RFK postponestoday's KU visit
Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, scheduled to speak at both Allen Field House and Kansas State University, did not appear today.
Kennedy and Sen. James B. Pearson, R-Kan., who was to have introduced Kennedy at K-State, felt they should remain in Washington for a vote on tabling an open housing bill.
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Brian Barker, student body vice president, said Tuesday that if Kennedy cannot speak, an effort will be made to contact Sen. Edward Brook, D-Mass., the first Negro senator since Reconstruction.
Kennedy was orininally to have been here Tuesday, but rescheduled his visit for Wednesday because he had to be in Washington for a vote on cloture on the housing bill.
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An aide in the senator's office said Tuesday Kennedy hopes to reschedule his appearance sometime during the first two weeks of March.
Barker said nothing would be definite for two or three weeks.
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ASC passes self-pay bill
The All-Student Council (ASC) Monday night passed a bill to give the student body president and vice-president an expense account.
The bill, which will go into effect Sept. 1, 1968, was passed in order to "provide some alleviation of the expenses incurred" by the student body's two top officers.
Higher drinking age proposed in Senate
The bill, introduced by Sen. Eugene Gastle, D-Shawnee, is intended to prevent Missouri youths, where the legal drinking age is 21, from crossing to Johnson County, Kansas.
Originally, the bill would have raised the age throughout the state, but would have allowed individual counties, by vote, to lower the age to 18.
The Kansas Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee Tuesday recommended passage of a bill that would raise the 3.2 per cent beer-drinking age in Johnson County from 18 to 21.
A proposed amendment to include Wyandotte County as well as Johnson County failed.
Gastle strongly disapproved of amending the bill and said the committee should have let the bill die instead.
Sen. Edward F. Reilly Jr., R-Leavenworth, introduced an amendment Tuesday morning to make the bill apply only to Kansas counties with populations of from 200,000 to 250,000. Only Johnson County falls into this category.
The bill provides $100 for the president and $50 for the vice-president for each of the nine months of the school year. The allowances "will be paid on the first of each month."
Kyle Craig, Joplin, Mo., junior and student body president, introduced Janet Berenson of the National Student Association (NSA) who explained the organization.
She emphasized the services the NSA offers—charter flights to Europe with options to buy cars abroad at reduced prices, a placement bureau to locate jobs abroad, a talent booking agency, life insurance policies for students of member schools, and the National Student Film Festival.
Miss Berenson also told the ASC that NSA offers a full-time staff of 40 to help member schools solve problems. NSA has staff
members who specialize in areas of student concern—drugs, speakers, teacher evaluation and educational reform, for example—and will help schools to provide programs or policies on these subjects.
Craig said he "would very much like to see us become affiliated with NSA."
In other action, the ASC:
Tabled an amendment to the ASC bill on elections which would provide for a fall election of freshman class officers. Freshman class officers were abolished when the ASC recently passed its new elections bill. The amendment was introduced by the Board of Class Officers.
tablishing a Campus Relations Committee. The purpose of this committee would be "to improve communication between the ASC and the students." The committee would be in charge of putting out a newsletter, a student government handbook and "any other publication which would help fulfill the purpose of this bill."
Two members of the Nomura Kyogen troupe enact a scene from the play "Basu" ("Sweet Poison"). Taro (Mannojo Nomura, right) has discovered that the box of "poison" is really sugar. Jiro (Mansaku Nomura) is busily eating the sugar as Taro rushes over to get his share of the confection.
Approved the appointment of Jim Kelly, Tonganoxie senior, and Ron Sutton, Goodland junior, as co-chairmen of the ASC Elections Committee.
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Approved the appointment of Sue Trottmann, Kirkwood, Mo., junior, Rosie Burns, Caldwell senior, and Guy Davis, Cato, N.Y., junior, to the Elections Committee.
Japanese actors perform tonight
The Nomura Company of Kyogen players from Tokyo, Japan, will be featured in a lecture-demonstration in the University Theatre at 3:30 p.m. today and will also present three plays in the Theatre at 8 p.m.
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The evening performance will be in Japanese, with program notes in English.
