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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan A student newspaper serving KU LAWRENCE, KANSAS
78th Year, No.107
WEATHER
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts fair weather today and Friday with continued warm temperatures. The high today should be in the lower 70s and the low tonight 45 to 50.
Thursday, March 28, 1968
Photo by Moe Behravesh
AIRING THEIR VIEWPOINTS
UP presidential candidate Clif Conrad, Bis nark, N.D., junior (center) and ISP presidential candidate Peter Monge, Wichita junior, deated campus political issues Wednesday night in an hour-long KUOK radio broadcast. Mode ating at left is Phil Higdon, McPherson junior.
ISP, UP candidates chat
Radio airs KU issues
By Sandy Zahradnik Kansan Staff Reporter
A member of the Independent Student Party (ISP) advocated student representation on the Board of Regents and a greater student voice in running the University in an hour-long KUOK radio broadcast Tuesday evening.
Advocating these changes was Peter Monge, Wichita junior and ISP write-in candidate for student body president. Discussing these issues with him was Clif Conrad, Bismarck, N.D., junior and University Party (UP) candidate for president.
Monge said one or two students should be appointed to the Board of Regents because students should be able to affect every decision concerning them.
Agreeing that such representation would be "great," Conrad said such a move was out of the question now.
"I don't think students should run the University 100 per cent, but I do think they should have a larger voice—maybe even an equal voice with the administration—in running the University," Monge said.
Conrad said students should be represented on faculty committees, and that it was a matter of educating the faculty. "We have to show them that we think we—the students—are a pretty capable group." he said.
The All Student Council (ASC). Conrad said, needs to be reorganized and re-evaluated.
"Right now it's not a knowledgeable, effective body," he said.
He said a study of the ASC would be undertaken and changes would be made next fall. Conrad advocated a council composed of interest groups—Interfraternity Council, Association of University Residence Halls, Pan-Helenic, and so on—and 10 or 12 representatives of the various living groups.
Monge, on the other hand,
thought the ASC was little more than an advisory board and had no future.
"The best approach is going door-to-door talking with the students—with the present structure, I don't feel anything can be done." he said.
ISP's approach, he said, is to suggest ways for the students to
See Candidates, page 10
Goodies up for sale at foreign festival
By Linda McCrerey
KU's foreign students are putting the finishing touches on the 15th annual International Festival, to be Sunday evening on the second floor of the Kansas Union.
"This festival is the only one of its kind in Kansas," said Everold Hosein, Trinidad, West Indies, junior and festival chairman. "No other college in the state has a festival like this."
The stage program will begin at 8 p.m., presenting such varied entertainment as a Chinese dragon dance, a Thai boxing and fencing demonstration; an African skit titled "Yesterday," and many folk songs and dances.
The Festival will have two parts, which are free and open to the public. The exhibits, which open at 6 p.m., will feature artifacts, costumes, foods and national products from 13 national groups.
Filipino students will exhibit native woodcarvings of mahogony and monkeypods, including both handmade statuettes and factory-produced trays and bowls.
The European exhibit is designed to present that continent as it is today. Swiss watches, French perfume and silk scarves, German silverware and Scottish kilts will be displayed against a backdrop of European travel posters and pictures.
Arab states will show their col-
erful handmade wool and cotton rugs, many of which are the prayer rugs of the Muslim faith. The Arab exhibit will also include bronze and wood sculptures.
Indian students are building their booth with an arch-shaped entrance, like the grand arch of a Hindu temple. Sari material with gold and silver threads will be exhibited with ivory and Mysorian sandalwood articles.
Varied stage acts
Two members of the "Little Angels of Korea," a professional children's touring company, will perform a fan dance and a rainbow dance. Thirteen-year-old Dae-Shil Lee and Young-Hi Kang, 14, are living in Kansas City, Mo., while the other 29 members of the troup tour South America.
Indian students will present a Punjabi folk dance, traditionally performed by both young and old village people after the spring harvest. Called the "Bhangra," it has spontaneous but strenuous whirling movements danced to rhythmic drum beats.
Chinese students will present a dragon dance and saw music. Other folk dances will be performed by Latin American, Korean and Venezuelan students.
Germany, Israel and the United States will present folk songs.
See Goodies, page 16
Curator shows pop art slides
By Carla Rupp Kansan Staff Reporter
Original pop art works once "freaked people out" and were tremendously shocking, but now they seem perfectly normal, said Henry Geldzahler, curator of contemporary art at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, Wednesday night in Hoch Auditorium.
Kennedy supporters seek campus group unification
Bringing to the Festival of the Arts his insight into "Pop Art and Its Sources," Geldzahler illustrated his talk with more than 400 slides of current pop paintings by Robert Rauschberg, Jasper Johns, Ray Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and Claues Oldenburg.
By Ron Yates Kansan Staff Reporter
Students for Kennedy, a recently-formed group, called for coordination between KU groups supporting Sen. Robert Kennedy at their organizational meeting Wednesday afternoon in the Kansas Union.
John Case, Arlington, Va., senior and spokesman for the organization, said if one group is formed it should concentrate on campaigning actively for Kennedy on a state-wide basis rather than strictly on a University level.
Representatives of the KU for
Alternatives group and a Kennedy group being formed by Ken North. Shawnee Mission sophomore, attended the meeting and were asked if they thought there should be only one organization at KU campaigning for Kennedy.
North said the idea of one organization was all right with him. Representatives of the KU for Alternatives group said because its members are divided between support for Kennedy and Sen. Eugene McCarthy they could not speak for the whole group. They said members of the KU for Al-
See Kennedy, page 16
To succeed in the pop art field, the artist must find an area that hasn't already been exploited by another pop artist, he told the more than 500 persons at the program.
In 1952 Rauschberg's work was abstract and impressionistic, but later developed more realism with three-dimensional objects such as a stuffed eagle, a bat and pictures of ladders superimposed, Geldzahler said.
Johns, a 24-year-old pop artist, chooses caustic two-dimensional figures which create a shallow space, he said. Illustrations of Johns' work included a U.S. flag against an orange background, several colorful targets and paintings of the number eight.
Lichtenstein paints pop art comic strips, Geldzahler said. He showed several blondes drawn as cartoon characters and a series of
landscapecs based upon comic strip techniques, by Lichtenstein.
"Pop art is one of the fastest growing movements in history," Geldzahler said, "but the abstract tradition will still carry on. Abstract art can't be separated from pop art because both types fill the canvas with close-up and over-sized objects of reality."
Geldzahler said one of the breakthroughs of the twentieth century is that anything can be used as art. There is a kind of moral insistence on the part of the pop artist that his subject, regardless of what it represents, is an art form.
Warhol's conception of art, Geldzahler said, includes 200 Coke or Campbell's tomato soup cans plied upon each other, a duplication of a car accident on the canvas, or colorful electric chairs in red, yellow and green.
"Pop art is based upon everything available to us in society. Elements of reality that are easily recognizable are usually just-taposed and put into abstract forms," he said.
Oldenburg's idea of art. Geldzahler said, while showing the slides on the screen, could include six geometrically arranged, multi-colored popsicles, an ironing board in Central Park or a 10-story teddy bear towering over Central Park.
"Pop art is not like Kleenex," Geldzahler said. "You can't just mention pop art and throw it away. There is a lasting quality in the realism of pop art."
HENRY GELDZAHLER