Friday, March 8,1968
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Rifles only for Navymen
Skill marks NROTC drill team
When the KU Navy ROTC drill team practices, team members don't have to worry about sliced jugular veins.
"We don't drill with bayonets on our rifles," Fred Emmons, Lawrence junior and NROTC drill team commander," said. "Bayonets are too dangerous. The Pershing Rifles unit uses them and several men have been cut during their practices," Emmons said.
The Navy drill team consists of 22 members divided into four squads of five men each, plus a guide and the drill commander. The team does standard movements taken from the Army Field Manual.
"Our purpose is to provide advanced training in precision drill," Emmons said. "We help promote excellence in drill and leadership, the ability to give and take orders and advanced training in close-order drill," he said.
The drill team practices about two hours a week, mostly on weekends. The team plans to compete with the other two KU military units in the tri-service drill meet at KU May 4.
"We would also like to enter a meet in Denver during April if money is approved by the NROTC unit," Emmons said. "If we enter that meet, we will have to burn
the midnight oil getting ready. When drill starts March 18, we will get in only about an hour a week more practice," he said.
"Exhibition drill is very complicated," Emmons said. "It takes a lot of time, which we don't have. It takes close attention to detail to win a meet. Everyone must look the same and move together, even to the point of having all the rifles at the same angle," he said.
The Navy team usually enters the standard platoon drill segment of the competition. In this part of a drill meet, the movements and commands which the teams must include in their routines are chosen by meet officials.
Campus poll
Students can exert pressure in'68
For student radicals these days, the menu has been sparse. Villified by the press and Congress for their noisy activism, scorned by the majority of their moderate classmates more concerned with campus affairs, and lambasted from the pulpit for their flowing locks and sundry other hygienic offenses, they seem to have nowhere to go.
Their views, sound as they appear to them to be, remain largely ignored, and their protests, correspondingly, have disintegrated into displays of cynicism and emotional distresses aimed at the Establishment. The American dem-
ocrative process strikes them as more absurd with each passing day—and each mounting crisis.
CHOICE 68, the National Collegeate Presidential Primary, to be held at colleges and universities nationwide—including KU—April 24, will probably either solidify the skepticism of the campus radicals or cause them to reevaluate their thinking as to the actual political power of the vote.
If a sizeable percentage of college students do care enough to participate in the election, and, indeed, do succeed in exerting some appreciable pressure over the policymakers of the country.
then the radicals may well channel their considerable energies into the drive to lower the voting age to eighteen.
If the primary fails, however, to stir the long silent student moderates or to influence American policy, then leftists will probably remain convinced that only forceful and, if need be, violent action will produce acceptable political ends.
March has been declared Brazil Month by the committee on Brazilian studies.
This year the event is dedicated to the late George C. A. Boehrer, professor of history. Boehrer served as the first chairman of the committee and was responsible for the 1966 Brazil Month.
Brazil Month is offering a variety of events related to Brazilian area studies:
- March 14, a lecture, "Contemporary Brazilian Art and Its Forerumers," Dr. Jose Gomez-Sicre of the Pan American Union, 8 p.m. in the Museum of Art lecture hall.
Brazil month activities to honor George Boehrer
March 19, documentary films,
"The Gathering Millions," "The
Amazon River," "People of the
Highlands" and "Latin American
Neighbor," 7 p.m. Dyche auditorium.
- March 12. a feature film,
"The Given Word," 7:30 p.m.
Dyche auditorium.
- March 15, opera broadcast,
"O Guarani" by Carlos Gomes, 8
p.m. on KAN-FM.
- March 21, documentary films.
"Brazil: The Take-off Point," and
"Brazil: The Vanishing Negro."
7:30 p.m. Dyche auditorium.
- March 27, a lecture, "Dias Gomes and Brazil's Developing Social Theatre." Professor Oscar Fernandez, University of Iowa, 3:30 p.m. Experimental Theatre.
But of more immediate concern is whether the radicals will participate at all in CHOICE 68. The ballot, certainly, is well stocked with leftists and moderate-liberals, and the Viet Nam referendum questions should satisfy the most extreme of the radicals. The current anti-administration feeling among students would also seem to indicate that a leftist vote is a distinct possibility.
March 27-April 5. Experimental Theatre play, "Payment as Promised," by Alfredo Dias Gomes, 8:20 p.m.
March 29, a lecture, "Two Great Modern Brazilian Poets: Bandeira and Drummond," John Nist, professor at Auburn University, 4:30 p.m., Kansas Union Meadowlark Room.
- Brazilian theatre posters will be exhibited in the Theatre corridor of Murphy Hall, March 12-April 5.
- March 31, University Symphony concert; "Erosion," symphonic poem by Heitor Villa-Lobos, 3:30 p.m. University Theatre.
- Watson Library will exhibit a collection of Brazilian books and artifacts from March 12 to April 12.
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Friday and Saturday
Great Folk Music Underground Humor
Friar Tuck's Olde English Pub 7th & N.H.
The California Highway Patrol said "we believe 19 persons were killed on the bus and one in the car."
Unfortunately, it's too soon to begin forecasting whether the radicals will respond to or boycott the primary. Once fact is certain—they do have a chance to mobilize and express themselves meaningfully and effectively in CHOICE 68.
into the center divider fence and burst into flames, authorities said.
Twenty killed, twelve hurt in car-bus head-on collision
The bus driver told investigators he pulled out to pass another vehicle, when a car driving westbound in the eastbound lane collided headon with his bus.
The bus overturned, slammed
BAKER, Calif.—(UPI)—Twenty persons were killed and 12 injured Thursday in a fiery Greyhound bus-automobile collision on rain-slickened Interstate 15, California Highway Patrol reported.
Investigators said the bus dragged the car and probably ruptured its gasoline tank, touching off the inferno, following the impact of the collision.
The highway has been the site of numerous fatal accidents in recent years.
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