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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
76th Year, No.143
FINAL SCHEDULE
LAWRENCE KANSAS
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Wednesday, May 25, 1966
Ky troops quell riots by Saigon Buddhists
SAIGON—(UPI) — Vietnamese marines and riot police used choking clouds of tear gar and clubs today to break up two antigovernment demonstrations led by Buddhist monks and nuns chanting "down with premier Nguyen Cao Ky."
About 1,000 Buddhists, defying Ky's warning that street demonstrations would be firmly repressed, marched into the heart of Saigon early today through pouring rain.
Vietnamese marines waited behind recoiless rifles and machine guns emplaced in the streets. They barrared the Buddhist crowds, which included youths and small children, with dozens of canisters of tear gas.
THE DEMONSTRATORS broke into small groups of weeping, choking people. They reformed about an hour later three
blocks from the blockaded Vien Hoa Dao pagoda, scene of bloody rioting earlier this week.
The rain had ceased, and the number of demonstrators increased to about 4,000.
Police reinforcements moved into the area, and once again a barrage of tear-gas canisters greeted the marchers.
Some broke and ran, the others stoned police. The policemen, protected by wicker shields, pulled on gas masks. They hurled more gas grenades and then charged into crowd, clubs swinging.
JEEFLOADS of police cruised through the city. Wherever they saw two monks together, or a monk with a group of youths, they threw a gas grenade.
The eye-stinging gas hung low in the still, humid air, blan-
keting downtown Saigon and spreading toward the outskirts.
U. S. and Allied troops seeking Communist forces believed to be massing for a monsoon offensive killed about 65 Reds in scattered fighting Tuesday.
U. S. spokesmen said.
Troops of the 25th Infantry Division killed 14 Communists 35 miles north of Saigon.
Troopers of the 1st Air Cavalry Division killed 15 guerrillas 275 miles north of the capital.
VARIOUS U.S., Australian and South Vietnamese units killed about 35 Communists in minor engagements.
"We are hunting and we are waiting," a U.S. military spokesman said. "It's just a matter of time now before the Viet Cong starts his monsoon offensive, but he's going to have a tougher time now than in previous years."
BACKGROUND BLAMED
Cultural interest low
Editor's Note: Why does a "culture gap" exist among young people? What can be done about it? This is the last article in a series of three.
By Carolyn Drury
"They do not understand it so they do not enjoy it. It's a boring experience." This is what Ernesto Lejano, visiting assistant professor in piano, had to say when asked why proportionately more students do not attend cultural events.
What causes this lack of understanding? Barbara Stone, Lubbock, Tex., senior, said that it stems from a lack of cultural background. "Most college students are from middle-class families who have worked their way up. They haven't had much time and haven't had an opportunity to learn about the arts."
SHE CONTINUED. "I think they're missing some of the most exciting parts of life—but, because of their background, they don't know what they're missing. Ignorance is bliss."
Jan Gates, Prairie Village junior, said, "Not that many people venture out of the normal world. The university is supposed to be composed of educated people—but its graduates come from middle-class homes. It's like people eating meat, potatoes, gravy and bread—they learn to live without other things and get impatient if
WEATHER
The U.S. Weather Bureau forecasts a low temperature tonight of 55 to 60 degrees, with the possibility of precipitation at zero. Thursday is seen with warmer temperatures and partly cloudy skies.
any new thing is introduced into their lives."
Furthermore, Miss Gates said,
"The music of today is so far removed from the culture that the average man is exposed to that there is nothing in it for him to identify himself with or dream of identifying himself with. The art of today just doesn't hit home to everybody." How can the average student appreciate culture?, she asked. Only when he understands it can he appreciate it.
AN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR of piano here, Jo Archer, presented a different angle. "You can still love things and not understand them." She explained her thoughts, saying that the students in other fields often get into something which is completely rationalized. As a result, they form the idea that everything must be rationalized in order to make any sense or be accepted.
This need of rationalizing everything just isn't necessary, she said. Certainly, one should be able to understand the field that he's in. But he need not try to understand everything; instead, he should feel free to enjoy things for what they are. The average person of today does not have time to learn about everything.
J. Bunker Clark, assistant professor in the history of music, agrees that larger numbers of students don't attend cultural events simply because they haven't done so before they got here. There was a lack of cultural events where the student came from and a lack of interest
in his environment and his family. "People's peers don't do this kind of thing—it's a habit," Clark explained.
WHAT DOES CLARK suggest? He suggests that other professors take up his practice of incorporating cultural events into their courses. He requires attendance at a minimum of six concerts a semester as part of the requirements for passing his music history course. And he isn't the only professor doing this; Edward L. Kottick, visiting lecturer in the history of music, requires attendance at a minimum of 10 a semester for his students. A few smaller schools, such as William Woods College in Fulton, Mo., require students to go to a specified number of cultural events.
An overall University requirement seems to be the only way, Clark said. "It's unfortunate, but it's also unfortunate that these events occur and are not attended." He wasn't sure of the "machinery" that would be needed to execute such a program, but felt that it could be done.
People are always going to football games, fraternity parties and movies. "If they get out of the University without going to a concert, how can you say that their degree has any meaning?" Clark asked.
THE FILMS THAT students attend are made for the general public, Clark said, for that's the only way that they'll sell—but they're shallow. Anyone with any real degree of education needs to go to things besides movies. Movies are made at such a "low cultural level" in Clark's opinion.
Photo by Emery Goad
EXPLOSION DAMAGE IS SURVEYED Bob Dillman, Independence sophomore, looks at the broken class with a traffic security officer
Bomb shatters Daisy Hill sleep
By Emery Goad
Following several nights of restlessness between the east and west hill fraternities and on the "south flats," the quiet on Daisy Hill was interrupted early this morning when an explosion at McCollum Hall broke several windows.
McCollum Hall residents were aroused by a high pitched whistling sound, which preceded the explosion in front of the building. It blew out three windows along the west side of the main lounge at ground level.
OFFICIALS SAID the device was a simulated artillery practice bomb dropped from an upper floor of the 10 story building.
A counselor on the eighth floor said he saw the fuse burning as it went past his window, near the center of the west wing.
Pictured is Bob Dillman, Independence sophomore and McColum resident, and the hall guard inspecting the damaged windows.
J. J. Wilson, director of housing, said, "I understand we have several good clues." He tentatively estimated the damage at near $50.
THE NOISE was heard all over the north and west sections of Lawrence, shortly before midnight.
KU police officers at the scene investigated and found remains of the "bomb."
LAST UDK OF SEMESTER
Today, The University Daily Kansan ends its publication year. The Summer Session Kansan will resume publication twice weekly on June 13 with Barbara Phillips, Harrisonville, Mo., junior, as editor. She will be assisted by summer school students and members of the journalism division of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp.
In the Fall The UDK will begin publication during orientation week.
Seniors'66,goodbye and good luck