Free University offers seminar
The SUA Free University is presenting a seminar on Civil Disobedience Sunday afternoons at 2:30 p.m. beginning Feb. 9 in Dyche Auditorium.
Free University is a trial experiment to discuss contemporary topics and issues the university is not flexible enough to present in courses, said Mike Kirk, Kansas City, Mo., senior and SUA president.
The programs will include a half hour lecture and a half hour group discussion.
"The whole concept of the Free University is to be completely flexible and open to structure and topic change," Kirk said. "We invite suggestions and hope for a great deal of student response."
The Free University developed out of the success of last semester's White Racism seminar offered by the Wesley Foundation. Bibliographies will be available for background reading and the books purchased by the Kansas Union Bookstore,
The six programs in the seminar are:
Kirk said.
Feb. 9, "The Troublemakers," a documentary film about the organization of the civil disobedience incidents in Trenton, N.J., and SDS involvement there.
Feb. 16, Rex Martin, assistant professor of philosophy involved in research on the theory of civil disobedience, and
Feb. 23, John Swomley, a political scientist from St. Paul's School of Theology in Kansas City, justifying civil disobedience on religious grounds.
Mar. 2, Art Melville, exiled leader of a Guatemalan revolution who will tell his story of personal involvement.
Mar. 9, Gary Maranell, associate professor of sociology who has worked in the American
Civil Liberties Union.
Mar. 16, Larry Velvel, associate professor of law who has filed suit based on the first amendment against Lyndon Johnson for illegally starting the Vietnam war.
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Society organizes theater, offers candy at enrollment
Besides obtaining the usual class cards, students going through enrollment this semester were offered candy and money by the First Artaud Romantic Tautological Society.
The society set up a table in the Kansas Union to inform students of the revolutionary KU Guerrilla Theater sponsored earlier this year by the society, said Rick Atkinson, Belleville graduate student and member of Peoples Voice. Other society members include Liz Atkinson, Lawrence senior and Don Jenkins, Kansas City, Mo., junior.
The first day of enrollment the group distributed literature explaining purpose of the movement, Atkinson said. Contributions by students were used to buy candy which was given away with the literature. When they ran out of candy, the society gave away money.
Atkinson said Frank Burge,
Kansas Union director, told the
Consumer affairs post proposed
WASHINGTON (UPI) Ninety-five members of Congress joined yesterday in sponsoring legislation to establish a Cabinet-level department of consumer affairs.
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"Until the consumer interest is the primary, exclusive motivation of a statutory agency of government, instead of an after thought as it is in so many agencies today, the consumer will remain a second-class citizen in the market place," said Rep. Benjamin S. Rosenthal, D-N.Y., chief sponsor of the bill in the House.
Eighty-five House members and seven senators co-sponsored the bills.
Sen. Gaylord Nelson, D-Wis., chief sponsor in the Senate, said the department would serve as a "watchdog over those agencies whose duty it is to protect the consumer" from fraudulent practices and would "prod government agencies which are slow to respond to the needs of the consumer."
Quirk is an expert in mathematical economics and general equilibrium studies.
"Thirty-three federal departments and agencies now administer over 260 consumer-related programs." Rosenthal said.
The National Science Foundation today awarded a $29,700 grant to KU professor of economics James P. Quirk.
"These programs, proliferated as they are throughout the government and almost always administered by agencies having conflicting interests to protect, provide the consumer with weak and uneven protection."
Prof receives award
group Wednesday that the Union couldn't reserve space for organizations not recognized by the university.
When later asked what action was taken, Burge refused to comment.
Society members returned Friday to pass out more literature and candy. This time the table was marked Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), a group recognized by the university.
Atkinson said the Guerrilla Theater would return to the Union today, tomorrow and Friday to recruit to members.
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