Monday, February 12, 1968
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
13
Coeds study karate; (Chop! Mash! Thud!)
By Joanna Wiebe Kansan Staff Reporter
Nineteen other coeds and I, all looking for male arms to break, walked out of Robinson Gymnasium last Thursday night.
We had just completed the first lesson in the KU women's self-defense class, taught by karate student Max Muller, Prairie Village junior.
At the beginning of the class, one coed entering the classroom said she had heard the purpose of karate is to maim or kill an attacker. She and her friends hoped the self-defense class would stick to maining.
"Maybe if I tell my boyfriend I'm taking karate he'll try to attack me," she said wistfully.
This seemed to be a big reason for enrolling in the course. Not many of the class members were so wildly attractive that they were in danger of frequent attacks by brawny men on the steps of Green Hall.
Instructor Muller strode into the room, wearing the Japanese answer to the zoot suit. He called it a "ghea." It looked like floppy white pedal-pushers topped by a buttonless lab coat, all held together with a brown GM seat belt.
The belt was a third degree brown belt, he told us. This is just a step away from the famed karate black belt.
"All right, let's line up," he barked.
He pulled his belt tight, and announced that he was not going to teach the class how to be more feminine.
"When I show you how to knee a guy, I don't want you all to
giggle," he said, tittering coyly to demonstrate. It broke up the class.
The group exercised for several minutes before getting down to business. Muller first demonstrated how a weak female can yank away from the grasp of the most muscular guy on campus.
He then went on to bigger things, teaching us defense tricks culled from karate, judo, and his own experience.
Breaking the arm of a fresh date who tries to handle our knees is simple, he told us. So is smashing an attacker's face: just tug energetically on his hair and jerk the knee swiftly upward. The crippling groin kick requires only good timing and a firm grasp on the attacker's hand.
Arnold Air Society, honorary Air Force ROTC organization elected its officers for the 1968- 1969 school year at a recent meeting.
Arnold Air elects '68-'69 officers
They are: Bruce Hogle, Lawrence junior, commander; Herb Hartman, Lawrence junior, executive officer; Ken Dickson, Topeka sophomore, operations officer; Steve Breddehoeft, Overland Park sophomore, administrative officer; Bill Kissel, Overland Park junior, information officer; Roby Ogan, Great Bend sophomore, comptroller; Ric Rasmussen, Jetmore sophomore, assistant comptroller; John Sutton, Princeton junior, pledge advisor; and Robert McMahan, Quincy, Ill., junior, special projects officer.
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12
7:30 p.m.
SUA TRAVEL FORUM—"Modern Israel" Mr. Marvin Bridges from C.L.U. of Kansas City. Also a film New Frontiers will be presented. It was filmed entirely after the six day war last June. 8:00 p.m.
JOHN WILLIAMS CONCERT—Murphy Theatre, Tickets $1.50 and $2.00
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13
7:00 p.m.
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL—Jules and Jim (Truffaut) Dyche Auditorium, Single Admissions $1.00. Coupon for entire program $4.50
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14
3:30 p.m.
MUSIC FORUM—"Program Music," Dr. J. Bunker Clark, Music Room, Kansas Union 3:30 p.m.
4:30 p.m.
4:30 p.m.
MINORITY OPINIONS FORUM-H. J. C. Hooper, Rhodesia Information Officer "Rhodesian Independence and Two Years Later," Big 8 Room, Kansas Union
7:00 p.m. & 9:00 n.m.
7:00 p.m. & 9:00 p.m.
CLASSICAL FILM SERIES-The Foreign Correspondent,
(Hitchecock, U.S.A.) Dyche Auditorium, Admission 60c
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15
7:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m.
FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL—Diary of a Country Priest (Carne)
Dyche Auditorium, Admission $1.00
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16
5:00 p.m. Deadline for entrees in the PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST
FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY: February 16, 17, 18
7:00 a.m. p.m. 8:00 a.m.
7:00 p.m. & 9:30 p.m.
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POPULAR FILM SERIES—A Patch of Blue (Sidney Poitier, Elizabeth Hartman) Dyche Auditorium, Admission 40c
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18
1:30 p.m.
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