honorary plaque of the Free Academy of Arts, Hamburg, Germany in 1964.
Presently, he is a columnist for the "Chicago Defender" and the "New York Post."
Schrey, New ASC Members Will Be Inducted in Office
Bv Jim Sullinger
The new student body president and vice-president will be sworn in tonight at the All Student Council meeting in the Sunflower Room of the Kansas Union.
Leo Schrev, Leavenworth junior, and Bill Robinson, Great Bend sophomore, who were elected in last week's spring elections, will assume their offices tonight.
their offices together Also taking office will be the ten representatives from the academic schools.
Candidates for ASC chairman, vice-chairman, treasurer, and secretary will be nominated and elected at the meeting next week.
MIKE MINER. Lawrence senior and present chairman of the ASC, said the appointments to fill the vacancies left on the council by Schrey and Robinson had not been received.
They were elected last fall and their replacements will be named by Jim Frazier, Topeka fifth-year pharmacy student and president of Vox Populi.
Miner said that he did not know if James Canole, state architect and designer of new Fraser Hall, would be at the ASC meeting.
Canole was invited by letter from Miner to speak before the ASC and answer any questions concerning the plans for new Fraser.
CONSTRUCTION WILL begin this summer amid a controversy over the building's design.
The ASC passed a resolution criticizing the design March 30.
Miner said he would try last minute efforts today to have Canole here.
Two or three council members may lose their positions on the ASC tonight as a result of poor attendance. According to Miner, a provision in the ASC constitution requires the removal of any member who misses five meetings.
Among legislation tabled last week that will be brought up again tonight are two amendments to a bill establishing a University Facts and Statistics Committee.
The first would set up an activities board in the Kansas Union. It would contain a listing of all campus organization functions.
THE SECOND calls for a booklet to be published giving information about campus organizations.
about communication In other legislation, part of the Vox platform to establish a State and Community Affairs Committee will
also be considered. Under the provisions of this bill, student opinion would be polled and relayed to local officials and state legislators expressing the opinion of students on matters that concern them directly.
Bill Robinson, student body vicepresident-elect, said Chancellor Wescoe wanted to study the bill last week to make sure it would not infringe on administration action in this area.
Myrdal Calls Rise in Jobs Vital U.S. Economic Need
Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist and social scientist, declared here yesterday that unemployment will increase in the U.S. and create a major problem unless the growth rate of the nation's labor force jumps upward considerably.
Even with this statement, made in a lecture to 400 social science students in Swarthout Recital Hall, Myrdal praised the economic policy of President Johnson's administration.
Noting the past growth of one million persons a year in the U.S. labor force Myrdal said a growth rate of 8 per cent yearly in the Gross National Product is necessary to stem increased joblessness. The current rate is about 5 per cent, he added.
He added that President Johnson should never forget to use the wide range of corrective economic measures at his disposal to keep business expanding.
MYRDAL, WHO IS now director of the Institute for International Economic Studies at the University of Stockholm, said the economic growth rate of the U.S. is nevertheless twice what it was during part of the Eisenhower administration.
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In enacting one such measure last year, the income tax reduction, Myrday said, "Congress showed a new awareness of public opinion.
"For many years," he said. "Congress was bitterly opposed to any income tax reduction in the face of unbalanced budgets. Almost in a single year, Congress finally got the message that people were willing to accept such a thing."
However, he cautioned against slashing taxes to create inflation or for any other reason except to help business to expand.
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