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University Daily Kansan Friday, October 13, 1961
The U.S. and Cuba
Secretary of State Dean Rusk made a very interesting statement on Cuba last Wednesday. He said the United States would never accept peaceful coexistence with Fidel Castro's Cuban regime.
THE UNITED STATES, he said, is negotiating with the member nations of the Organization of American States (OAS) and hopes for concerted OAS action against Castro. But he added that President Kennedy's statement that the United States would act alone against Castro if necessary, still stands. This stand has been taken, Secretary Rusk explained, because Cuba had made its commitment to forces outside the hemisphere, an action that is not negotiable.
This statement of policy is important because it indicates the basic United States attitude toward Communist intrusions into the Western hemisphere. Castro must fall because he has committed himself to the Communist bloc. And, by logical extension of this statement, no nation in the Western hemisphere would be allowed to attach itself to the Communist bloc or cause as long as the United States can prevent it.
The United States will proceed cautiously, as
Secretary. Rusk's statement about negotiations with OAS members shows. President Kennedy does not want another failure like the April invasion and he would prefer that whatever action is taken against Castro has the approval and active participation of the OAS. But in the final analysis, the United States will act alone if it has to.
If unilateral action were taken, it would probably come in the form of a new invasion of Cuba by another force composed of Cuban refugees from Castro's regime, supported by whatever U.S. forces are necessary for success.
THIS MAY SEEM LIKE a hard position to many of the Latin American countries in particular and to many other nations not directly concerned. But Fidel Castro and his advisers are in large part responsible for that position. They deliberately confiscated American property without compensation, harrassed American officials and newsmen and moved Cuba toward the Communist bloc in international affairs. These actions and many others like them made the United States opposition to their regime inevitable.
-William H. Mullins
The Need for Physical Fitness
KU seems to be faced with a dilemma of physical fitness and physical education.
New programs for physical fitness are being started in grade schools and physical education course requirements are being stiffened in high schools in an effort to "keep up with the Russians."
ON THE COLLEGE LEVEL, Bud Wilkinson football coach at Oklahoma University, was named special adviser on physical fitness to President Kennedy. Other college officials around the country have expressed their concern for student health.
At one college in Kansas, freshman men attend physical education classes at 6:30 a.m.
Everyone recognizes the problem. Chancellor Wescoe offered a suggestion for the KU student in his convocation address—let the student walk more; he will be more healthy in the long run if he does.
AT KU, HOWEVER, the facilities for physical education and a fitness program are out-dated and inadequate. And little can be done about improving plant facilities for some time.
A lack of funds make constructing a new gymnasium almost impossible; a new/building was not on the "priority list" sent to the legislature.
There are other ways to get funds, but state funds seem the most logical.
NO MATTER HOW IMPORTANT proper gymnasium facilities are to the student and administration, there is little that can be done. Other buildings, such as replacements for Strong Annex, come first.
To put a new gym ahead of these would be "unrealistic."
But the physical fitness of American college students today is also "unrealistic."
The University must serve not only the minds, but also the body.
A University whose classroom facilities are outmoded cannot fully serve the student and his intellectual pursuits. Nor can a University whose physical education facilities are outmoded serve the student.
—Carrie Merryfield
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is the specter of social ostracism exerted by their Greek groups which insist on certain set policies, some dictated by their national charter.
Members of these groups are inhibited from active participation in social issues, such as discrimination per force of social pressure within these groups. Members who might be concerned are afraid to act because they themselves will have to face the questions of their tellow memoirs. They themselves are living in groups that practice discrimination.
What is the use of starting anything around here if the majority of people are bound to principles which support the continuance of discriminatory practices? To whom is one responsible—oneself or one's group?
Eugene Gold
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Call For Action
A friend told me that the University's housing policy could well make us enemies in the future. Here was her point:
"Suppose we get a student from one of the new African countries and he is turned away by a Lawrence landlord who refuses to rent to Negroes. Just think what happens 10 years from now when that
MY FRIEND IS A WELL-meaning person, but she misses the point completely. The policy is morally wrong, not politically dangerous. It erodes a little of you and me when our fellow man is turned away because he is black, because he subscribes to minority doctrines. The Negro in Mississippi who may not sit anywhere in a bus, the black child in Alabama who cannot attend a white school, the child who is forced to sit through a religious service of another faith . . . these are our responsibilities.
WHEN DO WE ACT? WHEN we can persuade the white supremacist that the black man deserves a chance? When the Klansman puts down his sheet and when the bigot admits his bias? Those who wish to wait may be deaf to their conscience. Or they may be trading their conscience for an admission card into the business community whose song is: Wait, wait, wait. You cannot legislate.
student is premier of his country. What's he going to think of the great freedoms we constantly talk about?"
On Other Campuses
Wait for what? Use persuasion on whom? Some people have been waiting *a* long time to be able to walk unafraid with head up.
NORTHFIELD, Minn.—Carleton College will begin a new three-course, three-term program this fall, which is designed to give greater freedom and flexibility to the students now seeking admission to the college. Under the three-three system, students will take three courses during three ten-week terms, rather than the heretofore two semesters, which averaged five courses of from 12 to 18 credit-hours per semester.
Instructional hours could be reduced to 15 or 16 per week, assuming at least two hours of assigned work done by students. This work would not be reviewed during instructional hours but would be properly covered by examinations. Actual student work would thereby be effectively increased, an honest 45- or 48-hour week.
CLEVELAND, Ohio - Every student should be exposed to learning from the minds of the best qualified members of the faculty, according to President G. Brooks Earnest of Fenn College. Taking as his subject "The Professor During the Coming Decade" . . . he points out that at the same time, a decent regard for the quality of the faculty and of advanced instruction suggests that all members, including the best qualified, should do the bulk of their teaching in classes of 15 or less.
Robert French Independence freshman
BETHLEHEM, Pa.—"A Christian college may be sponsored by a particular church or denomination, but its first obligation is not to the sponsoring body but to its own work as a college," according to Dr. James Heller, Moravian College dean-designate. "If by restriction or restraint the church stifles free inquiry in the college or in any way does violence to the necessary conditions of truly liberal education, that church forfeits its moral right to participate in high education," he said.
In bringing about this situation it is plain that something has to give. We cannot increase faculty teaching loads, but we can reduce student loads. These loads in many colleges are now approaching 20 to 25 clock hours. If the students actually prepared two hours for each clock hour of instruction, they would be working 60 to 75 hours a week. This means a ten or more hour day, six to seven days a week.
Students in the lower division (freshmen and sophomores) will be expected to devote themselves almost entirely to satisfying the requirements in general education. At the same time, provision is made for students to take at least one full year course in departments in which they may later major. One problem which prompted the consideration of the new system was the wide-spread tendency of students to postpone many general education requirements so that, during the junior and senior years when they should be concentrating on the mastery of a major field, many are still taking freshman and sophomore level courses.
Another major change resulting from the new program will be a shift in the basic unit of college work from credit hours to term courses. Instead of the 120 hours previously required for graduation, students will meet college requirements with a total of 35 term courses.
ALFRED, N. Y.—The College of Liberal Arts at Alfred University will be divided into upper and lower divisions, beginning this fall. The plan was unanimously adopted by the faculty of the College of Liberal Arts upon recommendation of the Curriculum Committee which had been studying the matter all last year. The change was announced by Dr. John W. Gustad, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts.
EATON'S FRIDAY CARTOON
"Let's go down to the corner and whistle at girls."