Model U.N. list hits low
Committee evaluates delegation turnout;
poster shows beatnik carrying
By Swaebou Conateh
An all-time low of 53 registered delegations in this year's Model-U.N. has caused steering committee members to evaluate the causes for the unfavorable turnout. One of the suspected culprits is the main poster advertising the KU-Y Model United Nations (MUN).
The poster bears the image of a beatnik dressed in a French beret, Berkeley protest sweatshirt, Vietcong pajamas, Arabic thongs, a thick beard and dark goggle-looking glasses and holding out the United Nations symbol. Next to him is an invitation to "Protest with sophistication! Form a delegation for the Model UN."
"If a person really wanted to be a member of the UN, if he really knows about model-U.N.'s.
this poster won't really matter." John Gangi, New York, N.Y., sophomore said.
"I TEND to agree with that," said Dick White, Wakefield, Mass., senior and secretary general of MUN.
"I thought that there was a possibility that this was a contributing factor to the poor registration this year, but not a major one," White said. "This is so since Ward has run into opposition with people in charge of bulletin boards in certain areas."
Bob Ward, Wichita sophomore and chairman of the publicity committee, said a secretary refused him permission to place the poster on a bulletin board because she thought it was against the UN.
Expression subject of dance symposium
Effective expression of ideas through dance movements is the subject of the Saturday Dance Symposium in Robinson Gymnasium for high school students.
Tau Sigma, honorary dance fraternity, sponsors the full day of classes offered to students from Kansas and Kansas City, Mo., high schools. Approximately 100 students will attend.
THROUGH SUPERVISED class studies, Tau Sigma hopes to introduce high school dancers to dance forms other than jazz, such as ballet and modern dance, and to introduce students to the KU physical education program.
After registration at 9 am., sponsors and members of Tau Sigma will give instruction in dance Labanotation, a method of writing dance steps on paper. Dance symbols are placed on a staff similar to the placement of musical notes on a scale for a musical score. This technique is presently used to record the choreography of professional and Broadway shows. Labanotation is more accurate than a written description of steps.
SYMPOSIUM ACTIVITIES include classes in technique and choreography composition. In composition class, high school dancers are given an idea or "sensation" to express with dance movements. Dancers could explore the choreographic possibilities of the word "fear" or the weightlessness of space for example.
High school students will have the opportunity to show dance routines they have devised. Tau Sigma members will present a showcase of their numbers.
Tau Sigma routines include two numbers from their fall concert, Contemporary and Carry Nation, in addition to two balllets, Little Swans from "Swan Lake" and Pas de Deux from the "Nutcracker Suite."
Students to re-submit questions to Surface
Members of the Students for a Democratic Society planned to re-submit a list of questions on University policy to Provost James R. Surface this afternoon.
THE COMMITTEE, called the Council on Student Affairs, will be composed of six administrators, two faculty members and three students.
U. N. symbol
A new committee was formed Monday by Provost Surface to hear criticisms of non-academic policies in the University and to propose suggestions to the chancellor.
SDS members discussed the fact that perhaps Leo Schrey, Leavenworth junior and student body president, who will choose the students for the committee and the administration consider members of SDS as "too hot" to serve on the council. Many of the members feel the Student Affairs Council is only another channel to go through before any action will be seen.
"Of course she got a good laugh somebody should only sit down of interest and agreement. If out of it when I explained it to her," Ward added.
Among resolutions which were passed at the two-hour meeting was one protesting the placing of Du Bois Clubs on the U.S. Attorney general's list of subversive groups.
This resolution was added to one proposing a panel discussion of Communist and anti-Communist ideas to be held some afternoon in the future.
"We condemn the action of Att. Gen. Katzenbach putting the Du Bois Club on the list without due process of law or any attempt to allow the club to defend itself," the resolution said. "We also oppose the McCarren Internal Security Act and any other acts which restrict free right of speech and assembly. We support the Du Bois Club in its struggle against the act."
This weekend and next weekend SDS will participate in the fair housing pledge campaign in which KU students will walk door-to-door in Wyandotte County to obtain community support for equal opportunity in housing.
WEATHER
That people would take offense at the poster surprised Ruth Hatch, Evansville, Ind., sophomore, who designed it. She said, "We hope to de-emphasize protest as it is more popularly known by raising it to a more refined level—to the level of quiet and sophisticated debate."
SOME STUDENTS agree. Jay Barrish, Kansas City, Mo., junior, said, "If you look at it in its entity, it indicates the opposite of the kind of reaction being suggested for it."
Cloudy skies and cooler temperatures are predicted by the U.S. Weather Bureau for tonight and Saturday. The expected low for tonight is to be in the mid 40's.
"Instead of carrying signs, we are invited to sit down, discuss the problems and discover points for a moment and think, the poster's message is a very important one," Barrish said.
"THE POSTER ought to have explained the purposes of the Model UN so that students can evaluate it and see if it is good or not," Dean Constantine, Kansas City junior, said.
"If you don't know about a Model UN, you can't know from the poster," he said.
"Most people know the UN, but not the model," Sam Liu, Taiwan graduate student, agreed.
"Actually, the picture of a beatnik is not proper on a UN poster." Ward said. "A lot of people think it is another left-wing deal."
"IF I SHOULD find out that the purpose is protest, then I will have nothing to do with it," Gangi said.
"As an ad, I think it is poor. The hackneyed old symbol of a Bohemian is in itself a poor representation of the United Nations. I do not think the U.N. or its model should be a protest organization.
"What I'd really like to know is how a true Bohemian will like this. It seems to me if I were a bearded one, I would resent it. They are making fun of protest movements," he said.
10 Daily Kansan Friday, March 11, 1966
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