Friday, March 15, 1968
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Reds show dissatisfaction
WARSAW—(UPI)—A top Polish Communist party leader Thursday blamed the wave of student riots on "the dirty scum" of Stalinists, liberals and Zionists in Polish life. Even as he spoke, defiant students launched new strikes.
The party's first secretary, Edward Gierek became the first high-ranking Communist official to comment on the riots since they began last Friday.
Gierck told a crowd of 150,000 in Katowice that Stalinists Roman Zambrowski and Stefan Saszewski and three liberals, including Jewish poet Antoni Slonimski, were responsible for the Warsaw rioting.
"The dirty scum which appeared at the top of the wave of events 11 years ago when the Poles rose up against Soviet rule unfortunately have not been removed from the mainstream of Polish life," Gierek said.
"Many economic difficulties which we have had to overcome in recent years are the work of these imperialist servants and Zionist servants and different breeds of revisionists," he said. "This is the work of those who would like to see Poland capitalist."
The strike apparently was the direct result of the refusal of the government-controlled press to publish their protest resolutions.
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PRAGUE—(UPI)—The Central Committee of the Czech Communist party held an urgent meeting Thursday night, apparently to discuss the suicide of Col. Gen. Vladimir Janko.
Janko, the nation's Deputy Defense Minister and second highest ranking officer, shot himself to death in Prague earlier Thursday, according to the Czech news agency CTK. Janko was believed to be linked to Maj. Gen. Jan Sejna who defected to the United States.
The surprise meeting of the central committee tended to confirm reports that Janko had helped mobilize part of the Czech army for a march on Prague last December to prevent the ouster of President Atnonin Novotny as Communist party leader.
Women beat men in GPA; hill average up from fall
KU women apparently study more than their male counterparts, according to the grade point averages (GPA) of undergraduates for the Fall semester.
These GPAs reveal that the women ended up with a 1.62 GPA compared with the men's 1.39.
The all-university GPA was
Brazil's art romantic
Although Brazil's cultural ferment has been quiet and unacclaimed, its artistic development deserves tribute, Jose Gomez-Sicre, chief of the division of visual arts of the Pan American Union, said at a Brazilian art lecture Thursday.
TOPEKA —(UPI)—Republican leaders Thursday were in strong disagreement with Gov. Robert B. Docking's charges in his veto message that the $11.5 million appropriation for Kansas school districts was politically motivated.
Senate president pro tem Glee Smith, R-Larned, said the charges were "absolutely false. It seems to me the governor is being very presumptive in thinking an attempt to embarrass him would have motivated something as serious as the school aid legislation."
Docking says Rep. aid bill meant to embarrass him
Docking had said it was the Republican leaders intent to embarrass him.
Smith, speaking in a telephone interview with radio station WIBW in Topeka, said "The legislation was a sincere attempt on the part of many concerned persons in both political parties to do something about the needs of education at the local level and at the same time to do something about the severe needs of the property taxpayers."
"Brazilian art has a unique flavor of elegance, simplicity and a romantic feeling," Gomez-Sicre pointed out in the slides he showed.
"Anything is possible in Brazil," he said. "Oscar Niemeyer created and designed Brazilla, new capitol city." Everything in this ten year old city is on a collosal scale. Its romantic yet modern design is copied and imitated all around the world, he added.
In the early thirties Brazilian architects created a whole new concept in architectural design. The buildings were constructed with movable walls so air conditioning could be installed. He compared the simple contemporary style of these buildings with today's buildings, "The buildings of the 30's are as modern as buildings today," he said.
Residence hall women had a 148 GPA, while the average for all men's residence halls was 131.
1.49, a gain of .05 over last fall's
1.44.
Sororities led fraternities with a 1.84 overall compared with 1.47 for the frats. This is the same average as last year for sororities, while the fraternies' average shows a gain of .02 over last fall.
The four women's scholarship halls outpointed the five men's scholarship halls, 2.17 to 2.14.
All of the men's scholarship halls had a B average or better, led by Pearson Hall with a 2.23. Templin led the men's residence halls with a 1.35 average. Beta Theta Pi led the fraternities with 1.99 average.
Freshman women led the freshman men, 1.36 to 1.23. This shows a gain of .11 over last fall's 1.12 for freshmen men.
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Directing his comments to Brazilian art again, Gomez-Sicre said Brazilian art had not been an orphan of tradition. Brazil had a baroque period in which it adopted a mixture of European techniques. A colonial period followed which conveyed a mood of tension and protest. The setting for much of the colonial period was the province of Bahia in northern Brazil.
"Draftmanship is another A-1 characteristic of Brazilian art," Gomez-Sicre said. "The Japanese artist colonies in Brazil have greatly influenced design with their ability at calligraphy in the Brazilian setting.
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"The rich soil of Brazil makes its minerals used in designing mosaics unusually colorful and bright," Gomez-Sicre said.
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts partly cloudy skies this afternoon, tonight and Saturday with cooler temperatures today. Saturday will be warmer. The high today should be in the 50s and the low tonight 35 to 38.
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