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University Daily Kansan
Friday. Feb. 22, 1963
Panel Will Discuss Civil Rights Action
A five-member panel will discuss the Kansas civil rights legislation in the next Human Rights Committee forum.
The meeting, to be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union, is set up as a five member panel to discuss the civil rights question currently before the Kansas Legislature.
HOMER FLOYD, educational director for the Kansas Commission on Civil Rights and Attorney General William F. Ferguson were originally invited to participate in the discussion.
Since Ferguson will be unable to attend, Park McGee, assistant attorney general will be present to discuss the legal aspects of the bill. This includes such things as what right the state has to tell private citizens how they must act.
Floyd will discuss the reasons that the Kansas Commission on Civil Rights, an official state body, has for desiring to see the legislation passed.
His information will be supplemented by a representative of the Kansas Advisory Council on Civil Rights, Samuel Jackson, state attorney for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
WILLIAM A. BINNS, past president of the Lawrence Human Rights Commission, has been asked to provide information on what this legislation means to Lawrence and to KU.
The last member of the panel has not been decided upon yet, but the HRC would like to include someone who could bring out the arguments against the proposed bills.
"We thought perhaps we might invite a member of the John Birch Society to fill this last place," said Frank W. Thompson, Jr., Iola junior and chairman of the HRC.
Fourth Resolution Choice up to Blocs
The bloc meetings were conducted in separate sessions with the elections of officers the main agenda.
Elections and a surprise move by the Model United Nations Steering Committee constituted last night's political bloc meetings in the Kansas Union.
DURING THE MEETINGS, however, bloc advisors from the steering committee announced the committee's decision concerning the fourth resolution area for the Model UN.
According to the announcement topics for the fourth resolution area will be decided on by the mock UN blocs instead of the steering committee which had picked the first three areas.
Steering committee officials said under this "wild card" system each bloc will submit two or three areas regarding current issues to the committee. No specific subject is necessary.
The advisors from each bloc will choose the best topics to be submitted, with the steering committee deciding on the final area from these topics.
THE DEADLINE for the resolutions will be during the bloc meetings on March 21. The amendments to the first three resolution areas are also due at these meetings.
Bloc officers elected in last night's sessions were chairmen, co-chairmen, vice-chairmen, secretaries, and security officers.
Nevada Senate Lacks Vigah
CARSON CITY, Nev. — (UPI) — The Democratic-controlled Nevada assembly showed little vigor yesterday in dealing with the hiking crazetouched off by the New Frontier.
It concurred in a senate resolution congratulating Gov. Grant Sawyer for his 25-mile hike by a weak 17-13 vote even though seven members were not vigorous enough to vote either way.
And when Chester Christensen moved for a recess "to walk briskly around the block," he was defeated on a unanimous vote.
"Thought has been given to contacting either Robert Love or Fred Koch in Wichita."
"WE HAVE ALSO CONSIDERED asking a member of the Kansas Brewers Association." he said.
The panel will discuss and debate the two bills that are now being brought up before the Kansas Legislature. These are the equal accommodations bill and the fair housing bill.
After the debate, the panel will be ready to answer any questions directed to it from the floor.
"These bills are of the greatest importance to every KU student." Thompson said. "Barbershops, taverns, off-campus housing, and many other establishments which serve students will be directly affected if these new laws are passed."
"IF THEY ARE passed," Thompson went on, "it will be the most significant step forward ever made by the state of Kansas in the assurance of minority rights to public necessities."
In a letter to Thompson, George Caldwell, a member of the legislative committee of the Kansas Advisory Council on Civil Rights, said that persons and organizations favoring such legislation can help it materially by demonstrating to the legislature that a real interest exists.
This can take the form of letter writing, attendance at legislative committee hearings, and visits to local legislators.
KU To Host Jazz Meet
KU may have a scaled down version of the Newport Jazz Festival next spring.
Top college groups and a big name band will present a concert as a finale of the first jazz festival at KU The top college group may win a trip to Europe sponsored by International People-to-People.
All this may happen if the plans of the Oread Jazz Festival Committee work out, said Mike Bush, Glendale, Mo., junior and one of the founders of the committee.
He said the committee, sponsored by Student Union Activities, feels that many people in this area are interested in jazz, but never have a chance to hear good jazz.
The committee is composed of students, area newspapermen and disk jockeys. SUA has promised to foot the initial cost of the festival.
