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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday. February 12. 1968
We're not the only ones . . .
City tax squabble at ASU
TEMPE, Ariz.—(ACP)—Arizona State University students will not have to pay city sales taxes on educational purchases, according to a recent Superior Court ruling, the State Press reports.
Judge Charles L. Hardy has ruled that the city of Tempe may not charge a one per cent tax on student housing and meal tickets, performances at Gammage Auditorium, or bookstore purchases by students.
The city had contended in its suit against the Arizona Board of Regents that taxes should be paid on such university purchases
Driver Workshop starts March 15
Driver education instructors in Kansas high schools will be able to improve their knowledge of auto safety at a University Extension workshop Friday and Saturday, March 15-16.
because they compete with local businesses.
The two parties had agreed to the suit so the resultant ruling could set a precedent for similar situations at the University of Arizona and Northern Arizona University.
Judge Hardy did hold, however,
that the tax must be paid on
bookstore sales to people who are
not students or faculty members.
Greeks fighting to be tax exempt
Briefs have been filed for 15 KU fraternities and sororites seeking exemption and a refund from personal property taxes.
Fred Six, a Lawrence lawyer representing the Greek organizations, has filed his briefs. The state has until February 16 to answer.
Judge Frank R. Gray, 41st District Court, is expected to reach a decision in late March or early April.
The city attorney's office said a decision had not been made on whether to appeal the ruling to the Arizona Supreme Court.
Architect to talk here Monday
Polish architect Tadeusz Barucki, professor of architecture at Iowa State University and its Design Center, will give two illustrated public lectures here Monday.
He will speak on "Vernacular Architecture" at 3:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union Forum Room. Such folk architecture as the Taos pueblo and the Eskimo igloo will be emphasized.
"Russian and Soviet Architecture" will be the subject at 7:30 p.m. in the Big Eight Room of the Union.
Barucci is a graduate of the University of Cracow and a former general secretary of the Polish Association of Architects.
Where does an engineer intern?
Before you decide on the job that's to start you on your professional career, it's good to ask a few point blank questions . . . like:
- Will this job let me rub shoulders with engineers doing things that haven't been done before, in all phases of engineering?
- Will I be working for an engineering oriented management whose only standard is excellence?
- Will I have access to experts in fields other than my own to help me solve problems and stimulate professional growth?
- Will I be working with the widest range of professional competence and technological facilities in the U. S.?
- Are engineering careers with this company stable . . . or do they depend upon proposals and market fluctuations?
Why not ask these questions about Bendix Kansas City when Mr. R. E. Cox visits the
University of Kansas campus Feb.21-22,1968
Or you may write Mr. Cox at:
Box 303-EE, Kansas City, Mo. 64131
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AND AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
Kansas City Division
Denmark summer session offered
A summer in Copenhagen, Denmark, is being offered to KU students.
KU, in cooperation with Washburn University and Kansas State, is sponsoring a six-week summer session in Scandinavia, according to Mrs. Audrey Leban, foreign student adviser. The session will begin June 21.
Six semester hours may be earned at the summer institute. Students are required to enroll in two courses, she said.
The courses available concern current Scandinavian government and politics, postwar economic development in Scandinavia, Scandinavian architecture and design and Norse mythology.
Classes will be held at the Copenhagen School of Economics and Business Administration, Mrs. Leban said.
The cost is $1,055 and includes round-trip transportation, board and room, tuition, passes on Copenhagen's transit facilities and medical insurance, she said.
Enrollment is limited to 70 junior and senior students.
Applications may be obtained in the International Programs Office, 224 Strong Hall, and are due March 1.
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"Movies are better than ever."
When Hollywood coined that promotional phrase some years ago, television was just coming into its own, movie audiences had dwindled, and films themselves seemed sillier than ever. The slogan, regarded in some quarters as wishful thinking, occasioned no little merriment. But nowadays, nobody's laughing.
For while the theatre is declared moribund (again), and television is not regarded as worthy of consideration, movies are better than ever. At least, more people than ever before go to them, talk about them and take them seriously. Public interest extends to all kinds of movies – underground, overground, homemade, foreign, new wave, old ripple, The Sound of Music, and Blow-Up. It has been said of everyone, from Shakespeare to Brecht: "If he were working today, he'd be working in movies."
On the theory that, Marshall McLuhan notwithstanding, people who enjoy seeing and talking about movies would also enjoy reading and knowing more about them, an international publishing venture called Cinema World has been launched. The plan is for a series of definitive, lively, copiously-illustrated, jargon-free critical studies of individual directors and actors, discussions of national cinemas and kinds of movies, and explanations of the movie-making process. The first three volumes in the series, published in paperback at $2.95 each (and in hard covers at $4.95) are:
Jean-Luc Godard, by Richard Roud. A study of the connecting themes and ideas in the work of the controversial French director whose Breathless led the "new wave."
Losey on Losey, edited and introduced by Tom Milne. The American director comments on his own work, from The Boy with Green Hair to The Servant and Accident.
Luchino Visconti, by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith. An analysis of the director whose products extend from the neo-realism of Rocco and His Brothers to the rococo of The Leopard.
Other books to be published in the series this year include Robin Wood on Howard Hawks, John Ward on Alain Resnais, and The New Wave, edited by Peter Graham. Always, we hope Cinema World will fill the gap between the heavy technical tomes and the fantasy of movie fan magazines. The latter, incidentally, are responsible for a satire called Mmmm . . . It's Juicy which appears, along with hundreds of other pieces, in Max Shulman's Guided Tour of Campus Humor ($4.95, hardbound). This is a king-size collection of the best stories, articles, jokes, poems, and nonsense compiled from 65 college humor magazines over half a century. If this hilarious book proves anything, it's that college humor is as funny as ever.
The books reviewed here are published by the sponsors of this column. Doubletay Anchor Books, 277 Park Avenue, New York. Doubletay & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York. You'll find that equipped bookellers in the country — your own college store.