Summer Session Kansan
16th Year, No.3
Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, June 21, 1966
Art center formed for Lawrence area
The Lawrence area is more and more becoming an oasis of the creative underworld, according to George Kimball, one of the organizers of the new Midwest Artist's Co-op, $8351 Mass., and the co-oop has been established to "fill an existing need created by the expanding cultural output."
The Midwest Artist's Co-op is an organization formed by writers and artists in the Lawrence area to provide a place for the exhibition and sale of paintings, drawings, sculpture, photographs and prints; the presentation of original writings, production of plays, concerts, and the showing of classical and experimental films.
THE NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION got into full swing with a grand opening Sunday, June 12th. The day-long event featured a jazz concert by the Darrell DeVore Quartet, a tape recording of Allen Ginsberg reading and chanting at Nebraska University, four local artists reading their own poetry, and finally, the film "Maltesse Falcon" with Humphrey Bogart.
Response to the Co-op has been excellent. Continuing events include a Friday evening poetry and lecture series, a regularly scheduled film series Saturday and Sunday evenings, and an art gallery which will be open Tuesday and Thursday evenings and Saturday and Sunday afternoons free of charge.
John Fowler, owner of Abing-
ton Book Shop and temporary president of the Co-op pointed out that the Co-op "is not a closed group of any kind. It is open to anyone who wants to participate and not strictly to students. It is meant to encompass the whole midwest."
Wescoe to leave for England soon
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe will leave the campus July 7 to attend the annual meeting of the Vice-Chancellors of British Institutions in Brighton and York, England.
Wescow will attend the meetings as part of the delegation of the American Association of Colleges and Universities. The American association generally sends a delegation to the British meetings.
Chancellor Wescoe will return to the United States July 20, in order to attend a meeting the following day in Washington. D.C.
See W. C. Fields movie
The SUA Comedy Classics series will present a W. C. Fields film, "You Can't Cheat an Honest Man," at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Dyche Auditorium. Admission will be $.50.
Candidates in Kansas file to meet deadline
TOPEKA — (UPI) - Candidates rushed yesterday to complete filing papers on the deadline for declaring candidacies for the August primary battle.
August primary contests were assured for the gubernatorial and U.S. senatorial nominations in both parties.
Republicans also had primary contests for secretary of state, insurance commissioner and state printer.
Adel F. Throckmorton, superintendent of public instruction, is not a candidate for re-election.
THE THIRD Congressional District seat, being vacated by Rep. Robert Ellsworth, R-Kan., who is seeking the Republican U.S. senatorial nomination, filled to capacity with seven candidates seeking the office.
Gov. William H. Avery will have primary opposition from Dell Cozier of Wichita. The two Democrat gubernatorial candidates are Robert Docking, Arkansas City banker and son of the late Gov. George Docking, and George Hart, of Wichita, former state treasurer in the Docking administration.
DOCKING FILED Dec. 29, the first candidate to file. Avery filed a week ago.
Both the Prohibition and Conservative parties have filed certifications of nominations by their parties. Neither party will take
part in the primary election battles, but both will field a slate of candidates in the November general election.
The Prohibition group has candidates for all state offices and the U.S. Senate.
THE CONSERVATIVES have candidates for all but the secretary of state, superintendent of public instruction, insurance commissioner and state printer on the state level. They also only have a senatorial candidate, but no filings for any of the congressional district races.
Sen. James B. Pearson, R-Kan., faced primary opposition from Ellsworth and former Wichita Mayor William Tarrant and Mrs. Eva Anderson of Concordia.
IN THE DEMOCRATIC U.S. senatorial race, State Sen. Harold Herd, D-Coldwater, the first to file, will have opposition from two other Democrats.
They are former Rep. J. Floyd Breeding of Rolla, who resigned his post in the U.S. Department of Agriculture recently to run in the primary, and former state Democratic committee chairman Leigh Warner of Cimarron.
State Sen. George Haley, R-Kansas City, Kan., filed Friday for the Third Congressional District race and became the seventh Republican to do so.
HALEY IS SERVING his first four-year term in the Senate. He
won the post by defeating Joseph McDowell, Kansas City, Kan., mayor.
Republican primary opposition also will be in the Fourth Congressional District where Rep. Garner Shriver, R-Kan., is seeking re-election. He is opposed by Robert J. Al Nirssch of Kingman.
The other Kansas Republican congressmen seeking re-election are Chester Mize in the Second District, Bob Dole in the First District and Joe Skubitz in the Fifth District.
