Summer Session Kansan
Tuesday, July 21, 1964
52nd Year, No. 13
Lawrence, Kansas
"IT'S INTERESTING, BUT WHAT IS IT?"—That's what Diki Weigand, science camper from Joplin, Mo., says to Bob Duklow, a math and science camper from Kansas City. The two are admiring a portrait by Ed King displayed along with others in Murphy Hall.
Varied Mediums Featured In Campers' Art Exhibit
By Laurie Lankin
Providing a showcase for art division campers of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp is the art exhibit along the walls of Murphy Hall.
The exhibit, which changes weekly, will come down tonight for the last time. Art instructors choose the best and most representative art work from their classes and hang, mount, and arrange the art work themselves. Neatly labeled yellow or white slips of paper for the pottery and jewelry contrasted with hasty but proud signatures on the paintings.
Cries of "Hey, that's me!" "Isn't this wonderful?", and "I'd like to have some of these in my house" can be heard ringing throughout the hall by the hundreds of viewers as they see the exhibit.
"EVERY WEEK the exhibit seems
Civil Rights Money Asked by Johnson
WASHINGTON — (UPI)— President Johnson yesterday asked Congress to appropriate $13 million to carry out provisions of the new civil rights law.
The money would enable the Justice Department to expand its staff of lawyers to handle the enforcement features of the act.
Additionally, funds would be used to set up within the Commerce Department the Community Relations Service, a new agency designed to promote racial peace.
Since the regular appropriations bills for the Justice and Commerce Departments were submitted many months ago, it was necessary for the President to request a supplemental appropriation for the civil rights funds. The money asked yesterday will finance activities through June 30, 1965.
to get better," said Shirley Schopp, 16, music camper from Normandy, Mo. "You can easily see that the art students are really learning something from their courses."
A tree blazing in the golden summer sun contrasts with a cool silent statue as one begins looking at the water colors. A sleepy farm scene is surrounded by green leafy landscapes in that section.
Rich textured oil paintings are found in abundance as the campers used everything from fellow classmates to still life for subjects.
MISTY PORTRAITS, elaborate lettering, sharp-featured high-fashioned sketches, soft pastels, and pungent cartoons line the walls, along with scratchboards and free-form paper and wood sculpture.
Judy Alexander, 17, an art camper from Huntington Woods, Mich., likes the idea of the art exhibit "especially because I can compare my work with that of other campers."
In glass cases along the other wall are found imaginative "animals" made of pine cones, fuzz, wood, and flowers. Colorful fabric and placemats are used as a background for freeform jewelry and odd-shaped pottery.
"It ALSO GIVES other campers an idea of what art students are doing," added John Naughtin, 17, an art camper from Omaha, Neb.
"It is an honor to have a piece selected for exhibition. We think that this makes the students strive for excellence," he said.
Prof, Arvid Jacobson, assistant director of the camp art division, explains that the exhibit is useful because of several reasons.
Law Officers To Attend Police School
Improved law enforcement is a goal of the 18th annual Kansas Peace Officers Training School which started yesterday at KU.
"This year we've been extremely pleased with our group of students," he continued. "They are the best-disciplined group we've ever had and have turned out a great deal of work. The water colors and figure sketches have been especially good."
About 90 peace officers, most of them from Kansas, were expected to enroll in either a basic or advanced course offered at the six-day school. They will study search and seizure, preserving the crime scene, factors of mob violence, adolescent problems, information sources and other matters related to law enforcement.
THE PROGRAM runs concurrently through Wednesday with a Correctional Officers Seminar to be attended by about 45 persons.
Lt. Col. Allen Rush, assistant superintendent of the Kansas Highway Patrol, Topeka, gave the keynote address of the Peace Officers School yesterday morning. His topic was "The Police Role in American Society."
Harold R. Fatzer, associate justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, will speak to the officers Saturday. Following his lecture, officers who have completed the courses will receive certificates, to be presented by Logan H. Sanford, director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation and president of the Kansas Peace Officers Association, Topcka.
AMONG THE OTHER lecturers at the Peace Officers School are E. P. Moomau, chief of the University of Kansas traffic and security department, and James S. Kline, coordinator of police training at the KU Governmental Research Center. KU members of the school's planning committee are Kline; J. U. Adams, University Extension representative; and Ethan P. Allen, director, and William H. Cape, associate director, Governmental Research Center.
The Kansas penal program and the correctional officer's role will be examined at the three-day Correctional Officers Seminar.
Among the lecturers is Theodore L. Heim, training program coordinator, KU Governmental Research Center.
Sponsors of the Peace Officers School and the related Correctional Seminar are the KU Governmental Research Center, University Extension, KU, and the Kansas Peace Officers Association. Twenty-five governmental and private agencies are cooperating with the programs.
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The Senate returned to work yesterday and promptly called up a $202 million military pay raise bill in a determined attempt to set a pace that will clear key bills before the Democratic national convention Aug. 24.
Senate Back on Job, Studies Military Raise
The House returned to work also but scheduled only a token session.
Group Organized For Social Service
A group of KU students interested in Social and Public Services has established a committee to coordinate the activities of the proposed organization.
