Topics range from crickets to Vietnam
Poet decries LBJ
Photo by Halina Pawl
Robert Bly
Student travel aid installed in Union
Student travel services at KU are in the first stages of renovation.
Two direct lines to Maupintour Associates will be installed and available for use today at the Kansas Union travel center, said Irv Robinson, Prairie Village sophomore and SUA special trips chairman.
"We decided since student travel is so extensive there was a need to expand the travel center," Robinson said. "The direct lines are being installed as a convenience to the students as well as an added service."
Of the poetry translations, Issa, a Japanese poet of the 19th century, was the main topic. Bly cited the example of when Issa was sleeping one night and upon awakening saw a cricket lying next to him. Issa then composed a poem, Bly said, called "Cricket, be careful! I'm rolling over!" Copies of 10 of Issa's poems translated into English by Bly were distributed to the audience.
"A stomach with eyes, something that moves along the ground eating ..." was the first line of his poem about Lyndon Johnson's face. After reading the short poem, Bly commented that he could write only eight lines about Johnson's face. He expressed thanks that the face is
Dressed in a Mexican serape with a paper scroll, given to him by his six-year old daughter, Robert Bly addressed nearly 150 persons yesterday at the SUA Poetry Hour in the Kansas Union Big Eight Room.
Bly, a poet, editor and translator from Madison, Minn., recited original and translated poems and dissertations on subjects ranging from the Vietnam war to a Japanese poem about a cricket.
Bly, an outspoken war critic, turned to the Vietnam war for his next topic. "If the Viet Cong were three feet tall we could have wiped them out," he said, "but since they are taller we had to call a bombing halt."
always understand it better than we do."
"The direct lines will enable students to call Maupintour Associates any time during the day to inquire about travel in Europe or the United States, work opportunities in Europe and youth hostels," Robinson said.
He is also translator and editor of "Norwegian Poetry from Ibsen to the Present," and has written two books, "Silence in the Snowy Fields" and "The Light Around the Body." For the latter book he won the $1,000 National Book Award. He presented the money, he said, to the Draft Resistors League.
He continued, "When your kids ask you what you were doing when the Vietnam war was going on you'll say, 'I was taking a sociology test,' and they'll spit in your face.
"The Viet Nam war is not a joke; the younger kids will
gone now, at least from televisions and newspapers.
Tonight, he will be featured as a speaker on draft resistance at the United Campus Christian Fellowship building at 8 p.m.
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The findings of this study, he added, can be taken to the administration for their use in altering and developing the subcollege system.
Subcollege tests are soon
Ronald Dworkin, Hohfeld professor of Jurisprudence at Yale University, will speak on "The Challenge to Law and Legal Philosophy," at 8 p.m. April 17 in the Kansas Union Jayhawk Room, said George Roberts, associate professor of philosophy.
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The second of a series of lectures on philosophy and law is sponsored by the KU philosophy department.
Next week sophomores will take a survey test to determine the effectiveness of subcolleges (Colleges-within-the-college).
Within the next five weeks the SUA travel board said it hopes to hire a well informed person to head the travel center.
The testing "is a vital phase of the evaluation of the subcolleges program. Unless the students participate in this testing program, our evaluation of the whole program will be seriously hampered," said William R. Arnold, associate professor of sociology and acting director of the research project.
Sophomores in Oliver College will take their exam Tuesday at 6:45 p.m. in the Oliver Hall dining hall; Centennial College sophomores will be tested Wednesday at 6:45 p.m. in the Ellsworth Hall dining hall.
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