University Daily Kansan
Monday, February 14, 1972
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Women Aim to Bridge Cultures
By ROD HARDY
Kansan Staff Writer
Small World, Inc. is a program designed to help international students understand the English and become better acquainted with the Lawrence
It began in 1968 with the wives of Andrew Torres, associate dean of the graduate school; Philip O'Reilly, associate dean of mathematics; Gordon Wiesman, professor of physics; and Jacob Enoch, associate dean of mathematics. They attended to the United States from a stay at the Universidad de Oriente in Cumana, Venezuela where they were participants in the KU Ford building. All four wives had experienced problems of communicating with the people, buying food, getting meals and fitting into the community.
THE EXPERIENCE of living in a foreign culture made these women realize that there were problems with the difference with the same problems.
Mrs. Gordon Wiseman
The turnout was so good that an advertisement was run in the local newspapers asking for interested people to donate their money to the malaria women responded, and six more classrooms were added.
contacted the First Presbyterian Church and asked if they would be willing to accommodate the students in writing their names in classrooms. The church administration agreed and Small requested for two meetings a week.
'THE PRESBYTERIAN
COLLEGE has a cooperative and has graciously accommodated the mushrooming growth of the organization',
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Small World's program is open to all international women, who begin the long program is designed to help all international women eager to practice and improve their ability to make special interest groups and who will share the responsibilities of a small World. Women also are for American women
interested in assisting in the learning program; such as transportation, child care, nursery school, conversational English classes or
THE ORGANIZATION is divided into two groups, a children's program and an adult program.
The children's program offers a nursery for the children of both genders. Parents and women so that the mothers are free to attend the meetings. The nursery accommodating each age group from infants through pre-grade. The nursery school has creative games, story telling and show-telling.
There are two sections of the adult program. American women interested in eliminating some of the communication barriers between the women and the women. Groups of 8 to 10 women attend regular meetings, called "Coffee and Questions" sessions, to practice their English. The women use topics range from Indian customs to current American welfare problems. The exchange of ideas is a two-way street, providing for the transmission of culture and discussion of current problems.
and-tell.
Today, approximately 140 women and 120 children participate in the group's activities.
international women meet for sewing decorations, singing songs and dancing, music and drama, arts and crafts. The Red Cross provides
Another aspect of Small World is the Lend-Lease Program. It was created for those women in need of a home equipment. The program accepts and distributes toys, cribs, strollers, playpens and small houseware equipment for families using the family homes for short terms.
THE SECOND section of the adult program includes interest groups. Both American and
Purcell was appointed to the chairmanship by Mayor Robert Pulliam, who previously held the chairmanship will act as titular chairman.
John Purcel, 3507 W. 8th St,
was named Thursday夜 at the
new chairman of the Lawrence
Jobs for Vets Committee.
The organization also created a five-man steering committee to work with veterans and to inform employers of veterans who need
'Jobs for Vets' Names Head
Purcell is stores supervisor at DuPont Co., Tecumseh, and is a member of the American Legion Human Relations Commission.
2000 Barker; Ervin Hodges, city government personnel director, City Chamber of Commerce manager. 92 Holiday Drive, Ed Bruns, Leawood freshman and president. 67 West Side Campus Veterans, and Purcell.
Members of the steering committee are Ed Mills, local employment security director.
According to Mills, the steering committee will try to decide what actions the total committee would take. The committee would suggest new programs and other committees to study new methods of legislation.
Mills said about 500 veterans with active fire files at the Employment Security office. These questionnaires will be used to evaluate their employment.
other placement needs of the veterans.
Early returns suggest that the main needs of the veterans will be counselling, Mills said. But he also notes these returns were inconclusive.
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Simon's Solo Album Dull
'Pocket Money' Worth Little
By MIKE BICK
Kansas Reviewer
By STUART CLELAND
"Pocket Money," (Granada Theatre) is an odd, shapeless movie in which the gears of plot work over time, and come close to meshing. Starring Paul Newman and Lee Marvin, it seems to exist in a sort of lolli-wink comedy films and other commitments, defying logic and convention. Lacking a definite purpose it seems like a comedy, semi-drama and character study before finally collapsing apolitically, like a
Yet there are moments when we do get some idea of what the past has to say about our mind. The odyssey of two of life's losers as they trek through Arizona and Mexico is surely a lesson in courage for background analysis and conflict. The protagonists, too, are capable of taking on a boss and his older and more unscrupulous buddy, just trying to make some 'pocket money'. How somehow something seems to go right.
ONE PRINCIPAL PROBLEM is the plot, or lack of it. Movies that simply show a segment of a person and do not address the people or their circumstances are sufficiently dramatic. Pocket Money" however, does not provide adequate information about Newman and Marvin travel from point 'A' to point 'B' with no
particular dramatic or character development. When the film ends they may be introduced to the beginning. This may be how life actually is, but it makes for a different story.
Furthermore, both the story and film technique have problems. Chris introduced for no good reason, and then dropped after doing their one or two actions. All but a few did not unpunctuation, seemingly starting and stopping for no good reason. You follow, and after awhile you start wondering whether a lot of people are round up on the cutting room floor.
StudEx Proposal to End Difficulties of Recognition
A proposal which woulu eliminate distinguishing between registered and recognized organizations of masaara organizations was proposed by Charles Oldfather, University attorney, and William Balfour, vice-chancellor for student night at the Stud-Ex meeting.
The proposal, which would minimize difficulties encountered when considering an organization for recognition, would allow the registration of any student that applied to the University.
