GARDEN CITY REACTION
Capote's success painful
By Karen Henderson
Truman Capote has made a success out of something that has been a tragedy to many people, Peggy Smith, Garden City senior, said while discussing Capote's best-seller "In Cold Blood."
Many people in Garden City, near Holcolm where the Clutter family was murdered, resent the fact that Capote is getting so much recognition for an incident that still causes pain to many people. Others feel that he wrote a decent book, at least as well as could be expected, she said.
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"I think that he has misquoted and distorted the character of people for dramatic emphasis," Miss Smith said. "When you read a novel you see the people as mere characters, but when you know the people you can't help but feel that their character has been distorted."
CAPOTE WILL READ portions from his book at 8 p.m. tonight in Allen Field House.
"Last fall when the book first appeared in the New Yorker, six of us from Garden City read it
Prof. Errol Harris resigns position
Errol E. Harris, Roy Roberts professor of philosophy, will leave at the end of this semester to join the faculty at Northwestern University after four years here.
PROF. HARRIS IS the author of a recently published book, "Annihilation and Utopia," concerning problems which cause the most anxiety today: the arms race, the unstable balance of power, rapid population growth, racial conflicts and ideological incompatibilities.
Before coming to KU, Prof. Harris obtained degrees from Oxford University in England and Witwaterstrand University. He is recognized as an authority on the philosophy of science, and is the author of several other books and many articles published in professional journals.
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aloud. We stopped at about every paragraph to make some comment where he had been wrong about the town or the people," she said.
"IN ONE PART he talks about Bob Jones and Kenyon Clutter spending the night on the river, and Bob describes the night in rather poetic terms. I told him that it didn't sound like something he would say. Bob said that as a matter of fact he didn't."
It's hard to imagine the terror and anguish that a town can go through. Everyone in town suspected his neighbor. People didn't know if an outsider had murdered the family or if someone in town had gone berserk and done it, she said.
"Farmers who had not locked their doors in years locked them for six months after the murder. The Clutter family had been killed on a Saturday night.
By Sunday you could not buy a knife, a gun, a padlock. People tried to think about what they had in common with the Clutters. What it was that the murderer had been after, and the whole town breathed a sigh of relief when they found out that outsiders had done it," she snid.
MISS SMITH said perhaps she should not say anything since she has not read the last part of the book and because she "didn't know the people all that well."
But I don't think that you can sit around for two weeks or even two years and write a story that the natives who have been around a lot longer are going to accept," Miss Smith said.
"People here know what had happened. They resented an outsider coming in and saying that he was going to make their town famous for something that was a tragedy to them."
Campus Chest drive aims at $3,000 goal
Campus Chest, the only organization on campus that can collect money, has designated April 18-30 as the date of its official second semester drive.
Mike Spenser, Overland Park junior and All Student Council Campus Chest committee chairman, told representatives from each living group at their Campus Chest meeting last night, that the committee had set a goal of $3,000 for this drive.
NEXT TUESDAY. Wednesday and Thursday, the individual living group representatives will collect money for the drive. Tables will be set up in the Kansas Union and in Strong Hall to receive additional contributions.
The money collected will go to one organization, the World University Service, which helps
students in other lands help themselves. Students receiving WUS funds must match an equal amount of their grant themselves.
"A trophy will be given to the group that contributes the most per person," according to Spenser. "Last year Battenfeld Hall received the trophy after contributing more than $4.25 per person." Spencer went on to say that Kansas Union rebate slips could also be donated and were as good as cash.
The money will be designated to help student health problems as well as aiding educational facilities. Lodging is one area that is helped by WUS.
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