Martin outlines-
Continued from page 1 they have had a tremendous influence on the administrative policies of KU this year."
MARTIN SAID TWO late-night coffee centers have been established since last spring and that there has been much progress in the elimination of university jurisdiction in non-academic areas.
Dennison calls LSD dangerous
Dr. Timothy Leary's League for Spiritual Discovery was branded a movement headed by an "intellectual" by Karl Dennison in a College Life session Thursday at Ellsworth Hall.
About 100 students crowded into the hall Lounge to hear the Campus Crusade for Christ leader's comments on student use of the psychedelic drug.
"THERE IS SOME PROOF this drug has done some good in a medical sense," Dennison said. "But even when the drug has been administered under controlled research conditions, lasting damage has resulted for the person who took it."
Dennison said he had never taken the drug nor talked with anyone who had. "I don't need to take it myself because, being a rational person, I can accept the testimony of other rational persons."
Dennison was at the University of California at Berkeley at the same time as Leary. He said he had attended some of the League's meetings. Dennison said he felt LSD was a danger at KU but admitted he had learned of no specific examples of a KU student being "on it."
WHEN ASKED IF HE felt LSD was more dangerous than other drugs popular on campuses in the past, Dennison said, "it rots the brain. A few people could be hurt by it."
This year's student government has also seen a vast simplification of the ASC committee system.
"We are eliminating non-functioning committees which have given a bad name to student government because they serve little or no purpose."
However, Martin placed special emphasis that student government is more than just the ASC.
"IN MY OPINION," Martin said, "the most important position a KU student can hold on a university policy-making committee is to be a member of COSA (Council on Student Affairs)."
COSA. an eight-student, 11-faculty member council, makes recommendations to Chancellor Wescoe and encompasses nearly every aspect of university life.
So far Chancellor Wescoe has
not overruled any COSA proposal.
This year COSA has approved the two-week final period, liberalized liquor regulations for off-campus housing, and eliminated junior-senior women's closing hours.
BUT MANY STUDENTS and faculty members maintain that student government at KU is still ineffective—and would be even if it were to control every aspect of the University.
Martin frowns on the negative attitude many people have toward student government, and the negative effect it has on the current elections.
"If changes in final week, extended women's closing hours, the English pro and University disciplinary regulations do not seem important to a student, then he probably shouldn't listen to what the candidates have to say this spring."
Prof reads war poetry
There are two kinds of emphasis in war poetry—pathos or suffering and philosophical analysis of why wars take place, said Max Sutton, assistant professor of English.
Sutton said, "Reed's basic means of pathos is stressing the violation of nature that war is."
Sutton was reading selections from the works of W. H. Auden and Herbert Reed at the SUA Poetry Hour yesterday in the Kansas Union.
REED, HE SAID, represents an emphasis on pathos. "In this type of poetry the soldier appears as a victim of some sort of power. Someone to be pitied," he said.
He read Reed's "Dragonfly," a series of on-the-spot impressions of war.
After reading "The Crucifix" and "The Happy Warrior" he read
"The Execution Of Cornelius Vane" who he compared to the hero in "The Red Badge of Courage" but who does not get the "badge."
"Auden," he said, "is more philosophical in that he is concerned with why men have wars."
Sutton read Auden's "Spain In 1937" which he said Auden wrote when he visited the war.
He also read exceeds from "In Time Of War," a series of sonnets about the war between China and Japan.
Sutton ended with Auden's own commentary, which he termed, "A speech to the militant."
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Friday, April 14, 1967
Daily Kansan
Prof to lead trek to Easter Island
By JOHN HILL
The following ad appeared in the March 26, 1967 issue of the New York Times:
Lindblad Travel Inc. announces Easter Island Expedition.
Leaves April 28 and returns May 9. Led by Dr. Carlyle S. Smith, Professor of Anthropology, Univ. of Kansas, member of Heverdahl Expedition to Easter Island.
Inclusive Price—$1.500.
Smith, who will have been with the KU faculty for 20 years next September, was a member of the famous Thor Heyerdahl scientific expedition to Easter Island from October of 1955 to July, 1956 which was the basis of his best selling book, "Aku-Aku."
The statues were carved by ancestors of the present inhabitants of Easter Island from 1200-1680 A.D.
AMONG THE FASCINATING ASPECTS of these giant statues is that some weight up to 80 tons, yet have been found as far as 10 miles from the rock quarries. They were probably pulled on the ground resting on reed mats, Smith said.
Smith's return to Easter Island, which is 2.350 miles from Chile and internationally famous because of a number of mysterious statues carved by ancient islanders, is a sight-seeing tour.
Another intriguing question is how did the ancient Easter Islanders raise the giant statues without any modern, heavy apparatus. The Heyerdahl expedition discovered that this was accomplished by three long poles placed under the statue and then raised a few inches. Rocks were piled under it, it was raised again, and its height gradually increased.
Smith, who earned his B.A. and Ph.D. at Columbia University, said that this was a tour group only, arranged through a travel agency, and not another scientific expedition.
"I WANT A SECOND LOOK at Easter Island." Smith said, "and possibly photograph some new sites to study later, but there is not enough time for much more."
Smith said that one of the more enjoyable aspects of the trip for him would be seeing the natives of Easter Island again.
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