ITS HARD to know exactly who to blame for all this. Director John Baldacci, shown his talent in the past; he has to his credit another Newman vehicle, "Cool手 Luke." Yet it is inconsistent, often following a tight comic scene with a ramblingly pointless one, centrally positioned. Koehler also widely known, draws attention to himself by constantly shootting into the sun and the ground, with a halo effect to almost anything white in the film. The sound is often very poor, leaving the soundtrack an inaudible dialogue. Only Carole King's title song is really enjoyed, the rest of the trackstack sounds like imitation Burt Bacharach.
The proposal, however, would only those *monies* sponsored, sponsor-registered organizations and approved by the Senate be guideline already set by the Senate and would not defray the operating costs of these associations.
Oldfather and Balfour agreed to the proposal to be presented for further discussion at the SenEx meeting next
Sunday night.
A bill that would establish a special joint subcommittee of representatives from the Housing and Students Rights committees to study the rights of students living in residence halls was presented by the University's junior. Student Treasurer
A motion was passed that the bill be recommended to the Senate Wednesday night.
A resolution urging the NHS to publish a weekly health column written by physicians at Watkins Memorial Hospital was made by the Student Services Office of the Student Services Committee.
The column, which was suggested by Dr. Raymond Waltkins and the Watkins Memorial Hospital, would deal with a different medical problem each week that is relevant to University students.
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The acting, too, is inconsistent. Lee Marvin is funny as the conniving Leonard, a would-bear to think he really has a sharp operator. After awhile, however, he degenerates into doing cheap bits for laughs, and from then on he is better at being crooked boss who hires Marvin and Newman on commission; Strother Martin does his usual work, and Hector Elizondo has a few good moments as a shrewd Mexican rancher operator; unfortunately he comes off as poor streetwives.
ONLY PAUL NEWMAN really lives up to his reputation. Playing Jim Kane, the straightforwardly charismatic dancer, he performs interestingly dif-
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SOME OF SIMON'S songs carry on in the vein of "Bridge over Troubled Water" and "Bookends" to the extent that they form a bridge between the old songs and the new. They don't sound faintly familiar; they are familiar. For instance, a cut titled "Duncan," written by another provoking song, sounds very much like "El Condor Pasa," and another put cutitled "And You Fell False Apart" sounds strangely like "Overs" to the "Bookends" album.
Paul Simon's new album "Paul Simon" (Columbia Records) is a disappointment. Simon's talents are quite well known on this record, or perhaps they're going through withdrawal pains after his recent break with Art Garfunkel. Whatever the reason, the record is rather mediocre.
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Jarrett was unfamiliar to me.
After listening to his release
of the song, *The Atlantic Records*), it is best that
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ferent from his usual laconic looner. For, as his wi-ex wipes out it in one poignant scene, Kane is "a baby," simply not "savvy enough" to be a director. He bewildered bump. And Newman is a joy to watch as he gets this across to us. Faced with a new idea, he'll stare blankly off into the distance inside his head like a billard ball. Attempting serious conversation, he comes up with pointless aphorisms that only illuminate the movie film he alone is bearable for more than 10 minutes or so. The kids standing in lines outside the theatre must have known that. What they didn't know is that they no longer are a movie that support him.
Perhaps Simon is in the process of finding himself again after a failure, and is forced to Troubled Water" and this first solo album. Simon's talent is far greater than this record demonstrates and hopefully his work will win.
Simon manages to break away from the past in a cut titled "Hobos Blues" featuring his guitar and Stepahane Grappelli's violin. The song is an interesting instrumental and a welcome addition to Simon is trying to accomplish on the rest of this album.
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both Jarrett and his record remain that way. Jarrett, along with Charlie Haden and Paul Motton, tried to put together a musical trio of jazz, but failed miserably. It的不fortunate because there are traces of fine musicianship now and then and hints of at least some interest. More mints don't quite help a record that sounds like a typical day walking past the Murphy Hall practice rooms. Jarrett's book entitled "The Mourning of Album-Buyer's Lament."
Campus Bulletin
10:30 AM English 2 Staff: 10:30 a.m., Council Room,
Kingsway, Union.
Speech and Drama: 11:30 a.m., Cottonwood Cateria.
Speaker and Braun...
townwood Cafeteria.
Journal Club: 11:30 a.m. Alcove B.
Cafeteria.
Alcove C. Cafeteria.
Natural History Museum: noon, Watkins
Room.
Cafeteria
Educational Administration: 11:30 a.m.
Continuing Education: noon, Curry Room.
Honors Scholarship Committee: noon,
English Room.
F. Pugh A. Room.
Russian Tablet: 12:30 p.m., Watkins Room.
Honors Scholarship: 1:30 p.m., Pine
Room.
Room:
Housemothers: 2 p.m., Centennial Room.
University Orientation Committee: 2:30
p.m., Congress Rooms.
6.2 Computer Science Colloquium: 3:30 p.m.,
Sacramento Auditorium
Passport Photos: 7 p.m. Big Eight Room.
Museum Without Walls Series: 7:30 p.m.
Woodruff Auditorium.
Physics Colloquium: 4 p.m., 322 Mallet.
Pep Club: 6:30 p.m., Jayhawk Room.
McGovern Committee: 6:30 p.m., Parlor A
Valentine Benefit Concert: 7:30 p.m.
Hoch Auditorium
n in Auburn Menn.
Recital Bc. 8 p.m., Swarthout Recital Bc.
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