Anti-VN mail-in set for April 15
A "mail-in" demonstration against the war in Vietnam will be held Saturday, April 15, with participants to walk silently down Massachusetts Street to mail letters of protest to President Johnson, Secretary of State Dean Rusk or individual congressmen.
The demonstration, to begin at 1 p.m., is being sponsored jointly by the Kansas Peace Forum, the KU Vietnam Committee and the Student Peace Union.
HAM SALICH, ASSISTANT instructor of English and chairman of the Vietnam Committee, commented, "This type of protest, since it does rely so much on individual letter-writing, will not be organized around a definite political slogan—unless, of course, it would be 'stop the war now'."
"It will be taken for granted that all the participants are appalled at the war in general, and at American policy in particular, but individual expression of opinion will be handled privately, through the letter-writing."
The demonstrators will meet at South Park and walk downtown through the shopping district and then to the post office. Very few signs are to be used, and parade marshals will be authorized to remove from the line ayone who does not comply with injunctions to remain quiet and courteous.
Salsich estimated that 100 people would take part in the demonstration.
KU theatre troupe leaves for Europe
By NED VALENTINE
Six students and one faculty member began a lengthy trip today that will take them behind the iron curtain to demonstrate KU talent.
The student troupe will travel for nine weeks to major Eastern European cities demonstrating different types and styles of acting through contemporary U.S. theater productions, explained Robert Hawes, assistant professor of drama. He will be the accompanying faculty member.
THE TRIP IS SPONSORED by the U.S. State Department. The cast will not be paid, but will receive room, board and transportation.
A similar group consisting of six students and an advisor from Yugoslavia arrived in the United States several days ago. The foreign group met with American students here and performed with them during practice sessions in Dodge City.
The Yugoslavian troupe has been making a tour of Kansas towns presenting their show, "Theatre U.S.A." in preparation for the European tour.
"ALTHOUGH THERE WILL be some public performances, the show will be presented mainly for theater students overseas," Hawes said. "We will visit theater institutes and universities over there."
The students are enrolled in an Eastern European seminar this semester which includes the trip. It involves programs on the history and culture of Eastern Europe as well as rehearsals. The seminar is worth one to six credit hours.
In Europe the group will fly from capital to capital and travel between countries by train. Near
the end of the tour they will split up and travel on their own to visit various theaters.
THE SHOW which the KU group will present consists of scenes from "A Thousand Clowns," and William Inge's "Picnic," and songs from "The Musical Name," a musical version of "Auntie Mame."
In the second act are scenes from "Any Wednesday," and "The Glass Managerie."
"We have also prepared folk songs for informal gatherings," Hawes said.
"Theatre U.S.A." which is the same show presented here in the Experimental Theatre last October, will be presented with costumes, a few chairs, a table, and some boxes, he said.
"The cast was selected mainly on their ability to act and to meet people and their availability," he said.
Student members of the troupe are Linda McDonald, Overland Park graduate student; Ken Marsolais, Lawrence graduate student; Jack Wright, Massillon, Ohio, graduate student; Kathy Melcher, Newton sophomore; Sue Tisdall, Winnetka, Ill., sophomore; and Sean Griffin, South Bend, Ind., graduate student.
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Miss Mason went on to describe some of the censorship procedures and types of literature banned in past centuries.
"Man has a naturally ingenious mind for filling words in blank spaces," she said. "Because of this there have been historical instances in which books have been censored for what they didn't write."
She said that the library exercises no policy of censorship on reading material exclusively because it may be objectionable to some.
"WE HAVE NO SPECIAL section which could be called pornographic literature, because first of all, it would be hard to classify books into this realm.
When asked why many of these books are locked into special areas of the library, she answered that it was only because such reading matter is quite vulnerable to theft.
ART COLLECTIONS and political books also are kept in secure areas for this same reason, she said.
"Neither do we collect books just because they might be considered to be pornographic," she said.
"I think it is something which varies with every person," she said. "Something which you may find perfectly acceptable may make me turn red and flee the room."
SHE GAVE EXAMPLES of books written with suggestive blank spaces for the reader to fill in with his own words.
"If we were to cut out what may be considered pornographic or objectionable, we would be cutting out a whole segment of culture or civilization," she said.
Censorship, pornography and objectionable reading matter are nothing new to our civilization. The special collections section of Watson Library can supply ample proof of this.
THE LIBRARY contains reading matter dating back many centuries, much of which was censored or banned in the age in which it was printed. Some of the material may be considered to be pornographic even by today's social standards.
She also told of an instance around the turn of the century when "Alice in Wonderland" was banned in China because it was harmful to the minds of the pub-
"Pornography is something which man has found very had to define," Alexandra Mason, director of special collections, said.
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lie to think that animals could speak and act like humans.
It would probably be surprising to many to learn that John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" was banned in Kansas City in 1839.
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IN 1954. COPIES OF "The Adventures of Donald Duck" were burned in East Berlin by students protesting American "propaganda."
Miss Mason showed a copy of a religious book censored in 1581 during the Spanish Inquisition. The name of the censor is signed on the title page of the book along with a certification that it had been altered to meet specifications of the censor's master catalogue.
Parts of the book were acceptable and left intact, while ob-
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Deleted sections of such books which fell victim to the Spanish inquisitors are kept in the library in the form of photostats obtained from copies which escaped the censor and are now intact in the Library of Congress.
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