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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, December 13, 1967
Youth friendship program needs more big brothers
The KU-Y Youth Friendship Program is looking for more "big brothers."
The program pairs KU students with Lawrence grade school and junior high students who have special problems or needs, Ron Gann, Wichita senior and cochairman of the program, said more men, especially Negro men, are needed to act as big brothers to boys who have adjustment problems at home or school or who simply need someone older to talk to.
The children are selected by their grade school teachers or junior high counselors, and must have their parents' permission to participate.
50 students working
About 50 KU students are working in the three-year-old program. Gann said.
The KU student spends a couple of hours with his little brother or sister each week. Together, they indulge in such inexpensive activities as visiting the KU Art Museum or going to the park.
Occasionally, some go roller skating, to the show, or to KU varsity athletic events.
Gann said his own "little brother" simply enjoys doing and seeing new things.
Liked car washing
Gann took him to a car wash and, "He really thought that was a big deal. He wanted to go with me every time I washed my car."
While visiting Gann's fraternity house the boy was especially impressed with the chapter's trophies, so Gann found an old one in the basement for the boy to take home.
Meeting Gann's former pinmate also thrilled the boy.
"He got all these ideas about us getting married. He was all keyed for the wedding," Gann said.
'Haven't seen a lot'
"There are so many things some of the children have never seen," Gann said adding that not all of the children have had such limited experiences.
lot out of the program by redis-
covering things with the child.
Gann stressed "responsibility" when speaking of the kind of students KU-Y wants for its program. He said the children get attached to their "big brother" or "big sister" and when the student fails to show up at a set time, or drops out of the program, the child considers it as another rejection.
He said the KU student gets a
"I had an experience where I was late and couldn't get hold of the boy," Gann said. "His teacher said he was crying because he didn't think I was going to show up," Gann said.
Seven more days
KU students will officially begin Christmas vacation at 5:20 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 20, according to the office of Admissions and Records.
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French theater is topic
KU's Rose Morgan visiting professor this semester, Jacques Scherer, will speak on "Jean Genet and the New French Theater" at 8 p.m. today in the Kansas Union Forum Room.
This will be Scherer's last speech at KU before returning to France next week. Scherer, director of the Institute of Theater Studies at the Sorbonne in Paris, has been teaching a French classical theater class since his arrival in September.
Scherer said his talk will help explain Genet's play, "The Blacks," to be performed at 8:20 pm. April 29 and 30 and May 1, 2,5,6,8,9,10,and 11 in the Experimental Theatre.
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PERSONALITY FORUM
presents
Dr. Nelick
and
Dr. Quinn
discussing
CREDIBILITY IN POETRY
Thursday, Dec. 14
at 2:30 p.m.
in the Forum Room