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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, April 4, 1968
Issues merit attention
The group protesting the involvement of the University with the military has been given the brush-off by the administration.
The talk dealt with the presence of ROTC programs on the KU campus, the presence of military recruiters on campus, military-funded research carried out by KU faculty, and the role of the University as a possible dissenting voice in a mixed-up society.
So, a dialogue with Heller was arranged.
The group cancelled its proposed sit-in at the Chancellor's office Tuesday because the group decided to re-evaluate its plans to include a public dialogue with University officials which would "accomplish more."
"We shouldn't picket, and then say, 'Let's talk,'" said one protester. "We talk, and then if we have something to protest, we protest," he said.
The issues were not bizarre and are issues which must be responsibly dealt with by all major universities. The University of Pennsylvania has established a precedent which KU would do well to follow. The University has banned all military research projects from the campus.
Yet at every turn, Heller made it quite clear the University was quite satisfied with its present policies.
Heller dismissed the protesters' request for change by saying, "I have no doubt whatsoever that each generation . . . thinks the existing establishment is unreasonable and unthinking, and if not immoral, then at least amoral."
The group presented its views in a responsible and sensible way to the administration. Its reluctance to sit-in- until they had presented the administration a chance to respond to their demands proved they are sincere in their convictions and are not just another group of agitators.
The protesters represent a sizeable segment of the student body and they deserve to be taken seriously.
Diane Wengler Editorial Editor
Kansan record review
'Bonnie,' 'Graduate' soundtracks contrast
By Will Hardesty
Every now and again two things of the same kind come along which show the "how to" and the "how not to" of making whatever the things are. This has happened in the "original soundtrack recording" record business with the release of two new records.
Saving the best—better is more correct. I guess—for last, let's talk about MUSIC IN- SPIRED BY BONNIE AND CLYDE on the Warner Brothers—Seven Arts label. The record hurts.
It wouldn't really be a bad record if it weren't for the way it is cut. Interspersed with the music (the music only gets about 40-60 per cent of the time) are various cuts from the dialogue of the movie. Talk isn't bad in its place, but I like a record which either talks or plays, but not both. And having talk over the music makes the whole matter even worse.
"Foggy Mountain Breakdown." probably the best-known song from the movie, begins side one—and is the last decent band on the record.
On the other hand, Columbia has released THE GRADUATE. This is a fine album.
The music was composed—and a lot of it is done—by Art Simon and Paul Garfunkel. These two musicians always put out the good sounds, and THE GRADUATE follows in that tradition.
The album starts and ends with "Sounds of Silence"—one of those songs which might well be called "hauntingly beautiful"—and in between are 12 other great songs.
The versatility of Simon and Garfunkel is amazing. Anyone who has listened to the radio in the past three or four years knows they sing songs which are beautiful in themselves, but which also have a message. This album shows other sides of their musical personalities.
On the album are songs which are everything from "typical" Simon and Garfunkel to big band swing to a mariachi band sound to rock and roll to a purely instrumental Simon and Garfunkel sound.
This is definitely a great album.
New Books
In these days in instant everything many readers will be pleased and comforted to find that Hill and Wang, in its American Century line, is publishing a series called American Profiles ($1.75 each). Already volumes have appeared on Mark Twain, Theodore Roosevelt, Wilson and Calhoun. Three new ones consider Jefferson, Hamilton and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Merrill D. Peterson edited the volume on Jefferson. Dixon Wecter considers Jefferson as "gentle radical." Carl Becker discusses what remains of Jefferson in the 20th century. Dumas Malone writes of Jefferson, Hamilton and the Constitution. Others, including John Dos Passos, Horace M. Kallen and Julian P. Boyd, write about such matters as Jefferson in France, commercial and economic policies, the arts and religion.
Jacob E. Cooke edited the Hamilton volume. Once again some able historians make evaluations. Claude G. Bowers gives a portrait of Hamilton, Richard B. Morris treats Hamilton "after two centuries," Cooke himself writes of the celebrated Hamilton reports. Dumas Malone again is represented, as are Vernon L. Parrington, John C. Miller and Clinton Rossiter. Hamilton's range of expression as chief architect of early American thought of the right is analyzed in a variety of papers.
FDR, finally, is treated in a volume edited by William E. Leuchtenburg. Charles A. Beard attempts to place Roosevelt in history, Rexford G. Tugwell treats the experimentation of the New Deal, Richard Hofstadter's chapter on "The Patrician as Opportunist" is here. Many other historians, too, are represented: David M. Potter, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Raymond Moley, Ernest R. May, Samuel Eliot Morison, Frances Perkins, James MacGregor Burns and Leuchtenburg himself are among them.
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