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China-U.N. Issue Dead, Expert Says
By Jerry Musil
A speaker following an anti-Communist film said last night Red China's admission to the United Nations is a dead issue.
He said it was a dead issue because Red China will eventually be admitted to the United Nations.
Klaus Pringsheim, instructor of political science and a China expert, discussed and answered questions about the film, "Red China-Outlaw."
THE FILM IS PRODUCED by the Committee of One Million, a group working for the continued withholding of U.N. membership from Red China. It was sponsored by the KU chapter of the Young Americans for Freedom.
Mr. Pringsheim spent more than 10 years in the Orient including two years at the University of Hong Kong.
He said the Chinese Communists will not sit on the U.N. General Assembly with the government of Chiang Kai-shek.
Crisis Day Idea Grows Steadily
Contact with campus student organizations and several nationally prominent speakers highlighted the discussion of an ad hoc committee yesterday for a special "World Crisis Day."
Chester Bowles, Harland Cleavland, Jerome Frank, Norman Thomas, and Arthur Schlesinger were named as possible keynote speakers for the event.
RAYMOND O'CONNOR, ASSISTant professor of history and one of the organizers of the group is in Washington this weekend and will contact several of the possible speakers.
Lewis Wheelock, lecturer of history, commented that Prof. O'Connor said he can definitely get a prominent speaker to come to KU for this program without any cost.
All religious groups, and other campus student organizations will be contacted this weekend for support of the idea of a "World Crisis Day," it was decided at yesterday's meeting.
A resolution supporting the idea is being written today and will be presented to the student organizations for their approval.
KLAUS PRINGSHEIM, instructor of political science, said that the approved resolutions will be presented
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"THEY WILL CONTINUE pressure to gain the two-thirds majority necessary for admission I believe if they were admitted the Nationalists would walk out. What would we do? Do we recognize Red China or continue to recognize Chiang Kai-shek and walk out?" he asked.
Questioned if the admission of Red China would serve a good purpose, Mr. Pringsheim said many Southeast Asian and African countries believe it would serve some purpose. They ask the United States how she expects to control the Chinese Communists if not through the United Nations, he added.
"The Afro-Asian Bloc is pressuring for Red China's admission. They feel the United Nations could control Red China," he said.
He said an adverse vote did not stop the Soviet Union from exploding the 50 megaton bomb and doubts if it would stop President Kennedy if he felt a nuclear test was necessary.
Mr. Pringsheim discussed three reasons for opposing Red China's U.N. admission which were pointed out by three Congressmen in the film. The reasons are:
- Chinese Communist atrocities in China, Tibet and Korea,
- Growth, production and illegal sales abroad of opium.
- China's aggressive actions which
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Weather
Generally fair today becoming cloudy and not so cold tonight and tomorrow. Highs today and tomorrow in the 40s. Low tonight near 30.
Daily hansan
59th Year No.46
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Friday, Nov. 17, 1961
'Tiger' Badges Seized Under Expulsion Threat
By Karl Koch
Laurence C. Woodruff, dean of students, has confiscated about 2,950 ATAP lapel buttons from a group of students who planned to sell them.
DEAN WOODRUFF said in an interview yesterday that the seizure came about because "these buttons
A spokesman for the group asserted they had turned over the buttons under threat of expulsion from the University.
The buttons, which ostensibly mean All Tigers Are Pushovers, a reply to the AHAB (All Hawks are B----) buttons worn by MU students at last year's MU-KU games.
have become sort of a symbol of poor sportsmanship on the part of both institutions."
He said he probably had no legal right to take the buttons.
He said he would destroy them.
"I think we have a natural right to do what is necessary to protect the dignity of a great institution," he said.
He affirmed that he would have expelled the students for selling the buttons.
"I SAID IF THEY continued in this (selling buttons), I'd have no alternative," he said.
The spokesman for the students,
Dale MacCallum, Kansas City
senior, said in an interview earlier this week that the seizure cost the students involved about $50 each -- a total of $408.
The students ordered 3,000 buttons from a company in St. Louis, and put them on sale at the Stables, a Lawrence tavern.
Moses Gunn Is Active Because of Two Boys
A few days later, Dean Woodruff called MacCallum and another student involved into his office.
A KU student said last night that he became active in anti-discrimination programs because of two small children.
"THERE ARE two little boys who play up and down the campus. Maybe you've seen them," he said.
Moses Gunn, Lawrence graduate student, was speaking to 20 members of the Lawrence League for the Practice of Democracy, an anti-discrimination group.
