KU
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan
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78th Year, No.104
A student newspaper serving KU LAWRENCE. KANSAS
WEATHER
Cloudy and continued warmer this afternoon and evening with an 80 per cent chance of showers and thundershowers. Wind is from the southwest from 20 to 25 mph.
Monday, March 25, 1968
KU festival begins
Peterson trio a hit
A near-capacity audience crowded Hoch Auditorium Sunday night to see the Oscar Peterson Trio in a two-hour performance of jazz numbers ranging from the bossa nova to the lightly classical.
The trio, composed of Peterson on the piano, Sam Jones on bass, and Bobby Durham on drums, brought heavy applause from the audience after each number. Several times the audience interrupted a number with applause.
The concert followed poet Mark Van Doren's reading on Friday as part of this week's Festival of the Arts. The series of programs in the festival will continue through Saturday.
The Trio's style varied from the progressive works of Bill Evans (who visited KU last year for the Festival of the Arts) to tunes from the film, "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg," and Johnny Mercer's "The Shadow of Your Smile." One of the evening's high-
Women must vacate New York press box
By Pamela Peck Assistant Sports Editor
What started as "the perils of being a woman sports writer" ended as "the red carpet treatment."
The University Daily Kansan was issued three press passes last week for the National Invitation Tournament in New York City, but when I arrived with my two male colleagues and took a seat in Madison Square Garden's press
See related stories, pages 6 and 10.
box Thursday evening, the head press agent came over and said, "No women, no matter how well they write, are allowed in the press box."
House rules at the Garden, which had not previously been brought to our attention, say that absolutely no women are permitted in the press box.
What could I do? I couldn't say what I felt like saying, or I would have been held in even lower esteem.
The agent said he'd find me a seat elsewhere and went off to look for one, while I stood glaring at the "men" in the press box.
The suave agent came back and said for me to follow him.
I almost said, "Where, to the peanut gallery?"
He led me down aisle after aisle and finally stopped at front row center section, reserved for the New York City press and for dignitaries. I found myself sitting with a group of important-looking men, smoking cigars and drinking beer. They shot questions at me about the KU team and more specifically about Jo J White and Rodger Bohnensiicht. The men were Red Holzman, coach of the New York Knickerbockers; Buddy Jeannette, general manager of the Baltimore Bullets; Wellington Mara, president of the New York football Giants; Joe Lapchick, former St. John University star and Boston Celtic great, now a member of the Garden's Hall of Fame; and Nate Bowman, former Wichita State University star, now with the Knickerbockers.
In a final act of appeasement, the press agent gave me an aftergame dressing room pass. I could hardly believe it. They wouldn't let me sit in the press box, but they would let me in the dressing rooms.
During the game, I was given a soft drink and a booklet telling facts about the NIT's 31-year history. The agent stopped by often to ask if everything was okay.
I didn't use the pass.
lights was drummer Bobby Durham's four-minute solo in the number "Waltzing is Hip." The audience broke out in applause several times while Durham's arms became blurred shadows moving over drums and cymbals.
When at last the musicians walked offstage the audience's applause brought them back for an encore.
See related story page 14
After another applause the Trio filed backstage and Peterson retired to the dressing room for almost twenty minutes. When he came out he smiled and said, "What a wonderful audience! It sure felt good to be out there."
Peterson said his music could be defined as his own unique version of instant composition. He said he improvises as he plays—never doing anything the same—and bases his playing somewhat on the original version.
He said each man of the Trio performs one third of the total effort making the three dependent on each other for the total effect of the music.
His humming during his performance, Peterson said, aided in his rhythm and also gave him a distinct style. He said Clark Terry wrote and performed a song "Mumbles," dedicated as a take-off to him.
Peterson said Art Tatum, Nat Cole and Teddy Wilson were his bib influences.
"Tatum, popular during the late forties and the early fifties, contributed to my technique and my harmonic arrangements. I consider him to be the best pianist I've known," he said.
Cole, he said, taught him his taste of time and Wilson gave him some unique and tasty ideas which he used in his improvisations.
"I prefer small groups over large bands. In a small group the performer can be more creative in his ideas—with more of a chance for a solo—and can perfect his innermost feelings." Peterson said.
