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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, April 30, 1968
'Groovy' campaign aids VD battle
SAN FRANCISCO — (UPI) The message on the bright pink and orange psychedelic poster looked more like a plea for a hippies' community chest drive than a warning.
But "Love Needs Care" was a warning—the slogan of a campaign against venereal disease,
Museum of Art to exhibit works of late painter
The KU Museum of Art will exhibit the paintings of the late Ward Lockwood from May 12 to June 15.
The various currents that affected American art can be seen in Lockwood's paintings, said museum director Bret Waller.
The exhibit will include 114 paintings, prints, drawings and watercolors from all periods in Lockwood's career.
The works to be displayed reflect the evolution of the artist's career which spanned 45 years between the end of World War I and his death in 1963, Waller said.
Lockwood's early paintings represent the environment and landscape of New Mexico. As he grew older, his work became increasingly abstract.
The exhibit, which was assembled by the University of Texas in 1967, includes such later works as "Undulations," "Savage Song" and "Verdant Passage."
Lockwood was born in Atchison and educated at KU, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Academie Ranson in Paris. He lived most of his life in Taos, New Mexico, and taught at the University of California from 1948 until he retired in 1961.
In 1942 Lockwood was given a Citation of Distinguished Service by the KU Alumni Association and he was artist-in-residence here from 1957 to 1959.
His work is widely known and exhibited both in the United States and Europe and is represented in numerous collections, both private and public.
KU professor to publish book
A book by Dr. Vincenza Traversa, associate professor of French and Italian at KU, will be published soon by Mouton and Company of The Hague, Netherlands. It is "Luigi Capuana: A Critic and a Novelist."
Numerical expert to talk on insects
"Numerical Taxonomy: What's All The Shooting About?" will be the topic of a computer science lecture at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in room 302 Summerfield Hall.
rapidly growing especially among young people.
The lecture will be given by Robert Sokal, KU professor of statistical biology in the department of entomology.
Sokal is an authority on the classification of insects by numerical means, according to Steve Callahan, an instructor in the KU computer center.
The lecture is one in a series sponsored by the computer center, Callahan said.
KU-Y backs day camp
The twenty-one KU-Y cabinet members have declared the KUY's active support of the Lawrence Summer Day Camp and contributed $32.25 to the program.
The message is among the more subtle of an often frank campaign by posters, buttons, handbills, brochures and "underground" newspapers organized by the city-operated San Francisco Venereal Disease Clinic.
"The groovy posters and buttons," as one hippie group described them, are distributed by the clinic and by homosexual, hippie and poverty groups which prepared and financed them as a public service.
The Camp will provide recreational facilities for area children and will try to improve interracial communications.
Their target is the young—who have accounted for much of the resurgence of VD as a serious health problem in the past decade.
VD, which health officials thought they had under control after the advent of penicillin and other antibiotics, again has reached epidemic proportions in most metropolitan areas of the United States.
The U.S. Public Health Service reported 21,090 cases of early stage syphilis and 375,606 cases of gonorrhea during 1967. The total of nearly 400,000 compared with a 1957 low of 222,000.
Teen-agers accounted for much of the increase—with a VD infection rate twice that of the population as a whole. One of every 250 teen-aged boys and girls has gonorrhea, say public health officials.
In San Francisco, teen-agers accounted for 20 per cent of the new cases last year.
Thus one of the city clinic's major efforts has been getting information to young people—by both traditional means, such as school talks and newspaper articles, and "groovy" methods.
The basic message: "sexually active people," those with symptoms of syphilis or gonorrhea and those who believe they may have been exposed, should get check-ups at the free city clinic or from their doctors.
"The important thing in controlling venereal disease is early treatment," said Dr. George
The clinic seeks to treat both the voluntary patient and his or her "contacts," who may be spreading the disease without knowing they have it.
Schochet, clinic director. "VD is so catching that time is of the essence."
To get the cooperation of its patients, especially in the naming of "contacts," the clinic has two rules: secrecy and impersonality.
"We've gone to court to keep
"Our interest is medical diagnosis and treatment; it's not our business to moralize or punish in any way."
the police from looking at our records," said Schochet. "If we don't protect our patients, we'll lose their cooperation.
As a result, the clinic has "good rapport with offbeat groups," ranging from motorcycle clubs to homosexual organizations, Schochet said.
The VD epidemic has swamped the clinic. And Schochet warns that current medical techniques and educational efforts, including his "groovy" youth campaign, can't stop the national outbreak.
Decrease in French imports caused by DeGaulle?
Present drugs have been effective in controlling syphilis, he said, but inadequate against gonorrhea—a disease which will be conquered' only when a vaccine or immunization agent is developed.
Eat, drink and be merry—but be sure your wine and cheese isn't imported from France, is the attitude of some American consumers annoyed by Charles de Gaulle's anti - United States policy.
The French, proud of their wines and food, are irritated by a drop in U.S. sales of French products, mainly some of their bottled goods and cheeses.
The article reports a 1.15 per cent drop in sales of French products in the United States during 1967 contrasted with a usual rise from 6 to 10 per cent.
The report tells of a customer in a grocery store who asked for a piece of Brie, and was reprimanded by another customer saying: "Don't you know Brie cheese is imported, and don't you know that de Gaulle is out for our gold?"
A boycott of French products was analyzed in "Francophobia in America—A French Report," an article appearing in the May issue of Atlas magazine, reprinted from Le Figaro, a major Paris newspaper.
In Chicago, a restaurant owner put signs on the doors of his two restaurants saying: "We do not serve French wines, due to the rudeness of de Gaulle."
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"The boycott affects only the ordinary wines," the article continues. "On this level, Americans choose Spanish and Portuguese wine, even California labels, over the French."
Le Figaro quotes U.S. importers as saying, "France produces the best wines in the world and our clientele will continue to appreciate them. Politics has nothing to do with it."
dropped "80 to 90 per cent" in conservative areas of America which are "particularly fertile terrain for Franco-phobia," the Le Figaro article says.
The drop in sales of French products has been attributed to occasional ironic and vulgar comments on France and its government made by certain television personalities, and exaggerated news coverage of these boycotts of French products.
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