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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, September 26, 1967
'India can solve problems by 1971'
"If the good monsoons continue, India should be self-sufficient by 1971," H. S. Shahani, deputy secretary of education in the Indian Embassy, Washington, D.C., said.
Shahani spoke to the KU India Club Monday in the Kansas Union.
Two major problems facing India today, Shahani said, are the population explosion and the food shortage.
Bad monsoons cause problems
Bad monsoons cause problems The food shortage is not because Indians are lazy, Shahani said, but because the monsoons failed. The government has taken steps, through a five-year agricultural program, to insure that, with sufficient monsoon rain, India's people will be fed.
Shahani said the population increase is not indicative of a birth rate increase, but of a death rate decrease. This is due to India's success in controlling disease.
The population, at the present rate, could be one billion people by the year 2000, Shahani said. However, government birth control programs should reduce this number to the expected 700 million.
Shahani said he hoped KU's Indian students would return to India when they finished their studies.
'Not a bed of roses'
"It's not a bed of roses you are all going home to, but we must work hard to build our country," Shahani told the club.
At a reception in Gov. Robert Docking's mansion Sunday, Shahani said the Governor's wife wore a sari in honor of his customs. Shahani was in Topeka for the UNICEF drive.
After Shahani's talk, club members asked questions. One student asked why India lacks nuclear weapons.
"Our philosophy is we should always be peaceful," Shahani sai... "Ghandi's non-violence defeated the British and it is non-violence that will defeat the Chinese."
Angels to offer guidance service
Angels will help KU sports fans find seats this year, instead of directing them to parking spaces before football and basketball games.
Hoben wins contest
Members of Angel Flight will be seen in blue dress uniforms similar to those of the men of Arnold Air Society who will be working with them. Ushering and ticket-taking is a new project for both honorary university service organizations, about 25 of whom will work weekly.
Steve Fryer, Arkansas City senior who heads Arnold Air Society this fall, and Maggie Ogilvie, Kansas City junior and newly-elected Angel Flight commander, will outline this semester's projects and social events at a joint pizza party Oct. 3.
When You're in Doubt—Try It Out, Kansan Classifieds.
Students interested in contributing to the Cottonwood Review, a campus literary publication, will
Writers will meet today
meet today and Thursday from 1 to 3 p.m. in Kansas Union room 118.
The design for the White House was a contest sponsored by the Federal Government and won by James Hoben.
S. U. A. CLASSICAL FILM SERIES
presents Federico Fellini's
LA STRADA
(Italy, 1954) Anthony Quinn & Giulietta Masina
by the creator of $ 8 \frac{1}{2} $ ,La Dolce Vita and Juliet of the Spirits
Academy Awards "Best Foreign Film of 1956" Venice Internat'l Film Festival's "Grand Prize Winner" New York Film Critics' "Year's Best Foreign Film"
7:00 & 9:00 p.m.—Wednesday
Dyche Auditorium
Single Admission: 60c—Season Ticket: $5