KU-YPlansforSummer Despite Snowy Weather
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The first winter's snow has just fallen, and the KU-Y has begun thinking about summertime activities.
Four KU students last night gave their thoughts and impressions about various national, regional, and local YMCA and YWCA programs. All have taken part in Y summer projects.
Bert Rinkel, Scott City junior who spent last summer in Hong Kong, said, "When you go (on a summer project) you don't come back the same person."
RINKEL SAID the two main reasons for going abroad are that the student can see and know other places and can know other people.
For instance, he said, "We ate with the people as they ate." Due to the loss of face, the people in Hong Kong can't be told outright that what they are doing is wrong, he said.
Francia Pitman, Haven senior who spent last summer in the San Francisco area on a Lisle Fellowship, said her experience had changed her.
MISS PITMAN lived with twenty-five international students in a fraternity house on the Stanford campus.
She went on four field trips of four days each to Chinatown in San Francisco, a Negro community, a Roman Catholic youth organization and a wealthy progressive community.
"I come from a very conservative Kansas, and I saw things I didn't know about," Miss Pitman said.
DIANE UNDERWOOD, Overland Park junior, spent her summer in a more recreational atmosphere. She was an employee of the George William College camp in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.
Miss Underwood said the camp employs about 100 men and 100 women from colleges across the nation. They serve as the personnel for this college, which trains Y people, and the camp, which provides recreation for the surrounding area and for other Y groups
In addition to the usual parties, boat outings, and hikes, she said the students always perform an operetta for the benefit of the area.
NANCY VERBURG, Lawrence junior, described the last national collegiate YM-YWCA conference in Estes Park, Colorado.
At the conference, the delegates are able to meet with college professors and other students from all over the nation, Miss Verburg said.
The mountains and other scenery in Colorado provide a moving setting for the conference, she said.
Some of the other YM-YWCA summer projects are:
- USA-USSR Exchange—40 days in the Soviet Union, including visits to several eastern European countries.
- Washington Student Citizenship Seminar-first-hand experience of government through jobs with civil service or government-oriented agencies.
- Latin American Seminar—study, work and travel in Latin America.
- Asian Seminar—a study and travel program concentrated in India.
- Voter Education and Registration—participation in the South in efforts for education in voting procedure.
John P. Augelli, professor of geography and director of the KU Center of Latin American Studies, is the author of an article in "The Journal of Geography," a professional publication.
The article, appearing in a recent issue, is titled "Brasilia: The Emergence of a National Capital." Dr. Augelli describes the impact of Brazil's venture of building a new capital within the nation's vast interior.
After listing inadequate electricity and water supplies, lack of administrative coordination, transportation problems, climatic and soil difficulties, and high cost of living, Prof. Aucelli concludes:
"There is little evidence that the Brasilia gamble will pay off, and one can wonder whether the city is to be still another example of the 'boom' and 'bust' tragedy which has scarred Brazilian history."
Prof. Augelli's Article Published in Journal
N.Y. Terminal To Be Renamed John F.Kennedy
NEW YORK — (UPI) — Idlewild Airport, often referred to as the "crossroads of the world," will be renamed the John F. Kennedy International Airport.
The jet age memorial tribute to the late President was assured yesterday when the New York City Council unanimously passed a name-change proposal.
When the change becomes official, as soon as Mayor Robert F. Wagner signs the bill, probably within a week, the airport's coded abbreviation, now IDL, could become JFK.
This will be determined by airport officials.
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THE PORT OF New York Authority, which operates the airport, also has planned an appropriate name-changing memorial ceremony at the airport when the law becomes effective.
The re-naming of the airport in honor of the late President almost matches in magnitude the re-naming of Cape Canaveral to Cape Kennedy.
Whereas the Florida site is the take-off point to outer space, the New York airport is one of America's major air centers in world-wide travel.
'Achtung' Yourself
WICHTTA —(UPI)— When catcher Ron Wasinger of the Russell American Legion baseball team realized that players on the Wichita National Guard team were stealing his signals in a recent game, he used the language barrier to solve the problem.
"Achtung!" he called to his battery mate, pitcher Kenny Dinkel. Thereafter, the catcher and pitcher kept their signals private by shouting them to each other, in German.
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He explained that the darts have little fins that keep them stabilized in flight. But when they strike flesh, they lose their stability and turn end-over-end in the wound.
THE EARLY results were obtained in a project known as "special purpose individual weapon" (SPIW), announced by the Army last February.
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