Page 8 University Daily Kansan Friday, March 2.196
Crisis Day Group Backs ASC Bill
By Bob Hoyt
The Current Events committee bill, introduced at the All Student Council (ASC) meeting Tuesday night, is receiving strong support from students who were instrumental in bringing "World Crisis Day" and "Operation Correction" to the KU campus.
Brian O'Heron, Lawrence senior, said he thinks the ASC would be "foolish" not to pass the bill.
O'Heron thinks the bill is a "terrific idea, as long as it doesn't get amended." ❑
HE SAID IN A TELEPHONE INTERVIEW, he has heard no talk against the bill, but that he has heard some mention of a possible amendment to it, to bring it under the control of the University administration.
HE FEELS THE National Student Association (NSA) was a failure at KU because it became bogged down in committees and bureaucracy. "But, we can't wait for NSA to come back. And even if it does come back, there is no assurance that it will do any more than it did before."
O'Heron said the success of such a committee would depend on the people appointed to it. "They will have to be people who do a lot of reading and keep up on what is going on, so they can judge what is important and what is not, and what actually constitutes a current event."
"That would be a mistake." O'Heron said, "because as it stands now, the committee would have a relatively free hand in bringing people to the campus. If the bill is amended to give the administration power over the decisions of the committee, it would bog down in bureaucracy."
O'Heron said he believes students need a free hand in selecting speakers and programs to be brought here because "faculty members sometimes may be subjected to pressure from alumni and other powers in the state. We need to know what is important to everyone, not just to the people in Kansas."
The crux of the whole problem, as O'Heron sees it, is money. "You have to have money no matter how interested the students may be. And interest will lag when the students discover they will have to pay $200 or so from their own pockets to bring a controversial speaker to the campus. We have several programs now in mind, but we have no money to bring people to the campus.
"You really don't need a committee, all you need is the money to pay a speaker's expense. If we can get that, we'll find a way to arrange to get the people here."
O'Heron helped arrange World Crisis Day. He said that he and several other interested students are working together to find a way to
get controversial speakers here, but as yet his group has no formal title.
"I'm not against using people in the local area," O'Heron said. "There are many fine people available in this area, and we should hear from them, but we need people from all over the country, people who will give us different viewpoints. Many of them are on the East Coast, and it takes money to bring them here."
KENNETH N. CIBOSKI, Lawrence graduate student, said he thinks "it is important to have a committee outside the Minority Opinion Forum and the Current Events Forum, but the committee should not arbitrarily decide on programs and speakers. The committee should work with various individuals who are interested in bringing particular speakers to the campus. The decision on who will be brought here should be made by the committee in co-operation with individuals."
Ciboski does not feel the committee would take over many functions of the NSA. He said, "The University will benefit much more from such a committee than it did from the NSA. Too many students didn't know what NSA was doing. To many of them, the NSA program seemed muddled. It could have been because the NSA's activities weren't too well publicized."
Larry L. Laudan, Lawrence graduate student and chairman of the Minorities Opinion Forum, said, "What the committee will try to do is commendable. It will attempt to bring people of varying opinions to the campus to give students a chance to decide controversial issues for themselves."
Laudan said that he heard a suggestion at the ASC meeting two weeks ago that the University administration might not got along with a Current Events Committee, but he sees no opposition from the administration. He based this opinion on a University report made by Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe on June 6, 1961, in which the Chancellor or said:
'The Consul' to Open Monday For Three-Performance Run
"It is the basic conviction of the University that there should be no restrictions on the opportunity of our students to voice their opinions freely and hear the opinions of those with whom they or others may disagree."
"The Consul," a music drama by Gian Carlo Menotti, will open a three-performance run at 8 p.m. Monday in the University Theatre as the fourth event in the Major Theater Series.
In the principal roles are:
SHARON TEBBENKAMP, Salisbury, Mo., senior, as Magda Sorel; David Holloway, Gas City sophomore, as John Sorel, and Ann Kretzmeier, Liberal junior, as Magda's mother.
Dorothy Kay Hammers, Aberdeen,
S. D., sophomore, as Vera Boronel;
Sharon Scoville, Kansas City junior,
as the secretary; Phil Harris, Law-
rence senior, as Assan.
Janet Woody, Springfield, Mo,
senior, as the foreign woman; Ed
Sooter, Wichita graduate student,
as Nika Magadoff, the magician; Marva
Lou Powell, Topeka graduate
student, as Anna Gomez; Charles Rogers,
Lawrence senior, as Mr. Kofner.
In supporting roles are:
Daryl Patten, Lawrence graduate student, as the secret police agent; Don Grant, Kansas City sophomore, as the 1st plainclothesman, and Anthony Bengel, Independence sophomore, 2nd plainclothesman.
