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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, March 6, 1968
Tibullus was a 'hippie' says Robert Palmer
Albius Tibullus was more than a first century Roman poet, he was a hippie, according to Robert Palmer, Scripps College professor of classical languages and literature. Palmer analyzed Tibullus poetry in the sixth Humanities Series Lecture Tuesday night.
In "Alienation and the Religion of Love; Tibullus and the Love Elegy," Palmer said the Tibullus poems, as other poetry of the era, deified love, not only sexual, but also "the eternal bond of holy friendship."
Besides worshiping love, the Roman poet used the genre as a protest movement. The elders hated and were shocked by it.
"They asked why epics on the grandeur of Rome were not written instead. But Tibullus wrote a love poetry of protest, which marched in the opposite direction of the cosmology of the time," Palmer said.
The nature of this revolt was an attempt to construct a new value
system—especially on the question of marriage.
"Illicit love can lift one up from one's ties in a way marriage, or the conventional, can not do," Palmer said.
"Achilles is no longer a warrior, but a lover. He is seized by a compulsion which consumes him and gives him a reason for existence," he said, and continuing—"It was 'make love, not war'—even then."
But the game of love, according to Palmer, had its terrible side also. The fear of alienation and the compulsion for fulfillment are side by side in the poetry.
Palmer compared alienation to a bad LSD trip.
Roman love elegy represented an escape from the conventional world—a threshold separating the enchanted world within a person, from the world of without—the one the elders called the real world.
But Tibullus thought it was the other way around.
ROBERT PALMER
Hippies, take note
BUENOS AIRES — (UPI) — Buenos Aires police arrest long-haired downtown "hippies" frequently but often have trouble finding charges to hold them in jail.
Art of French children displayed
An exhibition of paintings entitled "Les Enfants du Paris" (the children of Paris) is being shown in the Kansas Union South Lounge.
The display is on loan from the Atelier des Moins de Quinze Ans of the Museum of Decorative Arts, Paris, and is being circulated in the United States by the Smithsonian Institute.
The purpose of the Atelier, besides training the child to be an artist, is to enhance his basic human experience. This is done by introducing him to techniques of painting, sculpture and printing and encouraging him to use these materials in free self expression. The children, who range in age from 6 to 15, are grouped by age into 2-hour classes, and each class
introduces a new project that can be done within the time limit.
Some of the pictures are titled "How Do You Picture America?" The sampling from the exhibition indicates that the children imagine a land consisting of a noisy, gaudy, neon-lit New York City. Cowbys standing in front of saloons or riding their horses and Indians are typical subjects.
Carey to judge show
J. Sheldon Carey, professor or ceramics, has been invited to serve as a judge for the New Mexico Designers - Craftsmen Show in Albuquerque, N.M. Carey will judge the show on April 20.
MOM... I'm Going To The Library
Dr. Benjamin Spock, well-known pediatrician, author and protester of the Vietnam War, was arraigned on federal charges of conspiracy to help young men avoid the draft. Jan. 29 in Boston.
Spock arraigned on draft charges; schuled to speak here April 21
Spock is scheduled to speak here at 8 p.m. April 21 in Hoch Auditorium, said Bill Read, Cof-
feyville sophomore and chairman of the Featured Speakers Series for Student Union Activities.
When Spock was arraigned, Federal Judge Francis J. W. Ford allowed the defense a month to file special motions and gave the government an additional 20 days to respond.
Spring Concert Interviews
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March 7
Pick up your applications
now
in the
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Applications Due March 6
Sophomore Class
TGIF
FRIDAY, MARCH 8 3 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
At The Red Dog Inn
Featuring "THE HAPPY MEDIUM"
FREE BEER 'TIL 4:30
Free admission for sophomores with class cards, stag or with dates.
$1.00 for sophomores without class cards.
Sophomores who do not have class cards may pay dues at the door.