Spring break: a time to travel
KU will become virtually a ghost town by Saturday evening, for the long awaited spring vacation finally will have arrived.
By RUE CHAGOLL
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU For 77 of its 101 Years
Students will travel to all corners of the continental U.S., and a few lucky ones will visit abroad.
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P-t-P president Dale Sprague said the organization arranges homestays for foreign students with families of KU students to give them a closer look at American family life.
Because his father is an employee of Trans World Airlines, Crago is able to travel free anywhere in the world on a dependent's pass.
STILL OTHER STUDENTS will travel on an individual basis. One such student is Craig Crago, Shawnee Mission sophomore, who plans to visit Rome and Athens.
APPROXIMATELY 30 KU STUDENTS will be travelling to Freeport, Grand Bahama Island, on a special excursion sponsored by Vacations International travel agency.
This will be Crago's fourth trip to Europe since last June. In the past year, he has logged over 42,000 miles, he said.
KU foreign students will have the opportunity during the upcoming vacation to experience American home life through the homestay program sponsored by People-to-People.
"IVE BEEN TO ROME four times before, but I'm going back because I like the climate and because it's one of my favorite cities," he said.
At a travel forum held in the Kansas Union yesterday afternoon, a film on Russia was shown by Walt Houk, representative of Maunintour travel agency in Lawrence.
Hiebsch said also that all types of water sports will be available to vacationers along with access to Freeport's international market place, which is constructed in the architecture native to the countries represented.
In contrast to the warm shores of the Bahamas, other KU students will be travelling to Colorado on a ski trip sponsored by the KU Ski Club.
For those economy-minded students, Hiebsch said that liquor in the Bahamas is available at approximately one-half the retail prices in the United States.
SUA SPOKESMAN Steve Johns, Wichita junior, said the forum was intended "not necessarily to interest students in travelling to Russia, but to get them interested in the idea of just travelling."
FREEPORT SPORTS many luxurious gambling casinos for those wishing to return as millionaires.
Tom Hiebsch, Wichita junior and one of three representatives for the agency, said that for $189, students will be provided transportation to and from the Bahamas and lodging at the Freeport Inn Hotel for eight days and seven nights.
LAWRENCE, KANSAS Wednesday, March 29, 1967
77th Year, No.109
Talks break down
Performers strike
NEW YORK —(UPI)— The performing talent of the nation's major radio and television networks went on strike today in a contract dispute over money and overtime.
The strike was called by the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists AFTRA against the National Broadcasting Co., the American Broadcasting Co., the Columbia Broadcasting System and the Mutual Radio Network.
Picket lines, manned by highly paid, nationally known personalities, went up at 5 a.m. local time across the country.
All live programming—news shows, soap operas, daytime panel shows and late night "talk" shows —was expected to be affected by the walkout.
The first live television show affected was NBC's "Today" program. In New York, the two stars of the program, Hugh Downs and Frank Blair, joined in a picket
line outside the NBC building in the rain. Downs makes about $125,000 a year in his "Today" job.
National Newscasters
Also affected by the strike, first in the 30-year history of AFTRA, were such nationally known newcasters as Walter Cronkite of CBS; Chet Huntley and David Brinkley of NBC, all members of AFTRA.
WEATHER
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts partly cloudy skies and mild temperatures tonight, with the low in the 50's.
The stumbling block in negotiations to replace the contract
The newsman want a base salary of $300 weekly plus 50 per cent of all commercial fees from sponsored programs in which they appear. Networks offered a $300 weekly base salary plus 25 per cent of all fees earned, with 25 per cent distributed over the three year contract.
which expired last Nov. 15 was the "method of payment" for about 400 staff newsmen at network-owned stations.
Students begin Capote roles
Filming of the movie, "In Cold Blood" began in western Kansas this week, and a spokesman for the film company said the four KU students are "acquitting themselves nobilly."
The KU students are Paul Hough, Topeka junior; Brenda Currin, Rockville, Md., junior; Clifford Niven, Prairie Village junior; and Mary Rapelye, Kansas City senior.
