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Show t J , !lf pus Was Unwilling to Sponsor Jazz Festival tayce Chff? Cbioms Po Press Mpf ; sales for non-University activities on-campus partially held things up, permission was ob- tained to hang posters announcing the festival 1 in the Union. ! "Some of them were actually hung," Miller indicated, "but were almost immediately taken ! down by persons claiming to be members of the I University Public Relations Department." Sug-. Sug-. gesting that the posters might have been re-: re-: moved by "vandals," the Jaycees asked to hang r , some more announcements, The request was denied. Posters appearing on-campus were hung by individual professors and interested parties, according ac-cording to Miller. Public Relations Problems "I feel badly that the Spurs canceled out on us. I also feel badly that, if they were pressured pres-sured by the University, they let themselves be ' (Continued on Page 4) Jaycee President Gary Miller SR t the university Sunday for their C-i wt A, publicize the Intermountain Col- ' Festival- In an exclusive Chronicle 'Miller said, "We were quite willing L university in on the proceedings ;d basis this year and, possibly, have !!?cosponsors next year. We're still in- ?ilfd;" ti val held at Highland High School 5e, v ee sponsorship April 7-8, had origin- n offered to the University by coordina-i coordina-i William L. Fowler. "Dr. Fowler waited 1 frair weeks for the University to decide ?Vcame to us," Miller explained. "He deadline to meet and, realizing what a .L it would be for the community, my Directors agreed to sponsor it." Too Late . similar reply came from the University .-to Jaycees had signed the contract. "It 'loo late for them this year, since arrange-for arrange-for the use of the Highland auditorium already been made," Miller said, "but, -considering that it was a collegiate jazz festival we thought it would be better if the University were involved " etesaTonVnft6 University SP as usher-ettes usher-ettes at one of the concerts were made and requests re-quests to put up posters and sell tickets in the Union were submitted. rv, TvheuSpUrs were aPProached some three months before the festival and they said they'd "wfVV8''.' the JayCee president Pinted out. We kept in touch with them to make sure that they still could help us and they promised to be in attendance." The day before the first concert, the Jaycees were notified by the Spurs that the service organization or-ganization wouldn't be able to usher. Pressure Felt "The funny thing is that two or three of them did show up," said Miller. "Apparently, the decision de-cision had been made so soon before the concert that the officers hadn't had enough time to tell everyone. Up until that time, our agreement with them had been a concrete thing, so it seems, in my mind, that pressure from higher places made them change their minds." Though a University rule preventing ticket Charges U. Press Failure (Continued from Page 1) moved by it," he said: "I'm unhappy also about the prob lems we've had with the University Uni-versity Public Relations Department." Depart-ment." Asked if anything could be done to straighten the conflict out, Miller replied. "By sitting down and having some good heart-to-heart talks, I'm still confident that an agreement could be reached. If the University Uni-versity got together with us on this, we could run a great jazz festival in 1968." He emphasized that the agreement agree-ment had to be "on our terms." "When I called and spoke to Neal Maxwell about the poster matter, he said he'd look into it," Miller said. "Two days later, la-ter, I received a call from a gentleman saying he was Maxwell's Max-well's special assistant and that the University did not wish to cooperate at that time as long as our technical director operated oper-ated in the manner and attitude that he did." Miller explained that the work done by the technical director, Dr. Fowler, had been "outstanding "outstand-ing in every respect." "Vice-president Maxwell and I are planning to get together and discuss the possibility of involving in-volving the University in the festival next year," he continued, con-tinued, "but we won't bring anyone any-one else, including the University, Univer-sity, in with us if Dr. Fowler is not the technical director." |
