'KS'appears on hillside beneath Campanile
Two large letters, "KS," have appeared on the hillside below the Campanile.
The 20 by 15 foot letters are formed by the discoloration of the grass, which appears to have been killed.
Apparently the letters are in retaliation for the workmanship of persons, believed to be KU students, who altered the "KS" on K-Hill east of the Kansas State University campus in Manhattan
Staff photo by Bill Stephens to read "KU." That hill painting occurred the night of March 2, prior to the KU-K-State basketball game at Manhattan.
The campus police are investigating the appearance of the letters.
NO SELF-IDENTITY
Discusses behavior
The human relations colloquia yesterday afternoon was just that—an experiment in human relations.
Clovis Shepard, program director at the National Training Laboratories spoke to about 150 students and faculty about small group studies in applied behavioral science and human relations, and then introduced them to an experiment called the Johari Window exercise.
SHEPARD TOLD them, "There is a kind of haunting feeling in each of us that we'd like to be ourselves—to challenge our emotions as well as our intellect."
Sensitivity training groups, groups like the human relations classes at KU, he called "practice in expression."
Shepard discussed three key words in such group experience, and in all human experience: alienation, self-identity, and freedom-control.
"ALIENATION IN any form is not only a phenomenon that is personally unsatisfying, but it is socially unproductive," he said. "It is, however, probably more a bugaboo than a necessary reality."
He linked this problem to that of self-identity by pointing out that we assume others are more able and more self-possessed than we, and we simply don't check with them to see if they have the same ideas we do.
"MOST OF US," he said, "live in a world where we are what we're told to be."
TO ILLUSTRATE HIS points, Shepard asked his listeners to participate in an experiment. He introduced them to the Johari window, a method of categorizing thoughts into areas of public, personal, private and "feedback."
Shepard asked that everyone write on a piece of paper some of his personal thoughts, those not
normally shared with others — ambitions, fears, anxieties, or whatever—and turn them in to him unsigned.
After several minutes Shepard halted the low roar and read the papers that had been handed to him.
The room was silent as he read. Some people watched him intently, some looked at the ceiling or out the windows at the rain. Some examined the faces of those about them.
THE THOUGHTS on the papers ranged from "feeling that no one really likes who I am" to "sexual inadequacies" to "really deathly afraid of everyone" to "my religious heritage."
Retired Supreme Court Justice Charles Whittaker said yesterday in an Inter-Century Seminar speech that all demonstrations, even peaceful ones, are leading to a breakdown of the social order. Encountering sharp criticism from critic-commentators who followed him, Whittaker said that all laws must be obeyed without protest.
Whittaker statements create disagreement
"PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS are facilities supported by federal or state taxes and are therefore open to the public," Whittaker said. "Private accommodations are facilities which are privately owned and supported by private
"If we allow men to disobey with impunity the laws they do not like, or to spurn the courts and all constituted authority by taking the law, or what they think ought to be the law, into their own hands, will we not be inviting anarchy and chaos," Whittaker said?
"We are involved in unusual ferment, and many of us are confused and bewildered," he said.
SPEAKING OF current demonstrations. Whittaker said that these can be construed as an effort by minority groups to impose their will on the majority.
Ashley Montagu, anthropologist and author, and one of the three critic-commentators who participated with Whittaker, said, "I think the speaker is absolutely incapable of thinking. I suggest he acquaint himself with facts concerning injustice against Negroes as practiced in this country. Citizens should follow Jesus Christ—one of the first great lawbreakers."
funds. These facilities are open to the public only on the owner's invitation."
"Public accommodations include motels and theaters, accommodations which are open to the public. This definition is based on interstate commerce laws, not laws of private property," said Arthur Larson, director of the Law Research Center at Duke University, the second critic-commentator.
CONCERNING THE CURRENT demonstrations, Larson said, "It is not the demonstrations which produce violence. It is the reaction to these demonstrations."
Loren Eiseley, distinguished professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, said that the "meanings of words change with the times. These meanings must remain flexible."
Fuller's credo: best in least
The "prospects for humanity" are that man can make life a success by "doing so much with so little, that we might take care of everybody," said R. Buckminster Fuller yesterday.
Speaking in Hoch Auditorium as part of the Inter-Century Seminar on Man and the Future, Fuller, an inventor best known for the geodesic dome, said the young people of today, discontented with the world and highly literate, are "intent on taking over and cooperating on how to do enough with a little to make the world work."
FULLER SAID he got the idea of "doing the most with the least" from the weaponry of the navy and air force. The abilities of a ship to float and a plane to fly are the essential factors, he said. On land people did things bigger and heavier, because they did not understand that "whoever could do the most with the least would rule the world."
When Fuller's daughter Alexandra died of an illness at the age of four, he saw her as a victim of the ignorance of the world. If the same capability were applied to preserve life as to kill, he said, it might readily make man a success.
It is the conversion of military technology to commercial use which has improved man's life, he said.
HE RECALLED A relative's telling him of the theory of Thomas Malthus that there were more people in the world than could be provided for.
Politicians frustrate efforts to take care of the world's population, Fuller said. If all politicians and books on politics were sent "on a trip around the sun," he said, "we'd quickly learn to take the food we produce and feed everybody.
"Man will not be able to get himself out of his troubles as long as he delegates to others the responsibility of making the world work."
FULLER DESCRIBED his own efforts to "do the most with the least" in the field of building, which he said was about 300 years behind weaponry.
"I try never to spend time reforming man," he said. "Man as born is relatively perfect." But that perfection is destroyed by his environment. His concern was to reform the environment and let a younger generation grow up under conditions which allow the perfection to remain.
Fuller's geodesic dome, a major breakthrough in construction, follows his idea of doing the most with the least; it uses less structural material to cover more space than any other building ever devised.
HE DEMONSTRATED models of the tetrahedron structure used in the dome, which he said was the only structure found in nature.
Fuller emphasized the importance of individuality and freedom from restrictions in invention. When he was working on air-deliverable geodesic structures for the Navy, he said, he had greater results with 30 college students, 30 days and $5,000 of his own money, than with a two-year Navy contract for a quarter of a million dollars.
The individual does have an advantage, he said. "The Wright brothers didn't have to get a license from anybody to build an airplane."
FROSPECTS FOR THE future lie in man's becoming conscious of his potential, Fuller said.
The young people of the world, who are willing to ignore governments and co-operate freely with others around the world, can realize this potential, he said.
Concert choir performs
The University of Kansas School of Fine Arts will present the Concert Choir, under the direction of James Ralston, in concert on Sunday afternoon, April 17, at 3:30 p.m. in the University Theatre.
The choral program at the University of Kansas includes three organizations. The University Chorus of 350 voices is non-selective and presents two major works for chorus and orchestra each year. The University Concert Choir of 80 freshman and sophomore voices presents two formal concerts each year. Another Concert Choir, composed of 40 junior and senior voices presents an average of 50 concerts each year for schools and organizations across the state and the neighboring areas.
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