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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Sept. 20, 1962
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS by Dick Bibler
Not Last This Time
Mississippi has the dubious honor of being near the bottom of the list among states in just about anything you could name.
At the present time the federal government is forcing Mississippi to accept 48th place rather than 50th in the category of school desegregation.
THIS PUTS THE BOARD members in a position which would strain the best of us. On one hand, they see the governor threatening all sorts of dire results to them if they vote to follow the law of the land. On the other hand, they see the federal court order and possible contempt of court actions.
Mississippi would like the honor of being the last state to desegregate. At least, that's the impression we get from recent actions of Gov. Ross Barnett.
MISSISSIPPI IS one of only three states which have no integration on any level in its public school system. The other two states are South Carolina and Alabama.
The governor has ordered the Mississippi state college board to defy a federal court order to admit James Meredith, a Negro, to the University of Mississippi when classes begin next week.
The members so far have attempted to resolve the problem by delaying action on it. After several closed-door meetings, they still have come to no conclusion.
There is, of course, only one possible conclusion. The governor knows it and the board knows it. The conclusion is to admit Meredith to Ole Miss. Other states have made a start toward desegregation, and Mississippi sooner or later will have to do the same.
GOV. BARNETT, IN DESPERATION, invoked the doctrine of interposition—in effect, placing the state's sovereignty between the federal court and the people of Mississippi.
Gov. Barnett probably is fighting so desperately because he thinks it is the only thing he can do to insure his own political future. But politicians often display an amazing ability to shift with public opinion. Gov. Orval Faubus of Arkansas showed this when he won the Democratic nomination for governor this summer by taking a moderate stand on the racial issue. Racism isn't as popular in Arkansas as it was when he parlayed the Little Rock crisis into a third term.
This can be only a desperation move, for the same doctrine was invoked in Louisiana in 1960 and voided by the U.S. Supreme Court.
GOV. BARNETT ALREADY HAS dirtied Mississippi's national and world "image," which never was very clean anyway. He has the opportunity to dirty it even more next week, if he refuses to take steps to prevent violence when Meredith enters Ole Miss.
Last year, we saw a good example of what enlightened leadership could do when the color line was broken in Georgia. It is probably too much to hope for, but it would be extremely refreshing to see enlightened leadership next week in Mississippi.
—Clayton Keller
New U.N. Assembly President Has Scholarly Appearance
By United Press International
(Editor's note: Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan, who was elected president of the United Nations General Assembly this week, spoke at KU last spring.)
Anyone walking along the Fifth Avenue side of New York's Central Park around 8 a.m. may come across a slender man with a full beard and a look of an absent-minded professor.
That would be Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan of Pakistan, widely known jurist and diplomat who was elected president of the 17th United Nations General Assembly this week.
ALTHOUGH NO SPORTS enthusiasm, he has led a spartan life and is a confirmed believer in keeping fit. At 69, almost daily long walks fill his need for physical exercise.
He walks from home to office by a round-about route in one hour. Upon arrival at Pakistan House, he spurs the elevator and walks to his third floor office.
The look of scholarly detachment is deceiving. Far from being absent-minded, Zafrulla has a keen mind that retains practically everything he hears or reads. He has been known to memorize a speech after three readings.
He is a gifted conversationalist who regards a learned exchange as one of the highest forms of entertainment.
"CONCENTRATE ON WHAT- ever you do," he is likely to advise a young person.
If he has any failure of memory, it is for faces. Occasionally he is accused of ignoring someone he has met several times and whose name he knows well.
THESE UNINTENTIONAL lapses may be due to poor eyesight that has plagued him from his youth when he suffered an injury. Last July he had a cataract removed from his left eye. He wears glasses providing strong correction.
Zafrulla is a picture of Old World courtesy. His attitude toward women can only be described as gallant. He has a great admiration for Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, sister of Indian Prime Minister Nehru, and has never let differences between their countries interfere with a long-standing friendship.