BESIDES HALEY, the wide-open third district Congressional race will have State Rep. Wayne Angell, R-Ottawa, State Sen. Reynold Shultz, R-Lawrence, O. F. (Ole) Nesmith of Leawood, Larry Winn Jr., also of Leawood, Howard D. Neighbors of Prairie Village and Richard D. Rixner of Fairway.
The Third Congressional District race also will have primary opposition on the Democratic side of the ticket.
Joseph Poizner of Kansas City, Kan., will face Marvin Rainey, Overland Park mayor.
The other Democrats who have filed for the congressional district races are Mrs. Joseph W. Bernice Henkle Jr. of Great Bend in the First District; Gough W. Davis of Wichita in the fourth, and Delno L. Bass of Parsons in the fifth.
Band camp opens with problems, rules and fun
By Margaret Ogilvie
Opening day in Midwestern Music and Art Camp was a long one for this reporter-turned-counselor, who observed Sunday that questions and confusion can best be resolved with a reference to rules and regulations; in the words of a fellow counselor, "It's necessary to prescribe a few 'don'ts' so that from now we can do."
In the first camp meeting that night, Director Russell L. Wiley climaxed the "doings" by personally answering some of the 817 girls and 570 boys who wanted such information as:
"Are the boys required to wear socks again this year?" ("I think you should want to... they won't allow you through the cafeteria line without them!")
“CAN GIRLS go barefoot?” ("I can’t imagine it")
Regulations of the camp, described by Wiley as "one of the most orderly run in the country," were "written by former students . . . or at least they've caused us to write them!"
Self-discipline as a part of maturity was emphasized by the director, who told the high schoolers, "Learning, growing up, and maturing are a terribly important part of your life at this age." Serving in loco parentis, it is necessary for the camp to limit the use of automobiles to specific situations, the use of alcohol completely, and smoking inside living quarters in accordance with state laws. Wiley commented that the camp supervisors can't be concerned with the morals of smoking.
"These are areas we will not
blink at" he warned. "You deserve to know just how stringent are these regulations . . . they are set up for your own good, not for our pleasure . . . if you are tempted . . . please don't; we want to keep you in this camp."
WITH REFERENCE to outlying living quarters in use this year, Wiley advised that the girls walk in groups of at least four at night. He added that "it displeases us immensely to be so scattered," and mentioned that bus service may be provided in some cases for the groups housed in Alpha Omicron Pi, Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Kappa Psi, and Watkins Hall.
Wiley advised riding bicycles instead of a few motorbikes he mentioned as "trickling into camp." Speaking from his own experience, he assured, "it'll keep you in trim!"
One more ruling was particularly stressed: "I want to make it clear that you are not allowed to date outside of camp. We have had no infringement of this involving the girls." A boy camper, one of those at whom this remark was aimed, spoke out, "Can we date any night or does it have to be a night you have something planned?"
WHEN THE LAUGHTFR had died down, Wiley replied. "This young man has asked a serious question. I want to give him a serious answer. What you would call a date, I'm not sure I would call a date. But if I were this young man among so many lovely young ladies, I'd probably have a date outside of the times the camp sets up a program."
camp sets up a program Girls are equally conscious of the dating prospects, if a remark
made later in Watkins Hall—where this reporter is on duty—is indicative. Camp activities was one subject brought up during an all-hall meeting also Sunday night, and one inquisitive young journalist asked, "How are we going to get dates to the Sadie Hawkins party when there are so many more girls than boys?"
IT MAY BE because journalism campers are by nature observant, but at Watkins there were inquiries about just everything. A
major problem was how to find certain buildings. (The counselor's mind becomes a map of the route to Lewis and Templin.)
One girl came to understand very clearly how it was done; she made the trip three times her first day to visit a friend from home. That camper said she needed the exercise, but others who had been under the false impression that Kansas is completely flat were not so happy with the idea. They were happier that the scholarship hall is "homier" than a dorm, and found the carpeted halls "unbelievable."
PERHAPS THE ONLY really difficult adjustment was to the glare of a red "Exit" light in the sleeping porch. The other counselor had the unfortunate experience of setting off a fire alarm while trying to turn off the red light, and resolved the incident by suggesting that the campers
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"I DON'T KNOW HOW TO GET ALL THAT STUFF UPSTAIRS!" A fond father looks disparagingly at the amount of stuff his camper daughter has brought.