Lee discusses play, poetry
Malaysian writer favors self-examination
By JUDY JARRELL Kansan Staff Writer
Searching for freedom and for himself, Lee Joo For, Malaysian literary figure and artist, expresses a universal art—an art near to human nature.
Lee is visiting the United States through an International Visitors Program sponsored by the U.S. State Department, and will be at KU until Thursday.
Viewing his work as a searching of himself, Lee believes that only by being himself can he really know
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continued from this decision. ASC does not have the power to require campus police to leave guns in their cars.
R. Keith Lawton, vice-chancellor of operations and Moomau's superior, said he supported the chief's reasoning, calling the firearms regulations "impractical."
"It is the general performance of society—people are motivated to break the law—that requires police to have the critical advantage." Lawton said.
Moomaw said he had not talked with ASC members about the new firearms regulation.
Lawton said the ASC had been "abundantly fair" in their handling of the proposals.
Prof tells House open meeting bill is 'long needed'
TOPEKA-Elmer Beth, KU professor of journalism, termed the "open meeting" law now before the legislature "a long needed measure" in testimony before the House Federal and State Affairs Committee.
The bill, introduced Tuesday, would require meetings of the legislature and local government subdivisions open to the public. It would apply to all bodies receiving or spending public funds and require all final decisions by them be reached at open meetings.
"Any governmental functions are the public's business," said Charles House, assistant managing editor of the Wichita Beacon.
Beth's position was also supported by Tom Kiene, executive editor of the Topeka Capital Journal. Kiene told the committee open meetings would help insure authentic and accurate reporting.
Beth viewed the proposal as "a mild bill" and added that he disagreed with a provision of the bill which would permit executive closed sessions of some governmental bodies.
Legislators objected to the bill on grounds that it would lead to more numerous informal meetings and agreements and would prohibit secret ballots in legislative meetings. Some suggested an additional requirement that the news media print a legislator's explanation of his vote.
Beth suggested an amendment to give state district courts the authority to nullify any decision taken by a public body at a closed meeting.
Beth said much of the unrest and disorder in America results from people who are "fed up" with having to live by rules they had no part in making.
himself. "I must know myself before I can know other men," he said.
When speaking of his poetry, Lee speaks of intuition. "It starts in my head almost like a voice."
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For example, while visiting Arlington Cemetery outside Washington D.C., Lee heard, "Kennedy is alive; I know he is alive on that hill," which became the opening line for one of his most recent poems.
"This is the beauty of being around-people and seeing new things." Lee said.
Lee writes in free verse and occasionally Haiku. He explained, "I am anti-pattern, desiring to be free, and seeking new expressions. But I believe in rhythm as in Dylan Thomas."
Philosophizing, Lee said,
"Everything should be free. But if everything were free there would be no ambition."
One of Lee's plays, "Son of Zen," will soon be produced in New York, he announced. It concerns a girl trying to find the meaning of Zen. "To think pure becomes the final meaning," he said.
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Commenting on his mastery of the English language, Lee explained that he was a bad Chinese scholar, mainly because of a bad teacher. His parents sent him to an English school where he flowered.
even wake up screaming in English," Lee said.
"Now I dream in English, and
are simply becoming more and more frank."
When asked if some of his work is censored in Malaysia, he answered that it is made safe politically and morally by "English editors who swear by Jane Austin." He added, "What I say has always been there. We
Lee, visiting the United States for the first time, "came here to fill in a missing link in his background," he said. "I have found that all people are so much alike."
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