The arrogance of power?
Tomorrow night, in all probability, Don Chubb, chairman of University Party, will be elected chairman of the All Student Council by a resounding majority.
Whether or not Chubb will be a capable chairman is a question which can be answered only with the passing of time.
WE DO NOT particularly oppose the concept of Don Chubb as ASC chairman, since he is the best of the three candidates; in fact it would not make much difference if we did, for the control of the Council rests in the hands of the UP chairman.
What we do object to are the methods employed by Chubb in attaining the nomination and a seat on the Council.
Kyle Craig's election as student body president left a vacancy on the Council in the fraternity district. Chubb appointed himself to fill the position. An interesting sidelight was the appointment by Chubb of his pinnate, Janet Anderson, to fill a vacancy in the women's large halls district.
Chubb's appointment was unconstitutional, as current Chairman Jim Prager tried to point out.
THE APPOINTMENT violated Section 4 of ASC Bill No.2, Chapter 6 which states,"Official notice of said vacancy shall be published in the
University Daily Kansan ten days in advance of the filing of petitions . . . "
Craig's vacancy had not been published ten days in advance of the filing, and the required ten days had not passed since elections.
The Council moved to waive the rule, and Chubb was duly sworn in and then nominated as chairman.
OUR QUARREL is with the ethics involved in Chubb's nomination. We do not feel that it is ethical for the president of a political party to appoint himself to fill a vacancy on the Council. We do not feel that it is ethical for said president to contrive to get himself nominated and then elected ASC chairman.
Perhaps we are naive to assume that dirty politics should not be a part of student government, and to further assume that those few students at KU who do care about student government will not applaud the wheeler-dealer tactics currently in operation on the ASC.
Of course there is a possibility that Don Chubb will remember the campaign promises for better student government. There is a possibility that Don Chubb will remember the basic tenets of good government. And there is a possibility that Don Chubb will remember that, unlike a political promise, an office of public trust is subject to recall. —Barbara Phillips
The people say...
To the Editor:
I see by the Sunday news that a so-called Be-In was held by some at the University of Kansas.
I address this note to the young thing who draped an American flag about her.
You may think that you were
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Have a happy trip,
David H. Minisin
Redwood City, Calif.
smart in so doing, I, as a veteran of World War II, do feel that you have slapped me and all the ones who have fought for that Grand Flag in the face. In some countries you would have been jailed and possibly shot for your deed. This Grand Country does not do that at this time. You do have a right to call yourself an American when you do something that a six-year-old would be expected to do.
Please go back to the country you came from. It could not have been the United States of America.
NEWS AND BUSINESS STAFF
Assistant Managing Editors
Gary Murrell, Steve Russell
Linda Siefeld, Robert Stevens
editorial page Monday, May 1, 1967
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UDK Movie Review: Casino Royale
Too many Bonds, not enough satire
By SCOTT NUNLEY
"Casino Royale" may not be "indescribably funny," but it is almost indescribable. And there are times when it is a very funny film.
However, a riotous comedy—like "Casino Royale"—must be riotously funny to fulfill its image. This "Casino Royale" cannot do. Occasional guffaws at the work of Peter Sellers and Woody Allen cannot create a madcap comedy.
The rumor that "Casino Royale" is a James Bond film needs to be quickly squelched. Certainly there is much in the Bond cult that could be effectively satirized by an impudent picture. But "Casino Royale" never takes a sufficiently serious look at Ian Fleming or his hero to accomplish the satire.
The movie is constructed in three scarcely connected vignettes: David Niven and Scotland, Peter Sellers and Ursola Andress, and Woody Allen and Woody Allen. Either Sellers or Allen could have brought off this type of comedy alone, but all "Casino Royale's" gall is divided into two too many parts.
"Casino Royale" makes much of the repartee and sight jokes that succeeded so well in "What's New, Pusscat." With Sellers or Allen onstage, something of "Pussycat's" vitality appears. Even old end-man jokes such as "Beauty is only skin deep—" "Well, how about a little skin-diving?" draw laughs.
If color and sets look as expensive as they are reported to be, neither contributes much to the movie. Joanna Pettit's lavish "Tibetan" dance routine, for example, was not worth one penny of the thousands it surely cost. Fellini's "Juliet of the Spirits" was not only more colorful with more interesting sets, but used both to generate more comedy.
"Casino Royale" concludes with the promise of the cinema's most memorable browl. Major actors (literally) drop in for bit parts. Chairs fly, mirrors and tables smash, pounding music underscores a ballet of mayhem. But something sours. Director Huston does not have the touch of Blake Edwards, and the mayhem palls and slows—as "Casino Royale" crashes sadly to a close.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN
TODAY
Ph.D. Final Exam, 3:30 p.m. Richard R. Shivers, Zoology, Dyche.
Music Symposium Forum, 3:30 p.m.
Swarthout Recital Hall.
AWS Honors Program, 7:30 p.m.
Hoch Aud.
Hoch Aud.
Student Peace Union Open Meeting,
7. 30 p.m. Union
symposium chamber or Music Concert,
8. 5 p.m. Swarthout, Recital Hall,
TOMORROW
Ph.D. Final Exam, 9:30 am. Enger-
mar V. Ahnell, Education, 112 Ba-
la. Kentley, Education, 112 Ba-
la. Crossley, Ku. Invisible German
Theatre in 19th Century? 341 Mu.
Robert L. Jackson, Yale. Jayhawk Room, Union.
German Movie. 7 p.m. "Bacon Munchehausen." Film room, Bailey.
Symposium Orchestra Concert, 8
p.m. Univ. Theatre.
Slavic Languages Lecture, 4 p.m.
MORE NORTH IRISH
BELFAST — (UPI) — The 1666 census showed Northern Ireland's total population is 1,481,408, an increase of 56,400 since the 1961 nose count.
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