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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, May 21, 1964
SANDBAR "DROPPINGS"—Art students create in new form.
Campus Artists Bring Creativity to Sandbar
By Susan Flood
A group of art students and friends have been creating "droppings" at "happenings" in "environments."
Some sort of explanation may be in order for non-dwellers of third floor Strong Hall.
IN THE TERMS OF AN existent but anonymous are instructor:
"Droppings can be seen as a method, a faith, a cult, a point of view, a hoax. It is all of these and none of these. Droppings are impermanent and offend those of taste.
"Droppings help art to regain its place by stripping it of all the tinsels, laurals and buskins in which it has been decked. Once art, through droppings, is disemcumbered, it will doubtless begin again to function—to dance and yell like a madman, which is its function, and stop putting on pretentious airs."
Well, then, a rotted frame of a wagon, with wheels planted in sand, an orange metal door horizontal across the upright beam, with two red and white Coca-Cola signs at either end and decked and hung with scraps of cloth, metal, art materials and other "junk" is a "dropping."
NOW THEN FOR A "happening" and an "environment."
From a book published by the Smolin Gallery in New York: "The term 'environment' refers to an art form that fills an entire space surrounding the visitor and consisting of any materials whatsoever, including lights, sounds, and color . . ."
From the same book, a "happening" is: "... an art form related to theatre, in that it is performed in a given time and space. Its structure and content are a logical extension of "environments."
Now what was it they said in laymen's terms?
Well, some art enthusiasts have been going to the sandbars (environments) and have had unplanned projects (happenings) when they created an art form (a dropping).
THEIR PURPOSE was in the words of the anonymous art instructor "to eliminate the notion that art is a special thing in a special place; to unrestrict ourselves from a model and room walls and to expose ourselves to the mobility of conflicting, distracting concepts."
But this isn't all. The art students may have a "happening" of a Drop Grand Prix with man-powered racing cars to Lone Star Lake (environment) and a Drop Hop semi-dance there this weekend.
WEEKEND DATE SPECIAL!
"The conservative element has not felt it has had a voice in the political arena since New Deal days, and conservatives have been looking - for someone (to lead them) since Taft died in '54." Prof. Nehring said.
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WILLIAM KNOWLAND was a logical choice for a leader of conservatives, the professor said. But, Knowland, who had sought to be a conservative leader, had the bad fortune to not be re-elected to the senate. Then, Goldwater moved in, Prof. Nehring said.
Another contributing factor to Goldwater's popularity is his personal appeal. "Goldwater worked into the picture as an attractive personality and as an articulate personality," Prof. Nehring said.
PROF. NEHRING DOES NOT believe, as some do, that the Arizona senator is an extremist in conservative sheep's wool.
Demo Victory
"If you look at all of Goldwater's statements in a particular area, he seems to have espoused a traditional kind of conservative approach," Prof. Nehring said.
Also, "Goldwater has been built up by the press in many ways as the outstanding conservative spokesman. As the net result, you have the whole country turning toward him. He has become so identified with conservatism per se that he has, in effect, become Mr. Conservative." Prof. Nehring said.
Although Nelson Rockefeller, New York governor, has often been identified as the leader of the liberal wing of the Republican Party. Prof. Nehring denies that this is the case.
"ROCKEFELLER IS not a spokesman for anybody," the professor said. He believes a Republican liberal might support either Scranton, Lodge, or Rockefeller.
"If he (Rockefeller) wins in California, he'll have considerable influence on the nomination and the platform, but I don't anticipate that he will be nominated," Prof. Nehring said.
"Lodge appears likely to go down in history books as the short-lived phenomenon of the 1964 nomination. The only thing he seems to have going for him is the opinion polls which show he has considerable popularity," Prof. Nehring said.
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