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Thursday, March 22, 1956. University Daily Kansan
CCUN Small But Vital, Aids International Interest
By JOAN GEORGE
(Assistant City Editor of The Daily Kansan)
A small organization on the campus has an important task. It is the Collegiate Council for the United Nations, and its job is to encourage student interest in international affairs and in the work of the United Nations...
Established at KU in 1953 under the direction of Herb Horowitz, Kansas City, Mo., law student, CCUN is a young but influential organization. The KU chapter and those on nearly 300 other college campuses are effectively promoting the purposes of the UN.
All Students Welcome
The CCUN office, in the basement of the Union, is open at 4 p.m. each Wednesday. At that time the group's steering committee meets. Any student may attend these sessions, Phyllis Carter, Lawrence junior, president, said.
"We've often found that students who attend the meetings for the first time usually become interested enough to become active CCUN workers," she said.
"We know many hesitate to come because they think we will try to 'sell' them on the UN. Of course, we are interested in its important work, but actually, we are more interested in creating an interest and understanding in international affairs."
CCUN creates interest in several ways. One of the most effective is maintaining a library of material given it by the State Department and by the UN. The literature is in the CCUN office and is available to any student.
"This material is not only important for the student's own information, but is valuable in gathering facts for speeches, debates and classroom discussion. We wish more persons would take advantage of using it." Miss Carter said.
Library Open On Wednesday The library is open at 4 p.m. each Wednesday.
CCUN has special meetings featuring persons who speak of events of international importance. This year, for example, Cliff Stratton, writer for the Topeka Daily Capital, spoke concerning the Geneva peace conference. There have been other talks of similar importance.
CCUN's big event of the year will be the Model UN General Assembly here April 13-14. Students from Kansas and Missouri will discuss current world problems. Each delegation will represent a certain country and will be prepared to discuss issues from the viewpoint of that country.
There will be an international dinner in the Union, followed by a dance in the Pine Room.
Clifford Ketzel, assistant professor of political science, is faculty adviser for CCUN.
Bacteriologists To Meet Friday
The Missouri branch of the Society of American Bacteriologists will hold its annual meeting Friday and Saturday at the Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., and at Linda Hall Library in Kansas City, Mo. Research Papers will be presented.
Those presenting papers are Miss Cora M. Downs, professor; E. L. Treece, professor; Theodore G. Metcalf, associate professor; David Paretsky, associate professor, and William T. Northey, Robert W. Achilson, Eric R. Brown, Richard A. Consigli, John L. Riggs, William Housley, and R. W. Mitchell, graduate students all in bacteriology.
He Must Have Been Hungry
OKLAHOMA CITY (UP)—Robert Simms Popey, 18, paid a $7 fine Wednesday for taking a bite out of someone else's hamburger. The youth told Judge Demopolos he thought he saw a friend eating a hamburger in a restaurant, picked it up and took a healthy bite before he realized he never saw the man before.
Wash Your 50c Own Car Chuck McBeth Conoco 9th & Indiana
Music Professor's WorkToBePlayed
A composition by John Pozdro, assistant professor of music theory, will be performed at the fifth annual Southwestern Symposium of Contemporary American Music to be held at the University of Texas in April.
Entitled "The Rain," the work was written for women's voices and dedicated to the University chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon, professional music fraternity for women. Mr. Pozdrov took the words from a poem written by his wife.
In previous Texas Symposium programs, Mr. Pozdro has had performances of his "Cynical Overture" for full orchestra, "The Lament of Judas" for chamber orchestra and "Elegy for Trumpet and Piano."
One of his compositions, "Interlude for Woodwinds," was presented this month on a program of wind ensemble music at West Virginia University.
West Indies Face Work Problems
Too many people with not enough jobs for them is one of the primary problems facing the West Indies, Dr. E. Gordon Ericksen, associate professor of sociology, told the Sociology Club March 16.
Dr. Ericksen recently returned from the British West Indies where he was a consultant for a low income housing project sponsored by the U.S. government.
"The population continues to run away from the economy not because of the birth rate which is relatively constant, but because of the declining death rate," Dr. Ericksen said.
New Swimming Schedule Listed
Changes in the free swimming periods at the Robinson gym pool were announced Wednesday by Henry Shenk, associate professor of physical education.
Men will be able to swim from 4 to 6 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturdays. A recreational period for both men and women will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. on Wednesdays.
The production of castor oil once was centered in southern Illinois. However, it was used mostly for lubricating purposes and not as a children's medicine.
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