Daily hansan
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
60th Year, No. 32
Monday, Oct. 29, 1962
EXPLAINING THE CORPS—Armand S. de Benedetto, Peace Corps volunteer from Los Angeles, Calif., explained the KU Peace Corps training program to two unidentified KU women at a reception yesterday.
Training Sessions Begin for Corps
Peace Corps volunteers began an eight-week training session in a whirl of activities last weekend.
The 29 trainees arrived here Friday and Saturday to prepare for a Corps project in Costa Rican secondary and university education.
Thomas M. Gale, assistant professor of history and coordinator of the KU-Costa Rican project told the volunteers last night "today marks the beginning of eight of the busiest weeks of your lives."
PROF, GALE, WHO spoke at a buffet dinner for the trainees and the KU training staff, was referring to the intensive schedule which the
Bgoya to Speak On Peace Corps
Walter Bgoya, Tanganyika, Africa, sophomore, will discuss the Tanganyika Peace Corps project at 4:15 p.m., tomorrow in the Kansas Union. A film on the Tanganyika Peace Corps project will also be shown.
volunteers follow during training.
Today the volunteers begin attending classes 10 hours a day, six days a week. About 70 KU faculty members are conducting classes in technical subjects, world affairs and communism, Latin American area and American studies and health, medical and physical training.
Other dinner speakers, Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe and George Waggoner, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, welcomed the volunteers to the campus.
"The coming weeks are a culmination of four or five years of anticipation of KU students and faculty. We have looked forward to your arrival," Chancellor Wescoe said.
"I am envious of you," he said. "I wish I were going to Costa Rica with you."
"KU values its reputation in Costa Rica. I know you will enhance it," Dean Waggoner said. "I
Weather
The weather will be mostly fair today through Tuesday with moderating temperatures tonight and Tuesday. A high today in the middle 60.s and a low tonight in the 40's is expected.
am certain your reception will be profitable both for Costa Rica and tor yourselves."
Yesterday, Marilyn Stokstad, associate professor of art history, sponsored an afternoon reception for the trainees in the KU Art Museum.
Prof. Stokstad estimated 311 Lawrence residents, faculty members and students attended the reception.
"THE RECEPTION was evidently a success," she said. "I flicked the lights on and off to signal the end of the reception. But even then the people did not leave."
"After listening to the conversation of the volunteers, I am quite impressed with the caliber of people going abroad," she added.
Patricia Bowen, assistant officer in the Peace Corps volunteer support division, David Flederjohn, Latin American international relations officer and Gregory Newton, Corps training officer, all of Washington, D.S., interviewed the trainees and the KU training staff Saturday.
Gerald Bernstein, museum curator, conducted a tour through the American art collection in the museum, preceding the reception.
UN to Consider Removal Of Soviet Bases Today
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Red Bases Seen As Miscalculation
Apparent U.S. internal dissension fooled the Germans prior to World War II and it fooled the Russians in Cuba, four KU professors agreed last night.
Partisan politics and the division of Kennedy's support made the Russians think the United States would do nothing when they built up missile power in Cuba. they agreed.
In a panel discussion of the Cuban Crisis recorded for broadcast on KUOK last night Oswald Backus, professor of history; Robert Nunley, visiting professor of geography; Klaus Pringsheim, instructor of political science, and Francis Heller, professor of political science, gave their ideas on the crisis.
PROF. BACKUS said that Khrushechev came away from the Vienna meeting last year thinking that Kennedy was "scared" of Russia.
This and the recent Washington idea that Russia is evolving into a more "sane" position were the basis for Moscow thinking it could get away with the Russian build-up. he said.
Mr. Pringsheim added that "right wingers" and General Walker have added to his misconception."
Prof. Backus said that Cuba was a way for the Russians to find out just how far the U.S. could be pushed.
Prof. Nunley said this was a complete reverse of the usual situation, "We watched for their reaction to our move."
PROF. HELLER said there may have been a great difference of opinion in the Kremlin about just what to do about the U.S. blockade since Khrushchev changed his mind so many times.
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The United States kept its guard up in the Caribbean today while President Kennedy sought speedy fulfillment of Russia's promise to pull her missiles out of Cuba.
Negotiations on Soviet weapon withdrawal from Cuba under U.N. supervision were in progress at the United Nations. American representatives were instructed to be cooperative, but alert to resist any delay that would permit the rockets to stay on their Cuban pads many more days.
