Lady Bird slammed in McCollum Play Guy
About 50 copies of the McColum Hall newspaper, Tartan, containing a full page nude with a picture of Lady Bird Johnson's face superimposed on it didn't last too long Saturday.
They were quickly removed from women's mailboxes in the coed residence hall by Susan Schaefer, Kirkwood, Mo., junior and women's hall president, and by Carolyn Power, Kansas City, Mo., resident director and graduate student.
Vacancies not to alter hall plans
The increased vacancies in University residence halls probably will not lead to a change next year in KU's housing policy, J. J. Wilson, director of residence halls, said Saturday.
Wilson was replying to a recent Daily Kansan article which said residency in KU residence halls was at a "dangerous level." The article said the Board of Regents has the power to require students in state schools to live in the halls if necessary.
Wilson said, "It has been a tradition that KU students, and especially men students, have the choice where they want to live. Chancellor Wescoe and I both would like to see this policy kept as long as possible."
Running residence halls is just like any other business, Wilson said. One has to plan on some setbacks and less than optimum results.
"Naturally, for every increased per cent of vacancy," Wilson said, "the incoming flow of cash slows down that much more; so spending must slow down more. But this simply means that benefits to residents and maintenance must slow down.
"We don't base all our plans on full occupancy or even 90 per cent occupancy. We can go down a lot lower than we are and still maintain solvency," he said.
KU alumnus writes book on general
The Government Printing Office is presently releasing four volumes entitled "Reports of Mac-Arthur" written in 1951 by Majj Gen. Charles A. Willoughby (Ret.).
Willoughby, who served as Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Chief of Intelligence, attended KU during the summer of 1932, doing post-graduate study under Frank Hudder, noted historian.
The articles, now being released by the government, were suppressed by President Harry S. Truman after MacArthur's dismissal from command.
According to Willoughby, MacArthur refused to allow publication because of his untimely release of command.
Willoughby served as MacArthur's Chief of Intelligence from 1939-51, when MacArthur was dismissed. He has written a number of books concerning the war, including one entitled "MacArthur, 1941-51."
"We felt the paper wasn't suitable for a coed dorm." Miss Schaefer said. "We decided the girls shouldn't be forced to get them."
THE BI-WEEKLY paper, renamed Playguy for this issue, was placed in all hall mailboxes Friday night by previous approval of the men's and women's residence directors.
Miss Power said she removed the newspapers from the women's mailboxes with the same authority that originally allowed them to be there.
Doug Witt, Boulder, Colo., senior and men's residence director, didn't remove the newspapers from men's mailboxes.
Ralph Dobyns, Tartan editor, said he included the nude for "shock, satire, surprise and innovation." He said the issue was meant as a satire on Playboy magazine.
THE COVER CONTAINED a drawing of the copyrighted Playboy bunny with the face of Donald Alderson, dean of men. Dobyns said he used the picture of Alderson because "he looked like a swinger and had a perfect Playboy face."
Don Alderson, dean of men, said he wasn't "personally upset" by the matter.
"I am sorry that the illustration appeared on page three (the Lady Bird picture.) I don't know what the purpose of the editorial staff was in printing it. We haven't talked to Dobyns yet, but will as soon as we can contact him and arrange an appointment. We want to talk to him before we make and decisions about an offical reaction."
Daily Kansan
Monday, February 13, 1967
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State college officers meet termed success
Success was the word for the Kansas Collegiate Representative Conference, according to conference director Ken North, Shawnee Mission sophomore and class president.
Thirty class officers from state schools attended the weekend meeting here. Meeting in small groups, they re-evaluated class organization and procedures, discussing related problems of their individual schools.
Among proposals made at the conference was the formation of an all-inclusive student's federation to represent state-wide student opinion in the universities and state legislature.
"We will have serious problems of organization," North said.
"We probably would have to form an organizational convention before we could officially begin," North said. "It's still in the letter-writing stage now."
Goals of the student federation include passage of a state bill lowering Kansas voting age from 21 to 18. North said.
The conference concluded with a Sunday breakfast. Gov. Robert Docking, who was invited to speak, was unable to attend.
The building of a new hydroelectric power station in Siberia may not seem like the most promising subject matter for a 150-page epic poem. And it would be difficult to imagine one of our own poets - perhaps Allen Ginsberg? - singing an unsatirical paean of praise to the Hoover Dam.
But the poet in this case is very serious. He is also one of the most exciting in the world, one who uses the power station as a framework on which to hang his unique view of existence. Yevgeny Yevtushenko is the poet; the poem is Bratst Station, and it is, in the words of Vogue Magazine, the 33-year-old Russian's "newest and perhaps his greatest."
Some of you may already be familiar with a bit of Bratsk Station, for on his recent tour of American colleges, Yevtushenko read parts of it to enthusiastic audiences. Now the whole epic cycle of 35 poems, along with 26 other new poems (on such diverse subjects as seals, jukeboxes, and the death of Edith Piaf) are collected in a new Doubleday Anchor Original paperback.
In the introduction to Bratsk Station and Other New Poems, translated by Tina Tupikina-Glaessner, Geoffrey Dutton, and Igor Mezhakoff-Koriakin ($1.25$), Rosh Ireland calls Bratsk "a second autobiography. Besides Yevtushenko's view of history, it contains . . . the coalescing of a coherent view of his errors in the past and determination for the future . . . and a vast amount of evidence on his view of himself and his own generation."
Mr. Ireland sees Yevtushenko "as a poet whose value, like his inquiry, extends beyond the boundaries of the Soviet Union, and whose work is properly the concern of all to whom poetry is important." Yevtushenko himself, in setting himself the monumental task of this distinctly Russian, yet universal poem, writes in a prologue,
the poet is his' century's image,
the poet is his century's image and the visionary symbol of the future. Without shyness, the poet summing up the total, all that has happened before him . Can I do this?
On the evidence, the answer is yes
Another author who set himself a monumental task and succeeded is John Barth. Six years ago, when the author of the bestselling Giles Goat-Boy wrote The Sot-Weed Factor, critic Leslie Fiedler said it was "closer to the great American novel than any other book of the past decades." Now John Barth has revised The Sot-Weed Factor, as he puts it "to make this long narrative a quantum swifter and more graceful," without in any way changing the plot or the characters. It was 806 pages; it's now 768. The Sot-Weed Factor: revised edition, $7.50.
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