Youth have anti-Ky rally
SAIGON—(UPI)—Militant students staged a noisy anti-American and anti-government demonstration in the heart of Saigon today while 400 Buddhist monks and nuns stood silently before the U.S. embassy in a mute protest against U.S. aid to Premier Nguyen Cao Ky.
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EARLIER, ABOUT 2,000 MONKS and Buddhist youths had filed quietly out of the blockaded Vien Hoa Dao pagoda, ending a 20-hour anti-government demonstration which began with fighting in the streets.
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No violence developed but Buddhists called a giant rally for Wednesday of thousands of their followers. The Americans acknowledged today that a U.S. soldier shot and killed a Vietnamese soldier Monday during a riot and it was feared this could touch off violence.
No violence was reported today, but Vietnamese marines appeared to expect trouble.
The miniature civil war in Da Nang appeared over but antigovernment Buddhists in Hue, 50 miles north of Da Nang, still were defying the government. U.S. planes flown out of Da Nang for safety during the fighting began returning today. Shops reopened and mothers let their children out to play for the first time in days.
A marine battalion moved into the grounds of Independence Palace, a few blocks from downtown Saigon.
THE THREAT OF TEAR GAS was enough to turn back a crowd of students carrying banners denouncing Premier Nguyen Cao Ky who attempted to approach the Thong Nuh theater where Ky was addressing the "military and people's congress."
THE STUDENTS, about 400 strong, tried to march on a military and people's congress where Ky was speaking but retreated when riot police threatened to use tear gas. Ky, meanwhile, told the congress an election code drafting committee will end its work this week and that elections for a constituent assembly definitely will be held in September.
They moved an armored truck mounting a .50 caliber machinegun into the central market place, and emplaced 57-mm. recoilless rifles there and at the U.S. embassy.
There were no official figures for the number of dead and wounded in the Da Nang fighting but estimates ranged as high as 50 dead, many of them civilians, and several hundred wounded. At least 18 Americans were wounded there.
76th Year, No.142
The Buddhists at the embassy, arranged shoulder to shoulder in a column a block and a half long, stood silently and stared at the embassy building for about five minutes, then marched to a pagoda on the edge of town.
Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years LAWRENCE, KANSAS Tuesday, May 24, 1966
SUMMER SESSION
RAYMOND STUHL, professor of string instruments, is bringing the problem home through the chamber music series he's offering for living groups on the campus. This series, which has thus far been produced by ensembles of students who are prepared to play for the public, is presently in the experimental phase.
Fun keynotes plans
By Karen Henderson
When finals are over June 3 and summer school starts the campus will be as active as during the regular term.
Students can attend outdoor band concerts, take trips to Starlight Theater and Athletics' baseball games, play in intramurals, swim in Robinson Gym and attend summer theater.
BOOKS COME FIRST
IN ADDITION to KU students, high school students from every state will be here for the Midwestern Music and Art Camp June 19 to July 31.
Approximately 1550 students will participate in programs in senior and junior high music, art, ballet, science, German, journalism and speech, said Russell L. Wiley, camp director.
The enrollment exceeded our expectations by 250, Wiley said. "It's kind of a good problem but it involves hiring more personnel and finding more housing. Right now we have Templin, Lewis and Corbin. We'll know by
WEATHER
The U.S. Weather Bureau forecasts warmer temperatures and partly cloudy skies this afternoon with northwesterly winds from 10 to 15 miles an hour. Warmer temperatures are seen for Wednesday. High today in the 70s. Low tonight in the 50s.
Is culture a luxury?
A liberal arts student who takes piano lessons at the University purely for enjoyment said, "Tm in class 20 hours a week and I work 10 hours a week. I attend what I can. I think many students try to pick the main events. There are so many concerts and lectures every week that, if they study, they can't go to all of them."
Editor's Note: Why does a "culture gap" exist among young people? can be done about it? This is the second article in a series of three.
By Carolyn Drury
"I go to a concert every once in a while and I enjoy it but I just have too much to do to go to more."
"I don't get to half of the lectures I'd like to hear."
"I don't have time to go to a play very often and when I do, I don't have time to stand in line waiting for a ticket."
THESE REMARKS were made by students in regard to the cultural events offered by the University. All expressed the familiar plight of the student who must place the emphasis on scholarship while he's in college, if for no other reason than to stay in school. Others excused themselves by saying extracurricular activities often conflict with the time of the cultural event. Still another, who is a music student, said that he simply "didn't have time to work in things from other fields."
WHAT IS THE SOLUTION? Is the student caught in a vicious circle? Or should the University, in desperation, simply do what one indifferent student suggested: "Cut out all the music and drama classes so students wouldn't have to perform to get their degrees. Cut out all cultural events . . . and, in this way, eliminate all the frustration of poor attendance at cultural events."
"When weighed with other activities," he explained, "a concert just doesn't assume that much importance. The students have to consider things in terms of time. A concert is a luxury. Studying isn't a luxury and it's pressing immediately."
John Boulton, instructor of wind and percussion instruments, had other ideas. "I don't blame the students," he said. "It would be unreasonable to assume they would be interested in attending my flute recital unless they were familiar with my instrument or knew me personally. Even then, things come up."