THE U.S. NAVAL blockade and aerial surveillance of Cuba was continuing until U.N. Secretary-General Thant could make arrangements for inspection of the rocket removal. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily V. Kuznetsov rushed
BULLETIN
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— President Kennedy today named a three-man committee to negotiate for "effective" United Nations inspection of the removal of Soviet missile bases from Cuba.
The committee, headed by John J. McCloy will handle U.N. developments involved in "the conclusion of the Cuban crisis," the White House said.
from Moscow to New York to join negotiations under direct orders from Premier Khrushchev.
The Castro brothers meanwhile have demanded the surrender of the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo and dared the United States to invade their Soviet-infiltrated country.
Premier Fidel Castro started the ball rolling yesterday with the publication of a five-point demand for guarantees against aggression shortly after Khrushchev announced Russia will dismantle its Cuban missile bases.
HOWEVER, HE did not repeat his earlier declaration that United Nations observers never would be allowed in Cuba.
U.S. to Send Arms to India
NEW DELHI — (UPI) — The United States has agreed to supply arms to India to help battle the Chinese Red invaders.
The Indian appeal for arms came shortly before an announcement that India has lost up to 2,500 troops killed and missing in 10 days of fighting.
Shortly after the U.S. embassy
Steinbeck's Nobel Award Is Late, Say English Profs.
By Rose Ellen Osborne
Thirty years too late and several novels short was the opinion several KU English department faculty members gave of John Steinbeck receiving the Nobel prize for literature.
Indians were reported well dug in along a natural defense line on the Northwest Frontier Agency border high in the Himalaya mountains. Military observers believed India was capable of holding its own in this area.
An Indian Defense Ministry spokesman announced last night that Chinese troops opened a new campaign Saturday with an attack in the Damchok region of Southern Ladakh.
Faculty members said Steinbeck was at his best in the 1930s. By the time the Nobel prize committee decided to recognize him, he was years beyond his peak, they said.
ONE FACULTY member called Steinbeck a "one-book man," referring to "Grapes of Wrath." and termed his works more sociological than literary. Another saw "Grapes
They questioned the substantiality of his total works as compared to previous Nobel prize winners and said he has produced no great works since "The Grapes of Wrath" in 1930.
Indian troops meanwhile moved up from throughout the country today to reinforce border battlefronts in the undeclared war.
here announced the U.S. aid, an Indian External Affairs Ministry spokesman confirmed that the Americans had offered to "assist in any way they can" in sending supplies to aid India's defense effort.
"What he has to say is too closely tied to Journalism. He's basically a trained reporter. He observes life in a notebook." Orel said.
Harold Orel, professor of English, felt that Steinbeck's view of life is too simplified.
of Wrath" as a powerful sociological document and the finest novel growing out of the depression.
Orel said Steinbeck is, at heart, a marine biologist. He said the author's extensive observation of marine life off the California coast must have influenced his conception of the universe. Steinbeck emphasizes the survival of the fittest.
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THE DOMINANT theme throughout Steinbeck's books concerns the struggle of his characters with a social and economic system over which they have no control.
Latest reports said fighting was raging in the southernmost tip of Ladakh, where Red Chinese troops posed a serious threat in the flat and relatively indefensible terrain.
THE SPOKESMAN said the Ind-
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About 900 miles to the east, th
The University Party platform, released last night, attacks the All Student Council Statewide Activities program and calls for a student speakers bureau.
University Party Platform Attacks Statewide Activities
It also proposes the continuation of the Student Political Education Campaign and the appointment of ASC committee members on a merit system.
The plank states that Statewide Activities has been "ignored and
AT THE OCT. 25 General Assembly meeting, Charles Whitman, Shawnee Mission junior, said that the first plank in the platform "jumps all over Statewide Activities for not doing their job."
grossly aborted." The second part of the plank proposes creation of a student Speakers Bureau composed of campus leaders as authorized representatives of the University.
Whitman said the speakers bureau would sponsor speaking tours similar to the trip taken recently by the student body president and head cheerleader. The two recently flew to Boston and spoke to alumni and other groups.
Another plank in its final form calls for creation of a merit system of appointing ASC committee members, unification of committees, and submission of a statement of aims and
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