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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, February 23 1968
Mardi Gras festivities kaleidoscopic, riotous
By Norma C. Romano
NEW ORLEANS, La. If you're fortified with Bromo-Seltzer and No-Doz tablets and have strong arches, then come on down the Mississippi. It's carnival time in New Orleans.
The biggest, freest, longest- playing-show-in-the-nation carnival officially opened Saturday to the tune of marching bands, wildly decorated floats and outlandish costumes. It's booked for
A special lab built for KU pharmacist
When Takeru Higuchi transferred to KU seven months ago, a building was built especially for his use—the Pharmaceutical-Chemistry Laboratory, located just west of Iowa Street.
Higuchi, who has been called the "father of physical pharmacy," came to KU from the University of Wisconsin to direct a research program on the chemical basis of drug systems and their analysis. He holds a Ph.D. in physical and organic chemistry.
"Our main purpose is to train graduate students in research," he said. "We're not going to discover anything earth shaking, but we will gain understanding in the basic processes involved in drugs and their effects on the body."
He has won numerous awards, including the Pharmaceutical Research Achievement Award in Physical Pharmacy in 1952, the Justin Powers Award in Pharmaceutical Analysis in 1964, and an honorary science degree from the University of Michigan in 1967. Higuchi has trained more than 90 doctorate and post-graduate students.
Higuchi's work here is financed by the University and the U.S. Department of Defense.
"We have been involved in decontaminating clothing and skin by chemical agents," he said. "We are looking for substances to deactivate chemicals which could poison the human body."
The dedication Higuchi receives from his students is just as impressive as his many awards. Students from Japan, Australia, India, Scandinavia and the Middle East have traveled to KU to study under him.
French producer to appear at KU
French director Jean-Luc Godard, whose film, "Breathless," heralded the French New Wave of film making, will appear at KU March 19.
Three Godard films will be shown during the next month prior to his appearance.
"My Life to Live," starring his former wife Anna Karina, will be shown at 7 and 9 p.m. Feb. 26 in Dyche Auditorium. "A Woman is a Woman," also with Anna Karina and Jean-Paul Belmondo, will be shown at 8 p.m. March 4 in the Kansas Union Ballroom. "Masculin Feminin" will be shown at 8 p.m. March 7 in Hoch Auditorium.
four more days with the best to come.
Godard's appearance will coincide with the Midwest premiere of "La Chinoise," a recent Godard film which won the Special Jury Prize at the 1967 Venice Film Festival.
Mardi Gras, synonym for merriment, revelry and brashness, means Fat Tuesday in French. It's the dedicated enemy of timidity, decorum and worrying.
Mardi Gras belongs to New Orleans, that brush hussy on the banks of the Mississippi, but it's good will and humor are ample and infectious, judging from the thousands of visitors already descending upon the city.
Between now and Mardi Gras,
Tuesday, 22 carnival parades will
run past crowds yelling for beads
and souvenir doubleloons. Seven
more parades will be on Fat
Tuesday, running the total to a
record of 29.
The Choctaw, Helois, Pandora and Mecca krewes (carnival organizations) staged the first parades today.
Choctaw, who conducts the
only river parade of the season,
led a flotilla of work boats, shrimp
boats, yachts and navy and coast
guard vessels up and down the
Mississippi River.
Queen Pandora introduced a new parade with a 10-float show depicting vice, hope and vengeance from the legendary "magic box."
If you missed the first four parades, however, there will be more than 25 right through Mardi Gras day when the parading ends with the arrival of King Rex and Comus.
On Mardi Gras day the festivities reach a deafening crescendo when kreewes, marching clubs and New Orleans join in almost 24 hours of riotous fun.
Canal Street, the world's widest thoroughfare, remains shut to all vehicles. Moving space is at minimum. You're likely to see anything, like a lion and a sheep
doing the frug to a dixieland band.
Down on famed Bourbon Street, burlesque bistros are showing their wares to overflowing crowds and beer is selling for $2 a bottle at sidewalk stands.
Historic French Quarter, where most of the carnival action is centered, is decorated in purple, green and yellow. Its French and Spanish balconies are decorated with flowers and masks. The flamboyance depicted year round in this part of the city becomes a kaleidoscopic bazaar where the old generation mixes well with the young set.
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NEW ORLEANS—(UPI)—The American Civil Liberties Union came to the defense today of the guys and gals who want to celebrate Mardi Gras by roaming through the streets with booze in their hands.
The situation is dangerous, the ACLU admitted, but it disapproved of police methods of handling the carnival street drinkers.
Police Supt. Joseph I. Giarusso and Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison's offices said police will arrest bottle, can and glass-carrying carnival celebrants under either a "criminal mischief" or a "concealed weapon" law.
They would leave disposition of the cases to the courts after Mardi Gras, the officials added.
The New Orleans City Council refused last year to ban the carrying of drinks in bottles, cans or glasses on New Year's Eve and during the 10-day Carnival Season preceding Mardi Gras day.
Police had asked for such a law because containers were being used as weapons in street fights and were also causing accidental injuries.
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