"HE CAN CUT HIS adversaries to pieces with kind words," a colleague observed recently.
In debate, Zafrulla remains calm.
He disdains anger. He treats opponents with utmost respect and will not descend to provocative language.
Comparatively unknown to American readers, even to those who enjoy Russian literature, is Turgenev's "The Torrents of Spring." This is a pity, for here is a beautifully written story of young love that turns sour.
Books in Review
THE TORRENTS OF SPRING, by Ivan Turgenev (Vintage, $1.25).
Turgenev's hero is Sanin, who stops off in Frankfort on his way home and meets a lower class Italian girl, Gemma, living there with her tempestuous and romantic family. Sanin fights a duel for the honor of his love, vows to wed her, and then casts off when he becomes enthralled by the lush and mysterious wife of a friend.
In middle age, Sanin, whose life has become meaningless, recalls his youthful romance. His recollections are bitter-sweet, and the reader will be both charmed and saddened by the tale—CMP
He is an accomplished linguist. His mother tongue is Punjabi. He speaks precise English as might be expected of one who studied at King's College, London, and was called to the bar from Lincoln's Inn. He is fluent in Urdu, Persian and Arabic, and understands French.
His nickname, used by a few who know him extremely well, is "Zaf" (pronounced Zahf). It was believed to have been conferred on him by the Begum Liaquat Ali Kahn, an outstanding feminine leader in Pakistan.
FORMALLY, HE IS addressed as Sir Zafrulla or by the title "Chaudhry," accorded to landowners in the Punjab. Associates call him "Chaudhry Sahib," or "Sir."
Reading is his hobby. He reads a variety of serious subjects and, of course, newspapers.
A devout Moslem, it is said that he "never misses a paer."
Considering his London background, his tailoring is not what might be expected. He is frequently seen at U.N. receptions in a rumped suit, with a button sweater under the coat, and with shoes that can best be described as comfortable.
ZAFRULLA WAS BORN Feb. 6, 1893. He practiced law in the Lahore high court from 1914 to 1935. He was successively a member of the Punjab Legislative Council, delegate to the Indian roundtable conferences in the early thirties, president of the All-India Muslim League, a member of the Viceroy's Executive Council, and head of the Indian delegation to the League of Nations assembly in 1939. He was a judge of the Indian federal court from 1941 to 1947.
With the creation of Pakistan in 1947, he became foreign minister and led its delegations to the United Nations until 1954. He was elected a member of the International Court of Justice in 1954 and served in The Hague until February 1961. A few months later he returned to the United Nations as Pakistan's permanent representative.
His wife is in England at present. He has a married daughter and two grandchildren in Pakistan.
A third major difference of modern life is the domination of scientism. This is the age when scientific discovery has been so much linked with survival that more and more of our youth find their education almost synonymous with scientific progress. It is the age of the physicist, the chemist, the mathematician, the electronics expert, the scientific researcher of all types—all motivated by the competitive spur of defense or survival.
IT IS SIGNIFICANT that today's major governmental action in the encouragement of education is titled "The National Defense Education Act," and that every aspect of assistance under this act is somehow related to military necessity. Even the study of foreign languages stands under this umbrella, with corresponding impacts upon the purposes for which languages are taught and upon the methods to teach them.
From the Magazine Rack
Liberal fellowships and large research grants await the student or the institution willing to devote major attention to the sciences. Deferments from military service are customary for the student of ability who majors in an area of science considered crucial to our present need.
IN CONTRAST, THE HUMANITIES and the liberal arts, although not lacking in lip service paid to them are increasingly unsynchronized with the times, and the student who still feels the strength and cogency of their attraction finds himself somewhat anachronistic. In a world where material rewards abound for scientific achievement, he sees that he is a second-class scholar.
In spite of the attention being called repeatedly to the ultimate dangers to which this can lead us, the gap widens with each passing month and no turning point is in sight.
—Excerpted from "September Undergraduate" by Samuel B. Gould in the Sept. 15, 1962 issue of Saturday Review.
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