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Thursday. Dec. 19. 1963 University Daily Kansan
TRAVEL ABROAD—Students examine the Travel Board for rides home for Christmas vacation and information on foreign travel and travel plans. The board, established by Student
Union Activities, People-to-People, and All Student Council, is located to the right of the trophy room in the Kansas Union.
New Kansas Union Travel Board Available for Students' Use Soon
Need a ride home? Want tq travel to Europe this summer? Interested in traveling this summer?
A Travel Board has been established in the Kansas Union by Student Union Activities, People-to-People, and the All Student Council.
Frank Burge, Union director, said, "There has been tremendous interest in it already, and there are many possibilities for students on the local national, and international level."
The Travel Board is located to the right of the Trophy Room in the Kansas Union. Construction is nearly completed.
On the right side of the structure is a large map of the United States and a smaller one of Kansas. Students may fill out cards indicating that they either desire a ride or will give a ride home. The cards are hung on hangers spotted on the maps.
In the middle is a bulletin board for current information on various travel programs and opportunities. To the left are racks for booklets on travel.
In front is a glass enclosed case where displays such as foreign art will be kept.
The Travel Board was created at a meeting called by Laurence Woodruff, dean of students, at the beginning of the semester, John Mays, Lyons junior and travel coordinator, said.
Each supporting organization has its own chairman. SUA is represented by Bob Stewart, Bartlesville, Okla., junior, P-t-P by Lance Burr, Salina junior, and the ASC by Tom Woods, Arkansas City junior.
The Travel Board is designed to coordinate all travel programs by all organizations on the campus, Mays said. It is hoped the programs will thereby become more effective for the student body, he said.
Burge said, "There is an obvious need for this sort of thing." It will be used to explain such things as grants, stipends, and summer programs in Europe, he said.
There is a good possibility the Travel Board will be manned at certain times, Mays said. The students will be able to aid other students in finding out about the various travel programs.
Berliners Throng To Seek Passes
BERLIN — (UPI) — Thousands of West Berliners lined up in the cold and snow today for a chance to see relatives penned up in East Berlin by the communist wall for the past 28 months.
They stamped their feet and swallowed hot coffee and brandy as they waited to apply for passes that will enable them to cross the antirefugee wall for a day during the Christmas season.
By 11 am. there were 22495 people in line, according to West Berlin police.
SO MANY SHOWED up at pass offices that some had no chance to get in before the offices closed for the day. In the district of Wedding, police started turning away newcomers three hours before the pass office opened for business.
Maj. Gen. Telmut Poppe, army commandant in East Germany, said everything possible would be done to pass visitors through the wall quickly. According to the communists news agency ADN, Poppe said designated crossing points might be opened earlier than scheduled every day.
The first application forms went out yesterday and it was expected the first West Berliners would cross the wall tomorrow to visit their relatives.
The hole was the first new gap in the communist wall since it went up in August, 1961. Since then four other crossing points have been in existence for the use of West Germans and other Westerners, but West Berliners have not been permitted through them.
LAST NIGHT the communists chopped out a "Christmas hole" in the concrete and barbed wire wall where it blocks the Oberbaum Bridge over the Spree River.
Drama Course Focuses on Asia
Officials estimated that 800,000 West Berliners have relatives behind the wall. Those eligible for passes will be able to enter East Berlin from 7 a.m. to midnight daily until Jan. 5.
THE COMMUNISTS will not allow East Berliners to come to the West, however. Many refugees have been shot while trying to escape East Berlin during the past two years.
A non-Western drama course will be offered for the first time in the Midwest at KU this spring.
"Introduction to Non-Western Theater and Drama" is being developed by Gordon E. Beck, instructor in speech and drama and assistant director of the University Theatre. It is one of several courses with an Asian focus being introduced at KU under a $177,000 grant from the Ford Foundation.
Nearly 25,000 West Berliners filled out pass applications yesterday in a dozen temporary bureaus set up in school gymnasiums in West Berlin and manned by East German postal
"We want to discover if we can teach basic principles and theory of drama by means of non-Western materials," Beck said. "This whole area of theater is largely passed over by most people who publish works on the theater.
THE DRAMA course will cover cultures of the Far East, including Polynesia, and the Near East and Africa.
Beck, who also will teach the course, said it would be concerned with the development of theater and drama in four dimensions: ritual, entertainment, information and propaganda.
HAPPY NEW YEAR
To the Students and Staff of KU we extend sincere Happy New Year wishes and thanks for your patronage in 1963.
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Long lines of anxious West Berliners moved forward slowly at the pass bureaus for the five hours in which applications were being accepted. West Berlin asked East German officials to send over additional postal clerks to handle the throngs.
At one gymnasium, Western police moved in reinforcements because the crowd became restive when told there was little chance to file the first day. Otherwise, the process worked slowly but smoothly.
Most West Berliners looked forward to family reunions with such anticipation that they displayed little impatience.
employees. The applications were taken to East Berlin last night.
THERE WAS skepticism over the communist claim that they were issuing the passes for the sake of "humanity." But it appeared most West Berliners with relatives behind the wall were ready to take advantage of the opportunity anyway.
Red propaganda organs treated the pass agreement as a triumph for communist policies toward West Berlin and West Germany.
Officially, the Western allies said the agreement did not constitute legal recognition of East Germany. Privately they worried about the possibility the communists might be able to use it in their efforts to alter the official status of Berlin or in other sensitive areas.
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