Working with Lawrence Woodruff, dean of students, and Raymond Price, professor of social work, the group will be answering questions about the purposes of the organization at information tables on the first floor of Strong Hall and the Kansas Union, during this week.
Forming of the committee followed current trends at campuses across the country in forming cooperative programs of community betterment.
THE KU PROGRAM emulates the Phillips Brooks House Services at Harvard University, which for the last decade has placed 10-15 per cent of the Harvard student body in projects of hospital assistance, legal consultation, high school tutoring, work in mental hospitals and other areas.
Similar organizations at Northwestern University and the University of North Carolina have involved up to 700 students in education and counseling. With the lead of the Peace Corps and the proposed national volunteer programs, other campuses around the country are setting up such groups.
KU students involved in the program last spring and this summer have been working with the Lawrence Human Relations Commission to develop a survey and loan program for retraining of minority and low income group laborers under the Manpower Retraining Act and local extension courses.
The group is outlining a program of counseling and recreational supervision with the Probate Court and local church groups.
THE WHOLE ORGANIZATION is oriented toward broad student participation. Its programs are aimed at students going into or already enrolled in Law, Business or Medical School, as well as those in Social Studies and Education.
The KU group needs students in the fields of physical education, law and pre-law for its present programs.
Future projects discussed by the group involve recreational and therapeutic assistance at general and mental hospitals, organization of local action groups to implement informal codes, restoration and clean-up campaigns, provision of legal, architectural and financial guidance and counseling for young people leaving correctional institutions.
Continued Heat Is State Prospect
Rv United Press International
By United Press International Continued hot temperatures and high humidity are in store for most of Kansas.
Some variable cloudiness was expected in portions of north and east Kansas but not enough to keep down the high temperatures.
Highs were expected to range from 95 to 102 with lows generally in the 70's.
In addition to these plans the group has discussed cooperation with the KU and National Peace Corps and extension of projects to the Topeka area and Kansas City in conjunction with the Medical School and the University of Missouri campus.
'Bye Bye Birdie' Ends Side Door '64 Season
"Bye Bye Birdie," a two-act comedy, is being presented each evening through Friday at 8:15 and Wednesday and Friday afternoon at 3 in the University Theatre.
The play, which closes the Side Door '64 program for the theatre, will be presented by 50 members of the drama division of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp.
KU students and campers may receive free tickets at the box office in Murphy Hall. Admission is $1.50 for others.
Waggoner Now In Costa Rica
Dean George R. Waggoner of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has begun a two-month appointment as adviser to the Council of Central American Universities. He and his family are making their headquarters at the University of Costa Rica near San Jose.
Last month Dean Waggoner was in charge of a week-long meeting here of the Commission for General Studies of the Council (CSUCA).
Dean Waggoner has been active in other areas as a consultant to higher education in Latin America. The past two winters he has directed at KU the 6-week seminars on University Education in the Americas, each attended by about 25 top-level administrators from Latin American schools.
Last month Dean Waggoner and U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas were the U.S. delegates to a seminar attended by about 50 Venezuelaan university student leaders.
Unusual Music Marks Concerts
By Rose Marsha Resnick
Sunday afternoon opened a day of unusual entertainment for patrons of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp concerts.
Under the direction of James S. Ralston, assistant instructor of choral music, the Concert and Chamber Choirs were combined into one dynamic group to present Handel's "Dettinger Te Deum."
Accompanying this German production was a small orchestra made up of 11 pieces. Ralston vigorously worked the chorus in order to keep all sides together. He succeeded in making what normally would take one month's work come about in one week.
THE PROGRAM listed more than 200 voices, and to create smooth and even tones and enunciations in a foreign language is indeed quite a feat for high school students. Congratulations are warranted by Mr. Ralston and his assemblage of voices.
The orchestra members seemed to be relieved as they took their final bows, but they didn't realize that their performance was so much better than they had anticipated.
Saul Caston, guest director from the Denver Symphony, had a busy week with the orchestra division of the program. A bit unsure of themselves, this group worked to perform four numbers by Wagner, "The Ride of the Valkyries" being the finale.
THE EVENING concerts included many strange events for the unsuspecting audience. Rumored to be sight-reading fresh music during the actual performance, the Symphonic Band, conducted by both Cmdr. Brendler and Caston, displayed talent in giving of themselves to the music of Gounod, Offenbach, Persichetti, Reed, Moehlman, and Gould,
which is a feat often difficult for even experienced musicians.
The concert band, directed by Camp Director Russell L. Wiley, played "St. Michael Archangel" from "The Church Windows" by Respeghi for their first number.
"Citation," by Claude Smith, closed Mr. Wiley's portion of the evening. Smith, a former student of Wiley's, was in the audience.
Before descending the podium, Mr. Wiley turned to the audience and told them that the band had planned a surprise for Cmdr. Brendler. Wiley asked Brendler to return to the stage and direct "The Stars and Stripes Forever," the band's tribute to Brendler for his devotion to their group during the past weeks at camp.
Caston closed the evening with "Symphony for Band" by Persi- chetti, and week number five was over.