Photo by Ron Bishop
Creativity takes a new twist
Eight new art professors display works expressing ideas instead of images in the basement of Spooner Art Museum. The display will continue through this week.
Exhibit features art of new professors
An art exhibit featuring the work of eight new faculty members is now being shown in the basement of the Spooner Art Museum, said A. Bret Waller, director of the museum.
The exhibit, which will last through this week, features the works of the following new members of the art department: Phil Blackhurst, Michael Ott, Richard Dishinger, Jo Lubnsku, Michael Bravo, Norman Gee, Roger Shimonura and Robert Price.
"The current show is an expression of ideas rather than images and in some cases simply an implied thought," said Waller.
There was some question on whether the museum would show an oil painting titled "Hollywood Headboard" by Robert Prince, which shows a large bed in background and Fraser Hall in the foreground, but the museum was assured by Price that the painting was not political, said Michael Ott, instructor in drawing and painting.
Ott also said there was a certain amount of controversy concerning a poster which the faculty members designed to publicize the show. The group submitted the poster, entitled "Eight Punk Proposals," to the Lawrence Outlook and was told it seemed to represent a certain thought about the draft, said Ott.
8 KANSAN Apr. 6 1970
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Lee Weiner, one of the Chicago 7, will speak at a rally April 15 in Kansas City, Mo., Bill Black, Kansas City sophomore and member of the Student Mobilization Committee said Sunday.
Weiner was one of the two persons acquitted of all charges in the trial. He was, however, cited for contempt.
Rally will feature Weiner
The rally will be sponsored by the Student Mobe, the Black Panthers, the Kansas City chapter of the National Welfare Rights Organization and other
groups opposed to the Vietnam war.
Student Mobe is planning meetings April 12, 13 and 14 in the Daisy Hill residence halls to prepare for the rally, Black said. The Mobe will show movies in the Kansas Union April 13, 14, and 15, and will sponsor buses from KU to the rally.
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil (UPI)
—Four gunmen tried to kidnap a U.S. diplomat early Sunday and shot him in the back in a wild street fight. The American ran down one of the would-be abductors with his car and escaped.
Kidnapper run over as diplomat escapes
Black said the Student Mobe will decide final plans, including the time for the parade and rally, this week.
The hero of the aborted kidnap, Curtis Cutter, 41-year-old U.S. consul in this city of 1 million people in southern Brazil, was reported in satisfactory condition at a hospital where surgeons removed a single slug from his lungs. Cutter is from Sacramento, Calif.
Cutter's wife, Katherine, and a friend identified as H. Clark of the U.S. Foreign Service, were with him when the terrorists struck, but neither was hurt.
Police and U.S. sources said Cutter was at the wheel of his station wagon returning home about 12:15 a.m. when the terrorists, armed with submachine guns and revolvers, overtook him from the rear in a Volkswagen
and stopped the car in Port Allegre's nightclub district.
Cutter suddenly gunned the engine of his car which sideswiped the Volkswagen and struck one of the gunmen, dragging him for about 60 feet.
The other three men then opened fire on Cutter's car and one bullet hit him.
Police later found the Volks-
wagen abandoned and set up
roadblocks in an attempt to trap
the gunmen.
The Cutters arrived in Porto Alegre last November. He has been in the Foreign Service since 1957 and previously served in Cambodia and Peru.
OKAY BY THEM
HONOLULU (UPI)—University of Hawaii students voted in a poll by a 4 to 1 margin in favor of on-campus recruitment by business and military.
Bands will play at the rally and there will be a dance at the University of Missouri at Kansas City afterwards.
Reagan speech delayed by shot into hotel lobby
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (UPI)—Police had no suspects and few clues Sunday in the firing of a riffle bullet into the crowded lobby of a hotel about an hour before Gov. Ronald Reagan was to speak there.
The shell fell harmlessly to the floor Saturday night after ricocheting through the lobby and restaurant of the Woodlake Inn. It was fired from outside, either by a pedestrian or a motorist on a nearby freeway, police said.
Reagan, who was delayed 45 minutes by lawmen while they checked the area, joked about the incident in his speech to 1,000 persons attending a California Republican assembly banquet.
"We wanted to see what the new open season was and on who," he told the crowd in explaining the delay.
The .22 caliber bullet missed scores of restaurant and bar patrons after smashing through the lobby door. It went through a lampshade, glanced off a stained glass window behind the bar, ricocheted off two restaurant tables and pierced another plate glass window at the rear of the restaurant before falling to the floor.
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