Bush said invitations would be sent to more than 500 colleges and universities across the country. From the groups answering the invitations, the top groups would be asked to come to KU for the festival.
Bush said that some music companies have been asked to supply musical instruments as prizes, and two companies have replied. Both are interested, Bush said.
Bush said the festival would be a first in this area. There are about ten college festivals in the country now, Bush said, "but there are none in this area." He said the closest college festival east of KU is at Notre Dame, and the closest one west is in California.
But the top prize would be a summer in Europe, although People-to-People has not given a definite OK to the proposal yet.
Bush said the committee hopes to have an official from a leading record company as one of the judges, and that arrangements could be made with the company for the winning group to cut a record. He said this is done in most of the jazz festivals across the country.
Interviews for committee positions will be held next month, Bush said. Since the committee will function for a full year, no senior will be appointed.
The committee hopes to have a representative from "Downbeat" magazine and the leader of the name band as the other judges. Bush said.
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Casting Set For Musical
Further auditions for roles in KU's Far East-bound production of "The Boy Friend" will be held from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Green Room of the University Theatre. Both men and women are needed, director Sidney Berger said
"The purpose of this try-out is to help build a file of potential replacements for the touring company as insurance against unforeseen dropouts," Mr. Berger said. At least one cast member has already found it impossible to make the tour.
Those who audition should come prepared to sing one song, preferably from a Broadway musical, but popular songs are acceptable. Most of the roles also require that the actor be able to dance, but no experience is necessary, Mr. Berger said.
"The Boy Friend," a musical spoof of the 1920s in England, was first produced here by the University Players in the Experimental Theatre in December 1961. Last year it appeared in Kansas City and Junction City, and United States Overseas (USO) accepted it for foreign touring.
The tour will leave Lawrence on May 17 and return on July 17. Included in its itinerary are Hawaii, Japan, Korea, Formosa, the Philippines, Okinawa, Guam and possibly Hong Kong.
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Swedish Moviemaker Proves Films Artistic
Per-Olaf Mascher, visiting assistant professor of German, said the world should be grateful to Ingmar Bergman for providing the film as a form of art.
Prof. Mascher, a native of Sweden, spoke on "Ingmar Bergman, the Swedish Artist," before an audience of about one hundred at the Poetry Hour yesterday.
"BERGMAN'S FILMS are not entertaining." Prof. Mascher said. "They are frightening, shocking, and confusing. But by arousing such feelings, they convey what Bergman wants to say."
Mascher said there are certain themes the Swedish artist has developed over and over again through all of his movies.
Bergman's earlier films were focused on the eternal struggle between God and the devil and the mystery of life and death, he said.
IN TWO OF HIS MOVIES there are similar scenes in which someone, on the point of death, is striving to see in that moment the secret of life behind death, Prof. Mascher said.
"I think Bergman feels that asking is the most important thing a man can do; to stop asking is the worst. For if he goes on asking he may someday find the answer." he said.
In Bergman's later films, Prof. Mascher said, he has become more concerned with the relationship between people, and the need that every man has to force himself to bother about the lives and problems of other men if there is to be any meaning to his own life.
HE SAID THE WILD STRAW-berries often appear in Bergman's movies as a symbol of human relationship. It seems to be the idea that if a man can rid himself of his loneliness, he will lose his fear of death.
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"Bergman is possessed with women," Prof. Mascher said. "He is fascinated by them and admires them as superior to men. He feels they are stronger and more fit for life. He envises their superior caim, but he is also afraid of it."
AS AN ARTIST, Bergman is interested in appealing to imagination and fancy, and to do this he has set two of his movies in medieval times.
"Time, however, is an unimportant factor in any Bergman movies," Prof. Mascher said. "He has been criticized for being unable to present a true picture of either the present or the past, but the critics fail to realize that he doesn't want to and isn't trying to do so."
"He is concerned with the questions and problems of all human beings whenever and wherever they live."
Tennessee Attempts Cigarette Ban Repeal
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - (UPI) -- It's still against the law to sell tobacco in Tennessee to anyone under 21 years of age.
The House yesterday tabled a proposal to repeal a long-standing ban against selling cigarettes to minors. The bill is one of many which were recommended for repeal as obsolete.
However, some House members said they were afraid repealing the law might "encourage" the sale of cigarettes to high school students.
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