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Wednesday, March 27, 1968
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Al Capp adds humor to KU art festival
Al Capp, noted cartoonist, satirist and columnist, will add his spicy brand of humor to the 1968 Festival of the Arts at 8 p.m. March 28 in Hoch Auditorium. His speech is entitled "Folk Heroes."
The adventures of L'il Abner, a creation of Capp, has had a prominent place in the cartoon section of almost every newspaper in the United States.
Although Capp leaves nothing sacred from his satirizing, he has always appealed to the American public.
"Raw truth amazes Americans," Capp has said. He said he wants Americans to have the opportunity to look at their society in a way in which they would ordinarily be too vain and proud to dare, then to laugh at their faults and correct them.
Capp encourages KU students to submit questions to him, said Mike Kirk, Kansas City, Mo.,
junior and director of the Festival of the Arts.
Capp's program will be taped as part of his "Capp on Campus" radio series for the NBC weekend "Monitor" show. The producer of the "Capp on Campus" show has requested written questions about folk heroes from people planning to attend Capp's program, George Watson, Kingman senior and publicity director of the Festival of the Arts, said. Questions may be submitted to the SUA office in the Kansas Union any time before noon Thursday.
In addition to the written questions, Watson said, Capp will also answer questions from the floor. Microphones will be placed in the audience for this purpose.
Tickets will be available at the door and at the SUA office before 5 p.m. All tickets for the performance will be $1.50.
Washington U. dean to fill new Fine Arts position
An appointment to the new position of associate dean of Fine Arts for the visual arts at KU was announced recently by Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe.
John S. McKay, assistant dean of the Washington University School of Fine Arts in St. Louis, will assume his new responsibilities July 1. He will coordinate programs in the visual arts departments in the Fine Arts school, Thomas Gorton, Dean of the Fine Arts school, said.
McKay earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Illinois in 1947. He also has studied at the Chicago Institute of Design (now part of the Illinois Institute of Technology) and the State University of New York at Buffalo.
He is serving on the St. Louis Junior College District art curriculum committee and is a member of the board of directors and
vice-president of the National Association of Schools of Art.
McKay will be in charge of the visual arts departments, but each department will continue to have a department chairman.
Next year, however, the design department will have an acting chairman. Miss Marjorie Whitney, head of the department, will retire from her position at the end of this year, and take a semester sabbatical. A permanent chairman will be appointed before the 1969-70 school year, Gorton said.
Gorton said she asked to be relieved of her administrative duties last fall. Although she was due to retire at the end of next year, he said Miss Whitney asked for a sabbatical because she had worked so long and hard in building up the design department. "She did a magnificent job." Gorton said.
When she returns next year, Miss Whitney will continue as a professor in the department.
The former KU student sentenced on similar charges was Carla L. Nelson, Lawrence. Miss Nelson pleaded guilty Jan. 8 to the charges of making sales at Lawrence in May, 1967.
wife, and Glenn E. Smith Jr., Wichita, were released on personal recognizance.
Two KU students Deny LSD charge
Two KU students pleaded innocent in U.S. District Court Monday to charges on 11 counts of possession and sale and conspiracy to sell LSD, and a former KU student was sentenced to five years probation on similar charges.
The two KU students—William Eugene Benson, Topeka junior, and Michael Butel, Wichita freshman—and Susan Butel, Butel's
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The other four allegedly sold LSD at Lawrence and at a coffee-house near the Wichita State University campus.
Council meets; takes no action
The All Student Council (ASC) held its regular Tuesday meeting last night in the Kansas Union Sunflower Room, but the council took no action on old or new business.
Ron Sutton, Goodland junior, brought up the open-door policy for residence halls. He said he thought the big issue in this matter was a moral issue, but the decision on whether to leave doors open or closed should be left up to the living group.
Jack Krebs, Wichita sophomore, requested that ASC executive committees file reports with the council without being requested to do so. This would help to keep the council up-to-date on what was being discussed in these committees and on what action might be forthcoming.
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On Thursday night, March 28, KU students will have an opportunity to participate with
AL CAPP in taping a program for
CAPP ON CAMPUS RADIO SERIES for NBC Monitor
To take part in this program, submit questions on FOLKLORE HEROES to the SUA office by noon tomorrow and come on Thursday night to Hoch at 8:00 to hear Capp's answers and further discuss FOLKLORE HEROES with him.
Questions thrown to him in the past include these:
Questions thrown to him in the past mistake use:
Horst Wessel was a Nazi folk hero yet he was hated here, why?
Why are Doris Day and John Wayne such enduring folk heroes?
What do Humphrey Bogart and Hell's Angels have in common to make them folk heroes?
Submit your questions today and tomorrow morning to the SUA Office in the Union
AL CAPP — THURSDAY, 8:00 P.M. HOCH