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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Dec. 10, 1962
Sen. Ellender Criticized For African Statement
The United States has no premium on civilization an African student said at a reception in honor of Tanganyika Independence Day yesterday.
"Civilization is not anyone's property. It is a combination of knowledge handed down through the centuries," Augustine K. Kyei, Ghana senior said referring to Sen. Allen B. Ellender's, D-La., recent comments in Southern Rhodesia.
"We're doing the best we can. Each country has its own pace (of development). Some animals can run. If a cow runs, people laugh," Kyei said.
SEN. ELLENDER SAID he had yet to see any part of Africa where the Africans were ready for self-government or were capable of leadership without assistance.
"A country like the United States which has made the rise so easily should not be beyond extending a helping hand."
KVEI SAID GHANA has compulsory education through grade school. Entrance into high school and the universities is highly competitive.
"Ellender's statement showed the ignorance of Americans about Africa. People know about the jungle and wild life, but they know little about Africa." Ayodele Ogundipe, Nigerian graduate student said.
"By the time a student is out of high school he knows about America and can speak English. French has recently been made a compulsory language," he continued.
Mosobalaje Labode, Nigerian junior, said Sen. Ellender was misrepresenting the country as a whole to the world.
"HE IS MAKING a fool of England, the country that gave us independence," Labode said.
Like all the other African students, Walter Bgoyja, Tanganyika, sophomore, attributed the Senator's statement to his southern background.
"Since he comes from Louisiana,
KU May Host Big Eight Bowl
KU may sponsor Big Eight College Bowl competition this spring.
Frank Thompson, Iola senior and College Bowl Committee chairman, said a KU representative would suggest a KU-sponsored College Bowl at the Big Eight Student Government Conference in Columbia, Mo., this week.
The KU College Bowl committee, which met for the first time last night, made plans to:
- Send letters to organized houses to get KU teams ready for competition at the beginning of next semester.
- Submit an outline on "How to Organize a College Bowl Team" to all the Big Eight schools.
When asked if this would handicap KU chances for sponsoring a Big Eight College Bowl contest this year, Whitman said "Definitely not."
He explained that the packet of questions intended for KU were switched and KU received the same questions they had used in their review session. The match was declared a practice session.
Charles Whitman, Shawnee Mission junior and former College Bowl Committee member, discussed the problems which occurred last year during the KU-MU College Bowl contest.
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I am not surprised. But his statement was obnoxious." Bgyoa said. "It would have been better if he had not come at all."
HE EXPLAINED the statement had been made in Rhodesia where it was the policy to keep the Negroes out of government.
"Perhaps it made the colonial government feel justified in refusing the independence of the people."
Sen. Ellender, chairman of the senate agriculture committee, is on a tour of U.S. embassies and consulates in Africa. He was not allowed to land in Tanganyika or Uganda after making the statement.
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KUDancers to Give Dramatic Interpretations
The first of two presentations of the Tau Sigma concert, "Designs in Dance," will be staged at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Central Junior High School, 14th and Massachusetts.
Tickets for the concert may be obtained at the Kansas Union information desk, Robinson Gymnastium, or from members of Tau Sigma (honorary dance fraternity).
The program will feature a variety of dance interpretations, including dance drama and straight dance.
The dances will include "Fetish," based on an imaginary fetish ritual; "Counterpoise," patterned after the
ever-changing balances and "counter balances of a mobile; and "Variations On A Theme," the first part of a larger work based on an idea by Alex Brown, an associate member of Tau Sigma.
The dance, "Bird Song or The Tragedy of Imprisoned Love," will present scenes in the lives of actors in a road company. The presentation is patterned after the Commedia Dell'Arte, the improvisional theatre of the 13th through 16th centuries.
The dance, "Anyone," will be set to E. E. Cummings' poem, "Anyone Lived in A Pretty How Town." Musically unaccompanied, the dance
will interpret the poem's theme—the birth, maturation, and death of an individual life is compared to the seasons.
Another poem, "Until I Dare My Fear" by James Stephens, will also be interpreted.
Other dances will be "Dichasium," a dance dealing with the idea of two aspects of one personality; "Jeu de Rythme," a rhythmic game; and ". . . Alas, Some Are Utterly Indifferent to Tea" (a partial quotation from Emily Post), a light comment on breaking a set mode of conduct; "Duo," and "Jig."
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