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Connie Mason. Arkansas City sophomore, was chosen 1968 KU engineering queen Sunday. She will reign over the annual Engineering Exposition on April 19-20. Her two attendants are Pamela Snook, Amarillo, Tex., sophomore, and Barbara Ann Russell, Chicago Heights, Ill., sophomore. The queen and her attendants will attend the opening ceremonies of the exposition and the awards banquet.
A student newspaper serving KU
QUEEN OF THE ENGINEERS
78th Year, No.105
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday, March 26, 1968
Filmmaker wants sensuality
By Carla Rupp
Kansan Staff Reporter
Kansan Stan Reporter
Ed Emshwiller, one of the foremost underground cinematographers, said Monday night after the showing of six of his highly personal films he hopes he made an emotional contact with the viewers.
Commencement plans announced
Plans for the 96th annual commencement activities have been announced by Dick Winternote, executive director of the KU Alumni Association.
Baccalaurate services will be at 7:30 p.m. June 2 in Memorial Stadium or, in case of rain, in Allen Field House. Commencement exercises will be at 7:30 p.m. June 3, in the stadium or the field house.
Eldon Sloan of Topeka, Ned Cushing of Downs and A. H. Cromb of Mission Hills will represent the Board of Regents.
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescow will deliver the annual "State of
the University" address at 4:30 p.m. June 3 in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
A University welcoming dinner is planned for 6:30 p.m. June 1 in the Kansas Union Kansas Room. Alumni, parents of graduating seniors and other guests are invited, Wintermote said.
Reunions are planned by members of the Gold Medal Club, alumni whose classes were graduated from KU in 1917 or earlier, and the classes of 1918, 1928 and 1943. Special reunions are planned by members of F. C. (Phog) Allen's championship basketball team of 1923 and by the Law School class of 1928.
Other events planned for commencement weekend are a luncheon for the Alumni Association at noon June 1 and a board meeting after the luncheon; a breakfast for the trustees of the KU Endowment Association at 8:15 a.m. June 2; Army, Navy and Air Force commissioning ceremonies at 11 a.m. June 2, in Murphy Hall; and a buffet luncheon for parents of graduating seniors at noon June 3 in Oliver Hall.
Peak bears Dort's name
A 7,400-foot peak in Antarctica's Queen Maud Range of mountains now bears the name of a University of Kansas geologist.
Mount Dort, standing in rugged terrain surrounded by glaciers only 300 miles from the South Pole, has been named for Wakefield Dorf Jr., associae professor at KU.
Dort has made three trips to
WEATHER
Antartica in the past two years. He conducted field studies in the mountains of Southern Victoria Land in the southern hemisphere in the summer of 1965-66 and in early 1966-67 and was U.S. exchange scientist with the Japanese Antarctic expedition on the opposite side of the continent in late 1966-67.
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts increasing cloudiness with a chance of scattered thundershowers tonight and Wednesday morning. Partly cloudy and cooler Wednesday afternoon. Low tonight in the lower 40s with precipitation probabilities 40 per cent tonight and 30 per cent Wednesday.
"KINDA BIG FOR A CHARM BRACELET, AIN'T IT?"
Joe Burro, a poor farmer, played by Ken Marsolais, assistant instructor of speech and drama, leans against his cross and keeps a wary eye on Pretty Boy, played by Bruce Levitt, Kansas City, Mo., senior, in this scene from n "Payment As Promised," opening Wednesday night in the Experimental Theatre. Passed out in the background is Joe's wife, Rosa, played by Joanna Schneider, of Lawrence. See story, page 4.
The several thousand persons at Hoch Auditorium who attended the third of the Festival of the Arts programs sometimes responded with laughter at the bizarre images, at other times with amazement at the wild maze of geometric patterns and projection of psychedelic color on the 35-foot wide screen.
"Sensuality—the essence of my filmmaking—is the approach I like to use in shooting a variety of images which intermingle to produce mental puzzles for the viewer," Emshwiller said.
His film "Relativity," for which he received a grant of $10,000 from the Ford Foundation to make, brought the loudest applause from the audience—also some snickers with the multiple projections of nude bodies.
Emshwiller said his basic idea in "Relativity" is to project a subjective view of man's place in the universe—man's birth, his life and his death.
"I like to make the concept of ambiguity come through in my underground films through the use of a juxtaposition of various ideas," he said.
In another film called "Thanatopsis," Emshwiller's purpose was to create an inner tension within the viewers. He accomplished this by using a person's heartbeat as the soundtrack and on the screen he projected the bringing together of a highly agitated female figure and a static male figure.
Before he began filming "Than-topsis," Emshwiller's said he went to his brother-in-law who's a surgeon and said, "I want a heartbeat."
"Then damned if the subject he gave me didn't have a heart murmur!" he said. The audience laughed loudly.
Emshwiller said his intent in that film was to express anguish and generate it within the emotions of the viewer—leaving him with the sense of a personal experience.
"Thanatopsis," he said, "is highly subjective. It could be a confrontation between the sexes, a journey, or deep meditation—just really anything the viewer wants to make out of it."
Other films he showed were a "Portrait of George Dumpson at George Dumpson's Place," showing images of a Negro artist and his way of life, "Fusion," a series of geometric patterns and images, and "Art Scene USA," with a background of jazz music with various art forms depicted on the screen.
Emshwiller said there aren't any literary concepts in his films. They are difficult to put into words—only the viewer can do that, he said. "But my films are capable of communicating a statement in art form much like in a painting or in hearing a piece of music."
He said he builds his films like a painting and never uses any sort of script when filming, but added that he sometimes verbalizes to himself what he wants to say in the film. Emshwiller said if he uses notes, they are little sketches like "remembrance clues."
"It is a predilection to the fringe world of society that seems to attract me to making underground films," Emshwiller said. "I really dig it! The unusual especially fascinates me. Yes, I like it!"
He said he gets into any position he can to get the best shot. "I really feel like I'm dancing with the world when I'm shooting film," Emshwiller said.
Festival subject tonight will be state of visual arts
Henry Geldzahler, curator of contemporary art at the Metropolitan Museum, will present a program concerning the current state of the visual arts at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Hoch Auditorium, as part of the KU Festival of the Arts.
A scholar of the arts, Geldzahler studied at Yale University, in Paris at the Sorbonne and l'Ecole du Louvre and at the Harvard University Graduate School of Fine Arts.
Throughout the 1960s he served as curator of contemporary art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Commissioner of the Venice Biennale and Director of the Visual Arts for the National Council on the Arts.
In addition to filling these posts,
Geldzahler wrote a book, "American Painting in the Twentieth Century."
He has had articles published in the Herald Tribune Book Review, Art News, Arts, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Art International, Art Forum and The Hudson Review.
Despite his scholarly pursuits, Geldzahler remains in close contact with the artistic underground and the experimentalists. He recently appeared in an impromptu play, "Washes," by Claes Oldenburg.
Geldzahier will bring to the Festival of the Arts a unique insight into the old and new, the traditional and the experimental, according to Mike Kirk, Kansas City, Mo., junior and director of the Festival.
Beta Tau becomes national colony
Beta Tau, local men's fraternity, has become a colony of Zeta Beta Tau, a national organization with headquarters in New York.
Beta Tau was accepted Feb. 7 by the Interfraternity Council as part of the KU fraternity system.
The chapter was informed March 22 of the decision made by the National Executive Council.
The KU Zeta Beta Tau Colony, as it will now be called, will receive its charter by February, 1969, after completing additional membership requirements.