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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, March 12, 1968
Paulson for president
In these days of toil and turbulance in this great nation of ours, every four years, the populace goes through the ritual of selecting its leadership for the next four years. In the crisis-ridden year of 1968, the people who make this land the great democracy it is have a definite line of action open to them.
While it is not usually the policy of the Daily Kansan to endorse candidates for political offices, we believe it is our journalistic duty to inform our readers of a candidate whose qualifications are such that he must be considered for the highest office in the land.
The man we speak of is a person whose political sagacity makes this, his first campaign, a welcome addition to the American political scene. The man is Mr. Pat Paulson.
He has been brought into the public eye by
his appearances on a weekly TV variety show. He has demonstrated his political knowledge by his continued denials of his candidacy.
He has been endorsed by Sen. George Murphy of California, Sen. Robert Kennedy of New York and Woody Allen.
In Pat Paulson, America finally has a candidate it can take seriously.
The current world situation merits a man like Pat Paulson.
His vocation makes his eminently qualified for the job.
Since the nation has a president-turned-comedian ("Nobody's more against having our boys die in Southeast Asia than I am"), why not have a comedian-turned-president?
- Barb Phillips,
Will Hardesty
Editorial essay
Be concerned about Project Concern
By Gary Murrell Editor of The Kansan
A South Vietnamese child suffers from the effects of malnutrition, a man of the same nationality is burned severely and his wife gives birth to a child who later develops gangrene.
Today, through Project Concern, many such persons receive modern medical treatment. Only a few years ago they could get only the futile sacrifices and rituals of the community witch doctor.
The realistic picture of the life of the South Vietnamese jungle-dweller was depicted in "To Heal These Wounds," a film viewed recently by Naismith Hall residents.
The film, designed to inform as well as interest the college community in the project, will be shown at other living groups soon.
Dave Keesling, Herington junior and national chairman of the Collegiates for Concern, affiliated with the international Project Concern, was in charge of the program.
He said the Collegiate program
—which dates back to KU and was begun here last year—is aiding the international project. He explained the project assists the people in all parts of the world with particular emphasis presently being placed in the war-torn Southeast Asian nation.
"Recently most of the defense lines set up by the United States and the South Vietnamese were withdrawn from around the jungle hospital, Da Mpao, one of several in the world sponsored by the Project Concern," Keesling said.
He noted that the latest word from Vietnam indicated the hospital had not been damaged by fighting.
Project Concern was founded in 1961 under the direction of Dr. Jim Turpin, then a general practitioner in Coronado, Calif. First Dr. Turpin sought to aid needy persons in Tijuana, Mexico, but soon the idea led to the establishment of four out-patient clinics in Hong Kong.
Perhaps, the greatest influence has been in Vietnam, Keesling said, where the devastating effects of war prevail among the rural population particularly.
To support the massive effort, Keesling has organized several
drives for the Collegiates for Concern. Last February about $2,500 was collected from the KU campus through a variety of methods.
The "What is Happiness" stage show netted $1,000 toward the effort. Tentatively scheduled for May 11, the class officers plan a similar variety show. Keeesling said preliminarily the show would be centered around the theme of "Back of the Bus." He said Dr. Turpin plans to speak during the show and will visit with the class officers.
Also one-half of the $2,700 gathered by the home-rooms of Lawrence High School will support the project.
Keesling said the Collegiate had collected more than $1,000 in student rebates on purchases from the Kansas Union Bookstore.
He encouraged all students to contribute their rebates to the Project by sending the slips to P.O. Box 73 in Lawrence.
Another fund-raising program — "Pennies-A-Meal"—is expected to get underway at KU next week. Keesling explained that each living group would instruct its members to set aside three cents before each meal as a contribution to the Project.
Kansan movie review
'Graduate' is great
By Scott Nunley
Mike Nichols' "The Graduate" is the best film I have seen since Antonioni's "Blow-Up."
When Fielding's delightful novel "Tom Jones" appeared at the middle of the 18th Century, it successfully captured a wide range of the society of its day. From the rural Allworthy's and Western's, through the innkeepers and brigands, to the London elite, "Tom Jones" splashed a complicated and fascinating portrait.
Director Nichols, of course, has constructed within the genre which most represents his fast-paced age: the motion picture. Perhaps, indeed, the novel is becoming as outdated a method of picturing 1968 as the romance and epic were of 1749.
Within its own form, "The Graduate" is a brilliant picture of its age. In his earlier smash, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", Mike Nichols had dissected the sterile infighting of the intimate evening. With the smothering weight of extreme closeup photography, Nichols had now flayed open the deadening claustraphobia of the mass-herd cocktail party.
But the fertility of Tom Jones' mission, never seriously doubted by his reader, is not so obvious a quality of the demythologized 20th Century. With a God expired from carbon monoxide poisoning and a Nature stripped bare for its coal, the 1960's cannot afford the faith that young love will inevitably succeed
Anne Bancroft as Mrs. Robinson defines the Witch for our generation: sensual allurement, employed solely for self-gratification, and defended with a sadistic fury.
Dustin Hoffman has won my award for Rising Star of 1968, (an award dispensed in previous years to Peter OToole and Michael Caine).
As Benjamin, Hoffman is a complete individual with an entire textbook of idiosyncratic hangups. But simultaneously, Ben is made to be our Everyman, a bumbling young man so plastic-faced and disingenuous that he sits in on every KU class. You will love, remember, and be Ben all at once.
So, "The Graduate," as the "Tom Jones" of the 20th Century, is a great film equal to the great effort of your drive to Kansas City.
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