"DEAN WOODRUFF told us if we didn't have the buttons in his office by 5 o'clock that night, along with a signed statement that we wouldn't sell any more buttons, he'd kick us out of school," MacCallum said.
"One night I was in a laundromat, and the two kids came in. They played and ran around the place for a while, laughing.
"One boy is a Negro, the other is white. The Negro boy is named Norman; the other boy is named Richard. They play together laughing and running around.
"Here I was a great big grown-up, and I couldn't bowl. He told me he could bowl at the Union, but not in the bowling alley across the street. He asked me why. I told him he was only a little boy. He told me he was a little boy up at the Union, too."
"Then Norman came up to me. He wasn't smiling. He asked me if I could bowl. I told him no. He was surprised at this.
AS GUNN SPOKE, a woman two rows in front of him darned socks. Another woman knitted with bright blue yarn, staring intently at him. The room was quiet, the people intent and interested.
"The success of this community depends on what those two little boys do. What will probably happen is that one will get a huge superiority complex, and the oth-
"It suddenly came to my mind, as I talked to Norman that there was something about those two kids that makes them different." Gunn said. "They play and laugh together in youthful innocence.
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MacCallum said that they had asked Dean Woodruff about the administration's feelings before they ordered the buttons.
At that time, Dean Woodruff told the group's representative that "the administration would take a dim view of student's distributing the buttons." MacCallum said.
He added that the group took this to mean that the University would not be pleased by the buttons, but would not expell students from school for selling the buttons.
HOWEVER, DEAN WOODRUFF said yesterday that he had told the student who talked to him that a person connected with this enterprise would put his school career in jeopardy.
"They were given warning," he said.
In his statement to the Kansan Tuesday, MaeCallum said he did not think the University had a right to interfere with the legal business enterprises of the students.
"If we hadn't been enrolled in school, there's not a thing he could have done," he said, referring to Dean Woodruff's action.
Dean Woodruff said yesterday that the University "probably shouldn't interfere as long as the
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A Kansan Series-Part II
Watkins Personnel Swamped Because of Space Shortage
By Richard Bonett
(Editor's Note: This is the second in a three-part series on the space shortage at Watkins Memorial Hospital.)
Take a tour of Watkins Memorial Hospital and one theme is repeated over and over by staff members:
The lack of space has created innumerable bottlenecks that act as a handicap in the efficient performance of their jobs.
Nearly all the worst examples are related to outpatient treatment, which constitutes more than three-fourths of the hospital's work load.
JAMES GILLESPIE, HEAD of the hospital's Pharmacy and an employee there for 15 years, is one whose department is affected.
"How many drugstores would you find in a town of 10,000? I'd wager three or four. Well KU is just like such a town," he says.
Mr. Gillespie, with two part-time assistants, last year handled 19,814 perscriptions. The Kansas State Board of Health recommends a hospital the size of Watkins Memorial have 500 square feet of space for the pharmacy. Following a 1960 inspection, the board credited the hospital's pharmacy with only 200 square feet.
"IF WE HAD MORE space we could fill prescriptions so much faster there wouldn't be any need for students to wait in line as they sometimes have to now," Mr. Gillespie explains.
The pharmacist further points out that more than two-thirds of his supplies are stored in makeshift areas dug out of a sub-basement several years ago, or in an attic.
"That means 10 to 12 trips a day for supplies," he
says. In addition, the shortage of space means ordering in smaller quantities, necessitating more frequent orders and consequent delays.
There has been no addition or major remodeling of Watkins Hospital since its construction. To keep up with increasing demands on the facility, space for services that have outgrown initial quarters has been made available wherever it could be found.
Virginia Detlor, in charge of laboratory facilities and a member of the hospital staff 21 years, sits in a cluttered first-floor office and tells a similar story.
"We have converted a bathroom in an adjoining doctor's office into a small lab that's available to us — when we can get to it between patients," she says.
The laboratory department, which last year performed 22.417 test procedures, should have 560 square feet of space for efficient operation. It is credited with 300 square feet by the state board.
Miss Detlor gave a chilling description of what this could mean to a student undergoing extensive chemical tests that require periodic testing over a three or four-hour period.
"WE HAVE NO PLACE FOR A patient to sit in privacy. He sits in the hall—not a pleasant experience if you have a gastric tube stuck down your throat," she says.
The space shortage is so critical in her department, Miss Detlor said, that only one test can be performed at a time.
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Short on space ... long on confusion —