Friday, Dec. 15, 1961 University Daily Kansan
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Exchange Study Plan Expands
There is a possibility at some future date that one-half the KU junior class will be able to study abroad under KU's rapidly expanding foreign exchange program.
So said Francis Heller, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He and Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe were speaking on "Kansas University in World Affairs" at Crisis Day discussion.
A Crisis Day discussion group yesterday discussed the question: "Will White Supremacy Bury Us" and concluded that the answer is no—or can be no, if both whites and Negroes make the necessary sacrifices.
THE CHANCELLOR listed the
Race Problem Is Discussed
“. . . AS SEEN THROUGH the eyes of the uncommitted third of the world, how is the position of the West affected by such issues as ‘free’ elections in Mississippi? The right of a lily-white restaurant owner to refuse a glass of water in ‘his’ restaurant to a Negro child? . . . The hate in the eyes of the mothers in New Orleans who do not want their children to go to school with Negroes. . . . The ‘impossibility’ of finding a Negro girl or boy in this city of Lawrence with sufficient qualification to sell chewing gum in a drugstore or decorations in a Five and Ten?”
The hour-long discussion was conducted by Harry G. Shaffer, assistant professor of economics.
Professor Shaffer began by reading a statement to the group. It read, in part:
"These wrongs can't be righted without sacrifice," a clergyman in the group said. "The first question that both Negroes and whites must ask is not 'How much will (an end to white supremacy) cost us?' but instead 'How much can we contribute?'
"Sometimes this sacrifice may mean a man or an entire community may lose business, or a willingness to see a public facility sponsored by the community go unused." he said.
"IF A WHITE BOY and a Negro girl came to you and asked that you marry them, would you do it?" a student asked the clergyman.
"Certainly," he answered. "I have no qualms at all about interracial marriages. I think this the ultimate goal of integration.
"But I wouldn't marry a couple like this if I thought they were just out to prove it could be done. And I'd marry them only if I thought they were mature enough to face the criticism that would result from their marriage."
COMMENTING ON THE CLERGymman's earlier statement that economic sacrifices might be necessary to end white supremacy, a student mentioned an attempt to integrate the Lawrence swimming pool several years ago.
Prof. Shaffer, who is a member of the Lawrence League for the Practice of Democracy — an organization which combats discrimination against all minority groups in Lawrence—agreed with the clerkman.
"The woman operating the pool folded up after a few days of trying to go along with the integration policy," he began.
"That's completely untrue, Stanley," the clergyman interrupted.
Campus Presidents' Luncheon
"We (the League) tried in every way we knew to get the woman to integrate the pool," he said. "We even gave her the names of a number of faculty members who pledged to support the pool if she integrated, but she refused."
A luncheon honoring hill presidents will be held at noon tomorrow in the Kansas Room of the Union.
The luncheon is sponsored by the SUA and has been titled Gavel Club luncheon.
Those presidents who did not receive an invitation should call Carol Drever at VI 3-7070 for information
John Ise, professor emeritus of economics, will give the address. E.C. Buehler, professor of speech and drama, will furnish entertainment.
Formerly the SUA sponsored an annual President's Breakfast.
possibilities of countries where KU students may study some day.
"It's possible," he said, "that within a few years we may have students going to Japan. This, of course depends on how long it takes students to become firmly based in the Japanese areas studies."
The Chancellor also mentioned possible studies in Finland, Poland, Czechoslovakia and other Eastern European countries.
Asking about the possibility of Russian students coming to KU to study, the Chancellor said the Soviet government seems reluctant to permit its students to come to this country.
"They have (the Russians) involved any possible exchange programs with miles of red tape and chances for exchange are about to collapse.
"The Soviets want an exchange of students on a strict one to one basis," said the Chancellor. "By that, I mean, they don't want to exchange merely one student for one student — they want one U.S. engineering student for each Russian engineering student and so on."
"They also seem reluctant to hold an exchange program except in the field of technical sciences."
Museum Addition Drawn
MORE ROOM — The Museum of Natural History will have its teaching and research facilities enlarged by 350,000 square feet in this 6-story addition to Dyche Hall. The State Architect's office has under advisement construction bids totaling $706,823. The addition with its limestone exterior will extend 70 feet northward toward the Kansas Union.
THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANIES SALUTE: STEVE BANKS
Because of Steve Banks, who just two years ago was an undergraduate engineering student, the Bell Telephone System is closer to wiping out the noise (or "static") that sometimes interferes with telephone conversations.
On one of his first assignments, Steve examined the noise levels that had "leaked" into telephone circuits in
Colorado. His findings shed new light on the source of noise, and on the important methods of measuring it.
Steve Banks of Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Company, and the other young engineers like him in Bell Telephone Companies throughout the country, help make your communications service the finest in the world.
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