Manzo Nomura, 77-year-old actor, who heads the troupe, was recently designated as a "living art treasure" by the Japanese government. Nomura family members in the troupe include three of Manzo's sons and his granddaughter Saiko.
Although the troupe has a working repertoire of 250 plays, they will present three of their situational comedies tonight — "Busu" or "Sweet Poison," "Kamabara" or "The Sickle and Injured Pride," and "Kublihiki" or "Tug of War."
Kyogen, the Japanese classical drama which combines both dance and comedy, originated about seven centuries ago. It deals with the spectrum of humor encountered in realistic human situations, said McKinnon.
"The Kyogen plays are typical low comedy — depending upon
ludicrous situations, broad gestures and slap-stick situations similar to 'The Three Stooges' in this country," said Frederic Litto, head of the international theatre programs at KU.
The economy of the action and
with the universality of the themes make Kyogen plays both timeless and entertaining, McKinnon said.
Nomura said the language of the Kyogen plays is in the acting—far more than in the words. "Our movements and expression give meaning to the play."
"The Japanese government was very excited about our tour to America," he said, "and seemed to feel we could help establish better diplomatic relations through the theatre."
Students trekking from Oread Hall up to Jayhawk Boulevard Tuesday morning saw Charlie Brown and the rest of the Peanuts crew cavorting in their shirt sleeves in the 20-degree weather.
He said the troupe believes that theatre should communicate universal values.
Admission will not be charged at the performances.
KU films Peanuts movie
The display was the filming of a seven-minute color movie to be televised during half-time of the KU-Iowa State basketball game played in Lawrence on March 9.
Produced by the KU Public Relations Bureau and the speech and drama department, the film stars the cast of "Theatre Today."
The film centers around two songs in the show: "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" and "The Impossible Dream."
"The whole thing is rather Beatlish," said Sean Griffin, assistant instructor of speech and drama and director of the film.
"We didn't want to make a film just about the University and say 'Here's KU — isn't the grass pretty.' So we got the cast out and filmed all over: at Potter Lake, by the Campanile, on the roof of Murphy Hall, and in the Experimental Theatre and football stadium."
The cast includes Earl Trussell, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore, as Charlie Brown, Jeri Walker, Shawnee Mission senior, as Lucy, and Carol Wilcox, Kansas City, Mo., senior, Sheri Romeiser, Salina senior, Michael Fisher, Lawrence senior, and Holmes Osborne, Bates City, Mo., junior. Tom P. Rea, assistant professor of speech and drama and director of
Capital meeting includes Wescoe
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe has accepted an invitation to meet Saturday in Washington, D.C., with Francis Keppel, U.S. Commissioner of Education, and the staff of the Office of Education to review developments of the Higher Education Facilities Act.
The Higher Education Facilities Act passed by Congress and signed by President Lyndon Johnson last month authorizes $1.2 billion to assist college construction programs. Kansas will have $3.24 million available for its colleges.
"Theatre Today," made the film's introduction.
Cameramen were William Seymour, instructor of journalism, and Elliot Gage, Chicago graduate student.
Bomb rocks Russian's Embassy
WASHINGTON — (UPI)—A predawn explosion apparently caused by a bomb rocked the Soviet Embassy early today twisting the steel bars guarding a first floor window like pretzels and heavily damaging the office of a Russian counselor.
An embassy source blamed the explosion outside the ground floor window on a bomb and speculated that the incident might have been the work of a fanatic inflamed by the mock trial of international Communism which concludes today in Washington.
There were no injuries in the explosion, which shattered windows in nearby office buildings and blew out the windshield of a car parked on the street in front of the fortress-like embassy. A source said the only person in the building at the time of the blast was a night duty officer.
An Army bomb squad joined local police in investigating the explosion.
Assistant Police Chief J. V. Wilson said three hours after the explosion no suspects had been taken into custody in connection with the incident.
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WEATHER
Clear to partly cloudy and continued quite cold today and tonight, with lows tonight zero to five above. The forecast for Thursday is partly cloudy skies and temperatures not quite as cold as today. Precipitation probabilities for Thursday is 10 per cent.