Hal Horwitsz, publicity director, said producer - director Richard Brooks is very proud of them.
"I KNOW KU WILL be proud of them too." Horwits said.
The students arrived in Garden City on Monday. They will work on the set until the end of the week.
The set moved to Garden City and the Finney County Court-house nearby after several weeks of shooting in northeast Kansas.
Filming of the story of the slaying of four members of the Herbert Clutter family of Holcomb will be completed in about six weeks, Horwits said. It will open in theaters in about a year,
Spring plans await student return
Kansas Relays, Greek Week, Engineering Exposition Spring Fling and sophomore class party set to go
By JOHN MARSHALL
Post break campus activities will spring on KU students enjoying April weather and delay many campus intellectuals from settling back into the old grind.
The festivities include the Kansas Relays, Greek Week, the Engineering Exposition, Spring Fling, and a sophomore class party.
The sophomore class will try to eliminate "post break letdown" by taking over the Red Dog Inn on Saturday, April 15.
THE TENTATIVE PLANS, according to Ken North, Shawnee Mission sophomore and president of the sophomore class, include a slave auction and free beer.
If the plans are finalized, North said, the highest bidders will escort their slaves to a sophomore class carnival to be held the first part of May where one of the slaves will be crowned Miss Sophomore Class.
The party will feature the "Bowstreet Band," who claim to be the best in Phoenix.
Participating living groups have nominated girls for Miss Sophomore Class, and the girls will be auctioned as slaves at the party.
"The specific plans are being finalized," North said. "and particular information will be made available to each living group through sophomore class representatives."
PLANS FOR THE CARNIVAL include booths and stunts sponsored by various living groups at KU.
Money raised by the sophomore class party and
the carnival will be used to sponsor the initiation of "Project Concern," a state-wide fund raising project for the children of South Vietnam.
STARTING THURSDAY, April 20, the Kansas Relays will run for three days. This year, for the first time, the Kansas Relays Queen will not be known until Saturday, the final day of the Relays.
Three of the 35 queen candidates will be chosen as finalists on April 12 for the Saturday crowd at the Relays.
Martin Holmer, Wichita senior and chairman of the Relays Committee, said he wasn't sure about any outstanding high school or college athletes who might be at the relays.
"The deadline for entries is April 12," Holmer said, "so we really can't make any predictions about records falling."
Holmer said that this year's relays will be as good "if not better" than last year's.
THE RELAYS WERE founded in 1923 by Dr. Forrest C. ("Phog") Allen, then KU Director of Athletics, and his track coach, Karl Schlademan.
Along with Dr. John H. Outland, who is known as the "Father of the Kansas Relays," these men started a track and field contest which is ranked as one of the nation's best each year.
The Engineering Exposition this year will open in Learned Hall at noon on Friday, April 21, and end at 4 p.m. Saturday.
At the exposition opening the 1967 Exposition Queen, Donna Mitchell, Lawrence junior, will be
crowned and the festivities will begin with a ribbon cutting ceremony.
CLIFFORD E. CHARLESWORTH, mission director for the Manned Space Flight Center in Houston, will be guest speaker at the exposition banquet Saturday night in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Four major U.S. engineering companies will feature exhibits at the exposition.
Westinghouse will set up an atomic energy power plant, and Collins Radio will feature a live global communications network.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will also be sending space capsules which have orbited the earth.
Phillips Petroleum Co. will send an exhibit to be later announced.
Trophies for the best exhibits will be awarded and an award for the outstanding exhibit will also be presented by Sigma Tau.
"THE REASON the exposition is held each year," said Ken Mathiasmeier, Overland Park junior, "is to present to high school students who are possible engineering students what we have to offer, and what we are actually involved in at KU."
Mathiasmeier added that counselling films will be shown and the students will be able to talk to some engineering professors.
Spring Fling hits KU Monday. April 24th.
THE FLING WILL be started by ballot casting for Spring Fling Queen all day at the Information Continued on page 5