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University Daily Kansan Monday, October 2,1961
Crises Confront Iran
Iran, its historical and contemporary crises and the reasons for them, were discussed yesterday at the Faculty Club by Burton W. Marvin, dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism.
Dean Marvin reported that shortly before he and his family arrived in Iran in 1960, the Shah (king) of Iran declared an election of the Iranian parliament null and void because of corruption. The prime minister of Iran resigned.
FOUR MONTHS AFTER the Marvins arrived, students at the University of Teheran (the capitol of Iran) struck against the University, finally forcing it to close for two months. Dean Marvin said he felt this was a result of frustration on the students' part.
"They feel they are being cheated out of an education. We Fulbrighters were sort of subversives. We used techniques quite common in American colleges, and the students had a chance to see what education was like in other parts of the world. This added to their feeling of being cheated."
He noted that during the strike, police manned trucks and firehoses outside the campus gates to control the students. This, he declared, was a dilemma for the United States. He explained that in addition to all the other forms of aid the United States is giving to Iran, it is providing up-to-date police training.
DEAN MARVIN SAID that during the second month of the strike, he was able to teach his class of adult journalists. At one point, however, his students suggested he stop classes for his own protection.
Dean Marvin commented on newspapers in Iran, all of which are licensed.
"Information in Iran is turned on and off, like a water faucet," he said. He related that one of his students asked him how the U.S. government goes about suppressing a newspaper.
"THEY (IRANIANS) have no conception of how the American press operates. They cannot realize we
have a bill of rights protecting our newspapers."
Dean Marvin reported that informed people are watching for new action in Iran in November, when the students will return to the University of Teheran.
"The students are basically politically naive. They do not know as much as our students, and usually protest for other reasons. But there are other political interests in Iran who encourage them to strike. November may well bring new crises to Iran."
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"TO DRAW A PARALLEL," he continued, "this reason is about as foolish as saying that the state of Kansas should withdraw from the U.S. Senate because the Senate has been liberal for the first term of the 87th Congress."
The guiding principle of a democracy is that the majority of the legislators make the laws without infringing on the Constitutional rights of the minority, Menghini said.
At the same time, he added, the minority is always attempting through the power of argument to become the majority.
"THE MINORITIES' RIGHTS were not infringed at this year's NSA Congress, and the will of the majority did prevail at a session that was nation-wide," he said.
As to when formal action to drop from the NSA might occur, Palmer said:
"I personally feel that nothing will happen for a month or so. I don't think anybody will jump until they have watched the KU NSA committee in action for about a month."
The procedure for dropping from the NSA would be to bring the bill up for a re-vote by ASC members, unless someone voted it for a referendum. Re-vote is the normal route, however, Palmer said.
450 Attend Art Museum Open House
The University of Kansas Art Museum marked its official opening of the season yesterday afternoon with an open house attended by more than 450 persons.
Museum officials called the function "one of the most successful we have had in recent years."
CROWDS FILLED THE galleries of the museum during most of the two-hour affair. A new gift and new acquisition were the center of attraction in the main first floor gallery.
The new acquisition is a late Gothic period Reliquary of the 15th century. The piece originated in Barcelona, where silversmithing reached a high development.
FACING THE NEW acquisition in the main gallery is a series of three preparatory drawings by Kenyon Cox (1856-1919), for a mural in the courthouse at Wilkes-Barre, Pa. The drawings were a gift of the National Academy of Design.
Featured in the lower galleries was an exhibit of Persian and Indian miniature paintings from the Leland C. Wyman collection, assembled at the Philbrook Art Museum at Tulsa, Okla.
A COLLECTION of English, American and Oriental ceramics, and an American Art collection, both re-established during the summer, also drew considerable attention.
Marilyn Stokstad, acting director of the museum and acting chairman of the department of Art History, said she was gratified by the public interest shown at the open house.
Members of the Mortar Board Society served as hostesses.
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.—Robert G. Ingersoll
"But you better know what in the world you stand for before getting yourself mixed up in a bunch of ideologies you don't understand."
The SUA Carnival Cometh
Mr. Love was asked:
Bircher-
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"Why does the John Birch Society advocate that the United States remain a republic rather than become a democracy?"
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He replied:
Asked how people could know or believe that the John Birch Society is not a Communist-front, Mr. Love answered that they could not.
"DEMOCRACY INEVITABLY results in the rule of the majority. Now, the majority was in absolute control of Germany when they (the Germans) killed five million Jews."
"I might be a Communist," he said. "You'll never know until you get involved with the organization. Then you'll find out shortly."
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