“It's a lot of work to get over there and get the piano tuned, but it can be done and it is being done,” Stuhl said. He predicts there will be much more of it in the coming years. Offering the music in the living room of students' residences seems to be a real incentive for attending the performances.
In Europe, this was the most common kind of music in the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries and it still exists to a substantial degree there. Orchestral concerts and operas seem to represent the significant kind of music here in the United States. Chamber music has just gone down the drain.
THE POP CONCERT with the root beer and pretzels is a great idea, he said. "Half of the crowd at one of those concerts is accidental. There should be more outdoor concerts.
Boulton said it is nearly impossible to make the college student like music if he doesn't already.
"There is a tendency for musicians to take music too seriously—and they need to be serious about it if it's their career . . . but there are times to take it more light-heartedly." Boulton continued. "The pop concert can be presented more casually, as the ones in Europe are. They result in not worse music but in an informal presentation of good music."
Thursday about the additional housing," he said.
AN "ILLUSTRIOUS LIST" of guest conductors of national or international fame will conduct the band concerts scheduled every Sunday afternoon and evening for six weeks, Wiley said.
At 3 p.m. Sundays two choirs and the orchestra will play in Murphy Theatre. Outdoor concerts by two bands will begin at 7:30 in a theater to be built near Hoch Auditorium, he said.
The two-week junior high program will end with a concert July 16, in Murphy Theatre.
FRIDAY NIGHT movies, trips to Starlight Theater, swimming and intramural sports will be offered to summer school students by the department of physical education.
Students can swim in the New Robinson Gym pool from 4 to 6 p.m. and from 7 to 9 p.m. five days a week and perhaps Saturday and Sunday afternoons, Henry Shenk, chairman of the department, said.
Six trips to Starlight Theater in Kansas City, Mo., are scheduled. Buses will leave new Robinson Gym at 6:30 for the following shows: "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," June 23; "Desert Song," July 7; "Bye, Bye Birdie," July 14; "Bells Are Ringing." July 21; "Flower Drum Song," July 28, and "Oklahoma," August 2.
SHENK SAID students could buy $1.50 and $3.00 tickets. Including transportation the cost would be $3.00 and $4.25 respectively.
Films on travel, sports or history will be shown Friday nights at 8 p.m. in the projection room of Bailey Hall or benches to be set up east of the old Robinson Gym depending upon the weather, Shenk said. Admission is free.
A six-week intramural program in softball, tennis, horseshoes, handball, golf and badminton will begin after the first week of summer school, he said.
STUDENT UNION Activities (SUA) will continue a classical film series on Mondays and Thursdays and a popular film series Fridays in Dyche Auditorium.
Every Monday and Thursday evening Preview dances will be held in the Trail Room of the Kansas Union.
Kansas City Other SUA programs still in the planning stage are trips to the Nelson Gallery, Kansas City Athletics baseball games, a Union open house, and forums.
College and high school students will take part in a four-week Repertory Theater program. They will present: "Romanoff and Juliet," July 6, 8, 23, 28; "The Adding Machine," July 7, 9, 22, 27; "She Stoops to Conquer," July 13, 15, 21, 30, and "Stop the World I Want to Get Off," July 14, 16, 20, 29.
Jayhawker lets three contracts
The 1967 Jayhawker contracts for printing, engraving and photography were let Monday at a meeting of the Jayhawker Advisory Committee.
Allen Press of Lawrence got the contract for the printing. The Sun Engraving Company of Parsons was given the engraving contract and Estes Studio received the contract for photography.
The cost of the job is given on a sliding scale based on the number of pictures and pages in the Jayhawker and the number of Jayhawker copies sold.
Women okay rules
It's finally here—no closing hours for junior and senior women, and according to many Oreadites the decision is everything from a 20th century Emancipation Proclamation to the best thing since prison parole.
These opinions were expressed yesterday following Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe's approval of new closing rules. Beginning with the summer term, only freshman and sophomore women will have hours, and they will be 11:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 1 a.m. Friday and Saturday and midnight Sunday.
Students queried generally approved of the final version of the rules.
"I think it's fine for juniors and seniors," said George Harvey, Parsons junior. "By that time they have their own system of checks and balances, know right from wrong."
"I THINK the new rules are a great improvement," Joan Langan, Kansas City, Mo., junior, said. "No hours for juniors and seniors will be a good way to learn responsibility.
"Sometimes it's nice to have closing hours because then there's no argument with anyone. You have to come in. But by the time a girl is a junior or senior, she should know when to come in, and how to tell the person she's with that it's time to go home."
home.
Ken Leonard, Dayton, Ohio,
sophomore, admitted he favored
no closing for juniors and seniors
because his girlfriend will be a
junior next year. He said, however,
that the issue "probably
should have been loked at a long
time ago. It's definitely time
something was done about it."
"This will give the student a little more freedom," Norma Norman, Topeka junior, said. She added that "most of the women on campus will think this is an improvement."
The more liberal view was expressed by Betty White, Sabetha junior. "It's been evident that a change would come for a long time. But I think sophomores could have no closing too. I think they could accept the responsibility," she said.