OSCAR PETERSON
Model UN closes in flurry of action
By Cynthia Smith Kansan Staff Reporter
Resolutions to admit the People's Republic of China and expel Nationalist China, and a resolution to suspend South Africa's voting rights in the General Assembly were passed in the final session of the KU Model United Nations Saturday.
In an emotional speech in favor of the resolution to censure South Africa for "the worst practices of discrimination, apartheid," the delegation from the United Republic of Tanzania proposed an amendment to the resolution not only asking that South Africa be censured, but also asking that their voting rights be taken away if they do not comply with the relevant resolutions pertaining to apartheid within one year.
Representatives of North and South Vietnam and the National Liberation Front created a disturbance when they were admitted to the floor of the General Assembly and attacked the delegation from the United States.
The USSR called for a walk-out of all those opposed to U.S. policy in Vietnam, but returned shortly when Canada proposed a resolution to censure the USSR. The United States then called for an emergency session of the Security Council to discuss Vietnam.
The Security Council spent most of its time in special session concerning Vietnam and Israel.
The Algerian delegation from Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia was named the best off-campus delegation, and the Tanzanian delegation from Wichita West High School was named the second best off-campus delegation.
The best on-campus delegation was the Canadian delegation. They were awarded a plaque with
See Model UN, page 3
Humphrey strong V-P candidate
(Editor's note: This article is part of a series dealing with the 1968 presidential race and the election process.)
By Ron Yates Kansan Staff Reporter
A recent poll of Democrats in Congress indicated that Humphrey has strong backing in the House and Senate. Humphrey was selected as the best possible vicepresidential candidate by 119
Prominent Democrats such as George Wallace, former governor of Alabama, Minnesota Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, and New York Sen. Robert Kennedy seem to be more concerned with taking the Democratic presidential nomination away from Lyndon B. Johnson than with replacing Hubert H. Humphrey as Johnson's running mate.
Democratic members of Congress — 76.3 per cent.
These four men, Humphrey, Kennedy, Wallace and McCarthy would appear to be the men to watch when the vice-presidential nominations begin at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago August 26. They have all, at one time or another, been considered likely candidates for the post by various Demoratic factions.
Kenedy received nine votes. Wallace, four votes and McCarthy, three votes. The remaining five votes were widely distributed.
Wallace, however, announced Feb. 8 that he would run for president in 1968 as a third party candidate. If he goes through with his plans, he obviously would not
be a candidate for vice-president. Wallace is a strong segregationist and has received heavy support from southern Democrats for his third party candidacy.
McCarthy is, at the moment, one of Johnson's primary challengers for the Democratic presidential nomination. If he gains enough support during the Democratic convention and if the Johnson faction finds itself in trouble, they might try to compromise by offering McCarthy the vice-presidential post, though most Democrats consider such a possibility remote.
In 1964, when he was hopeful of being selected as Johnson's running mate, McCarthy had published an 84-page photographic essay about his life and political career. The book contained pictures of McCarthy and Johnson together with quotes from Johnson.
"Gene McCarthy is my counselor, my colleague, and my friend," is an example of the tributes Johnson paid McCarthy then.
Today, nothing could be further from the truth. McCarthy has openly opposed Johnson's Vietnam policy, creating a split between the two, althugh supporting many of Johnson's other programs.
McCarthy supported the 1964 Civil Rights Act, but while voting for passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, he opposed a controversial amendment which would have banned poll taxes. In 1967 he opposed Johnson's 10 per cent income tax surcharge.
McCarthy is unequivocally opposed to Johnson administration on the Vietnam issue, and Johnson's handling of it.
On the television show "Face the Nation" last Dec. 10, McCarthy said, "the United States should try negotiating with the National Liberation Force in Vietnam as a preliminary to a settlement with Hanoi."
Kennedy, like McCarthy, has strongly opposed the President on on many issues—with Vietnam again the most prominent. For this reason it is doubtful that he would consent to run on a ticket with Johnson.
Indeed, Kennedy may not wish to be anyone's running mate. The general consensus among politicians is that he is not interested
See Humphrey, page 4