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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU For 77 of its 101 Years
77th Year, No.97
WEATHER COOLER
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
See Weather—page 5
Monday, March 13. 1967
Meredith quits Harlem race
NEW YORK—(UPI)James Meredith withdrew today as GOP opponent to Adam Clayton Powell in the special congressional election, charging that the Republican party had failed to keep its commitments to him.
"I don't think they broke faith, but it was a matter of political expediency," said the 33-year-old law student. "Political expediency was the order of the day."
MEREDITH SAID that when he entered the race for the Powell seat last Tuesday, the New York Republican organization agreed to see that he had the party consensus and adequate financial and organization support.
"Either through inability or unwillingness, they failed to keep these commitments," he told the reporters as he left his apartment a few hours after he dropped out of the race.
Meredith's announcement was as startling as his entrance last Tuesday into the race for the House seat Powell has held with just token opposition for 23 years. Powell, a Democrat, last month was excluded from the House by vote of its members for alleged misdeeds in office.
MEREDITH, who braved savage racial violence to become the first Negro to enroll at the University of Mississippi, refused to say why he suddenly withdrew as a Republican party candidate.
Pressed for a reason, Meredith smiled wanly and said: "Sometimes you have to make decisions..."
After expressing initial shock at Meredith's entry onto the Harlem political scene, Negro civil rights leaders criticized his decision to oppose Powell, who is eligible to run again for his former seat regardless of the House action against him.
Down slips to be out by April 1
That old enemy of students—down slips—will soon be rearing their ugly heads and putting a big, black void in Spring Break.
The little white slips of paper will be mailed March 31 to parents of KU freshmen and sophomores and March 28 to juniors and seniors. Spring break begins at noon April 1.
Instructors are requested to send a list of students who are making grades below a C to the Registrar's Office by March 20. The registrar's office then will sort the names according to schools and send the complete list to the deans of each school, who will forward the news to the student.
If a student receives a down slip, it does not mean he will fail the course, the registrar's office said. It is intended as a warning.
BULLETIN
TOKEPA —(UPI)— House Republicans failed today to muster up enough support to override Gov. Robert B. Docking's veto of the reduction in income tax withholding rate.
House Democrats railed in support of the Governor's veto to a bill that would reduce the Kansas income tax withholding rate by one third. The vote was 76 to 46. It required 84 votes to override the veto.
The motion to override the veto was made by Rep. Calvin Strowig, R-Abilene, majority floor leader and vice-chairman of the House Assessment and Taxation Committee.
Only two Democrats were not present for the voting.
Mrs. King to conduct KU freedom concert
By RICH LOVETT
Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr., will conduct a Freedom Concert at KU, April 12, Tom Moore, director of the KU-Y, announced today.
Moore said the Freedom Concert is a program Mrs. King innovated. She will sing, lecture, and read poetry in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Her concert will present the history of the civil rights movement.
IN A LETTER TO MOORE, JAN. 5, Mrs. King wrote, "I am deeply interested in presenting the Freedom Concert in Lawrence. I feel that the good will which would be established through presentation of such a concert would be quite significant."
Her visit will be sponsored by the University. the Interresidence Council, Lawrence Church Women United Student Union Activities, and the KU-Y.
Moore said one of the objectives of Mrs. King's visit will be to give "more meaning to work on improving race relations at KU. Here en campus we have a real basis for equality, yet communication between races at KU is pretty limited."
Mrs. Anima Bose, assistant instructor of Western Civilization, invited Mrs. King to come to KU after hearing a Freedom Concert in Flushing, New York, last August.
Wife of the famous Baptist minister and civil rights leader, Mrs. King studied chemistry and
music at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio; and majored in voice at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.
MRS. MARTIN LUTHER KING
—UDK Photo by Pres Doudna
JO JO CUTS UP
Jo Jo White is shown here cutting down the nets following the final conference game of the season where KU routed the K-State Wildcats 74-56. KU finished conference champs for the second year in a row. See game story on page 6.
'Marat' Sade . . .
'Cruel' play opens
By NED VALENTINE
The play within a play concerns the ghastly experience through which an assassin is put. More importantly, however, it deals with a conflict between the Marquis de Sade and Jean-Paul Marat.
A kind of nightmarish atmosphere will chill the stage of the University Theatre, Sunday, for the first performance of Peter Weiss" "Marat Sade."
The play will run March 19 and March 23-26.
SADE FELT NATURE is cruel and rigorous and that men might as well give in to it. Marat, a revolutionary idealist, said men must try to rise above nature.
The situation is summed up most appropriately in the title of the play "The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Immates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade."
"The greatest problem in producing a play like this is also the advantage," said Lewin Goff, director. "It is an individualistic play; that, is I must rely on each actor's own interpretation of an asylum patient."
THE ACTORS HAVE met with psychiatrists for suggestions on their interpretations, Goff said. "I find myself doing more asking and wondering and less directing."
The KU version follows a new staging technique developed recently by English director Peter
Brooks called "The Theater of Cruelty," to which "Marat Sade" adapts itself well.
Brooks experimented with various ways of communication on the stage without using words. Instead, he depends on movement, inarticulate sounds like groans and screams, and invented symbols.
MARQUIS DE SADE, committed to the asylum of Charenton in 1803 because of his political views, spent the remainder of his life writing plays which were used as therapy for the patients.
It became fashionable in Paris at that time to attend these performances more to watch the anties of the inmates than the play. "Marat Sade" is one of these plays performed by the inmates before the asylum director and several guests.
The entire play was actually written by German playwright Peter Weiss in 1964.
MARAT, WHO IN REAL life contracted a skin disease in the sewers of Paris, spent the last part of his life submerged in water. In the play, Marat spends most of his time in a bathtub.
Marat's assassin in real life, Marie-Anne-Charlotte Corday, a member of a political faction opposing Marat, thought killing him would save much bloodshed. On July 13, 1973, her third attempt to see the revolutionist, she was admitted carrying a dagger in her corsage and stabbed him.