'Mutiny' soon to occur on peaceful KU campus
Plans were crystallized last night for action in support of the Presidio 27 at a meeting of The Committee for the 27 in the Wesley Foundation.
A reenactment of the Presidio "mutiny," which occured last October at the San Francisco Presidio military stockade, when 27 prisoners protested the slaying of a fellow inmate by a prison guard, will occur at approximately 11:30 a.m. May 1.
"The staged 'mutiny' will happen after a campus march
which will start at 11 a.m. on the lawn in front of Frazier Hall," said Ted Steiner, St. Louis junior and coordinator for the group.
"Beginning at Frazier, the group will march past the SUA Information Booth, down to the Military Science Building, across to Murphy Hall, back up to the Hill past Lindley Hall and then to the lawn in front of Flint Hall where the 'mutiny' will take place." he said.
"We had originally considered a guerrilla theater production,"
he said, "but we decided against this because people tend to be turned-off by its absurdness. We plan to reenact the scene as it happened and let people decide for themselves whether there was an injustice involved."
The march and demonstration will be the culmination of a campus drive to get people involved with the group organized to help right the injustices carried out by the Army in its reaction to the Presidio 27, he said.
"People are needed by the group," Steiner said, "to participate in a protest march in Kansas City, Mo., at 1 p.m. May
3. " At that time, with the support of groups from universities in this area, the protesters will demand that "unjust charges against the military prisoners be dropped." Starting at the Federal Building, marchers will go to the Kansas City Municipal Auditorium, he said, where they will pass out fliers stating their purpose and speak to the public concerning injustices carried out against the Presidio 27.
Yesterday a table was set up behind the SUA Information Booth on Jayhawk Boulevard for persons to write post cards or letters to their congressman
urging a withdrawal of charges for the prisoners. Approximately 50 post cards and 20 letters were written, he said, and it was a good start on the group's goal of 1,000 letters.
"Every one who stopped seemed to know what the 'mutiny' was about, and accordingly, wrote sensible letters," Steiner said.
Persons interested in working with the "theater" group can attend a meeting at 3 p.m. Sunday at 1301 Vermont St.
The next meeting for the Committee for the 27 will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Wesley Foundation.
B-School hosts two
Don Sewing of Sewing Realty, and Jim Schaaf, Kansas City Chiefs' public relations director, will be guest speakers at this year's Business School Day, the School of Business announced today.
The program will begin at 9 a.m. April 25 in 411 Summerfield Hall with Sewing's speech, "The Problems of Integrating Suburbia." He will be followed at 10:30 a.m. by Schaaf, who will speak on "Football and its Fans," said Terry Sumner, Kansas City junior.
Sewing is a Negro real estate broker in Fairway, a Kansas City suburb. He has spearheaded integration in Johnson County in a dispersed manner which has forestalled the usual white retreat, reported the Wall Street Journal. Sumner said Sewing will speak on methods of integration and his personal experiences with Fairway.
Featured as a part of Schaaf's talk will be a film titled "The Kansas City Chiefs' 1968 Season Football Highlights," he said.
Engineering Expo set
"Ideas Into Reality" is the theme for the KU Engineering Exposition, which begins at noon Friday in Learned Hall.
Exhibits will be on display in Learned from noon to 9 p.m. Friday and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, the School of Engineering announced today.
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Members of Theta Tau, national professional engineering fraternity, willbuild an entranceway exhibit and present a display inside the building. The theme of the interior display will be "The Idea: To Simulate Reality." The exhibit will be a model of the Boeing 737 mockup simulator.
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Next Friday Night, April 25. The Spectacular Spring Fling Party Is Going To Hurl Your Way!
That's right, it's THE party of the year, guaranteed to be an evening of good vibrations and hallucinations. It will be taking place at the Lawrence National Guard Armory, and will help put the finishing touches on the Spectacular Spring Fling Week. It will be sponsored by the Association of University Resident Halls and will include all the free brew you can consume, outstanding entertainment and the crowning of a Spring Fling Queen.
Word has leaked through the grapevine that Ace Johnson, who caters these large parties and is just recovering from the KU Rodeo, is just about to land J. Fred Muggs and his All-Stars to provide the entertainment for this wild evening. The All-Stars consist of Gentle Ben on the xylophone, trumpet and violin, with his cousin Smokey on trumpet, fog horn and trombone. King Kong will play the flute, triangle, and lead guitar with Rin Tin Tin on drums. Francis The Talking Mule will play the organ with Garfield Goose on the aboe. None other than Minnie Mouse will be the vocalist, who sings topless. A press conference is slated for Thursday to announce if Muggs will be able to appear.
For those of you out in KU land that don't read Billboard, Variety, Male and True Confessions, J. Fred Muggs would be a name only associated with Dave Garaway and the old "Today" show. But since then J. Freddy has gone on to bigger and better things. He has recently been on tour in Southern California with the "Wolfman Jack, XERB Traveling Caravan of Stars." In a long distance (collect) phone call to Muggs this morning, he was asked to explain his act. "Our performances make a James Brown Revue look like a wake," said the ever confident Muggs. He went on to explain that with the Bear boys, Ben and Smokey, back'n up most of his numbers as the "Famous Fires," the act offers entertainment at its highest, combining a little rock, roll, soul and gospel. Muggs was asked if he felt the boys club at Moose Breath, Wyo., would let him out of a three week engagement. "If Green Bay let Vince Lombardi out of his, I'm sure Moose Breath will do the same for me."
Further investigation into Muggs' career brought to light a blemish on his otherwise undistinguished record. He was asked about his arrest in San Diego last summer for smoking banana peels. "I was framed," replied Muggs. "The campus police (wouldn't ya know it) at San Diego State broke up a gig I was play'n at with Little Richard, the King of Rock and Roll, after he started rip'n off all his clothes. While I was try'n to save our equipment from an onslaught of his fans (who were forming a protective circle around him) somebody lit the banana in my back pocket "on fire." Reports from J. Fred's fans say that he has more animal MAGNETISM than any other performer in the music industry today.
BUT, in case Muggs can't get out of his contract at Moose Breath, none other than the FABULOUS FLIPPERS have agreed to fill in, since "the show must go on." Yet they humbly agree it will be impossible to fill in for a performer of Muggs caliber. They explained it would be like expecting Aretha Franklin and getting Mrs. Miller.
Either way, don't dare miss this giant get-it-together function, next Friday night, 8:00 p.m. at the National Guard Armory. Tickets are only $1.50 in advance and can be purchased through resident hall coordinators. The price goes up 50 cents if purchased at the door.
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