Besides "The Consul" (1950), composer Gian Carlo Menotti has written: "The Medium" (1946), "The Telephone" (1947), "Amahl and the Night Visitors," (1951), "The Saint of Bleeker Street," "Maria Golovin", "The Old Maid and the Thief", "Amelia Goes to the Ball," and "The Unicorn, the Gorgon, and the Manticore."
THE LITTLE SYMPHONY will be directed by Robert Bausian, associate professor of orchestra. F. Cowles Strickland, visiting professor of speech and drama, is director of the production.
Performance nights are March 5. 7, and 9. Tickets are available at the University Theatre box office in Murphy Hall, at the Kansas Union, and at Bell's Music Co. downtown.
THE UNIVERSITY Theatre and the School of Fine Arts presented "The Saint of Bleeker Street" with guest star Virginia Copland in Spring 1958, Murphy Hall's first season.
Talk Today on Soviet Tours, Language
Mrs. Jonnet Holloday, a representative of the University of Michigan and the University of Indiana, will explain the Summer Russian Language Programs, including tours to the Soviet Union and methods of financing them at 4 p.m. today in room 306 of the Kansas Union.
The University Theatre box office is open from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 12 noon Saturday, and from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on performance nights.
A U.S. spokesman said the Communist move was meaningless because the U.S. commandant, Maj. Gen. Albert Watson II, had no intention of trying to enter East Berlin until the East Germans lift restrictions on his civilian political aides.
BERLIN — (UPI) — The East German Communists today barred the U.S. commandant in Berlin from entering East Berlin in retaliation for American restrictions on the Soviet Commandant.
Vopos Stop U.S. Military Leader
According to the U.S. spokesman, the liaison officer said Soviet Commandant Col. A. V. Solovyev asked the East Germans to bar Watson because of an American ban on Solovyev from the U.S. sector of West Berlin.
THE AMERICANS barred Solovyev in December because the Communist Police prevented Watson's civilian advisers from entering East Berlin without an identity check. The Americans contend that such checks by the East Germans violate the Western Allied rights of freedom of movement in Berlin.
The East Germans barred Watson on orders from the Russians. The ban was announced by the official East German news agency and a Soviet liaison officer notified U.S. headquarters by telephone.
"General Watson has no intention to enter the Soviet sector of Berlin unless his accompanying civilian advisers are free from identification procedures," he said.
The U.S. spokesman said today's Communist action represents no change in the situation which has existed since Watson and his aides were stopped at the East Berlin border on Dec. 23.
"The problem with regard to the movement of the two commandants to each other's sector continues to be a matter for resolution between the two commandants."
AT THE FRIEDRICHSTRASSE crossing point today. Communist police temporarily held up one of the U.S. military cars which regularly cross the border into East Berlin as an expression of the right of free movement.
The car was stopped only briefly, and U.S. officials attached no importance to the incident.
While today's developments were played down by the Americans, they underscored the East-West tensions which persist in Berlin.
Crash Investigation May Take a Year
NEW YORK - (UPI) Only two minutes elapsed from takeoff to tragedy for 95 persons.
But it may take as long as a year to find out what happened in those two minutes yesterday when American Airlines Jetliner Flight 1 bound non-stop for Los Angeles, plunged into the murky, shallow waters of Jamaica Bay, killing all on board.
- Engine failure; No evidence of power plant difficulty, although this can not be determined definitely until all four engines have been recovered and examined.
- Fire: No indication whatsoever, and this would have been one mishap which the crew would have had time to report. As it was, there was no word of any difficulty or
- Weather: Apparently no factor ..visibility and ceiling were unlimited, "cavu" as the pilots say, with a 20 to 30 knot (23-34 miles an hour) wind occasionally rising to slightly higher gusts.
- From the first evidence on hand, the Civil Aeronautics Board expected to eliminate these possible causes:
- Structural failure; not a single eyewitness, and the CAB noted with interest that many witnesses had aviation training and background, saw any parts of the 707 falling from the plane before crash. Nor were any key components found some distance from the wreckage.
impending emergency, on the tape which recorded the pilot's contact with Idilwild's flight central tower from clearance for takeoff.
- Sabotage: There was an explosion, but all eyewitness accounts agreed that the fire which enveloped the silver and orange carcas of the giant jet developed after impact with the water.
- Crew incapacitation; The CAB's "human factors" team will conduct autopsies on whatever pilot bodies are recovered, as well as looking into medical histories. But even in the unlikely event that one pilot may have suffered a heart attack, the other should have been able to take over.
Study in Guadalajara, Mexico
The Guadalajara Summer School, a fully accredited University of Arizona program, conducted in cooperation with professors from Stanford University, University of California, and Guadalajara, will offer July 2 to August 10, art, folklore, geography, history, language and literature courses. Tuition, board and room is $245. Write Prof. Juan B. Rael, P.O. Box 7227, Stanford, Calif.
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