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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, September 25, 1967
Saigon students protest elections
From the wires of United Press International
SAIGON — South Vietnamese students, with an American in the lead, paraded in the streets and burned a ballot box Sunday to protest the election of Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu as president.
The demonstration came as militant Buddhists for the first time openly aligned themselves with disgruntled students and defeated civilian presidential candidates. Other demonstrations were held in Da Nang and Hue.
The American identified himself as Dave Marr, 29, of Berkeley, Calif. He said he was a former Marine "doing research" in Vietnam. He carried a sign which said: "U.S. students also demand peace—now."
There were hints that Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky, the vice president-elect who has been
feuding with Thieu, had given his tacit approval to the parade.
Such demonstrations are illegal without a government permit, but Brig. Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan, head of the national police and one of Ky's strongest supporters, made no move to stop it.
The students, numbering about 600, read an open letter to President Johnson. It accused him of interfering in Vietnamese affairs by using the election to legalize the military regime and demanded that he order an immediate halt in bombing of North Vietnam.
"If you and your government continue your policy of supporting individuals and not paying attention to the aspiration of the Vietnamese people, then we should consider the U.S. not as an ally, but as an invading country," the letter said.
Beulah floods Rio Grande
HARLINGEN Tex.-The rampant Rio Grande poured water over a smashed dam today, sending a diversionary floodway on a 4-foot-an-hour rise in the aftermath of hurricane Beulah's prodigious rains.
It threatened further misery and destruction to the south Texas coast where 11 persons have died because of Beulah.
The Rio Grande has already swept away a 200-foot long, steel-and-concrete diversionary dam designed to limit the amount of water diverted into the Arroyo
A team of Congressmen and federal officials was to fly over the area today to survey the damage in the lower Rio Grande Valley.
Colorado River, posing new dangers to homes and crops.
The storm, which has caused almost $1 million damage, struck the Texas coast near Brownsville last week. Blamed for at least 40 deaths—the 11 in Texas, and 29 in Mexico and the Caribbean—Beulah has left thousands homeless.
Pope pleads for peace
VATICAN CITY — Pope Paul VI expressed bitter disappointment Sunday that peace had not been achieved in Vietnam and wondered if "humanity is incapable of saving itself."
Sources in the Vatican said the Pope's disappointment resulted from the recent arms agreement between the Soviet Union and North Vietnam, the U.S. announcement that it would match the Soviet antiballistic missile buildup, and the apparent failure of efforts to begin peace talks through the United Nations.
In his first major statement since becoming ill a month ago,
the 69-year-old pontif said in a voice strained with emotion that recent days had been "full of hope" for a Vietnam peace.
"Instead, they have given the sorrowful prospect of new armaments and new battles," he said. "One could say humanity is incapable of saving itself. Where is good will? Where is Peace?"
The Pope's voice was firm, though somber, as he made one of his strongest appeals in his long struggle to end the fighting in Vietnam. He showed none of the fatigue that had been apparent in some of his recent audiences.
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P. V. Danckwerts, a specialist in mass transfer, is a visiting lecturer in the KU Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering through Sept. 30.
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Professor visits KU to test a book
Danckwerts, Shell professor of chemical engineering at Cambridge University in England, said he came to KU to test the reaction of the faculty and graduate students on the contents of the new book he is writing, "Gas Liquid Reactions."
The lectures will start at 2:30 p.m. Monday through Friday in 101 Lindley. Staff and graduate students are invited to attend and participate in the lecture series.
During Danckwert's two-week visit, he is giving daily lectures and conducting discussion sessions with graduate students.
"KU's department of chemical engineering is quite representative of most departments," Danckwerts said. "However, students stop work earlier in the evening than at Cambridge."
Danckwerts has received degrees from Oxford and Cambridge universities and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a Commonwealth Fund Fellow.
"The method of teaching chemical engineering in England," Danekwerts said, "is modeled after the American pattern of lecture followed by a laboratory. Chemical engineering rarely is taught in the rest of Europe."
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Hallowed tradition of "pinning" a girl is up-dated by Sprite bottle caps.
According to an independent survey (we took it ourselves), a startling new practice is becoming widespread on some college campuses.
Instead, they reach for a bottle of tart,
Suddenly, fraternity men are no longer "pinning" the young lovely things that catch their eye.
tingling Sprite--and proceed to "cap" the object of their affection
Why has this come about?
Perhaps because of what happens when you go
through the ceremony of opening a bottle of Sprite.
It fizzes! Roars! Buzzes! Tingles! Bubbles!
All of which makes for a much more moving moment than to simply "pin" a girl.
Then, too, the intimacy of two people engaged in the act of opening a bottle of Sprite in itself leads to strong emotional involvement.
Capped off, of course, by the sharing or a few moments of delicious abandon. (Tasting the tingling tartness of Sprite, that is.)
The beauty of the idea is that if the course of true love does not run smooth, you don't have to go to the trouble of getting back your pin.
You just buy another bottle of Sprite.
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