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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, March 11, 1968
French film critiques Vietnam war
America is afraid of the Red Chinese and should take the first boat out of Vietnam said Jean-Luc Godard, a French film director, after the mid-west premiere of his film, "La Chinoise," last night in Hoch Auditorium.
The film, considered the epitome of the French "New Wave" film movement, reflected rather than saliurized the Chinese Cultural Movement and the possible lessons taught by it.
Godard questioned whether America is fighting communism by being in Vietnam, when it ignores European communism, and in a sense, accepts it through agreements with Moscow.
The film is not primarily a commentary or criticism of U.S. Vietnam policy. It was an analysis of the war's effect on everyone, Godard said.
The film's characters—a philosophy student, an actor, a scientist, and a painter—are shown struggling to make something of society through a social revolution. Even though the various points of Marxist and Maoist philosophy are approached as possible solutions to the ills of society, the characters find no remedy.
There is so much wrong with society the only solution (to take Godard a bit literally) is to bomb everything and start from the beginning.
The film is a strange combination of documentary and fiction and is described by director Godard as a "sort of spontaneous happening."
The director briefly commented on American films also. He considered "Bonnie and Clyde" average but thinks Alfred Hitchcock and Jerry Lewis are top American film makers.
Durocher blasts major league rule on spitballs
By United Press International
Manager Leo Durocher of the Chicago Cubs is leading the growing tide of opposition to major league baseball's new antisipit ball rule.
Durocher sounded off Sunday after rookie pitchers Frank Reberger and Dean Burk were ejected during the Cubs' 3-1 loss to the California Angels at Palm Springs, Calif., for putting their fingers to their mouths after they had been warned by the plate umpire.
Veteran pitchers Dean Chance and Dave Boswell also felt the sting of the new rule Sunday during the Minnesota Twins' 5-4 victory over the Detroit Tigers at Orlando, Fla.
Church scholarship recipient announced
A Topeka advertising executive, who doubles as a graduate student in journalism at KU, is the first recipient of the Basil T. Church Memorial Scholarship.
Leonard P. Alfano, owner of a Topeka advertising agency; will receive a one-semester $250 scholarship, provided through interest on funds contributed by friends and associates of the late Mr. Church, a 1920 graduate of KU and president of a Chicago circulation agency before his death.
Alfano graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1959, then began work for the Kroger Company, he moved to Topeka in 1963 as advertising manager for the Fleming Company, and in 1966 established his own agency.
Alfano is a candidate for a master of science degree, with emphasis in advertising, from the William Allen White School of Journalism.
"The rule is ridiculous," said Durocher. "I want to see my kids work. I had only one pitcher ready at the end and if he had been waved out I would have tipped my cap and said 'goodbye.'
"You can't expect kids to break such habits overnight," Durocher continued. "I don't blame people for walking out while new pitchers warm up after such rulings. They're going to run fans out of ball parks all across the country."
KU press studies U.S. presidents
A series of evaluative studies on American presidents and their administrations, from Washington to Johnson and his successors, will be undertaken by the University Press of Kansas.
John P. Dessauer, director, said this will be the first major series offered by the new Press, formed last summer as a cooperative venture of KU, Kansas State University and Wichita State University.
The first volumes in "The American Presidency" series to be written by scholars throughout the nation will be published in 1970, Dessauer said.
A three-member editorial board will guide the series: Donald R. McCoy, KU professor of history and director of special research projects at the Harry S. Truman Library Institute; Homer E. Socolofsky, professor of history at K-State, and Clifford S. Griffin, KU professor of history.
"This will be a long-range, in fact a perpetual project," Dessauer said.
It may take ten years before someone can evaluate the Johnson years with enough detachment, he explained, and future presidencies will have to be included.
Prof's helium study will be part of article
The role played by a former KU professor in the commercial development of helium comprises part of an article to be published in June by the University Press of Kansas.
Clifford W. Seibel, former assistant director of the U.S.Bureau of Mines and author of the article, tells in "Hellium, Child of the Sun," how H.P.Cady, formerly a KU professor, isolated the inert gas element from a sample of natural gas in 1907.
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